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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SELLING OUT. LONDON, Oct. 13. The Directors of the A’an Diemens Land Company announce that a proposal to purchase their property has been received from Australia. A meeting of the shareholders will be held promptly to consider the proposal. The Burnie Timber Company has made a similar announcement.
MUSSOLINI. ROME, Oct, 13. The Turin “ Gazet Del Popolo,” publishes a remarkable letter from Mr George Bernard Shaw, in which Mr Shaw defends Signor Mussolini against the Socialist attacks made on him.'
Mr Shaw says that he previously has appealed for courtesy towards this foreign statesman who has instituted a dictatorship in a great modern country without any single personal advantage to himself.
Air Shaw remarks: “To say Fascism’s success is duo to the castor oil used is infantile. If it is so easy, why do not the Communists establish a. dictatorship? They have plenty of castor oil! I consider that Mussolini’s military prestige did for Italy after the war what Napoleon's prestige did for France at the time of the Directorate. If we compare Italy with Mazzini’s “ Utopia,” it is full of abuses; but it is like America, France, England and Russia. To argue against Fascism by citing the assassination of Matteotti is like citing the murder of Thomas A’ Becket as an argument against feudalism.”
FARMERS PLIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 13. Farmers, whose names are household words, in agriculture are giving up their tenancies because they cannot continue on the existing conditions, said Hon. Prettyman, ex-Civil Lord of the Admiralty, lecturing at the Economic League. Notice was given in every direction partly because farmers are broke and partly partly because it is impossible to carry on profitably. The nation does not realise the .disastrous position. It was wrong for the Government to play with the situation, and a sin, shame and scandal if it refuses to face the responsibility, which are worse than the bad harvest of 1879.
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