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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1928, Page 1

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' RUSSIA AND DISARMAMENT. When Russia’s chief representative at Geneva formulated her plan of total disarmament lie began by deriding the work of the League of Nations, directed towards solving the problem, and he blamed the “capitalist countries” both for'tb© existence of armaments and the recurrence of war. When these things are balanced in the mind with the idealistic proposal now solemnly put forard, it is impossible not to suspect, and to suspect with conviction, that whatever he Russia’s real motive, it is not a genuine desire to promote peuoe by 'disarming mankind. Disarmament alone cannot end strife between either men or States. If a proposal for complete and immediate disarmament were made bv a flower whose sincerity was beyond question, it would still demand from other States a cautious approach. But who to-day, after the repeated treacheries and betrayals of the past nine years, can avoid the conviction that this proposal is made with a view to using its almost inevitable rejection as a political factor to discredit other Governments with the more ignorant and emotional sections of their peoples? With a bland assumption that Russia’s sincerity is unquestioned, and that no practical. difficulties bar the way, the friends and dupes of the Soviet in other countries _ will Haunt the virtues of this proposal, and publicly infer the. wicked and malevolent motives ‘which prompted its rejection. Tbit they may ’do so is, no doubt, the main object of the Soviet in making, its theatrical “gesture.”—’l h<£,

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£IOOO CAT. LONDON, Jan. 31.- r ]}i« and little cats, cats with loijrg fluffy coats and others fiiat tooted as if they had been shingled were to be seen at the Southern Counties Cat Club championship show at Kentish Town Baths yesterday. iV . But the old-fashioned tabby cat, the fireside friend of many a home, was hard to find. He is last going out of favour, and in his place lias come a foreign invader from Siam. This tiny creature, with coat of black and gold, is the most popular at most of the shows. One of this long-haired, blue-coated family. Dion of Arlington, belonging to Miss laingston, of Maidenhead, carried off eight prizes and was declared champion of all the champions in the show. Miss Langston said that she would not take £IOOO for the cat, wlucli makes him worth alKiut £4O an ounce. LoC'Wi..^V ASI0 N.TAFT (Palestine), Jan. 31. There are reports of a northerly lovement of the large swarms of ,casts known to exist in the remote csert areas south and south-west of alostine. The Government is taking energetic recautions to deal with the possible n-asion, including the .provision of ar-time flame-throwers and the tram--1S r of volunteers in their use. - It is estimated that the locusts rail mch Palestine during March. The ; st invasion was early in 1915, when jttensive damage was done.

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