Registered at G P.O., NO. ?
Perth,
for transmission by oost as a newspaper
PERTH, SATURDAY. MAY 29, 1937.
SIXTY-THIRD YEAR.
TWO POINTS OF VIEW
Spanish Refugees. driven from their homes by advance of the rebels, travelling to safety with what possessi ns they could carry. - Adverticer,
TI--IE,
--The Illustrat—i 1 . !! ! r,
Feb .27
CABLED NEWS Leaiiy News,Mar 11, 1937.
The anti-Italian Press campaign has subsided for the time being. The British Government was prompt to put the muzzle on a fter the dignified rebuke administered by Mussolini. Now, after secret negotiations of which we can have no knowledge. the ban ,rn English newspapers has been Of all the anti-Italian lifted. canards, none was so ridiculous as that of the German airman forced down in Bilbao. whose lirst remark was: "The Italians This proare poor soldiers."
found remark was cabled all over the world and seized on by who labour so the Pacifists. hard in the cause of international amity.
accs RICE
Politically un:oncerned—and going back to their normal life: Refugees who fled into the hills from Malaga before heavy fighting began, returning to the city aftet its occupation by General Franco's forces.
Our local Press is not free from Everyone knows, of taint. course, that the morning and c vening papers are served by exactly the same cable service. and it grew tiresome to read the cables in the morning paper aftet having seen the self-same message on the previous evening But occasionally we have a little \-nrietv. as follows:
t .-Nustralian.". May 12, 193.
The Italian Press The Italia!? Press has launched an has launched an anti-British attack; anti-British attacl. more violent that.1 as violent as any. anything in the thing during the concon Abyssinian Abyssinian committing flict. It again re, tlict. ters to the breach another breach of Anglo-Italian in the Anglo-Ita the iian Mediterranean Medite r ranea rt r approchement, in agreement, un w hich both coun. which Italy undcr to discontries agreed to dis- took propa. tinue ant -I3ritisi continue propaganth. ganda.
Comment is unnecessary. It reminds one of the cabled news at the time of the fall of Malaga: "Daily News": "The populace rushed out to welcome their lib"West Australian": erators." "It is stated that the populace rushed out to welcome their 'liberators.'" The little twist makes all the difference. but it also reveals the twist in the mind, known as bias. The fighting in Barcelona between the Anarchists and their allies may be regarded as the second stage in the Communist plan A fter the most unruly elements of the Proletariat have been used to suppress all ol)position. the' themselves are brought under
the rigid discipline of Comunism. That is the real meaning of the statement ("West Australian." May 17. 1937). that the Communists have emerged as the champions of law and order. The terror has not disappeared, but it is now becoming a discip. Lined terror. The new Government is undet complete Communist domination, for the Socialists and Republican members have no influence, and the Anarchists have been completely excluded. Previously, of course, the Anarchists claimed power in the Cabinet. But they have fallen by the wayside, as does e very one who allies himself Nvith Communists. Even the great Caballero has fallen—the Spanish Lenin! Listen to this "West Australian." May 24. 1937) : "Genera! Pozas is exercising unexampled severity. . . . He has shot every known member of the Iibertarian Youth." These are th:. workers who fought by the sidc of the Communists against "Fas cism": this is the price paid for co-operating with Communism. "He that bath ears to hear, let him hear!"
Moderate Charges
Now Open for Patients
A t. (Anne's ptratns
ottle
MT. LAWLEY Latest Medical Equipment and Efficient Nursing Staff.
Telephone U1322, 1323