L1GHTING-UP TIME WEATHER FORECAST 7.30 P.M. Moderate Southwest Wind. Fine but cloudy. • 3% ftmjal tortfr att& Olnlmttat latlg INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 19—NO. 102 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939 3D PER COPY-^40/- PER ANNUM HITLER, IN MAY DAY SPEECH, DISCLAIMS DESIRE FOR WAR CHANCELLOR SAYS EOTERPRISESI^™/*™! NAVY & ARMY EXERCISE [IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT I HITLER'S SPEECH LEAVES THEY SAY PLANNED FO^TOMORROW| f CHRIST CHURCH | EUROPE STILL IN DOUBT That there is an awful game of poker NEED YEARS FOR COMPLETION I „, „. ~ . , going on in Europe. A 24-Hour Mobilisation of Refugee Child_Christened | World Opinion Is Marshalled * # * I Railway Given Continuation That at that game one joker is bad Some of Volunteer Forces The refugee couple who, travelling Against Him If War Comes enough. in A t . «r. i i„ „ mm • J °f Tax Relief to Mar. '41 I from Liverpool to South America * * * A combined exercise between the were put ashore here some weeks That in the present game Duces The three measures which were Royal Navy and local Volunteer ago in view of the arrival of a child BY EMIL HAVAS are wild. 1 Am Arming With All My Means up for consideratior. yesterday in units is to be held over a period of to them, resumed their journey Hitler's speech has not clarified the House of Assembly all had their about 24 hours commencing to­ today on the "Orbita." They had the situation. It is very certain That even the shed-wireless operators share of supporters and opponents morrow (Wednesday) morning at arrived, knowing nothing of the Eng­ from Hitler's speech that he was are a bit chary just now. —"We Must Be Prepared to Defend in as. heavy a debate as has taken 11 o'clock, the object of the exercise lish language, as to an isle of weep­ reading a carefully prepared docu- * * * place for some time. There was no being to test what is known as the ing: they left with other tears in ment, and that what he had written That local news is conspicuous by its gallery to witness the proceedings, examination service—the organisa­ their eyes, gladness and gratitude he must read; there was little of the absence. * * * Our Rights," Highlights of Address which were topped off by the motion tion by which, in time of war, all suffused with regret. extemporaneousness with which he That the cynic says this is a good of Mr. Misick that motor lorries vessels calling at Bermuda are board­ They had come from their home usually induces mass hysteria in | sign, be removed from the roads and his ed and examined before being allow­ in Vienna where the husband was a his German listeners. That there is a real demand for the To German Youth statement a few minutes later: ed to proceed up-channel. shoe merchant and the wife a pian­ One of the most interesting points revival of the Agricultural Exhi­ BERLIN, May 1 (CP).—Hitler disclaimed his desire "I knew perfectly well when I made Warships of the America and West ist of distinction giving recitals—but to me, a former citizen of Czecho­ bition. the motion that there was very little Indies Squadron of the Royal Navy slovakia, was his reference to the * * * for war today shortly after telling more than 100,000 a Jewess. Such compulsory travel­ likelihood of that particular motion will act as merchant vessels for the lers must travel penniless. destruction of that Republic, or j That everyone is willing to help—ex- members of German youth organisations that they going through." Mr. Misick said purposes of the exercise, which is Fellow voyagers on the ship from such of it as had been left over from cept perhaps the Legislature, "must be prepared to conquer and to win our rights and he made the motion to test the to be conducted by the Naval Com­ Liverpool put a sum into the hands the Munich Conference. * * * sincerity of some members on the mander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir of the shipping agent to aid in the Hitler said the destruction of That the experts are all wondering if necessary to defend them/' The Chancellor was question of motor cars in Bermuda. Sidney J. Meyrick. His Excellency unexpected charges caused by their Czecho-Slovakia was not at variance whether the World's Fair will help speaking to the Reich's "brawn and brain" workers and One hour and fifteen minutes were the Governor, General Sir Reginald | ^embarkment And his few co­ with the Munich Agreement, which or hinder Bermuda tourist trade, consumed in a rehashed debate Hildyard, is expected to witness part hit out in the second of his two May Day addresses at the religionists on the island quickly the German press has often charac- * * * on the Bermuda Railway Company of the exercise. found their way to them. terised as being of a "dynamic That if that doesn't the situation in charges that Germany desires war and asserted that "we ! Bill, which eventually passed its The forces taking part, in addition Many others extended human character;" to Hitler the invasion j Europe will. love peace. I have enough grounds to want peace to second reading. Another hour was to the naval ships' crews, are the sympathy and gifts, for the human I| U1of ^^u-oiuvtuuCzecho-Slovakiaa was a natural taken up -in. debating the proposed Bermuda Militia Artillery, the Ber­ heart at its best can always laugh se*uel t0 the Munich Conference, That business only comes to those mplete the enterprises that need ten to twenty years." agricultural survey, and the balance muda Volunteer Engineers', and a who go after it. at the barriers which a foreign lan­ MENACED GERMANY Hitler said that "international agitators were work- of the time was devoted to the ques­ small party of the Bermuda Volun­ guage erects. Samuel Pepys Teucer tion of whether Bermuda sj-hsuld teer Rifle Corps, who will be at St. in the "Royal Gazette and Colonist," Czecho-Slovakia, , he shouted, men- That the condition of horses is caus­ have motor lorries. The sitting last­ M igainst Germany with all their means, and I am George's and act as the boarding i j , , • ^ , ., aced Germany and it was necessary ing a good deal of concern to visi­ ed three and a half hours. jermany with all my means." He was loudly party. had awakened interest as to whether ' AIBIASOBO,I,> . tors. irn Mr. Toddings, who was in charge, The B.M.A. and B.V.E. will be the first-born child to this couple He said that after the speech of auded. Even while Hitler was delivering these ad- opened the debate on the Bermuda stationed, in skeleton parties, at in flight, without friends and with­ M. Pierre Cot, French Air Minister, That unfortunately residents grad­ Railway Bill by stating that the s his various diplomatic experts were pressing their the gun battery at St. David's Island, out prospects, from Europe's gayest,.. , ually get accustomed to conditions. Railway preferred to have tax exemp­ •Z I* T -n *v. i **. ^, i ]vakit waa s existeabsoluteld fory thcleae purposr Czecho-Sloe of an- :rts to isolate Poland in the attempt to make her yield with the Engineers in charge of capital to La Paz the lofty and lonely I . _ tion up to the 31st of March, 1941, searchlights and communications. capital of Bolivia, would be a boy attack on the German economic j That since motor traffic is banned (!). D the German demands. instead of the 31st of December, This is the first time the recently- or a girl. centre. horse traffic should be beyond re­ 1940. augmented Volunteer Engineer unit The child, a son, was born on Hitler recited figures of the ar­ proach. German Government today Mr. Smith was opposed to granting has been mobilised for as long as Easter Sunday which the parents maments he found in Czecho-Slo- * * * ipon the May Day celebrations the exemption. He considered that 24-hours, and employers are asked I vakia on its seizure: 1,600 aiiplanes fy the Reich and strengthen GERMAN-POLISH CLASH greeteLast d Sundayas a happ, at yth omene mornin. g wor-' That the increase in noise in Hamil­ if private individuals had to pay I to co-operate by allowing employees 1,600 heavy cannon, 110,000 machine- tensive against '"international ship in the Scots Presbyterian ton is disturbing. taxes there was no reason why the who belong to the unit to have time guns, etc. etc. p." The Chancellor told 132,- REPORTED IN SILESIA church in Warwick, the child was Berm.uda Railway Company should off. The B.V.E. will parade at the I am very happy to know that the That presently it will be a menace to ung men not to place their baptized Peter Samuel Bermudez not. He was in favour of a subsidy Smith's Hill H.Q. at 8.15 a.m. tomor­ best airplanes he did not receive our reputation for peace and quiet. the slogans riiat are posi- Tesinsky. After the reading of the instead. row. are those in countries not friendly our peoples and seeking to Polish Reaction to Hitler's Old Testament lesson—that moving Mr. J. E. P. Vesey concurred in I o to Hitler. us." He said the "world Thst the pessimist say's it ain't goin' Mr. Smith's view, and he made a chapter which records how another Hitler spoke, too, about the Czecho­ of rights, hut for long years Offer; Russian Pledge Asked to rain no more.