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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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104
18
18
10
13
to 17
19
20
122.
23
24
125
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27
28
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30 131
32
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134
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153
44
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147
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152
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THE CHINA MAIL,
MUSIC DRAMA
SONG FESTIVAL
MUSIC AND POLITICS IN VIENNA
the Germans quite publicly the advice which every Austrian wants to give when he thinks of sharing bed and board with Prussia in particular: "Don't try to improve the Austrians; we are too old, our civilisation too ancient, for us to be susceptible of improvement. You will find us soft-natured, con- ciliatory, easily bent; but the next moment you will find us bending back again."
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their severity has been more than balanced by the unexpected and generous recognition by the French Left Press that the "Anschlung" is one of these natural and inevitable political processes which may in- deed be delayed, but which cannot
The at- possibly be prevented. tempte amde in Paris to raise a scars on the score of German "Eastern Expansion" cannot be justified.
UNIÓN WITH GERMANY?
Vienna-Although a chorus of protest from the countriesFrance, Italy, and the States of the Little Entente which are opposed to Austro-German union has followed
The Germans took the advice. After witnessing the spontane- the holding of the tenth German
Much in Vienne's easy-going ways ous enthusiasm of the Vienna Song Festival in the city of Vienna,
must have startled them, but they crowds, many foreign observers the Viennese are very well satisfied held their peace and took things as have been compelled to revise their with the results, Apart from they found them. To pretend, as views on the whole "Anschluss", politics, If the successful organisa- is done in some quarters in Aus question. Most of them realiso tlon of the festival surprised the tria, that the "Anschluss" de that while it may not be expedient Germans, it astounded the Viennese monstration at the Song Festival for the process to be carried out at themselves. Their talent for self-
Was not officially organised is the moment, the refusal to apply the depreciation led them to anticipate absurd.. Yet, despite organisa-principle of self-determination only that their world-famous "Schlamtion, it became a tremendously in the case of Austria cannot be pere the word is really un- impressive fraternal demonstration maintained for ever. In 1918, the translatable, being, like the thing of the common people, quite apart German-Austrians were in exactly itself, a specific Viennese product, from the plans of Governments the same position as the Slav and but "slipshod superficiality" may and diplomats.
Roumanian races of the vanished serve-would cause the attempt to
polyglot monarchy-artificially held feed and house 200,000 Germans
apart from the bulk of their own for five days to end in a fiasco.
race in the family interests of the Hapsburg dynasty, the inventors of that impossible conglomeration of peoples, Austria-Hungary.
In point of fact, neither London, New York, nor Berlin could have
managed better such great pacific invasion. Even the postal ser- vants, most "difficult" of all Aus- trian officials, rose to the occasion and showed a despatch and urbanity little short of that dis played by the admirable police, the tramway personnel, hotel and house-owners, chauffeurs and re- staurateurs. Artistically, there is
no
The great popular demonstra tion, apart from the "official" one In the Hall of Song, was the singers' procession at the conclusion of the festival. Although it took nine hours to pass a given point, the
"Anschluss" is no new cry-It! has merely become more urgent owing to Austria's economie plight since the disappearance of the Monarchy. The ples that "self- determination"
miez 115 that race Is entitled to but
to not
sacrifice,
Viennese never faltered in their enthusiasm throughout a long, hot Sunday. Very little of the pro- cession was in costume; it was just the placards bearing the names of the cities of the Reich and the men in hot blue suits marching every behind them which called forth secure, such frantic enthusiasm. To aits independence, is clearly unten- Slovake, Transylvanians, foreigner, it was a remarkable de-able. monstration of the genuine, unre- and Cronts did precisely what Aus- strained delight of the defenceless tria wants to do. They secured little brother in the power and pos- their independence from Hapsburg sesatons of his big brother and pro-and promptly sacrificed it by join-
tector.
criticism possible of the glorious singing of the male voice choirs of 30,000 and 50,000 mem- bers. Tho. finest possible tribute was thus paid in Schubert's cen- tenary year to his memory by hundreds of thousands of men of
The critical echo from abroad his own race.. But the great re-
satisfies both the common people [sult from both the Austrian and
and the politicians in Vienna. German point of view is the vast This ancient capital can stand increase of strength accorded to much abuse, but cannot bear the movement for the "Anschluss,"neglect. To be talked of at all the union of the Germans of Aus- gives satisfaction to the masses, tria and of the Reich.
In political circles, there is real It is as wrong to imagine that satisfaction at the general tone of the effect of the festival is purely comment. Italy, doubtless satla transitory as it is to expect anything fed at what is generally called Dr.. in the nature of a political sensa-Seipel's "capitulation" in the South. tion to follow it. For the first Tyrol question, remained perfectly tline the Viennese masses have come calm; the Czechs, though angry, into close contact with the masses said no more than had been anti. from every cipated. The Roumanians are too of Germans drawn corner of the Reich; each has been little concerned with the whole problem for the unusual vigour of given an opportunity of sizing up the virtues and failings of the their comments to arouse any con.
The Jugo-Slava were practi selected, partner in that marriage crn. of which other Powers for the precally indifferent and said som sent forbid the banns.
An
Fraternisation.
French Protests
Alone the strong protests of the Austrian member of French Nationalist Press have been
the Reception Committee gave to taken seriously in Vienria;. but
ing their own people. The only honest answer to give to the Aus- trians when they demand why! they alone cannot enjoy what has been proclaimed by the Allies as a right is "vae victis"--and with the lapse of every year since the "conquest,", that loses its force.,
Mr. Maurice Elvey, who has made films for the Gaumont Company. being lent to Gainsborough Pic- tures, another British film pro- ducing firm, so that he may make for them the picture, "Balaclava."
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46-And yet
46-One of the metala 149-A marsh
ab 51-Moving in the direction of a tangent
28-A large cask 29-A prefix of Scottish
names 30-An old maxim 32-To worry
33-Mankind collectively
15-Have (Scot.) 33-The highest
mountain In Creto
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B-Prefix. Tvio
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C-in the same place
(Latin)
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(India) 50-Town is Greenland 157-An English
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at the alako
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VERTICAL
1-A mimle
VERTICAL (Cont.)
17-A fragment 18-Master (French) 19-Dread
22-A weapon
123-Occurring at
Irregular intervals 24-At the prozent time 126-A hint
30-Medieval alik Jabrio 31-Exist 32-Musical note 184-To name or style ||35–Personal pronoun
37-A visionary 38-Cutting-tool 40-An indentation 41-To gain 42-To send forth with audible sound
2-A well known plant 44-Nolie 3-A priest'a vestment 47-Animosity 4-Native of Lapland 49-To travel (Poek),
60-A kingdom south of Assyria (Bible)
6-To reverberata
6-Gamo as "acho"
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condition
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10-Personal pronoun
11-Lyrics
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