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The accident to Mr. Tommy Hitchruck, the world-famous polo player, who is suffering from severe concussion, occurred in the world championship series at Chicago.
This year, in the absence of teams | from Great Britain and the Argen- tine, the series was fought out be- [tween two American teams repre-
senting East and West.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933.
WARSHIPS GATHER IN PERSIAN GULF
BRITAIN VIGILANT OFF "FRONTIER OF INDIA"
PERSIA'S NEW NATIONALISM
(By Kenneth Williams.)
London, Sept. 20.
Trucial Coast, Would-be usurpers
Nine British destroyers in the are still punished by being blinded The games provided a new star, Persian Gulf: what does it mean? with redhot needies drawn across who is now likely to eclipse Mr. For many years A few Bri-their eyes. Hitchcock as the world's greatest fish sloopa have been regularly The doctrines of Geneva, indeed, polo player.
patrolbng the Gulf, and the Ruyal have as yet caused scarce a ripple He is Cecil Smith, a cowboy from Air Force have splendidly support in these blue waters. the West. Mr. Smith, who scored led the work of political and naval all the West's goals in the final, was officers.
Yet, as our destroyers will find, arrested on the eve of the match on But it is unusual that Bailors it is the climatic rather than the a charge of assault. He was bailed should be ordered from the Mediter-human character of the Gulf which out, played the game of his life, and ranean Fleet to go during the suggests the famihar was cheered to the echo by 20,000 scorching month of September. to with the Inferno, wildly excited spectators.
Your Daily Smile
¡Cocktail Chatter
"What do you think Jack give you for your birthday?”
these unenviable waters.
What, then, is involved, in this! Impressive “showing of the Flag"?¦ It is well, indeed, to look closely! at the Persian Gulf. Much has
the last few! months the significance of which is madequately realised here. Peo-i
will happened there in
"I haven't decided yet, dear!”
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Recollection
I remember, I remember, The bathing kits when 1 was horn. And-gosh, the difference *tween
them,
And those that now are worn!
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HOW LONG!
There in an ancient quodation Concerning 1725, *OMAN
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taken
The Inferna Climate
comparison Listen to Abdur Razzaq, an Arub writer, on Muscat: The heat of the sun was intense that it burned the ruby in the mine and the marrow in fue bones; the sword in its scabbard melted like war... In the plains the chase became a matter of per- fert east, for the desert was fill-
pie generally had come to regarded with roasted pazelles. this Gulf as a "British lake"; auch
Yet there is actually a strange was certainly to view of most for beauts T the Persian Gulf. ILA |eign observers,
intensely blue, shallow winters. But
Persian Nationalists had which contrast with the deeps other idena, Under the Impetus the Gulf of Oman, just outside: its of their virile leader, the Shah, thousands of Bords and creeks they recently created a navy. Still which not even Scandinavia more recently this navy, with a con-surpass in variety and
surprise; iderable flourish of trumpets. Was the view of the Persian hills at sun- inspected by the Shah, The pre-set, How rose, now purple. now in- and sence of the new ships, small in digo; the reflection of precipitous they be, liffs in unmoiled waters-these and
number and size though
pleasurce, High jinks are things of the past, British Hability for RCores of Here and there France's Aud “uncle" has got all our trea- !CATH.
Bong Kong. Thursday, Oct. 12, 1933. Communist ideology, and the The Depression
ultimate destruction of all of them is a purpose never forgot- ten. The change in Russian policy is purely a mat- ter of seeking. in friendly rela- tions with Moscow, a further
France's Insurance Against Nazism.
surer.
How long will the thing last?
In the official welcome given to the French Air Minister in measure of insurance for herself Ten-time Tattle
and her Eastern allies against al "I don't the Russian capital on the occa- sion of his recent flying visit to revival of German militarism..
The process of France's Moscow nothing was wanting on either side that could contribute Preach to Russia coincided with to the effect of cordial relations the growth of Hitlerism. The between the two countries. M. conclusion of a Franco-Soviet
of 'pact
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spoliation of her investors. The But that was before the Depression, gave rise to a new situation in the many other compensations of Na- [Soviet view of capitalist Govern- When markets were all Doing. Gulf, Here was a Power. 1 W Lure anger in the memories of those
ments is an immutable part of
strong.
laimed, ready and willing to do at who have served in the Gulf. par least some of the work of keeping! Nor is man's activity in this re- order in the Gulf that had been agion less remarkable in ris appeal. are the massive, gaunt forts left by the Portuguese Rise Of Nationalism of the 16th contury, that incredibly The outcome of the dispute over finu race of men whose failure to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's endure was largely due to the fact concession raised the spirits of the that their political angacity did not know whether to turn Persian Nationalists.
were match their sca-daring. Every Persian where are the dbows up at the wedding or not, darling." equally elated when the
of the Arab "Who's getting married, dear?" Government formally laid new claim mariners, who frequently set shut
to certain territories in the Gulf-in ignorance of their precise "I am!
most notably by the British Navy, attuation, but whose skill at sea is the Royal Air Force and Imperial auch that shipwreck rarely over- ¡Airways.
takes them.
And often you may Indeed. the more zealous Na-lace the fishing boats enlled batils. tionalists in Teheran eren asserted shaped like gondolas from which that distant Muscat, which lies in the Arabs catch funny with a lasso. The Gulf of Oman, south of the But if it is a mixed horror. this by Calf proper, ought to be n Persian Gulf, it is none the less a horror.
possession.
There are pearls there, truly there These expressions of Persian Na- are also sharks.
There are tionalism have plunged the in-casionally bracing breezes; there Gulf into per-are also dust storms and fogs. The plexity. They ask: Is Great Bri-north-west wind the shamal, can be tain going to renounce the position a scorching terror: the south-east so carefully and sacrificially built wind. the quans, is loathed and up in the Gulft
feared even by the natives. The necessity for a peaceful de-] (Continued on Page 10). monstration of our naval power in
took
year ago,
non-aggression Cot is the first French Minister; to make, while in office. a visit place at the time, a
On an Equal Footing
“Class distinctions are unknown!
to Soviet Russia since the Bol when the Nazis had shown them- among hikers."
selves to be indisputably the shevik revolution in 1917. In no
strongest force in German poli- Institution country
the defection of ties. The much more cordial de- Wha Russia from the cause of the Allies, and the consequent im- monstrations now in progress are voluntary contributions.
A society entirely supported
Facts You Did Not Know.
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In some measure the R.A.F. has succeeded to the prestige created by¦
CANTONESE LESSONS BY
RADIO.
R measure of the growth of mense addition to German strength on the Western Front, restraint upon aggressive Nazism
French determination to impose Restaurant Ribaldry
"This is nice soup." so deeply felt us in the country'in power. Russia, 80
long the "So it sounds, dear!" which was bearing the whole
most vocul of sympathisers with brunt of devastation in that Germany in her protest against of the war. When to the terms of a dictated peace, theatre this was added the repudiation has accepted the role of danger. of the Tsarist debt to France,
upon her by which was by far the greatest of us enmity thrust
Berlin and gladly welcomed Batteries can be inserted to con-this seaway which in 80 vital tol Russian external obligations, and represented some
French aid in concluding the vert a new pocket telescope into a Empire interests now becomes plain. CORRESPONDENCE. £240,000,000
series of treaties that guarantee of the savings of a frugal people, her against trouble with the breach was such as might neighbours. The Power that has Serious efforts are being made in the Navy in the Gulf. But well be thought irreparable in incurred serious damage from Greece lour time. On the Russian side
the change is no less striking whatever to set against it, is
these transactions, with nothing spring industry. For the first time in sixteen
the Germany of Hitlerite years the French National An-
ascendancy. them is heard in Moscow, and the Tricolour flies side by side! with the Hammer and Sickle. Britain's Coal Industry. Gone are the days when, in euch! succeeding Soviet war-scare,
I am writing In Britain has been started a mates 5,800,000 metric tona.
They remember well, these Arabs, France was furiously abused as great campaign for "the restoration
the days of piracy, gun-running, kay that I, for one, shall be very the chief plotter in the capitalist of coal."
pleased
listen to Cantonese The Coal Merchants' The only fish known
and the slave trade. They knew menace to Russia; when, in proof Federation recently agreed to
lessons over the rudlo, keving heard a bladders and to be unable to float that it was the British Navy that of this, fantastic forgeries, pur-levy on every ton passing through live in a Virgila river.
lof Dr. Wells's masterly teaching stopped those things.
Four some of the Cantonese dialect. porting to incriminate the high their hands which will produce
years they have seen little of Bri- est of French statesmen and £30,000 a year.
tish Naval power except the sloops."Cantonese for Everyone" revised I have bought a copy of the soldiers, were solemnly publish-coatowners Mr. Evan Williams ED-
The sight of our destroyers will and enlarged edition, written by Fladden their eyes.
Dr. II. R. Wells. I am studying it with deep interest and find it vary Few of the British sailors in helpful to me.
the Gulf be-
HOW EN KAI
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(To the Editor, "China Mail") might, it is majestic vessels, with
Sir,-Being Chinese young the greatest possible number of
man from Pekiny recently arrived funnels, that they chiefly respect in Hong Kong, I was much inter- symbols of the Power that wrought|
ested to read in your correspondence Austria's annual production order out of anarchy in this cor-column the letter by "E.E.S.," on timber in normal years
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ed by the Kremlin, and the nounced that they would at once standard of comfort in this matter
authenticity arrange to provide a like sum. The would work a great change in the An Awe-Inspiring Spot
denials of their Ignored. Now, the mouthpiece total annual amount of £60,000 is finances of the coal industry.
The
of the Soviet Government in the to be spent on an organised effort fight against oll is to be renewed ships will have seen Press speaks with enthusiasm to increase the national consump-with demonstrations of the modern fore. What will they find there?
the above subject.
to
of the strengthening of Franco-tion of coal for both domestic and improvements in coal-burning plant) In all the earth there is no more TO “FIGHT" FOREIGN Duasian relations, which are industrial purposes by raising thefund new forms of coal fuel. En-romantic and awe-inspiring spot. "based on mutual confidence." It efficiency of the industry in every couragement will be given to the It is saturated in history blood, and was at Russia's invitation that department and by the introduction production of oils and spirit from sweat.
LEGION.
League To Stop Men From Joining.
Berlin,
M. Cot's visit took place. Mof improved coal-burning appli-coal by hydrogenation and low- It was from this Gulf, says Herriot, during his recent pri-jantes. Plans for this have been temperature carbonisation. In this legend; that Sindbad the Sailor set vate four of the U.S.S.R.. was made by the Coal Utilisation Coun- the Council is supported by the re-out, Phoenician ships probably feted officially wherever he wentjell formed a year ago to represent solution of the Miners' Federation, navigated its dificult courses. The In a period that has seen some mincowners, wholesalers, retailers, which urged its representatives in fect of Alcxander the Great came sufficiently notable changes in and exporters. The watchword of Parliament to use every effort to hither on its historic journey from "A "Fighting League" against the the direction of international the campaign is not "Back to coal" assist the development of such pro- the Indus. Persians, Turks, Arabs, French Foreign Legion has been sympathies, there
has been but "Forward with coal.” It is cesses. The Government will need French, Portuguese-all- have founded here. nothing more_rentarkable than fully recognised that the restoration no urging. The tax on imported fought for its possession,"
It leader, a "Storm-Tròqper" who this. It is called another diplo- of the Industry is only possible by a fuel oil in the Budget was design- On the Arab, or western side of himself served five years in the matic triumph for M. Litvinoff, change to better methods. In-led to increase the use of the derive- the Gulf, with which the Empire Legion, pointed out that there were a success for the far-sighted vestigation into the present use of tives of coal. The commercial and this naval visit are primarily 45,000 Germans at present in the peace policy of M. Daladler. But cost and other means of heating has success of hydrogenation has been concerned, life proceeds in essen Foreign Legion. Daily, 12 to 15 the authors of it, manifestly, are shown a large field for development. brought nearer by effective State tials as it was thousands of years young Germans enlist in it. Of in Berlin. No one could take At present according to the results sid. With the industry vigorous ago, Long, fearless dhows, manned these only three per cent, over sen seriously the idea that there has of questionnaire issued by the in self-help we may look for steady by crews who yet believe in finns, their home again. been a genuine change of heart trade; 20 per cent of the house-progress in the prosperous employ-carry on their business in dates apd]:. The League is going to do its best either in Paris or in Moscow.hold. rooms in England are not ment of the coal which is still, as pearls as they have done for gen-to prevent Germana foining the France in unlikely to have fore hested at all. It is probable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer erations. Murder, is still the re- Legion in future and to help those. gotten the prolongation of her this figure is an understatement of has said, "the greatest, British, re-cognised, way of gaining the sue who return from it to get on their
offerings in the war, on the the case:"). "'A' general raining of the source,"
Jesssion to a sheikhdom on the feet again in Germany.-Beater,
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