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HERE THERE,
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France And Hitter's Book
Coples of the French version of Herr Hitler's much discussed work,
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934.
TRYING TO GET LOST IN PERSIA
SEEING THINGS AS THEY
REALLY EXIST
Mein Kampf," have been seized by FEW DANGERS UNDER PRESENT
the French police. ·
REGIME
(By Robert Byron.)
Zinjan, Persia. [proceeded the shaft of the observa- Travellers who seek what they tory.
But
An official complaint that the publication of this work in France was 'unauthorised by the German Chancellor was made to the Quat }d'Orsay by the German Ambassador
in Paris, Berr von Koester.".
The original German version of call adventure will be dlaappointed This is now blocked up. "Mein Kampf" contains many pas-in Persia. Such people make a great mounds of brick on top of sages in which France is referred place their goal not because it is the mountain showed where it had to with hatred and contempt. interesting but simply because it is come out. These were approached
The publication of such state- difficult..
by cobbled roadways 'which met at ments by the head of the German They yearn for physical priva-right-angles and were presumably Government, if it was permitted futions; they pray for brigands to used in some way for plotting the | France, would inevitably be follow-rob them, wild animals to eat them. observations taken.
Model Scholar
To whom do you think this school report refers?
ed by diplomatic remonstrances If they return. alive-and they in- It was now our intention to ride from the French Foreign Office..variably and curiously do-it is only across unknown country to Miunch, Herr Hitler may have had an-to invent hardships they never a small town on the main Tabriz- other reason for wishing to prevent suffered.
Teberan road, which is noted for publication of the French version. My own purpose in travelling is an insect that will bite strangers
The translation is rumoured in to see things as they exist, with a but not the inhabitants.
How far Paris to have been the work of minimum of bother and discomfort the ride might be how long it Charles Rappoport, the Communist If restrictions and privations must might take, no one could tell us. philosopher. He is, a Russian Jew. be faced, if beasts and brigands Where Europeans Åre
threaten, so much the worse. I
Strangers shrink; and certain rumours made! We set out late one afternoon, as me shrink from Azerbaijan.
is the Persian custom, accompanied My timidity proved ridiculous. by two baggage horses, two mule. The officials gave us all assistance. teers of whom Very gifted, always neat and The villages we stayed in, previous Hadji Baba,
one was named assùiuous, was first in ally unvisited by Europeans, offered policeman talled Abbas.
and a smart Young subjects, and upon completing his comfort and plenty. The worst
No European, no "Frank," as studies received a gold medal asĮmarauders were the fleas.
they say in these parts, had ever the most deserving pupil with re- For this happy condition visitors been seen before in these Villages gard to his ability. progress and like myself may thank the present Yet the curiosity of people was noti behaviour. Neither in the school, Shah. Under his rule, professional indecent. nor outside, has a single instance adventurers must adventure else- The best room
in the village been observed when he has given where than in Persia. I can better would be immediately prepared, car cause for dissatisfaction, by word recommend the Great West Road on pets spread, and holsters set against or by deed, to the school authoria Saturday afternoon,
the walls. In one room, belonging ties and teachers. His mental) Azerbaijan is the north-west pro-to a boy-squire, who was introduced and moral instruction kas always vince of Persia, a land of fertile, to us by his bailiff and, steward as been thoroughly looked after, rolling highlands lying between "lord of the surrounding villages," first by both his pareats and upon 3,000ft and 7,000ft. above sea-level, there was a fireplace, and we ate our the death of his father is 1886 by and occasionally interrupted by the dinner off a big round tray, reclin his mother alone. Religin jagged outlines of higher ranges.
ing at full length before a blazing
It
Not since Mr. Balfour, a gen-appreciation of the future con- and discipline were the basin of The people speak Turki, and know hearth. Next morning the steward this smbringing, the fruits of little Persian. On the shores of it another fire for us to dress by, . eration ago, enabled the Cunard ditions of Atlantic travel. The
which are apparent in 'e be-Lake Urumiah, near the Turkish Company to build the Lusitania air service linking Southampton
In our last village, a poor tree- havour
frontier, lives an isolated colony of less pkice about 7,000ft, up, tho and Mauretania has a British and New York is not yet in be- refers to Vladimir lyitch Assyrian Christians.
headman retained the manners of Government used all its power to ing. But it will be established Ulianov, otherwise Lenin.
We travelled from Zinjan to a hundred years ago. Unlike the The author of it was M. Keren-Tabriz with two of them-a lorry-others who entertained us, he spoke maintain the supremacy of her long before the new ships have
sky's father, and it is quoted in M.driver and a schoolmistress. The good mercantile murine. Now, after rivalled the Mauretania's years Kerensky's book "The Crucifixion latter, though she fed-yapon quinces English companion had also some Persian. Fortunately my two years of waiting, followed by of work. . New standards of of Liberty." published last month and apricole from a basket, was knowledge of the ancient courtesies, months of expectancy, steps speel, comfort and safety in by Arthur Barker. have been taken which will once ocean travel must be set if the more pin the blue riband of the liner is to hold her own against Atlantic to the folds of the Un-the aeroplane. No. 534 and her ion Jack. They are costly steps.) sister will set them..
The Treasury will take powers to advance up to £4,500,000 in con- nection with the completion, of |No. 534, and up to £5,000,000 to- wards the construction of her
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U. S. Air Mail Trouble
not a prepossessing type. American and conversation opend thus: missionaries had taught her to "Peace, he to you!" "To you be think smoking wicked and to depise peace!" her Moslem neighbours.
"The health of your high emin- The reason for the loss of several
Travelling by lorry with smelly ences is good, God willing?" lives on the American Bir mail companions is neither pleasant nor "Thanks be to God, owing to the routes was probably because the expeditious. But it is cheap, and kindness of your excellency, it is army pilots were unaccustomed to the great distances in Persia make very good."" keeping to a strict timetable in all private cara ruinously expensive. "Everything your high eminences weathers.
We slept the night in a mud command your loving slave w It is to be doubted whether Brk-caravanseral where they kept endeavour to perform. This house tish R.A.F. pilots of high speed tame wolf in the courtyard, and is your house. May I be Whether the high buildings re-machines could be suddenly trans-came next morning to Tabriz, the sacrifice?"
your sister ship. These advances willcently erected in London deserve ferred to air-liner work in all capital of Azerbaijan, a city sur "May the shadow of your high- be secured on the assets of the censure as a new and growing weathers without preliminary train-rounded by hills, coloured rust and ness never diminish." new company, Cunard-White Star menace to the beauties of the ing. Imperial Airways always give lemon, and the second largest in. And so on. But next morning,
new pilots six months' training Persia. Ltd., in which the two ancient metropolis" opinions will differ whatever their R.A.F. records, be- Here we noted the predominance the old man spoke a more concise when it came to settling the bill, rivals of the North Atlantic will despite the report of the Royal fore they are allowed to pilot an of Germans, who run the brewery and practical language,
Fine Art pool their resources. Thus, with
Commission.
That airliner.
and other industries; we ate ices One antiquity of some interest serious
done damage has been
In America the civil air mail pilots while a military band played among we discovered, a sort of altor sup must be admitted. Some of the have to meet every type of weather beds of petunias beneath the great ported on a carved stone ram of ancial backing, Britain will bid finest prospects of St. Paul's from and climate on the const-to-coast brick citadel of the Ark; and we primitive design, where the vil again, and bid successfully, for the bridges and the Surrey, side fourneys of 3,000 miles from Atian-paid our respects to the Governor ingers crushed the oil for their her traditional primacy in the have been grievously injured. Yet now used to flying on the radio bea-
tic to Pacific. Moreover, they are and the Chief of Police. Transatlantic passenger service. are we to say that rather than in-con system.
a united fleet and abundant fin-
lamps.
Curions Monument.
Whether this object, and the use The competition of the finest jure a view building owners must The U.S. Army pilots have no
Nothing could have exceeded the to which it was put, may have had boats of Germany, France, and for ever acquiesce in great finan-experience of this kind of flying. politeness of these gentlemen, who some ancient connection with fre sent us by car to Marageh, 80 miles worship, "we could not discover, the United States will be flerce, cial loss? For example, ought the
distant, armed with letters to the owing to the language dimculty. Facts You Did Not the Embankment to and the prospects of the whole buildings on
But our ride was not really concern. same functionaries in that place. * great adventure turn on interna-have been governed absolutely by
Know.
In Marageh there are various ed with such things. towers of red brick and blue
(Continued on Page 18). tional recovery complete enough the elevation of 18th century.
Railroad trains for short lincs falence, beneath one of which are to restore the old popularity of Somerset House? Many of Lon- oceanic travel. But the spirit don's high buildings in the modern have been invented in which the en- said to lie the remains of Hulagu,
gines and cars run on rubber tyred the Mongol conqueror who destroy COUNSEL LENDS HIS style have a inanive grandeur of of confidence which has inspired their own. Leading factors in the paving and are guided by revolving dad and 'converted Mesopotamis wheels on concrete or macadamed the irrigation system of Bagh a
problem are London's high ground pins that 'press against
a central into a desert. and renta
tho huge fines rafl. exacted before new leases · are
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good deal to realise the hopea jon which it rests; and before the
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CLIENT $50
"Feels He Should Not new liners take the water they granted. Increase of height Is Miniaturo traffic lights that the rasatkhane or star house; in Have Been Charged." will be well freighted with the thus imperative in order to secure signal in the customary colours that whence. Hulagu's chief Minister "NO OPIUM FOUND ON HIM”, good will of the thousands of a return on outlay, if an old-cat are going to continue in their used to examine the stars by day- workers to whom, their construc-fashioned town house in a London right have been invented in England.
courses, stop or turn, to the left or light
I will lend my client $60 to tion has again brought employ-square la to be rehallt as a block to be carried on automobiles:
This can always be done, as is pay his ball because. I feel that well known, from the bottom of a he should not have been charged, ment. We have assumed that of pilkes or Aats. On the other
well. But the chief Minister, more no opium having been found on the second ship will be built, hard, the Commissioners do well A combination of chemicals in conveniently, chose a cave in the him" said Mr. Hin Shing-lo, Without her No. 584 cannot ful- to insist that as "every increase in dust form that develops a large side of a mountain, whence he pro when he appeared for Chan Sing, fil her function. As the Cunard height is a concession of which amount of carbon dioxide gas when fected a shaft which emerged on who was charged before Mr. E.
hoated has been developed by a Uni- the mountain's top.
W. Hamilton at the Central Company explained when her the money value is often great,"
versity of Washington engineer to To this cave, which lies about Magistracy this morning with construction was begun, she is exemptions from the restrictions extinguish fires without causing the three miles outside the town, we being in possession of five maca
of the Building Acts should be ac damage done by water. rode in superbly mounted-caval- of prepared opfum. the smallest vessel capable of crossing the Atlantic and turn where, desirable, in town-planning. companied by some Improvement,
cade, accompanied by several millChin, with two other defen Scientists are considering the tary officers and the Chlef of Police, danta, a man and a woman, was Ing round in harbour within Tall buildings require as a rule diversion of several streams in the In it we found two rock-hewn fire stated by Mr. W. J. Buller, Chief weck. She and her slater ship wider streets, and the aesthetic Union of South Africa to form large altare, a relic of the old Zoroastrian Preventative Officer, to have will thus be able to maintain argument is powerfully reinforced would reigate bullons of acres, of which it was necessary to crawl on at 182, Queen's Road West, A lakes in the Halkharf desert that religion. Tiny-galleries,, down been in possession of the oplum weekly service, whereas if she by that which is drawn, from con- land" and increase rainfall over bands and knees, led to inner cham second charge of dealing Joperates alone all the eco mies siderations of traffic),
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