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Civil a chance to Luis Chan to study List pension; and these pensions, abroad. Among other things, Mr. Philip Guedalla recently sug- my venerable adversary accused (gested, may shortly be brought up to to the level of generosity with me of desiring Luis Chan
like awhich municipalities treat retired! learn to paint
Eastern Frontier form the After the loss of Alsace and. French painter. I do not know dustmen. They may also apply fortifications on France's capture until peace was signed.
subsequent ex-to the Royal Literary Funds
most gigantic system that has Lorraine, with Metz and Stras- whether my
bourg in German hands, the Jever been constructed. planation satisfied the very ap-private benevolence which does
They are called after M. Ma-new frontier was fortified: Ver- Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 21, 1956-preciative amateur, but I have not publish the names of its bene-
Chinese ficiaries.
ginot, who was Minister of War dun was modernised, and a line pointed out, that a
was built along the Last year there were fifty appli-during the early stages of the of forts painter who studied some years!
He Meuse to Toul, which was con- Britain's Air Defences abroad need not necessarily be-cants to the Royal Literary Fuad initiation of the scheme.
The was a picturesque figure, about verted into a fortress. ¡come a French, English or who were
are 6ft 2in in height, erect and Thence southward came The debate in the House of a German painter. Certainly applicants and the grants Commons in the middle of last not, if he is a really and truly fewer than for some years past soldierly; he served as a ser-gap, the Trouee de Charmes, month on the Air Estimates is talented man.
This may be put down to modesty geant during the war until he extending to Epinal, which was the absence of was badly wounded and lost his fortified. From this point ran forts It can be expected that a young rather than to
another line of barrier reproduced fairly fully in the
lieg. home papers now to hand, and man will be for some time under need.
have cost along the Moselle, as far The fortifications of the particular makes interesting reading. As the influence
something like £60,000,000. Belfort, to cover eastern France, Sir Philip Sassoon. Under-school in which he had studied. A PAINTED ENTHUSIASM”
Elisabeth Bergner, although she They were started in 1929 and for Germany now held the crest Secretary for Air, said, the pro- but that is certainly not a great
catastrophe. Such an influence has been much photographed, was completed in 1935. This latter of the Vosges." gramme imples sufficient men
the Polish artist year was one of great impor and machines, adequate, re- (wears off quickly enough where surprised when
a Kanelba told her he wanted to tance, for not only had Ger-
In the north the fortress of serves. and industrial prepara-
many commenced openly to re- talent. The real paint ber. tions for turning factories, if
also the first Maubeuge covered the valley of artist The picture, which was recently arm, but it was the need arises, as quickly as is benes:
а which
yonug on the
from
view at the Lefevre year in which the annual con- the Sambre, and further to the studying humanly possible and
alon private largest scale practicable, to war.
great centre of art where students Galleries, shows her still looking tingent called to the colours was south was a chain of three for- covered the ap- For this pro- production
gather from the whole world is a little surprised. But it cap reduced by half, owing to the tresses, Rheims, Laon, and La proaches to Paris to some ex- a total amourt gramme
requisitioned ot so much the aquisition of aftures a characteristic pose and small number of births in the Fere, which
a the typical transient hesitancy. war years 1915-19..
that tent from invasion by the val £29,000,000 was
That reduction meant This is by technique, but in working in
It is called the Elisabeth Ber- from Parliaminet.
these old-fashioned gner of "Escape Me Never." She for the years 1935-40 the effec-leys of the Oise and the Mense. far the largest total asked for congenial atmosphere, the effect
is in the red costume she wore in tives of the French army would None of
conorthern fortresses since 1918, but, as the Under.of which is lasting.
any material value Secretary pointed out in answer
An opportunity for illustration the play. The artist had no more be particularly low unless
service were increased. prove of
ex-jagainst the onsweep of the Ger- to questions, the estimates were
exhibition of Mr. Hong than two or three sittings. Miss lour jnot those of an aggressive is the
one year to two, man armies, which was even- Government eager to build up Chen which opened yesterday at Bergner talked nearly all the time Since it has recently been
After the war there were two pur-the Gloucester Hotel Lounge. Mr. Kanelba declares that the result tended- from air power for offensive
lare called "the lean years."
very defnite schools of thought !poses. They were the pro- Hong spent five years in Paris, is less a portrait than an "enthu- this has compensated for what tually stemmed at the Marne.
on the subject of fortification posals of a Government which, where he studied at the Ecole des siasm.” Imuch against its will. has been Beaux Arts under Prof. Flanant
French military thought has in French military circles. The Korced to make up its mind that and Prof. Lucien Simon.
always been favourable to the one pointed to the fate of Liege great increases in air strength turned to China in 1925 and if the
idea of fortifications, a legacy under heavy bombardment and idea of masonry and large measures for mobilis-influence of Paris was very mark-
When I was a little boy I always from Vauban, the greatest rejected the ling industry in case of needed at that time, there is hardly
ate my crusts," said Willie's father.
asked master of the art, who flourish-and concrete. They considered "Did you like them "" are unavoidable except at the lany siga of it now.
ed during the reign of Louis that the only possible form of ¡nation's peril.
Although Mr. Hong had his art Willie.
“Of course I did,” quickly respond-XIV, and left his mark over the resistance would be to lay out Mr. F. Montague (Lab., W. education in Europe he remained
eastern and northern provinces trench systems of great depth And I do led the father. Islington) put the case for the essentially "Chinese.
Then you may have mine." re of France and the plain of with concrete dugouts, artillery positions, and machine-gun em- Party and asked not mean that he has found some Socialist
Flanders. about the purpose for which the means to mix or blend Oriental plied his son, graciously.
Those, who served in France placements already prepared and Air Force was being increased, art with the Western and produce
He was a stout man, with large, during the war will remember masses of barbed wire held in its personnel reinforced and its a sort of mongrel, which is often
although several the old fortress towns of Ypres, readiness.
The opposing school pointed equipment perfected by the use the case with Western-educated broad feet, and of the latest designs and in-Japanese artists. Through his pairs of boots were shown to him Lille, Doullens, Quesnoy, and.
while Verdun, to the lesson of the Verdun mary others,
combination of me- forts, 13 of which, out of a total ventions. As a Home commen-Western education he has found he refused them.
I must have square toes," he ex-with its a new, a modern, Chinese out plained to the assistant tator remarks, the questionsį.
diaeval and more modern forti- of 18, survived the most terrific thought The young man sighed. "But were hardly worth asking in look. He views the Chinese land-
that a modern system with circumstances. answer, as given by Sir Philippe with the eye of a Chinese square toes are not stocked now, sir," fications, was to prove the value bombardments,
and paints it without making he insisted. "Pointed toes are fash of Vauban's work.
"Before the war of 1870 Metz much greater protection and were great with very heavy armament was surely was
man kavė an rather much use of traditional tricks ionable this season.”
angry and Strasbourg The stout obvious. He said that it was His voice is that of young China. stare. That may be," he retorted, frontier fortresses, and Belfort the correct solution.
(Continued On Page 10) twofold First, it was the Gor-
Mr. Heng's. exhibition is by far "but I happen to be wearing at had the distinction of resisting ernment's duty to protect the British Isles. That could not the most interesting held for some season's feet." be done unless the Air Force time in the Colony, and I can were strong enough, in men and warmly recommend it to those
are unspoiled and machines. not to prevent air who attack altogether for that, genuinely interested in art and admittedly, could not be done artista.-A.SK. · but "to make attack too dan- gerous to contemplate." second reason for
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