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DESPERATE
EARLY FALL OF CAPITAL PREDICTED
BY REBEL QUARTERS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THAT THE FOOD SITUATION IN MADRID IS NOW ABSO- LUTELY DESPERATE, IS THE TENOR OF A TELEGRAM PUBLISHED IN THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH” YESTERDAY FROM ITS
IN THE SPANISH OLD- CAPITAL.
CORRESPONDENT
declares that
The correspondent many children, have died owing to the extreme shortage of milk, which can now no longer be obtained.
The rebels, he adds, are storing large quantities of provisions be hind the front line, so that they may be in the position of being able to "start a large-scale relief of the | population immediately after the fall
of Madrid.”
OIL PAINTINGS
The Exhibition Of S. B. Wong
Another exhibition sponsored by the Hong Kong Working Artists' · Guild was opened yesterday at the Meanwhile reports appearing in Hotel Cecil. The artist presented the Paris newspapers state that re-is Mr. S. B. Wong who came to bel cruisers have captured another China from San Francisco only a two ships laden with food and muni-year ago. tions for the loyalists.
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There are 41 pictures on exhibi- In Salamanca a decree has been tion representing a period of seven issued by General Franco calling to years. As the artist is still the colours all men in the recently young man, naturally, there are |captured provinces of Malaga, and great divergences in the style of
Granda who became liable to military even these few pictures. service between 1933 and 1937. Trans-Ocean.
EGYPTIAN ARMY.
PROGRAMME
Big Credit Granted By Britain
I like some of the earlier ones, painted in America, most of which show a strong decorative feeling. That they are painted definitely under the influence of the modern Mexican school of mural painters subtracts nothing from their value because the artists' own personal- ity is everywhere discernible.
It is not surprising that Mr. Wong should be influenced by the Mexican school. Diego Rivera and (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
others have left an indelible mark on present-day American painting London, To-day.
and Mr. Wong had his art educa- British will provide Egypt with a tion at the San Francisco School credit of £1,100,000 for reorganisa- of Fine Art And also because in tion of her army:
some aspects there are great sin-- This is announced in the news-ilarity of principles in Mexican papers to-day, which add that a deand Chinese art cision to grant the sum to Egypt was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Of his later work I prefer those yesterday.
in which the decorative tendency is dominant. "On The Pearl
Reorganisation of the Egyptian army will be carried out by the chief Biver (10) has strength, a simple of the British military mission, who
still interesting composition, and has also prepared plans for training the artists natural inclination to keep his palette rather sombre is very well suited to the theme.
the air force."
The Egyptian army, which num- bers some 10,000 men, will be pro- vided with the most up-to-date pons-Trans-Ocean.
SHANGHAI MOTOR
MISHAP
"Washing" (No. 3) is another wea-good example of his decorativ
style and its colours are neither as muddy or raw as some of his new- er pictures. That the decorative is his true element can readily be seen in such contrasting pictures as Signal Hill" (No. 34) and 'Break- water at Mongkok" (No. 40) where he attempts a more naturalistic Four Shanghai residents nar-conception and I must say with rowly escaped death when the car not much success. The difference in which they were driving home in style and conception is so great from Nanking left the highway that I am inclined to think that near Wasih, turning on its side in the only reason for their creation a ponde
was to keep the pot boiling. Those in the machine were Mr. There are few such lucky artists Wilber Judd, Executive Secretary who have never been forced to of the Navy YMCA, and Mrs, pot-boilers, still fewer who Judd, Mr. W. A. Hathaway, Asso-good time could escape from it, and ciate Secretary, and Mrs. Hath-the danger is ever present that a away. Mr. Judd was at the wheel young man with not too strong a as the car failed to make a turn personality succumbs to its allure and catapulted over an eight-foot ments. Result: the artist will grow embankment, turning half over and richer and the community poorer. coming to rest in the water I feel that it would be just as im- The occupants were uninjured, portant, if not more important, to and returned to Shanghai in a give the Hong Kong public not chartered bus.
do
only opportunities to view what our local artists are doing but also. The BL as "Santhia” will leave to create some means by which Amoy for this Port on the 10th in- they can learn
to
-appreciate art. stant and is due here on Thursday work at its true value.
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