THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1937.
T
THE
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GOES BY
often happens that my idle, care-free life (which others often comment upon) gives me time for reading, and while flip- ping through a magazine the other day, I came across some pages of foreign cartoons.
I was struck immediately by their extraordinary lack of respect for us. I mean (as my wench Ophelia would say) we often make fun of foreigners in our cartoons, but who would have thought that they would have the sauce to make fun at us?
John Bull is far from handsome as the foreigners see him. On the contrary. he is a fat, coarse old
fellow with a snout of a nose and the extremely prominent teeth that are believed by foreigners to be the outstanding characteristic the British.
of
No one wants to insist on our superiority to foreigners, though it is especially obvious, I think, to any Briton who sets foot on foreign
soil.
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are
Pore Ophelia
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Waziristan Raid On Convoy
New Delhi, To-day.
It is learned that the hostile tribesmen who attacked the Bri- tish convoy on the North-West Frontier numbered 300, They suffered only 30 casualties in the raid.
"It is stated that the majority of the Mahsuds openly condemn the incident and show no signs of becoming hostile.-Reuter.
Ethiopians
Pour Over Border
FLEE FROM FRESH ITALIAN RAIDS
Evidence would seem to be pro- vided that the Italian authorities in Abyssinia are taking further punitive measures by the exodus into British Somaliland yester- day of over 1,000 men, women and children.
Now that I have seen these car- Heavy firing was heard on the toons, however, I feel that some-border, says a Reuter message from thing should be done about it, in a Berbera (British Somaliland) and tactful way, of course. For many of the refugees were said to foreigners
evidently uncon-have been wounded. scious of their inferiority to us. The refugees streamed across It is all very queer and disturb-the frontier from Ethiopia into ing.
British Somaliland all day.
Among the 1,000 or so who fled to the safety of British territory My afore-mentioned wench Op-were two chiefs. All refugees in helia is puzzled again. She means possession of arms surrendered and about the way people argue and go laid down their weapons. on about these frightfully impor PLANE CROSSÉS FRONTIER tant things that really matter kind
A three-engined Caproni plane it's chronic. She doesn't pre- tend to be a clever girl like those circled over Borama, on the British of the frontier, yesterday clever girls who can add up figures side right the first time, and know what afternoon, looking for the fugi- the Chiltern Hundreds and Thou- tives.
of
sands are, but well, you know The road to the frontier is de- she means to say she isn't abscribed as being dotted with fugi- solutely loopy.
tives, while heavy firing was heard It's like the day when the cup-o the Ethiopian side. board fell on father. She means, Relief measures are being taken surely, there's only one sensible on the British side of the border. way of getting him out, and that is-Reuter. to rally round and lift the cup- board up Really and truly you It's called can't argue about that.
getting down to it, she thinks.
Well, why don't all those clever people who run the shows in all the countries get down to it? But it's all argue,
Dr. Wang Calls On Ambassadors
...on..
the
Nanking, To-day. Dr. Wang Chungshui, the For argue, argue and eign Minister, paid calls snap, snap, snap the whole time. Russian and British Ambassadors There's a right and a wrong, what yesterday at noon and 5.00 p.m. re- ever you say.
spectively.Our Own Correspon-
dent.
The man did so.
Supposing she and mother and Geoffrey and Aunt Belinda (who'd just dropped in) were still sitting
Il Duce called a second atten- on the cupboard and arguing what was the best way to get it off dant and asked him the same ques-- father? She means there you are, aren't you?
cal Joke
happened while M Pierre
tion
and commanded him to throw himself out of the window. The man did so without question.
"How's that?" said Mussolini. “Well," said Laval, “it's impres-
Laval was in Rome trying to nego- sive, but call in a third attendant tiate a gentleman's agreement with and let me talk to Itafy
and
Laval were
Mussolini cussing Fascism,
him.” The third man came in and La- Do you love your Duce dis val said:
better than life itself?"
Yes.
Il Duce was bragging how It- lians unquestioningly obeyed him.
“Would you jump out of the win- He said: "Watch this,” and sum-dow if he asked you to do, so
moned an attendant.
When the man came in. Musso- lint said "Do you love your Duce better thân your life?
Yes."
"You really mean to tell me that the Duce means more to you than life itself?'i
- “Certainly—what sort a life
"Then jump out of the indow is this under Fascism, anyway?" to prove it.”
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