Couldn't keep my oye
on the ball to-day!”
“Never mind, you can tell this whisky blindfold”
There is no other whisky with quite the genial mellowness, the smoothness, the exquisite fragrance of White Horse. When you find all the qualities of finest Scotch whiskies blended into one, you know it can only be White Horse Whisky.
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMB
NANKING, ONE YE
If you want to go to Nanking, be of some of Washington's structures, girls have never seen sure it is for no better reason than had withstood heavy bombardment. foreign before. The sightseeing. When I made the trip, A gaping wall, a crushed roof, but chrsitened, no natio persons with good reasons had been nevertheless the buildings remained ing tolerated, is one. waiting in Shanghai for months. Pro- intact. Little is left, however, of the unbombed buildings. fessing only idle curiosity, I got my shopping district. Most of the stores reared on "bushido,j military pass immediately. I must were brick, and under bombing, brick warrior, are above have looked harmless.
goes down in one formless heap. It is peeling plaster, half possible in this district to walk along ture and heat whic block after block where all that re- special request only mains is a half wall here and a few your have asked. ground pillars further on. Turning off Nanking's wall, on a side road I found myself amid around, is a thick roc acres of complete devastation-every-teresting to learn th thing razed. Chinese houses of the pea- occupation of the cl sant and middle class type were never for, being sheer, it designed for durability. They collapse possible to scale. Und on the detonation of a bomb.
however, the gates-g Japanese army: ma entry. Soldiers still trances, subjecting amination and man Chinese gown offers for a gun.
Getting from Shanghai's Inter- national Settlement to the train had complications. At the Garden Bridge my driver stopped and handed me my bag. The mysterious disappearance of two or three Chinese chauffeurs in the Japanese area-they were offering un- welcome competition-makes taxi drivers from the Settlement decidedly unwilling to leave the foreign conces- sion. Having no choice but to walk across the bridge, I made my way to the other side through the jum of honking trucks and chattering Chin- ese. The next problem was to find a Japanese taxi.
Eventually one of '34 vintage appeared, and getting in, we started bumping toward the station. The closer we approached the fewer were the buildings standing. The North Station was in the path of Shanghai's most severe fighting. Hence a shack now takes its
place. Some 150 refugees, haggard and
tired, were waiting to buy tickets. Pro-
bably not more than half would be packs, water canteens and bayonets window a few Japanese businessmen
successful. To the left, soldiers with
were lining up, and toward the ticket
were elbowing their way against odds
considerable even for a Japanese.
When the gates opened, to my sur- prise I found the train was Japanese -a straight-back-seated duplicate of the coaches I had been riding the last six months. Segregation followed. Sol-
Outside the Chinese section, the city is lifeless except for the rumble of army trucks and the drone of bomb- bers. Wealthy Chinese have not re- turned, and the foreigners number ex- actly twenty-three,
The Japanese who are not at their best when doing things foreign style, go‘down in defeat against the odds in Nanking. Prefering maids to men-ser- vants, they have dismissed the Chinese help and imported young girls from the agrarian districts of Kyushu. The
One cannot leave. seeing the Sun Ya Since it is outside obliged to undergo i a glorious spring di leading up to the M lightful with the che
A GENIUS FOR
Some say that the English have a 'genius for compromise, that they pre- fer to take things as they come, to make the best of circumstances, and to "muddle through" instead of fol- lowing some definite rule or plan.
On the whole I think this is true, Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain,
Like who talked prose without knowing it,
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were all in the day themselves they hav else, hardly noticin Nowhere among the nervousness or "Jitte anywhere, thinks of ter of these folk in a
BY WIC STE
In cars, and businessmen to the second knowing what relativity may be. class, along with three or four Chinese their minds it has got mixed up with converts to the New Reform Govern-Einstein and abstruse mathematical somebody, somewher ment, a Roman Catholic priest from the calculations about "space" and "time." badly, United States, and myself. Pulling When one tells them that relativity out of the station, I glimpsed a group really means: "It all depends," they from the Japanese Women's Defence are mildly astonished and slightly Society giving a final "banzal" to the bored. soldiers.
Such nervousness or is, might rather: the "upper" classes -- tuals." They, howe I have long put down the English ed themselves into The first hour was through "No genius for compromise to. the fact which they express. Man's Land"-one year later. Except that they have no climate but only the worst comes to t for the fact that the streets have been weather. Hence their constant talk of have to go through v partially cleared of debris, little has the weather. This summer they exceptions I think changed since the fighting moved on. have come near to having a climate in ves of nerve-power- Certainly only slight reconstruction. | the form of constant `rain-and they most untouched, ~As Leaving the city behind, we presently grumble at it. Somebody has re- they are in completi came into farm country. In field after membered what Lord Byron wrote: the "common" peop fleld winter wheat stood 12 inches "That English winter ends in July, to relativity in their high, but the farms were devoid of begin again in August." This is a "Hitler." human life.
calumny though, like many calumnies, This is a curious, it holds a grain of truth. Yet, here significant, phenom again, relativity creeps in. This "sum- Nazi-Fascism, of the mer" chance has taken me by road fending "freedom" a from the extreme west to the extreme may leave our peop east of England, and right through the not like outlandish southern Midlands. Where, in theory, nation of words: and the crops ought to have been hope- dom and "democracy! lessly "laid" by storms and cloud- cussion. But say t bursts, I have seen splendid fields of fellow, Hitler!" an upstanding wheat, oats, and barley, their ears, and oper with only the belated hay crop look- utter nouns and adje ing a bit weary and sorry for itself. not look well in pr Nature seems to have taken things the German nation as they came and to have made the hugbear, the dis
peace of mind.
Six hours after leaving Shanghai, we arrived at the occupied capital. Carry ing my bag off the train (it was hardly the place to except redcaps), I dis- covered to my
amazement a line for baggage inspection forming at the sta- tion exit. But why? Guns and "danger- ous thoughts," I learned.
The Japanese army and its bombers did a thoroughly effective piece of work in crushing Nanking, From Chiang's capital and symbol of a re- uniting China, It is now reduced to 300,000 refugees too poor to leave, to empty Government buildings and razed homes. It was my first experi- ence of being in an annihilated city.
The great reinforced-concrete Gov- ernment buildings, suggestive for size way uncomplainingly
best of them.
So it is with our "common" people. The shadow
war has
of
More than a hund lain upon suppose, our people them, but they have gone on their Napoleon Bonaparte
though it surviving traces of
as
EAT
AT
Jimmy's Kitchen
Bringing Up Father
JUST THINK-OUR CHILDREN ARE MARRIED-AND WILL
SOON BE LEAVING US – T CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT--
ARE YOU CRYIN' BECAUSE YOU ARE SADA OR HAPPY ?
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I'M GLAD MAGGIE WENT TO THE STORE - I CAN GET A UTTLE
PEACEFULNESS-
INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING
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