THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1941.
MEN PREFER TAXI-GIRLS
Five women taxi-driv- ers, who have taken over from men called up, in- sist on doing all the work the men did.
They do running repairs, change wheels, hund'e Jacks and spanners with case.
They fling heavy lug- gage on and off the cabs without
help, even when their fares are
men..
Star driver is Mro. Joan aged
Parkes, who has a son eleven and whose husband is a doctor.
Earn £3 A Week
ITALY KEEPS HOPES LOCAL SHARES
OF EMPIRE
(By HERBERT L. MATTHEWS)
IT IS NOT Italy that is being directly attacked. in the war. It is Italy's new empire, the one she fought for in 1935 and 1936, added to in 1939 and. hoped to expand through this war.
The old glories of the Roman Empire have been beckoning to the Fascists for twenty years. It is an integral part of their political philosophy that Italy, with her growing population and her "young virile Spirit," should expand and become a great imperial power like Britain and France.
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One has to remember what the und it was as much to protect her foreign policy of Fascist Italy has | Adriatic coastline as for anything been for these last Six' years elce, it is held, that she stepped to realise what the empirë mears | across the sea to Alpania. In that to the present regime. When Pre-way the gate to the Adriatic was Their Arm is the Cream Line of mier Mussolini sought new world, securely locked and the key held Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The wo-to conquer and Italian troops over by Italy. The Greeks-new-think-187-Electrics men wear sincks and uniform | ran Ethiopia and challenged Bri-that they are thre: tening to break jacket.
der.
Shattered Dreams
was
down that door; Italians thinic otherwise. But the fact remains that in striking at Albania the Italians' enemy is aiming at a vital spot in Italy's armour.
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tish power, it was a proud mo- ment for the regime. When the "Old ladles and young men democracies were flouted in the especially prefer. us to male two and a half years of interven- drivers," one of them said, "The tion on behalf of Generalissimo | men tip well." And small won- | Francisco Franco and the Spanish Libya, too, plays an important
A fellow must feel odd | Nationalists and Albania
role in Italian Mediterranean pol- when a girl insists on lugging taken without the lifting of a fin-icy. Every move westward that the around his heavy cases.
ger by the great powers; when british make brings them nearer France went down to defeat and to Italy herself. The Italians are Italy felt she was one of the vic- certain that the British are not dertone yesterday but operators undertaken.
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business going to get into the western part were cautious awaiting Balkan of Libya, which is the really im developments. Business was main- portant part from the viewpoint of war, strategy, but they know Indian issues, which were firmly ly centred on gilt-edged and The barren deserts of Libya had that they must soon hold fast. held. Industrials were quiet. been made to bloom. Egypt was So far as the mother country is invaded and great horizons open-concerned, neither the Acgean is-Steels were firmer and tobaccos ed. The Italian Tricolour would lands nor East Africa, huge as it and breweries be planted on the Nile; the House Is, plays a vital strategic role. The ccasionally were easier but olls of Savoy would regain its old Aegean islands are now surround-rallied after an early decline. For- Kingdoin of Jerusalem; Libya unded by hostile Greek islands, by pign issues tended to be slightly Ethiopia would be joined across the British fleet, centred on Crete, lower but Egyptian were half the Sudan
and by an unfriendly. Turkish point higher-Reuter. mainland. But British domination of the Eastern Mediterranean has never been in question and Italy can do without the wine and rice and tobacco and wool that have to come from Rhodes and the other islands,
"We don't want to be spoon fed," he is told. "We are hold-tors, these were great days. ing down the men's jobs and Intend to do them thoroughly."
Mr. W. Bailey, superior. to the firm, said: "These girls are as good as men. They are honest and fact- ful, They are paid the men's wage of £2 a week for working from 8 am, till 6 p.m. and get at least an extra £1 a week in tips,
Her Speed Surprising "We shall feel tempted to keep them on after the war."
If a fare is likely to be cult Mrs. Parkes is usually given the job. She can handle him.
Italian feaders still insist that those days will come true. It is only necessary for the Axis to win, they say, and the nightmare of diff-Brilish imperial' trcops in Italian imperial-domains will vanish for- ever, Meanwhile, it is a hard and bitter struggle. Instead of expand- ing, the empire is, at the moment, shrinking under" the hammer blows of the enemy. Problems of strategical dangers and economic losses, however temporary, have to be studied.
"I enjoy it," she said. "No cushy work for me."
Men drivers and mechanics are surprised at the speed with which Mrs. Parkes rips out heavy seats and encases them in white slips when rushing off to a wedding. She is quicker than a man, they
was
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THE TURNING POINT IN CONVALESCENCE
When the crisis is past in illness In the BaME way, Ethiopia, recovery may still be a long way
automatically detached
off. from the metropole the minute
The real turning point for the war started. She could be the better comes when the patient reached only through the Suez begins to fill out and pick up Canal and through the Strait of Gibraltar and around the whole noticeably from day to day... of Africa. But Britain controlled The decisive factor in that quick Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; both gateways.
recovery is good food. When Li Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq.. patients cannot take solid meals Wong Yun Tong, Esq., Chan Ching Exports By Colonies and have a disinclination for most shek, Esq. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Of the other women two are speaking in terms of strategy and
From the viewpoint of present kinds of food, doctors give them Chu Sr, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah, married and two single. One was economy as well as prestige and economic supplies East Africa is Horlicks. Horlicks is so light, that previously a cook and another glory-Italy's-position-in-the-Medi--not extremely important to Italy the most delicate-stomach-can-as-Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief-Manager. worked in a factory.
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and build healthy tissues. Before this war Italian private Keep Horlicks in the house (1- | Robe - capital had invested well over 5,000,000,000 lire in Ethiopia, and ways. Yon can get it to-day at more than 200,000 colonists had your store. been sent down there. It was hop-
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Libya had been increasing, her crop yield at an astonishing rate, Cereal and wine nroduction, for instance, has been doubled in a few years.. Wool, hides and skins, tuna fish and olive oil were being exported in large quantities to Italy. These are now being miss ed, but at least Italians can say ft nothing vital comes from 1 ir empire.
...if the worst comes to the worst, they feel sure that they could lose. Albania, Libya, the Aegean is- lands and East Africa and still be victorious in the war.
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