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AN - INTERESTING ETHNOLOGICAL
CHAT,
WEATHER REPORT.
Jun 9th at 14.30.-Pressure has decreased lightly eve NE. Japan and at Chatoo, it has increased slightly at the majority of other
The depressiy
stations.
You like that?" said the fat man in reporting the vicinity of Chima
the blue skull cap and the bright yellow gloves with black bruid on them. He sent a brilliant smile across the carriage at me and wriggled his legs, which were crossed under him, more cosily on to the cushions.
"Yes," I said.
Then, he went on, you are a crank ura prig. He pronounced the first word had wandered out of as though its n "kraal," and the second as though it His head rocked rhymed with league. engerly on one side and his nice, span sive smile assured me that he wasn't tring to be offensive I put down my book about Balkan Minorities which had thus oddly opened this conversation.
You're not very polite, are you? said.
Surely," he replied, "I am not rude. But you are an Englishman, and
my home is cast of Vienan, and I know what my countrymen do not, that the English laugh At the Balkan..' I began to protest, but he stopped me with a wave of that gandy glave.
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I want to tell you," he proceeded, "I have been in England, in London unoy tines, and in Sheffield, Liverpool, and Glasgow. I have English friends, and 1 have talked with them about these coun tries beyond Vienna. They are not in- terested. They make jaking of our names, They think us Tarbar. A man way to me in England that all the deputies in the Balkan Chambers bring with the hols and revolvers, He laugh loud.".
But most people in every country aren't interested by anything abroad Why-
want to tell you," the glove signal was given again and I subsided. As the monolgte continued I looked out at the Danube, which flowed beside the rail track, On the towpath an officer in gay, elegant unifura was cantering a beauti fully stepping horse. On the grass hy spick and span village, with every house detached, a little girl was driving some refractory geese. Lazily seeing such de-
to be slowly moving northward, it has areas in intensity
trough of low pressure persists over the northern part of the China Se
Total siz
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at - 18 hours, June 9th 000 inch. Jaanary is 282 inches, against az average
5.07 inshoe. The forest for the 24 hours anding at 16 hours, June 10th is as follows
DISTRICT
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· Ka, 2 madder' Tatárvh; ↑ No 1 for Blood & Kin East. - For B for 'Chrnula Waskreston::_noLA' SE PHANIE'DEKJESTI, PRACE DE TOMEGAKO, 18. DA. En Charme Man Coy Havfruock "Ba... London, MAT FROM 90, DEKAT NEW Tekk. Chir, on 42 VALSTSTEKET, San Francisco
I want to tell you." he was saying, that the French know nothing of any peuple outside France. They are Guals,
like yours and their ancestors did not. and like mine, come wandering out of Asia. They have not a wander-lust. But your people do not stay at home. They Toes. know about black nien and yellow meu. Only the Balkans they do not know. They think that some of us dress like hussars
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in Stress opera and want to lie fot young ladies whose name is Sonia or for kings who are always in exile, and that the rest of us are dirt and have great heards, It is a funny picture, with one half what your novelists call Ruritania aul the other half Bolsheviki.
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You're hard on us," I said. First you call me a crank and a prig for trying to understand the Balkars, and then you attack my countrymen 'fur not botherington (Blue Fannel), due to-morrow. to understand.""
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people do when they go to Amèrica. how we hated our neighbours. We shall ***The fat man's voice stapped
want to tell you," he began again. There are a few Englishmen who comic to us and even learn our languages. But they are not like the English in India or Africa I have talked with some of your Empire-builders--he chuckled over the phrase, whether from pleasure at being sa idiomatic or for another reason I am not deny saw his smiling, eager eyes sare, but they do not say the Hindu stiffen into an expression of venom. The ia a "good man and the Mostem a bad train had pulled up at a station. man. But your Vatsons and Buxtons and Mees Durhams and Milord Newtons they always say that this Balkan country is very fine and that very evil. Perhaps it is because you must not given us that you do not understand us and that you take sides anong us. Tell me have you hear the Taigane bands, and do you
See," he said, in a new, low voice. pointing with his canary-gloved finger ni figure on the platform, "I know him, though he thinks not to be known. He is a spy. He takes pay from the Duna Government. They have many spies be- cause they are afraid. They have ruled 119 since the war. But they are not our people, the w
The fat man
The Hungarians are the best fellows, quite, English fellows Or are the Serbs your hd forgotten re. He was staring out Jare? Or will you go to Sofin because you into the lamp-lit station dreaming of what
call the Bulgars the most honest terrevolution: fo, come I do not know.-A.R. chants and the simplest peaspots in the in the Manchester Guardian. Balkans ?"
I don't think there's anything to choose between them."
Ah, then you are not interested Perhaps you are a student and you make your examinations. No! but I see it." The fat man's eyes, gleamed' knowingly. "You have not found where is my home. You do not wish to offend. Well, I shall not tell
I started to assure hima that my impartiality was genuine and nat merely tact, but he would not listen, so eager he was to bring out his idens.
Jeu
I want to tell you," he was off with his invariable opening gambit, "that we are very young and that the Turk only left us yesterday. But we are Europeans like the English. Did not one of your kings. Dutch William, laughter his en- emics hy treachery! Did not Birminghani fight with Leeds when there was a from- tier hetween your North Country and vour Midlands We are like that still. But to-morrow we shall be like you are to-lay But how 1 you ask. I want to tell you when you were in Budapest you looked for pictures in the shops of Kaiser Karl But what did you gec" Pictures of Harold Lloyd, of Maric Pickford, and you saw crowds who had stopped to watch a figure of Charlie Chaplin in the entrance to a kino. Then you saw many photo- graphs in the Andrassy Boulevard of foot- ball teams of all the Baikan countries. Yest And you looked in the book shops Far propaganda. But did you find nothing elee! What was the book you met most oftenly? Was it not Tarzan of the Apes He waited for in answer. I nedied and he went on.
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So. We are learning. from you ang from the Yankees. We like what you like.. Wo fight a little as you used to fight: But soon we shall do that no more. Be cause we are poor and we must get much money from your bankers and, from the New York bankers, and they will not lend it if we fight. So there will be a zrcat, united Balkan Statesnil no more minori ties, and we shall play many anies like vou, and we shall go every night to the kino. and we shall laugh with you at what we did before, and we shall forget, as our
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