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BOOKS and READERS
“TAFFRAILS" TRIBUTE TO DESTROYERS IN THE WAR
THE DESTROYERS IN THE formed the crews, and also to the
GREAT WAR
shipbuilding firms who built and repaired these hardy-bosta.
What reader enn fail to be thrill.
ENDLESS STORY" by "Taffenil,”
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.
patrolling, screening, convoying, or at the Palazzo Chigi with which guarding trawlers, troopships and hospital ships, the surprise is that their losses were not much higher.
The story is told of how these vessels, after serious damage, used (to crawl or be towed into post, and
of the fine seamanship that saved Zulu whose stern was blown off by a mine, and of the Nubian whose bows were shattered by an enemy torpedo in the Straits of Dover.
joined together and the composite destroyer, the Zubian took up her duties with the Dover Patrol.
them There was the case of the
interviewers have made us so fami- liat, or absorbed by the caves of the half-dozen or so cabinet posts which he has temporarily assumed,
His voics is distressingly high- pitched when he begins to speak. His first words are lost while he musters his forces, to overcome ADAM. inertia and resistance.
"A TRIANGLE IN A
SQUARE,
SQUARE By Marjorie
Then he Stewart. Hutchinson.
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ona imagines that his musings are begins to assert himself and be. occasionally concerned with the comes the leader of an orchestra qualities of the many imitators who composed not of musicians with have succumbed to the glamour of their instruments but of thousands the March on Rome. When he con of brains. He hypnotises his musi- siders the ena of Adolf Hitler he
We are told that the author is 1 this pseudonym, and might hazard popular novelist who has adopted a guess as to her hidden identity,
"Adam Square" is representa- tive of most streets since it hides quist tragedies, comedies, and the
London: Hodder and Stoughed when he comes to the "atories"! The remains of both vessels were possibly reflects that-in the words clans to subordinate their wills to petty annoyances that go to naxe)
11.
This is a fine und fitting tribute to the work of the Destroyers during the Great War,
Commander Keble Chatterton has -placed on record the exploits of the R.N.B. and the B.N.V.R. in Drift
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of the unselfish gallantry of these little vessels at Jutland, when in. farm of fearful odds, and in order to protect their larger, and sime- times wennded sisters, they did not fail to drive their attacks home, and aften found time, as well, to save
Who enn ever forget the scenes in the East and South East coast towns of England, following St. George's Day 1018 when the battered and blood-stained Vindictive and
ers, and Armed Merchantmen, etc., any friends and foes from watery,hor escorts returned to their bases?
praves.
and Rear-Admiral Gordon Camp-¦
The book may be summarised in a bell; V.C., in his " Mystery Ships" Losses of vessels and men by direct, few words--a good story and a St- has told of their "Secret Service."enemy action, however, did not hy ting tribute-and may be recom. But the history of the War would any moans recount for all their very mended to all who have the inter- not be complete without a volume many casualtins-the great majority ests of the Empire at heart. devoted to the gallantry of the fut losses were due to striking rmemy T.B.D.'s.
mites, collisions and wrecks, no less Commander Darling's (Taffrail) | than 54 boats, spårt from personnel, ** Endless Story," therefore fills a l being lost through these throw Enunca gap, and does so in the most worthy alone; and when one remembers that manner, paying full tribute to the these vessels were continuously at bravery of the officers and men who sea during the four years of war,
THE LEAD PENCIL
DEAR KIDDIES,
THE
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MUSSOLINI MINOR.
“HITLER," by Emil Lengyel (Nant;
ledge, 78, dd.). When Mussolini is not receiving foreign visitors in that long room
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
BY
UNCLE JACK
THE FARMHOUSE
Below you will see a rough out. When I was sharpening my lead line of a stable in a farm. In this pencil to-day, it made me wonder house six different animals slaap if any of you knew how pencils were. With three straight lines divide this minde Well-
juzzle so that you will have an
To make the lend graphite and animal in euch space.
clay are thoroughly ground in a
SPIDERS AT THEIR SPINNING
Continued frum yesterday), In spite of the clever spiders already mentioned, there is another which must not be forgotten. All of
of some half-dozen homes; a hen
FORTIFICATIONS IN HAWAH
ALLEGED SALE OF SECRETS.
Honolulu, T. H., Oct. 28.-Heno- lulu was filled with rumours of "spy
plots" an army authorities to-day revealed the discovery of an alleged plan to sell valuable secret maps of the fortifications of Hawaii to for- [eign countries, including Britain
and Japan,
Army intelligence men staged a vaid last night at a bungalow in the
Waikiki district, where it was re- ported that negotiations were under way to dispose of plans of inestign- able value.
For our refusing to be hyp up life. We are shown glimpses of a-popular current advertisement,his. serica-he (Mussolui) "something some others haven't takes Hitler twes hours to develop 185esses Optised, it is irritating that it
pecked husband; a repressed and got"; but it is more probable that
bullied daughter whows revolt leads He may be
her into the arms of the husband Iris keenest rival on the world's an actor and all he says may mean | aforesaid; a family of daughters
dismisses with a corrosive phrase his main theme.
front pages.
nothing to him ia waking hours, and the love affairs of me in parissued a brief statement, but declin- Major General Briant H. Wella For Hitler is Jath-and-plaster but when he speaks he is in a trance ticular; and several unhappy wo Mussolini-a facade with nothing and he has the power to carry away mer. But the general effect is, a
ed to give details, saying: behind it, a voice without a mind, those who want to be carried away little confused, for the characters, Fort Shafter in connection with the **Two soldiers are under arrest at a leader without a coherent policy. He has an over-sapply of personal, with one or two exceptions, ar removal of confidential doruinents Nor does he look impressive even magnetism, and it is a potent types viewed from without rather from army files without the permis the carefully posed photographs force." reveal him as ludicrously common- The return of prosperity--if it in. It is pleasant enough to read, place.
Some reviewers have sug-comes in time-will mean the end though fur from justifying the ad gested that the portrait in errof Hitler's hopes. "Let Gerraany jective "brilliant" of its cuat Longey's book is overdrawn. There see the end of the world is not yet cover. It is the kind of novel sure may be a touch of malice in it, but come and Hitler will be a national of popularity among library sub of its essential truth there can be gad un halfpension," But the seribera. no question. You cannot very well accidents of polities are notoriously garicature a man who au exag-incalculable. At the time of writing gerated embodiment of all the faults this review the fate of Germany which have been ascribed to de-seems to hang by a thread, for magogues from Cleau to the present internal peace on the eye of an day. Only a nation as bewildered eighty-five-year-old man.
as post-war Germany is could have turned to this queer figure for salvation.
Herr Lougyel gives us a very read- able account of the amazing career of the Austrian ex-corporal whọ has become the chosen leader of more
than one-third of the Gorman nation, and having studied Hitler as provealed in many speeches and
interviews, sue cannot doubt that the man is faithfully-if merciless ly-portrayed in these pages. His appeal is to the young. "German. youth is politically minded. It is familiar with the great issues of the
FOUR NOVELS
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ARAB THRILLS,
than characters created from with-
INTER COLON.
sion of army authorities."
News of the arrests sot în circula- tion reports that representatives of foreign pogers bad tried to pur- chase the documents from army
men.
Army authorities indicated theso reports were incorrect, but declines to explain.
Meanwhile it was learned that, an COLOURED. By James Murray under-cover man who contacted the
John Long,
two enlisted mon, pretended to re This is a contribution to the pro-present assupposed British agent.. plem of inter-colour marriage. It The trio was supposed to get is the story, interestingly told, of $150,000 for the plans.
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Quadroon girl whose native The under-cover man brought 100 streak is the every-present bar to marked bills as evidence of good her happiness.
faith. When he offered them to the The gradual degeneration of the soldiers other intelligence THE LION OF PETRA. By Talbot wrong type of white in the isola-swooped down on the bungalow and
Munday. Hutchinson.
tion of the West Indies is faithfully arrested the two soldiers.. More thrills by' that Lawrence- dealt, with; and the melancholy It was learned that they hoped like character, Grimm, in the ser-heritage of Folly Ridgway brings later to dispose of the maps to Ja vice of the British in Arabia are about her emancipation only by pan and other countries.
Drafting equipment was found in contained in "The Lion of Petra," death. But after such comparative.
inly simple solution of these trago- the hungalow, which was for the Mr. Munday's" "Yingrit '
left wondering purpose of copying the plans. this book has a delicate task to dies, we are still
to subjugate, what happens to those to whom perform. He has
n notorious cut-death is less conveniently kind
Mr. Murray'a sense of character
however, made avory readable bave married and a helplessly effec This genial soul who styles him-novel that from its subject neces self the "Lion of Petra," lives in sarily borders on tragedy through Live manufacturer, her husband. Tragedy is not shirked, and in a rock-bound natural fortress,
places the author is reminiscent of whose entrance is so parrow and
Thornton Wilder. But he is more luxuriant and more verbose in bis affectations-and he is more at home with the young man than with the effective manufacturer. We may be grateful for an author who can
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off Cornwall with a girl he might
The small letters are only for us have seen the lovely gossamer "ge. Reparations and disarıaanch throat chieftain of the desort, one and his powers of observation have, have married and a girl he might
nilt and mixed with water to form | guidance in noting the sides),
thick paste. This paste is placed
Here
in bags and squeezed until it is like stiff dough. The dough is ther forced through a cylinder, and comes out through a small hole the exact size that the lead is required. The next item on the programma is the cutting of the lend into length, after which they are carn. fully plnéed in a special hax, which in turn is put into an oven. the lends are baked for several hours. until all the moisture is dried out. There is a real difference, most of you have found out, in the casing of pencils. Better qualities are cased in cedar wood, which has strmight min and is therefore- easily cut: For cheap pencils com- mon pine is generally used
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webs of the garden spiders, hoary with frost, ur sparkling in the early morning dew. These fairylike webs are the work of a little erenture less than half an inch long.
In the course of a year the mother garden spider lays several hundreds
of orange-golden eggs, With such
a large family she must have a safe
4 nursery,, so she usually chooses the
e shelter of a stone, the branches of
rationalisation and Germany's place in the sun are problems which it discusses with animation and gusto. A German boy of fourteen is con- sidered dull if he is not able to state his views on these issues."
All Hig ben Hushim.
Hitler has two assets which ex-precipitous that it defied the coz- plain the swift growth of the quering hosts of Alexander many
1 rose bush, or an evergreen shruth, National Socialist Movement--he is centuries before.
Here she spins a yellow web rather a mab arator of extraordinary. The stratagems of "Jimgrim" like a saucer, in which to lay her
verted saucer for a roof.
eggs. These she covers with an in-power and he has a gift for high-and the love affairs of Ali Higg pressure salesmanship which has as well as the pictures of the desert In early spring, the baby spiders enabled him to organise very clever-marches and adventures that befell make their way out of the silker
nest, but bring young they huddlely the spread of the Nazi gospel." Jingrim's" party, go to make up
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has been placed inside the wood the easing has to be sandpapered, dyed, i and polished, as well as having the rough ends cut off.
Now tell teacher all you know about your pencil. Don't you think they would be better if they could do your sums for you,
Cheerio,
UNCLE JACK.
THE
STAMP COLLECTOR
Collecting Stamps.
together in a tight ball About the Here is a picture of Hitier in an excellent Arabian Night'e en- size of a cherry, stone. Touch the action:
the silken threads by which they ehang, and the hall disappeara ns if by magic, for sniders" are easily frightened. Watch again, und in n
Mon petit frère s'appel Philippe. Il a dix-huit mois. 11 jone sur le planchel sur une couverture de laine, blue pale.
ffpresentation from the larger few minutes you will see them re- stump-issuing countries of Europe.turn to the same spot and the same However, larger or smaller packets | tight ball. The other day I received a latter may be obtained from the same In a week or two these garden addressed to "The Philatelist," The shops.
spiders go their own way, and begin Hong Kong Daily Press Ltd.-of
Sote of special issues and com-tine important work of spinning a coure you all know what a philate menioratives are paxt in line." "These home for themselves. First of all list is-ho is a man who collects fill out groups of empty spaces in the spider floate a horizontal thread, stamps-(I wonder who told J. T. your album at minimum cost The until the wind drifts it onto a near- how to spell that werd )-Anyway term "short reta" signifies that theby branch. Then he spins another the lotter was asking me the same set offered for sale is not a com- some inches above it, and between old question" How do I start to plete set and contains only the lower these lines the web is spin, Drop- collect stamps ".
value straps, whereas the term ping to the centre and climbing up Many avenues of supply present "complete" signifies that all values again and again, he gradually fixes themselves in the quest for stamps. are included.
what are known as the spokes, of a web.
Friends and acquaintances receiving mail from foreign countries will
often save their envelopes and
stamps for you. Firms-the-importinet i trespassed, into his home and export foreign goods roosive Certainly not by sight, for in spite considerable foreign mail and this of his many eyes & spider floes not
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is often a fine course of supply. In ee very well. No, when the web in
The spider then goes to the center and begins the spiral thread which -|- circles the web. With wonderful Patience eah thread is knotted to the spokes, and round and round
it all over akain this time from the ruler circle inward. These threads.
the spider travels until the outer rénioving stamps from envelopes al finished. he spins a single thread circle is reached. Then, when you ways soak the stamps from the from the center of the web up to think the work is ended, he repeats paper, never tear them off. hiding place, and directly this be Packets of stamps may be purge to vibrate, he knows that his chased at any stamp shop and for a larder is full. beginner h packet of 1,600 varieties Such are these marvelous spinnera 18 advisable as this not only gives who in a right can complete a web a good start but also offers a fair so perfect that no man has over
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are very sticky, and as the air nets
on them become strong wad tant.
How does a spider know when an
(Contd on previous coluinn.)".
tertainment.
Of interest to every British Business
Man!
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BRITISH DESIGN
RIGHT THROUGH
LABOUR
CAPITAL MATERIALS
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In construction, the "Imperial is a"" sound British engineering job with all that the phrase implies..
out.
PROSE BEAUTY..
MUTINOUS WIND. By Robert Speaight. Peter Davies, 78. Od. not. This first novel by Mr. Robert Speaight, the Shakespearean setor,
is as well written as might be ex write, and hopeful that he will pected from one who has so often learn more to write about.. "Mulin- spoken beautiful verze. The here is ous Wind" is big enough for an interesting, if ineffectual, young man who finds himself on a lonely Bloomsbury, but too small for the
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