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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937.
NEW FICTION ·
From Central Asia To Ireland
The Seven Who Fled. By Frederic Prokosch. (Chatto and Windus. 8 d.)
Mr. Prokosch's first novel, "The Asiatics" was welcomed by dis- criminating readers as something out of the usual both in its grave Irony and its use of a vivid, ever- Sinclair changing background.
Lewis called attention to “its-de- vice of using Travel much as an historical novel uses History." "The Seven Who Fied" will not disappoint those who found in the carller book a talent out of the ordinary. Whether the novel is the right medium for Mr. Prokosch remains to be seen, however; his flction has so much In' common with narrative..poetry that it might with advantage be translated into versé form.
The central characters of this. story are seven Europeans who have been expelled from Kashgar by an unfriendly governor, and are travelling through the heart of Asia towards. Szechuan. Except for the accident of time and place. there is Uttle connection
between these seven: and, after suffering terrible privations in the desert, the company begins to split up, and we follow each of them in turn through glimpses of his past life towards a hopeful on unex- pected, or a desperate future.
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BEAUTIFUL SPANIARD Layeville, the English explorer. leaves the main body, and presses on with his guides towards the mountains of Tibet, in search of that supreme reality which has al- ways evaded him: he finds it-and death-awalting him in the snows. The beautiful Spaniard, Olivia De La Scaze, comes to a very different
Richard Tauber. the German tenor, of opera and film renown, who is going to America to sing.
AUTONOMOUS GOVT. IN TAIYUANFU
Tokyo. Dec. 3. The Japanese report that repre- sentatives of seven prefectures in Shantung met in Talyuantu® and set up an autonomous government for the provlace. The Japanese authorities state that normal run- ning of trains between Felping and Talyuanfu has been resumed. Center's Bulletin Service.
11
PLANES DESTRUCTION:
DENIED
Shanghal, Dec. 3. The Japanese paper here reports that 13 Chinese aeroplanes, of Russian origin, were destroyed in Nanking before being able to take day. The Chinese deny this state- off from the aerodrome on Thurs-
ment, stressing that it would be Impossible for an invading air armada to take Nanking by sur- prise, as the air alarm system is extremely well organised.
.
The Chinese objective of the air
"nounced, was, to Japanese minds, the warships anchored in Woosung. The Japanese state that in this attack the Chinese dropped a bomb near the Japanese Consulate in the Whangpoo, but no damage was caused.
yet equally inevitable end. Escap-attack on Shanghal. already an- ing from her husband, whom she has never loved, and from Dr. Llu whom she distrusts, she makes her way down the Yang Tze on a river "boat, becomes the lover of its Chi- nese pllat, and is finally sold by him into a Shanghai brothel. In her end, as in that of Layeville, there is a natural justice which transcends the common grounds of happiness and honour.
Then there are Wildenbruch and Von Wald-the naive light-hearted
This report is also denied by the Chinese planes or heard bomb ex- Chinese, 33 no one saw either plosions, including foreign obser- vers, although the attack la sup- posed to have been made at mid- day.-.
Transarean Nevis Boonien.
GUERILLA WARFARE IN YANGTSE VALLEY
Shanghai, Dec. 2. The commander of the former Red Chinese Army, General Mao Tze-tung, arrived in Nanking at the order of General Chiang.
Austrian and the stern German soldier-scientist. These. too, escape: from their captors, and find their way back to their homelands, or which Mr. Prokosch has drawn some delicate, detailed and charm- ing pictures. Less lucky," is Goupillière, the Belgian youth, whose nature has been warped by❘ his early years into self-love and bitter "revengefulness. He meets General Mao is to organise mobile his death at the hands of the only troops to conduct guerilla warfare man who could see the grains of in the Yangtse, Valley. goodness in him--the simple-mind- | Transoccan News Service, ed, mystical Russian, Serafimov.
Each of these individual histories is developed with great imaginative insight. The characters do not all stand out with equal solidity; but they are woven into a rich pattern that is enhanced by the colour and charm of Mr. Prokosch's sensitive .style. Here is an example of It- the dying explorer's vision of his own country:
"Oh, England, England! your faces so gentle and singular, your touching land-scapes: dreaming, misty island, land so afraid of be- ing young and of seeing too clear- ly; dusk now descending, hour most subtle and bewildering of all; so casually drawing across the coun- tryside its enchanting vapours, a gesture of tenderness before the suller winds and cold fogs arrive.” C. Day Lewis in the Daily Tele- graph and Morning Post.'
Across The Gobi Desert
My Russian Jailers in China. By. Georg Vasel (Hurst and Blackett. 185.)
Herr Vasel, a German, set out from Lanchow with a native" ser- vant, a lorry, a wireless set and u Tibetan dog to establish a series of aerodromes across the Gobl Desert and the north-east corner of Sinklang." General Ma, whose rebel army of Tungans was engaged in civil war against the Government, proved helpful apa hospitable, and all went well with the little expedition while it re- mained in territory occupied by him. At Chugutchak, however, in the autumn of 1933, the Tungans were heavily defeated, and Herr Vasei saw the first Russian re- gulars, with tanks and armoured cars, marching into the town.
GERMAN MEDIATION IN CONFLICT
No Confirmation In Berlin
Berlin, Dec. 3.. Both German and Japanese circles declare they have not, re- ceived confirmation that the Ger- man Ambassador to China 13 mediating in the Sino-Japanese conflict but well-informed quar- ters admitted that Dr. Trautmaxın is now in Nanking and it is understood he is having conversa- tions with Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek.
gave
The German Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath,' luncheon to the Japanese Ambas- sador to-day-
Reuter's Bulletin. Sermer
FISHERY NEGOTIATIONS
Tokyo, Dee 3. It is understood that the fishery negotiations between Japanese and Soviet representatives at Moscow will take some time for conclusion but the spokesman of the Foreign Office expects negotiations to pro- gress rather smoothly.
Beuter.
DEARER LEGION
OF HONOUR
Formerly Royal Artillery
Officer In Hong Kong
We regret to record the death of Major James Stewart Drennan, M.Q.. of the Royal Artillery, who passed away about the middle of November at Rascaham, Limavady, Londonderry (Ireland), where he was apparently on holiday.
The second son of the late Alexander Drennan, of, Helens- burgh, Dumbartonshire, he Was educated in Fettes College. Edin- burgh, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, He W&S gazetted in 1912 to the Royal Artil- lery, serving in India, and later in France and Salonica,
He gained the Military Cross and a Greek décoration of a simi- lar character" while. serving in Salonica when he was acting as temporary major. He afterwards returned to India, and later served
AS
gunnery Instructor in Edin-
burgh Plymouth, and Hong Kong-
Re returned Home early this summer. and was gazetted to the 17th. Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery a Woolwich. He had tallen l about four months ago, and since then had been on leave. Major Drennan. is survived by his widow and three young child-
rer.
NATIONAL TRUST ·
ACQUISITION
London, Dec. 3.
The National Trust announces that by the generosity of Colonel Prior, Wandesforde they have come into possession of part of Swale- dale one of the most beautiful vales in Yorkshire near the old world town of Richmond, The woods which are now to be held by the Trust comprise about 134 acres of land. The property is not more than half-an-hour's walk front Darlington which has a popu- lation of 66,000 British Wireless.
ANGLO-GERMAN FELLOWSHIP
London, Dec. 3. The Duke or Baxe Coburg and Gotha, President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft Englische
was the chici guest last night at the sec- ond annual dinner of the Anglo- German Fellowship.. Lord Mount Temple presided over a gathering of nearly 500 people who included and the German Lord Halifax Ambassador, Eerr van Ribbentrop.
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WEATHER REPORT
ROYAL OBSERVATORY HONG KONG
10 am. Dec. 3. Barometer (at sea level), 30.09
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
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The most important thing in the book is the first-hand account of the gradual increase of Soviet in- › fluence in Sinklang, and of the which buccaneering methods by this was achieved. The title is misleading, because the story of Herr Vasel's sufferings in prison Sat. occupies only three chapters out
Jan Then everything began to go of eleven. It is difficult to under- wrong. Friendly officials were re- stand why the Russians should
Yon. placed by others in the pay of the have been so unfriendly towards Soviet: Herr Vasel was suspected an enterprise which must surely Taes, 7 of being a spy and was eventually have turned out to their advant- thrown into prison, where he re- age; the strategic importance of; mained for two years awaiting an air route connecting the Soviet trial. The principal charge against frontier with North. China should him which he dentes-was that have been obvious, "Daily Tele he sabotaged his own wireless, sot. I graph and Morning Post.".
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