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In control of the country'a destinies, Germany has, of course, a very
Aho recover from the effects of the war.. At the moment, hor principal task must be to secure peace and harmTION OF THE PAST WAS THE DIVINE POLITICAL SUPERSTI- ony within her own borders. There RIGHT OF KINGS. THE GREAT. POLI-] are at present all the ingredients TICAL SUPERSTITION OF THE PRESENT necessary for a big upheaval; MENT-Herbert Spencer.
18. THE DIVINE BIGHT OF PARLIA~ will not be an easy matter to keep the restless factions under control. The characteristic level-mindedness of the people should, however, Atave off serious trouble. The danger is that the Germans may prove to he their own worst enemies. In inter- national relations, there is evident spirit of rapprochement between Germany and her erstwhile enemies, in which we are glad to see Britain
playing a worthy role. There may be adjustments to be made in the conditions imposed on Germany Rs a result of the war, but these will not be made as a conscquence of extremist demands. There must be reason at the back of any movement in this direction, and the succes which Germany attains will largely rorrepond with the justice of the claims put forward,
Yesterday's return of notifiable
PORTUGAL, LAND OF ENDLESS UNREST.
By WILLIAM J. MAKIN.
ISHON is facing te twenty-¡ peared in the days of the agony diseases showa ong Chinese ease of second". revolution. Evor of Paris-Rifles are brought forth cerebrospinal meningitin from Kow-since King Manoel descended from from the callara and passed from loo.
his precarious throne Portugal has hand te hand with mysterious steeped herself annually in revolu. rapidity. The narrow streets de- tion and bloodshed. Once again the bouching into the sunlit squares dictator, General Antonio Oscar of Lisbon are suddenly thronged de Fragoso Carmona, la fighting by a shouting, firing crew of men for bis existence.
and women--and the revolution Revolution in the streets of has begun. Lisbon is by no means an affair: There are, of course, the Com- of noise and
is munista, cheering. It
who bespatter the walls business. I was convinced of this to dictatorship. The bleasad word usually a remorseless and deadly with posters proclaiming an end in the last big revolution in Lis- Sovieta" also appears on handbills
The Empress of Japan is due here from Shanghai at 11 am. Lo-marrow on the same day. and will leave for Manila at 7 1.m.
Mr. J. Russell
oriental Philosophy to-day at 0 p.m. will speak on at the Theosophical Society's meeting 7, Queen's Road Central.
But it is different in the Poriu-
or even in
guese Empire, in far-flung Angola and Mozambique, Madeira. The politics of the outer Portugal are extremely interesting. They are not to be studied in Madeira in the quiet, restful at- mosphere of Reid's Hotel, but an occasional aperitif in the Golden Gate Hotel. looking over the har- hour of Funchal, will teach a for- eigner a great deal. that I heard many
It was in the Golden Gate Hotel mutterings
bon when, within three hours of printed in the dank cellars, but in landing in the town from a Ger- Portugal those words have never man steamer, I was drugged, bleed-got further than the printing H.. Major-General J. W. Sondi-ing from a bullet wound in the press.. And, apart from ending the anils, C.B.. C.M.G., D.S.O. (G.O.C. neck, from
the
street into the dictatorship of General Carmona, compauled by the British Troops in China) ne-doubtful security of a hotel.
no definite policy has been formu- Licut,-Col. Robinson, That hotel was much more fan-lated by these people who at the D.5.0., M.C.. and Capt. Cameron, AD.C., left yesterday for Shanghaltastic than anything Imagined by sound of one shat are always ready He hopes to return to Hongkong in
Vicki Baum. It provided me with to throw up a barricade. about ten days,
the pure synthesis of revolution as it happens in Lisbon. While two French cabaret dancers bandaged A slight error was made in they neck, and a group of Germans to place all the Announcement from The London Trafie Pool.
Government began stolidly Hause yesterday regarding the correct available mattresses against the dress at the King's Birthday Recep-walls, the shutters of every house The four main in British rall
tion for others than officers of thein Lisbon closed automatically. ways, following the example of Regular Forces and of the Volunteer the Underground, have agreed to Reation reads:Full
Defence Corps. The corrected noti-
They know what revolution the Transpart Minister's proposals with orders and decorations, or white the giant cats of Lisbon, that love evening dress means in that city. Even the cats, for bringing them into the London civilian mese jackets with miniature to sun themselves in the windows, Lransport merger seheme. The orders and decorations,
scatter for shelter. And a body gross receipts of the suburban passenger trafle are to be pooled with revenue from other soupées in the landon trafic area.
The is Mr. Herbert Morrison's great experiment brought nearer the realms of reality. In the face of these agreements, the remaining i organisations cannut elect to re
Old Boys of St. Joseph's Col-stern dictatorship of this little lands, they feel, stern politician maiu outside the vast monopoly will learn with much regret the troon. Ile belleves in himself.,
lege and
48 many other residents gallow man, he is certainly no poluctuations in price of these com- plained. Al the experts are death of Rev. Bro. Sylvester, who agreed that the complete coordina was Director of the College from once said to me. tion by'a single authority of pas senger traje over the whole of greater London IX
11
DEATH OF BROTHER SYLVESTER.
FORMER DIRECTOR OF ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
1904 16 1908:
SOLDIERS AGAIN
REMANDED.
of troops rushed the railway against those who rule from Lla tion, collected all the porters'
bon. It is the old trouble that baggage trucks, and formed a for- those on the spot know better midable barricade against the re-than those who live among the bels.
official Ales and dossiers of the As usual, as soon as the bullete capital. And although Madeira is began to whine along the streets, chiefly concerned with the prices General Carmona moved his head of bagunas, pineapples, and the quarters with admirable rapidity general fruits of the Canary Is Whatever may be said against the
"And it will de-
every Portuguese la, that the
officials in Lisbon.
"Portugal has degenerated." hemodities are concerned with the generate still further if there is Gate must be careful of his poli- A Lisbonite entering the Golden head of tical conversation. There are even no strong man at the affairs. Please God I shall stay people in Funchal who beliove at the head of affairs."
that the capital of the Portuguese Each revolution is in the nature Empire might well be shifted to gamble on both this delectable fale. of a desperate Hjden.' General Carmona can
In Angola and Mozambique, the never be certain of the Army or African colonies, the same feeling the Navy. Usually the Services persists and is, perhaps, intensi fighting thereby becomes protonga British mercantile officer. Mr. divide themselves equally, and the fed. I was in Angola at the time ed and severe. Even the aero- Brewer, was thrown into gaol planes join in, and It is decidedly there. And the widening breach unpleasant to be in the streets of between Lisbon and the colonies Lisbon while bomba are being was revealed in that incident. dropped from the sky.
On the occasion when I found British Foreign Office, and despite Despite the protestations of the myself in the midst of the trouble the strongly worded instructions an old warship anchored in the from Liston, the authorities in Tagus began shelling the town at Angola released that British officer half-hour intervals. One lucky at the moment when they thought shot carried away a whole room of it.
The deceased Brother taught in urgent several of the Brothers' Colleges in Chemnitz a few days agro, in which ressity. An enormous amount England and spent the last two Kuanian Church of the Metropolitan of Paris. Communists fired on Red Cross of waste effort by different ron-years of his active career in the
cerns, duplicating Nazis,
Brothers Industrial School, Edin- cach other's burgh. C-2099-Rolling in Foaming Billows ("Creation”—Hadyn)
serves to show that feelings are on's truffle
services Flas intensified Lon- still running high
At the beginning of the present problems, and the the only real solution is that propos-was transferred to the Hause of year, owing to failing health, he "Reds" and the followers of Hitler.ed by the Labour, Government. Retreat, Queen's Peter Daicaon.
Indeed, mail news from Germany The Bill now being examined by a where he passed away.
Co., Ireland, shows that the Communists, no less Select Committee of both Houses Scottish Male Voice Singers than the Nazis, 3020 L constant of Parliament, provides for the source of trouble to the authorities, setting up of a small, highly paid Senttish Male Voice Singers, whose task in attempting to pre-Board, appointed by the Minister
serve peace and order is rendered of Transport. This
body will extremely, difficult by the lawless. take over control of all existing ness which prevails in some part services of the main line railways, concerns, with the exception of the
DETECTIVE NOT OUT OF DANGER. of the country. The moderats on a fair Bnancial valuation,
my hotel, leaving nothing but a On the other side of Africa, political parties, who want to build Unsubsidised and not aiming at granted when Privates P. Hrian nants of a visitor's suit hanging of Lourenco Marques, is much Another remand for a week was shattered wardrobe and the rem- Mozambique, with its wealthy port ap the nation in the freedom of large profits, all forms of passen- and if, James, of the South Wales therein. republican institutions, find them-ger traffe required by London's Borderers, appeared before Mr.
more insolent in ita attitude to- Why do these revolutionk.occur wards Lisbon. For some years selves menaced at the same time 3.000.000 inhabitants will be ad- Williams at the Central Magistracy with such devastating frequency? now Mozambique has carried on by the extremists of the Right and ministered by the Board. The this morning. They were charged It is idle to pretend that General a fitful and annoying economic with having committed grievous Carmona, the dictator, is popular war with the Union of South the extremists of the Left.
ery of Socialism has been raised bodily harm on Chan Kiu, a detec with the proletariat. He is apt to Africa. The Hitlerites, as we all know, by the Conservatives, but in a very tive, in Pedder Street on May insist too much upon the gospel of Union Prime Miniater, even visited General Hertzog, the half-hearted manner. Their only
work and the need for financial Lisbon and arranged a satisfactory are all for repudiating the burlens
real objection to Mr. Morrison's Magistrate that the detective was favourite
Inspector Alexander told the regeneration. And this is not a settlement. But Mozambique con- imposed on their country by the programme is to the autocratic ap- still not out of danger, although strange creatures who live in e
gospel with those tinued along its own wilful path. Treaty of Versailles, They arepointment of the Board by air-condition was slightly better twisted depths of Lisbon. nol concerned, apparently, with member
than it had been. It would be im
Mozambique is one of the weal- of the Covernment, possible for him to appear with who dwell in the yellow and pink tropical town of Lourenco Mar- There is a body of sans-endottes thiest colonies in Africa. That the thought that repudiation may instead of nomination by any degree of safety for a furt- hovels of Lisbon bring serious trouble to the coun- folal authorities. The reply night.
more desperate ques, where i have sat many times and more cruel than those who ap. with straw-hatted Portuguese anu try. On the other hand, the Com-in that nomination by local nu- munists stand for all that is destruc-thorities would inevitably produce
sipped aperitifs, knows only too tive in internul and foreign politics.from a point of view of efficlopes, a cumbersome body, Impossible
well that it is the natural port to ail the wealth of the Rand. And with the accumulation of wealth which is the sole purpose of the imposed by "capitalistie" countries. scheme. The plan represents ma
there, the resentment against dic- tatorship grows daily. Lisbon, for In ordinary times, the actions of tianalisation after a fashion, but
some years, has found it difficult these mudmen of the Right and of it is nationalisation which end
even to appoint officials who will not be assassinated shortly after the Left would make small impres] not be feared.
arrival. I have seen more than one Lisbon officiul enter the famous Rue Areuljo, with its sinister bara and gambling houses, and never come forth again.
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Telegraph.] at conditions, not only the young S--As I leave
port, I (and the thoughtless, but even sothe wish, through the columns of your few of the soberer elements of the friends, both known and unknown, valuable paper, to thank the many community are turning either to especially the latter, for thefr help the swastika ernas of Hitler or the in making my stay in Hongkong red banner of the Communists, beth pleasant and instructive. That fact has been demonstrated in the Yacht Club for allowing ma Particularly I wish to thank
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Moreover, Lisbon has made the mistake of making its African colonies penat settlements. In tho tropic prison of Mozambique I have met many young Royalists whom abortive rovelt handed over. to the dictatorship. Here, on a coral roof surrounded by sharks, they rot in hot dank colls, and are herded with the native criminals of the colony. When a white man visite them they beg pathetically for cigarettes. Most of them succumb to tropleni disease.
And so the African colonies, like the islande of. Madeira_and Azores, are ready to throw off the yoke of Listion. General Carmons, the dictator, is still only a name.
to many,
But the real battle will pro bably be fought in the bullet- scarred streets of Lisbon itself. 1 bellevo General Carmona would survive a revolt. He is a man with a charmed life. But one wondors whether this/rovolution will not see the end of the old Portuguese Empire. The colonies are making a bid for freedom They appear.atrong enough to diese tato even to the dictator,