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WAR IN "GREEN HELL"
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By JULIAN DUGUID
It is announced that the marringo
HIS recurrence of bloedshed, cannot go on the hoof. Quite of Cyril Edwin Gabngan of Hong- kong and Eileen Barbara Medina of between Bolivia and Paraguay Inpart from the insects, which sap Aldershot, England, will take place has made me homesick for the the soldiers' vitality, there would shortly.
jungle. For exactly the same be simply not enough food to go thing happened in 1928, when I round. Mr. Charles Bond, for many yenraj was on an Expedition to those I bellove the misconception of Manager of Messrs. Gande, Price and benighted lands. Reading the nows this war which exists in Europe Co., Ltd., has joined the staff of the paper reports of this "fortin" lles in the Spanish word "fortin."
Spirits Department of abandoned and that "fortin”, at- "Fortin" calls to mind a fort, a Wine and Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd.
tacked brings home the inner de- concrete, gun-enipincemented affair tail like a blow. I can see the sun, with barbed wire, glassis, and embrasures. This is abourd to The Royal Observatory reports and the vultures. that a moderate anticyclone is central Bolivia and Paraguay, as overy-one who knows the country, but over South Manchuria. The typhoon body knows, are struggling for a understandable in a stranger. A is crossing North Luzon to the imme block of territory called the Chaco. "Fortin" is & palm-thatched diate south of Apparel, on a N.N.W. It is a vast, Inhospitable Junglo erection, just four poles and a roof- fresh; fair. track. Local forecast:-N. E. winds, lying between the north of Argen-tree, without even the dignity of tina and the fringes of the mud walls. These posts are cap- Amazon; bounded on the cast by [able of supporting a hundred or
Kollogg Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty. Yet it is propared to brush nside all those considora- tions and proceed with its plany for the domination of the torri- tory. This la, in ong respect, the most serious feature of Japan's determination to to her own way, for, as a leading Shanghai journal has remarked, it depreciates the validity of international agroc ments by making them entirely subordinate to the welfare of one
tity of the pledged word. In [other words, it rejects the path of patient international negotiation and discussion, which we had hop- ed had come to be recognised as the right way of adjusting world disputes.
Count Uchida, when he an nounced Japan's determination to recognise Manchukuo, went so far Some alarm was enused in the the Rio Paraguay, on the west by so men and are, naturally, very vicinity of the junction of Hollywood the formidable Andes. There is easy to ambush. A corresponding as to suggest that the policy of Rasd and Peel Street at 0.40 p.m. little water in this desolate abode number of attackers croep forward which this is the outward sign yesterday when the Fire Brigade was except in the rainy season, when in the night, a volley through the would eventually lead to a bet-moned to an outbreak of fire at the whole land is waterlocked. glare of a camp fro
No. 70 Hollywood Road. Two en- Not much of a country, one would "fortin" hns been captured ter Sino-Japanese understanding. gines were immediately despatched There is, and never, could be, any evidence of such a probability. The opposite effect is, in fact, being produced. And herein there lies a very real danger to the pence of the East. Viewed in | this light, the situation in far from dog in Bowen Road yesterday. It was Ports were lost in the Chilean War de sangre"-rivers of blood---yelled stated that the And wha severely of 1879.. The bandit-President the speakers, and the mob took it reassuring, but it is to be hoped bitten about the arma and legs, by Melgarejo ceded the Paraguay jup in a sound like the crash of a that even at this late hour there the dog which belongs to a neighbour, River-Port of Corumba, to Brazil, wave. They were 600 miles from Mr. Charleston. It has been found for a diamond star, And, for n the front and would have to march will be no fresh outburst of feel necessary to admit the lad to hospital while, Bolivia slept. She was too every yard of the way. We had LO.-Chung Kue, at his residence
for treatment.
joccupied with Andean tin to re- just come in from that road; wa 97, Calne Road, this morning ing to aggravate an already over-
cognise the supreme importance of know the terror of the insects and after a brief illness. Compra-charged situation. The times are
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Meanwhile Paraguay extended; We listened to the enthusiasm and sibilities. We can only trust thated to leap on to the ferry pier at quietly, without drums. She in- anid: "Poor devils. Will they Yaumati before the launch had pro-vaded, always peacefully, the Chaco shout like this after their march 7" nothing will be done to create a perly tied up. He failed to clear the
Luckily for them, the rainy intervening space, and, to the horror land on the west of the great river new upheaval.
of
and
and gave concessions of Quebracho season descended a week later and, passengers
large ก number of people on the pier, was to foreign tannin manufacturers. [like Cæsar in Gaul, they went into seen to stumble and drop backwards. By the time Bolivia awoke her pro-winter quarters. He was caught between the launch perty had gone.
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THE OUTLOOK
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and on their arrival it was found that Presume, on which to waste life. Obviously it is equally difficult to
would be hold. the chimney of the second floor hadAnd yet, in a way, one
I remember well in the Christ- been set alight. There was no dif-wrong.
inas week of 1928 the war-lust of ficulty in putting out the flames.
Bolivin is the Switzerland of the Bolivians in Santa-Cruz. A South America. Through treaties, howling crowd surged round the D. Andrews, the young son of Chief misfortunes and ill-considered wars Cathedral Square.and was address- Inspector Andrews, of the Peak Tram- she is in the hopeless position of ed by impassioned orators from the ways, living at 16, Bowen Rond, was lacking a sea-board. The Pacific green balcony of the Club. "Rina the victim of a savage atinck by a
the other
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Esquivias Wants a Book, The Mayor of the Spanish town
And the pier and crushed. The un- Now came the difculty, Para- What will be outcome bo? Quien! of Esquivias is of the opinion that fortunate man was in a critical condi-guay would not retreat. Bolivia, sube, as they say themselves. The Great Britain should return to tion from internal injuries when con- like a person robbed in his sleep, war-fever may drag on from year Spain all the first editions of "Don veyed in an ambulance to the Kwong felt deeply about the loss. She to year, ferce with the suns
Wah Hospital. A somewhat similar Quixote" which lie in the British mishap occurred yesterday in the had no port. Always she returns autumn, damped by the mighty Muscum. The interest of Esqui-harbour, when a coolie fell between to that. She has no port. If rains. Certain enough it is that
two junks and was crushed. He, too, Paraguay would grant
it can never develop into war as was critically injured and was taken hundred yards of river frontage we know it employing like num- to hospital.
with free access to the interior,bers of troops. It will be a Bolivia would say no more. Pura- guerilla affair, bitter as the bigger guay might keep her foreign con- thing and as important to the com- cession.
batants themselves. Men will die, Paraguay, of course, speaks gloriously, shot, in a dash among differently in the councils of the lianas, from ambush; and Urubu, world. Bolivia, she says, has ports the vulture, will be their Inst -two of them-beautifully ́ alt- friend. Other men will lie upon unted on the river. But she for- the ground und pray for the hall gets to state that Puerto Suarez'of bullets to pass over them; but The following cablo at the close is a mind lagoon in the dry season; "they will be rare, Bolivians and of the sugar market yesterday has that Gaiba's entrance is guarded Paraguayans are brave fighters. been received by Messrs.
Pen-by a Brazilian Custom-house. Quite frankly, I do not know the treath and Co.
Bolivia, potentially country outcome. The country I do know which is amazingly rich in agrical--the horrible nature of its thirst ture, cannot dispose of her goods. and hunger and death from feated That is the theory of the case. wounds. I do not envy the The practice is more difficult soldiers, whon ̈ patriotism of the
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By Edward Kelly, Strong Man. We are sorry to hear that Mr. A. D. Spoors has just gone Home to England.
vias in this matter resides in the In one sense, the recognition of fact that this village of New Manchukuo by
was Japan to-day Castile
the birthplace of marks a new chapter in the his-there is only one solitary first Cervantes. In the whole of Spain
edition of Cervantes's great work, In another, and more correctly, and that is hidden in a vauit of the event must be regarded as the the National Bank at Madrid, continuation of policy to where it can be seen only by the wards the completion of which[director of the Public Library, the the Japanese have long set them- President of the Republic, and
Ministers of selves. Unhappily, the step must
Government. almost inevitably increase the ten- Some day the historian may arise who will properly evaluate the im- sion between Japan, and China.portance of this fact in Spanish For that reason alone, aside from history. Who knows how many other and equally important con-great men have turned their at-
Firstly, war in South America (heady kind shall be proved by the siderations, it must be regretted.tention to librarianship or politics
is utterly foreign to our European puins of the field. There can now be little doubt but who would have devoted their
conceptions of that tragedy. There But of this I am sure--Bolivia nbilities to other branches of
jis no trench warfare, no big guns; is too vitally concerned to sur- that Japan has hastened recogni-
bombs may explodo in forest and render her just clnims. Geneva tion of the new State in order, as activity had it been possible in any
do little harm beyond lacerating may talk and Washington threaten; she thinks, to present the League "Don Quixote" in all the glory of other way to obtain a glimpse of
the undergrowth. - Distance is yet those places are curiously re everything and water atrociously mote from the Chaco. The hot- of Nations, when it comes to con- its first edition? Not, indeed,
rarc. Cattle cannot feed; there is blooded people of the South who sider the Manchurian question in that the word "glory" appears well
no grass. Only jungle.
are shut off from traffic with the sea will never consent to an ar the light of the Lytton Report, chosen. For the first Spanish
The problem of feeding an army rangement which denies them that with a fail accompli. It is very edition was an unimpressive affair.change.
is almost insurmountable. When I hundred yards of river-bank. The first translation of "Don New York (14/9/32)-Decline went through that country much, open to question, however,
of found it hard enough to feed eight whether the League, and the Pow-Quixote" into any foreign tongue due to liquidation pressure
was made into English in 1620, Futures and realization of pas-men; and our animals were akele BE STRONG LIKE US era outaide the League, will be and more translations Into English #ible larger stock on 31st. Decem-tons before the end. How can an prepared to accept the situation in have been made since than into her than anticipated, Trend un-army, as we know the term, exist? certain, depends upon Cuban scl-The answer is that it cannot. the light which Japan would de-any other language. Spain, on the lers withholding offeringa, There are no railways, and beef aire them to do. Actually, of other hand, was slow to perceive course, the position has not under its merits. It was inclined to hold gone any real change by Japan's the opinion, afterward sponsored by Ruskin, that "Don Quixote" recognition. The mere formaltiy
laughed chivalry away, and made of recognition of # bogus a very noble man ridiculous. But. State by its creators .does that, of course, was a mistake. not transform that State into a What Cervantes ridiculed was not genuinely independent. entity. Don Quixote, but the silly romances
which Don Japan may think she has accom-
Quixote, and the plished something by recognition; time read. It was these that he [Spanish people.' generally, at that but the outstanding fact is that scattered to the four corners of no other nation has yet recognised the earth with great gusts of Manchukuo
- circumstance scornful laughter. In doing so ho which, in view of Japan's obvious performed for Spain a consider- service--as considorable 1 scif-interest, immensely detracts uble-
service, in fact, as any modern from the significance of the
Cervantes would perform for Japanese action. It remains to be England and America if he ridi- seen whether in the long runculed out of existence the Japan's methods will pay.
foolish sentimentalities which so Japanese recognition of Man-frequently monopolise the cinema. chukua at any time without waiti ing for like action on the part of othor Powere would naturally arouso auspicions; the hasty de- cision to make the move on the eve of the presentation of the Lyt- ton Report has served to increase these suspicions. If not an actual affront to the Longue, it certainly amacks of marked impatience to get on "according to programme. Moreover, the Tokyo Government knows full well that its policy In Manchuria has been called into Questions as conflicting with the
WATER LEVELS.
more
WEST NORTH AND EAST KIVERS The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission shows the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivers:
Bept. Higbeet on Lowvel: Bapt
14 record, an record. 14 West River at
10.1 Shinhla 43,7
-34.4. North River at
23,4, ..:10.9. some 87.845.3
threY
writing to me just because the
We are here to tell you that tho laws of gravity get 'n aerious knock-back when he is on the job. Mr. Spoors is the Principal of the Sando Weight-lifting Club, and we saw him hold a seance the other day.
In one case he was 9% lb. over bogle, and muscles stood out on him like balloon tyres, He busted two or three re- own, cords, including his which was a mean trick on 'himself.
In cream trousers and no sing- lets these weight-lifters do these things.
They heave on the weights, muscles stroll up and down their back, and after they have nearly strangled themselves, someone an- nounces in a solemn, my-goodness- how-did-he-do it volco that another record has gone phut.
"The sight of all this strenuous offort scared us. Wo wont outside to have a smoko. Wo said to a. chap seven feet by three, who was sitting outside, "Do you also lift wolghts 7"
"Yes," he replied, “I do a bit of
lith
We asked him to have a Capatan.. He said he wasn't allowed.. Wo [tried_to_ongago him as chucker. out of shroffs. Ho said shroffs. were too much and too many for [him.
-- That bucked us up. We went to Mac's and ordered, a frankfurt with mustard.
́ ́And: would you believe us, we were able, single-handed;: with an "arm "praís, to squeeze the end out