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if he wishes to secure the con- fidence of the Yugo-Slavs, to declare that the right assumed by Italy in the Treaty of Tirvana to intervene in Albania will never bo exercised without the consent of the other Great Powers. If, on the other hand, ho prefers to pretend that Italy alone has the right to decide when, and to what extent, she may invoke the Treaty, he may be certain that his neighbours on the other side of the Adriatic will continue to regard him with suspicion. Tension is certain to persist un- til some sensible agreement has been reached over the applica- tion, of the Treaty.
it.
on
Hongkong Telegraph.ment, territorial adjustment,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.
RUSSIA TO-DAY
By JULIA BLANCHARD
Sinbad the Sailor had to have mer palace where, so the old his magic carpet to carry him into legend goes, Frincess Tamara, wonderland, in the old Arabian, back in the 16th century, had a Nighta tales.
different lover overy night and in But modern Miss Margaret the morning either threw him off Bourke-White found, this summer, in the underground rivers!.
the cliffs or had him drowned that her camera served quite an efficaciously to carry her to tho "My most dificult tinte was in faraway wonders of the Innd of the wine country," Miss Bourke- the Soviets.
White snid. "Thare on an old
garcoo!!8
The Very Idea!
THIS IS ALL BULL
By Edward ("Bovril") Kally, Wo have learnt too late that bull Oghters are wanted for the cele brations In Spain next month.
Pity. We could have been there had wo known earlier,
We know bulle inside out. We'd aven know them if they weren't Inside out.
Low
As for Aghting them!--We've rodcod bulla around until Just back from Rusain, she estate, now a state farm, with a
they've sweated bovril. old ivy-covered palace brings with her 20,000 feet of that is now a workers' home, they Having mentioned this, a motion pictures of out-of-the-way were making their year's wine words on bull-fighting to those places in the new Russia-the and celebrating with feats where who wish take it up an a hobby, or first ever taken with Soviet they drank out of
horns, Thea profession, or in the case of "proval.
trick was to drink a whole horn- married men, 03 a relaxation, A real plencer is this youngful at one draught and then tip would, perhaps, not bo. amiss, woman, still. In her twenties. the horn upside for the last drop coming from one who is " bull Prospecting for pictures, Miss to come out on your fingernail, to expert: Bourke-White strapped her heavy show your appreciation of tho Position is the main thing. camera onto her slender back and quality. I managed the firat
Whon
the ball charges, the invaded the rocky reaches of the hornful. But then they began to average beginner is in front of the little-known Russia around Tiflis, toast me, my future husband, my bull. riding tiny Cossack ponten, sleep father, my mother, hin father, his On camel mother, and all our aunts, uncles, ing on the ground, back she visited the little villages j'cottsins. You can sce how diff- close to the Turkish borders. She cult a situation I was his when the took plctures in the Baku oll purpose of my whole trip was to country where Russian women, get good pictures!" still with their faces partly veiled, work barefoot in the folds. She
in the erstwhile royal palace, now a Soviet government home, and several of the dictator's punts and uncles in Russian Georgia,
for workers.
nurseries where children, dressed
a
Duke Now Farmer
AMY
hesitate to think what would have" happened in our weakened condi- tion.
But, you say, this is cruelty. The bull's life in at steak!
By NORMAN COLLINS busily making the nursery hand-
A XMAS PROBLEM. So Amy Johnson-ft la by this icraft things all children love, name that people will always know
We are undone, Far though it against background of flam-her-has done it again!
bo from us to say so, we have at buoyant Soviet posters of the She s proved that her lonely last come up against a problem Five-Year plan."
flight of 10,000 miles from England which we have been unable to soive. to Australia was not an astounding Mise frak of fortune-how anyone could Christmas cards to send to those In a last desperate effort to find
In Russian Georgia,
The Debt Question
Mr. Franklin. Roosevelt again declines to assist President Hoover in seeking a solution of the war
deuts problem. Although the President in the first place considered it would be useless for him to move towards meeting Britain's wishes, he was
This is allright if one in far courageous enough this week to
enough in front-eny, about make a proposal linkirg war
three-quarters of a mile-but debts and disarmament in-
this condition rarely happens. separably and again giving
The thing is to be little on Congress an opportunity of deny- ime to charge of stubborn in-,
one side, and a good way behind the bull. This is by far the best difference to facts which has photographed Stalin's mother, Here she did get some hand-position, and the front of the bull been Jaid against
Mr
some ones, though. For here in may be easily recognised by its Roosevelt not only does not help,
these vineyards works an old, handles. but definitely retards progress
man, a magnificent, regal old Fencing with bulls nècda A fellow who was in his refusal to cooperate with
former duke, 'curtain amount of agility. One President Hoover and it would
Old World Against New
one of the few old nobility still, must have speed and a good, strong functioning. Having befriended, fence, preferably a six feet one. seem that the complexity of the
"You really have to sec, the an- in Czarlst days, the man who now Concrete will do, although palings problem is one of the chief drawbacks to
cient villages that I visited to heads the State Farm vineyards, jare quite safe. n satisfactory
realize just what the Five-Year this old duke was kept on 48 When we were in 9påf¤ we wore solution. Since discussions on
plan is accomplishing," Mise overacer of the huge vineyards 'soverely gored by bulls rough' al- the balance of international pay- Bourke-White told me. "Why
that used to be part of his great towing our mind to wander as one ments seems little understood as down near Turkey I took pictures estate. Her pictures of this, of the animals rushed us. We were discussions of the Einstein of oldworld camel trains plodding handsome old man are part of her practically covered with gore.. theory, it is hard to get the through the streets of age-old most treasured ones. Her most
One of the bull's gorers broke off STUART-SMITH D'ARCY-question considered
ita mud villages, but as background exciting time was the opening of in us, and part of it may still be GWYNN.-On 22nd December, merits. The real reasons for for these ancients were modern, the Dneiprostrey Dam, where she inspected in our back at the office 1932, Kenneth Stuart-Smith tn
pictures of Colonel Hugh, between the hours of five and six. Ilelea Edith Апп
the necessity of immediate and concrete apartment houses being got second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel R. S. drastic action are lost in
built by the Russian government Cooper, the American who built Wounded though we wore, we it for the Russian government, aa snatched two of the remaining bulls D'Arcy-Gwyn, D.S.O. (late 24th welter of spurious considerations Regiment)
well as dozens of pictures of Rus-by the throat, one in each hand, and Mrs. D'Arcy- and false arguments. To thia
"Down close to the Turkish bor alan types. She describes it: Gwynn,
der 1 visited native villages where class belong the various com-
and, holding them in front of us as "It was like a huge women still wear the almost obso- celebration, with the streets all death. Then, swinging them about Yuletide a shield, slowly choked them to pensatory advantages with which public opinion is wooed summer and winter, wear sheep, lights and workers
lete native Russian dress and men, hung with red and green electric, our head, we battered the brains out market advantages, disarma skin
on holiday of the other two bulls. head-dress, Jong cloaks singing and rejoicing in the dam without sleeves, cut on military they helped to build. Those pic-narrowest escapes. It, we hadn't We thinks that was one of our and so on-advantages which lines, with wooden buttons and tores and the ones I got in Reda stack of dead bulls we had already: can at least be understood, large belts that still carry swords. Square, with Stalin in the review-dealt with to lean against, we while the utimate advantage of They were thrashing grain by ing stand, are among the best." a general improvement in world horses walking around in a tedious conditions If payment in full is circle and waterboys carried pic- not insisted upon
tureaque water juga on their appears WAR CLOUDS
ridiculous, paradoxical and con- heads. But in every one of these Fresh evidence of the ill-feel-trary to common sense, But villages I saw modern glass-walled ing which continues to prevail these extraneous advantages in clean blue pinafores, were between Italy and Yugo-Salvia fail in their purpose, over is forthcoming in the battle of shadowed by the all too evident words which has broken out be- fact of straitened American tween Signor Mussolini and the financial circumstances, The Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister. Treasury Budget deficit, accord- The immediate cause of this ing to the latest figures, runs crossing of verbal swords is not into more than £140,000,000 at Bourke-White was the guest of the imagine that luck in the air would we had forgotten, and who have un- important; the plain fact is that par, und private indebtedness Georgian government and, accom. hold good for 19
19 consecutive nerve- It is another illustration of the is crushing down the everyday panied by her interpreter and wracking days I cannot imagine--and fortunately, not forgotten us, we rushed into a shop this morning to tension which has existed be- citizen. Until it is clear that even commissars, she took an she is the world's celebrity again.
Just how famous tween the two countries ever his lot will be benefitted by a eighty-day trip on horseback, on covered when I went to Iceland. I was themselves were mit bad, but the sho In, dia- see what we could find. The cards since the Tirana Treaty was con- change in the debt situation, the tinleat, most skittish horses walking beside the
Jake of the wording capital, Reykjavik, when my c'uded between Italy and Albania, change will be impossible. So she ever saw. Under the terms of this pact, far the difficult road of attempt- Italy undertook to maintain the ing explanation has been avoided status quo in Albania, and Yugo by the political leaders, who Slavia has ever since suspected prefer the easy path of de- the Italians of ulterior designs nouncing the defaulters and in what should be a buffer state standing up patriotically for between the two countries. It American rights. Most of them has been suggested that all that probably believe that such an has stood in the way of friendly-attitudo is best for their relations between Italy and country. Yugo-Slavia is the antipathy be-j tween the nationals of these two countries in Dalmatia.
This belief, however, does not bear close examination. The constant A wise man has said that one friction between the two nation of the quickest ways in the ¡alities along the Dalmatian coast world to get dyspepsia is to
is really the aftermath of the focus
mind on your long struggle over the frontier stomach. On the other hand, which was to divide them, and one must admit that in the un- which lasted from the Paris important matter of diet civi- Peace Conference until the final lised man has an astonishingly settlement in 1924, when what is rudimentary grasp of what suits known as the Nettuno Conven- him, and what does not, and tions were signed. These Con- why. The learned and popular ventions dealt with labour, land works produced on food-values, aettlement, etc., along
therapeutic diets, the nutrition, Dalmatian Coast and were re-, vitamin complexes, and the like, garded as likely to improve the would fill a large library. Bu relations between the two coun- the ordinary man has flourished tries. But it took over three so long and so well on his joint years before Yugo-Slavia ratified and two vegs., on a scrup of bacon the Conventions.. Even since and an egg or two, on any old ratification, there has been a brend and any old cheese, that feeling among the Yugo-Slavians all this talk of carbo-hydrates, that these understandings open proteins, calories and "nitro- up Dalmatia to economic pen-genous equilibrium" leaves him etration by Italy, although in an-cold. Until the diet therapy awer to this fear it has been experts cease from theorising pointed out that foreign pen- and set up stalls in the market etration can scarcely be a serious place with something more excit- threat in a province which al-ing on them than nuts and ready has far more inhabitants "chicken food," mankind will than it can reasonably support. continue to feed in the old un- But, to come back to the main scientific way, Tho Intest point, what really unites Serbs, American treatise whots one's Croats and Slovenes against appetite for all sorts of unusual Italy is not any threat Implied by fare. The mucilaginous pods of these Conventions; it is the the pumba, when caught young, Trosty of Tirana which len nt may be delicious, but our com- the bottom of much of the pradore lian never heard of them. Amouldering friction. One way }] 11.ns dries be stock the easily in which to smooth matters over diganted topopo—and yes, ho would be for Signor Mussolini, has no citramquats to-day.
Therapeutic Diet
your
Drank From Horns
They forded rivers that she was sure would sweep them away. They lived out in the open, cook- ing over fires, alceping on the ground. They visited a famous 12th century monastery with donk stone chambers and treacherous underground rivers. This monas- tery was part of the famous sum-
寫门
ears
In about 85 per cent. of the cards
on nearly all of them were assaulted by American made us feel slightly unwell. gramophone record, And there, to escape civilisation. I heard where I had fondly imagined I was the wording
Amy, wonderful Amy, How can you blame me For loving you? Since you won the praise of every
nation.
You have filled my heart with
miration.
Amy, wonderful Amy.
there occurred the word "bright." Even "hearty" was not so popular as "bright." And wo *bsolutely refuse to be either "bright" or "hearty" to any of our friends,
up
The word bright conjures visions of the type of woman who
ad-will insist on sitting on prattling at breakfast on board ship however late you come down. The word | hearty auggests her husband.
"As I often toll Louis, if anythine should happen to him.
"I'd open a little ten shop with his life insurance"
But
• • •
THE SOLUTION.
walt Are wo defeated. Never let it be said. We have since writing the above addressed an ad- vertisement to the manager in words something like this;
"Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kdly, and. tho
progeny, wish to thank all friends and relations for the letters, cards, gifts, and good wishes at the present time. They regret they are so overwhelmed with emotion that It is impossible for them to reply Individually, so will friends please accept this, the only, Intimation."
The advertising manager declares we are flippant.
RESTAURANT ETIQUETTE.
Paris newspapers have been hotly debating the problem of whether a man should enter a restaurant first or stand aside to let his woman (lady?) companion pass. Berlin papers ridicule the general verdict of Paris that tho woman (lady?) should be allowed to enter first, bo- cause they say that the unan aliould go firat to look for a table and I possible "take upon himself the curious glances that always greet a newcomer."
I really cannot see any difficulty. Having been perfectly brought up, whenever we entertain a 'woman (lady, we should say) at a restaur- ant I always hoist an umbrella to jacreon hor from the curious glances,
propel her in front of at the sams time blowing few blasts on a police whistle to attract the attention of the Maitre
dhofst.
us, A