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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL, FRIDAY, August 28, 1936.
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SPAIN'S
RED
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By
Ferdinand Tuohy,
Author of "Crazyways, Europe."
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wo-
mens are taking active part in the present fighting.
greatly reduced since the clutch Spain's civil war but The Red 'Car- cannot be used as a brake to hold tells of armed young the car on the upgrade.
men in the forefront of the WE WILL BE GLAD TO GIVE fighting, many of them still girls, others of sturdier state, sporting red trappings of the Popular Front, even as did the citoyens of 1789.
All over the Peninsula Spanish working girls are actively par- ticipating in the conflict, and if numerically they do not ap proach their menfolk compen- sation comes with their real role, which is one of inspirer and spurrer on.
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PROBLEM
Among these "Red Carmena" are to be found the most violent and extreme spirits of Spain.
Clenched Fists THEIR own inspirer is the Aida 17-year-old Lafuente, who finished with fists upelenched the now familiar
dend,
resolve before the firing squad outside the Church of San Pedro at Oviedo.
Having previously directed attention to the inefficacy of the
This was in October 1934, present methods of dealing with returned banishees, we find our-after she had led the local young (DB-2367/8) solves in full accord with the Communists for 10 days in that
contention of Mr. Braga, at Wed- dreadful rising. (DB2528/9)nesday's meeting of the Finance To-day in Moscow's Muscum Committee of the Legislative of the Revolution is laid the Council, that the cost of arrest heroine's dress, pierced by many and imprisonment of deportees bullets, and sent thither by her who persist in coming back to the parents. Colony is out of all proportion to
Her 19-year-old sister the necessities of the case. The ideas is a popular speaker round root of the trouble, as ye see it, the country. She and her like is that there are too many de-constitute the true Red Carmens portations for relatively minor of Revolt-after all, Red was offences, with the consequence always that young woman's that persons so banished are, as colour, and setting man against
Mr. Braga expressed it, sent
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Bolshevist ranks were per- meated by young women of the "Les Petroleuses" type in the first crucial months of Lenin's civil war.
slip away into A religious order.”
Such a generalisation may have covered the bulk of Spain's womanhood, 65 per cent. of Much was heard of a certain whom were then.illiterate. Yet regiment of Amazons, but that it left out of account one con-
volution during their most for- mative years. They have drunk deeply of the draught offered them by the Republic, have thrown of religion, formal restraint... more or less every- thing that was.
The Idea of their being any- thing. like their mothers appale them. Nor have their fathers got much to say either.
At midnight in 11 Malaga enfe recently,
when B young Spanish girl was asked what. hcr father would Ray at her staying out 50 late, she laughed back in
answer:
"My father? If he says anything I reply by raising my clenched fist as ho does when he asks to be free. He only has to hold his tongue!!! That this impulsive young woman should now be urging her men friends on to battle, or is a different story again from stantly growing contingent. even taking part in it herself, the shoulder-to-shoulder girl those in the factories, whose opposite brother and lover, of numbers had not ceased to swell may not seem surprising. the pistol thrust forward in during and after the war. feminine grasp.
These factory hands were to At the exit of the Spanish become "quite Western" Monarchy in 1931 perhaps a treatment and companionship, trifle too much stress was laid particularly with the men, and
on the hitherto segregated life which the Spanish woman and girl had been compelled to live.
Factory Girls THE Spanish woman," it was
in
SAM CUNARD
it is essentially this factory STARTED type that has generated the "Petrolcuse" and "Pistollere" of the hour.
Atmosphere Of Revolt
to admire or to make work
said, "has been a creature SPAIN'S young women of 18 and 20 have grown up in a domestically, to marry or to let persistent atmosphere of re-
When Lady Nicotine
Was
Young
THE
SMOKING HABIT
By H. C. MCKAY
SOMETHING
'By
Roderick Morison
NINETY-SIX years ago this aum-
mer Sam Cunard sent a steam packet paddling into the Atlantic Ocean at a furious eight knots-to win a new and noble Blue Riband for Britain.
What a Blue Riband it was that he nailed to his Britannia's most- head!
And
how
the world Amerlea in 14 days!
gasped!
But Sam Cunard could not span the century, nor dream of the titanic struggle that would develop between five great nations for the suprem- acy of the Western Ocean.
AMERICA led from 1851 to 1956,
then the paddie-and-sall Persia, with an average of close on
It is hard to imagine Julius Caesar puffing a pipe as his chariot rolled through Rome, or Cleopatra with a cigarette between her lips. The ancient civilisa-14-knots, won back for Britain a re- tions knew nothing of smoking, which was an Indian habit, brought back to Europe by the discoverers) and conquerors of America,
"Les Petroleuses" CHATER ROAD, these people as are again found "DIRECT Action" girls they in the Colony, to charge thern at called, so as to distinguish them the Police Court for disobeying from
women who merely the banishment order, and then harangue or organise, and to commit them to prison for specially so that they may not AS the Indians practised it, this offence. Once their prison be confounded with the first smoking was both a cere- sentence is served, they are once feminine vintage of the Remonial habit and an intoxicant. more sent away, but they are public, which now seem some By blending other leaves with it must have been to see Queen Bess, soon back again, and tho endless thing so mild and conservative those of tobacco they would in her famous high ruff, with a pipe
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process of re-arrest and
reby comparison. deportation continues. It will thus be seen that the banishment laws, as at present operated, fail. of their purpose, added to which is all the trouble and expense of arrest and imprisonment and the consequent congestion of already overcrowded gaols. It would be illuminating in this con- nection to know how much it costs the Colony annually in the prison maintenance of returned
smoke till delirium or stupor was But perhaps a better label produced. This effect profoundly than "Direct Action" would be impressed the Spaniards of the "Les Petroleuses." For when-time of Columbus, and was, per ever there is a question of haps one reason why the habit of burning a convent, church or smoking did not immediately monastery-particularly the spread among Europeans. first-be certain that young
fact, The tobacco plant was, in women will be found handing looked on as a powerful healing drug on the tins of petrol if not the juice of the leaf was reputed to actually tipping their contents heal ulcers and cancers, over the sacred relics. The hatred shown by them banishees. The sum must be towards the nuns needs to be very considerable, and it money largely wasted, since experienced to be credited.
How, though, has it been left
is
and the
self, and initiated many famous mon
In the art of smoking a pipe. He is reputed to have induced Queen Eliz-
abeth to smoke one-a curlous sight
who su
Boy,
cord that was to stand for more than 40 years.
The Persia, by the way, in addi- tion to one cannon, carried one cow to provide the more delicate pas- sengers with milk.
Germany thrust through in 1899 with an average of 22 knots by the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which
shortened the westbound passage time to Ove days and a few hours.
There followed a nine-year lull- until the Mauretania came, in .1007. to beat Ave days and to beat the best German average by a third of a knot.
The Mauretania's 22-years reign.is proud British history now, but her speed and her pride, for those who our- have travelled in her, are living
memories.
in her mouth. But King James I., almost succeeded her, had malignant hatred of tobacco. Smoking had now become
me a fash- Jonable habit, and James saw in it the ruin of the race. "Shall we, I
without. blushing, abase selves so farre as to imitate these beastly Indians?" he exclaims, He believed that hundreds of people died of the ill-effects of smoking.
WAS EXPENSIVE Drunkenness, according to
to Jatnes, was the cause of "the unquenchable then expensive (It was sold for its own weight of silver), and the Royal
thrifts who "bestow foure hundred
It was in the Mauretania in 1924 that I made my first Atlantic cross- ing. She had not yet been dubbed "Grand Old Lady." She was still a "dark horse."
"She is
smoke was inhaled to cure coughs, desire for tobacco," Tobacco sald the work" to break the record,"
WDB
author lashes cut, at society spend to schedule."
a
"She is going to break the record?" I asked Captain-ftostron. colds, and lung diseases.
"Record?" said he. "We shall run The habit first spread among the Spaniali colonists, who smoked "Lo
Mauretania And the
gavc the point of dizziness or intoxication," Fainting fils due to over-smoking pounds a yeere upon this precious mighty chuckle deep down in her hull, and for 17 days-a two-way was next grown in Europe for its smoking as "a custom lothsome curative properties, for by this time the eye, hatefull to the nose, hurm exaggerated stories of use healing full to the brain, dangerous to
thereof neerest resembling the hor- effect of the inhaled smoke had got lungs, and in the black stinking fume
experience has shown that the to Spain to produce the first were frequent. The tobacco plant stinke." He ended by stigmatisto trip-sent her own world's records
fear of imprisonment does not
about.
is bottomelesse."
the
spinning.
doter these people from return descendants of the bloodthirsty ing. The Government viewpoint, citoyens of a century and a half that the law against disobedience ago, who were to reappear in of deportation orders must be the Paris Commune of 1871?
Smoking was said to cure head-rible Stigian smoke of the Pit that H It cannot be said that the enforced, cannot be disputed. But there is obvious need that that law, or the manner of its such on arrest for another operation, should be revised. It offence, should be flogged in ad- would appear from the remarks dition to being
to
TOW the brass bands blared as we'
steamed up the Hudson! How limo went the straw hats in the James's book made a great sensa-seething rivert tlon. He followed it up by increasing the duty on tobacco, a step which Не Parliament refused to ratify. staged a public debate in which he
зуда
ache, gout, asthma, and cold in the head. Sailors who had been
Before I wirelessed to London Amerleu smoked for "swank" rather
the news of that fastest Cherbourg- New York passare, I asked Cap- than enjoyment; the dizziness and sickness which attacks the smoker
lain Rostron for a message. Witha - imprisoned: using tobacco for the first time were
was the chief speaker against the out a word he took a piece of of the Government spokesman at There seemed, at Wednesday's looked on as proof of its power us
new viec, but was unable to stop its paper from me and drew out his Wednesday's meeting that the meeting, to bo some doubt as to narcotic drug.
spread. It became still more popular fountain pen. "Mauretania Re- authorities are now conscious of whether flogging of returned An early toyager wrote of the In-
when the great plague broke out, as surgat," he wrote firmly, ("Bay dlans: "They fit mouth, gullet, and
д believed this point, since they are dealing banishees can be ordered, but a
Mauretania rise again.") disinfectant and ames preventive of contagion.
Five years parted. The Moure with the matter. "in the only reference to the laws of the the whole head with powerful fumes until they at last fall about as beasts
Pipe-smoking was the first form to tanta again lay at her New York practical way, by reducing as Colony shows that under Ordin- that have no reason, and lie sense-
be popularised. A short clay wad nier. Down in Brooklyn Iny the far as possible the number of ance No. 3 of 1890 (unless the less on the ground as dead men,
generally
ally used.
Snuff-taking was Bremen, Inzing majestically after a. banishees." The inference to be provision has since been Somo collapse suddenly, as if attacked another popular form, reaching on maiden voyage on which she had beaten our westbound record by the eighteenth century, In drawn from this statement is repealed), magistrates have the by the falling sickness, and often lle that there will in future be fewer power, though it is within their to all that goes on around them."
for a night and day, deaf and blind Chewing had a limited popularity, nearly nine hours,
A few days Inter the Bremen Cigarettes were, Introduced from deportations for minor offences, | discretion whether they use It or
Á SPECTACLE
South America in the eighteenth raised the average by nearly two
knots. a policy in which we heartily not. Were it
more freely
In those days big crowds would century, but were not popular till a
It was a German family affair for concur. This, however, would employed, there would, we have collect and follow a sen captain whe European vogue for them started not affect the hardened criminal, no doubt, be fewer bad characters smoked in the streets.
after the Crimean War. When first four years then-Bremen versus her sister Europa-until Italy launched against whose presence in the coming back into the Colony who had visited England's new col cigarette was ridiculed, and
Thomas Hariot, a mathematician, introduced into London clubs tho
the Rex and carried the average to Colony the deportation laws are This
28.02 knots. measure, coupled with
ony of Virginia, was one of the chief
smoker designed. Here it would seem modifications regarding the type popularisers of smoking, asserting ed dandy or snob. advisable to make the punishment of person banished, abould go a that it "opened the pores and ex- for returning much heavier than long way towards disposing of pelled surplus molature from the ir at present the practice. In what otherwise would appear to body: it also aided in lengthening
life. particular, a returned banishee of be a problem" incapable of. solu-
Sir Walter Raleigh was another this type who is identified as tion.
advocate. He smoked heavily him
the
acme
the
Then, Inst summer, Franco's giant Normandle thundered her challenge, as she rected of her 30 knots day after day
one looked on as an affect-
To-day we have arrived at sanity. We smoke for mild enjoyment and
So. it is that we come to the Queen distraction, well knowing tobacco, as wo use it, to be neither a dangerous Mary, whose efforts to win back the drug nor a magic influence but only | Aliantle honours for Great Britain a good companion and comforter. have been watched by all the world.