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Majorca is not merely a jorea's military resistance to the Red forces of forces, led by General Roiz, Spain, but a desperate bid for had seized the independence, too,
Government
of the
reins. The poli-
tical parties
were swept away, and Fas-
Since the fall monarchy, the Balearic Islands, and particularly Majoren, have
sought to assert their indepen- cis m reigned. The harbour at Soller, Majorca. Inset: Juan March, the "mystery man" behind dence and secure home rule, supreme,
the Fascist Party there.
The blunderings of Socialist The governor of the island flammatory Communist news- She can hardly hold out much. governments have fostered dis- and the mayors of each town papers all over the island. Jouger. Although she posacaSIN content and killed all confidence. were ejected, and the majority Then serious bombing started, enough ammunition for many
Majorca, although a Spanish imprisoned, Fifteen Carabinieros Numbers of houses, shops, road- months she is totally dependent possession, differs a lot from or patrol police were shot in ways, and the famous Formen- upon Barcelona and Valencla Spain. The Majorcans are a one day for resistance, while tor Hotel were hit and scores of for her food imports and. simple, loyal, and industrious Ruiz himself acted 43 the people killed:
medient supplies. Food was be- GOW-AL Tainstão, North China, on people, to whom, Socialism is faland's military governor, and
ginning to run short before 1 23rd September, 1938, to Com- distasteful, as their social prob- officers took
These air raids occurred left, and in the villages coffee. up the duties mander and Mrs. I. A. Gow, lems were never those of
twice daily, but the morale of diughter. (Both well.)
abandoned by the mayors. -- Catalonia.
the Majorcans was by no means chuned foods were unobtainable, sugar, bulter, ten and many During those two days the shattered. Fed on fictitious With the exception of the commercial classes, who are the army fought bitterly and re- news, they anticipated a na- inevitable outcome of the tourist lentlessly to smash any chance tional victory over Communism boom of seven years ago, the of Communist demonstrations. within a few days. MONDAY, OCT. 12, 1936.
រ៉ូអ population predominantly One question was asked of the royalist. Although the results civilian: "Are you Fascist or
It was only when the Vice- THE LABOURITES of this year's selections con-
consul ordered our evacuation Communist 7" A Communist firmed this, Majoren was com-
that the Majorcans realised AND ARMAMENTS
pelled to surrender to the Left reply or a refusal to answer was
what might befall them. In The annual conference of the Wing Government of Spain, punished by imprisonment.
the interests of their own safe Labour Party, just held in Edin-accepting the authority of a
Special measures succeeded in ty they did their best to prevent burgh, has had to face up to the Left Wing Governor and mayors question of re-armament, and it for every town. None of them two days in stemming any the foreigners from going. has done so by re-affirming the succeeded in gaining the con- chance of opposition. Hundreds As 500 of UB --- British, policy of maintaining defence fidence of the people, and strikes of volunteers joined the Fascist French, Germans and Americans and of Spain to-day is intense
forces consistent with the coun- | were frequent.
of the League, with preservation
he
ranks daily. Two or three, with
The Majorcans are stubborn." They swear that they will never surrender to a Communist gov- ernment until their army has the death. This fought to would mean a modern repetition of the ancient Moorish invasion.
when the men and women of wholesale for the sake of their Majorca laid down their lives
national ideals.
Their dislike of Communism
ambitions be fulfilled.
Catalan is
try's responsibilities as a member It was not surprising. The loaded revolvers, and soldiers.tood upon the docks of the Officers, soldiers, peasants and battleship which took us to business men have told me they of the people's rights and liber-mayor of the town of Soller, with rifles, were stationed in safety, we witnessed the worst would a hundred times rather ties, with the continuance of where I lived, was a case in every street to search pedes air raid of all. Hundreds of be under British (even German. democratic institutions, and with point. He was a Red fanatic trians and cars for arms.
bombs dropped all over the town or Italian) domination than observance of international law. and the local chemist at the
Then threats reached General of Palma, upon the historic succumb to the "barbarities" of In some quarters, there is a dis-same time. It was comic to see position to regard this decision him at the local club engaged in Ruiz, from Barcelona, that if cathedral, striking the barracks Catalonia. For the
and demolishing hotels,
the Majorcan's natural enemy. as a reversal of past policy, but violent altercations on Leninism the island surrendered quietly,
I have a gruesome picture that is scarcely a correct inter-and Marxism, of which
In fact, even if the revolt pretation of the position. When knew even less than the stolid nothing would be done, but in office, the Labourites realised peasant, while his customers instant bombardment would fol- still of smoke and flames in the were everywhere successful, it coral light of sunset, and T ́is very possible that Majorca wondered. for how long Juan would make a plea for indepen- the need of national security, waited in vain at the chemist's low resistance. even though they were attracted shop the other side of the little No notice was taken, and March's resources would Inst dence from the rest of Spain.
next day Red planes dropped before siege and bombardment S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
&Co., Ltd.by the ident of universal dis- "plaza."
Farmament. "This' "disarmament Such an atmosphere of dis- duminy bonis on "Palma and would compel Majorce to Thus might Juan March's
effort was continued by the cord afforded Red agents an hundreds of packets of in- abandon her bid for freedom. National Government when it came into power, and it was only opportunity for rosy promises within the past year that it be of a Spanish Utopia under Red came plain that the British ex-role, while children scribbled ample was not being followed innocently upon the town walls, "Votad por 24714 Espana by others, a circumstance which
Sovietica!" But only a limited impelled the Government to make up lost ground. Labour and disillusioned section of the professed Com- now concedes that the armed community strength of countries loyal to munism, and I doubt if most of
CT James's Palace on a fine morn- the League must be conditioned them could even define what
Sovietdom meant. by the armed strength of poten-
ing in October 1924. Obviously tial aggressors. Consequently,
nervous, to judge by the way he il concedes that Britain must
agitates his tic, a young man giftedi bring her defences up to a posi- One man foresaw what was with clear, penetrating eyes and of a dignified bearing, steps into position The tion in which she need not fear destined to happen if affairs beside my recording apparatus. attack from without. In were allowed to drug on in this preliminary tests completed, he be- word, Labour recognises that way. He was Juan March, who gios, bis speech, pleading eloquently for public support for the Earl Haig the standard guaranteeing owns his own bank in Palma. Fund. Suddenly he halts. The pause security must be raised. The He is considered to be the is just long enough to spoll the re- only possible difference, there-richest man in Spain, and has cord. We fore, between the viewpoints of built up his fabulous fortune again. the National Government and by devions means, the Labourites is precisely what that standard shall be; they may
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SOME FAMOUS
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By GEORGE W. DILLNUT
Mr. Dillnut, who has spent 35 като- years recording for a phone company, tells of some famous people whose voices and music he has preserved in wax.
VOICES
Not, however, before we had suf- fered! Once I ventured to advise him to stand a little closer to the Instrument. Such technical advice, far from seeming kindly to him, was taken as an insult, and his fiery tem- per wan' aroused.
Mussolini's Torrential
Speech
must take the speech rustle of flounces announced the en- trance of the imperious prima donna.
Yet, recalling my encounters with This time there is no mistake.
One glance at the room sufficed to masterful men. I must give the "What an ordeal!" he exclaims, add- unloose her temper. In trenchant laurels to Mussolini. In 1928 I was He surrounds himself with a ing a much relieved, "I would much terms shre reviled me for what seem-summoned from London to the Duce's being to misplace a bowl of her fu- barely set up the apparatus, rushed differ in degree, but not in prin-barrage of mystery, through rather dance to your Instrument than ed at least five minutes, my "crime" magnificent Chigi Palace. I had
roses. However, vourite ciple.
eight from our studio at Milan, when Mua- With such a similarity which permente, occasionally, talk into it." -
of his prodigious That comment of the King. wisen hours later we hurried DIX, brow-solini himself strode into the room of outlook, it does appear some- accounts
with two wearing his riding clothes. what illogical on the part of the philanthropy and magnetic per- Prince of Wales, aptly summarises beaten yet triumphant,
notable
precious wax impressions.
And before I could utter a word, he Labourites that they should de-sonality. Majorcans delight in the feelings of most other
Infinitely more amiable was Mü-launched into bus discourse, an orn- clare their inability to vote in recounting stories of his numer- for the gramophone.
Italian citizens in the United dame Patil. It was at Craig-y-nos lon the Commons for the Governous exploits, legendary
Castle, in North Wales, that this Sintes.. Within a few moments he ment's
Melba's Tantrums re-armament polley.
magnotic singer and great beauty was-completely under the spell of The reason given is that, in the.
made her Arst records. She sang the his own words; I stood stupefled. His gifts to charity, long 'be- absence of a policy of collective fore the present crisis, ran into
Perhaps the least susceptible to Page song from "Flitaro," and her Half an hour passed before the tor-
to transform rent subsided. "gramophontits" are the great in golden voice seemed
inta security, the Government's plan millions of pesetus, and only a umentalists, men like Kreisler, the gaunt rugged vete
"That is all I want to say," he is purely
When I played impres- competitive. The few years ago he built, at Paderewski. Backhaus,
and that palace. point seems to be overlooked
enormous expense, & white marvellous youngster, Yehudi Menu slon of the song back to her, she declared, well pleased with his dc- that the Government has con- stone sanatorium for tubercular hin. These masters no sooner begin excitedly hugged the horn of the very.
to gramophone, exclaiming, "Marvel-
"Signor Mussolini," I replied with seern lous! It is exquisite." sistently stood for collective
the utmost gravity, "a record only runs for four minutes, and you have security, and that the failure of cases, on a terraced mountain playing than their mintis that policy in the Italo-Ethio-ernment refused to accept his
slope outside Palma. The Gov-use with their music.
said enough to make six records." In contrast are the temperamental
Dictator pian conflict was certainly no gift and forbade him to come squalis of many great singers. In Chaliapine-By Chance
Fuming with rage, the the carly days of the gramophone)
room, but, fault of Britain's In any case, plete the building. To-day it Covent Garden stars consistently re- Once or twice luck has assisted me thundered out of the Dr. Hugh Dalton rightly de- can be seen miles around, like fused to record their voices. To in my quests for "golden" valces. happily, three days later, he relented clares that if a Labour Governa vast white empty barracks.
conceal the dearth of available in Drinking coffee one evening before and we secured an excellent record lent one minor artist often recorded the war in a dingy little cafe in Mi- without hitch or apprehension. ment came into power to- morrow it would be compelled to
1 retain a vivid memory of that Ho owns thousands of acres under three pseudonyms. But in the lon, I looked up suddenly to see spring of 1905 there came a red- Chaliupine lolling in the doorway-a provide for increased arma-in the islands, motorcars, letter day, when Melba consented to heaven-sent opportunity. For weeks lovable little Cockney genius, Dan ments. The issue Is clear.yachts, and a recently acquired record "Ah! fors' à lui" and Tosti's we had vainly pursued him all aver Leno. He had signed a contract with
"Good-bye."
the Continent; he had always re- us to record a batch of his greatest Other nations are re-arming, fleet of airplanes..
songs, Including "The Shop Walker" and Britain has no option but
phone company. It was Juan March who to follow suit. As Labour re-
qualins assailed him' at the thought by-ward. So, fearful almost
Now, taken by surprise, he consent of singing before an unknown me- In ed. And, fearful lest he should dium that to walk from the Strand mere quibbling not fully to align founded the island's Fascistis, cording apparatus to her house
recording studio in Maiden itself with the Government and has likewise assisted in Cumberland Terrace. Soon we were change his mind, we hurried him off to our
ready, having made. Rood friends
to our studio, and at midnight his Lane took him exactly two hours, ho policy which is based on precise backing General Franco on the with her accompanist Mr. (now Sir) first recorded song, "The Two Grena- told me afterwards. Ordinarily, that
mainland.
Landon Itonald," when an ominous diers," was safely committed to wax. Is only a few minutes stroll.. ly the same consideration.
. In musical circles hor temper wool fused to do business with any gramo "Going to the Races." But such
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