10.
MEN AND THINGS ABROAD
by
Bernard Moore
NY justification for the recognition of General Franco last week by dor- many and Italy is ex-
tremely hard to find.
For, not only is the rebel leader very far from having secured military domination over Spain, but even in those
the parts of
country over which, as the result of ruthless oppression he has control, it is absurd to suggest that "there is no longer any question of the existence of a responsible Gov- ernment authority."
half-trained
I 1 Franco's Moorish legianarica, engaged in the biller attack on Madrid, who are rapidly shattering Franco's illusions of sweeping victories.
And the reason for it is clear.
Best Troops in Rear
His highly trained Spanish army.
the very body one would expect to be thrown into the key battle of the campaign, has to be kept in garrison' In the territory he has occupied to dral with any popular uprising.
General Franco. I a tald. is definitely scared of Government sup parters who have remained behind his advance to organise underground resistance. Although he succeeded in terrorising the
when his prople troo, devastated villages and towns ant decimated the population, bolh mate and female, he did not succeed in convincing the people of Spain that he was their saviour,
The underground movement in many districts now under his control" la only kept underground by the presence of his spanish troops, many of whom themselves are expressing resentment at the fallure of their leader to obtalji the victory which he assured them would swiftly follow his armed revolt,
Andalusian Unreat
TN Andalusia especially, I am told,
there is a tremendous movement against Franco and his forces. The rebels advance through Andalusin was rapid, and met with little opposition except at certain important cities such aa Malaga, Granada and Cordoba.
I was in striking contrast to tho slow progress in other parts of Spain, where heroic resistance was put up by the men and womenfolk of every smali village and town. When the villages were captured their defenders were elther driven before the invaders or ahol in balckes as soon as the villages were occupied.
In Andalusin, however, a large part
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Moorish legionaries are in the vanguard; and the
highly trained Spanish troops in the rear.
of the able-bodied population remains working, outwardly peaceably, in the vineyards and farms of the occupied area. But many of them are ready to afrike when the moment arises, and Franco is aware of H.
France the Mysterious
INCIDENTALLY. Franco seems to be doing his best to fulfil at least half of his threat that he would con- quer Spain if he had to exterminate half the population in the process.
If he succeeds in his attempts-bet- ting is now about two to one against it he will have acted up against him a hatred that will be deep-rooted for many year,
It is strange that although he is more in the nows than anybody else in the world at the moment, very little is known about him.
Short and inclined to porilinnas--he likes to emulate Napoleon-ho in a soldier by profession. But until his present desperate venture, it was bla brother Ramon, the frat airman to fly the South Atlantic, who held tho. famliy laurels,
..
First-Class Soldier
BUT Francesco Franco, the General,
has always been recognised na a brillant soldier. He is only forty-five
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REALITY
now and was Spain's youngest General at the age of thirty.
He me most of his service in Morocco, and the story goes that pro- motions in the Moroccan service were held up for several years because the Minister of War refused to necept Lie recommendation of the military au- thorities to give a high command to an extremely youthful Francesco Franco.
Fore and Aft
the Rebels are
IN TROUBLE
fegion in Morocco and was awarded
the Cross of San Fernando, Spain's highest milliary award.
It was General Franco who was called upon by to Spanish Govern- ment to suppress the rising of the Asturian miniera in 1934. Eighteen months later the present rebel chief represented the Spanish army at the funeral of the late King George.
What's in a Name?
I
BEE, by the way, that he has just appointed a new Minister of Propa ganda in bla Burgos "Government."
Believe it or not, the new Minister's name is General Astray.
Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes,
THERE is one man in this Spanish
affair who deserves all the praise that can be bestowed upon him. He is Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes, the British Chargó d'Affaires in Madrid, who volunteered to return from furlough to take up his post in the Spanish capital as soon as the Spanish situation became really serious.
I strongly suspect, that if he had given the word, British representation would have been wirawn from Madrid when it became obvious that the siege of the city was to be long, arduous and dangerous. But the tradi- tion of the diploinatle service is differ- ent, and Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes lived up to it.
Sixteen stone of broad-shouldered good humour and tact, he set off for Madrid with n officer named
trunk stuffed with Unlon Jacks of all sizes for the use of British subjects. His luggage also in- cluded a set of bagpipes.
These objections were apparently overcome, for at the age of thirty France was commander of the Spaniali
I imagine that the Union Jacka haye
Sport made
most dogs
some were made to measure
ODERN dogs are more neurotic and sensitive than those of 20 years ago.
Breeders are striving
gent skulls and robust physiques, said Mr. H. Raynor Hewetson to the National Veterinary Medical Association congress a few days ago,
There is more in dog breeding than you might think. Most dogs
proved more useful than the bagpipes in the trying weeks that havé clapsed since Franco's Moorish legionaries frst roached the Caso de Camp.
Besieged Birthday
MR. OGILVIE-FORBES is a staunch Catholic-lie was formerly First Becretary at the Vatican Legation-- and he has succeeded in establishing the most friendly relations with the Spatial Government. He is liked on nil sides.
1937.
He has done his best in most difficult circumstances to verify atrocity charges, and on more than one Deca- sion has expressed sympathy with the Government in Madrid over the killing of Innocent women and children.
One thing which helped to estabilch confidence was his undertaking that the British Embassy would be a refuge only for British subjects, although ho reserved. the right to take steps dic- tated by ordinary humanitarian con- sideration in offering shelter to home- less children, etc.
It looks very much though he will spend his forty-fifth birthday, which is on December 8, in the beleaguered Embassy. It will be a strange birth- day party.
The Music Goes Round
and Around
DESPITE all the activities of the
Gestapo, Hiller's dreaded secret police, underground work by Socialista And Communists still continues throughout Germany.
I have just heard of two ingenious ways of defeating Dr. Goebliets by counter-propaganda which are said to have been employed lately.
Purchasers of gramophone records of the Horst Wessel song, anthem of the Nazi Party, were amazed to dis oover recently that when the record was inlf played, the song developed into a fervid lecture on Marxist theory.
Buttons
tell tales
NLY
when buttons
come off do we
CRIMES OF THE HIGH SEAS, by
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have been designed at some times or outer for a specific purpose; often portant they are. But all
not the sort of purpose which would be upproved by the RSPCA.
Every one knows that the bulldog was bred for bull-baiting.
THE GARDENER'S
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In short, ail about gardening. SELDOM
DEER:
OR WHEELS ACROSS DENMARK, by Neve Scar. borough (Stanley Paul, 10). The record of a cycle tour through the Land of Co-operation. Not forget. ting the inns and their keepers. SCOTT OF THE SHAN HILLS, editat
by
y G. E. Mitton (John Murray, 158.). What life was like not so long ago on the Burmese frontier, seen through the eyes of a modest "Empire- builder."
6TROLLING THROUGH COTTAGE ENGLAND, by W. 8. Percy (Collhus, 78. 8d.). The cottage homes of Eng-
When baiting was banned dog fighting in a ring with rules was started. Aire Valley quarrymen started in to breed the toughest dog they could. They crossed bull terriers with rough terriers, and crossed the result of that with other hounds.
The result was vicious and aggressive in the extreme; just about born fighung,
That is how the Airedale started. They toned it down, standard. ised the coat, shortened the cont, mellowed its disposition; and you know the result.
But as civilisation marched on, dog fighting was banned.
buttons we wear are not useful.
Many of the hundred buttons which it is estimated are attached to a man's clothing during the year
are merely ornamentel.
.The custom comes from the earliest times, for the first paintings which show buttons have no corres- ponding buttonholes.
In all, nearly 3,000,000,000 but- tons are used in Britain annually.
So Englishmen took up dog racing. Obvious choice, then as now, Sign of skill
was the greyhound, almost unchanged for 4,000 years,
L
But there is not much for greyhounds in the working man's home;
to the natural thing was to evolve a miniature greyhound. Hence whippets.
Different dogs for different work. others. Arctic sledge dogs, life-saving Flock-tending dogs very Newfoundlands, the St. Bernard collies to old English sheepdogs. ambulance dog, are all designed to perform their jobs, as. emelently-as-Three-in-one
possible.
land, how quietly they stand Wan Dog smugglers
derings in the West. the Midlands, the North and the Home Counties.
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Buttons tell tales.
"
Buttons are on the right-hand Alde of a man's cont because in olden times it was convenient for him to reach for dugger easily.
The
two buttons stitched ΟΜΙ modern coats of the sinoll. of the back are relic of those carly times when the coat-tails were buttoned The sealyham happened because one man who hunted otters, badgers, back for convenience of riding or Some say the poddle is most in three kinds of dog for the purpose.
and foxes hated the idea of keeping when carrying a sword,
The button on the schoolboy's cap telligent of all. Continental smug So he cross-bred the short-legged, is the outcome of a custom which -glers use them to run across the rather flat-headed scalyham.
originated in ancient China. The frontiers with contraband tied round their bodies, train them to Deerhounds, foxhounds, beagles are
Sport is responsible for most dogs.bution then was made of gold. It was a mark of honour signifying keep away from-policemen,
All sorts of dogs have been evolved speed at which they have to chase
all adapted to the prey and to the high literary skill.
Women's dress may contain no to help men herd some animals, kill K.
buttons at all which serve useful purpose, yet one frock alone may contain nearly one hundred of them merely for decorative appearance.
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So hooks and eyes, press-studs, and elastic do not supplant buttons as much as they might.
There is still a sect in Amerten which will have nothing to do with buttons. The Amish Mennonites, otherwise known as the "hook-and- eye Baptists," believe in a doctrine which prohibits them using anything which they think is ornamental.
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4 A two-edged affair. 8 A healing lotion. £ Rapturous.
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10 "Man's a pig" (onag.).. 14 Girl's name,
15 You may try to make an im
pression on this, but you will find it hard.
19 A famous castle.
20 One of the family in art is not
-with the rest.
21 This rent might give one pause
to think.
22 Harmful.
23 This serves its turn in the work-
shop. 24 Fun in the nursery. 25 A reptile. 27 In
numbers
nature.
can
they unclothe
30 Do this' to your errors If you 33 Make of car.
35 A painful ailment.
one.
30 He has good words for every- 37 A sweet course that would be more appropriate without the second and last letters.
DOWN
1 A conclusive adjective. 2 Flower.
3 Fairy of mature constitution. 4 Hold in check.
5 The sort of information a
surgeon usually acquires.
A crowd is more than warm.
7 Rule from an African river.
10 Railway lines are this.
F
11. The frolic of a vehicle is by no
means smalt.
12 A tidy quality.
13 "So I usurp" (unag.).
15 Warn.
16 Tree and soldier make an island.. 17 A seasonal descripton.
18 A beater of cars, but not rash-
hearted.
20 Even the unassuming put this
on.
28 Male name.
20 Not at all appropriate.
31.This body migh! be expected to Interfere when the cat is given lo brutal men
32 Number.
33 Made from 31 down beheaded. 34 A dance of backward look
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