THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
JANUARY 16, 1937.
A NEW CLASSIC BY LAWRENCE
Book That Gives Startling Picture
in His Day
of R.A.F. Life in
PUBLICATION BAN
UNTIL 1950
THE AMERICAN “SATURDAY REVIEW
OF LITERATURE," RECENTLY PUB- LISHED AN EXCLUSIVE REVIEW OF A REMARKABLE book which AT PRE- SENT COSTS £100,000 A COPY,
Its
The name of the book is "The Mint.' author was T. E. Lawrence, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia.'
"The Mint” records the life which Lawrence
JAPANESE COMMUNITY WATCHES REVIEW
A large number of Japanese civilians turned out to Hongkew Park to witness the first review of forces by Vice-Admiral K. Hasegawa, Commander of the Third Fleet. Admiral Hasegawa is shown above, in front of his chief ofleers, passing in front of the ranks of men.
chose to lead as an aircraftman in the R.A.F. JEKYLL AND HYDE
training school at Uxbridge.
Because people described in the book are still living a ban on publication until 1950 was imposed by Lawrence in his will.
The author's terms to the publisher who wished to handle the book were £1,000,000 down in advance and a royalty of 75 per cent ! Victory And Revolt
It was Lawrence's intention to do in this book
for. life in the R.A.F. what his famous "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" did for life "in revolution and victory" in Arabia.
He gives a picture of life in the R.A.F. at Uxbridge which was harsh and stupid, but which had already been reformed before the book was finished.
Incidentally, the author reveals that at one period he was down to 1s. 3d. in his pocket, a burst shoe and frayed trousers, and that he used to hang about the Duke of York's steps so that friends might take him to meals at their clubs.
£100,000 A VOLUME
HOMELAN
TRAIN KILLER TRAPPED
Paris, Jan. 1.
RADIO BROADCAST
Commentary on England
Versus Wales Rugby
DANCE MUSIC
Radio Programme Broadcast by 2. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's.), 31.49 (9.52 megacycles).
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12.30 Marek Weber und His Or- chestra.
Time and Weather. 1 p.m. 1.03 Hawaiian Music.
1.20 Three Songs by Bing Crosby. 1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather, Time und Announcements. 1.49 Variety and Dance Music. 2.13 Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec-
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"Die Diebische Elster" (Rossini)--
Old and the, Overture; "From the
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7.30 Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
733 Songs by Richard Tauber
Winnie and (tenor)
(Soprano),
Metville
Tenor Solo-Over Night (Wolf— Sturm); Soprano Solos-Sleep on Korn- ("Helen), (Ofenbach, ore. Hold); My Man (Adams); Tenor Solos "Gluditta"Levliest of wo- men; My every
my one thought,
Knepler and desire. (Lehar, Lohner); Soprano Solos The Arca-
dians"The Pipes of Pan: Arendy is
NE of the cleverest pieces of detective work
ever young. (Monckton); Tenor Solo in the annals of French crime is now expect-Hearts Desire-Vienna, City of (Lockton, and Sicc- ed to solve the mystery of the murder of the beautiful Madame Garola on November 15 last on the Strasbourg-Ventimiglia express.
zynski).
my Dreams. ounty.
8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- 8.03 A Programme of Variety. garde looks back.... Humorous-Harold en-
(No. 1).
It is now possible to disclose that since the murder the lives and habits of every one of the famous express'tertains...Ivor Vintor; Piano Duet- dozens of regular passengers have been discreetly Baldwin and Howard; Vocal--Sere- investigated by detectives.
Piano-Time Melodies
nade in the night; I'll sing you a thousand love songs....More Henri;
ning Lahilahi. As a result, the police admitted Vocal-Haleiwa; Papalina
Ray
Bands Jerome Kern .Grund
Bross Massed from them afterwards—, presum-to-night that the arrest is imminent
Vocal-(a) Bands:
Wolly Polly ably homely Sazon words which of a man living a Jekyll and Hyde Melodiinney, and
Big Rock Candy he faithfully copied from his com- existence.
Commissioner Pellt, in charge of Doodle; (a) Big panions' Indesribably profane and
established that tai.
The Rocky Mountaineers; though he the case, early
write Blues: Gerry obscene conversation,
number of solitary women passen- Piano Solos-May could not use them himself.
.Gerry Moore; Vocal- and chloroformed in post years and Miracles sometimes happen; Cabin In this James Joyce and Ernest/ern on this train have been attacked Building....Aufg
Turner Laylon; envy his that most refused to lodge a com-
on the hill-top. Hemingway might well dialogue. Being a replica of reality, plaint for fear of unpleasant publi- Clarinet Solo Somebody's
city. It puts art to shame.
Ern Pettiffer, Soprano Solos Say CHLOROFORM GAGS
that you will not forget; Indian Love Liddell Hart says Lawrence pre-
Commissioner Petit has traced Call....Joan Cross; Orchestra-It's ferred this kind of writing to that of "The Seven Pillars." These sections several of these victims, whose love again; Queen of Hearts....Syd- contain the stuff of an Ariny saga. accounts are identical, namely, that ney Kyte and his Piccadilly Hotel them Band; Vocal Duet-You cant pull Brown's Schooldays" brought up to while dozing tied chloroform angs the wool over my eyes....Curtis and
vanished Ames. with their valuables. hell of a barracks.
You forget at first its deeper sig. dramatic nilleance in reading this story of cruelly, fellowship, stupidity and virtue.
is old story of the surprising'
By HENRY SEIDEL CANBY
As sheer narrative his book is "Toma man suddenly came upon Washington, Jan. 1. I HAVE had the privilege of seeing at the National date and transferred to the minor over their mouths, and
Congress Library here one of the 12 existing copies
of Lawrence's last remarkable book, "The Mint.".
Visitors at the Book Fair have already seen a copycy, of human nature in the under burglar-proof glass, with a price of £100,000 on its
head.
Until 1950 the book enanol be generally published, according to Law- rence's will. But there are two copies in the Library of Congress, as the law demands for copyright purposes, thus permitting an American citizen to read them, but not to quote from them.
as
H is clearly untrue, as has been rumoured, that criticism of the R.A.F. Government organisation that it necessary to withhold this book Criticism, and it is biting, is of methods already superseded before the book was finished; and Lawrence concludes with the sweeping statement that the abuses which he describes are all ancient history reformed away to make room for a better service in which he was's happy man. of the old order are presumably still alive,
Worth £200,000
men who were being broken by an old regime which held them to obed ence, blind, stupid obedience, to fit them for service in a new realm and self-depend- udequately with-
where nie.
ence were
One woman was able to give details of her aggressor, which roincided with the appearance of a regular male passenger on the express.
work has esta- Patient
detective
9.15 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.35 Geraldo and His Orchestra. "A World of Romance-Selection; of Musical Twenty-Five Years Comedy"; "Sea Shanties,"
10
p.m. London-Big Ben, A Relay of Dance Muste from the Wales. 11.30 London-England The lost half hour of a Commentary" on the Rugby Football Match from Twickenham.
plished that this man leads a double life. In one town on the line he Grill-Room of the Hongkong Hotel. lives quietly with his wife.
GANG LEADER In another he is known to the police, as the leader of a gang of Uleves who stand in dread of his maniacal cruelty. This man was on
I cannot describe out quoting the language used under the train on the night of the mur-Z. E. K. on a punishment by this mixture of unem- ployed d ex-soldiers, ex-sailors and ex-
The police belleve that he did not intend to kill Mme. Garola, but gave
mechanies.
der
her in overdose of chloroform.
confrontation to-morrow
After But men will probably be all dead by 1950.
In any case the librarian and sat with £200,000 worth of books on the table between us, and I wondered whether one of them was worth half of it.
"The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is worth £100,000 if you enn value a great book at all.
What about "The Mint"?
It is not a book; it is the foundation porch lo a great edifice that was never built; a torso with a sketch of the whole ackled,
It was to be life in the air service as "The Seven Pillars of Wistlom"
was life in revolution and victory.
was
ness from our knowledge of his un- tlinely end.
"The Mint" proper is a record of his life at the Uxbridge Depot, where the old army crushed the new re- eruits Into the mould which was their Iden of what an aireraftman should be like.
SALARY
known.
with three of the women robbed In the express the man will be formally charged with Mme. Garola's mur-
Thank heavens genteel readers "The Mint" would Anish them.
But language is only Lawrence's way of translating life. He was 15 years older than the average of his der.
great- ness, exalted greatness. He had companions. He had known known, the bitterness of disillusion BRITAIN HAS 287 after agonising over the making of
KEELS ON WAYS
a book. He was now trying the open
life again, but this time as the lowest
London, Jan. 1. Two British industries-shipbuild- ing and electrical equipment-are Morbid, solitary, he had to live enjoying a wave of prosperity.
Britain's most famous liner com- and sleep in
in a herd, be ordered
extending their feels, about and abused with them, and panies are
to bringing the shipyards put to mental tasks. A little man busiest times they have known for obviously from the educated classes, he had to fight his way to tolerance six years.
The Clan Line' has ordered six and respect..
to stand had
of the low and with body that had been strained to breaking point and must be forced against cilds.
Не
the
the brutally of 10,000-ton carge liners from the to corporals-there were good ones, Greenock shipyard, Ellerman Lines
In the
Kilocycles.
12 midnight Close Dawn.
from Additional Programmes
Frequency of 640
3.25 p.m. A Commentary by F. Read on the Football Match: Seaforth Highlanders v. St. Joseph's. Relayed from Sookunpoo Football Ground.
5 p.m. Close Down. 8-10.30 p.m. Chinese Recorded
Programme.
10.30 p.m. Close Down.
SUNDAY'S BROADCAST
A Studio Programme Of German Music
RECORDED ITEMS
H.K.T.
10.30 1.1. A Relay of the Morning Service from the Union Church.
11.30 a.m. A Reluy of the Morning Service. from Use Hop Yut Church (Chinese),
European Musicul
12.15-2.30 p.m.
Programme.
12.15 p.m. Trlo in D Minor,
12.48 Songs by Theodore Cha- Hapine (Bass), Cortet, Thibaud and Casals.
"Boris Godounov" (Moussorgsky) Farewell of Boris; Death of Boris; (Borodin) Song of "Prince Igor" Prince Galitsky.
But the identity of Lawrence REFUSING was discovered and he was expelled. Three years later, when he
Resigning his tank us political ad- reinstated, it was in cadet college viser in the Colonial Office, refusing where life was to his liking; so that salary after February, still smurting. this brief further record of his ex-it would serm, from his share of the perience before he had himself trans-betrayal of the Arab cause in the war, ferred to India is only a sertes of notes, of which dramatic accounts of the carried out a resolve tong held to however the contemptuous cruelly have seven great steamers under Op. 03 (Schumann), played by
of officers of whom some also were construction. The Blue Funnel Line fris night flights on "Boanerges, his enlist as a private in the Air Force,
But there is much more
inspectors looked with amazement at cargo molorships for the Far Eastern
trude. moter-cycle, and tragedy to vivid story than Liddell Hart seems to have good. He had to be on guard when is inviting lenders for five 10-000-ton
his shelf of books and enlied in a
OTHER LINES EXPANDING In addition, new construction Lawrence
been living by "Loff." had
programmes are being prepared by hack work in an architect's offlec, BECAME A
"HAPPY” MAN" -
the British Indian Line, Cunard White and as an anonymous contributor,,
When sent for the looselcat note-
1.p.m. Time und Weather. Star Company, Union Stearnship If 'reference in his letter can be
book in which had been written the Company New Zealand, and tho
of
1.03 Military Band Music.. trusted, to literary reviews.
King's patent appointing him Minis-Canadian Pacifle Railway Company. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (Weber); Now he was down to 15 pence ter Plenipotentiary, dropped out and In Scotland there are being bullt (a) Grenadier du Coucase (Melster) one shoe had burst, his trousers were
corgo 12 passenger liners and 63
(b) Entry of the Gladiators (Fucik) and coasters. Jonathan Cape heard of it, so frayed and for three months he had had to be explained away.
On garbage duty, sonked to the ships, 61 oll tankers
(c) Le reve passe (Krier and Hel- Liddell Hurt says in "Colonel Law- [not been decently fed.
skin skin with stinking slops, a letter he totalling 130 vessels; in England and mer); (d) Omeer of the day (Hall); rence," and asked for it to satisfy his He had lived off other men, so he had just received became soaked in Northern ireland, nine passenger Action Front March (Blackenburg). contract for a book to follow "Revolt said, as far as shame allowed; and will. When opened he found that liners and smaller ships are on the Tidworth Tattoo"): Entry of the in the Desert."
Boyards-March. (Halvorsen, I offered him the editorship of ways. had loltered on the Duke of York's
lettres.
Present construction of 287 vessels Winterbottom); Swastika Lawrence's terms were £1,000,-steps so that friends might take him
He was struck, cent, royalty,
had let him down, or at least the
threatened by men twice his sizo: 1,600,000 means a bill for new com- ho hind
held his These chapters from his diary anonymous hack literature
own, gained the men's mercial ships of nearly £25,000,000.
GERMAN EXPORTS AT TOP which constitute about two-thirds of been practising, and he was forced to
respect, became the secret organiser the book, are grouped under the genreform his uneasy ego, either to ex- now was eral headings of
of "The Raw Material" plolt his name, which and "The Mill."
security. Anst legend, or to seek They excite fature reviewers. security, since he was a Furitan per- For here is the Puritan Lawrence in fectionist, had to be something with of those moods of passionate self- fear in it so that his spirit might be disciplining which the seventeenth Angellated. century know FO well.- entirely self-discipline. When Rosa,
.
000 down in advance and a 75 per to meals at their clubs. Literatura! magazine of belles picked upon, with a combined gross tonnage of (Klohr),
one of
"will"
1
And yet not DAILY
RECORD
Arr. Murch
1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements. 1.40 A Concert Programme. Tenor Solos-Old rustic bridge by
of their resistance against the stu- Last year Germany exported elec- plöity of their discipline; got to feel trical equipment worth £18,500,000; the Mill (Skelly); A dream of Porn his solidarity with the men.
the United States £16,300,000, and dise (Gray and Litticton)....Water He came through and three years Britain £14,000,000. Together these inter, writing as an accomplished three countrics account for two-thirds aircraftman, he describes himself for of the world's trade.
the Arst time as a happy man.
Britain has a fair chance of out- These notes on the Uxbridge depot stripping its rivals shortly, because in "The Mint," are only incidentally the Union of South Africa, Britain
his knees quaking, entered the re- Two sections of this book, which ja protest and criticism. Their value and India are the three largest mar gruiting officer's door in August, 1922, he describes as a "Porch to Unwritten is in the vivid record they give of a kets in the world for such machinery he was a man beaten by life. Work," record day by day his ex-superior man wrestling with his as generators, transformers and con- [352087 A/C Tloss was the name periences as the feast of His Majesty's destiny, a record of the personalities vesters, and South Africa and India, Lawrence, used on enlistment and "rookies."
of the "common man" under the where great electrificationTM schemes later he changed it to Shaw when he Night by night he wrote these stress of the "official man" as official are expected, Import nearly all their
requirements from Britain. Joined the Tank Corps)
notes in bed, intending to select dom maker him.
(Continued on Pagc-4.)
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