HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION.
Bulgaria's Social Democratic
Leader wants the Constitution restored.
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T looks as though Bulgaria may be the next theatre of,
and dictatorship.
A year ago it was enthusiastic- ally believed that King Boris, hav- ing got rid of Col. Veltcheff, the "accret dictator" who had organ- ised the 1934 coup d'état, intended to prepare for a return to constitu- tional government.
But as the months have passed suspicion has grown of the *genuineness of the King's profes-
Bions of belief in democracy.
The elections promised for last October have been postponed inde- Onitely.
The repression is overy bit as Revern under the government of the King's friend, Klasseivanoff, as it ever was in the time of Veltcheff, of the Officers' League.
And now the Premier's personal organ begins to talk all the jargon of Fascism, and of the "total- tarlan state."
Pastoshoff, the Bocial Domo- cratic leader, on behalf of the leaders of the five democratic par- Lies, has sent the King & memo- randum asking for the complete
SATURDAY,
APRIL 3, 1937
MEN ANDE
AND THINGS ABROAD •• by W. N. Ewer
KING who would be
restoration of the Constitution. And active resistance to dictator- ship is being prepared.
Next move is with the King. Ho may decide to maneuvre and to compromise: or he may decide to fight, relying on the army to support him and to crush all oppo- 'sition."
That would be a dangerous game. For the Bulgarians are a stubborn people. And the loyalty of the. army to a dictator-King is not entirely sure.
But the most dangerous factor in the whole situation is the close connection between King Boris and Italy. He is married to an Italian Princesa. And last September he was in close conference with Signor Mussolini in Rome.
It seems more than possible that the Duce is advising the King, and that he has promised him support If he should need it.
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Complex Situation
UT the situation, Internation- ally, is a bit complex. Ger- many and Italy do not see alto- gether eye to eye in the Balkans. where cach has ambitioná
And German Nazism's candidate for Dictator of Bulgaria has been the ex-Premier Tzankoff, who has recently been fêted and petted in Berlin.
A King-Tzankoff alliance looked to be on the cards for a while in the summer; but a definite rift came in October. Boris, I suspect, has made up his mind that if there is to be any dictating done he is going to do it himself.
Whether Hitler, having backed Mussolini's Spanish adventure, and having then rather regretted it, would back another Italian inter- vention, this time in the Balkans, I rather doubt,
Anyway. keep an eye on Bul- garia for the next month or two.
DICTATOR
It may caally be the next Euro-. pean danger point.
May 12 la a date to note in your diary.
- Not because of the Coronation. But because, according to the very latest, stable-guaranteed Incident of inside Information, it was the date fixed for the European cata- clysm.
Apparently there has been some difficulty about the fixture card. June was the favoured Unic: and of course it is a lovely month.
But now it has been decided, or choose practically decided, to Coronation Day, when all the world will be watching West- minster.
And so on May 12 there is to be a Magyar rising in the Hungarian districts of Czechoslovakia, fol- lowed by a German rising in the German districts.
The Reichswehr and the Hun- garian Army will march to the sound of the guns." And there you are.
Memories Are Short..
source
I was, if I remember rightly,
from that very samo that Inside and exclusive informa- tion was coming this time last year that everything was set for the European war to be started the moment the Olympic Games were over.
And you may be sure that when May 12 has come and gone, and June has.followed it, there will be a new prophecy, again supported by mysterious hints of secret in- formation of secret plans, obtained by the most secret means, and of unimpeachable authenticity. That
is why I want this Coronation Day prophecy not to be for- gotten. It is only because memor- ics are short that these people get away with it again and again and still keep reputations.
They're a Nuisance ! WHY they should want to get
away with it, why they should - want continually to scare an al- . ' rendy distracted world out of its wits, is something of a mystery.
I suspect that at bottom it is just a craving for importance. Shout at the top of your voler a warning of Immediate disaster, and quite a lot of passers-by will stop to look at you and ilsten to you, if only for a
minute or two.
And then there is for some folk a morbid kick" in frightening others.
"I wants to make your feali creep," said the fat boy.
On which old Mr. Wardle's com- "Damn that ment was brief, bay," said old Mr. Wardic.
It seems to me quite appropriate to-day. These morbid gentry are a sccini nuisance If nothing worse. Did you know that London was really a sink of iniquity, a centre of riotous, shameful and cosmopoli- tan`night-life?
Did you know that much of this hectic gaiety goes on in "estab- ishments in Soho and May. fair run by well-known per- Ronalities of tho Protestant Church, of the teaching profession and of the aristocracy "
Apparently it is so, I have Just read it in the Corriere della Sera,, of Mian, which contrasts the
CONSPIRATORS P-King Boris (on the right) with some of his generals.
wickedness of London with the. great, laborious and luminous cities of Italy," and warns Italians these may at not to grumble
"seem a little monotonous times because they have 110 'night life'
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Ain't it awful? And how dumb are we Londoners who have never noticed iti
India's Loss FEW Indian Journalists were better known in London than whose Vishnu Karandikar, of sudden death I have just heard from his brother.
Karandikar's career here was virtually ended when he published Inn London paper a forecast of the Simon Report. He was sent for, and examined by the Attorney- General, the Director of Public Prosecution and Sir John Simon, Ultimately he signed a confession that he had made it up.
The confession was next day read out to the House of Commons.
A very able and decent journ- allst, very hard up at the time, had yielded to temptation. And -though the "forecast" had done harm-three highly placed no and highly paid lawyers branded him publicly, pretty well broke him professionally; and pretty well broke his heart.
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Karandikar struggled along for and bit; then went home threw himself whole heartedly into the rent passion of his life-
study Brahminic
and Indian archmology.
The historical interpretation of the old Hindu legends was his chosen subject, and his excavations in the Nurbada valley, which he believed to be the site of the oldest civilisation in India, had already produced remarkable results.
But his health collapsed, a polsoned hard had to be ampu-. tated, The death of his father, a famous Indian lawyer, broke him finally. And he died suddenly of heart failure. The
"Karandikar
case" was an episode apart. Ho will be remembered as a devoted scholar and as a gallant soul with whom fate dealt far more unkindly.. than he deserved.
A Short Life and.........
Rgo this week there died Georg Büchner, poot and revolutionary. Who is among the forerunners of German Socialism.
A HUNDRED years
He wrote pamphlets against the reaction of which "Der Hessische Landbote" remains known. Ha wrote a once sensational revolu- tionary drama, Danion's Death and the unfinished Wozzeck.
He translated Victor Hugo, wrote, a book on Greek philosophy, and a treatise on the nervous system of fehes.
Ho fled from Darmstadt to Zurich, lectured in the University. there, and died there,
At his death, with all that behind him, he was not yet 241
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1-The Government's defence pro- gramme contemplates, during the next five years, an expenditure, per head of the population," of approximately (1) 6s., (2) £1 35,, (3) £8 10s., (4) £16, (5) £33.
2. There is criticism of the Factories Bill on the ground tint it ought to Jimit further hours of juvenile fabour. Under the Bill, young people may have a, working week of (1) 30 hours, (2) 56 hours, (3) 48 hours, (5) 32 40 hours, (4) hours.
3.Mr. Lansbury was 78 last month. special rejoicings in
There were (1) Poplar, (2) Birmingham, (3) Glasgow, (4) South Wales, (5) Battersea.
4-A great publle servant is dead in Sir Percy Cox. He was High Com- missioner for (1) Canada, (2) India, (3) Egypt, (4) Palestine, (5) Iraq.
5. The Poet Laureate contributes to the official Coronation Programine. He Is (1) John Drinkwater, (2) Siegfried Sassoon, (3) Walter de la John Marc, (4) T. S. Ellot, (5) Masefield.
World Affairs
The Non-Intervention Committee has at last succeeded in excluding from Spain (1) military aircraft,
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Admiral Yarnell's flagship Is (1) U.S.S. Isabel; (2). U.S.5. Augusta; (3) U.S.S. Black Hawk; (4) U.S.S. Pigeon; (5) U.S.S. Mindanao,
- (2)–volunteers,- (3)-tanku,-(4)--am--- -in-Hongkong-to-morrow.--Rear..
munition, (5) rifies and machine-
guns.
7.-The Czecho-Slovakian Govern- ment has made concessions to its most powerful minority. These are the (1) Germans, (2) Poles, (3) Ruthenians,
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WEEK-END PROBLEMS
By Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I OYSTERS
Here is a little teaser to put to your friends:
Which would cost you more: Half-a-dozen dozen oysters, at a dozen shutinge the half-dozen, or a dozen dozen oysters at half-a-dozen shillings the dozen?
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PROBLEM II
15.-Herr von Ribbentrop recently stayed with Lord Derby. The latter's sent is at (1) Knowsley, (2) Chatsworth, (3) Longleat, (4) Clumber,(5) Blenheim.
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10-The "Capricornus" was in the news Inst week. This is (1) a new Cunard-White Stop liner, (2) streamlined LNER. engine, (3) a flying - boat designed for the Atlantic service; (4) a challenger for the America's Cup, (5) a dirigible balloon,
17. Changes have been made in King's Coronation oath. These arn a consequence of (1) King Edward VIII.'s abdication, (2) the Statute of Westminster, (3) the Regency Bill, (4) representations by the Bishops, (1) the fact that the heir- presumptive is a female,
10. The Marquis of Huntly has died.
clan He was head of the
(1) MacDonald, Gordon.
(3) (2) Cameron, (4) Mackay, (G) Fraser,
Arts and Books
A QUESTION OF PACE
"From here to my sister's," said half- Fred, the road runs only way. The rest of the journey is across a common. Hence, I either do the whole trip on horac back, or half of it on my motor-cently played "L'Apres Midi, d'un bike and the other half on foot."
"Which is quicker?" ".
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"The two methods take me exactly the same time.. On my motor-bike, you know, I go just three times as quickly as on horse- back."
How fast does Fred go on horse- back as compared with his pace on. 10017
PROBLEM I WORD SQUARE
1. Bird's or banker'at 2. A stone invokes a friend?
3. Cowper's become famous
4. Antlered fraternity.
10 The London Philharmonic re-
(4) Robert Baxter.
Warner
Donat; (5)
23.-"Mr. Sludge the Medium" Is by Horace Wyndham. Sludge is the subject of a famous poem by (1)
Tennyson,
Rossetil, (2)
(3) Southey, (4) Byron, (5) Browning. 24. "I Would Be Private" is a work of nction. It is by (1) Ethel Mannin, (2), Dorothy Sayers, (3) Rose Macaulay, (4) Virginia Woolf,
(5), Rebecca West;
Faune." The composer is (1) Schumann, (2) Liszt, (3) Dvorak, (4) Holst, (5) Debussy. 20-The Cambridge Art Theatre Company are to be seen in "The Misanthrope." The play is by (1) Rachie, (2) Gultry, (3) Mollere, (1) Brieux, (8) Coeleau, 21.Twelfth Night" is at the Old Vic. The "heroine" of this play In (1) Rosalind, (2) Beatrice, (3) Miranda, (4) Viola, (6) Portla: 22Lost Horizons is a remarkable Atm, showing at the King's Thea tre. It glars (1) Gary Cooper; (2) Ronald. Colman; (5) David Niven;
25.-"Barefoot through Mauretania" has been translated from the French of Odette de Puigaudenu. Maure- tanla is another name for (1) Morocco, (2) Mauritius, (3) North- ern Arabia, (4) Natal, (5) Central America,
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Sport
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stances I'm afraid that some of the younger competi- tors must have re- celved. Essistance from their
parents
brothers
sisters. clder Now, children, the whole object of these competitions is to test the skill of those taking part. So I want you all to make a point of doing all the work yourselves, Parents or other elders will, I feel sure, realise that It's only fair to everybody concerned to let the kiddies do all the work themselves.
Now, having got that off my mind, I must congratulate the competitors generally, for it is clear that, except in one or two cases, they stuck to the rules. After going through all the entries very carefully, and taking o70 into account, I find that the best Senior effort was that of Boger Arnold (aged 11), 160 Boundary Street, Kowloom.
The Junior prize goes to Gabrielle Ohl (aged 8), 9 Stubbs Road, Hong- kong.
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26-Volume V. of Peter Mundy's
writings has
Peter appeared.
Will the winners call at the "Tele- graph" Offices for their prizes as well Mundy was famous in the 17th century
courtier, (2) (1)
us for cards entitling them to free portraits of themselves? (4) (3) theologian, traveller,
Specially commended for good work Seniors: Irma the following diarist, (6),pock and essayist.
Xavier, Pamela Ho, Nar Taylor, Irene Mann, Sunn Mo-tak, Muriel Moffan, Margaret Choa, Margaret Macfarlane, Jacqueline Anderson, Peggy Prince, Vera Dhaber (Shamcen), Winnie In
Carlos, V. V. Carlos, Natalie gram, Yeung Kit-wa, John Anderson, Daphne Ho, Marian Howard, William Barker, Margio Xavier, Margaret Humo, Norman Mequeen, J. . H. Brown, Diana War- ren, Peggy Dedear and Elan Laurol; and the following Juniors:-Irene Oamund, Violetta dos temedios, Haroli True, Nova
Green, Joan Guimgam, Joan Carpenter, Ian Carpenter, Billy Dud- man, John Jan, Gco. Hudson, Dawn! Gabriello Oht, G. Stewart, Ramsay, Constanco Robertson, Margaret Chuter, Duilley Ogle, Joy Begdon, Molllo Terry, Lulu Arnulphy. Joan Grady, Durothy Dawson, Freda Stephens, Mary Fitx Gerald, Anthony Osmund, Corallo Wolfe, and Joan Bentley.
27-Tilden has fallen an easy. victim to Perry. In the Perry-Vines matches of which 35 have been played, Perry has won (1) 20; (2) 10; (3) 18; (4) 10;. (5) 24, 28.--Jack Peterson is retiring owing to eye trouble. He is a noted (1) tennis star; (2) footbuller; (3) ice hockey player; (4) golf player; (5)
boxer.
29-The Mamak Tournament is
drawing to a close. This tourna ment is (1) tennis; (2) hockey; (3) badminton; (4) goif; (5)
Воссег.
30-"Bobby" Jones has published an analysis of the technique of James Thomson. Thomson is the world's outstanding performer with the (1) putter, (2), maskie, (3) driver, (4) hiblick, (5) spoor
Now, kiddies, here's an easy competi tion for you this wook. Every bay and girl likes to solve a crossword puzzle, No I am expecting that lots of you will try for the two prizes offered in this simple test. The clues are shown, and ail you have to do is to fil in the cor rect words. Seniors must also colour the completed picture, but unfor-need not do so. Have a good ry, Kiddies, and send in your entries to Uncle Eddle, c/o Hongkang Telegraph, not taler than 4 p.m. on. Wednesday,
Uncle Eddlese
"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY,NURSE?'
"Don't scold him, Mrs. Hardy, Ho docan't look well. Are you sure he is not constipated7. Whenever a child is cross and peevish, I look at the tongue. If it is coated, or if the breath is disagreeable, I know at once what is wrong. I always give "California Syrup of Figs. That moves the bowels in a few hours and cleanses
the system.
"Children don't understand the importance of regularity. They got absorbed in play and won't trouble. And it is only when they get thorough- ly cross and miserable that you real- ize that they are constipated. I find it saves a world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dose. I would do that if I were you, With a natural laxative like 'Call- fornia Syrup of Figs you can't go wrong.
"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, and we nurses swear by it. Get a bottle of "Call- fornia. Syrup of Figs from the drug store and give him a dose at bed- time. He'll be as happy as a tark in
the morning.
"Never experiment with cheap and drastic preparations when buying. children's laxatives.. The safest plan is to do as I do, follow the example of the doctors and give California Syrup of Figs.
"California
Syrup of Figs"
"Maryor's own' LAŽATIVE