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GERMANY AND JAPAN
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If it be true, as reported, that Germany has informed Japan that she must not look for any support from Berlin in her con fiet with China, the develop- ment is one of marked import- ance. It serves to illustrate the point that Japan is unable to find friends anywhere in eobe sequence of her policy of aggres- sion against her near neighbour; she stands to-day with NO vestige even of moral support. in the adventure to which she has committed herself. When Germany made her part with Japan, observers saw in the new understanding a possible error the tactics which, from standpoint of commerce, might well prove disastrous to the German concerns concentrating. on the China market. From the business point of view. China obviously offered better pros~} pects than
possible in Japan. German commercial houses with branches in China consequently regarded the out- look with apprehension. There; was a general impression in foreign circles that the understanding might, even go the length of guaranteeing active support of Japan in any military adventures upon which she saw it to embark. Such intentions were, however, soon denied, it being pointed out that the pact was merely anti- Communistic in character. The position, viewed even from this angle, did not appear too clear when Japan, at the commence- ment of the trouble in North China, virtually accused
the Chinese Government of foster- ing Communism and called upon it to suppress the movement. People began to wonder what the precise implications of the Tokyo-Berlin axis were in the light of Japan's anti-Communis- i It is tic demands on China. just possible that Berlin's statesmen have now come to realise the awkward position in! which their country had bern; placed; hence the reported in- timation to Japan that the! Communistic monnee elsewhere is such that she should not waste her energies in China. The inference is, of course, that Germany does not regard the Communist danger in China s anything but a bogey, and to Return: £76. that extent she is at cross- Even purposes with Japan. Japan herself must latterly have become consclous of the fact
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that the world at large does not accept her assessment of the Red peril in China, for her in- clination now is to dwell less on
'NICHEVO!
say the
POLAR AIRMEN
-"It's All in the
"N
Day's Work!"
ICHEVO!" said Valery Chikalov.
He
sat up in his bed in a luxury cabin of the Normandie at seven o'clock in the morning and rubbed his eyes.
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Ambassador Maisky and had wakened him. The great ship was off Southampton, on her way from New York to Havre. We had boarded her to see the three heroes of the first Russian flight over the Pole from Moscow to the United Stales.
And-leaving Mme. Malsky outside on the mat-we had walked into Chkalov's cabin un- announced:
"Nichevo!" repeated burly, broad- souldered Chkalov to my question: "What did I feri like. flying over the North Pole?"
Now nichere is one of those Russian words that have dozens of shades of meaning-most of them concerned with lazhess and i11- difference. Once, for the foreigner, nichero symbolised all the worst vices of Tsarist Russia. Faced with famine, the peasant spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders,
"Nicheto! said:
It can't bc helped!
But Chkalov gave the word a new flavour for me. He meant by It: Oh! It was nothing much réally all in the day's work!!
Thats the attitude to their spectacular flights of Chkalov and of Gromov, leader of the second erew which, profting considerably from the experience of the first, set up a new world record for long- distance, non-stop flylag,
For an interviewer, the inodesty
Today's Thought THERE are pioneer souls
that blaze their paths where highways never ran2,
-S. W, FOSS.
THE THREE RUSSIAN AIRMEN.—Plistographed yesterday. Left tu right: George Baldukov, Valery Chkalov and Alexander Belyakov,
of these men is a nuisance-until you realise whence it springs.
Then you see the whole picture of the Soviet Arctle: years of pre- paratory work by exploring par- Hess, the establishment of a net- work of radio stations beyond the Arctic Circle, the collection of a hure mass of facts about the weather in the far North, finally The setting up of a group of selen- tista with radio transmitter and receiver on a floating ice-drift at the Pole itself,
It was the work of this floating laboratory, the predictions it was able to make about the weather, that finally decided Stalin on May 25, after i discussion with Chên- lov, the pilot, Baldukov, the co pilot, and Belyakov, the navigator, to give the word: "Gel "
From then on a whole army of people was at work for the three men; aeronautical engineers, as- tronomers, geographers, doctors, the supply commissarlat....
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By this time we had gal out Into the great salon of the float- Ing hotel. Baldukoy and Belyakov had joined us. There was an inner eirel of journalists and Press photographers questioning and snapping shutters and exploding magnesium flares. There was an outer circle of passengers and page-boys gazing open-mouthed
and wide-eyed at the men who had taken the Pole In their stride.
There were rival celebrities, too --Marlene Dietrich' was on board, and, delicious Irony, Her Highness Princess Nyinsky, of the former Russian Imperini family!
But Chkalov has the Food humour of the peasant and the worker.
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Where was he educated? scratches his tousled mop of tale hair and with memories of the sort of education poor lads got In the old days, says: "Some oE IL pretty poor!
Then remembering the grim school that has really forged hin into a member of the Bollevik Party, the school of Revolution and Civil War, he adds quickly: "And some of it pretty good! Put it down as secondary!"
A fascinating study in contrasts, these men.
The tall, smooth skinned, slender, elegant one Is Baldukov, the calm, the Imperturbable, who annoyed the mechanics at the Moscow airport by displaying no enthustasin when they showed him the new machine, the ANT-25, with which the flight was to be made.
Chikalov's moods flash on the surface. Baldukov is hard to read at a glance.
But the day before the flight he
Just Ask the Purser
ARE there any letters for me? order, and procure bills of health for Needless to say the bigger percentage
Where can I get my cabin chang the various ports to be called ed? Where enn get my money ex- changed? Where can I have my valuables locked up for safety? What shall we do with ourselves to-night? Is there going to be a concert cinema show?
or
at. does, for trinkets and tokens have the These are kept with the ship's regis-same attraction for them as for pas- ter, which is the most important docu-senters.
When the ship arrives in England ment on board. A ship without its register is as helpless as a traveller and the last passenger has left, the erew is mustered and the purser pays without a passport.
Again, the purser has to keep an the men their wages as they "sign off" account of the crew's wages. The the agreement in front of a Board of average cruising ship carries about Trade officer. four hundred mun us crew. A nuin- He afterwards makes his "balance" and of these are permitted to go with the steamship company
then at last can say "Here ends an- If there are any letters for you, he ashore at some of the ports.
After dealing with the passengers other voyage," and proceed home for will have them. He is the man to change your cabin if you do not find the purser issues there men landing a few days before making a fresh it satisfactory. He will tell you cards, and those who wish to draw start. when the ship is due to arrive at any money against their wages may do so. port of call.
These are a few of the many things on wishes to know when boarding a liner. There is only one answer: SEE THE PURSER.
He has money to suit all your neels in whatever country the ship calls at He will lock up your valuables nud relieve you of the worry of them. He will supervise the arrangement of dances, sports, cinema shows, een- certs, and games,
Only A Sideline
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SOME IRISH BULLS
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THE famous Sir Boyle Roche rost fashioned sense, but one Irish church
House of Commons, and said, "Mr. one werk at lear, for he announced, Speaker, the hon. gentleman: behind "His Reverence is going to Dubis me is perpetually laughing in my Fair, so there will be no Sunday this Another Irish bull took the E can give you any information face. I beg to move that before he week."
you may require about the ship. laughs at me again, he will be pleased i form af declaring that the only way to stop what is past is to stop it before and dues, in fuet, look after you like to tell me what he is laughing nt."
It happens. the proverbial "Dutch uncle." fe
Another Irish M.P. Was denouncing
Mr. Augustine Birrell was not at represents the steamship company,
the Brlish Government, and in his This, you would imagine, would
Indignation he perpetrated this: Irishman, but he lled the office of be quite enough to keep him oc- "Mr. Speaker, the cup of Ireland's Chief Secretary for Ireland. One cupled when carrying six -
wrongs has been overflowing for cen- day in the House of Commons he re- dred passengers. And it does. turies, and even, now is not full."ferred to a criticism, and relarter. But this is only a sideline to his An Irish preacher painted a black" is a wholly garbled version of many duties
picture of the moral condition of his what never took place."
hr sut, On arrival at each port he has to neighbourlicod, in which attend the various consulates and en-The little children that can neither.
Sir Charles Dlike thought that the sure that the ship's papers are in speak nor walk, run about the streets best frisis bull he ever heard was in Blashphering,” An Irish Judge
an address by Sir Patrick O'Brien de- quotes from a newspaper which said, fending Mr. Gladstons, in which he "A wreck was thrown up on the
said. The right hon. gentleman has coust by a receding wave."
done much for our common country. He has broken down the bridges that
this point than on the alleged necessity of protecting the lives and property of her nationals, But however the situation may
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VALERY CHKALOV, chief pllol of the first flight to America by the North Pole route, snapped at Southampton with Madame Maisky Wife of the Russian Ambassador in London.
went off to the countryside near Moscow with his little daughter. They strolled through the woods, played games together. That was his preparation--for adventure,... Then there is Belyakov, short, plump with R round face that seems even rounder because he follows
Russian custom of The shaving his head in the summer for coolness sake.
He was the son of a village teacher, got to high school by riving lessons to backward boys. Then came the war and after that the Civil War.
But Chialov interrupts my chat with Belyakov, He is actually volunteering some information!
Here's something I want you to put to your article." he says. "Tell them was trained by MB:hall Mikhallovich!"
Milkball Mikhailovich" 15 M. M. Gromov. the tall. spare, athletic ace of Soylet flyers, who favours weight-lifting and boxing as ways of Reeping: At. 01 this
teacher Occasion Gromov has reason to be grateful to pupil Chlaziov.
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