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FRIDAY, March 25, 1938.
KEY TO PEACE IN PALESTINE
Recently the Government decided to send an additional six full battalions of British Palestine for per- troops to manent duty there. This means that the battalions will serve for as long as there is unrest in the territories for which Great Britain is responsible; or per- haps as long as there is trouble across their frontlers, which may well be for ever. Arab is a man with memory and fighting and raid- ing are in his blood. The six new battalions will reinforce the troops already stationed in Palestine, and they are A numerous and costly enough force to make the people who pay the taxes wonder what lies behind all this unrest.
For the
1
long
а "home
The Irish Sweep is Drawn To-day. Here a Dublin Reporter, who lives in Hopes Him- self, Tells of the
People I Would Like To Win The Sweep
A BIG Irish daily paper keeps me as a reporter
the
As such I suffer the indignities, enjoy the privileges and thrill to the exeltements that only newspapermen know. As euch I am ordered, smoothly enough sometimes, and exeltedly enough at other times, to go-out-and-get-it for the soulless machines that roll, up- -from ress room when subs have Onished drawing blue pencils through my copy and when I am staggering home and wondering it some careless waywardness of my story will meet with a rap from the Editor-in-Chief when the next day brings its newness and the usual morning reckoning up.
A$
Sa reporter I am human. Five years of dragging the sordidness and the alleged thrills out of life have made me human like the old men that have seen everything and can still get a kick out of
scoop."
And as for this
no for this Sweep business, well, it's just another
assignment as far as we are concerned. Not that we haven't reasoned out that the Sweep is a ne thing, mind you. Why, when we see the hospitals go up in our own city and know that in there mothers will bear their little kids, treated to all the best that science can give them, well, friend, we kind of thank the world for its willingness to tuite a chance on the Irish Sweepstake,
And even the old sheet looks human after all and the great machines are almost rhyming out a pacon of halleluiahs sometimes when we publish the fact that there's going to be more of the world's wealth spent on healing down-and-outs in this wee land of ours, even if the other columns are rocking with the scent of munitions.
AND when I see that the Sweep money is doing so much good 1 get to thinking sometimes that the money that doesn't exactly go to the hospitals, but to the people who are lucky out of a great- hearted bunch of ticket-holders, ahould if things were right, do some good too.
And I'm not telling you off, you winners, but just hoping....
·
THERE are some people, for instance, lu my roving life that would rather win thon millionaires, magnates, mere mugs, or even
mc.
They are the brave, pathetic down-and-cuts that can still give a friendly hand and a friendly smile when things are dead black, and can even frame. the words "good lucic to them" for those who walk off with a cool £30,000 prize.
YES, certainly I have some of them in mind.
then then
Once I was on an eviction story... last year I was at an inquest at the morgue and a woman said that a minn had been in Flanders through the Great Tragedy and hadn't got much to do since lila body had been picked out of a ennai ... not so long ago a great lad who had been on a paper here but just couldn't make the headway the Chief wanted, went out to India, There wasn't the same clear blue in his eyes when he came back last month. Sand in the lungs" the doctors called it out there. They put him in o sonatorium. I have heard of too many to die with the wasting flame they call consumption.
HERE are the people you and I know of only too well. The girl with the shobby overcoat of three years back, tramping to the employment exchange and asking the same tired question day after day. You can even now conjure up the game smalle of her as she calls to yet another establish- ment later in the day with a poor little parcel all wrapped up and the man inside the door of the shop below the three brass bolls says "Nine-pence, take it or leave It," and the girl of the shabby coal and the tired eyes eighs softly and takes it.
JUS
UST one out of the millions. How many more could you not tell of. Kids out of the sluma of the cities. Strong men whose hands are idle and whose hearts are breaking. Mothers who ache to be able to cook them a decent meal, but who welcome them home for all that.
Girls and men in the bread-lines of the world. As a great Irish poet, described them-"the poor dumb suffering
people.
The Hospitals Trust of the Irish Sweepstakes are doing part, readers of this paper, wherever you are. When you get that prize, that I hope will come to you in the next draw, there's a dumb sup of a reporter telling you to have your pleasure, but to remember always the down-and-outs of the world,
THE FLAG
T
HE flag, symbol of a nation's honour, has been prominent in of the "incidents" which punctuate the Chin- ese War.
many
powers,
By
Patrick Monkhouse
in-
more about it than the marine who has blown his nose with it for the last six months?"
By a lucky chance a boat suc- ceeded in fishing up the missing target with a grapnel, and the French were at last convinced that honour of their flag re- mained unsullied.
THE “VERY IDEA"
SPRING HAS KELLY IN IT'S GRIP
By Eddie Kelly, Convalescent
17E have decided to tra-
WE
vel when we win the £30,000 Irish Sweep to night.
Travelling is in blood, in fact,
our
Having decided this, we are now somewhat per- plexed.
Shall we go to Waiki- ki? Haiti? The South of France?
We rather fancy the Italian Riviera.
A good holiday can be had in Athabasca. We are not sure whether Atha- basca is a place or a medicine, but we have heard good re- ports about it.
Athabasca, it seems, is a place where one con le on one's back and lazily watch the clouds float by.
That's where we want to be. Way back in Athabasca.
Lying beneath the moon
in
some secluded spot-just dream-
We would ing.
be Signor Ed- werdino Kellarino, idiy strum- ming our guitar, with wild, red roses entwined in our hair. With long.
sensitive finger we would innguldly reach out and pluck a
guava or perhaps lave ourself in some peaceful pool
Not for us the deck chairs and boat decks. Give us the wide, wide open spaces. We want to smell the gorke and heather.
Cover us up with flame of the forest. Let us dwell in the scent of the thing-we could never think of the name of the stu!T— laburnum. Or it might be geranium. Anyway,
doesn't matter.
it
Life is so full of sadness and sorrows let us not think of the
morrow, (Poetry).
That's
how we feel-soulful Sometimes, when we're drenry and tired of the world, we like to talk to interesting people about our soul.
The trouble is that the moment we start they get the idea that they've got more complicated souls than us. Which is ridicul- €129,
There has been a slight inter- ruption:
A gentleman has arrived wanting money.
He will not depart.
Teh! Tch! Now we have lost mundane things. Nothing beau- our mood-the world is full of
uful about it! Shroffs hounding you every few minutes. Sub-
Editors screaming for copy. Edi- tors who think you're overpaid. Girls who slap your face on the slightest pretext.
What the world wants a more give and take.
answers
Give a dog a bad name and what
He happens
We will now rejoin our friends
This notion that there is your whistle just the same.
us, there have been wars in and the old animosities and hatreds, duly nailed to a staff, which
This faded handkerchief was land Hi}],
com-
one
at the Hongkong Hotel.
prefer to liquidate such In Shanghai an excited Japan- cidents by the patient methods ese thrusts a mininture Rising of diplomacy. But still, despite Sun flag in the hands of an Eng the plain wisdom of this policy. It is a long story and only the fish bystander; the Englishman, it is impossible for the ordinary something peculiarly sacred essentials can be touched upon. incensed, breaks the flag across man to read with indifference It goes back centuries before his knee; and the Press of the that his country's flag has been about the flag was of long and
gradual growth.
In future Mr. Kelly will burst the time of the Balfour Declara- whole world tells the story in insulted.
The high water mark of the ble purpose.
Early standards served a dou- into print on Tuesdays and Fri- S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. tion, which gave the Jewish
flaming head-lines.
They indicated days. Ed. From time to time there have flag as the symbol of national the whereabouts of the people a promise of
was reached in the mander; and, often bearing the been reports of Japanese soldiers honour Chater Road. land" in Palestine. It is this hauling down a British or Ame- nineteenth century. One old in name or image of a saint, they other, Lieutenant Melvill, was
Declaration which ostensibly rican flag.
A century ago simi- cident will show how deeply it were supposed to secure the struck by a shot just as he was created the present anti-British lar behaviour, even though per-
was revered.
blessing and assistance of the reaching the bank. Coghill and anti-Jewish feeling among petrated in a spirit of irresponsi-
Nearly eighty years ago, when saint on the men fighting under turned back to help him, and the tribes. But the chances are bility by ignorant and excited the French were pursuing some his banner,
both were killed. that whether the partitioning of troops, might well have had the military operations in Syria, Bri- It is an encounter between Their bodies were found some tish men-of-war were lying off Scots and English that one first days later with a group of dead Palestine had been attempted gravest outcome.
To-day the policy of British Cyprus.
comes on the idea of the flag as Zulus around them; and in the or not, the bedouin and his statesmen is directed above all One British vessel decided on something which must on no bed of the river the colours of brothers would have continued to keeping the peace, and they a little gunnery practice. The account be allowed to fall into the regiment, saved, as the his- to make trouble in the desert,
gunner set to work to prepare a the enemy's hands, even if the torians of the Zulu War put it, riding into the villages and Saud had won control of a target, but could find no bunting battle is already lost.
"from the degradation of cap- to the borders of the towns; for Arabia except Transjordania, marine proffered a coloured poc- dard of the
to mark it with. At last a At Flodden Field, the stan- ture and contamination by the that is the nature of the Arabs. Palestine and a few small areasket handkerchief, green, red and Scotland was carried by
Earl Marshal of hands of savages." Long before the Great. War, under the domination of great
This incident produced the white, he had bought at Malta. Black John Skirving, of Plew profoundest effect in Britain. Meanwhile, MOST COMFORTABLE] and as far as historians can take western
Queen Victoris, deeply moved,. ALL SIZES
The Scots were defeated, and bestowed the Victoria Cross around Palestine. When, short-the fierce blood feuds of the ly before the Great War, Britain Arabs had burst into flame again. was stuck into a small cask, and Black John was taken prisoner. posthumously on the two men. had to think about her com- That fire has never since been the whole target was towed into But he succeeded in concealing When the colourà were munications with India and her quenched, though Ibn Saud has a suitable position and eventual- the precious banner about his brought back to England, they oil interests in the Near East, as near to pacifying the tribes y sunk by gunfire.
person presumably stuffing it were taken to her at Osborne, because of German and Turkish as any man who ever lived.
inside his shirt-until he regain where with her Royal hand she ambitions in that part of the Ibn Saud's fanatical fighting French brig which lay close by
Meanwhile the captain of a cd his freedom.
attached to them a wreath of A similar expedient for sav- immortelles. world, there was considerable men under-cover diplomacy and Britain or any other great power had watched the firing, and mis- ing the standard was adopted by treaty-seeking with the various If their ruler gave the word, taking the colours, had convin- Ensign Walsh, who carried ono No commander made more of native rulers. When war finally They do not like foreigners and ced himself that the handker- of the two regimental colours the colours than did Napoleon. came Britain had allies who "herotics" and unbelievers. And chief was a French flag.
His famous tri-colour stan- harassed the Turks, and Hussein, it must be admitted that they Going on shore, he collected Albuera,
dards, surmounted by an cagle, one of Turkey's former Gov-have a good argument in that all the Frenchmen he could find, Being severely, wounded, he were chosen by him to recall at ernors, was promised the rule of they claim to be fighting for informed them that the sacred tore the flag from its already once the "engles" of the Roman the Arab peoples for the part, nothing more than their desert flag of France was being grossly broken staff, and thrust it in his Empire and the badge of Charle- he played in the long campaigns, and their freedom to live and insulted by the British Fleet, breast, where it was found, magne But while the Indian and graze their flocks without and induced them to sign a vcho- saturated with blood, when the He issued these standards to Egyptian Governments and the molestation from outsiders. The ment protest, which they went battle was over.
the Grand Army with resplen British Foreign Offico were Palestine partitioning can be en masse to deliver to the
dent ceremony in December: making their soparate agree-made an excuse for Ibn Saud's French consul.
Perhaps the classic instanco 1804, and once a regiment had ments with various leaders and tribes to rald here and there and The consul in turn, forwarded of an attempt to preserve the lost its "eagle" some outstand Lawrence was with Hussein, keep the frontiers restless. In the protest to the British consul colours at all cost was at Isand- ing feat of arms was required probably the greatest of the Saud is the key man in the Inner and sent to Beyrout, the French hiwana, where 20,000 Zulus before a new one was granted. Arab rulers, Ibn Saud, was more Desert. Ho can control the headquarters, for a French war- overwhelmed a small British Each standard was placed in or less forgotten. He was, in tribes. If Britain secks lasting ship.
charge of two young, officers fact, underestimated. It was peace for Palestine it would be The next thing, French and When the day was lost, two armed only with pistols, and not until after the War, when well to consider the influence English met to argue it out, the lieutenants of the 24th Regi- charged with no other duty than he, in spite of the protection and far-reaching Interests of French swearing that it was ment made a desperate attempt to shoot down anyone attacking promised by the British to his this man whom even Lawrence their flag which they had seen to save the regimental colours the standara (taolla enemies, wagod war and con- misjudged, and strike with Ibn and which was now lying in six by swimming across the swift, The most notable fight for an quered, that His Majesty's Saud a bargain which will make fathoms of water: the British deep and rocky Buffalo River eagle was at listerit here officials discovered they had of him a permanent and willing captain retorting to the Frend. One of them. Lieutenant Cop the regimental mascotas backed the wrong horse. Ibn ally,
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