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1.
Sunday Classical Concert
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1 p.m.
-2.30 p.m.
PROGRAMME
Alessandro Stradella. Ouverture
2. Two Gulars.
1. Blue Danube. Waltz
4. Polish Blood. Selection
4. Nacho da Picgaria
5. Coppella. Salle
7. Mayfair Valse
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Beauty...
A MOTOR TOUR
IN FRANCO'S SPAIN
I HAVE lately returned from a ed and having my finger-prints taken, to take them with me to Avila. Con- that I might be benighted, and worse was apasmodic. They still go dinnerless, I struck my objec- tour-perhaps it would be grubby experence, I might have been versation
crossing any frontler where currency thought I was Portuguese-but were live, in military phrase, and could more correct to call it a jaunt is controlled. A small boy with an more interested in the car. My in- again travel at 80 kilometres par in my own car in Nationalist impressive technique on on adding quiry whether there was much doing hour..
Never have I passed a touristically Spain. It was hastily arranged machine worked out how many on their front, one of them answered and, because I dallied in the pesetas I got for my English money at by Inylon his head on his upturned quieter time, No guides, no touts
52-odd to the pound. It seemed little palm and closing his eyes.
annoy the guileless stranger, · Every- Be proud of the appearance of your Basses-Pyrences, the Campania after the generosity of francs, but I There is very little traffle on the body is intent on his own affairs." automobile.
magnificent of France, severely limited in soon discovered it was better than it roads. The
highway War naturally is mirrored In the tooked.
that runs from San Sebastian via towns and Burgos, the present cupi- Keep the finish looking like now by time. polishing or waxing . . . clean the
We started off, but a few hundred Burgos and Valladolid would be a tal, is filled with officers of all ranks went alone, covered nearly 600 yards farther on my pilot car stop- paradise for the young sports-car and soldiers of all arms. The lower windows and polisis iba chromlust miles in under a week, and was free ped before a villa. It was the office blood. The sports car is not seen in windows of the Cathedral are annd- These are all Important steps towards of the whole territory, under Gen. of the Military Commandant of Irun. Spain to-day, but I was told that bagged and notices warn the
Franco's Government. My motive Everyone except the scntrics seemed Spanish stuff officers allowed three habitants what not to do in on oir- On the citadel, where our Ed- was the purely selfish one of the excessively busy, For me there was hours to get from San Sebastian to raid. holiday maker. I went not to in nothing to do but watch serious offi- Burgos-100 miles or ro. 1 can well ward 1. married Eleanor of Castile, not sur some anti-aircraft guns point to the It was perfecily summed up with the press of business and man- prised at the perfect order every clear sitles. that smart different appearaner, use by the Spanish ofetal at the frontler, kind. Very soon my guide beckon where, I expreted the main roads to WWZ WHITE TIRE COATING. for whom I lied up one of those ed me out again and I was following, show more signs of war use. WHIZ WIHTE TIRE COATING inquisitive forms which delight him through scarred Irun. An hour Approaching Madrid the pot-hole elves your automobile that sought offchuldom the world over. He rug and a half after leaving St. Jean-de- did begin to show itself and road res gested that the purpose and object of Luz I drove through the crowded pairs were bring netively pursued.
The atmosphere of Burgos remind- my visit which I was required to streets of San Sebration.
Also for some 20 ilies south of ed me of Cairo in the Great War, state was covered by the single The summer capital of the former Valladolid a new top dressing rather with the newly opened Condestable word-turismo,
the beauty of your ear.
But
For that FINISHED BEAUTY
and
for that Snal step in giving your cargate, but merely to see a cors and Icss serious schoritng deal belleve it. For if I was
after
Beauty.
Sold Here
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
in
Eleventh-hour preliminarles London proved casy' enough. True,
By H. E. WORTHAM
FOREIGNERS. AT BURGOS
In-
Hotel as Ita Shepheard's. Of the palpable foreigners there I counted three Frenchimen-hommes d'affaires ene German, who might have pass-
apertit
authorities In London. These as- Refugio. One church so marked bore approach the best French standard time-which lasts till 10 or 10.30
the A.A. pointed out that the inter- national enrnet how speeldeally ex- Spain is full of soldiers, convales- soolt the motor's freedom of style, ed for an engineer, and two English- cluded Spain, and that 1 must there- cents, in training or on leave. It also Otherwise, through what Baedeker women. The only Itallon I came fore make special arrangements about contains 60,000 refugees. Every- unjustifiably calls the dreary plains across was the bartender. He does my car with the Nationalist Spanish where one comes across the sign of Castite, the main national roads not do much business and I tried to
brighten his existence at sured me I should have no difficulty, the indication that it could shelter Not the secondary roads, however and leaving three photographs with 400. But if San Sebastian is pulling Going from Avila to Medina
ac p.m. del them I was tela *** le 1 enlled at the Its weight in the war, and the num- Campo by a short cut, with the If wind-swept Avila, with its head Sp rers office in St. Jean-de- ber of steamers unloading in the ad-couragement of Senor Pablo Merry 4,000ft in the air, was the only elty I | Luz everyth.....a would be ready. jacent harbour indicated that I was dej Val-son of the former Spanish visited which seemed remote from not only a pleasure retort. It retning Ambassador who now occupies in the war-in fact it is only about 40 THE FRENCH BORDER its light-hearted atmosphere. There minortant post at Burgos, my dimeul- miles from the nearest front-the A British visa at the Passport office was more animation in the crowd ties increased to such an extent that countryside everywhere was living its I received in a quarter of an hour, parading the Concha Bay front that I decided to return ncross country to normal life. Men, women and child. ren were busy threshing and garner- the only formally being my signing evening than 1 had seen in France at the main Madrid-Burgos rond.
Biarritz or Arcachon.
Ing. Flocks of sheep in the dusty n form promising not to take any
This
perhaps.
In because Spaniards "KEY OF CASTILE" Bubble rem
reminded me of Don Quixote's part in the war. The French Em- promenade when Frenchmen dine. At
famous adventure. There bassy added their vish with even the hotel, red, 'I noticed that the situated
was none with official help. I
for me. "The nearest I came to ad- Hittle town which cannot
since Philip II. Its explore a village and returned to find At St. Jean-de-Luz, on the Basque Spanish hour for dinner was not up- have altered
splendid and semi-ruinous, my car the advanced by Gen. Franco's castle,
entre of frontier of France, 1 duly met on
herd, with n elelal of the National Spanish Minis-
The me try, which look after journalists and war search chu bare no sim of confirmed Burdeker's statement that bult meditatively gazing at the bon-
The bread was
as excel-
It was once the key of Costile.
net. A small herdeman at once had After Alling up with petrol-sta- THER ENGLISH and the tourists. When, in his wake, I drove tent-in pleasant contrast to that
The situation in hand. one now has in Italy. In tions as in France and England aro Finally, my "turismo" over, I turn- vernacular newspapers in my small but energetic GB car to the which
plentiful than the demand ed my car north-eastward and sald Hendaye doubnes at French
its fact, apart from being unduly crowd more. Hongkong will doubtless join passage excited
mild interest in the
L'in the ed, the only sign of war in the futte- Warre barely comprehensible, indien foodbye to the country which, as the Telegraph in commending to sightseers who habitually congregate tioning of what or Sonin was that, tions of the natives, and for 10 miles the behest of foreimers. When
used to consider- to me come have it, is by at at the French end of the bridge. the public the appeal for dona-They come in charnbanes and in to save current, the lift was out of nnd more went along such tracks us made up my expeners sheet of St. Jolted S. Tercan In her numerous Jean-de-Luz I found that I had spent tions towards the fund opened private cars-on blcycles, too. They action.
Journeys from Avila. But springs 1 0s 04 a day-including the run-
FRIDAY, OCTOBra 21, 1938,
Open Your Hearts
OTH
more businesslike despatch.
stand and gaze at the bridge which
secured o
.
I did so nt Arevalo, a magnificenty enture was when I had stopped to
for the relief of the unfortunate joins Spain to France. They watch PETROL PRICES LOW and tyres held, and after thinking ning expenses of the car. victims of Japanese aggression the barriers at either
end, raised for the passage of on
My bill next morning told me that on occasional car or lorry, and then Immediately lowered National Spain had nico staved off again. They see a trickle of pede-war prices an impression strengthen- refugee camp dens passing across, their luggage cd when I discovered that petrol was
in Kwangtung, In providing and one meal a day for refugees at Kam Tin, Government has provided the barest minimum.
WHEN YOU MAKE A SPEECH sometimes in a wheelbarrow. They is ad o gallons
It Was suggested to me that THE modern world ecems to be Nervous At First
look into Spain and at a distant pros which proves, when you get there, to pect of cars by the side of the road,
be 'n taxi-rank.
nf
example of the latest Renault tank who speak and those who are spoken divided no two classes-those should visit the War Museum captured trophies, to which a fine
Secondly, you will be nervous at Nor could it do otherwise in view
had just been added. I was content to. Everybody, now-a-days
who first. But don't worry. All the of financial difficulties attendant The fascination which draws them to spend the earlier morning in nor- Alle n'position of any responsibility greatest speakers were Lloyd upon promiscuous aid to the un-itself and in the consequent divorce defeats by bootblacks, who have Eminary formula: "Mr. Chairman, and everywhere.
there lies in Spain being at war with mal nightseeing. This included two has at some time to after the pre- the remedy is, practice. Anywhere George, Mussolini, Roosevelt. And fortunates who have cast them- of Hendaye and Irun, formerly almost fine offensive spirit in approaching Ladies and Gentlemen."
In your bedroom. Yet how facing your mirror, in a bath, facing selves upon the sanctuary and as good neighbours as Eton and mercy of this British Colony,
Windsor.
The
FINGER-PRINTS TAKEN
likely clients.
Then, after calling for the safe conduct, as I had been told to do overnight, I set out to discover Spain. Soon I discovered the safe-conduct's usefulness. For where the road forks
ed
few good speeches ond hears.. cows and fowls. Know what you As one who speaks a good deal are, going to say with a confidence himself, and who has to listen to a that will forbid you to slip up.. great deal more, I know that many When you are speaking, try to
We feel confident, however, that the British people of
a disappointing petch could have get worked up and intense, as it your Hongkong, who live in comfort
If not a necessity, my guide, who to Burgos and Bilbao fully accoutred
bern turned into a really convincing speech were the only thing that mat- and security in the midst of carried courtesy to dangerous lengths Gendarmes stopped me. They wont-
effort if the speaker had observed tered, You would make a very good in looking round to see if my car was
the "documentos"-otherwise
certain gelden rules.
specch If someone suddenly rocked war among people who are our duly. following his, was certainly
"salvo
conducto" which authorised
you Let us assuine that shortly say heat, force, and colour which is In the faw. You would have Dion) Hugh Wortham to circulate neighbours and friends, will not luxury. My Spanish was for too throughout the freed territories, in- just after your return from your
Italianate to be ready means of Ignore the appeal made yester-munication with frontier ometals, cluding the fronts.
holidays--you have for the first time what you want when you stand-up
to face your audience, day by the Emergency Relief With his help I was soon through. The same thing happened about to make a speech in public. How;
With proper practice goes proper once every 100 miles or so. Some you ask yourself nervously, are you carnet proved perfectly accept- Committee of Hongkong. When able, not less because the exclusion times it was only to ask if I would going to get over it?
preparation. It was said of Sir
Д give & lift—usually to soldier. or it is considered that the price of Spain, I was told, was the work of soldiers. Once I carried a gendarme make you into a good speaker. No- minutes took him it hours to pre
Let me say right away that I can't James Earrie that a speech of a tin of cigarettes, of ad- the Valencia Government,
himself-and like his French body can.
That is up to yourself Pare. See to it that all your facts No one attempted to check my car brothers, the Spanish gendarme is a
entirely. mission to a cinema house or of
But I de ray this, that checked and investigated by your
statements
аго thoroughly number. Apart from the three personage of consequence and dig there is tile chance of your speech self. You must get to on top of a "spot" in the hotel will bring minute business of being photograph- nity. His thanks when he alighted being a failure if you take hold of your subject that it becomes as much
WD* an interesting though were magnificently phrased. some modicum of happiness to which
theso rules,
a part of your experience for the helpless people whose only sin
First you want to be quite honest. time being us your most vivid and SOLDIERS FROM Which means that you must speak lasting experiences in the past. You
FRONT
about something that interests, you will then have an Inner urge and a Although you may not think so, that feeling that you have something to spetch must be sincere. My most amusing soldier were a is a vitally important rule. A good say that will almost say itself, dienco detests right away insincerity No "Canned" Talk or worked-up enthusiasm.
of
may
prove
An au-
GRIN
AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
is that they lived in peace and supply without adequate garri- contentment in a land vic-sons may not work this time. timised by militaristic aggres-The greatest disaster in the couple returning more or less fully slon, there can surely be no history of her Army was in-equipped from the Madrid lines. It the Chinese at became my job, after asking the way, stinting on the part of the flicted by
Taierhchwang through over- residents of Hongkong.
confidence: the same thing may Money is urgently needed to happen in Kwangtung. provide milk and food for in-
Wnichow
the nocent babies and their Achilles heel. It is particularly mothers; clothing and blankets susceptible to counter-attack by are needed for the old and in-the Chinese troops, of whom a firm to protect them from bitter considerable number must be in winter winds which will so soon
the vicinity, and if they succeed in reducing the ridiculously in- sweep down the mountains sur adequate Japanese garrison at rounding Kam Tin; and help in the East River city, Japan's, other
directions is needed to 30,000 men thrusting west of provide these poor people with Teengcheng towards the Cantou- other amenitics. Cash dona-Hankow Railway will face.de- tions may be sent to Mr. M. Y. feat in comparison with which Tang, Manager of the Bank ofcant. No army of 80,000 men
Taierhchwang may be insignifi-| Canton and Treasurer of the can march eighty miles into Emergency Refugee Committee, hostile lands without leaving an either at the Bank of Canton or equal number of troops to de- Chartered Bank. Donations of fend its long ling of communica food and warm clothing should tions, along which vital muni- be left to St. John's Cathedral tions, replenishments, supplies and reinforcementa must pass Hall, St. Andrew's Church`or
unmolested.
the European Y.M.C.A. in Kow- Brilliant leaders of armies
loon.
I have rolled on Lady Luck in the
A tin of milk purchased from past, but in every case their the compradore when you, Mrs. causo has ended Ingloriously,
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even the most extending lines of com- junior Bubaltern In neutral munication far from bases of armales,
"Ask them if they have a passenger ist the chief would like
And
not
Don't memorise! You will carry full conviction with a "canned" talk. You will be thinking of
words not idens. You will lock colour
and heat. But think over and over what
you are going to say-practise with- out memorising the form your speech is to take. When you do stand up you will know the sequence of your ideas, and if you fret kernly. I you have conviction, the. words will come. Maybe
your talk will be' crude, the phraseology awkward in parts. but your performance will be human and natural, not a voice-recording or
yourselchanical
natural ac
If you find gesture a tion, use IE Personally, I use gesture to warm.me up, to get my speech under way, But unless, you find gestures quite natural--the rais ed forefinger, the outstretched hands, the clenched Ast, and 20 on--don't adopt them.
Lis
And no funny stories! Humour, Is the most difficult thing in speech- making to put acroes. Don't try it. as a beginner. With practice you can pull a joke. But it it falls fat. cut out funny stories from your speeches.
When you
try to
to be funny the audience simply becomes
barrassed.
How long will you speak? Don't speak for
more than 15 minutes. Stop when your audience
is still xious for you to go on, Don't give people a chance to be tired, The most famous speech of modern times, DE you know, is Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg. It is made up of ten. sentences, and took less than five minutes to deliver. Even a very interesting speaker with a vary in teresting subject does well to heal- Late before taking more than twice as much time na Lincoln,
A. C. D.
.0.