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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938.
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1 p.m.-2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. Alessandro Siradella. Ouverture
2. Two Guliare,
4. Blue Danube. Wallx
4. Polish Blood. Selection
5. Noche de Plegarbi
6. Coppella, Sulto
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Beauty
A MOTOR TOUR
IN FRANCO'S SPAIN
windows and polish tho chromiar miles in under a week, and was fren Yards farther on my pilot car Burgos and Valladolid would be a tal, is filed with officers of all ran
HAVE lately roturned from a ed and having my finger-printa taken, to take them with me to Avila. Con- that I might be benighted, and worse
was spasmodic. They still go dinnerless, I struck my objec tour-perhaps it would be rubby experence, I might have been vernation
crossing any frontier where currency thought I was Portuguese-but were live, in military phrase, and could more correct to call it a jaunt fa controlled. A small boy with an more interested in the car. My in- ngain travel at 00 kilometreil per In my own car in Nationalist impressive technique on an adding quiry whether there was much doing hour.
Never have 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 laying his head on his upturned quieter time. No gulder, no touts
52-odd to the pound. It seemed little palm and closing his eyes.
annoy the guileless stranger. Every
affairs. There is very little trafic on the body la intent on his own Be proud of the appearance of your Basses-Pyrenees, the Campania after the generosity of francs, but I
in the automobile.
of France, severely limited in soon discovered it was better than it roads. The magnificent highway War naturally Is mirrored
looked.
that rung from San Sebastian via towns and Burgos, the present capi- Keep the finish looking like new by time.
We started off, but a few hundred polishing or waxing ... clean the
I went alone, covered nearly 800
soldiers of all arms. The lower paradise for
Othe
young sports-car and ped before a villa. It was the omice blood. The sports car is not seen in windows of the Cathedral oro sand- 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 the beauty of your car.
My molive Everyone except Government.
the sentries seemed
emed Spanish staff officers allowed three habitants what not to do in an air- But
was the purely seldish one of the excessively busy. For me there was hours to get from San Sebastian to rald. On the citadel, where our Ed- hollday maker. I went
me went to see and nothing do do but outs he meritss dent Burgos-100 miles or 30.- 1 con will ward in fratrerat das point to the For that FINISHED BEAUTY...vestigate but merely to see
cera and less serious deal
it. For I was not sur- anti-aircraft guns It was perfectly summed up with the press of business and man- prised at the perfect order every clear skica. by the
delight him through scarred Irun. An hour Inquisitivo
Approaching Madrid the pot-hole forms which officialdom the world over. He sux- and a half after leaving St. Jean-de- did begin to show itself and road re- crowded pairs were being actively pursued. gested that the purpose and object of Luz I drove through the
The atmosphere of Burgos remind- my visit which I was required to streets of San Sebastian.
Also for some 20 miles south of ed me of Cairo in the Great War, stato was covered by the single The summer capital of the former Valladolid a new top dressing rather with the newly opened Condestable word-turismo.
Franco's
E
for that final step in giving your car { enjoy. Spanish omeial at the frontier, kind. Very soon my guide beckon- where, I expected the mala roads to that smart different appearance, uso whom I filled up one of those ed me out ngain and I was following show more signs of war use,
WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING.
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WHIZ WHITE
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By H. E. WORTHAM
FOREIGNERS AT BURGOS
Hotel as Ita Shepheard's of the palpable foreigners there I counted three Frenchmen-hommes d'affaires --one German, who might have pass-
chenn
them I was told that if I enlled at the is weight in the war, and the num- Campo by a short cut, with the 4,000ft In the air, was the only city I
ehlid-
Elevenih-hour preliminaries London proved easy enough. True, the AA. pointed out that the inter- national carnet new specifically ex- Spain is full of soldiers, convales spoilt the motor's freedom of style, ed for an engineer, and two English- I came cluded Spain, and that I must there- cents, in training or on leave. It also Otherwise, through what Baedeker women. The only Italian
about
He does fore make special arrangements
60,000 refugees. Every unjustifiably calls the dreary plains across was the bartender. contains my car with the Nationalist Spanish where one comes acroas the sign of Castile, the main national roads not do much business and I tried to authorities in London. These as Refugio. One church so marked bare approach the best French standard. brighten his existence at apertif sured me I should have no difficulty, the Indication that it could shelter Ναι
Insts till 10 or 10.30 the secondary roads, however, time-which and leaving three photographs with 400. But if San Sebastion is pulling
from A Going
Avila to Medina del p.m.
tn- It wind-swept Avila, with its head. Span ress office in St. Jean-de- ber of steamers unloading in the ad- couragement of Senor Pablo Merry Luz everything would be ready,
Jacent harbour Indicated that it was del Val-con of the former Spanish visited which seemed remote from
nt only, hearted at
a pleasure retort, it retains Ambassador--who now occupies an the war-in fact it is only about 40 THE FRENCH BORDER Its
atmosphere. There important 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 across country to normal life. Men, nomen and
evening than I had seen in France at the main Madrid-Burgos road. ren were busy threshing and garner- ing, Flocks of sheep in the dusty the only formality being my signing
Biarritz or Arcachon. a form promising not to take any
This
stubble reminded me of Don Quixote's perhaps,
"KEY OF CASTILE" because Spaniards part in the war. The French Em promenade when Frenchmen dine. At
famous adventure. There was none bassy added their visa with even the hotel, where, with official
I uid so at Arevalo, a magnificcally for me. The nearest I came to ad- help,
little town more businesslike despatch.
that the situated
which cannot venture was when I had stopped to secured a bed, I noticed
have altered 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 frontier of France, I duly met an preciably advanced by Gen, Franco's castle, splendid and semi-rulnus, my car the centre of a herd, with a oficial of the National Spanish Minis- ukose. The menu bore no sign of confirmed Baedeker's statement that bull meditatively gazing at the bon-
net. A small herdsman at once had. try, which look after fournalists and war scarcity. The bread was excel it was once the key of Castile.
After Alling up with petrol-sta- the contrast to that
situation in hand. THER ENGLISH and the tourists.
in his wake, I drove lentin pleasant When,
In Italy.
tions as in
In France and England Are Finally, my "turismo" over, I turn- one now has in my small but energetic GB car to the which vernacular newspapers in French
at Hendaye its
its fact. apart from being unduly crowd- more plentiful than French douanes at
demand ed
E my car north and cald which, as Hongkong will doubtless join passage exclied a mild interest in the ed, the only dig of war in the fune- warrants I followed the eager, but goodbye to the
by rebels at the Telegraph in commending to sightseers who habitually congregate tloning of what used to be consider to me barely comprehensible, indien- some have it, is
bridge. ed the best hotel in Spain was that, tions of the natives, and for 10 miles the behest of foreigners. When I ot the French end of the the public the appeal for dona-They come in charabanes and in to save current, the lift was out of and more went along such tracks us made up my expentes ehect at St. jolted S. Teresa in her numerous Jean-de-Luz I found that I had spent tions towards the fund opened stand and gaze at the bridge which
private cars on bicycles, too. They action.
Journeys from Avila. But springs £1 0 Bd a day-including the run- for the relief of the unfortunate
and tyres held, and after thinding ning expenses of the car. victims of Japanese aggression In Kwangtung.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1033.
Open Your Hearts
and one meal a day for refugees
Joins Spain to France. They watch PETROL PRICES LOW the barriers at either end, raised for the passage of an ocensional car or National Spain had also staved off My bill next morning told me that lorry, and then immediately lowered
Windsor.
FINGER-PRINTS TAKEN
ot
the
divided ino two classes--those
In providing a refugee camp again. They see a frictie of pedes ed when I discovered that petrol was WHEN YOU MAKE A SPEECH
strians passing across, their luggage sometimes in a wheelbarrow. They is 3d a gallon.
It was suggested to me that 1HE modern world seems to be Nervous. At First at Kam Tin, Government has look into Spain and at a distant pros-
which a fine provided the barest minimum. pect of cars by the side of the road, should visit the War Museum
which proves, when you get there, to captured trophies, 10
example of the latest Renault tank who speak and these who are spoken Secondly, you will be nervous at Nor could it do otherwise in view be a taxi-ronk.
now-a-days who first. But don't worry. had just been added. I was content to. Everybody
All the The fascination which draws them to spend the earlier morning in nor-fills n. position of any responsibility George, Mussolini, Roosevelt.
greatest speakers of financial difficulties attendant
were-Lloyd there lies in Spain being et war with mal sightseeing. This included two has at some time to utler the pre- the remedy is, practice. Anywhere And upon promiscuous aid to the un-Itself and in the consequent divorce defeats by bootblacks, who have minary formula:Mr. Chairman, and everywhere. fortunates who have cast them of Hendaye and Irun, formerly almost fine offensive spirit in approaching Ladies and Gentlemen." Yet how facing your mirror, in a bath, fesing In your bedroom, selves upon the sanctuary and as good neighbours as Eton and likely clients.
Then, after calling for the safe few good speeches one hears, cows and fowls. Know what you mercy of this British Colony.
conduct, as I had been told to do
As one who speaks a good deal are going to say with a confidence We feel confident, however,
overnight, I set out to discover Spain, himself, and who has to listen to a that will forbid you to slip up, Soon I discovered the safe-conduct's great deal more, I know that many When you are speaking, try to that the British people of
usefulness. For where the road fork, a disappointing speech could have get worked up and Intense, as if your Hongkong, who live in comfort
If not a necessity, my guide, who lo Burgos and Bilbao fully accoutred
been turned into a really convincing speech were the only thing that mat- gendarmes stopped me. They want effort if the speaker had observed tered. You would make a very good and security in the midst of carried courtesy to dangerous lengths ed "documentor otherwise tho in looking round to see if my car was
speech If someone suddenly socked certain golden rules. war among people who are our duly following his, was certainly a
"salvo
which authorised
you in the jaw. You would have: Let us assume that shortly-say heat, force, and colour which is D(on) Hugh neighbours and friends, will not luxury. My Spanish was far too throughout the freed territories, in- lust after your return from your what you want when you stand up
Italianate be ready means of com- cluding the fronts.
holidays you have for the Arst time to face your audience. ignore the appeal made yester-munication with
frontier officials. The same thing happened about to make a speech in public. How; day by the Emergency Relief With his help I was soon through.
With proper practice goes proper- preparation. It was Baid of Sir Committee of Hongkong. When The carnet proved perfectly accept once every 100 miles or so. Some you ask yourself nervously, are you
times It was only to ask if I would going to get over it? able. not less because the exclusion give a lift-usually to a soldier or Let me say right away that I can't James Barrie that a speech of ton pre- 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 ten hours to
pare. See to it that all your facts -- the Valencia Government,
himself-and liko his French body con. That is up to yourself and alatements aro
thoroughly entirely, No one attempted to check my car brothers, the Spanish gendarme is a number. Apart from the three- personage of consequence and dig there is little chance of your speech self.
But I do say this, that checked and investigated by your minute business of being photograph nity. His thanks when he alighted being a failure If you take hold of You must get so on top of your subftet that it becomes as much WOR an interesting though were magnificently phrased. which
a part of your experience for the First you want to be quite honest. Ume being as your most vivid and Which means that you must speak lasting experiences in the past. You 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 is a vitally important rule. A good say that will almost say itself. speech must be sincere. An au- dience detests right away insincerity No "Canned" Talk
of a tin of cigarettes, of ad- mission to a cinema house or of a "spot" in the hotel will bring some modicum of happiness to helpless people whose only sin
may
is that they lived in peace and supply without adequate garri- contentment in a land
vicsons may not work this time. timised by militaristic aggres- The greatest disaster in the sion, there can surely be no history of her Army was in
the Chinese at 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-
Walchow
prova the nocent bables 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 sweep down the mountains sur-adequate Japanese garrison at in reducing the ridiculously in- rounding Kam Tin; and help in the East River city, Japan's, other directions is needed to 80,000 men thrusting west of provide these poor peoplo with Tsengcheng towards the Canton- Cash dona- Hankow Railway will face de- other amenities. tlona may be sent to Mr. M. Y. fent in comparison with which Tang, Manager of the Bank of Talerhchwang may be insignifi- cant. No army of 30,000 men Canton and Treasurer of the can march eighty miles into Emergency Refugeo 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 line of communica food and warm clothing should tions, along which vital muni- bo left to St. John's Cathedral ions, replenishments, supplies and reinforcements must: pass Hall, St. Androw's Church or
unmolested. the European Y.M.C.A. in Kow-
loon.
Brilliant leaders of armies. have relied on Lady Luck in the
A tin of milk purchased from past, but in every case their
the compradore when you, Mrs. cause has ended ingloriously.
HE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. Housewife, fill in your order Japan's unknown leader in tho
book to-night may save a baby's, present Invaalon-the name of
life.
COUNT. THE
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four Generals have been mentioned appears to have
"Strategy" versus Strategy tempted disaster in his haste to reach Canton in a manner that TAPAN'S OLD TRICK of must amaze
even the most Bextending & Unes of com- junior. subaltérni neutral munication far from bases of armien
con Wortham to circulate
SOLDIERS FROM FRONT
My most amusing soldiers were a couple returning more or less fully equipped from the Madrid lines. It became my job, after asking the way,
these rules.
or worked-up enthusiasm.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
ty"Ask them if they have a passenger låg
a.menu"
By Lichty
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Don't memorise You will not: carry full conviction with a “canned"- talic. You will be thinking of words, not ideas. You will lack colour and heat. But think over and over what.
out
do
you are going to say-practise with- memorising the form your speech is to tak When you stand
up you will know the sequence of your
lacas, and if you feel keenly..
the wor
If you have
will come.victions,
words your talk will be crude, the phraseology awkward in. parts, but your performance will be human and natural, not a mechanical velee-recording of yourself.
If you find gesture a natural ac Lon, use it
I use- Personally, gesture to warm me up, to get my кресск under way. But unless you! and gestures quite natural-the rais- ed forefinger, the outstretched hands, the clenched fat, and so on-don't. adopt
them.
And no funny stories! Humour la the most difficult thing in speech-
making to put across. Don't try it.... 起底 a beginner. With practice you can pull a joke. But if it falls flat cut out funny stories from your speeches. When you try to be funny, the
So simply becomes em!--/
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 charics to be Ured. most famous speech of modern
The
times
as you know, is Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg. It is made up of ter sentences, and took less than ave minutes to deliver. ‚„Even' à ̧ ́vely. Interesting speaker with a very in- teresting subject does well" to hesl- late-betere taking more than, twices as much time as Lincoln/-
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