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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1939.
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·by Geoffrey
TUNIS, Thursday.
Cox
and women talked at the door-
This is the "poor Italian" dis-
IVE Arab youths in ways of their homes.
cheap European suits trict of Tunis, where navvies, and red fezes stand mechanics, tramear drivers, plas-
talking under the fuchsia terers, who make up a big part
trees at the corner of the straggling avenue
An Italian labourer comes out of the one-price store opposite. climbs abonril
to tramcar il Carthage; a steel helmeted duty mo- policeman on traffic tions three white-robed women,
of the Italian colony, live.
are
Out west in the villas and flats wealthier Italian business men, shopkeepers and lawyers. There
are 94,000 Italians in Tunisin, the French say, against 108,000 French. But the Italians scoff at these, figures and claim
French counted in all the people born Italian but who have be- come naturalised and are now French.
Hongkong Telegraph. their faces covered with black, to be in the majority, saying the
visor-like stockinette veils, to make way for an official
Wyndham St., Hongkong bound for the Regency.
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car
Outside the Cafe Royal" Mme. -secretary's wife, still Parisi- enne with high heels and furs, waits to take tea with Mme, judge's wife.
countless
"And why not?" reply the French.
Whatever the numbers, Bo doubt the great majority of the
FRANCE
NICE
Corsica (French)
MEDITERR
ALGERIA
(fr.)
100
TUNIS
UNI
(76.)
have
IT.
ITV:
ROME
SARDINIA (Italian)
∙SICILY
MALTA
Corsica: Ceded to France by the Genoese in 1768.
Nice: Coded to France in 1861.
Tunisia: French Protec- torate, where Italy claims more rights because it con- tains 94,000 Italians against 108,000 French residents.
the new hospital, but they make..
on the whole, good money and live well under the French flag.. More than 5,000 of them, too, are Jows, who formerly were fervent Fascists and are now completely anti-Mussolini.
FOR a second argument the Tunisian Fascists say: "We were here first. When the French troops marched into Tunis in 1881 there were more Italian traders here than French."
The French reply: "And so what? The Italians were just as free then as Franco to take Tunis if they wanted to. Musso- lini can't complain if his prede- cessors were too low off the mark."
But what about the Tunisians themselves? What about the two and a half million people of the country, who range from olive-skinned city dwellers of the north-whoso Arab blood is mingled with Greek, Sicilian, Maltese-to lean peasants who work in the Gelds and in the phosphate and iron mines, and to Berber headmen of the de- sort?
And moving swiftly on bony Italian colony are organised in- to one solid disciplined block,
What about the Bey of Tunis, THE NEWS that Hungary has brown legs, on every paventes controlled directly by the Fas-
every roadway, go
drilling in the school courtyard who nominally still rules, whose joined the anti-Comintern Arais in grimy white, or brown, cist authorities from Rome.
next door with little wooden signature in wavy Arabic_must bloc will not surprise observers or grey robes.
be at the bottom of every decree are two local rifles. THERE of events in Europe. That the This is Tanis City this hot
Henleins, though both The second leader is thirty- issued by the French? afternoon, in this corner of hotly deny they are anything of eight-your-old Signor Santa- The present Bey is Sidi Mo- move is not unanimously ap- North Africa, which France has the sort. One is the Italian maria, volatile, tough, dark-eyed hammed el Habib, descendant of proved by Hungarians is in-and Mussolini wants.
Consul. Signor Lanza. Bald- member of Mussolini's old guard. Turkish aristocrats who were dicated, however, by reports of
headed, of neat military ap sent here six years ago to edit sent here to rule when tho coun- THE French of Tunis pearance, he came here after the propaganda daily paper, try was still part of Turkey. The Opposition dissent in Parlia-
have no doubt why winning his spurs at the Consu- "L'Unione" His mother is Eng- oldest member of the family al-
AND IN USE IT IS A BIG PIANO; ment and agrarian unrest in the Mussolini wants this strip of late in Lonton, during the days lish. He works in a room sur ways succeeds to the throne.
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Among the subdividers Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary had the best claim historically and racially, and was perhaps the least satisfied.
The Magyars who came under the rule of Prague by the Treaty of Trianon had counted themselves Hungarians for cen- turies. Although better treated than most minorities in Europe
For Tunis is the corner
گردد
mountain, desert and plain, as of sanctions. From the new rounded by live portrails of the Sidi Mohammed is a grey-beard- big as the British Isles. If he Consulate, where the gold Fas- Duce and Signed photographs of ed man of seventy-eight, living once has it he will be boss of cist emblem stands over the Ciano and Balbo.
nt present on the north coast in the central and perhaps all the doorway, he controls Italian
His paper joins the Rome a new palace which bears strik- Mediterranean.
schools and hospitals, the work- Press in making the case of the ing resemblance to the Brighton ers' welfare society, and other Italians in Tunis appear as that Pavilion. Africa which runs closest to organisations through which the of an oppressed minority-or, He is said to have exclaimed Italy. On the man, if your eye ideas of Italy and the Duce are rather, oppressel majority. But angrily when he heard of the new runs along the toe of the Italian kept ever before the eyes of the there is no strong case. They Italian claims: "We fight to the
through the Italian colony. peninsula's bool,
may have not quite all the last man, rather than come island of Sicily and continues west, it comes to Tunis..
This minute, as I write, dirty Italian schools necessary; the under Italian rule." little boys of the Sons of the Blackshirt uniform is forbidden, Wolf Fascist organisation are and red-tape difficulties delayed
With this part of Africa in hands lussolini would
tains in the east.
"Fifteen or twenty minutes' flight away to the east by a fast bomber is the Italian island of Pantellaria, which Mussolini has
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BUT this gesture must not be over-estimated. For the Tunisians are not war- like, and the Bey is out of touch with the mass of the people.
It is in the narrow, covered-in streets such as the old bazaar, where merchants sit cross-legged outside carpet and brassware shops and students hurry to the university and the mosque, that true feeling is hammered out.
This feeling is slow in develop- ing, for the Tunisian clings hard Lo his old life. Women still go veiled. They say only ten or twelve Arab women in the whole of Tunis City go unveiled. There are still many-men who have two or three wives, but these are al- ways kept well in tho back- ground.
his easily be able to cut with sub- marines and airplanes all the no strong outside pull was re- main liner and warship routes in
to the Mediterranean. quired to turn their eyes
I stood yesterday on a head- Budapest. And in Hungary the land above the Bay of Carthage return of these "brothers" has at North Tunis with a French been a primary popular goal.
Army reserve officer. He point- ed across a great blue sweep of Hungary alone cannot satisfy
bay, where two French sub- her claims by enforcing the type marines were durk dots moving |
grey moun- of threats which supported the seawards towards German and Polish demands. The Government at Budapest, threatened both from the left and right by internal political turned into a solid fortress. IF you want a pressures, and secking financial said. "Bombers from Sicily you have to pay for it." I
LL women will know what stability, had no little cause for could reach here in forty-five am sure you have had that said AL
minutes. We
meant by matching A Frenchman who has lived standing are
to you many a time in many a fear that continued Czech resis-practically on European soil. shop when you have told matching wouls or looking for a dress
Evenes in a filen-It is very like here all his life said to me: "I tance would cause a war for Italy were here it would be as if weary assistant. "I really like length exactly the colour of a sample have many Arab friends, with whom I dine at their houses, but which Hungary is not prepared, France held both shores of the this one, best, but it is rather pattern.
English Channel."
("But, modom," the patient sales I have never met their wives, 100 dear."
girl will explain. "You can never and we never talk of them." The physically or mentally. Bela
You just cannot get quality with-Ret two pieces of cloth to dye just favourite dress for men is still a Imrely's Government is engaged HE paused and turned
in the direction of the ost, and a big part of quality the same.")
in Alma to-day is colour.
The art director finds an extra pro flowing Arab robe, which always in agrarian reforms, breaking crumbling columns of the ruined
blem in colour. Besides building his looks rather as if they had jump- You may not like colour, but more sets full size, in mininture, and ined out of bed and taken the first up some of the big estates, and city of Carthage that lay below and more people are being converted
has to perspective, he
lot of sheet or blanket along to wear. seeking to hold off the Hun-us amid fussy white suburban to it as it gets better. To you it may colours. That takes money.
villas of to-dny.
not matter whether films are tup money: but we shall be careful and They are not permitted by the Karian Nazis and preserve par-
pence coloured or penny plain, but say he needs only an extra £1,000. Koran to touch alcohol, but they "The old Carthaginians knew the difference between the tuppence
Now we have all our settings. Or, fiamentary forms. A war would that if the Romans once had and the penny to the man who makes if we work according to familiar are not strict here.
power here they would be rulers colour pictures is plenty.
film plan, we shall most probably be end that effort.
Their opinion, on the whole, bullding them a month after of the Mediterranean," he said.
our for once agrees with the Bey. Hungary's fear of war is at "That is why they sent Hannibal,
A Story With Colour £1,000-a-week star arrives from They don't love the French since
Hollywond, but we'll skip that by an end, unless, of course, the elephants and all, to Europe to
LET us suppose we are to saying our star is being filled for his the riots of last April, when make a picture in colour. släcks. In Alma we run out of twelve were killed by troops. September crisis is revived and march over the Alps on Rome.
breath before we run out of alibis. Where do we begin? That is why the Romans, too,
But they love the Italians still the whole of Europe is plunged thundered for a year, 'Carthage
Anyhow, we have to light our sets 1c88. First of all we have to choose
with three times the amount of illu- into chaos. It may be taken for must be destroyed, until finally try that lends itself to colour mination needed for black-and-white
treatment something with
the granted that the price of Hun-old Carthage to bits and sowed or the natural beauty of "Men with 100,000 Roman troops smashed pageantry of "Sixty Glorious Years" garian-participation in the anti-the ruins with salt. The pro- Wings."
All of you who have camerns know Comintern bloc is comparative blem is still the same now as that two of the most impressive freedom from internal Nazi
then at bottom."
| things to photograph are the sky and Back in Tunis I stopped the the sea. It would be good. I think, pressure, at the expense of de-car at the end of Jules Ferry- to have a colour film of a calliant ship are lamps, trimmed and tended by the European enfes in the boule mocracy elsewhere. It means, avenue, where the cinemas and omething like John Masefield's ench. I am told by Leonard John Vards, watching silently this new
"The Bird of Dawning."
Let us make this our story.
ninich his
The Arabs of Tripoli bring re- film, and we have to double our staff ports of strict Italian rule there, of electricians,
which would be unwelcome to the easy-going Tunisians. Mean- while they adopt a wait-and-see
They stroll from the bazaar to
Would Light A Town.
uns is rather a big ret we policy.
Bre using. We have 148
80 electricians 10. 6d. an hour
in effect, that Germany has shops have finally given up the
Howina (usually called Len), nce European rivalry, developed by electrician at Denham, that the the shore of the Mediterranean extended its orbit further into struggle of Europeanisation and. The sea will de un nicely on it is. candle-power on this set would light Sea which, despite the blood the south-east, has pushed its left the field to streets of squalid we'll leave that, but we must not town like Aylesbury, or the Queen frontier to Rumania, the only
one-storey yellow houses. forget it because we shall have to Mary, or the road from London to spilled in a thousand battles on nation that now separates Ger- children played in the sun; studio scenes, including our
Its shores, still keeps an atmos- Blacked-haired, brown-skinned match it to our water-front scenes Bristol with lamps 10 yards apart.
| In China and England and to all our About film, I think we had better phere of matchless blue and sil-
trick order 120.000rt, of negative at 110. many from the Black Son.
black-haired, brown-skinned men shots with models and lanks,
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ver beauty.
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