HONGKONG TELE PH TUESDAY, MARCH, 28, 1939,
A WHISKY 'PYE'
AT
SUNDOWN
A drink with
SPARKLE and ZEST
and TANG.
by
TSONS
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
The
·BABY PIANO WITH
A
"GRAND" TONE!
THE MOUTRIE
“MINIATURE"
Your Children Will Enjoy Music On This Model
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
YORK BUILDING
CHATER: ROAD, MAKERS OF THE FINEST PIANOS,
OWING TO LATE ARRIVAL OF STEAMER “ARGUS” WILL NOT APPEAR UNTIL 5.15 P.M.
GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION. AT USUAL PRICES_!
WEIRD! MYSTERIOUS!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! ON THE STAGE
At 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
ARGUS
THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
TELEPATHIST
Direct from a Successful
tour of three years in
England.
ON THE SCREEN
At All Regular Performancos
A GRAND, GAY LOVE ADVENTURE !
SPRING
⚫TO-DAY
AT:
MADNESSY
THE QUEEN'S
Maureen
"O'SULLIVAN LEW AYRES
Ruth HUSSEY · Burgess MEREDITH Ann MONNIS9 • Jayos COMPTON. Baroen Play sad Prodused by Edward Chodater Samedi con the Play "Spring Desce" Dirécied by 5. BYLVAN BIMON A MAYROLGOŁOWTH-SEATER PICTURE
1
WAIT
DON'T BUY ANY CAR UNTIL YOU SEE THE STUDEBAKER CHAMPION
Due in Hongkong middle April.
A now car from bumper to bumper, no parts from previous modals used...It's NEW all tho way through, NEW ECONOMY, now type body with ample room for five grown people and still it has a wheelbase of only 110 Inches.
The ideal car for
Hongkong
Thirty milos to the gallon of gasoline
Stubbs Rd.
I asked Mussolini questions...
First of a new series of
articles in which questions Duce by
are put to the an interpreter and answered from Mussolini's **My Autobiography.'
Q.
*
You signed a Fascism has clearly outgrown.” pact with Britain (p.211.)
to
Sole Distributors:
respect the You have made your Fas- status quo in the de cists hate France. Dict HONGKONG HOTEL Mediterranean. Will you you yourself always hate France?
GARAGE
keep to it?
A. "And now (in 1916) while
Italy remained
out of the Phones: 27778/9 A. "On the delicate ground of
treaties I explained my war our first legions of volun- position and suggestions in a teers were organised and went speech about foreign policy de- to France to fight.... Again the livered at the Chamber, Novem- red shirts, once distinguished as ber 16, 1922.
the saviours of Italy, now in the land of France testified to the "I said, then, as I always say, indestructibility of Latinity. good, must be carried out. A "The past quarrcis-not long Mediterranean in- other programme.
were wiped out.... "But treaties
off. France) neither Everything eternal nor irreparable. They was in danger! This I preached are chapters of history, not and set forth. France was in
danger." (pp.43-4.) epilogues of history." (p.204.)
The
Hongkong Telegraph. that treaties, whether had or Wyndham St., Hongkong respectable nation can have no past-or
teresta
'Phone 26615 March 28, 1939
Germany and Britain
THERE IS no danger of war
between Britain and Ger-
many. That peril does not exist
for the good and sufficient rea- aon that there is at present not one valid reason why they should fight.
are
WILS
What do you think of the Q. Why not a political 'deal English?
with France?
A. "The intellectual life of the A "Italians....naturally
Me Anglo-Saxon interests
are realists and the enemies especially, because of the or- of all forms of political bargain- ganised character of its culture ing." (p.41.) and its scholastic touch and flavour." (p.32.)
Q. You are accused of stirring The treatment of the
тер Italians in Franch fortunate Jews in Germany Your followera cry for colonies to oppose France. What shocks the English public. But Tunis, Corsica, Djibouti, is your attitude to Italians · in it is recognised as an internal Nice, Why do you want France's foreign, lands? problem, like any other outbreak colonies?
"I have sent forth messages "To a nation like ours, of brotherhood and faith to A.
un-
of crime. The rape of Czecho-A. powerful and prolific, that the Italians who live beyond our
Italian conflict.
What is
your
'I have insisted on being strong.
1 have laboured
to be
generous.'
ple, understandable . First, that we endeavour to make and mine is a policy of peace. It ia keep pence by building and main- founded not upon words, ges- taining, brick by brick, stone by turca, and mere paper trans- stone, a structure of peace, action, but comes from an ele- founded on realities rather than vated national prestige and from on dreams and visionary plans. a whole net-work of agreements "I have insisted on being, and treaties which cement har strong, but I have laboured to mony between peoples." (p.211.) be generous.” (p.206.)
"We are idealists in the senso (Continued on Page 7.)
SHADOWS of the VALLEY
"HAS HE really got to go, Lovell ?"
Ponies-black, brown, bay, "off- white" grey, and the persistent ugly dun of the wild ancestor, Saddled and rugged mostly, they clatter down from their green-tiled quarters on the hill.
"Yes, Miss, 'e 'as; your Pa saya 'e 's not the 'orse for you, Missie, and 'c's about right, too. Can't take 'is corn, 'e can't. Not Mongolians even dejected-but this but what 'e's a nice little 'orse, is inrgely a deception. like."
Firm friends, these two-the young girl, silm. Jodhpored, the gnarled and bow old groom. Many a compara- tively innocent escapado had they concealed from the knowledge of the "Marster".
Docile in appearance most of the
Here a wild-eyed bay tries con- clusions with his syce, and is dis- comfited.
A grey and a brown in single file blod, along
The lender. takes what seems to be intelligent interest in the watching bystander; arrived alongside, in a flash he turns his quarters and lashes out.
Luckily the intended victim, know- ing the propensities of the corn-fed UPON THE barren ugliness of the Mongolian, has not been too trustful: hideous melancholy of Morrison Hill together with a couple of jobs at the Bowrington Canal and the stark and he quickly sidesteps; which activity, miscreant's mouth by his groom,
the mist is lifting.
Beyond and away there seems
the
By- N. B. W.
his evll intent. That semblance of Innocent interest had masked an equine mathema- tical calculation of distance-and
accurate onel
Fresh
an
faced
young enthusiasts,.
booted and swea
to lie the long lost glories of the old hin clothed in leafy verdure aur-| rounding the love- ly houses built be- fore the reign of despot King Cement.
Again the vapour shifted, and,tered, mount for the trial. again a vision. A pic-talled. Jitle-A-Hittle bunch of students of form, lady turns her gleaning, enger chest complete with stopwatch, nut from the cobbled stable-yard and rails. through the massive old timber gates
Two little beasts, chunky of head, Into the fresh spring beauties of the glorious Middlesex fanes, almost de-buil-necked but narrow-chested, Vold of trafic.
cow-hocked and hairy-heeled; one undersized and herring-gutted little Old Lovell, creakingly mounting, grey, of such pathetic proportions follows on his fine, though anelent, that it seems a daring feat on the bluck. Smartly they trot along the part of the broad-shouldered, large- lanes, the chestnut, snuffing, appre-hipped young six-footer to mount, clatively the keen morning air, much less to gallop. snatches at his bit. "'nve
a care,
Slovakia may at one time have been a reason for war, but it is has a need of raw materials, of borders. I did not give them past and is no more reason why outlets, of markets, and of land the name of immigrants, because Germany and Britain should on account of the exuberance of in the past this word has had a fight than the rape of Abyssinia its population, only some insigni- humiliating menning, and it should now cause an Anglo-ficant rectifications of frontiers seemed in some way to designate were granted when the glut of an inferior category of men and In any case, we cannot ham-colonial spoil was passed round women. I have been able, I am mer humanity into the Germans (after the war)." (p.212.) with bombs and bullets, even if policy, then?"
glad to say, to protect my coun- colonial try-men without hurting the we have the right to do so.
susceptibilities of other peoples. Nor is there any trace of a A. "My colonial policy has This protection is founded on real desire by Germany to pur- simple affinity with my international law and good sense sue Britain. There is, of course, foreign policy. Even taking in- in all exchanges. between |some rough language. But that, lo considreation the virtues of nations.” (p.210.)
be it admitted, comes from both our colonising peoples, even re- sides, for the British Press is membering all the fine human. Everybody, from Hitler on- not irreproachable.
wards, says he wants peace. material we have given for the
Do you? These observations are made Į development of entire regions of without any
African regard to the the
and American A. "There are those, no doubt, merits of the case. We believe worlds, before the war and who regard me, or have there is plenty of justification after, we had failed to realise the once regarded me, as an enemy for the vituperation that has potential possibilities for our to the poace of the world.
"To them there is nothing to been poured on Germany by the colonial programme.... peoples and newspapers of "We missed then (just after say unless to recommend to them Missie, 'e's a mile fresh, like." They peace-loving nations. But that the war) that legitimate satis- my biography for careful read- und nter out of ken
turn into the lime-lined, sun-checked fact does not mean that there is faction which should have come ing. The record of facts is going to be war.
to us from right and from duty worth more than the accusation Recent outrages by Germany fulfilled during and after the of fools." (p.201.) do not differ in severity, though war." (p.212.)
"The foreign policy of Italy, they may differ in scale, from Why do you need more as directed by me, has been sim
the offences for which Germany
colonics? Why did
has become notorious in the take Abyssinia? past two years.
So what? We came nearest A. to war in September last year. But the world is so jittery that tension to-day is as great as it was six months ago.
Personal Impression
"1. know
you
"Colonial development would
not have been for us merely a logical consequence of our population problem, but would have constituted a formula of solution for our economic situa- tion.
"Even now....this situation
HOW THE news-reels open up has to find its full solution. Our the world and widen the range colonics are few, and not all open of human understanding!
Your neighbour says:
to extensive improvement. (This Mayor La Guardia of New York," was before he took Abyssinia You answer, "So do 1," although author)." (p.212.) you have never seen the mayor in
"Into these Inbours to rebuild the flesh. It is the nows-reel which Italy's peaceful position before has given a personal impression of the world, and to develop, as the man which no amount of read-duty dictates, every colonial ing could have brought.
possibility which may help to
sources.
The news-reel gives the eye a solve our population problems, I vivid picture of what is happening have put my days and some of in the world to-day and gives the mind an understanding, of events my sleepless nights." (p.213.) that cannot be obtained from other. Despite your peaceful pro- There is the value of the news bid your Fascist followers to testations you did not for- reel, 'It enables the spectator to estimate the many angles in the organise demonstrations before nowa first received from the news- French consulates, demanding papers. And, of course, it is upon French colonies. What is your understanding that democracy is real opinion of such methods? founded.
"It is never admissible, in A It is deplorable, therefore, that fact, that diplomatic con- censorship should exist in Hong-troversies can bo twisted or kong to the extent that those retroubled by angry popular de- markable' "March of Timo” nows- reels are so backed and scissored monetrations against embassies that many of their subjects; sto or coisulated,...... rendered unintelligible. Such dn "Such disorders belong to an instance, occurred last week,
old democratie habit which
line the
Viewed full front, the rider's chest. extends well beyond that of the pony, the whole effect strongly reminiscent of tourist and Egyptian donkey.
No symmetry of proportion, no THE VALLEY la indeed in shadow; temblance of "oneness" between the sun, flouting the mist, cuts the the morning is a more prosale one spacious, horseshoe shape in twain.
horse and rider. But the purpose of Seven nm. the peak hour of the day. than to please the critical eye of the
beholder.
After the customary squealing, backing and twisting, the six are off and away, pelting round the cinder track. A test of lungs, equine or |human. And, malformed #3 he usually is, the Mongolian can, if he feels inclined, move.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Pulled Posters Aze, I
"A Class B picture--my mother-in-lawo!""
*
NOW COME the Australians.. mostly weedy and tucked-up animals, but one or two splendid creatures.
The full, intelligert eye, the fine coat, the springing postern, the clean fetlock, the lean head, the sparse- haired tail-all eloquent of race.
Bright
bay she is, her sloping shoulder gleams as gold. 14.2 she
stands, splendidly bullt.
She turns a kind and doclio eye upon her pink-faced, waiting owner; he stops her shining neck; she noses. round his well-knit form. Pais evidently! He mounts with case.
No fidgeting, turning, backing or frotful wincing. Both in eager and willing anticipation of whatever the day
may bring.
The gallops ended, steeds, heavily breathing, with out-stretched neck enjoy relief of freedom from the pressing bit. Riders diamount, and these too are perlings a trife blown, but radiantly cheerful.
I leave them to their respectivo rubs-down, baths, corn, eggs-and- bacon, ontrient-water and coffee, and make my way to my own.
ALL MAGIC has now disappeared from the hill. Glaring light on barren rock; arising dust. Wanchial recita and breakfast walls.