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AS Mussolini straddles the en- trance to the Adriatic be- tween the heel of Italy and the Albanian..coast, the focus of strategic interests falls on the island of Corfu.
'Take a look at the map and see at once how, If that island were fortified and made a naval base, it would
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milltary aspect of Mussolini's Albanian conquest.
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Yet Corfu fortilled would prove a "There may be more than one PERES-At St. Paul's Hospital at strong bastion in that area, especial- key to the Adriatic"
12.30 a.m. on May 18, 1939, Mrs., from Grecce, particularly if she Anacleta Peres (Eta), aged 33 | joins the non-aggressora. So there is years, beloved daughter of Mr. every reason to expect Corfu's trans- J. R. Castilho. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to- day. (Manlia and Macno papers please copy),
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Why, even the Athenians and the formation into a second Malta, Romans, used it as a naval base, and From there might be menneed the from then on it saw many changes of security of the big Italian ports like ownership until the group of islands Brindisi; a fortified Corfu
would (Jonlan) came under the protection provide, too, a jumping-off point for of Great Britain in 1815. They were protecting shipping through the ceded to Greece in 1884, because the Eustern. Med'erranean.
people who live on the island, which is 40 miles long and 20 broad, wish- For 16 years the island of Corfu has been without history; not since ed it.
During the war the French occupf- bombarded it in ed it to serve as a base to help Italian warships Wyndham St., Hongkong August 1923 has it made world news. stricken Serbian armies. Later the That was when the Italian presi- Alles used Corfu as the chief base in dent of the International Commission attacking enemy submarines coming for the Delimitation of the Greco- out of the Adriatic. Albanian Frontler and four members
There was a barrage across the
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Japan's Pressure
It was not very successful there be-
submarines could go under.
his suite were assassinated. Straits of Otranto, just as there was Mussolini, then at the beginning of his "regin," shelled Corfu and oe in the Channel. cupied it, and he was very loath to cause the sea is so deep, and the quit It. IN SPITE or because of their He left only after he had been pald So look at this part of the Mediter-
#big Indemnity. So Corfu, growing difficulties in China the was once Brilish, might have become in any future war.
which ranean as a battlefield for submarines Japanese are once again putting Italian, but remains Greek.
Note, too, that although Mussolini, strong
The surprising thing is that Corfu with Albania, holds the key to the pressure on the foreign has been left in peace for so long, Adriatic, there is more than one way Powers at various centres where for in the channel separating it from into a house than through the front
the mainland there is a marvellous, door. their interests clash. In the cir- almost Innd-locked, anchorage for Corfu may be the key to the cellar
-under the sea. cumstances, therefore, the Muni- any number of ships. elpal Council of the International Settlement at Kulangsu has done well to resist the Japanese demanda for a greater volee in the affairs Of that Settlement.
The Council has surrendered no
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CECILE LAVIGNE
JUDGING by the girls I
One 18-years-old sylph, in a very tight-jade-sweater and black slacks, have seen around me it with a long, untidy fair bob and a looks like being a record mouth made up big, wanders around with a couple of boys tagging at her year for oomph.
elbow and an Intense I-want-to-be- olone expression.
You know about oomph. It is: the new Hollywood word for our old friend glamour, alias sex-
appeal, allure, she's-got-some- thing, it (Remember?)
A stunning plece of comph travelled to the sea in my compart- ment. She strolled slowly down the platform among the scurrying, good- natured Thursday evening crowds, hoping and knowing that everyone
turned to stare.
She swayed from the hips like Hedy Lamarr, she wore slightly twisted smile, she gripped her case like Myrna Loy setting out to meet an unknown fate with well-
timed wisecracks,
I ran
furious she would be if they obliged Imagine how perfectly and left her alone.
She drinks too many "white ladies" for such a kid. Unfortunately, her mother is busy demonstrating her own oomph and hold-my-drinks ability to the genial redfaced secre!- ary of a near-by golf club.
Not to put too fine a polit on it, i feel quite a mama-spark urge about these women. They don't like the look of me, either.
A pretty little siren with a dark,. n faint dancing young man
example of someone who can do two 13 a perfect things at once. She plays almost a champion game of ping-pong, never for a
and single minute stops thinking that she is the very splt of Ginger Rogers.
In the carriage she sat opposite me and I had a front-row View, for which I'm grateful, since it shorten-} ed the journey. Miles were swallow ed while I speculated whellier her cyclamened mouth was Cerple Lom bard's or Dorothy Lamour's,
With an air of one touching me with a sword and saying: Str Something." the boy danced with
"Arise. me on Saturday night. He said didn't I think his girl looked like Ginger Rogers?
If Miss Lamour's, I bet a million that the sunbathing suit she takes I said no. I thought she looked on her Mediterranean holiday is more like Marlene Dietrich. When sarong-ish. I bet a million that her the
younger, I added. name is Lily and her friends must looked pleased. (So some men like He call her Lillth.
thorough job of herself. A
I must admit she had made a pretty |
thorough bad job.
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His was a pretty astute move on my part, because next day, with her yellow hair fluffed about her face, a la Marlene, the girl able to get a quick look in at the remote and languorous, and I was. went
Two slender creatures on the man- hunt loom everywhere, trying to look as if it were the other way round.
I FIND I am staying registering
that is so full of girls ping-pong table. oomph that Cleopatra, if she found herself here, would have had quite & Job persuading us that she wasn't just a passe vamp of the silent screen or even the spectacled daughter of a country vicar.
Various types of oomph are ex-
movie hibited, usually based on
stors.
Nemesis In A Squalid
Wantsai Den
by NORAH WHITESTONE
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When there are no males in sight, they sit in the lounge, their demean- our suggesting that many fine, brave fellows, maddened
by their repeated refusals, have gone out to hunt big gaine in India. Probably a few of them have succumbed,
They both wear their hair up in front, down at back, and penelf the outer corners of their eyelids. They wave their hands around a lot, and, when not feigning sadness because of the fate of the fine, brave fellows, wear inscrutable expressions, as those who should say, You poor fish, what do you know about everything? We are in the confidence of all the diplomats of Central Europe What, no tiger skins in the lounge? No green cigarettes7
that
Important principle; it has refused NOT IN the sunny, golden wheatfields of the breezy, to-allow-the-Japanese to take-in-Northern plains is his harvest dependent action in the settlement culled, nor does his garb suggest without orders.
picturesque, homely, French
A bit of a spy myself, I know one of them is wondering if she can Nevertheless, it is publicly dis- peasant freedom. Millet would
do a train-trouble alibi to her bosa closed for the first time that the have stared aghast; Hogarth or
By noon the dirty little cotton bag compere with better facilities
for the late arrival she is planning. Council has acceded, apparently Dore might hate found a fitting slung across his shoulders is usually clandestine operations,
for Tuesday. The other simply can't In any case, these nolsome, ghastly | make up her well Alled, and he turns his steps
mind what "national through pressure, to the appoint-subject for the brush. ment of a Japanese Assistant Com- He totters along; old, bent, foreign, towards the dark, dismal, filthy, air-relics, outcast from a horde of lips, service to go in for.
ready market omong the In any confession game they missioner of Police and five Japan-unclean and ragged; lank, wiry locks less ittle Wantsal cockloft, the scene find a
of greying hair sweep across his of his noxious calling.
super-poverty
stricken population, reckon they would get ten out of ten.
dis- for oomph. I'd give them one, but, ese police officers and (if the anxious face; red-rimmed eyes per- He turns on to the dirty table the those who have unfortunately # "Domel" report of the Council's force downcast
a thousand mouths-sickly covered the indefinable solace vouch- then, I always was generous. lo gutter and to oltal of a
safed by that reply is correct) has stated that pavement; intent upon his nolsome, or healthy, Infected, germ-ridden; of
the cleanly bodied or of medieval Nicotiana"dictory vegetable/
the there is no objection on the part of Jackal trade.
claw-plant with delicate, sweetly the Council to Japanese armed in his perambulations, Nemesis may
Safe from the clutches of the law negligence. With unwashed,
stage, but it doesn't seem to be, like hands he separates paper from odoured, pure white, starry evening I ought to be well known at this source of insidious that you can't walk out and buy forces co-operating with Settlement be awift and sure in his squalld sodden tobacco, each butt rendering blossom: the
enticement a few repellent wisps.
which $0 tepaciously comph as you buy a new lipstick. police in the suppression of Wantsai den,
At times he himself fashions the binds those who have succumbed, Nobody can mistake the rare, real "terrorism."
A city of even mediocre size usual- These facts must arouse a certainly affords the inexplicable discord of resulting debris into full-sized in-and who dwell in blissful Indecision: thing any more than they could mis "Sweet when the morn is grey; take the electric shock it resembles. isery and affluence, of Dives and nocent-looking cigarettes, with the
of Sweet when they've cleared It is there or it isn't there. Certain- amount of apprehension as an in- Lazarus, of vice and altruism, of ex-ald of any unconsidered scraps
ly it isn't to be acquired with a movie away lunch; dication that, if the Japanese ask austion and of idleness, und the paper of sufficient Oneness.
At the close of day possibly hairdressing or a But he prefers to sell the proceeds
bunch of tricks. for two slices of bread and jam, weighted scale seems to find its
sweetest."
You can recognise it in Paul Rober- son's voice, and in Evelyn Dall's; they are almost certain to get one. very nadir in this Colony.
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Gertrude Lawrence's acting. Becky Sharp had it, so had Byron. So has Matisse, Gary Cooper, and a middle-aged flower-seller called. Kate, who has authentic Cockney humour and one of the lovellest noses in London.
It is a dangerous precedent walch: may be applied to the International Settlements in Shanghal and else-UE carelessly flung bult forms a diurnal where in China.
tiny component in the The appointment of a Japanese harvest of the gutter; not the
most smallest,
repugnant sudden as second-in-command of the Ku-
of the iragment, discard
uliro- langsu Police and the innuendn economical and smoked to the bitter that the Consular body may be end, does Ai Luk ignore; and the prepared to appoint Japanese merely half-consumed atump sponsored members of the Council avidly seized upon as precious tren- to replace the three Chinese, who sure."
resigned when Amoy was occupied, He tramps the streets hour after would seem to give the Japanese a hour; knows the likeliest spots for dangerous foothold in the Settle- profitable operations. ment,
Had he knowledge he would de- the age of More serious still is that the plore the passing of Council does not object to "Japan- gallantry.
No longer does the halting swain prodigality and (he hopes) pressing nationalism amongst the nonchalance discard the Chinese residing in the Settlement. just-lit weed. An entirely useless
ese, armed co-operation" in sup.
with
To anyone with a knowledge of the gesture; as the blushing Angelina's methods employed by the Japanese modern
In "suppressing terrorism" this has quest a
a sinister sound; in practice it not
already r
rn counterpart will bluntly re-
-up, Perchance
she is! demanded
would seem to subject thono Chinese Where once etiquette living within the boundaries of the relinquishment upen the office step, sought-for treasure is now Kulangsu settlement to much the the
same kind of terrorism as exists carried whence the gleanor dare not across the harbour on Amoy Island, trespass, u
The Japanese claim that, of tho
180 Chinese who, were, detained on Kulangsu and sent across to Amoy PERRY piers, bus-stops.clnenias yield wall; markets are weless; Inland for examination, only twelve the busiest streets of the centre too are being held on warrants in con- thronged for cdicient scouting. nection with former subversive Ono regular and easy source of operations. What will be the fato supply is available. Each morning of these twelve-if, Indeed, there a pitying, though probably insufl- are only twelve and the others have etently, thoughtful, lady places in en actually boon released-can readily obscure corner the neatly wrapped ends of her previous day's indul- be imagined.
gence, to Al Luk's satisfaction.
of his morning's peregrinations to al
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So has Georgina, a three-years- old girl friend of mine who, babbling away to her busy mother and gelting no comment, stamped 'her foot and said, "Mummy, why don't you say So what?'?
It is a good few years since I in- {terviewed Elinor Glyn and asked her
to define the only
which she had briefly labelled
t
I was intrigued to be told that she actually meant to convey, a
very
a special" quality that verged on the spiritual, and was pretty horeliled at what "I" had come to signity.
Here, probably for the only time In my life, I agree with
Our Miss Glyn. Looking around this place, I. too om" pretty horgifted at what it line come to signify;"
TN these competitive times--when
we have to faço It-men aren't very easy to come by, and it is under- standable that every woman pines to stand out from the crowd. But when every female in sight is striv=" ing like mad to be n high-powered enchantress, the one who does stand- out from the crowd is the one who is not trying to be a high-powered en- chantress = Life is funny that way.)- M.The women'whom men, and everymi) † body else, fremember are those who still happen to fadulge in that quaint old custom of being themselves, comph or na dotisplay via p