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MY EYE
THAT
CRASH!
Not all victims of road. smashes live to
tell the tale, or to tell it so good-humour- edly as this victim, who signs himself the REMAINS OF DOUGLAS · ́REED Readers of "Insanity Fair" will remember that Douglas Reed has driven all over Europe without an accident. He had to go home to run into one.
would use me as a target foring the Editors say, and before all those ancient and impious it wanes I want to give it that jokes about black eyes which which in our day passes for survive the rise and fall of immortality. Empires.
I have just looked at it again.
And with somic cause, for Contemplated quite alone, It never was an eye like this. Even really is a lovely black eye. But doctors start, and hardened I shouldn't care for two of them. hospital attendants shy when!
they encounter it unexpectedly. There is something about a
you lie still, the ban on getting black eye, though acquired in Look Through
the most innocent manner and
up, the bedpan.
In the pane of the opened worn, as in this case, by the window I can see the reflection most righteous of mun, that of cathedral tower, with gives its owner a look of almost unspeakable villainy, a repulsive pigeons circling round it.
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The "Telegraph"
25 YEARS ACO
July 20, 1014. Reuter's correspondent at Berlin saya
fe auferstood that an Austrian Note will be presented to the Powers shortly embodying the results of the Investiga
tlon into the murders of the Archduke
nl his Consort at Sarajaro.
There is marked uneasiness an Berlin Bourse, attributed to analely re garding Austro-Servian relation
the
The National Zeitung states that a
CTUALLY this black eye, remark by the Crown Princs to a Ger
King,
50 YEARS AGO -HILE others are Nearly 20 years ago, in the leer which startles children and
July 20, 1880. The moment to restore silver to the attempting to as- bitter years just after the war, domestic animals. That is truc
place which it ones occupied in gather semble my remains, I scoured the lanes and country of almost any black eye. How
roads around this town for a much more true, then, of mine, ing strength every day in England. I am trying to collect my livelihood, with small success, which is a world's record black chambers of Commerce, members of thoughts and to give way and sometimes, in despondent eye.
Parliament, bankers and financiers in large numbers are now earnest advo- I even find it difficult to be enies of the monetary reaction. Five dead not only Years ago there w once again to my besetting gloom, I came back to the town
to break it. The sin-putting them on paper. and lay down in the shadow of lieve that an eye, a window of silence on the question, but nobody had
which in My remains, in point of fact, the old cathedral, lazily to watch the soul, exists, behind that the end the present movement mound of black, purple, green is, for the most part, the agriculturai Danger to Peace?
are not irretrievably scattered the pigeons,
Now, in 1939, I have been to and yellow flesh which seems to interest. -or is far-flung the better
of many countries, near and far, have been grafted on to my face It looks as FOR over two years Japan has word for a patriotic son
been engaged in a war of Im-these islands? Not many pieces have always earned a livelihood, right of the nose. perialist aggression against China, will be missing when they are sometimes lean and sometimes if a square three inches had Victories have been won and large reassembled. Indeed, no pieces fat, few of the disasters I feared been cut out of an elephant's areas of territory have been over-may be missing at all. But the then have happened to me, and skin, painted by a surrealist runt, decupled and looted, but Chino, story has to have an interesting I am back again, hardly knowing master, and glued on.
beginning.
how, watching the pigeons play far from having been beaten into
round the cathedral tower-in a submission, is carrying on effective My eye, on the other hand-mirror, this time.
if it did not give myman Bank Director that Germany must resistance in a manner that is in- but before I tell you about my But this story has been too
ed upon on the Bourse. volving Japan deeper and deeper in eye you will need that which long without its hero-my eye. face so sinister an expression, if keep her powder dry is much comment..
com-the magazine editors call It is like Hamlet without the it could be considered in calm embarrassing difficulties and
After a night of storm, the detachment and on its artistici
accompanied by the Prince of Walem. plications that may have far-reach-Synopsis of the previous instal- prince.
When I was wounded in the merits alone, might count as and Mr. Asquith, aboard the Royal ing consequences to her own future.ments of this powerful story.
war, the bullet sought and found thing of beauty. No painter yacht. led the mobilised Ficel out to The myth of Japan's Invincible
place that, in my opinion, could ever hope to achieve that ea. Soon there was a great modera Fleet under way. The Alexandra an- military power has been shattered by
BRIEFLY, then, you see ought to be put out of bounds delicate blending and merging chored to enable the Royal party to
watch the ships paxe. It the new spirit of the re-awakened
in me, or my remains, by the Queensberry Rules of of hues.
hours, tenming line abreast, and was and united Chinese people.
But such is the malevolent superb sight. Pride after the Fall. If I had international hostilities. I would seem incomprehensible read a week ago the radlo an- Now the same thing has stigma attaching to this par- thit in such circumstances Japan's nouncement that I have just happened again. How history ticular injury, that, it evokes military leaders on the fold should heard that in recent weeks 600 repeats itself. Somehow, some- neither sympathy nor admira- choose to create a dangerous slate people have been killed and where, I have been in a bad tion. My war wound, on the way of tension between Japan and Britain 20,000 injured in traffic accidents smash, and my remains may to convalescence, once drew from over a local dispute, arising out of in England-I should have said, consider themselves lucky not a matron the pleasing tribute told In faltering tones of her unhappl
"Among
those 20,500 jay- to have been flung much further "Oh, it looks lovely this morn-
ing," but I should make a deal would poison her life. alleged to be members of on anti-walkers and jay-drivers goes, than they were.
But not for me the scar of money if I could find some- The opening of the Panama cazal to save for the grace of God and Japanese terrorist gang, should be his-own-good-sense, Douglas honourable or romantic. So that body to take my bet that every commerce has again becoms indefinite owing to the activity of the Cucuracha handed over to them. They re- Reed."
I may know that I didn't dream stranger introduced to my eye wilde in the Culebra cul, the last re
to the pange of jected a British proposal for a Mixed For that was the conclusion or imagine it all, I have the will begin the conversation with maining obstacle Committee, composed of a Japanese I had come to during many largest black eye of all time. "Well, you look as if you'd been ships.
What an eye! O beate Mar- out all night," or something The Vaterland, the newest Hamborg. American liner, backed out of her a neutral Chairman, preferably an years of driving without serious
of tine! Oh, Betty Martin, patron equally original.
June parts
16 without Hoboken pler on many to decide mishap in American, to be set up
In an unjust world I want to mishap. Mindful of the trouble on bir ebo Castward, when whether there was sufficient evidence Europe-that a man who took saint of all sceptics! Oh, my
say these few words on behalf maiden voyage
backed across the North River and to justify the handing over of the enough care could avoid all the eye! Tour secused,
IF they were to meet me of my black eye. I don't know nearly hit a pler, Commodore Ruser took and
to disasters of which he read in proceeded
in the street, all the where it came from or where it no chances. The ship was to mail at blockade the British Concession, and his daily papers, As I say, I with it the French Concession, at had come to read those reports international heavyweights of will go to, but for a brief (Id nearly an hour for the exact condi Tientsin. The action talten by the with a certain feeling of superi- our time would stand aside in hope) while it has alighted on ilons of wind and tide which suited him.
- reverent and silent awe. If I my face, which I have had for Ten minutes before noon,
the Ang, which is Japanese in blockading the British ority.
signal requesting Concession, in electrifying the wire
And now it has happened to were able to go out and were a long time and have grown toplenty of river space, was ran up on the Hamburg-American docks, and the fence running round the Concession,
mel
foolish enough to let them see love.
Hner steamed out. She handled nicely as though it were a concentration
It is, in fact, A New Feature, in the fairway. Tugs helped to shove The infuriating thing is that me in the street, my friends
her mean around, and within fifteen min camp, and in subjeeling British
utes' time she was moving plowly out subjects to personal searches that I shall never know why or how.
to noa. (This was the last trip made are in most cases humiliating and in The destiny that shapes our
by the Vaterland (later Majestie). When for also provides
the
she arrived at New York she remained home cases obscene, underlines the ends
In the neutral port, sheltering from dangerous situation to which the af-complete obliteration from our
British warships-Ed.), fair has already developed, and gives memory of all the circum- colour to the belief that the Japanese stances of such an accident. I ore seeking to worsen the dispute only know that one day recently by introducing wider and more for I was a normal man, normally reaching issues of polley that will driving Londonwards, and that affect not only Great Britain but
now my remains are lying on other Great Powers as well.
their demand that four
Chinese
oember, and British member, and
Mr. Cordell Hull, the American my back in a town I never Secretory of State, has announced expected to visit again.
itat while the United States is not concerned with the original incident relating to the four alleged Chinese terrorists, it is concerned "with the
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OTHERS tell me that the car I was driving is a
nature and significance of the sub-wreck, and that a lorry is also sequent developments ia their badly damaged but beyond broader aspects, coupled with past that, all is mystery. I can ask Incls and utterances in other parts of myself a thousand times a day,
Chino."
"How did it happen?" but no Japan is in no condition to with-light whatever shines on that stand an economie boycott by Bri- problem.
and
tuin. France and Amerion, Britain should not heallate 10
This seems very strango to seek to concert common action along me, because in earlier years I these lines to be promptly taken it was involved in a number of acroplane crashes and could the necessity for it should arise.
So long as agressors are allowed always remember the details of to think that they can bluff, bluster them afterwards,
and bully, they will not call a holt Anyway, it happened some-
to their threats and Intimidations, how, and now I find myself once What is happening in the For East
gives addillonhi urgency to the need
for the speedy establishment of as
سريالية كيا
Peace Front by Great Britain, France more, after twenty years, in and Soviet Russia. Threats to pence hospital where I have renewed will only end when the aggressors acquaintance with old enemies realise that Peace will be defended whom I had thought never to and aggression resisted by the col- meet again-the long sleepless Jective power of peace nations. hours, the pain that will not let'
I
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
I think Bob's getting serious-to-night he asked me if
you and Dad were pleasant to live with!"
Router's correspondent at Paris atates that the trial of Madame Callaux for The Court was crammed, and accused the murder of M. Calmette has opened. was dressed in black.
When Indleted for wilful murder, she
new owing to fears that M. Calmette Jetters which was about to publish
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eleven o'clock, but the commander wait-
10 YEARS AGO
the white
July 20, 1929. While the United States in exhorting the Russian Government to remember the Kellogg Pact, it is reported that hustliitios have broken out between ' Husion and Chinese troops at two dif forent points in Manchurla.
It is stated that the Russian troops opposite Manchuti, who have been henvily reinforced in the past few days,. crossed the bordar yesterday morning and captured Manchult, which is about 10 miles inside Chinese territory. At the other end of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the cause of the crisis, Boviet forces have invaded and taken Pod granichinara, another Chinese border-
town.
We cannot help think that a great. deal of time was wasted in the Legisla- tive Counell Chamber on Thursday in the discussion of the resolution put forward by Sir Pollock, urging that the permanent measures advocated by Mr.. Henderson for increasing, the Colony's water supply be proceeded with and completed as soon as possible.
5 YEARS AGO
July 20, 2034. As the distant clocks of London ware- airiking six yesterday morning, two men, simply clad in blue dangarees, stepped across the South side of Water- loo Bridge and with elaborate careless. new placed end to end, two seafford polds across the entrance.
An approaching pony cart draw up sharply at the barrier, and, after ex cited, plonu by thren Freis photograph. ora, was allowed by authority to pron; Aamall group of unemployed cheered: lustily (to order), and the two B.B.C. engineers, squatting behind, a single- microphone, recorded "for 'posterity the. anund" of the last voblcle, crossing: Waterloo Dridge.
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