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BOOKS

A WAR DISCLOSURE.

GERMAN THREAT, TO

INVADE AUSTRIA,

How Tiermany nemely added one of its own' Allies to the countries already arruinged against it in the World War is revended by Dr. Utto Bauer, the Austrumu Sociálist igader Bad Foreign Secretary in the first Republican Gövernment, in- bis just-published book. "The Austrian Revelation" Parsons, Ms. Bil.

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during the whole war, an Aus trinn revolution could have had no other romuit than an invasion of Austria by the German armies.

Germani arties would have ræsmpied Austria in the same way as they shortly afterwards bocu pied an incomparably larger terri- -Jory in Russia and the Ukraine. And, as revolution would simul- aneously have broken up the southern Front, the Entente anies advancing from. the south would lure encountered on Aus- -trian soil the German armies breaking, through from the north, and Austria would have become a theatre of war.

A TRANSLATION,

THE CHINA MAIL

THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN AND THE TWO WIDOWS.

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(FABLES,., 17 LA FONTAINK).

Amu-i uziddle life Noticed his hair was thinning 'Twas time te was, beginning To think about a wife, Our here was well off, Quite well enough

To give him a wide range for choice

and taste,

And all the ladies, Vied for his

affection":

But he was, not inclined to haste, The matter called for much re-

ication.

Two widows were chief rivals, for

his heart.

e in her prind, and one of riper

charms,

But skilled to mend by dint of nat Timely little, ravages and harms These festive mufrous, always tail-

ing

,"

"Ta invesent new forms of merry

goiling.

him one day ampon a bed, And started fiddling with his head. older sought his fo sul lat linck hairs,

On the thesis that the whole modern history of German. Anstras is coloured by the opposition her! tween German and Austriani,, mingy- We realised how serious was talities, Dr. Baver argues that me danger of a German invasion. this antagonism was only neutralized by the fact that, from 1897 stund, gestion that it was known to bis Dr. Barr ankes the further Austrian patriotiem saw its Empirey that "only the fear of a threatened by the mining at vienur invasion kept the Vieneses tion of the Slav raves with

As from making a separate frontiora..

. How artificial was the appergol resulting niby, and how fucks mentally differnt the outlook of German and Austrian, was clearly shown in January 1918, whies. following the Brest-Titorsk Treaty, the Austrian propte demonstrated against the continence of the war against Russia to fulfil that Treaty, and by a great general strike in Vienna, presagod a roveshitión tönt would enforce pence.

A SÉPARATU PRACE. " Dr Baper discloses how this movement was quenched mainly by the knowledge that the Germans were actually ready to invade their Ally's country and suppress the threatened rebellion hy armed force--

The military authorities an age to throw forces into the rike areas very quickly,.. Even if Austrian militarism no longer hail at its coinmand suffi- vival force to repels

revolu- jonary insurrection, at the 180ment when German Imperial ism disposed of a larger reserve army than at any other time

.

pences

THE STUDIO,”

The Studio

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plucked them out, to match his age with here:

pillaged his poll of all the white: The younger in her turn, with

answering light.

find himself completely hald. “ til he started up appalled

Fair dames." he bowed, with

hand upon the door.

"I thank you for this pleasant

shave,

By which I lose, but also save: For from hereeforth. I stay "plain that on whichever

bachelor,

decided

for April main- rains the usual standard of cautious excellence, avoiding carefully any. thing that might give offence asShe'd run my life as she wished.

eng too modern." However it

mot as did;

seeing my hare pate in the ass each morning

be grateful for the warning. --EDWARD MARSH.

makes one departure that is of couAnd

huble general interest: it com- ments lavourably on the settings for Mr. Douglas Fairbanks" production of The Thief of Baghdad." This,

very encourging for those who see in the cinema a means of raising. the artistic standards of millions to whom the higher arts make itale appeal

Perbups the most remarkable re- production is that of a drawing by Miss Stella anglalea viril work reminiscent of William Those interested

Blake. in scenery will read with delight the Japanese article which accompanies" repro- ductions 1m the watercolour work of Sir H. Hughes Stanton.

The Studio - net, 44 Leicester, Sq. London.,'

EXTRACTS.

ON THE WEDDING Mons. "At eight or thereabouts Lindsay loanford burst into the room. He said it was a glorious morning, and must come for a swim! Swim, to shave, let alone swim 1 indeed I had hardly the strength

brutally.

"What's the matter?' he asked

"You look rotten l' My dear, Lindsay,' I retorted, when you are married, if you over are, you will feel on the morning of

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your wedding exactly like a manO Whole going to be hanged

That's not very complimentary to the girl, commented Lindsay,

'Oh, yes, it is." When a man is to be hanged at eight o'clock he knows that he will be in Heaven about five minutes past. Does that make him any jollior? No, Lindsay, You know nothing at all about being married. The Fast Fady," by Keble Howard. (Fisher Unwin), 79, 6d.

THE DEADLY INDICTMENT, "'She's nice," said Angela, judici. ally. But I don't feel there's any thing in hor'

This phrase does not occur books and melodramas, but it is, in fnct, the most awful thing that one woman. cán say... of another."-- The Old Flame, by A. P. Herbert. (Methuen). 38. 6d.

FROM ALL BORTS."

*When the English describe a person as 'mud," they merely mean that he is rather interesting."

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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ANQJGOndan

NOD BLOG NUTS

"Success is being in the right, Ford Rusell of Killowen; Sir Frank Most. Happiness is keeping wellckwood, K.C., Solicitor-General; away from it."

Lord Burnham; Sir Charles Mutlaws, Director of Public Pro- sections; 8 John Hare: Sir Frank Burnand, editor of "Panch';, Sir John Tenniel, the cartoonist Linley Sambourne, the artist Rudolph Behman, and MT. Furniss.

Marriage is a lottery-some. times a ménage, sometimes merely a menagerie, ***

"The 'man's man is always singularly lacking in conversation.

ill Sorts," a Literary Revue, by Bathmell Wilson, 58.

MARMADUKE'S "APPAIR. "He detested her unfled hair, mind yet he could not be fure that it | was not just this which, perversely, attracted him. He hated her sinart-

The club was named by Sir Frank Burnand after the two knights of the road, of course, John Gilpin and Dick Tarpin, and members rode out of town etch Sunday pos sibh to lunch in some attractive pince near London."

„A BALFOUR MYSTERY.. Mr. Burniss reveals in this book ness, too-her smart clothes which | Daí little mystery that puzzlei tre were always calming her attention, Pressmen at the time, and was her smart expressions and talk, known to very few members of the There was no charm for him there, I Currick.*** At a critical period, "a Then why did he spend so much i short while before the Balfo that question nearly every day Toner Courels within the Cabinet bime with her? The asked himself | Goveninent died of entui," the

Perlinps because it was rather jolly Coniicit were held in the strangers" to have a companions that other men room of the Gurick Olub.. Xobody "Falways looked it."—Introduction knew where the disenssions took to the acting by Arnold Palmer, place, and so little known, was (met Richards).

Bid four at the lnb that his pre- sence there. pussed unnoticed.

THE TWO PINS CLUB.”

LASE PURXISS BOOK,

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Stories of sending charters in the sporting and dramatic world in the last half-century ure told by the Inte Mr. Harry Furniss in The Two Pins Club," which, illustrated by the famons artist him self is published by Mr. John Murray, at 108. Gde

riding club, whose members were The Two Fins Club" was a

the famous Lord Chief Justice,

The story of a sedate housekeeper who becnie a "bookie" is told by Mr. Furniss, A doctor in a pro- vincial town hiel and left his house to his faithfel housekeeper, that she might take in ledgers.

But the doctor had been au gårdent sportsman and and the quiet, uncommunicative keen racing an,, housekeeper had learned more than her employer would ever have be heved. After his death she used her knowledge to set up to business as a bookmaker, and in time built up a prosperous concern.

book he wrote, was passing through Mr. Farmise died as this, the last

the press,

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1925.

CHINA MAIL'S CROSS WORD PUZZIK

(These cross-pord puzzles have been made by soporta but our readers are, warned to watch out for occasionel phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho)

18 19

5 6

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2

10

1 2

13

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142.

44 49

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اباد

"THE" INTERNATIONAL BYGGJAT SUGGESTIONS FOR BOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter, belongs in ech white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both..

HORIZONTAL

1-Exclamation of unhappineze &-Grand Secretary (abbr.)

7-A party or faction.

10-intruder

11-8cane of combat

VERTICAL

2--Legal alajm

3-dil's name

4-Part of a flowar

B-Broad smile

--Strip of wood

13--Mid-western State of the U. 8. Foundation Limber, a plis (pl.),

(abbr.)

1-Not suitable *Descendant

3-Pertaining to the mind 2--Article

2--English county 24-Grain

28 Premium Da money

27 Consumed 29--Coldring-matter 31-Rested: 12-individual

33-A rufer in an oligarchy 37 Principal aland: In Malay

Archipelago

30-Imperial Turkish deoross 42-To lamant

43-Remedy for brules 46-Penall of light 47-Fish eating mammal 45About

60-To surrender - 12-Restorara

68-Separate into grades 34-A letter

15-A cozy residence,

1

-&-Contraction of "even"

land in Mediterranean Sea | 11-Quadruped

1R-Laborer on, steamer 18-Pertaining to the pharynx 16—A manna of communication

(abbr)

19 On the outsida: 20-Having no confer

29 Group, of' Paolffo islanda

(abbr.)

25-Right (abbre.) "

27 Thuê

28 French "and"

29-Ac!

30-Electrical Engineer (abbr)

33-Preposition

34-Acquired knowledge of

35 Colored, pensil '35——Exclamation

17--Cloie relativo: (abbr.)/

38-Prolix màäning, barkward

40 +Apparel

41-Boy's name, shortened 44———Mládle of a church' 45-Type used for amphanis (abb) 43--0öntṛaction of "avert |61-Anger

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's "China Mail" along with a new

cross-word puzīša.)

STARTING THURSDAY NEXT

The Countess Ptdora was a

woman of alluring aloof- ness and mysterious malice -dangerous to all-who crossed her path.

He thought the loved him, but

a vampire knows no love.

6+320..

This luxurious and imperious pet of the boulevards tolerated people for mercenary gain only. A glittering story of the Paris that Balzac knew so well, modernized with a great cast and lavish settings. Gilbert E. Gable presents A GEORGE D. BAKER Production

Slave of Desire

Adapted from the immortal

JUNE MATHIS

by BALZAC :

GEORGE WALSH

"BESSIE LOUS. CARMEL MYERS Directed by George D. Baker,

Distributed by Goldwynę Cosmopolitan | !

WORLD THEATRE.

SCREENLAND.

"KED LIGHTS."

Carriso Gorge, one of the most desolately beautiful spots in the wild fastness of the Mexican border, was the location Clarence G. Badger selected for filming exterior scenes for the Goldwyn picture, "Red Lights" which is showing at the World Theatre for the last time. to-day. The story was adapted to the screen by Carey Wilson from the stage play, "The Rear Car."

123d Field Artillery band gave its first dance in 1911.

Murie Prevost and Alice Lake were the popular belles of the evening, The mayor and sheriff centred their attentions on the two actressea.

Several thrilling and laugh- able incidents marked the visit of the movie troupe.

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

THE YEAR'S MOST FASCINATING MYSTERY MELODRAMA

RED LIGHTS"

'with MARIE PREVOST, JOHNNY WALKER, RAY GRIFFITH, ALICE LAKE, ETC., ETC.

A mystifying, gripping, thoroughly enjoyable pictura that you will place among the films that have thrilled you most.

FINAL SHOW TO-DAY, 5.15 and 9.15 p.m.

STARTING TO-MORROW, 7 & 9.15 p.m. WILLIAM FOX'S SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION OF ZANE GREY'S FAMOUS STORY

"THE LAST TRAIL"

with EVA NOVAK, MAURICE LYNN, WALLACE BEERY, etc.

also

JACK DEMPSEY

One of these was provided, by Raymond Griffith. route taken by the train are Along the

seventeen tunnels. The country A special train of ten coaches, is wild and infested with moun-- carrying, a radio, an airplane, atain lions and bobcats, five piece orchestra and a special was walking alone through one of Griffith car on which was mounted an

these tunnels with a .32 auto- electric generator left Los Angeles matic in his hand. A large for the border with seventy-five boulder dropped with a thud from members of the company includ- the top of the tunnel. ing carpenters, electricians, pro-, black darkness of the tunnel this In the perty men, cameramen, extras, was very perturbing, "to say the mechanics and technical men. least. Griffith in his terror open- Two immigration officers accom-ed fire with his pistol, and emptied panied the party as representa- it in the direction of the. rock. tives of the United States Gov- which he had mistaken for a wild- ernment, for the greater portion cat. Other members of the com of the railroad runs through pany rushed into. the tunnel and Mexico. The little town of found Ray sitting on the rock Jacumba Hot Springs was the wiping his brow. destination of the Goldwyni special. With the arrival of the the actors

Not being able to cash cheques; Goldwyn company the citizens of credit at the stores.

were forced to beg the town hailed a new era of pros- town without their watches or Many left perity. There had not been much other jewellery. excitement since the Mexican re-arrived home they mailed money When they volution, when Uncle Sam's to pay their bills, and received soldiers camped about the town.

The few little dilapidated Clarence G. Badger worked shacks and stores with sand drift- night and day directing the rail 1989 and the Galveston flood of crete dam high up in the hills. It ed around the doorways did not road scenes for the picture. present a very lively appearance special developing room aided the sands of lives, are but passing is much valuable time and high- A1900, with their toll of thou was a costly enterprise, involving A company cameramen in making their tests.

to the movie crew.

their valuables in the next mail.

THE LAST TRAIL”

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BRING HIM IN'

(The 6th. of the FIGHT and WIN" Series)

WORLD THEATRE

recorded in history.

the main street. Several fat unusual night scenes were taken of gypsies had encamped just off. Some of the most successful and cidents in the list of such disasters priced labour: But that the end black Mexicans with stuffed black on the train

Justified the means will not be beards dozed on the steps of the

All of which is recalled by a denied by anyone who witnesses pool hall A limp cigarette.

motion picture on view at the the explosion and later views the dangled from the fat cheek of one

World Theatre to-morrow, It is village inhabitants feeing to the of the Klers. Johnnie Walker

William Fox's super special pro- huila, and the place destroyed...! slapped him on the back, the

duction, The Last Trail," adapt Here is a thrill or series, of cigarette dropped, He did not Flood is second only to fire in the famous Zane Grey Toward heart-reaching film entertain ed from the novel of that name by thrills genuinely worth while in offen his eyes. But moved one foot its power to spread panic and the close of the story a huge rement Director Flynn, by the to a more comfortable position devastation, to destroy human life, seźvoir dam in the mountains way, has made a goodly number For five weeks the H Lights" in mass and to wipe out the cost broken by dynamite explosion of Fox successes, but achieved company lived th

rain side, liest and most foruntable monu- the work of the villian and the special fame with the great For tracked at this little vil

ments reared by the The town was

man. liberated waters sweep down upon production, based on Mari Satir From-thay day nights with

the village miles away. on the great Pueblo

Twain's masterpiece of floor above the

the West

in To create this startling in Conecticut Yaukse orchestra,

Stera dident, which constitutes the bis Jolted Now Y Arthur's Court have climax of the Fox picture, tha

enthusiasm and

the late

director, Emmett J. Flynn, under Waingularly formidable task

He bust the villa e ir Calfto, ka 501 valley. He const

bet