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Reaction In Bagdad

SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1933.

GALLIPOLI REVISITED

Peaceful Battlefields that are Not Unlike the English Countryside

(By J. H. Walton.)

Although Bagdad is commonly spoken of as a progressive town the forces of reaction in the "City of

Kilid Bahr, Dardanelles. The only inhabitants around here the. Caliphs" are considerable. The

In some parts of Europe interna-are gypsies, whom one sees per clerical party is now campaigning tional situations are tense; there iodically digging small boke all against such Western innovations

as horse racing, cabaret shows and is a resumption of sabre rattling; over the Peninsula. In each of and rumours that a new war is not these holes are invariably to be the use of lipstick..

Similar protests have been made unlikely are being exploited by the found the lead linings of 4.8, am- sensational Press of a dozen coun-munition boxes empty. These in various Middle Eastern coun- tries. But the Arab is passionate-les. And at the same time lone gypsies have the amazing faculty ly addicted to racing and the thea-pilgrimages are being undertaken of diving exactly where abon- to that most tragic of all fronta of doned boxes lie buried, and by díg- tre. Much of the popularity

derived the Great War, the Gallipoli ging a hole no more than a yard

Peninsula

ih diameter. they can be sure of from their skill on ponies and The rich, come periodically, and unearthing the source of their

the poor when they can, to visit livelihood-cartridge cases. the holy ground where their loved

of. the British was

their friendly rivalry with Arab riders..

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Soldier's Humour

The campaign is a sign that cer tain Bagdadis regard foreign in-ones lie in perfect peace, heroes of

In the cemeteries – many grave- fluence in Iraq as still too strong. the most gallant attempt in the

atones testify to that grim humeur world's history. Thousands of others must crave this satisfaction or self-sacrifice for which our troope were famous, *Kere by travel, but have not the means at their disposal to come so far.

lies Bill, s-sniping went; another sniper

him first, And Absolute Peace

European.

&

Bill'a day's work was finished." Or, "Don't worry about me, boys, look after Sergt. Smith."

At Maidos, which was occupied by our forces during the Armistice

Mexico In The Theatre London playgoers know but little of Mexican entertainment, though| at the Strand Theatre, where Let all such be assured at the Mexican révue was produced re outset that the graves of those who cently, a successful play called the in the thirty-one cemeteries on The Man from Mexico" was seen the Peninsula are tended with a more than 20 years ago. The day care and sincerity which it is our of that, however, was wholly impossible to exaggerate. Under period, the "Old Säldiers' Stores" is still preserved, with its attrac- that noble inscription, "Their tive signs, painted with tar: "Buy In a Mexican theatre, the custom Name Liveth For Evermore." seems to be fore limelight men, in 35,851 dead are

your ridge and watches here; we commemorated. national costume, to carry on their Absolute peace reigns on these bat-port the Old Figm." In Hind swap anything for anything. Sup- work from the auditorium, where, tlefields, wherein areas are found Balir there still exists another re- on this occasion, the Mexican and astonishingly like oases of real lie of war-time days Turk name Spanish colonies were well repre- English country side, in the once Remzi, or Scotch Ramsay, as he sented. The Mexican Minister treacherous wastes of mountains now is proud to be known, who acte was In a Aag-draped box, and high and valleys. kpolls and rulleys, as

to the general handyman combs and lace mantillas were to studded with scrub and straggled 1.W.G.C. Ramsay'a English is some- the fore."

'pine.

what limited. but. nevertheless Not one of the performers 'pro- Millions of flowers of innumer he is the outstanding character of exercise in what Mr. J. zounced Mexico as we do. So in able varieties dignified and aris- this old Genoese fort town, Thomas has repeatedly

told future, perhaps, suburban railway tocratic orchids alongside simple would

Owing to his office as bo'sun. of be carriages bound citywarda will and medeat buttercups and daisies the Imperial War Graves Commis- MACPHERSON CRIGHTON-Labour audiences

Violent re-echo with talk of "Meckhican" transform the battlefields into a sion's launch, Ramsay considers it The engagement is announced "bloody revolution."

Alexander Fitz-volution is war-civil war; and Eagles.

rainbow of colour, and butterflies incumbent on him to between Ewen

and bees busily go about their most visitors on their trips from roy Macpherson, The Argyle those who denounce all war will

Paying For Seats On "Change and Sutherland Highlanders, denounce the doctrine and the

work undisturbed in this region Chanak, to and from the Peninsula, elder son of the late Rev. E. G. policy and the propaganda that

across the Dardanelles. These trips the phrase

Higher prices for seats on the which once was Hell.

The cemeteries themselves are are made in antiquated, motor- F. Macpherson and Mrs. Mac-are concentrated in

"the class war." Are the Labour New York Stock Exchange are

amazing though simple driven contraptions which their pherson, and Yvonne Prentice,

One beauty, and justly inspire pride owners are pleased to call motor- younger daughter of the late Mr. Party and the Trades Union Con- good indication of confidence in of an

In the making boats. And his presence is certain- Percy Crighton and Mrs. Crigh-gress sincere in their condemna American security values.

tion of war-all war-or are they sent has just been bought at a cost that they are ours. ton, of Shanghai.

only opposed to some forms of of £48,000, compared with £13,600 of them and the Chunuk Bair, ly reassuring, for the boat which (Lone Pine), and Helles was chartered for me was captained war? Likewise it may be ask- carly last year. The record figure. Anzac

|Memorials thousands of toun of by a gentleman of hy no ed whether the Labour move- £125,000, was paid during the great.

stone have been quarried twenty prepossessing appearance. ment is honestly opposed to all 1929 boom.

But 2 A seat on the New York Stock or thirty miles away north, on the

questioning glance at [political dictatorships or only to

a property which, European coast of the Dardanelles, Ramsay brought me the loudly some forms of dictatorship? Exchange is This question is as pertinent as like any other, can be bought and brought by sailing boats round spoken assurance that, "Cata Cape Helles, and in the cases of man mad, Yes: little. Yea; but not Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 19, 1933 the other, not only because of sold without formal regulations Chunuk Bair and Anzac, which are too many, No." It was fortunate events which have happened, In London the method is different 900 and 600 feet above sea level, that Ramsay was aboard to steer, and are continuing, on the Con- A new member here must pay an drawn up by aerial ropeway.

The China Mai

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Yes: £1100 at present.

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accompany

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means

COCKTAIL HABIT CONDEMNED

because the captain's boy, usually War And Class War. tinent, but also because of entrance fee of 600 guineas, an

Relic Of Battle

responsible for this task. (the Socialist policy which are being anual subscription of 100 guineas,

Despite the almost total absenca captain runs the engine), was com The British Labour Party has assiduously propagated in Bri-provide three sureties each in £500, of water in the immediate vicinity pletely occupied in continually announced, with a flourish, that tain by very prominent members buy three shares and also

of the cemeteries, rosemary has pouring water down an enormous nearly eighty local Labour parties of the Labour Party. The Labour mination-

been cultivated in abundance, and funnel, because, I discovered, the and representative organizations Party denounces Hitlerism with These purchases cost him about well-filled flower-beds flourish. motor was not provided with a are contributing to the agenda of unqualified vehemence.

The cost of no Water has to be carried miles, and water circulating pump. the party conference reolutions but does it denounce every sort minations varies according to the is distributed by primitive water demanding effective measures to of political dictatorship? The state of business.

carts, or in petrol tins carried on combat war and the menace of Hitler regime has been disgraced In New York a partnership of donkeys' backs, Fascism. The resolutions re-by tyrannous and murderous ex-many brokers may maintain only The Imperial War Graves Com quire the combined Labour move-cesses which it may be hoped are one poor seat, though many houses mission deserve high and unstint- ment-industrial, political, co-abating after six months. But have more. In London, on the led praise for the wonders wrought operative to reaffirm" its faith there is another dictatorship, es other hand, every partner in a In the construction and upkeep of in democratic principles of govtablished more than fifteen years firm is also a member of the Stock our cemeteries. · Their work ́ ́en- ernment and to consolidate its ago, which has been responsible Exchange. strength for united action against for atrocities immeasurably ex-

none who have not visited the all forces which seek to supersede ceeding all that has happened in

Peninsula can appreciate For democracy. For the Trade Union Germany. If the records of the

]thirty-one ́esmateries,” miles apart; Congress five organizations have Labour Party or of the Trades!

Jonly twenty-eight workmen are ät given notice of resolutions which Union Congress contain a con-

[their "disposal; yet nothing is In addition to detecting forged neglected." call for vigorous action to safe-demnation of the cruelties and guard Britain' against the en-loppressions of the Bolshevist paintings with X rays and ultra-

The Commissioner responsible

The advice of MA. de Curnonsky, croachments of what a Congress dictatorship, let them point to it. violet rays, scientists in Austria for their care and upkeep is always Prince of gastronomes, to those document describes as "one of The rise of Fascism in Italy and have found that the rays prevent ready to accompany visitors round about to drink a cocktail is--don'tt the most murderous political the recent development of Hit-paintings being damaged while be the cemeteries and battlefields The famous epicure made a pas cults the world has ever seen," lerism in Germany are attributing restored. Very good; and it may be hoped able in great part to reactions

Facts You Did Not Know.

counters untold dificulties, which

Epicure's Attack On

Poison Drink.

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SPOILS THE APPETITE.

Paris.

and motor transport for visiting sionate attack on the cocktail habit the Peninsula can be arranged during an amusing address to mem that the Labour Party, and the from (and imitations of) the For rethreading damaged bolts through most of the tourist bers and guests of the Office Fran- Trade Union - Congress will practices, and the permeations a die has been invented made in agencies. No motor cars are to be cais de la Gastronomie at the Salle sincerely and completely cleanse of Bolshevism. The pendulum two pieces hinged together that found on the Peninsula without Becamior.. themselves from the contamina has swung, the other way and to can be applied to the threads at previous arrangement being made, The meeting was presided over by tion of the policies which these another form of dictatorship. some, distance from the damaged but they can be shipped across M. Leon Douarche, Director of the resolutions denounce. They will But each of these forms of goy-place and, then operated. * from Chanak fo Killd Bahr at Office International du Vin, and M. not do that without an effort, ernment is dictatorship, and, if|

few hours' notice.

Escoffer, the 88-year-old veteran of and the effort will be ineffective dictatorship is to be denounced Programs for use in darkened These battlefields are in a better the French cuisine. if it does not spring from a per se or because of accompany theatres have been invented in state of preservation, as battlefields "Nothing," said M. de Curnon- change in conviction. The ing outrages, then the Bolshevist England that are lettered in white than those of any other from aky, "gives me greater pain than Labour movement has from time Government ought to have been on black backgrounds and read by Dugouts, zaps, communication, to see a sweet young girl absorbing to time expressed its abhorrence denounced ten times for every holding them between the eyes and support, and front-line trenches this cocktail poison." The most of international war in abhor-time the Hitler regime has been glare from footlights.

still exist with striking resiness, disastrous Joan France ever made rence that is shared by the whole denounced. After fifteen years

and through the astounding net from America, he said, was the nation, although perhaps with the Bolshevist rulers of Bussia Utilizing the air currents set up work of mining tunnels one can cocktail habit. America would never differences of opinion upon the are sentencing "cookwreckers" a car's motion, new ventilating still elimb, almost without Inter- hecome a country of true gourmets surest ways of promoting peace to death. They profess to be system for automobiles enables ruption, from Shrapnel Valley, until she abolished from the tables but nevertheless the Labour be bringing in an era of So each passenger to have the comfort pass under Quinn's Post, and come the "poisonous aperitifs which movement persistently inculcates cialism and Socialism is the he desires without subjecting out in No Man's Land. Right down spoilt the appetite and deadened the in its adherents the spirit of the political creed of the Labour ethers to drafts.

class: war, which is a compound movement. Until now Socialism

of envy, malice, and unchari has so blinded British Labour tableness. In its origin and in that It has been unable to Bee

from Chunak Bair, past Battleship palate de

Hill, Baby 700, Russel's Top Even the French traditional de Chessboard, Pope's Hill, Quinn's votes of the art of eating (wers Post, Courtney's Post, Johnstones condemned by M de Cournonsky for

Its common use "the class war" evil in dictatorship that profess ship of its own. This suggestion Jolly, Lone Pine, the Nek, Walkers their fatal addition to high-powered is a phrase of revolution; it signted itself to be Socialist. Indeed has been the chief contribution Ridge Mule Sap Into Shrapnel aperitifs before meals fles belief in the necessity for a Socialism has so blinded some of of the Socialist League to the Valley, nothing is changed. On "Buch drinks," he added, "are violent overthrow of the existing the leaders of British Labour to policy of the Labour Party since all sides there is plentiful evidence Industrial products that in to say, order of society and readiness to the evils and wrongs of dicts it succeeded the TLP as the of military operations, and, grow they are not based on distillation employ violence for that end, torship that they have been party's pacemaker. The Labouring out of a dump of jam tins, are of the grape, like wines and pare brandles. Drink nothing of the, The phrase has a Marxian con-affirming, even during the period Party has itself provided a test three new fruit-trees! notation and no other, and the of the Hitler Gas ment, that of its consistency, and sincerity. Going on to Helles one passes sort before eating and you will sit the down, to meat with a good appetite to power When it denounces war and dicta-Krithia, which Is In exactly

Find fetorship, does it exclude its own sama state of rain as wh

a pare palate capable of enjoy lictator war and its own dictatorship? abandoned eighteen years ago. Ing good wine."Beuter.

pacifists who would like to use it when

in a milder sense are passing on in

la weapon which was designed for mediately