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Although Jewish persecution con- tinues in Germany certain Jews, especially among the bankers, have established. a modus vivendi with the Nazis.

In this conection the Berlin wits have invented a new version of an old story.

St. Peter, disturbed by reports from Germany, sent the angel Michael to report on the situation.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933.

A PILGRIM ON THE SOMME

THE TRANSFORMED

BATTLEFIELD

OLD

MEMORIES WHICH THE

SCENE REVIVES

(By Derek McCulloch.)

London. near where they fell. in infinite.

Seventeen years ago, and I was peace.

He was put into a concentration seventeen at the time, a fledgling MY WAR-TIME camp. Two days later the angel soldier upon the Somme, a single BILLET Gabriel was sent on a similar mis-unit among a million others. Now We enter a village, and in a find myself back there again as a flash realise that I am now upon

slon, and shared the same fate.

Finally Moses was ordered to go

ing

Bome

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in search of his colleagues. With-post-war tourist. But my visit is familiar ground. The shape is the no tour; "pilgrimage" is a better ame, though many of the houses in twenty four hours the following word.

and buildings are new and glar telegram was handed in to St I had always determined to re- Ingly red: Here and there remains. Peter:

turn to the battle area. I wanted an old farmstead or outhouse, and "Both successfully released. to satisfy myself that what I had experience a curiously

joyful Storm-troop leader Moscinski."

been told was true that the scars sensation as we pull up before the were nearly all healed.

door of my one-time billet. There is saying that history rei It is just the same save for the -Midshipman And A Crown Spanish Monarchists are await-peats itself-it does, up to a point-stalwart yang peasant lounging official pronouncement and here am I, journeying along one in the doorway, and I have to make from ex-King Alfonso regarding of the interminable French roads halting explanation before he the rights of succession to the that lead from Arras to Beaumont condescends to call out to the old Hamel. The blazing sun is here, the man, who emerges from the dim Spanish throne,

The morganatic marriage of the blue sky and the dusty white road, interior. We clasp hands, and a Prince of Asturias, accompanied by and the larka flutter and twitter amile of recognition lights up bis & formal renunciation of his royal about their heavenly comings and bearded face as 1 impress upon him an almost forgotten incident rights, has eliminated one of the goings.

Just such a July day as a certain that brings back to him certain re- dynastic obstacles to the perpetua-

grim one of seventeen years ago. collections. Hon of the Bourbon monarchy But now there is no acrid smell of We go inside, and together ex-

exploded shells upon the air, no unplore the walls for the same

which existed even before the Spanish Revolution.

the

NEARING THE

OLD LINES..

old

It is now expected that a similar even tread of tired, plodding, foot shell gapes and gashes that have act of renunciation will be signed sore infantry, moving up to the com- been but roughly patched. I ask munication trenches to be held in for news of the old dame, and by King Alfonso's second son, Don readiness, as yet another sop to though he turns quickly away, I

Buffers from

could swear that there are tears in the monstrous appetite of the Giant below 1931-in fact, falling short Jalme, who also

his eyes. We look at the family of any yield in-forty years. The physical disabilities which would war.

render his accession out of

album together and that is, in- The funeral of Lady Shou-son lately unprecedented surplus of

question.

(deed, a great honour-and on part- Chow will take place on Sunday, unsold wheat, piled up from pre- The succession would. thus be August 27, at 3.30 p.m.

As we drive along I hold a war ing he presses upon me a postcard at the

vious crops in the United States assured-in the highly problemati Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Aber- deen.

and in most other wheat-produc- cal event of a Monarchist restera- map in my lap and search in vain that leaves a pathetic gap in a

a for the old familiar landmarks. We well-thumbed page. ing countries, has its bearing on tion in Spain-to Don Juan, now this prospective reduction in the mid-shipman in the British Navy, are as yet too far from the old! Now I am living again those July Meanwhile a reconciliation is lines. An approaching car's cloud days of 1916. Two more kilometres harvest. At least the inability to daily expected between the Prince of dust once might have been an and we must park the car, for over-laden ambulance lurching its roads will not be of much help in sell at a living profit these huge of Asturias and his father.

cruel way to Doullena Clearing Sta- finding old bearings and land- 'marks. I am very eager, and accumulations may gradually dis-

tion. We slacken to glance at a appear. But whether the "drive"

signpost, and something seems to roughly plot a point on a triangle for heavily reduced acreage in

jerk to life inside me "Mailly Auchonvillers, Mailly-Malllet, Mallet 9 Kms." Experiments With The future planting may not con-

Then it is not a dream after all. ceivably create a different situa-

That is no imaginary name. I am tion is mare debatable.

Here- on my way back again.

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 24, 1933.

Crops.

Your Daily Smile

HANDSOME ANSWER WIFE: Isn't it a fact, dear, that handsome

are proverbally The disagreeable?

SELLE

Beaumont Hamel.

SEARCH ON THE

BATTLEFIELD

From a mound 1 survey the

campaign for that purpose has HUBBY: I don't know. I al-abouts I should be able to recog- countryside. Ripening corn bides When people familiar with become international, and the way try to be pleasant economic history made the pre-experience of

Census

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nise a landmark, but there is none. most of the lines of the old We slacken speed again, and I trenches; the cornflowers. remind other similar

INSULTED diction, a year or two ago, re-periods is that returning pros-

become conscious of a lovely green the of the blue of the poilu, and the scarlet poppies, garding the "turn in the cycle" perity will increase immensely

When he came home in the even grass verge. The French country-there are

being side looks almost drab by compari- Something strikes me which all of them believed would actual consumption. The case of ing he found his wife in tears.

"I've been insulted," she sobbed, son. Beyond a low stone wall a very odd about this perspective. I am, for the first come, they were apt to fore-cotton is still more interesting in answer to his inquiries. "Your stooping figure tends flowering of course!

plante, but it straightens upon time, seeing the battlefield from a shadow much the kind of re-The advance of nearly 100 per mother insulted me."

a man proper angle, and not from a fur- covery that has occurred this cent. since February in the New "My mother? But she's miles hearing our brakes, and

Comes towards us, smiling and tive, chin-high glimpse. year in the United States. They York spot price for that staple away."

hatan English I stumble over furrowed ground "I know, but à letter came for lifting his sun recalled, at the turn from pre- has been occasioned largely by you this morning, and I opened it." gardener, the guardian of this that is treacherous to the feet-it was far more treacherous séveдTM war depressions, the sudden and heavily increased demand from

"I see, but where does the insultiground,

I look at my This, then, is one of the many teen years ago. extremely violent. rise in stocks, spinners. The report of the come in?"

sald: hundreds of cemeteries that are watch. It is exactly twelve noon. Bureau showed that "In the postcript. It the unexpectedly rapid increase

result of the "magnificent At this very hour I was lying bad- American mill takings were in Dear Alice-Don't forget to give the

efforts of the Imperial War-Graves ly wounded within twenty yards of in production and trade activity,

Commission. I enter and stand the Bosch front line. The sky is the swift advance in prices of May the largest of any month in this letter to George."

that country's history. But a) -

spellbound. Just beyond the gate-blue, and the sun is blazing down commodities. But it was com- great part of the speculative buy-

way, and in full view of the road, just as it did seventeen years ago. Next I am talking to a farmer. monly remarked that at least oneling has also unquestionably been robe.

there stands a stone cross, and em- bedded in it the Sword of Victory. He, too, fought and fell wounded element in the older recoveries inspired by the Government's

At its foot upon a plain slab there near this spot. He is interested, -the effort to cut down by one-fourth]

(Continued on Page 11.) is inscribed: "Their Name Liveth- emphatic advance in agricultural even the present growing crop.

for Evermore."

RUSSIA ELECTS NEW prices. That has been the out-That would leave possibly the

THE GLORIOUS

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PADEREWSKI. standing incident of the present smallest cultivated acreage in recovery. The American Depart-twenty-five years. As in the case know, fellows. I've received al Like smooth green velvet are ment of Labour's compilation of wheat, this drastic programme threatening letter signed Unani- the grass paths and walks, while makes the average advance in takes account of the huge unsold mous, and it says that unless I send here, sloping gradually upwards prices for all commodities from "carry-over," which even a year $250 to a certain address, I shall be into the near distance, lie. row, estimated around murdered. What would you do of simple graves. Simple indeed, the lowest of the year 12% per 20 was

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.. HIS FRIENDS Said the club bore: "Do you

Competition Reveal Wonder Pianist.

*Moscow,

cent, but the rise in farm-pro-13,000,000 bales, or as much as a "Whatever you do, don't send the plot of ground is fragrant with its A musical competition that lasted duct prices has been 44 per cent. full year's yield. Yet there will money," cried a number of voices roses in full bloom. and in textiles 28. The upturn, not be forgotten the striking case in unison. Jon the ending of the depression, of 1921. The price of cotton

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Standing for months has just ended here. 'there in the bright sunlight, while Over 100 young Bussian music. the white batterfies gently move lans took part and the "Jury," con- from flower to dower, 1 become sisting of the most prominent So- in years such as 1897 and 1879, had fallen, during the trade re- B-1. P.

The only rights the pedestrian conscious of a feeling of Indnite viet musicians, artistes and critics,

awarded 52 prizes. peace, duplicated this showing closely: action of that year, to nearly one-

One might almost expect to re- The oldest competitor was 32 and but with a curious difference, fourth of the high price of 1920; seems to have are the last rites.

act to a feeling of relentless mono-the youngest 11. What usually started the ball of the "carry-over" had risen to

Facts You Did Not

The biggest "and" of the competi- tony in seeing line upon line of

a 16-year-old planist recovery rolling, at such times, 9,000,000 bales. Pressure was

Know.

graves, each and every one alike, tion was was harvest shortage abroad, applied to the cotton-planters to

hundreds upon hundreds, but yet named Samuel Guileless, who was along with a season of full Amer-cut down acreage for the new"

A government monopoly on the in seeing them I experience noth-awarded a special prize of 4,000 Ican yields. In both of the years crop by 25 per cent. In actual

a prominent Professor Braude, importation of wheat for food pur-ing but a feeling of restfulness roubles. mentioned the whole world's fact, the planted area was reduce poses has been established in and sweet peace. Here they fell

and here they lle buried, and musical critic, says Guileless has a wheat harvest decreased gled nearly 15 per cent; whereupon Uruguay.

where once was mad cruelty and "talent on a world scale, being a to 10 per cent. from the year there ensued a season of destruc-

terrible.confusion there now re-planist of exceptional technical before, while the American crop tive weevil activity. The sea- Operated at a cost of less than mains nothing but an immense and capacities and strong. vivid tem-

month, electrically wonderful calm,

perament."-Beuter. was 7 to 10 per cent larger. The son's crop was less by 40 per cent, ten cents

Few mothers or fathers can have same thing happened on the than the year before and some-illuminated house numbers have

made the journey to these places, HORSE BATTLES WITH COW somewhat similar occasions of thing like a shortage of cotton

and hundreds of thousands of

Prique. occurred in the next year or two. 1924 and 1915. But the GovernIt does not follow that results

India's recent census showed a them must have wondered in what

A cow wandered into a field near population of nearly 358,000,000, an fashion their dear ones lie buried. ment estimates for the present will be the same with the experi-increase of 10.6 per cent, in ten if I can, perhaps, be instrumental Troppau in which a horse was harvest indicate a foreign wheat ments of 1988, But programmes

monte in conveying to them a tiny mes pastured. The horse resented the crop apparently not much smaller for correcting, through applica-

sage of consolation in these few cow's intrusion and attacked it than last year or the year before, tion of an arbitrary schedule, the An Illinois Inventor has produced lines, I would say that they may After a short battle, the cow was while the American wheat yield course of nature in the matter of an automatic brake to prevent auto-well take comfort in believing that found to have received auch in

tal mobilen rolling backward when stop these gallant dead, gathered from furies that it had to be slaug is expected to run 31 per cent agricultural yields, have not e

within a few surrounding miles, leed-Reuter. below 1932 and 444 percent ways ended precisely as expected: Ded on bills.

been invented.

years.