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The idea that the shark fa fergcious monster of the deep ini exploded in a book which has just] been published. In the United States,"

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THURSDAY MARCH 1, 1934

TOUR GLIMPSES OF ROUMANIA

HAUNTING MEMORIES

OF SPLENDOUR

(By Noel Panter.)

wide

Sleepily the clock in a neighbour, carriage, and pair could be driven passages, and Its title is "Shark! Shark!" Anding belfry chimed forth the hour along any of the

midnight in Arad three horses could be ridden abreast. its author is Captain William E.It was

Transylvania-Roumanian since the up the stairways. The bedrooms ("Sharky Bill) Young.

"Sharky Bill" has been hunting war. The cold was intense, and resemble ballrooms. At every turn sharks all over the world for 30 the cobbled streets were slippery of a corridor one arrives at a large

vestibule, serving no purpose G870- years. He says that while the with ice. shark is the ocean's scavenger, it is}

The signboards above the shut-that of wasting space, |the greatest of cowards.

tered shop windows, and such other A mouldy atmosphere, indifferent Out of several hundred varieties) letterings as towns display were sanitation, the sparseness of the almost exclusively. in furniture, and a general air of only seven are man-eaters. Even composed these are not likely to attack un- Hungarian or German. Everywhere neglect lead one to inquire what

evidence less maddened by the smell

of the former calamity has overtaken the landlord of was

of this Brobdingnáglan establish- blood. Most of them are easily monarchy of the Habsburgs. frightened by a little hand-waving

How very different from the ment.

The explanation is simple. and South Austrian Tyrol, where the for splashing.

strong rule of Mussolini has caused typically Roumanian. Mr. X, the about knows little even those German words which proprietor, have international significance to hotels but a great deal about poll-

substituted Captain Young gives specimens be effaced and

byttes. When it was in Opposition he- of the contents of sharks' Italian equivalentai

worked assiduously for the party stomachs. They include tin cans, In the shelter of a portion a that is in power, and is personą. horses' hoofs, pigs, bottles, hu- Roumanian policeman in brown grata in Government circles. man arme and a square of cloth greatcoat and black fur cap, was

Romantic Peasants from a blue serge coat.

making love in broken Magyar to What more natural than that he The shark does not die from this comely dark-haired daughter of should be rewarded with the lease diet. It digests it. The digestive Debrecen. On the north side of of an hotel at a purely nominal julces are so strong that, when the main square gleamed the lights rent? His energies, such as they dropped on a man's hand, they take of one of those caravanserain that are, are directed towards keeping the skin off,

you may visit in every town from the running expenses As low as "Sharky Bill" is in the shark Vienna to Bucharest, all of which possible, and, manifestly, he will business for profit. Since the shark seemed to have been designed by not invest money in an undertaking leather business began 15 years the same architect.

which a change of Government. jago, there is a big demand for Styled cafes, they are at once must wrest from his grip. Mean- clubs, reading rooms, and offices, while he cashes the takings, which The oil is used for tanning. At the marble tables business is are perforce considerable, since steel-tempering and paint-making transacted, gossip is exchanged, and there is no other large hotel in the

Tons of shark meat are explained the ingenuity of British

Fold the life of the

in town. community designers will be taxed to the generally under the Name of "rack daily throughout the world----

grouped round them.

Moodily surveying the crumbling- Canossian In- utmost to endow them with fight salmon" or "grayfish." It tastes surveyed the assembled company. citizens said to me recently: "If the Selecting a table near the door, edifice, one of the most prominent stitute (Italian Convent) at ing requisites of armour, arma-like lobster! Chinese buy the fins and was struck by the appearance present Government stays long in

yesterday. Rev. ments, and speed possessed by for foup. p.m.,

shall have little but a Mother Mary Basto, age 81. the recent launchings by

the

of an aged, patrician-looking gen-power we States,

Captain Young harpoons his Funeral will pass the monument United

France. and

tleman who was playing a solitary ruin left In which to accommodate dend horse be- Jupan. British cruisers

sharps, trailing a at 5.30 p.m.

built

game of dominoes. His morning our visitors." under Treaty restrictions are of

hind his boat. Rifles and dynamite

The Roumanian peasant is still the Arethusa class. with 6-inch

are uselesE. A dead shark sinks, coat was shubby and glazed, and I

hard dressed, but fear that his white etiff cuffs and romantically

have caused linen front times

sometimes guns, the Leander class, and the

clean expanse of iron The China Mail

10,000-ton class, armed with

were appurtenances to which there curious touches to be added to his 18-inch guas. They carry eight

Austria's Independence

was no shirt attached. At times he costume. One of these I observed Hong Kong. Thursday, March 1, 1934. of these guns against nine or ten

Details of Mussolini's plan for, seemed strangely affected by the in a mountain village just beyond guns of similar calibre carried by guaranteeing the independence of melancholy music which the gipsies, the frontier of Old Roumania. the new American cruisers of the Austria have been published.

Driving 'small herd of oxen be- on a makeshift dais, were conjuring

fore him, thirty-year-old peasant same tonnage. They are of 80,- Signor Suvitch, Italian Under- from their fiddles. Naval Construction.

000 engine horsepower, as secretary for Foreign Affairs. In He had heard these same tunes, advanced with the long rhythmic against 107,000 horse-power in understood to have discussed this whose origins are buried in the gait common to his people.

He wore the regulation white Imperial interests in all parts the American ships, and are in-plan with Dr. Dollfuss and the dimness of the centuries, played in of the world, attenuated lines of ferior both in anti-aircraft guns French and British ministers in very different surroundings three blouse, woollen coat and communications, remotely situat- and protective armour. The Vienna.

decades ago. Now subsisting on leather nash, but his feet were en- ed bases, and imperatively offen- Latest United States cruiser of

The proposal is roughly that the some £8 per month and the charity cased in strange footgear. They fashioned to resemble the sive strategy in time of war, all his class, the Astoria, is also re- Italian Government should create of his friends, he had once lorded were demand, special attributes in Achilles, which recently establish-goods, The industrial products of English Midland county.

ported to be as fast as the British free port in Trieste for Austrian it over an estate as large as an optyinka (leather soles shaped like clogs, and held in place by bar-lages British men-of-war. To operate ed a speed record, though the Austria, as well as her timber and

These haunting melodies brought extending up the legs) which are if need be, anywhere in the American ship is of superior agricultural produce, would be as-back to him memories of the splen- the common substitute for boots seven seas, and to patrol trade fighting powers. Japan, how-sured of a preferential market in dour, and the pageantry of daya and shoes in this part of Roumania.

merchant ever, appears to have eclipsed all

Clearly, however, this peasant Italy.

gone by, when men could enjoy fe rivals with her new cruisers of New callways would be built to to the full and would have deemert had not possessed sufficient funds greater cruising range than for

3,400 tons, speeding at 38 knots, trian railway engineers have al-"agrarian reform," "inflation," and eign primarily designed

and carrying a formidable arma-ready visited that port to study the "optast" problem.

on something else. Observing his operate in home waters. This ment of fifteen 6-inch guns of a this question. involves provision for adequate new quick-firing pattern. These

It was customary in those days makeshift optyinka carefully, I saw The co-operation of Hungary to slip bank-notes to the value of £5 that they were made from pieces of fuel supplies, restriction of en-are regarded by authorities as would be assured by the creation or so under the hair of the gipsy's rubber cut from an old motor-car gine power to permit of econo- the most powerful ships of their of a tariff union between the three bow. mical operation, and habitable type afloat, though the French accommodation for crews obliged 10,000-ton Algerie is also a re-

Gipsy Musicians' Plight to remain for long periods at sea. markable ship, and seven other

Many of, these musicians are to in cruisers are at present under The displacement taken

day in a partous plight, receiving this way necessitates sacrifice of construction In French naval

for their services Hittle more than yards. Another interesting "as-

food, a glass of wine, and a few protective armour and offensive

It is consequently whereas Britain, the

pect of the position is that armaments.

The French inventor of a novel coppers. In Bucharest, for the first United almost impossible for a British States, and Japan agreed to limit small expenditure of power by sup constituted themselves into a re- boat attains high speed with time in history, the gipelen have ship to possess the same fighting destroyers to 1.500 tons, with not qualities as one of similar ton-more than 16 per cent. Botlla-porting the craft on three revolv-gular Minority. aage of a foreign Power. To leaders not exceeding 1,850 tons, lag barrel, shaped pontoons and make a bad bargain worse, the France, Italy, and other Fowers driving it with an aerial propeller, gipales of the world, they an 11 o'clock this morning when

nounce their decision to abandon wreath, which was in the form of restriction of cruiser tonnage in-have been free to construct a

their * "nomadic way";

"of life and to Welsh harp, was laid by the. Prest posed on British designers was number of super-destroyers of Tiny cells are whirled to de

become "real Roumanians, while dent, Mr. E. C. Thomas..... aggravated by the Government's about 2,500 tons, of superior struction on a disk revolving at a policy of building smaller cruisers speed and armaments, represent-speed of four miles a minute be yet, preserving their "rights and of the Arethusa class of 6,400 ing an important reinforcement neath a microscope invented by a culture." In organising themselves Messrs. E, R. Price, D. P. Davies, tons. This was partly inspired active opportunism of non-signaald scientists in their war on dis

of their cruiser strength. This New York state optical expert to thus they hope to improve their D. Davies, R. R. Davis, D

Richards and G. "W. Grey (Welsh by the need for economy, partly tory Powers, combined with the ast germs.

One of the chief points in their Fualiers). by the vain hope that other inequitable difficulties, imposed on

"programme", is to combat the The annual dinner and dance of Powers would follow suit, and British naval designers in favour An organ invented by a Russian radio. The reason for this cam- Crawford's Restuarant this even- spread of fazz music and of the the Society will be held at Lane, mainly by the realisation that if of Japan and the United States, is played by a person seated on a paign is stated with disarming can-ing.. all the new cruisers were built his largely nullified. Treaty pur-metal covered stool, his "Angers dour. up to the limit of 10,000 tons, poses, which were not only in-completing electrical contacts with this branch of the feet would be tended to promote disarmament, immovable metal keys that cause public to a true appreciation of Jazz, they complain, deafene the numerically insufficient for the but to maintain the status quo whirling disks to produce tones music, while the broadcast pro- strategic requirements of Im until the expiration of the pact. amplified by radio tubes, perial defence. In the light of This latter objective, has clearly

Mens Coupon grammes, which provide entertain-

ment almost free of charge, i

"steal constructional developments in not been realised either in so far

Operated by an electric motor money from, the alpay's pocket,” foreign shipyards this policy has as it affects the signatory and had to be reversed so far as the non-signatory Powers, and it is controlled automatically by In the Roumanian capital there is 1983 programme was concerned. certain that when the time comes thermostat, a auction fap has been now, a kindergarten attended by the Instead of building one cruiser for Treaty revision there will be designed to be mounted in the children of Afty gipay, familles who of the Leander class, of 27,000 spirited bidding by all concerned chimney openings of heating plants have settled permanently there as Convent, Cains Road, at 10 o'clock tons, and three of the Arethusa for better terms, The most

to regulate their draft for the most members of the newly recognised last night of Sister Maria Basto,

the size of 81. She was a sist class, it is proposed to build two serious problem confronting economical and emclant operation of 9,000 and, one of 5,000 tons, sponsors of disarmament is that The tentative 1984 programme recent experience will have made A German provides for six more cruisers, the Powers reluctant to hazard am the Strait of Gibraltar some of which are also to be of their security by entering into a canal to 9,000 tons. It is on these 9,000 any further agreements to which Bahar

routes and convoy

fleets, British ships must have the Mogami class, estimated at connect Austria with Trieste. Aus-[you mad had you spoken to them of to purchase even a small quantity

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ton ships that Britain must rely all other Powers do not ubscribe, forming a wa.which

to restore her squality in cruiser or to accept any condi atrength with other Powers

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WREATH LAID AT

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CENOTAPH.

St. David's Day Tribute.

Local members of the St. David's

In a manifesto addressed to "the Spelety gathered at the Cenotaph at

Other members present included

ITALIAN CONVENT SISTER PASSES.

Maria Basto At Age Of 81.

The death occurred at the Italian

Minority."

Let me describe to you the most of the late Mr. Jose Maris, Basto

whose death occurred on Februdry, Shiportant provincial

the inhabitant

vel: ibarrack of röduos expand!

The funeral will pass the onument, Happy Valley,

Bister Fasto, was, very, Iknownsang Apant" 82" yeaTE, AUS

that a 4 lifteriin, the Italisa Convent