1934-03-20 — Page 9

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1934,

MISS ALEXANDER

ON

WORLD PROBLEMS Britain

Peaceful Reconstruction

Of Russia.

CONDITIONS IN AMERICA EXAGGERATED

U.S. Broadcaster's Admiration For The Jews

("CHINA MAIL" INTERVIEW)

An intense appreciation of people and her surroundings characterises Miss Melinda Alexan- der. who is visiting Hong Kong for the first time on a round-the- world cruise on the Empress of Britain.

Miss Alexander is one of the big figures in the New York broad. casting world, and her talks the

on

stations of the National Broadcasting Corporation are re- cognised as being some of the soundest discussions Un present day problems given in America to- day".

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Miss Alexander's toples range from American political and economical problems

discus- alons an the great Internutional. questions of the day, much as the! Gold Standard, War, Reparations etc. She also talks on American Democracy. unemployment, bank-) ing, and domestic subjects.

Enchanted With Hong Kong The Colony of Hong Kong has east its spell over Miss Alexander, and it is expected that this will not be her last visit, for, although intensely Americas, she haa great liking for all things British. and a great admiration for colonial system.

"For a little island with only 40,000,000 population you have certainly made your. selves felt 'all

over the world," she said.

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Miss Alexander gave some first-i hand Information about conditions in America to-day when she said, "There have been a lot of head- lines about the way the depression has hit the U.S.A., but back home

(Above) "The story of the film is the important thing, and it matters little about the colour of the things photo- graphed" says Mr. Mervyn Le Roy, Warner Bros. film direc tor. Mrs. Le who Wad

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married the da efore the Empress of Brita.miled, is seen in the picture.

(Top right) "Confidence is, of course, the first essential, not only to national, but to in- ternational prosperity," says Sir Montague Burton, well- known British and philanthropist. Sir Mon- tague

with Lady Burton.

seen

industrialist

ITALY'S BID FOR TOURISTS.

Facilities Offered To Foreigners.

BIG TICKET DISCOUNTS.

The following facilities are of

you don't notice a great deal of fered until September 30, 1934, to

THE CHINA MAIK

Personalities

(Bottom right) "We need the East and the Culture of

the Easi.... in fact the United States needs the East far more than the East needs the United States," says Miss M. K. Locke the American au- thoress.

day's Short Story,

The Evidence I Shall Give

By Norah

Burke

ATOT many men choose to hide walked into their new, camp. The the body in water barely caravans were pitched in a sickle- 2ft. deep. But the man who shaped curve on patch of grass stood bending over Maple Com by the roadside. Smoke from mon pond this summer night wood fires drew chalky lines on was watching a film of duck- the sunset,

weed close back over the dark Sitting on the steps of one of patch in the water, till the pond, the gaudy dirty camvans WAT A looked once more like a little red-headed young giant with lawn, and that which lays be checks on his trousers large-en- neath, with stones at its neck ough for a sitting hen in each. and ankles, was completely hid den.

Then the man picked up a hot out of the grass beside him and straightened himself. "Begorraḥ, an' don' with this?” Even in that dim light' he could'

what'il; I be he wondered.

Watched by the silent gipsies and the narrow-eyed suspicious dogs, the sergeant, backed by his constable, walked up to this man. "In your name. Wolf Finnigan?" Instantly the atmosphere be came full-charged with hatred.

Wolf. Finnigan, anger bubbling

see the initials burnt into the in him, rose to his feel, thrust out! handle of the hoe, and ripples of his big chin defiantly. His green anxiety flowed through him,

had always heard that the thing the police looked for the weapon which had done

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Heyes narrowed.

first

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He stuck broad, horny handa in- to the pockets of the check trou- theke to the attack. As yet he sers, aquaring himself-animal-

felt no fear, only a rather unrea-

He made a long detour into the soning anger, as he answered the fields then, moving like a fox up questions put to him. The atmos- the hedges, instead of going back phere was tense.

to the gipsy camp on the com

Then the sergeant dropped his mon. Presently be came to the bombshell. turnip field for which he was mak

""Wolf Finnigan, I arrest you ing, and dropped the cleaned hot for the murder of a man not yet into a ditch brimming over with identified, at Maple Common, on Tuesday, the sixth day of June of he returned to Maple of this year. And it is my duty along to warn you that anything, you moving Common, again hedges, so that he should not bejazy will be taken down in writing seen till he reached the camp. The and may be given as evidence at light from the, window of his car your trial." avan ahone on him as he came up

nettles.

Then

SOVIET MAY JOIN and broad of shoulder,

THE LEAGUE

French Press Favour Possible Entry.

NO CONFIRMATION IN ROME London, To-day.

tering the League of Nations is be

young

to it. He was very brown of skin a tawny seet glant: his cheat, through the dirty open shirt, was a mosaic of tattooing; of snakes and naked girls, of hearts pierced by arrows.

One or two of the gipsies look-)

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be by "Furry Old Fellow," Gerald Mygatt.

Begob, but y be afther the

ed at him as if they knew where he had been.

"It's movin' to-morrow we'd wrong fox," Wolf objected.

At the other side of the camp, answered their better be." He

behind the gipsies now gathering He Junspoken query laconically,

and his jaws worked indefatigably Inquired, "Faith, and what is it?"

at a wad of tobacco,

"Whisht!" The man who had spoken

WAR

hardship, and, taking things all all foreigners and Italians resid. The possibility of the Soviet en-had a great booming Irish voice, in defence of their Wolf, a voice round, the average American citi-ing abroad who wish to travel to zen is living on a far better scale Italy:- than before the War, and equally A 60 per cent discount on the as well, if not better, as any other ordinary tariff for a return ticketing canvassed in several capitals. A barefooted giri was sitting on pulled down, for he stood a full country. Before the war the aver for a single person.

The French Press considers the steps of his caravan,, and he head above the others. "Is it ar age well-to-do American, who A 70 per cent discount for that the recent attitude of the turned towards

ber now. Her rested want to be, Danny Fin owned a house of some ten rooms, trip to be made by a group of at Soviet leaders indicates a grow-darkish straight hair had been nigan? An' thim not knowing as would be quite proud if he had least 25 persons, adults, or paying tendency in that direction, bleached by the sun in front to there's two of ye!" more than one bathroom. In these ing as them.

though the matter has not been vivid blonde. The sun, too, had Muttering, Danny Finnigan sub- daya, if he has'nt a bathroom for A reduction of 30 per cent on subject to diplomatic discus-tanned her healthy red cheeks.

mitted to the gipsies' advice. Arj every member of the house-hold interior through tickets or through slon. there is something wrong."

The man's eyes rested on her in far as the law knew, there was ticket for the South of the Alps or France would welcome Soviet open worship.

only one Finnigan, and it would Russian Situation

a ticket of free circulation on the entry to the League, but authori- In her extensive travels in Eur-condition that the station at which tative circles do not expect the "It's safe ye'll be now," he reas. be sheer folly to give away the valuable knowledge that Wolf had] the subject to come up until ope, America, India, and the US. the traveller enters.

a twin. Italy be included in the itiner-September assembly.

At four o'clock the next morn- S.R., Miss. Alexander has visited

Crouching behind the line of Meanwhile it is stated that the ing the gipsy-camp was astir, and gipsies now, Danny listened. He and interviewed many well-knownary of the ticket. To obtain this

reduction the traveller public figures. In Russie

on the road had the same flame of hair a must ex-Rome Government has no con-by six they were hibit his

also firmation that negotiations will leaving Maple Common with its wolf, the same tattooed chest and Interviewed Trotsky, Tchicherin,

passport. It is

six be initiated..- Reuter.

Binister pond behind them. Kalinin, Rykoff and Lunarcharaky, compulsory to spend at least

[big chin. But « distinguishing and although not in favour of Com- days from the date of the visa of

And there the dead man might scar ran out from one of the green muulam, her impression is

entrance, in the Kingdom.

have lain and rotted beyond reexes across his cheek bone. that The passport should be exhibit- NO THREAT TO ANY cognition, if one of the coltager Russia is gradually recovering her

As wild and lawless, and meaṛ- position as a world power, and ifed at the request of any railway

NATION.

of Maple Common had not gone to ly as hot tempered as Wolf, "yet he representative as a document

market that morning and bought was not so cunning, and was fre- Identification.

Ja dozen ́ducks..

quently caught poaching. But. It In the afternoon he drove them mattered not to the outlaw twins

ever

wer

she

breaks out between. Russia and Japan, as so many peo-

of

Further particulars can be ob- Adequate Base Required ple predict, it will not be because talued from the Italian Consulate. And Properly Defended. Russia desires it. The general trend in Russia is one of peaceful) reconstruction, she said.

A great faith in the youth of to-day is one of the

strongest points in Misa.

Alexander's philosophy, and her message to youth is to have courage in all things.

LADY SPEAKS AT ROTARY

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sured her.

The whole village turned out to

down to the pond, which was look which of them was arrested, for ing as if it were"-covered" "with they had served terms for each floating green silk, and the ducks other innumerable times, Įsplashed in, quacking and sluicing There was a whirlwind from (Continued from Page 1)

London, To-day. the water through their flat bills, the far side of the camp now, and During the discussion in the gobbling up the tiny discs of there appeared beside Wolf the Among the members present were House of Commons on the Navy duckweed, Ull they had eaten girl with the bleached hair ad Sir William Shenton and Sir Shou Estimates yesterday, the subject of away the veil which might other bare feet Shon-chow.

the Naval base at Singapore. was wise have kept its secret for many "What the hell's up?” she "de- 'I am all in favour of marrying was Captain E. F. B. Law, R.N., £14,000, which is allocated in esti-

The speaker for the afternoon rained on the provision of the months.

manded of him in ber brittle volca

At her advent Wolf, whose young, even if the risk seems of H.M.S. Herald, who spoke on mates for this work. shormous," she said. "People who "Charts, the work of the Naval

see the body-with its squelchy thought of arrest, folt – a pulao heart had not quickened with the endure long engagements are living Surveying Service,"

Replying to questions Captain pond-smelling clothes dragged throbbing in his throat. He had an unnatural life, and often when

Euan Wallace, Civil Lord of the out of the water. And the land they do come to marry they and Admiralty surveying service from Conference, attend by distinguished to look at its face-crus! and lour-

Captain Law traced the British Admiralty said that the recent lord of the village pub bent down never been able to look at Naomi it is too late, and all the romance its origin when the

without a physical reaction like of the beauty of marriage has were prepared. by private concerns at Singapore aboard H.M.S. Kent,

first charts Admirals and others, which was held ing even in death passed them by."

one of thay gipulen, has no relation whatever, to the "In- The speaker clied some of the crease in the estimate of the cost that is, he asserted. I been him To young people her advice is amazing work done, by officers of of the work.

at the bar till closing time "Find a toe-hold in life, and stick the British Navy In preparing The idea that the creation of a

I'day". to it. The great reason why the charts of great continents such as naval base et Singapore Jews do so well in that they will South Africa and South America, threat to any

Admiration For Jews

in 1750.

not, if they can possibly help it, and remarked that the work was tusion

work for anybody else; so and far from complete. It would take, that the base at Devonpo your place and keep on keeping for instance, over 20 years to som-threat to America,

on. The man who works for plate a survey of the Labrador When the money somebody else kng a good chance coast.

of being a pauper at 60 -

"I have always had a' graat nd-|

STÓW*tha: @WI” They have;

juterad more collectively than

any

race could poBRÍ!

and

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that

Naomi, aloo-eyed, and with a pa gan/beauty about her, which was

in some strange way enhanced, not spolit, by

ost of the young

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