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BILBAO AND

AFTER?

of an early

the lamps in the neighbourhood were smashed. Despite the offer of £200 for their apprehension. the culprits were never discover- ed. Yet for all these buffetings of fate the game old King was put together again and reappear- ed in his former place.

Chahar Revolt

How much of the story of the spontaneous revolt of farmers in North Chahar is true, and how much of it is contributed by Chinese enthusiasm for the de- velopment, is a natural question to which time alone can supply

Events conspire to defeat hopes an accurate answer. We may termination of the take it that there has been a civil war in Spain. Failure of revolt of some kind, but not yet Bilbao's iron ring to justify the that it has any significance. It confidence placed in it and the may be that a movement which apparent imminence of collapse began as a protest against a tax of the Basque defences will re-imposition has been swept by the tard a solution rather than con-forces it stirred up into a course tribute towards one. The fall of not originally intended. It may Bilbao can mean only two things be, though this is less likely, ä of real importance; it will en- genuinely pro-China patriotic courage the insurgents, who lat-movement. All is conjecture for terly have been in need of suc- the present, but sight will not be cess to restore their flagging lost of the fact that while Chin- spirits; it may lead to a keener ese reports state that the Kwan- interest by outside Powers in the tung Army has sent troops to conduct of the campaign.

North Chahar, there is no official That is the disturbing feature. confirmation that the affair is A certain value in the better regarded thus seriously in atmosphere produced by the Dairen.

agreement in London which should lead to early restoration

of the situation to pre-Deutsch-

land co-operative action, has Peiping Air Line

been lost. Produced in a spirit

pro-

of goodwill, that agreement Eurasia's new air service link- might well have given impetus ing Hong Kong with Peiping is to negotiations for the with-to be inaugurated early in July, drawal from Spain of non- and the planned schedule Spanish combatants. Without vides for the completion of the these foreign legionaries, the 1,480 mile journey in ten hours. Spanish misery would have been Except to congratulate and ad- settled, one way or the other, mire Eurasia for their enter- long ago. But the atmosphere prise, which will strengthen com- of reason which has brought mercial links between Hong Germany and Italy back to the Kong and Central China, what naval patról scheme, in principle, more is there to say? Every day at all events, cannot with any aviation comes along with some- degree of confidence be expected thing fresh, to shatter all pre- to dictate- withdrawal of volun-vious conceptions of the mean- teers a time when Italian ing of time and distance. arms are regaining the prestige lost at Guadalajara. We are faced with bleak and tragic ac- ceptance of the fact that only in

а moment of stalemate can Schools And The Sexes withdrawal of volunteers prove attractive to interveners.

Mr. Marsland has been telling the National Association of Schoolmasters, that “to ignore sex differences of temperament, Royal Statues In Ireland physique and behaviour is to ignore life itself. Our "boys The fate of the George II must grow up differently from statue recalls the adventurous our girls

:

career of another Dublin statue, And it is about time it was that of King William II, which said. No amount of philoso was erected on College Green in phical or psychological hot-air 1701. University students of all about the conduct of co-educa- persuasions disliked it because it tional establishments will alter had the impudence to turn its this fact. Boys will be boys and back on the college, and two girls will be girls, and anyone undergraduates were sentenced who seeks to make them" other- to six months' imprisonment and wise is not only foolish, but is la fine of £100 for defacing it. wasting his time.

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