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THE SOUL OF

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7,

hat the people hated, and hence the churches suffered not because they were churches.

Ofter some comrade with per- sonal grievances against the priest, runs amok and takes impish delight in leading men grown unreasonable by sudden stirrings of emotions and long dormant race memory to dis- ful workers organisations carrying grace themselves.

E have had so much of the more and more into the centre of F. A. I. and the C. N. T. the power

Whatty stories dished out he toure and anode into the centre

us in books and phamplets and

heard of villages and towns that have been taken and retaken that we have ceased to trust all reports

to

SALUD." by Peadar O'Donnel. On the constructive work through- Fascists come very little into the

out the country. Now and then picture and if they do, it is (Methuen 7s 6d.).

cast accusations of inactivity or figure in reported acts of subver After the Foreign Legion had betrayal.

sive tactics.

of th Spanish Civil War. But revolted, Spain falls into the almost Communism, has not eaten into But when two cities are conten- Peadar O'Donnell's "Salud," while isolated village units, each one the vitals of the Spanish people. ding, such rumours must needs fly frankly professing to be an account

of a 'Red' nature takes us into the

Spanish fracas. There is no re-

crimination in this account: there is no fixing of guilt on anyone. He merely acts as the chairman to new thoughts and released emotion see- king a platform.

His own political history as ર

REPUBLIC SPAIN

quondam colleague of De Valera moving from sudden chaos to or- The world-wide scare, which Fas- about; nay even such deeds should makes him the best man from whom derliness and groping for a mode of cist countries and Press have creat- occur.

to hear the story, for there are disciplined government, until neces- ed, makes Madrid accept the bad In this matter-of-fact and almost many ties between Ireland and sity binds the villages more and name in a spirit of bravado, and dispassionate account, one can feel Spain. He goes in search more together round Barcelona. change its slogan from "Viva F. A. the Republican soil of a nation of a fishing village in Span- Madrid is a moise heard în the L-C N. L" to "Viva Communismo." striving for coherence; and the ish territory to attend to his distance. And the Madrid Govern- literary work, and finds himself ment appears as 2 boatload of moving from the village of Achill marooned theoreticians at whom the

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“OVALTINE'

VILLAGE AS SYMBOL

author only trespasses on that self- imposed penance of sobriety of nar-

The village is the symbol of all ration when he speaks of his own "Red" activities, and that in his dear Ireland.

I love

OVALTINE"

says MISS POLLY WARD the well-known film star and actress.

WARD writes.

"I love Ovaltine” Not only is simply delicious, it is nourishing-and sustaining. I always know that, no matter how tired I-may-feel, a cup of Ovaltine before retiring will ensure a long, healthy and refreshing, sleep.1 take it regularly.

Whenever he can he tries to im- press on us that he is a good catho- lic; and that possibly to show how near truth his account is.

never-

Although he fails to convince the reader in this respect, he, theless, achieves the distinction of being an honest commentator.

That alone, should recommend the book to all readers Red or "anti- Red"

CZECH PROTEST TO GERMANY

Prague, To-day.

The Czecho-Slovakian Govern- ment has protested to the Ger- man authorities against the dis- play of posters and postcards on trains entering. Czecho-Slovakia from Germany.

The posters, which are Nazi · propaganda, declare that the people of Czecho-Slovakia have one doctrine, one ruler, one peo- ple.

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The Czech Government re quests that this propaganda be removed at the German frontier stations before trains are" allow- ed to enter Czecho-Slovakia. Reuter

NICE STRIKE

Paris, To-day.

The strike situation has been aggravated in the Paris district where another 6,000 workers of the metallurgical industry have ceas- ed work, as well as in the south of France where a syndicate of building workers at Nice proclaim- ed a général strike. It involved 25,000 workers On the French

Forman coast from noon

y.--Trans-Ocean.

POLICE RAID IN SHAMSHUIPO

gang of criminals, alleged to be banishees, and former inmates of Canton's prison, were arrested by the Police yesterday a ternoon during a raid on a house in Tai Nam Street, Shamshuipo,*

It is understood that a Chinese arrested in Wanchai yesterday gave certain information leading to the raid in Tai Nam Street, where seven men were taken into custody.

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JAPANESE OUTRAGES Question Of British Protest Raised In House

Mr. Butler Hopes Situation Will Be Improved

London, To-day.

Mr.

SIR PERCY

NOBLE'S CALL ON HASEGAWA

Shanghai, To-day. Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief, China Sta- tion, who arrived here on Tues- day, paid a courtesy call on Vice- Admiral Hasegawa on board the latter's flagship, the "Idzuno,” yesterday morning.

The call was returned twenty minutes later on board Sir Percy's flagship, HM.S. Cumberland. Reuter.

SOUND FILMS ON ALL NEW NAVAL BOATS

London, To-day.

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All ships under construction above and including gunboats, are being fitted with equipment for sound reproduction for training and instructional purposes, said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, at question time in the House of Commons yesterday.

This equipment, he added, was for production of sound

Attention was drawn in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) to excesses and outrages by Japanese troops during the conquest of Central China. Henderson asked whether the Government in- tended to protest to the Japanese Government. Replying, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, WEATHER FORECAST and would enable ships' com-

Mr. R. A. Butler, said that all reports received of these excesses in Nanking, Shanghai and Hangchow related to events prior to February 7, when a similar question was put.

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The Government had not made official representations but the Japanese themselves had despatch- ed a high officer to Nanking and to Hangchow early in February, and Mr. Butler understood that as a re- sult, conditions had now improved.

SOVIET CLOSES KOBE CONSULATE

Tokyo, To-day.

Instructions have been issued by the Soviet Ambassador to the Soviet "Consulate at Kobe to make arrange- ments to close the Kobe Consulate before Sunday (April 10).

was

The Consulate's sign board taken down yesterday, and passages for the staff to return to their na- tive country have been booked on the s.s. Siberia-Our Own Corres- pondent.

ZEISS-INQUART'S BERLIN SPEECH

Berlin, To-day.

The Austrian Stattholder, Dr. Zeiss-Inquart, made his first speech in Germany yesterday at the Ber- lin Sports Palace.

The speech was devoted to jus- tification of the events in Austria. He said that last year he had in- formed Dr. Schuschnigg of the course events would take. Trans- -Ocean...---

The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone has moved into

the Pacific to the south east of Japan. A typhoon has developed

to the south east of Yap.. It will He trusted that despatch of thisprobably move westward. high officer would prevent future Local forecast; E. winds,

derate; fine generally. incidents of this sort.-Reuter.

Some Understanding

'Appears To Be

Noticeable"

Tokyo, To-day.

mo-

panies to use it for cinema enter- tainment.-Reuter.

SOVIET MINISTER RECALLED

Moscow, To-day.

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It is officially announced that the Soviet Minister in Sofia, M. Baskol- nikov, has been recalled but motive is assigned for this measure.

-Neither is anything said concern- ing the future employment of the recalled diplomat

Foreign diplomatic circles here entertain no doubt that M. Raskol nikov, who for some time past was rumoured to be under arrest will

The Peiping correspondent of the "Asahi Shimbun" share if he has not already shared reports that an increasing measure of under-the fate of a mumber of his diplo standing appears to be noticeable between the

members of the pro-Japanese Peiping and Nanking "governments," "so that presumably amalgamation of the bodies is imminent."**

LOCAL JUNK CARGO SEIZED

that

The correspondent reports for the time being the Peaping body will be competent in foreign af- fairs, while the Nanking adminis tration will concern itself chiefly administrative and fiscal with

SEIZED questions

Seizure by a Japanese raw ler of a cargo of matchwood consigned from Hong Kong to Macao has been reported to the police by the coxswain of the local steam launch, Kwong Hing. The cargo was insured with a Japanese company, the Mitsui Shoji Kaisha.

The incident occurred at 1.45 two p.m. on April. 3. about miles west of Kauchau, in Chin-

The correspondent considers that in connection with the Customs question, new duties will be fixed in Nanking for salt, cotton yarns cigarettes, cement, matches and beer.

The activities of the various

matic colleagues. Trans-Ocean.

CZECH VOTERS IN AUSTRIA

Vienna, "To-day. The Czech minority in Austria will be allowed to vote at special polling places in the plebiscite.

The Czech minority will receive in special ballot tickets printed Czech language Trans-Ocean.

SHE DOES HIGHLAND

FLING AT 72

banks in Peiping will in future also Old Lady Tells Secret

extend to Central China.

SCHOOL PURGE

of Her Vigour

The correspondent also report ese waters. The cargo was in--that a "purge" is to be carried out a junk being towed by the Tung Hing. The crew of the junk were transferred to the Tung Hing and the junk and cargo confiscated.

The writer of the following letter once suffered from rheumatism, head- aches, and depression. Then one day a vigorous old lady told her the secret of tell others how she discovered a won- of school books in the areas under good health. And now she writes to control of the two "governments," derful sense of well-being and joy in and all anti-Japanese references are to be eliminated-Trans-Ocean.

MORE SOVIET CAIRO

CAIRO PARLIAMENT MEETING

ARRESTS

Moscow, To-day.

The wave of arrests among So- viet Army Commissars shows no signs of ceasing, says the news- paper "Krasnaya Sviesta."

Cairo, To-day. In keeping with traditional usage, Mahmoud the Premier, Mohamed

The Commissar of the Central Pasha, reported to the King yester Asian military district, says the day on the outcome of the Egyptian

"con-parliamentary elections.

has beer arrester paper, nection with the enemy Ocean

The Premier tendered the resi gnation of his Government, which

life":-

"Kruschen was recommended to me by an old lady of seventy-two who can dance the Highland Fling like a young Reuter adds that Customs revenue

girl-thanks to Kruschen, which the will be deposited by the Peiping has used for thirty years. She told me body at the Yokohama Specie Bank to take Kruschen Salts to try and cure pending settlement of the Customs a dull heavy headache from which I

suffered every morning on wakening issue with the foreign powers. In was also, troubled with rheumati u come will not be appropriated for in both shoulders. Kruschen turne

have the expenses of the Peiping re- the trick. The headache disappea

use it gime. The two regimes will be and so did the rheumatism. continned taking Kruzchen amalgamated as soon as traffic on gives me a orderi the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and being and enjoymen

BW the Langhai Railway is restored.

King Farouk immediately refused

The first parliament will ble on April 12-Trans-Ocean.

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THE "HEALTH

DISEASE

as been blessed with the true allway Foice trolling forth his would have him

Fairy Tale "Horrors"

Perhaps sturdier in

Witches are altogether at a discount in other fields. Those who are growing old to-day must often wonder, as they see how the psyche of the child is studied and sheltered, how on earth they escaped with sound mind from the unbridled terrors with which their minds were surrounded. Nobody kept the children of an Marked divergences of opinion (albeit not movies) or thoughts earlier day away from pictures appear to characterize the atti- of the horrid wolf which devour tude of leading physicians oned Red Riding Hood different sides of the Atlantic in the psyches were the matter of publicly emphasis those days. Now it is decreed by ing the dangers of disease and the London censors that there of parading symptoms before the

are scenes in "Snow White and While members the Seven Dwafs” upon which popular mind. of the profession in the United childish eyes must never grow - States are industriously seeking wide, unless accompanied by an to create a vogue for preventive medicine, SO

These are the witch called, inchiding Iblood

tests, physical examina scenes, pronounced to be of a tions, and health education," who know Mr. Walt Disney, the horriic character. To those certain prominent medical men idea of presenting that bright on the other side of the Atlantic and charming personality as are seriously questioning the wisdom of these methods.

adult.

purveyor of the horrific is sim-

but cinema censors

are a race

Recently, Dr. Oliver St. John ply funnier than Mickey Mouse, Gogarty, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, apart. Never in the world have was quoted in "The Irish Times there been people like unto them, as warning his hearers that a fact which they feel called "people may lose life in too much upon to demonstrate. So "Show devotion to the pursuit of health."White" only gets an A certificate. In the Free State, he said, with The question is put, very per- falling population and in spite tinently, why the presence of an of a vast outlay for greater medi-adult with the child spectator is cal facilities, hospitals were re-supposed to purge the film of its turning records of more

corrupting or terrifying tenden- treated than ever before. "One

cies. might almost be led to the con- clusion," remarked Dr. Gogarty, "that treatment was a cause of disease."-

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cases

"There seems a suggestion that | health is a brittle, vanishing, ex-

Park Playing Fields

The public paternalism which

traordinary artificial, and tem- is laid upon children is not al- porary condition; that it has to ways repressive. There seems [be treated with medicine as if it to be nothing but an essentially were a disease. Thus it becomes try class-room project recently wholesome idea behind the coun- truly a disease.”

The "health disease" appears Council. The first impulse is to mooted. by the London County Ito be what affects a large por-cock a suspicious eye at any pro- tion of suffering humanity which would improve itself if it lifted posed encroachment on the Green its thought out of its morbid round London for the benefit of Belt which is being established channel to a realisation that health should be, and is, normal the people, but if any exception and disease abnormal

at all is to be made in favour of 2 "trespass," the claim of the children is for it.

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Combating Noise

Contradictions are the

The LC.C.

new education-programme of £5,000,000 will include the allot-

of man. Filling the air with rooms in the Green Belt, and ways ment of £1,500,000 for class sound, he is perpetually striving eventually every child of more at the same time how to silence than 10 years, who cannot be it for his own comfort. That benevolent monopoly, London parks and like open spaces, will provided for on pitches in the Underground, is spending a lot of have the opportunity of attend- money just now in the electric ing, for at least one day in the welding of rail-lengths to mini-week, the class rooms and play- mise the rattle and roar of tra- ing fields of the Belt. Not to be vel in the tubes. It is a step outdone by the Socialist majority toward the day when there shall in the County Council, the Lon be such smoothness and enfold-don Area Conservative Organisa- ing silence on the tubes that the tion is airing a special plan to traveller will feel himself a look after the girls. It is pro “spirit sliding through deliberate posed that every school under bliss."

the Board of Education at which

Yet there are on the Under-girls attend will have a domestic ground sounds that we would science department, with compul not willingly forgo. For years sory subjects of homecraft, phy on the Inner Circle there was a sical training, and citizen voice which daily, enriched the The scheme projects itself beyond lives of millions with its resonant the school days, and provides for cry of

"Jimes Pawk, Jimes the issue or graded certificates Pawk." That voice has gone according to competency. These it may be raised now in celestial certificates would carry in sub- choirs but it has worthy suc sequent domestic employment cessors. We read approving compulsory minimum wage rates. mention of a disembodied mech- So every working man may yet anical voice calling to passengers have a model wife, and every to stand clear of the doors, but household may employ a model when we heard the officer who maid.