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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1939.

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Daughter Of Empire Minister Wants To Be 'A Good German'

Southampton, June 6.

Elsie Pirow, slim, eighteen-year-old daughter of South Africa's Minister for Defence, has come home. But England is not home to this British-born daughter of an Empire Minister. Germany is.

OUR KITH

MALTA'S

DEFENCES DOUBLED

She arrived at Southampton to-day; has tra- velled 7,000 miles of her own free will-to work with peasant girls in a Bavarian labour camp. She wants to share the "training for womanhood" that would be an undertaking of the is compulsory for every German girl.

She smudged

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handkerchief

'DON'T TEMPT ME'

across her lips as we talked aboard 1 offered her a cigarettc. Slim the ship, the German Adolph Woer-shoulders shrugged. She shook her mann, grimaced at the lipstick flaxen head until her long gold- stain. Critically she regarded her loop earrings danced. red-enamelled fingernails.

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"Those will have to go, I afraid. Make-up is not liked Germany. I don't mind. I'll give it up gladly."

"SWING" TO GO: NAZIS LATEST

Very soon Malta would be so strong that an attack on her

utmost danger, said 'the Governor, Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, `at the annual dinner of the Overseas League and Royal Empire Society. He had complete confidence in Malta's safety, he said. The strength of her air defences had been doubled since September.

The island held the position of guardian of the great seaway that carried an Imperial trade of enormous value.

navy blue

AND KIN IN TIENTSIN

THE

LONDON, TO-DAY.

SOLICITOR - GENERAL,

SIR TERENCE O'CONNOR, IN A SPEECH TO A CONSERVATIVE [GATHERING AT LOUGH- BOROUGH LAST NIGHT, SAID IT WAS IDLE TO PRETEND THAT THE BLOCKADE OF TIENTSIN WAS NOT A THREAT DIRECTED AGAINST THE HEART OF BRITAIN.

"Don't tempt me, please. I don't smoke much, I am trying to go without it now because I shan't be able to smoke at all soon. Drinks?

It was a threat, he added, which That is easy. As I have never tast-"I hope I do, because then maybe was probably engineered and de- ed cocktails I won't miss them." I can keep my slacks. Girls in

signed by those who saw in the Then she said: "Please don't trousers are not liked in Germany British Empire the greatest stum- misunderstand. I know I was now." That seems a pity, for she bling bloc in the way of progress born British, but oh, can't you was a trim figure in

to achieve domination of the world. see my father was a boy in Ger- slacks. blue-jumpered.

Their thoughts, he said, wan- many, my grandparents on both

"Everybody tries to frigliten me dered in the direction of those of sides are German. I have heaps of about the food," she said. "I am their kith and kin who were suf- relatives there. At home we speak going to like black bread and cab-fering indignities and facing dan- German, think German.

bage and potatoes and flour soup-ger in Tientsin. and not much else. If I don't I'll The traditions of Conservatism make myself. I hate fancy things, only existed to fortify them in the anyway.

conviction that Britain, at what- "I am going to try my best to be ever cost to herself, had never a good German-for a year at yielded and never would yield to a threat of the kind she was now facing.-Reuter.

"It is nothing to do with father. Politics don't worry me, but though I have never been there I feel Ger- HAMBURG, TO-DAY. many is 'home' I came to England PROPRIETORS OF EATING on a students' tour two years ago, ESTABLISHMENTS AND DANC- but though I tried and tried, I least." ING-HALLS IN ST. PAULI, THE could find no sympathy, nothing to Farewell, Fraulein Pirow. RENOWNED ENTERTAINMENT | make me feel that I 'belonged.' |~~ DISTRICT, HAVE DECIDED TO That hurts still. BAN ALL "SWING" DANCES.

"It has been my dream for as

The introduction of "swing" in long as I can remember to live as a number of dancing establish- a German girl. I want to stay a ments in St. Pauli gave rise not year at least, and then maybe I only to a great deal of unfavour-shall know where my heart really able conduct but in some places to lies," wild scenes of protest.

The proprietors formed a com- mission to investigate the matter and get out a report.

When the members of the com- .mission had made a tour of the

'HAD TO EXPLAIN'

She stopped, breathless-and bit her lip." "Oh, dear, I didn't mean to talk like that," she said, "but I had to explain."

Among Bavaria's mountains Else dancing-halls, they reported that will look after German children, "swing" was undesirable as it was will wash, bake and scrub, learning another version of "degenerate all the time to be a good hausfrau. She may work on the farms, said:

art."

It demanded of couples "bent knees, crooked spine and a look of suffering." Trans-Ocean.

* In this connection, Hitler's banning of most progressive art in Germany and Austria as "degener- ate" will be recalled.

BRITAIN MUST ANSWER FIRMLY AND CLEARLY

London, To-day.

Great Britain holds the cards economically, declares the "Dally Mail" in a leading article on Tien- tsin.

The journal adds that Tientsin is a Japanese challenge and as much a challenge as unrestricted submarine warfare and gas, "scraps of paper" and all the rest of the tactica of a nation battling for victory in the face of a grave defeat.

Such a challenge does not invite compromise. It must be met with the firmest and clearest answer.- Reuter.

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