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LAPSLEY-On 6th July 1940, in Sydney, Australia, R. Lapsley formerly of Kowloon Docks, Hong Kong.

THE CHINA PROBLEM

The indefatigable

vin eralissimo, newspaper

Gen-

THE CHINA 'MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1940

PEERS WITHOUT

Has

Opera

A Really Good Season

By CECIL WILSON

Covent Garden recently rung down the fnm curtain on its; musi successful

Henson opera since the war.

of

Ga. to

PRIDE

By A Member Of One Of Britain's Oldest Noble Families

itself to

110W

First Bomb

Dropped 100 Years Ago

War'a most terrible centen-' ary, that of the bombing of y city from the air, occurs next; month.

Good Morning

All the advertising manager of the Liberation Dally has to do i keep his opology columns Alled.

A "rationalist" is a 'Nationallat who changes all his silver dollar Into altver convertible, notes while there in silil nome left.

deflates her When Helshiki mark-that's the Finnish!

.

What Mr. Mao arena to lavo on his mind is a Mustgo Doctrine for Asia.

"Dear." naked the little wonian, "is my hat on straight?"

replied Yes," her husband Impatiently. "Now hurry, we're "I'm sorry," she replied, "but late already." I'B have to go back. This sort of hat isn't supposed to be worn straight.

The ever-increasing ranks of the nobility who are throwing their ancestral homes open to the public in exchange for money have spent, it would soom, a pleasant Whitsun listening to the shillings and half-crowns tinkling musical- ly into the home treasure-chests. The receipts are subject to scrutiny by income tax outhorities; the amount of the assessment, and whether or not entertainment tax is due, de- pends upon various things: whether the build- ing has educational value, whether any of the

Most people think that Zeppe- lins began it, in the Kaiser war, In the past nine months, with

money is given to charity, whether a band is Interludes of ballet, it has given

by bombing London and Paris. provided, and so on. The men who decide are 126 nerformances, playing to an

Venice, in fact; was the first 75 per cent full houser average

the local income tax commissions.

The beautiful city of at prices ranging from 2. Od, to

What aideplorable and humili-park, and will no doubt put the victim. 20%.

(for and fo Wagner)

I think great building

some canals was besieged by the Aus- ating sort of business. two guineas.

because were annoyed Nor has it remained in its own our oldest and noblest families acceptable use in the service of triuns 100 years ago, and the at- parish. For six weeks in March might do better to act with thas the community. It seems a good tackers

not range on they have enough end, if an end must come. their guns could and April it went out on what dignity with which

is a In the themselves

sole occupant The

he buildings. of usually borne has now become an annual tour of past. The role of glorified house- very old friend of the family, the provinces, playing

Austrian artillery A young

Manila's chief executive better business than in Londest. It keepers and guides to trippers whose services were retained by,

not suit them. Moreover, the council. Je saw two genera officer named Uchullus prevailed prohibited the carrying of fire- gave 60 performances to packed does

practical aspect, the tions grow

grow up, and the beginning on his seniors to try dropping arms in the City Hall. Council- of a third before he wheeled the houses in Manchester, Liverpool, from the

unmanned hot-air lors will not carry cancellers. nd Leeds,

loss of dignity is not worth it, for

bomba from Birmingham, and

The

is Garden's answor

quite end

balloons. That in Covent

inevitable-luggage down to the local station

for the last handyman.

In Shanghol we learn that 50 sooner or opera is a

has He was our

Batta "nightingale's nests" have closed wrongly. to the cry that

Rightly or

Two "Aerial Torpedo

these dying

art in Britt the 20-

clearly been decided that the He is now the only person in

ilons" were formed, mustering down. Vale year-old Opera House set among form of country life traditionally all the world who has the costle

between them 100 Montgolfier spirits! the cabbage leaves and cauliflower

bolloons, 100 bombs,

the Stewart & of

Braes, Mrs. stalks had lost its hold on Lon-associated with England through-as his private address. Nobody in

this honour, hot-air

windscreens to protect the bal-

Fleaned things

on the lookout, always

item of con- ald of the Sadler's Wells ballet it her hinroy has now outlived lis

The record of

This Haminating Britain's great loons while they were warming :

from .ROMO vilinge up and a number of small pilot versation Krent cultural corne- usefulness.

has been has staged

and noble families good. Let us not spoil 11 by an hulloons. languished all through

for a theatre that (artistical

of Power, which unghilled refusal to face reality.

Most of the equipment was sel It has added seven operas ta ita consists of the 80 per cent of our Let us rather look at the future

with courage, and the past with up on the windward side if the live who now population

were a few balloons elty, but pride. "Fidelle," "Figaro," urban or suburban surroundings,

Just as the Monarchy and the launched from frigates anchored that the and "Goetterdrem | has apparently decided

estates must be broken up, the

the life of the nation, on lesser scale rural life has been 0 manors wrested from the hands rendered toss drab by the hun- activities which of those who through the cen- dret and one

even

Tater.

it

American don's musiest public. With the out the most glorious periods of į more won they are.

as

ly

War 65

as a dance hall,

the

Aida," "La Boheme,"

merung.

Moth In Coronet

The seat

In

во

Bomathing it grent country houses, castles, and tichy of the Court has an- behind the Lido.

made

of

Tassica.

ما

has

blithe

It's Bella, the post's daughter, speaking: "And she says 'Oh, and

says, 'Oh, it's oh, is it? she says,

'Aye, i's oh.'"

1

So Moscow is

And

to be London's economic saviour, and we are to

forsake the rubes for the rubles. But after years of American

tion of our Conservatives be able

Wagner's turles have trensured and sough centred around the manor house; } writing paper, with a capacity of Busterity handouts, will the diges-

4.

two

through

affairs made

death

khalas, the

They could

weight bombs of 33lb. were used, The bombs were Bt- ted with "explosive boosters," and were released by time fuses, set to burn 30 to 33 minutes.

That

*

chap kan straighten out Anancial tangles....

Seventeen famous writers are In favour of a world government. Your

makes No. truly Pardon my modesty.

10.

correspondents, has made one more appeal 10 the US. for further aid in saving the world from a third world war, which he if Com- says is inevitable

is not checked in munism China. The surface argu-

It has achieved ment is sound, although for

had not dared to attempt since be-

The balloons were fore the war by performing two from being novel, and things have

of developed it

complete cycles

to improve them.

The tenants dinners, the tenants 3,320 cuble feet. might easily cut some ice in Ring."

enough, Apart from Flugstad and Svan-

The decision has been imple- | urces, the Hunt Balls, the gym- each art 08th., but. to get the to cope with Communist caviare? ~~ not Washington

holm no our in the company had mented, chiefly

feles, the garden range. our opinion to however, in make any material differ-ver tackled this marthan before duties, with ever-increasing ruth-

murathon including five and a leganess, and with a typical British parties, the bazaars, and the rest.

Better Landlords half hours

Goctordarmenneity of purpose which when ence at this eleventh hour.

And let us not forgo in China, it is pointed out, ismerung,” beglaning at 6 p.m. andy applied to Imperial an

us at one pussing, how work in ald of that

Pilot balloons were first sent up. the asking only for the US$90.-breaking off at Haven for

throughou: time, respected her course meal in the crush bar and

now-much-despised thing called 000.000 remaining to

snacks elsewhere. The singers world.

charlly has helped to weave to- and their course was plotted on The moth has got into

In what was special bomb charts. the gether all classes credit in ECA allotments to

had worked up to it for 15 months

once the strong fabric of our silver into

In cavy stages of two operas at a coronet with a vengeance.

The bombardment took be converted

seen families whose for-country life. have dollars to strengthen the Na- time.

anonymous on July 6 and 7, 1040. That catering Innovation was bears served the Stute for genera- tionalist government's econo-

one of the bright tens of Mr. tions-unpaid, too, none of this article, I think I may say that Then began a propagandu war

Webster, David mic position. Even the most

former general 1,000-a-year stuff-living in with inevitable exceptions aristo- strangely like that fought by Dr. Lord Woolton': three or four rooms. Throughout crals are better landlords

Goebbels and Lord Haw-How disillusioned observer would

the rest of the house dust-sheets bureaucrats. I do not think our against the Allied supporters of probably agree that at least Lewis's Stores in Liverpool, who

family has ever been known to cover the furniture,

eviet a farmer or coltager for air bombing. a fifth of this would actual- moved South four years ago to

Lake

On the once velvety lawns the over Covent Garden's admin- istration, ly be used for the purpose

The Austrians could not see grase grows knee high; weeds non-payment of rent when the

had failed, remainder (the

Another

The official, what happened after the balloons suggested

the defence Ines, was a new cucing system intro mount up in little going of course into the pri-

duced this season to save opera houses, glass-houses need repair, ticity, whatever his heart may any more than Hitler could see the of vate exchequers

and broken a wait of anything 'up to

and rusting wire-

soy.

the result of his flying-bombs on goers familles which have acquire hours at the box-office. netting is all that remains of the Contrary to the impression pre-England.

divided into

once valling among many The queuers were

which was pheasant pen ed the "right" to such a per-

Americans critics group of 50, on the principle the gamekeeper's pride.

and

other foreigners, the British centage.) Carping

He himself, of course, has long aristocracy Is noi tiecadent and should realise that even if that the box office could handle

But the Austrian Army report- one is a multi-millionaire, it 35 an hour. While the first group since departed to the town, to live effete, for the simple reason that

was dealt with the overflow were miserably in two rooms and throughout its history it has con-ed that the results "justined" the

sisten ly revitaliseri Its blood by milltury effort, declared that given cards telling them when to work in a garage.

Renti- Intermer sympathise with the

among the middle number of bombs fell in the pre- return, so that no one had to wall

emotions behind these longer than an hour.

The Monarchy has equal-cincts of Venico, and that the menint

was even greater last-ditch stands. I sympathise, ly but I feel they demonstrate by elevating to the peerage our than the damage caused. mistaken and rather pahitless merchant princes and nabobs and

bankers.

General Pepe, defending the gallantry.

goes hard to see some tens of millions of hard currency going by default, when, a few more pleas might be successful.

of Manager

As this

an

Webster experiment choke the flower beds; leuves by mles, hus nut this clas-1 drifted over

So much for the business alde. And what of the artistic side Colleague Stanley Bayliss conald ern this season's singing the best pre-war standards.

since the war-but still not up to

tral sida.

stone sumizer-

0

If you are no longer welcome, i

upide

ra

and

class alded the process moral effect

The State Department is con- place sidering a ban on war materials to Mao alter trade gets going again. Something about a stable door being shut after the gees Bot out?

Chiang, apparently, is still

It has served the country well city, wrote, "Only one borub fell quite capable of coming out

if your contribution to country in warn against foreign tyrannies within the city. The serial bom- with statements such as that

"The Ring," he says, "inished

life is no longer wanted, then it shed more blood, in pro- bardment served only to amuse "this fight against Communin much better form than it be better by far to make your peace portion to its numbers, than any the defenders." ism in China is not only a gan, but performances have yet with the ghosts of your ancestors other class. It is right and proper F Stanbury Haydon, the Ameri- fight for Chinese freedom," to achieve the old Covent Garden they'll understand, they had that it should have done so.

Comand

tough times too--and sell Let it be repented: the record can historian on air war, wrote in but also "for the peace and quality, especially on the arches some

go cleanly

But and with Is good.

now,

It seems, the 1941; "In spite of detalled pre- security of a free world."

"There in a certain raggedness pride.

time has come to quit the rural parations, the effect of this new torm of attack seems to have tany be Statesmen all over the world in the playing which

Not so long ago my family sold scene. Let it be done with dignity. been slight" due to the large number of or

our own estate, and thus parted When the moss

begins to creep are certainly prone to un-

chestras now operating in London for ever from something upon over the cobbles In the stable But the 331b. bombs grew to believable flights of fancy, and the consequent shortage of which much care and attention yard better by far to sell. Sell. 10 tonners and atom bombs. The but seldom when they have

good players."

had been

lovingly bestowed and with what you have strike novelty which "amused" the as the been so discredited

critics have raised pained during past centuries, Some

out afresh with a stout heart, as Venetians led to slaughters and At the revolutionary

Fortunately, it was bought by of old, in pastures new,

holocausts, the most terrible ex- self-styled champion of de-eyebrows

the local council, who have

Good heavens, there are plenty amples being in Germany and mocracy now

Taiwan, methods of Peter Brook, Covent in

Garden's 24-year-old director of

turned the grounds into a public of other worlds to conqueri

Japan...). D. 8. ALAN. No sensible person, denies

appointment who Boheme," and munism are true. It has ha

staged Figaro"

- But not this season. been repeated time and

MY Bayliss. again in these columns that like some of Mr. Brook's complete control of China progressive ideas," he says. "They by the Reds will be one of may break rather violently away the traditional technique, the most serious threats the from

but I find them nerally refresh. free world has had to meet

ing and quite effectively

that his claims about Com-volutions-itself a pretty

od Luck

To-

•

It's Easy To Break The Bank At Monte Carlo By F.G. Prince White

more

more

this century, that it will Peter Brook sums up his effect.

If you "broke the bank at, is now 200,000 francs (roughly place the Kremlin in per-on Covent Garden by quoting the

today nobody £200). This is fairly frequently made in the "inner temples" of haps an overwhelmingly comment he overheard from an Monte Carlo"

angry Continental star when he here would dream of making the Casino-the exclusive salons -powerful position in the

fiest arrived: "New man-new song about li.

prives where play is a really And,

The fact is that it's "broken" serious affair but much Far East, and that when war

Ideas-no good-I show." does break out, Moscow may says the new man, he did. But so often nowadays that the feat usual, even among the big gam no longer evokes much exclteblers, are the 50,000 and 100,000- have an insuperable advan-Brook has made his methods pay.

ment.

frane stakes. At the tables concerned there tage.

In the outer amount of Ir tourists of many nations crowd rous, where But what we have also ton may even now see some is even a certain

ritation because play is held up about the tables day and night, said is this: the blame for use in them.

while the bank is being reimburs the top risk is usually 1,000 francs the possi-ed. aiding Stalin and Mao In- Then there is

-though here and there you On a recent night one table

may see a few of the more prac corporated to achieve their bility of an alteration in

tised players laying out 5,000 10 times; and another eight potentially menacing role in America's attitude towards ran out of funds no fewer than

Communists, mess

franes according to plan.” Chinese this area lles squarely at the the

There

noticeably aro As each roulette table at the door of the KMT. It is an For some months the "China

lone Casino starts play with 1,000,000 women than men at the tables, inescapable conclusion that Mall" was almost a

francs, this really extraordinary middle-aged and elderly women, bank mostly, who play with "Immense if the Nationalists had voice speaking against colla-run of bad luck for the fought grimly and bravely, boration with the new re-meant a loss of 18,000,000 francs concentration and generally for

more millions it low stakes, contesting

You find the young women und every inch of gime, believing In the dan-(plus several

The players included on this the teenagers at the other end ground-even though the ger of its actuality and its won earlier in the evening). struggle was hopeless-they intention of wiping out for- occasion two friends-Frenchmen of the Casino's lefly and curious- would have won enormous eign Influence as soon as who had staked on both of the ly museum-ilke hailes.

Lables according to a pet "gy There they are, forever flocking This seems to tem that had not previously round the slot machines-racing. goodwill in America, pos-practicable. sibly tosulting. In continued be slowly becoming obvious yielded them sensational resulte boule, trente-et-quarante, ote.

Soon one more excitement will and large-scale material aid, to those who a few weeks they finally changed chips worth

be added to the Comino's Kat: the What they did was to dis-ago were clamouring excit

Lower Stakes American. dice game "cropa" Ja illusiort all well wishers. edly about the humanitarian

being introduced-principally for for the war they woulil ng They have done Httle of and disciplined Reds.

the Americans, who grently out- dinths have asked for an arme number oilier, foreign. visitors late to aller these opinions, what we think le happening escort to their hotel, for such n

here.",

The Cauino is been very but have shown by their in Shanghai now is true, the sum would have been a fortune. blockade ophe coastal ports trend will contiiffe, and it But now it was only a little more

than £2,500 that, they had to thorough in adopting "crage

Not any phu of its head croupiers and erratic bombing of is just possible that Chiang carry away between them.

The drastic devaluation of the but also the Casino's chief of Shanghai (il there is still and his henchman, may still

receive some use hoped-frand has affected gambling here police has been making a lengthy

ouratul ways.

wow study of the game on its nativa for millions from the Blates | Tim highest staka at roulette i soll,

a sting in the tall. Hard bitten realists Washing

I

2,000,000 francs

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•

There are now 361 volunteers attested. Four more and we'll. be able in form a calendar,"

"But you should've seen the one that got away. Butch."

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