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"THE, CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1940.

WATER IS STILL THE No Room For Are Spaniards Cruel

KEY IN BECHUANALAND

Ice Cream Knows No Season

With winter now well on its way in many parts of the world, most people might

By GEOFFREY jenkins

A man who exhibited the only live whale · London has over soon, and shot a girl out of a cannon at the old Westminster Aquarium, looms like a ghost out of the past behind Britain's new 7,000,000-acre ranching scheme in Bechuana.

land.

Sixty years ago,

Frills At London "U"

To Animals?

By CEDRIC SALTER

By TOM POCOCK Most British visitors to Spain, if they are unwise onough to discuss this headlino subject with

The stunted skyscraper jutting above the bare Bloomsbury tree-tops has the crisp, functional lines of a

power-station. London showman, G. A. Farini, obtained from an aboriginal chief a grant of land 120 miles long.

In 1885 the railway was remoto,

natural water, for then there were no mobile water trill, as now,

think it the wrong time to dis- fand he would have had to rely on cuss fee-cream. Not so in ice- manded Amerien, however, where pioneer members of the

Water hon always been the big National Association of Retail

problem in Bechunahland, but Ice Cherry Manufacturers Farint records that he had passed have been holding a Conven-through grass seven feet high in

places, with intervening forest?) Achore sweet melons kept his oxen in both water and foost.

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Politics And Entertainment

As the Senate House of Landen University, it is symbolic of the educational powerhouse which is becoming more than Oxford or Cambridge, the

of prototype growing British universities and of universities as t unborn.

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Nobody goe, to 1.ondon Univer- xity

There ᏗᎨᎿ . for fun. dreaming spires, Do crumbling While the average quadrangles. London graduate lacks the pilish of his Oxford or Cambridge coun- show become a poitical meeting.terpart, he or she is per or, for that matter, vice versa? hap better prepared for a work.

The question puzdod Toleyn | ing Bie.

recently

When does an entertainment

bush-polter say ngo

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the desert with brush up a series of politlent rule 'Chindit's' Change

ven today, Wie

TIDA men who Chen poloned bows and arrows arly on the sweet melay for water, for it seem to grow in the t aid and desolate regions,

lies being held without the neres- i way three days' notice.

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a Spaniard, just say "Bull-fight," in a dis- gusted voico. The Spaniard replies: "Any-

way, Stag-hunting to you," and the convorsa- tion degenerates 'into a brawl.

Since_mid-Victorian times, when the book "Black Beauty" was written, with a horse for a hero, the British as a nation have been encouraged

to develop a special kind of imaginative un- derstanding of pain in animals, until it is now an instinct.

"I just cannot

The Spanish asând ling not been juiny by saying: tristed in thin way, and no his įbegin to understand your British outlook iM Father the same Hos setuse of values.

ea was in the bem-baiting and rock-fighting days of 150 years

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behaviostr in

To reale thy Spattich unimaginativeness about 111, centipate Lamlen dentist's waiting-room

before being callert into the "torture chamber" In

The Briton,

The old but enable character Arriving at the meetings, they of London University is outlined with that seen in a Barcelona one

Mesnerlene- of Bill Smyly, a were told by the organisers that

former Chindit ofßcev, who this Farosi, who had wren Thie

there was nothing politiea) zbo me Texas, hoped he could use that | tiver vallen and

Monumer left his rooms under the that they

Itchened tiles of Clare College, He anu mestudy in Africa4-

sepely modern burlesque (hows, torched to buy exttle at 10 shillings

Cambridge, for the bure eas ridors. In reply, the police vointed out In amarland, Inten

and classrooms of London Univer. head

that the only entertainment wa

ily School of Oriental and Afrk them an his ranch, and then weite

| 5}* them to Europe via the Kimberley seemed 14 Tapp

where he had

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of

speeches on serous political sub- Jerts most of them attheking the | Conservative Government

The organisers countered. WJ870 The qualek varumufen that the police lacked was a sense of

At Cambridge

freud Krethon, PH Smisty had been

f. to work not play

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* |dat«bt ! Cambridge was pact, self-contained community

Everybody

rend the werkle newsnaper, nod gossip was on a university, na college,

Foodly, the patien con and thher hanska

rebuferi 10. i

And so, after the comfortable

But us cher, welke his stat

114 L Za 2-1 Iron & Kun into the water +3 Washpitale Anunitum, WON A day inly beenuse fritaja peeling- veendes) to proclaim a protectorater | Foowever, mid the organisers foul lio of Cambrider, Smyly's at are Hes havaaland, aut by modered the three-day's outeur hom impressions of London Upl. This beatis begun to fail 'I'host in how Recentl

Firon fared jy lemon raft ***

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after Mais

A sombra Fate day and beardy 200 Total innubes who ended To cut disaffection with Fre

parar acut sulent – Berghoss in the d

The Tranny and Repalce und be Cause the poverty of the LINCES to then, te trek with n these and is, to Trelomnings, vatt| the Bert of Lake Ngam

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Tas wanita wile, London born Ruth Wahomes. advised the Patosxane- most for K 19 had base suaves the santly water magagalian 9 rende, but 19 dis and cop into stanil

nies.

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mads of cattle d bundends !

Thun

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wad children the fond

The survivors did not had the Jan Lat there liking, and murd into Portuguese Angola jdescendants are news Tamers

South West Africa.

So George

Basket-Push. brother of the defender of Mafes poscantapf, | kinge, strongly advomited extensive

ranching {14{༥CTE in Becicluna

the viram.

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Rhodes Was Wiser

Putine bash Talvez a jrneticul step and obtained o land umeen- Hiun, but thede, was wer, al- though his molives were not solely beenuse a love of rattle-ren vhing.

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He settled swers) Unpe Immilies" Fres Far North- North rf Farini's boundaries, as a "buffer" ngdist the tiermania.

Tant was in 1898. Today, alt

that are left are about 150 Buro- prane kruttered among a native population of 13,000,

The area of the

1049 new scheme in in the North, where the countrywide JA softer than the stark wasteland of the West, and in watered by Fivors like the Bot. telle. Ranching on a large scale would be impracticable in the in- terior, even if a creat many "bore- holes were provided.

The long stri along the Lim-. popo is another favourable oroa, múch inhabited by grumo, which I make their way in the dry winter months from the interior to the river-and are slaughtered · in · thousands by peachers."

Lf Rhodesia builds a railway from the great Wankle 'coalfield to Walvic Bay, the New Bechuana- land cattiomen could conlly link sp with it.

But water is still the key.

JOINT PAINS

that's where the pain

USED to be

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will be able to say

if you get to the root of the trouble the kidneys- why not try a bottle today?

DE WITT'S PILLS

For Kidney and Bluddar: Troick|ba

the copocter a policy of always theking the facts

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alonge.

were as sharp na neuld

· Landos: University." he says.

Factory of knowledge pro docink quidiflention- at record wowed while hardly affecting the personality." (B Smyly's own personality, remember. Jewly been formed in the Burmese i. mele.) 10 hot-house fore- ing the growth of thought but 19od pruning it.”

While h does not get the indi vidual tutoring of Cambridge, finde London teaching mylv method, Bleient and modern. His own study of modern Chinese, for instance, is livened by Chinese enie domsted a tiles and gramophone records. sad story of What he does may is the nuclul The Rise and Fall of third class i int resurso

He of Cambridge, bailway

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Whod te wak is mea malet the

Yostutakamises

11 Lugan when Yutaka Hey Blues fort thoms va sathienly received notice of pan- and argue about religion, poiition, motion to the exalted position of or sex, ntid so gain that mental station-pastest 201 bewildered range which perhaps only Oxford belgiu

sagnabban neknow-and Cambridge can supply. bulges! The ungu atulations of lus j god beautyres and proandsad them as,

Py leviebte the

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The dollars tg day, however, an operlegthe Head Office sent a note explaining that an inexperienced bolerk last made an atror and that Yashitator's name, far from being

the statommuster's appoint

ment forta simuld have been on o dissanssal form..

The Strangers

A London University there is

life. comparatively little social

af term weeks After several smyly still does not know whether thu mun at the next desk ix a Communist or a Conservative, or whether he spent the night before in the Folies Borgere or the Wig- more Hall,

friskly seared milf. He is sideral in the dentist's chair, and conver bul looking vastly relieved have escaped with his life

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You will see the exact reverse * Spam. The Spaniard, loving Jan Cujacity to imagine pan IN chirpy as a lark while reading He lollows like a Sull at the first pushe Dal # jumpy

twrxe, and con IN sit bewell drsed! highly 125- Hurt such a thing could

Lok sily have happened

Calif

tignant

Unimpressed

beentire

"It is cruel, you say, lu kick a dog, which at the work any give you hydrophobia and at best a fleas. Yet it la noi share of ita ergei to deny Spain Marshall Ald political differences. thereby, perhaps

ehtising want and suffering t41 thousands of Spanish women and children, who certainly have neither the will now the capacity to hann you.

"We Sponlards think you cruel in that you often smack your children and sometimes even divorce your wives, both of which actions seem barbarOUN TO TUN."*

Hopeless Cause

There is at maciety for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals b chiofly at the per- span, run sunul expense of Catalan in- dustrialist, the Conde fle Sert, wlthough the cause seems hope- Признан

A silin us типу усього 1804 Of course, it could not be vall- alled "Broadway Billy" meluded |ed the SPCA as the words "pre- e most moving stente of the owner ¦ vention of grueity" haply that a -tamang stricken by than grave of † spaniard might, just possibly, be - horse woleh bad dad in win-capable of being cruel, in im- When saved theplication which would be taken -uniły tertums. It was taken ofi As an unpardonable insult by the fter three luys, beat the Sparsh audience laughed itself Jek at the sportacle of a grown man taking off his hat so dend 2020, ustead of selling at to the Gulch rand the corner.

Fur from that their standarde are lower than British. the Spaniard

( he knews you us of well enough) will meeting. being sentimental hypocrites. One summed it up to

the other

for a shared room, £3 10%. for a single room).

remainder The have to be absorbed by London "Town.

whole nation.

To give you an idea of what the Society Is sas against there is the ene at a Spanish friend of minie, whom I know uffectionate family considerate employer.

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The devoted boxer, which had acted as faithful watch dog for him and his family for 10 years, ran out to meet us as wel approached his house. Patting the animal's" bend, my friend "wald,

·"That-reminds mo, "Tacky herr is getting too old. 1, must re- member to buy a new dog when

go to Barcelona tomorrow."

When Imked him what he To help settle the remaining would do with "Lucky," he look- 14,000 students the university hand slightly puzzled, as if I hind set up Lodgings Bureau in Woburn Square, where a register

In Private Homes

nsked him what his servants did

is kept of some 2,500 landladies with his used razor bladen, anci

know- I don't really |replied. with rooms to let at around £3 D

Just lock him out, I suppose." week

You and *I would end? tius cruel. but in my friend it was just indifference, an 'indifference

by having, as But hore the scene is changing.strengthened ilead (ffice offered their hum-

The only focal point in the unl-The old boarding-house fandlady matter of course, witnessed from úde apologies, but if Yoshitaka versity by the Union — knowu að

earliest youth the animal-aguny is giving way to the amateur. To- would ignore the promotion and ULU

"Zulu." to rhyme with

day, of the five to six thousand and death of the bull ring. arrept his discharge they would Though dobates and theatricals

students to be sattied every year, see the clerk was suitably repri- are arranged, the Union and the threoquarters Arc

nnnded.

Athletic Union cannot hope to private families. Whether the clerk was discover the whole university. charged as well, Richard Hughes London University'a problem was not able to find out. He odds,is geographical. Today there in n North London bed-and-break-

however, thunt Yoshitaka, diuju-

students al- some 23,000 orc moned though he was. kept his tending more than 40 colleges, word as regards the party. schools, and departments of the university, and another 23,000 at 21 institutions with recognised | teachers," much as polytechnics,"

Based on the Senate House, the university is scattered over 400 quare miles, a vast, complicated, dovetailor system of education.

PRIX FEMINA

Puris, November 26. The Prix Femina, one of the Juur main annual French literar

was awarded today to prizes, Madame Marin le Kardouin for her novel "La Dame de Coeur.

There were' Hoven entries, al by young of unknown authors, Seventeen women authors formes the jury. The awards of the other three prizes will be an- nounced next week.-Reuter.

In the lociuro hall and class- room London can equal any uni- versity but after the classes and lectures it cannot begin to com- poto with Oxford or, Cambridge.

London University is almost ntirely non-residential. Of tho 23,000 students, 0,000 are London- era keeping office hours at the university. There are hostals for another 3,000 (terms: £8 a wook

placed

with

Instead of solitary confinement

fast warren the studenta cau ilve with the families of professional people who can no longer afford a ipare room. One woman lets her ran's bedroom while he is away at Eton.

Thus the bulk of the students entirely miss the give-and-take communal life of Ceford and Cambridge. But they do learn about the London rusl hour, bed- making, and how to enjoy life in London without money.

And so, when they graduate, some of the students of London Uniorsity find that they have. been inoculated against the end- rush-hour that the towns- less man's life has become,

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