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THE FONGKONG DAIL PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH,

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LIFE IN ARABIA

MRS ROSITA FORBESS TRAVELS,

1923

SCOTTISH LETTER.

SIR ROBERT HORNE'S OPTIMISM.

An entrancing story of adventure was told. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

by Mrs. Rosita Forbes to an appreintive audience at Wigmore Hall on May 1st, when EDINBURGH, May 2 The address of a Londi Rector of a Scottish she gave an account of her recent tarels in University is always of interest, and not Arabia. For two months Mrs Forbes seldom of importance, That delivers by journeyed in Asir and North Yen, and during that time she gathered a great deal Sir Robert Horne to his constituency, the students of Aberdeen Iniversity, was no of interesting information concerning a

which hil me country

not en explored for exception to the rule. It opened with some

the geul advice which Lord! Beers some eighty years, Tavelling as an Egypti always feel land to offer to their youthful an wom, she cabaked from Port Sudan

a little faust Boit lang

wide and this part of t trow

ist in a audience, and one

only by All about (line,"

tires, and scarcely jul eight. their studying," he said, "study also their

Before crossing of the Red Sox begun fellows-not in a cynical or censorious spirit but with a view to understanding the met with adventures which might well have daunted a woman less hardened to the other man's point of view. Youth is apt to thum be imperious, Sir Robert florne's counsel to await the passing of a le, Mrs. Forbes"

to be contemptats and excitements of travi 19 Landing on an island bas the wisdom of the experienced in of pitched her tent on a sandy hench covered ndlairs. In the 1 routine affies of this world, with small holes "I awoke, days. with thought that I was living in As well as in matters of larger nument,

one of those frightful nightmares in which success often depends on the ability of ones mind to

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making our own tween the situation in provisions, which "aul been stucked for a six there is no parallel betallaire now-d

amt un new

or seven day trip.

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Once in the country, Mrs. Forles and her that was the conclusion to which Sir Robert

lesa is there 1 party were, on the whole, hospitably received, Horne Knally

CART still rallel between the situation after or durs and she had many amusing tales to tell of All luxuries, he pointed ing the Peloponnesian War, or the campaigns her experiences. of Caesar, and the position created by then to offend by offering the Emir a gold by the out, are forbidden, and she was innocently Great War. We are the inheritors ages and deriving from the past: bat in the watch as a present. The watch in to he and the Emir eni the problem, has the Alfenaces himself had to be purified before the conver

be thought thrown out of the window,

I think

I forgave are not accidental and transient, rather sation could contine,

and immutalde,

THE

barisan praat

is of parts in exchange" On Densions the in one suose tik most stable of all, in me," said Mrs. Forbes, "for he gave w Factors actually the most ulling. The British hospitality of the natives was so great as to

emirrasing.

During our first were given what they called a mail meal. It con-istert of two-hop cucked whole, and stuffed with little birds and eggs and all sorts of spices. all saris, of vegetable messes stewed with rice, and five cups of green tra, each one with a different scent in it. On the second ter an interview lasting from six in the day the Emir sent for the visitors, and at evening to two in the morning, he said, “I am glad to have had this little talk with you. The Emir, apparently is a modern persen, und possesses a dees of four motor cars. But when we were in a horry," said

Essay

to go on donkeys. Mrs. Forbes, we,

Government and the British people know, or in the coup

think they know, how the reparations pro he can and should be solved. But British pychology is not French psychology, nor ret German

and with the British thesis proved tan demonstration, as is believellere, France or fierinany, accepts the con- elusion. What is to be done? Argument is force we less: the appeal to history is vain; is out of the question. But it for

He is confident Horne does not despair, that a way "can and will he found, so sOOTI as the winds of men are attuned more to go strike. The material than to operation difliculties are enormous; but the problem is reduced in the end, as most, if not all, of our

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He downs. Provided with a a Lodyguard by the Mrs. Forbes and her party later

the inventive capacity of the race,

takes comfort in the thought that the worldted the interior of the country, and

Mrs.

has always produced the remedies which the conditions require, and he gave as his parting it was not long before they were rignin in

to his stadent audience the message the midst of unpleasant adventures.

described one of these that " upon no fairer sea car the Argosy of Forbes cheerfully

She found herself Youth set sail than the seas of discovery incidents as amusing.

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p with a number of women

and invention which open out to "the im- expect overcrowded hit, but, objecting |

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moonlight. banket and walked t A very sweet scent was coming from a I looked in, and there little hat opposite, so was an old woman asleep, in the corner. went to sleep in the other corner, next morning I found it was a corpse pre pared for burial with the death herbs,

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The cost of living in this part of Arabia was found to be very low. A camel custs but E4, n sheep fis, a donkey £2,312b whent 1 d. Egis and bananas are practically bu visited, Mrs. Forbes changed her Egyptian gar, for the peasant dress of the country, anl after the ascetic and fanatient in

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of the deep heaved back at her by foreigners, she has now to endure a bom- bardment of German granite. Whether the babibunts of Asir she found the people

14 being most of the granite that shipped by German consignors to British Yeon a race of lulus-enters, easy-going and more slothful than their neighbours. Her is from German quarries, or luas been

adventures amongst them were less terrify

but on one occasion she witnessAl A riot of which two merchants we called pro hus at all events it is i

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a large number of war memorials fiteering. One of them went into the crowd in this country, some of them in Aberdeen and was never son again. "There shire

itself, are made of gennite quarried or only bits of him," said Mrs. Fortes. Later, battle hewa Germany. As to the extorts for she watched from a short distance other purest

wever, they must be re however,

between two the raiding party fired a und was greatly amused garded

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at its progress, the inevitable and very unfortunate results valley into the village, auri waited until the of the depreciation of German currency, defenlers fired back. No one was lurt, but

dispose which not only forces. Germany to

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Membership of the Atheuse ben conferred upon the lev: Professor Milligan, D., D.C.L., Moderator-Designate the Church of Scotland, Somnolence and abfness are said to be the leading chanc

Wiren teristics of the clubmen, but

Cres the threshold of the Milligan Athenaeum he will perhaps come to be known as "the member for the Clyde." There are more and brighter pebbles on the shores of that, river than are to be found at Westminster.

CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL"AND INCUNT.

One of these days we may be hearing that Imin, the hud of Soviet vs. is, after- all, a Scot: It is not improbable that some

Sir Alexander Sprutt, Bart, of Stra- will oblige by tracing the Sovint genealogist chief's genealogy back to some Highland vithie, is nominated for the Captaines of

the

the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. other. Regarded as "Lenin," me of the Bolshevik is not far removed, Andrews in saccession to the Prince of phonetically at least, from the gourd Scots Wales. Sir Alexander is better known to

fair

the general public as a politician than as name of M'Letime. At any rate, a nauder of Scots seem, to be still in Hussin golfer, and his victory over Mr. Asquith under the Soviet regime, and. as usual with was one of the big events of the post-war Scots abroad, doing very well. This revi-la-election. Apart from polities, Sir Alexander tion પ made

hy Lieutenant-Commanders well known as a county inan: and has Kenworthy,

who, speaking on his tour been a member of the It: and A: for over 20 of Russia, tentioned that be met quite years. number of Scotsman there. "The first Friton

he came, neroes in Russin was a Scot. A-POSAN DOYLE'R CHONTH.

AND LINERS.

other was hand of a Foreign Press Associa There is an old Scots "buddie" whose tion; a third was chief cashier of a State views on spiritualism are not without bank, and even the leader of the British mint. She was being told of Sir Conan Soviet Party was from north of the Tweed.

Doyle's photographie experiments, and of the results achieved. She listened atten

and finally shook her head and Messrs. Harland and Woolf, lave received exclaimed-"Na, in, I'm no ready to from the Peninsular and Uriental Steam believe in the deid comin' back to this Navigation Company orders for three weary warld. Them that's weel aff will no passenger linera for their Indian and want to come back, an' them that's ill aff Australian Services. Of the vessels two will no win back." will each be 50ft. in length, and the third will be soft. It has been arranged that all

coLF HTORY.

three will be built in the firm's Greenock At a West Lothian Golf Club smoker one yard. This contract is the largest of a story told was about a "gowffer" playing mercantile shipbuilding character which has in a mixed foursome competiton who, when been placed with one firm aince before the asked what his handicap was, pointed over his shoulder and whispered "She's comin' (Continued at foot of next column.)

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