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FOUR CACOPHONES OF CHARING CROSS:

SPAIN AN INDICTMENT OF ITS RULERS

YOU LISTEN, WHILE THE

TRAINS SQUEALL SEA

""SPAIN IN Revolt, 1814-1891." By THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR iter three minutes in this weather

Josph McCabe, Bodley Hend

****I regard the Republié na de finitely established, as in Franco

THE FORGE. BY TS Stribling. London William Heinemans Pp. 595, 82, eilínét

Brighter telephoning has come to Charing Cross, la addition to the usund closed sentry-box type, where

your hat slides off your head on a cascade of perspiration, there have been installed four public phones in four open spaces, back to back, 16. 10 autorica idea. You can inhaling germa left by the bad language of the previous spanker.

It is an American

WONG NEI CHEONG SENATOR SHOT IN

› LANDSLIDE.

A FLAT

DEATH BY "MISADVEN-

TURE

YOUNG WOMAN CALLS A DOCTOR.

JURY'S RECOMMENDATIONS

New York, August 14-Mr. Roy "REGARDING SHEDS,

aten, aged 30, the youngest member of, the Now Wond that death was due to

Senate, misadventuro. At the same time hospital in New York with a bulle

are of the opinion that Hank wound Sun and Co, should have taken stronger ensures to remoro" the

the abdomen while he was visiting the "flat BAStanek Rath Yane, a pretty blonde young

Kin West Eight

streat

and Portugal that is the inde significance of the America Vyhöne this way with no danger of shots, Infuture we anggest that.

teresting, conclusion to which Mr. Joseph McCabe remea in the last pages of his book-Spain in Re volt," He is probably right, but the previous hundred years of his tory that he relates certainly do not tend to substantiata it.

Chil War is an unwieldy subject but fr. Stribling has succeeded in reducing it into the form of novel by sistently, to fortunes of his tory The reader's directed towards the

hey looked so cool, like sain vitation to an ico (writes an Even most coming Standard representative) that le from the I bought two-penn'orth to-day tors to his Add it was not so cool, after all, attention is Distractions

Because London, unfortunately, idan fami

does, not oblige by censing or up in Villiers-street and stand on

the principal, contractor should be The case did not resch held responsible for all matsheds,

tion of the polico hacks or lean-to's grooted in cons acction with excavating or build hours after the gir ing operations," said Mr. Fally telophoned W Smith foremna of the Jury, which sat with Mr. W. Schödeld that a surgeon and ambu (Coroner) in the inquiry into the sont immediately as a man bad circumstances surrounding the been shot coolie, who was killed at the re death of Tang Kam, an earth

Opg

The surgeon said he reached the

Corruption and Torture.

MERO, their friends and, slavca, Anu while ole telephones. Taxis oent landslide at the new Jockey fint to And the girl, clad in a silken They are a long and rather only through them the war, dreary story of corruption and with all the problems of polities the boil while cabbies argue about Club stables. at Wong Nel Cheong kimono, pacing up and down the

the fare Trams scrocch past on when hearing was brought to an torture, incompetence and intri and political philosophy is raised the other side. Coppers, clatter ond at Central Magistracy yester-foor of the living room, while on guo. The stories of brumlity are. It is characteristic of the author into the automatic ticket machines day. almost incredible. In the time that, although he makes that eu Conducted parties of ghall boya,

Warnings Ignored,

the floor of the bed-room lay a man bleeding considerably from a wound.

of Don Carles, for instance, the ture for which the South wasbelled, like parcels, arrive for thein When the inquiry was resumed in the abdomen. Because of the

Count de Morellu, the Basque leader, took 75 prisoners, strip. red them naked, told them to run, and roared with laughter as his men ran after them and cut them down. Near the end of the war he suspected that his offears were disaffected. He brought them together and told them that he was inclined to make posco, and all officers who agreed with him were shot.

discharged Federal prischer. Beside Maria stands old Vaidan, positive in politica, as in ie-

country holiday trip. Underneath Mr. T. Halmes, of Messrs. Palmer traine arrive boereraanPSH and and Turner, said he had been in seriousness of the wound the sur

chargo of the work at the Wong geon rushed the victim to depart PSHarroco,

pital; Nei Cheong stables since January not attempting a lengthy question. 20 of this year. He was looking after the whole of the works, in ing of the girl, who seemed dazed, cluding the removal of the earth, some of which was dumped over the site and then carted away to the nullah nearby. Hang Sun and Co were the contractors, but be did not know anything about the

So when I had dialled my home amber, pushed Button A, and ask ed her to get the brown paper parcel from the inside pocket of the cout. I was wearing yesterday and love it at Henry's house, because I had forgotten it and Henry wanted it urgently, I got this from all

Girl's Blory

This police, when finally called, likewise found the girl near hya toria She stated

the

fighting real, he has drawn the Vaidans as a shiftless, half-educat od family, endowed with the qualities but not the romance of good breeding. The adventures of the young men at the

war and their resistants or adaptation to the changes it brings are con trasted with the material and

Which cont, was it you (ching sub-contracting

ber is that someone caught me spiritual ruin of their parents and ink) not that grey suit that. (Rich- The coolies, who worked on the the throat as I slept, and had the confusion of the negroes. The mond, train down there poble site, were housed in matsheds ne

mem: dreams of Marcia, the youngest left it to the garden all night, he know, those who worked below her hearing a shot. I did not hav

poble poble what's this bob for 3)tually on the site, and as ta as gasp for breath. I do not There seemed to be no tyranny daughter, form a commentary on darling (it says a shilling, on the the site were also housed in mat a pistol, and did not see one. in the last one hundred years so the muddled idealiam of the South, meter, don't is) afraid the storm sheds which wore erected on Crown

She denied ownership outrageous as to be insupportable yielding to reality when she aban-must have (ooorFromPSH!), shall, I land. He had, from time to time, Sho

do that, dear of insued warnings about the danger pistol found

the courty to the Spanish people. All dons her romantic suitor to marry Aren't you listening (PSHCH of living in those sheds but his the window Five exploded: through the nineties," Mr. Me

Fr5000)—"

warnings were completely ignored. “Do what ?! I eaid.

Witness concluded by saying that of the pistol were found in the fat Cnbe records, "the gaols were ful:

Unfortunate, Too.

lie visited the scene after the ac but no trace of other bullets save. everywhere. Torture was unques

Another man was now phoning vident and found that the gain the one that struck the senator. tionably used, and the worst deligion.

at the next stand couldn't get on, wator had perforated the loose Asked how long, she had known earth on top of the site and had vices of the Russian police, such Mr. Stribling has avoided the or something, as agents provocateurs and oven, obvious climax of the surrender wer with last night's (clang-ulang dant of Crown Lands, the next

I listened again; But it's all caused it to fall Mr. Br. Yates, the girl replie

Lambert, Assistant Superinten enough but under

questioning she shid they had officially-directed outrages, were If there is a pouk in his narrative Come on, young Arry 1) Can't witness, doposed that he issued friends for two years. She seemed used by the police of Spain.""

it is the outbreak of war from possibly give it to Honry like that permits for the erection of the amazed to learn he was a promin this point the long decline begins (bullo, Mary, can't you hear! matsheds on: the site of the entihanker, lawyer, and member The hatred engendered now was

HULLO })—"A

the New Jersey. Senate She stables. These sheds were about

atud not merely against Church, Mon. The result of this is to make the

**Push Button A, you fool!" I 400 or 500 feet to the west she had told him she was archy and Army, but in the mind last part of the book, with its said, shoving my head round the of the stables, but as regards of journalism, and he had said he

over-long account of the Ku Klux corner Now, darling, say it the sheds on the piece of ground was a writer on sports of the great masses of the workers Kian and careful knitting-up of Why don't you listen? I told her armed for their creation. he was President of the Investing again below, the site, no permite hadShe professed to be unaware that it was directed against the middle- class politicians. Then why did threads, asem protracted, al: (It's all right; I hadn't pushed for and therefore on the Comporation of America, Vice though it rises to tragedy with Button A-Where's teacher The Crown Lands Office had given evi President of the Lincoln Trust Co. not the country rise up in the death of old Vaidan. The au- not at home now so (ooorrr4TSH1 after the Wong Nei Cheong Va his wife and three children, now on right fare's a shilling) and Henry's dence to the elect that he looked of Paterson, where he lived with might and sweep the tyrants from thor is impartial enough to imply Bakerloo down those steps) in the loy district, and that he had much holiday at the seaside. The girl their seats? Admittedly revo}n- tion was a dangerous game. It al

that the dreariness of this ending morning the parcel (No, Mary, not trouble with the squatters here, being detained for further question- there, it's too public-Slam Ching the hearing was brought to an ending, while detectives await an on- precedes a new beginning, and in linkMaida Vale, put three pen and the jury retired for some portunity to question, Yates, whous ways is.

the goodwill of his simpler charnies in all at once) the other cont, time. They came back to return expected to recover, following an actors foreshadows what may grow perhaps, darling.

the verdict as above mentioned. operation to remove the bullet. out of if

Political Prisoners,

Mr. McCabe gives a horrible It is an exciting and an inter- picture of conditions for political esting book, which might be the prisoners in the fortress of Mon record of intense and varied per- sonal experience. So strong is the tauich. Men were forced by the impression of reality that it 18 fashes of the jailers to remain on difficult to criticise either: unequai their feet without sloep for five characterisation or style which, in spite of vivid colloquialism, or six days. During all that tame is often pretentious. It seems ra- they were fed on dry brend and ther as if the style and, the par salt fish and were not gavon a drop tial insight must be accepted as naturally as they would be in one of water. "They were scourged who had lived through the events until their bodies were livid." But he described and reached In time patriots down the ages have bravan historical vision of them

ed worse than that and WGD through to liberty,

Mute Under Tyranny.

Even the debacio in Morocco in 1921, which cost Spain more than two thousand million pesetas and tens of thousands of lives," failed

MR. HILTON'S NEW NOVEL.

AND Now Hoon-Byz... By James

Hilton. London: Ernest Benn. Pp. £56, "78. 6d;" net. Mr. Hilton's novel in interest-

to infuriate the Spaniards Intoing and of unusual design... It might even be said that the con- rebellion. "In 1924, writes Arcusión comes first; this reversal McCabe, one saw the country is an expedient which may maku mute under a colossal military course of events. Yet one does It easier to accept a very strange-

tyranny. Sabres, bayonets, rifica feal that Howata talo to Eliz and revolvers were everywhere." beth of his early life is not in Why in the name of Garibaidh terms of the occasion. It is out of place, for it comes as a quiet was it "mute"7

narrative when the tension is ex- trame He is a conscientious dise Mr. McCabe complains that souting minister in a Lancashire lot of nonsense is talked in Eng town, and Mr. Hilton shows very land, about the hot blooded Latin well the limitations and the dis peoples and their impulsive chan-among dull and conventional peo couragements involved in work

ges, I have shown, he writes, ple Perhaps these are slightly. an entirely logical development, caricatured; ons can hardly be putting ideas into the young liers in survival of the charge of

neople's head.' But to this dull

only checked and distorted by tyranny, in the life of Spain dur-

ing the last century and a hat life comes an amsting interlude.

What, he has shown is a poop. 10

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comes a free wan; he exercises For é few hours: the minister bo

an age of growing bumon his natural choice, ho knows, love tarianism – submitting, without any and adventure he throws his cap vory obvious protest to a system consideration of caution, or re- ever the windmill without any of government a stupid and esproach, Mr. Hilton leads up tr Cruel an Any in the Middle Ages, it plausibly, but it is hard to accept in cold blood. People don't It is to be hoped that he is less de such things, and this is, gen« than just to the Spanish charac orally, a sober and truthful book, Kakkozdi Batiwhy should there not beca ter For no Republic can exist burgeoning of fancy In a reall fork long thealavo virtuos pi | tin naval – Probially—-M390) timidity and patience, Robert would not conceive

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