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TANK ARMIES FOR FUTURE WAR?

REVOLUTIONARY NEW TACTICS.

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MEMOIRS OF "A FAMOUS CLOWN.

LIVE'S A LARK. By Grock,

276. A. 6d. nota

London: the hopes and fears of a young.

The

up and who fears that he may not be

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PLEASURE CRUISE,

TO THE SOUTH SEA. By Offford Pinchot, Illustrailed with ovar 250 reproductions of photo- graphs taken on the cruise and

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successful in getting it. Moreover, State, and his plan of a cruise by fire in the United States dur

Fires Actually. ing-that of secretory of it is work of which he knows nothmong the islands of the Pricing 1930.

and Mr. George Woodruff, captainperty loss direct pro to 6.30 p.m.-Chinese children's. had been long premeditated. Ho don journal. But the newly ad world every day of one's life organisation formed to look after of the Yale crow and also the meat 8500,000,000, an increase of more

Warminster, Sept. In the true British weather" now pre vailing the tank Beem to bo the only part of the British Army that Grock has brought it off. one cart scent exercise, writes the clown who writes I believe the military correspondent of Loneret of success live in seeing the quired if still limited "Imber Aren" though for the very rat tima." has an the west of Salibury Plain is not failed in the dangerous business at the moment the scene of the of autobiography. It is entertain

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than 840,000,000 over, 1820. the interests of motorists, who

famous football player right then beginning to be a new section

Deaths and injuries were ex guard" of his time, made up their

cess of 5,000 "most significant experiment in, moing, idiosyncratic, and the revela of the community. The new bodyminds when they were sophomores There were many more millions 7.03 to 7.30 p.m

tion by caloulated naïveté of the ad ninety members and had £100

under the aegis of Old Eli toof dollars involved indirectly suc in the bank? But its founders were What Shorncliffe Camp was to quiddity of the man. Does he in

visit the enchanted placos mention, as through loss of rentals, bloker Bir John Moore in creating the form the hapless ones who never inckily for them they appointed man in sick bay at Vancouver tributable to fire

men of vision and bourags, and

contracts, unemployment and in ed in the saying of an old sailer torruption to business, directly at Immortal "Light Brigade" for th

wo others laughed struggle against Napoleon, the saw him why Imber Area may prove to be in with Grock? No, though photo.teason Cooks to the new secretary-Love and them little islands has: fashioning not only the future Brigraphs of that grotesque make-up foresaw what it was to mean and ahip, though neither they, nor he, tish Army, but the future of land warfare.

what a good stroke of business they

revive glad memories, he doesn't

bson the ruination of the Pacific.” But when, forty years later, the MISS NAOMI ROYDE SMIT

FINE STORY,

For there the newly formed 1st or could any printed words. One had done in making the appoint time came to sail south, the more

ments

Famous athlets (Mr. Pinchot him- 'self won biss" Y " at football) was

too busy to join the expedition.

Brigade Royal Tank Corps the could describe every action in his first all-armoured formation, since the Ware being practised and turn and one would, inevitably, tested, under Brigadier C. Broad's miss the point. He unroofed a control, in a series of exercises that piano, opened its lid, and slid are strikingly different from or down it. And amongst the perdur. dinary military manoeuvres. From ably incommunicable things is the those exercises may emerge a re- smile of Grock nf he slid down volutionary new system of tactics, that lid. The art of the clown is suited to a mass of armoured fight in its place and of its place, and ing vehicles, that would make the what Grock, turned author, does is soldier of the past rub his eyes, not to try impossibly to analyse his astounded,

art but to reveal that he is a great person who very likely, would have become eminent in any chosen walk Asailor might by comparison of life. Your clown," he potential road-hog. There was of wild life in little-known local

Like a Battlefleet.

Long and Hard Fight.

Something of what they desired to do was needed. The motorist was by way of becoming almost a social perinh. A man might be the best of human creatures, he might even be a deacon and the father of seven, but so soon as he acquired a car he immediately became b

none, or there were very few, to say ities. a good word for him in this cap. ** Strange - Experiences. seity, and because the new machine** exceeded speeds that are laughed at Several of the

With some difficulty a suitable vessel was procured. Great pains were taken about its equipment. and scientific experts were included in the party, so that what was primarily a pleasure-cruise has added not a little to our knowledge

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there is a fundamental similarity that is the essence of it. We my to-day he was made to pay, in the islands in the Caribbean provided greater advantage in ita essential records, kindly lent by a listen-

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And less strangonem in the sight.say just as much as any other For even if there are marked dif-artist, is the product of tradition," feroncon, not only on the surface, and, though he says a little more, between the manoeuvres of this a great person. For example. Anggregate, thousands of pounds. It great flotilla of "land ships and Grock dislikes America, having was a long and hard fight to over. strange experiences, eg the discharacter than in the careful and 7.44 to 7.18 p.m.- those of a battle fleet at se, suffered nocidente both in the сото this and rehabilitate the covery in Old Providence Island of illuminating analysis, to which she

The parallel becomes vivid " not "Argentine and the States. Quito motorist, and there were times when only in some of the formations recently

Julie de Lespinassa was the which the tanks adopt, but also in cabled me a fabulous offer, nad its very existence. But they won, hung in clusters. Some of these natural daughter of the Comtesse

fabulous manager the Automobile Association Theda Ben, cave where thousands of bata has subjected this personality. the way they are controlled and as a poor, despised European, had and the story of the battle is well islands were haunts of pirates, like d'Albon by her lover Gaspard de Danceuvred as a unity by wireless the hardlihood to send him the told. There was more in their work the Dead Man's Chest" of the two children by the Comtesse, then

Vichy. This lover, after having | and flag sigoals. A new and sim- following telegram by way of than this, of course. The A.A were pla two-letter code has been de- reply: Am not interested in but to serve the motorist in every

Treasure Island" ditty, but married her legitimata daughter, vised, and orders for manoeuvre are America. And that from the man possible way-touring facilities, bet neither there nor in Cocos Island, Diane d'Albon, and so became given by it either through the dis who, earlier, has penned ster roads, safer motoring, and in that famous Pacific rendezvous of

brother-in-law to his own daughter) play of combinations of two fags, passage about money (baving becoming a vast and wealthy or-?

After her mother's death Julie one above the other, or by wireless money means self-assurance, do-

*gentlemen of fortune," was ganisation-it has now over 400,000

became, her nephews and nieces ing the two letters in Morse. These cency, and freedom, and I am deter-members with an income of about anttebapt made to locate buried governess till 1754. At that date a instantly intelligible signals cover mined to fight tooth and nail for million a year-it has never lost heards. The account of what was her rebellion against the boridage in series of events combined to favour a remarkably comprehensive range auch freedom") that might have sight of this. It is an extraordi- of orders And they can be sup. been written by Samuel Butler) nary record, but one learns in these seen in the Galapagos Islands, which she was held by her family. plemented by the radio, telephony,

pages how it all came about: more where Charles Darwin landed in of the legacy left her by her (who had also rabbed her of part with which the tanks are now

particularly how it was made pos 1835 and found a world of creatures mother); and she took the refuge 2nd Movement Andante.com fitted.

Bible. A committee the membara of,! which addressed each other by their till then unkown, theroy being led offered to her in Paris by the Marmoto. Christian names the narrative sug to speculate on questions of requise du Deffand. In this Salon 8.28 to 8.42 p.m.-

she gradually eclipsed the presiding How About Me 1”

The new tank brigade comprises thren "mixed" battalions and one light tant battalion. Each of the

Clowning His One Ambition.

But it is of course, in his early struggles that his tonacity is best revealed. Hi inne s Wettach,

in a very free, and informal way—

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any

must be done in this paradise of paradoxes for naturalists before the Galapagos problema can be finally solved..

its story is told in a vein of humour The cruise ended at Tahiti, and

and high spirits which makes it one of the most delightful travel-books of recent years. · ́ ̧

Humorous Numbers,

Because I Love You.” My Blue Heavon. Virginia" (There's a Blue Ridge

fields.

in My Heart), mutt "He's Tall, Dark and Handsome." Sophie Tucker and Teu Sha.. piro to 8.28 p.m. Unfinished Sym- phony in B Minor" (Schubert), The Royal Owern Orchestra, Convent, Garden, conducted by Eugene Goossens.

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1st Movement Allegro Mode-

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Sophie Tucker and Ted Sha-" piro Julie enjoyed the unfailing and 8,42 to 0.00 p.m.----

Alembert, while pursuing nedent unsuspecting allegiance of the en cyclopædist and mathematician, love affairs with the Spanish aristo- erat, the Marquis de Mure, and the bombastic General Guibert

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former consists of three companies born" bear Berne of a father who gests that they conducted basiness lationship and origin, is particular star and a rupture that was nover and a section of elon support was a watchmaker and an unaue certainly were fertile of ideas and ly interesting. Much more work henled resulted in Julie's establish- Oh, You Have No Ide-Gracio be obtainable on sppication at tanks. An innovation this year, cessful, almost nomadio, innkeeper knew how to get business donc which has long bean advocated, 16 Grock was pot-boy and apprenticed And to their ability the volume that each company combines both to the watches and, later, to musical gives whole-hearted credit. I medium and light tanke, having instruniants. He has watches as a these things at least one official section of five medium and a sec hobby now, and once in Hungary obtrudes very little in these pages, tion of seven light tanks. SE he kept a troupe from starving by but it is no secret, inside and aut

If such a mixture has a naval repairing mice eaten pianos in one-side the movement, that in large aspect suggesting a squadron of ly castles. But let him be this or and real mensure the A.A. was, and battleships accompanied by a flotil. that by the way, clowning was his still is, Stenson Cooke. la of destroyers, it also has a passionate" ambition: 'Domestic to "Mongol" breeding. For tho com the very marrow" he yot, after self- bination makes possible the docentraining, helped by the gear of a tive and paralysing tactics by circus stored at his father's/inn, which Jenghiz Khan's incomparab joined strolling troupes in the ly mobile horsemen triumphed over villages of Switzerland and Hun the solid battle-arrays of medievalgary A description of boing chus Asia and Europo.

od by wolves in Hungarian know The tanka maneuvre either mis matched by that, narrated with close or open, order. In close or Tabelaisian gusto, of his escape der there is 25 yards interval be-from a fire-enter's lecherous wife,

tween

WAR AS IT IS.

BLOW BUGLES BLOW An English

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To her affair with Guibert Julie fell victim to that Sebsibility" which was at once the affectation and the curse of her period; "an

Ballade No. 1 in C Minor

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La Campanelia' (Paganni-Liszt).

Levitzk

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Moiseivitch.

0.00 to 8.30 p.m. Symphony No.

the lack of humour in its possessori. 39. in E Flat (Mozart).Ber and of which Professor Saintsbury lin State Opera Orchestra.. quotes Mademoiselle de Lespinasse 1 Movement Adagio Allegro.!! and Rousseau as, the awful exam and Movement"Andante," ples. What else than extreme

3rd Movement-Minuet Allegret Sensibility" could make her fill her love letters to Guibert with 4th MovementFinale Allegro." ardent eulogies of the dying de 9.30 to 9.54 ̈p.m.---

Ther lovers

ALWAYS COMFORTABLYZD÷1

Odyssey. By Edward Monsley. ROMAN CHURCH IN MODERN affectation that spoke volumes for Hutchinson 7 6d not. M This is frankly a war novel; and while it avoids the coarseness that affonds so many in the translations the tanks. In open, or The eternal troubadour the edany of German war literature, it equal fighting order, the intervals be-Swiss bourgeois, the reckless nero-ly avoids anything in the nature of tween medium tanks are doubled, but standing on his hands at the idealising the horrors, or investing is. in root, principle at issue with and one sees the light tanks of top of a factory stack, the conscious war with the glamour and romance the civic definition both of freedom

Могд each company move out to "pro artist mastering cosmopolitanan. that stay-at-homes attribute to the tection stations.""...

diences and relishing the thrill of unknown.

Mies

penetrating John Sparrow is just down from This declaration by Mr. Hilaire study of Julie; through her letters "Mongoi

"Flavoursceing his name in electric lights

in Trafalgar Square-all these com- Cambridge when war breaks out. Belloc has been taken by Mr. And those of her contemporaries, Various combinations of flags are pose into a consistent character of He goes to France with an Am Charles C. Marshall, of the New brings vividly before us... this shown in turn, and the company the roan who wanted to be a great bulance unit and finally takes York. Bar, and made the basis of thwarted and unhappy Boul; to adopts varying formations, makes clown and let no obstacle deter him, commission in the Artillery Bea work in which the issues are whom the accident of her birth and an incline, changes direction-per. He tells of an artist calmly paint fore he leaves London be meets a examined in detail The Roman subsequent mishandling by her haps to avoid "hapaasable ground" ing while a horde of tourists joalled young German girl and their Catholic Church in the Modern family resulted in the distortion of that has been signalled halts un his easel, and that is the essential mutual love forms a beautiful back- State, with a Freface by Isaac Foot, a part of her nature. This, an der cover, &c.

attitude of all those who wish to ground to the trials he is called P (Faith Press, 88. 6d. net), spite of her otherwise clear, and There is a peculiarly strong accomplish anything. It is my upon to endure. Later, he is draft

discriminating vision on certain flavour of Mongol Battle drill" in attitude. 1 conld stand in theed to. Mesopotamia, and takes part Mr. Marshall devotes little space

as well as the tormentor of two of the swift manoeuvres that grant Cathedral Square in Cologne in the horrible fiasco that did not to going over again the historical subjecte, made her her own fortarer- are made nt signal notice." A par in the full glare of day smearing relieve Kut. He is taken prisoner: ground. The greater part of this ticular pair of flage are shown my Ince with a fresh make-up to the and the descriptions in this part treatise is devoted to the documents: which mean "eingle flank attack"exclusion of all also," And it is are cruel in their starkness, and and events of the last 60 years thereupon the medium section cir-likely, had a policeman interfered, the more emphatic for the absence Chapters on the Lateran Treaty eles round to strike the enemy's that it would have been bad for the of all melodrama in the telling of last year and the Malta dispute Bank, covered during its move by olurer: Grock is a handy fellow Eventually he escapes, and returns are especially, valuable, particular one light sub-section, while the rest with his fists. His partners, ono to England on Armistice Day to ly in relation to the contrasted of the light section is praying the gathers, found partnership no bed find his Gretchen, dead from the statement of Governor Smith, fuf enemy with manchine-gun ballets of roses.

after-effects of a German bomb. New York when standing for the from its original position, An-

But, it is the deeper implications last Presidential election in the "other pair of flags mean "double Translated from German. of the war that chicly preoccupy: United States: "I believe. in nh

flank áttack" this time, the bulk

this writer; and his ability to co solute freedom of conscience for all of the light section move off to With the thiree Swiss. languages to ordinate these with his actors and men and in equality of all strike the opposite flank to that choose from, Grock elected to write their parts in the world drama is Churches, all sects, and all beliefs which the medium section is a in Germinu, from which his book is the messure of his success. He before the law as a matter of right, tacking.

excellently translated. We hope its faces this problems of God in the and not as a matter of favour- When the battalion or the tri-title won't mislead. In it he does war unflinchingly in the last To This utterance Mr. Marshall Kade is working as a whole, man-not forget to be a jeɛter, with racy sort it is always the man's own con- ; points out, is difficult to reconcile ceuvres become more complex, yet instances, but this is a book about ception of God that stands or falls, with recent Papal rescripts in Latin are at least simplified by the now a man in his humour in Ben Jon Freality remains untouched. He Europe. It is not, therefore, sur system of battle drill now being son's sense of the word. It may be shows how the devastation of war prising to find a trained jurist can call forth the utmort sublimity summing up the evidence as estab tested and debonair, but it isn't frivolous.

The fret of the main exercises |

Chin man; it is a melancholy thought lishing the existence of direct con was of an elementary kind, bach A MOTORISTS' CHAMPION. for pacifists that peace rarely flict between the Roman Church and battalion in turn moving in elase? Yes MMA achieves such heights

the modern State It is a book which will hardly. The evidence is presented. order under covor o a ridge, and THIS MOTORING, By Stenson Cooke. *making changți of direction în or London's Castell & Co. Ppaz. enhance the reader's respect for legal manner and whatever view

der to pyoid both imnassable -203, 3000

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some of those in authority behind may be taken of the conclusions, ground and hostile, shellfire-the Mr. Stenson Cooke is Intter represented by blue screens known secretary of the Automobile Eastern area; though, it inspires ad- i invaluable to students of the pro and smake puffs. Finally the bat Association, and in this book. he miration and compassion for the blem. It is probably not too much Batalion had to cross the ridge in gives us an intimate and vivid ao men at the front. It has e dehuite to say that this is most import

view of the enemy, changing count of twenty five years work of purpose; and if it does ant always i contribution on the formation to reduce ita vulnerabil- that organisatipp. It is bright answer the problems it raises days when Anus ity Rapid excention of vari book,

në timon sparkling, and the does what is still more to the point examined the claims;

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