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BOOKS and READERS

"The Tinder Box of Asia." By George E. Sokolsky. (George Allen and Unwin, 10s. d. net. With 3 maps.)

TWO. STUDIES OF THE. FAR EAST

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES

11 to 11.30 am-Stock and ex- change quotations, selected London and New York stock quotations, weather report, etc. 11.30 h.m.-Chinose recorded pro-

giumme.

12.30 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.M.V. records. p.m.-Local time and weather

report.

1.18 p.m.-A_relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of the Management, (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio.). 1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news,. etc. 2.15 p.m.-Close down,

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report,

A Concert.

MR. SOKOLSKY'S STUDY OF various treaties and agreements And gravely hamper the second. THE FAR EAST

the difficulty is increased by the fact that the Japanese cannot-assily At emigrate. tempted to be

"Only most, says the authors, thirty years remain in which the statesmen of the world must either At the present time, when the Far arrange outlets by arbitration' or East, through its wars, its politics, stand aside while Japan secks her and its economics, influences Europe own solution by force." He de- and America niore than it has everstinies are at the moment in the done before, a well-written beck on hands of a military party with un China comes as a boon. For it is bounded faith in its own powers. China that Mr. Sokolsky describes How ought Britain and Amerien, to as the tinder box. It is the collapse meet the challenge. They must at of an old civilisation, the oldest in all costs reaffirm the present policy the world, and the possible birth of of the "Open Door" in China un a new. Only pogible birth, for til that happy country is able to 1.30 to 7 p.m.-Chinese recorded

programme, there scans no certainty that the set her how in order. "Any de-

viation from that clear course 7 to 11 p.m.-European programme. death of the old civilisation may not be followed by centuries of would raise problems of the gravest7 to 6 p.m.-Variety.. chaos. There are many possibili-import to the world and imperil the 8 p.m.-Local time and weather ties. That most to be desired, for future peace of the Pacific." For China herself and for the good of their clear and painstaking ex- 8.03 to 8.33 p.m.--

position of a complex subject, mankind in Pneral, is that a strong. gover£ment would arise, capable of Colonel Etherton and Mr. Tiltman holding China together as a single deserve the thanks of all students

of "world politicsTM unit able to withstand the aggres- sion of its heighbours; and Mr. Sokolsky thinks the best chance of this reata in the hands of Chiang Kai Shek, the man who almost Mr. Ronald Frazer's new novel alone has grasped the essentialTropical Waters," (Cape, 78. Od.) political struggle in China: it is moves with the grace of a swan, or between Nationalism and Commun- iam." To the author, it seers more wan's reflection, an exquisite mirrored shape. His people are probable that China will break up subdued to this exquisiteness. and become a loose federation of Their talk has a measured minuet- autonomous regions, albeit remain like elegance. Their approach to ing culturally a unit. The danger the visible is cautious: We saw of Communism is described as being what was stated to be a whale,” under Communist records the narrator, unwilling to very great: domination at this moment (June, commit himself to the gross state- 1932) is about 300,000 square miles ment that it as a whale. Their of territory, inhabited by 90.000.000 shrinking from the direct or people"; so the National Govern-phatic is piteous, **I dined well, ment of China, facing outwards to having set myself by various arts of 60,000,000 Japanese, must guard its demeanour on the favour of table-

internal steward and rear againts this vast

wine-steward "-" I potentality of civil war. But it is overwrite her, perhaps? I wish to not quite as bad as the bare figures indicate that as an object she pleas- make it seem, for the Communists ed." Sometimes you get an abrupt have as yet no outlet to the sea, and failure in melodiousness, as when

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must get their armament as best the "deep ocean.. broke in a they can by difficult overland golden 'smoulder. on forlorn routes, or by surreptitious pur- beaches. Sometimes you get a chases from corrupt lower officers sharp penetrátive "note: They in the Nanking army. If they missed nothing except the essen- can seize a port, says Mr. Sokolsky,tial," and you pause there and the Communists will be armed from think heresies. But mostly you are Vladivostok.

hypnotired by gentle cadences, deli- This study gains greatly in value ente, evocations of mood or scene and interest from the author's close("A mysterious feray rood, under 9 personal knowledge of the princip al Chinese leaders. He is very im partial, and has friends in every party, though chiefly, perhaps among the Nationalists. He has the enviable gift of being able in swift, sketches to set before us the man so that the long Chiness names come to mean human beings.

dense and tropical trees by the sea: there was & seg, smoll and a tree smell and now and then a rush of dim surf in the darkness beside us.."). The high colour of the South American adventure seems incongruous against this exquisi teness, though Sir Anthony kills Marlene's husband with ritualistic. scavity and the tone remains mut- ed. So much beauty and so little reality? Doesn't Mr. Fraser risk

decline into intellectual dandly- ! am?

MORE MURDERS

Generally speaking, the plan of the hook this: first, the author takes us inside China and looks out at her neighbours showing what they have meant to the Chinese in the past, und may mean in the future; then he steps mentally across the frontiers and looks at China from outside and, finally, he returns into China and looks long and closely

It is, I think, writes Mr. Edward! at that distracted country from Shanks in John O'London's Weekly a tribute to Mr. within. It is a good plan, and is something of well carried out. No one could William Almon Wolff (even if a have followed it who did not know rather backhanded tribute) to say China extraordinarily well. The that, though I spotted the murderer result is illuminating, but far from on page before the murder was reassuring. China has lost Mongo. committed, I was still able, without lia to the Soviet and is in course of once wavering in my choice, to read losing Chinese Turkestan. She has to the last page of "Murder at Jet Manchuria to Japan, however Gidor (Putnam, 7s. ed.). This the loss be disguised; and Mr. is, of course, the game of detecting Sokolsky says, "Tibet is, in fact, the writer rather than the criminal, a British protectorate," and later and Mr. Wolf is not as good as he repeats it. One must question might be at eluding the armchair whether he is right in this. But his sleuth. Nevertheless, he presents point is that the Chinese, having people, scenes, and circumstances lost all the conquests of their years with enough liveliness to keep the of expansion, are now forced back reader going even when his secret into China proper, are desperately has ceased to be a secret. His de poor, almost defenceles, and torn tectives and his district attorney by strife whose end is far from be- (this is an American book) are ing in sight. What is to be China's particularly good. fatet What effect will her fate

THE PROBLEM OF JAPAN

Piano Solos Three Chinese Pieces() "Flirtations in a Chinese Garden," (b) "Rush Hour in Hong Kong," (c) "A (Chasins). Shanghai Tragedy

Abram Chusins.--1582. Song" Evening Fair" (Bourgel-

Debussy).

Mary

Garden

Song "The Wistful Moon" (Ver-

laine-Szulc). (Soprano).-1430.

Violin Solo-Ruralia Hungarion"

Gypsy Andante (Dohaanyi). Fritz Kreisler-1429.

Song "Gwine

(Wood-Wolfe).

to Hebb'n "

Song "Mah Lindy Lou" (Strick- land) John Charles Thomas (Baritone).-1544,

Piano

Solo-" Mazurka in C Sharp Minor" (Chonin). Piano Solo-Variations

Themes from Carmen (Bizet- Harowitz).Vladimir Horowitz,

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8.35 to 9 p.m.

on

Orchestral, **Melodious Memories" (Finck). Jack Hylton and His Orches.

"Night on ther Bare Mountain "

(MaBorgsky).-London

Sym-

phony Orchestra. 11448, (a) “Narcissus" (b) "Country Dance," (c) "A Shepherd's Tale," (d) Inillaby" (Nevin). -Victor Salon Orchestra-0479. to 9.30 p.m.—

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From the Studio,

A. Pinaforte Recital by Mr.

Harry Ore.

PROGRAMME.

1. Variations in F Major (Mo.

zart).

2. The Bagpipe (Hiller),

3. XVII Sonata, 1st movement

(Beethoven).

4. Prelude in O

Prelude in G Bat (Scriabine). 2nd Movement from 3rd Sonata Fragilitee.

3. Ballad in G Minor (Grieg). 9.30 to 9.40 pm—*

1812 Overture" (Tschaikowsky, Op. 40).-Royal Opera Orches tra,

Convent Garden.-0023/

9026.

9.40 to 10.15 p.m. (approx.)-

A Running Commentary on the Derby by R. C. Lyle. Relayed from the Grand Stand, Epsom Race Course."

10.15

to 10.30 p.m. (approx.). The Bournemouth Municipal Or chestra. Conductor, Sir Da Godfrey, Ellen Epstein (Piano- forte). Relayed from the Payi lion, Bournemouth. (Should weather conditions prove satis factory, this relay will continue until 11 p.m.) 10.30 p.m. (approx.)-Close down.

All records in the above Elo- pean programmes are supplied by Messrs. 8. Moutrie & Co.

riddle.

The publishers of Mr. Victor display any ability to make hie have upon the rest of the world 1 MacClure's "Death Behind the detail interesting, and one rather He does not answer these ques Door" (Harrap 73. 6d.) Suggest resents having to plough through so tions. No one can until time un- that some readers may be struck by many pages for the answer to the folda her secrets.

But he does a curious resemblance between, the

There is no doubt as to the inten- equip one with facts upon which to apparent villain's appearance and build, and he is splendidly un- activities and those of Mr. Maction of Mr. Tod Bobbins to make biassed.

Clure himself!”. One reader cer our flesh creep. If The Master tainly was enough to expect when of Murder" (Allen, 2s. 6d.) came. there was a question of the ap-up to his intention it would be an parent villaining on the top of exceedingly powerful book. But I the wine-bins in the collar, some intake leave not to be impressed by Japan: Mistress of the Pacific?"quiry into the possibility of there a literary genius who, unhappily by colonel T. P. Etherton and H. being sufficient clearance. It seems, Jacking imagination, has to commit Нesre! Tiltraan (Jarrolds, 188.), however, that. Mr. MacClure has murders before he can describe clears up much of the obscurity sur had his own activities in mind them at least, I am not impressed rounding recent events in the Far rather than his own appearance. by him a Mr. Robbins describea East On the whole, ita conclusions The book is not quite as good as are anti-Japanese, but it states The Counterfeit Murder," but it The jacket of "Bright Angel," Japan's difficulties fairly, and gives is good-uumistakably distinct from by Mr. S. Andrew Wood (Ward, run in writing, Lock, 78.. 8d.), depicts snow, s sled- ber credit for conferring real bene- the ordinary fits on Korea, where her policy of characterization, and atmosphere, ge with a terrified girl in it, and colonization and expansion can be And its two murders are of an ex- two men, both in fur caps and high seen in action. Japan, we are told, traordinary ingenuity. But I hope boots, one of whom has a villainous She has that, Mr. MacClure will not be face and holds a whip (possibly a must expand or perish, already the densest popula-seduced by success in this direction knout) and is being soundly hit on tion of any industrial nation in the from more thrillers' in the vein of the jaw by the other. It might be world, and it is increasing by "Galanty Gold."

for all the world one of those old-

him.

750,000 a year. With a nineteenth- The murder in "The Case of the fashioned novels about Tsarist days. century birth-rate (34 per 1,000) April Fools," by Mr. Christopher and the Okhrana: it is actually that is more than double Great Bush (Cassell, 7. ed.), is, if possi- about Bolshevist days and the Ogau. Britain's, she combines twentieth-ble, evenmore extraordinarily in plus ca change, no doubt, plus c'est. century sunitation and medical ser- genious. But it would have been la même chose, but all the same, I vices, which increase the expectation more enjoyable If it had been made fail to understand why the son and of life. To provide food for her the subject of a short story instead daughter of an Englishman in Rus- people she has two alternatives of being spun out with a mass of sia were unable to secure the help increased trade or territorial complicated and tiresome detail into of the British Embassy to get them growth: The Chinese boycott has a book. Mr. Bush does not here out of the country threatened

Edward Shanks, . wreck the first; (Continued on next Column):

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