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THE SENSATION OF EUROPE GAUMONT-BRITISH SPECIAL
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933.
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THE JUTLAND SCARE SIR CHARLES OMAN'S MEMOIRS
Slovenly Dress.
POPE LEAVES VATICAN
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LEFT BY PONTIFF FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1870
Roue, May 26, The Pope conferred his blessing The first two lays of June, 1916,
on a huge crowd of over 300,000 were critical ones for Britain.
Sir Charles, gives a sympathetic people to day, when he left the The battle of Jutland had been fought on May 31. On the follow sketch of Gladstone, who stayed at Vatican and attended mass at the ing night, when their ships got All Souds, Oxford, for ten days Basilica of St. John Lateran, the back to harbour, the Germans is in 1890, between his third and mother church of the Catholic
fourth Premierships. Gladstone world. sued a communique which phasized the British losses, mini- complained of the young men's His departure. from the Vatican own, and virtually carelessness in dress; speaking of marked the resumption of an As mized their claimed a victory. This communi- debate at the Union, he said:cension Day custom, which had In my young days there would been abandoned since 1870, when qué circulated round the world and
The have been men prosent who, with the temporal power of the Pope in Britain created a scare. Press besieged Whitehall for off their two watch-chains, their scarf was overthrown. cial information which would allay pin, their embroiderod waistcoats, He stood on the balcony of the the devastating rumours of a de- and their fashionably-cut suits, Basilica at noon and the vast fent at sea which were gaining ere could not have been dressed for throng below received his blessing. dence, everywhere, and eventually £30: this night I did not notice stormed the Press Bureau in what a single man who could not have been dressed for £10, and the amounted to a panie of anxiety.
general effect was slovenly." Ho The Bureau could say nothing, was struck with horror at seeing because of Admiral Jellicoe's dis boating men sun nerus the High
Even by the
"in shorts... quieting silence.
And that was long before the day morning of June 2 no word had come from him, The Press began of Oxford bags and sun-bathing. to suspect that things had gone very badly indeed with us, that disastrous news had arrived and Was being purposely kept back. Whitehall, metaphorically, tearing its hair and wringing t hands.
A Wave of Dismay,
Was
JEWS IN FICTION
An even greater crowd gathered in the evening to witness the pres age of the procession of the most sacred relics of the church from St. John Lateran to the Colosseum, which is consecrated to the memory of the early Christian martyrs.
The Pope did not participate in this procession as he had returned to the Vatican after delivering his blessing at noon,
Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Rome, garbed in processional robes, personally car I must begin my review writes ried the relic of the cross this Mary Crosbie in John O' London's evening, followed immediately by Weekly for a reason Dr. Johnson a priest bearing an image."
Next came firemen in gala uni- Sir Charles "Oman, the scholar would appreciate) of "God-Intoxi- and historian, was officiating at cated Man," by E. G. Kolbenhayer form and silk-clad valete of the at the time.(Nicholson and Watson, B. &d.), olles of the governor of Rome bear. the Press Bureau "The morning and noon of June with a tribate of admiration to its ing 22 Roman banners. Then fol 2, 1916," he says in a book of signi- publishers. For this is not the lowed a long line of singing priests ficant reminiscences ("Things I ordinary historical novel that will and detachments of Knights of the Have Seen," Methuen, 88. 6d.), sell on its jacket," az's bookseller Holy Sepulchre Knights of Malta, were certainly to me the most said the other day, meaning that Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre in distressing moments in the whole a picture of a highwayman black, the entire, executive commit- war." The Gerinan communiqué or a knight in armour, attee of the Holy' Year and overal and Jellicoe's silence, he admits, tracts romantic readers. This companies of young Fascists..
Two hundred and fifty banners of "combined to make them believe that story of Spinoza contains some the Fleet had suffered casualties of really hard going. There are re- the Catbolic Action Society were
carried by the marchers the arguments between
The Lateran Palace served as the the most crushing kind and that ligious the command of the sea had been Jewish scholars of Amsterdam that lost, although actually there was suppose in the reader more know headquarters of the Church for the nothing to justify the wave of dis-ledge of history and Jewish belief first time for three centuries, when the Pope signed decrees there cren- may which swept over London..
tion two Italian,Archibishops.
Whitehall
Our
than I, for one, can claim. There are talks in the house of Tan den Emden, ex-Jesuit and born teacher, that need for their understanding: a knowledge of philosophy. But
even when one doesn't understand MAN IN WOLF'S CLOTHING
and until I have time to re-read
that I have not understood-the sense of intellectual ardour and of. a passionate pursuit of reality is brilliantly conveyed. I don't like & novel written in the present tense
to add one more item to the book's drawbacks, but, in spite of all this, I have been head over ears engrossed in it.
KILLED BY PEASANT
WATCHERS....
Spring lambs began to disappear in alarming numbers from fields. near the village of Ciuciulea, în Bessarabia.
The peasants appealed to the authorities for help, but the
into
had heard nothing from him at all till the afternoon of June 2, when we got a communique with the crucial fact that the Ger- mans had returned to their har-it more slowly there remains much boure badly battered, and that we were still in command of the North Sea.... I learnt after- wards that the whole panic came from the Admiral's conscientious desire to send in full and accurate information, even if it came rather late. He had not realized the effect at home of long silence coming on top of the exaggerated
People in seventeenth-century German reports. And while ho Amsterdam (while Cromwell ruled lambe kept on disappearing. Then was collecting facts London was here, and the Restoration followed they organised themselves almost distraught or at least him) are vigorously alive, contest guards to discover the wolf and
pressmen were-and they were putting about orally their ing with God and man, buying and kill him. worst suspicions, which went selling, fighting and persecuting. everywhere, though they did not eating and drinking. You see them
in queer, brief, sharply-lit scenes get printed.
merchants, scholars,rabble, gover Thore is little doubt that we nors, soldiare. A fair and its should have been saved. a vast brutal sports: Rembrandt's home, amount of anxiety had the Ad-sold up" for debt; da Costa, the miral sent a preliminary Bash im-Jewish heretic, in his rat-haunted mediately after the battle indicat cellar; a maid-servant. exchanging
Afterwards it was discovered, ing the true state of affairs-that who was the secretary of our Royal the Germans had sheered off when Society, making his pilgrimage to that the and thief had started a the Grand Fleet came up and left Spincza; a clear little quiet land- little ebeep farm of his own. us in possession, notwithstanding scape; a savage scens of murder; farm was down a valley, where no loases incurred in the first encoun- these, and a score of other living one was likely to see what he was
things you seem to have seen with dolog. your own eyes after reading this vigorous and audacious book; au- dacious, because it takes for grant- ed our interest intellectual adven- ture. And besides praising, the publishers' courage I must praise the translator's ease and finish."
ters.
The Battle of the Marne... Another anxious moment for Sir Charles was when it devolved upon him to write the communique of the night of September 12, 1914, announcing the victory of the Marne, from a whole pile of tele- grams which merely indicated some- thing that "looked like a victory." This he had to do
Jacob Across Jabbok.
My other book is concerned with Jewry, too-how popular it is now with the awful feeling upon me among the novel-writers, and,
During the night, it is reported, they heard the bleating of lambs coming towards them. They could seen dark bulk, so they pounced, and in a few minutes the dark shape lay upon the ground, still.
"It was not until then that the guards found that they had killed a man, and not a wolf.
The
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Fifty-one families, comprising 300 individuals, formerly of Ed monton, Alberta, were settled ou the land during the past seasom as one of the measures adopted in Canada, to meet the economic situation.
that if I had got the summary suppose, novel-readers. "Jacph Letters received by their friends wrong in any serious measure, Across Jabbok," by Gertrude and and if the triumphant advance of M. J. Landa' (Denis Archer, 74. indicate that on the whole these the Allies had been misrepresented.), is a little spoilt by such former city dwellers are well catis ed, the moral effect would be phrases as they swooped vulturine fied with their life on the land. dreadful, the Press Bureau die on the remnants of the feasting," Most of the families went to graced, and I myself condemned" he was, kayed up to perfection homesteads west of Edmonton. as an incompetent who had put to assimiliate the accumulated lorexOL out false news.
of the past." There is too often
"In 1915-1916, says Sir Charles, this clumsy ornateness in what slavery to the ownership, of a big he had to, supervise the constant might have been simply said. All farm (incidentally disposing of ite compilation of German casualties the same, it is in essentials a sincere mistress, one wife, and various from German official Usta procured and interesting novel, Moses Shel- other oddments on the way up). for him surreptitiously by an in- man had fled from Russian Poland. He is hard, successful, and unhap-
Jacob and genious Dutchman, whose informa- His twin children,
py. Round him after many adven- tion never failed to come to hand. Shema, were born in London's tures there gather more ci-devant The story leaves them Mantineans, Antander, Aglaos, One day an envelope fell out from East-end.
و
the middle of the Dutchman's latest in Palestine, colonists in the land and Klete, wife of Aglaos, who has bundle, and to his amazement ha of their ancestry, and perhaps just been living with outlaws in the saw it was directed in German to a little homesick for England.
the Kommandatur at Esben. When
he opened it he
found out that it was full of MRS. MITCHISON'S SHORT de They have been slaves-them-
clippings from the last ten days
of the London newspapers which specialize on shipping and trade, with a covering letter to the effect that some of these may
STORIES
Mrs. Naomi Mitchison seems to
hille. The slaves on the farm, hat ing Arkás, rise against him. What are Klets, Aglaos, and the rest to selves, and have sympathies now 'on both sides. The end of the story, after much fighting and bloodshed, leaver everybody trying out a new theory: and, indeed, all the tales be useful." It was obvious that kupw Ancient Greece as well as are heavy with theory. It is not our Dutch friend was a double you or I know the nearest High always directly expressed, but it apy, and that while he was send- Street. The greater part of "The leaves us to feel that if we don't ing us German cannalties, he was Delicata Fire (Cape, 78.6d.) understand what Aglaos, or Kleta, sending the Germans notes on consists of linked stories telling ofor Mrs. Mitchison means about our mercantile marine, possibly the fate of a group of Mantinean Love, or Life, we ought to. I tried valuable for submarine com citizens after their city had been till I made my head ache; and manders. By some astounding taken by King Antinonon, and they the I returned with pleasure to piece of carelessness his sendinge had all been sold into slavery, the simpler things in the book, had get mixed.
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