1936-12-15 — Page 11

Feeling "Run Down!"

ין

Just suppose that right now you were talking to a physician.

YOU would have to confess to him that somehow you seem to tire very quickly nowadays; that your energy is gone and that now and then you feel jumpy and irritated.

*My dear mun!" he would no doubt say. "look at the symptoms logically Yours is a clear case of strained nerves. We need not go into`how, you got that way. The climate, hard and nervous work, late nights, they can all be to blame-but you want to know how to become your old self again. Why not start taking Sanatagen—it's really great stuff! It's made just for people like you, and I knotd from long experience that it will de you a lot of good. You have asked too much from your nerves, and with Sanatogen you replace the lost energy quickly."

Over 25,000 physicians are of the opinion that taking Sanat ogan is the easy and logical way back to real health and vitality. Why not give Sanatogen a

trial? Every chemist sells it Start taking it now, then you will soon notice its' remarkable influence on your health and vitality.

SANATOGEN

The True Tonic Food

SMART MAN!

he uses Anzora

A very swark idea! For a little Anzoru used on the hair in the morning will keep it tidy unli be time. And a gestappearance is au asset, socially or in business. There is no other hair fixative as good u Anzora-for more than thirty years it has been supreme. And it suits every head. Anzors Cream for greasy scalps, azora Viola for dry scalps and Anzorá Brilliahtine ik .. you" glossiness.

profer

ANZORA

MASTERS THE HAIR

Banish CHEST Soreness &

BRONCHITIS

you're troubled with bronchitis, asthma or a ulimilar complaint, take Pops regularly. These and. septic, breatheable tablets bring. to you, in compact form, all the lung-healing virtues of the famous Pine Forest Air. Dissolved in your mouth Peps give off rich germicidal vapours; and these penetrate doep into your lungs. Peps cut trouble- some phlegm and aid your breathing. They curebad coughs, removackest tightness, soothe your throat and

bronchials, and bring. Lasting relief. Always keep a low Peps by your

bedside..

Take

LP. 1907,

From all Chemlate, Kairə ) dressage and Stores

ANZORA PERFUMERY Co.,Ltd., LONDON, N.W, 1,

ENGLAND

Ta pronacis the rich, breatheuble sila mkish Pape

PEPS

BREATHEABLE TABLET

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936.

SPAIN'S

COMPLEXITIES

Castile And Catalonia

TREND TOWARDS FEDERALISM

In any other country but Spain the storming of the capital would mark the crucial phase of the war. Some such assump- tion has underläin' most of the reports in the foreign Press since the insurgent forces began their sweeping progress from Badajoz on through Talavera and Toledo to the gates of Madrid, writes Horsfa Carter in the "Sunday Times,"

■

i

But whereas Madrid under the Monarchy was the centre of the Court life and as such the bea- con of politics no less than of fashion-during the past Ave years it has gradually been shedding lis lustre, like a grande dame getting on in years who has to witness graciously the success of younger cynts.

The claim of bustling modern Barcelona, with its population of 1.200.000, to the status of chief city must surely DOW be conceded. Catalonia puts all the other re- glons into the shade by its com- bination of Industrial centres with a prosperous small-holding land system. Valencia and its province remain the centre of a flourishing fruit trade: both the rice and orange crops this year have been abundant, and the work in the felda there has not been anected by the trail of war. It is a strik- ing cominentary on, the normality of Spain's' business relations in those areas

of the Government's territory at the usual export trade is proceeding, with a pro- pect of 800 million pesetas revenue for the State.

MADRIÐ GLORY DEPARTED

Į

dominant Esquerra, or Left Al- lance, is nationalist and federalist but not separatist-ci.: the pro- clamation on October 8, 1934, the Catalan State of the Federal Republic by President Companys, has inherited the mantle of Colonel Macia. The actual Statute of Autonomy, from which present powers are derived. does not, of course, go so far. Indeed, under the Constitution the framework of the Spanish State remains a uni- tary one, and Article XIII expresa- ly forbids the "federation of au- tonomous regions"

now

ed feelings the prospect of domi- A FEDERALIST REGIME. 1ation by the assembled standard-

One thing seems certain. The bearers of Right or Left, But this Catalans, on whom now falls the neutral mass is by no means wide-responsibility for preservation of ly distributed, or it would have the Republic as established In served as a shock-absorber, as the 1931, would, in the event of a Gov- liberal-minded bourgeoiste` dues in

ernment victory, demand" the re- the far greater tensions of this placement of the present Spanish country.

State by a thoroughgoing federa- When examined closely. It will list, régime. It is on this federa- be found to have specific assocía- list principle, indeed, that the tions with certain well-defined Catalan Nationalists and the Anar- regions. This, in New Castle, cho-Syndicalists, formerly their Toledo Province, and Aragon there f bitterest antagonists, have is a continual tug of old and new. come together. of rural and urban interests, Madrid's future would seem to which produces a certain equill-be that of a capital for the federal brium. In Galicia, where the services only, like Washington or cumate" and so resemble those of Canberra. Not a few distinguished this country, the people manifest Spaniards, by nature and training a distaste for extremes which is opposed to the dispersion of power. 25 fare as it is refreshing. In have been driven by the present other provinces such as Old Cas-grim evidence of regional diversity tile, Salamanca, and Burgos the to hall a United States of Iberia. ampuise to modernity and demo- as the one solution of the present cratic government is virtually non-

impasse, with different regions ex- existent; the people there are liv-hibiting different modes of govern- ing, so to speak in another cen- ment and social life, and, perhaps, tury from the busy commerce and some elaboration of the; technique factory life of Catalonia and the of exchange of populations which Ievante.

has proved to successful in ending the age-old feud of Greeks and Turks

SPAIN'S 'CITY-STATES"

and

To Anyone familiar with the. facts, talk of Catalonia as a feld i The suggestion, stated baldly, { of experiment for Soviet Russia la sounds academic and simpliste, the verlest moonshine. Here is And there is as yet no indication an essentially bourgeois, though that it would meet with any res- fiercely democratic,

ponse from General Franco .community. raving more points of resemblance his supporters, though the report. with Switzerland than

ed promise of autonomy for the with poverty-stricken Spain, .Com- Moors and for the population of munism of the Moscow brand has the Balearics (1) seems to belle conspicuously few adherents

the professions of rigid unitarism that region. Stalin and the

of which we had heard. To one Comintern have no more bitter

who has participated in any de d'etractors than the Workers' tree in the upsurge of the nation- Party of Marxist Unification, the life which set in with the turn P.0.0.M-a sort of ILP which of the century, the federal trend makes the "Communist" running

Is indisputable. there.

Grace and aristocratic charm are qualities of the life of Mad- rileños which no one will wish to deny; a certain grandeur, too, which is a fragrance from the past, though the habits of the people are essentially those of a glorified provincial town. Yet no confectionery architecture, по ultra-modern skyscrapers, can re- move the consciousness of the re- sicent in Madrid that its glory has departed. And a considera-{ tion of the moral and material rssistance now forthcoming from the Industrial areas of Catalonia and the Basque Provinces seems to justify the assertion of Govern- ment spokesmen that though Madrid may fall to superior arms, they w still be able to carry on the struggle.

Throughout the tertile provinces. where the land slopes down from the great ventral plateau to the Mediterranean, the Spanish surge takes the very different form of anarcho-syndicalism, alias "liber- tarian Communism (nence the confusion). Now the peculiar fea- ture of this anarchist doctrine is not so much the opposition to any regimentation its insistence..un building the political structure from the ground upwards. The imunicipality, they say. is the au- thentic unit of govern.ment...a

A recent visit to that part of the peninsula which Is undisputed Government territory has impresa- ed upon me once again the re- lative unimportance of Madrid and of that arid central zone in which it was Philip II's caprice to build his capital. I remember so well a lawyer friend in Barcelona explaining to me last spring that all Spain's troubles had their maxim which in Spain, where origin in the construction and continued maintenance of a capi- tal whose only raison d'etre was that it marked the geographical centre of Spain; it 's, he said,

аге

every village is as self-sufficing. morally and psychologically, rs the Greek city-state, happens to be profoundly true, (Señor Mada- riaga in his latest book by the like a vampire sucking away the Way, advocates direct sufrage life-blood of the nation, a grim only in the municipal sphere, symbol of the decadence of a Cas-working up from that to the cen- tle which historians have con- tral body). founded with the whole country. The local defence councils winch

Certainly no one who comes in.

have sprung vy in Barcelona, contact with the Catalans, urban Valencia, Cartagena and Malaga or rural, could ever describe them are composed of delegates of the as decadent: the word would be two major trade union organisa- entirely out of place, too, for the tions, the C.N.T. and the U.G.T.- folk of the other provinces of the insome cases with representation Mediterranean littoral, or for the of the other elements in the Peo- Basques,

whose fault is rather ple's Front. The impetus comes that of being overvitalised. These all the time from the Anarchists, the regions which General who are only too anxious for co- France's forces have yet to con-ordinating bodies on the regional quer the rich. fertile plains of and "national"" scale, and whose Valencia and Murcia, the highly pressure for a Committee of De- industralised areas around Bar- fence to replace the Government celona and Bilbao, including 90 has been finally met by the in- per cent or the heavy industry | clusion of three member of the of the country (which makes CNT. in the re-shufted Cabinet. nonsense of attempts to portray MADRID AND BARCELONA the Spanish imbroglio in the facile

The old condict between Madrid terms of the class-war) and the

and Barcelona has almost.com- whole of the Mediterranean sea- board.

pletely died down. We saw the other day that the President of COMPLEX OF DISSIMILARITIES

the Republic. having decided to Riven Spain is a far more get out of Madrid while the going complex phenomenon than is was good, was at once given quar- usually appreciated. As "Berutu ters in the presidential wing of tor" has more than once observed. | the Catalan Generalitat. His the terms Fascist and Communist popularity and courage may be are almost equally irrelevant gauged from the reception he had labels for the two sides fiercely In September, 1932, when he went contending for their respective to Ehrcelon. to deliver formally conceptions of life. Both terms the Statute of Autonomy, approved imply a centralisation of power by the Cortes in Madrid and shout. which is utterly allen to the ed from the balcony to the assem- Spanish-reality that complex 1bied crowd: "Ahora sots de la olent regional dissimilarities" to Republica" ("Now you belong to which Professor Allison Peers in the Republic): if was as if Mr. "The Spanish Tragedy" pays due Baldwin should go to Dublin and acknowledgment. ·

call for three cheer for England!; Catalan, separatam, a hardy an-

'Nor is the clash of ideals wuleb. more than any mere economic col-nual of the newspaper headlines, ision, conditions the present is a misnomer. The Birin Fein atruggles clear-cut issue between section of Catalanists with their past and future. At least a third lone star emblem is actually an of the nation regardy with agonis insignificant minority. The pre-

SAY

Gordon's

...and know what you're drinking/

GORDONS

DRYGIN

DISTILLERY.

26

NO COLOURING MATTER NO

INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

KNOCK

11

KNOCK

Who's there

Anna

Anna Who?

An (n) appeal for food and toys.

Needed for Christmas

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Mondays & Thursdays, 10-12, 11, Ice House Street:

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

OF

CHINA, JAPAN, MALAYA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, INDO-CHINA, NETHERLANDS

INDIA, ETC.

First Edition 1862, revised and enlarged annually»

1937 Edition Now in Course of Preparation

PARTICULA

IF YOU HAVE NOT SENT IN PARTICULARS OF YOUR

FIRM FOR THE "1937′

EDITION WILL YOU PLEASE DO

SO AT YOUR

EARLIEST CONVENIENCE?

Firm Name Class of Business

Address

Telephone Number

Cable Address

Name of Staff

AGENCIES HELD BY YOUR FIRM.

N.B.--Firm name printed in BLACK TYPE $5.00.

Agencies printed under Firm. name $1 per agency.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.

MARINA HOUSE (Third Floor) 18-19, Queen's Road Central, Hong