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SATURDAY, MARCH

1929.

OUR BERLIN LETTER. “LOYAL” SOCIALISTS.

AĞRICULTURALISTS IN MOOD

* UNION JACK THAT WAS

PULLED DOWN.'

OF DEPRESSION.

Berlin, Feb. 12. For many years past it has been the habit of thousands of farmers from all parts of Germany to gather in Berlin in the first half members of Parliament.

An incident which occurred at Saffron Walden, Essex, on ja recent Saturday has just been brought to the notice of some of the Easez

of February, and theso tall figures |--- The local Socialist Party hired with tanned faces below their the Town Hall for a meeting. rough woollen hats, and carrying of the British Legion, and the Hall Later there was to be a gathering stout walking sticks, givo a had been decorated for that event. special stamp to the picture in the At the back of the platform was a main streets. Formerly the far-red cloth with the Inscription: mora enlivened the wine and beer "Long, Live King George V." restaurants with their hilarity, corations. A Union

There were other" appropriate do- Jack was which seemed rather loud, to the draped over the entrance door. dwellers in a great cily, but this time they were in a depressed mood,

When the Socialist Chairman-a i minister of religion-entered the hall and saw the adornment at the down, as well as the other decora platform, he at once pulled it tons. On a audience protesting, he said: "We member of the

do not want this here. We are all

Their clasa is fighting for its very existonce, for many con cerns have reached a disastrous stage of unprofitableness in con- sequence of heavy burdens of brothers." taxation and Interest charges. This year's gathering of the countryfolk in the capital may be designated as an emergency meet-

Ing.

for the hall, was seen, and he, too, The caretaker, who is responsible complained. All the Chairman sald was: "We can't have that. We want 'Long live the people!" He promised that the cloth and the da-. corations should be restored; but the promise was not kept.

the Union Jack over the door was Indeed, at the end of the meeting, also pulled down,

The Hunting Exhibition. The Berlin "Green Week," which look place for the fourth time, has attained great popular ty; with its great number of func- lions of different kinds it forms the beal means of propaganda for agriculture and its many Uran- ches. This year it was particu- displayed in the numerous other larly the Great German Hunting Exhibition which had been aubs- In all, twelve hundred worka tantially enlarged both in space of art are exhibited; one English and in organisation.

private collection alone Tent Over

thirty pieces and the Amsterdam thousand A trophies of all kinds were dialar vases which are valued for

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two kinds of pre-historic wild of the most brilliant achievements Animals still found in the east of for years of the organisers of ex- Germany, the elk and the Eurohibitions in the German capital. pean bison or nueroehs. The

special exhibition of hawking and shown by European and American Thanks to the readiness to lend falconry, acquired particular powera of attraction owing to the collectors the exhibition has be- numerous exhibits which had been come an artistic event of interna- lent by the Emperor of Japan.

tional importance. The variety of visitors accurately reflected the These pay cloquent tribute to present visitors' traffic in Berlin-- the zeal and fondness, which are collectors and, muséum oficiala still devoted to the interesting from abroad, à great number of sport in the Far East. The un-Argentine scholars and students usually numerous visitors in the from the Cape Town University capital in February also made as well as representatives from rendezvous of the Riding and nearly every country in the world. Driving Tournament, of which By Gunther Gericke, the Hindenburg Day was the culminating point. On the day on which the Head of the German Reich was present, several effec- tive display`numbers were insert- ed in the programme of jumping, training and driving; a really chivalrous picture was presented by the quadrifle of the eight Senior Gentlemen Riders, who, like the Field Marshal, who at tentively followed their perform- anco which was carried out with; admirable exactness, were once officers of high rank in the old German army.

The "elderly gentlemen" were followed by youth: twelve boys and girls, all in the becoming dress of Eton schoolboys, mount- ed on horses of appropriate size, gavo proof of romarkable prac- tice in trotting and galloping. The Reichs president was, visibly delighted with' this children's quadrille; be returned, with a friendly smile, the greeting of the little group of riders who aimul- taneously took off their hats at. the end of their performance,

The "Sportpalast" was then darkened, torch-bearers lined up round the east arena and a moun- ted army band with fourteen kottle-drums executed a pro- gramme of trumpet calls and marches. Amid the unending ap- plause of the thousands present, Hindenburg left the hall-as always, the worthlest representa- tive of the German people.

Exhibition of Chinese Art. -

An Exhibition of Chinese Art WOB recently opened In the Academy of Arts on the Paris Place, a particularly wellknown contral point' in Berlin between the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden. About 170 collectors and museums in all parts of the world had contributed from their possessions; they responded to the appeal of the German Society of Eastern Asiatic Art and the result was the bringing together of a wealth of Chinese works of. art, such as has never before been- seen in Europe.

Passing through an outer hall bung with old Chinese carpets, the visitor comes to three large halls which provide a survoy of | the development of the art of Chinese porcelain, an art which was the model for the entire porcelain of Europe. The form and splendid colouring" of the valuable pieces of porcoldla brought together in the Exhibi- tlou are in a veritable revelation. This unique survey of all essen tial forms of expression of Chin- cse artists is completed by the great sacrificial bronzes dating from the first thousand years bo- fore the Christian era, the ceramic and carved stone art of Inter dynasties as well as precious'gold and silver work all of which aro

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