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THE RESTLESS N. W. FRONTIER. WORLD'S MOST SAVAGE WARRIORS ENGAGED.

How the Khyber Pass country on India's remote northwestern frontier has formed the "funnel" through which India's Invaders have poured for 25 centuries is on the graphically illustrated

above map. At the left is a typi- cal tribesman of the wild

country which harbours the world's most savage fighters, little changed by the centuries except that they now have guns instead of more primitive weapons. At the right is shown a camel train winding its way through Khyber Puss, the narrow defile that con nects India with the rest of Asia.

ARABIA

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, OCTOBER 4th, 1930.

TURKESTAN

DOXURA

TASHKEND

KASHGAR

› DARIUS THE GREAT, From Persia, B.C518

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Macedonia, BC.334 ~E~ JENGHIE KHAN, from Mongolia, A.D.1219–1227. ******* TIMUR, from Samarkand, A.D.1355

►BABER, from Kabul, A.D.1525

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Historic Khyber Pass, that dued by military force, but never any native who would dispatch slender, beardless narrow defile through the Hima- layan mountains through which have they been conquered, They him.A invaders of India have marched fight with a fanatical fury, spur youngster from the hills valun- with fire and sword for 2,500 red by their Moslem belief that teered, years, has again been allame with the warrior who dies in battle is complished the job, shooting the assured of a place in Allah's aged, sniper through the head as battle as British army. planes

he crouched behind a tree. dropped bombs

"How did you find him so quick. ly?" asked the British officer.

"Easy," the young native re-

on the world's paradise.

oldest and most savage fighters and sent them scurrying into the hills.

on

Every Man Carries Gun. Every man carries a gun with

Is Funnel" to India. Afghanistan, with its wild up-

"JOURNEY'S END.”. English Actor for

New Film:

Hollywood, Aug. 28.-A walled- In city filled with studios, preten tious homes and the gayest of gay people.

That was the vision David Man That was the vision David Man- arrival to make "Journey's End," his Arst motion picture. What he found was a good sized city filled with a businesslike atmosphere, tall office buildings, huge apart. scattered ment houses, a few studios, some beautiful homes and people too tired out from work.to do much playing, " 4

Outsiders Get Surprised.

It is always interesting to pie- Lure folk to get the outsider's idens of Hollywood because as a general rule they differ in almost every respect from what actually hap- pens. Most of the studios are to be found in nearby suburbs--Bur- bank, San Fernando valley, West- wood and Culver City. And, the majority of the bigger stara make their homes in Beverly Hills, leav ing Hollywood the motion picture capital of the world in name only.

"I never had such a surprise In my life as I got when I arrived here," Manners said when inter- viewed.

"I don't know yet just why I

David Manners.

NEA

ENGLAND THROUGH GERMAN EYES.

"Diligent, Unselfish and Brave."

England is being studied care- fully just now by Germans who are wondering what the coming! generation will do with its in-1 heritance; and some of the moro

observers serious of the publishing their impressions, writes a correspondent of the Sunday Times on Aug. 9.

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The special correspondent of the Fossische Zeitung, who has been mixing with Oxford students, has arrived at the conclusion that in one sense the German youths who are about to start on their carcers are in advance of the English youth in the same pоni- tion. The latter, he says, "are only just beginning to realise that are not their fathers' interests theirs," and although they read and hear in the schools of their. country's glory and of her im- movable greatness, and see that the greater part of the map is coloured British, "they have a dim suspicion that England has passed the climax of her greatness.

This German observer has noted that all the English public schools type; produce exactly the same

In- all that they suppress dividuality, so that views and judgments are" as strictly normal as are the clothes and the hats!

This type of Englishman, how- ever, the German adds, the pro- duct of the public schools and the universities, "created the Empire and has upheld it, and it must not be imagined that the in- dividuals are in any way inferior, for they are In reality zealous in the fulfilment of duty; they are diligent, unselfish, brave in the face of dangers, and never work for their own welfare:"

Less Insularity.

The observer notes further that the educated youth of England travel and come into closer con- tact.

whose with foreigners, language they are at pains to learn, and that the youth discover and are willing to admit that there!

not are things abroad that do exist in England, but which are nevertheless beneficial.

been

These modern youths, the Ger- man writer adds, are still in a minority; but a new factor has; introduced; tolerance Isl beginning to take the place of in- sularity, and advantages and details of other nations that have hitherto been ignored are now being recognised and appreciated.

him constantly. Even in his na-plied. "Ife was my father." For the Khyber country-tive village, he does not venture scene of Kipling's "Kim" and the into his courtyard without it. He last British outpost the is quick to fight either. friend 'or Afghanistan border in north fae and may spend hours on the lands, forms the buffer state be western India--has again recently sub-baked roof of his hut, await- tween India and the rest of Asia. came here," the youthful actor con- "Probably because Fate figured in the world's news. The ing his chance to take a pot shot | For centuries it has been the fun- tinued.

through which India's always has seen to it that I have wave of unrest that has swept at a neighbour. But no man ever nei

poured down done everything which I was set India in the Gandhi revolt extend- shoots a woman, for the murder! ravishers have

going to ed to the fierce tribesmen of a woman would be considered through Khyber Pass, one of the against. While I was

oldest highways on earth.

school in Canada I became associ- in this remote mountain fastness a disgrace.

Through the Khyber, Darius theated with the Little Theatre move- who saw in the situation a chance Caravans and travellers' who for loot and their natural desire pass through this country are Great sent his captain, Seylax, toment. To me professional acting. to fight.

never out after nightfall.. At in the Indus 2,500 years ago and was a thing a genuine artist never The recent attacks of these wild tervals along the route, spaced to made an Indian satrapy out of his would be able to stand. However, In the Innally found myself in the pro- and restive marauders on Pesha-la day's camel march, there are conquest in the north. war, the

British-controlled city caravanserai, or overnight fort-year 326 B. C. came Alexander to fessional theatre.

Then I took the same viewpoint that lies at the entrance to the resses. These are heavily guard-pass through the Khyber in the pass, have centred attention on ed enclosures with thick, mud course of his conquest of the on the movies as is held by most later players, of the legitimate stage- them again. They have been walls, in which both camels and world. Fifteen centuries beaten off in fights into the out- travellers spend the night. The followed Jenghiz Khan, whose they were beneath my notice, a skirts of the city and British air-gates are always locked at sun- Mongol hordes swept across Cen- profession for 'ham' actors.

tra Asia in the Middle Ages and finally came out here to play in men, pursuing them into the hills, down. have bombed their 'retreats.

Peshawar, the nearest large reached, but did not pass, the Journey's End and now I hope A few mites beyond Peshawar city, is the tribesmen's Paris. It Indus. It remained for a second to be able to stay here. So far I the pass begins and then for near-bounds with all the vices and great Asiatic conqueror, Timur, to have been pretty lucky, having made ly 30 miles it leads its dusty, practically none of the virtues penetrate to Delhi and pillage the six pictures altogether."

Having only recently taken out winding route through the over-that can be found in the civilized land nearly 200 years later. In

were the early 16th century, his des- his first citizenship papera, Man- hanging hilis to the border of worid. Vice, crime and opium cerdant, Baber, who claimed kinners is feeling quite proud of him- Afghanistan.

smoking are favourite diversions; murder and robbery are practic-ship also with Jenghiz Khan, in- self these days. Although he was vaded India vin the same route born in England he has spent most. cally taken for granted.

and founded the great Mogul of his life in this country and re-. dynasty which nominally ruled gards it as his real home. until the advent of the British.

He'd Like to Write:

But

Is Heavily Fortified. British forts are strung along

Life in Hill Country, the pass and, except for a few turns where the view is obscured, For most of their time, the gunners command every foot of tribesmen lead a roving life in

And so, this ancient highway of Dave's big ambition is to some its length. If this were not so, the sun-baked hills, practicing conquest has been adame again, day write the real story of Holly- no rich camel train travelling professional brigandage, at which just as it has intermittently for wood. He feels that although a through the Khyber with silks and they are experts. A few profess 25, centuries. In the hills around large number of books and short other valuable merchandise would to tend herds and harvest scanty the narrow defile which echoed stories have been written about the be safe. Even with these precau- crops.

to the clank of the words and celluloid colony, no author has yet tions, occasional wayfarers are Their favourite method of war spears Alexander the Great 300 grasped the true Hollywood. murdered with a well-aimed rifle fare is sniping from behind trees, years before Christ, the recur- However, he doesn't intend to do shot from a sniper' lurking among and the British have lost numerous rent drama of the long centuries his writing while he still is in pic- the rocks and trees.

men as the result. it is related was re-enacted.

tures. He first wants to get as far The tribesmen who live in this that once a British officer, in- But. this time the Khyber away from here as possible for six desolate country are the world's censed at a lone sniper who con- country echoed to the whiry and months or a year in order to get most blood-thirsty people and tinued to pick off his men with roar of British bombing planes the right perspective on our village. have been so for centuries. Time appalling regularity, finally offer- instead of to the tramp of That, he says, is the only way the upon time they have been sub-ed a huge reward of rupees to Alexander's marching legions. story can be properly written.

ENJOYING SUMMER IN REGENT'S PARK.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

In these

strenuous

days-

Dr. Johnson ones said that no man could travel more than 20 miles: an hour and Hve. What would he have thought of 6 miles a minutėl

The habit of speed extends to our every-day fires... Wo work in hurry and more strenu ously. We rush from work to strenuous sport. There is no time to idle-no time to

Those wonderful engines--our, bodies--can- Anot keep pace with these' · strenuous times without special help. The bodily functions become impaired, The nerves become frayed and worn,

The 'rebuilding and restorative food elements "which make good the dally wear and tear. of the cells and tissues of the body are now.

· Insufficient for the purpose. The system needs more rebuilding material than ordinary food supplies.

Scientific research has discovered the means. whereby an abundance of these vital food elements can be easily obtained. From malt, milk and eggs-Nature's best restorative foods--the nutritive elements have been ex- tracted and concentrated-correctly balanced. for the varied needs of the body—and pre- sealed in the form of a delicious and easily- digested beverage.

That is "Ovalling" the perfect restorative food for brain, nerves and body. Substitute "Ovaltine" for ten. coffee and other beverages and you will be able to maintain mental clorious health and physical and fitness in these strenuous days. It is the mast economical as well as the most health- giving form of concentrated nourishment in the world.

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The London correspondent of the Lokalanzeiger, who has lived for many years in England, notes that Imperial Preference is being revolution through which the unemployment is becoming the advocated as the best means of re: Continental nations have passed." ideal in England," and that "the duty to work is regarded as be gaining the old, convenient posi-

The Reason for Unemployment.

burden." The ing merely tion of supremacy that England

Consequently, the German held for such a large part of the nineteenth century. "Yes," he journalist states, the English be- Englishman has controlled the says, "If continental Europe slept,lieve that the commercial know-world's trade for three centuries, that is to say, by obtaining the as it did, more or less, from 1815 ledge and abilities that they have he adds by rationalising work; to 1900; if America were still in collected in the course of cen utmost possible: with the slightest. the development stage: if Asia, tures will carry them successfully exertion of effort, or by getting with Japan, had not awakened; over the present difficult time; others to work for him, so that he

he:de- and if, especially, China and India "but they are mistaken,"

not in revolt against clares, "and the result of their might live on the results of their America-European production, mistake is the abnormal unemploy

Ten generations, he declares, such advocates would be right, ment that they are trying to come have been born under this system, "But these times are past," the bat with parliamentary manipu and have died under it, so that it correspondent

Is not surprising that the English- observes, "and lations." England, if she wishes to main- What ought to be done, in the man of to-day finds difficulty in tain her place in the world, must German observer's opinion, is to leaving it behind him and In now cease looking back, and must point out very seriously to the shouldering the pick and the look ahead, as the Continent, young, working Englishman what shovel himself, instead of letting America, and even Asia have been his country expects from him, others do it for him. doing for a long time past, for the nation's position in The Englishman must learn

labour.

"The bulk of the English the world will not be maintained that work is a national duty, and people," he asserts, "think as the by men who see no object in work he will then very soon understand the previous generation thought; ing. when they can obtala without that Imperial Preference is not the English are only now begin any effort unemployment pay that the hundred per cent. panacea; but ning to understand, from books is not much under what they is only the hand that England. holds before her eyes so that she and from films, what the War has might be earning. meant to the continent; but they It can almost be said, the Ger may not see that history is in- are still fur from the intellectual man correspondent continues, that exorable.",

PARTIDGE SHOOTING

SEASON.

The hot weather last month drew many. Londoners to the Parks and open spaces. Our picture shows a scene on the lake in

Regent's Park in the early evening. Bathing in the Serpentine was also a big attraction. (Times copyright)

lons,, and birds; The patridge Bhooting season opened in ideal cond weather having been experienced during the resting season. A photogra

(Times copyr Sussex, showing the shoot in pre

plentiful, good.

aken near Lewes,!