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prepared to excrifice innocent TEN DAYS IN GERMANY The Very Idea!

There is little doubt that

No. 4 Police Launch could have riddled the boats in which the I pirates were making their es- cape, but the searchlight re- vealed two of the ship's officers deliberately exposed to any fire which might have been directed. Sergeant Stewart chose the only alternative, landing an armed party as rapidly as possible, an

ffort which was unfortunately.] fruitless: This does not mean, however, that the encounter of the police patrol with the pirated steamer was entirely without reward. When the Prominent was steaming into Mira Bay the pirates had already assembled their intended loot and had selected the compradore and five passengers for kidnapping. The embarrassingly close attentions of the police launch compelled the gang to abandon all but easily portable valuables and the was some- money haul. That thing worth while. Moreover, the situation was not without its dangers for the men on the launch. The pirates did not capitulate to for a hurried exit

the need

without

a struggle. They made several attempts to ram the launch and clearly, the affair was not a

Hongkong Telegraph. picnic for anyone concerned. It

MONDAY, MAY 29, 1933.

THE PIRACY OF THEI

PROMINENT

The piracy of the Prominent and her dramatic encounter with

BETTER LYRICS, PLEASE

a nation's songs

Hamburg, one of Europe's greatest seaports, already partially paralyzed by world trade conditions, suffers anew from the Hitlerists' anti-Jaw campaign.

HAMBURG DEPRESSION

STRICKEN

By MILTON BRONNER.

greeted

or:

WAS IT FAIR?

By Eddie Kelly, Empire Bulldur.

WHAT a Fair! What a Display! What an Ex- hibition!

But perhaps you saw it for yourself? The only person we know of who didn't go across to the Peninsula last week was a woman living on the Penk.

She couldn't go because she couldn't get a new hat until sho went down into the city, and sho couldn't go down into the city |until she got a new hat. Which was a lucky break for her hus- band.

All the social headlights were thore. Mrs. Spit toon-wat looked dark positively charming in a frock of beige, or bilge, or what- over you call it, with her bonny baby strapped on her back.

We only had time to converse with Mrs. Sam Pan for a few minutos, but we gathered that she enjoyed the Fair. Her only com- plaint was about the Management of the Peninsula taking up the carpets.

"These concrete floors are very tiring on bare feet," Mrs. Pan said to us smilingly, waggling her toes. Mr. and Mrs. Koo Lee were holding an animated discussion on ayuero-mesh and free-squealing in the latest model motor-cars as we passed them in the automobile section.

Mr. Koo Lee showed a marked interest in the Baby models, but finally decided that it would be judicious not to buy a car at all. What's a Baby in our life," he exclaimed, with a merry laugh.

"There's a million of them," he continued, gathering up his family and departing for the radio sect-

Only dissatisfied person we saw

POTTED FILMS. Enter the hero; villain too: The country bumpkin, straw askow: The irato father, mother proud; And Of Man River in the crowd. (Why this should be, I cannot say, So typical of USA...) The hera gets his full six years. Flancos Boba-dries calol tears. The villain gloats. The IS the

word,

Forgets, ho must; that Aloe Hurd In watching him with sleuth-like air. A Scotland Yard man is so rare- In stories and on films, I mean, That you will see how Al is keen To scrow the villain by the neck And

save the homestead from the wreck. The father bows a weary head: The mother home by daughter led, The while the villain seeks the Inn; To miss that part will be a sin, For there the epoll is handed o'er. A close-up through the open door Just shows the villain's entering

Hp,

And Pampa Pete with hands on

hips. But Al has "gacssed" where they

will go,

And in already lying low Behind the necret hale through

which

He soon those villains now ano rich-- he hnd More rich than evon

thought Ill-gotten gains so cheaply bought. Filck! Once again the scene la changed,

their 33 million, railway stations. Many of Hamburg, a city of

of the greatest Communiat enemies are in jail.

There was little good humour seaports of the world, seems strick-displayed in carrying out the ong- Borves, however, to show that people, and one the only sound anti-piracy en as though by a plague by the day boycott in Hamburg. Armed measures are those designed to business depression. It depends Nazi troopers blocked the door

for its existence upon export and way to every Jewish business or ton. prevent the capture of ships.

import trade. This business had professionsal establishment. Pros were warned fallen low enough, and then came pective customers the finishing touch the Hitler anti-away. If they porstated in their was Pete. Pete had the idea that desire to enter a store or office, there were a lot of people at the Jew campaign.

their picture was taken to be fled Fair who shouldn't have been of away for future reference. When there. The great shipping lines Hamburg and Bremen frankly they emerged they were

shouts from the an armed police launch in Mirs If, as is often said, the man admit wholesale cancellations of with angry

both passenger and freight busi-guarda. On Sunday, following the Bay furnishes a vivid story, re-who writes

ness. The outlook for the future boycott, a great procession of nuto- calling the Irene affair. The wields more power than he who is not promising. They know that mobiles swept through the streets same pregnant situation, with makes its laws, the United States in the light of what is now Ger-of Hamburg, bearing banners urg- Tragedy and Disaster lurking has something like a half-share many's national policy, Jewe will ing good Germans to continue to

quietly start patronizing British, abstain from buying from Jews. Empire.

I understand from reliable sour- American and French rivala of the perilously near, presented itself in ruling the British

ces that prominent German Chris- For at least 50 per cent of the German steamship lines. to Sergeants Stewart and Tay-

At this time of year the hotels tinns and big business bodles of songs which, according to gramo- Jar, the only European policephone sales, have been the most of Hamburg and Bremen are usu-Hamburg, greatly alarmed at the officers on the launch, as it did to popular in Britain during the ally filled with American travellers strong possibility of business re- on various religious pligrimages. percussions, protested as vigorously the submarine commander in last ten years are composed in My observation of a few days ago, as they dared against eliminating

and however, was that the hotels were Jews from various business the earlier episode. A pitch America. Both Britain

ganizations. The protests, how. ever, brought no response. · black night, the low beat of en-America, however, are to be convirtually empty.

The Hamburg of today, like

What is to happen to the big gines sounding through the gratulated rather on the quanti- ty than on the quality of their

Leipzig and Frankfort, which I stillness, a steamer creeping in songs, and it is refreshing to also visited, is plastered with "For steamship companies and the ship- to the bay with all lights doused, note that at last public taste is Rent" signs. The most active bus-ping business? The logical con- up to this iness is the Nazi business of sup-clusion is that the companies will be suspicion rapidly giving way to beginning to wake

fact, for recently the British pressing the Jews' Socialists and thoroughly Hitlerized. The gen- The that the Nazis will put some of certainty. The difference lay in Broadcasting Corporation has Communists. The city, in many oral belief in shipping circles is the line of conduct pursued, and received many complaints of the ways, has a conquered air.

pressure upon the Jewish storce their own men on the directorates we think it can be said, without feebleness of the lyrics that are did not end with the boycott, but of the Hamburg and Bremen Hines, nightly sent over the air. The has been continued with the de- There then will be developed the slightest hesitation, that the trouble with many lyrics is one mand that department stores drop something akin to a big shipping truat, similar to Luft Hanso, the than morals. all Jewish directors.

great air passenger and freight highest credit reflects on the two of taste rather

concerned. It The words of popular songs are Before the days of Hitler, Ham-trust, and the steamship lines will police officers would, indeed, be difficult to com- not offensive so much as vapid burg was ruled by the Socialists. be given increased financial sup- and mawkish. They indicate, Bloody and often fatal encounters port by the government. Further and Communists efforts will be made to help Ger- mend them too highly. The not ethical perversity, but a between Nazis

almost daily occurrences man foreign trade by continuing lesson to be derived from the complete vacuity of the intellect. were affair is contained in the impres- But one should not condemn the over a period of months. Now, the policy of fixing lower railway sive demonstration that piracy lyricist without giving sympathe- however, all is quiet. Nazi troop-freight charges for export goods

even at the consumption. tic attention to his difficulties. [ers are thick throughout the city. than for goods carried for internal cannot be prevented by patrols. The chief of these is rhyme. It They are prominent Strategically the advantage lies is a regrettable fact that, in the wholly in the hands of the whole wealth of the English off-language, which containe any- pirates. Both the ship's

thing from 200,000 to half a cers and the ship itself are at million words, the only rhymes their not very tender mercy and to what is almost inevitably the it would be unwarrantable to ex-most popular expression in the pect those in control of patrol lyric writer's vocabulary "above," "dove," "glove" vessels to take the hazard, how-"above," and of these the last ever much they may be in duty is almost useless for musical pur- bound to employ every means at poses. Further, the lyric writer has to fit his words into a tune, their disposal to effect a cap and this is by no means so easy ture. Playing chuck-farthing a matter as it might seem. Still, with the lives of men cannot be it is possible to write better lyrics than those that accom- justified even if the withholding pany the most widely hummed of force permits the escape of and whistled songs of the day. the pirates. Nevertheless, In It has been done. Some of the most delightful verses in the the tension of the moment, the English language were written excitement of the chase, the to be sung: "There is a lady the daisica sweet, knowledge that actions must la- sweet and kind," "The fields

breathe ter be explained to superiors who kiss our feet," "Drink to me These may adopt the role of armchair only with thine eyes.” critica, a cool self-possession and lyrics set a standard which presence of mind are casential the song writers of to-day might well try to emulate. to a correct handling of events If the answer is made that the as they develop. And these public does not want songs of qualities were exercised in full this type, that can easily be dis-

posed of. What song measure.enabling the affair to be decade, judged by a ten-year terminated in the way most hap-standard, has been as widely py in the circumstances. Theoung on concert platforms, by errand boya in the street, in police were outwitted by a schoolrooms, and on the radio as ruthlessnes to which they had the last of the examples. chosen no counter unless they were above?

are and

of this

"Hey, mother! I caught Bia at my neckties agai

One aces the hero, now deranged, A far-off look in either eye,

And, strange to say, he wears a tie. (Why this should be, I cannot say, So typical of U.S.A.j

While both hands grip the iron.

bora........

Flick! his flances secks the stars For help and strength to Aloo H. That he may queer the villain's

pitch,

And bring her lover safely back. Flick! Here an inset of the shack. Flick! Pampa Pete gets on his

horse.

You know? A stirring leap, of

course;

A suddon twist, a cloud of dust, And Peto in "off". The villain must Return to where our Al is hid In order that he may get rid Of all the papers of the farm. How Al is pleased! The scent is

warm!

The secret panel opens wido; The papers then are thrust Insido. The villain rubs his hands with gloo. "Now for the girl herself," quoth he. ...Al gets the papers; reads them

through.

Wall This is just the Devil's.

braw,

His sturdy mustang leaps along. Inset of bell-ding, dong, ding-dong. (Why this should be, I cannot say, So typical of U.S.A.

But charchos, steeples, all seem

good

To studios in Hollywood.) ....An inset of the villain here, Upon bla face an awful loor.

The girl with twitching hands to

show

Anticipation of a blow

Which never falls, FOR HERE IS

AL!

With all the proofs to save the gel..

The roaring Limited draws in

Out steps the hero looking thin:. A far-oll look in either eye,

And, strange to say, he wears NO

tie,

(Why this should be, I cannot say, So typical of U.S.A...)

ROTNIE.

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