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STOPANI-THOMSON.--On Septem. her 27th, 1534. at the War Memorial Nursing Honie, Mary, wife of G. G.

Stopani Thomson, a daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1934.

of

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY TURKISH WOMEN FIND

THE CUP RACE

THEIR FREEDOM

By J. H. WALTON

It will be many a day before Mr. T.O.M. Sopwith's splendet challenge for the America's Cup will be forgotten, but there are episoden of the series which are as well not remembered. At this dis- troduced into Turkials social all they seemingly had to live for. “HAZI Mustapha Kemal has in-fund, eventually, a good marringe- tance it would be neither fair norie many great reforms, but the possible to

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Now take the woman of Kemalist

to

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he

to pass final Judgment ne Race Committee's attitude towards that acclaimed with the greatest times. Islamism, being at one to the rights and wrongs of the most audacious, the happlest and the Endeavour's protest on Saturne man patio do the with the state, had, during day, but taking into consideration Turkish woman. This leador of centuries, prevented any develop the facts that the American obser-new Turkey, as it with a magle most of Musulman countries on ver aboard the Endeavour admit-wand, threw open the gates of western lines. This the Ghazi

AD correct tedly expressed it as his opinion bondage and freed the trembling determined that the protest flag need not have creature who was pitled the whole abolished the Khaliphate and in- been hoisted until late in the rate world over.

troduced a Inte regimo into Turkey. and that it was because of that From lowly cabin and gilded The Brat and most important ro the Ümid slaves delayed signal that the protest was care

of ajault of this reform was the com- not heard, it would seem that the centuries-old regime peeped forthplete emancipation of the Turkish Committee acted unwisely, if not and slowly stepped out into an unjustly. To quibble

Aundreamed-of freedom, still won- over technicality in a sporting event dering a little whether It was some such as this one, seems ungener-great power's temporary whim, Dus, particularly when the dis- and half afraid to hear their men advantages weigh so much against folk call them back.

the

woman.

is now

The Very Idea!

ABOUT BUGS, BREEDS, AND US

By George 667OU," said the Profes-

have spent over a year in sor, "admit that you

China and are still ignorant of the local Cercopoidea?"

We sighed a little ruefully and allowed our forehead to sink comfortably on to the paper. spike file.

him."

Yep, Pro. We've never met

"Impossible," muttered the Pro- fessor wiping his brow with a To-day, the new Civil Code ren- ders the woman free, independent magnificent specimen of the Calli of, and equal to, the man. The tettix braconvidcs. A quick glance Turkish woman

treated showed us that the tegmina was even better than many of her tentaceous with the apex broadly a challenger. Mr. Cornelitta Van- But they were told that the European and American sisters, muncove. derbilt, Jr., cousin of the yachts-Ghazi had decreed that henceforth The "recluse of the harem," con- Another glance showed us that man who guided the Rainbow, says the women of Turkey should have demned to languish and fade be- the time was seven o'clock.

A cockroach emerged from its the Committee's decision to dis-joqual rights with the men, so the hind closely trellised windows. allow Mr. Sopwith's protest, with-chrysalis.

recluse of the exists no longer. The disenchant corner pursued by n Polystyelidae Dut a hearing, was manifestly harem, cast off its shell and sooned of yore, the dark, veiled phan-aline Botryilidae and a battle royal unfair. Probably there are not found that it had wings. Thus tenis, whose eyes alone shone ensued in front of our desk. In more than a few who do not agree concluded the last stage of the through their tchartchafs (a pleve his excitement the Professor wiped with him.

great change in the social situa- of silk wound round the head) his steaming glasses with his left tion of the Turklah woman, which have completely disappeared. shoe, hooked his leg over his car had its origin na far back as 1008. If once in a wille, one sees a at the time, of the Young Turksemi-veiled figure in the streets of Experts declare that the Endeav-movement..

old Stamboul or in the tortuous our, on her own merits, is a faster

ways of the citadel of Angora, one yacht than the American defender,

ran be certain these women belong They seem to have no doubt on

The Turkey of Kemal numbers to a past epoch. In these days that score. If that Ro, it is

the Oriental aspect is utterly gratifying knowledge for the bulla 116,000,000 inhabitants, and 9,000,"aced, and the Turkish woman, 000 of these are women. There completely liberated from the dic

DISTINCT HANDICAP

sional crew of the Endeavour to

not beaten,

and scribbled a hasty note with his glasses on the dorsal fin of a Heptous chentseyi which he drew from his wallet.

Meanwhile we extracted the Professor's watch from his vestibule and counted the cock- "roach out. He had lost by three

Reconds

лn and

elongated pharnyx.

"Okaybyus," we retorted,

ers. For to construct a yacht capable of crossing the Atiantle are 8,000,000 peasant women and

only 1,000,000 who are town-born, tates of the Koran, lives, marries, Ocean and of competing, with some Looking back, over the past one dresses, works and amuses herself

By this time the Professor had success, at least, ngainst the fastest

ean easily visualise the Muskul-Just like her sisters of the Wost. company of craft built entirely for

The life of the harem, as des- unhooked his foot from the left an peasant woman, Illiterate and racing, is an achievement. This uncultured, her knowledge of life cried by numerous French novol- lobe and was adjusting his glasses handicap, however, British build-limited to her farm. She sees the and Smyrnn during the Great War, how the cockroach had taken a ista, disappeared in Constantinopic to have a look-see. We described ers appear to have overcome. It majority of her children taken remained for the original profes-from her at an early age for she for the high cost of living made vicious right to the epithelium and spoil what chances the challengernows next to nothing of how to the upkeep of the enormous pri- had also been the connecting link

bring them up.

vate palaces impossible.. But in between his blastula and a savage possessed. Almost without excep-

the interior of Anatolia it was the kick from Polly alias Botryllidae. The Turkish peasant woman, of

The Professor was in tears. tion, experta declare that it was the the past era never ceased to work. Custom of the peasants; up to the comparatively clumsy handling of

time of Mustapha Kermal's re- "All my life 1 have looked for the British yacht by the untrained a strive, to sacrifice; rest and form, to have three or four wives, such a sight and when the time crew which was responsible for her happiness were not her portion, who were made to work in the came I was found wanting," he defeat. However, her sailors tried and so, in the prime of youth, she fields.

crooned rocking himself gently lost that fresh beauty which is heroically, and were

backwards and forwards on a her heritage. While her western PEACE IN THE EAST?cessarily, be a faster yacht, but sisters of like age retained their ed in 1926 when the Grand Na-ly inserted itself under his seat. Polygamy was definitely abolish.clovia puncta which had incautious- by more finished craft.

youth and vigour, she became oldtional Assembly adopted the Swiss Whilst it may be premature

Our offer put a couple of he and tired, and dissatisfied at the Civil Code which imposed on all buck male cockroaches together to suggest that the latest WHAT OF THE PROTEST ?

exigencies of her home fo. Turks the modern matrimonini drew no enthusiasm from the Pro- developments in the Far East.

As for the second protest, Mr.

As for the million women of the statute. And so, with the new fessor. "Longis tiddlemus non affecting Japan and Russia on

Sopwith seems to have abandoned towns, only half were of the reform and westernisation appli-blunderbus," he murmured tying a the

it simply because he lost heart. hourgeoisie. The peasant women fed by the Republican regime, a reef knot in the antennne of the one hand and Japan and Tie was disgusted, no doubt, by the were the producers while the town-

w-great transformation was produced aiready anguished cockroach. China on the other, have com- first ruling of the Committee andora women comprised part of the in the general mentality of the pletely dissipated fears

As the Professor passed sadly possibly felt that he had little to consumers. Of the former many Tarkish people. expect from an appeal. There are were employed on farms border- The new liberty accorded to through the door he paused a mo- trouble in the near future, it can many who think this second pro-ing on the towns, and as servants Turkish women, together with the ment to pluck a Machaerota puncta- at least be said that, there are

test might well have succeeded. in the houses of the well-to-do. transformation of their habita and tonervosa from the coolie's head. A little higher up the scale came customs, material and economic, We noticed that the nedaegus was prospects of the general Far

But when the last race was over, Eastern situation undergoing defent.

Mr. Sopwith had already admitted the mothers, wives, sisters and made it necessary for many of the vertical with coraplex processes at Apart from the satisfac-daughters of perhaps the police-hamouma (women) to take steps to the apex, and anyway the animal a change for the better. Retion which a reunit would have me postmen, barbera, ог cab become wage earners and insure was dead,

complete aroused, particularly if the weather drivers. Their dress was of that their

independence. porta are to the effect that Japan had been brisk enough to give the picturesque, multicoloured type Under the reigns of the Sultan-us, said Al Luk obsequiously.

"Justas youverus, Servu righ- and the Soviet have at last challenger a chance, a final test which tourists loved to see-baggy Caliphs it was absolutely impos

The Professor replaced the corpse reached an agreement in regard between the rivals for the Cup was rousers, gold embroidered blouses sible for a Turkish woman of any and crept silently away. *** to the sale of the Chinese East- most desireable, for at this point and the striking veil and head-degree to follow any employment

we cannot help but feel that the dress.

other than that entailed in looking. fern Railway, but whilst these issue has not really been decided.

Then came the womenfolk of the after her own house. The are not confirmed, there would Quite possibly the defenders feel high government oMcials, rich actresses of the national theatre appear to be grounds for think that too. It is to be hoped that merchants and landowners the were either Greek or Armenian, Mr. Sopwith will change his mind bourgeoisie; and, finally, the real for no Osmanli woman was allow- ing that an early adjustment of and race Endeavour for the Cup aristocracy. Knowing at least one ed to appear on the public stegn. Packard Motor Car Company this troublesome jasue may be again.

foreign languago-many of them Furthermore, the Law of the

I read your add and asked had had foreign governesses and Koran, habit and ancient pre- expected. It is hinted that

hat heen to college or university judices had prevented the mixing, the man who owns one. He took when this matter is finally dis- GOOD WORK, HUCHIE !

they were able to supplement in company, of women and men. me driving in his Packard car but posed of, the Soviet may When President Roosevelt decid- and develop their education by Fianceen were not allowed to meet had to walk home. Please pay

ed to accept General Johnson's rending Turkish and foreign news their future husbands before mar- for my shoes. recognise Manchukuo, a develon-resignation as chief of the N.R.A.. papers, books and reviews, and be-riage; wives had to walk behind

Eleanor Hop. ment which would not be wel-be did so with a graciousness which come further distinct from their their lords and masters

in the comed in League circles at the cannot but have pleased the old peasant sisters by following Paris streets; sons of the house could soldier. His reply to General John fashions. The ruling passion was not be present at ten parties given present juncture. Such a move on's letter of resignation was the love of money. This brought by their sisters to girl friends; would be somewhat surprising in conched in the friendliest of terms luxury and comparative power, and it was considered humiliating view of the tension which has and praised his Beutenant's work the satisfaction of all caprices i (Continued on Page 10.)

whole-heartedly. He closed his so long persisted between Russia

note to "Dear Hughie" with n and Japan. but there may well promise that if he were needed be reasons, so far. not disclosed, again he would be called upon, be- why the Soviet should be disuse he recognised that the N.R.A. posed to reach a rapprochement chief's task had been a heavy one and that it was usually master- with the Japanese. M. Litvinoff's fully handled. The General's de recent statement that Russianarture, therefore, has no stigma would not consider herself bound attached to it. He goes with no by any League decisions reached little glory. But because he was a before her entry, might wellre hard on Labour, the Admin-

istration will have been made with the poss

probably breathe more easily with the approach of sibility of the recognition of

a federal election. Manchukuo in view. None, the less, such a step would certainly

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place the League, which has ex-ment is afoot for a settlement of pressed itself as being opposerl all outstanding differences. to recognition, in a somewhat Here, again, it is well to be on awkward position. On the gen- the guard against undue optim- cral issue of the relations beam, but that there are influential tween Japan and Russia, it is elements in both countries reck- quite conceivable that a gooding a greater measure of con- deal has been going on behind cord, is beyond question. It the scenes, of which the outside may, as we suggest, be rather world has little knowledge. This early in the day to feel that Far possibility, taken in conjunction Eastern peace is now definitely with the reports of a C.E.R. assured; current reporta are settlement, possibly explains the rather too vague to warrant com- belief in some quarters that an plete acceptance. Yet, when all carly Russo-Japanese entente is said and done, there is no good may be expected. The suggestion reason why hostilities should is that Japan's diplomats have break out in the East. Such got the better of the military ele-differences as exist should be ment. If this is so, and if it easily adjustable by pacific Indicates the likelihood of the methods. Once aggressive de- Army exercising less pressure signs aro definitely forcaworn, on Japan's foreign policica, so the future should wear a rostor much the better. There is also outlook. It is for those in whose afoeling abroad that Japan is hands the direction of, national anxious to get on better terms policies rests to see that the way with China, and that a move of peace is made easy.

"Thon that makes it fifty-fifty. T'm just as sick and tired of You two."

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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES.

By Jullet Lowell. Lucky The Loss Was So Small.

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