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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 9; 1936.

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PUBLIC OPINION

HEEDED

The value of informed public Jopinion has been illustrated by the decision of the Government to give heed to the arguments- recently advanced in the columns of the Press for the retention of privately-owned tents and siri- lar structures on the Repulse Happily, Buy bathing beach.

the proposed ban is not now le The enforced, and the result will mean much to those who do not happen to own matsheds, and who find the Repulse Bay beach, with adequate means of cheap transport thereto, practically the only bathing resort on the island which they are able to patronise. As the Bill dealing with the mat- ter was originally drawn up, it was intended that private tents should be permitted on all mat- ahed beaches, within areas allot-1

IN BERLIN TO-DAY.

They Call a Spade

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YOUNG man in a neat uniform, parading up and down befort the wrought-iron gates of a castle-a country house would this time be a nearer, I, less teral translation of schloss- and carrying at the slope of his shoulder-a spade.

Not a dirty spade, not a spade solled with clay and sweat, but n new spado with the haft glisten- ing with varnish and the metal highly burnished. In fact, a ceremonial spade. A symbol.

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For this castle, once the real- dence of a Brandenburg land- owner, situated in a wood about twelve miles east of Berlin, is now. Compulsory Labour Camp. Youths of sixteen or seventeen, a soon as they leave school, have to serve six months in one of these empa before commencing their conscript military service.

They dig, they drain marshes. they fell mber, they bulld roads. The work is heavy-it is said that many faint from exhaustion-and English boys would regard it as all the heavier for the squad drill which accompanies it, with much blowing of bugles and beating of drums.

NO SMILES

-by Order Mobtain permission for me

were unable to

to see over the camp. Many forms would have to be alled in and long notice given. That is typical. The Nazis may be creating a new State, but they are leaving substantial tracts of the old Germany, including long forms to be led in for almost every- thing.

So all I was able to see of the Labour Camp was the solemn youth keeping guard at the gate with the spotless ceremonia! spade, and a squad of the young labourers being dried, to drums The and bugles, in the forecourt. sergeant talked to them velem- ently, and at length, before dis- missing them, and when I naked the import of his fluent Prussian address, I was told he had noticed some of them grinning, and it wouldn't do, and before he had finished with theth the grins would come off.

HE spade, however, does

Typity, Berlin to-day.

Everywhere there is work Kulig on. The me trees that gave the Unter den Linden its

ted and definitely marked off, but NOTES OF THE DAY

when the Bill came up for its first reading, the Government, for reasons which have not been disclosed, intimated that no tents whatever would be allowed at Repulse Bay. In response to public opinion, however, that ban will not now be persisted in, and the original general rules | applicable to all matshed beaches will also operate at Repulse Bay. There is one further point worthy of note. The original re- gulations contained no specific prohibition against the erection

on record, and it exceeds figure for 1084 by £800,339. European countries placed orders last year to the value of $201,108, on the value of orders placed in 1934, British manufacturers are rapidly expanding the British Air Force and at the same time in- to many countries in nearly all creasing their export of machines

parts of the world.

A SYMBOL

name have vanished--the centre of the great boulevard is all sand and upturned clay, for they are making an extension of the Underground rallway to take visitors out to the Olymple Games, Perhaps tu 巋 stranger there seems no need for that, no con- gestion of traffle-but it is work. and though the wages paid to the navvies, some of them former pro- fessional men, are little more than the "tote," while they work they need not think.

And they are working every^ where, rebuilding the grounds of the Radio Exhibition which was burned down last year, making great motor roads in all directions out of Berlin, building the stadiums for the Olymple Onmez and a model village for the thousands of competitora.

After the Games,

the village will become a barracks for the most efficient regiment in the Army.

And as you fly aerous Germany you see everywhere long straight roads with hardly a vehicle on them.

There can be no doubt of their purpose. They are military ronds designed to move troops, guns, ammunition and supplies to the frontiers, with the 211/210:1 speed. They stretch north, soutka, enst, west. No wonder there is poverty in Germany,

Al Hanover aerodrome in the Customs Station there is an enor-

A variation is the Rake, also

carried at the slope.

SIDE GLANCES

by

John BROPHY

machine, big

เอus weighing enough to weigh a grand plano or

prize ox.

A woman had brought a bunch of six roses from Holland, The Cus- Toms official inid them solemnly on The weighing machine. The finger moved an alightly that he had to ift his glasses to see what I re- corded. Then be solemnly enlcu- aled, filled in a large form, and charged the woman the equivalent

three-halfpence,

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المدار

ERLIN is pre-eminently a serious elty. One sees preoreupted and anxious inces everywhere. And everybody wants to know what England thinks ut The new Germany, of Hitler, of its Olymple Games.

They are proud of their country. but It is a pride without confidence. Would. a psychologist diagnose this as a symptom of an inferiority complex?

The serious faces one sees in the streets are not handsome either. The blonde Nordic type, the Nazi ideal of gold hair and pink cheeks." is very rare. The Berliner usually has dark, lustreless hair and n complexion of old, rather worn' Ivory.

Some of the men have good, rlean-cut features, but it is tim- cult to find a woman with a face or a figure which would pass as even moderately attractive in another · country.

Berlin is a man's elty, run by men for men-serious men who have re-established the hausfrau ident.

COSMETICS

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are barred·

GERMAN told nie proudly that I could go

all over Berlin and yet would see" practically no women with painted faces."

It was an unkind thought, and I frained-from-uttering.I1but still the trel remains that I did think Bittle paint and powder might have improved these Berlin women. They would have nothing to lose

By George Clark

Since the Great War the Bri-i tish Aircraft industry has been the world's chief exporter of all aeronautical material, but when the announcement was made some time ago that there was to be a considerable expansion of the Royal Air Force it was feared in many quarters that this would mean the stoppage of supplies for oversens buyers. In spite of the energency demands of the Gov- ernment for more airforce equip-| meat, the aircraft and aero-engine builders have not overlooked the needs of their customers abroad. In an official report recently issued was staled that the total value of tents in front of matsheds, of aircraft exports for 1935 was is the highest but, at the same time as the Re-2,721,441. This

the pulse Bay ban was announced, it was also intimated that the Government did not intend to allow tents to occupy areas in front of sheds. As the original schedule is now being reverted to, it must be assumed that there will in future be no objection to tents in front of sheds, provided they are confined to areas speci- the proposed rules were too! ally marked off. So far as Re-greatly in favour of matshed pulse Bay is concerned; no other owners, and that there was no parts of the bench are available. reason whatever why tents since the undeveloped portion of should not be allowed in front of the Lido, which has a consider sheds where no other aren was- ible ses frontage, cannot be available, provided they wer utilised, as the Government's kept. within specified limits. lease to the Healty Company con- With this method of solving the tains a proviso that no structures problem, now agreed to, it is to shall be permitted between the be hoped that the authorities leased area and the sea. The will apply the rules in as liberal] position generally seems now to a spirit as possible, keeping al- be quite clear-tents may be ways in mind the needs of people erected on any matshed bench of small micans, who, had the within allotted areas, and there proposed. restrictions been en- is nothing to prevent such areas forced, would have been deprived English pianist who has been makin the Macao Portuguese and Chinese Mr. Harold Scott, the celebrated not inconsiderable number of pore VLA being marked off in front of of rights which the public gen- ing a tour of the Far East, will give communities who have a keon ap matsheds. Throughout the con- ferally should be permitted to a recital at the Amatour Musical and preciation for good male and Mr.

Theatrical Academy in Macto ori Scott's visit is being looked forward { troversy, we took the starid that lenjoy..

Saturday, at 9.30 pm. There is a to with much interest.

“I only wanted her to be able to play a few little pieces that people like. I had no iden alle would inku it, so....

seriously."

"A solemn youth keeping guard with a spotless, ceremonial Spade."

and everything to gain by the ex- periment.

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There are so many questions 1 is not either polite or tactful to ask Berlin-your German friend crows uneasy, he looks over his shoulder, and even then he will not. give you a direct answer.

But it is not difficult to make deductions from such allenoes and evasions. Berlin is still a city of secret fears, even though it is ali dressed up for the arrival of the Olymple Games tourists-prepara- atons are being made to accommo- inte no less than half-a-million. By the way, which seems optimistic even for a Fascist State.

Non-Aryans are forbidden to exhibit the Nazi emblems, and so their houses are clearly marked for patriotic butchers, grocers and other shopkeepers who like to charge excessive prices and behave rudely to those who dare not com- plaini

The Nazis have forbidden any- one to build a house with a flat roof. Flat roofs are Oriental, and therefore Jewish.-The-decree-is-

obeyed, and no one laughs ppenly.

But it is a little odd to note fat roofs among the Olympic Games buildings, and huge pillars and causeways designed in a distinctly Oriental-In fact, a Babylonian-- fashion. But perhaps some Nazi ideologist has been able to prove That Nebuchadnezzar WAS an Aryan átter all,

LARS, EARS

Everywhere

T was odd, too, to go to the Scala, the big music- hall in Berlin, and and five out of the eight turnă put on by obviously Jewish artista.

Austrian, American and Polish Jews. doubt, but it looks as 1 the doctrine of racial purity had escd not only all the good German writers but all the Rood singers, dancers and comedians.

Not quite all, though.

There was Grock, as quaint and re- sourceful ás ever. English people may be glad to know that he is sill trying to push the plano to- wards the stool and hopping In and out of a broken chair.

Grock Is a Swiss, though the Berliners I talked to allowed one to assume he is German. Stul, he is a portent, a renasurance, a comforting Indication that Ber- sense of in may still have a humour 'behind. its serious face.

But its well hidden on most occasions, for there Bre ears everywhere. The stranger who takes the next table to you in restaurant may go away to make a report on your idle converan- tion. The man who comes to re- pair your telephone may leave a secret microphone hidden In the recolver, so that every

word spokun-not only into the tole- phohe but at any time in that room-may be tuken down by an unknown. 1stener and brought up In evidence against you..

Perhaps, after all, it is not dif fcult to guess why they all look

to serious in Berlin.

Today's Thought~~~ CUSTOMS may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

-DISRAELI.