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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1986.

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The

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SPAIN'S

RED

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PROBLEM

active part in the present fighting.

Spain's civil war but The Red Car- tells of armed young wo-

mens are taking men in the forefront of the fighting, many of them still girls, others of sturdier state, sporting red trappings of the Popular Front, even as did the citoyens of 1789.

All over the Peninsula Spanish working girls are actively par-. ticipating in the conflict, and if numerically they do not ap proach their, menfolk compen sation comes with their real role, which is one of inspirer and spurrer on.

Among these "Red Carmens" are to be found the most violent and extreme spirits of Spain.

Clenched Fists THEIR own inspirer is the

dead,

Aida 17-year-old Lafuente, who finished with fists upelenched the now familiar resolve before the firing squad outside the Church of San Pedro at Oviedo.

Having previously directed attention to the inefficacy of the present methods of dealing with This was in October 1934, returned banishees, we find our after she had led the local young (DB-2367/8) selves in full accord with the Communists for 10 days in that contention of Mr. Braga, at Wed-dreadful rising. (D82528/9)nesday's meeting of the Finance To-day in Moscow's Museum Committee of the Legislative of the Revolution is laid the Council, that the cost of arrest heroine's dress, pierced by many and imprisonment of deporices bullets, and sent thither by her who persist in coming back to the parents. Colony is out of all proportion to the necessities of the case. The root of the trouble, as we see it, is that there are too many de- portations for relatively minor offences, with the consequence that persons so banished are, as Mr. Braga expressed it, sent away-by-one boat and return..by. procedure then followed is to arrest such of

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Her 19-year-old sister of ideas is a popular speaker round the country. She and her like constitute the true Red Carmens of Revolt-after all, Red was always that young woman's colour, and setting man against man her "forte."

"Los Petroleuses' "DIRECT Action" girls they

like to hear themselves called, so as to distinguish them from

Bolshevist ranics were per meated by young women of the "Les Petroleuses" type in the first crucial months of Lenin's elvil war.

Much was heard of a certain regiment of Amazons, but that is a different story again from the shoulder-to-shoulder girl opposite brother and lover, of the pistol thrust forward in feminine grasp.

slip away into a religious order."

Such a generalisation may have covered the bulk of Spain's womanhood, 65 per cent. of whom were then illiterate. Yet it left out of account one con stantly growing contingent, those in the factories, whose numbers had not ceased to swell during and after the war.

These factory hands were to

volution during their most for- mative' -years. They have drunk deeply of tho draught offered them by. the Republic. have thrown.off' religion, formal · restraint, more or less every- thing that was.. The idea of their being any- thing like their mothers appuls them. Nor have their fathers got much to say either..

At midnight in ↑ Malaga cafe recently, when a young Spanish girl was asked what her father would say at her staying out 80 late, she laughed back in

Answer:

"My father? If he says anything I reply by raising my clenched fist as he does when he asks to be free. He only has to hold his tongue!" That this impulsive young woman should now be urging her men friends on to battle, or even taking part in it herself, may not seem surprising.

At the exit of the Spanish become "quite Western" in SAM CUNARD

Monarchy in 1931 perhaps a treatment and companionship, trifle too much stress was laid particularly with the men, and

on the hitherto segregated life which the Spanish woman and girl had been compelled to live.

Factory Girls THE Spanish woman," it was Atmosphere Of Revolt to admire or to make work and 20 have grown up in a said, "has been a creature SPAIN'S young women of 18

it is essentially this factory STARTED type that has generated the "Petroleuse" and "Pistollere" of the hour.

domestically, to marry or to let persistent atmosphere of

re-

When Lady Nicotine Was Young

THE SMOKING HABIT

By H. C. McKAY

SOMETHING

By

Roderick Morison

TINETY-SIX years ago this sum-

NINETY

mer Sam Cunard sent a steam packet paddling Into the Atlantic Ocean at a furious eight knots--to win a new and noble Blue Riband for Britain.

What a Blue Riband it was that be nailed to his Britannia's most- hend!

And how the world America in 14 days!

gasped!

But Sam Cunard could not span the century, nor dream of the titanic struggle that would develop between Ave great nations for the suprem- dey of the Western, Ocean.

then the paddle-and-sall Persie, with an average of close on

It is hard to imagine Julius Caesar puffing a pipe as his AMERICA led from 1851 to 1850,

chariot rolled through Rome, or Cleopatra with a cigarette between her lips. The ancient civilisa- tions knew nothing of smoking, which was an Indian habit, brought back to Europe by the discoverers) and conquerors of America.

CHATER ROAD, these people as are again found in the Colony, to charge them at the Police Court for disobeying

women who merely the banishment order, and then harangue or organise, and to commit them to prison for specially so that they may not AS the Indians practised it, this offence. Once their prison be confounded with the first smoking was both a cere- sentence is served, they are once feminine vintage of the Remonial habit and an intoxicant. more sent away, but they are public, which now seem some By blending other leaves with soon back again, and the endless thing so mild, and conservative those of tobacco they would process of re-arrest and reby comparison.

smoke till delirium or stupor was But perhaps a better label produced. This effect profoundly than "Direct Action" would be impressed the Spaniards of the "Les Petroleuses." For when-time of Columbus, and was, per- ever there is a question of haps one reason why the habit of burning a convent, church or smoking did not immediately monastery-particularly the spread among Europeans. first-be certain that young

The tobacco plant was, in fact, women will be found handing looked on as a powerful healing drug, on the tins of petrol if not

The juice of the leaf was reputed to and the actually tipping their contents heal ulcers and cancers. over the sacred relics.

smoke was inhaled to cure coughs,

and lung diseases. colds, The hatred shown by them towards the nuns needs to be spanish colonists, who smoked to The habit first spread among the point of dizziness or intoxication." experienced to be credited.

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self, and initiated many famous men

in the art of smoking pipe. He is reputed to have induced Queen Eliz-

abeth to smoke one-a curious sight It must have been to see Queen Bess, in her famous high ruff, with a pipe in her mouth. But King James I., who succeeded her, had an almost malignant hatred of tobacco.

Smoking had now become a fash- lonable habit, and James saw in it the ruin of the race.

"Shall wc, without blushing, abore shy,

these selves so farre as to imitate

our-

beastly Indians?" he exclaims. He believed that 'hundreds of people died of the ill-efects of smoking.

WAS

EXPENSIVE

14 knota, won bock for Britain-a-re- cord that was to stand for more than 40 years.

The Persia, by the way, in addi- tlon to one cannon, carried and cow to provide the more delicate pas- kenkers with milk,

Germany thrust through in 1898 ' with an average of 22 knots by the Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse, which

shortened the westbound passage time to five daya and a few hours. There followed a nine-year luli- until the Mauretania came, in 1907. to bent five days and to beat the best Germaan average by a third of a knot, The Mauretania's 22-years reign is proud British history now, but her speed and her pride, for those who have travelled in her, are living memories.

It was in the Mauretania in 1924 that I made my first Atlantic cross- Ing. She had not yet been dubbed "Grand Old Lady." She was still a "dark horse."

"She is going to break the record," said the world.

Drunkenness, according to James, was the cause of "the unquenchable desire for tobacco." Tobacco was

"She is going to break the record?" then expensive (it was sold for its

I asked Captain Rostron.

"Record?" said he. "We shall run author lashes out, at society spend- awn weight of silver), and the Royal

schedule." thritts who "bestow foure hundred And the

Mauretania

to

Κανε

up the Hudson! How limb went the straw hats in the seething river!

deportation continues. It will thus be seen that the banishment laws, as at present operated, fail of their purpose, added to which is all the trouble and expense of arrest and imprisonment and the consequent congestion of alreally overcrowded gaols. It would be illuminating in this con- nection to know how much it costs the Colony annually in the prison maintenanec of returned banishees. The sum must be very considerable, and it is,

largely money

wasted, since How, though, has it been left Fainting nts due to over-smoking pounds u veere upon this precious mighty chuckle deep down in her experience has shown that the fear of imprisonment does not to Spain to produce the first were frequent. The tobacco plant stinke." He ended by stigmatising hull, and for 17 days- two-way deter these people from return descendants of the bloodthirsty was next grown in Europe for its smoking as "a custom lothsome to trip-sent her own world's records

curative properties, for by this time the eye, hatefull to the nose, harm spinning. ing. The Government viewpoint, citoyens of a century and a half exaggerated stories of the healing full to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume that the law against disobedience 2go, who were to reappear in effect of the inhaled smoke had got

about.

thereof necrest resembling the hot How the brass bands blared as we of deportation orders must be the Paris Commune of 1871?

Smoking was said to cure head-rible Stigian smoke of the Pit that It cannot be said that the enforced, cannot be disputed.

is bottomelesse," uche, gout, asthma, and cold in the

fo James's book made a great sensa But there is obvious need that

head. Sallors who had been that law, or the manner of its such on arrest for another America smoked for "swank" rather tion. He followed it up by increasing operation, 'should be revised. It olfence, should be flogged in ad- than enjoyment; the dizziness and the duty on tobacco, a step which sickness which attacks the smoker Parliament refused to ratify. He would appear from the remarks dition to being imprisoned. using tobacco for the first time were stogod a publle debate in which he of the Government spokesman at There seemed, at Wednesday's looked on as proof of its power as a

was the chief speaker against the new vice, but was unable to stop its Wednesday's meeting that the meeting, to be some doubt as to narcotic drug.

fountain 'become still more popular spread. It authoritica are now conscious of whether flogging of returned An early voyager wrote of the In- when the great plague broke out, as this point, since they are dealing banishees can be ordered, but a diana: "They all mouth, gullet, and It was believed a disinfectant and

the whole head with powerful fumes preventive of with the matter in the only reference to the laws of the until they at fast fall about as beasis

contagion. Pipe-smoking was the first form to practical way, by reducing as Colony shows that under Ordin- that have no reason, and lle sense be popularised. A short clay far as possible the number of ance No. 3 of 1890 (unless the less, on the ground as dead men.

generally used. Snuff-taking was banishecs." The inference to be provision has since been Some collapse suddenly, as if attacked another popular form, reaching an drawn from this statement is repealed), magistrates have the by the falling sickness, and often lle

acme in the eighteenth century. for a night and day, dent and Blind Chewing had

limited popularity. that there will in future be fewer power, though it is within their to all that.

goes on around them." Cigarettes

A few days later the Bremen were Introduced from deportations for minor offences, discretion whether they use it or

Á SPECTACLE.

South

raised, the average eighteenth

by nearly two America in the a policy in which we heartily not. Were it more freely In those days big crowds would century, but were not popular till at concur. This, however, would employed, thero would, we have collect and follow a sea captain who European vogue for

It was a German family affair for them storted not affect the hardened criminal, no doubt, be fewer bad characters smoked in the streets.

after the Crimean War. When first four years then-Bremen versus her sister Europa-unt! Italy launched Thomas Hariot, a málhematician, introduced into London clubs the the Rox and carried the average to against whoso presence in the coming back into the Colony.

was ridiculed,' and tho 20.02 knots. Colony the deportation laws are This measure, coupled with who had visited England's new col- elgarette,

affect-

Then, last summer, France's glant. designed. Here it would seem modifications regarding the type ony of Virginia, was one of the chief smoker of one looked on as an

popularisers of smoking, asserting ed dandy or snob.

Normandie thundered her challenge, advisable to make the punishment of person banished, should go a that it "opened the pores and To-day we have arrived at smily, as she reeled off her 30 knots day

the We smoke for mild enjoyment and after day. for returning, much heavier than long way towards disposing of pelled surplus moisture from

So it is that we come to the Queen in at present the practice. In what otherwise would appear to body"; it also aided in lengthening distraction, well knowing tobacco, as

the life.

we use it, to be neither a dangerous Mary, whose efforts to win back the particular, a roturned banished of be a problem incapable of solu Sir Walter Raleigh was another drug nor a magic influence but only Allantic honours for Great Britain this type, who is identified as tion..

advocate. He smoked heavily him- a good companion and comforter.26/ have been watched by all the world,

10x

1

was

Before I wirelessed to London the news of that fastest Cherbourg- New York passage, I asked Cap- Jain Rostron for a message. With- out a word he took a piece of paper from me and drew out his pen. "Mauretania Re- surgat," he wrote firmly, ("May Mauretania riso again.") Five years passed. The Maure tonia again lay at her New York pler. Down in Brooklyn lay the Bremen, lazing majestically after a maiden voyage on which she had benten our Westbound record by. nearly nine hours,