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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936.-

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MONDAY, OCT. 12, 1930.

By

The coup d'etat, carried

out by Mn- jorca's army on

BRIAN TRENT the outbreak of

Spanish Government troops have landed in Majorca, which has hitherto been strongly held by the rebels. The author of this article on the situation there was in Majorca al the outbreak of the revolu- tion.

the revolution, was proof enough that his. plans had been carefully pre- pared

for

months before- hand.

Within forty- eight hours of the outbreak in

THE battle raging round Barcelona, Ma

Majorca is not merely a jorea's military resistance to the Red forces of forces, led by General Ruiz, Spain, but a desperate bid for had seized the independence, too.

Government Since the fall of the reins. The poli- monarchy, the Balearic Islands,

tical partics were swept

and particularly Majorca, have away, and Fas

sought to assert their indepen- cism reigned. The harbour at Soller, Majorca. Inset: Juan, March, the "mystery man” behind

the Fascist Party there. dence and secure home rule, supreme.

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longer. Although she possesSCH

food Imports and

· medical supplies. Food was be- ginning to run short before I left, and in the villages coffee, sugar, butter, tea and many canned foods were unobtainable.

The Majorcans are stubborn. They swear that they will never surrender to a Communist gov-

the death.

This

It was only when the Vice- ernment until their army has consul ordered our evacuation fought to that the Majorcans realised would mean a modern repetition what might befall them. In of the ancient Moorish invasion, the interests of their own safe when the men and women of Special measures succeeded in ty they did their best to prevent Majorca laid down their lives wholesale for the sake of their national ideals, for every town. None of them two days in stemming any the foreigners from going.

As GOO of Us British, succeeded in gaining the con- chance of opposition. Hundreds

Their dislike of Communism fidence of the people, and strikes of volunteers joined the Fascist French, Germans and Americans and of Spain to-day is intense. were frequent.

ranks daily. Two or three, with stood upon the decks of the Officers, soldiers, peasants and

Left Wing Governor and mayors

Hongkong Hotel The blunderings of Socialist The governor of the island flammatory Communist news- . She can hardly hold out much

governments have fostered dis- and the mayors of each town papers all over the island. content and killed all confidence. were ejected, and the majority Then scrions bombing started. enough. ammunition for many Majorca, although a Spanish imprisoned. Fifteen Carabinieros Numbers of houses, shops, Toad- months she is totally dependent possession, differs a lot from or patrol police were shot in ways, and the famous Formen- upon Barcelona and Valencia Spain. The Majorcans are a one day for resistance, while tor Hotel were hit and scores of for her BIRTII.

himself acted simple, loyal, and industrious Ruiz

413 the people killed. GOW.-At Tsingtao, North China, on people, to whom Socialism is island's military governor, and

These air raids occurred 23rd September, 1936, to Com- distasteful, as their social prob- officers took up the duties mander and Mrs. I. A. Gow, alema

twice daily, but the morale of were never .those of abandoned by the mayors. daughter, (Both well.)

Catalonia.

the Majorcans was by no means During those two days the shattered. Fed on fletitious With the exception of the commercial classes, who are the army fought bitterly, and re- news, they anticipated a na- inevitable outcome of the tourist, lentlessly to smash any chance tional victory over Communism boom of seven years ago, the of Communist demonstrations, within a few days, population 16 predominantly One question was asked of the royalist. Although the results civilian: "Are you Fascist or THE LABOURITES of this year's selections con-

Communist?" Communist firmed this, Majorca was com- AND ARMAMENTS

pelled to surrender to the Left roply or a refusal to answer was The annual conference of the Wing. Government of Spain, punished by imprisonment. Labour Party, just held in Edin-accepting the authority of a burgh, has had to face up to the question of re-armament, and it has done so by re-affirming the policy of maintaining defence forces consistent with the coun- try's responsibilities as a member of the League, with preservation

'safety, we witnessed the worst would a hundred times rather of the people's rights and liber. mayor of the town of Soller, with rifles, were stationed in

Hundreds of be under British (even German, ties, with the continuance of where I lived, was a case in every street to search pedes air raid of all.

a Red fanatic trians and care for arms. bombs dropped all over the town or Italian) domination than democratic institutions, and with point. He was observance of international law, and the local chemist at the

Then threats reached General of Palma, upon the historic succumb to the "barbarities" of In some quarters, there is a dis- same time. It was comic to see·

and demolishing hotels.

the Majorcan's natural enemy. position to regard this decision him at the local club engaged in Ruiz, from Barcelona, that if Cathedral, striking the barracks Catalonia. For the Catalan is as a reversal of past policy, but violent altercations on Leninism the island. surrendered quietly, $1.00 Each that is scarcely a correct inter- and Marxism, of which he nothing would be done, but.

pretation of the position. When knew even less than the stolid instant bonbardment would fol- still of smoke and flames in the were everywhere successful, it coral light of sunset, and I is very possible that Majoren in office, the Labourites realised peasant, while his customers low resistance.

wondered for how long Juan would make a plea for indepen- No notice was taken, and March's resources would last dence from the rest of Spain. next day Red planes dropped before siege and bombardment Majorca to Such an atmosphere of dis- dummy bombs on Palma and would compel effort was continued by the cord afforded Red agents an hundreds of packets of in- abandon her bid for freedom National Government when it

opportunity for rosy promises came into power, and it was only of a Spanish Utopia under Red within the past year that it be- rule, while children scribbled came plain that the British ex- ample was not being followed innocently upon the town walls, "Votad por una Espana by others, a circumstance which impelled the Government to Sovielica!" But only a limited make up lost ground. Labour and disillusioned section of the

community professed now concedes that the armed

munism, and I doubt if most of them could even define what Sovietdom meant.

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Thus might Juan March's ambitions-be-fulfilled,

FAMOUS VOICES

By GEORGE W. DILLNUT

a gram-

Mr. Dillnul, who has spent 35 years recording for phone company, tells of some. famous people whose volees and musle he has preserved in wax.

Not, however, before we had suf- to advise fered! Once I ventured him to stand a little closer to the Instrument. Such technical advice, für from seeming kindly to him, was taken us an insult, and his fiery tem- per was aroused.

Mussolini's Torrential

Speech

strength of countries loyal to

T James's Palace on a fine morn- the League must be conditioned

ing in October 1924. Obviously by the armed strength of poten-

nervous, to judge by the way he tial aggressors. Consequently,

agitates his tie, a young mun gifted! it concedes that Britain must bring her defences up to a posi- One man foresaw what was with clear, penetrating eyes and of a dignified bearing, steps into position tion in which she need not fear destined to happen if affairs beside my recording apparatus. The attack from without. In a were allowed to drag on in this preliminary tests completed, he be- word, Labour recognises that way. He was Juan March, who gins his speech, piending eloquently for public support for the Earl Halg the standard guaranteeing owns his own bank in Palma. Fund. Suddenly he hults. The pause security must be raised. The He is considered to be the is just long enough to spoil the re- only possible difference, there- richest man in Spain, and has cord. We must take the speech rustle of flounces announced the en- irance of the imperious prima donna.

Yel, recalling my encounters with fore, between the viewpoints of built up his fabulous fortune again. the National Government and by devious means,

This time there is no

One glance at the room sufficed to masterful men. I must give the "What an ordeal!" he exclaims, add unloose her temper. In trenchant laurels to Mussolini. In 1020 I was the Labourites is precisely what that standard shall be; they may

He surrounds himself with a ing a much relieved, "I would much terms she reviled me for what seem-summoned from London to the Duce's being to misplace a bowl of her fa- barely set up the apparatus, rushed differ in degree, but not in prin- barrage of mystery, through rather dance to your instrument than ed at least five minutes, my "crime" magniileent Chigi Palace. I had

vourite roses. However,

eight from our studio at Milan, when Mus- ciple.

With such a similarity which permente, occasionally, talk into it.”

brow-solint himself strode into the room That comment of the King, when hours later we hurried off, prodigious of outlook, it does appear some accounts of his

twe wearing his riding 'clothes.. what illogical on the part of the philanthropy and magnetic per-Prince of Wales, aptly summarises beaten yet triumphant, with,

And before I could utter a word, he Labourites that they should de sonality. Majorcans delight in the feelings of most other notable precious wax impressions,

Infinitely more amlable was Ma-launched into his discourse, on ora- clare their inability to vote in recounting stories of his numer for the gramophone.

dame Pali. It was at Craig-y-nos tion to Italian citizens in the United the Commons for the Governous exploita, legendary and:

Castle, in North Wales, that this States. Within a few moments he otherwise. policy. ment's re-armament

magnetic singer and great beauty was completely under the spell of made her first records. She sang the his own words; I stood stupelled. The reason given is that, in the

His gifts to charity, long be- absence of a policy of collective fore the present crisis, ran into

Perhaps the least susceptible to Poge song from "Figaro," and her Half an hour passed before the tor-

transform rent subsided. "gramophonitis" are the great in golden voice seemed to

into a security, the Government's plan millions of pesetas, and only a strumentalists, men like Krekler, he gaunt rusplayed the

"That is all I want to ray," he is puroly competitive. The few years ago

he built, at Paderewski, Backhaus, nel that palace: When impres point sems to be overlooked enormous expense, a white marvellous youngster, Yehudi Menusion of the song back to her, she declared, well pleased with his de- that the Government has con- stone sanatorium for tubercular hin. These masters no sooner begin excitedly hugged the horn of the livery.

"Signor Mussolint," I replied with lous! It is exquisite." sistently stood for collective

the utmost gravity, "a record only runs for four minutes, and you have security, and that the failure of cases, on a terraced mountain playing than their minds seem to gramophone, exclaiming. "Marvel-

elope outside Palma. The Gov-

In contrast are the temperamental

said enough to make six records." that policy in the Italo-Ethio-ernment refused to accept his pian conflict was certainly no gift and forbade him to com- the early days of the

squalls of many great singers. In Chaliapine-By Chance

gramophone

Fuming with rage, the Dictator Once or twice luck has assisted me thundered out of the room, but, fault of Britain's. In any case, plete the building. To-day it Covent Garden stars consistently re

To in my quests for "golden" volces. happly, three days later, he relented Dr. Hugh Dalton rightly de- can be seen miles around, like fused to record their voices, clares that if n Labour Govern a vast white empty barracks. conceal the dearth of available ta-Drinking coffee one evening before and we secured an excellent record

Jent one minor artist often recorded the war in a dingy little cafe in Mi-without hitch or apprehension. mont came into power to

I retain a vivid memory of that. morrow it would be compelled to He owns thousands of acres under three pseudonyms. But in the lan, I looked up suddenly to

spring of 1905 there came a red- Chalippine lolling in the doorway-at provide for increased arma-in the Islands, motorcars, letter day, when Melba consented to heaven-seat, spportunity. For weeks lovable little Cockney genius, Dan ments. The issue clear. yachts, and a recently acquired record "Ah! fors è lut" and Tosti's we had vainly pursued him all over Leno. He had signed a contract with

"Good-bye."

the Continent; he had always re- us to record a batch of his greatest Other nations are re-arming, fleet of airplanes..

and "Going to the Races. But such- and Britain has no option but

qualma assailed him at the thought. Juan March who in musical circles her temper was fused to do business with any gromo songs, Including The Shop Walker" to follow suit. As Labour re-financed the military forces, our marrows, we set off with our re-

a by-word. So, fearful almost to phone company.

Now, taken by surprise, he consent of singing before an unknown me

should dium that to walk from the Strand. mere quibbling not fully to align founded the island's Fascists, carding apparatus to her house in ed. And fearful lest he itself with the Government and has likewise assisted in Cumberland Terrace. Soon we were change. his mind, we hurried him off to our recording studio in Maiden policy which is based on precise backing General Franco on the ready, having made good friends to our studio, and at midnight his Lane took him exactly two hours, he with her accompanist Mr. (now Sir) first recorded song, "The Two Grenn- told me afterwards, Ordinarily, that mainland.

Landon Ronald, when an ominous diers," was safely committed to wax. is only a few minutes' stroll. ly the same consideration.

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