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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JANUARY

12, 1937.

DEFENCE

MODERN WAR AND DEFENCE

RECONSTRUCTION

Dr. Captaic 'J, R. Keanody (flutchinson, 12x. Gdj APTAIN KENNEDY'S book. displays considerable powers' of original thought as well as the ability to co-ordinate seem- ingly unrelated facts,

His ease a, briefly, that the Service heads of the Admiralty and War Ones are thinking of the next war in terms of the Inat, Largely ignoring the fluence of the now air weapon upon old conceptions of naval and militery strategy and, in consequence, cummit- ting us to vaat expenditure on types of armaments which will be proved in- effectivo should we ngain And our- selves involved in war.

The importance of the. Navy and Army water with every advance in sir power, Yet tife Air Force receives Less than one-third of the money spent Qu armaments

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The main reason for this dispropor- tion is the excessive claim of the Ad- miralty A Navy is crushingly expens aire, yet the Admiralty has no other idea than to bulid a larger and more expensive Beet of the type that in 1914-1018 was unable to bring the enemy firel to dectrive action or to protect our shipping.

In the next war shipping will be altacked from above us well as trom below, but public opinion has been focured on the effect of bomb

dropped on a battleship instead of on the effect of bombs on those merchant- men and sil-tankers without which. this country would starve and ita fleet be unable to exist,

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Despite the immense suns expended since 1018, our Arniy, accorêting; to The Government White Paper. Jes “expuned la benvy lasa, suffering and disaster." Yet the Chiefs of Staff re- agansible for this state of aftales kave mil passed to honourable, decorated and tilled retirement-nud, while we have a smaller Army than in 1913, the Army Vote Is nearly double,

The Army Council thinks only in terms of vest, armies, such na proved unable to force a decision in the lasL war and will be nu ideal target from the air, in the next,

This book dan much to rend the

Licut-Commander

R. Fletcher, the

Labour M.P., re- views hore Captain Konnedy's attack on the Servicos.

vell of accrecy asking ineffetency in high places and shows in the poll. ticians fumbling us into a war for which the Service chalets are making the wrong preparations.

Well may Captain Kennedy remark, “War has been unmasked.

It was the glamour that attracted many men in 1014. It was the romantle Idea which made the women send their men to the slaughter. It was the sup pression of truth and the clever propn* ganda which kept it up,

"But since then the truth has br- come known. Illusion is a thing of the past."

LT-ODR. R, FLETCHER, M.P.

ALL IN

OASIS

By Oliver Baldwin (Grayson and Grayson, 83, d.) TN the form of letters from a man

living in a small Akgerian town

divorce.

to a girl about to experience her first London season, the Premier's non has given us one of his most stimulating books.

Politics, religion, Alina. B.B.O, programmes, feminlan, war, the sorrectnews of human life, parental possessiveness nhd 10 op-he han something conversational and provo. cative to say about them all.

For instance, “Capitat crime always resulta from a certain combination of circumstances, and fear of hanging has never so far been able to stop the Inevitable."

And, agali, "Parents wed, in the old days, to fortify their authority over their children by a great deal of falk about 'duty to parents," but never did one hear of the “duty to the chil- dren,***

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BOOKS

OF THE WEEK

Edited by Roger Pippett

SATIRE

THE KING SEES RED By Anthony Bertram (Chapman and Hall, 71. 5d.).

NCE in a blue moon I come across a white-hot, incan- descent novel-n talo which seems to pour out of the author as though it were molten metal, so passionate and urgent to his con- viction that what he has to say must be bald.

The King Sees Red in puch a story. Bo irresistible is its flow that even Mr. Bertram himself is surprised and stands back to watch the shape Into which it cools. In fact, he has written an introduction in which he tries to explain his purpose, "to be taken be- fore and after reading."

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His hero is a Continental king with out a crown, a regent for a president who doen not exist, a dictater of a country that is called a democracy, "I prance about Europe," he com- plains, "trying to raise miency by being A cinema hero in order to keep up my allly position in a world that is going To pol"

But he is also a young man who does not know, yet passionately wants to know, where he is going—a human being infuriated by his helplessness in the face of poverty and suffering and complacency.

While he is in London, and the Press and the Government are mak- ing solemn fool of him, he is puzzled and worried that a woman can be nick from sheer hunger-that Elsle of Lambeth car have work-worn hands ni the age of fourteen,

He simply could not talk to impor-

FREE FROM FLU

SAFEGUARDS WINTER

WITH influenza

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large

and crop of the ordinary seasonal. ilis already appearing, one is fed to ask if the lack of sunshine this year may not be responsible for this early visitation..

AGAINST ILLS

Some points to note about Health at this most treacherous time of the year.

If people's vitiality is thus affected, what can be stressed without giving any undue alarm. For none of these winter all- ments novd

if some simple remedy can always be prove seriaus properly treated, while their avoid applied to remove the condition. ance is largely a question of mend- ing our habits according to the simple and common-sense rules of fitness,

The Right Food

Warmth from Within

Still widely commended is the old-fashioned remedy of a hot drink on retiring to bed, an extra blanket, and a sound night's sleep,

tant nincompoops, lie wanted to think about Lambeth and all the Elsies in Lambeth and all the Lam« bolis.

"He was trying to enclose in one. vision at terrible repetition of this Elsie and her home... to multiply. the individual case he knew and could Visualise clearly until he grasped the whole to think in terms of mass with- out forgetting that masa was com posed of individuais-to gain scalo without losing intensity."

In short, he was trying to do what we must all do if the world is to make good in the true social sense of the words.

The King Sees Red tells you not only how he decided to take the oppor. tunity of the assassination of his un- lucky double to cut loose and be "re- born of the common people." it tells of the various obstacles, farcical and tragic, which forced or helped him to that end.

It has the modem trick of fusing Aurface humour with underlying bit terness, but It evades the modem vice of cynical indifference-and goes on to A brilliantly entertaining, expone it. furiously satirical tale.

LAW

THE LAW

R. P.

By Sir Henry Sleaser (Longmans The English Heritage Series, 38, 64.)

N. this admirable little volume Lord Justice Slesser has attempted to summarise "The Law" in ono hundred and ninety- two small pages, admittedly a not inconsiderable task.

meant endeavour to say that the book It is no disparagement of this well- suffers from the plethora of fact, essen. tial omission and incomplete statement mevitable in any legal work candl tioned by undue compression.

In the narrow field of about twenty pages to each subject the learned nuthor has essayed to revlow (in addi ilon to a brief excursiia into Juris- prudence such important matters as the Cummon Law. Equity. Constitu- tional Law, Crime, the Rights of Pro- perty, Torts and Contract. There are even sixteen pages devoted to Public and Private International Law,

The reader will certainly feet that no legal topic of popular importance has been excluded

In An Interesting Introductory chapter the author discussea "The Nature of Law," but I imagine some Inwyers will dissent from his view that arbitrariness of command scia rules of external human conduct so imposed outside the ambit of Law.

If this remedy be kept up for two or three nights, the patient going to bed early, it certainly helps the sys-elet or a political tyranny on the one tem to drive out the cold. In these days, when more scientific methods of defeating the infection are easily available, this old-fashioned treat- ment should still be followed in con- junction with them.

Aspirin to induce sleep tuken with n glass of hot lemon is most people's favourite remedy, though vapour rubs various specifics for inter- résultant indigestion. Where this has not been avoided in the first place nal application may also assist, ac- Exercise and fresh air, while also cording to the seat of the trouble. helping to keep the blood clear of

impurities, stimulate a healthy ap-

Starting from the assumption that petite and generate a natural bodily there is a deficiency to make good glow, in regard

the benefits we should

Lord Justice Blesser states that Law Is "something other than arbitrary hand, and equally it is to be dis Linguished from the uncritical power of unchallenged custom," an observa. tion which seems to deny the existence of Law where the sovereign power is a modern dictatorship. where custoin rates as in the ancient Assyrian Empire ur in the Punjab under Runject Eingh.

Family Medicine Chesters of the League declare that they

A more direct method of defeat have derived from a normal summer, It is belter to obtain warmth in ing the germ of the common cold, we have here very excellent guidance this way from within than seek to and also one of the best methods, of in modern knowledge of dietry. keep out the cold by overclothing the protection against infection, is gar-

body.

gling with some germicide prepara- The simple fact that we live on

tion.

of

This is not the place for a detalled legal criticism, but I doubt whether Lengite of Nations experts would agree, as regards the Permanent Cours di International Justice, that "the men-

recognize as compulsory the jurisdic tion of the Court in legal disputes," Bince the jurisdiction becomes com. patory anly by treaty, or by signing the well-known optional clause referred to in Article 30 of the Statute of Line Court.

The Laro is a handy and serviceable little manual. admirably printed in bold, clear type.

ARTHUR HENDERSON, MP.

BIG

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what we eat should encourage every- Clothes should be porous to allow one to learn admething of the respec- ventilation to the surface of the body, The gargling habit is one of the live values of foodstuffs, the import- Underclothing should be light, and first lines of defence in

times otice of the casentin vitamins, the outer garments varied according widespread winter allments. proteins, and roughage in everyday to the weather.

diet, and the need for varying the

It is certainly one of the first pre- proportions slightly according to the These are some of the simple rules cautionary measures which should of fitness which, if followed a litle be taken to allay any further de- more closely as they should be at velopment when a cold seems to be In winter especially one of the this season, tend to build up a robust on the way. Apart from this use of most valuable elements to be found constitution.

antiseptic, it is also helpful in choos- in certain foods is known as the sunshito vitamin.

It must be remembered that whe- ing various toilet preparations, soap

Speculation is rife as to what now ther colda ore brought about by the particularly, to remember that thero

are varieties which are made to plans are proposed for No. 8, Queen's requirements in this direction. Road Central, on Important site in

season.

-To a less extent - butter, milk, and other animal

As for

PROPERTY DEAL

SITE IN QUEEN'S ROAD CHANGES HANDS

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PLAINT

EGGS AND BAKER

By John Masefelt Hetemano, 78, Ed.). WHEN the Poet Laureate is

doing his official job, it seems

- that England and the Empire are all right. But when he is writing prose, presumably for his own pleasure, this is not quite so clear.

Take the England which he de- scribes, for instance, in Eggs and Baker.

True, we are way back in the dim days of 1870. But even then, Robert Mansell was forced out of his comfortable routine in the country town of Condicote because the slums and the poverty around him led him to contrast his own vlow of Christianity with that of the Church which owned the Blums.

He suffers for his opinions, or for the expression of them, both in his bunk- ness and his person, particularly when the feels culled upon to throw eggs at n judge at a murder trial which, with its consequences, fills two-thirds of this novel in most exclling style.

Happily all comes well for this admirable, though obstinate, old man, but this alice of life from the nine- teenth century is by no means a glow- ing picture of the sure foundations on which our liberties are founded.... It is largely a pleture of man's in- humanity to man and what anyone must expect who protests against It.

R. P.

OBITUARY FORMER TREASURER OF

CANTON GOVERNMENT

His many friends in Hongkong and Canton will learn with profound regret of the death of Mr. Fan Chi- WL,

former Treasurer of the Kwanglung provincial government and holder of a number of Important posts in Canton. He was Magistrate. of the Nam Hol district and head of the Political Mission for the First Region in Kavangtung. He died at his residence on Sunday morning in Tungshan, Canton.

Forty-eight years old, the late Mr. Fan Chi-wu held a number of high and responsible posts in Canton. Born in Taipo, East River, Kwang- lung, Mr. Fan Chi-wu was educated at the Whampoa Cadet College and subsequently went to Japan for his higher education.

After many years working with the other Chinese revolutionists during the early days of the Republican Government, Mr. Fan Chi-wu held such posts as Adviser to Dr.

Sun sen's former Canton Government, head of the Canton native customs,

Salt Adminis

tration

Kwang Superinten Anti-Oplum

Suppression Superintendent, Trea- surer for the government in Chiu- show and Melhalen, and finally Special Finance Commissioner and Treasurer for Kwangtung in 1930- 1031, when General Chen Ming-shu was Chiang Kai-shek's appointee as the provincial chairman of Kwang- tung

Mr. Fan had close association with the Nineteenth Route Army and when troops of this army fought with the Japaneso in Shanghai.In 1932 he administered the finances for them. At the time of the Chan Chai-tong Government in Canton he was Magir- trate of his native district, Talpo. He was 40 and is survived by his wife, four sons and two daughters,

HELENA MAY TREAT · FAMOUS MUSICIENNE TO GIVE VIOLONCELLO RECITAL

It is present in great quantity in latent germs in the body becoming full the various specifics which the centre of the city, which has morrow, at 9.15 p.m., there will be a --both halibut oil and cod liver oil, actve or by infection from outside,

which arc, therefore, widely recom- it is a lowering of the resistance one can prepare at home, or buy recently changed hands.

At the Helena May Institute to- mended na adjuncts to the daily diet, which gives them their opportunity ready prepared under well-known

special treat for music lovers-a and can be obtained in a variety of to take hold of the system."

branded names, remembering the Mr. Kenneth Chan, Managing Adele Clement (first prize winner of violoncello recital by Mademoiselle palatable forms.

Even the healthiest are prone to importance of immediate application Director of Messrs. Gande, Price and the Parla Conservatoire). It will be cream, chills, however, when subjected to during the early stages of the ailment, Co., who came into possession of the given under the auspices of the fats

it is as well to have these ready to building on assuming the estate left Hongkong Musical Society. have sudden changes of temperature, Бо

hand. this same quality together with first- that in this climate anybody is at

limes open to

by his father, the late Mr. Chan Kal- dási proteina.

Infection, especially

The accompanist will be Mr. Lind- They are in the nature of those whose daily routine brings

emer-ming, yesterday confirmed that he say A. Lafford, V.R.C.D., A.M.C.M., Not nearly enough milk is taken them In contact with large numbers gency stock and should be given a had disposed of the building.

Ho...M. by the nation as a whole. As a food of other people in stuffy atmo- permanent place in the family medi-was unable to reveal the identity of The following programme has been

cine.chest at this season. as remarkably high nutritive spheres.

selected; the new owner, however, nor would properties, besides being quite on

.Cervetto Obtainable from any chemist's shop ho say what was planned for the-Sonato In D minor.......... Thus it is inevitable that colds are there are many widely recommended property. effective germicide for the system

(1747-1837) in times of colds and influenza.

contracted and passed on from one specifies, well-known treatments pre-

Adagio, allegro sostenuto, andante, to another, the worst, offenders Nuts and root vegetables as well this respect being those martyrs to ufacturing chemists.

pared by reputable firms of man- It is known that Mesurs. Leigh and

poco ply mosso, maestoso, poco as, dairy produce also help to satisfy duty who arrive at their place of

Orange acted for the purchaser, and

píu mosso. the need for body-building foods as business with coughs and colds.

an initial deposit of $30,000 has 2-Suite In ̊C major (for do fish and poultry, though meat,

According to the location and already been made. The new title unaccompanied 'cello)......Bach. taken in digestible quantifies on u

Prelude. infection-colds, deeds will be completed in February. In the case of Influenza victims catarrh, coughs, or theumatism-

Allemande. Courante.. properly functioning constitution, is this is not only unfair to others but these preparations are for internal pled by the Hongkong Furniture At present, the building is occu-

Sarabande. Bourrees I et II. one of the best suppliers of protein. also extremely foolhardy, as this all- or external application.

algue With adequate feeding thera

*** INTERVAL Company on the ground floor, and is ment may requiro medical attention also the question of adequate drein- and should certainly be treated by In varying proportion they usually Association on the second floor.

by the Hongkong Property Owners 3-Houses of Eternity. Andre Bloch, ago. In both these respects cereals staying in bed. In such

Song of the Hebrews......Henri Instances contain such elements as cinnamon,; atid frem fruit and vegetables play wherever a doctor's advice seems quinine, liquorice, and sometimes

Tomasi. un important part.

The premises are valued at $37 a

Abe. Tcherepnine. called for there should be no hesi- aspirin-all recognised palliatives square foot and the total area is At this season when food is quite tation about this matter.

Karatachi no hana.....Yamada. elther to relieve rightly laken in larger quantities,

inflammation or approximately 8,000 square feet. It Chansons petites Most winter ills, however, are not actively counteract the infection.

russican la vay old property, and as the site

.Mare Delmas, Indigestion, especially in what are with simple home remedles.

With these elements as a basis, alongside was recently bullt upon,

Jean Hure. ..Jean Hure. known as acid subjects.

In every instance the efficacy of ointments, prepared by rollable belief is that almallar demolition and The majority of people malte too the treatment, depends on an early arms, form invaluable safeguards building will take place at a

.Popper. much acid or commit the mistake of application at the first signs of the against the cold wet days now before distant date on the newly-acquired obtained at Mourie's or at

Tickets, at $3 and $2, may be the miring acid and alkali foods with allment.

Helena May.

nature of. the

turn in always the tendency towards of. this nature and can be treated the medicines, syrups, inhalants, and with a structure of eight storeys, the

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THEATRE

The lata 3. T. Groin staged Bernard Shaw's first play- and did other things bosides.

J. T. GREIN

By Michael Orme

(John Murray, 108, Gd.) HERE is still something in- complete to me about a Lon-

genial, beaming presence of the Httle man who, forty-four years ugo, staged Shaw's first play.

To know Grein, however lightly, was to love him. For, with his passion- nte devotion to the theatre, shown in A lifetime of monumental achievement, went a simple, kindly soul, dignified but delightfully approachable.

It is fitting that his clever wife, "Michael Orme," should produce, in this book, a biography as well-written as it is tender and informative.

The Amsterdam youth who wrote a ten-nct Chinese drama, when he wILA nine, was at nineteen a bank clerk by day and a dramatic critic-nt is, a column-by night. When he visited his rat London theatre, the Lyceum, to see Irving lu "Faust;" Bram Stoker refused to allow him to enter the stalls In tweeds.

Yet this was the man who soon un- loaded O.D.S., with "Widower' Houses," on the world. The rehearsals of the play wern held at the Bedford Head, In Maiden Lane.

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The story of the Independent Theatre is but a part of the tireless, İM- domitable efforts of a man whose slinre in the greatest renaissance of our drama can never be ignored by lilatory - personal record of courage, opti- mism and inspiration by organisation and pen whlea it does one good to read.

How he did it, nil, goodness knows, for he had a City business and wa Consul-General for Liberia as well,

A vivid picture of Lendon in the Inte. Victorian days emerges casually from thin chronicle. Included alro is ari

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OUR BRITISH

ACROSS

1 Sounds a conceited birdi

8 West Country resort

0 Honey up (anagram).

11 Fruit that turns into another.. 12 Air is proverbially.

13 Liqueur.

14 Loaves produced at a baking, 17 If I were in it I might have to

put it on the table,

20 This girl embraces

blooming family.

a whole

22 A flourish of trumpets. 23 One branch of retail trade, 24 You find bears with two I's in

this country,

26 An extravagant liquid to find in

baths, surely,

27 This Northern town should be

in the forefront.

28 What happens when the glass

falls.

31 Of staid origin.

34 A live ad. (anagram).

35 A Dickens character.

36 Attributable.

37 A general change.

38 An Inflammatory finish. 30 Trees.

DOWN

2 Send back yet pay up.

3 Strapping?

4 Glitter like an olk rising to fight. 6. A number on a pleco of string

for harmony

8 Local rule (hyphen).

7 Number or advice to a gardener.

B Striking card.

10 Heavenly body.

10 Reversion to type.

18 No, they don't hold coffee as a

rule.

account of the unlucky, hysterical Pemberton Bling bol action which would have probably finally crushed a man of less · vallant heart. But Groin never met hos- tility with rancour, and, later, bo sent Billing a telegram wishing hin

success at a first-night. Shaw himself has revised, charne- terialically. Cenal O'Riordan's fore word to the book which naturally con tains some pleasant stories.

I tko that of the Stoillan actor Grasso, who produced a dove from bis bosom at curtain call, and let it flutter ax is symbol of his love for the British public Crasso. at the Critics' Circle dinner, insisted, on marching round the tables and kissing ench meinber on. the check..

Grein's spirit survives, though per haps in lesser fervour, among many of his friends-a hopeful guarantee of the Lheatro's Indestructibility. An im measurably larger audience will and this record a fitting and absorbing tribule to a gallant crusader for all that is highest in the art of the theatre,

P. LA, M

THRILL

THE DARK FRONTIER By Erla Ambler

(Hodder and Stoughton, 78. Gdj; · PROFESSOR BARSTOW stops by,

way of a nervous breakdown. an accident, and a dual personality, metamorphosis into the shoes of Conway Carruthers, "feared and hated

by the criminals of four con- tinents."

The Barstow background is to him now merely an elaborato allan for the chilet of Department Y, the bosom friend of the head of the paris Sureté.

With the Barstow mollye but the Carruthers punch he loves and fights an Ixalan princess, atops a war and does what you and I would like to đơ to arms kings' agents and militarist

luga.

It is a story of Sexton Blake ad- ventures in Ruritania, written by someone who knows what's what in in- ternational affairs. A new mixture and a good one.

P. E. H

CROSSWORDS

18 Brought to bear, but in this case.

not this to a bun..

10 A little French seaside place. 20 Sure to use alrong language if beheaded, but not over-strong as It 18.

distinctly

21 Street

are ones

occidental.

20 Such, waters aro

drinks.

26 Patti.

28 Walt a moment once.

28 Down

20 Anything that Joins In the

laughter.

30 Gnash (anogram).

31 More than love for no way out. 32 A manner of speaking.

33 Expression of regret that nearly

presents a spectacle.

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