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THE `HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12,

1937.

DEFENCE

MODERN WAR AND DEFENCE

RECONSTRUCTION

By Captain J. R. Kennody (Hutchinson, 128, 08.) APTAIN KENNEDY'S book displays considerable powera of original thought as well as the ability to co-ordinate, scem- ingly unrelated facts.

Its case is, briefly, that the Bervico heads of the Admiralty and War Office are thinking of the next war in terms of the last. largely ignoring the in- fluence of the now air weapon upon old conceptions of naval and milliary strategy and, in consequence, commit- ting us to vast expenditure on types of armaments which will be proved in- effective should we again find our- selves involved in war.

The importance of the. Navy and Army wanes with every advance in ntr Yet i Air Force receives power,

jess than one-third of the money spent on armataertn.

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The main reason for 'thin dispropor. ilon is the excessivo claim of the "Ad miralty A Navy is crushingly expen .sive, yet the Admiralty has no other ides than to build a färger and more expensive feet of the type that in 1914-1910 was unable to bring tho enemy feet to decisive aetion or to protect our shipping.

In the next war shipping will be attacked from above as well an from below, but public opinion has been focused on the affect of a bomb dropped on a battleship Instead of on the effect of bombs on those merchant- men and all-tankern without which this country would starve and Its fleet be unable to exist."

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Despite the immense suns expended since 1918, our Army, nevording to the Government WHILE Paper. lien

exposed to heavy idss, suffering and disaster." Yet the Chiefs of Stoff re- sponsible for this state of affairs have sil panned into honourable, decorated and lied retirement-and, while we have a muller Army than in 1933, the Army Vote in nearly double.

The Army Counell thinks only In terms of vast armies, such as proved unable to force a decision in the inst war and will be an ideal target from the air, in the next.

This book does much to rend the

Liout-Commander

R. Florchor, tho Labour M.P. 're views here. Captain Kennedy's attack on the Servicos.

vell of accroty masking ineffelency in high places and allows us the poll- ticians fumbling us into A war for which the Service chiefs are making the wrong preparations. Well may Captain Kennedy remark, "War hi been unmasked.

"It was the glamour that attracted meny men in 1914. It was the romantic fen which made the women send their men to the ninugliter. It was the up- pression of truth and the clever propa- ganda which kept it up.

"But since then the truth has Be- come known, Muzion is a thing of the pant."

LT-CDR. R. TLETCHER, M.P.

ALL IN

OASIS

By Oliver Baldwin (Grayson and Grayson, ds. 6d.j TN the form of letters from a man

living in a small Algerian town

to a girl about to experience her first London season, the Premier's son has given is one of its most stimulating books.

divorce.

Politics, religion, Alnis, B.B.C, programmes. Jeininiam, war, the neredness of human life, parental possessiveness

on-be na something conversational and pravo- cative to say about them all.

RD

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

And, again, "Parenia tazed, in the old days, to forllfy their authority over their children by n great deal of inlk about duty to parents,' but never dd one hear of the 'duty to the chit- dren,***

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Edited by Roger, Pippett

SATIRE

THE KING SEES RED By Anthony Bertram (Chapman and flatt, 71. Gd.).

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

The King Sets Red is such a story. So irresistible is in flow that even Mr. Bertram himself is surprbed, 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."

Hin hero is a Continental king with- out a crown, a regent for a president who does not exist, a dictator of a country that is eniled a democracy, "I prance about Europe." he com plains, “trying to raise money by being a'cinema hero in order to keep up my silly position in a world that is going to pot."

But he is also a young man who does not know, yet pasulanately wants to know. where he is geltig--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 a solemn fool, of him, he is puzzled and worried that a woman can be sick from sheer hunger-that Elsie of Lambeth car have work-worn has at the age of fourteen...

"He simply could not talk tu impor-

FREE FROM FLU

WITH

SAFEGUARDS.

WINTER

large

ITH influenza and

crop of the ordinary seasonal Ills already appearing, one is led to ask if the lack of sunshhie this year may not be responsible for this early visitation.

thus

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

AGAINST ILLS

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

need prove serious if some simple remedy can always be 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

resultant indigestion. Where this has not been, avoided in the first place Exercise and fresh air, while also

impurities, stimulate a healthy op- Starting from the assumption that petite and generate a natural bodily there is a deficiency to make good glow.

in regard to the benefits we should

helping to keep the blood clear of

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

If this remedy be kept up for two or three nights, the patient going to bed early, It certainly helps the sys- 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 taken with a glass of hot lemon is most people's favourite remedy, though vapour rubs or various specifics for inter- al application may also assist, ac- cording to the seat of the trouble. Family Medicine Chest

A more direet method of defeat-

finve derived from a normal summer, It is better 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 gur-

body.

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

tion. Clothes should be porous to pllow what we cat should encourage every- one to learn something of the respec- ventilation to the surface of the body. The gorgling habit is one of the tive values of foodstuffs, the Import- Underclothing should be light, and first lines of defence in

the essential vitamins, the outer garments vorled according widespread winter allments, proteins, and roughage in everyday to the weather.

It is certainly one of the first pre- diet, and the need for varying the proportions slightly according to the season...

ance

of

times of

tant nincompoops. He wanted to think about ́ Lambeth and all the Kisies in Lambeth and all the Lam- beths.

"He was trying to encloss in one vision that terrible repotition of this Eislo and her home... to multiply the individual caso He knew and could visualiso clearly until ho grasped the whole-to think in terms of mass with- out forgetting that mass was com posed of individuals-tô. gain scale 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 be decided to take the oppor- tunity of dia assassination of hle 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 modern trick of fusing surface humour with underlying bit terness, but it evades the modern vico of cynical difference-and goes on to expose It A trilliantly entertaining. furiously satirical tale.

LAW

THE LAW

R. P.

by Sir Henry Blesser (Longmans The English lieritage Serics, 33, 68.)

I

N this admirable littio volume Lord' Justice Blesser han attempted to summarise "The Law " In one hundred and ninety- two small pages, admittedly a not inconsiderable task.

It is no disparagement of this well- meint endeavour to say that the book siffers from the plethora of fact, esseri- "Wat omission and incomplete statement Inevitable in any legal work condi- toned by undue compression,

In the narrow field of about twenty pages to each subject the learned author has essayed to review (in addi- tion to a brief excursus into Juris. prudence) such important matters as the Common Law. Equity. Constitu tional Law, Crime, the Rights of Pro- perty, Tarts and Contract. There are even sixteen pages devoted to Public and Private International Law,

The reader will certainly feel that no legal tople of popular importance has been excluded

In st Interesting Introductory chapter the author discusses The Nature of Law." but I imagine some lawyers will dissent from his view that arbitrariness of command acta rules of external human conduct so imposed outside the ambit of Law.

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Lord Justice Slesser states that Law le something other than arbitrary edlet or a political tyranny on the one hand, and equally it is to be dis- tinguished 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, or where custom rules as in the ancient Assyrian Empire or in the Punjaub under Runject Bingh

This is not the place for a detailed legal criticism, but I doubt whether League of Nations experts would agree.

as regards the Permanent Court of International Justice, that "the mem-

bers of the League declare that they

recognise as compulsory the jurisdic- tion of the Court in legal disputes." since the jurisdiction becomes com-

ulsory only by treaty, or by signing the well-known optional clause referred to in Article 30 of the Statute of the Court.

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

ARTHUR HENDERSON, M.P.

These are some of the simple rules cautionary measures which should of fitness which, if followed a little be taken to allay any further de more closely as they should be at velopment when a cold seems to bel 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.

antisepile, it is also helpful in choos- in certain foods is known as the

ing various toilet preparations, soap Demand sunshine vitamin.

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nutritive spheres.

properties, besides being quite

effective germicide for the system in times of colds and influenza.

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PLAINT

EGGS AND BAKER By John Masefield (leinemann, 72. GH.). WHEN the Poet Laureate is

doing his ometal 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 bla comfortable routine in the country town of Condicote because the slums and the poverty around him led him to contrast his own view of Christianity with that of the Church which owned the Blums.

Ho suffers for his opinions, or for the expression of them, both in his busi- ness and his person, particularly when the feels called upon to throw cgge at

· a judge at a murder trial which, with Its consequences, fills two-thirds of thila novel in most exciting style.

Happily all comes well for this ndmirable, though obstinate, old m011, but this slice 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 picture of man's in- humanity to man and what anyone must expect who protests against it.

R. P.

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It must be remembered that whe particularly, to remember that there. Shanghai ther colds are brought about by the are varieties which are It is present in great quantity in latent germs in the body becoming full requirements in this direction. TIT. Singapore both halibut oil and cod liver oil, actve or by infection from outside,

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

T.T. Franco tires open to Infection, especially class proteins.

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permanent place in the family medi-T.T. Switzerland by the nation as a whole. As a food of other people. In stuffy atmo-

cine chest at this season.

T.T. Australia it has remarkably high

T.T. Lisbon Obtainable from any chemist's shop an Thus it is inevitable that colds are there are many widely recommended contracted and passed on from one specifies, well-known treatments pre- to another, the worst offenders in pared by reputable firms of man-4 m/s. L/C, London Nuts and root vegetables as well this respect being those martyrs fo

ufacturing chemists.

4 m/s. D/P, as dairy produce also help to satisfy duty who arrive at their place the need for body-building foods as business with coughs and colds. do fish and poultry, though

meat, taken in digestible quantities on In the case of induenza victims entarth, coughs, or rheumatism 30 d/s. India properly functioning constitution, is this is not only unfair to olliers but these preparations are for Internal U.S. Cross rate in London one of the best suppliers of protain. also extremely foolhardy, as this ail- or external application.

With adequate feeding there also the question of adequate drain- and should certainly be treated by In varying proportion they usually ugo. In both these respects cereals staying in bed. In such Instances contain such elements as cinnamon, and fresh fruit and vegetables play wherever o doctor's advice seems quinine, liquorice, and sometimes an Important part.

enlled for there should be no hesi aspirin-all recognised palliatives

London, Jan. 11. At his season when, food is quite talion about this matter.

either to relieve inflammation or The present month will probably rightly taken in ‘larger quantities, Most winter ills, however, are not actively counteract the infection,

see the number of wireless licence there is always the tendency towards of this nature and can be treated Indigestion, pupaelully in what are with simple home remedies.

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Metropolitan Lands, Sh, $10, 11. Humphrica, $0

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H. K. Realties, $4.60 n. Chinese Estates, $76 n. China Realtlos, Sh. $4 m. China Debentures Sh. $60 TL.

Public Utilities,

H. K. Tramways, $12.90 m. Peak Trams, (old), $64. Peak Trame, (now), $2% n. Star Ferries, (old), $98 n. Yaumati Ferries (old), $25 n. China Lights, $13.65 China Lights, (now), $10.40 . H. K. Electric, $56 sa. Macao Electric, $20 n. Sandaken Lights, $10 'n. Telephone (old), $30.80 n. Telephone (now), $10% n..

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THEATRE

The late J. T. Groin stagod Barnard Shaw's first play- and did othor things besides.

J. T. GREIN

By Michael Orme

(John Murray, 108, 61.)

HERE is still something in- complete to me about a Lon- don first-night without the genial, beaming presence of the little man who, forty-four years ngo, staged Shaw's first play.

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

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

The Amsterdam youth who wrote a ten-dict Chinese drama, when he was nine, was at nineteen a bank clerk by day and a dramatle critic-at ds. n column-by night. When he visited bis first London theatre, the Lyceum, to see Irving in "Faust." Bram Stoker refused to allow him to enter the stalls In tweeds.

Yet this was the man who soon un loaded G.B.S.. with "Widowers' Houses," on the world. Thin rehearsals of the play were held at the Bedford Head, in Malden Lane.

Independent

The story of the Theatre is but a part of the tireless, in- domitable efforts of a man whose share in the greatest renaissanco of our drama can never be ignored by history a personal record of courage, opti- lam and inspiration by organisation and pen which it does are good to read.

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

A vivid picture of London in the late Victorian daya emergos casually from this chronicle. Included also la on

account of the unlucky, hysterical Pemberton Bing libel action which would have probably finally crushed a man or less valiant heart. But Grein never met hos-

ility with rantour, and, later, he sent Billing a telegram wishing him

success at a first-night.

Shaw himself has revised, charac teristically, Conal O'Riordan's fore word to the book which naturally con- tains some pleasant atories.

I like that of the Slellan actor Grasso, we produced a dove from his bosom nt curtain call, and let it dutter na a symbol of his love for the British public. Ornaso, at the Critics' Circlo dinner. Insisted on marching round the tables and kissing each member on the check.

Grein's spirit survives, though per haps in lesser fervour, among many of his friends a hopeful guarantee of tho theatro's indestructiblity. An imme measurably larger audience will find this record a fitting and absorbing tributo to a gallant crusader for alf that is highest in the art of the theatre.

P. L. M

* THRILL

THE DARK FRONTIER By Erla Ambler fifodder and Stoughton, 78, 60.J PROFESSOR BARSTOW stops by

way of a nervous breakdown, an accident and a dual personality metamorphosis into the shoen of Conway Carruthers, "feared nud hated by the criminals of four con- tinents."

The Barstow background is to him now merely an elaborate allas for the chief of Department Y, the bosom friend of the head of the paris Sureté.

With the Barslow motive but the Carruthers punch he loves and fighla an Ixanian prinsess, stops a war and does what you' and I would like to do to arms kinga' agents and militarist thuga

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

P. E. H

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@ West Country resort.

Honey up (anagram).

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

13 Liqueur.

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17 If I were in it I might have to

put it on the table.

20 This girl embraces

blooming family.

22 A flourish of trumpets,

a whole

23 One branch of retail trade

24 You and bears with two I's, in

this country.

20 An extravagant liquid to find in

baths, surely.

27 This Northem town should be

in the forefront.

28 What happens when the gloss

falls.

31 Of staid.origin.

34 A live ad. (anagram).

35 A Dickens character.

30 Attributable.

37 A general change.

38 An inflammatory finish. 39 Trees.

DOWN

2 Send back yet pay up.

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5 A number on a piece of string

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