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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1037.

GERMAN DEMAND FOR COLONIES

Bismarck once said that "no Colony is worth the bones' of a single Pomeranian grenadier." Germany's ́ present-day leaders do not share that view; on the contrary, they appear to think that the future of their nation will be intolerable without the possession of ample overseas ter-

S

WOMEN

the

are

HE was called "La

In

Nina." Simply "The Girl." I never learn- her family name. fact I forgot to ask it during the ten-minute talk I had with her about two months ago.

It was in small, dusty Cazalagos, in the province of

CRUELLEST SOLDIERS

The amazing

Toledo. I was with some troops Amazons of Spain

commanded by stern colonel of the Moors, Francisco Delgado. Cazalagos had been taken the

day before.

set an example for

mere men

She

The village was busy with deserted troops-taking over machine-gun posts in the church belfry; dragging a battery into several other questions. position beneath ancient, stunted faced him bravely and answered olive trees in a garden; search- immediately and confidently. ing houses and dragging out old "She says she got militiamen people who had gone to earth who had a truck to take her with during the fight for the village. them to the fighting. - But "Do you not wish to see the you've finished fighting now, town?" asked the big-boned haven't you, Nina ?"" German-a sergeant

the of

She was silent. Legion-with whom I had be come friendly because he spoke English.

"Ask her if she really is good with a machine gun," I said.

"She has been sent away. was a very bad case."

"Where was she sent?" "To a reformatqry."

To-day she has thrown in her lot with the Government. She organised the first women's battalion-women like herself, wives, or widowa of miners in. Oviedo. They called themselves "The Battalion of Death."

leader,

A NOTHER

though not so well- known-Anita Lopez-died on August 11 when the Moors took Merida. She was cleverer and more violent than "Lo Pasion- aria." Big and blustering, sho dominated Merida, terrorised its 30,000 inhabitants, many of whom were pro-insurgent.

When she heard that the -Moors were marching against the town she had pita dug at strategic points and filled with dynamite, electrically fused and connected to a central switch.

The Moors surrounded Merida, She and the one-time chemists assist. ant had her hand on the switch, which she had but to pull to transform the town into a Such is the story of one of had killed scores of men with- gigantic dusthenp. But she who

Shaired women have ex out butting an cyelld, hesitated; changed lipsticks for rifles. Just hundreds of women and children one of the thousands on the were also trapped in encircled Government side who have taken Merida.

up arms against the Moors, the Foreign Legion and the Fascists. switch and she walked to the Her hand dropped from the They have fought in the front Moorish lines. lines beside their men, and some

They put her up against a wall have even led and dominated and offered to bandage her eyes, them.

Taken aback at her refusal, they

"LA

A NINA" was merely sneered at her ugliness as they shot her. one who fought. I saw scores like her when I was in Barcelona, though they were not

women who have now.

MANY of the militia-. 50 attractive. They wore blue become notorious for thelr or khaki dungarees, and smoked, ferocity joined up for excite- drank, laughed, swaggered ment and, in a lesser degree, to "But we know she is."

rather than walked along the fight for their political ideals. "Yes, but ask her anyway.” E showed me every- HE

streets.

They are paid ten pesetas a day, thing, machine guns,

Then he translated. Yes, she

Best known of those who have and are given the blue or khaki artillery, and looted church was. When she was at the front led is "La Pasionaria.” War dungarces free by the Govern- where old women were cleaning she had to do something. Men correspondents have called her ment.

wooden efligy of the Virgin did the cooking for every one, so "the glamorous Passionflower."

They get the same treatment Mary. It had been hung with they taught her to use a machine They were reporters who did not as the, men, and though the soiled linen before the Govern- gun.

know, for she could not be more charms of some have sown con- ment militamen retreated,

I noticed "La Nina's" finger- inaccurately described.

siderable discord among the "And

many nails were broken. Her black Her name is Dolores Ibaruri, militiamen, they are still urged. laundress, and to war. It is said in Barcelona prisoners," he said. "Come." dress was decorated with five She To the square stone school in the big buttons enamelled red. She married a miner. She is fifty- that their frequent savageness cobbled plaza that was the centre had broken her nails trying to five.

sets an example for the men. o. Cnzalagos.

scratch the colour off. I left her Her face is severe and heavily

On September 27, it may be re- with her Moorish guards. lined. Her voice is high and, membered, militiawomen storm-

when excited, harsh.

ed a prison ship in Bilbao The Passionflower? Glamor- harbour and slaughtered 220

have we

Guards stepped aside for us.

there was a noise of hurried

Wis A

I PASSED through the village again next day, movement. It was dark after and out of curiosity asked if i ous? No. But courageous, Government-held hosinges. The the hard sun outside, and for a could see the prisoners. The strong-willed, quick-witted-yes. guards were powerless against moment I saw nothing.

German was not there. A mili- They christened her "La Pasion- them. that of bare feet on the wooden charge of the village, and he Northern Spain two years ago. The noise of movement was tary doctor was temporarily in aria" during the rebellion in

ON the insurgent side only onc woman this floor and of coarse shirts, hard thought there would be no harm when the miners revolted and stands out, and she is not a

in showing the prisoners.

-

C-2720 The English Rose (Merrieritories. Thus is the demandWe entered a schoolroom and again being raised for the return of some of the Colonies placed under mandate as a result of the Great War. There are some pointed observations on

organised minor soviets.

fighter. Her name is Uruca question in a recently-issued with dried sweat, brushing to- book by Mr. Neil Macaulay, en-scrambled to their feet.

gether as thirty or forty men We went to the schoolroom, THE Moors were called Pastor.

but as the doctor and I were

out against them, and Some call her the "Florenco titled: "Mandates: Reasons,

about to enter the four Moors the miners used the weapon they Nightingale of Spain," for she IN the sun again the Gere blocked our way. Results: Remedies." The author

know best-dynamite. Moorish organised and leads a

fleld They-spoke-loudly-with-the-mercenaries in Oviedo holding nursing unit. doctor, and he nodded his head. strategic points took no notice of But the women generally are He laid a hand on my arm and the bent, dirty old woman who not encouraged to acompany

troops to the insurgent front. and he walked me away,

passed them carrying a sack. 'No, you can-

Said a nobleman of Spain, now They never had time to realise not see her," he said.

her mission, for, lightning-quick, a captain of artillery, to me "What, a woman?”

"Why not? It was all right she would throw a small object when I was with Franco's "No; a girl. 'La Nina' we call yesterday."

among them. They simply dis- troops: "Our women do not un-her."

not appeared in pieces....The object fight."

was dynamite...The woman, "La Pasionaria."

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Dialect Reaches

And Lancashire Laughs

Its Way to the Lexicon

By "SENTINEL "

O. D. Gallagher

the

Dictionary

10

mandated territories in Africa, and he asserts that there is dis- may in

some of these at

the failure of the British Govern- ment to give a clear and equivocal answer to the German

Int another schoolroom. demands. Even assuming that Four Moors lounged against the the return of these Colonies wall by the door.

"Nina," said the German, and¡ comes within the sphere of prac- the girl rose from a bench. He tical politics, Mr. Macaulay turned to me. "She is very bad. points out that if the German She Was captured with # desires were met, these terri-machine gun. She was was use a cat fighting. They had to hold. tories would almost certainly her in the truck when they become centres for the still brought her here." wider dissemination of Nazi pro- "LA

❝TA NINA" was a dark, paganda, and it is possible also

oval-faced girl. Her hair tumbled to her shoulders that they would be developed as in long, disorderly waves. She bases for the demonstration of stood straight, and her arms

UTSIDE THE BORDERS of the

THEN there are dialect words for German military and naval hung loosely at her sides. She "standard English," spoken and

acts, objects and feeling for was sniffing. Then I saw. her written by the so-called educated

which there are no names in stan- might; certainly their return to

dard English. Mr. Pearsall Smith's eyes. They were red with weep-classes, there are three great domains

list includes to "munge," meaning Germany would not bring peace ing.

of speech-the special jargons of various vocations, the rich vocabu speak quite like a gentleman"— ¡ to cat in secret; to "pomster" to Africa.. The German case "Ask her where she comes laries of old and new slang, and the rests on three points (1) raw from?"

of a smoky I said.

and a scholar who spoke with a touch of castles" which children bulid on the moky lamp; "dilly- He did, and many local dialects of England and only yesterday I heard that said of treat

the "ameech with quack remedies; Scotland. From all there

the pleasant Northumbrian burr. materials; (2) outlets for sur-

beach; and the delightful Dorset- vernaculars, which are not subm to the restrictions imposed on any

shire plus population; and (3) prestige Germany

NE DELIGHTFUL characteristic traction-engine. And when wo are

word

for a "clickmeload" abroad from the speech,,, currency

from and honour-which can well be

time to time received. could wish of the dialect speaker is that tired

"awful," "ripping, tired of using he keeps the form and substance of &c., an emphasing epithets, we might described as a queer mixture of/Ostensibly, he says, to prevent that the third source, the dialects his words. He does not clip and economic, national and psycho. that currency from depreciation, was more frequently drawn up slur them as all who use genteel "audacious" cold, "furious" fond, D remember such dialect terma os for they are full of beautiful ang logical argument. The but in reality to bolster up in vigorous words, which ought never (except little

are as round and complete quiet, to have been lost to polite usage, To

and a "serious" place for factor is given primary import-ternally her military strength these words have the perfumed and melodious as amber beads fali- ducks (the last with Mr. A. P.

appeal of wondrous wild-flowers un- | 1s

Ing in silver basin) ore in the habit ance in most of the comments and place foreign credits in expectedly discovered in a country of doing-until some day, It may be,

Herbert's leave).

* their language may become as worn-

* which have so far appeared on countries supplying essential lane or upland meadow.

down and the subject, but in this connec-war materials. There are many

degenerate na spoken Erse. TT WOULD be easy to make a list And many of the dialect words so- of a thousand dialect words tion it appears to be generally other aspects to this question. INDEED, when I pass from a lexicon tisfy Donne's definition of such things which would strengthen standard

of standard English-the "good as "our subilllest and delicatist out- English and extend its scope, if overlooked that there is ab-but sufficient has been stated to English", of pedagogues-to the late ward creatures, being composed of once adopted. Many of them would- solutely no distinction. or pre-show how complex. it 'is, Dr. Wright's six-volume "Dialect thoughts and breath" to an extent be as serviceable and amusing as any

Dictionary," I feel as I do when es undreamed of by our most learned American along, Moreover, the dia ferential treatment as between Britain's political leaders have caping from the streets and suburbs poets and proso-writers. Thus the lects could provide us with phrases

of London to that

countryside and-no quotas in the mandated nouncements on the subject, al- which is the the England. The in words expressive of nice obser- would be far more pleasing as pro-

nd. The vation. Some of these are more verbial locutions than

isn" "Oh, yeah," territories in Africa. Moreover, though it would appear, from dialects, ainsi are disregarded, even fresh and vivid than any of the and "sez you," and such-like im- one of the points made by Mr. Mr. Eden's latest reply to

because of the dice Tatin and Greek terms in use.portations. Eoch dialect for that atates of

of a false gentility, which

only Examples given by the indispensable reason, and also because of its special ficulties In obtaining

torlan days. Each dinlect has its loving-careful student of words, in liberately acquired. The example of raw there will need to be very good intonation (wrongly called "accent") his invaluable books are a "make Mr. Eden Phillpotts and of Mr. Ben- materials are largely of her own reasons shown before Britain is und he whose speech is affected by sleepy for soporific."mondy-hearted" susan, whose sketches in Essex dia- making, resulting from the em-likely to make any material con- thought to be uncul- disappointment, and "day-lived" for Elven me and you so much pica- it, even if he uses the standard collo-fer melancholy, a "dish-down" for alect, hitherts so much neglected, have bargo imposed on the export of cessions specifically to Germany, tured, an uncouth fellow. "He doesn't ephemeral.

(Continued on Pape 4)

words

are

*

worde

ing in

*

*

at

the different nations, no tariffs not been too definite in their pro-much-rememberin far-sten- dialects are often surprisingly rich and forms of expressiveness, which

ing

Macaulay is that Germany's dif- Parliamentary question, that became authoritative in early-Vie- Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith. that quality of humour, deserves to be