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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1937.

THERE ARE 28,900,000 ALIENS IN THE WORLD

FIFTH

ARMY

SAVED EUROPE

SIR HUBERT GOUGH &

THE CRISIS OF 1918

"A GREAT CHAPTER IN HISTORY"

Manchester, Feb. 21. Gen, Sir Hubert Gough, the Commander of the Fifth Army, which bore the brunt of the 'German offensive in March, 1918, said here to-night that the Fifth Army wrote a great

WHEN THEY DIE

FILMED

Cameramen, taking shots for a new screen thriller, were warned not to film some of the would-be actors.' “If exposed to the floodlights they will simply curl up and die," the Pathe cameramen were told.

chaper in the history of England. Civil War In Spain

Sir Hubert, who was speaking al the dinner of the 60th East Lancashire Division, said the job the Army hind to do was carried through under the very greatest difficulty, and in spite of the actions and dispositions of everybody else who was playing a part in the great dran

"At that time," he continued, "the fate of Europe, perhaps the fate of the world, and

and the fate of this great Empire, was really depending on the actions of the Fifth Army. If the Fifth Army had not brought that great attack of the Germans eventually to a halt, then I think the war would have been lost for England and wan for Germany.

You know for yourselves what risks were run on that occasion, and how very, very thin was the ribbon between victory and defeat. The

blood and glory.

50,000 Foreigners

Add To Terror

By WEBB MILLER

London, Feb.. 28. Nearly 50,000 foreigners, drawn from 12 nationalities, now are taking part in Spain's bloody civil war.

HONGKONG HAS BIG

INCREASE

Europeans Abroad

-22,400,000

Asiatics Abroad

-9,500,000

ACCORDING to a study published by the International Labour

Office, there were, throughout the world, in 1930, 28,900,000 aliens, or persons living in countries other than their own. This figure represents 1.6 per cent. of the total world population,'' estimated at some 2,000,000,000 persons.

The countries with the greatest number of aliens were the United States with 0,300,000 or 21.8 per cent. of all aliens re- corded in the world and Argentina with 2,800,000.

Then came the following countries: France, which had 2,- 400,000 in 1926, and 2,700,000 in 1931; Brazil, with 1,500,000 in 1920; British Malaya, with 1,870,000; Siam, with one million, and Germany with 787,000.

The countries where the increase in the number of aliens was the greatest were, in ascending order, in Europe: Greece, Italy, France and the Netherlands; outside Europe: Argentina, Canada; Hongkong, Netherlands India, British Malaya and Korea.

INTERNATIONAL STUDY

[OWEVER, in order, to have at much greater22,400,000. In 1930,

fairer idea of the Importance

Ho

or more than double.

statistics and the

of, the

problem of aliens in a The publication prepared by the country, account must be taken of International Labour Office contain- the number of allens per thousanding this information is the first inhabitants, or the "proportion of international study made of national allens,"

census figures relating to aliens. It The average proportion for Europe le a comparative study of the censuses (not including the U.S.S.R.) was 15.4, of 1910, 1020 and 1930, dealing with but it rose to 186 In Luxemburg, 87 141 territories. in Switzerland, 64 in France, 43 in It also brings out the dimculties From a conflict over purely domestic issues, the fight Austria and 30 in Belgium. The underlying an international compar 66th Division, as part of the Fifth has turned into a general war, fought on Spanish territory, following countries have figures be- son of the results of such censuses-

many (12), Bulgaria (10), Hungary of national Army, wrote a great chapter in the over the fundamental issue of Fascism versus Communism. low the average proportion: Ger- because of the lack of comparability history of England, a chapter in! Illuminated letters of

of red and gold, in From neutral observers who have spent months on one or (9). Turkey (0), Portugal (5), the divergences as to the netion and de-

British Isles (4), Italy and Fintond finition of an allen. the other side, from British information and from personal (3). SOLDIERS "WHITEWASHED"

observations in Spain, I estimate that there are nearly 30,000

taken Important changes have

War. "If that chapter is to be of any value to England and those young foreigners with the armies of rebel General Francisco Franco, place in this field since the

White in Germany (present territory) people who are growing up, it must They include 14,000 Italians, 12,000 Germans and about 4,000 the number

of aliens decreased, Portuguese, Irish and other nationalities. These figures do not France, which in 1910 had 20 aliens Quite lately, we have been through take account of the Foreign Legion, which including the Moors, per thousand inhabitants, had 30 u period or process of what they call

thousand in 1921 and 60 per thousand vindication, sometimes, I supposed, it is about 90 per cent. Spanish.

in 1931. Switzerland, which in 1010

MEN, NOT WOMEN may be called whitewashing.

had the highest proportion in Europe (148 per thousand) after that period

Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 10. had a decrease which has continued The new course at the University

History of California in the (104 in 1020 and 87 in 1930).

The number of Asiatics in for-Moving Pictures has developed at eign countries increased from 5,- least one important fact, namely, 000,000 in 1910 to 9,500,000 in 1930. that the "tolkies" have eradicated But the number of Europeans the human pest known as the "sub- abroad, although it alightly de- title reader." creased from 1910 to 1930, was still

•

The non-Intervention Committee, after four months of discussion, has succeeded only in setting an all-time high in International hypocrisy and futility.

On the government side, the Madrid was the intervention of the "I am very glad we are being International Brigade on the Madrid International Brigade and the arrival whitewashed, but the main thing front includes about 8,000 foreigners, of Russian tanks and airplanes hope will come out of all this

mostly French, Italian anti-Faselsts, Particularly effective have been the vindication is that England will recog German anti-Nazis, British. Poles, Russian bombers, the fastest on all nise great qualities that were dis-

the played by you and your comrades in Czechs, Hungarians and Belgians fronts, those days, qualities of courage and and about 10,000 other foreigners, in-similarly comprised. In training be- endurance, adaptability and dividualism. For in the end we were hind the lines. fighting a soldier's battle in scattered

Franco's alt forces are composed groups all over the place, and in- dividual ofcers and soldiers had to roughly of 80 per cent. Germans, 13 per cent. Italians, and five per cent. make

Important Spaniards. vital very

The government alr decisions.

"When we came back at the end of forces are roughly half French and half Russian, with a scattering of that battle a very great wave of

other nationalities. odium and adverse criticism poured upon us. I think we then showed another great quality of which this race is capable dignity.

and

"England does not want war, but we have got to recognise that a large number of sentimental people fail to recognise that merely not wanting

a thing is not sufficient.

crews

Nearly all government tanks and tank

while Russian, üre Franco's tanks and the men in them are Italian.

As far as can be discerned, the committee has not succeeded in pre- venting a single man or shell from reaching the rival Spanish armies.

SABOTAGE

Two factors are principally res. ponsible for the commitice's futility:]

1. Whenever a seemingly prac- tical plan has been presented for loyalist side to whom I have talked putting teeth into the non-Interven- ilon pact. Germany and Italy have

Virtually

everyone

from

the

has seen no Russian infantrymen sabotaged it by linking it with the "This country demands leadership, only technicians. Also they are entire question of indirect non- and a call should be sounded in no that Russian ald to the loyalists was uncertain note

note calling this country to negligible until early November, intervention such as the prevention its sense of duty. Whatever we may after Italian and German assistance of financial assistance. say about the Governments of Hitler to the rebels had been evident for of Jan. 1 to Lord and Mussolini, they are making on some time. appeal to the youth of their countries

Italy's note Plymouth even Included a suggestion to prevent the legal Spanish government fromi Observers from both sides gen- using the bank of Spain's gold erally agree that Franco cannot win reserves for the proseculion of the "In that sense I say it is. the duty the war or even capture Madrid war. of the Government to give a great without a continuance of foreign call to the people of this country. It assistance. · the Government would give a call,

to be proud of their country and do their duly.

I have every confidence that the

people would answer."

per

Bergner Too Shy To See Own Film

London, Feb, 28. Elisabeth Bergner sat allver- Ing in an office at the London Pavilion for two hours last night while Queen Mary and a house that had paid £5,000 for their seals saw her latest film "Dream- ing Lips."*

Pests Of The Silent Movies

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The sub-title reader, Dr. Anthony F. Blanks, who is conducting the course, explains to his classes, was the individual during the days of the allent Alme who insisted on reading the sub-titles aloud. He could be distinguished, Dr. Blanks avers, by three general character- istics:

First That he was disturbing all of the rest of the audience.

Second-By the fact that he usually mispronounced all the small words.

Third-By the fact that he usually skipped all the big words.

Blanice thinks that what deve- |loped the sub-title pest of the silent daye was the big millinery of the same epoch. The sub-title reader, In an effort to overcome the handi- cap imposed by big hats, forget that he was in a public audience

and unconsciously read aloud. The

strain to read the sub-tltie before it

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BY

most movie fans," Dr. Blanics continued, "they were re- garded as being just a degree lower in the social scale than the peanut cruncher and the lady with a crying baby,"

2. Britain, by straddling thef fence,

has encouraged the inter- At the last minute before the lights ventionists. For instance, late in went up Miss Bergner stept buck to Venu On the other hand, they also agree November Lord Plymouth stated her seat in time to be presented to

saved that Germany and Italy were not Queen Mary, that the only thing which

intervening ariy more than the others, It was to have been the first thus practically white-washing them time that she would have seen her for the time being.

self on the screen since her first film five years ago. "But I was not brave enough," she said. "I do not like myself on the screen."

Dr. Blanks says he is convinced Queen Mary arrived ove minutes It was purely the talkies that crad- before the performance while a crowdicated the sub-title pest for the rea- exceeding a thousand struggled in the son that while he is delivering his double row of policemen and shouted at the same time, no one talks except rain behind the linked arms of a lectures- and showing silent films "God bless you, Your Majesty." himself.-United Press.

Lover's Coldness

Drove Airwoman

To Suicide Plan

M

Paris, Feb. 24.

France has been paralyzed in the committee meetings because it feels; that, it cannot act unlesa Britain supports it.

As an instance of the hypocrisy which is permeating the entire affair, German press, which studiously the refrains from mentioning the thou sands of Germans, lighting in Spain, printed yesterday an oficial news agency Fodder For The Bolsheviks," dispatch headed "British stating that the British Independent Labour Party was sending two or besides "500 sent by the British

Cannon

Communist Party."

TMME. IRENE SCHMEDER CHAPPELUT, airwoman, extra-three hundred, volunteers to Spain

dited after crashing on the Sussex const, told to-day how love for Pierre L'Allemand, pilot whom she is accused of attempt- ing to kill in mid-air, drove her to thoughts of suicide while fly- ing with him.

She looked it and sobbed' as she revealed to the magistrate at Ver- sailles that she fell in love with L'Allemand when he was giving her Dying lessons last July.. Later he told her of a love, affair with a steno- grapher.

In November she learned she was going to have a child. When she told L'Allemand he first promised to stend by her, then his attitude changed and he began to treat her brutally,

རྩྭ! "

SYDNEY'S TRIBUTE

To The Memory Of George V.

Sydney, Feb. 21.. The King George V. Memorial Fund has been formally closed in Sydney, after £6,005. 7. 2 had

SECRETIVE GERMANY

"These facts," the German agency

CURTIS

BENNETT

LEFT £35,000

said, "prove the active intervention HENRY CURTIS BENNETT, K.C., famous

of the British left-wing parties is Increasing without the British gov- ernment's doing anything about it."

It is understood that Germany is BD secretive about Its intervention] that relatives of regular soldiers who volunteered and who were killed “in Spain were notified merely that the men died in an accident. Some notices specified that the accident occurred in Spain.

an

lawyer, who died at a public dinner in November, left £35,030.

Charlie

Chaplin Achieves

New Fame

His widow receives £1,000 put- right and £5,000 on trust. On her death or remarriage the trust fund will revert to his son Derck

Mr. Carls Bennett also receives £1,000, motor-cars, Sir Henry's coun- try house at Boreham, Essex, and the residue of the estate. His wife and children Inherit this on his death.

Two barrister friends of Sir Henry Mr. J. D. Cassels, KC, and Mr. St. John Hutchinson, KC-are asked to select mementoes; so is his mother. His clerk, Mr. James William Hollis, Is made a zit of £200;. another clerk, Mr. Frederick Walden, receives £100, Sir Henry's fortune is not large, Lon-judged by the standards of other

famous lawyers.

An investigator who studied re rulling for the Spanish rebel armies On December 21 she took a been raised towards the cost of in Italy, reported that the men who hammer and a revolver up in the a suitable memorial..

appiled to the Spanish consulates *plano,- thinking, that if the revol- The decision to close the fund was were directed to the Palazzo Broschi, ver did not go eff, she could kilmade at a meeting at the Town Hall headquarters of the Fascist party in "herself 'with the hammer.

at which the Lord Mayor (Alderman Rome. Howle) presided. It was stated that There they were ushered into She intended to die alone, but she £3,000 of the fund was provided by office with red and yellow (The touched L'Allemand on the shoulder the Government.

Spanish rebel colours) ribbons on and when he turned round the idea

was resolved that the Lord Mayor the door and were asked to sign of killing him also entered her bead. should consult the Premier (Mr. document for "service abroad" with on, the site of the

The examination was adjourned Stevens) about the next steps to be pay, of 50 lire (about $2.30) daily. after three hours. At the end of it taken. The committee in charge of After they had been recruited, the crying, "Yes, yes, it is true; I wanted the fund is committest to the erection Investigator reported, they were sent

barracka to kul myself and take film with of a statue, but the form of the statue to the black shirt me," Mme Chappelut collapsed, and and the most suitable site have to Rome and then shipped to Morocco, it is to be called Chaplin Circus. was carried to the car waiting to be decided In conference with this where they were issued arma, and stake her back to prison,ng Governments that

from there sent to Spain. -

It

· A

near

"Charlie Chaplin is to have a don. street named after him.

The street in question is part of new housing catste which stands

day school Hanwell which Charlie and his brother Sydney attended more than

30 years ago. Appropriately enongb.]

And, believe it or not, the estate is known as the 'Cuckoo Estatel

"Ble Edward Marshall-Hill,” K.C., often Sir Henry's rival is the courts, left-£110,000; Lord Read- (Mr.Rufus Indes, K.C.), £200,487; Bir Harry Poland, K.O, senior Treasury counsel, £106.280. The greatest law fortune in recent years was made by Mr. J. H, Balfour- Brown, K.C., leader of the Parlin- mentary Bar. He left £015,000. ***

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