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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 # great

THEY DIE WHEN FILMED

Camoramen, 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 epmeramen were told.

chaper in the history of England. Civil War In Spain

Sir Hubert, who was speaking at the dinner of the 88th East Lancashire Division, said the job the Army had to do was carried through under the very greatest difficulty, and in splic of life actions and dispositions of everybody else who was playing a part in the great dra

drama.

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

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 won for Germany.

50,000 Foreigners

Add To Terror

By WEBB MILLER

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

risks were run on that occasion, and

between

victory and defent. The

SOLDIERS "WHITEWASHED"

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 allens, 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 6,300,000 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; Sium, with one million, and Germany with 787,000.

The countries where the increase in the number of allens 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 a

How fairer idea of the importance

much greater-22,100,000 in 1030, or more than double.

of the problem of aliens in Eh

the The publication prepared by country, account must be taken of International Labour Ofee contuin- the number of aliens per thousand ing this Information is the first of International study mode of national Inhabitanta, or the "proportion aliens,"

census Agures relating to allens. It The average proportion for Europe | is a comparative study of the censuses (not including the U.S.S.R.) was 15.4, of 1010, 1920 and 1930, dealing with but it rose to 180 In Luxemburg, 87 141 territories.

It also brings out the difficulties in Switzerland, 86 in France, 43 in Austria and 39 In Belgium. The underlying an international compari- following countries have figures be- son of the results of such censuses

how very, very thin was the ribbon From a conflict over purely domestic issues, the fight Guth Division, as part of the Fifth has turned into a general war, fought on Spanish territory, 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 many (12), Bulgaria (10), Hungary of nollonal statistics and the history of England, a chapter in illuminated letters of red and gold, in From neutral observers who have spent months on one or (#). Turkey (6), Portugal (5), the divergences as to the notion and de-

Belish Isles (4), Italy and Finland | finition of an alien. blood and glory.

the other side, from British information and from personal (3). observations in Spain, I estimate that there are nearly 30,000 important changes have foreigners with the armies of rebel General Francisco Franco. place in this field since the They include 14,000 Italians, 12,000 Germans and about 4,000 While in Germany (present territory) Portuguese, Irish and other nationalities. These figures do not take account of the Foreign Legion, which including the Moors, is about 90 per cent. Spanish.

On the

value

"If that chapter is to be of any to England and those young people who are growing up, it must be read.

"Quite lately we have been through a period or process of what they call vindication, sometimes, I supposed, it may be called whitewashing.

government side,

and airplanes.

taken

War.

the number of aliens decreased,

France, which in 1910 had 20 aliens per thousand inhabitants, had 39 per thousand Jn 1921 and 60 per thousand in 1931. Switzerland, which in 1910 (148 per thousand), after that period (104 in 1920 and 87 in 1930).

had a decrease which has continued

The number of Asiaties in for- eign countries increased from 5, 000,000 in 1910 to 9,500,000 in 1930. But the number of Europeans abroad, although it slightly de- creased from 1910 to 1930, was still

the Madrid was the intervention of the had the highest proportion in Europe am very glad we are being International Brigade on the Madrid International Brigade and the arrival whitewashed, but the main thing hope will come out of all this front includes about 8,000 foreigners, of Russian tanks vindication is that Englundi will recog-rustly French, Halian anti-Fascists, Particularly effective have been the nise the great qualities that were dis-German an-Nazis, British, Poles, Russian bombers, the fastest on all

Czechs, Hungarians and Belgians fronts. played by you and your comrades those days, qualities of courage and and about 10,000 other foreigners, similarly comprised, in training be endurance, adaptability

In- and dividualism. For in the end we were hind the lines. fighting a soldier's battle in scattered groups all over the place, and in dividual officers and soldiers had to make very vital and Important decisions.

"When we came back at the end of that battle a very great wave of odlum and adverse criticism poured TuponTMus, ~I' think we then showed another great quality of which this race is capable dignity..

Franco's air forces are composed roughly of 80 per cent. Germans, 15 per cent. Italians, and five per cent. Spaniards. The government alr forces are roughly half French and half Russian, with a scattering of other, nationalities.

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

As far as can be discerned. the committee has net succeeded in pres venting a single man or shell from reaching the rival Spanish armies.

SABOTAGE

Nearly all government tanks and tank crews arc Russion, while

Two factors are principally re- Franco's tanks and the men in them ponsible for the committee's futility: 1. Whenever a seemingly prac- from the lica) plan has been presented for

"England does not want war, but are Italian. we have got to recognise that large number of sentimental people fail

'uncertain note

Virtually

everyone

Bergner Too Shy To See Own Film

London, Feb. 28. Elisabeth Befener mat shiver. Ing in an office at the London Favillon for iwo hours last night while Queen Mary and a house that had pakl £5,000 for their scals saw her latest film "Dream- ing Lips."

Pests Of The

Silent Movies

MEN, NOT WOMEN

Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 10. The new course at the University of California in, the History of Moving Pictures has developed at least one important fact, namely, that the "alkies" have eradicated the human pest known as the "sub- title reader."

The sub-title reader, Dr. AnthoLy F. Blanks, who is conducting the

·course, explains to his classes, was the individual during the days of the silent films who insisted on He reading the sub-titles aloud. could distinguished, Dr. Blanks avers, by three general character- istics:

be

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.

to recognise that merely not wanting loyalist side to whom I have talked putting teeth into the non-Interven- a thing is not sufficient.

has seen no Russian Infantrymen- tion pact, Germany, and Italy have "This country demands leadership, only technicians. Also they agree sabotaged it by linking it with the

Blanks thinks that what deve- and or call should be sounded in no that Russian aid to the loyalists was entire question of indirect non-

loped the sub-title pest of the silent ote calling this country to negligible until early November, Intervention such as the prevention

days was the big millinery of the its sense of duty. Whatever we may after Italian and German assistance of financial assistance. Italy's note

same epoch. The sub-lite render, Lord Plymouth even say about the Governments of Hitler to the rebels had been evident for of Jan. 1 to

in an effort to overcome the handl- Included a suggestion to prevent the and Mussolini, they are making an

cap imposed by big hals, forgot that some time.

legal appeal to the youth of their countries

from Spanish government

he was in a public audience and Observers from both sides gen-using the bank of Spain's gold

'read unconsciously

aloud. to be proud of their country and do

The Their duty.

erally agree that Franco cannot win reserves for the prosecution of the

strain to read the sub-tille before t "In that sense I say it is the duty the war or

Madrid war. even capture

disappeared and before 2. Britain, of the Government to give a great without continuance of foreign

by straddling the

make the necessary manoeuvres to call to the people of this country. If assistance.

has encouraged the inter-

At the last minute before the lights circumvent the millinery in front of ventionists. For instance, late in went up Miss Bergner crept back to him took his mind off other a#- I have every confidence that the On the other hand, they also agreg November Lord Plymouth stated her sent in time to be presented to PC

pects of the situation. that the only thing which saved that Germany and Italy were not Queen Mary.

intervening any more than the others, thus practically white-washing them for the time being.

the Government would give a call,

people would answer."

Lover's Coldness

Drove Airwoman

To Suicide Plan

Paris, Feb. 24.

France' has been paralyzed in the committee meetings because it feels that it cannot act unless Britain)

supports

As an instance of the hypocrisy which is permeating the entire affair, the German press, which studiously refrains from mentioning the thou- sands of Germans fighting in Spain, printed yesterday an official nows agency dispatch headed "British Cannon Fodder For The Bolsheviks," stating that the British Independent Labour Party was sending two or

"500 sent by the

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

Mdited after crashing on the court, told today how besides

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 Ill and sobbed as she revented to the magistrate at Ver- sailles that she fell in love with L'Allemand when he was giving her flying lessons last July. Later he told her of a love affair with 22 steno- grapher.

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

Я

On December 21 sho took hammer and a revolver up in the 'plane, thinking that if the revol- ver did not go off she could kill herself with the hammer.

SYDNEY'S-TRIBUTE

To The Memory Of George V.

Sydney, Feb. 21.

Communist Party."

British

SECRETIVE GERMANY "These facts," the German agency said, "prove the active intervention of the British left-wing parties is

increasing without the British gov-

doing anything about it,"

crnment's

It is understood that Germany is secretive about Its Intervention that relatives of regular soldiers who volunteered

cered and who were killed in Spain were notified merely that the mon "died in an Recident." Some

The King George V. Memorial notices specified that the accident Fund has been formally closed occurred in Spain.

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'Dr.

It was to have been the first Blanks continued, "they were re- time that she would have seen her- garded as being just a degree lower self on the screen since her first in the social scale than the peanut film five years ago. "It was not cruncher and the lady with a crying brave enough," she said. "I do not

like myself on the screen."

Dr. Blanks says he is convinced Queen Mary arrived dive minutes it was purely the talkies that erad- before the performance while a crowd leated the sub-titie pest for the rea- cxceeding a lousand 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 ims "God bless you. Your Majesty,"

CURTIS

LEFT

SIR HENRY CURTIS

himself.United Press,

BENNETT

£35,000

BENNETT, K.C., famous lawyer, who died at a public dinner in November,

left £35,030:

Charlie

Chaplin

in Sydney, after £6,005, 7. 2 had cruiting for the Spanish rebel armies

An investigator who studied re- Achieves

New Fame

been raised towards the cost of in Italy reported that the men who a suitable memorial,.

applied to the Spanish consulates The decision to close the fund was were directed to the Palazzo, Braschi, made at a meeting at the Town Hall headquarters of the Fascist party in at which the Lord Mayor (Alderman | Rome.

Charlie Chaplin is to have a £3,000 of the fund was provided by office Howle) presided. It was stated that There they were ushered into ari

with red and yellow (The) don street named after him. the Government.

Spanish rebel colouri) ribbons on

She intended to die alone, but she touched L'Allemand on the shoulder, and when he turned round the idea of killing him also entered her head should consult the Premier

It was resolved that the Lord Mayor the door and were asked to sign a (Mr. document for "service abroad" with The examination was adjourned Stevens) about the next steps to be pay of 50 lire (about $2,80) daily.

After they had been recruited, the after three hours. At the end of it, taken. The committee in charge of crying, "Yes, yes, lt is true; I wanted the fund is committed to the erection investigator reported, they went to kill myself and take him with of a statue, but the form of the statue to the black shirt barracks me," Mme. Chappelut collapsed, and and the most suitable alle have to Rome and then shipped to Morocco, was carried to the car waiting to be decided in conference with the where they were issued arms, and lake her back to prison.

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