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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 80, 1987.

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tion to yourself

F

LIFE

IN

MADRID

to drive away the all too frequent

But these

OR far too many bullies who, with a flourish of people Madrid's day their pistols, push their way in begins at 9 o'clock at the head.

are not the only We assist you in this connection the previous night. Most of without any trouble or complica- those people are invisible in queues; in the afternoons and early evenings they form, as they delivered the dark streets: and it is do in London, outside the to you at home and subsequently only by their soft whisper- cinemas, in Hongkong.

This week's most popular en- ing and the shuffle of their

tertainment has been Ronald. cold feet that passers-by Colman in "Historia de Dos know that to-morrow's coal Cuidades," which many readers of these words once saw under queue has begun.

the title of "Tale of Two Cities."

Catalogue & Full Particulars, from

Hongkong Hotel They are all women-all Here they cheer the storming of

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of them prepared to wait 12 the Bastille, but the fate of Car- hours in biting rain for a ton leaves them cold.

From the side of a partially Phona 27778/9, small bucket of coal on

shelled cinema the sinister leer which to cook to-morrow's of Charles Laughton's bright lentils.

green face at least ninė feet Otherwise the city seems high-despises the traffic that. dead; and it is only when a car's flows beneath him.

Shrapnel has punctured him, headlamps, powerful as a search but that wound in no way in-

Hongkong Telegraph.light, swing into view that timidates the queue beneath,

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1037.

Bounty,"

Madrid's buildings take shape: which hopes that eventually it even then they are no more than will get seats for "Mutiny on the silhouettes of luminous paper dying above the light line into the black sky.

But those queues are all wait- ing merely for fuel, for food and for fun. There are others who When the moon shines the wait for homes and for beds in city becomes substantial; but no which to sleep. more real than Pompeii in the Those more tragic queues, sunlight. A tirelcas archaco- bombed and shelled out of their logist might have dug it up from the draughty platforms of the houses, wait perpetually along beneath an accretion of muddy underground stations, their lives centuries; and then gone away. and fitful sleep disturbed by the roar of trains and the pressure of humanity.

OIL SUPPLIES Considerable notice. has been taken of a statement by Sir John Cadman, Chairman of the Anglo-Italian Oil Co., suggesting that in twenty years' time the world's supply of oil may be come exhausted. However, it appears that the reference was to technical estimates and that the statement was chiefly in- FROM the obscurity of

They live, like pit ponies, in dark portais, blanket- the half-darkness; they sleep on tended to focus attention on the

Those who are bombed out of their homes live, like pit ponies, desirability of preventing waste.ed guards, visible from only a cold stones, eat what they can

in the half darkness of underground stations. Experts seem to differ regarding few yards, glide out and demand get; and, if they are lucky, build skeletons, animated swastikas the probability of an oil famine. the password or, if they have a small fires on the platform over (for Germany not Italy is the

which they cook and huddle. Whilst it is true that demand is torch that works, to see your

paramount foreign enemy), big business men bakl as a hard increasing and there is a falling papers. off in new supplies, against this factor must be placed improve-gone again into the shades.

ruins of their houses pets manipulated by hungry ments in the method of

pro- Somewhere-is it a million miles blow fitfully in the cold wind that ogres in Berlin.

"Venereal discase is the duction and development of away?-muffled cannons are fir- sweeps down from Guadarama

A wasted other sources of supply. In

snows; and on cloudy days, when fascism of health." this latter connection, the working and sometimes the harall murder stays out of the sky, child, yellow as a guinea, whis- proving most useful. It has its percussion rattle beyond the despondently in the rubble of over the town. The outside been revealed in researches at city boundaries.

their homes, looking for trea- walls of hospitals proclaim the it is forbidden to enter public Granton gas works, for example, When those noises stop the Bures that they will never see fact in huge letters to all who buildings without first depositing.

visit the patients inside. that-a-vast-field-is-available-for-

again. silence is as thick as butter. By the production of oil from coal.

Madrid is a city of posters. On visitors' day at the hos- Cannel coal is said to be avail-dawn the coal queue is more than Not even

the ruined houses pitals which were once the luxury able in Britain in almost 150 yards long. And so the day escape the attentions of the men hotels of Madrid-Ritz and

Then: "salud"; and they are ABOVE their heads the tennis court, and Spanish pup-

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By News Chronicle War Correspondent

Philip Jordan

your gun.

and

tribulations,

BUT with all its triala limited quantities, and thus it is begins. Madrid's sounds are who paste them up. New ones Palace-they open the cloak- felt that the gas industry may those of other Continental cities: appear cach morning, calling for rooms; but it is not hats and Madrid is no city of dreadful make a big contribution to the intolerably noisy trams, streams discipline, for evacuation, for coats which the attendant re- night.

On the contrary, it is gay and. solution of the oil problem. It of lorries, from which the more early sowing of the fields, for ceives and for which he gives has, indeed, been estimated that dashing drivers have removed recruits and for the smashing of numbered tickets; it is guns. flippant; and its oddest sight by it would be possible for the.in-the silencers: shop window the Fascist international. dustry to produce some seventy- gazers and cafe swing doors that. five per cent. of the nation's gil hardly ever cease from turning. requirements. These develop- All the banks are still open and ments follow the intense activity busy; but on the blackboards in in the hydrogenation process their windows no one has yet which has been the subject of bothered to rub out the last stock much attention and which has exchange quotations that were been adopted with such success chalked up in the heat of sum- by the Imperial Chemical In-mer. dustries. In view of Britain's dependence on oil supplics for

The date above them-July 17,

Guns of all kinds: pistols, re- far is the immense crowd that volvers, Mausers, and even port will gather in the open street able sub-machine guns in wooden when the shells begin to fall, watching with breathless excite- ment the building crumbling be- fore its eyes.

THIS last. has many holsters.

forms, all easily re- They hang from numbered hat

Snakes, cognisable.

spiders, pegs and fill the coat racks; for

T

Serio-Comic Scots

This was too much for an

very sick.

When the white bombers sail through the sky: above

their: heads, things almost insubatan- tial and of graceful beauty, Madrid's people are more cir- cumspect; but even then it is MIOUGH Sandy and his country-) un a steamer,~ The sea was very with obvious regret and with the Navy, it is essential that all 1936-still marks the morning of

men are universally noted for rough, and Dugald was possible sources at home should the revolt.

thefr dourness, the humorous tales He was leaning over the side, feeling many a backward stare that they be explored, and for this If it were not for the strips of that are quoted to their credit are very sorry for himself, when another saunter to the bomb shelters.

At militiamen marching purpose a real survey of the paper pasted across large window. Even tourness has its funny passenger came up and tried to com- as the following stories show. fort him by saying cheerily, "Never country's resources is an abso-panes; if it were not for the In the days of lengthy sermons, an heed, ma man. Ye'll be a'the better through the streets, headed often.. lute necessity. Happily, there pathetically idle bacon-slicers in old minister who had been discours efter 1

by strango bagpipes that have Dugald turned a gloomy face to-been brought down from the are indications that this fact is the empty grocers' shops; if it ng for two hours, paused, and said

weel encuch well realised. The Air Force is were not for the heavy padlocks start on his final long-winded pass afore" unid he with a groan.

Impressively, before preparing to wards him. "I was

mountains, they no longer bother rapidly growing, and alone will on church doors; and for the end-nge, "Well, my friends, what more

A Scot, who was paying a visit to to look.. London, was taken by his host on The war? Oh, the war is out- need vast quantities of liquid less variety of uniforms in the can I say?"

Sunday to St. Paul's A fuel. The Navy also is now run streets, the centre of Madrid patient old woman in the congregas

book was handed to him at the begin-side the city; and we're going to almost exclusively on oil, and would look comparatively normal. Bon who was itching for the dreary nlng of the service, and Sandy spent win it. That, and an occasional proposals that

time studying it. His host shout of "They shall not pass", is our warships

service to end. "Say Amen, man noticed that he was growing uneasy about all that Madrid ever says:. for only favour, an sit doon," she and then saw him stealthily pick up on the subject. It is so deter should be able to take either solid or liquid fuel do not appear CROWDS, idle and talka- cried. "It's chappit rower.

his hat und soon afterwards make to have made much impression

Sundy, whose wife bad just died, for the door, Hurrying after him,||mined to win. tive, still moon around was receiving sympathy from a thinking he had become ill, he said on authority. Nearly half of the Puerta del Sol; and in the friend on the way home from the anxiously, "What's the matter, San- the merchant navy ja also on sunlight, lolling against the funeral. "It maun be a great loss dy? Are you feeling ill?" oil, and it is here that there may drawn shutters of a shop that no sighed, Sandy, "a verra great loss," euch to mak' onybody Ill to see yon

to ye," said the sympathiser. "Ay,"

"Na," quoth Sandy, "but it's cu "Nn," said Tammas ruefully, "To bo room for some reversion to longer has any commodities for and added with another sigh, "an a list of collections."

An Englishman, on holiday in. coal-a reversion that would sale, fops stand to have their verra consecderable amount o

"Collections? There's only one Scotland, went into the village shop pense as weel"

the end." incidentally be of advantage to shoes cleaned.

Jon. Sunday morning and asked for a *

newal" said Sandy, "they're a bar of soap. He was met with a * the collieries. A conference on But beyond the immediate A Highland plper who was attach merited doon the bulk. When blank refusal," "But I've just seen. this subject has taken place at centre, life is not the same.

ed to a regiment which was located turned owre the leaves I saw naeth-you serve a boy with some pepper- the Mines Department of the

in Ireland was ordered never on any ing but Collect, an' then a wheen mints," he remonstrated. "Mebbe Towards the extremities of the account to play "Boyne Water." prayers an' then 'Collect again, anso," said the shopkeeper. "Ye cun Board of Trade. It is a subject city, war has made a deeper im- This tune, however, happened to be so an till says I to musel, Jings, if cook peppermints while ye're listen- that illustrates once again the

Donal's favourite, and the officer I bide till they tak' a' thor collec-in' to the preachin', but ye canna. necessity for taking long and pression. As the streets become was greatly annoyed when the piper tions, I'll no ha'e a bawbee left I ma wash yersel' 1' the kirk."FT broad views of national emer poorer the queues become longer, struck up the forbidden tune the pooch." gency. Large reserves of oil until at last there is no house next time the regiment went out."

be established in the hold commodity that can be cried angrily. "I told you, that you “What do you mean by this?" he country, but the problem cannot bought without paying a high were not allowed to play Boyne be wholly solved by this means. Price in patience and in resigna-Water

tion...

"Och, sir," Anid Donal' innocently, Stops should therefore be taken

"that'll no pe Boyne Water at all in time to reduce the national Each of the longer queues is it'll pe quite a different tune to the dependence on oil whorever this! guarded by its two militinmen, same air," is possible.

who are there to keep order and

must

*

CX-

A story is told of a Highland crot ter who was making his first voyage

*

*

"and have you succeeded?"

tell ye the truth the de'ils can soom,"

brain."

A minister came upon a member- .*

of his flock who was breaking stones ness of "a wee drapple had led him "you should wear a hat. Don't you An old village worthy, whose fond-by the roadside. "Rab," said he, to many scrapes, was approached know that the sun will injure your one day by the minister.

"Tammas," said he sorrowfully. "'I] Rab looked up from his work. hear ye've been at the drink again. "Hoots away" he said dryly, "d'ye What for do ye take the stuff?" think I wad be hammerin, ava” at a la'e to droon ma sorrows,"

"Weel, sir," replied Tommas wheen stanes If I had ony brains to "Is that so?" said, the minister,

Injure."

Lavinia DenwENT.