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bullies who, with a flourish of

many to drive away theall too frequent people Madrid's day their pistols, push their way In begins at 9 o'clock at the head.

We assist you in this connection the previous night. Most of

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without any trouble or complica: those people are invisible in quoues; in the afternoons and tion to yourself delivered

early evenings they form, as they the dark streets: and it is do fo you at home and subsequently only by their soft whisper- cinemas.

in London, outside the in Hongkong.

ing and the shuffle of their This week's most popular en- cold feet that passers-by Colman in "Historia de Dos tertainment has been Ronald know that to-morrow's coal Cuidades," which many readers queue has begun..

of these words once saw under the title of "Tale of Two Cities." Here they cheer the storming of the Bastille, but the fate of Car- ton leaves them cold,

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From the side of a partially shelled cinema the ainister leer

They are all women-all of thein prepared to wait 12 hours in biting rain for a Phone 27778/9. small bucket of coal on

which to cook to-morrow's of Charles Laughton's bright lentils.

green face at least nine feet Otherwise the city seems high-despises the traffle that dend; and it is only when a car's flows beneath him. headlamps, powerful as a search but that wound in no way in- Shrapnel has punctured him,

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1037.

OIL SUPPLIES Considerable notice has been laken 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- tended to focus attention on the desirability of preventing waste, Experts seem to differ regarding the probability of an oll famine. Whilst it is true that demand is increasing and there is a falling

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. Bounty." dying above the light line into the black sky.

But those queues are all walt- 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 Pompeil in the Those more tragic queues, sunlight. A tireless 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.

They live, like pit ponies, in the half-darkness; they sleep on cold stones, eat what they can get; and, if they are lucky, build

FROM the obscurity of dark portals, blanket- ed guards, visible from only a few yards, glide out and demand the password or, if they have a small fires on the platform over torch that works, to see your which they cook and huddle. papers.

Then: "salud"; and they are

| off in new supplies, against this

factor must be placed improve- gone again into the shades.

duction and

By News Chronicle War Correspondent

Philip Jordan

Those who are bombed out of their homes live, like pit ponies..

in the half darkness of underground stations. skeletons, animated swastikas (for Germany not Italy is the paramount foreign enemy), big business men bald as a hard ABOVE their heads the tennis court, and Spanish pup- 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 disease is development of

the other sources of supply. In away?-muffled cannons are fir- sweeps down from Guadarama.

A. wasted this latter connection, the working and sometimes the harshi murder stays out of the sky, child, yellow as a guinea, whis-

snows; and ou cloudy days, when fascism of health.” S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. of the Fuel Research Station is orchestra of machine-guns plays they creep, upstairs, and poke pers that from small posters all proving most useful. IL 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, that a vast field is available for

When those noises stop the aures that they will never see fact in huge letters to all who buildings without first depositing.

*again.

visit the patients inside. the production of oil from coal. silence is as thick as butter. By Madrid is a city of posters. On visitors-day-at-the-hos- Cannel coal is sald to be avall-dawn the coal queue is more than Not even the ruined houses pituls which were once the luxury 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 each 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 und solution of the oil problem. It of lorries, from which the more early sowing of the fields, for celves 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 oil hardly ever cease from turning. requirements. These develop.

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All the banks are still open and:

ments follow the intense activity busy; but on the blackboards in

bothered to rub out the last stock exchange quotations that were) chalked up in the heat of sum-

and tribulations,

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, spiders, pegs and fill the coat racks; for

Serio-Comic Scots

in the hydrogenation process their windows no one has yet cognisable. which has been the subject of much attention and which has been adopted with such. success by the Imperial Chemical In- dustries. In view of Britain's

The date above them-July 17, dependence on oil supplics for the Navy, it is essential that all 1936 still marks the morning of possible sources at home should the revolt.

mer.

be explored, and for this If it were not for the strips of purpose a real survey of the paper pasted across large window country's resources is an abso-panes; if it were not for the Jute necessity. Happily, there pathetically idle bacon-slicers in are indications that this fact is the empty grocers: shops; if it well realised. The Air Force is were not for the heavy padlocks rapidly growing, and alone will on church doors; and for the end- need vast quantities of liquid less variety of uniforms in the fuel. The Navy also is now run streets, the centre of Madrid almost exclusively on oil, and would look comparatively normal. proposals that our warships should be able to take either solid or liquid fuel do not appear

for an UITI-

When the white bombers sail through the sky above their heads, things almost insubstan- tial and of graceful beauty, Madrid's poople pre more cir- then it is cumspect; but even The sca was very THOUGH Sandy and his country- un o steamer.

with obvious regret and with men are universally noted for rough, and Dugald was very sick. their dourness, the humorous tales He was leaning over the side, feeling many a backward stare that they that are quoted to their credit are very sorry for himself, when another saunter to the bomb shelters.

At militiamen legion. Even dourness has its funny passenger came up and tried to com-

marching side, as the following stories show. fort him by saying cheerily, "Never

In the days of lengthy sermons, an

head, ma man. Ye'll be a' the better through the streets, headed often old minister who had been discours- efter it.".

by strange bagpipes that have ing for two hours, paused, and said

Dugald turned a gloomy face to-been brought down from the start on his final long-winded pass- impressively, before preparing to ore, said he with a groan.

him. "I was weel encuch mountains, they no longer bother age, "Well, my friends, what more

A Scot, who was paying a visit toto look. can I say?"

London, was taken by his host on The war? Oh, the war is out- patient old woman in the congrega-

This was too much

Sunday to St. Paul's. A prayer book was handed to him at the begin-side the city; and we're going to tion who was itching for the dreary some time studying it. His host shout of "They shall not pass" is ning of the service, and Sandy speat win it. That, and an occasional 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- CROWDS, idle and talka cried. "It's chappit tower."

his hat and soon afterwards make tive, still moon around Sandy, whose wife had just died, for the door. Ilurrying after him, mined to win.

WIE

receiving sympathy from # 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- thinking he had become ill, he said the merchant navy is also on sunlight, lolling against the funeral. It moun 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 you tell ye the truth the de'ils can soom."

to ye," shid the sympathiser. "Ay." "Na," quoth Sandy, "but it's env "No," sald Tammas ruefully. be room for some reversion to longer has any commodities for and added with another sigh, "an a 1st & collections. conl—a reversion that would sale, fops stand to have their verrn conscederable amount 'o' ex-

An Englishman, Scotland, went into the village shop.

on holiday In incidentally be of advantage to shoes cleaned.

pense as weel."

on Sunday morning and asked for a bar of soap. He was met with a the collieries. A conference on But beyond the immediate A Highland piper who was attach-merked doon the bulk. When blank refusel. "But I've just scen 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 Board of Trade. It is a subject

Towards the extremities of the account to play "Boyne Water." prayers an' then 'Collect again, an so," said the shopkeeper. “Ye that illustrates once again the city, war has made a deeper im Dorial's favourite, and the offices I blde till they take a thue collec-in to the preachin' But ye canna

This tune, however, happened to be so on till says I to masel, Jings, itsool peppermints while yo're listen 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 washi yerself the kirk." broad views of national emer-poorer the queues become longer, struck up the forbidden tune the pooch,"

A minister came upon a member gency. Large reserves of oil until at last there is no house next time the regiment went out.

of his flock who was breaking stones must be established in the

"What do you mean by this?" he hold commodity that can be

An old village worthy, whose fond-by the roadside. "Rab," said he, cried angrily. "I told you that you ness of "a wee drapple" had led him "you should wear a hat. Don't you country, but the problem cannot bought without paying a high were not allowed to play Boyne into many scrapes, was approached know that the sun will injure your be wholly solved by this means, price in patience and in resigna-Water

one day by the minister.

brain." tion.....

"Och, sir," said Donal innocently, Steps should therefore be taken

"Tamas," said he sorrowfully. "}]} "that'll no pe 'Boyne Waler at all. hear ye've been at the drink again. in time to reduce the national Each of the longer queues is 11 pe quite a different tune to the What for do ye take the stuff?" dependence on oil wherever this guarded by its two militiamen, same oir."

A story is fold of a Highland erof-ha's to droon ma sorrows."

"Weel, air," replied Tammas, is possible.

who are there to keep order and ter who was making his first voyage "Is that so?" said the minister,

to have made much impression

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"Collections? There's only one near the end."

"Awal sald Sandy, "they're

*

"and have you succeeded?"

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Rab looked up from his work... "Hoots awa," he said dryly, "d'ye think I wad be hammerin' awa' at a "wheen stones if I had ony braing to

injure."

LAVINIA DERWENT..