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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUET 24, 1937.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937.

GERMANY AND JAPAN

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If it be true, as reported, that Germany has informed Japan that she must not look for any support from Berlin in her con- diet with China, the develop- ment is one of marked import- ance, It serves to illustrate the point that Japan is unable to find friends anywhere in con- sequence of her policy of aggres- sion against her near neighbour;

with she

stands to-day Vestige even of moral support in the adventure to which she has committed herself. When Germany made her pact with Japan, observers saw in the new understanding a possible error which,

the in tactics

from standpoint of commerce, might well, prove disastrous to the German concerns concentrating on the China market. From the business point of view, China Jobviously offered better pros

pects than were possible in Japan. German commercial houses with branches in China consequently regarded the out- took with apprehension. There WIS a general impression in foreign circles that the new understanding might even go the length. of guaranteeing active support of Japan in any military adventures upon which she saw it to embark. Such intentions were, however, soon denied, it being pointed out that the pact was merely anti- Communistic in character. The position, viewed even from this angle, did not appear too clear when Japan, at the commence- ment of the trouble in North China, virtually accused the Chinese Government of foster- ing Communism and called upon it to suppress the movement. People began to wonder what the precise implications of the Tokyo-Berlin axis were in the light of Japan's anti-Communis- tie demands on China. It is

that just possible

Berlin's statesmen have now come to realise the awkward position in which their country had been placed; hence the reported in- timation to Japan that the Communistic menace elsewhere is such that she should not waste her energies in China. The inference is, of course, that Germany does not regard the Communist danger in China as anything but a bogey, and to Return: £76, that extent she is at cross- purposes with Japan. Even Japan herself must latterly have become conscious of the fact that the world at large does not nccept her assessment of the Red peril in China, for her in- clination now is to dwell less on

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'NICHEVO!

say

the

POLAR AIRMEN

"It's All in the

"N

Day's Work!"

ICHEVO!" sald Valery Chkalov.

He

sat up in his bed in a luxury cabin of the Normandie at seven o'clock in the morning and rubbed - his

Ambassador Matsky and I had wakened him. The great ship was off Southampton, on her way from New York to Havre. We had boarded her to see the three heroes of the first Russian fight over the Pole from Moscow to the United States.

And leaving Mme. Malsky ontalde on the mat--we had walked into Chkalov's cabin un- announced.

"Nichevo!" repeated burly, broad-shouldered Chkalov to my question: "What did it feel like, flying over the North Pole?

Now nichero is one of those Russian words that have dozens of shades of nicaning-most of them concerned with laziness, and in- différence, Once, for the foreigner, nichero symbolised all the worst vices of Tsarist Russla. Faced with famine, the peasant spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders. said: "Nichevol It can't be helped!"

But Chkajoy gave the word a new flavour for me. He meant by it: "Oh! It was nothing much really all in the day's work!"

That is the attitude to their spectacular flights of Chkalov and of Gromuv, leader of the second crew which, profiting considerably from the experience of the first. set up a new world record for long- distance, non-stop flying.

ed?

For an interviewer, the modesty

To-day's Thought. THERE are pioneer souls that blaze their paths where highways never ran.

-s, W. FOSS.

THE THREE RUSSIAN AIRMEN.—I'holographed recently, Left to right: George Baldukov. Valery Cukalov and Alexander Belyakov,

of these men is a nuisance-until you realise whence it springs.

Then you see the whole picture of the Soviet Arctic: years of pre- paratory work by exploring par- ties the establishment of a net- work of radio stations beyond the Arctic Circle, the collection of a huge mass of facts about the weather in the far North, finally the setting up of a group of selen- tists with radio transmitter und receiver on a floating ice-drift at the Pole Itself.

It was the work of this floating laboratory, the predictions it was able to make about the weather, that finally decided Stalin on May 25, after a discussion with Chka- lov, the plot, Baldukov, the co- pilot, and Belyakov, the navigator, to give the word: "Gol

From then on a whole army of people was at work for the three. men: aéronautical engineers, an- tronomers, geographiers, doctors, the supply commissarlat....

* * *

By this time we had got out into the great salen of the float- ing hotel, Baidukov and Belyakov had joined us. There was an inner circle of journalists and Press photographers questioning snapping shutters and exploding magnesium flares. There was an outer circle of passengers and page-buys gazing open-mouthed

Just

Ask

and

and wide-eyed at the men who had taken the Pole in their stride.

There were rival celebrities, too -Marlene Dietrich was on board. and, delicious trony, Her Highness Princess Ilylusky, of the former Russian Imperial family

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But Chkalov has the humour of the pensant and the worker.

He

Where was he educated? scratches his tousled mop of fair hair and with memorles of the sort of education poor lada got in the old days, says: "Some of it pretty poort

Then

remembering the grini school that has really forged him into a member of the Bolshevikt Party, the school of Revolution and Civil War, he adds quickly: " And some of it pretty good! Pul i down as secondary!"

A fascinating study in contraste, these men.

The tall, smooth-skinned, slender, elegant one is Baldukov, the calm, the imperturbable, who annoyed the mechanics at th? Moscow airport by displaying no enthusiasm when they showed him the new machine, the ANT-25, with which the flight was to be made.

Chkalov's moods flash on the surface. Baldukoy is hard to rend at a glance.

But the day before the flight, he

the Purser

ARE there any letters for ine? order, and procure blils of health for Needless to say the bigger percentage Where can I get my cabin chang- the various ports to be called at. docs, for trinkets and tokens have the Where can I get any money ex-These are kept with the ship's regis- name attraction for them as for pas changed? Where can have myter, which is the most important docu- sengers.

A ship without its valuables Jocked up for safety? What ment on board. shall we do with ourselves to-night?register is as helpless as a traveller Is there going to be a concert or without a passport. cinema show?

These are a few of the many things on wishes to know when boarding a liner. There is only one answer: SEE THE PURSER. If there are any letters for you, he will have them. He is the man to change your cabin if you do not and it satisfactory. He will tell you when the ship is due to arrive at any port of call.

He has money to suit all your needs. in whatever country the ship calls at. He will lock up your valuables and relieve you of the worry of them. He will supervise the arrangement of dances, sports, cinema shows, con- certs, and games,

Only A Sideline

This, you would imagine.

When the ship arrives in England and the last passenger has left, the crew is mustered and the purser pays Again, the purser has to keep an the men their wages as they "sign off" account of the crew's wages. The the agreement in front of a Board of average cruising ship carries about Trade officer. four hundred men as crew, A num- He afterwards makes his "balance"

ber

of these are permitted

VALERY CHIKALOV, chief pilot of the first flight to America by the North Pole ronte, suapped at Sonthampton With Madame Maisky, wife of the Russlan

Ambassador in Londen,

went off to the countryside near Moscow with his little daughter. They strolled through the woods, played games together. That was his preparation-for adventure.... Then there is Belyakov, short, plump with a round face, that seems even rounder because he follows the Russian custom of shaving his head in the summer for coolness sake.

He was the son of a villare teacher, not to high school by giving lessons to backward boys. Then came the war and after that the Civil War.

But Chkalov interrupts my chat He is actually with Belyakov, volanicering some information!

"Here's something I want you to put in your article," he says. **Tell them I was trained by Mihail Mikhailovich! **

Mikhail Mikhailovich" is M. M. Gromov, the tall, spare, athletic are of Soviet flyers, who favours weight-Biting and boxing as ways. of keeping t.

Oi this occasion teacher Gromov has reason to be grateful to pupil Chikalov.

Insufficient oxygen nearly. brought disaster to Chkalov und his mated.

"We found," Chkaloy explained, "that we had to fly much higher than we had thought because any lower than 15,000 feet in the Polar aren thick ice began to form on the wings.

"So we had to fly high and use up our oxygen. We had an eight- hour supply-not nearly enough. The supply began to give out and We flew low for a while.

Then we rose again, because the ice was forming. Then down again because there was hardly any oxygen left. Blood was pour- ing from our noses. At one spot I were thought we

Anished, 50 thickly was the ice forming.

we got through."

But

And that is one of the reasons for the success of Gromov, who carried

24-hour supply of

охудет.

Gromor la the lender of one of the most remarkable groups of pilots in the world: the Soviet test- ing pilots, who try out all the new machines

Soon you will be hearing more of these strange, unpronounceable names in the newspaper, for. belleve me, the Soviet trans-Arctic Lying season has only begun. and There will be more flights in the

very near future.

to go with the steamship company

then at last can say "Here ends an- ashore at some of the ports.

After dealing with the passengers other voyage," and proceed home for the purser issues these men landing a few days before making a frash | cards, and those who wish to draw start. money against their wages may do so.

THE

SOME IRISH BULLS

H. M.

THE famous Sir Boyle Roche rose fashioned sense, but one Irish church to a point of order one day in the officer obliterated it altogether, for House of Commons, and said, "Mr. one week at least, for he announced, Dublin Speaker, the hon. gentleman behinds Reverence is going to me 49 perpetually laughing in my Fair, so there will be no Sunday this can give you any Information face. I ber to move that before he week." Another Irish bull took the you may require about the ship, laughs at me again, he will be pleased form of declaring that the only way lu und does, in fact, look after you like to tell me what he a laughing at." stop what is past is to stop it before

It happens. the proverbial "Dutch uncle." He Another Irish M.P. was denouncing represents the steamship company. the British Government, and in his Mr. Augustine Birrell was not an

would

Indignation he perpetrated this: Irishman, but he filled the office of Ireland. One "Mr. Speaker, the cup of Ireland's Chief Secretory for wrongs has been overflowing for een-day in the House of Cominons he re- turies, and even now it is not full."ferred to a criticism, and retorted. An Irish preacher painted bincir "It is a wholly garbled version of

black H picture of the moral condition of his what never took place."

he shit, On arrival at each port he has to neighbourhood, in which attend the various consulates and en- The little children that can neither

Sir Charles Dilke thought that the sure that the ship's

papers are, in speak nor run about the streets

best Irish bull he ever heard was in Irish Judge quotes from a newspaper which said, on address by Sir Patrick O'Brien de- on the fending Mr. Gladstone, in which he this point than on the alleged const by a receding wave,"

"A wreck was thrown up

said. The right hon. gentleman hos done much for our common country. necessity of protecting the lives i

He has broken down the bridges that lo divided us."

be quite enough to keep him sc- cupled when carrying six hun- dred passengers. And it does. But this is only a sideline to his many duties.

blushplicAIKAN

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and property of her nationals. An Irishman gave utterance But however the situation may this:--"My ply is not so heavy as I Mr. Catheart Wilson once said. "I be viewed, Germany's reported expected it, and I never thought i am too old a bird to rise to thot fly," would be." That pig was "bull." while another Parliamentarian spoke intimation carries with it an It reminds one of the Irish Inbourer of Redistribution as "one of those

And eventually-Chkalov is quite dure of this-there will be a regu- Jar Moscow-Ban Francisco or Moscow-New York alr line by the shortest possible route-straight over the top of the world.

It will be possible to run such a line in the summer at any rate." Chialov said. "We have enough weather data already to make that certain. Winter flying, of course, will have to be approached more carefully. But it's not impossible." And it is not only trans-Arctic flights that are going to startle the world.

Soon three new Soviet machines will make their first public ap- pearance. They are the first of the squadron of 15 to be built in memory of the giant Maxim Gorky. largest land plano in the world, which crashed in 1935.

The new planes will not be quite na big as the Maxim Gorky, but they will include some startling novelties of design. More than that cannot be said at present, for they are not quite ready yet.

But you will be hearing more Bovlet about them before long. aviation has lots of tricks up its aleeve yot, even though speeding over the Polo has already becɔme. a moro nichevo.

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H. O. Whyte

implied condemnation of Japan's who, upon receiving his pay envelope thorny questions which, if not pro- at the end of the week, looked sur-perly handled, may trend on some- policies and is eloquent of the prised and disappointed. His mato body's Lock," position of isolation in which inquired, "Isn't it as much as you ex- That Ireland has not an absolute the Japanese have been placed I was counting on getting more than the announcement made by the parish serious consideration what colour we pected?" "Yes," was the reply, "but monopoly of such modes is clear from

clerk of an English church. that shall There is much discussion as to the "There will be a meeting of parishion- Schools." disappearance of Sunday in the old-ers to-morrow evening to take into

as a result of their Ill-advised I expected." attack on the territorial in- tegrity of China.

whilewash

the

National

F. J. B.