THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 5,
1938.
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Ingredients of "PERFECT LADY" COCKTAIL
50%
SEAGERS GIN
25%, Peach Brandy
(Garnier]
25% Fresh Lemon Julco
Dash of white of an egg.
FROM THE
ORIGINAL DESIGN
ANNA
BY
ZINKEISEN
"PERFECT LADY"
HE House of Seager take justifiable prido In announcing that Seagers Gin, the super "Perfect Lady "Cocktail which took first place in the British Empire Cocktail-Competition at the Wine, Spirit and Hotel Trades Exhibition at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.
In extending to Mr. Sidney Cox, of Grosvenor House. our warmest congratulations on hig success in this most important competition, we would emphasise that the verdict of an unbiased jury of experts is yet another triumph for
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SUNDAY
6th
FEBRUARY
Repulse Bay Hotel
ANNOUNCES:
TIFFIN PROGRAMME of MUSIC
By Classical Sextelte. Leader Geo, Plo-UlskL
1. Egmont Overture v. Beethoven.
2. Waltz from Baitet: "Sleeping Beauty"
Tschaikowsky.
3. Song of India ---
Rimsky-Korsakow,
4. March of Dwarfs
Grleg,
1.00 p.m.
to
4. Liebesfreud Kreisler,
2.30 p.m.
Violin Solo by P. Esdakoff.
7. Bolero — BIOL.
Also
A
I
Spent Christmas
MADRID, Boxing Day.
1014 Oviedo rifle was tho only Christmas present I received in Madrid,
It was given me by a young veteran, Carlos Martin, who acted as my guide when first I arrived here.
The rifle barrel had been bent about jin, out of align- ment when Carlos tried to lever away a boulder that had been blown on top of his brother during an engagement near Somosierra.
The brother died amid the rattle of the machine-gun that had been hastily erected be- hind the boulder and the rous- ing cries of the Government
"Viva Republica." soldiers:
With Christmas greetings hailing from a dozen different European stations on Madrid's radios, the boom of Big Ben at midnight drowning them all, the warlime elty had its own many ways of rhowing that it was conscious of the festival.
Ten o'clock curfew was greatly ignored,
People who would not otherwise dare show themselves in the streets without the special night pass, dimcult to obtain, boldly walked the streets; and I joined one carousing band whose troubles were being temporarily forgotten in potent wine, buried long ago and ΠΟΥ resurrected to celebrate "Christmas and Teruel,"
That has been the cominon toast for days, and it is interesting to notice that even here Christmas takes precedence of everything else for a day or two.
In the back streets, from behind shuttered windows, 1'licord the flrst Bounds of laughter-real, heartfelt merriment, since arriving in Madrid.
The people behind the shutters were obviously enjoying them- selves as much as their brothers and sisters in the world's pleasure spots, only they were doing so less luxuriously,
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There was no need for wine and good fout to loosen up their merriment. The laughter wan, perhaps, slightly bysterical, like reaction after tension ins relaxed, but it was sincere.
And there was a small tin of bully beef as a Christmas gift for each clvi- lan; for the soldiers, nougat and brandy.
BABY HELD CAPTIVE BY NAZIS
Hopes of securing the release of one of Hitler's youngest prisoners have been dished in the past few days.
in MADRID
by Peter Langdale
REFUGEES.-Street scene on the
outskirts of Madrid.
Outside, was brilliant sunshine, but extreme cold. Soldiers and civilians joined in the holiday promenade, many In their best clothes.
Children were enjoying themselves on sronters and roller skates. A queer Christmas for Medrit, but still-Christ.
mas.
Later, in the dark hours of the morn- Ing. I came upon a couple entwined in Each other's arms behind the latel Internationale.
A city guard moved them away, com plaining they had been there for an hour, why couldn't they go home?
The girl answered, that her father did not ke her young mon and tha was the only place she had been able to speak to him.
To-morrow he was going to Teruel. Perhaps it was the last time they would be together.
The guard shook his head sadly. sympathetically 'disappearing
from that part of his beat.
*
I met two soldiers from the Fifth Regiment of Militia who had recently come out of hospital. Both of them had been in the "suicide" Steel Coni- panies and were ninong the few who survived the first rebel onslaughts on Madrid.
Food was getting scarce up in the Pork Int front llars, they told me. cubes was the usual diet, No, it was not being varied for Christmas.
A prisoner had made their stomachs ache, they said, with his tales of
leader.
Her German mother was handed over to the Nazis at the same time as Mr. Elise Ewert, wife of a former German Deputy, and the two
women have languished in a German prison without trial since October, 1936.
Anita was born in prison and n letter from her mother a few months ngo expressed fears that the child would be taken from her and placed in a Nazi institutivo.
NAZIS' EXCUSE Representations, to the Germaan Liberation authorities produced a promise that
She is 13-month-old Anitu Prestes, daughter of Luiz Carlos Prestes, the imprisoned Brazilian
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Franco's vast supplies of food.
Think
of it, they said, twenty pounds of toma- toen for a frnelion of a peset.
You could hardly get one tomato lu Madrid for twenty pounds sterling at the present moment. In fact, I myself have not had a‘square meal since I nrrived.
Christina mid-day ration queues re- celved just a trifle more food than be- fore, I noticed, but not enough to keep come of these paunchy Spaniards from pricking anotlier notch in their bells. Madrid's shops have been practically denuded of their scanty stores, for the craze for giving and getting Christinas presenta liss been as rife here as any where.
I saw one place displaying locally- carved toy soldiers and sailors, gaudily coloured, surrounded on all sides by toy cannons, and I made a bet that that shop would not sell anything.
My friend, Carlos, and I went round there two days later to settle the bet. A few old clothes had succeeded the toys, and had an idea the shopkeeper hid used his merchandise for the next best thing-firewood, which is so schree now that the Bierra wind makes one feel like burning down the hotel to get. some warmth.
I lost my bet. The toy soldiers had sold Ilke hot cakes, the toy artillery running them a close second.
I attended a Christmas party in a Barge house which had miraculously escaped serious damage in a heavily helled area of the city, my hosts being; a number of officers billeted in the house.
They were mostly men convalescing. which seems to mean a few days' rest before returning from the hospital bed to the front trenches.
It was a strange party. The young men who should have had the sparkle of youth seemed old beyond their age. while the older men seemed endurd with a new and youthful energy.
To-morrow, or the day after, they were due, almost to a man, back at their front-line culposts. Christmas had come and gone for them, if, in- deed, it had ever arrived.
When I left the party in the dark- ness of the morning I remembered the round of crackers they had pulled as 'n gesture to the English newspapermen
present.
As I walked back to my quarters a not dissimilar noine could be heard. prolonged and amplified though miles Bway.
Dawn was lighting the sky. Chilat
mas was over.
I heard guns instead of crackers..
before
Anita would be released Christmas 50 that
she might be handed over to the care of her grandmother in Paris,
Arrangements were made accord- ingly, but at the last moment intima- tion was received that the child could not be freed before January 15. The need for further medical examination and for communication with Brazil was pleaded in excuse.
The intervening friends-fear-that this may be only the beginning of a series of postponements leading to n Anal refusal to release the baby.
N. C.
1937
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established the first British trans-ocean air service between a British possession and the United States of America
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