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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1938.

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Chapter One

MELITES SOAIS VOS METRO SALOWYN "MAVER, NCTURA

Halsey Racines

Don Diege jumped up, unable to ro- strain his enthusiasm. He quickly lifted Nina onto one of the bur tables, hiviralf standing on the long The balls were all ringing. Beau bench beside her. Nina was delight- tiful sonoritas were leaning overed at the manner in which Den balcony rails. The great cannon Diego was making himself con- ntop the Lower was booming, spicuous. Their hende wore almost It was the day of days in Madrid, on a level above the rest of the Long and Intense excitement had crowd. And now, to put a crowning preceded that March morning in touch to the Impression she wanted 1808. Never bad the crowning of a to convey to Etienne, Nina took new king beon the signal for great- Don Diego's taco in her hands. Do- er Jubilation. Ferdinand the Beventh liberately, aho gave him a passion- was a friend of the people, and was ato kiss, full on the ips. to bring Spain to greater, glory than ever before. He was to rescue the land from the nienacing shadow of Napoleon, across the lyronces, and to end the late vicious cycle of political corruption.

The crowd choored and laughed with delight. Etienne was by now rage. Impetuously, he Uvid with started to make his way toward Nina, but the waiter stopped him, thrusting bin bil under his nose, Etienne furiously tore it to bits.

Riding at the hand of a fostive

White Nina, Toughing. Ughtly martint procession, his dress uni form brilliant in scarlet and gold jumped down from the tublo and braid, the now monarch bowed to ran from the room, Don Diego the plaudits of the throngu. His reached over and took a gultār horse stopped dainty from one from the hands of one of the mu- side of tho strast to the olber, to Alcians. Full of joy, he started to nvold trending on outstretched sing a Spanish love tong arms and feet. Meantime Ferdi- Nina paused for a monieni, glane- nand's sharp Bourbon eyes took in ing back toward the young Spant- the smiling maidens who strewedd. Etienne in the meantime walk- his way with freshly plucked bou-ed quickly over to another table quota, ile was only twenty-four, and where ant two French officers. He that interested him more, perhaps, whispered to them, and the threv than anything else.

stood up and walked out together. The dancing and merrymaking Having Anished his song. Dun continued, in uncensing volume, long after the king had retired to the private domain of the palace, There were maskers, improvised Boats, and the emptying of barre) after barral of wine. As dusk crept over the joy-laden city, torchlight processions were organized.

Every restaurant in the city wan brimming with laughter, music and Lonats to Ferdinand. In one cafe, rspecially, was the celebration at Its hoight. Here, in a low-cellinged room, with great tables on which were piled high food and bottles of wine, danced" Nina Azara, known throughout the country an

Nina took Don Diego's face in her hands.

The i

Firefly," Ravishingly beautiful, her dance was epirito, sophisticated,

Betinuous.

The eyes of the entire audience, mostly men, were fastened on The Firely. Spaniards made up the great majority of those present; here and there, one saw a sprinkl- ing of uniformed French officers. The one ran in the cafe not on- tranced by ina's dancing was one of these Frenchmen. Biting alone nil tabin near a doorwny, he raged inwardly as Nina smiled at these around lor.

Was

And applause greeted the conclu- sion of tho dance. And cheering most enthusiastically

Don Diego, a handsome young Spanlard who bat zenr the dance floor. As she passed him on her way to the corridor, Nina Eashed the Spaniard

Diego, preceded by an obsequious walter, proceeded toward the dour- way leading toward the corridor. Silently the waiter indleated the dressing conto beyond. Within. Lola motioned Nina to the window. "Se- noritn," she whispered, "come here and look

From where they stood they could neo Etienne, with his comraden, on the street just outsido tbo cate.

"He's walling." Loin sald

Nina thought for a moment. Then: "Pull the curtains," she or dered. "Now go and get that Span- 1sh boy."

"But minorita," Lola protested.

"Get him." Nina repeated Arinly. "But he's so young."

"I can't help it. I've got to get rid of that Frenchman.""

Junt than there was a knock at the door. Lala opened the door to a smiling and happy Don Diego.

"May I speak to the sonorita?” he asked with a charining bow.

"Come In #enor. Come in," Niaa called cordially. "We were just talk- ing about you.".

Don Diego's eyes were devouring Nina's beauty.

"May I present myself? Don Dlogo Manrique de Lara. Of course, I realize that it's a little tate fur in- troductions after all we've gone through together."

Nina was watching him closely. "And whors do you come from sonort I haven't seen you in Mn- Arld before,"

"I've been wasting the whole of my life up till now... in Valencia." "He's from Valencia," Nina sald

warm glance of appreciation. Etienne could aland na more. Glowering furiously, he stained hi glass to the table, spiking ite contenta. Quickly he preceded Nina to Lola, meaningly. Then, turning into the corridor. As abo eatered back to Don Diego, she said: "You the hallway he grabbed her arm.have a family there?"

He demanded the name of the man "No sonorita."

who was more attractive to Nina than he. In laughing romonstrance, nho turned her back and walked away,

with

"No wife, no falber or mother?" "No," Don Diogo sak smile. "No one to care whether i live or die."

"EI was hoping you would come with me, and have some supper," Don Diego replied.

dressing room, Lola, In her

"Perhaps it's just as well," said Nina's faithful maid, who had Nina. "Would you like a glass of watched tho proceedings was wine, nenor?" anxious. Despite her own anxiety. she however, Nina assured her would take care of the situation.

"It would be awful it anything happened to the Marquis, Lein Bald.

Absent-mindedly, knowing they would never get that far, Nina said. "Supper? Why, yes... yea hap-...I'd be delighted."

"Don't worry. Nothing wii pen to him," Nina promised.

Don Diego watched her, entranc Throwing aaldo ali thoughts of ed. "This is like a dreamt" ho ex Etienne's Jealousy, Nina adjusted claimed. "I can't yet believe that I her exqulaite shawl, Hfted her fau am really here. That I am talking high and started forth for her next to you. That in a minute I shall Mong as the music struck up again. be walking out there with you on The audience wont wild at her ro- my arm."

For a moment Nina regretted her appearanco.

While sho nang, she walked bo-ruthlessness. Briefly, she attempted tween the tables, lirting deliberato- to dissuade him from staying there.. ly and indiscriminately with the But the Spaniard was adamant, Flo nien. As aho approached the table was smiling when she took his arm. whore Don Diego sat, he suddenly An they came into the treat, ntretched out his hand and took Etienne, In a tury, started to draw hors in it. pulling her around to his sword. But his comrades re- face him. His features rolexed in a strained him. Instead, no of them approached Diego and bowed stiff- boyleh grin.

Nina started to pull her handly Don Diego appeared a bit be- away when, for the Arst time, aho wildered by this procedure.

"Monateur lo Capitaine fools that looked closely at him. A thought cams to her mind. Here was a good he has been grossly insulted," the looking young man, one whom Franch offcor alated, Ellonne might imagine to be his

"D14 he say what would satisfy successor. Hare was a shance to him" Diego demanded agreeably. throw the Frenchman off the trall. The usual place, the usual weap- The Frenchman was not amused. With a quick glance to azure ons, at dawn. berwolf that Ellenne was watching, "Dawn?" Don Blogo started to alio started to sing solely to the protest, with a quick look at Nina. Spaniard, concentrating all her Couldn't he make it a little later?" charm upon him. From the corner The Frenchman didn't oven deign of her eye she saw Etienne stiften to answer Don Diego. Thrusting Nina was beginning to enjoy this card into the Spaniard's hand, he And so was the audience, senginii said, curtly!

now romance blossoming before

their ayan.

As Nina's song ósme to a falab,

"Your sounds can find me here!”

(To be continued)

BOOKS-edited by

ROGER PIPPETT

He Looked for

UGENE LYONS, American

newspaperman, "assigned to Utopia" in

Was

'1020. In other words, he was sent to Moscow by United Press as its correspondent. He worked there until 1034.

Assignment in Utopla (Har- rap, 15s.) tells the story of those six years.

Many anti-Bavlet books have been written by anti-Bocialists. They could be plied mountain high, and their shade would chill no Socialist. For such authors hate the Soviet Union because of fear that it is or is becoming a Socialist country.

But this author belleves that Socialism is good and desirable, And If you belleve so too, you must read his book.

DOUBTS

For it is written by a man who has come to feel, in deep emotional stress, that what exists in the Soviet Union is not Socialism, and who judges that its chance of ever becoming so grows less,

Lyons grew up in grim poverty on New York's East Side. From his boyhood he was a Socialist,

He was among the first to leap to the long defence of Bacco and Vanzetti, whose blographer he became. He edited Boviet Russio Pictorial." From 1924 til 1020 he worked for Tass, the official Soviet news agency.

Almost from the moment of his arrival in Moscow doubt crept in. It was not the poverty, though that was pretty bad.

REALITIES

It was the Terror, the tied Press, the secret pollee, the sudden dis- had appearances after "they" called, the crammed jalls, Siberia and the Far North, forced labour. the quidation" of the Kulaks.

It was the Kremlin's disregard for human life and human values, the gruesome abject "trials," the screaming sadism of organised clamour for the blood of old Com- munists, the absence of one single free voice in all Russia,

It was the slower intellectual discovery that nationalisation without democracy is but a now power in the hands of the dicta- tors-that a dictatorship, however

UTOPIA

EUGENE LYONS

found a "trapped nation'

immense ita economic achieve- ments, is still a dictatorship.

At first, as so many would, he put his doubts aside. But they crept crowding back at each new outrage upon Boclallem, "the eternal dream of equality and jug- tice." Then the dull, irrcalstible pain and Anal agony of illusionment.

dia-

Then the feeling that still one must not "tell" because that played into Fascist hands—a feel- ing conquered at last by the con- viction that it was Stalin himself who played into Fascist hands by using Fascist methods, and that Socialists, by remaining silent, only made matters worse for the free Socialist Movement.

And at last this:

"I had gone to Russin believing there were good dictatorships and bad. I left convinced that defend- ing one dictatorship is, in fact, defending the principle of tyranny.

No Complaints

As long as the Ghaws and Bar- busses condoned political murder and mass exile and the crushing of human decencies in one place and for one cause, they were sup- porting those methods in all places and for all causes.

Socialism

emptica humanitarian impulses

vances no argument Fascism cannot duplicate.

of

its ad- which

"Already it has brought the idea of Socialism into disrepute by cut- ting off all its associations with the accumulated treasures of human freedom.

TRUTHS

"Those who defend auch a Bo- claliam are essentially reactionary. If the certainty of a full belly is to be made the only goal of Socialism (and Rusala or any other country may attain that goal in time) then the inmates of Bing Bing are al- ready living under Socialism.....

"I had the sense of leaving be- 'hind me a nation trapped.

#4 The fact that these things had come to pass under the banner of Socialist' only made them more ghastly. The word Socialism, the eternal dream of equality and jus tice, was also trapped."

love Read this book if you Bocialism-for it is a great book, written with unquenched idealism as its driving power, and with life as its raw material. I think it will make you feel how little can be learnt from library studies of insti- tutions and constitutions, even when they fre of. the high academic quality of the Webbs' "Soviet Communism." .R. F.

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Against Ruth JAPAN PROTEST

Fanyone has a case for misrepresentation in Action,

is usually staged as a frumpish, bespectacled, sex-starved, bullying little despot, the Wicked Fairy of the old pantomimes with a pointer for a wand.

The three teachers that I happen to know personally are still burst- Ing with vitality after years of class-room routine. They are oven more bored than I am at seeing themselves in novelists' distorting mirrors-and they will be relleved 10 read Ruth Adam's new tale, I'm Not Complaining (Chapman and Hull, 78, d.).

For this is everyday existence as the staff of a school in a northern

Busy, industrial town knows it. bellevable mistresses. Lanky chil- dren, with "extraordinarily sure voices." Agitated and argumenta- tive parents, Inquisitive inspec- tors. Work. Love. Living.

Likes and Dislikes

And, beyond their little island of order and quietness, where the three hundred volees hum with the steady monotony of bees in a hive, is the maze of mean streets and dark yards awarming up to the Green-painted fence like the jungle round an outpost of civilisation."

While I read, I lived on that island. I liked some of the people there. And I hated some of them, especially that handsome, arm- iwisting policeman. Now and then the pace gets a little too hot and the air too foverish. But, I dare say, schools seem like that occa- sionally to the teachers....

Anyway, Miss Adam has thrown those distorting mirrors away and been content to parado hor falandora os they are without pre- tentiousness. Which leaves hor easily top of her class.

“AVING had our fiing at those

"torians, we are, I gather, ba- ginning to appreciate their good points. Indeed, Lalage, the sixty-

horoine year-old

of Gerald Bullett's latest novel, The Bending Blokle (Dent, 78. dd.) in brighter and younger than any of your. Bright Young Things.

Hsturdy Aunt Baliles, the Vie-

A vicar's daughter, she amused

and excited herself as a girl by

AGAINST NON-

writing a romance called Cynthia CHINESE FLIERS

Carstairs: or The Rainbow Wooing. which featured (sho would casily forgive the word) a certain in- offablo Lord Roger.

Then marriage came to her. And unhappiness. She grew wiser with the years, was widowed, married again and found happiness with her second husband. Thereafter life never lost its interest for her. There She was a grandmother. was so much to see and do, and

learn.

Resents Assistance Given To China

Pelping, Mar. 7. The Japanese sponsored Peiping Chronicic in reproducing Shanghal that Vincent Schmidt is reports heading foreign volunteers adds that it is understood the Japanese Govern- ment will lodge a protest, reserving claims for damage by foreign pliots. And then a publisher discovered In an editorial attacking foreign her forgotten book and decided to nations for permitting their nationals the the to serve in the Chinese air

force, rovive it and expose it to affectionate derision of the nine-paper says that is illegal for teen-thirties." "A perfect period Americans, British and French, while piece," the critics would say. "A the Soviet violate international

to commit an act of war involvin miracle of Ingenuous absurdity."

their

Hankow country. In

the My beautiful Lord Roger," she

American Embassy must be cm- said. "How they'll laugh at mel

barrassed by the sight of American What fun it will bel

citizens employed in

active

aerial warfare against a friendly power. It says that the German advisers in China are in a different entegory

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The Bending Sickle is what used to be known as a Pastoral Novel. And, nowadays, most pastoral novels pass most of us by, But since they were employed prior to Mr. Bullett has the touch. Is the outbreak of hostilities and after story rises like an arch in some old, that they were not engaged in direct weather-beaten farm which has operations against Japan-United seen hundreds of seasons come and Press.

go.

I hope it will survive a few seasons, too.

R. P.

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