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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938.

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TAKE A GLANCE AT OUR UNIVERSE

tells the story of

King Zog aud his bride-to-be

Blood Feuds

I HAVE travelled miles in cars-along roads that were sometimes thorough- fares, but more often mule tracks-in search of a telephone. Albanin is the only country in Europe whose telephone system is not linked up with the inter-

When she becomes Queen of OUNTESS Geraldine Albania Countess Apponyi will

|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~}~¶¶¶__national lines.

Own.

GRIN AND

BEAR IT By Lichty

"I hope they ever find my

in

Apponyi, member of step back from the 20th century one of Hungary's to the 17th. Unless other ar

are made in the most distinguished families, rangements the official announcement of meantime, she will find herself sharing royal privileges in whose engagement to King Tirana, the capital, with the six Zog of Albania is to be made robust, handsome, and athletic in the Albanian Parliament sisters of the King, each of whom to-day, will share the newest has her own military unit and and strangest throne in each of whom has a will of her Europe.

She will also discover that She will become Queen in there are about 2,000 men a country in which modern this fierce little kingdom who life, methods, and amenities have vowed at one time or an- other to have the head of her are but slowly penetrating husband. Blood feuds are the the poverty-stricken and very basis of Albanian life, and primitive existence of a if a man declares himself to be million peasants.

insulted by another he dare not Albania has no equivalent out- join the tribal gatherings until side Asia or the hinterland of he has exacted vengeance. South America. I have sat in Strong Bodyguard trains there aching for food, and

custom

the only consolation I could ob- NOWHERE in the coun- tain was the mental vision of food brought up by my descrip-

Betelgeuse,

try is this stronger than among the Mati tribesmen, of whom the King was for as long leader before he ascended the throne.

other

shoe-I'm be#nning

to feel just like Cinderella!"

ROOSEVELT Makes History

AGAIN -By-

J. Frederick

Essary

One of the foremost Political Commentators in the United States

greater popular strength than any other political leader in half a century.

The phenomenal part of it is that this strength has increased rather than diminished, in spite of vicissitudes and reverses. In this respect he has run counter. to the American rule. Brief "Honeymoon".

well-known andi Ever since men began to

Two things are held against If the think for themselves they have respected of marin rs. known the palliative of contem- sun which keeps the Earth alive him which make it necessary for plation of the universe and such were planted right in the centre him to maintain a strong body- fascinating problems as the of the star the Earth would guard, whether he is in resid finiteness or Infiniteness of perform the whole of its orbit ence in the capital or at his sum- at Durazzo--where

NINE out of ten Presi- sun inside the mer home

dents, if they are space. In this day of interna- around her

of Betelgeuse. his palace is on a tiny peninsula

aggressive and Mr. Roosevelt tional alarms and suspicions and tenuous mass the recurring fear of war and The diameter of Betelgeuse is completely cut off from the main-

land.

is enjoy a comparatively brief "honeymoon" in office of a year: destruction, one is apt to miss 290,000,000 miles, if that is any

One is the fact that he caused the perspective of such things, help in bringing its vastness to

or so, then begin to slip. Most And. Antares, the death of many of his own

of them have to fight furiously so relatively unimportant in the comprehension.

President Roosevelt made an ad- vast scheme of creation. As a another of those pinpoints of tribesmen in his fight to estab change in literary atmosphere, flame in the Earth's night, is lish the independence of Albania, dress to Congress on Saturday which for a second term, and eventual- ly pass out discredited, if not its and the other is the fact that he was of historie importance. across the works of J. G. Crowther are 400,000,000 miles

The address was a new challenge dishonoured.

President Roosevelt is hated refreshing. This prematurely middle. These stars are glow-is accused of jilting the pretty gray young man, with something ing, rarefied gas, much the same daughter of his nearest rival to the antagonism of Big Business to of the ascetic in his face, is a sort of stuff as the Neon signs among the Matis to whom he the New Deal. It asked for un- violently in Conservativo quar-

small business-man and the un- master in a craft still sufficiently that decorate Hongkong shop was engaged before he came to precedental increases in old for the ters, Perhaps no other Presi- employment. Its repercussions will dent has been hated more cor- new to be ill-defined, the craft of fronts. Do you commence to the throne.

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chester Guardian, and at 38 is a world and the affairs

commencing celebrity in a circle as yet not peoples extensive, but whose influence, dwarfed by comparison?

The secret of the situation is radiates farther and farther

The moon we are familiar!

He is not the intellectual giant that the President early gained abroad. He has lectured at with is not inhabited. It is appearance. Shortly afterwards Harvard University on the his just as well, for it is doomed. the relative fell, riddled with of his generation. He may not the support of the masses of the tory of science by the invitation Ultimately, like the dissolved bullets from the revolver of one be the most constructive force American people, and nothing of the President; he was adviser moon of Jupiter, it will be Alcibiade Bebe, who had been of his time. But he undoubted- has been done to wean that sup. on technical education in the smashed by the terrific force of chosen by those partisans of the ly in the most dynamic. For port from him. He has taken Supreme Economic Council of gravitation. But that won't girl King Zog was

accused of

and he has matter so much, to the Earth. Jilting to be their instrument of nearly five years he has had

the Soviet at 30 written enormously on matters and men scientific. But the best introduction to Crowther is through his own books. treatment of such

Fis

technical

The fate of our sun, however, is vengeance.

n different matter. It is five

rate of 300,000,000 tons a

y cars

a

mountain tribe.

the war

Lonely Monarch

(Continued on Page 5.)

A year or so after

He held the post and used his but lack of funds and underscil- billion years old and has been King Zog was just Minister of 1922 he became Prime Minister, and tobacco fields of his country, losing weight, and volume, at the the Interior with little hope ofsound knowledge to try to unite ing by the Greeks made things

even intention of becoming the

helped by the common belief He accepted money from Italy subjects as astronomy cannot minute all that time. It might one man to guide the destinies his country. Two years later, difficult for him. fail to interest the layman. be thought that this central of the country. He was the son His work is instructive as it is heating system which belongs to of a long line of Governors of that he was pro-Jugoslav, a in exchange for naval conces engrossing. Ilis "Outline of the Earth is running short of fuel, the Matia hurdy Northern priest, Monseigneur Fan Noli, sions, and with these and the organised a putsch and Zog re- Albanian national funds-for Universe" is a small classic.

But suppose it continues to Governor in modern countries signed and eventually fled to which any American or English Listen. Crowther is talking radiate heat and energy until it of Hubble's theory of the weighs no more than

faint, is a fine title, but if you had met Belgrade. There he stayed for millionaire could easily write a

while, suddenly emerging at cheque he did his utmost.

There was little reserve, how- the finiteness of

the head of a well-equipped universe: white dwarf star such as Krue-' "According to the theory of ger 60. Its ruto of radiation

force and driving his clerical ever, for the development of mo relativity, the universe may be will decrease steadily, but it will

opponent from power.

dern equipment. He held all the Government portfolios in his infinite. either finite or

As not decline into the senility of

own hands. Even astrologers incline to regard it Krueger 60 until 500,000.000.-

so, his job we will assume | 000,000

have as finite..

passed.

ZOG then set up a Re- has not been as big as that of provisionally the universe is After all that time the sun will

public of Albania and the head of the L.C.C. finite." Hubble, he goes on, still not be negligible, and will

caused himself to be elected Pre So, in bored moments he turn- says the volume of the universe probably continue, though in

sident for a seven-years term, ed his mind to the development

of his for is of the order of 384,000,000,000 that enfeebled condition

army. He did not go He did not serve the seven years, about a great deal, for that is billion, billion, blilion, billion even more acons of time, until

however. Events were tum. cubic miles. This limited thing some accident or. contrary

bling over each other which en- still not safe. His life has been

attempted three or four times. is seen to contain matter, space hythm in the universe redirects

abled him to alter his plans.

On his mother's death he took and time. And then he launches the tendency of its existence.

Once he was fairly in office he an interest in each of his hand- into his story, with his stag-

dealt generously with his old some sisters. He designed bril- theories, And just remember this, too, gering calculations,

enemies, but insurrection broke liant uniforms for them, and measurements, in all the dimen- when you are considering they

that

out after he had been less than gave them each a military unit sions known to the average man importance of this or

a year in power, and he was of their own. They now march besides. international or domestic re- and in a couple more

driven for help into the hands of in public at the head of their If he is sometimes "over the verse, and the permanence or

Italy, who signed with him

commands, wearing theso proud head" of the reader for whom he otherwise of institutions loved

treaty of mutual assistance. On uniforms, for a woman is safe is writing it is not surprising and respected, that the life of

September 1, 1928, he was un- anywhere in Albania. These when he is dealing with such the "everlasting mountains" is

animously elected King.

young women have been accused titanic subjects. So much of, relatively short, owing to the

Sinco then he has lived the of considerable extravagance as praiso for Crowther. Now to severity of the denuding forces

strangest life of any modern Princesses of so small and poor the original contention that his their ominence entails. They

monarch. He found himself a kingdom, but the King lets works, and others like them, are are among the more transient

them have their own way. good for the mind of man when of terrestrial features.

aome of the Mati in their native absolutely alone.

All day he would sit in his Twenty-two-years-old || Coun- confronted with adversity or

There may not be comfort for hills you would know that the confusion of the world's

everyone in those reflections, governor meant chieftain, and palace smoking cigarette after teas Apponyi will find her self- affairs against which so many but at least they serve to show that chieftains, when not engag-cigarette--150 a day at one time. made King, now 42, as kindly are prone to struggle ineffe the relative unimportance of our ad in feudas most are even Seldom have I seen such a con- and cultured as any King in tually and fret themselves

own lives. They, and our suc-to-day--were hard put to keep firmed addict, and having amok- Europe, but nothing else in her dithering alarmista and

Cosses and fallures, are very themselves in the small comforts ed Albanian cigarettes I am the new life from the six uniformed. sisters to the still blood-feuding more astonished. Junatics...

little In the scheme of things appreciated in their wild homes.

For a while Zóg remained He gave much of his time to peasants will resemble the life Crowther stabs with his pen Crowther brings to us for con- at the lovely heavenly body templation.

Minister of the Interior, but in developing the olive-growing she has left..

to

near-

COUNTESS GERALDINE

APPONYI

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