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Leaves from the

Sudeten Family Tree

WH

HO, where and why they are the Sudetens?

Let us take a look at them and see how they

live and what sort of people they are.

Think of the western plece of Czechoslovakia as a basin. It

is plumb in the middle of Europe-the same distance from each of the four seas.

Round three sides of this basin are clustered the Sudetens. On the steep and rugged hills

they have built up their towns

and villages.

It lan land of castles, of weil- made coffee and whipped cream, of stoping plne. forests. There are tall cascading water- falla and here and there a Group of blue lakes.

Because it is all so beautiful, young Sudetens who claim to

e Hiller and hate the Czechs say that they could kiss the Czech frontier guards when they come back from abroad. They are so picased to be home.

The climate is very much like that in England. The tempera- ture is not too warm. In the higher valleys there is a great deal of rala. Sudetens who go to Prague usually complain of the heat.

Among the valleys are the fac torien and raines. The Sudetens

workers. chiefly Industrini

the The Czechu, living out in mkidle of the bad, do most of the

are

farming.

That is one source of trouble.

What we call the town v. country

quarrel becomea in Czecho-Slovakia just another side of the German v.

Czech quarrel.

Mining and textiles and other Iteavy Industries employ many Sudetens. These Industries were hit hard in the alump-making Sudetenland a distressed areu, An- other source of trouble.

How did the Badelers get nere? Have they always been there?

In pro-Christian time! there were certainly Germans there. Bul later they moved away. From about 500 AD, the Czechs wete masters of the country, which be- gun to be known as Boliemiu. One of their greatest rulers was Good King Wenceslas, who was mur- dered in D35.

It was round about 1200 that the Germans really started coming back. They cotiled in very much the same places where they are to- day and came because of the de mand for miners.

From 1200 right up to the present tine the boundary between Bohemia and Germany has been the

Bam. TIO

The Bohemian Oer- mans were never part of Germany. Many English people know about the old Bohemian kingdom be- cause blind King John of Bohemin fought at the battle of Crecy. When he was killed, the Black Prince, to show his respcet, took King John's motto "Ich Dien."

It has been the motto of Princes

of Wales ever since.

Most of the Germans driven out of Bohemia during the warn that followed the martyrdom in 1415 of John Hus, the Czech roll- glous reformer, still national hero,

Czech

But the Germans came back. The minerals being developed in the mountains needed workers. So from Austria and Aurrounding places Germans began returning.

In those days the Czechs were frightened not of Germany but of Austria. In 1920 the Czechs were

A Sudeten leader ad-

а

dressing Henlein meeting. The symbol hanging from his ros- trum is that of the Sudeten German

Party.

the mian basin, thai

present German-Czech problem started,

The Sudeten Nazi movement first grew in the extreme western end of Czech territory. Round Eger and Asch the people are great strapping creatures, differ-

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the smaller, darker. finer-featured Sudeten farther north.

They have always been very pan- German, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish. It was from them that the move- ment spread to other Sudeten areas,

It is not true to think that the Sudeten arcas arc solidly The include about pro-Hitler. 1,000,000 people. Half a million of tluse are Czechs and three and a half million are Sudeten Germans. Half a million of the Germans are opponents of Hentein.

So roughly one million people Tax the Sudeten areas are anti- Hentela and about three million are pro.

Naturally the two populationa There are are very mixed up. many Czech pockets in German areas and many German pockets In Czech areas. There are also many towns and villages where there are plenty of Czechs and Germans living side by side.

With all this mixing of the races, there has been a great deal of intermarriage. In many districts the race problem has become such a jumble that I would be im- possible to try to say who are Czechs and who are Germart.

For instance, Henlein's mother Il propaganda 44. Czech. officer.

Herr Scbolowsky, order to keep this dark.

Incidentally. Scbolowsky is Czech name.

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Mountain. They remained under

the Austrian heel t the end of

the Great War.

Tho Austrian Empire arranged for large-scale immigration of Germans into the Budaten dis- tricts. As a batt, German was mado an official language in Czechoslovakia.

For threo centuries the Czechs

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were the minority. The Sudetens, WM. FARMER & Co.

who were really Austrians, had the support of the Vienna Govern-

ment behind them.

It was only after the war, when

the Austrian connection was done away with and the Budetens found themselves left inside the Boho-

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HUMOUR IN YOUTH HOSTELS

DURING a three weeks' tour of the

Scottish youth hostels I heard me amusing tales.

afler

Early one morning. leaving a hostel, a biker saw a tramp sitting beside a little stream, rub- bing the soles of his cocks with a tallow candle. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "Because it makes me Right-tooted," rejoined the tramp. An excellent pun und a tip weil worth knowing.

One English hosteller at Auch- terawe, near Fort Augustus, bought some milk at a nearby cottage inte in the evening. just after milking time, and he was served with the fresh, warm milk. Next morning, when he called for a fresh supply. he said. "Please don't heat the milk this time."

The fishing is very good in the sea-water lochs of Ross-shire, and muby hikers pire a boat for al evening's Ashi, in Upper Loch Torridon, on Bahcy, hooked und landed a fish almost three feet in old/him it. length, but

his huge and then

taken. Store and botight a thi fị sår fint fof supper.

In une hortél An muss-shire, the warden in collected a lot of money for the tostels Association by sing- ing songs and taking a collection. A young English lady asited him to sing "The Bonnie Banks of Lock Lo- mond," but he declined. "No," he said, "It's been inurdered so often that it must have been written by Crippen."

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An English cyclist told an amusing sale of the Lake District. An Ameri- can visitor to the likes was telling thes Cumberland former about wonderful crops grown in America. "That's nowt," replied the farmer, "I mind a crup of turnips, that were

the other

side of the Inke. grund there, an' wit heavy (monuring) and wide thin- nin' cot, the crop was astonishing. .. Folks cum frac far an near tac sec

Aboot Ma

Martiamos a 'em.

young bull Intuli wan on 'em, an' ate his way stayed there. They thowt the breast were lost till a while efter Christ- mas when he cam ool t'other side, a key bit failer nor when he went in. The farmer then took the shell of the turnip, put lung sticks in it for perches, un' made a grond hen hoose. But it softened and broke after a hard frost."

During a visit to Feralchirst Castic hostel last year I bought a tin of "Jethart snails" in Jedburgh, and used the tin this year to hold sugar. 1 had to stand much good-natured chaff about being a Frenchy, and was often asked if frogs and analls were to eat, had to explain muny good times to English and Continent.t visitors that "Jethark snatis" were a kind of toffee pulled out into u snall-like shape, and that they were probably first made as a compliment to the French during the Auld between Scotland and Alliance

France.

At Carn Dearg hostel, on Galeloch,

onc

in Ross-shire, meals can be bought, and the weary hiker need not cook hij own menta,'' After dinner extning, an English tourist suggested to his pal that they take a boat out on the loch.

"What!" examined his friend, eye- ing the dancing waves, "after a din- net that's cost me one and six."

A. Baptle

WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER

1938. 2.

THE TOYO WIFE

GERTRUDE GELBIN

RESUME

alberto Dripard, called Frou- frou bocauzo of her irresponsible golety, marries Georges Bartoris, norious young lawyer, Louise, her later, has loved Georgan ainoo childhood. After Avo years of marriage, Georges begs Louisa to live with them becauas Frou- Trou's whime and caprice aro ruining his career and the up- bringing of their child. Frou- frou soon realizes that her sister har sourpod her place in tro uffection and astrom of her hun. band and litla gon. Andro Val Jatre, New Orleans blade who has always loved Froufrou, re turn to Loutalana. Froufrou at tempts to recaphte Georges love. Discouraged, the rune dizay with Andre. In New York sho develops a wracking cough, A. year later, lack of money foreca them back to New Orleans, de aplin Froufrou's despairing fear that Georgen will challengo 'An- dre to a duel as soon as they yafuru.

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Georges, Not you."

"No," he cried, "No, Froufrou?" "Froufroul" sho repeated short- ly. "That's all I am; that's all l'yo aver been. A pretty sound. Liko a foolish song. And that, iwo men who have been friends all their Lives are setting out each to kill the other it he can thin marning." Bha seized his hand in both of hera. "Why must you do it when I'm not worth t

I pressed his cheek to hers. "Don't say that. I love you and I wronged iny friend because I loved you: and ho's called me to account -that's all."

Brutus entered, wearing his over coal and carrying the pistol-box under his arm. Without a word he opened the box and showed Frou- frou the platols with a kind of mol- ancholy pride.

"Pistols!" she cried, electrified at "You didn't the sight of them, choose words, then?"

He shook his head. "No - why should a good swordsman condes- cond to draw against a poor one!* "That's not the reason," she said quickly.

He motioned Brutus oufalde, then drow har tenderly into his arms. "Lay your head on my shoulder a moment," he said softly, ie beld her close. "No." he said after a moment. "I've given him a fair chance because you love him.”

He began to cry.

FIELD OF HONOR Froufrou's cough grew worke

"But," he continued in a hard throughout their trip to New Or inans, but once there, the warmth volce, "Tl kill him if I can bo and comfort of Andre's town house exuse you need me." He kissed her renowed her hopes of getting well. foreheat. "Are you crying? Silly As soon as he was convinced Untitle Froufrou!" Then, very ten- sho was suficiently recovered to be Inft to the care of Pick and Brutus, Andre set out on horseback for his mother's plantation.

derly, he placed her clonk about her and his arm supporting her, helped her out of the house and into her carriage.

word

News of his intended visit had

Dawn was just rising through Enroute the grey mists as they reacheit the evidently preceded him. ho met Judge Randell and his twoj historic field where duels sons who greuted him coldly and fought for a indy's honor. The door informed him that Georges awaited of Froufrou's carriage opened and him in a carriage down the road, she alighted, coughing an her foot

"Remember to stay quietly in your carriage

no matter what hap

pens," Andra said.

Andre made at once for Georges. | touched the dew-drenched grass,

"I understand you're looking for Mck followed her protestingly.

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"Walking in dis byer prass is fak walking in watah, Mlasy. You. nughta stay inside"

"Hush," whispered Froufrou Pharply.

"Yes," Georges answered shortly. "You will be at my disposal?"

"Naturally," smiled Andre. "To- morrow, at dawn-at the Oaks?"

Georges nodded. "And the wen-

Almost simultaneously two shola pons, Monsieur?".

rang out, The horsen reared vlo- Andre booked from Goorges to his lently. Froutrou her eyes closed, three friends as if lost in thought. her hand aling her pounding "10 your privilege to name the heart, waited for Andro's condx wrapons, Munaler," Judge Rondell to bring her the news, Who had reminded him sharply.

fullen Georges? Or Andre Her "into" The word burnt from lips moved in allent prayer.

Back at Madamo Vällaire's plan. Ando.

regons looked at the ather Intalion, the household of slaves raf, but Andre, with a short koell on the parch as Madame lo- not turned his horse about and toned the morning prayor, Her face rede back Lo New Orleann.

was stay and ned; she tried not

Rondell watched him gallop down to biber own anxiety as to the the rand. "Pistols," he whispered.outcome of the morning's duel be- Andre Vallaire, the best man with tray her to the servants. Carefully a sword in Louisiana and he he read the prayers and slowly chone pistoin!"

they intoned the answeTE,

Next morning, just before dawn, Andre, sat with Froufrou as Brutus brought them coffee.

"What time is it now?" she asked, trying to keep her volte casual.

"Twenty-two minutes to five," he answered lightly. "The sun rises at five-thirty-seven today. We'll start in ten minutes."

Pick hurried in with a glans, "Drink dis, Bilasy," she begged. "What's that?" asked Andre. "Honey and lemon fo' her cough," Pick replied.

Froufrou waved it aside. "I don't need it."

Andre carried it to her as he would to a child, "Try it," he smiled Bhe shrugged and drained the glans. He rose and lay his hand on her shoulder. "Remember to stay quiet-

A carriage careened madly down the read, and curved into the drive- way. The instant It stopped, the door opened and Froufrou ran out. She dashed up the stairs and facet Madami Veliniro.

"Andry is here, Madame-wound. ed" she dropped on her knees with a sob and tried to kiss the other's hand, but Madame drew her hand away in though unconsciously. to shake off a fly, her glanco going past Froufrou as though she were not there, to the conchi. When sho spoke at last, there was numathing forbidding and majestic In her strange calm,

"Your master has come home," she announced slowly to the slaver, "Bring him in,"

column.

The house negroes rushed down ly in your carriage, no matter what the steps as she stood, immobile, happens, Froufrou. It he fails, or I, staring ahend, watching them litt drive away at once. It's only in Andro from the carriage. Froufrou case I'm wounded that you're to flattened herself against a parch The servants, encrying take me to my mother."

understand," she answered Andre carefully, marched up the.

stairs between her and Madame Val Intre, bringing their precious bur den onto the porch and then over the threshold in absolute allence.

At the end of the sad procession came Brutus who had been Andre's personal slave since enrilest shlu hood. For a moment is cyon met

quietly,

He sipped his coffee silently, "I've told Plel to take your jewels along: you shouldn't leave them behind,

he smiled vaguely,

If

She managed to amilo back. "I'va not jewels enoug to worry about,

"All the same," he said lightly, those of Madame Vallaire's, lle fall "take any trinkets you value. This to his knees. "God have mercy!" house would go to my creditors, if he cried in angulah.

he shrugged. "But my noiber He covered his face with his hands and sobbed out his grief. will take care of you” "!!-stro countered.

Very gently, Madame Valiaire put “Brutus has a lotlar to give her, out her arms and drew the faithful old negro within their protection. - be looked at his watch, She sat there, her hands folded Then, with one arm about his shoul- helplessly in her lap. "How strange der, she walked orectly, Into the —she murmured.

house. They paused just within tha “What, dearost?" Ils came over lighted threshold.

to her and stood beside her chair! Froufrou moved suddenly from Spain, his arm circling the back, the pillar into the brighter zone of his hand resting on ber shoulder, light to follow, but Madame Val

She looked up at him with mad|laire, staring at her with hard, for- eyes. "That I, who never thought of bidding eyes, closed the door shut myself as wicked, have done so in her 1800. much harm,”

"It's not your fault if a fool loves you."

Everyone has always loved me since I can remember, Too much. I should be the ons to die. Not!

Who will now help Froufrom? Will Andra lua or die? Ilow soll. Proufrou be able to com- Jinue her life? Ne sure to read tomorrow's stirring chapter.

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