1939-05-18 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Thursday, May 18, 1989.

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AS Mussolini straddles the en

trance to the Adriatic," be- tween the heel of Italy and the Albanian coast, the focus of strategic interests falls on the island of Corfu.

Take a look at the map and see at once how, if that island were fortified and made a naval base, it would change the milltary

nspeel of Mussolini's Albanian conquest.

GERMA

Munich

If that happens the Mediterranean will begin to look like a sea-Maginot Line, for fortified bases stretch from Gibraltar to the island of Majorca; mi across to Italy's Pantelleria; from there to our Malta; and, still going east, to Italy's Rhodes, and ending with the impregnable Dardanelles.

Estimate the significance of Corfu now by noting that from Albania Mussolini could bomb all the Balkan capitals, as well us secure n long frontier on the Balkan mainland from which he could intimidate. Greece und Jugoslavia.

DINNSBRUCK

JUGOSLAVIA

¿CORFU

CORFU

PERES-At St. Paul's Hospital at strong bastion in that area, especial-

Yet Corfu fortified would prove a ""There may be more than one 12.30 am. on May 18, 1938, Mes.ly from Greece, particularly if she

key to the Adriatle" Anacleta Peres (Eta), aged 33 Joins the non-aggressors. So there is years, beloved daughter of Mr. every reason to expect Corfu's trans- Why, even the Athenians and the J. R. Castilho. Funeral will pass formation into a second Malta," Romans used it as a naval base, and the Monument at 6.30 p.m. to day. (Manila and Macao papers security of the big lintinn ports like ownership until the group of Islands From there might be menneed the from then on I saw many changes of please copy),

Brindisi; & fortified Corlu would (Ionian) came under the protection Protecting

too, I a jumping-off point for uf Great Britain in 1815. They were through the ceded to Grecco in 1804, because, the Eastern Mediterr

people who live on the island, which For 10-years the Island of Corfu la 40 miles long and 20 broad, wish- has been without history; not sincer Ilalian warships bombarded it in ed it to serve as a base to help the During the war the French occupl- August 1023 has it made world news stricken Serbian armies. Later the That was when the Italian presi- Ailles used Corfu as the chief base in dent of the International Commission attacking enemy submarines coming for the Delimitation of the Greco- out of the Adriatic. Albanian Frontier and four members There was a burroge of his

sulle were assassinated. Straits of Olranto, just as there was Mussolini, then at the beginning of in the Channel. his "regin," shelled Corfu and oc-

It was not very successful there be- cupled it, and he was very loath to cause the sea is so deep, and quit it.

submarines could go under. He left only after he had been paid big indemnity. So Corfu, which ranean as a battlefield for submarines

So look at this part of the Mediter was once British, might bave become in any future war. Italian, but remains Greek.

Note, too, that although Mussolini. The surprising thing is that Corfu with Albania, holds the key to the for in the channel separating it from into a house than through the front has been left in peace for so long, Adriatic, there is more than one way the mainland there is a marvellous, door. any number of ships: almost lond-locked, anchorage

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Japan's Pressure

IN SPITE or because of their growing difficulties in China the Japanese are once again putting strong pressure оп the foreign Powers at various centres where their interests clash. In the cir- eumstances, therefore, the Muni- elpal Council of the International Settlement at Kulangsu has done well to resint the Japanese demands for a greater voice in the affairs of that Settlement.

across the

the

for Corfu may be the key to the coilar

under the sea.

CECILE

JUDGING by the girls I

have seen around me it looks like being a record year for oomph,

You know about oomph. It is the new Hollywood word for our

old friend glamour, allas sex appeal, allure, she's-got-some- thing, it (Remember?)

3

..A stunning piece of compla travelled to the sea in my compart- ment. She strolled slowly down the platform among the scurrying, good- natured Thursday evening crowds, hoping and knowing that everyone turned to store.

by

LAVIGNE

One 10-year-old sylph, in a very

tight jade sweater and bluck alacks, with a long, untidy fair bob and a mouth made up big, wanders around

with a couple of boys tagging at her elbow and an intense I-want-to-be- alone expression.

furious she would be if they obliged

I can imagine how perfectly- and left her alone.

She drinks too many "white ladies" for such a kid. Unfortunately, her mother is busy demonstrating her own

ability to the genial redfaced secret- comph and hold-my-drinks ary of a near-by golf club,

Not to put too Ane a point on it, I feel quite a mama-spank urge about these women. They don't like the look of me, etther,

faint I

She swayed from the hips ke Hedy Lamarr, she were

A pretty little airen with o dark, slightly twisted smile, she gripped example of someone who can do two

dancing young man is her case like Myrna Loy setting out things at once. She plays almost a a perfect

to meet an unknown fate with well-champion game of ping-pong,

ilmed wisecracks.

and

minulo stops

never for a single In the earringe she sat opposite me thinking that she is the very spit of and I had a front-row view,

Ginger Rogers. for which I'm grateful, since it shorten-

With an air of one touching me ed the journey. Miles were swallow with a sword and saying: "Arise. ed while I speculated whether her Sir Something," the boy danced with cyclamened mouth was Curple Lomme on Saturday night. He bard's or Dorothy Lamour's.

didn't I think his girl looked like- Ginger Rogers? takes I said no.

more like Marlene Dietrich.

I thought she looked

looked pleased,

was younger, I added.

(So some men like

on

If Miss Lamour's, I bet n militon that the sunbathing sult she

her Mediterranean hollday is sarong-ish. I bel a million that her the name is Lily and her friends must

call her Lilith.

I must admit she had made a pretty thorough job of herself. A pretty thorough bad job.

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THIS was a pretty astute move on iny part, because next day, with her yellow hair fluffed about her face, a la Mariene, the girl went remote and Junguorous, and I was FIND I um staying it to get a quick look in at the that is so full of girls registering ping-pong table. herself here, would have had quite a compli that Cleopatra, if she found

just a passe vamp of the silent screen Job persuading us that she wasn't or even the spectacled daughter of a

country vicar.

Various types of comph are hibked, usually based on stars.

movie

Nemesis In A Squalid

NOT

Wantsai Den

by NORAH WHITESTONE

Safe from the cluiches of the law the led or of medieval | Nicotiana Tobacum;

for

hunt loom everywhere, trying to look as if it were the other way round.

Two slender creatures on the man-

they sit in the lounge, their demean- When there are no males in sight, our suggesting that many fine, brave fellows, maddened by their repeated refusals, have gone out to hunt big game in India: Probably a few of them have succumbed.

They both wear their hair up in front, down at back, and pencil the outer corners of their eyelids, They wave their hands around a lot, and, when not feigning sadness because of the fate of the fine, brave fellows. wear inscrutable expressions, those who should say, You poor fish, what do you know about everything? We are in the confidence of all the diplomats of Central Europe What, no tiger skins in the lounge? No green cigarettes?

In

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The Council has surrendered no important principle; it has refused

TOT IN the sunny, golden to allow the Japanese to take in-

wheatfields of the breezy, dependent action in the settlement Northern plains te his harvest without orders.

culled, nor does his garb auggest French Nevertheless, it is publicly dis-picturesque, homely,

A bit of a spy myself, I know that closed for the first time that the peasant freedom. Millet would

one of them is wondering if she can Council has acceded, apparently Dore might have found a fitting stung across his shoulders is usually clandestine operations.

have stared aghast; Hogarth or

do a train-trouble alibi to her boss By noon the dirty little cotton bag) compere with better facilities for the late arrival she is planning through pressure, to the appoint-

for Tuesday. The other simply can't ment of a Japanese Assistant Com- subject for the brush.

well filled, and he turns his steps In any case, these nolsome, ghastly make up her mind what national missioner of Police and five Japan unclean and ragged: lank, wiry locks less little Wantsal cockloft, the scene and a

He tollers along; old, bent, foreign, towards the dark, dismal, filthy, air-relics, autcast from a horde of lips, service to go in for.

ready market eso police officers and (if the of greying hair sweep

among the

any confession game they across his of his noxious calling.

super-poverty stricken population, reckon they would get ten out of ten "Domei" report of the Council's anxious face; red-rimmed eyes per- He turns on to the dirty table the those who have unfortunately dis- for oomph. I'd give them one, but, "All The Fun Of The Fair" reply is correct) has stated that force downcast to gutter and to offal of a thousand mouths sicitly covered the indefinable solace vouch- then, I always was generous.

there is no objection on the part of Jackal trade.

of by that contradictory vegetable

the

*. the Council to Japanese armed

With

stately unwashed, claw- plant with the delicate, sweetly ought to be well known at this forces co-operating with Settlement in his perambulations, Nemesis may like hands he separ

separates

paper from odoured, pure white, starry sodden

bacco, cach butt rendering blossom; the

evening

stage, but it doesn't seem to be, police in the suppression

be swift and sure in his squalid of

of Insidious that you can't walk out and Wantsal den.

wispa.

entleement which "terrorism."

tenaciously comph as you buy a new lipstick. A city of even mediocre size usual-

At times he himself fashions the binds those who have succumbed, Nobody can mistake the fare, real These facts must arouse a certain ly affords the inexpilcable discord of resulting debris into full-sized in- and who dwell in blissful indecision: thing any more than they could a amount of apprehension as an in-misery and affluence, of Dives and

nocent-looking cigarettes, with the "Sweet when the morn is grey; take the electric shock it resembles. aid of any unconsidered scraps dication that, if the Japanese ask Lazarus, of vice and altruism, of ex-

Sweet when

they've cleared It is there or it im't there. Certain- for two slices of bread and jam, weighted scale seems

haustion and

of idleness, and the paper of sufflelent Aneness.

away lunch;

ly it isn't to be acquired with a movie they are almost certain to get one. very nadir in this Colony.

But he prefers to sell the proceeds to find its |

At the close of day possibly hairdressing or cute bunch of of his morning's peregrinations to a sweetest"

tricka. It is a dangerous precedent which

You can recognise it in Paul Rober- may be applied to the International

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son's voice, and in Evelyn Dall's; Settlements in Shanghai and else-THE carelessly flung bult forms

in Gertrude Lawrence's acting. Becky Sharp had it, so had Byron. tiny component in the diurnal

So has Matisse, Gary Cooper, and a The appointment of a Japanese harvest of the gutter; not the

middle-aged flower-seller ns, second-in-command of the Ku- fragment, discard of

called smallest, most repugnant

sodden

Kate, who has authentic Coclmey langsu Police and the innuendo a

the ultra-

humour and one of the loveliest noses that the Consular body may be end, does Al Luk Ignore; and the economical and smoked to the bitter

In London. propared to appoint Japancao merely half-consumed stump is sponsored members of the Council avidly seized upon as precious trea- to replace the three Chinese who sure..

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rosigned when Amoy was occupied, He tramps the streets hour after would seem to give the Japanese a hour; knows the likeliest spots for dangerous foothold in the Settle- profitable operations. ' ment.

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Buy

Had he knowledge he would de- the passing of the age of longer does the halting swain eso armed co-operation" in Bup-with prodigality and (he hopes) pressing nationalism amongst the impressive nonchalance discard the Chinese residing in the Settlemont. Just-lit weed. An entirely useless To anyone with a knowledge of the gesture; as the blushing Angelina's methods employed by the Japanese mod

modern

ern counterpart will bluntly re-

More serious still is that the lore Council does not object to "Japan-

in "suppressing terrorism" this has quest a "gasper, if perchance she la a sinister sound; in practice It not already. "Ilt-up".

Where once etiquette demanded would seem to subject those Chinese relinquishment upon the offee step, living within the boundaries of the the sought-for treasure i now Kulangsu settlement to much the carried whence the gleaner dare nat same kind of terrorism as exista trespass.

across the harbour on Amoy Island..

The Japanese claim that, of the

cinemas

|180 Chinose who were detained on TVERRY plers, bus-stops,

Kulangsu and sont across to Amoy yield well; markets are useless; Island for examination, only twelve this busicat streets of the centre too are being held on warrants in con- thronged for emelent

scouting, neetion with· "former" subversivo One regular and easy source of operations. What will be the fate supply is available. Each morning of these twalvir, indeed, there a pitying, though probably insul are only twelve and the others have clently thoughtful, lady places in an actually been released-can readily ends of her previous day's indul- obscure corner. the neatly wrapped bo imagined,

genee, to Ai-Luke's, satisfaction!

0

few

of

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want a car, tliat 'speeds away. (pagou know, like the kind

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By Lichty

MY TRYCK HALLANGE

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So has Georgina,, a three-years- old girl friend of mine who, babbling away to her busy mother, and getting no comment, stamped her foot and said, "Mummy, why don't you say 'So what?'7"

It is a good few years since I In- tervlowed Elinor, Glyn and asked her to define the oomph of her day, which she had briefly labelled "it." I was intrigued to be fold that she actually meant to conveys A special quality that verged on the spiritual, and was pretty horrified at what "it" had come to signify.

very

Here, probably for the only time in my life, I agree with our Miss Glyn. Looking around this place, I. too am pretty horrified at what It has come to signify,

TN these competitive, times-when we have to face Itmen aren't very easy to come by, and it is under- standable that every woman piner to stand out from › the crowd. But when every female' in sight is siriv- ing like mad to be a high-powered enchantress, the one, who does stand Lout from the crowd, in the one who is, :

not trying to be a high-powered ens chantress, Life le funny that way.

The women whom men, and every- body else, remember, are those who still happen to Indulge in that quaint old custom of being themselves, (oomph, or: na gampli.