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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939.

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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 tho 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

military aspect of. Mussolini's Albanian conquest,

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If that happens the Mediterranean will begin to look like a sea-Maginot

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Gibraltar to the Island of Majorca; across to Italy's Pantellerin; from there to our Malia; and, still going ending east, to uly's Rhodes, and with the impregnable Dardanelles.

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

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key to the Adriatic"

Yet Corlu forlifed would prove a "There may be more than one strong bastion in that area, especial- ly from Greece, particularly if she juins the non-aggressors. So there is every reason to expect Corfu's trans-

Why, even the Athenians and the Romans used it as a naval base, and

J. R. Castilbe. Funeral will passformation into a second Malta. the Monument at 5.30 p.m," to-

From there might be menaced the from then on it saw many changes of day. (Manila and Macao papers security of the big Italian ports like ownership until the group of stands plense copy).

Brindisi; a fortified Corfu would (Tontun) enne under the protection

loo, a

through the ceded to Greece in 1804, because the Eastern Mediterranean.

people who live on the island, which is 40 miles long and 20 broad, wish- Corfu ed it. For 16 years the island of has been without history; not since "During the war the French occupl- Italian worships bombarded it in ed it to serve as a base to help the

1923 has

It made world news stricken Serbian armles. Later the August

That was when the Italian presi- Allies 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 barrage scross the of his suite were assassinated,

Straits of Otranto, just as there was Mussolini, then at the beginning of in the Channel.

ship-off point for of Great Britain in 1815. They were

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Japan's Pressure

it.

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 the

submarines could go under. SPITE or because of their

He left only after he had been paid So look at this part of the Mediter- growing difficulties in Chin the a big Indemnity. So Corfu,, which rancan as a battlefield for submarines Japanese are once again putting was once British, might have become in any future war.

Note, too, that although Mussolini, Itallun, but remains Greek. strong pressure on the foreign

The surprising' thing is that Corfu with Albania, holds the key to the Powers at various centres where has been left in peace for so lons Adriatic, there is more than one way for in the channel separating it from into a house than through the front their interests clash. In the cir- the mainland there is a marvellous, door,

for Corfu may be the key to the cellar almost land-locked, anchorage cumstances, therefore, the Muni- any number of shipa.

under the sen. elpal Council of the International Settlement at Kulangsu has done well to resist the Japanese demands for a greater voice in the affairs of that Settlement.

The Council has surrendered no important principle; it has refused to allow the Japanese to take in dependent action in the settlement without orders.

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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, alias sex appeal, allure, she's-got-some- thing, it (Remember?)

。。。 by LAVIGNE

One 18-years-old sylph, in a very tight-jade sweater and black slacks, with a long, untidy fair bob and a mouth made up big, wanders bround

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

I

can imagine how perfectly furious she would be if they obliged and left her alone.

She drinks too many "white ladies" for such a kid. Unfortunately, her mother is busy demonstrating her stunning plece at oomph own oomph and hold-my-drinks travelled to the sea in 'my compart|ablity to the genial redfaced secret- ment. She strolled slowly down the ary of a near-by golf club. platform among the scurrying, good- natured Thursday evening crowds, hoping and knowing that everyone turned to staro.

wore

She swayed from the hips like Hedy Lamarr, she

a faint alightly twisted smile, she gripped her case like Myrna Loy selling cut to meet an unknown fate with well timed wisecracks.

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

A pretty little siren with a dark, is.. n perfect dancing young man example of someone who can do two things at once. She plays almost n champion game of ping-pong, and never for a single minute stops thinking that she is the very spit of Ginger Rogers.

In the carriage she sat opposite me and I had a front-row view, for which I'm grateful, since it shorten-

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

didn't I think his girl looked like

If Miss Lamour's, I bet a million Ginger Rogers? that the sunbathing suit she takes, I said no. I thought she looked" on her Mediterranean holiday, 15 more like Murlene Dietrich. When He sarong-lah, I bet a million that her the was younger, I added. name is Lily and her friends must looked pleased. (50 some men like call her Lilith.`

it.)

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

I

stars.

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VIS was a pretty astute move on THIS

my part, because next day, with her her yellow hair fluffed about face, a la Marlerie, the girl went

FIND I am staying in an hotel remote and funguorous, and it Wie that is so full of girls registering able to get a quicle look in at the comph that Cleopatra, if she found ping-pong table.

Two slender creatures on the man- herself here, would have had quite hunt loom everywhere, trying to look job persuading us that she wasn' just a passe vamp of the silent screen as if it were the other way round,

When there are no males in sight,. or even the spectacled daughter of athey sit in the lounge, their demean- country vicar.

our suggesting that many fine, brave

minddened Various types of oomph are ex-fellows,

by their hibited, usually based on movie repeated refusals, have gone out to hunt: big game in Indla. 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, as 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?

Nemesis In A Squalid

Wantsai Den

by NORAH WHITESTONE

A bit of a spy myself, I know that one of them is wondering if she can. do a train-trouble alibi to her boss

Tuesday. The other simply can't

for the late arrival she is planning

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Wheatfields of the breezy; TOT IN the sunny, golden Northern plains is his harvest Nevertheless, it is publicly dis- culled, nor does his garb suggest French closed for the first time that the picturesque, homely, Council has acceded, apparently peasant freedom. Millet would

By noon the dirty little cotton bag compere with better factillies for through pressure, to the appoint- have stared aghast; Hogarth or ment of a Japanese Assistant Com- Dore might have found a fitting alung across his shoulders is usually clandestine operations.

well filled, and he turns his steps! In any case, these nolsome, ghastly make up her mind what national In any confession game they missioner of Police and five Japan-subject for the brush.

He telters along; old, bent, foreign, towards the dark, dismal, filthy, air-relics, outcast from 3 horde of ilps, service to go in for.

among the reckon they would get ten out of fen super-poverty atricken ese police officers and (if the unclean and ragged; lank, wiry locks less little Wantsri cockleft, the scene find a ready market

population, "Domel" report of the Council's of greying hair sweep across his of his noxious

ous calling.

then, I always was generous.' He turns on to the dirty inble the those who have unfortunately dis- for oomph. I'd give them one, but, reply is correct) has stated that anxious face; red-rimmed eyes per-

to offal of a thousand mouths-sickly covered the indefinable soluce vouch-

*. there is no objection on the part of force downcast to gutter and

Tobacum: the the Council to Japanese armed pavement; intent upon his notsonic, or healthy, infected, germ-ridden; of safed by that contradictory vegetable

stately TT ought to be well known at this the cleanly bodled or of medieval Nicotiana

claw-plant Jackal trade.

delicate, with the

sweetly

stage, but it doesn't seem to be, forces co-operating with Settlement

pure wide, starry evening that you can't walk out and buy Safe from the clutches of the law negligence. With unwashed,

of Insidious police in the suppression of in his perambulations, Nemesis mid sodden tobacco, each butt rendering

oomph as you buy a new lipstick. and sure in his squalid

tenaciously enticement which so a few repellent wisps.

Nobody can mistake the rare; real "terrorism."

Wantsai den.

At times he himself fashions the binds those who have succumbed, A city of even mediocre size usual-

take the electric shock it resembles. "Sweet when the morn is grey; It is there or it isn't there. Certain amount of apprehension as an in-ly affords the inexplicable disorder

and who dwell in blissful indecision: thing any more than they could mis-

Sweet when they've cleared dleation that, if the Japanese ask misery and affluence, of Dives and

it isn't to be acquired with a movie ly i hairdressing or a cute bunch of for two slices of bread and jam, Lazarus, of vice and altruism, of ex-

away lunch; the

At the close of day possibly tricks. they are almost certain to get one. haustion and of idleness, and

sweetcat."

You can recognise it in Paul Rober-- weighted scale seems to And It is a dangerous precedent w.leh very nadiz in this Colony.

son's voice, and in Evelyn Dall's;.,

acting. Lawrence's may be applied to the International

Becky Sharp had it, so had Byron. Settlements in Shanghai and clse-

So has Matisse, Gary Cooper, and a. middle-aged Bower-celler where in China.

called Kate, who has authentic Cockney humour and end of the lovellest noses: in London.

These facts must arouse a certain

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the

the

THE carelessly flung butt forms a tiny component in the diurnal

the gutter: not The appointment of a Japanesa harvest of

sodden most repugnant as. second-in-command of the Ku-amaliest, Inngau Police and the Innuendo fragment, discard of the ultra- that the Consular body may be economical and smoked to the bitter prepared to appolat Japanese end, docs Ai Luk ignore; and

stump is merely half-consumed sponsored members of the Council avidly seized upon as precious trea- to replace the three Chinesa who

sure. resigned when Amoy was occupied,

He tramps the streets hour after would seem to give the Japanese hour; knows the likellest spota for dangerous foothold in the Settle- profiable operations,

ment.

Hnd he knowledge he would de- More serious still in that the plore the passing of the age of Counell does not object to "Japan-gallantry.

No longer does the halling swain ese armed co-operation" in sup-with prodigality, and (he hopes) pressing nationalism amongst the impressive nonchalance discard the Chinese residing in the Settlement just-lit weed. An entirely useless To anyone with a knowledge of the gesture; as the blushing Angelina's methods employed by the Japanese modern counterpart will bluntly re- in "suppressing terrorism" this has quest a "ga

"gaspe=" qlready

perchance sha is asinlater sound: In practice it not would seem to subject those Chinese

domanded Where once etiquette. living, within the boundaries of the relinquishment upon the office step, Kulangau settlement to much the the sought-for same kind of terror in 'as exista carried whence the gleaner dare not across the harbour on Amoy Island. trespass.

The Japanese claim that, of the

R...

"It-up"

treasure is now

180 Chinese who were detained on TERRY plers, bus-stops, cinemas. Kulangsu and sont teroas to: Amoy yield well markets are useless; Taland for examination, only twelve the busiest stress of the centre, too are, bolag held on warrants in cons thronged for endent scouting.or

One regular and easy nection with "former subversive operations. What will be the fate supply is available. Each morning a pitying, though probably Insuffi- of these twelve-it, Indeed, there clently thoughtful, Indy places in an are only twelve and the others have obscure corner the nently wrapped actually boot released can readily and of her previous day's - Indul- bo imagined.

gence, to Al Luk's satisfaction..!

ke hands ne separates paper tromom; the source

.DI

resulting debris into full-sized in- nocent-looking cigarettes, with the nid of any unconsidered scraps paper of sufficient fineness.

But he prefers to sell the proceeds of his morning's peregrinations to a

GRIN AND BEAR IT

FREE

By Lichty Gertrude

MY TRICK

want a car that "apbeds”, pway the moment you jump into you know, to the kind you sell to pangators!"

So has Georgina, a three-years- old girl friend of mine who, babbling away to her busy mother and getting rio comment, stamped her foot and sald,

So what my, why don't you SAY

It is a good few years since I in- terviewed Elinor Glyn and asked her to define the oomph of her which she had briefly labelled

I was intrigued to be told that she. very actually meant to convey a special quality that verged on the spiritual, and was pretty horrified at what "i" had come to signify.

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, i

IN

theBo competitive times-when Awo have to face. Itemmen), aren't very easy to come by, and it is under- standable that every woman pines to stand out from the crowd. But when every female in sight is striv=" ing like, mad to be a high-powered enchantress, the one who does stand out from the crowd is the one who le not trying to be a high-howored on- chantress. - Life is funny that way. body women whom men, and every

elso, remember are those who

st happen to Indulge in that quaint oul custom of being themselvsa beinph or no compit,

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