1939-07-26 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1989.

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SNAPSHOT

ALBUM OF 1914

On the bright Sunday forenoon of local Republican organization. In

ventriloquism

the vitch stood on Cumuria Bridge in studying Sarajevo. In his pocket was an oval Wizard's Manual, a mail order house metál ́object. At the COTNET of booldet. He was Mr. and Mrs. Berg- Franz Josef Street, four blocks away, gren's son Edgar.

stood Gaurito Princip. In his peckei

was a pistol.

July 14: Premier Tisza of Hun~! gary was persuaded by Foreign The crowds that packed the side- Minister Berchtold to agree to walls stirred as four automobiles military measures against Serbla, slowly approached. In the first was Assistant Secretary of the Navy the Mayor with the Chief of Police. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced In the second was a man with shoe on this day thai 700 Marines would brush haircut, handlebar mustache be transported to Guantanamo for and angry cues. Beside him was his possible duty in Halt and wife, in a white dress. It was their Domingo. lia wite was 11 New 14th wedding anniversary.

Brunswick with her three children, Chabrinovitch knocked the cap of James, Anna and Elliott.

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[his bomb agaiust a post, then cast it John L. Lewls, 20-year-old orator, at the second car. The chauffeur was trying to organize the steel sow the danger and needed up, and industry for the A.F. of L. Jack Joh the bomb wrecked the third car son was heavyweight champion of the| The two leading cars streaked world.

to

Town Hall, where the Mayor, in aa address of welcome, assured Arch-

Anthony Eden was in the Fourth

duke Ferdinand of the loyalty of the Form at Elon. The Prince of Wales, Buanian people and of the for with a special student at Magdalen Col- which they welcomed the heir to the lege, Oxford, was playing college- Austro-Hungarian Empire. "Enough boy pranks in London with a group Wallis of that, Mr. Mayor!" Ferdinand of fellow students. Bessie interrupted wrathfully. " pay you Warfield of Baltimore, graduated a visit and you receive me with in June from a girls' school in Mary- land, was planning her December bom Us!"

July 18: Russia warned Austria that the "would not be indiferent"

The Mayor fumbled through the debut at the Baltimore Bachelors' rest of his speech. When the royal Couillon. party left, their car turned into nar- row Franz Josef Street. General Potiorek, Governor of Bomia, called out, That's the wrong way! Drive straight ahead."

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opium have increased to several times the previous average."

AR to the North, the after.

noon sun shone on the sails of a Kiel regatta in which Wil- helm II of Germany was racing his American-built schooner Meteor. A navy launch shot alongside the yacht and Admiral Muller tossed a message aboard, folded in 4 elgaretta case,

the University of Bonn was a 17-year-old cripple

med Paul Joseph Goebbels.

SPENSER.

COLERIDGE

The Poets

on Summer

William Cobb sets you puzzle in poetry. How many of his quotations do you recognise? July 20: In the workingmen's quarter of St. Petersburg, Cossacks COME time ago, when the Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. charged a crowd that was singing countryside was in bud, I the Marseillaise.", Almost- simul-Imade a selection of

од poema taneously President Poincare ar

rived for a visit of State, to streng-spring and asked readers to then the Franco-Russian alliance. identify them. "Serbia has friends in the Russian Now I am trying to pay a similar!

See if you can people," Poincare told the Austrian tribute to summer. Ambassador, "and Russia has an identify the authors of the examples ally, France."

I have collected. It not, there la b At this time an obscure young key to their names on page seven. As we understand it, the reason for Wilhelm turned pale when he

man named Chiang Kai-shek wah With the first of all I cannot the creation of a Government mono-read of the assassination,

In Parle that afternoon Alice In London, Major Edward Swinton the oldest poem in our language, the Manchuria, perplex you because, although it is instigating a revolt in poly for the sale of opium in Hong-

Roosevelt Longworth, who kong was that, ultimately, control christened the Meteor 12 years be- told by a mining engineer

had of the Royal Engineers had just been author, probably some 13th-century

of on monk, remains anonymous: would be exercised to such, an exfore, watched the running of the American machine that could. cross ient that the vice would be wiped Grand Prix at Longchamps. At rough fields and "climb like hell."

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Summer is teumen

Linde sing cuecu. Groweth sed, and bloweth med,

And springth the wude nu-

Sing cuccu!

THE summer morning is (1 hope) warming now such a morning as inspired this (5):

Tho ft streams iced on tower of

rustics

Ripe grasses trammel a travelling

foot,

The faint fresh lame of the young

year flushes

From leaf to flower and fower w

fruit,

And fruit and leaf are as gold and

fire,

And the out is heard above the

ivre,

And the hoofed heel of a satur

crusies

The chestnut husk at the chestnut

root.

Very few poets indeed have ever

OMPARE this with the same achieved perfection in the blaze of

dight

In a thin silken cassock, coloured,

grce

out altogether. We were prepared Kiev, Russia, Igor Sikorsky arrived This was the eaterpillar farm trac to co-operate with

China in this safely from St. Petersburg on the it might be transformed into

for; and Sir Edward believed that worthy objective, and Government first successful flight of a transport armoured contraption capable envisaged the day, as the older plane.

charging enemy machine-gun posi- generation passed, when there would In New York, Mrs. Margaret tions. be no further demand for the drug. Sanger was under indictment for

July 23: Austria-Hungary sent later styles (1): Revenue from the Government disseminating birth control infor- an ultimatum to Serbia. Asserting

Then came the jolly summer, bring nonoply, which reached to within a mation. In Baltimore, a little black that the Sarajevo_assassination plot was batched in Belgrade, it de- LONG_few lakhs of four million dollars man named George Baker took part

mauded public display of rumia- "tlon by Serbia" and "diamissal" from per annum a décide ago, dropped in--ceiling-shaking-meeting-of-Je- to the low record of $348,000 in 1930, hovah's Disciples. Soon he would

Government service of all persons an occasion which called for a warn be known as Father Divine.

deemed hostile by Austria-Hun- carit. ing from the then Superintendent of Imports und Exports that "it must again be emphasised that the severe decline in (opium) revenue means that Covernment is now subsidising oplum preventive work to such an extent that 'the expenditure more than offsets the Income."

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July 2: Count Berchtold, Austro- Hungarian Foreign Minister, be-

Near Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, lieved that now was the time to the diminutive 21-year-old Licul. settle accounts with troublesome Francisco Franco was in comunand Serbia, provided Germany would of a detachment of Moors, fighting stand by. He told Berlin that Ser- Riff tribesmen. At the Vatican, Mgr. bian plotters contemplated - Eugenlo

Pacelli WDS on helm's death should he attend Fer- secretary to Cardinal Gasparri, Papal under dinand's funeral, "I see a dark Secretary of State. future," mourned 84-year-old Em- peror Franz Josef.

15 boy's

July 24: Austria-Hungary noti fed other pojuera of her Serbian ultimatum. Poincaré was out at

Kaiser. sca; no

Str was the Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, pronounced the ultima-; tum "the most formidable docu- ment addressed by one State to an- The other that is independent.” Czar termed it "very disturbing," Grey tried to bring Austria and Russla together, and complained "My usual week-end was curtail- cd."

and

"That was unlined all, to be more

Tight,

And still later (2):

Ladequate words the shimmering stillness, the languid beauty of that high hour when (8):

The summer looks out through her

brazen tower

Through-the-flashing-bars-of-July- But something of the moments when all nature drowses awhile in

From brightening fields of ether the full glory of accomplishment can

be found in these lines (7): fair-disclosed

Doves of the firewood walling high

our red roof

Child of the sun, refulgent summer

comes.

These are the beckoning calls of summer morning. Let us walk in a perfect day, and remember (3): the garden in the early splendour of Look to the blowing rose abous

24B","

Laughing, she says, "into the world!

I blow,

At once the silken tassel of my

purse

Tear, and its Treasure on the

Garden throw.”

More majestically (4):

And there were gardens bright

with sinuous rills

Where blossomed many an in-

cense-bearing tree;

And here were forcats aucient asi

the hills,

Through the long noon coo, croon

ing through the coo. Loose droop the leaves, and down

the sleepy roa:lway Sometimes pipes a. chaffinch; loose

droops the blue.

Phew! We need a cooling thought (0):

O for a lodge in a garden of

cucumbers!

O for an iceberg or two at con-"

tro!!

a vale that at midday the O for - dew cumbers!

Ojor a pleasure trip up to the

pole! Compare this with Isalah. Chapter

1. Vorse B.

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UIERE are some notable lines by one of our "nodern poets wilch might be called-though they

with rage because he had not bees are not the Prelude to a Thunder- kept informed. He was relieved to

read Serbia's conciliatory reply to storm (9):

What is this tempest, This rumbling of drumal There yellow stripes of the tiger Through the dark green leaves! It is only the aun

That afternoon at Owosso, Mich., Now, it seems, Government is to

Thomas E. Dewey (12) delivered At Hanumondsport. N. Y., on this his regular coples of The Saturday make the most of the financial op- Thursday, Glenn Curtiss flew the Evening Post, as did the portunity presented by the blockage America at 60 miles an hour, carry working for him. of tilelt supplies, to unrestrictedly ing a 2000-pound 'load. The plane sell opium to the addicts in this was built for Rodman Wanamaker for a transatlantfe Alght in the Inter- Colony,

1 is quite apparent that the abest of disarmament, Orville Wright "The airplane had recently said; demand normal

for Government

will end war, for when the men who opium this year does not come from make war find their lives in danger, registered smokers or "old cus they will be less likely to decree tomers" (there are, incidentally, no war.”

Rockefeller Institute announced available statistles to show the num» i ber of smokers purchasing the drug that day that Dr. Alexis Carrel hnd kept the tissue of a baby chick alive from the Government Monopoly in a test tube for 2 months. In shops). With such - abnormal | Little Falls, Minn., the 12-year-old increase in the number of addicts son and namesake of Representative

In London was an exiled Russian is Charles A. Lndbergh was in vách. buying "legal" oplum, it evident that Government is traflektion from grammar school. Anne travelling salesman who went under

Morrow (7) was at the family sum variety of names, of which the most customers, who are mer home at North Eliven, Me. Ing with new

common were Maximovitch buying Governineul oplum because Joseph Chamberlain died that day Litvino. One of his friends, Joseph they cannot obtain other and illicit in London. His son, Arthur Neville, Diugashvili, was in exile at Turuk- varieties.

was a Birmingham alderman and hansk, Siberia, close to the Arctic Circle. Litvinaff knew him by the business man.

name of Stalin. July 6: Ausiria must decide what The youngest bank president in the decides, Germany is her friend and U.S. was Joseph P. Kennedy (25) of of the violinist in the' four-piece or evening comes (10): ally" Thus the German Foreign the Columbia Trust Company in Bog Office gave Austria a blank check. ton.

Extract from a confidential Ale In July 26: Austria termed Serbia's "Now or never?"" noted the Kalser

conciliatory reply "unsatisfactory" Milan Police Headquarters: "Benito and left on a three weeks”, yacht-

and several diplomatic relations. Mussolini, revolutionary Socialist ing trip through Norweglars fjorde.

Serbia mobilized. Germany con- editor, has received a large amount James A. Farley, of Grassy Paint. the registered smokers or "old cus-N. Y., Supervisor of the Poor of

tinued to acck to localize war be- of money to intensify revolutionary tweim Austria and Serbia.

propaganda." [destitute refugees; it has to face Rockland County, was circularizing

Com-. On this Sunday afternoon, ubnormal commitments for defence voters in the hope, of breaking the

nundant Eamon De Valera of the Land Air Raid Precautions.

Irish Volunteers took part in the land- Ing of munitions from a yacht Just the thought that the cost of security has often been made that Govern- constabulary, De Valera and his men encouraging the vice, The excuse off Howth. After a brush with the for our destitutes, even for ourselves, ment sale of opium is necessary in escaped with all but a few smuggled is the souls of those misguided per order to counter-act Illegal traffick rifles.

It Is realised that abnormal calls have and are belog made on Güvem- ment revenue this year, and that nil sources of revenue must be squeezed to the fullest extent, short of Imposing further direct burdens ou the tax-payers. The Colony Is feeding and caring for hundreds of

Nevertheless, the mind, revolta at

to do about Serbia. Whatever she

Austria and he wrote "No more cause for war cxiste" One hour later Austria declared war upon Serbia by telegram. Manuel Quezon, resident Com- missioner from the Philippines, Was expected in New York on his way to Washington to work for Inmediato Philippine Independence. The name chestra at Elitch's Garden, Denver,

was Paul Whitentan

Walking along the river bank. Can you not hear the pad pad of

the sunbeama

Through the treat!

Thus the hot afternoon passes, and

Its edges foamed with amethyst

and rose,

Withers once more the old blue-

flower of day;

There, where the ether like a diam

mond glows,

Its petals fade away.

And so at length to the calm July 39: Belgrade bombarded by Austrians. Russia mobilized, Ger-splendour of a summer night, and many asked France whether the to those immortal lines which some would be neutral and. informed acciolm as the finest in our language with France she might be forced" Britain that in the event of war (11):

As when, upon a tranced summer

Those green-rob'd senators of

mighty woods,

to march through Belgium," "The night. stupidity and clumsiness of our ally (Austria) has been made a hangman's noose for us," wrote the Katter.

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sons who have become addiets to njing. That very illicit traffic which Herbert Clark Hoover, an Ameri drug which has become such a Government condemned in previous can mining engineer, had returned valuable source of revenue that the years is now becoming legalised by to Londan after having failed to per-

the mere Government Monopoly is, apparently, transferring his

Tact that the addict is sundo European governments to ex-

Professor Edianrd; Denes of the custom -to the hibit at the San Francisco Panama University of Prague was vacation- prepared to sell it to any person Government shops. This Colony, la Pacifle Fair. who desires li.

effect, appears to be seeing to it Government, which has a splendid that no-one is going to run short of F WAE bas opportunity in the fortuitous stop-alun Just because

blocked Illegal supplies. We are page of lick zupplies caused by quite prepared to all the gap and, Sino-Japanese hostilities to rightly at the same time, make a handsome suppress opluma-smoking is, Instead, profit for ourselves in return.

July 28: Britain told Germany Ing in the country. He had never that she would remain neutral if engaged in politics but he believed Russia and Austria fought, but she that war would break up the em- "would be forced to rapid deel- pire of the aged Franz Joset and alone" Germany and France went pondered what steps to take to help to war. Kaiser Wilhelm returned free his fellow Czechs,

PLEASE Turn To Paga 5. from his Norwegian cruise bolling

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Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the

earnest stars,

Dream, and zo dream all night

without a stir,

Save from one graduat solitary

pust Which comes from the silence, and

dier of,

As if the bebing wind had but one

Waud.

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