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In proof of this I can now relate a conversation which I had as far back as last June with a diplomat who is one of the best-informed men in Europe upon Russian affairs. The defects of Russin's Inlustrial He is the Ambassador of a now neutral Power, with whom and military organisation may make

action unlikely. For such in that month I was crossing thing, it is doubtful whether the re- the Atlantic as a passenger in sources of Russia and Germany the Queen Mary..

together-even if their exploitation were intensifed by German experts The personal contacts of this-would suffice for the maintenance diplomat with Ruskin in the of two great armies and air forces past led me to ask him what he in the field.. Russia's utility as a Dockyard. Funeral will pass the thought of the British Govern-war-partner of Germany would bel

greater as a source of supply than ment's efforts, then going on, to as a military ally. make a pact with Moscow,

DEATH

ROWE. On October 24, 1939, at the Queen Mary Hospital, Matthew James Rowe, of the Royal Naval

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Moreover, Russian troops have never proved effective outside their

the country. On

defensive, "I think the Germans will own beat you to it." was his reply. favoured by the vast spaces of a land with scanty means of communication, "I know that Count Schulen-they have fought well in the past, Wyndham St., Hongkongburg, the German Ambassador but the Germans have a low opinion

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My husband

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Mrs. Woodrow Wilson

THE · drama-for drama

I re- to Russia, came back to Berlin of Russia's military qualities.

Tie was of the Peace recently to urge upon Hitler member General Reichenau, one of that the time was ripe for a the Army chiefs who is closest to Conference that little over 20 Hitler, telling me how at the very years ago was to have ended Russo-German Agreement. I outset of the last war he had seen

War (and, indeed, might believe that the basis of it has Russla

en all battalions surrender

becomes the have done so) already been laid. The Ger-manse without having fred a shot.

Hitler himself, discussing the more vivid in the light of mans and Russians aim at

fighting capacity of the Soviel

.Fritz Kreisler

under which Russia would take possess a certain number of highly Benno Moiseiwitsch

the eastern part of the country,

another partition of Poland, forces, sald that though they might present events.

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FEW subjects receive more critic- ism than Hongkong's climate, Throughout the year its faults and drawbacks are on everybody's lips. It is a convenient subject for con- demnation which спила! answer back.

It seems to enter the heads of few citizens to ask whether the abuse levelled at the climate of Hongkong is fully justified. The fact is that the bad phases in our weather stick much more easily in the memory than do the fine spells such as wo have been experiencing for the last two weeks.

During that period Hongkong's weather has been all but perfect. "and" "the atmosphere clearer then is generally found over a large clly. But it will be forgotten, us have been other such ne spells in the Colony's meteorological filstory. The relapses into wet weather will be kept in mind in preference.

Admitting the notorious humidity and general inconsistency of Dur climate, it cannot be denied that we seldom experience the extremes- drought, flood, or snow and, alcet- that wreak havoc in other parts of the world. Yet a general tone of pessimism seems to inspire all com- ments on our weather. When it is good one hears on all sides remarks to the effect that we shall have to "pay for this" sooner or later.

The explanation' undoubtedly is that it would be impossible for the weather to be pleasing to everyone; in this recent spell of glorious cun- shine the comment, "There will soon be more water restrictions" has Once again been put into circulation. The task of the Weather Clerk la certainly a thankless one.

High Heels

ECENT statements at a hygienic conference that high heels are responsible for bad feet have not been allowed to pass unchallenged. One shoe designer frankly declares that if the high-heeled shoe is well- balanced and has a good instep, there should be no Ill-effect. An expert in chiropody goes oven further and says that In America, where all women | Wear high heels, there are hardly

any foot deformities.

This is carrying war into the enemy's camp with a vengeance. If the evidence is nccepted--and surely a chiropodist ought to know some- thing about the subject—it leaves the critics without any feet to stand

upon

Like other lively controversica in- volving feminine fashions, the dis pute between the two factions is likely to be never-ending. Medical men, physical fitness enthusiasts, and hygieno experts will stick to their point, and women will stick to their high heels

Dame Fashion's decrees must be obeyed at all costs. On the whole the wise man, if he values his peace

of mind, will congratulato himself that fashions aro no worse. If shoes 'on stilts were considered the vogur they would be worn without alghtest qualm, in defiance, of all medical opinion.

the

aircraft

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and mechanised sun" (Putnam, 15s.), Mrs. Wilson including the section where units, the Russian Industrial organi- tells of the part her husband played sation was incapable of nunking up in that drama, simply and without there is

unduly uxorious prejudice. a large Ukrainian

the wastage of war. minority, while Germany re- covered all the territory, that shet loat to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles.

The President and Mix.

Wilson arrived in England on a bright, cold

King George V. and Queen Mary personally escorted them to their rooms at Buckingham Palace.

Impossibility "After a few weeks of fighting the day in December 1918. ronds of Russia would be strewn with broken-down tanks and motor- Another Partition lorries which they could not repair,"

was the opinion 1 head from him. "The scheme is to reduce Poland

In any case, it is intuneclvable to the proportions of the Grand that Germany should admit Red Duchy of Warsaw, that Napoleon forces. Whether military or aerial, created after the Pence of Tilsit in to co-operate with her own troops 1807.

on any front. Poland herself was The "Grand Duchy" consisted of unwilling to accept the netive co- what is now the centre of Poland operation of Russian troops for her around the capital, to which, two defence, even if this had been ob- years late Western Galicia with afable and the conception of Nazi Cracow, was added, muking a total and Bolshevist forces fighting side just under 3,000 square by side anywhere in the world may miles, as compared with the 150.000 be ruted aut square miles of the Polish Republic the as restored by the Treaty of Ver- sailles. When Napoleon feil, it was serving in the German Army would occupied by the Russians, and 16 be too great for the German Govern years later Polish Independence dis-ment lo risk it. appeared century.

orea of

onee

as impossible. The danger of Red propaganda among

ex-Communists many

now

two

palitlenl systems, hitherto bitterly

papore for

籍 over

This unholy alliance of

hostile, for the purpose of despoiling.

August 25 Message

the weaker State that lies between them is an example of the lengths

The accuracy of this judgment as to which evildoers will go to achieve

to future developments in Eastern their ainus. It is too unnatural to Europe WHE confirmed when,

on be effective, and may well prove August 25, the following message disastrous' to both.

WOR

the published from

well- informed Berlin Correspondent of The Daily Malt:

"I now learn that Germany, In opening negotiations with Moscow, proposed a German-Soviet partitioni of Polund.

"Under Germany's proposals: "Danzig, the Corridor, ond Western Stiesla would go to Ger-

many.

"A large seellen of Eastern Poland would go to Russia.

New List Of Do's

And Don'ts

HERE is a second that of do's and don'ts given recently in England.

'DONT'S

Do not spread rumours. Do not travel unless it is es sential.

"Russia's share would be defined by the Wilson line,' a demarcation

Do not use private or public Fuggested by President Wilson at the close of the last, war as a possible telephones except for urgent frontier between Poland and calls, Russia."

Do not worry civil defence offices

If the French Government knew, with phone Inquiries; isten-in for as seems likely, that such a develop-broadcast instructions. ment was possible, it is clear that) No not hoard food. the British Government must have

DO'S known it also. It may therefore be

of Withdraw from the bank or post taken as certain that the news

needled for im- invasion Russia's

of Polish once only money territory, though starting to

mediate purposes. the

*hows

from Make sure no light publle as a whole, has not taken our

your house. General Staff by surprise,

Make sure no fight is visible when

Russia resented the incorporation

>ireet

of 3,009,000 Ukrainians in Poland.pening a door leading to garden or Her entry of Polish territory can be considered as intended to ensure

Keep a shovel with a long handlei that these former Russians do not for picking up incendiary bombs: Amother such bombs with sand or now fall under German sway.

There is no need to assume

that earth the co-operation of the Soviet

Keep a supply of drinking and Keep your head and obey instruc- Government with Germany will go washing water in the bath. farther than the protection of their tions from policemen and A.R.P.

interesta under the Rus80- workers without question. German Paci

own

to

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of this tense pertod, dealing with M. Clemenceau, an avowed cynic, distrustful of humanity's ability to rise to unselfish helghts; with Mr. Lloyd George, a political weather- vane, shifting with every wind that blew neross the Channel lest It affect his personal fortunes; with Signor Orlando, whose car was ever to the ground for, fear that Italy should, not get all she hungered for .. Amid all these complexitios my husband stood practically alone-with very luke- warm support from some of his own Commission... Squabbles followed-with Balfour, with Clemenceau,

"A deluge of adverse criticism came from the Italian Commission, all directed against my husband.

"Affairs of this kind prompted stories that Mr. Wilson did not un- derstand European diplomacy, and could not rope with Old World statesmen. I thank God there is somu truth In the statement. Never did he turn from the wea- pons of truth and right, as he saw them, and I think the world realises now that the ends of all ...would have been better served if more of his views had prevailed." At last on May 7, 1919-the trenty was formally presented to the Germans at the Trianon Palace.

"Immediately began the desper- ate effort of the Germans to obtain a relaxation of the terms--in some respects unmistakably harsh. On the matter of reparations, especi- ally,

my husband believed that France and England bad gone too for..

All these matters, my husband thought, would properly

"My husband's bedroom had af Jurge nicove, cut off by heavy cur- talns, His Majesty litted one of these to discloso a well-equipped bath and a small elecirle heater. This last proved a life-saver, an account of the shortage of cool. My room was enormous, with the largest bed I ever saw. It con- tained heat at all. -Loss-exalted-hospitality followed: "At Lady Reading's luncheon occurred my first meeting with Margot Asquith, and I found her about what I had pletured-clever, egotistical, and exceedingly plain, She smoked one elgarette after another, striking matches as I have seen certain men do-on their own anatomy.

"Her fest question to me was: all these women 'Do you know here? I replied I had just beon introduced to most of them. 'Well, she said, 'then I will tell you about them. This one on my right is Countess-the biggest lar In London; the next one is an American, but was ashamed to let The voyage home in July brought anyone know it until lately. Since a few days rest to the tired-out Wilson's Administration it has be- idealist. But on landing in America rome fashionable to be an Ameri-ls task had to begin again. If the enn, and now she is disgusting in Treaty is not ratified by the Senate." proclaiming it. Then, of course, he said, "the war will have been Mra. L. Gdoesn't count.'

fought in vain and the world will be This remarkable conversation I thrown into chaos." endeavoured to get into another Ife undertook a heavy speech- channel by usking her she was making tour, In spite of nganising to be at the grand dinner that headaches and general health grow- night at the Palace. This proved ing ever feebler.

come before the League of Nations for adjustment after the passions engendered by the war had wooled somewhat."

to be an unfortunate topic, for she Outwardly the tour was 'n triumph; said, 'No, I was not invited,' add- but he 'wan surrounded by political Ing that she had sent word to the and other enemies only too eager to King that she did not want his betray him. On October 2, 1919, he food, but did want to meet Presl- had a paralytle stroke. He recovered dent Wilson, who, she was told, sufliciently to receive at Washington. 'really had brains a quality she the King and Queen of the Belgians had never yet found

Jn Any a few weeks Inter, and in the follow- of Windsor American men, though she had Ing month the Duke met many."

(then Prince of Wales). Less than To leave the social graces for a week after H.R.H, left, the Senste mallers more momentous, The Pre- was lo vote on the reservations.

"In desperation I went to my skient returned to Paris and to work.

husband. For my sake'. I said, 'won't you accept these reserva- tions and get this awful, thing, set- tled?" He turned his head on the pillow and stretching out his hand. to inke mine answered in a voice I shall never forget: Little girl, don't you desert me; that I cannot stand. Con't you see I've no moral right to accept any change in a paper I have signed without.giving to every other signatory, even the Germans, the right to do the same thing? It is not I that will not accept; it is the nation's honour that is at sinke. ..I felt like one of his betrayers over to have doubted."

"The door of the study was open, and there on the floor were spread maps, and on their knees before them were my husband, with three or four experts, trying to work out new frontiers made necessary by the War.

"They called me to come in, and I sold: You look like a lot of Hitle boys playing a game. My husband repited: 'Alan! it is the most seri- our game ever undertaken, for on the result of it hangs, in my esti mation, the future peace of the world.' The days went on with unceasing

...

work for him. Our home WAB a meeting-place, and every day M. Clemenceau, Mr.

On March 10, 1020, the Treaty met Importance of Turkey

Lloyd George, find Signor Orlando Should it unfortunately prove that.

came, with secretaries or people its final defeat. "It is hard," writes doing special research work on the Mrs. Wilson, "even now for me to be Russia had committed herself

questions which calm. My conviction is that Mr. multitudinous giving military aid. to Germany, the

hnd to be solved,

Lodge put the world back 80 years, attitude of Turkey would become a

The President's one hope was to land that at his door Hes the wreck- matter of importance. The Turke control the Dardanelles and Bos- A National Cowboys Association get the Conference to agree on the age of human hopes and the perit phorus, which form the entrance to has been incorporated here under the inclusion of the Covenant of the to human lives that afflict mankind

where Russia's Montana the Black Sen,

laws. William Splan. League of, Nations as part of the to-day."

Woodrow Wilson's peace dredm southern const would be exposed to president, expects a membership of Treaty. Through this instrumenta-

ended-in. "I-might-have- attack by the British and French more than 5,000 banding together lity he felt that any unwise or unjust was

maller groups that exist terms of the Treaty itself could and been" dream. The peace that par navles if she showed signs of active many

sell all understanding come to hina participation in the war. outside the throughout western slates into a would be adjusted in the future, Imits of Poland.

national organisation.

"Many books have been written) on February 3, 1984.

BILLINGS, Mont.