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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 26, 1941.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD Madame Chiang Speaks

CLEAR, SHARP PICTURES

Clear, sharp, Interesting snapshots are simple to get-just by following

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a few easy tips. The beat shots are those that "tail a story."

JHAT kind of snapshots do you Ilke boat? If I naked you thint, you would probably say, "1 ilke sharp snapshots-good and clear that are interesting and nice to look at,"

one light-like a Gaslı bulb-you should usually have it quite rear the camera, no it will reach all of this subject that is in the picture.

Interesting sunpahtta you can get, vory castly, if you keep things sim All right-you can have them, and ple. It is especially bad to clutter It's really a very sluplo matter, up a picture with objects that aren't Just a few easy rulea, and good necessary. For example, if you innk look at the subject before you shoot. Ja pictura of Grandmother peoling Sharp konpakots you will always apples, it would be a mistake to got if the subject is sttit, the camera have the whole kitchen in the back. is steady, and the loan is aut for the ground, with gink sad stave and right distance from the subject, work table and doors and windows Most cameras, evon'noma of the in all In low, No-you just want her, oxpensive ones, can be met for dif- and 10 apples, and maybe Jolinny ferent distancos-and this allows looking no, it nothing else that you to move nearer thin enliject, or can be avoided. A perfectly plain farther back, no ns to have exactly (background is best. what you want in the pleturo, You

Whenover possible, your subject

Jual sat the lens for the distance should be doing something-120 from camera to subjort, and shoot simple act-beatise then the pic. Clear snapshots you can always ture "ells a story." Such pictures got if the subject is wel) lighted, have a polut-and folks really on and if you give the proper exposure. Joy looking at them, Of course, it half the subject is in

Try these sukgestianis, and you'l binck shadow, you can't expect Just anturally get clear, aliarp. In your camera to Bod the dotalis.teresting whats It's more pleasant That's why you use two lights for than doing things the wrong way- most indoor snapslints-one for the and the pictures are much more sat malo gbt, and ond to brighten uplsfying.

the shadow alde. Whon using just

John ran Qulldor

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that China's miracle was not larly the complicity of the CHINA SHALL RISE AGAIN, a' ten-week flash, but is a United States in furnishing "80 by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, continuing saga of success- per cent. of Japan's war supplies Harper and Bros., $3.

ful resistance now in its and 95 por cont. of the avin. fourth long year. Or doubt tion gasoline." She speaks that it will keep going. gratefully of the extent of Rus.

sian credits and Not that the volume is sweet- that the democracies, by not do- warns again

By Weldon James · Last time I saw Madame

Chiang Kai-shek was in ness and light. Far from it. ing justice to China, will "en- Madame Chiang plays up the Nanking, shortly before it hopeful, stubborn determination danger their own prestige and fell, when most of the world of a heroic nation, complete with interests in the Far East." believed that China's .col- the interlarded progress reports Nowhere else in the book does lapse was a matter of days. of ten government officials, but That was in 1937, in the first ing performance of the purpose possibility of China's losing the on her own she does a convinc, Madame Chiang mention the year of the Sino-Japanese ful scold, sparing neither the war. But here she stingingly War, and a lot of Chinese weaknesses of her people nor the concludes that "if, unhappily believed it, too. But not crimes of the deniocracies.

we were defeated in the Madame Chiang.

end

the world ought to know that.

. China Was Westerners will strangled to death by an econo- And the first sec- mic noose fashioned by Japan tion of the book out of British appeasement, n fascinating, but American profiteering, and exhaustively pla. French fear."

She was a radiant, pur-

poseful whirlwind of op-

timism, a great little First Book

Lady who dashed from army

front to base hospital, from of fear-stricken ministries to

the

the open streets of newly- Week bombed cities, where the

titudinous series

of sermons on the

weaknesses of the

war such as we have been

Chinese character The Madame concludes, stunned populace could take the taking of bribes, graft "There is perhaps nothing like heart at the sight of one of in public funds, the "cor- a its symbols of undaunted roding assumption that the of waging in self-defence to pre- resistance, and from there people" illiteracy, "face" and pare the way for a far-reach- to her husband's press con- the six other deadly Chinese ing remolding of our national ference, where she might, sins.

life in general.”

fleinls are the musters of the

with her command of Eng-. It seems a good thing that Ten carbon copies of such lish, more effectively help when these chapters were ap- sentiment may be found in the him to present China's case pearing as features in a Chung factual backbone of the book- to the world,

king newspaper, her husband, reports by government officials the Generalissimo, got into the on the conduct of the war for habit of clipping them, under the first three years

(1937- fining pertinent paragraphs and

By her latest book the mailing them to certain of his 1940). Though they smack too Madame still is at it, and more old-fashioned lieutenants. much of departmental boasting still doing nobly. From the words from the Madame com- detail on the still incomplete But Chinese failings get kind at times, they offer a wealth of title to the final page, China pared with her bitter indict story of how the amazing Shall Rise Again breathes a ment of the democracies. More Chinese have kept up their in- reasoned hope that in these briefly but more tellingly she credible fight for national exis

cheer to Western hearts. during the first lonely three

No student of the Far East She doesn't let you forget years of China's fight, particu- should miss them.

dark days must well bring catalogue of their shortcomings

damns the now too-familiar tence.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

*THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH THE TAPS. HARDLY ANY

•WATER COMES OUT!

*HAVE YOU GOT A PAIL,

MAM

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EXTENSION 2 A.M.

DINNER DANCE

WITH

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DINNER

NON-DINERS

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DINNER DANCES

NIGHTLY EXCEPTING MONDAYS FROM 2nd MAY

CROSSE & BLACKWELLS

Concentrate

ENGLISH SOURS

Are the finest in the

KIDNEY

SOUP

dalicious change, really!

AT ALL STORES.

Plumbing

BY KEMP STARRETI

"HE BUSTED THE PUMP! GOT TO GO BACK TO TOWN

FOR SOME STUFF!"

THE EMERGENCY, WHICH HAS BEEN

*HANGING AROUND FOR SIX MONTUS,

IS DISCOVERED.

ALL RIGHT THEN COME

OUT AS SOON AS YOU

CAN

THEY FINALLY

DECIDE TO POOL RESOURCES.

́ ́TROUBLE ANTIN THE TAPS, MAM! MUST BE IN THE

SPOUT/"

AND THEN, WIEN

YOU THINK THE JOB

IS ABOUT FINISHED.

THEY TURN IT OFF.

PLUMBERS, WE LEARN. RUN INTO THE MOST UNEXPECTED CONDITIONS. AND SO DO THE. CUSTOMERS.

IT'S COMING OUT THE WRONG PLACE?

TWO MORE HOURS PAST... AT A DOLLAR FIFTY DER HOUR....NOT [COUTING THE "HELDER".

FORGOT AY PUMP LEFT IT YOUR CELLAR THE OTHER DO

TWO HOURS LATER?

AFTER FIVE TRIPS TO THE CELLAR ON MYSTERIOUS ERRANDS AND AN HOUR UP-

STAIRÇA DISCOVERY IS MADE.

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"SO WE THOUGHT HE MIGHT -

AS WELL BRING ALONG THE BILL