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By

MAJOR FIELDING ELIOT

noted American military expert

fact such as the amount of ton-

-says Elsa nagę laid up and undergoing re-

Running a party is like mix- pair. Neither Americans nor Britons will flee from dangering a cocktail, says Elsa Max- well, the jolly hostess whose which they can know and men-

parties are famous in Europe as well as America.

sure.

If the American people are

IT becomes a little difficult (which is not to one efforts in frankdy told the exact dimen

to see how any theatre may not also make efforts in of this war could be of other theatres of operations); greater interest than the

☆

Everyone loves doing that whether they admit it or not.

"There is something unusual, slons of the problem they are something charming in' every asked to solve, they will solve human being," she says. “You it. They will not be appalled. have to find that something in every guest and then blend what British Isles and their American naval and air forces They are not quitters.

you have. Only you must blend waters of approach and ac- are available in sufficient But now they are confused: a judiciously.

"You should make your partics cess, and how anyone could strength to go a long way to confusion which is deliberately fail to see that no matter ward making these German ef- added to and nursed by the com-personal. Get people to talk what happens in the Middle forts futile. While the United mon enemy and by our own de-about themselves. or Far East, the war will States Army and its land-based featists and isolationists,

air force (we do not have separ-

stated Full, clear, simply not be won by Germany un- ate air establishments in the facts from London would be less Britain is overwhelmed; United States) are undergoing like a bracing dash of fresh cold and that Britain will not enormous expansion and will

Miss Maxwell has a cure for be overwhelmed while the not be ready for a major effort

the guest who does not enter in- to the spirit of a party. She sea line between North this year, the United States

Let the workman in Cluve-hands him (or her) a book and America and the British Navy, with a very large and land be told of the sinking of efficient naval aviation, is com- the aeroplane parts he has la-

three months to "Take this to bed with you. years at B, Carnarvon Road, Isles remains open.

pletely ready for any responsi- boured for The fact is that, consider- bility which may be placed upon make. He will not despair nor You are not enjoying this party on strike. He will be ex- and I'm not enjoying you. God ing this war as a struggle to

ceedingly angry and will make night!" It is true that we have Japan his anger felt in the best way "In most cases they snap out preserve the free way of to consider in the Far East, but he can find-by making more of it and join in with the rest.

measures amongst and better acroplane parts, and

DEATH

HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Rd.

GUTIERREZ, Joao Baptista, aged 01

Kowloon, on June 25, 1941, at 11.30 pm. Funeral will pass Monument at 5.30 p.m. 10-day.

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it.

Hongkong Telegraph life which has been our concerted

Great Britain, Australla, New

Thursday, June 26, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE "Special to the Telegraph" indicate news which is strictly copyright rations Ordinance, 1916. Such news as bears the indication."UP! is received In

is used by the tongkong Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommunt

Hangkeur on the date of publication by

the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications either wholly or in part without preylotia arrangement

ON THE WRONG SIDE

water to a weary man.

go

☆

"If they don't talk about themselves it means they are not sufficiently at home."

Bays:

go."

They were invited to a recop'

flat.

heritage and of which the Zealand, the Netherlands, India by insisting that his Govern-If they don't, well just let them How did she learn to run par- English speaking race has and the United States could ment see that the second con-

create so formidable a defensive signment is delivered, been the principal architect front as to give pause to the

For the moment the issue in ties? Well, you have to go back for ages, the military situa- most reckless Japanese while this main theatre of the war to the time when Elsa was mix- permitting the United States hangs very largely on the time-ing with a young theatrical set tion becomes simple indeed Navy adequate freedom of ac- liness, and effect with which in London-Noel Coward, Bea- rice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, American naval and air aid can

and others. when objectively studied, tion in the Atlantic.

be brought to bear on it. These, however, are military With this premise in mind.

considerations. In this, coun- The Iraq revolt appears, as I Obviously, North Ameri- try, as in Britain, military af- suggested, to have received tion to meet Queen Mary. There ca becomes the arsenal and fairs must be subordinate to little real support among the she mat Princess Beatrice, who civil authority, which in the last Iraqi population or from other took a great liking to her. Elsa Britain the fighting spear- analysis rests with. the people. Moslem countries, The likeli had only 17 shillings and elx For an uncertain and divided hood of a widespread Arab pence but she decided to ask head; these roles are people to make war is to court movement in favour of the Axis Princess Beatrice to her little A LITTLE more than a year geographically dictated. disaster a fact of which the now seems remote.

"The theatrical folk came with ago, France stood shoulder to

including Reinforcements, This is not to say that fate of France is the most re- shoulder with Britain in the war

cent example. Unity may come,

continue to reach just a few sandwiches, some for democracy against totali-Americans should work and and with it united and, effective convoy through the Mediterus. I could not afford much- turianism. Then came the Britons fight; but that in action; but one thinks that this rancan,

unity will come only when much Egypt, the Axis position in hard-boiled eggs and beer. But catastrophe, the evacuation of one area the principal acti- of the present confusion, uncer- Libya becomes more questiona- the guests went for it in a big Dunkirk, the occupation

cleared away; when clear, still to be kept in mind as possi- "Princess Beatrice said: "This

have bly "Hitler's next move,' but Paris, and France passed under vity must be production, in tainty and doubt has been ble almost hourly. Spain has way.

is one of the loveliest parties I'vo a blackout for twelve months. the other, fighting.

ever known. You make things While Petain was master, though

been given to the questions, from these distant scenes the How great is the danger to Bri-eyes of the observer must turn go with a swing! tain? How imminent? Can back to the battle of the Atlan-

"I began wondering if I Germany has no secure America avert that danger by tic-the battle of transportation arsenal which cannot be fighting? and, above all, if we which must be won in order make others as happy as I made fight, what sort of world shall that the fruits of certain vic- the Princess. I gave another Now, France is emerging from

This we be fighting for? What sort tory in the battle of production party and I've been giving then may be reaped.--(M.İ.) -

{ever since," the darkness, but, unfortunately, reached by bombs. is emerging on the wrong side.grievous disadvantage to of victory shall be our goal? For months the Germans tried Germany is increased by the

of

he had no means of aiding the Allled cause, still he was careful not to injure it.

*

authoritative

anawers

to put Laval in the saddle and fact that American produc- The answers to these ques- so bring about the collaboration

THE BIBLE BASIC

IN ENGLISH

By Hugh Redwood

they sought. Their attempt tive capacity, once it is tions must come, but they will not all come at once. First of was a failure. But in Admiral geared to war require all must come the answer to the Darlan they appear to have

ments, is far greater than first-How great is the danger. to Britain? Many Americans found an instrument quite as that of the Continent of bellove that

British officials subservient as Laval and much

"And the light goes on shin-t more effective. As the London Europe. Add to it Britain's ought to tell the American people the exact truth about the "Times" puts it: "There does production, diminished shipping situation, for example, ing in the dark; it is not over-liar words of the Fourth Gospel not appear any German demand, though this may be, and not withholding any pertinent come by the dark." however humiliating, which the

Germany seems certain to, Vichy government in its present mood can or will refuse. In be outmatched in a war of GRIN AND BEAR IT everything but name, Vichy is machines provided, she Joined to the Axis."

does not, before. that time, Horrible as it is to think of an overwhelm the advanced old friend turned traitor, there fighting base, the island of longer. France, not because she Britain, on which our abi- wishes, but under the force of lity to injure her depends. circumstances and under per-

19 no blinking the fact any

verted leadership, is against us.

If Marshal Petain is still pro

testing, his protests aro

It is as simple as that.

But the fact which leaps

no instantly to the eye is thej

taining communications be-

longer audible. It is Darlan imperative need for main- who is in the saddle, now, and Darlan and his satellites are showing more enthusiasm and tween the arsenal and the fighting base. If these can be severed, the base must eventually find itself in seri- ous straits, just as any out-

more enterprise in collaborating with Germany for the extinction of France than they ever showed in collaborating with Britain for

the defence of French libortlex. post must do when its sup-

Admiral. Durlan has two sub-ply line is cut,

ordinates in Syria, General Jean- Upon the severance of the Marie Bergeret, Vichy's air supply lines the Germans aro their best oforta minister, and General Dentz, directing

commander of the French forces.

Both aro working in the German army. He la not only a tool of interest. It is Dontz who is still

ho Nazis, but a vain and stupid needlessly sacrificing life and no. property in Syrin by trying to defy a victorous Anglo-de Gaulls

Vichy has in fact become very nearly an all-out enemy.god.

DRESS

This rendering of the fami-

("And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness com- prehended it not John 1,

By Lichty 5) is a fair sample of the now

"Let's go inll don't think you visualize me

translation of the Bible into Basic English.

The work is so far advanced that the Basic New Testament will be available for the public presently. It is being published. jointly by the Cambridge Uni- versity Press and Messrs Evans Bros., Ltd.

"Far more than a publishing event," is the view which the syndics of the Cambridge Uni- veralty Press tako of its issue at the present time.

:

·· "HOMELY WORDS"

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden, of the Ortholo- gical Instituto, is a simple form of the language, restricted to a vocabulary of 850 words.

For the purpose of the Bible- translation, however, 150 words have been added-60 of them special Bible words and the others listed as giving most help in the reading of verse.

Two separate groups, of ex- perts have watched over the production of the New Testa ment, and the result, it is lteld, la "a gospel simple, clear and in homely words such as are used and understood by common men,"