Evening star., 1933-07-29

r MPARCIAL, Montevideo-With re-
spect to the hunger strike, which
the ex-Lieut Col. Cattaneo has
i been maintaining since his incar-
ceration In the national peniten-
tiary at Buenos Aires. the director Of
this institution has dispatched note
to the ministry Of justice. giving some
interesting details. The note says that
the attitude Of the former military aide
to the chief executive has IN no manner
been occasioned by the treatment ac-
corded him in prison. Cattaneo refuses
to eat the savory meals set before him
simply by way of demonstrating his i'm
patience with the tediousness OF the
judicial routine, In disposing of his
case. Cattaneo further protests that he
has not yet been served With an Official
transcript of the charges he must an
swer and that his situation Is 20 dis
comforting and onerous that food does
him no good when he does force him
self to eat it. On the contrary. 1t seems
rather to accentuate his tribulations.
However, Cattaneo does, at intervals,
relish a plate Of fried mushrooms.
Job Ban for Aliens
In Spain Praised.
La Opinion, santo Domingo.-Spain
has adopted q wise precaution IN
limiting the number of foreigners en-
ployed In that republic. Opportunities
for labor and occupation In any land
should be available first to those IN
digenous there, and afterward to aliens:
The Spanish government has modlneo
this thesis to the extent that q quota
not exceeding Is, 900 Of other nation
alities may be simultaneously permitted
tSatp 1oH ry. YyrnfAGGtnnS
within its Jurisdiction. So far, but
1920 permits have been issued to ap-
plicants for such privileges to earn
money. OF those obtaining credentials,
4.645 are citizens of Germany, 1884
French citizens, 2,729 Portuguese, 1878
Enlish, 1894 Swiss and. 1,l99 Italians.
We understand that no preference Is
given those desiring to practice tina
learned professions, or any others with
highly specialized abilities and qualtn-
cations.
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Channel Tunnel
Plan Declared Ended
The Bulletin, Sydney-The decision
of the London q Southeastern RAILWAY
to build three great ferries to take
trains from English rails to French,
from Dover to Dunkirk and back. sug-
gests that the channel tunnel scheme
has been dropped for good. In add
ton to passengers In the trains, linn
tied number Of boat travellers and cargo
will be carried. The service Is expect
ed to open in 1894. and sleeping car
passengers, 1t is claimed, will be able
to 60 to bed at one end Of the journey
and wake from refreshing slumber At
their destination. A wondrous change
,->,,~k 10 aAv>~A <vnv ttaa rVllf0H1a4
thorities in both countries II that
to be taken as correct.
Envoy Of Reich yews
Held Behind Troubles.
South African Jewish Chronicle. Cape
Town.-To those Of US who are stu IN.
tent to forge our personal fortunes ana
regard anything that transcends our
individual interests Is Of mere aca-
demic interest, the events In Germany
must give pause. Postwar Germany
soon after the revolution and the faH
Of the Hohenzolle1ns seemed hkeay
enough place for the Jewish wanderef.
Berlin became the hospital haven OF .
huge influx Of Jews rendered homeless
by all the destruction and displacements
Of the Great War. The Jewish 1nteln-
gentsia, always uprooted, eternaly
drifting, unable to make peace with
Bolshevik Russia. or Chauvinist Poland,
or some of the other newly 1edged ma
tionalities whose rapacities were revolt
ing, found In the liberal spirit OF the
new republic Q safe anchorage and IN
the wealth Of it, old culture Q pleasing
amhiance, and Berlin became the hub
Of jewish intellectual life.
Yet the greatest contribution TO Ger
man art and science Is made by those
Jews who have for generations and
even centuries identified their lot with
the land Of their adoption, who have
fought in its defense and have tried
to salvage It IN its defeat by the con-
structive work Of the intellect more
effective weapon than the destructive
work of poison gas and machine guns.
It is the fate Of these men that should
give Us pause. Their fall shoWB u that
the ueFilotIs heiRhts to which 4 Jew