12
SELLS HANDCUFFS.
HISTORY OF WHISTLER'S IN THE STRAND..
OTHER EXAMPLES.
Now that an arcade of shops is
THE CHINA MAIL,
WORLD PEACE.
SOVIET MARRIAGE.
VISCOUNT. CECIL'S VIEWS.
STRENGTHEN THE LEAGUE.
"COMPANIONATE” IN
MUKDEN.
LADY REFUSES.
וּיי
COCKNEY TONGUE,
FORCING IT ON YORKSHIRE.
"G.K.C.'S DOUBTS.
Association
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1928.
man, and to learn to pronounce it as BRITISH HOLLYWOOD FUNERAL HALTED.
PROPOSED, FILM COLONY.
FIREMEN RESPOND TO DUTY CALL.
'TWO ALARMS ANSWERED.
a Cockney did-(laughter)—we had before us a considerable Internecine conflict between the various "na- tions of England. From what hel knew of Yorkshiremen, he thought|
490 ACRES IN HERTFORD. they would doubt the position that
London, Dec. 1. Mukden, Feb. 2. London, Dec. 29.
Mr. G. K. Chesterton addressed a Londoners were divinely appointed
London, Dee, .30. After five year of work, Ludwig
-While the funeral of four firemen Viscount Cecil has requested We have heard a good deal re meeting promoted by the Nursery to reveal to them that the York-
in the recont blaze at to be built at Charing Cross, one!
on "Some shiro pronunciation was wrong and Blattner, who recently acquired the killed begins to look with new curiosity the Australian Press Association to contly on the subject of companion- School
on Education." Saying that the Cockney pronunciation was British film rights of "Jew Suas" Glasgow was passing the stations, The transmit the following New Year ate marriages in America but it Doubts
the fire-bell, rang. The escort on the shops of the Strand. Strand has been a famous shopping message to Australia:-"The con- seems the Americans have nothing that he was suffering from a cold, right. (Laughter.) As for the announces that he has perfected a street for at least two centuries, sequence of the world war and the on the Soviets in such things. The Mr. Chesterton drew a picture of "educated" pronunciation, hardly scheme, to create a British Holly rushed into the station, and the and it is only in the present cen- possibilities of future wars stare writer, as an illustration, has but the possible effect on the pronun- anybody bothered about that nowa wood. He has acquired 400 acres funeral cortege, Including hundreds presentatives, halted while the en- tury, and especially since the war, us in the face more insistently be only to relate the amusing story of clation of words if the majority of days, when we had a system of wide in the neighbourhood of Elstree of firemen, police, and public re that it has become overgrown-with cause the very existence of the Bri-a proposal made to a local Russian people became affected with per- compulsory education, (Laughter.)___j_{ Hertfordshire), which he purposes.gines turned out to the fire
Individual Liberty. ... to call "Hollywood,, England."
When the coffins were being eleap and gaudy tallers, bargain tish Empire depends upon the lady by a Soviet citizen, of Harbin manent colds in the head. It only
"I am planning," ha says " who took advantage of the Chinese required a certain widespread in-
There was also involved in that
·grave, a second boot shops, and mock auctions, with maintenance of peace.
"The League has done much and New Year holidays to come here fluenza with fairly permanent difficulty about organisation and kinema colony of 30,000, including lowered into the n few stately old growth of pedi-
disputes for the purpose of pressing his effects on a considerable proportion compulsion the much deeper diff. villas, a hospital, à hotel with 150 hurriedly deposit their wreaths and settled numerous Kree shops still surviving here and has
which under pre-war diplomacy, suit. Being a "good" Soviet citito cause all the educational au-culty arising from two tendencies bedrooms, an aeroplane. club, a there in the jungle.
zen, ha complied with all the form thorities to go on pronouncing Eng- in modern life and modern educa- kinema; carpentere, electrical shops, Near Somerset House there is might have resulted in war. stijl
famous tailor and shirt other war would mean the ruin of alities required by the Soviet au- lish in this way, and we should have tion-one represented by what we wardrobe, and all requisites for
thorities, and, smsequently, came a new epach in the English lan- termed secular and undenomina-fim-making. There maker that has made tropical suits civilisation.
"While there is time we must armed with a "preliminary contract" guage. That position, or some tional religion, and the impartiality many studios as for Anglo-Indians since the days of
That is required of. such an errand, and, thing like that, had in fact arisen of the State, and the other that stages 350 by 100 fest-the largest the John Company, and somehow strengthen the League. anggests, too, that heirs to estates why the adoption of compulsory ar- after telling the lady how much his out of the systematising of modern education was not merely instruc- In the world. It will become, if tion, but covered the whole of life, successful, the centre of the Euro under probate in Somerset House tration and the reduction of Red heart pined for her, handed her education. treat themselves there to new suits armaments is of such urgent im-the document for her considera-・ Many education late had discuss and that children must be trained pean film industry. I am spending Reservoirs on February 1, 1928 and smart ties on such occasions. Portance. Only public opinion cantion and, if necessary, for altera-ed, the difficulty that had arisen in humour, In the fighting spirit, in £2,000,000, rising to £5,000,000. CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
B
Ripe and Peculiar.
At the corner of Craven Street]
there still stands a ripe and pecu-)
and a united Empire."
TIN HARES.
"A VERITABLE
(Sir
An
veritable
LEAGUE MANDATES,
Italy Restive.
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matically continues for an- What was the trouble in the modern world, and what would be
other year;
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will be 218 .necessary. *with.
INCREASE FOR
1926.
Washington, Jan. 1.
alarm compelled the firemen to
rush to duty.
WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in
Tytam
WORKS LEVEL.
1928
1927 16' 6"B 12' 2"B Tytam Byawash... 25′ 4′′B 23' 0"D Tytam Intermediata Level 2' 3"B Tytam Tuk
................. 23' 1"B "84′ 0′′B Wong Nel Chung. 19' 0"B 18' 3"E-
Nota: B. denotes "Below Overflow": A donotes "Above Overflow."]
Storage in millions and elmala. of gallone.
1927 1928
208.44
Tytam
It is announced that the num- Tytam Byewash
EFFICIENCY OF RADIUM.
Tytam Tuk
289.82
.69
1.47
105.00
183.45
$15.42
722.00
- 10,61
11.20
T928 1927 226,94
289.69
17.9
18.4
Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts West of Garden Read from January 8th to 10th inclusive.
Fully Supply in all Districts on "January 81st,
I am working single- It tion.
through education being largely in faith in life, and in citizenship, and present Another shop at this part in a sad-finally carry them through.
Feminine Contempt. odr time an urban affair, and hav- all the rest. But it was extraordin-handed. I am starting a company dier's at whose door in sunny wen- rests with the League societies in
The lady commenced reading the ing spread from great towns like arily difficult to combine that ex- to control the land and will produce ther you can still see saddles finish Australia and elsewhere to create ed and ready to be packed in cases an opinion which make for peace provisions contained in this con- London to the countryside, carry tension of education with the idea in the largest studio, sub-letting
tract, but before she had reached Ing with it, rather to excess, the of the imposition of centralised the others." . for distant polo players.
the fourth point, she expressed her peculiarities of the London pronun- education without violating the last the The gun-maker next to
contempt and indignation for Soviet ciation. He would not be so un- remnants of individual liberty. If Temple entrance an- Middle
marriage regulations and by the friendly as to call it a Cockney pro- education was what most modern nounces that, like his old neighbour]
time she had reached the 17th point nunciation, so he would call it the people said it was, it was perfectly U.S. A. MILLIONAIRES Pokulum the famous fishing-rod and tackle
raised by the document, she opened central metropolitan pronunciation impossible to keep it uncontrover PLAGUE." shop, he is about to go west.
the door and showed her would-be of the English language. (Laugh- sial.. To-day the problem was Sotheran, the bookseller, still hap
quasi-husband the nearest read ter.) Certainly it had peculiarities largely solved by the simple prin- London, Dec. 26. his rare old shop near Wellington
AB which altered the full effect of ciple which corresponded to that of Street, although Sotheby's the Commenting on the statement of back to the railway station. - great auctioneers, have long since the Secretary of State for Home far as the lady can remember, the English prose and verse if, instead teaching everybody to talk Cockney following were some of the of saying, "Ah, what, avalls the just as H. G. Wells, and others William Joynson- gone off to Plecadilly with the black Affairs
sceptred race," people were led to taught large masses of the people ber of millionaires in the United Tytam Intermediate Egyptian god that stood over their Hicks) to a deputation concerning, points:-
and Y-say, "Ah, what aviles the sceptred to think Cockney. (Laughter.) States in 1926 totalled 228, repre-eng Net Chung B- doorway in Wellington Place. A the increase of juvenile betting on (1) We, A
having decided to rice." (Laughter.) In the pro- they adopted the propositions—(1)
21.75 20,40 few shops of a good class harbour dog racing, the "Observer" Nayg
enter into a provisional marblem of the pronunciation of Eng- that everybody raust be educated, senting an increase of 21 over 1925. Foktulum
The number of persons with in- in the shadow of the Savey and the "Dog racing establishes the virtual
riage arrangement, that is to lish, it would be very easy indeed whether they liked it or not, and (2) comes in excess of 5,000,000 dollars
Total ........... 1,409,71 1,227,84 Cecil, and at other parts a business equivalent of the roulette, table
way for one year, during which to set out some educational doubts that education should cover all the each increased from seven to 14 in
Consumption of water in the City with a look of Breeding can be dis- whereever there is sumclent popula-
period we are mutually under about the true pronunciation, or of questions of health, love, life, death, the same period. The total income and Hill District in tallions and de cerned among noisy neighbours; tion to make it pay. It la tot chil-
the kind of English that really had and the future, every aspect of of the millionaire group was recimals of gullons during the month of probation, agree that: but the residential middle class dren alone who require: projection
(a) should either party wish the right to succession. It was human life, in fact-they had in ported to be 490,000,000
January. dollars have long ago left the neighbour- from this commercialised spania.
to have the provisional mar- still possible to talk to a Yorkshire- those different things combined the during the year, on which 81,000,- Consumption
ex-man and find him for more unintel¡ materials for. about as howling 000 dollars tax was paid, represent Estimated population 408,480 418,800 hood. and the Strand of to-day aug- The demand for intervention is gen-
riage terminated at its gests the chance comer. It will be eral and spontaneous. Municipal-
months' piration, two
clearlgible than if he were a French religious war of persecution as hu- ing one-ninth of all income tax. Consumption per head interesting to ace if the new shop-ities resent it as
notice must be given, other man or a Spaniard. (Laughter.) man history had ever yet seen. "You paid.
per day...... ping arcade will revive the old plague."
wise the arrangement" auto-
Anarchy Underneath.
are proposing to enforce upon every
Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts West of Eastern Street shopping glories of the Strand.
detail of human life a certin philo
from January 1st to 30th inclusive. sophy of life, while you still have a CANCER TREATMENT (b) should either party wish to have the arrangement con- the trouble, was that there was a few thousands of millions of people
sort of anarchy underneath the who hate that philosophy tinued when the expiration
If education had been left free draws near, it would be under-escential anarchy, when most peo heresy from hell." stood that the second proba-ple had been unable to decide by tionary period would be for what authority any one thing was and there had not been the mania three years. (Note: It will better than another. It might, for for education, people would have instance, bu asked by what right been able to experiment, and if they be seen that provision "a" pre- did that particular kind of English liked, might have taught young will in a fow years be recognised as given 1st to 2nd January, 1928. vides for one year as. "con-
in which Chaucer chose to write people at the tops of trees, or i tinuation period" whereas pro-and which the Court chose to adopt they thought It more hygienic, in ment for certain forma of cancer. January excepting 3 days 21nt to 23rd vision "b" provides for thres in the reign of Henry IV. dominate aeroplanes; they would have had. a evidence of the real utility of of Chinese New Year. years.)
over many widely differing tongues.. It would be easy to look at the old experiment. But, having adopted radium yearly grows. ties must furnish ample medi- Northumbrian and Scottish ballads that organised system, and having cal testimony in respect of and note language of the highest ruled out all dogmas, they would their health and general physi- fluidity and force and adjective, more and more and themselves CHARGES AGAINST FARMER, cal conditions and that, during whose loss to the modern language, tion. One or other of the various faced with the problem of peraecu-
1027 1828 Paris, Dec. 80. Kowloon Resorvoir. 14' 8"B 78"H was a very great loss indeed.
The problem had become much philosophies would get hold of the
The mystery surrounding the Shek Lai Pui Reser more serious in modern times, be- executive, and that philosophy discovery of tablets at Gloze! has voir.................... I′ 8′′B 1′ 10′′B Reception Reservoir Level $ 27B dangerous disease, the other cause this had become an age of would get rammed down the throats
advanced another step. of all the people who thought quite saud, an expert on inscriptions, of M. Dus- party
Butomatically
Storage in milliona and decimila - organisation and compulsion. Edu-
of gallons. liberty to terminate the agree-cation provided
differently.
the French Academy, openly.ac- outstanding
1927 1928 ment;
Replying to questions at the 'end
farmer, on Kowloon Reservoir 217.24 281.19 of his lecure, Mr. Chesterton said cusce M. Fradin, a
tion would only come by leaving off as Fradin's knowledge of antiquity
Reception, Reservoir ... 88.16 27.45 forging the relica, He asserts that
Total
........ 346.10 -402.00 fighting each other with babies In increased so the finds altered and Consumption of water in Towloon stead of pillows, thereby turning included inscriptions,
more
es-in millions and decimals zalons durs cockpit, and to have a battle and book on archeology from a teacher Consumption the schools into a tournament or pecially after Fradin borrowed a ing the month of January,
1926 1927 discover their philosophy, and then, at Glozel,
.75.92
88.53 Estimated population,158,500 163,600 Consumption per, head knowing what it was, to teach it to
per day ... 35.4 ·17.4 Fall Supply in all districts during January 1927 and 1928.
liar shop, not only different from other shops in the Strand, but from
Rome. Dec. 30.
other shops in London. Whistler's! With significant unonimity, the is the only shop in the Strand now Italian Press is demanding a re- Nations' with lace curtains in its upper vision of the League of windows, proclaiming that this mandates, presumably as a means merchant still lives over his shop, of drawing attention to the need for
Italians but) and it, is the only shop in London outlets for surplus that displays handcuffs for sale in some consider that it is part of a two of its windows, writes "J. B." plan for marshalling Italy's griev in the "Manchester Guardian." Iances for the suggested bartering
had known the Strand window with regarding concessions in the pend(2) it is understood that both par-
its handcuffs for many years, and ing Italo-French discussiono.
over tried to find out till the other The "Corriere delin Sera" talka day what the trade in handcuffs [ of remedying the injustice of the
and who bought them.
Was
hardly wanted to know the facts.
I mandates and suggesta an national conference to
inter- discuss
I liked to think that absent- Italy's claims to the same rights as minded detectives from Scotland Britain and France.
(Paris)
►
the continuation of this mar- riage agreement, should either party become infected with a
is
at
an
considerable freedom and range for
London, Dec. 80, The "Lancet” says tt radium
the most effective form of treat
Surgery is slow to admit this, but
Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis tricts from 1st to 2nd January except- Ing the districts west of Eastern Street an intermittent supply was
Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districts from 3rd to 31st
a full supply was operated on account
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL.
(a)If in Soviet Russia, before tralised power in the various de- that so far as he could see the sol. Whose land the finds were made,-uf Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 95.71 93.86
gulations to effect minations.
their children.
Yard running to catch the Contin- The "Petit Parisien"
to learns that Signor Mussolini has no ental train at Charing Cross bring back. extradited crim-intention of drawing up such, bár-. inats, Anding they had forgotten tering programmes. Y
example of the extension of cea that part of their outfit, nipped into The Rome correspondent of the
the proper local authorities; partments of life. It might be per- Whistler's shop and get. a new London "Daily Telegraph" under
(b) If abroad, before a Soviet fectly right, and necessary and pair. I liked to think of stout stands that recent conversations be
official representative author good, that wo should compel all the farmers up for the cattle show tween Signor Mussolini and M.
ised under the marriage re children of the population to attend buying a pair of handcuffs so as to Michalapoulos, the Greek Ministeri
such ter-school, but by that act of compul be ready for the. Strand confidence- for Foreign Affairs are most im
alon we brought ourselves bang up trick men when they had got well portant and are a prelude to an
Suitor Shown the Door.
against certain very big difficulties, on the way with their rosary story. alliance between Rome and Athens But, really, who do buy handcuffs? on the questions of the Balkan vision to another, she noticed that of local dialects. When a school- As the lady read from one pro The first was the question of rights Shop With a History. policy.
(A previous message stated visions of
they gradually, increased in pro master could, say, call a policeman Well, I went into this mysterious.
an intimate nature, who could in practice "collar" a shop and heard interesting things Undoubtedly Signor Mussolini
Mrs. Edith Grace Norris, who about the handcuffs and much else. very anxious that Italy should pre-provision number 17, she bade the master to be taught to leave off pro- her end, year, was the mother of hence by the time she had reached child and take him to the school died at Reading on January 11, in The original Whistler was a dia- ponderate in Balkan affairs and he "good" Soviet citizen from Harbin nouncing a word as a mond merchant who founded the resenta
Yorkshire the Bishop of North China. the Franco-Jugo-Slavian | shop here in 1825 and was so good treaty chiefly because it challenges good afternoon and promptly show-
ed him his way out. silversmith that he made the Nor- that predominance.
The man protested against auch thumberland Race Cup, which came ed here that he might be willing acant ceremony being accorded him, back to the shop a few years ago to relax some of Italy's pretensions and declared that the lady could for valuation. His watchman's in the Western Mediterranean in alter those provisions which did not rattle is still kept under the desk of return for a free hand in the waters strike her fancy, although personal- the present proprietor, who points and territories east of Italy.]
out its superiority to a whistle. A
whistle, he says, is impossible to
blow if you are in a very excited
is
It la bellev-
ly, he thought they, were all right, and as for provision number 17, why the Soviet vice-consul had said that it was commonly entered into
state. If you are in a state of fear for the merchandise to be forward-between contracting parties in it simply can't be done. (This feed at once. Handcuffs have been Russia.
an important point for household- sent as far as the Fiji Islands and What is exactly dealt with under ers.)
Buenos Aires, but the main cus prevision number 17 the writer haa The seat in which I sat was atomers are on the. Continent. not been able to ascertain, It is hall chair with a crest inlaid on Handcuffs rarely go to police au said the lady has never-enlightened the back, It had been the chair of thorities, for they have, of course, her friends on this point,—but the Sir Robert Peel, the Corn Law re- their offcial handcuffs makers. Ifact remains that the story of this former, and there were other chairs could get no information whom the Soviet form of proposal has cAUL- in use there of even more curious orders came from. Private luna-ed much merriment to local Rus-! provenance. The house did con- tic asylums, shipowners (every sian Whites and will, be the topic siderable business in rifies and passenger liner carries handcuffs of conversation for many a day. shot-guns, and had sold weapons to and coffins), theatrical companies. Indeed, some husbanda have had big-game hunters and gall-game private detectives are probably the their ears boxed for inquiring of hunters for about a century. It chief customers. I was shown one their wives how they liked point 17. had done business in all sorts of order received recently from Parla"N.C.D.N." correspondent. things; from it came the First for six paits of handcuffa-one Follo Shakespeare that was sold at pair ladies' size nickel-plated, and Sotheby's for £4,500 in the carly each pair ware carefully described There are years of this century, and there is as to pattern and lock. a. good Romney upstairs; for this many varieties of handcuffs, differ- romantic shop follows also the ent shapes and keys and sizes and trade of the Medic
material. The prices run froin a cheap pair at 6s. 6d. to 25a, for a The handcuffs are festooned, smart nickel pair suitable for a broken by police whistles as the kleptomaniac. The shop sells
Rome. Dec 29 Signor G. Balluzzo, Minister for dart breaks the tongue in the Greek about a hundred paira of handcuffs ornament, along the Strand and the year. Whether absent-minded National Economy, states that Craven Street windows. Who, buy detectives who have forgotten these there is every prospect within a few them and, having bought there, tools, and are on their way to the years that Italy will be independent what do they do with the hand Continent to bring back extradited of all imports of wheat. There are cuff? Well, it seems casual, cus prisoners, ever nip in to Whistler's 8,000 experimental stations, and tomers buy a certain number. Any
their way to Charing Cross no 750 stations equipped with scienti man walking along the Strand de could tell me. The shop with fic appliances and supplies of select- might have a pair in his pockets the handcuffs, although I know now ed seed, with the result he says, But the main business le don by all they have to tell Inside, still re- that Italy's wheat production could post. Letters come from All par mains to add to the mystery of the be nearly doubled without Increas of the world to Whistler's asking Strand.
ing the area for productio
Festooned Handcuffs.
RURAL ITALY.
REDUCING WHEAT
IMPORTS
.
Sir Edward Forsythe, Messrs. W. Shakespeare, W. Moir and W. Forsythe, members of the Council tion, are shortly leaving England
The Government Analyst's reporte
satisfactory.
of the Rubber Growers Associa-show that the quality of the water is Total rainfall to January 81, 1927, 0.21, January 31, 1928, 1,88,
on á visit to the East, ・・
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