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STONE-On Friday. March
FRIDAY, MARCH 23,
DESTROYERS DASH TO HELIGOLAND
Carling The Desert RESCUES FROM SINKING
by sensitiveness-for: the
of modern democrats,
Ever since the Wafdists resign- fed from office he has been wonder
ing how to prevent their resump- tion of power. Now a royal: de- cree has been issued, compelling "Cabinet:"Ministers to take an-oath of allegiance to the King and the Constitution.
|S&The move is clever hut obvious.
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GERMAN CRUISER
ADMIRAL'S WAR MEMOIRS
(By. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes.),
N the morning of Aug. 6, 1914, | four predecessors provided in- At the Gmin Ambassador and formation from which we were able If the Wafdists accept the oath his staff arrived at-Harwich by to form a clear picture of the they will be bound by the Consti- train on their way home to Ger- German dispositions for patrolling, tution; if they refuse they can many, following the outbreak of the Bight both night and day, and not take ofice. In any case, the war. They embarked, for the Hook could tell approximately the time... semi-autocratic rule of the Palace of Holland in the Great Eastern at which the day and night patrols Will continues
| Railway packet-St..Patérsburg. İrelieved, one another, t
to
Meanwhile the passion of the I asked the Marine Superlaten. With this information I felt we | Royal party in Egypt. for staging)dent to instruct the Captain could organise an enterprise to cut international conferences seems to manoeuvre his ship as if he were off the night patrols on their way be unsatisfied. An international passing through intricate channels home and day patrols on their way postal congress has begun in in a minefield. I was told later out, and generally smash up the Cairo.
that he played his part very rea-look-out organisation of the Hell- listically, and greatly intrigued the goland Bight Incidentally the ba More Grasshoppers Come German Naval Attache.
enemy's heavy vessels would certain to come out to drive off`our. The red locust, or lucusta noma- On the previous night the light raiding force, and thus provide: dacris, whose breeding grounds are cruiser Amphion had reported more satisfactory targets for our reported to have been discovered in that she was returning at about submarines than destroyers zig- Central Africa, is at present threa-a.m. with her flotilla and about 20 zagging about at high speed. tening an invasion of South Africa. prisoners of war. But about ani I discussed it all with Commo- It is larger than its kinsmen, the hour after she was due, a signal dore, Reginald Tyrwhitt, who desert and migratory focusts, who was received from Capt. Fox, of aathorised me to say that he fully caused such havec in East Africa the Amphion, that he was in the concurred, in my proposals, so I recently, and runs to two and a half Llewellyn and had important news took the paper to the Admiralty - inches in length: the name is to communicate. On this we could the same afternoon.
derived from its beautiful red, put only one interpretation, which After some discussion it was'de-- wings, and it will eat anything. was confirmed when the War Sigcided to commence the sweep to Each kind of locust has its own nal Station reported that the flotilla the westward at 8 a.m. after the particular breeding, ground. The was in sight without the Amphion, night patrols had returned, and been driven into subterranean migratory species, comes, from the Shortly afterwards it was re-
when the day patrols were well out silence since the custom of read-marshes south of Timbuctoo. The ported that the destroyers had seaward, hunting our sub- 23,ing aloud, with interposed com-desert locust breeds on the sands of turned and were apparently engag-marines, which would do their best 64ments, failed out. Anyone who the Southern Sahara and Arabia, ing an enemy. It appeared that the to keep them well occupied. the reads what prominent reviewers but only after heavy rain.
say about the effect of the new- est fiction week by week. how they perspire and walk up and down and chortle and throw up
1934, Edward Stone, aged years, Funeral will pass Monument at 5 p.m. to-day. No flowers by request.
Unquiet Reading,
Your Daily Smile.
ROUND AND ROUND An argument has two sides. like always stop a gramophone record. gramophone record, but you can
Our Vowels
St. Petersburg, carrying the Ger-
man Ambassador, looked exactly Plight Of The Cruiser Mainz like the Konlgin Louise, and, as I went on board the destroyer she was flying a large German Lurcher, which with the destroyer: fing, the flotilla rushed at her Firedrake cruiser on the night of open-mouthed. This was not sur- August 27-28 to the southward of
captain, to prising, as they had just seen their Admiral Moore's battle-cruisers whom they were der and the destroyer flotillas. On the voted, lose his ship or a mine lafd morning of the 28th, after search- by the Königin Louisé,
ing the area to the southward of
The China Mail. their legs in their armchairs nant beauty of the characters and sit transfixed by the poige Hong Kong, Friday, March 23, 1934. [described, recognizes that ap- [preciative reading does not dif- fer greatly from other forms of
Dr. Cyril Norwood," who is going
Luckily, they were stopped in the battle-cruisers for submarines, physical exercise. To expect from Harrow to be President of St. time by Fox, but they seriously we proceeded towards Hellgoland people to sit quite still, and not John's College, Oxford, is a great alarmed the Embassy party, and in the wake of the submarines of to make a sound, is to imply stickler for good English.... The British Museum has just that all books are pretty dull
the German gag came down like the second Upe, with the object of ris been tightening up its rules for really, and that
Two or three years ago I heard rocket stick. Cayley, and I went on inducing the enemy to chase us to admission to its Library, because is not alun to watching a
the experience him at an educational function board the Llewellyn, and were the westward, gotun of the complaints of readers planet swimming into one's bemoan the common degeneration shocked to sea poor Fox stagger out
At 12.87 pm, when steaming at against noise. The authorities, familiar 'and
of the vowal "a" into "".
of the char-house looking horribly about thirty-two kocis: towards homely ken.
A man, he said, by way of illus burnt and disfigured by... injuries heavy Bring which had just broken“,
new
in their desire to smooth the Nothing would do more for the path of scholarship as much cause of reading with the Bri-tration, informed a friend of his when the Amphion struck the out ahead of me, I sighted our -- as possible, have become more tish public than vigilant and exacting than be-scenes in the British Museum, a
that he was going down to Oxford mine, but his bearing was ne gal- Light Cruiser Squadron, engaged more frequent]
"Where are you staying?" asked lant as ever.
with a light cruiser which turned fore in considering whom they little more abandon and
the other. The reply was, "Af the
out to be the Mainz. As she ap will admit. They are handicap and loud imparting of good news eager
British Submarines In Action Mitre"
peared to have struck, and had a On Aug. 23 our submarines; E 4British cruiser standing by her, I ped by the wealth of their read-just brought to light. The public. "As," observed his friend, “Good ing matter, for they now have asks eagerly
E 9 and D 6 returned from Heli-stood on towards heavy firing to... | some four million books: and books are about. and what they
what the new old Alma Mitre."
goland Bight with much informa- the N.E., but in crossing the track people, rightly thinking that their say, and waits for treats from
tion of great value. They were in of the Mains, nearly a mile astern relations or friends must be the Imaginations of gifted con- dull indeed who will not find temporaries,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Not the Right Kind
led.
A department store in Chicago cessantly hunted by destroyers and of her, we sighted in her wake's But it is the old is so large that the proprietor made many attempts to torpedo number, of Germans supported by something to amuse them in so books that contain the amazing keeps bloodhounds to track down their pursuers, which the latter's lifebelts or hammocks, so I order varied a heap, often send along and unknown true stories and customers who are lost.
tactics and a fist calm sea defeat-led 'the Lurcher and Firedrake-to to the Library people who are in the little facts that make the
stop and-pick them up. Later I the way at home. But unfor- difference; and the custodians
Leir, commanding E 4, after re- gave orders to the commander of tunately there is a fallacy in the of old books and manuscripts, The miserable-looking man cording the efforts of the enemy the Lurcher to lay her alongside idea that, once a person has es- the last courts of appeal on sɔ shook his head sadly. tablished a claim to be studying many important matters. do
to destroy him, and his, to torpedo the Mainz, "See that piece of land over them, laconically concluded: "After). When we were about 100 yards. something seriously. It can be as their treasures scant courtesy there?" he said to his companion. 24 hours under, breathing nearly off and obviously about to come sumed that his habits will be in suggesting that complete.self-"Last year I could have bought it twice as quick, otherwise no dig alongside, some officers ran to her those of a scholarly mouse, or control is an easy matter in for a mere song. It's now worth fully at all h
starboard after gun; and swung it that learning is easily pursued in their presence. If there were thousands of pounds. ellence. When the chase of perspiring rooms and cooling
Horton in E 9 spent eight hours round directly on to the Lurcher's. truth is up, it is natural for the rooms and coming-round rooms said his friend lightly.
"I suppose you couldn't sing?" at one stretch trying to torpedo the bridge. Tomkinson remarked quits enger hunter to give whoops of and a "sal volatile" fountain at The other gazed vacantly at the him
destroyera: which were hunting quietly. “They are going to fre ́at excitement and to wriggle, twist, tached to the Library, then land,
More Futile Talk
Facts You Did Not Know
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alert
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and scrape about in his chair. schoolmasters and other up "Hm," he aniffed, "I could sing fanelled cruiser screened by three Now it is in the British Museum lifters of indolent and material all right, but I couldn't get the destroyers on either bow. In spite that the unfamiliar-facts, long minded-manidind would have a right notes, buried or suppressed, are un much easier task in framing earthed and brought to life; un their perorations on the great der that great dome the hunting excellence of learning and the ends, and it is asking a lot of succession of splendid adven- human nature to expect it to end tares that the scholarly life can in subdued allence, without be single loud shout of Eureka It is understandable that plodding scholars should resent the sud- den shirill exclamations of the goo and golly order with which The Disarmament Conference young women pay tribute to the still lingers con, though to all elm powers of accomplished novel who face the it must be ists, and the Museum has for clear that disarin is a most [long made it difficult for the dangerous dreams
novel reader to pursue her ples in its present state. sure at its desks: But the free officials connected masonry of scholarship ought to ference have discumed extend far enough to make Arthur Hen scholars smile at the noise which in London the means that fellow-scholar in latory meeting with tel ph or disassumed. ter or has reached his grand feelin climacteric Reading which is to wind the turning point in m can stop not be
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