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CATTLE STEALING ON MEXICO'S BORDER
STRANGER THAN FICTION
(By Dolores Del Castro, The Mexican Cowgirl.)
There are four of them, and each of them receives 10 a year. HAVE READ
They used to visit London inne
scores of tales 11' managed to persuade Don Cy- dealing with the life of the priano to allow me to accompany, and taste the bear. If their ver cówbays and cowgirls of Mexico the rustlers. dlet was favourable, they drew and the Mexican borders, but from 18. to 2s. 6d. from each house never yet have I found anything cot, and from the bande of the They adopted me as their mag- they visited.
in fiction to compare with real life chief vacquero himself I received. They now have no official duties, on the big ranches-the feuds of the beautiful silver-mounted raw- but recently the conner attended the cattle kings und at the Red Lion Brewery near the vacqueros, and the intense hates my desk: The Exquisite workman- their hide whip which now hangs above Tower.
and intense loyalties of the people ship and memories of the dangers There they sampled the last of the plains among whom I spent and adventurea with which this brew to be made within its walls.so many happy and exciting years whip is associated, make me yearn
It. was found that no conners as a child. robes were in existence. They had
for the sage bush-the heat and We women mature quickly Injemell of cattle, the wistful songs to be borrowed from, beadles. the Mexican sun. I was an accom- of the vacqueros after the day's plished horsewoman at alx years work is over, the smell of wood of age, and a qualified line-rider smoke, and the roar and dust of shortly after my fourteenth birth- the charging herd. twenty-one, and
DOING THE EMPIRE.
Your Daily Smile!
Adopted As Mascot
imprisonment might be awaiting us. But whether the raid was
In October of this year the day. Now 1 am people of Victoria will celebrate chafing at the restrictions and the hundredth anniversary of the conventions of English life.
Out towards the distant blue arrival of the first settlers.
hills we rode, with the blessings I never went to school. What of Don Cypriano and the old priest. The Overseas League, in con little knowledge I have acquired still sounding in our ears. junction with its affiliated suciety: has come through conversation towards the Rio Grande. The sense Out the British National Union, are with the men I worked with on my of freedom and adventure were forming a large Empire delegation uncle's great ranch, intermittent intoxicating to me, though the to attend the Melbourno celebra lessons from the old priest who boys took tire whole business quite tions,
made Don Cypriano's hacienda his as a matter of ordinary routine. Advantage will be taken of this home, and from an inborn curio- opportunity to make the voyage sity which, I fear. will ever be we had arrived at the point of our Two days of leisurely riding, and into a world tour of the Empire. satisfied.
The route to. Australia from The fortunes of the Del Castros were comparatively safe from in- neighbour's line fence where we England will be by way of Canada were at a low ebb when I appear terruption. The elaborate techni- the "spearhead" of the Navy. Honolulu, Fiji, and New Zealand, ed on the scene. My world wasque of that raid, carried out by a But the total of aeroplanes in the with stops to visit the chief cities bounded by the confines of one little party of ten, and the won- Joseph Could desires to convey present naval air arm is only and sights in these countries, The of the largest and poorest of the derful success which brought us his grateful thanks to the many 170 a sorry contrast with the voyage home will take in Ceylon old great ranches of Durango, and two hundred head of splendid expressions of sympathy in his 1,537 machines which the Ameri-and India. bereavement; and, for the atten-can Navy will possess when the
in my very early years my world breeding stock-among which wa The delegation will leave Liver consisted of the colourful and ever recognised not a few of our own dance at the funeral.
programme of 375 voted last pool on August 24. and return. on changing life of the hacienda it- blood lines are matters which 1 Year is complete.
November 30.
self. This was a miniature town, will not dwell upon. The increases provided for in The Overseas League claim, stone built, with adobe additions, the Estimates of this year, are a with some justice, that this is a like boils on
I suppose it was stealing, and if The China Mail step in the right direction. Any far more valuable Empire gesture plastered on to the main building at sight or hauled away to "ju
a nigger's neck, caught we should have been shot programme that would enable us than the exchange of pompous at all sorts of absurd angles and tics" where ten or fifteen years of Hong Kong, Monday, July 30, 1934. ly sacrificed in a sincere effort to
to recover the ground voluntari messages of good will by cable. [positions. promote peace must necessarily
Ruled Like Fendal Baron be on a large scale, looking
It was here that my proud old right or wrong, I enjoyed it tho- ahead for several years.
Uncle, Don Cypriano, ruled like a roughly, and would go through it New
"Man," said the woman sternly, feudal baron over a mixed collec-again to-day. The Air.
squadrons require land and build-will wake up one morning and find tion of Indians. Mexicans. half- inga; they must be manned effi- that the world is being ruled by breeds, three-quarter-breeds, and ciently; and the machines them Satisfaction will be given by selves are not built in a day. Uke a woman, that,"
women."
After the raid, the escape. For "Um," the recent announcement that The attention given by, the Gov
neered her husband, "Just down and out toughs of the most three days, over the burning open
disreputable the British Government has de ernment to this matter has re demanded.
type. Some "What's just like a woman?"
were country, we had to drive she fugitives from "justice," or what spoils. cided upon a programme of exsulted in plans adequate to thejo take advantage of a man when at that time and all were loyal and head vacquero and one or two of Away in the foothills pansion for the Air Force that need will be welcomed, as resolvleeps."-
ever passed as justice in Durango there is a gulch known only to the "Why," he answered deliberately, will add fifty squadrons to its ing doubts for the future.
staunch to the man to whom they the old hands, and here the cattle strength in the course of the
looked for employment, foor.and could be hidden for years without next few years.
Mr. Baldwin
She sent my young nephew a
shelter.
fear of detection-until the 'next Among my very earliest recol-generation was well grown, with copy of "Tom Bowling," because lections are dramas of shooting our brand superimposed and ob she knew he was so keen on cric-and stabbling. Fights were alterating the brand of the ranch most a daily occurrence, and, from which they were "borrowed"
sertions became increasingly fre- in the fence, and one of our rear- the family fortunes dwindled But the line-riders of the Ameri- flower and lower, the fights and de-cans' ranch discovered the breach
was called upon to help in the euers. This made us drive that quent. While still a tiny child guard lookouts spotted distant pur- "Casualty ward."
I held the bandages and the think impossible throughout one' herd at a pace which many would lotions, the candles or the water weary day-the last of our trok bowl, while my aunt, who was well Five remained behind to ward off Wishing you many happy reversed in the rudimentary medical pursuit. Of course, there was a Both turns 1984, 1985, 1986, 1938, 1939, knowledge so necessary in that meeting.
wild life, attended to the wounds between the nighbour's men and Accusations were made of our boys injured in flights be ours, Going and Coming
tween themselves or with the vac-: “Your opening sale has closed. What queros of neighbouring ranches. "Our closing sale opens.”
Britannia Must Hold
has assured the House of Com Anglo-French Trade-A
mons that all preparations were
Clean Slate.
Aunt Agatha Again
ket.
in train, so that if the efforts at disarmament failed "not a day The Anglo-French trade agree will have been lost in raising our nient air strength to parity." That satisfaction. All that has so far Waiter: "Would you mind settling
offers grounds for statement followed the declara-been done is to clean the slate. your bil, sir? We're closing now.”
Cover Charge tion from the same source that The French Government has re- Patron: "Bat, hang it all, I haven't "this country, will be satisfied stored the British quotas which been served yet." with no less position in the air it reduced, and the British Gov- "Well, in that care, there'll only be than the position of equality ernment undertakes, in return, the cover charge."
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striking distance." A policy so against French goods Imposed as firmly laid down, and so empha-a retaliatory measure. tically endorsed by the nation, countries thus get back to con and 1940. cannot be held up while in-ditions that present a favourable quiries are pursued at Geneva as atmosphere for further negotia to the prospects of an air arma- tions. To that extent the an- ments convention.
nouncement made by the Foreign The Royal Air Force is now, Office wears a cheering aspect. alongside the Royal Navy, the Any final judgment must be
Occasionally they were victims first line of defence of Great Bri based on the terms of the new
of clashes with the Rurales-the tain and of the Empire, and to trade treaty to replace that of
PERILS OF THE DEEP
so-called police force, which en- day the Air Force is now beyond 1882. This has yet to be nego bottom of the North Sea."
"A wireless talk, broadcast from deavoured to keep peace and order dispute the first line of defence tiated, and its preparation will
America could be heard at the in a land where peace and order because it alone can meet the be the subject of probably
were unpopular an blows which in the event of war lengthy diplomatic exchanges should wear a monocle and carry most of our own foodstuffs, sad Just a word about the domestic are sure to be rained on Britain in the meantime trade can be
man economy of the hacienda. We grow with lightning speed.
"To look really amart a
Escaping After Raid
(Continued on Page 3)
our
BICYCLIST FOUND NOT TO BLAME.
Woman Rushes Into Vehicle From Rain.
It alone carried or as it was before one gloge, declares a fashion thus with our own maize, chille can protect the men, women, and France revised quotas to the dis-writer. What about a spat? peppers, frigoles and so forth-it Duro Garage, was brought before
children of Great Britain from advantage
of Britain, al-
hostile bombers. It will be of though the exact terms of the At Tea With The Typists little avail for the British Fleet
Harry Ho, 21-year-old fitter at the. cost Don Cypriano not more than Mr. J B. H. Lee at the Kowloon about 10d. per week Der man for Magistracy this morning, on food. »
charge of failing to ride a bicycle Cattle Stolen Came the time when our vast down Cheung Yes, a 62-year old with due care and cauffon, knocking
8:30 pm: on July 28. ranges were almost denuded of widow, at the junction of Mong stock,
Kok Road and Tung Chol Street at
Detective-Sergeant J. F. Kennedy
to be in command of the Atlan-made public. To get back to the walls walla, that's my business."
provisional arrangement are not "If I let the boys hug me in the tic or Mediterranean if in the old position is a measure of gain. "Well, how's business?" first 48 hours of war London la for the exchange of goods be reduced to a heap of smoking tween the two countries has been Facts You Did Not Know The rustlers had been busy, and rains and the nerve centre of steadily dwindling, to the bene the Empire destroyed.
So great is the risk of air at has obtained its chance to open and can be obtained at a time from a animals. A dry summer had thin stated that He was riding along ft of neither. Statesmanship To prevent waste of matches only had stolen hundreds of our best tack which Britain is running wider the gates on both sides of new container intended to be hung on ned the ranks still further, so that Tung Chol Street at a speed of live by the admission of all in the de- the Channel for mutual benefit. wall and operated by pressing a we had the position of running or six miles per hour, his light was ranch carrying a hundred head on, his brakes in good condition, and A compression chamber to be lower for every thousand there should he was on the left side of the road. ed into the water has been developed have been, this year were prepared. The
by the British navy to enable divers to Things had come to so had a people who were walking along the When a shower of rain came, all tha Navy has received an extra The Morobe goldfields warden'a powerless, that Don Cypriano at Cheung ran into the bicycle. She go to greater depths than heretofore, pitch, and the Rurales were road made a dash for shelter, and £8,000,000; the Army, 21,650,000; April report states that bullion For protecting young trees from length decided to take the Air Force, most necessary exported in April amounted to treat a metal cone has been invented into his own hands and replenish tained for the night. and most ubiquitous of all, a 26.848 ounces valued at $161,886. placed around their trunks, the
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Mr. Lee: "It may not have hean is fault"
Det Sgt. Kennedy No Worship If it had been a motor
she would have run
o it just the
The defendant was discharged,