THE
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ECOLLECTORS
By A. Ei L
THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1935
INDIA AND LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
What Are Her Rights
Of Membership?
LOOKING FORWARD TO DOMINION STATUS
the
Any
To-day's Short Story.
Old Soldiers Never Die
By Edward L. McKenna and Georges Surdez
LITTLE girls had obstinate and cantankerous, and, në
THE Mexican University series There will be 44 different sets,
(By Arthur Davies) 1898 yellow kid dolls, little years went on, he grew a little was on sale for only two each consisting of four stamps of
There is one aspect of months. The destruction of the modest face value, every stamp question of India's claim to boys had Admiral Dewey swords. sullen and cross. He never mer- Skirts rustled, and party dresses ried; probably nobody would have plates took place before accredited being in the handsome design, which Dominion Status which is re-were made of poplin, foulard him. And he drank a little, and his witnesses in the portion of the has been adopted, which shows a ceiving less attention than it per China silk and organdle. It was usus comrades didn't amount to National Palace in Mexico City view of Windsor Castle and a haps deserves. Has India
Of the three who marched away smoke cigarettes, but one might where the Government Printing crowned portrait of His Majesty the right to Membership of the considered rather unmanly to much, and neither did he Works aro aitunteri. The dies and King. With the exception of Now- League of Nations unless she pos- anoint his curly locks with he was the only one who returned rollers shared the same happy end-foundland, all the stamps are bi-sesses Dominion Status in actual Florida water or bay rum or bril-to Alta. A small town loves a ing. The only information missing coloured, and all are reccss-printed. fact, or at least potentially, in a ¡liantine. As the poet Baldi hero, and perhaps that's how the Is the number of stamps destroyed. We have just received a circular near future?
Under Article, I of the Covenant from the fields. there came the story started. It's quite possible The number printed ranges from tu, the effect that Stanley, Gibbons
that Harry Wilson started it: him- 20,000 down to 1,500, the latter is selling representative sets of 44 of the. League of Nations, the soont of new-mown hay."
So, no doubt, there did; and like-elf while in his cups, or perhaps figure is the total possible number stamps, one from each colony at 68 character of the "State, Dominion, wise the pungent fragrance of some local liar began it and Harry of Bets. Of the Bc, 10c., and 20c, And a complete set of. 176 stamps or Colony" which may become a Japanese incense lighted against Wilson either grunted or nodded there were printed 10,000 each. Of at 4 guinens.
member of the League" is defined the mosquitoes, and the scent of his head, or at least took no pains by a single epithet. It must be patchouli and musk and orris, and either to corroborate or to deny.. the other values, fewer.,
"fully self-governing." It may be the clean cool smell of starch. Giris looked like girls and men word is expressly implied only to those mohtaches in those brave days.
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THE air-mail
the various issues of Thurn Tecial al man between Of the Furious, issues of T se started on February 16, but
printed except the "last issue forced landing had to be made on rouletted in colour. The sets of re the following day at Porto Praya prints comprise 33 different stamps. In the Canary lalands.
who require to "become" and not to
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Looking Forward®
Now, in many ways, life reached
transport swung out of Tampa into the stream. ⠀
They had singing armies before
· MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story 'will be "Not To Be Judged," by Sheila Marie Robertson.
those who, like India, came into the [its heights for Harry (born League on the ground floor, as it
Harold) Wilson, in 1898. Bands In December, 1911, the German We have now seen one of the were, as "original members" whose
played for him as he marched away "Ratisbona" Philatelic Society issu- scarce first flight Gambla England unimpeachable title lies in the fact with two stout companions from ed the information that of the 25 covers carried in November by the that they are "named in the Annex Alta, Illinois: bands played as the sheets (presumable of each value) German transatlantic service from to this Covenant." which had been offered by the Bathurst to Stuttgart. This is
At any rate, the tale grew and Admistration of the Prince of postmarked "bathurst 10 No. 34" and This criticism, would have con-
grew, and by 1910 every schoolboy Thurn and Taxis at the beginning is backstamped in England only siderable weight, if any proposal 1917 and Aghting armies, too in Alta knew it. This is what it of that year, 12 sheets were dia-four days later. A large but badly were made to oust India from One thing is certain: Harry WI was: posed of, 10 shests had been "with impressed pictorial cacher is wordel League membership on account of son did some actual fighting in Harry Wilson had saved his drawn," and the remaining 21⁄2"FIRST AIR MAIL - GAMBIA—her lack of the proper qualifications. Cuba. He heard guns pop and saw Major's life at the great risk of his
ENGLAND" and shows a plane and But there can be little doubt that men die, and sheets were to be sold.
doubtless he did as own. Reports varied as to the pre- la boat over the aca. **
the list of original members was well as the next. The fever got cise details: some sald It was four drawn up on the tacit assumption him, and he lay for months in of the enemy he had been blithe to that they all had the characteristic hospital and came back at last to alay and some were less conserva- expressly required in the case of Alta, Illinois, thin, yellow, wasted tive. Some declared he'd knocked] future comers. Obviously, how and a hero.
the hero down; some that he'd lifted
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South African P.M.G. re
Tports that during the tour of
H.R.H. Prince George, the spéciali post office handled the despatch of approximately 6,000 ordinary let ters; the receipt approximately. 1,200 letters, the despatch of 463 registered letters, and the receipt of 60 registered letters. These
VESSEL SINKS AND REAPPEARS
Inventor Sealed Up
In Cabin.
ever, India was not "fully self. It was a long time before he got him and carried him to safety, governing" in 1920. Her place on back on his feet and perhaps. it's As it happened, the Major wAO A the list can only be ascribed to a more correct to say that he never man of high destiny. Three times sense that if she was not at the did. He worked in a little bicycle he was Governor of his own State. |
commanding moment fully qualified she was yet repair shop for awhile, and next he and all his life a
Agures will prove of interest to the SECRET APPARATUS CARRIED practically certain to become so at began to make and mend carriage figure in national politics. A huge,
many collectors of these covers.
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a very early date, and that the part lumps. He hated automobiles and laughing, nolay man,, he was a fine The Wilberforce commemorative
she had played in the War entitled never learned to drive one, but what man, too, and no one in our time issue of Sierra Leone
M. Julien Guillaume, a retire her to the honour of original mem- could he do? He found himself has had a tighter hold upon our drawn from use at the end of 1934 marine engineer, who has spent bership In spite of an immediate precariously in the automobile ac hearts. His name--his name, and the remainder have now been many years experimenting with defect that was not likely to last cessory business and learned at course, was Archer Thomas. It's destroyed.
apparatus for raising sunken long.
least that he could understand the characteristic of him that the title vessels, recently conducted a test Nowhere in the Covenant is "fully peasants who till their crops on the he preferred way Major Thomas. NEW series of postage stamps in a reservoir to the south of self-governing" defined, but this slopes of a volcano, ...
But the voters called him "Arch" is to be issued by the Vatican Paris.
rather loose term is obviously No doubt he had bad luck, and no and never anything else. There was City commemorating the recent He allowed himself to be equivalent to the sovereignty, in doubt, too, he was partly to blame, only one Arch all the time he was International Juridical Congress, "sunk in a yacht, and a few ternal and external, on which inter Nobody would ever call him a clever alive... and are likely to be on sale early minutes later brought his craft national lawyers have expended fellow, though he was skilfulNow, in 1928, Major Archer this year. The Congress was called to the surface again,
enough at his tinkering. He was Thomas was campaigning for. Mr. Hoover. To the delight of all the Fesidents but one it was announced
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to celebrate the seventh centenary. The experiment was conducted of the docietals of Gregory the in a disused lifeboat about 30ft. Ninth, the first Papal law book, and long which had been converted the fourteenth centenary of the into a pleasure yacht. Code of Justinian,
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HULL details have now
much learning.
Far-Reaching Conception The well-known definition
Dominion Status made by the Im-MOTHER-IN-LAW NOT that he would make a speech at
"Autonomous communities with
perial Conference in 1926 in effect M. Guillaume invited a number claims such sovereignty for each of experts to the trial, but only Dominion. It runs thus:
and been photographers
reporters Fissued by the Colonial Office of were present. Nevertheless, the stamps which will be issued by these were able to convince them the various colonies on the historic selves that the yacht itself con- occasion of His Majesty's Silver tained nothing
Jubilee.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
which would
in the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a allegiance to the Crown, and free-
'common
WANTED
Rejects Three Suitors
GIRL THINKS THERE WOULD
BE LOTS OF TROUBLE
Alta, Illinois. The town is seldom so favoured. It's small and it als ways has gone Republican, anyway. Harry Wilson, naturally enough, was the citizen who was disturbed. and felt at least that old... He was 62 years old and looked 60
He'd drunk a lot of pretty Fad liquor in his time, and there was There is a very sensible girl in bad liquor long before Prohibition. ly associated as members of the the Hangchow Home of Refuge The depression hadn't' started for British Commonwealth of Na for Women. She is one of twelve Harry in 1929; It had started about
there and they have all been 1908,
tions."
was old.
allow it to rise once it had sunk. When the boat had been in- spected M. Guillaume entered a water-tight cabin with a dis patch case under his arm. This dispatch case, weighing about
That is the ideal set before India offered proposals of marriage to He'd passed the stage where he The R.M.S. Empress of Britain. 8st, contained the boat-raising by those who talk of her potential suitable men, young or other was hopeful about anything. He continuing her round-the-world apparatus, the secret of which Dominion Status. Two points may
wise. cruise arrived at Shanghai (Woo-M. Guillaume guards closely. be noted to illustrate how far. This particular girl evidently "Only one thing in the world dis- sung) yesterday and left at midnight A flooding-cock was opened
knows her own value for she has tinguished him his war record. for Chinwangtao, where she is dus and within 10 minutes the yacht reaching the conception Is...
Under Dominion Status fully declined several offers. She told People believed him a hero: he was, to-morrow.
sank. When, no bubbles were achieved India will have the right reporter the other day that himself, almost persuaded. But seen on the surface the spectato alter her constitution without since the announcement was now, with Major Archer Thomas tors were somewhat anxious, but reference to the British Parliament, made that they in the Home coming to town, his confidence, be at within a few minutes the water and the right to secede from the
would be offered for marriage togan to fade away. Would he be became slightly rough and the British Commonwealth.
the most suitable men, she had found out? yacht reappeared."
"interviewed" three "applicants."
Had he ever spoken to Arch? The first was an ex-official why, yes, of course he had But She turned him down because he had he? Had Arch ever spoken to had a mother. This canny girl him? Wasn't, that Imaginative,
A Tea Dante will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow 4.30 p.m.
the
A General Public Meeting of the After the boat as successfully Indian Merchants of Hong Kong, afloat M. Guillaume came out of Canton, Macao and South China will the cabin.
be held at Hong Kɔng at 6.30 p.m.
to-day, at the Hall of the Sind COMMUNIST VICTIMS
Merchants Association, China Build-į Ing, (5th floor) to inaugurate the Indian Chamber of Commerce. All
Indian Merchanta in the above named territories are requested to attend.
IN SZECHUEN
Help From Nanking
Nanking.
GOOD PRESS DAY ROMAN CATHOLIC INNOVATION
TO-DAY'S DRAMATIC SHOW
is of the opinion that there too? How could he be sure? A
would be "lots of trouble" if she man who drank could never be quite had to live with a mother-in-law sure about anything; either could
The second applicant was an Insurance man receiving a good It was hard to tell what was reality. a man who was for long times alone. income and even willing to send her to school, but, for various" what was a dream. You told stories reasons, he also was rejected. Then, maybe, when you got drunk, To-morrow has been set aside as The third was a merchant with you repeated them. You didn't Sealed tenders in triplicate which mitted a sum of $50,000 to Szechuan "Good Press Day' by the Roman plenty of money and evidently mean any harm. Your stories should clearly be marked "Contract through the Young Brothers Bank-Catholic community of the Colony, good-natured, but the fastidious wouldn't hurt anybody
What could you do? Maybe you for Printing Official Papers and Ing Corporation for the relief of the The object is to draw the attention little girl refugee was not pleas "Contract for Job Printing will be victims of the Communists in the re- of all Catholics to the necessity of ed and he also was turned down, could sneak away, move to another received at the office of the Colonial cently recovered districts of the pro-reading and spreading good: books Secretary not later than noon on vince. (Chekial Agency.)
Monday, April 15; 1985,
Sealed tenders in triplicate
are
Invited for "Filling. in Area, North |
of Prince Edward Road and East
The Ministry of Finance has re-
TSINGTAO-PEIPING THROUGH TRAINS
off Grampian Road," and will be re-Service Starting April
ceived at the Colonial Secretary's
Office not later than noon of Tues-]
day, April 16, 1985,
Tsingtao.
and. ¡lterature.
Special sermons will be pranch. ed in all the Catholic churches, and Solema High Mass will be held in the Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. At 4 p.m. a sermon will be delivered by the Reverend Father Gallagher.
In connection with "Good: Prees
and town. But it was hard enough to
MADAME M. MASSON make a living even where you were
IN HONG KONG Pianist Of World Wide Reputation
Madame Madalah Masson, a pian Day a dramatic performance ist of world-wide reputation, is now
• It is officially announced by the "Dearies, in three acts, will be in Hon Kacchow-Tsinan Railway Adminis
Sealed tenders in triplicate for tration here that a through train day Formation of Flight: Gap North service between Teingtao And Pelp dur of Bat Kung Road," will be recely ing will be started on April 1
the Colonial Secretary's 'office not (Cheklal Agency).
plater, than: npon "ofer. Wednesda
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trary within three month
of meningitis was reported 28, the name of the tony during the 24-hours end-L'Articles Company, Lin
off the Register of Companies
ged at the Olab Recreio,
commencing at pm.
visit to friends,
be: staying
the Colony.
known, b
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