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RIVALLING THE "KINGFISH":
Another figure-in American politics worth watching is Con-: gressman John-SMcGroarty, whe is rapidly coming to the front as a rival to Senator Huey Long, the “Kingfish” and -Father Coughlin.
Mr. McGroarty has not been created California's poet laureate
FAMOUS FIGHTERS OF THE AIR
THREE NAMES THAT WILL LIVE IN HISTORY
WAR-TIME MEMORIES
(By Capt. N. Macmillan)
by act of the State legislature for VALOUR in the air was not after time, was rejected on medi
the prerogative of any one cal grounds.
nothing.
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* * FROM THE SHOULDER
the
All kinds of eloquence are at his nation who fought in the Great Eventually, he got into the- command. Withe lyrical logic he War Britain, Germany, France. Army as a mechanic in sponsors the Townsend old-age Italy, Austria, Belgium, America French Air Service. Fond of plan. This is to provide everyone all produced men who rose to things mechanical and especially over 60 with 540 a month so long as fame.
of motor-cars and motorcycles he it is all spent within that period. In almost every case these found himself in his element." challenging and successful fight His keenness soon gained him: ing pilots flew single-seater permission to train as a pilot. aeroplanes. In their cockpits. He was a born fiver. After a Then he turns his artillery they rode to war alone (as did short course of training he gut. against some captions critic. He the knights of old upon their his brevet on April 26, 1915- was so pleased with this reply to chargers) to single out their Six weeks later he brought down one of his constituents that he adversaries, engage in mortal his first enemy on the Soissons- made it public;
combat. and fight the swiftest-front... One of the countless drawbacks paced duels the world has ever He was then sent to of being in Congress is that I am known.
fly compelled to receive impertin
single seater, and he contined to It is ever invidious to create fight in single-seaters until his ent letters from a jackass like distinctions. And it in this death. His mount was usually a you, in which you say I promised brief article, to leave untold the Spad -He
wounded in to have the Sierra Madre Moun tale of the magic worth of March 1916, but by the close of tains reforested, and that I've Barker, McCudden Mannock that year he was the victor of beer in Congress two months Schaefer, Voss, Boelcke. Fonk 22 fights. and haven't done it.
SRAL
and Nigesser opens a pathway On one occasion he shot down Will you please take two ron-to dissension among hero-wor-three enemy machines, in the ning jumps and go to hell?.: shippers, I would just say that I course of a fight lasting only a Many MPs, must envy his free picked these thoughts of remem-few minutes; on another occa literary style.
brance from the many that fision he shot down four enemy the sickled lane of the dower of planes in one day. He was the youth
leading fighter of the famous Stocks Squadron.
The China Mail
Your Daily Smile! in occupation of Aden; it is to drawn on a Federal Grand Jury and A Union Pacific shopman had been
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Youngest Of Trio
In spite of a delicate constitu- secure the narrow passage didn't want to serITE
Albert Ball was the youngest tion and a vivid imagination... where the Gulf of Aden joins the was called he asked Judge Pollock to shall describe As a boy he wasfighter he became one of the When his name of the three aces whose feats Itwo great handicaps to an air Red Sea, as a part of the route excuse him. "We are very busy t Hong Kong. Tuesday, May 14, 1935 to India. The same motive ex-the shops. said he, "and I ought to be keen on photography, chemistry, foremost airmen of the world
plains why we are in Egypt. and there
mechanics, and gardening. Be Early in the year of his deathr why we are in the Soudan, and think the Calon Pacile couldn't ge
"So you are one of those men who gave no special sign of excellence he felt that he had only six also why we are in Uganda. For along without you," the Nile is Egypt, and Egypt is judge...
out.**
Johany:
**Inst
remarked the
before. Ma sees
Abyssinian Arbitration
athletics. But he made months more to live and that it things boats and rafts with the war was not over before them Since last we adverted to the the Sile. In the days of the "No, your honom said the shop his own hands, and operated them he would give his life for France. quarrel between Italy
Maldi and his successor the Emira. "I know it could get along with single-handed and
On September 11, 1917. Guyuban Abyssinia, it has grown more Abdullah it was obvious that if me, but I don't want to find 14
When war broke out he joined mer was shot down and kiled complicated without getting a European Power with hostile
willed," said the judge.
the 2nd City Battalion of the 2nd France mourned a valiant * + nearer to a solution. There is intent should get control of that
Sherwood Foresters. He was pilot with 53 victories to his la treaty between the two govern-wasted territory its engineers The Propitions Moment promoted sergeant soon after, Dame
ments which provides for arbi- could control Egypt; and the Grocer: Tm coming around to eat and was commissioned second, Richthofer Of The “Circus" ration in precisely such a dis- same, train of reasoning led Lord When is the best time to see him June 1915. tired of the endless Germany as that of Nelson lives lect a bill from your father, Johnny Hentenant in October 1914. In The name Richthofen lives In pate as has arisen and if it Rosebery to establish the Uganda should fail to provide a peaceful Protectorate for the security of him."
training for ground work, he in England. Those of us who verdict by a properly constituted the sources of the White Nile in
began to take flying lessons on fought on the Western front in Commission, there will be the Great Lakes.
The Poet
his own initiative, paying for the second half of the war knew whole new sheaf of treaties on
"P" the publisher murmured them himself. It is only after the junction "Your handwriting's so indistinct I can
his name as well as did his com-- which much labour has been of the White with the Blue Nile hardly read these poems of yours. Why
He was in the Royal Flying rades who opposed us. There spent to be added to the list of that the river has the volume didn't you type them before bringing Corps by the middle of October was something of his spirit that bulwarks of order on which con- and appearance which it keeps them to mez
11915.
seemed to fill the air as music- fidence can no longer be rested on its long journey to the Medi-ed Dyou think I'd waste my time 1916 just at the time when fight-ether on Hertzian waves High "Type 'em?" the would-be post gasp-f He went to France in February is carried silently through the- The Italian Dictator is, as his terranean and the Blue Nile writing poetry if I could type?" own speeches show, anxious to starts from Lake Tana in the create a new militarist spirit centre of the Abyssinian moun-
amongst his people, and it is easy tains. Great Britain has CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Was
2
Stiff Sentence For Snatch Thief
ing in the air was beginning to above the waving corn that leant assume serious proportions. His and rustled to the summer breeze first work was carried out in of Flanders his red 'plane ranged two-seaters Ball's pleasure was the skies.
his the-
found in the joy of flying His Behind his windscreen work as a hunter in the air came keen blue eyes searched second to the love of fight itself skies for his next bag-often the But by the middle of May 1916 bursts of the anti-aircraft shells
TOLL OF THE ROAD
Chinese Woman Killed
to understand the temptation to treaty with Abyssinia which test the, mobilisation and trans-provides that the flow of water port systems. In the same way shall not be interfered with; and an army corps was mobilised on the gist of that document is not the Northern frontier to assist to forbid anything that the his diplomacy in protecting the Abyssinians. "who are not engi Ngan Fuen a 41-year old he was mounted in a single-revealed its position The Red independence of Austria; but the peers, would be likely to do; but mason, was this morning fined seater aeroplane and had brought Baron climbed above his foe Northern danger seems to pro- to save the annual food from $250 or in default five months' down his first enemy- He had When he dived he dived to kil vide a very
powerful cantion diversion by more efficient hard labour by Mr. A. W. G. E. started on his fighting career in His shooting was practised and against getting into trouble in people. The French Colony is a Grantham at the Central Police the air.
deadly. Africa What is of immediate relic of a large scheme to join Court, for the theft of a purse, Sometimes in patrol and some-
(Continued on Page 11) interest to us is to watch how the enormous territories of the containing $2.11 from the person times flying by himself, he the modern interdependence of centre and North of the Contin of Li To on the Canton Wharf fought and scrapped his way policy is illustrated by the fent to an outlet on the Red Sea, yesterday,
through the dog-fights by his course of affairs in the Abys-of which Major Marchand
Mr. C E Lowe of Messrs.skill in flying. He brought his sinian negotiations.
the pioneer when he reached the Denny & Co. appeared for the enemies down by his ability to -A glance at the map will show Nile at what used to be called defendant.
Ishoot. that about two thirds of the Fashoda. The name has been Li To said that about 8 p.m. At last, a victor over 43 aero Abyssinian boundary is conterchanged, and the incident be yesterday he was in company of planes, he himself fell on May 7, On The Island minous with territory under longs to an unhappy past which a lady friend whom he was see 1917, before he reached the age British protection. There is the gave place to the co-operation of ing off to Canton. He had on his of 21 None of his flying part-
Reports have been received by Crown Colony of Kenya on the recent years.
left shoulder a basket of fruit nera saw him go. One writes: the police of two motor accidents South, the Soudan on the West, It is certainly strange that theWhen at the gate defendant ap "On either side machine which occurred last night, one of and British Somaliland on the protection of the Suez Canal prosched him and covering his guns were spitting death at which has ended fatally West
During the Versailles should have lead to such vast hand with a umbrella he was him. A cloud of German A motor driver named Chan Mau: negotiations Italy claimed a slice inland obligations; but there is carrying, extracted his purse machines were circling about reported that while he was driv- of Asia Minor, and only withdrew no getting away from history from his pocket. Complainant pecking at him just like great ing taxi No. 696 at about 9.15 pm a claim that it would have been The French have hult their immediately caught hold of the hawks after their prey. A
and accused's hand which still con- dozen of their machines were cidentally knocked down a Chinese
yesterday in Yawo Street, he ac impossible to satisfy after lodg-Railway into Abyssinia, ing a protest that she would have recently granted to Italyained the parse, and shouted fr
detached to engage us while female named Li Chan, aged 61- expect "compensation". else some share in its control. It is Chinese Snatch. thief! A the others, gave the coup de The
grace to Ball He disappeared Government Civil Hospital, but where. There was a long out-unavoidable therefore that both hawker assisted in arresting the standing difficulty with certain Great Britain and France should defendant, who was handed over
died later from her injuries: tribes of nomads that were not watch these negotiations with to a constable who was near by German machines, and for a In the other case Mr. Wright, of averse from an occasional bit of close interest, if merely from Corrobative evidence was given time it was impossible to dis- banditry that they used to fear of local complications. But by the hawker, after which “de- finguish friend from foe the Chinese Maritime Customs, re escape when being pursued by at this particular jamcture even fendant was convicted.
And Ball went down fighting siding at No. 718, Nathan Road
reported that at about $45 pm. be. the police of Italian Somaliland that interest subordinate to
gamely to the last, killed in into the North-Eastern corner of the desire to keep Italy's hands
action by the guns of Lowthar accidentally knocked down Kanya, and vice versa. The line, free for co-operation in Europe.
von Richthofen the brother of Chinese male named Leung Yu was therefore redrawn so as to A failure of arbitration would
the famous Red Baron.
while he was driving motor-car place the tribes in question en mean quite a large scale war,
No 1679 in Nathan Road The tirely under Italian control, and and even a small war would be
victim was admitted to the Kow- as no more trouble has been a handicap. That this has been reported this arrangement was fully realised is shown by the A 59 year old married woman, pion fighting airman of France. probably effective. Passengers fact that a large supply of modern Chan Yee, was fined $2,000, in de One of a family of three, he was from Hong Kong on the home weapons has been put into the fault 12 months hard labour, by an only son. His mother was a ward voyage who have ever, had hands of the Abyssimans by Mr. Schofield at the Central niece of Sir Walter Scott the opportunity of inspecting the German factories, who have had Police Court this morning for the As a boy he was of a delicate Somali coast opposite Aden, will to be content with a mortgage possession of 6,000 heroin-pills, and highly string constitution. Found with 250 counterfeit probably wonder why anybody on future crops in lieu of cash which were found tied round de-and was still at school when war cent pieces in his possession, should want it rather than why (This cutthroat rivalry in the sale fendants waist in packets of 500 broke out That clash of arms ook was this morning sentenced to mybody should give it away of arms must either be ended or ach, when she was arrested at the prevented him from entering the six months hard labour by Mr.A. The answer of course is the same it will end European authority Hong Kong Yaumati Ferry Wharf banking profession He as the explanation why we arefaltogether
en W. G. IL Grantiuum at the Central deavoured to enlist, but time Police Court.
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Woman Caught With Heroin Pills
in the midst of a cloud of
Champion Airman Of France
woman Was
sent to the
At the age of 23, Captain loon Hospital sudering from head.. Georges Geynemer was the cham-injuries.
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