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ENGLAND'S GREAT ORGANISER
LORD TRENCHARD IN WAR AND PEACE
CONA BRILLIANT WORK PERFORMED FOR
HIS COUNTRY
(By George Fife)
A
Tthe age of sixty-two Lord that resignation was his only
Trenchard has qualified for course. There was a stour
of
Notice To Contributors. tify the Canadian frontier on Lake A SERIOUS. COMEDIAN All commumentions intended for] Champlaire against, a: Canadian in- fmublication should be addressed to vasioE. A redoubtable stone who died recently," "wai, Ike so the Editor, and be accompanied by structure was erected on an island manum at his type of all na- the Writer's Name and Address in the Eichelieu River at Bowaestionalities, a rather serious person {not- necessarily for insertion, but Point. It was almost compl
in private Bfe: -"At one time he when, in 1818, an International wanted also to be serious in his as a guarantes of good faith.
Boundary Comidission discovered:
professional life and approached that the new American Fort Was Lucien Galtry, but without sue-t standing on Canadian soil. Work was stopped, and the matter of
His true ambition, never realised, slippered ease. He retires from protest over this loss of a this "Fort Blunder" was held in
was to be a lawyer, and he is said the Metropolitan Police Force who had directed the whole of aberance until the Webster to have known the French penal after carrying out with extra-our air efforts his disappearance burton Treaty of 1842. In this
ordinary skill his revolutionary Was regarded as a national cala- mity. In his place Sir Frederick Hong Kong Friday, December 13, 1933 treaty, Great Britain generously code by heart.
consented to change the frontier Drane learned in the best of
His aptitude for cabaret work scheme of reorganisation.
When he sought to retire si Sykes was appointed line so as to restore the site of schools that of Aristide Bruant, years ago, at the time he left the
Way Out to American His Excellency Takes Fort Blander
Lord Trenchard prepared for and he was to be seen at that little Air Force, his hard-earned rest Sovereignty. Over
The idea of any possible hos bots in the Boulevard Chicky long proved to be of short duration work in another capacity. He ask
Quickly he was brought backed for the command of an infan- tility between the United States after Bruant died.
He was Vezzafile in' revue,” and finto harness. It may be that on tay"division, or even a brigade. and Canada is now entirely visited London with the Ba-da-chan this second attempt at retirement The Government refused bis thinkable.
company which had a season at the he will be more successful. But requests his services must be re- Winter Garden Theatre a good the odds are all against that. tained for the air.
one
The Longest Story
of titles. Each novel presents a
many years. 220.
Everyone who heard
His Excellency's speech in reply to the address of welcome which was read in English by the
In 1915, Adele Garrison, news Honourable Sir Henry Pollock,
paper syndicate writer, started, a and in Chinese by the Honour serial story on the married life of able Sir Sheuson Chow, began and Madge Graham, which NAVAL PETS to feel that confidence in our has been published since that time new Governor which is the first
continuously, six days a week essential of a successful regime. The story so far includes thirteen His Excellency said that his! complete novels with a succession menagerie may sound odd to lands- hesitation," remarked the Earl of Sir Frederick Sykes. primary feeling was
The fact is that HMS, Ex-Oxford and Asquith, that he is Then a way out was found. He of ignorance, which he would make complete plot and reaches a con- cellent is the name given to the the finest organiser I have ever went to France to take charge of it his business in the next few cision while its successor goes on Naval Gunnery School on Whale met Lord Carson alluded to him quite new organisation—the In- weeks to remove by looking to the next plot, all in chronological Island, of Fortsmouth. The during the war as the very soul of dependent Air Force. His genius through the files. The ignos
the Air Force. Sir John Simon asserted itself immediately. Un- Warships, however, often carry called him its idol and inspira-Ider his orders long-distance --- ance can however be only of order in the lives of these principal school also has an aviary... local affairs, of which only characters, their relatives and inti-
The fourteenth title, now single animals as mascots. There tion. Mr. Lloyd George has paid bombing was developed against those who have to deal with mates.
a ship of the Grand Fleet daring qualities of mind and inspiration."The victims clamoured so much have any acquaintance.
the war; and the Valiant now bas;
Magic Personality
for protection that the German trouble is that we are the vic-
a superb Great Dane. FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS
Lord Trenchard happily pos-High Command found themselves" tims of forces over which we
When is Australian waters some have no control-or at any rate
"The forthcoming marriage is years ago, the Drake carried an sesses what Lord Brentford de-compelled to recall at least 20 the private citizen has no con-
He has a high sense of duty and front, where they were badly trol, and that the prosperity announced between Richard Da- and a kangaroo. The emu is scribed as a magic personality." squadrons from
dogged determination, and all who needed, and to immobilise a large both of the public finances vid Tidy, Surveyor, of Hankow and/or private
have served under him recognise number of ground troops. business on Road, and Doris Alice Beck, of
his efficiency, self-discipline' and
British Successes. which they depend. is being No. 35 Ashley Road, Kowloon.
thoroughness. The forthcoming marriage be-
The British success became so destroyed by policies of other Governments that may between John William Winfield, of amenable to reason if tactfully the Lincolnshire Regiment, and and firmly pressed. Our pre- Freda Ecome Winnel, af No. 103 sent record is simply that we Taipo Road. have passively submitted, and
Probably no Englishman of our It was suggested that he should time has evoked, through leader take the air command in France. ship and exceptional organising He loyally refused to displace Sir ability, a deeper respect. Ealogis-John Salmond.. He was offered tic tributes to Lord Trenchard's his old post as Chief of Staff, on- The kanouncement that HMS great worth have become almost der the command of a new Air Excellent requires a bear for its commonplace. I say without Minister He declined to displace
them personally can expect to being published, is Married Com-as a famous bear kept on board glowing tribute to "his Nelsonian German centres of importance.
Our rades".
now on Whale Island.
Your Daily Smile!
+
Polite
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the Western
He carries out his duty regard-marked that it was decided to The history teather was decoming less of the consequences, whether (form a great inter-Allied bombing impatient at the poorly prepared les-
If there is anyone in this roem to himself or anybody else. The force, of which Lord Trenchard who doesn't know anything, please power he wields may inspire fear, was to have unfettered control. stand," he shouted -
but to an extraordinary extent it Arrangements went forward for Ben, an unusually polite boy," and can call forth · dévotion. Over the formation of no fewer than eventually followed after an un- granted would be in the in- comfortable interval, interfer terests of American exports. Ja good student, stood.
He has prepared his plans for the big ex- ences with business based on The result was to deprive China Do you mean that you don't know and over again this was demon-148 squadrons. At top speed he
anything?" asked the surprised in-strated during the war.
never been content to demand dis-tension of activity. He had just an itch to interfere with trade of the necessary gol dollars tractor.
“Oh, no,” replied the boy. “I didn't cipline only from subordinates:[completed them when a message which has often been malevo because at the high rate it was
demands it from himself, farrived from Marshal Foch re- lent, but which even if benevo impossible to get credits in gold think was polite to let you be the
when he has set his course noth-questing his attendance. lent has been equally disastrous, dollars by means of exports, only one standing."
partly because the cost of wages
iny can move him from it.
Trenchard, gathering his plans- We are now free to use the was raised to a point at which
The Wrong Waiter
At a very critical period of the and maps hurried off to head- “Why don't you make your fieñion avoid the it was not possible both to pay true to life?" Exchange Fund to
war, early in 1918, he cansed quarters. When he got there it distressing habit of looking at Customs duties and to sell at "I try to sit."
first-class sensation by resigning was to find that the German emis- the top of the front page first
“See here, you say: It was the his position as Chief of the Air säries," "suing for peace, were due an acceptable price. The root. every day to see what
our mistake was the idea that the night of the Junior From He walk- Staf. His view of his duties dīdțin two hours. It was the end of money is worth, and so long as American Senate or the Tread up to the sorority house. She lock- the rate is based on the balance sy knew what rate of silver od as beautiful ass rose lest as abe not coincide with that of the the war of payments it must coincide would suit the trade better than
sat waiting for him." with the requirements of comthe market itself knew by the merce. One might have ex- pected that the experience of ocess of dealing in the com- modities. Here in Hong Kong London, with a standard based we depend for prosperity on a on gold in the absence of any natural rate of value for our international agreement to use money, which will be self- gold for the purpose of the ex- adjusting, subject to 2 change of goods, might have moderate adjustment of the been a warming of what was daily price which will rule out likely to happen when the same daily variations, and this can be sort of politicians and financiers secured not only with effect but began to play about with silver, with profit by means of the and that we might have antici- Exchange Fund Had the pated the event: The fact is Fund been in operation the last that a great deal of nonsense three years the only financial is talked about speculators. It problem would have been how is to be taken for granted that
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CHONG KONG.
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Air Minister, and he felt
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT”
BIC POT
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