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(By Lt. Comdr. Mortimer Durand)
GZIOPIROLI Parin
of the temple was burned down by dissatisfied with this number will were encamped on the hill Placing his hand to his heart, an incendiary in 1848, and the receive 20 marks and his entrance above the Unguia ford in the the youth bowed; and the last portion of charred walls diamoney will be returned.”
Batiscio district, and he had colonel, accepting the gift-goat, appeared in a tornado of 1850.
The next night there was &turned out to see me off on exclaimed, "O, molto bello!" mile-long quene in the Kurfuer-mule-back for the front line. Such scenes as this one, I was standaram..
"How did you sleep in the told, were customary every day, When the mysterious turn was Ritz?" he asked me, as cups of and not the slightest fear of an announced excitement was in black coffee were brought from attack on the camp was enter- The natives are not Mr. Harold Seth, the well-known mense. The curtain went up. The the kitchen, a structure of poles Iained
the stage nearby, covered and partly deprived of their arms, but the Governor-General of New Zea-and popular owner of racing Manager appeared on land and in later years the ac- ponies, retained to the Colony this Ladies and gentlemen," he said walled with leafy branches. Ichiefs are held responsible for Every tive President of the British morning by the Empress of Japan, the local S. A. band will now play assured him I had slept excel their good behaviour.
lently on the ground of the tent man, woman and child makes Legion. Almost his last public accompanied by his bride, former-the Horst Wessel song."
in my "fea-bag."
submission personally
they act and perhaps the fatal onely Miss Clara Maine, of Victoria
TROUT IN TRAFFIC STREAM -
Tiny Abyssinian mules, nolprefer to be on the safe side. was to lay a wreath at the B.C
bigger than donkeys, were! foot of the Cenotaph in the
A fox has been killed by traffic waiting for two officers and
Chill Of The Dawn Legion's name. The world will
It is understood that Lieut-
in Upper-street, Islington. Strange, myself with a guard of four The sun was shil hidden by a think of him most often as the Comin E. G. Welshman, who was
but true.
Askaris, cloaked, with their mountain-top on the other side great sailor who was put in recently relieved of his command
Stranger, and equally true. 3 tall tarbushes khaki-covered of the Edaga Sunni valley, and command of the British Navy of HMS Tern, has been appoint:ve trout was once run 'over Only the red and blue tassels I shivered as I mounted my upon the outbreak of war into HMS. Capetown.
the Strand. A restaurant on one hanging from the tarbushes male. We passed the wireless 1914, and under whose direc-
side of the street, running short and a glimpse of their sashes masts of headquarters and
tion the Battle of Jutland was The RMS. Empress of Japan fought in 1916. Controversy will leave here for Manila at 11 has raged about that engagem to-day, instead of 7 pm. as ment, but when Lord Jellicoe previously advised. left his quarter-deck to becomej
the RMS. Empress of Japan this morning.
Mrs.
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a pail to borrow some from a rival establishment across the way.
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A teather came upon the fellowing howler": "A write minister is clergyman at his best
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The man fell, the pall was up- First Sea Lord he could rightly Mr. R. AD Forrest, of the set, a fishy mass wriggled and flop- have claimed that the German Colonial Secretariat, arrived backped, a bus approached...... Battle Fleet had ceased to be a in the Colony from Shanghai by
Your Daily Smile! serious menace.
In time of war a sailor is judged by his success in battle.
Mussolini's troops gather in Africa, Since 1916 the strategy of the The following were the results Suggested theme song: Haile, Baile, Battle of Jutland has been mat- of the special Christmas whist the gang's all here. ter of hot dispute between two drive held at the Cheero Club on schools, the one contending that Tuesday last:-Ladies, 1st with less caution the German Hunt, 2nd Mrs. Hourihan, Srd: Fleet might have been finally. Deacon. Gentlemen, 1st Mr. destroyed, the other upholding Forster, 2nd Mr. Baker, 3rd. Mr.
LACKING IN TACT Lord Jellicoe in the strategy Marling, Highest half: Mrs. Mor- My world" he said, "you look that broke off the engagement when the German Fleet was inson, Mr. Farr. Booby; Mrs. Hop-good! I haven't seen you in thas
frock before? kins, Mr. Billingham. fall flight and when continued
She smiled sweetly..
Nozy twenty-first birthday pursuit through the unknown";
Christmas Tableaux will be pre-present from daddy." she replied. hazards of the night would sented on Saturday, and Monday Really be said "And now it's have subjected our Battle Fleet
next, at 5.30 pm in the St. John's fashionable again?" ito terrible risks. Whether
Cathedral Hall. The story will Lord Jellicoe was too much im be given in five tableaux, accom- pressed by the responsibility hell
A Philadelphia woman is seeking alone carried for conserving his panied by newly composed music arcree from her husband because ships for future actions history and interspersed with well-known sat in his shirt sleeves. Now, what alone can decide. We are stiil carols.
too near actual events for any The REQCA. are holding uncontroverted finding. What-
ever criticism is made of the their first annual Christmas Car strategy in the last hour of the nivel Dance in the Phoenix Ball- battle after Jutland the Ger room, Hotel Cecil, to-morrow. It ¡isviisu of interest to note that the man Fleet never again ventured Band of the 1st Battalion the to challenge a trial of strength. Lincolnshire Regiment will be
Freed from active command at sea, Lord Jellicoe as First making this occasion their last appearance at the Association's
Sea Lord had to face the task functions before leaving the Co- of dealing with the submarine? lony. menace. The earlier period of
difficulty and disappointment
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which he foresaw had not One of the most popular of an- ended when he retired from the nual social functions, the Taikoo Admiralty, leaving a name that Ball-is-to-be-held-on-Friday, will live in the annals of the January 17, starting at 9 o'clock British Navy. Whatever the Everything points to the function ultimate estimate of his war being a greater success than ever, and those desirous of at- command may be, he had proved tending are advised to secare himself a great leader of men their tickets early. They can be and a great servant of his coun-obtained from Mr. C. EL. Sum- try. For the two decisive years of the war he held supreme co-mera, Hon Secretary of the Ball,
Trikoo Docks trol at sea, and when he laid it down Germany was defeated on
The forthcoming marriage be the water. The actual event appeared to him as the full just-leg Shanghai Street, and Miss Lee "Itween Mr. Yan Mat-yeok, of No fication of the dispositions he Suen-Ching. of No. 10 Morrison.
had made. The tribute paid to
Hill Road, is announced.
him on his death by the Com mander-in-Chief of the German
· Edulzi. Eustoma Mogra, late of navy shows that the country which he fought bore him in No. 38 Wyndham Street, Hong respect and wished to do himong, who died in Paris on August
20, 1935, left local éstite vilned atį public honour. He will be gratefully remembered by the 59.600. Probate in the above country he served and the men estate has been granted to
Framroz Pirojsha Yasunia, mer whom he commanded.
chant and trustee.
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want to know is, how can any with sit in his shirt sleeves.
pushed on up the hillside till me met the sunlight, when sudden- Submission With Gifts
ly we were warm. - The sun There was no barbed wire nor struck hotly when we reached any other protection round the the top of the plateau. camp, for the Abyssinians will
On the way up I noticed rot attack unless led by their markings on rock-faces, which chiefs.
The chiefs, as I had reminded me of the "cup and seen at dusk the night before, ring marks, dating from pre- historic times, to be seen in were not inclined for fight.
In an open square tent Col Argyllshire and elsewhere. The Della Porta had sat at a table marking consisted of six dots receiving the submission of the in three regular lines, cut in flat
An old man with a rock-surfaces. natives. grey beard, a forked stick in his
**That is an. Abyssiniza hand, walked out of a crowd of game," the Alpini major who about 100 white robed Abys was guiding our party told me, sinian men, women and chil-but it is only played by bam- dren, some of whom had curled bini, not by grown men”- up to sleep under the bushes on We caine to cultivated ` the hillside. From the folds of ground, and in a field of crops the robes on the backs of the saw a small black boy sitting women a small, inquisitive black on a platform made of sticks baby's face sometimes protrud and grass, supported
on four poles some 8ft. tall. He was The old chief bowed to the shouting a series of wild calls, colonel, who inquired his name, and I learned that he was a so that a clerk might note it on scare-crow and sentry his typewriter at a table near bined. by. Then the chief, an impor
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