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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31,1935.
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year: of Publieztian...
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(EVENTEEN years ago. Mr. BRITAIN'S TOWING SUPREMACY Notice To Contributors. 7
and Mrs. A. B. Porter were The towing to harbour of_the All communications intended for married, and as the happy bride rudderless Duchess of Atholl by publication should be addressed to and groom of only a few hours two tuis is a reminder that Bri the Editor, and be accompanied by started on their honeymoon, Mrtain is still capturing the plums of the Writer's Name and Address Porter took the baggage to the car deep-sea towing. Only - a few not necessarily for insertion, but in the side driveway of their years ago Dutch tagen had no
home. Mrs. Porter, on entering competition jas a guarantee of good faith.
to fear, even in the the car, found him dead. So great task of taking our own obsolete was her surrow that she has never warships to the breaking up yards. allowed a person to touch or move!
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ITALY'S NEXT MOVES
IN ABYSSINIA
CAN SHE BEAT RAINS AND SANCTIONS?
CRITICAL PERIOD OF ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AHEAD
the auto, and to this day it still for towing a battleship from the T
(By Maj. Gen. A. C. Temperley)
London, Dec. 4. Italians had had bitter lessons THE war in Abyssinia has of inadequate forces, and our now lasted two months, and own Colonial wars, which they stars in the driveway of the both coast to Birth or liver this is a suitable inoment to re had actentively studied, terjed Lakeshore Drive home. Evanston, keithling. After complaints were view its progress, though in-with instances of under-
Hong Kong. Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1935, carrying
London Of The Future
out,
wishes.
out of the
widow's
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
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That an
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the
enemy's
where Mrs Porter left it. enclosed by a fence to insure themade in the House of Commons formation has been very scanty. Jestimating
British tugenen were given a} The moment is particularly strength. They could hardly because of the risk a defeat; and large forces chance. A Hull fire brought the opportune, Dutch down to a fifth of the usual change in command on the should make for security. They price, and towed EMS. Marl-Italian side, said to be due to laccordingly played for safety. borough to Blythin four and a dissatisfaction with the conduct
Rest Followed half days instead of the usual of the campaign by Marshal de Once that decision was taken, What will London be like in
Bono
the rest followed. The General Many pro- the year 20002
There will be no publication of
It cannot be doubted that the staff, who had worked out every phets have told us disagreeing The Chine Mail to-morrow, New THE LAST SAILING LINERS Italian General Staff had been detail, could almost have pre- marvellously with one another Year's Day-
attempt should have considering the possibility of pared a time table of the rate and with the succeeding edi-
As of the advance The one in- this campaign for years. tions of their own convictions. At the Cheero Club on Tuesday, been made to steer the Duchess of the result of reports by their calculable factor was the degree travellers of resistance by the enemy; and We do not recall a more inter-January 7, beginning at 9 pm Atholl by means of a sail, before
numerous consuls, esting or a more detailed pre-Miss Gray's Concert Party are the arrival of the tags, has and Intelligence Service. a mass in this the Abyssinians proved of data must have been collect to be exceptionally accommo diction than that which Mr-producing Postal Orders": ad- surprised many people. EA A-Rowse gave in London mission 20-cts
Yet the use of sail for oceaned, upon which an outline of a dating The heart-breaking going steamships is not 30 VENT last month. He speaks with
plans had been made.
delays after Adowa and Makalle Cunarders to authority on town planning, and To-morrow, January 1, there remote. The last
After the Cal Cal incident, must have been foreseen. his London of the future is to will be an entertainment at the carry sail were the Umbria and Marshal Badoglio and a mid-Considering the frightful diffi
in 1884 and be very elaborately planned Cheero Club by the concert party Etruria, launched
tary committee visited Exitrea culties with roads and supplies The latter) At its centre it will be "a city of HMS. Dorsetshire, beginning 1885 respectively.
and filled in the detais on the I think the advance has pro- made her last voyage as recently of huge isolated towers set in at 9 pm
spot
When Marshal de Bono ceeded at a reasonable rate. tas 1908 Both were premies com arrived later as High Commis But the Italians are only 70 greenery.” Farther separated each from each A tea dance will be held at pared with the modern liner." sioner, all he and his staff had males along the road to Addis Less than two years ago a smalto do was to put the finishing Ababa, and, allowing for a lish cargo steamer in the Bay of touches to the plan and make winding route, there must be at on Zame for least another 500 miles to go.' Biscay hoisted a sail to steady her final demands in a heavy sea and it was claimed troops and transport
It will take them two, or pos sibly three dry seasons to reach The plan presumably com-the capital, unless there is a mitted him to the employment complete change of method. of 10 divisions in the north for Another possible factor in an advance upon Addis Ababa. slowing up the advance may and two divisions in Ogaden, have been the delay necessary. the maximum it was possible to to try to subdue the local feed, to occupy the province of chiefs by propagands rather Harrar and to cut the railway, than by force This we The General Staff had been know, has been very successful under no illusions as to the diffi-It has not only had the effect of cuties, and, while trying to dis- avoiding casualties (although suade Signor Mussolini, in the these appear to have been early stages, from embarking allowed to fall chiefly upon the on the adventure, estimated the native rather than the white time it would take to subjugate troops), but it also emphasises the country as possibly five or the warm welcome given six years. I d not consider them by the inhabitants.
Strong Argument this an extravagant view.
br
green
be
belts, will
Repulse Bay Hotel CO-HOITO, rings of factories, offices and New Year's Day, at 430 pm. The dwellings, scientifically arrang-cuses will run a half-hourly ser- ed to avoid waste of time be-vice during the afternoon- tween work and home
Elevat-!
ed speedways and "rail-planes," One case each of diphtheria, besides the development of enteric fever and cerebro-spinal tubes and air transport, will fever were reported to the Health have solved traffic problems. authorities in the 48 hours endedi
Sixty-five years is rather a on Sunday, short time for the accomplish-
ment of such a great trans- A whist drive was held at the formation. -In Mr. Rowse's ex-Cheero Club on Saturday, prizes position of ways and means it being won as follows: Ladies, 1st. depends upon a considerable Mrs. Deacon, 2nd. Mrs Hunt; fall in population. He quotes gentlemen, 1st. “Soldier,” 2nd the estimate of some statis-Mr. Crawford. The next whist. ticians that in 40 years' time we drive will be held on Monday, shall be back at the 1890 level January 6, at 8.30 pm admission of a nation of 33,000,000. 50 cts. including refreshments. Even if that does happen it does
not follow that the population| Mr. A. H. Abbas, the Assistant] of the London area will have Secretary of the Hong Kong Club,
that she gained half a knot by this means.
Your Daily Smile!
With those synthetic complexions, women might be termed "The var nishing race.”
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Heard in Hollywood. "Do you go to church regularly?" "Oh, yes! I'm never married any where else."
Bloom: "I'm glad I met your wife, She seemed to take a fancy to me
Pacque: "Did she? I wish you'd met her sooDe“.”
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The conductor came down the bus collecting fares and stopped before passenger who was sitting with his arms extended in front of him
*Your fare, please?" he asked. "You find money in my righthand
"Five Or Six Years”
to
declined proportionately. It was entertained at a dinner party
The question of employing When the time comes for a may, then, be very difficult to by the Hong Kong Club staff in
overwhelming faces must have settlement the argument will be create the green belts of his connection with his retirement,
been anxiously weighed. If strongly pressed that territory plan by the evacuation of large on Saturday last at the Kam
this were done, meant very which has been entered with areas now residential, however Loong Hotel. After the dinner a coat pocket." said the man high we build the towers at the beautiful gold trinket was
The conductor stared at the man slow progress, me risk of war out fighting, and where the pre-suspiciously.
weariness and bancial exhaus-natives clamour to become centre. We contemplate sented to him by the staff as a "Anything the matter with your tion at home, and increased Italian subjects, cannot be respectfully his vision of the souvenir. Londoners of 2,000, all six feet! high and magnificently deve-
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and training, and we are not overawed by the prediction that they will be mentally "far more! alert" than the present inhabi- tants. In all the many thou-
Dr. Li Shu-fan, who was re-ap-. sands of years of which we
pointed an elected member of the have record the mind of man Sanitary Baard some time ago. has not developed with any such has, it is understood, been invited speed
to become a Government-nominat- ed member of the Urban Council,
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dissolution of the Sanitary Board, and, in the event of the invita- vacancy A striking demonstration of tion being accepted, a the modern British efficiency in for an elected member will result.
It is believed that Dr. S. N.Į coal for power and industrial Chau, a cousin of the Hon. Mr. T. purposes was provided in the N. Chan, member of the Legisla recent report of the Fuel Retive Council, will come forward search Board. Coalowners are as a candidate, and it is stated sometimes accused of failing to that the seat may be contested by provide their mines with the another member of the Chinese latest machinery. There can-medical profession.
SHOP GIRL ATTACKED
not be much substance in that Up to the present, no date for charge, for the amount of coal the election, or for the filing of obtained by machine cutting nominations, has been announced, rose from 20,000,000 tons, in 1910, to 104,000,000 tons in 1931 While the methods of production have thus improved, A man who entered a Ferryhill great economies have been Durham) tea store struck a girl jeffected in almost every process assistant on the head and face.
for which coal is used. The man was later arrested. Iron and Steel Federation
Cheaper
estimates that in that industry manert prosperity. £4,500,000 per annum has been production of fuel, lighting and. saved in the cost of fuel since power diminishes the cost of 1923. In the production of living and provides greater electrical power and of gas the comfort Eeduction in coal: effective value of the coal con iconsmption în industry brings sumed has been enormously in down the cost of manufactured creased
articles The most important
If the processes of these and the most encouraging in- three industries had remained, ference to be drawn from all what they were in 1913, they these statistics is that the lack would last year have used of expansion in coal consump– 21,500,000 more tons of coal than is not due to its replace Though all this economic meat by oil, but to more scienti efficiency may in some degree fic application
be held responsible for the pre- being extended: sent difficulties of the mining national "asset of Industry, it must make for
rises are
arms?" he asked. “Oh, no,” came
barbarism and miszzle.
the reply, he administrative difficulties in allowed to revert once more to width between my hands is the size the theatre of wareh jof a pane of glass I'm going to buy.” On the other hand, the *(Continued on Page 10.)
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
FOLLOWING
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THE VERY FOOTSTEPS OF DEERASMUS
ARE STIEL VISIBLE TODAY,
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50 YEARS AGO
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