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YESTERDAYS CARTOON
The Duke Of Diamonds
II of Brunswick
7. Garrick Street, Landos, W.CD1804-1875) left his throne
There and Everywhere
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Many people have
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Notice To Contributors, and Fingdour forever on September All communications intended for 7. 1850, when an enraged mob publication should be addressed to stormed his pale. He took with |the Editor, and be accompanied by him a fortune estimated at about
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Hong Kong Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1996.
Egypt's Political Kaleidoscope
GET ON OR GET OUT
BRITAIN'S WEAKNESSES IN MEDITERRANEAN
ADEQUATE AIR DEFENCE NEEDED FOR MALTA AND GIBRALTAR
M
(By Captain Norman Macmillan)
FALTA, our hey naval bise Туре.
centre the Mediter sheranean, is intenable against Breda es
|Savoia÷S-72- neither French or Italian air 20-Breda 64
Speed in Bomb Load..
Cartie
the verisimilitude. After travelling scross the con- timert, the Duke finally settled - in
Mandoa, Mandoa!** Geneva, Switzerland. He chose the a novel about that Swiss city
as a result of being in a letter whi courteously treated by a local wrote just hel policeman, and decided to make the (correspondent
Isaid: “I wrote later, a Trafie cop rebuked the ing homes and- Bake for driving on the left, and torous places, recovering from a range of Italian bomber operat Piaggio P 16 245 almost caused the Dake to revoke long thess** This bequest.
city his sole heir. About 40 years
2
tion: Gibraltar is within the Savoia S. 79 ----
ing from Sardinia. Our mandate Although the new Bristol She adds that Lord Buxton, the in Palestine does not give us the ber-whose prototype was DIO- Earl II died in Geneva in 1878 British adviser sent to the right to turn that country into anduced through the foresight of intestate and his fortune fell to our of Abyssinia shout the slane armed base. Egypt, we have, sur private citizen, Lord - Rothermere the city. With some of it a huge trade, wanted to know "how I had rendered to the Egyptians, there will re-establish “our position
nonument to the Duke was erect- obtained much of my information,
Rome's Heritage
to equal these: Italian performan- |ces at the present time." What does this`menu?
Of all the wonders that come on the shores of Lake Geneva which was true but supposed to be by abnegating our right-ot make against the Piaggio P 16 when it a stronghold of British power. deliveries are erected and pilots out of Egypt none could be more An illegitimate daughter claimed Private."
Thus Britain's ancient strate-have learned to use it, the Koyal startling at the present time he fortune. Her contest caused a Actually it came "from" guide- than the decision taken by the wait which lasted until 1985, books and reports, and from con-gical command of the Mediter Air Force squadrons have nothing Premier, Tewfik Nessim Pasha,when the highest tribunal finally versations with people who knew ranean has been swept away. to recommend the restoration of uphold the city of Genera as the the country- the Constitution of 1923. A rightful heir to the Duke's estate. "United Front,” comprising all political parties in Opposition |and including many non-party men, had achieved unexpected unanimity in a resolve to peti-
Ate A Bear With The Bear's Own Teeth.
*
Italy bids fair to dominate the
With Gibraltar an ancient fort- JULES VERNE DID NOT TRAVEL | Mediteranean—from the Levant,
freas that could fall before serial along the northern shores of The outstanding case of a
Africa, through the narrows to attack as the forts of Liege, and novelist who in imagination the Ligurian Sea; and with tha
Namur fell before the onslaught travelled the world be had never domination her status has rise of German heavy artillery - seen was Jules Verne, who rarely
once again to the proud position tack against Gibraltar with his (Montgolfier considered aerial at-
near Amiens.
tion King Fuad for this poli First prize in the recent itical change, which has long national "Believe It or Not" con stirred a mile from his village that her subjects locis: upon are balloon in 1783)—with Malta
been desired by the extreme Na-test. goes to Miss Doris Lee of
their rightful heritage from the A contemporary British writer
an untenable island from which tionalists of the Waid party- Anoka, Minn., for the story of
days of the grandeur of Rome. who marvellously captures the Nessim Pasha, and his Cabinet Nimrod Robertson's unique dental
This swift turning of the tables our fleets have withdrawn to Alex- favour of places he has never seen has resulted from Italy's develop-andria and Haifa, we must com were preparing to resign in accomplishments in the wilds of
is James Bilton, whose Russian face of this formidable union of Alaska.
"atmosphere" in "Kaight Without ent of air power to suit her sider the possibilities that exist forces against them. But with About 30 years ago, Mr. Robert-moms and Tibetan atmos strategic poition in the Mediter the event of war an agility of mind which took san was prospecting for gold-on his own Ministers by surprise, the Yukon near Eagle, Alasia and phere" in "The Lost Horizon is Anean basin. From Sardinis in Must we face evacuation of the feat if we attempt to ́hold it with Nessim Pasha reflected .over-
was known throughout the Yukon Purely imagined. But Mr. Filton the west to Rhodes and Cyrenaic Mediterranean or risk possible de
trange the whole of the Mediter your present forces? Inight and decided himself to cry for his genius and the proposes in the immediate future in the east, Italian planes can
Wings Over £ypHE put-forward the Oppositional things he did. But the most travel round the world.
This question was discussed the ranean Sea, as Roman and Vene- policy.
There is but one place where unusual happened when his health
other day with Ann Bridge, who tian war galleys once. swept its It cannot be pretended that 2 began to fail. He decided that the
we have still the right to main- return to the 1923 Constitution cause of ill health was badly de
knows intimately Chine and Myria, waters
She is all for anot appreciate the real strength passage of our shipping through
mixed blessing. Even in the fance from a dentist, he pulled all
of her novels.
without modification is an un-cayed teeth, and being a long die which have made the background Mest people in Great Britain dotain armed forces to protect the ranks of the Wafd there have his own teeth with an ordinary Povelist sticking to things he knows of Italy at the present time. They the waterway of the Mediterran- been admissions that it was "im-pair of pliers -But he had to have at first hand. In the other sort of do not realise that her bombing jean. That place is Cyprus, an perfect, and Sir Samuel Hoare teeth, and devised a way of malwork, she says, an expert can al-feets are superior to ours in muta-island large enough to form an
when he regretfully describeding artificial plates himself.
Heways spot the cracks
Your Daily Smile!
ALL IN VEIN
bers, speed, range and carrying adequate base, large enough to capacity. With typical British support a garrison on a scale re- it in his Guildhall speech as then fashioned metal plates to fit
placidity they say to themselves quisite to meet the situation. “mworkable,” could have back-his mouts and shots beat, in order
"We really cannot be so badly off. But It is useless to consider a ed his statement by the fact to obtain teeth, which be set in
We must have something up our proposal to turn Cyprus info 3 that between 1923 and 1930 the plates for a perfect fit. The
sleeve."
|huge naval base. Apart from its had thrice to be suspended bear he hung up to freeze, 2nd A retired business man, who
The New Eagles
lack of natural harbours, umpro- Two of the statesmen respon- during the long winter he ate the has settled down in the country, This attitude makes me shuëtected naval ships could never sible for its suspension, Mo-ear himself with the bear's own writes that it is so quiet in his der The Air Ministry cannot maintain free hamed Mahmud Pasha and Ismail Sidky Pasha, have, re- cently joined the United Front, which pressed for its.
teeth
reintroduction. They may be FLOOD MENACE
taken to have been moved, chiefly by the tactical man- oeuvres of the Wafd, who have
IN FRANCE
passage in the
village that he can sit and listen bring high-speed bombers out of Mediterranean from Port Said to
to his arteries hardening.
Sheh!
"We" were slowly starving" said the great explorer, at the boarding house table, but we cut up our boots and made soup of them."
“Shih-b! Not so loud," exclaimed a
hear you."
its sleeve as a conjurer produces the narrows between Sicily and rabbits from a hat-t
Tunisia, where lies the Italian is- Here are the performances of land Pantelleria Kaval ships some Italian bombers calculated could not guarantee safe paSKEKE for a range of 1,200 miles. The from these narrows to the Stamāts range can be increased by reduc-of Gibraltar. Even anbmarines
|creased by reducing range.
Threatening Rise Of fellow boarded. "The landlady mighting bomb load, or bomb load in- would not be safe; they could be
The Loire
com-
pretended that Britain would veto any return to 1923, and roused the students to riot as | a demonštration against a veto
CHINA MAIL. SPECIAL which in fact has never been exercised As Sir Samuel Hoare
Paris, To-day. stated in the Commons last
The River Loire rose, month, the British- Government siderably over Sunday in con- when consulted last spring gave sequence of the increasing rain- their advice that a suitable or fall during the last few days. ganic law should be drafted If the river should continue to Sir Miles Lampson suggested arise a great number of factories formula which Nessim Pasha in the city of Nantes will be quoted - in a communique last forced to cease work. A con- month: "No one was opposed siderable part of the district to the return to Parliamentary where the factories and work- life at the appropriate moment; ing-class tenements are located it was for the Egyptian Govern- has already been flooded ment to decide the form that In Chantenay the tramway was preferable.”
traffic has been interrupted; an Now that it is clear that the the water in the streets is Wafd have been diligently fore-standing a metre high. The ing a door that was always railway service on the Paris open, it may be hoped that they Nantes line has likewise been and their temporary allies will interrupted and traffic is being cease to rouse to anti-British diverted over other routes. excesses the always excitable Trans-Ocean Service.. intelligentsia of Egypt. During
the earlier months of last year there was usual good feeling between the two nations. Events over their borders de įmonstrated to the Egyptians
the reality of the protection given them by the presence of the British navy and British troops, and common action on sanctions helped to consolid a friendly feeling pretation of Sir Samuel E Guildhall speech gravely turbed these goo n those who ha
the
SUBSIDIARY COINS BEING
MINTED
Nanking, To-day-Acting upon
istractions from the Ministry of Finance, the Central Mint began to coin subsidiary coins yester day. In view of the pressing de- mands, the sabsidiary coins, will be circulated as soon as apprDVE is granted by the Central Govern ment”.........-Central News Agency ently re
~ {Continued on Page 203.
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