To-day's Short Story-
Sandow, The
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Dream Tree
By Gouverneur Morris
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1936
PRIZEGIVING CEREMONY
Govt. Vernacular
Middle School
ATTENDANCE FIGURES WELL MAINTAINED
BUT NO CASUALTIES
REPORTED
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„prevalent in the capital. In the north, it is declared, the troops of This perpetual perpetration of Ras Kassa and Bas Seyoum bave falsehoods does no honour to the utilised the mudden appearance of There
HE money was gone and what she could on the remainder.
British agency,— and cannot con- the rainy period to resume, with was nothing that She might, they agreed, "squeese
tribute to xù improvement of the strong farees their advance - on Johnnie Brinkley could do about out for herself a good part of the unpaid rent.. The old lady had
atmosphere among the nations." Alum The annual prizegiving “ cereTrans-Ocean Service." The trust officer expressed sor-been so kind about everything that row and was almost apologetic he had the impulse to kiss her mony of the Government Vernacu very shy lar Middle School, Pakfalam Road, The committee on investiments had good-by, but he was a
this morning“, before a guessed wrong. Even committees young man even where old ladies was held
He were concerned and the impulse large gathering of pupils, their are human and Nable to err.
The ended in a handshake and a kiss parents and friends. Among those was not the only sufferer..
be present were Mr. G: R. Sayer, blame must not be put on the trust blown from the fingers' when company. but on world conditions was sitting in his car and ready the Director of Education, who which had caused the unparalleled to drive off." depression.
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change cient diggings and workings bec that was all the money be had left came down with it.
in the world.
distributed the prizes, Mr. V. P. Law and Mr. S. W. Liang" (In-
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Fighting On Both
Fronts
ABYSSINIANS BEGIN THEIR OFFENSIVE
OIL AND WAR Sanctions Outlook For Italy
The Italian forces on the nor thern front are said to be offering desperate resistance to the Abya- sinian attack from block-houses and machine-gun nests. Other re- ports state that the any group of Ras Desta on the southern front have · likewise re-opened
their offensive.
WIRELESS. IN ERITREA Rome, earlier: The installation
of a new wireless equipment for communication between Italy and Eritrea has just been completed. The firsă modern short-wave trans-: mitter in Exitres began working i In 1984, but when hostilities brake out the enlargement of the east- ing plant and the erection of stronger transmitter for wireless telephony with a directable beam, specially designed by Marconi, be came necessary.
Addis Ababa, earlier: Fighting of Vernacular Schools)jon a large scale is again begirming Johnnie Brinkley was strongly Gold fever is the most quickly!spectors tempted to panch the trust officer's caught of all the great family of the Hon. Mr. TN Chan, Profes on the southern as well as the nor smag face, but resisted. The fine fevers. And when Johnnie Brink sor Esu Tsian, Mr. Chaz Kthe frost, according to rumours for doing so would be at least ley came in sight of Table Mout-po Mr. Fung Ping-fun, Mr. Chan Kei- twenty-five dollars and with the tain and began to see traces of an- Ping-woon and
cheung-
In presenting his report the In Jim Town he bought the reHeadmaster said :—
"I wish to thank the Director of He strolled out of the great gulation heavy iron pan and the trust company building into the pick and shovel of the prospector. Education most cordially for his bright sunlight of Hill St., walked He bought also some ting of beef, coming here to distribute the briskly to the Athletic Club, wrote of pork and beans, biscuits, and prizes this morning.
· ELEMENTS OF RISK "Our maximum enrolment of his resignation to the board of sweet stuff.
What with these purchases and the year ander review was 248,
A transmitter for wireless tele (By ARTHUR DAVIES) governors, left it in care of the
Italian cerk, and once more went out into the oil and gasoline burned on the as against 252 in 1934. In view
It is quite clear that the pro-phony will be erected in long drive from Los Angeles he of the worldwide depression which
posed embargo on petrol and Somaliland in the very near future. the sunlight
He was trying to think very fast had now no more than two dollars has adversely affected the number other raw materials is causing That these new installations are But thinking fast takes a lot of to his name. But he was excited of pupils generally,
grave anxiety in Italy. The needed immediately' is indicated by He had never felt may be considered regular and Italian people have been annoy-the fact that the press telegrams ..practice. And he had given most and elated.
Almost he could have steady The average daily attend-ed by the economic and finan- from Asmara alone
ance was 96.44 per cent, showing cial sanctions already imposed 21,000 words a day a further improvement on that of by the members of the League "FROZEN FRENCH CREDITS--
French Faris: The 1934, which was 9222 per cent of Nations. These sanctions In this respect I congratulate my are causing a great deal of in-rozen" in Italy owing to the pro- staff and boys for their unfalter-convenience and loss, but the hibition placed by the Italian ing work and good health. On the measures devised to meet them Government on the exportation of lother hand regular attendance seen to be fairly adequate to capital and foreign currencies 450,000,000 could only be attained by the co-tide over the difficulties of the reach a total of operation of our boys' guardians. immediate situation.
francs, according to figures publish-
of his young life to the develop-happier. ment of a fine, healthy body, and blessed the depression.- skill in games and had pretty much allowed his mental processes take care of themselves.
to
He had supposed until that very morning that he would always hareį at least a thousand dollars a monthį. to lize un And the problem of a young gentleman who has nothing to live on now presented itself to him for the first time He sup posed that ordinarily you got a job and went to work, but he had read the newspapers sufficiently to know
were scarcer than hen's teeth.
Johnnie Brinkley wondered, bow
TO-MORROW'S STORY
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To-morrow's story will be “Wild Things." by Gordon
Raby.
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SIR ERIC DRUMMOND TO
RETURN TO ROME-
We should thank-them for having They cannot, it is generallyed by the press here in connection rendered us the assistance by free-believed, in Italy at least, be with the representations made by ing their boys from the distrac-effective to prevent the war the leading French business men. tion of trivial family affairs against Abyssinia continuing the effects
to the French Goverment, relative of the sanctions Final Examination for several months at least, ie. It was dusk when he reached the that there were ten or twelve mil-cabin and drove his car into the
"With the change of the school until Italy's full objective the policy on the economic life of lion men out of work and that jobs shelter of the old leap to shed at year the final examination of our conquest of that country has France. Trans-Ocean Service.
the back. The Mariposa lilies Normal Division was held in July. been achieved. Then, it is cal Of the 10 boys who sat for this culated, the League of Nations were ja bloom and resembled long it would be before his natty swarms of brightly coloured but examination ve passed and gain will have to accept an accom and practically new suit began to terfies. The air was sweet, thined their teacher's certificates. I plished fact, just as it did to
London, To-day. The British shine at the knees and elbows and and fresh. It smelt of rosin and am happy to say that among our the case of Japan's conquest of
past Normal students some are Manchuria and Jehol. his shoes to wear out. But be re-
Ambassador in Rome, Sir Eric pine needles.
work of This sort of optimistic out-Drummond, who has been in Eng-|---- called with satisfaction that in his
There was plenty of water in the doing private research rooms he had many other suits and brook, too much, perhaps.
their own, each attempting to look has enabled the ordinary land on leave, is returning to his! write a book on his favourite Italian citizen to suffer present post in a week or 10 days time. pairs of shoes and shirts and
ains, however, were over and pre-
afternoon-he-saw-the things. Perhaps he could raise
sently, perhaps there might not be branch of study in spite of their hardships in contemplation of Yesterday
Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony 'some money on some
them
More Serious Matter Eden, at the Foreign Office, and And this reminded him that he ough But Johnnie remembered strennous teaching work at private ultimate triumph.
that somewhere or other a black macular schools. We are
glad to see them coming) The stopping of those sup-also paid a courtesy “call on the| must have a talk with his landlady
pipe came out of a hitside and the ways
back to their Alma Mater for plies which are necessary to the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bald and explain what had happened.
He walked back to the Athletic year round dripped water into a Club, anparked his car, and drove square, concrete tank where his consultations with their old teach- prosecution of war is, however, win-British Wireless Service.
Private study with a fixed a far more serious--indeed a Home was an attractive/Lather had been accustomed to pin is always the sure way lead fatal injury to the Italian ing to the attainment of scholar-cause. Without petrol for sitting room, bedroom, and bath in dirt when the brook failed
The nearest neighbours, he re-
ships, though various degrees of instance, her modern mechanis- an old fashioned house on Frank- lin St. He had occupied these membered, had lived a mile or
and application of individual halt. rooms since the death of his more down the road and on the success depend upon the efforts ed army must come to an abrupt parents and he was fond of his other side of the brook. His father had sent him once with a message. landlady because she was what he There had been a man and his wife called a "square shooter."
home.
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**MR. EDEN TO SPEAK ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
London, To-day. Before leaving London to attend the Council of This, however, is precisely In the School Certificate Exam- the reason why the League the League of Nations meeting at
Genevaon January 20, M and a very little girl who walked ination all the six boys in our/Members should not hesitate to Anthony Eden will fulfi a speak-}
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ing engagement at Leamington in his constituency on Friday, Im- uary 17. This will be his first
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Mrs. Radcliff heard him out and drunkenly and, hiding behind her Class Higher Middle III entered. mother's skirts, took an occasional and three passed, gaining in all peep at him. He could not remem five distinctions Chan Yik-on is young men were in the same boat berhemerge or the man's name to be congratulated on obtaining and she didn't know what the It might be amusing to look him honours and three distinctions, in- Icluding one in Higher Chinese, world was coming to sayhow. She told him not to worry about the up. It might not.
The cabin door was not locked. especially because this distinction rent until he felt able to pay it. And she offered to store whatever In the mother lode country there was awarded for the first time by has never been any need of locked Hong Kong University. A word possessions he did not wish to doors. In the old days those who of thanks is due to King's Col take with him, free of charge had no respect for private property lege Being short of English And she wanted to know, if it was were promptly shot or hanged and staff, our top clase boys had to ceived last night between 11 COMMODITY PRICES n't indiscreet, what he proposed toeft behind them an aftermath of share for a year the benefit of the and 12.30 pm
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checks, hung a water colour paint ing, not too bad, of, a rustic cabin
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Sporting Sphere "In the sphere of sports we NY. Eubber continued to encourage inter-class | competitions in order that regular Chicago Wheat
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Copper Mra. Radcliff might have thought fever and one of cerebro-spinal However, we did not neglect foot-mes Food & that he had reached a decision only fever were reported to the local hall training whenever our boys Share after careful 2nd methodical Health authorities during the 24 had the chance of playing ́on General Motors 55/2 thought He pointed to the pic-hours ended on Wednesday.
public grounds. M Montgomery
"In the Inter-school League NY. Centrala 23% 29 "That's in the mother lode con- The consumption of water in the Match our Junior Volley Ball US Steel try," he said, "not far from Jim City and Hill district during Team turned out runners-up, and The following quotatious from Lon March Town.". This year's taxes have December was 295.08 million gal-at the Inter-school Athletic Meets don were received last night between been paid and I have kept the cabin lons, including 4442 million gal-one of our boys came third in the 5:00 pm and 10.30 p
Silver Spot 20-13/16 (it close), July in order out of sentiment. It's ons supplied from the mainland, 1,500 metre distance swinning. 20% (last recd.), 5/16 down September where father got his start. He the figure for Kowloon and New Mr. Wong Kwok-fong, after ten (change)31) found a pocket worth five or six Kowloon during the same period yeary services as sports master, Silver Forward unquoted. thousand dollam, bought stock in being 189.30 million galona. relinquished these extra duties in ·Silver Report: India bought and. the Bright Angel mine and made?ona
July, which have been taken up by sold Speculators sold There was Chicago Wheat
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Liverpool Wheat March 6/552 It won't cost me $1 a day to live, from poisoning. Miss Gregor, who volley-ball teams, which have turn down (change)
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h-tweeds, hunting boots” of Australia, where he will leather well broken tz, fan-his restarch, studying the Au
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