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W Baer and Louis open fire HOW BLERIOT STARTED
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Notice To Contributors. All communications intended f something is sure to drop, and it [publication should be addressed to❘ was Baer, in the fourth round. the Editor, and de accompanied by Dr D-E-White, well-known by crossing the Channel faster the Writer's Name and Address specialist, offers the following than anyone had ever done be not necessarily for insertion, but scientific explanation of just what fore, takes the view that young as a guarantee of "good faith.
happens when a knockout occurs people to-day are in too-much-of- ****The common knockout — the a hurry.
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blow to the "button" or point of He. has recently explained some |the jaw — is the result of a dis-early steps in his career which turbance · of the semi-circular do, however, illustrate the virtne
of his
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HEROIC FEATS PERFORMED BY “STAR” `WORKMEN
(By A. T. Chollerton)
to Moscow ter use of his mates and their Jcanals in the ears. Those delicate of perseverance. The seroplane 2TURNING
after several weeks in tools, quite unexpectedly "sur- canals of the inner ear are the in which he made his famous Europe, I find Red Russia swept passed" the highest Ford norms balancing organs of the body fight was the eleventh he can by one Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 13 1336. When the lower jawbone is struck structed, the fruit of eight years boost industrial output by in- The young engine driver...
more" wild drive to in Detroit.
with suficient-force on the point, efforts
creasing individual piece-work Krivonoseof, who insisted on the condyle, or boss, at the upper He was first struck with the inormas. Japan's Withdrawal.
running "freight trains, "ata' and inner end of the bone is driven possibilities of the aeroplanej On Aug. 30 Alexei Stakhanof, speed for which the Russian forcibly up into the glenoid cavity when he saw a machine on ex-a sort of coal-mining "Sandow"railways seemed quite unpre- Quite apart from the fact of the skull, behind which is hibition in Paris in 1901. that both in the Treaty of situated the delicate labyrinth of He set aside a corner
in the Donetz Basin, where out-pared. Washington and in the exten-the inner ear. The jawbone strikes workshop for his aeronautical re suddenly cut 102 tons of coal whom it is claimed that they pat had been lagging seriously, The sisters Vinogradov, for sion of it by the Treaty of Lon-hard upon the thin plate of bone searches, but kept his activities with his pneumatic drill in a mind over 200 looms each. don it was stipulated that that supports these sensitive or quiet, because he did not want single six-hour day instead of Maria Demchenko, the woman Naval Conference should beans, and conveys a shock to the people to think the inventor of the the normal six tons.
sugar beet champion, who has held, it was correct procedure to semi-circular canals that is in-Bleriot lamp a madman”
Of course, he made use of put into the shade the laborious bring Japan to the Council table stantly transmitted by them to the For five years, it is curious to humbler miners-a score of Prussians, who, it is well and let her argue her own case cerebellum - the back of the recall he concentrated
upon them to put in the pit props, known, get about twice as much and take openly and formally train — producing dizziness and machine with fapping wings, with pick up the pieces, and perhaps sugar-beet from an acre as the her own decision on the ques- momentary paralysis."
a special light-weight engine.
prise off such lumps as had been hard-bitten northern French. tion of the limitation of naval
imperfectly detached from the! forces and the fortification of
LATENITY A LA MODE
Revivalist Fervour coal face.. bases. The action taken has
At excited meetings in tens been what was expected, and
This fine feat of rationalisa-of thousands of factories, tarms A Lively Lid
Most people are much stirred by only the method is slightly sur- A man lost his 12t
in a strong the information that an immense tion was meticulously planned and Soviet offices. Stakhanovites A woman screen at Olympia was recently to in advance with the local party "bear witness with the true prising. For Japan has retir. He gave chase.
screamed from a near-by-cottage: ed from the Conference on
show the "romance of radio in Sve chief, and was promptly reward-American revivalist" touch. "What are you doing there?"
ed with a furnished flat and a declaring how colours." point of procedure which ap
much happier "Getting my hat be replied. pears to involve a claim that she Your hat exclaimed the woman But the glowing conjectures, two-horse droshky. It led they feel now they are produc- or her own authority should "That's our little black hem you're were doomed to disappointment an outbreak of other "strong, ing more on more rational lines, The screen was more static than man- acts in Donbas, where in a Kussia which the Kremlin control the action of the other chasing." Naval Powers.
dynamic; its changes in colour every pit, of course, wanted to has just told to be joyous.” were practically
coal-heaving Everybody is compelled to come imperceptible, |
3.
Your Daily Smile!
Two Birds “Young man,” demanded the Esther, i
have its
OW
At the opening all the deleg- ates were invited to put forward tell me the truth; why do you want and the romance of radio was ap- gladiator, and thence it spread in, including aged members of The the Russian Academy, whom we their proposals, and Admiral to marry my daughter? Is it for parently indicated by the silto all other industries. Nagano tabled the expected de- her own sake or to pay of your houette of a town and the arms Dictatorship nad at once adopt-find humbly testifying to the of the Radio Manufacturery As-ed this "Stakhanovite Move-merits of tactics of "hell for mand for a limitation of ton-debts?"
"Well,” replied the lad, "suppose
ment" as a heaven-sent chance leather, even when applied to nage that would be the same for you pay off my debts fish, and then sociation all and would ignore both the wait and see”
The arms were accompanied by to increase the admittedly low the more exact sciences. difference in the duties falling
fearly stages to sneer at such revivalist drives as "Russian tion of the mileage involved in the profits from the stockholdersformed that this somewhat be the official heroes of the hour. such drives may be for the staid An enquirer was officially in- Now the Stakhanovites are [hysteria." However unsuitable attacking from a distant bese
to be performed by the varions-
fleets and the geographical ques-
+X
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Financial Note "Pa, what's a sinking fund?” “A place, my son, where they hide
a Latinesque motto the initials of output of the average Russian It is easy, especially in their
which follow those of the associa worker tion-Radio Mazimo Arto.
was
Star Performers
.
Waves Of Assault
one of the greatest elements The building of the new fleetjwildering phrase means: "Broad-The Soviet Press reports the industries of our Western lands, of defence, though not so visible continued, and European casting to the Farthest Shore.". doings and sayings of these they constitute the best, and as forts and guns. So far all jealousies were exploited by the In a way, yes.
simple people to the exclusion of indeed the only, way here. Just was to order, but other Powers device of a treaty with England,
most other matters. Ther because he is less capable of a tabled other proposals, some of for the purpose of avoiding any
CALLED TO DYING WOMAN
names were quite unknown steady effort on a given line. which would not be worth dis-repetition of bowing the knee
when I went on leave some your average Russian worker cussing if the Japanese pro-to a combination that would be When Dr. Thomas G. D. weeks ago.
the more readily responds to posal should be adopted. It was too strong to resist. The war Bonar, of Harley-street.
Įsuch sudden stimuli. Their momentary fame sur~- therefore suggested that, after with Russia put the defensive summoned at Brentford Police-passes that of the leading joc-1 the Japanese plan had been dis-boundary much further North court for exceeding the 30 mp.key in England, the leading Results are obtained by waves cussed, the other plans should any land attack could hence-h. speed limit, he said that he vamp in Hollywood, the leading of assault util something also be discussed before any-forth be met and resisted in was about to go to an operation matador in Spain. Besides breaks, when there is always thing was put to the vote or any Manchuria. It is only fair to when he was called to a dying Stakhanof there are:
time to consolidate the posi final decision made. Admiral acknowledge that when the woman. He was making up Bussigin, from the Gorki tions gained. Foreign intellec Nagano, acting on instructions great war come Japan did her the time he had lost. He was motor plant in former Nijni tuals may make themselves ridi from his own Government, re-share of work as a good ally, ordered to pay 10s costs. Novgorod, who, by making bet- (Continued on Page 12) fused to allow such general dis- land used the opportunity to cussion. and retired at. once turn the Germans out of Tsing-
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-though probably he will leave twenty-one. demands showed a representative to report what where her ambitions lay, but jis done but not to act as a once again she had been a little
delegate.
headstrong, and both in Shan- The retirement the deleg-tung and Siberia she had to Jate was entirely undramatic as retire to avoid having to en-
are most of our contemporary force claims which she was not] gestures, and it was accompani-yet ready to defend. Retire- fed by polite expressions of good-ment, showed no change of will on both sides. It is also policy-only A postponement true that there is not likely to Europe was again. preoccupied [be any distinct or even any with her own affairs.
Any noticeable result for some, time advantages that might accrue to come. It would nonetheless from membership of the League! be a great mistake to treat the were sacrificed for the more incident as unimportant It is solid advantages of the occupa- one of those decisions which tion of Manchuria Neither will bear much fruit in the Europe nor America relished [future, and the more as the this, but they were still too fall years pass by. It means that of their rivalries and resent- Japan has abandoned the policyments to do anything about it of co-operation with. Europe They might retaliate by impos- which has served her so well ing prohibitive duties, and during the last half century.tried to do this in a halfhearted The Meiji period saw her drop way, but the reply was the the policy of aloofness adopted practical occupation of Inner to ward off the influence of a Mongolia and then Northern civilisation that she felt was China. Incidentally her policy materially, more effective than made the League a laughing her own. It was a great deci-stock, and it is still uncertain sion The moral courage of it whether it will be possible to has been more appreciated, as get any ambitious State to take it has more and more complete it seriously..
by achieved its purpose. In all these moves Japan Foreign teachers and instrucnever forgot the teaching of tars were to be freely employed Admiral Mahan on the in the firm confidence that the Influence, of Sea Power on His- national spirit would be strong tory?" After the one" lesson enough to cast them out as soon she never incurred a chance of as Japan felt strong enough to meeting a superior feet.Now stand alone against the world: she faces the world and says in She declares to-day by her effect "Build what fleets you action that that time has now like; we do not believe you can ever work together, and we in- The successive steps are tend to be stronger in the laown to all, but they make an Pacific than any single Power, ImgLERSIVE-Tetrospect. The and to use our strength to war with China was intended to establish for the Orient co start the scheme of defence by plete freedom from even the acquisition of Port Arthur threat of Occidental and Korea Of the Port she ence." Ascendancy has was robbed by combination of gained. It remains
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