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FAMILY SICK
DUCK TAMPERED WITH
ACCUSED REMANDED
Wong Kwok-shing, aged 18, who was brought before Mr.
Here There and D Everywhere.
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a few
EXPLORING BEFORE ITALIAN LINE
GUGSA'S TROOPS LED
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S. F. Balfour at the Central MOTOR-RACING ETONIANS All communications intended for Magistracy on March 30 charged. If Mr. Charles Martin, the rac- |publication should be addressed to with administering poison or aing driver, succeeds in his attack the Editor, and be accompanied by noxious thing to six inmates of on the mountain record at Brook- the Writer's Name and Address No. 22 Mercer Street again ap lands, the title will remain not necessarily for insertion, but peared before His Worship this Etonian hands.
Both Mr. Martin, who es a guarantee of good faith. morning, when Detective Sub-
Inspector O'Donovan prosecut-weeks ago finished second in the ing, asked for a remand until Grand Prix de Pau, and Mr. R. O. such time as the Government Shuttleworth,, the present holder, When the history of Italy's in-hostile. Actually these inhabit- Analyst's report was received were at Eton.
vasion of Ethiopia comes to be ants of the Tigre showed no sign. The accused was an intimate Mr. Shuttleworth took the title written I wonder if any mention of resistance to the invaders. One friend of a family of six, having from Mr. Whitney Straight last will be made of two khaki-clad young black lad ran to fetch the **** been previously employed by year. He is making a remarkable
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Hong Kong, Monday, April 6, 1936. the chief complainant, Ag Hoi recovery from his bad crash in white men, who were waiting at chief. We sat down on some rocios, aged 40. On the night of the South African Grand Prix in the foot of Amba Enda Miczel for and while we were waiting I hip- March 26 he presented Ng Hoi January
the advance on Makalle, and ledjed a small black ooy to carry my with a duck and suggested that The Brooklands mountain the left line of Ras Gugsa's irre-roll of blankets
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scimitar he will not demean ha-
the family should eat it that cord for motor-cycles is held bygulars, which had then been in- It had to be a very small boy,. night. They did so. and all, Mr. J. W. Forbes, the only Gid corporated with the Italian for because as soon as an Ethiopian It would be difficult to discover with the exception of the accus- Etonian to become a professional ces, for several miles across the is big enough to carry a rifle os more solid ground for confidence ed, who ate a good quantity of motor-cycle racer. He caxed the plain. in the future of American aero-sugar immediately after the Eton eight at Henley in 1926 and nautics than was afforded by meal, were ill by 2 am. The 1927. the fourth annual meeting of sugar, it was stated by the pro-
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Perhaps in future "Fantasias," self by carrying burdens-those when the Ethiopians, with song are for women, old men, and child- and dance, recount their prowess, ver. I once induced one, by siv- those two mystericus figures will ing him money, to take my pack.
youngster suddenly sat down on
From where
him, and further
we were sitting.
the Institute of the Aeronautical secution. was an antidote for LLOYD'S NEW BELL Sciences held at Columbia Uni- the particular fluid which the Another ship's bell is to keep assume supernatural proportions, and let me carry his rifle, bat versity last month. For three accused had administered to the company with the famous Latine Their exit may be in a cloud of after about a hundred yards the dars some 300 leaders in the duck before presenting it to the Bell at Lloyd's. This hangs in the are over Makalle. field gave absorbed attention to complainant."
Underwriting Room and is rung At the end of the march from the track and retused to look at technical papers presented by a The accused in a previous when score of their number and parti-statement admitted that he importance are made.
announcements of specialjAgula on the previous day with me or to speak. His shame had cipated widely in the ensuing wanted the family unconscious
AD Askari column. I had come overwhelmed discussion. The range of sub- so that he would be able to Cunarder Carmania, which
The new one was the bell of the across John Whitaker, war corres offers of cash did not avail to re-
did jects was astonishing and bore steal some money. This, morn-gallant service
ponent of the New York Herald store his amour propre. witness to how many indepen-ing, he admitted the charge and craiser during the war,
armed Tribune, and we joined forces for Warriors' Greeting dent sciences find vital meeting His Worship granted a remand
the night. which #e spent The Carmania was broken up in under a bush. moints with that of aviation. of 72 hours, pending the arrival 1932. Her bell then passed into a Shumbashi (sergeant) waking Whitaker and I had a fine view of
The chanting of] The metallurgist. the meteoro of the Analyst's report. logist, the radio engineer. the Sub-Inspector O'Donovan stat-who had served in her. He has dawn, and, leaving the troops, we
the possession of Cmdr. J. R. Bane, his Askaria
roused before the plain of Makalle.
Cultivated fields stretched physicist in many specialiseded that the fluid was believed to how presented it to Lloyd's. fields: all find themselves close-be a concoction of Belladonna, a ly involved in the complex of in-plant which was easily obtain-place of the smoking-room of the
It has been hung over the fire-to the plain.
set out down the steep Amba face across to the mountain, behind the western spur of which the
situated, and almost. creased speed and safety for able.
The Askaris were bound left-town was Captains' Room. The bell fight Members of the insti-
hawards for Delo, so we struck right straight across our path ran the proved irresistible to tute were much heartened dur EXPLANATION OF members of Lloyd's, who have regulars, who were to be the first the Mai (river) Dolo.
many to intercept the advance of the ir-stream which goes on to Dolo-
Directly struck "eight bells at all sorts of
south was a walled house built of inappropriate times.
to enter the town.
brown stone, with a low, square As' yet no official ruling has]
gate-tower at its eastern end. been given regarding the The sun came up over the moun-which had a few encalyptus trees casions on which it is to be rung-tain range behind us, and the air[grouped about it
ing the meeting by the an nouncement of a bequest from an anonymous donor of $500.000 to be realised in the future which, coming after the bequest of the late Dr. Sylvanus Albert Reed to establish the annualį
name, Was
That only the surface of aero-
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began to lose some of its chill. On the spar of the mountain. award bearinglusive evidence of Trent Portuguese ne Dory
As we topped a low spur at the hiding Makalle the dun-coloured: centre of the three cliff-like ends tuculs of a village called Sciafat the esteem in which the work of on Christmas Day 1450. He dis-
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of the mountain we saw in front were clearly visible. There was this scientific clearing house is covered and named Natal (Portu-me a commandment with only four conical thatches of the
Teacher: "Can any little child give of us the rough stone walls and no sign of any Ethiopian forces-- held.
guese for Christmas) on Christ-words in it?"
hamlet Ras Seyum had evidently wisely Day 1497. Ee died 03 Nellie: "Keep off the grass.”.
called Ariena. Some Ethiopians decided on discretion for this oc- nautical accomplishment has Christmas Day 1524.
with long rides slung on their casion. Įbeen scratched was made clear
An Austrian handsman is said to shoulders were
about moving
The chief It costs him rather a lot for cornets black girl come
of the village 2p- have the strongest lungs in the world. among the huts, but we saw a peared with two or three because he is continually blowing the
out of a tucul warriors, all with slung rifles, and carrying on her head 2 bulbous we did our best to talk with them water-pot with the neck stuffed by signs. When they understood. with straw, and this "business as we wanted to go on to Makalle. usual" atmosphere reassured us. there was an outburst of chatter- Our arrival created a stir. Qurling. The chief pulled aside his reception might well have been (Continued on Page 10)
during the proceedings of the Official Enlightenment meeting. While it was shown that the raind of aeroplane de-
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signer, engine and propeller Since the advent of Hitler in things out quite straight. builder, and air-transport Germany, books by German.
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Customer: possibilities of the thin airs ofty, unless the authors register called "Man, the Ruler "
"Have you that book the sub-stratosphere and the their adherence to Nazi principles
Salesgirl: "Fiction department on stratosphere itself to bring the with the Bureau of Culture and the first floor, six" speed of air travel to 300 or Enlightenment. That is called more miles an hour, the consen-co-ordination. In February 1935, sus was that the utilisation of the Burean crdered Adalbert Stif- at least the higher strata ofter, the famous poet and painter, these upper levels was beset to register as a Nazi, under pain with serious problems. Control of having his works excluded in of pressures and temperatures Germany. The Bureau did not! lover an enormous range for know, what every. German school-
sealed, super-charged cabins is boy is supposed to know, that} only one of them. Efficient Adalbert Stifter had died in 1868, operation of propellers where sixty-seven years previously. the atmosphere is so tenuous as,
to be almost intangible, wing $30,000,000 FOR
loadings which will prove suit- able at once for the climb to and descent from the rarified level and swift fight within it, and (the design of a plane which can take advantage of the westerly winds which may reach 100 miles an hour at 40,000 to 45,000 feet across the American
DEFENCE
Hawaii's Budget Appropriations
Honolulu. More than $30,000,-
continent and still fly efficiently 000 will be spent by army and at lower or higher-levels on the navy services in Hawaii during jeast-west journey, are others. 1936,
The best minds, however, in This sum, nearly as much as the National Advisory Commit-the gross total sales of Hawaii's tee for Aeronautics and the pineapple pack, is figured on the technical institutes, as well as basis of expenditure during the| among the practical builders. past year--$16,167,662.53 for the are addressed to these complex army and 314,037,000 for the navy. questions. The weather experts That these expenditures will be promise much more accurate in- increased during the current year formation as to the upper airs is evident in the fact that part of through the development of the a promised fund of $6,250,000 fs automatic instrument known as now being spent by the army in the radio meteorograph. Mean Hawaii. for improved equipment while, it is evident that in an and new projects. This amount, art 30 new as flying, totally of course, is in addition to`regular novel approaches to difficult pro-yearly expenditures amounting tof blems may be expected from the approximately $16,000,000. concentration of so many inter-1 ested minds, as in the case of the disclosure at the
receat
meeting that a pilot can fly
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