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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
A Versatile Sportsman
HENRI Strand of Seattle has
Here There and
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three different cham-"REDS" ANNEX A SAINT
In a Spanish village recently
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Pacific Northwest F.M.C.A meet cept one. as a guarantee of good faith.
In 1932 in Everett, Washington. at George Wright, Spokane, procession bearing the only sur # For Ge The Whared the Out-viving image of a saint to stop Hittle of seven England air. What you see from the air door Long Range Smallbore title, outside the party headquarters.
you or anybody else has ever is a painter's palette, a There the local leader tied 笾 shooting 199 out of 200. In 1935
monious blend of greens and he won the singles handball title piece of paper to the hand of the
It does not follow that be-browns. What you see from of the Pacific Northwest Associa- image. At the shrine the priestsi tion at the Multnomah Athletic found that the paper was a Com-cause England is small she is the newly constructed roads is therefore easy to know. Aa garish rash of scarlet, the un- Club in Portland The tourna-munist party membership card.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
of
(By S. P. B. Mais)
TTAS ever struck you how, than you can see her from the
seen?
har-
It was incribed something like small safe can be more difficult healed wound of a land laid
to open than a huge cupboard. waste.
the this:
Mr. & Mrs. Fung Kong Un besments are the means of determin- to announce that the marriage of ing official champions their daughter, Stella, to Mr.Pacific Northwest district, com- Chau Sing Kan will take place at prising the three states -- Wash- the Registry on Thursday 21 May ington, Oregon and Idaho. 1936. No invitations are being issued but all friends will be Sweet Milk To Butter welcome at the Reception to be
In Three Minutes held at the Hong Kong Hotel at 4.30 p.m
Telly C. Rowland
Name: Santo Tomas. Residence: Shrine at the of the hill
Profession: Saint.
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IMPROVED LORD'S WICKET
The Alps and the Steppes are obvious. England is the least
top obvious country in the world.
It is stated that the effect of
Bicycles Are Too Swift Nor is the landscape seen
She demands from those who from the carriage window of a calculated to seek to unveil her beauty cer- railway train
The track runs, for tain qualities that are daily be inspire. coming more difficult to attain. obvious reasons, through the
First, there is the
least attractive parts of the tempo.
of relaying the Lord's wicket has You and I are in love with country towns, the houses turn Mrs Texas, dected been good. There is. therefore, speed. We find, most of us, their backs to it, and only the desire its better Hong Kong, Thursday, May 14, 1936|
a machine that takes sweet milk hope for better scares than those a sense of superb satisfaction factories
We like the feeling acquaintance, while the coun- and turns out butter in the short of last season, when the "middle" in flying.
that we are saving time: wetryside itself slips past as an National Recovery
space of 3 minutes. It separates was ruined by leatherjackets.
Only ten xides put up totals like, in moderation, the sense findeterminate medley of rather the cream thoroughly from the
sense of commonplace green fields. is
How often in the boat train definitely If the state of the shipbuild-fresh sweet milk and converts it of over 250 in first-class matches of danger; and our
claims is at Lord's last season. No fewer superiority
have I travelled with unhappy ing trade is indeed the most into butter which he
100 heightened by looking on the reliable yardstick of the general absolutely free from bacteria. Mr. than nine were put out for
world from above. All this is foreigners whose looks betray what they are too polite to ex- status of industry as a whole, Rowland says the
success of his or less. unique is due to the
Only seven centuries were scor-very natural. then Great Britain has further machine
Not By Aeroplane
press in words. It contains ed on the beadquarters wicket-- cause to congratulate herself method of, agitation.
But do not imagine when you in op by Hendren (2). Croom, Mitchell, on her obvious steps towards two dashes which rotate recovery.
None of the great posite directions centrifugally, so and Siedle of South Africa, Wyatt, are flying that you are seeing crossed 3,000 miles of sea?"
England. You can get a better British industries was so beavi-constructed that it allows freeland Studd of Harrow.
One has heard it argued, how-idea of Texas from the air is infinitely worth while, but ly hit by the depression as was circulation of the milk at a mini-
who mum of resistance and maximum/ever, that it was, the batting that than you can from the back of wou cannot see from the car shipbuilding. Nobody
a horse, but you must not prriage window what you have read Priestly's "English Jour-of agitation.
tend that you can distinguish ney could fail to be impressed
between Rutland and Leicester-come to see, for ne man living can savour the sweetness of an shire from an aeroplane. Eng-English field at 60 miles SMA land from the air is just a com-hour. fortable patchwork guff.
by the appalling conditions in the MORE UNREST IN
shipbuilding centres of the coun- try that that depressing book revealed "redundant" yards closed down. grass growing in drydocks which in years gone by housed great ships, and, above all, the squalid hopeless- ness of thousands of would-be workers "laid off" for no fault of their own. In addition, it
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dustries are of more importance creases with the approach of
ficance.
the hen and
Is it for this," their eyes iscem to say, "that I have
It is for this, and the journey
Even a bicycle is too fast. "If I had no reference to
speed should not average more futurity," said Dr. Johnson, "than 14 miles an hour. There would spend my life driving
are but two ways.
on horse- briskly in a post-chaise with back, as William Cobbett and pretty lady."
Gilbert White saw it, on foot. And even then you may go
No one but a misogynist would deny that being driven wrong. fast by a pretty lady in a com- fortable car is one of the purest} /
Wesley's Way
Indeed, John Wesley rode on horse.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
a country lane, was of human pleasures. to the basic industrial activi-the 15th, the day the Arab over a ben in. ties of the country and its ultimatum to the Mandate Gorge to compensate the farmer for its only handicap is its frequent back all over England with a
This loss.
reference to immediate futuri- slack rein, which was good, but general welfare. The figures ernment expires.
of A case
"I suppose 5s. will square the ty. To drive fast is pleasant, with a book in his hand, which which were published last this kind was the shooting of thing." he said.
and the companionship of ́ alwas not so good. month, which show a marked the Mayor of Haifa, who was The farmer was about to take the pretty lady is pleasant, but Hikers travel on foot, but and progressive recovery in the accused of being too "concilia-money, when he paused.
"No, so," he said, "I don't think neither of these delights has they see nothing of England. British shipyards, are therefore tory."
that's enough. You'd best make it anything to do with seeing for two reasons. They travel of the most encouraging signi- The British High Commis-103. have a rooster that thought England.
too fast and they walk, as sioner has issued a proclama-mighty lot of that
You can no more see Eng-starlings fly, in multitudes. The history of England is tion to the population warning shock may kill him, too."
land from a main arterial road (Continued on Page 11) built up on ships. All her them against heeding the sum- greatness derives from the seamons to participate in the taxa- and from those who go down to tion strike and to disobedience. the sea in ships. She has been (Military reinforcements, in- the breeding place for countless cluding one regiment of infan- generations of men who have try. one tank battalion and laboured on the sea, have sail-several armoured-cars, have jed the oceans in their "wooden arrived. which could easily be walls" and have kept alive a further strengthened by air valuable heritage of courage, transports. Further troops endeavour and service. Also are in readiness to protect the British shipbuilding has built population against acts of up over the years a fine record violence and incendiaries. of unstinting work, well done. Since the unrest began, over¦ It is surely gratifying to find 600 agitators have been arrest- that British shipyards are led, and for the most partį
their quietly regaining
old already sentenced. The pro- supremacy in the world ship-clamation closes with the warn- building market. When the ing that any violation of the figures were issued last month w will be severely punished. they showed that of the mer--Trans-Ocean Service. chant shipping then on the
All
stocks, 46 per cent. was indevised which make the modern British yards. There was im-cargo boat far more efficient provement in 1935. At the end than those 10 years old. of the first quarter of 1936 the these encouraging signs may be tannage in hand was nearly directly traced to the stimulus 100,000 tons more than when afforded by the building of the the year began, and 286,000 Queen Mary and the Govern- tons more than a year beforement policy, which, though The shipbuilding industry had, still woefully under the full in fact, worked its way back to range which is generally advo- the position which it held becated, has had the effect of in- fore the full force of the de-ducing mercantile interests to pression. The amount of ton-place orders in expectation of a nage building, 842,000 tons, more prosperous future. was the highest since the end
The improvement which the of 1929.
latest figures show has been British shipbuilders, in fact, shared by all the chief ship- Jare making 2 brave fight building areas. There are still against subsidised foreign con- some "redundant" yards which Istruction. One could only are out of commission; but it hope that the same might be is also true to say that many said of British ship-owning.(of the working yards are offer- Year after year the chairmen ing more scope for the employ- of the great companies refer to ment of more workpeople than
already the British services be-jis not the time for undue tween New Zealand and Aus-optimism, but it is possible that tralia have had to give up the the development of naval con- fight to American interests, struction will provide a good deriving enormous advantages deal more work in the near from organised subsidies. Only future, If this leads to the the "scrap and build" induce-steady expansion which is so ment held out to owners of much more desirable than 2 tramp shipping has allowed rush of new orders, then them more or less to hold their British shipbuilding will de WIL Improvements in hull finitely have something of last- Horm and machinery have been ing benefit to look forward to.
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