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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1936
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
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& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,
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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Pelping
The world's largest înseet-an 18-inch "walking stick" from New Guinea in measured by Miss Laurette DeBaun, New York University student, shortly after the bog was received by the general science department of the university.
Guest of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, Bernard Mainde Boissiere, a French Boy Scout, is shown on his arrival in the liner Paris. Scout Boissiere will 'return to France after an extended tour of the East.
DAILY CROSS-WORD
PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho
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(Above) An unusual pictures of after the some of the 168 swans Furness liner Newfoundland unloaded them for land shipment to an animal farm at Nashua, New Hampshire. The birds had originally been shipped which on the freighter Bilderdyk, inst her rudder at xea, and was tow- ed to Halifax, where they were trans-
(Above) Nellie Granger, stewardess af the ill-fated "Son Racer." TWA This transport plane which crashed in the|
ferred to the Newfoundland. picture
at the docks in mountains of Pennsylvania and ear- was taken Charlestown. Massachusetis.
ried 11 persons to their death, has
од to hostess
the been promoted trans-Continental airliner, "The Sky Chief." Miss Granger is shown after she had been told of her promotion at Uniontown, Pasadena, where the; other two survivors of the air crash: were in hospital.
HORIZONTAL
1-To move rearward
A low story directly
under the roof B-Prefix.
Around
Shower T-Top of the head
12-Want
74-A title
15-A relative (pl.)
21-Juice of plants 23-in
23-Approaches 26-Diminutive suffix
27-Musical note 28-Italian river
30-Imitate
31-Egyptian god
33-The (Sp)
33-Babble
35-Vehicle
'HORIZONTAL (Cont) |
-Net so much 50-Fretful
Sz-Sour
54-Allow
55-Most profound
57-A dance $8-Venture
180-Part of a house 162-Wander
64-Female of the rad
deer
165-Snare |68-Trust
36-Length measurate!). 37-Abel's brother
(Bible)
39-Terminate 40- Compact
42-Exist
44-Very
46-Plural sumix
45-A constellation
47-Proposition
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VERTICAL
¡1-A wager
2-Greek god of war
-One hundred one 5-Conjunction
G-Agitatea
-2ind
-Scgment 13-Bird home 11-Wish for :*2-Tropical fruit
14-Father
16~into 17-Resting places
18-Narrow twilled
material
VERTICAL (Cont.) *9-Before
:20-Recording Secretary
(abbc.)
23-Undressed animat
.skin
24-Abuse
26-Anxious
29-Seat of the Univer
tity of Maine
37-Sievate 34-Augment
35-Food container 37.Stop
38-Sphere
45-Let fa!! 141-Specks
43-Recompense 45-Metric land measur 47-English street car 49-Chief actor 5-Civil engineer[abbe.) 11-Steamship (abbr.) 53-Without feet 55-Darling
56-Make a misstep 59-Decay
|81–Unk
:63-Mother
64-Interjection
The solution of the above with a now oroka-woru puzzle
will appear in Monday's issue
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors! the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and' Mainland is published:-
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
LESS BATEN EBOR ANIMALCULE NOTE MILAN ONOS ORIT ADORNS ENTRANC
TIVES GLUME REFILLED EMP EVENS COINS SUNG STING Pi ELD
FASTS BY TIS CON SEPA:
ISLAFC TCS
RELATING
TOM
ISLAND
Feet
Victoria Peak
1,823
Signal Station
1.774
Mt. Parker
1,734
Mountain Lodge
1,725
The Eyrie
1,725
Peak Hotel
1,305
Mt. Davis
877
Bowen Road (filterbeds)
297
F"",
Captain H. Mackinnon, of the tanker Yarraville, effected rescue of 16 persons from burning Norwegian ship Tricolor in mid-Pacific last month,
MAINLAND
the the
Taimoshan Kowloon Peak
Fest 3,124 1,971
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Bringing Up Father
IM
JUST
LITTLE
BU
ERFLY!
LOVELY-
(Above) The screen star William Powell and his sorare pictured in one of their extremely rare appearances together in public. They were shapped when Powell took his son to the circus in Los Angeles. The lad's mother and father were divorced in 1930. (Left):-
Two of the Army airmen killed in the crash of the huge twin- Below is Lieut. engined bomber into a Pennsylvania mountainside. Stetson Brown, pilot of the ship. Above, Cadet Paul E. Amspaugh, a member of the crew.
DID YOU HEAR MISS LØPER NOTES? SHE HAS A WONDERFUL CONTROL OF HER VOICE-
YEH/BUT SHE DON'T
HER HUSBAND. GOT A DIVORCE FROM HER AND HE HAS BEEN DRINKING POR FOUR WEEKS-
WEEKS
THAT'S A LONG TIME
TO CELEBRATE-
• 1956, King Fastwo Syndicate, 106, Gorge Betting
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