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open The Money Order Ofice is from 10 am to 4 pm. except on Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon and on Sundays and holidays when; it is entirely closed.
An Air Mail Box has been erected at the General Post Office. Corres
the RMA. pondence intended for "Dorado" must be posted before 8.30 In Kowloon such B. on Friday. correspondence may be posted in the, ordinary box at Kowloon Post Office which will be cleared at 3 am on. Friday. The public are particularly requested to see that their letters Correspon- bear sufficient postage.
SEVEN LIONS ACT AS
SENTINELS
Litter Of Cabs Born In
Middle Of Highway
Nairobi Kenya lioness has chosen a unusual place to give birth to cubs. Her; nursery oc- cupies the centre of the main road between Nairobi and the Tanganyika border and motorists
have to make a detour.
It is impossible to approach. the nursery as seven full-grown lions are acting as sentinels.
THE CHINA MAH, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936.
ROYAL NAVY AS A CAREER FAVOURABLE TIME TO ENTER
SURPLUS OF OFFICERS
WIPED OUT
Lord Monsell, then First Lord! of the Admiralty, wrote as follows! recently to a London paper:...
I believe that during the last! few years there has been in the minds of parents and schoolmas- ters some doubt whether the Royali Navy offers the prospect of a full
ARCHBISHOP IN normal career to boys entering as
DISPUTE
Bows To Vatican Ruling
PALACE QUITTED
Naval Cadets.
FOR
HE ATE HIS "WORDS"
When Paul de Chabert Jeretny, of Ormond-road, Richmond, works charred at Watford recently with not having a road fand licence. it was stated that when stopped by the police he tried to eat so- out-of-date licence. He was fined-
RACECOURSE SCENE
FARMER'S WIFE WHO COULD NOT MILK
Finger Stiff With Arthritis
What a handicap a disabled hand en be to a farmer's wife. Bead what į this one says about her troubles when she had arthritis:
"I was suffering from arthritis in the joints of my angers. My middle jänger was so terribly swollen and is
flamed that I could not bend it! As I help to milk 10 or 11 cows, this was a serious handicap. I bought a bottle of Krischen Salts on the ad- vice of my doctor, and took a hal- water every teaspoonful in warm morning before breakfast. In two weeks the finger was less stiff and
"Gang" Allegations the swelling down I continued the
By Police SIXTEEN MEN IN COURT
| treatment (rubbing on an offtment as well), and after a month was able to milk again. I also feel very much
ap-promptly expel them from the system.
That is why Kruschen brings such | quick and comforting relief from the pains of rheumatism and other nric complaints.
A man then in hospital was better in, myself.”—(Mrs) A. C. P. I shall be grateful, therefore, if
It is the needle-pointed crystals of to state in jatated, at Lewes Police-court last! will permit me
uric acid, lodging between the joints, which are responsible for the agony your columns that in my view month, to have been struck on, the there could be no more favour-head with a hatchet during an of rheumatism. Kruschen Salts dis able time for eatry into the Royal affray at the local racecourse the solve these torturing crystals and Navy than the present, just at the previous day. Sixteen men beginning of the expansion arising Peared before the Bench.
A collection of hatchets, 1-1137- out of the Government's Defence, Rouen After 18 days of Programme; the surplus of officers cheons, knuckledusters, hammers dence bearing insufficient pastage will self-isolation in the episcopal which has hitherto existed has and chisels was displayed in court. be forwarded by ordinary services. - palace, Monsignor Andre Dubois,
de la Villerabel, Archbishop of now been completely wiped off, The 16 men, who pleaded not guilty and every boy who enters now has to a charge of being suspected raceTM frequenting the AIR MAIL
Rouen, announced last
a full normal persons
commit 3 Air Mail correspondence may be
career in the Service before him. course with intent to
felony, were remanded in custody posted in the ordinary posting boxes that he would yield to church the prospect of
Such discipline Post Office. at the General
for a week. correspondence should bear sufficient residence. postage and be superscribed "By Air Mail.
Somali
FROM EUROPE
and
quit
month
his
Categorical Denial
to give a
Supt. Waghorn stated that
course than two men were attack-
Came With Intention Police were quickly on the scene,
them the
LETTERS TO MR. X”
Woman Sentenced For Blackmail
Mrs. Elsie Freda Ferdinand, aged 21, pleaded guilty at Essex Assizes last month to uttering let- ters demanding money with mena- ces at Grays. She was sentenced in to six months' imprisonment the second division.
It was understood he wouldi move to his home at Saint understand that there has Brieux previous to
the cere been a very prevalent feeling in sooner had the men arrived on the monies to honour Saint Joan of prepartory school circles that the led and severely injured. One of activities of the Royal Naval Col-them, named Frader, was now in Arc in Rouen Cathedral
To prevent clashes between lege, Dartmouth, are likely to be hospital. 12 the Archbishop's friends and considerably curtailed iz future, foes. municipal authorities de (and that there have even been sug creed "various measures to in-gestions that the college is to be and the mer tried to get away in 10 sure the calm and dignity which closed down. I wish
both these cats, leaving behind 17 the ceremony demands."
Elaborate Precautions rumours, and to state that the col-weapons exhibited.
"No doubt," added the superin-
It was stated that Ferdinand Members of the congregation lege will remain, as hitherto, the tendent, "these men Caule down
wrote to a dairyman, "Mr. X," a might enter the Cathedral by principal source of supply of
from London with the intention of married man, asking him to "send July 10 invitation only, and all persons naval officers..
per-70 to the lady's house whom you 16 suspected of "political"
The number of vacancies for causing injuries to certain"
have been meeting in your milk cadets at the college has just been)
Det-Sergt. were barred.
Collyer. of the
Otherwise his wife would shed " Brighton police, said that he saw
be informed.
INWARD MAILS.
July
FROM US.A.
July
Pres. Jackson Emp. of Canada Pres. Harrisan
FROM MANILA
Pres. Coolidge
Kitano Mar
FROM SHANGHAI
Tango Maru
Corfu
General Pershing
Pres. Jackson
Talthybius
Felix Roussel
Meminor
July
bias
categorical denial to
The Vatican ousted the Arch- increased from 40 to 45 a ter 10 bishop because he had com-and is likely to remain at the lat- 10 plained to civil instead of to ter figure for years to come.
sons."
ja gang of about 30, including the
16 accused men, in front. of a
10 church authorities against The number of vacancies for bookmaker's stand. One man, not
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No Explanation
Two further letters were seat.
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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE
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any Fer- there
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10 alleged financial manipulations cadets entering the Service by the in custody, said to other members and, acting on police instructions. by Monsignor Bertin, his vicar special entry examination also is of the gang: "It is no good here. Mr. X met Ferdinand, who said was going to have a general.
being increased: For the
There are too many top hats that she The Archbishop, however, re-four years the Admiralty are pre-(police) about."
baby. "Mr. X" replied, that 17 fused until last month to quit pared to take 100 cadets a year for
Then they went to the back of had nothing to do with that. "Mr. X" strongly denied 17 his palace.
the executive branch, 36 for the the stand, and he followed them
On behalf of engineering branch, 32, for the ac-after speaking to other officers, impropriety. countant branch and 40 for the Spinks shouted: "There they are was no reasonable explanation for
dinard it was stated that Royal Marines. For these cacets, boys.
her conduct. equally with those who enter Dart- mouth, an excellent career is offer ed.
17
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Burdwan
Emp. of Canada
Hakone Maru
Pres Harrison
FROM AUSTRALIA
FOR U.S.A
July
July
Kitano Maru
15
Emp. of Asia
FROM JAPAN.
Pres. Coolidge,
10
July
July
Cortu Tango Maru
10 Cremer
10 Corts
Durban Maru
10 Suisang
10
FOR AUSTRALIA
10
July
10
15 Taiping
14
17
17
FOR SHANGHAI
.17
July
Emp. of Asia
Naldera...
Pres. Coolidge
Prex, Jackson.
Gen. Pershing Felix Roussei Tottori Maru
Emp. of Canada
Hakone Maru
Pres. Harrison
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Somali
Teiresias
Van Heutsz
Chaksang
Hakozaki Maru
Hector
OUTWARD MAILS
FOR EUROPE
Emp. of Asia (via Siberia)
July
July
*
Closes: Reg. 5 pm. Ord., 5.30 p.m. Pres. Coolidge (via San, Fran-
cisco)
Clases: Beg. 5 pan. Ord. 5.20 pim. R.M.A. Dorado ("Imperial
Airways direkt Service) ..
Corfu (KLM Service")
14 R.M.A. Dorado (Air Mail)
12 Marechal Joffre
FOR JAPAN,
13
July
241
Naldere
16
Emp, of Asia
Pres. Coolidge
17
Marechal Joffre
No More Navy
Axeing"
'SPECIAL ENTRY CADETS
Get your tools ready." Bowler Hat Smashed "They began to run," added the sergeant, and we ran with them. ""Then I saw a man named Solo- mon walking towards them carry- ing a bookmaker's stand, followed by another man, whom I know to be Frader.
BUCKET CHAIN USED
Motorists Fight Fire On Promenade
Hundreds of holiday-makers re- turning home in their cars along
Eastbourne Solomon, the
and Brighton |
"When Spinks shouted 'Get member your tools ready," every The Naval Correspondent of the of the gang produced s weapon. paper in question' wrote as fol- Spinks was flourishing a hatchet lows:-
over his head.
"They all rushed at
Viscount Monsell's letter does! 10 not imply that there is any short and several blows were struck at coast road helped to fight a gorse telage of suitable candidates for him. He was wounded about the fire which broke out on the prome-
Dartmouth. For the time being, head and ran away.
nade at Peacehaven recently.
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well maintained.
I learn, the average of entries is "Led by Spinks they then circl-
Within 10 minutes the flames ed round Frader, and I saw Spinks The Admiralty, however, is look-strike Frader with the hatchet had burned up half a mile of
were threatening 10ing towards the future, having re-Frader was wearing a bowler hat gorse, and
Blows bungalow in Piddinghoe-avenue, gard to the inevitable, and pro-which was smashed in
A chain of buckets
a
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-bably large, increases which must were aimed at him by several other Peacehaven.
used, and the fire was
cards for Europe and South America are forwarded via Siberia" if sbe made in the officer strength of members of the gang and Frader was
the Navy when the expansion pro-collapsed. superscribed.
REGISTERED and PARCEL gramme is approaching maturity.
brought under control when only then a few feet from the bungalow. boys.
"Someone in the crowd 9 MAILS are closed 15 minutes ezber During the past 10 to 15 years! shouted, "Here they are,
than the time giren above unless many hundreds of naval officers Blow. They all made for the car otherwise stated, and where mails are between 22 and 35 have been re-park, throwing their implements 10 advertised to close at or before.
and parcel mails are trenched, and it has been exceed-away. Later the accused men were a.in., registered and closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. ingly difficult for many of them to arrested."
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Cones: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord: 8.30 am.
Singapore, Salgen-Marseilles viz Sai-|
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Closes Reg. 9am. Ord 9.30 am.
Service")
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Felix Roussel ("Air-Orient
Closes. Reg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.30 am
FOR MANILA
Pres. Jackson ..:
Gen. Pershing
Taiping
Emp. of Canada
July
Now, however, conditions are
gon. Correspondence for Europe and radically altered. Viscount Mon- of cadets-208 a year-which the intermediate countries will be accept sell makes it clear not only that Admiralty is now prepared to take ed for transmission by these Services "axeing" is at an end. but that from the public schools is fresh Retes and all particulars are hown in
the schedules exhibited at the General every boy who enters the commis-proof of the high opinion that Post Office and Kowloon Office. Ansioned ranks of the Navy, either senior officers have formed of the or from the average "special entry" cadet, who letters etc, must be marked "By Air through Dartmouth Mail" and handed in at the General public schools, may be reasonably has had the advantage of fourj 11 Post Office. Unless superscribed for sure of spending his active life in years general education before 10 despatch by a specific air mail s the service.
being translated to a purely ser- 14 vice, correspondence will be forward-
The exceptionally large number|vice atmosphere. 17ed by the Arst service available,
Bringing Up Father
ISN'T SHE A UTTLE DARLING?
SHE'S
AT YOU,
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THE MAN-
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
TERN CAPER EDİNA BRA YAJES OBUDA (CİNİCOURAGCO TSEN SERMONG ABAS ́E
[SiOLD! PRATED SIT AN IRIS PATTCİRİCİCİ TURNS HARES TAR SBRO TIRCO SA RAA DENTS DOT STIPENOS REACH YEGRETS
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SHE IS
FRIGHTENED-
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52 153 154
58
55
HORIZONTAL 1-To assail with cannon balls -Requires 1-Feminine sunx 12-Small island in
inland waters
13-Series
14-Baseball term (pl) 17-Territory (abbr.) 18-Raised platform at
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
{44-Boy's name 145–Walke in water |47-Soapstone
48-Box
50-Dozer
52-Speck 55-Classify
56-Five hundred four 58-Angar 58-High card
the end of a room 60-Tautest
61-Gleam 19_Agrain (pl.) 21-A system of signals 23-Skins
25-Diminutive suffix 27-Crimson
29-Fish eggs 30-Foot-like organ 31-Percolated 33-Type of auto (pl.) 34-Gigantic
35-Wadded 37-Kind of sword
40-Organ of hearing 47-Caress
* Pretz Not
2
· VERTICAL
1-Cuts in two equal
parts
2-Unit 3-United
4-Melody
5-More compact 6-Signity
7-Part of a ship
8-Boy's name 9-Expine
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39
43
56
57
59
VERTICAL (Cont.) 10-A thoroughfare (pl.) 15-Pinch
16-Auto fuel İ18-Profound
20-Plant
23-Feared
Eixed the position of
24minine of tsar
26-Restrain from acting 30-A nut 32-Performed
33-A title
35-Praise bestowed
36-A period of time (pl.) 38-Kitchen utensil (pl.) 39-Reclaim
41-A tropical bird 42-A game 45-Conflict
146-Dip 49-Dlm
Around
52 Prefix 53-Grude metal
score
155-Restrai
37-congealed water
The solution of the above with a new cross-woru pusie
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
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