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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAYS.
CARTOON
The World's Largest Pontoon Bridge
REIS
of 2,348 feet.
'
PORTUGUESE IN
TROUBLE
Alleged Possession Of Opium
**
Here There and Everywhere.
4.
SHIP'S BOY TURNS DIRECTOR OF MUSIC TALES FROM A STRANGE MAN'S LOGBOOK
WEIRD STORY OF BRIDE WHO
MARRIED A SPECTRE ·
In 1917 Thomas Wood was to the rule that at the Admiralty working in a
MUSICIANS, are no excep
Ship's
"All communications intended for bridge, the world's largest, SPAINS “FOREIGN" LEGION
spans the Arkansas River publication should be addressed to at Dardanelle, Ark, and is part of Unlike its French counterpart. the Editor, and be accompanied by the thoroughfare between Dar-the Spanish Legion is not often- the Writer's_Name and Address canelle and Russellville. Ark. It as now-in the news. not necessarily for insertion, but is so constructed as to rise and fall Though at one time shortly as a guarantee of good faith. N with the tide of the Arkansas after the war it tried to attract River, and consists of a floor laid foreigners, and was recruiting from bost to boat over a length British ex-Service mea in London, every life ought to have in it hut which stood near the rail. nowadays about 90 per cent of its the material for at least one ings on the south side of the book. But not many of those Mall in St. James's Park. The 2,000 men are Spaniards.
Portuguese and South Americans who are facile in writing and lake had been drained so that make up the foreign element in reading music are fluent with the water should not gleam in
the pen.
Dr. Thomas Wood, the moonlight to guide enemy the ranks. There are a few Rus-
the examiner of the Associated aircraft. "We in our hut İsian and German officers.
Board of Music, has both gifts, A.G.7.a. were one tiny link in "Tough and first-class fighting
together with, treasures of the chain" of complicated official material was the opinion an ex-
had memory gathered while going activities that connected these pert recently gave after he
up and down the world in ships. departments with the Ministry visited their quarters at Tetuan.
From his ninth to his 16th of Shipping. There the Legion is practically to their many friends for all Roque Francis Morales,
All Ages And Types the expressions of sympathy Portuguese, was
self-supporting an important ad-year he was at sea. this morning vantage in a crisis such as the to-day. But not often to the in A.G.7.a. all ages, all types: boys have climbed high before! "There were about 50 of us and the floral tributes receiv-charged before Mr. W. Schofield present. It has acres ed in their recent bereave-
eminence of Doctors of Music. a retired grocer, a couple of at the Central Magistracy with garden and herds of cattle.
"Now who's this man Bark?" parsons and competent they zent
possession of a quantity or raw
his father would ask.
were some middle-aged and prepared opium.
When it was explained that and women, three or four As the analyst's certificate was
Bach had composed 48 preludes mysteries, a few sickly youths not yet ready and the exact Throughout the meetings of the and fugues Mr. Wood senior, and lots of pretty girls. quantity not known the case was Montreux Conference, small print who was a ship's master, sug-They worked. So did we all remanded for 24 hours.
Deed notices were to be seen hanging gested that his lad might learn from nine to five, to six, to fendant was
allowed bail of on the doors of the hotel rooms them during the next voyage seven occasionally, with. an $2,000.
nsed by the Secretariat.
by using the edge of the cabin hour off for lunch and nothing The labels read:
table as a keyboard.
off for tea. Files dominated "If you can't borrow the Lord our lives. Rows and rows of Mayor's coach a hand cart's pale green files stacked better than nowt.” was the shelves and numbered.” argument. "You'll prop your Packed With People music up on the table and make The Old Vic and the Proms out you're playing the piano.”
And that was how the first perhaps Wagner sounded bet- were among his relaxations: volume of the 48 was learned!: ter when his countrymen flew
Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 17, 1936.
new
A University Landmark
DESTITUTE MAN CHARGED Absence From House
Of Detention
*
*
of kitcher
* LOTUS EATERS OF MONTREUX
NE PAS DERANGER DO NOT DISTURB NIGHT STOREN
NON DISTURBARE On the back of each notice was a suggestion that guests should ask the telephone exchange to con-
nect no calls until the labels were
removed from the doors.
This may explain why the con- ference's deliberations took long.
Your Daily Smile!
OF
50 In A.G.7.A.
ren
on
overhead in Gothas. After the At sea he studied men and Proms he would walk home to books, and with "Cobbers," one Lancaster-gate.
London University recently Defendant was arrested on the celebrated the centenary of its wing Lok Wharf yesterday mor Charter, the grant of which toning, coming from Macau. establish a new university "free from all religious and sectarian distinctions" was one of the principal events of the short reign of William IV. Even the passing of the first Reform Bill was hardly more significant as of emancipation, and an act nowhere has the influence of the spirit which London
David Barder, aged 24, was University represented been this morning fined $25, in de-j [greater than at Oxford and fault one month's hard labour, Cambridge. Its founders by Mr. W. Schofield at the founded better than they knew. Central Magistracy when If there is any drop of bitter-charged with being absent from ness in the cup of pride which the House of Detention on his better half, isn't she?" was joyously replenished August:7-
"Well, we are told so, my son," said during the celebrations it was Detective - Sergeant Russellather noncommittally.
Well, then, continued Willie, that for so many decades the said that the defendant left growth was so slow. and the the House of Detention on that a man marries twice, there isn't any- controversies which retarded it day to look for work but did were so sterile. Indeed, it was not return. He had gone to not till after the turn of the Canton to seek a job, but failed, Customer: "You know that musiccity wall that had seen men century that London Univer-and returned to the Colony on stool you sold me** sity began to take full shape as Friday.
Shopkeeper: "Yea.” Customer: "Well, I've twisted and real Universitas of all the
Defendant was waiting for turned it in all directions, but I can't Sciences and made the crucial his passport and papers from get a single note out of it." decisions which render the Germany, but there was some university more and
more doubt whether he would be able worthy of the capital city of to get his passport. the Empire.
It is the largest university in
the world, and it has the largest number of students- internal and external in about.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
equal proportion For the ex- The RMS. Empress of Russia ternal students it is an examin- leaves Vancouver for Hong Kong ing body almost exclusively, and on September 5, being due here on has been the foster-mother of the morning of September 24. many colleges themselves acquired university The as. Jeypore is due here from status. Its work in this Moji at 9 am on Tuesday next, sphere cannot be too highly
which
have!
ན་
praised. It has kept the lamps Mr. W. Schofield was the only; of the mind alight "in partibus Magistrate at the Central Magis- infidelium." As a teaching uni- tracy this morning and in conse- versity it takes all knowledge quence had to sit in both courts; for its province. The student, hearing the large number of cases whatever his particular subject, which had accumulated during! will find it taught in London as the week-end. well as anywhere else, and for
some subjects, as, for example, Tsoï Fan, unemployed, was this tropical medicine, he must go morning charged before Mr. W. to the banks of the Thames Schofield at the Central Magis- The more recent branches of tracy with possession of 347 coun- science have taken strong root terfeit 10-cent pieces on the Can- there: the old branches find no ton Wharf on Friday and was re- alien influences in the soil. The manded for one week on the re- new buildings which are still quest of Detective-Sergeant Mann, rising in Bloomsbury have who said that the case was one for made a special University QuET- committal.
ter in the heart of London
which 100 years hence may
well be recognised as the intel- and permits its visitors to sit lectual hub of the Empire. down. Above all, by making selections from its store and ex-
A Public For Museums hibiting them specially, it gives
the ordinary man an objective | When the public is once-something that he goes to see tempted to cross the threshold and can enjoy when he finds it. of a museum, how can its mem- Nothing in the address was *bers be induced to come again? better than the cordial refer- "By the absence of irritating ence to children. The child has restrictions," said Sir Eric Mac-what the grown-up has often lagan in his wise and witty lost, an eager curiosity and a address to the Museum Asso quick sensitiveness.
It is a Iciation in London last month, great thing if a child, as he and by the provision of ameni- stands timidly inside the door- ties. His own great museum way of a vast and awe-inspiring at South Kensington has given building, can be met by a sym- a lead in both respects The pathetic guide, asked what he Victoria and Albert, almost would like to see, be shown it, alone among the world's trea- and encouraged to talk about it. suré-houses, does not deprive Grown-ups are shy birds and visitors of sticks and umbrellas would probably be frightened One day it may even provide away by such a welcome; the rubber-tipped canes for those child, with his own ideas about who find it hard to walk on the function of the grown-up, polished floors. It arranges accepts expert assistance as many of its galleries pleasantly right and proper.
When Two Halves Make Nothing "Pa," said Willie, “a man's wife is
thing left of him, is there?"
Fake
Righto
*
The professor of law had been talk- ing steadily for more than an hour, and his class was becoming a trifle restless.
of the most colourful books "I tried the tube once and about Australia, "arrived" as said, Never again? The an author. Now he has given chance of getting hit by a bomb us an autobiography which is or a lump of shell-casing out in full of the same magic charm the open was quick and clean There is a picture of Oxford anyway: no fuss about it. But mere thought of those of the War days, for, by dint of the luck and much scraping, crowds underground scared me. Thomas Wood had his desire And underground there were and went to the University. crowds waiting for the worst It was a time when most of the to happen in a state of mind, colleges were barracks. "The please God, we shall never see school was a hospital, and the again.
skirmish in a rebellion looked down on tents that held men broken in a war.”
Statue Found
"The tube stations were im- provised air-raid shelters; and the subways, the spiral stair- "What about coal?" interposed, a
cases and even the platforms were packed with people sitting weary voice.
From the The professor gazed over his glas-on the floor in mass.
the rear ses at the interrupter,
train you could see "Well," he snapped, what about rank squeezed against the wall, it2"
the front rank a yard or SO
Take 205 article, for instance," he “When coal's bought, doesn't it go droned on.
"When it is bought it to the cellar?" asked the youthful from the carriage doors and
student. goes to the user"
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