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34 Wyndham Street Hong Kong Horrors In Spain...
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The recital of some of the Everywhere•
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priests and nuns, recounted in the STUART SPANISH DUKE
all communications intended for current issue of The Bock, makes The Duke of Alba, one of the
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17, Garrick Street, London, W.CReds in Spain upon the persons of
Notice To Contributors. publication should be addressed to most painful reaching. It is diffi-leading sympathisers with the to believe that such awful Spanish insurgents, was in EnS- the Editor, and be accompanied by calt the Writer's Name and Address ferocity could be shown by one land recently for a few days, not necessarily for insertion, but set of human beings against an- one of the visits he has paid two
absolute or three times other. The thing is an
every year sinceEW people have not a warm chair carefully preserved as a jme a guarantee of good faith.
nightmare of the cradest and most he was at school there.
corner in their hearts for relic of this ship. It is at bestial elementary passions; end-it The Duke, who is 17th Duke of the memory of fine old ships, Oxford.
The President of the United. is directed, not as one might Alba, and-but for the attainder and it is good to know that a suppose. ---against-body-of-men-10th Duke of Berwick in the Mauretania museum is to be States makes use of tables and and women who have done irrepar British Peerage, is descended opened at Southampton, where chairs at the White House made able harm to their fellow-men, but from James II. He is 14 times a relics of the Grand Old Lady of from the timber of a British the Sea will be on view. Later, ship, the Resolute, which had a She was one Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 5, 1936 at a band of most devoted work-
ens in the cause of religion and andes, and has 34 other titles,
He was one of the last Foreign it is hoped, a small but per-romantic history- charity for centuries.
Ministers of the Monarchy, and is manent museum of the same of those sent to look for Sir perfect
ja great, historiza and archaeolo-kind will be opened in a more John Franklin when he No Terms With Arab Communists have a
right to eradicate the teachings of
gist, being chairman of the Span-central part, and it is suggest-lost in the Arctic regions, and but Disorder
religion from their lives.
fish “Academy, of the Prado and ofled that it might form a nucleus becoming locked in the ice, had for
For years there is no possible excuse
of interesting objects of all to be abandoned. In spite of his great services to kinds connected with famous she was a prisoner of the ice, The first meeting of the some of the dreadful accompani-museums inaumerable.
but the currents were bringing Palestine. Commission was rements of this action which have ported
It is almost literally true that her slowly southward, and at yesterday. In the beer reliably reported. A man's learning which might have con-ships. interval since its establishment religious convictions are his own stituted a ples for exemption, he conditions in the country have laair, and whether be embraces suffered beavily as the result of old ships never die, for they are last the day came when she was not improved noticeably. The Christianity in one of its mani-wholesale confiscation of his ex-made of well-nigh imperishable free again, though a warder
Towed To America are no longer fit to sail the sea strikes continue. If fold forms, Buddhism or any tates after the 1931 revolution material, and if their timbers ing derelict. outrages have been fewer that other moral teaching or decides
they may have scores of years) Picked up by an American as roof whaler. she was towed to the is due to the larger number of to do without any at all he PALACE AS RED H.Q.
Many 2 United States, whose Gorem- troops employed rather than to should be perfectly free to follow His famous Palace of Liria in of more useful life own bent. Nor is this the Madrid was recently confiscated beams or furniture.
Communist modern cottage in Surrey, built ment had her entirely refitted any change of temper on the his
in the Tudor style, has great and sent back to England as a part of those who are defying time and the place to argue the and turned into a the Government.
Only last relative values of the different party headquarters.
The Duke said recently that he timbers in its ceilings that once token of goodwill between the month Dr. Billig was murdered forms of religion. But contempla- in Palestine and several fatali-tion of the anti-religious drives in knew absolutely nothing of what formed the ribs of such ships countries. The Resolute lived for many years, but at last the On the other hand, however, time came when she had to be ties among the troops there Mexico and Spain to-day certainly had happened to his famous col-jas Arethusa. have been reported since. gives one furiously to think. One lection of manuscripts, as to the These incidents follow upon a begins to wonder what possible fate of which scholars all over there are known relics of many broken up, and in memory of the the world have expressed the famous ships of great age United States courtesy in send- long series of outrages in cause there ex be behind
carefully preserved in various ling her hack to England, a com- which at least 70 persons have Surely pure and simple intolerance greatest anxiety, annan ¡been killed. Few of those does not answer the question. And arrested 25 responsible for if not, what, in the name of all attacks upon troops and-peace-that is holy, does? ful citizens have been put upon Dictators An' A' That
Arab
occasion
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All he knew was that his ser-parts of the world. It is not piete suite of furnitare vants had been sent away and his generally known that visitors made and sent to Washington dogs destroyed or stolen. He dis-to London can obtain permis- for the American President's. played a photograph be had re-sion to see some remarkably use.
stardy furniture Few people do not know that ceived of Communists sprawling fine and
timber the bell of the frigate Lutine, trial. Further continuance of
It is reported that Mr. Herbert about in chairs in the palace and actually made from that situation must
of sunk in the Zuyder Zee în 1799 taken from the wrecks grave misgivings in the minds Morrison, M.P., recently suggest painting their rifles at Goyax
that the following Burns
He said he was convinced that, Spanish galleons washed ashore with nearly $2.000.000 aboard, of many people and raise doubtsjed
when important news either of whether the continued defiance stanza "should be translated into the insurgents would win in the after the defest of the Armada hangs at Lloyd's and is rung
School Furniture lof the Mandatory authority German and Italian, if that has end, but that it would be a long
shipwreck or the reporting safe struggle.
Close to the cloisters of of a ship thought to be lost has does not call for more severe not already been done, and made
The Madrid Government's pos- Westminster Abbey is the din- to be given out. It is not treatment than has been pos-available to people there":- xible owing to the reluctance of Ye see you birkie ca'da lord. the Administration to impose wo hundreds worship at his word, martial law upon the country.
He's but a coof for a' that. Additional uneasiness had For that, an' for a'that, been occasioned by
His ribband, star, an' a' that, that the British Government. The man o' independent mind,
He looks an' laughs at a' that while watching benevolently the efforts of Gen. Nuri Pasha, Now, I wonder why? Foreign Minister of Irak, to
(Continued on Page 3) induce the Arabs to terms, had given some indica-
Tumours!
come
to:
Wha struts, and” stares, an' a' that: session of the Bank of Spain, ofing-hall of the day scholars of generally known, however, that
tion in advance that they would EXPLANATIONS
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
which the Duke is a director, has Westminster School, and there there is some very fine furni- timbers been of great advantage to them are tables and forms, in daily ture made from in paying their militia.
use în term time, made from brought up by divers in exis- "The gold,” said the Duke drily, those massive timbers. They tence in London and Liverpool. "med to be guarded by the Civil were put to this use by the Some timber having been pre- Goard. Now, I understand, it is orders of Queen Ilizabeth, and sented to the Liverpool Under-
Association, looked after by armed women.”
their many generations of school-writers boys will yet be able to dine chairman, Mr. Cross; had it Imade into a chair, which can from this historic furniture.
When Drake's famous Golden still be seen in their committee Hind was taken to Deptford to room. A massive table and a Patricia Fox, aged 3, of Hors-be broken up a quantity of very fine chair were also made; forth, Yorks, was removed, criti-furniture was made from her both are now at Lloyd's, silver cally ill, last month to Leads In-timbers. Much of it may still plates in them telling their firmary with blood poisoning caus-be in existence, unknown and story.
· CHILD BITTEN BY RAT
be willing to consider amnesty to the murderers, and suspen- sion of Jewish immigration while the Commission is sit ting: Settlement on -such terms would have been entirely Bandman For 60 Yearsed by a rat bite. lout of harmony with the assur-
Fo
lances that the Colonial Secre- YOR more than three score years
tary
gave to Parliament.
George Washington Dieruft. Happily the rumours were of Minersville, Pa, has played in proved untrue by the decision the town band and is still the of the Ministers last. month to most active and enthusiastic mem: adhere to their decision that ber. In all that time although bet the Commission should not sit, has missed one concert. he has and there should be no restric-never missed a single rehearsal tion upon Jewish immigration. He has played under 12 different while the present challenge to band directors, only three of whom. peace and civilised procedure are living. continued. The announcement
of that determination should Mechanical Hat Tipper have dispelled any idea in the Arab mind that the terms
THE United States Patent Office
which were suggested by Nuri contains records of many Pasha could be acceptable to the Mandatory Power.
SOIL.
strange and bizarre inventions, However well-intentioned the one of the strangest of which is endeavours of Nuri Pasha to No. 556,243 dated March 10, 1896, bring the Arab leaders to res-patented by James C. Boyle of they have resulted in Spokane, Washington. The patent nothing not even the calling reads: "This invention is a novel off of the strikes that sug-device for automatically effecting gests an approach to a settle polite salutations by the elevation Iment Admittedly the Arabs and rotation of the hat on have fears and grievances, but head of the saluting party when for the removal of these a Com-said person bows to the mission has been set up, the saluted, the actuation of the hat composition of which is an as being produced by a mechanism surance that the Arab ese will therein and without the use of the be impartially considered. hands in any manner.”
Peace cannot be purchased on
the
person
terms that would be an-invita- Your Daily Smile! ition to further demands: and} .
future disturbance. As the According to an economist, Mandatory Power in Palestine husband who
the
ears the money
For
the British Government re-the home should be the one to spend Most mains firm in its resolve that lit, or know the reason why.
husbands know the reason why. disorder must be abandoned 28)
a political weapon, and an
The Important Factor agreement reached between the "My wife is working hard for her Arab and Jewish leaders, that speech before the women's club." will enable both communities to “Working on the address, I sup- live in equal conditions under pose."
"No, only on her dress.” an impartial Administration.
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You dont tell me you were British Government as a clear intimation that their agitation Scottish, Annie in its present guise will
“No, mem, replied: the
not sina think it would be richt to start
Toff in a new place by bound
unhonoured, but there is one
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