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THE CHINA-MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1937.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
CORONATION PARADE
MALAYAN PARTY
CHOSEN
BROTHER OF LOCAL RESIDENTS
The announcement that four of-
TOO, have long been an oppon-ficers and non-commissioned" of- ent of the examination sys-ficers have been selected to repre- sent the Straits Settlements Volun- teer Force at the Coronation of His This, no doubt, may be largely Majesty King George VI, has a re- due to the fact that few people flected interest in Hong Kong. For have ever failed at these functions the leading member of the party, with greater regularity than I have dene.
Major A. P. Goldman, 1st Bn.
I have been told by successful (Singapore) is the brother of two candidates that getting good results local residents, Messrs. R. and L is largely a matter of the correct Goldman. psychological approach.
Others selected are:-
Judging by my efforts, my psy-Act-Regimental Sgt. Maj. Cheng chological approach must have been Kang Nghee. 2nd. Bn. (Singapore). horrible to contemplate.
Lieut. (A/Capt) S. Toolseram,
As 2 result of these dismal 3rd. Bn. (Penang and P- Wellesley). achievements in this field, I always Captain Mohd. Ali bin Maidin,Į take a sympathetic and almost pro- M.B.E. 4th Bn. (Malacca). fessional interest in the various They will be accompanied by systems of trickery, cheating and!
four officers and non-commissioned general fraudulent practice in ex-officers yet to be selected from the
aminations.
FMS. Volunteers, and one from the Kedah Volunteers, and one from the RN.VR.
I was delighted, therefore, to read of the enterprise shown by students! at the Punjab University in India.
They will take part in the royal No fewer than 150 of them have been suspended for using unfair, procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace, together] means at examinations.
The examiners reported that they with contingents from Hong Kong suspected many other entrants, but and other parts of the Empire, and they had been unable to prove their will be accorded special privileges
throughout the celebrations.
doubts.
Smuggling of notes into the ex-!
amination room (I myself was very RICH HAUL BY
good at this) had been done on a large scale:
over
REBEL CRUISERS
London, To-day.
Copying, that is, looking your neighbour's shoulder, was rife. Not original, you say. In fact, almost old fashioned. But listen to
The rebel forces have, chalked up the positively Machiavelian bag of tricks produced by one of the pro-another score in the battle at sea fessors himself. I don't know his against the Madrid Government. name but he is my hero from now
Ot
He was discovered disguised as an undergraduate answering his own papers for some ingenious youth who bribed him sufficiently well.
The best part of the story is that the gentleman was wearing dark glasses and false whiskers in the true theatrical tradition when was discovered.
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he
Yesterday two rebel cruisers cap tured a loyalist motor-ship, on her way from Gibraltar to Valencia laden with supplies and munitions, reports the "Daily Telegraph."
The cargo, valued at about $150,000, was taken to Ceuta.
Meanwhile on land the stalemate still continues and military opera- tions are at a standstill.
A report from Salamanca alleges that Government militia in Bar- celona refused to leave barracks If my name was Arthur Bratitch
when order to proceed to the! Aquivaleris de Saleftyeff, I should
Madrid front, though no confirma- feel that the world demanded sometion of the report can be obtained. thing of such a name.
The gentleman (let's call him Arthur) who owns this jawbreaker feels likewise he has just estab lished an extremely important prin- ciple. It is a principle that will have almost universal interest asmuch as it affects liars.
Trans-Ocean.
SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES Supplementary expenditure total- inling $18,011 will be voted at the
first meeting of the Finance Com mittee to-morrow, after the Legis- One day, recently a herd of bai
lative Council meeting. Most of the liffs surged into Arthur's house in
votes are in connection with the Vienna and were about to seize his Police Department and Fire Bri furniture, when Arthur, who is a
gade. Some of the items are revotes mystic and a poet, drifted in and said:
seemed pretty mad about it, includ- "Men! Lay off that stuff. It's not ing the bailiffs, who by now mine. Pinch anything you like, but getting pretty weary of the whole remember I own nothing here."
This set the boys back a bit, and the grand piano, which they had already got out in the garden, had to be shored back.
Arthur looked on with an
tic, inscrutable,
smile
poetic,
Arthur's defence was astonishing. A celebrated psychiatrist gave evidence on his behalf and insisted that the centuries-old tradition of betic license is based on the fact Care often able to dis- reality cially in mo
Minguish
Then he sat down at his table and in thei wrote a poem about it all A few hours later an official of the Court
urt upan
arrived with a warrant for Arthur's arrest on a charge of perjury, →→ gain, smiling his
poetic, mystical It appeared that Arthur did own the furniture after all. Everybody
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