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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 197
THE
WORLD
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GOES BY
ENTION of Madame de Fon-1 tange, whose real name ap- parently is de la Ferriere and who tried the other day to emulate the feat of that other and better known Frenchwoman, Charlotte Corday, brings to mind the fact that many women in history were not what they seemed to be..
Cleopatra, for instance, was not the aristocratic queen she was sup posed to be but a nautch girt brought up in one of the dives along the banks of the Nile, where she performed hotcha dances and sang torch songs nightly until spotted by one of the Pharaohs and installed in splendour in the Palace.
And then there was Guinivere, wife of Arthur who obtained his sword from an am which arose from a lake "clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful” proximately).
(Ap-
Tennyson and others would have us believe that she was one of those well-behaved Victorian-era wives but she was nothing of the sort.
They will even tell you that al- though she was a spot keen on Lancelot, it was only a mild flirta tion
RECEIVING ORDER
MADE
Debtor Disappears
To Canton
receiving or
made
against Chan Chun, trading as Chan
Jervois Chun Kee at No Street, by Sir Atholl MacGregor at the Bankruptcy Court on Satur day morning, on the application of Mr. M. A da Silva, who "ap- peared for the petitioning credi- tors, Messrs. S. Kato, and Com- pany, of No. 6, Queen's Road Central
Me M. Kakão, managing part- ner of the creditor firm, said that several attempts were made to collect the amount, $874.17 due, but the debtor failed to pay. On February 6, debtor and his family disappeared and have not been traced
Kwan Fu, a salesman, testified that when he visited Canton re- cently he met the debtor, who ignored him when witness spoke to him Debtor's assets were about $700, whereas his liabilities were over $2,000.
ICELAND'S PLACE IN THE SUN
Important Link In Air Route
London, Yesterday. Test flights between Iceland and Europe will be carried out this summer præparatory to inaugura- Dear me, no! The binges thoseg up the island with
tion of a regular air se
two used to go on at Camelot and Tintagel!
This is the come of negotia tions which have been proceeding They also had a week-end cot-between representatives of Pan- tage where Maidenhead now American Airways and the Ice- stands, and were the originators oflandic Government.
those week-end trips that are now such a popular feature of this de- lightful resort. Such goings-on!
Qood Queen Bess was not so good. either, believe me. In fact, they still speak of her with awe in some of the country districts where she held fantastic orgies with the Farls of Leicester, Essex etc.
Nell Gwynn was not an orange girl Her name was not Nell. Gwynn but she bore an old name much honoured in English history.
The Nell Gwynn stuff was all ballyhoo, publicity, hooey, boloney. It sounded good.
Same with Peg of Old Drury. charming girl, this Peggy, and master of publicity. It's go
more romantic to have humble an-
tecedents, and it looked good when
Iceland will probably come into the circle of countries with re- gular air routes some time in 1938, after which the line will probably be extended to America.
Trans-Ocean.
Bulgarian Sports
Organiser
Sofia,
Dr. Carl Dien, well
usands of foreryn
-23.
to
general of Berlin Olympic Games last-
has been named by Bulgarian Government
sport in Balg
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organ-
left Sing
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she had her name in lights on apore for the Port of Sattriday at KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
Broadway, I mean Drur
And Madame de Pompadour, after whom scents, rouge;-lipstick, powder and tervén tower what dise have been named, was not de Pom- padour at all.
She was Hetty Smith; from Tool- ing Bec way and es saucy-a. skirt as you could ever wish. 1 She knew her stuff; did Hetty, i
put it over big on that says
And again take Hel Hof Troy,
am and is due here on Wednes
af about 3
the lines
story of Helen.
she who they tell us, had the fare Similarity
that launched a thousand ships.
She actually had a
back of a cow,
face
of
HOUSEHOLD COAL
As from the 4th March, 1937, a superior grade of Household Coal will be supplied by the Administration, prices as follows:
Peak District
$23.00
Bowen Road & Lower levels
$21.00
Kowloon
$2100
Repulse Bay
Pokfulum
$23.00
Shek 0 & Stanley
$24.00
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
end Office
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