THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1937-
THE
WORLD
K
GOES BY
MILLION HOMES FOR WORKERS
Germany's Newest Five-Year Plan
Stuttgart, To-day.
ta meeting in Stuttgart of the Association for the Promotion of Building Homes for Workmen at- tended, by, the competent Govern- EEPING observation on
ment authorities, representatives Finchley night club"
says a of industrial organisations mutual Home paper, Police-Sergeant Clarke benefit societies, and building presented the proprietress with a trades' associations, it was decided posy of four dozen carnations the to set as the Association's goal the first night he met her. Oysters, providing of a million workmen's champagne and the Palladium fill-homes during the next five years.
This will mean a re-doubling of ed another pleasant evening. The Sergeant's Bill for this divertisse- the present building activities, which will be begun with every ment alone was £12.
energy, as soon as the urgent tasks
One would like to think the au- connected with the Reich defence thentie eighteenth century fra- and with the raw material
pro- grance exhaled even from its end-gramme have been completed or at ing a week later, and that, 'kissing least slowed down. the white hand of the blushing fair For the present it is planned to and removing his false eyebrows, build 200,000 workmen's homes in the gallant besought her on one regularly established colony settle- knee to accompany him to the police- ments, and about 100,000 “folk station, where a quartette of fiddlers dwellings" (tenements of nanimum struck up the minuet from “Ariadne" size in one or two-storey houses). and the lady was escorted laughing- ly to the Jug under a shower of comfits.
Trans-Ocean.
And all this has led to all this: H.K. ACCOUNTANT
Scene: The "Blue Persian" Night
Club.
Time 12.45 a.m.
He: Evening, baby. Say, what's the dope? You're having this with
me.
EXAMINATIONS
F.A. Gill Carries Off
Gold Medal
品
Mr. F. A. Gill.
won the gold She: Oh, Sergeant, how marvel-medal of the International Institute lous! Can we have a magnum of of Accountants for the highest ag- bubbly?
He: Sure! She (coyly): It's four pounds, you know. But I daresay I can get you a rake-off.
He (producing a wad of notes): Money's no object, baby. There's plenty more where that came from (Orders a magnum).
She: Oh, Sergeant, I think you're just too happy making. You're the
gregate (93) in the overgeas, ex- aminations, according to the re- port on the Hong Kong examina- tions of the Institute just received.
Following is the list of passes: Intermediate Accounts Paper No. IF A Gill; Herbert Samuel, Tsui Tak Hoi, Wong Shui Hai, Kanwar K. S. Parmar, John V. Braga, Francis Chan.
Intermediate Accounts Paper No. armadillo's pants, you are reely. If 2-F. A. Gill, Herbert Samuel, you, Sergeant Tsui Tak Hoi, A. M. Braga, John there'd be just nothing of you left. v. Braga.
I got fresh with
(They drink).
Intermediate Auditing:
Lee
He: That reminds me, baby. I Keng Swee, Lau Mung Loi, Liao brought you a few flowers. They're Yuan Ying. outside, in the bar-a dozen orchids.
Intermediate
Law Paper No.
She: Oh, Sergeant, how ritzy! 1:-F. A. Gill, K. Y. Bau, V. V. just love orchids, they're so oofish. Ribeiro, Abdul Rahman Razack, What a night this is for me-bub Abdul Hamid Bakar, The Kok Po, bly and oysters, and all this lovely Herbert Samuel, Tsui Tak Hoi, caviare, and a dozen orchids moan- Wong Shui Hai, Kanwar K. S. ing at the bar! Such treats don't Parmar. often come my way.
He (suspiciously) :
Final Accounts Paper No. 1: They don't? Charles Pau Ka Lin. Why, damitall, baby, I thought you|· Final Accounts Paper No. 2:- had bubbly every night?.
Charles Pau Ka Lin, Lau Mung She: Oh, Sergeant, you are a one! Loi, Liao Yuan Ying, Alfred Fong Who d'you think I am, I wonder? Wing Fook, Wee Hoe Giap. Dietrich?
Final Auditing:-Charles Pau Ka He: Why, aren't you the proprie-Lin, Edwin K. Kong, T. A. Johns- tress of this joint; I understood you ton, Young Kong Low. were. (with increasing suspicion). Final Law Paper No. 1:-Charles And, by the way, why d'you keep Pau Ka Lin, Lau Mung Loi, Liao calling me "Sergeant?" I'm sup- Yuan Ying, Alfred Fong, Wing posed to be Sir, Valentine de Vere, Fook, Wee Hoe Giap, Edwin K. a "popular. West End baronet.” Kong, Young Kong Low, Walter J.
She: Sergeant, darling, you must Brown, Charles A. Figueiredo." have been going it to-night. Why, Final Law Paper No. 2: Lau everyone here knows you-Sergeant Mung Loi, Liao Yuan Ying, Wèe Truncheon, of the plain-clothes Hoe Giap, Edwin K. Kong, Walter (white waistcoat) branch. And, of J. Brown. course, I thought you knew me, I'm Final Law Paper No. 3:- Policewoman Smirke, they call me Charles Pau Ka Lin, Edwin K. Smacker. (She produces her war-Kong, T. A. Johnston, Young Kong rant card). Fancy taking you in, Low, Walter J. Brown, Chas. A. Sergeant; I think I ought to get Figueiredo. promoted for that. Oh, Sergeant
;I
pettikins, do say you agree with me. To me this seems a lot of Canber-
He: Say it? I'm saying it with ra sauce.
orchids!
(They burst into peals of happy A bullet was found in the brain laughter. Curtain).
of a Pennsylvania man.-
This is nothing. Certain Euro- Canberra, the Australian Federal peans have had armaments on the capital, boasts that no serious crimes brain for years. have ever been committed there.
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