THE CHINA MAIL. MAY 20, 1987.
THE
INAVAL
MIGHT AT
WORLD SPITHEAD
GOES BY
FOR REVIEW
London, To-day
L
IKE the Philosopher's Stone, the For fifteen days, commencing to- site of Atlantis, or the Rid-day, there will be one long round of dle of the Sphinx, the cure for anor-celebration engagements at Port- ing continues to elude mankind. smouth in connexion with the Cor-
By cure we mean the eradication onation naval review off Spithead - of the cause, not the local treatment processions, banquets, sports, of the symptoms.
ceptions and dances.
re-
A good example of treatment, for
All the ships which will comprise instance, is furnished by a woman the huge armada to be reviewed by who told a Bristol magistrate that the King have arrived, and the stage- she always took a walking-stick to is now set for the biggest display bed with her to wake her husband of naval might since the Great War. when he snored.
The first foreign ship to arrive
Here the method is somewhat pri- at Portsmouth was the Argentine mitive but doubtless effective. A battleship Moreno, which was fol- smart crack with a length of malac-lowed next day by the Japanese ca should give at least temporary cruiser Asigara. Then arrived the relief-but it has its disadvantages. Turkish destroyer, the Portuguese
It's all right applied by a wife to sloop and the Cuban cruiser.
a husband, because most husbands are accustomed to sudden sharp blows with assorted hardware.
Counter-Attacks
re-
"SHIP” IN SQUARE
The Greek, Danish and German warships reached Portsmouth on May 15, and the French, Rumanian, But if a husband tried the stick
United States, Swedish and Soviet treatment on a snoring wife he'd ships had all arrived by Tuesday. pretty soon find she was keeping a Fleet arrived at Spithead, and the On May 13, the Mediterranean flat-iron under her pillow for prisals.
Home Fleet the next day. The Re- Actually, the difficulty in all cases when the King and Queen arrived serve Fleet steamed in yesterday, where snorers are woken by their suffering audience is 'to
in Portsmouth. convince them that they were snoring.
A great “ship” has been built in Guild Hall Square. It will be We've seen clubmen jogged out of illuminated each night. It was offi- oblivion by distraught colleagues, cially named "Loyalty" by the Lady and they invariably behave like vic- Mayoress. tims of a moustrous miscarriage of justice.
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All the ratings of foreign ships are to be entertained by the Admir- No amount of witnesses or weight alty at a banquet at the Royal Naval of evidence will convince them that barracks. The officers are they've been giving a remarkable similarly entertained by the officers impersonation of the Queen Mary of the British Fleet.-Trans-Ocean. in a fog.
Doctors always maintain that the co-operation of the patient is vital to the success of a treatment. It's clear, then, that the first step to- wards a snoring remedy must be to convince the patient he is a patient.
to
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be
An English writer points out that People with money who may be the "H" is silent in Streatham and ready to finance enterprising Clapham. It is also not heard much schemes have been "listed" by a in other parts of London.
young American.
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"What is the first thing that book, bearing strikes a visitor to Hong Kong?" fidential” asked somebody the other day. A £20 can motor car, probably.
After all, there is a case for the pedestrian, writes a motoring cor- respondent. It is usually made of polished oak with brass handles.
"Masonic Lodges
In a neat, black leather bound ironical title "Con- which anyone with buy you can read the names of moneyed men and women who live in New York State.
If you have a moneymaking scheme
book, you consult your then with "high pressure" cir- culars, letters and telephone calls, discuss the matter with the Big Money men.
Author John Ferguson, of Balti more, said:
That Are Illegal" mo
My book is really confidental, Many lodges of Freemasons, by it has been taken up with enthus not being registered, rank as illegal iasm by good brokerage houses, de- secret societies and are subject to partmental stores, and many night severe penalties,
This was revealed at Essex Quat- ter Sessions, Chelmsford.ka
The Clerk (Mr. E. S. Holcroft) prodliced a register of lodges of Freemasons kept under an Act of George III, and said that many lodges in Essex had not registration returns.
Unregistered - Todges
illegal.
clubs.
"Each purchaser will be res- tricted to one copy. He will have not to sign a pledge that it is loaned to anyone outside his own firm.
"My list contains the names of sent in 10,000 people who earn more than
$3,000 a year."..
became
"Confidential" cost $1,500 to pre- pare, and has shown a profit of only
The Deputy Clerk (Mr. R. D. M. 6500. Negus) said the matter was becom
ing serious.
Master of Freemasons for Essex
The Court decided that the Clerk request that lodge secretaries should- should send the Provincial. Grand send in returns forthwith.
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