THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.
THE
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LEAGUE'S VICTORY
SOLUTION OF
WORLD SANDJAK TROUBLE
GOES BY
forget who it was who said this,
I but he was a wise man:
"We can forgive those who bore us, but we can never forgive those whom we bore.”
That is very true.
In the same way we find it hard to forgive people who tell us that we have no sense of humour.
We just can't believe it. Each of us thinks secretly that| he has got a great sense of humour, and that he is a great wag and a keen wit.
Now, if anybody told me that I was completely devoid of humour, I should not be annoyed, because I just couldn't believe him.
Geneva, To-day.
The resolution covering the basic principles upon which the auto- nomous Government of the Sand- jak of Alexandretta is to be form- ed, was passed on Saturday morn- ing by the League Council.
The French Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, and the Turkish Foreign Ministër, Tewfik Rushdi Aras, both expressed gratification over the outcome of the delibera- tions, declaring it signified the final solution of the Sandjak ques- tion.
Following the balloting, both statesmen assumed in the name of their respective countries the ob- ligations in the resolution.
The Soviet delegate, M. Maxim Litvinoff, praised the final settle- ment as a League of Nations vic- tory.
Like all of us, I nurse the ridi-
The League Council was also culous idea that I have one of the engaged in formulating a draft keenest senses" of humour to be resolution concerning the question found upon the face of this earth. of the Valencia Government's pro- Since we all think the same, test to the difficulties encountered we're a pretty merry crew.
through the objection of the On the other hand, we are only Valencia delegate, Senor del Vayo, too eager and willing to believe with the support of M. Litvinoff. that those around us have none of this valuable sensitivity to fun.
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Bridegrooms
The wedding took place at Ug- borough Parish Church on Satur- day of Miss M. Watts and the late Mr. A. Andrews, of Ermington, and Mr. G. Hannaford, of Modbury. Home Paper.
Howdy, boys!
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Humour
Fighting
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Trans-Ocean.
ARTILLERY TO BE
LENT TO EGYPT
To Stay Interference With Rearmament
Cairo, To-day.
The British War Office will "lend" Egypt field artillery in order that development of the Egyptian Army may proceed with- out over-burdening the British re- armament industries.
This was revealed by the Egyp- tian War Minister, Ali Sidky Pasha, in an interview with news- papermen here yesterday.
The Minister also announced on the North-West that negotiations between Cairo Frontier, as described in “The Tat- and London regarding armaments ler.""
deliveries had been satisfactorily
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"It must have been a very gory concluded, and that the Egyptian little scrap and the Gurkhas won Army's munitions supplies will be it. The odds against them were 40 provided exclusively by British to 8, and it is easy to imagine how | firms.
the little men licked their chops The "loan" of artillery from the after it. That sort of thing was British reserves was decided up- just their weather, and the humour on, however, because delivery of of it, I am sure, appealed to them, the entire order placed by Egypt knowing what merry little souls within the stipulated period they are."
would interfere too greatly with the British rearmament gramme. Trans-Ocean.
Monkey House
and the
Mr. and Mrs. Mendel Picket their son Charlie went to see monkeys at the New York Zoo
Towards closing time, it was the custom to release Janet, a young gorilla, and Ellen, a baby chimpan-
zee.
These two animals had a perfect record of docility, and behaved with great decorum amongst the crowd of goggling humans.
But somehow they didn't take to the Picket family.
Mrs. Picket was the first to get the rap.
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Competitors in a horse rally to be held from July 10 to July 15 will ride 100 miles to Eastbourne, Sussex, the meeting point, in three stages.
More than 1,000 railwaymen attended a London and North Eastern railway- men's Coronation Year service in York Minster,
The 40-hour week is to be suspend- ed in Italy, operatives complaining that it does not afford them a living wage.
It had to be amputated, Charlie valued that toe. He said.
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Ellen, the chimp, grabbed her
"It's not everybody that has sIX and slung her through the air. Mr. Picket was quietly knocked out, toes on his left foot-and geel was and young Charles was thrown I attached to that toe!"g seventeen feet by Janet, the gorilla. He seems to have been very at- Charlie broke his toe, and it so tached to that toe, because his father, happened that it was an extra toe— claimed £15,000 damages from: the the sixth on his left foot.
iZoo for the whole affair.
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