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ADVERSARIA
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movement that deserves every possible support.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN may think differently. particularly if the advisory, call comes through from Cleveland, Ohio, at a moment when he is still suffer- ing from gout. To be called to the telephone in such circum- stances in order to hear advice that you do not want from some- body whom you do not know sounds far from attractive. In any event, does not Mr. Cham- berlain already receive through inordinate other channels an amount of advice that he never asked for? He must be thorough- ly sick of it in the case of the Air Ministry, for instance. Bri- tain is a free country, and its politicians are surrounded by is unsolicited advice. If there any floating over the trans- Atlantic telephone, perhaps it had better be reserved for the dictators who hear less of it from their own country.
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NEWS headline: BERGEN'S DUMMY GOING TO MANILA
“Charlie," of stage and theatre fame, probably isn't the first dummy to go to the Philippine capital, of course, but he will be the most popular we venture to state.
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DAMAGED DYKESTM
The thought occurs that it must be very discouraging to be
LITTLE things tell us that time is rapidly passing; that the course of our sands will soon beIN the same paper: run. The other night over the JAPANESE SOLDIERS REPAIR wireless we heard a tenor. sing- ing exquisitely of love. His old gal, it seemed, was the best gal after all, and he wanted her back a Japanese soldier; just after again. He sang without much you finish a good job of destruc- hope, however, because unfor- tion, you're ordered to repair it tunately she was the gal he had for future destroying. loved way back in nineteen- thirty-three. We turned the CHINESE boys are not one wireless off, slipped into our whit beyond their foreign nightshirt, snuffed out the candle brothers when it comes to dis- and presently drifted off into tributing circulars ----- they seem the light, dreamless sleep of the to know all the tricks of the antique.
THE wise worm, it is noted, dosen't crawl out until after the early_bird has eaten his break fast.
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trade. A friend of ours tells about an experience he had the other day: Sitting in a semi- doze in a motor-bus en route through the Chinese section of The Colony he felt something
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uldenly plunk into his lap. HAVE you heard of the latest Opening his eyes, he discovered lance fad in Shanghai? It is that apparently he had fallen called the "Panay Hop" and the heir to several hundred copies of lads and lassies in Shanghai a Chinese circular advertisement. cabarets have been reported to The depositor was a small lad be keeping regular practice who was just dumping the re- hours of late. Seemingly the mainder of his load through a execution is very simple. Danc- tram-car window, not far off → ing around the floor with com- departing with the air of a task- plete disregard to others, you well-done. will sooner or later bounce into another couple. So doing, you SOMEONE once remarked: turn, bow to the lady and gen- "No one has discovered a sure cure tleman and say:
"'S-8-8-0-0 for laziness.” We can't help but sorrow! A thousand pardons! wonder if the author of "them Then resume your merry way. words" has every tarried around a territory being visited by a A PLEASANT story comes Japanese b bombing squadron? from America to the effect Even the pilots engaged in the that a certain citizen of Cleve-releasing of circulars which begin land, Ohio, is, thinking of ringing "Oh Brethren, why should you up Mr. Neville Chamberlain on lose your life
" oft times the international telephone sys seem to forget just which their tem in order to ask him why he general ordered released first "wobbles" in the matter of for- a bomb or circular.
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eign policy and also to give him
some advice. Advice to the ENGLAND and France have eminent by telephone is evident apparently agreed to take some ly the Cleveland citizen's strong sort of diplomatic steps to avert point; it seems that he has alan attack on Czechoslovakia, we ready put through telephone calls see. Isn't it about time for out how
| with that intention in, view to some country was gomeone said.
the French President, Herr Hitler would act if Hitler, General Franco, and cer- “Boo?”
tain Japanese generals. We are
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not told whether he actually IT has been reported that established contact with the there was considerable embar- notables he was after or whe rassment in Geneva over the ther they stayed to listen to his receipt of Haile Selassie's cheque, advice, put no doubt the author in part payment of dues. The ties who collect the fees for old boy claims that Ethiople still international telephone calls con- belongs to the League of Nations, older that the Cleveland citizen's if there is one campaign is a thoroughly good
TOUGH