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Sport.
Eights Wock opened at Oxford Chilly Eights Week
in typical Eights Wook weather. That function has always been as- I'll have six, please.sociated with attempts to manu- facture gaiety while lunching in Ultra Violet Laundering,
punt on cold salmon and hock- The latest exploitation of ultra Up beneath leadon skies and with an east wind blowing. It is living violet rays comes from America, deadlock, after the aunner of a
where the laundry is now subjected this your up to its reputation, saya disarmament conference,
to its beneficial effects. Ons slogan a Home paper, Brasonose, who would bo
claims that it puts sunshine in have boon head of the river since the natural expectation. That is the European end of the businThat is clever, but, unfortunately, on the first day. They are now pre the Lawn Bowls League appear on the laundry bundle when it raine." 1028, held their own pretty easily
and the Chinese political aspect need not be stressed. The attempt entirely fallacious. The applica to give China a railway system is tion of ultra-violet rays to the wash hardly a procedent for embarking ust be entirely without any con upon the more delicate and com- sequence one way or the other. Yet plicated pr
somehow the drenching of one's yellow colours, prows which Dr. DETTHAE has in his mind's eye. Not till the
linen by ultra-violet and ozone The Shooting of Huberta. game of democratic politics is for
sounds good. NO ELECTRICAL AGE FOR ver abandoned can such an iden be
entertained.
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Moray Firth at varying speeds and ranges until reduced to shreds by the unceasing, bombardment.
Riviera Rapacity."
calently a rowing college, and with four old Blues in the boat, including the O.U.B.C. President, all is well again with the black and
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Impressivo church services were Poseidon victimas hold yesterday in memory of the
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Canadian Government Forestry
Four European farmers are alleg ed to have had a hand in the Fleets Test of Gunnery
Communists, lonted shops and assassination of Huberta the Hippo, motor-car showrooms in Roubaix The ships of the Atlantic Fleet South Africa's national pet, whose on Baturday night. Page will leave Oromarty Firth at the bullet-ridden carcase Ir man, the politician, would learn THE COUNTRYWOMEN OF end of May, says a Home paper floating in the Keiekama river, near were yesterday nominated
was found Teni Hein and Hu Han Min to bo ** temperate calm Lad
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for the summer gunnery exercises King William's Town. One of the mombership of the National Gov wiar," what wonderful things Man,
in which, it is understood, fall men has confessed to a magistrate.ary session of the C.E.C. Page 9. ernment Council by the fifth plen the scientist, could do for humanity. The current number of A RECENT meeting in the Albert tically every type of ordnance will part of the Peddie district. The charges will be employed. Frac The shooting occurred in a remote the Far Eastern Review devotes Hall of 7,000 countrywomen from he tested, from the huge 16in. wen-assassins" hid their guns, but Canada's Forests, itself mainly to the subject of the the villages of England and Wales pons of the Nelson and Rodney, two have been recovered and iden- electrification of China, a project to discuss the problems of rural whose projectiles weight 2,460 lb., tified as the weapons used. The ducts in Canada is placed at The annual value of forest pro- DRY GINGER ALE perfectly feasible if only China's life was an event of hopeful down to the 3in. guns firing a 3 lb. farmers proffered the excuse that
war lords and politicians would get significance at a time when such shell. Canvas targets on rafts will they were afraid that the animal approximately 8500,000,000 by the together and agree upon their re- events are, rare enough, For by bo towed through the waters of the might damage their crops, but it spective offices, spheres of influence, whatever means Britain's recovery
is believed that they wanted its employed in the extraction and salaries and personal, sinking funds, from her present depression may
hide for sinnboks. The men will manufacture of the products of the They could all become wealthy, and be renohed, every movement is to
bo charged in, & few days time forests of the Dominion. Last year their country would in a surpris-be welcomed that tends to make
The "murder" of the hippopotamus, the value of these exports was over ingly short time bo transformed in rural life more acceptable and
which has aroused tremendous in-8291,000,000. There are about 3,000 every aspect of its agricultural, efficient. This contribution of the
dignation throughout South Africa, industrial and social life
Women's Institutes to these ends
induced a member of the House of Dr. DETTMAN, of. Hanover, makes an astonishing record of
Assembly to raise the subject in great German engineer, after a long visit to China has worked out a mighty grid system" of main generating and subsidiary dis tributing stations that would carry cheap, and plentiful electrical cur- ront to nearly every town and village in half the provinces of China, with promise of further developments into every corner of this immense country. Think what this would mean to the people of China In place of dirty, and primitive oil lamps and cooking stoves would be this clean and efficient power that is switched on and off with a finger and does its work without leaving ush or soot
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The Riviera shows signs of lasing its popularity, but it is not due to the fact that the climate is not rapid progress. It is only Afteen living up to its reputation. It is years since the first of the in trouble, the reputation that the another reputation that is the stitutes, based upon a model that Riviera has earned for rapacity. The "Un-Cohen-ed" King. had proved successful in Canada, It seems as though, when the season was founded in England and begins, all the pirates in France Herr Hitler has some qualities Assemble there and hoist the Jolly and many prejudices. He dislikes. ultimately taken under the wing of Roger, consight, that to rob is Jews and is not afraid to say so. the Ministry of Agriculture, partly Froissarta that with an eye to improving food pro-ing the last two or three years they must never be mentioned in his
In good life?It is true that dur-He dislikes them so much that they Mr. Dalton has assured Com- duction in war-time To-day there have begun to see the danger of
mander Bellairs that the Soviet copt as a corporate body to be government had with great diplo cast into Hell fre.. Hence this
matic skill succeeded in tracing tragedy in the editorial office of the and recovering a certain propor... Poelkische Buchachter, which is, the ion of the plate-formerly belong- Labour has issued a statement, in of the Nazi leader. The German Petersburg. This plate, in itself, American Federation of 100 per cent. Aryan mouthpiece, ing to the British Embassy in St. the course of which it says
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are some 4,700 groups, with a total killing the goose that lays the presence or in his newspapers ox- membership that runs to well over bird is already moribund,
golden eggs, but I fancy that the a quarter of a million women. That they are a spontaneous growth which hils a real need in England's rural life is sufficiently proved by the fact that they are entirely self managed and, except for a special grant for handicraft work, self-
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The situation is serious. Un cross-country championship has just was not of great beauty. There was employment has steadily increas been won in record time by a Berlin service of salvers and dinner- od. The, stress of almost two athlete called Cohon. As his name plates of mid-Victorian design and is being more keenly felt.www. His victory, therefore, caused con- represented by solemn Egyptian
"Suffering general, while social invest is steadily increase formation in the Nezi newspaper Agures supporting baskets of ing. There are strong indications occasion: he reported the race as filigree. There were also somia vast that we are facing a third winter follows: At the tenth kilometre and ornate chandeliers. Until the of distressing unemployment," Schoenfelder fell back into second It accuses certain banking in place, and was passed by Combe middle of the 10th century the plate terests and employers of labour of
Coming into the Stadium at Embassies and Viveregal Lodges attempting to force reductions in Petry collapsed with a stitch, and became the perquisite of the Am tion of the understanding reached broke the tape an easy winner ant. The houses of our proconsula wages. This, it holds is a viola Toombe, with a splendid burst.bassador, Viceroy or Lord Lieuten at President Hoover's Sunshine Nazi readers must have had someant. The houses of our pro- declared that a reduction of wages Coumbo or Toombe won the race plate of this, nature engraved with Conference, when it was publicly difficulty in deciding whether consular families are stocked with would mean a loss of buying power To the editor this was a small the Royal arms. To-day it is the and contribute, towards the con- matter. The main point was that Warsaw Embassy alone which tinuation of unemployment.
the victor had been "un-Cohen-ed possesses plate of any real value.
suggests, Herr Coben is a Jewsome fruit, dishes of the same period
change that it would bring into the Minister for Agriculture, touched lives of the ordinary people the the root of the useflness of the Inbour saved in collecting and pre movement when he reminded his paring fuel, in, lighting fires, in audience that the wife of the small cleaning up ashes. The chief factors cultivator is every whit as import in making a house dirty are the ant, not only to the home but to fires and the lamps. How greatly the interests of agriculture, as her the standard of comfort and health husband. It is not only that she would be raised by the electrio needs & firm grip upon rural globo and stove! With a supply domestic seonomy, on the better of cheap electric power Chinese teaching of which the programme industries, and handicrafts would of the present meeting rightly in take on new life, and here are alsts: the livestock and the nursery, possibilities almost beyond imagina garden are as much her concern as tion. In agriculture, quite apart her man's. In the long-delayed ad- from the new source of energy for vance toward grading and market- driving pumping, threshing and ing British produce with something other machinery, electricity is being of the efficiency that other lands applied in new ways, especially to boast she can play a vital part, and fruit and vegetable crops of the the pooling of ideas for which this| kind that flourish enormously in great annual meeting gives por Mr. N. L. Smith to be Principal Mr. R. A. 8. North to be Deputy
H.E.
China.
tunity should be of the first. Jalue Dr. DETTAL came to China as to the prosperity as well as
Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils,"" the representative of big electrical social life of the countryside. Clerk of Councila engineering interests in his country:
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Local Notes and Events
the Governor has appointed
H.E. the Governor has appointed
A cable has been received by Mr. At to-morrow's i
Rotary Club Wm. Anderson, the local Secretary tiffin, Mr, W. G. 4. Turner of the Trinity College of Music, A.M.I.C.E., will give an address from London stating that Dr. СВ Post-war Activities of an Mistowski is arriving by the P. & Armament Firm.!!!
0.2.5. Rawalpindi to conduct the local examination on Thursday,
fever was reported during Friday.
One Chinese case of puerperal
Looking Back 25 Years,
The Lawn Bowls rink competition which has been proceeding on the Happy Valley was brought to a green of the Civil Service Club at close last night when the rinks skipped by. Mr. Melvor and Mr. was benten by 21 shots to 8, the Fenton met in the final. The latter. winning quartette, Mars R
torn blanket, à Chinese, alleged to badges-Hong Kong Daily Press, Making a noose from a piece of Melvor, afterwards receiving their Duncan, C. W. Brett, W. Cast and
be a returned banishes, attempted June 14, 1900, tained in the Mongkok Police Looking Back 50 Years, to commit suicide while being de
Station on Friday. The attempt was discovered just in time and We hear that some efforts are hospital. It is understood that the one of the projected Tramway the would-be suicide. was rushed to being made to get up a petition of man's condition is no longer con Companion. We would suggest to sidered serious the community the advisability, be
www.fore signing any document of the With 17 convictions against him in kind, of obtaining full particulars 1920 a Chinese motor-car driver, who of the rival schemes, without which was convicted of dangerous driving it would be unfair and imprudent in Hennessey Road on May 31, was to pronounce in favour of either. Graciano Bilas, the Filipino aried $25 by Mr. W. Schofield. It The projects should stand on their who ran amok on the Empress of Was stated that the defendant own merita, and we trust that they Canada, has been removed to the drove into Hennessey Boad from a will be allowed to do so, in order Mental Hospital here he will be side street of a dangerous snced that the Colony may have the one kept under observation. The bodies and on the wrong side. A car best adopted for its wants and the of the two Chinese who were stab which was proceeding eastwards at capabilities of the thorougatsrea bed to death have been removed to the time had to swerve violently, to Hong Kong Dally Press, June 15, the Kowloon Mortuary..
the right to avoid a collision. 1881,
His optimistic report on the possibilities of the electrification of Women as Anglers. Chins points out what the steady
Who is England's beat fiber. furtherance of this mighty scheme woman? naks a writer in a Home would mean to the electrical in paper. Many would give their yote dustry. Dr. DETTMAN realises, of to the Duchess of Bedford, who has
Hi. Majesty the King has hp- June 18. course, that no one country would at least one great record-eighteca proved the re-appointment of the secure a monopoly for supplying salmon in one morning to her Hon. Bir Henry Fellock, K.C., to electrical machinery to China, but credit. Truth, however, compels be an Unofficial Member of the the great
Republic would be for me to sward the highest.1 honque to Executive Council for a further at least a quarter of a century a an American. Lady Ward, the period of fivoʻycars. tremendous market for the electrical fortunate daughter of Mrs White industry throughout the world. If law Reid, caste a prettier fly than this scheme could be set on foot any woman I know. In fact, as it would be normall, factor in dry-fly experts, she and her as lifting humanity out of the slough band would take some boating as of the great economio dopression. a pair. They owe some their skill But we all know perfectly well to the fact that at Chilton, ther that such a scheme will not be country home on the Kennet, thy carried through in the lifetime of are favoured with one of the finet
stretches of dry-By water in Ent any one of us. The scientists and ladd. It is not everyone who cin engineere enn do it, the financiers and half a doren three-pounders will back at and the people, both an evening, with grass diswas all & rose garden for one's background European and Chinese, want it. That is the fortunate lot of Lad But the politicians will very firmly, Ward...
The names of Miss Bessie Chen and Miss Chang Su Yue have been added to the list of medical prao titioners. Both are Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery of Hong Kong University,