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ENGLAND AS WELL AS CAN BE
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HOW WE NED OUT TO-
THE ELECTION
RESULTS.
"A NEW FASHION THAT IS ** 30 DIFFICULT,
TO EXPLAIN NICELY."
7 ENGLISH NEWS LETTER TO HELENA FROM JOCASTA,
Election-gy has come and gone not mind wearing them.
hear
WOMAN FOUND SHOT IN CABIN.
LINER TRAGEDY MYSTERY
When the R.M.6.P. linor Asturias (29,071" tons) arrived at Southamp- ton from South Amerien a woman. whose name appeared on the pas songer list on Miss Phebe Sorel was hurried to a nursing home in Southampton for an operation. She was later reported to be' in a critical condition.
It is understood that Miss Borel.
found shot in her cabin when the midnight and one a.m. wosaol was off Cherbourg between
Slovakia and are being dumped in huge quantities before the tariff comes to stop luxury importa....... It is stated that she went to the In this case it may soon be un-officers quarters on board, about patriotic to wear them,so lot us 12.30 am and asked to be allowed
to speak to one of the officers.! be gay and have one to match every Owing to the lateness of the hour!! dress while yet we may
she was advised to return to hert cabin.
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Not long afterwards a shot wan heard, and the woman, was found in ↑ her cabin with a wound in, the storesch. A pistol was found in the cabin.
my dear Hélena, so nll is well with they are chiefly made in Czecho-who was a first-class passenger, was England again, or at any rate. "as,
as the well as can be expected " Doctor would say 1 Even optimista were amazed at the tremendous majority gained by the Nationalist Government.. The Flight from the Ponud" which is so much talk ed about is nothing, compared to this Flight from Communism." Our dear old "British Public has shewa its gound.common sense once, more and it will be a long time before the Reds get a chance to meddle in
in public affairs again. How thrilled we were on Election night when the good news came over the air. Most people got the herd-inatinet" to a marked de- gree and felt they simply could not stay at home, so the big resta racts were packed with anxious veters, who came to dine and listen
in to the,, Election results. You should have heard the thunders of applause which greeted each Red defeat and Nationalist victory There has not been anything s sensational since the first Artistice Night. So good luck go with our now Government |
to Drury Lane to Noel Coward's wonderful drama ** Cupoloode" and found that get ting seats at short notice was no easy matter since that great barn fof a place in packed each night for this great spectnola. Yes,- one must admit that it is a marvelous production and that Noel Coward
Mias Borel, who is believed to be of foreign nationality, is stated to have travelled extensively, and to have made other voyages in the some ship. Her ago is given 26 about 35.
FIRST REGULAR MEETING.
crotary. Dr., Chien alac announced
is a genius to have conceived the ROTARY IN CANTON. idea, and a brave man to have dared to produce it in London. People call him a ernic and perhaps it is true: but he sees straighter
not afraid of truth. In this pageant Tuesday, Dr. S. F. Chien, Presi than any other living writer and in At its first regular meeting, which was held at the Hotel Asia on of England he shows us our Grand dent of the "Canton Rotary Club. fathers, our Fathers, and Ourselves announced Mr. Y. M. Lin as Tran 2 others see us. It is the monturer and Mr. A. E. Qain a be depressing play I have evor aces that the name of Mr. Samuel Wong and yet it sties one strangely to as a charter momber should replace lire in imagination through all the that of Mr. C. C. Loe as previously That Income-tax Rumcur,
reported, great events which have built our It was voted that the meetings All sorts of numours are floating Empire aines the days when for the next month should be held about. One is too good to keep tutoria was Queen. He spares and Meco Steamboat Company's on one of the Hong Kong. Canton. myself though I fear it is likewise nothing of wasted lives and wasted vessels at 1 pm, each Tuesday. too good to be true, viz., that ideals and his climax in the last income tax will have to be reduced scene is a nightmare of Jazz on A very sound paper. (none other New Year's Eve, 1030 A modern than the Evening Standard) badly night-club" with its dancers, and a declares that Immediate relief beautiful weary platinum-blonde must be given to payers of income-Ringing that macabre and dreadful tax, many of who will be unable 20th Century Blues,ther Com to meet the demands of the last budget, the income-tax mat be reduced to three shillings in the pound."
munists, fanatics, wireless-announc ers and negro saxaphonists flicker and flash through the searchlights in a kaleidoscope of noise and con- How's that for plain speaking fusion until at last the limelight Helena my dear! It would be won- steadies on to the old silver-haired derful news to people out Enst who couple who have lived and loved have to retire on tiny pensions. It through all the turmoil of the last would mean that they might hope half-century-and the curtain goes to live in England again, instead of
down on that pathetic and soul- dragging out a melancholy exist-
stirring tonet, thus England "may ance at cheap continental resorts.
regain once more her "Greatness, Never tell me that British people dignity and peace." Yes I am glad really desire to end their days on the Riviera, because I simply do not believe it. These terrible taxes have been crushing the heart out of our race: the Politician who is lever enough to reduce them will. he hailed 43 the greatest hera known to the British Isles since Saint George slew the Dragon.
if
That Now. Gorage: "Simply Disgraceful!"
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have seen Cavalcade--but I don't want to see it again until that wish (voiced so beautifully by Miss Mary Clair) hna, been fulfilled.
Hunting Starts Again. Monday last was the beginning of the Hunting Sensop and so we found ourselves at the first Meet of the East Kent Foxhounds. The air was "crisp, the sky was blue and the trees looked gorgeous in every Dear me politics again But
shade of copper and gold, The you see polities are the fashion at
event attracted all the enthusiasts present and have ousted all other of the district and there were lots interests for the moment. Even the of pretty girls to be seen: Most of news that the Victorian bustie may them looked, trim in the usual well
sold.
Who re-appear leaves us
eut breeches but your many be in. cares if it does. Fashions have terested to know that quite a num been to ugly this year that and her wore riding-habits and rode atrocity more or less makes no side-saddle: can it he that Princess difference. I should like to tell you Mary is responsible for reviving about the latest coinage evening wear, but fear the Editor looked too attractive for their scar. that graceful fashion. The men ali might be shocked and drive his blue let coats are always so immaculate pencil through my description (it is at the Opening Meet before the so difficult to put things nicely 'in
wear and tear of the season has English) but the pictures in any of dimed their brightness. (and there Jane Austen's books will tell you is rather a lot of tear in this part what I mean since it is merely an of the country!) Politios" may. old fashion revived, I went to a worry us, fashions may distress us big Mannequin Parade last week and the rigors of an English sum- and heard two dear old ladies dis- mer may chill un to the bone, but easing the matter with their cox-I am sure there is nothing in the questes focussed on a beautiful world so lovely as a sunny autumn blonde who was looking her best moming with a blue baze beneath in this new orange. "Simply dis- the trees, leaves which crackle graceful," said one dear old thing underfoot, the first sharp tang of to the other, but as a matter of frost in the air; aleck horses, eager fact it is quite a pretty fashion and bounds and a gay crowd all keen worthy of revival,
as "mustard; at the thought of 4 glorious gallop scross" country i'
Ai for necklaces, there is no end to them, and they are larger, and
Good-bye dear Helena: I am off
more bizarre than Over. It is and away in the morning and my strange how this fashion persists: next letter will be waitten in Paris. 'nind "that although, they are all marvelously cheap people still do
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