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BLX-year-old Phyllis lat the breakfast -table): “Oh, I had such a funny dream last night."
Daddy; "What was it?" Phyllis: "Well, you ought to. know, you were in it"
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Then there's the one about the new shavetall who had his platpon marching away from him. The men had gone some distance and were headed straight for "an em- bankment, and the second leutenant was speechless. At last the regular army sergeant instruc- tor yelled to the new officer:
Say something. if it's only good-by!"
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Sanny: "Mother, we're going to play elephants at the zoo and we want you to help us."
Mother: "What on earth can I do?"
Sonny: "You can be the lady who gives them peanuts and candy."
Local Exchange Quotations
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AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY
Gloomy Weather Prospects
HEAVY TRAFFIC BOOKINGS
London, Aug. 1. Weather prospects for the August Bank Holiday week-end are not very favourable though some sunny intervals are forecast.
However, the volume of holiday traffic appears to be unaffected and gives promise once again to exceed the records of previous years.
A feature is the large amount of long distance trafic and the
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
MONDAY, AUGUST 3
Anniversaries
and Holidays.-
King Hankori of Norway born." 1872. Bank Holiday, The Find- ing of the Body of St. Stephen the Protomartyr.
Cinemas
King's: "Come Out of The
Pantry."
p.I
Queen's The Singing Kid." Oriental:-"Special Agent' World:"Chinese Picture" Alhambra:-"Freshman Love" Majestic:-"Chinésë Picture " Star: "Mutiny On The Bounty. Dances Cheero Club Dance, 8
Miscellaneous. --St. Andrew's Club "Open Night" 8 p.m.
Social-RE,O.C.A, Open Alt Wellington Barracks 8.30 Whist Drive and Tombola, at M.C.A. Services Whist Drive.
Da
West Lounge, 9 pm.
Sports
Aquatics —Army Trials (YM CA Bath), 2.30 p.m
Moon-Full Moon: 11.47 a.m. VI. Moon. 17th, Day.
Reporter: "Why all the gloom?" Editor: "I received a letter yes terday, informing me that 1 was heavy demand for alcaping accomp the beneficiary of a large bequest;modation on nigit expresses. and in the rush, I replied, "Your Thirty thousand seat bookings för with-day for trains leaving Waterloo Station alone are reported by the Bouthern Railway.
contribution
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Over the whole ambly about Peck: "My views on bringing up two thousand tra trains are the family hre
being rur.
Mrs. Feck: "Never mind your views. bring up the family. You go and bring up the coal.”
"Mother" exclaimed little Jane "they're going to teach na dames- tic silence at school now,”
"Do you mean domestic-science." asked her mother..
"There is a bare hope"" inter- rupted father, "that our little Jane means what she says.""
.. Mr. Edward Lockwood, of Canton, told the fallowing amusing story when speaking at a dinner at the Chinese Merchants, Club on Satur- day night.
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There was a doctor in Canton who was a brain specialist and was very successful with operations on people who had trouble with their brains. One patient, however, after his brain had been removed and taken to another room for exami- nation, came out of the anaesthetic
"Figures of air traffic during the week-end are expected to show a notable rise over last year. British Wirela.
IRAQ PIPELINE
ON FIRE
Pierced By Arab Bullets
PROMPT ACTION
dunrise.—5:58 am SunseĽ.-7.02
Tides.—High' at 8.40 and 22.28. Low & 210 and 18.05;
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TUESDAY, AUGUST «
Anniversaries and ↑ Holidays...... War Declared, 1914 St. Dominic Founder of the Order of Prex- chers.
Cineizka
King's "Come out of the Pan-
try."
queen's The Singing «Kid.” Oriental:-"Return Of The Ter
World: "Chinese Picture: Alhambra:-"Were
inan.”
Only Hu-
Majestic: "Chinese Picture." Star: The Case Of The Lucky
Lega.
Exhibitions, Proeper Ralston's Opals, at Lane, Crawfords"
Miscellaneous. - Rotary Tidin, Hongkong Hotel; Massed Buglers "Retreat," at Shamshuipo. 6.15 p.nl.
Jerusalem, Aug. 1.
out on
A huge condagration has broken the Transjordan side of Jordan River as the result of holing of the Iraq petroleum pipe Dripe. 830 D
Social line, setting alight the oil gushing therefrom.
The outrage is thought to be the
Club Whist
Sporte Darts-McEwan-Younger League,
and put his skull back and walked work of Palestinian Arabe Who Royal Artillery, Lyemun v. HKS out. Meanwhile the doctor had the recently repeated attacks on the brain and searched frantically for pipe line, necessitating the decl-; Royal Artillery, Stonecutters his patient but could not find him.sion only yesterday to send 500 Naval Yard Police v. Royal Ulster v. Chief and Petty Officers; Royal The doctor eventually found him
Rifles: Royal Engineers. Royal Welch. Fusiliers.
in one of the leading colleges in Shanghai where be was a pro- fessor!
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ETHIOPIAN ATTACK.
"Itong Kong Daily Freas Special?
Rome, July 31, The Italian losses. In repudiating the recent attack on Addis Ababa by the Abyssinian insurgents' wefé' only alight, according to reports here. „0"
The rebels, who were command- ed by Ras Imru, took to their heels when the Italian bombing planes went into action-
Transoraan News Survise.
British soldiers to Amman to rein- force the pipe line patrol
Later: Normal working of the Iraq pipe line has been resumed. An official of the Iraq Petroleum Company interviewed by Reuter, said the line was pierced by three bullets, but the fire was soon ex- tinguished. Leuter.
BRITISH MISSION IN LHASA
Thibetan Government
Invitation
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Moon.-VI Mocn, 18th Day: Sunrise.---S,50
am, Sunset-7.03
Low at 3.00 and 15.40.
Tides.--High at 9.30 and 22.55;
p.11.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
Anniversaries and Holidays.— Our Lady of "the snows." (Foun- dation of the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore in Rome, A.D. 368).
Auctions-Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, Taipo, 11.30 a.in,
Cinemas
King's: “Little Miss Nobody." Queen's—“Man Of Iron." Oriental:"Return of the Ter-
WorldChinese Picture” Alhambra:-"We're and
Only
Simia, Aug. 1. The Thibetan- Government has invited. Mr... Barti John Gould, Political Officer, Sikkim Bhutan, to go to Lhasa. It is un- derstood that Mr. Gould will go to Lhasa shortly to carry on the work interrupted by the death of his predecessor, Mr Frederick William-
2011.
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DUTCH RUBBER DUTY RAISED
Batavia, Aug. 1 The native rubber export duty has been raised from 36 to 37 guilders from August 2-i Beuter.
Au
man." Majestic:-,"Chinese Picture." Star:-"The Cane Of The Lucky
Legs a Dance-Cheero Club. Dance, 8
p.m...
Sports
Lawn Bowls-Pairs Champion- shp; JE.Noronha and FX M da Bilva v. 8. Bright and J. E. Henson (Kowloon CC. Green), 5 DAMLA
Moon-VI Moon, 19th," Day. Sunrise-5.55 am. Bunset-7.03,
p.m.
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