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SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 1925,
Britain's return
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925,
DAY BY DAY,
expense) of the workers, Trade at Home Is almost unprecedentedly bad; many industries are asking elthor for subsidies or for protec- WHAT I WISH, BUT WHAT WILL MAY HEAVEN SEND ME NOT tive tariffs; and there can be little BE FOR MY GOOD.--Ménander. question that Britishers are paying dearly for the proud privilege of being able to say that the is practically at parity.
Lieut. Commdr. Bir John J. K. Shaw, Bt, has been appointed to H. M. S. Hawkins.
MIXED
ASHLEY STERNL
GRILL
AVTHOR" DE TWISTED TALES
It would be absurd to deny that this year's rise in exchange, un-1st October the regulations South Coast tells me that at all ing the Gaming Act that he It is notified that as from the returned from a holiday on the sortion, and it was only by plead- A friend of mine who has just once arrested for cruelty and do accompanied by a proportionate rise governing hawkers will be put the principal health resorts the escaped a long term of peas! in gold prices, has not made it more into full force, as before the strike.ses is so full of swimming sham servitude. difficult for the Home manufacturer
pions practising for the cross-
Leonard Yatos..
master
periodically ply them with nour- ishing food; while some of them them, and go to sleep-floating on actually take air-pillows with their backs...
I don't want to discourage
The following candidates in the China Command were successful tion for promotion held in April: in passing the officers examina-
Captains R. A. F. Montanuro, what is rapidly becoming our G. Kent, the East Surrey Regt time; but I would just like to say M.C., J. O. Carpenter, M.C., W. principal national summer pas- and J. E. Hume, D.S.G., the Loyal that there is a serious danger of Regt. Lieut. J. R. A. Cockayne, the Channel's being overswum the East Surrey Regt...
and that I wish somebody would Bay of Biscay or the Suez Canal. start the fashion of swimming tho Then I can resume taking my annual..
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Noronha, highly respected Portuguese re sidents of Kowloon, celebrated their silver, wedding this wook. Aftor a service in the afternoon at Rosary Church, a reception was hold at their residence, Ash-Keightley "Hylamley Road, Kowloon, where a large number of relatives and friends were present to offer congratula-
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON. A charming young lady named Used to sing Grieg and Brahms very sweightley;
But one day, peradventure, She swallowed her denture, And her voice is now ruined compleightley.
Awake, dear mother, early ere;
'tis lightl
And strip from mo the Bedoloth
on of the Night.
To-morrow's morn shall 800 me
Queen of May.
And I must have my Bath by
even, quito.
And, as the Cook crows from the
granary floor,"
Lo will arrive, my maids of "
Honour four-
Margaret and Mary, Kate and
Caroline
Thumping the brazen Knockor
on the Door.
Come, got me up and in the
robos of Spring
Bedock me, and with garlands
ring.
he My head, (I'll surely get the
.
If this young Bird's not prompt
upon the Wing!)"
Then, with the Villago. Band
upon the Green,
Yokels with hair well emeared
with Brilliantine, Some loaves of broad, some
mugs of gin and beer, We'll have the maddest,
merriest Day,!
I woon!
to, export. On the other hand, it Amongst the passengers who Channel swim that the ordinary
German fruit dealers, says left by the President Pierce visitors desirous of having a bathe trade paper, have been buying the has to be admitted that it would yesterday for Manila wore Mr. have to stand in a queue for hours prospective crops of the Fonland. not be wise to stimulate exports and Mrs. S. L. Hidden, Mr. and and hours at a time awaiting their plum and Devonshire apple or Mrs. H. M. Hodges and Mr. turn to squeeze into the con gest- chards. And if this isn't proparing artificially by deliberately de-
od ocean. For, of course, swim for another war, what is? preciating · exchange, because -a
ming champions don't just flop country generally losca more than
in sa I (and possible you, too), do, The official trials of the Aus- swallow a couple of quarts of grateful thanks the generous per- I have to acknowlege with It gains by such a policy. We have tralian-Oriental Lines. Changie Channel, and emerge five seconds mission granted me by the exe seen that in the case of, Germany took place this morning. The later, chilled and gasping to find cutors of the late Mr. Omar Khay- (Capt. Gambrill) and a total stranger drying himself on yam to publish my impression of and also, though to a lessened
owners of the vessel are giving a my shirt. Many of them stay in how the famous post would have degree, in the case of France, reception on board on Friday the water all day and a greater written Britain, just now, is exporting too next, on the occasion of the part of the night; friends follow Queen' Tennyson's "May- little and importing too much. steamer's maiden voyage.
them about in rowing boats and The remedy is not easy to suggest,
The Netherlands Consul Gon" though one's hopes centre largely eral forwards to us a very in'] on the speedy rehabilitation of teresting booklet on the port o Europe and the consequent appre- the Corporation. It sets out the Rotterdam, which is published by clation of currencies generally and history and growth of the port, the quickening of the trade flow.ite facilities, and importance ad Stabilised peace and a return to full point for tapping the large in- dustrial area formimg its hinter- confidence will do much to correct land. matters, though before that con dition arrives we shall possibly witness strenuous efforts on the THE GOLD STANDARD. [part of British manufacturers either to reduce wages and other to the gold costs, or to reduce the exchange standard has so generally been value of the, £ sterling and thus heralded-as a beneficial and some place them more on an equality what courageous act that it will when it comes to quoting in a sound something like heresy to foreign currency against their suggest that it has proved to be an competitors. unwise proceeding and one which
An Unlawful Society. was far too costly for Britain to
A case of unusual interest at this undertake at the time. Yet that is juncture is reported by the Singa- what gome of the leading pore papers, in which economists of England are how (native of Hainan island) was fest contending with very great fergy week trend to a year's rigoros and they point to the steadily ous imprisonment for being a increasing unemployment figures to member, and assisting in the
The
It will cost £20, I read to bury Gazelle contains
a dead whale that has been an prove their contention.
amendment to the quarantine management, of
washed up on the West Coast of The fundamental argument is seciety. The society in question, one offset of the regulation je to to have travelled round the world the whale has not left any ex-
unlawful rogulations. It is explained that An American journalist claims
Scotland. Provided, of course that. that although it is very flattering it was proved in the course of the subject to certain conditions of a transport. I don't for a moment
do away with the exemption to one's stability, to see the proceedings, was a branch of the vessel with a surgeon or medios! doubt the accuracy of my col
in 30 days without using air-pressed wished to be cremated.
sterling high on the list of world Kuomintang, which the prosecution officer
An onterprising hoteller häs on board, if certain league's statement (a journalist's started a class to train Boy Scouts exchanges, the effect of that high described as a revolutionary asso-vessel's surgeon or medical officer word is every bit as good as a waiters to cope with the cortificates by the master and exchange is to humper the sale of ciation having as its main object were signed; the punishment Policeman'st, but I cannot help holiday rush. Already, I hea British products abroad by reason the overthrow of the present Go-for signing any Buch cer- of their consequential high price. vernment of China,
tificate containing any false The defence statement, and, also the forme are It is nice to have a high exchange argued that the society did not done away with. Another effect when paying either principal of aim at any subversion of the is to increase the "infected" and interest to America on the war debt, authority of the British Govern- and it would be very nice to havement, but the magistrate comment- a high exchange if Great Britained that the law would "not allow were primarily a buying nation anybody to carry on in British confiscation of foreign property in England where we so badly they've mastered the difficult instead of a selling nation. But territory an association which was which is protected by Treaty, need the Brighter Life. But un-knack of getting their thumbs in the population of Great Britain, is working for the overthrow of a Go-The whole toner of the speech autocratic in those matters, and
fortunately our police are so the gravy. so largely dependent for its liveli- vernment with which we are at mentioned was violently anti-I shall never forget the alarming I am happy to say that the hood on the sale of British exports peace. The importance of the Christian, closely resembling in experience which befell my compositors, who set up this that a high rate of exchange, which case is its opening up of several tone the utterances of leading Crumpett, when some years ago, omotions wakened in their breasts venerable friend, Prof. Barthion column have so far mastered the makes the selling price of those points for discussion, such as the Russian Bolshevists. In this con- he undertook for a bet of a shill- by reading the MS, of my splen- exports high in foreign countries as query whether the Kuomintang, nection, a typical instance of Sovieting and a sherry-and-bitters to did New Sorial Story, "Mouldy compared with the selling prices which is openly running a branch blasphemy was revealed recently the Bank of England to the Albert ess; or, Should the Greengrocer roll his wife in a butter-tub from Martha, the Macclesfield Murder- which can be quoted by competitors at Peking itself, would get any in a Bolshevik organ which printed Hall. All went well until he re- Teli?" that they hope to get the whose rate of exchange is low, recognition were an attempt made the picture of a Russian workman, control of the tub, which fed week. It is vory gratifying to me schod Ludgate Hill, when he lost first instalment into type next works to the direct detriment of the to register, it in a British Colony, with sleeves rolled up, holding a down the slope at a tremendous to me think that I can touch the British worker by reason of thefund whether Hongkong would over-huge hammer, and about to ascend pace, knocking over a steam heart of a compositor, because, Jessened sale of British manufac-look the offence were Anybody a ladder, at the foot of which were engine, and four lamp posts. The ed to have any feelings at all. roller, a stock-broker, u fire strictly speaking he is not suppos- tured articles. With the sterling found to be carrying on a branch these words:"I have already Profossor's unhappy spouse was during business hours. But the rate of exchange where it is to-day, here. The answer. to both smashed our earthly thrones; violently ejected from the tub foreman tolls me that so strong, the cost of British manufacture, queries must necessarily, in view am now going up to smash the dive through the window of a re- is the love interest in "Mouldy and executed a spinning-nose- so poignant, so intensely human translated into the currencies of the of the strict law on the subject, Throne of God." That is the staurant, whore, fortunately, she Martha that one of his staff wept. world's buying countries, is be in the negative. And, In- Bolshevik attitude toward religion, fell into a dish of mashed potatoes, unrestrainedly into a case of somi extremely high, and although the cidentally, it emphasises the fair-and it looks as if Chinese officials The Professor, however, was at colons and spoilt the lot. worthiness of certain British pro- ness of the British law in refusing in Canton are following in the ducts will always ensure their to permit revolutionary plots be- same unholy path, for Wang Ching- ready sale, there is a point easily ing hatched within its jurisdiction was described the Christian schools reached whereat the purchaser is against any nation with which as a menace to China and the mis- prepared to accept a slightly less Britain is not at war.
worthy article at a very much lower
an
periods in the case of amall-pox. observation and or surveillance
slonaries as spies of their Govern-
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Thinking he must have run part of the way.
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I have been much interested in reading that for a wager, a mán
Chicago to Los Angeles. I only has undertaken to trundle his. wifo in wheelbarrow from
wish there were more of these travel stunts, especially over here.
ENGLAND'S OLDEST
SCHOOL
ments. More than that, ho deli Westminister Entry Of berately attacks Christianity, as a
Discovered. religion. It the Government
A
Canon Westlake, the historian of Westminister Abboy and School, has hitherto believed that the first undoubted reforence to a school at Westminister appeared 1340 in record for the year ending
1371.2002
Ho has now discovered in the Chamberlain's Rolls for the year 1338-1340, the entry of a payment
The Bolshevik Way.. price. British wages (at present The extent to which Canton currency exchange rates) are far officials have fallen under the sway too high to help the successful sell-of Bolshevism may be gathered should go so far as to seize the Which among the famous Eng of 98, 8d. to one John Payn for ing competition abroad, and the from the speech delivered by Wang/mission schools, it would be guiltylish public schools is the most finding sobolare for the school, steady increase in the unemploy-Ching-wal, the civil head of the
ancient? of absolutely outing Treaties
and the evidence is sufficient to. ment figures, plus the steady Government, in which he made which give Christian organiza- lego was founded by Honry VI. least 30 years earlier than wat It is well known that Eton Col-show that the school existed at decrease in the export of manufac bitter attack on Christianity and tions the right to erect buildings in 1440, that Rugby dates from previously supposed tures from Britain, has led indus urged the taking over of all Mission and to teach the religion without 1567 and Harrow from 1571, Thero atc: many schools older,
But all those aro beaten by than Rugby, Harrow or Charter trialists and economists to question schools in Kwangtung by the Go molestation of any kind, The Winchester, which was planted houso, Jedborgh, in the West Rid the wisdom of a governmental vernment. This latter proposal,
Fower will doubtless watch develop by William of Wykehem there in ing of Yorkshire, has just celebrat, policy which has maintained British if put into effect, would amount ments in this connection with 15373. The record for antiquity od its 400 anniversary Shrows- lies between Winchester and bury was founded by King Henry prestige at the expense (costly to nothing less than sheer robbery
Westminister.schools.
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