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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
MINDS OF MODERATE CALIDRE OR• DINARILY CONDEMN EVERYTHING WHICH IS BEYOND THEIR RANGE.~~~
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NEARLY A RIOT
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TO-DAY
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We were living in dangerous timas.The strike was not over by several days and was a thing I do, and what's more, tud of incalculable possibilities. A puff take more than you to convinco me of wind might involve us In a vast to the opposite." conflagration. edged away toy dear man, I don't want to News has reached Aden that take a more detached view of this convince you to the opposite, na the Hashld Tribe, to the north- particular quarroi...
you put t west of Sanan, near the marches: At a distance it was not easy "Don't come the sarcastic over of the Idrisi Emirate of Abu to say whether the chief contest me, because if you do Arism and Sabis in Asir, is likely ants were Labour or Government. fused but force threat).
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to revolt against the overlordship They had not exactly a Labour Now, don't be silly Just lis- air; yet, on the other hand, one ten. If you'd only listen to what of the Zaidi Imam Yehia.
could not write them down as be 1 eay Instead of barking every longing to the three years or time I open my mouth duration party.. But they were in "Who's-barking Th opposite camps, undoubtedly The "Well, all right, I withdraw way the tall, pele man suddenly that. Listen." shouted "Tell me that" for all to
Thoroughly interested, now, I hear showed that he felt the cat pushed my way into the crowd à ter deeply. The short, red-faced little; but the crowd, with the man caught him by the coat-laped usual stupidity of crowds, pushed and shouted as loudly, but not too, and I lost the thread of the quite so coherently,
argument in a murmur that broke
Among French holders of Rentes. The French Investor has loat a lot of faith in his Government and in his currency and it will be a won derful achievement if M. Briand and M, Calllaux can restore that confidence. There should, how ever, be no thought of trying to secure reductions in the sums pay- able to foreign Governments on ac- count of Inter Allled debts. So soon as Franco (granted goner ous terme already) seeks to get better terms from either the United States of America or Bri Every fade of the Suver Wolf, tain there will inevitably be a re- the official organ of the Boy Scouts, action against the frane exchange Association, Hongkong appears as that fresh attempt will be cons better than its predecessor. The June number, now out, is full of strued into an inability of disinteresting articles and matter of inclination to bear what has been general as well as Scout Intercat, hsaessed as a fair burden. For whilst the illustrations are par-
ticularly good. France there is no easy way out; she must shoulder in earnest her Sir Theodore Charles Owen,
I looked over at the crowd of out
When I next got a clear view share of the price of the war-K.B.E., of Piccadilly, W., and specials who were standing by. It even though she was among the senior partner in Rowe, White, and was their first baptism of fire, and and a good spot, so to speak, a that they were crisia had aupervened. Red Face Co., plantation agents, chairman of one could see victor nations: The sooner that Federated Malay States, Sumatra, puzzled by the entiquette of ap had thrust his complexion danger. Mustard & Co.,Ltd. fundamental truth is realised by and Borneo companies, and a direc-proach in these matters. A regu onely near to his opponent's. If the people of France, the sooner tor of a number of Ceylon tea and lar policeman seems to deal with ever a man had a steely glitter in will her statesmen git rid of the rubber estates, died on March 22, these crisis, if I may say so, by his eyes Pale Face had it in his
leaving property of the value of sheer weight of personality. Any at that moment. £34,291, with net personalty 233, body can say "Fass along there, Coming to a Head, bogey of national bankruptcy..
please" but it requires avoirdu- In the now obvious state of. pols to give effect to the request.emergency which existed one of Channel Swimming,
Further donations to the National I returned my attention to the the Specials, with more, war ser- Police Fund, organised by The conversation. The complexion of ice than his fellows, probably, Will a lady, for the first time in Times, include the following: The the short man was now deepening acted." He cleared his throat, history, swim the English Channel Peninsular and Oriental and Associ- to purple, tinged with mauve, the pulled at his armlet, and came to this summer? Reports are//curated Companics, 2000; Mesara tall man's a delicate yellow."
wards me as being the nearest to rent that several are to make the Thos. Cook and Son, Ltd., £250;
Tell you what I'll do with you," his own weight. He was, I feel attempt, and amongst these may Oriental Telephone and Electric Co., said Red Face, I'll ··· " sure, just about to say the be mentioned Miss Lillian Cannon, Ltd., £69 108.; Marion, Lady Des
I did not catch his plan of cam supreme thing. He was about to 23-year-old girl, of Baltimore, Voeux, £30 E. I. H. Prince pufgn, but I heard the beginning say, "Pass along, please," who is now in France undergoing Chichibu of Japan, £20 Mr. H.W of the reply: "Oh, you will, will About to Bay-but Red face, a period of eight weeks training Looker, £8 ss.; the Mercantile Bank you? Well then, lieten...” with a supremo effct, mastered in preparation for the task Miss of India, Ltd., £105; the Yokohama His voice died away on the himself. Speaking with the quin Cannon is one of America's best Spacio Bank, Ltd., £105.
brooze, but Red Face gave him tessence of poison, he said, slowly. lady swimmers, and she is parti
that desperately polite attention and distinctly for all to hear: cularly known in Florida, where A buoy has been moored by the which one always sees in a men "What I'll do is this. You can she has for some time past been salvage steamer Iroise at what is who is thoroughly angry. She is due to make the effort about where, on May 20, 1922, the P.
take it or leave it, but I'll give tenching, swimming, and diving. believed to be the spot off Ushant
Thread of the Argument. you two to one that if we have a the middle of this month, and will and O. liner Egypt sank in 65
"Subsequent conversation ran on wet summer like this the Austra start from the French side, fathoms of water after collision these lines (you will understand lians will not only lose the blinkin possibly at night. For the most with the cargo boat Seine. Diving that I did not get completa sen- Ashes, but that at least one of the part, she is to rely on the breast operations are to be conducted tences, and without wishing to be countries will beat them. D'ye take in harness and achieve that end, stroke, alternating this with the whenever possible throughout the partisan can-only say that Grey me? they will have deserved well of crawl and the English overarm summer for the bullion, amount Face had the rather more cultured "I'll take you, certainly,” said Pale Face.-A. G. Thornton, in their country, for nothing but bold stroke. In this way she hopes to ing to more than $1,000,000, which accent)
"You really mean that?
the Daily Chroncile. prevent cramp and to give full went down with the ship. and decisive action can stop the play to all her muscles. Her depreciation of French exchange trainer for the effort is Burgess, Kimberley war memorial will in face of demoralised finance. It who is one of the few men to have include bronze tablets which are successfully made the crossing, intended to bear the names of all looks as though the French Gov and there are high hopes at her those who fall in the Great War ernment was at last going to do training 'quarters that she wand who either were at the time what has been urged upon them succeed where other lady of enlistment resident in the Kim- swimmers have falled. She is berley Divisional Council Area or for months by their best outside particularly anxious to secure the were when they fell serving in
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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1926.
FRENCH POLICY.
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credit of the State to support the is being left unturned in order | Forces connected with the town
that she may succeed. We hope of Kimberley. Relatives or friends You really can't blame anyone than banana seeds! frane. This will be done in colla-shortly to publish some interest of officers and men who fell in the for sometimes, fearing age. Of boration with the Banque de ing details
the Great War and come within this course there isn't any fun, when en France and it is presumed that arrangements for the swim, in- definition are asked to communi- people reach that stage. But, this includes making use of the cluding articles by Miss Cannon cate with the Mayor of Kimberley, after all, it's up to you, how soon
herself, whilst later on, pictures
you lose your hold on youth. vist gold reserves of the Banqua, will be printed of incidents con-
The Lord Chancellor has ap- There's much that you can do to. although the Government openly neeted with the training, as well, pointed Mr. Leonard Charles keep from getting old.
if the swim takes place, of the Thomas to be a judge of county. affirms its intention to respect the actual attempt, which will be one courts, and has made the following Independence of that institution Not a little of the French monetary trouble has arisen because the Banque de France has jealously withheld its gold instead of freely using it, and there is not much fear that it would at any time stand to lose much of it provided NOTICE TO MARINERS. Court; and Judge L. C. Thomas the age thing seem a joke that
of the big sporting events of the arrangements in connection within to years that roll on by; to year. So far, although no lady the vacancy caused by the death dream of things that might have swimmer has succeeded, five men of Judge Paritt: Judge Bairstow been; to fret and fuse and sigh, being Capt. have accomplished the task, these to succeed Judge Parfitt. at Cler Matthew Webb, kenwell County Court: Judge Hill Thomas Burgess, Henry Sullivan, Kelly winster, Maryleboned E. Tiraboschi and C. Toth.
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One of the most undressed One of the m young chorines to be seen in a is just the thing you shouldn't do, Broadway revue was recently ar It brings the age-lines deep. "Tis rested. better, far, tu laugh on through, the usual preliminary questions Taken to court sho, was asked and proper spirit keep,
Just look upon the little folk. And where did you
concerning name, address and age from?" Inquired the judge.
"Missouri!" replied: Miss Boryl Halley, for such was her name. Oh. I see," smiled the court. "You just had to be shown."
to be the judge of Uxbridge County They gladly show the way to make
is to be the judge of the county disappears through play. Swing courts on Circuit. 24 (Cardiff, &c.). back into the laughter that you The new judge was called to the had in youth, and then, you'll find Bar by the Middle Temple in 1905 that ever after, you are feeling and has practised on the Western young again. Circuit
∙come;
Mr. C. A. Whelan, President of the greatest chain store tobacco Realism in pictures has ite concern in the States, tells me penalties as well as putative pro- there are 30,000,000 potential male fits. To wit an episode on the smokers in America.i Reginald Denny pictura Tako ́It Someone mathematically Inclin Rugby, June 30."
From Me," for which $75,000 in ed might now try to figure out the 173.3/16 department store merchandise was number of potential female smok
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EXCHANGE RATES.
the Banque was ready and was known to be ready to part with it freely. The very exception of a gold backing would have a tre- mendous effect-just as tremen-
The following notion to mariners dous, in fact, as the absence of it. has been issued by the Commissioner It is hard to know at what figure Juno 22
of Customs at Shanghai under date
Notice is thereby the French Government aims to
given that the Whangpoo Condorvanoy Board's stabilise the franc, but there is a dredger Hai Hu is about to com- Paris. big school of financial experts monce dredging operations over nn Brussels who think that the authorities from a point 1,600 feet Eastward, Berlin
area of Astraen Chammel extending Ameterdam'
would be well advised not to seek to a point 3,000 feet Westward, of
Copenhagen Vienna No. 2 Buoy.
Helsingfors too high.a figure. The frane has
During the courao of these opera Lisbon been below 170 to the pound and tions those in charge of vessels, are Buenos Aires it is now down again to almost required, when approaching the Shanghal
vicinity of the dredger, to proceed at Yokohama that figure after it had recovered reduced speed, and sound a long
New York Genova to about 160. If 125 were aimed blast on the whistle.
el approaching the dredger Millan
Stockholm at, it would be exceedingly dim-against the tide, seeing another sto cult at the moment and, rather the tide, should, reduce speed or Madrid ressol approaching the dredger with Prague than risk another failure, a lower stop, in order to allow the vessel Rio
figure, say, should be sought after. An appreciably higher figure, could, of course, be reached and maintained, but the strain woll be a big one just now.
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20.44 18.36 shoplifters made way with a bun was a little cubby-hole on Nassau 34.434 dle of shirts, despite the vigilance of Street, New York H. S. Colling, 193% ten plain-clothes videttes. And who was at the cash register the 217/32 incidentally, movie companies pay first day, rang up $3.47. Today 2/11% 10 per cent, of the value per week there are three thousand stores 11.5/32 on such borrowed properties. and $3.47 la rung up every minute
or ao Collins is Vice-president: .25.14 134.13/10
Bobbed hair is, making neuro- of the concern. The annual busi .18.12 tics of American women, accord- ness is something like, at hundred 22.16 Ing to a hairdresser out of a job million a year. And this, I am
184% 30.24% 10.24 in this era of shorn scalps. The told, is but fivo per cent. of the 7.26/92 lady explains that women are con- nation's total tobacco sales. What 1/5.15/16 stantly fussing with their short a lot goca up in smoke! S
2/3% locks until a great national habit. When the spectacular romance British Wirologs.. of hair-arranging is so firmly fix- of this concern was in its begins- ed that women are unconscious ning, it opened the first of Ifar Attention is callod to Harbour Notification No. 6 of 1924 which Paris, May 29. Since French that their fingers are straying chain in Elmira, N. Y. A, circus defines the signala a
Then she elephant and a brass band were dredger in law has decided it is not a crime through their hair. operation ahal exhibit.
to forge passports, the traffic in lets loose more propaganda vor hired to attract a crowd. this country of forged passports sue short hair and favouring the
and clear the dredger before sho, Hongkong procooding with the tide to paez Bombay
the veanel proceeding against the Silver (spot and forward). tido, attempts to do so.
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The French Government has dono well to emphasise that no default in the State's engagements hair-dresser for anipping off a meree."
A young woman, suing a woman has become a most lucrative "com-women got this terrible nervous Mick?
is not only on the Increase but return of the long by saying Foreman: What are you doing. bit of
Four Italiana recently habit in the attempt to improve Bricklayer: Sharpenin
will be tolerated, for this declar piece of her car when "bobbing"" arrested at 4 Paris terminal rail the untidy, unkempt straggly a pencil. tion ought to do much to clear her hair, was awarded £5 damages, way station for loitering had 350 short Hair.". -Rubbish!... Long Foreman;.... Ero you'll ave the away a lot of doubts, especially with costs, in the Dudley County forged passports and 200,000 hair was and is more untidy than union after you, mo lad. That's
Court.
short hair as cabbages are bigger a carpenter's Job
franco,