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Lonesome and Sorry The Girl Over There
Honey Bunch
Chinese Moon
Me Too
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926.
Rhythm of the Day Irish Home Sweet Home
Barcelona
Bobodilla
Who Loved You Best Wanna Go Back Again
Blues
AUSTRALIA'S DEBT.
A TOTAL TO DATE OF £978,000,000
Rugby, Nov. 17. In a speech on the financial policy of Australia, last night, Mr. Stanley Bruce, the Australian Pre- mier, gava.striking figures regard ing the progress and method of debt redemption in his country.
Ho stated that the total debt of Australia amounted to: £978,000,- 000, all of which was funded, and that £305,000,000 of this total ro- presented war debt, which was the
only great non-productive debt of
Australia. The balance of £673,- 000.000 had been expended in the
creation of valuable assets which were to-day fully reproductive,
Australia bore every penny of: the cost of her war efforts, and in doing so incurred a debt to Great Britain for munitions and other
expenses of about £02,000,000.
This debt Australia funded,, and
made provision to repay, before
any other nation had recognised its obligations for assistance by its Allies during the War. In 1901- only 14 per cent. of the Australian
Somebody's Crazy About public debt was owed to Austru
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KOMOR & KOMOR
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lans, but in 1925 it was 51 per cent, this indicating the Austra llans growing financial indepen- dende-British Wirelcas.
LADY ROBBED."
SHANGHAI RICKSHA COOLIE'S HAUL.,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
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Across.
1 Administered,
6 Intellectually.
11 Awakened,
13 Porform. 14 A
beverage.
15 A cunning device.
16 Personal
18
pronoun.
21 receptacle.
21 An external angle.
28 Hardened juices of pines,
24 Expired.
28 Part of verb. "to be"..
30 Point of Compass.
28 Head (slang)
31 Sixth note of scale.
32
Shanghai, Nov. 17. Mies Victoria Elliott, a student
34
Used for cricket
Used for propalling a boat.
36
Hefore.
A
Exchange.
A person who makes
a vain
display of his learning. Greek letter, Couch.
of the University of Arizona, ac-37 companing the feminine student as contingent in the round-the-world university craiser Ryndam.
res 39 turning to the vessel after a shop-40 ping trip, was the victim of an 42
A number.
A rodent,
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who robbed her of $200 at the 17 A friend. pier..
She escaped to the ship un-49 Pronoun. harmed.
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KOMOR & KOMOR
BELGIUM'S CASE.
50 A burden.
51 Cultivated vetch.
52
62 Mud.
ки
64 A bird.
56 Part of verb "to be".
67 Sticky substanes..
09 Rested.
60 Pronoun.
QUESTION OF REFERENCE TO 62 Act of forming anew,
THE HAGUE.
Peking, Nov. 17. The Foreign Office hitherto has not repliod to the Belgian Legation concerning the proposal, to submit the question of treaty abrogation to the Hague, but certain Chinese and foreign papers to-day state that pre; parations are being made for an anti-Belgian boycott if Belgium docs so-Reuter.
66 Lift up. 67 Voter.
Down.
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2
* Negative,
A hurricane,
Bofore.
5 Perform. G Exists.
7 "Animal's lair.
8 A paradise.
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10 Giver.
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12 Harmony.
17 A number.
18
Boy's
name.
110 Used for writing.
20 A mound.
22 Eastern ..Tace.
Not the same.
27 To
29 Loaded vide food.. 38 Aspherical body.
32
colour.
34 Wager
36
A cou
calour.
30 An outline.
41 Pertaining to the sea.
44 One who builds.
46 A
cask.
47 Hit lightly.
48 Permit.
49 Struck.
43 Air
53
A valley.
58. Encountered.
60 Indian tree.
61 To have existence.
63 Point of compass.
84 You and I,
66, Denotes nearness.
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NOW
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AT
WHITEAWAY'S
NESTLÉ'S
MALTED MILK
RECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
HONEST, OSCART CROSS YOUR ABART THAT ÅB. WASN'T AT YOUR
HOUSE LAST AIGHT??
AO AS MUZZAT?! -TOESS Z- KAUK
WHY?
·OK GEE• NOBODY SAYS ALEK STAYED WITH "ZABMA = I-WONDER-IF-.-.
·HE COULD HAVE.
CROWNED? 662- TAN SHAKIN' LIKE
A LEAF!!
The Clouds Are Getting Darker
JEAN
VALJEAN "Truly a Cigar
ABAQUERIA FILIPINA
LEADING TOBACCONISTS IN THE FAR EAST.
By Blosser
POOR ALEK! AN I WAS THE LAST ONG TO TALK TO HUA-US,
SAID AS WAS GOING TD LOOKS CREEK AND THATS TAB LAST WE EVER HEARD OF AIM:
IT'S MORE THAN
I CAN STAND -
SNAHIFFRI
10. TRACS HAS BEEN FOUND OF ALEK Titto WAS
LAST
SEGA
WESDAY
WHERE
IS
ALEK?
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