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tarlly what devaluation of the
DAY BY DAY
EXAMPLE is a LESSON THAT ALL
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THE plight, of the airman who that schoolboya used to rend, could' landed in a crocodile-infestod compare with the true story of at 8 pm. She will leave for Mandla swamp in Nairobi and reached Hook and Matthews, whose acro- safety only by treading over the plane, weighted down with the on Thursday at p.m.
Bay.
A wedding of not a little interest scaled and slimy backs of the rep-load of trople rain, crashed into a to sportsmen, particularly to crickettles, like a figure in a nightmare, bamboo-swamp in Burma, leaving ern, was solemnised on Saturday at should help to destroy the ridiculita occupants to force their way the Registrar's office when Mr. Hugh ous illusion that this is an age de-through dense undergrowth ko Peler Lim, last season's caplain of void of adventure.
rats, and be half-eaten alive by the first eleven of the Craigengower
The truth probably is that It leeches. any, emergency mensures that can- C. C., was married to Mine L. Chinn, only looks as though ours were
I should have done oven less formerly of Seattle. At a Chinese |not be criticised justly from many dinner given at West Point in the an age devoid of adventure. work at school than I did if I had angles. As one of our politicians evening Mr. and Mrs. Lim were the There are many deeds that would had stories of real adventure to has observed, we have to choose not tions of their many friends. The ed in adventurous when perform. read as exciting as that of the in, a shining helmet that would aeroplane, the "Soutern Cross," between perfect and Imperfect ne-honeymoon is being spent at Repulsaeem merely absurd performed in which made a
forced landing on the lingering
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pariffilly destroyed. Aing his lady's glove in hla helmet life. In weighing up the balance and was
Indeed, the history of flying in European, who was single-handed||with modern baronet's trying to crowded with adventures which of advantages and disadvantages attempting to extinguish the blaze do the same in his hat.
would have made the reputation with a bucket, collapsed. According
But though our age may appear of writers of romantic fiction .30 to an eye-witness he received the full force of a fire-hose in the back of the devaid of adventure there pro-years ago; events that would have time in history made Jules Verne cry out in won- neek and was stunned. Shortly be-bably never was fare o'clock yesterday morning the in which more adventures crime to jder. same matshed, which is used as the unadventurous. It used to be In 1926, for example, a lonely VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED Invourable paychological effects on store by the contractor, again caught an adventure to cross the AtlanArab, relic of an earlier age, saw AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE the fallible minds of the human light and was this time completelytic Ocean: now it is an adventure the menace of a new civilisation
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in the choice of emergency
men-
aurea, a high proportion of marks must be allotted first for immediate practicability, and, secondly, for
beings concerned. In this connexion,
dostroyed.
The Hoalth Bulletin
of Eastern
to cross the rond.
: soaring above him. He fred and killed Sir Alan Cobham's mo- chanic.
In 1920, a party of Canadian
The Magic Carpet. it would appear that devaluation of Forts for the week ending August 8, the £ would secure high marks on shows the following enses of infecti
What the neroplane has done our diseases and deaths thereform has been to bring back the old, mining engineers, who set out by the first point, but not on the ace Plague, Alexandrin 3 cases 2 deaths, crude, two-penee coloured kind of aeroplane into the wastes of Nor ond. There is much to be said for Port Said & case, Baskeln 1 cane 1 adventure into the world. Almost thern Alaska, were lost to the
death Coloróbo 1 ense 1 death. Cho- the contention that it would be lera, Bombay 18 cases UV deaths, Cal. every day from some part of this world for three months when their difficult to finance an expansionist cutta 2 cases. 7 deaths, Rangoon much-flown-over globe we hear of machine ran short of fuel. And case I death, Colombo 1 case 1 death, someone who has come dropping. Harry Hawker, settling on the polley of State
enterprise on Pnom Penh case 1 death, Shanghai like Icarus, from the clouds to de-watern of the Atlantic 750 miles large scale without unfavourable case. Small-mx, Calcutta 4 cases struction or miraculous escape on from land, with as little hope of 4 deaths, Cochin lease Negapatam the earth beneath. The aeroplane rescue as a moth on a mill-pond, reactions unless some artificial ideases, Vizagapatam 1 enses 3deaths, has restored the Magic Carpet of revived and enlarged the in the fairy-tales and has spread out memorial terrors of shipwreck. LANDOLT-On 17th August, 1931, is adopted to keep the exchanges Saigon 1 case.
at the French Hospital, Mrs, and money markets sweet, or unless
HOUSES, WELLS AND the marvels of the Arabian Nights And the story of adventure in Fynthia Maria Tavanes Landolt Britain is prepared to abandon the
[beneath our feel. It has estab- the air can be extended without PUMPS. heloved wife of Joseph Landoit,
ished childish fantasy on a bacis limit. "All lands are open to aged 40. Funeral will pass the gold standard. The emergency
of modern selence. MR. LO TO BRING ISSUE
brave men" ran the old proverb. monument at 5,45 p.m. to-day tariff idea immediately suggeste
But never before has the brave FORWARD.
As a child in the nursery, I re-man had funds so magically open- member every time I read A Tuesday's meeting of the story of a Magie Carpet wander-
the ed to him ne by aeroplane. Sanitary Board. Mr. M. K. Lo willing, with a kind of sickly bewil move the following resolution:
"That the Select Corfmittee of derment, what would happen if the the Board appointed to exercise and its all too human. load were magic were to fail and the carpet Gandhi's Little Play. the powers and functions of the to plunge to earth. Once again, a little more clearly. Board under section 162 of the
But those doubts and despaire By KATHERINE Gandhi ha revealed his bustability, Public Health and Buildings Or
dinance be invited to examine into were soon dispellet by reminding his utter luck of a spirit enabling the existing practice relating to myself that such things could hap-
GILLETT-GATTY him to do the big thing. Who else the requirement of "one house, one pen only in a world of fantastic
TN but this agitator-genius would re-
new Madrid, despite the re- gard a few trivind questions con-what are the grounds for this re-
But years inter that same aud-companies the Spanish flapper,
(Shangha! papers please copy).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, August 17, 1931.
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
itself, but that
solution on IN B which it is seemingly impossible to get agreement at the moment
THE DUENNA.
| pump" muf to report to the Board fiction where I should nover be. Evolution, the duenna still ac-
Quite apart from the Budescerning the observance or the non-quirement and whether and under den nausea of imaginative alarm though bath may have bobbed crisis at Home, which seems likely observance of the Delh! Pact as of What conditions it is possible and was to sweep over me again when hair und abbreviated skirts, and
any importance beside the vast pro-
India's constitutional
This.
desirable to relax them."
J
£450,000,000 CLAIM,
rend how the French armen, even though both may be wearing Lebrix and Doret, on their flight hats. from Paris to Tokyo, lenpt from their falling plane into the im- penetrable darkness of a Siberian juight.
Black is still the street uniform for all classes of women, but it is PROFIT ON £15 18.
extremely hard to find a Spanish The Court of Appeal recently
tortoise-shell comb, even in a upheld the judgment of Mr. Jus
Desert Islands Again.
curiosity shop and the Spanish mantilla has given way to a winp tice Mackinnon, in dismissing the claim by Mr. Leon Franklin, of We owe it to airmen that the of tulle, or a yard of spotted velf- Blomfeld-road, Maida Hill, Nworld of romantic adventure that ing. for £450,000,000 from the West-surrounds desert islands should minster Bank.
have been re-discovered. When Where Emancipation Stops.
Formerly the Spanish fan waS
payment it was marked
The Romance of the Forced Landing.
So far as I can remember
one-
tion to the young Spanish gentle. man and the sweet-looking girl he was gallantly protecting.
to be solved by measures soon to blem of be made public, the general econo- future? But Gandhi Is a spoiled mie problem, Including continued child. Petted and pandered to by large-scale unemployment and, its the lust administration, he nds to causes,"continues to attract atten-day no further attempt to bargain tion. One journal recently ug for his favours. The mass of com- plaints presented to the Viceroy gested the necessity, If exports go have been treated in the only digni on falling, of decreasing importa fed way. Gandhi has been given a and stimulating home employment courteons hearing, the complaints He purchased for £15 18. a draft the two German aviators, Captain by restrictive measures, at the sume have been examined, found to be for 9,000 million marks in 1923 a Kochi and Baren von Huenefeld the only sunshade. Though para- time urging that should prices con- unsupported by facts, and the find-a speculative Investment, and he landed on Greenly Island off the sols are hown in the shop win- tinue to decline, wages should noting have been communicated to complained that when it was pre- desolate coast of Newfoundlangdows I have seen only
sented for
they were actors in a drama that Japanese orange paper one at that be kept at the present level inde him with equal courtesy.
as worthless. after tim treatment to which he was | The Master of the Rolls said Possed definite possibilities of in the streets of Madrid since finitely. The impression created
the immortal the Revolution, and it certainly by these observations was that the evidently put his back up. He is old currency had become worth story of "Robinson Crusoe" lack-created a huge amount of atten-
allowed to became accustomed, has the 9.000 million marks of the excitement that
ad. situation had not yet reached a de- not so much the great "I am," and something less than one-tenth of gree of seriousness calling for im- he finds the reply "unsatisfaca penny. The law took no notice
of such an amount, mediate action. That view, how lory." Hence he refuses to attend
Lords Justices Lawrence ands;
It must not be thought, however, ever, is not genrally shared, for the Round Table Conference. It is Romer agreed, and the append was
noithat Spain has not changed since story of the jungle, of the kind the Twelfth of April. The awn- there is a growing feeling that the regrettable in more than one sense, dismissed with costs.
It is difficult to see how the con-
ings of the Government's shops in taking of quick-acting emergency clusions of the Round Table Con
which you buy stamps, tobacco measures should no longer be subference are to result in any achieve-
and Joltery tickets have asgamed a ordinate to the consideration of ment if the Congress Party flatly
third stripe. Formerly they were red-yellow-red; now they ate red, Jong-period solutions,
refuses to have anything to do with
yellow and violet-the colours of Of the suggestions put forward, them, as is practically certain.
the Spanish Republic. me, is international action by the Congress showed its temper Central Banks and Governments of month ago, when it claimed a small. Europe and the United States, to indemnity of £500.000.000 from Great Britain for "historic out- raise prices, coupled with State ch
rages." The natural thing, terprise and investment at Home.perhaps, was to treat
the tle- These ideas are intrinsically sound, mand humorously, yet it con- but the point is whether they are veged ita warning. mrich sub- adequate to prevent disaster, seqtrent developments, might have Similarly, it seems doubtful if con-been foreseen, Many people, in certed international' action to re-fact, have declined to believe that form the working of the gold Gandhi at any time had the In- standard is likely to bring rellof tention of visiting London, were convinced he was awaiting กร quickly. In this connexion, we excuse to abandon the pretence. must not overlook the fact that The course of events acom to sup among the world's financial experts port this view. Lord Willingdon's there is considerable divergence of refusal to be hoodwinked into views on monetary policy. It is pleading with the Mahatma. be. true, also, as Mr. Josiah Wedgwood comes the more satisfying. has pointed out that State enter- prise or investment at Home can before Mr. Fraxer at the Kowloon Two men and a woman were brought do little, within the compass of a Magistracy this morning on a charge
boys year of two, to narrow the gap be- of kidnapping three
from tween the costs of British industry was drawn to the case by an inmate Canton. The attention of the police
and the prices It can obtain in the of No. 70, Portland Street on August markets of the world. Yet that, when the woman and one of the mẹn went to that address and en- gap must be bridged, and soon, if jquired if anybody there dealred to our chief export industries are
purchase a boy," On same pretext, the inmater put them off, asking tham survive. "There is one emergency to return the next day. The police measure suggested by mombers of were informed, and on the return of the two defondants, they were arront- the Macmitilan Committee which ed. The case was adjourned.
"Better leave something in the fesbox for mo, mamma. He
may not take me any place,after the theatre."
Spaniards, contrary to all pre- conceptions, smoke far less than we do, and the women except the dle rich, whom I don't meet, do not smoke. Emancipation has stop ped short at short skirts and short hair.
Hairdressing, by women and for women, la an undeveloped Indus- try. The shops are barbers-shops and not for women's-usage.
Madrid has no housing tage, though evidently one is ex- pected, for everywhere huge now blocks of flats are being rusked up,
shor-
I am told there are scarcely any bullding restrictions, and to look at the constructions one would nót care to take a new flat on a long lease for fear of the neigh- |bour's plano.coming through the
ceiling
They are all lofty, and the ex- planation' is that if you build five atorays high you must supply"a ift, and everyone wants a lift. Especially the dustman,
The Palm Branch.
No matter how phenomenally modern the flats. And their
mates, almost Madrid has blessed palm
in
avery: balcony in long, bleached, branch,attached horizontally to its ironwork. These are the branches, blessed in church on Palm Sunday and plae- Continued on Page 7.)