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ASSORTED CASES FOR CHRISTMAS 1935.
Case No. 1. $35.00.
2 Bots. Golden Guinea (Sparkling)..
2
1 Bot.
Sauterne (White Wine).
Medoc Claret.
Cllboy's Invalid Sherry.
Sandeman's Five Diamonds Port,
Italian Vermouth.
Saccone & Speed's Three Star Brandy
Gilbey's London Dry Gin,
Saccone & Speed's Highland Milk Whisky.
Orange Curacao M.B.R.
Case No. 2.
$45.00.
Bot. Ayala Extra Dry Champagne.
Margaux Claret.
Chablis.
Saccone & Speed's Marina Sherry.. Italian Vermouth.
Rouyer Guillot--Three Stor Brandy.
Saccone & Speed's London Dry Gin.
Watson's "E" Whisky.
Dewar's White Label Whisky.
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Dolfi's Kirsch d' Alsac Liqueur.
2 Bots. Robertson's Fine Old Ruby Port.
Case No. 3.
$52.00.
2 Bots. Custave Ferrand Grand Corden Imperial Champagne. 1 Bot.
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Sandeman's Very Old Tawny Port.
Robertson's Privateer Port.
Madeira.
Ruiz's Superior Solera Fina, Sherry.
Italian Vermouth,
Renault's Five Star Brandy.
Saccone & Speed's Liqueur Cream Whisky.
Dewar's White Label Whisky.
Burnett's London Dry Gin. Benedictine.
IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS !
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, · 1935.
Airman's Wife, Waits For
KINGSFORD-SMITH
His son will not become un uirmyn
POLITICS ARE REAL ISSUE IN LONDON
"Smithy," Says:
"My Son Will Never
Be An Airman"
Sydney, Dec. 10.
LADY KINGSFORD SMITH, the attractive twenty-six-year-old brunette wife of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, the Australian flier, who has been missing since he was seen over the. Burmese coast a month ago, has not yet given up hope.
That evening at the captain's Resolutely, though fearful and table, she was. Introduced to lum. anxious, she refuses to regard herself as a widow.
On her birthday,, a fortnight after reaching Australia, she be-
- In an interview this week shejenme engaged to him. Bald:--"
A fashionable wedding took "The hardest part to realise place on December 30, 1930, at her is that the chance of finding parents' mansion in the Melbourne my dear husband alive is suburb of Toorak. dwindling as each day passCS "Even though 'Smithy' is a man's by, and yet 'Smithy' and his man our married life in Ideally happy. He is thoughtful and companion, Mr. Pethybridge, charming husband. may both be safe in a jungle as the guests of a tribal headman, or living with fishermen on one of the many islands."
FIRST MEETING Wistfully she recalled her frat meeling with "Smithy" aboard the BATTLESHIPS ARE
steamer Aorangi at Vancouver In SMALL ISSUE 1929, when the ship, bound for Australia, was held up several Delegates to the five-power hours for the arrival of "Smithy" naval conference, now in sos-much to the annoyance of the pas-
"It has been a financial struggle, hoping for recognition or the establishment of a successful busi-
ness.
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sion in London may talk of sengers.
She was then twenty-year-old me constantly advised, and recent-
with a scowl as he ascended the gangway.
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lands
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Lady Kingsford Smith then re- vealed that she has often tried to induce "Smithy to quit flying.
"We have often talked of quit- she said. "I have British capital investments there and ting flying," In the following lest Japan, as she did in Manchukuo, pointed out to him that the most and fifth article, the Telegraph take unto herself the bulk of the famous of airmen remained on the probes the political background Chinese market, leaving Britain, the
abandoning ground.
hazardous. of the conference on navios,
United States and other countries to THE admirals and lesser bemean their adversity and vainly to flights after getting into the spot-
protest
light and achieving fame. naval officers, who since What is true of China applies, "If only I could hear something. Monday have taken their though less acutely, to much of the Just a little message to say that of Eastern Asin, The United he is all right. Anything set seats at the green. table at States, Britain, France, the Nether my mind at rest from this dreadful
fur- waiting.
"I am often gripped with fear. than musty office building in even more those countries,I feel certain that he is safe same. Russia-believe that Japanese heges which the naval conference mony is being enforced to the virtual where-but where? is being held, talk of war-exclusion of western political and ship displacement and battle- ship gun calibres, but the governments which have Thus, Japan's demand for naval sent these delegates to Lon-quality with the United States and don have bigger issues in Anglo-Saxon countries. For the con- cession of equal sea-power to Japan, mind,
And not only the governments, but the would make Japan supreme
"Such things drive, me frantic. also the bankers, manufacturers, mer-in Axlatie waters and on iminense
I even had a telephone message chants and shippers are meditating stretches of the Asiatic mainland. upon the markets which the fleet The
Japancae argues, in turn, that this morning declaring that he lad side from home defence is even with a fleet on n par with those been found, and then I learned it destined to safeguard or to conquer. of Britain, the United States, was one of many rumours,
Japan-could not carry a naval war)
"If-the-worst happens, sho.côh.. Into the home watera of those
whereas with a ratio of five cluded, "I will have his three- year-old son Charles to console me. the two great
DOMINANCE in east
Take the Far East, for instance.
the
economie influence.
ANGLO SAXOPS ALARM
Britain has alarmed, opinion in these
ace to the view prevailing in
поро
coun's three,
to
attack Japan.
"Throughout the day and night my telephone rings every few minutes. Sometintett is a call from some clairvoyant telling me that some scance was interrupted with a crash and the fusing of lights. I am told that at this psychological mo- ment 'Smithy' died.
anyway, young Charles will not be To this contention, the Anglo- an airman." Saxon governments retort that Japan has neither territorial possessions, nor
art financial interests in the west, comparable to the territories or com mercial and financial outposts of the
United States and Britain in the east.
JAPAN: IMPREGNABLE?
ARMOUR-CLAD
SKELETONS
Venice, Dec. 1.
18
27
30
9 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
The other occupants of the room may be, if you say you rather Uke draughts..
Will land you in a hole, you hope.
8 Whether it means to go out or is something that has to Bettied.
not
be
↑ Compulsloti.
10. Stage direction,
11 In Northumberland.
12 Counsel to let you know,"
14 One of Cook's taurs is in this
direction..
16 Here you get tied in a knot. 17 What the worm did.
18 Fascinating females employed in
milla
in an orchestra.
The naval experts are discussing western sco-powers might be able to After all, nature is like that, and, i Japan's naval strength in relation to the United States and Britain, Many of them, besides being skilled ex- ponents of naval warfare, also grasp the political and economie forces of
the instru which fleets are merely Iments. Those men realise that, be- hind Jockeying for teclinical and numerical superiority of warships, there is a far greater struggle for. dominance of vast regions of the earth.
Unless Britain and the United Skeletons fully arrayed in mediaeval 10 Offensive of course, but desirable Having entrenched her interests in States come to a naval understanding armour have been found in excava- Manchukuo, Japan has been turning between themselves, even implicitly tions in this region to-day, nil of them Origin mostly acid. her paramount attention to China. directid against Japan, western ex-being in a perfect state of preserva | 20 Very ugly with all the skin one
In the words of Captain Arata Oka, ports insist that Japan is secure and tion. who was
was Japanese naval attache in impregnable in her island empire. Workers engaged on excavations 27 London unill this summer, "By the Moreover, they omphasize that, while for the new great canal which is now circumstances of her position, her ex-Japan is, a growing imperial nation, under construction not far from here perience and her culture, Japan us the Anglo-Saxon powers belong to in the picturesque district surround- been forced, without planning it, into the "haves,"
ves," being satiated with ter- ing Stra where Il Duce met Illtler the position of leading nation of the story, and amply provided with in 1933, enne across what undoubted. 28 Dough is for bread, but is it
natural resources.
spelt this way? scene of a the close of the 1934 eat battle in the days of the ancient 30 Stance put up with this family
ly must have been ripartie naval
in Venetian Republic.
the many s
East."
CLOSING THE DOOR
yet at
conversations
the
skeletons in armouri
Bespandents in the papers
are always telling us that what this sounds like is thus irritating them
twenty-four hours in another form.
Japan claimed the right to act single between themseldered-discernic. Quantities of ancient weapons and 33 Administering physic and asking
for quite a long tinie On April 18, 1934, the Tokyo London, faced with Japan's denuncia One of the Foreign Office's spektantan proclaim-tion of the ratio system, a tendency was found to have a sword still between 31 Develop.
32 Thing that appears every ed Japan's "special position and miss on the part of the United States and his ribs, presumably where he fell in sian" in China. In that connection, Britain to come to an understanding battle and has lain undisturbed all
with or
without these centuries. handed and refused to share the Japan, was responsibility with any country except it was assumed that this trend
night armour were Jenst
niso found, together, you to perforin.
14 Paints In development: Sino-Japanese relations, at
lead to # British-United
with beautifully modelled vases which.
quadruped starts them. which Tokyo says are to be those of States accord not to engage In when the centuries old dirt had been close friémiship, are regarded by re-naval building against one another washed away, were found to be paint.
DOWN ponderant opinion in the West as the and to expand their fleets only if ed by band with designs and figures, friendship of the Hon and the-lamb, Japan set a new pace for construction the colours being perfectly preserved, a lamb weak if not, utterly innocent. The Japanese will undoubtedly The curious find la remarkably re Britain has been uneasy lest Japan's watch closely for any recurrence of miniscent of Longfellow's "Skeleton mission in China Imperil the vast such inclinations at the conference. in Armour."United Prene,
SALESMAN SAM
'TH' BATHERS I SEE- ARE COMPLAININ', DON'T THAT YA AIN'T MOVE AROUND WHEN TILL I YER WANTED! MOVE
STAY WHERE VA ARE TILL YA HAVE TO RESCUE SOME
BODY!
DON'T GIT FRESH, JEST) STAY PUT TILLIGIT
BACK!
OKIE DOKIE, qu' }]"
SEAHOST!
SIX HOURS
HAVE
FLOATED
BY
Sam's Not Guilty
WHAT TH' HECK ARE NA DOIN' OUT THERE?
DIDN'T I TELL YA NOT TA MOVE!
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1 Part of an extinguisher, though it suggests burning oratory in the park...
WHO SEZ I MOVED?
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120
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2 Endlessly or in cases of high temperature (two words, 3 and 4). Swell.
4
A Twentieth Century statesman, 5 British county.
6 Roll along.
7 When a general does so, it is necessarily an enemy
success.
18 Mengre in detail, and the rest Is correspondingly' curtalfed nt heart.
15 Tissue certainly, but diaphanous,
not
1 Real mind (anag).
20 Levant island.
21 A two-faced action."
22 Getting your own back.
23 Never seen in the East.
How can this tune' suit John Bull (two words, 3 and 4).
25 There is A complete lack of
finish about this sort of thing. Yesterday's Solution
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