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THURSDAY,
KWANGSI CHIEFS WIN POSTS
Political Influence Increasing
MOBILISATION PLANS
:
JANUARY 27, 1938.
ODDITIES OF ENGLISH
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down.
plural. We talk of a man having his ups and downs; but we do not say that he is having an up or n It is the same will "s and outs." Or, given a drawer full of odds and endis, how do you distinguish an odd from and end?
Canton, Jan, 20.
Consider the single words of the Increasing political influence of the Kwangsi group was seen here to-day some sort. A merchant may have a with the appointment of General i shop full of goods, but you do not Chung-Jen as Chairman of the pick out an article and ask, "How Anhwel Provinclat Government and much is this good?" Goods, to the Lieut-General Chang Ting-fonas sense of merchandise, is always in
the plural.
Your administralive and vice-Minister of
It is the same with means, friend may have large means, or he For many years General Chang may have amall means but you do not has been a close follower of the Linsk him for a mean.
War.
Pel Kwangsi group and was Gurrisonw. S. Gilbert's "Jink" Commandant of Shanghai and Woo-
Bung when the Kwongst faction was
In power in Nunking in
1020-7.
Pros and cons only appear in the Speculation is rife as to whether plural and General Li Chung-ien will continue has nothing
together. (N.B. This to do with the verb
command of troops at the Lung-10 scan or scrutinise, or with
lini Railway
colloquial term for an actor.} frant, although his headquarters at Hsuchow, eastern And there is one word which is to exist always in the terminus of the railway, are just
plural and always with an adjective preceding it.
north of Anhwel.
condemned
It was reported that another batch
"High Jinks" we are familiar with, of 200,000 Kwangal-troops will leave for the northern front immediately but we never hear of a single jink, nfter the Chinese New Year, this one that is not high. The only writer who ever used "link" by being the third, draft. So far Kwangsi lins sent about 500,000 itself, was the tate Sir W. S. Gilbert, soldiers to the battle field. It is ex- and he only did so when driven by pected to dispatch a total number of, the exigencies of rhyming, one million men, should the hostill-; ties become prolonged.
The third contingent will include regulars, militia and students who have just completed six months of military training, If necessary, Kwangsl can call up an additional 200,000 men for
active service..
ไก The Gondollers" there is a Bong about a kind-hearted monarch, and of him we are told that:-
“Whea
he had Rhenish wine to drink,
It made him very sad to think That some, at junket or at jink,
-Must be content with toddy." This is the only mention of a single Some of the towns in that province tints in the whole range of English ure garrisoned by women soldiers,iterature. Apparently, there never students and teachers from schools was a low jink, any more than there and universities.
are
Professor Huang Chi-lu, who quit Sun Yat-sen University for service in Kwangsi, is now vice-Minister of the Interior at the recommendation of Generals Li Chung-jen and Pei
Kwangsi leaders Hsung-hal. now more influential than in the days of the Northern Expedition in 1028-1027 because of their setive: part in resisting the Japanese- Special.
Mobilisation Flans
0.
Canton, Jan. 26. The third-term mobilisation troops for active service has been launched in Kwangsi province and it is expected that at the beginning of next month, between 180,000 to 200,000 men will be ready for duty at the war zones.
The inobilisation programme In several districts in northern Kwang- si has recently been completed and the men are beng despatched to specified concentration points in the province for training--Central News.
NOTED PLAYWRIGHT PASSES AWAY
Was ever low dudgeon. High dudgeon we know, but never low.
All of which goes to show that the vagaries of the English tongue con- stitute an inexhaustible and fascinat- ing study.
Vaughan Dryden.
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