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ONE of the most extraordinary food was cooked in a primitive cases in the history of old oven made from four bricks on Hongkong was the strange story which rested a Chinese earthen of an English soldier, Thomas ware pot, the property of some
Chinese household. unquestioned Banbury, who during the later however, he had none, unless a Weapons, envered 2.275 miles across Europe in the sixties earned an unenviable re- heavy stick which bore a strong Monte Carlo Rally. Through snow, foods, icekmind resda olid over Alpino passes it putation as the "Hermit of the resemblance to an Indian war-
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Mr. Thomas Banbury WAH R private in the 20th Regiment which was stationed in the Colony during the year 1867. Very little is known of him pre- vious to his enlistment, but it was said that he was about 29 years of age, a native of the west of England, and had served in the army for a number of years. Unfortunately,
the young man bore a bad character in his regiment, and his sojourn in Hongkong seemed rather to aggravate his determination to" resist military discipline. Αξ
Hongkong Telegraph might have been expected, he
THURSDAY, December 1, 1930.
Racing the Sun
THE MEMBERS of the crew
WAS
suddenly determined on "taking French leave" and in January, 1867, he was reported missing.
*
The actual flying time just over -10 hours, a police combing the hills for average speed throughout of suspicious characters stumbled more than 200 miles an hour.upon a curious little rocky cave or stone-hut on a hillside not far It is easily a record and, with from Shaukiwan. the exception that the Royal Air In the cavern, which actually Force flight was non-stop, coni-
with pares favourably Ismailia-Port Darwin flight by
REDDING consisted of a pile had spread an army blanket, and of rice saw upon which he
on this crude bed the poor fellow was lying, shivering with ague, and badly in need of medical at- tention. He was conveyed to hospital for treatment, and in the meantime, the news of his
like wild arrest having been disseminated
fire among the
by T. PAUL GREGORY
re-
sidents of Chinese squatter huis,
next month's sessions. How-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Cage, 1928 by Dad Zaktere 829dieste, Ike,
"Would you mind letting your hair down, Miss?"
Aren't the days drawing in?
Y
in January of this year
a blackbird's egg, and the bare.
of the German Condor plane HIS disappearance was so com- a number of women came for- plete that the authorities ward with serious charges are to be congratulated on their were mystified, and it was against him. remarkable achievement in thought that he had succeeded Upon this, he was arraigned ES, AREN'T they? memory as far as the weather In fact, just re-is concerned all took place either covering the distance be-in escaping by boat from the at the Magistracy on Charges of
Island,
criminal assault, and his trial
cently it has been in the autumn, winter or early or, unfortunately had tween Berlin and Tokyo-
set for the April 26 Criminal
spring. met with foul play and had been Sessions. When this date är brought home to me that over 8,000 miles - in
47 drowned or murdered. The rived, it was revealed by the At-winter's hore, and for one I CAN remember a day hours, this including refuell military command held to the torney General that Banbury I'm not altogether sorry. ing stop-overs at three points. latter view, and their surprise was still too ill to be permitted In fact, I'm positively glad. when the sky was the colour of can be imagined when nearly to attend Court, and according- Look at all the things trees were reflected in the ab two months later, a party of ly he was remanded over to the we've got to look forward solutely still water of Shing Mun. ever, when the time for his trial to. Quite apart from a gas And when the sun went down, came at the May Sessions, none bill as large as Japan's war the day had barely half finished of the Chinese women who were debt, there are muffins, fires, because there were tea and boil- to testify against him, was pre- bare trees along Nathan ed eggs waiting in front of a fire. sent in Court, and he was ac-Road and on the hillsides, February when the rain
And there was a day in complete freedom from the hissing against the window and cordingly discharged by
danger of having to sit on a there was a pretty dirty wind One may wonder why he was
draughty beach.
coming round a corner three huge boulders they came not prosecuted on the charge of
Then there will be women whore, and I didn't care because. upon the deserter Banbury. He desertion from the army, was "living." as the local press
that was apparently allowed to
furs tucked round their I was inside a warm room and of that time recorded, "a sort of lapse. The reason for this has Robinson Crusoo life in the so- never been revealed, In coats, cold cars and, did I saying out because there were no-
fires? Yes? Well, I'll say it deckchairs on the lawn getting litude of the rocky hills, far re- case, Banbury was released, and As in the British flight, the moved from any pathway, and nothing more was heard of him again; fires and more fires, coal soaked and I hadn't arranged to
the fires, wood fires, fires with pine play tennis with anybody. Germans have demonstrated overlooking the Aberdeen side for several months. In
cones, and smelling of resin; jas of the faland. Even the real meantime, he had reverted to that our world is a small place, hero of Defoe's tale could not his "cave-man" mode of exist-fires, too, and electric fires. to be spanned by modern means have found such a snug little ence, and unfortunately, too, of communication at a speed that and invention could made it.
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month.
the
last
consisted of a sort of hollow under the sheltering expanse of
clamation.
Pro
but
any
the
with
Was
Bome-
chin; hot-water bottles, over had no intention whatever of go-
There are lots more days like that too, but I can't remember one that happened in the sum-
mer.
rumours of his bestial actions
THE greatest advantage became increasingly frequent.
Chilblains, coughs, colds? I of belonging to the once had a nasty cold in the nose At length, it was decided to human race is that we are almost all through one holiday I spent The place was about six feet scour the hills in an effort to the only animals that have no in Japan during a heat wave. square, and was lined inside with bring him to justice. Parties of fear of fire,
They really do have heat waves Chinese thatch, and amply car- police stalked through
Dogs are beginning to learn there. I can remember sneezing peted with a thick layer of dried underbrush and searched every of the pleasure to be got out of myself black in the face. leaves. Nor was this hermit known retreat in the rugged burning their noses now, and lacking "in the good things of hillsides of the Colony, but Ban-cats took to it so well that there preferable to hay fever. At Coughs, they tell me, are often this life"; for his larder was bury was not to be found. Final is a serious danger of us being least that is what the people with well provisioned with various ly, o11 November 2, 1867, the ousted off the heirthrug alto-hay fever say; and chilblains, kinds of "chow": beef, potatoes, miscreant was caught by a gether, but mantelpieces and fire painful as I am told they are, fowl, and other delicacies "too group of Chinese stone-masons tongs, toasting forks and coal, couldn't be more so than my sun- numerous to mention." This in the vicinity of Shaukiwan, therms and clims are the grea- burn.
and severely manhandled before test inventions of modern times. he was rescued by the police.
Aeronautical experts say that there is an upper speed limit past which planes of future design will be unable to fly, even through the stratosphere. Nevertheless, it is a thrilling thought that they may be wrong, that fliers of the not-distancen situation which future may, flying westward dangerous and open to all kinds around the equator, race with of repercussions. the sun and remain in perpetual daylight so long as they are in the air.
was both
There is no question but that the situation was replete with far-reaching possibilitles, for it Or will they? Would a fller, is not conceivable that the starting at a given point und | British authorities could have flying at a speed twice na fast as maintained the harmonious re- the earth revolves, fly from intions which, both sides have Wednesday into Tuesday? If been careful to make clear, remained even after the border incidents last Saturday.
not, why not?
ΑΝ
•
ND look-just look: what we have got rid
your bare toes on rocks and teuring holes in your soles in the.
sea; photographs of semi-nude- bodies; thunderstorms.
And what have we last? Sun- bathing? Nonsense, that usually means either a back like a raw lof:- beefsteak or a cold in the nose, THE local press in alluding to as far as I'm concerned.
Wasp stings and sand in the- the facts of his capture spoke
butter; sunstroke and the bitter Cricket? Fshawi What about disappointment of flower seeds. of it in the following terms: football? At least one can usual refusing to come up like the ple- "The Hermit' is again in the ly tell who's won a football tures on the packets; stubbing custody of the police. He was match. brought in to-day, in a wretched condition, with a wound on his
PICNICS? I can still get head which he said had been in-
a good imitation of a flicted by a Chinese in an en-picnic by eating my lunch out of deavour to capture him."
I hate thunderstorms. They greaseproof paper, sitting on the terrify me. It's not the light- His trial in the Criminal Ses-floor of my diningroom, and not ning I mind, it's the noise the sions of November 25, 1867, was have so far to walk for it.
thunder makes; camping out. regarded with the greatest at- tention; for upon being con- madam, that doesn't really apply once and still feel pretty bitter Pretty summer clothes? Yes, with a leaking tent (I did that fronted with the two principal to me, of course, but I do see about it). witnesses- old Chinese what you mean. All the same It is hard to see how further grandmother of nearly sixty, your evening dress only comes in typhoon months. No more:
No more tapping barometers incidents could have been avoid-and a young girl of barely four- into its own in the winter, limp lettuces for timin, tea and teen he broke down and con- doesn't it, and you know you lock dinner, no more days when you ed if the Japanese had proceed- fessed. Strangely enough, how-your best in the evening. wished you hadn't left off your ed with their intention to enter ever, in view of the sordid de- Summer dance dresses always winter vest, no more milk that FOR THE FIRST TIME since Shataukok. The topography of the Chief Justice, Sir John though you were wearing the and never is.
tails of the case, he was given by look half-hearted affairs, as ought to be mudo into cheess Sino-Japanese hostilities com- the surrounding country was Smale, a sentence which a "hard- same costume that you had been menced, the Japanese military such that violation of British boiled character like Banbury walking along the streets in and ing just because the sea happens
And, best of all, no more bath. must have regarded as authorities have shown genuine territory could hardly have been little vacation-two years in your shoulders a little and leng- ought to use It..
a nico just pulled it down a bit to show to be there, and you feel you co-operation with a Third Power, avoided.
Victoria Gaol. After this, he thened the skirt, passed out of the limelight, and The withdrawal of Japanese
I'm going to enjoy this winter- Everyone will breathe a sigh nothing is known of his later are being really absurd. What In 7
Summer weather? Now you I feel-aren't the days drawing- troops from close proximity to of relief that the Japanese have life; but he is to this day resummer weather? That isn't membered as Hongkong's "Herlust a cheap crack. I mean it. the Hongkong frontier has ended geno,
mit of the Hills,"
The days that stick in my
As you're crossing the ferry, try and work out why man can- not beat time.
Co-oporation
-S. J. C..
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