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"Lovely smell of cooking in the club this morning. Scrambled eggs, cut- Lets, and that excellent curry the secretary introduced from Penang. Makes a feller's mouth water. Fyr falfa mind to go through the lot." "Can't you talk of anything excepi food? I doubt if I shall ever eat again." "Fairly dripping with sweetners and light this morning, aren't you? Advanced case of hangover, I'll het a couple of chips. Some of you young fellers haven't enough sens to come in out of the rain."
"That's right. Moralize, you hypo-
·érite. A suppose you never woke up with a head or a tongue like a strip of ancient gunny bag.”
"On the contrary, I have in the past cultivated some of the finest hang- overs of all time. But that was back in the bad old days before I'd board of Rose's Lime Juice."
"What on earth hai Rose's got so da with hangovers "
"Everything, my dear Watson. It wipes them out.. If you stick to Gimlets or have a good wiht swig before going to bed, you'll have no regrets in the morning."
"Bose's Lime Juire you' said?”
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Danger to Peace?
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CRASH!
Not all victims of road smashes live to tell the tale, or to tell it so good-humour- edly as this victim, who signs himself the REMAINS OF DOUGLAS REED Readers of "Insanity Fair" will remember that Douglas Reed has driven all over Europe without an accident. He had to go home to run into one.
would use me as a target for as the Editors say, and before. all those ancient and impious it wanes I want to give it that jokes about black eyes which which in our day passes for aurvive the rise and fall of immortality. Empires.
I have just looked at it again.
And with some cause, for Contemplated quite alone, it never was an eye like this. Even really is a lovely black eye. But doctors start, and hardened I shouldn't care for two of them. hospital attendants shy when they encounter it unexpectedly. There is something about a you lie still, the ban on gelling black eye, though acquired in the most innocent manner and up, the bedpan.
In the pane of the opened worn, as in this case, by the window I can see the reflection most righteous of men, that of
cathedral tower, with gives its owner a look of almost pigeons, circling round it. unspeakable villainy, a repulsive
F
HILE others
Nearly 20 years ago, in the leer which startles children and attempting to as bitter years just after the war, domestic animals. That is true I scoured the lanes and country of almost any black pye. How semble my remains, roads around this town for a much more true, then, of mine, I am trying to collect my livelihood, with small success, which is a world's record black thoughts and to give way and sometimes, in despondent eye.
A Look Through The Telegraph",
50 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1880. The moment to restore silver to the
lee which it asce secupied is gather- lng strength every day in England. Chambers of
Commerce, members of Parlament, bankers and Ananciers in largo numbers are now earnest advo center of the monetary reaction. Five years ago there was not only dead
once again to my besetting gloom, I came back to the town I even find it difficult to be sin-putting them on paper, and lay down in the shadow of lieve that an eye, a window of xilence on the question, but nobody had My remains, in point of fact, the old cathedral, lazily to watch the soul, exists behind that the courage to break it. The power which is unhind the present movement are not irretrievably scattered the pigeons.
mound of black, purple, green, for the must part, the agricultural
25 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1914. Reuter's correspondent at Berlin says it la understood that an Austrian Note will be presented to the Powers shortly embodying the results of the investiga-
Lion into the murders of the Archduke and his Consort at Sarajevo.
There a marked uneasiness on the Berlin Bourne, attributed to anxiety re- garding Austro-Sorvion relations.”
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or is far-flung the better Now, in 1939, I have been to and yellow flesh which seems to interest, Fon over two years Japan has word for a patriotic son of many countries, near and far, have been grafted on to my face been engaged in a war of im- these islanda? Not many, pieces have always earned a livelihood, right of the nose. It looks as square three inches had perialist aggression against China. will be missing when they are sometimes lean and sometimes if a Victories have been won and large reassembled. Indeed, no pieces fat, few of the disasters I feared been cut out of an elephant's Breas of territory have been over- may be missing at all. But the then have happened to me, and skin, painted by a surrealist Fun, occupied and looted, but China,story has to have an interesting I am back again, hardly knowing master, and glued on..
how, watching the pigeons play beginning. far from having been beaten into
round the cathedral tower--in a submission, Is carrying on effective My eye, on the other hand- mirror, this time.
CTUALLY this black eye,
The National Zeitung states that a remark by the Crown Prince to a Gor- resistance in a manner that is in- but before I tell you about my But this story has been too
if it did not give my an Bank Director that Germany must volving Japan deeper and deeper in eye you will need that which long without its hero-my eye. face so sinister un expression, if keep her powder dry is much comment- embarrassing difficulties and com-the magazine editors call a It is like Hamlet without the it could be considered in calmed upon on the Baurse. plications that may have far-reach-synopsis of the previous instal- prince.
detachment and on its artistic After a night of storm, the King, ing consequences to her own future. Iments of this powerful story. When I was wounded in the merits alone; might count as a accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and bit. Angolth, aboard the Royal The myth of Japan's Invincible
war, the bullet sought and found thing of beauty. No painter yacht, led the mobilised Floet out lo military power has been shattered by
a place that, in my opinion, could ever hope to achieve that. Svon there was a treat modern Fleet under way. The Alexandra an- the new spirit of the re-awakened
BRIEFLY, then, you see ought to be put out of bounds delicate blending and merging chored to enalte, the Royal party to watch, iho, ships, paas, took two in me, or my remains, by the Queensberry Rules of of hues, and united Chinese people.
Pride after the Fall. If I had international hostilities.
But such is the malevolent a superb sight.
hours, steaming line abreast, and was It would
seem incomprehensible read a week ago the radio an- Now the same thing has stigma attaching to this par- that in such circumstances Japan's nouncement that I have just happened again. How history ticular injury, that it evokes that the trial of Afadame Cailloux for military leaders on the field should heard that in recent weeks 500 repeats itself. Somehow, some- neither sympathy nor admira- the murder of M. Calmette has opened. The Court was crammed, and accused choose to create a dangerous siate people have been killed and where, I have been in a bad tion. My war wound, on the way was dread in black. of tension between Japan and Britain 20,000 injured in traffic accidents smash, and my remains may to convalescence, once drew from When indicted for wilful murder, sha over a local dispute, arising out of in England-I should have said, consider themselves lucky not a matron the pleasing tribute told in faltering tones of her unhappi
nes owing to tears that M. Calmette "Among those
20,500 jay- to have been flung much further "Oh, it looks lovely this morn- was about to publish lettora which their demand that four Chinese
walkers and jay-drivers goes, than they were.
ing," but I should make a deal would polson her life. #lleged to be members of an anti-
save for the grace of God and But not for me the sear of money if I could find some- Japanese_terrorist. gang, should_be_
The opening of the Panama canel to his own good-sense, Douglas” honourable or romantic. So that-body-to-take my bet that every commerce" be again become indefinito, over to them. They re- Recd."
I may know that I didn't dream stranger introduced to my eye side, in the Culebra cut, the last re- owing to the neiivity of the Cucaracha Jected a British proposal for a Mixed For that was the conclusion or imagine it all, I have the will begin the conversation with maining obstacle to the pasange at Committee, composed of a Japanese I had come to during many largest black eye of all time. "Well, you look as if you'd been ships,
handed
member, and British member, and
1
Reuter's correspondent at Paria statos
a neutral Chairman, preferably an years of driving without serious What an eye! O beate Mar- out all night," or something The Vaterland, the newest Hamburge
to decide
Concession, in electrifying the wire fence running round the Concession,
in
ed nearly an hour for the exact condi-
the white requesting
American, to be set up
mishap in many parts
of tine! Oh, Betty Martin, patron equally original.
American Iner, backed out of her Hoboken
10 pler on June
without In an unjust world I want to mishno. Mindful of the trouble on her. whether there was sufficient evidence Europe that a man who took saint of all sceptics! Oh, my to justify the handing over of the enough care could avoid all the eye!
say these few words on behalf maiden VOYAZA
she vostward, when
River and four accused, and proceeded to disasters of which he read in IF they were to meet me of my black eye. I don't know backed across the North
nearly hit a pier, Commodore Ruser took blockade the British Concession, and his daily papers. As I say, I
in the street, all the where it came from or where it no chances. The ship was to sail at with it the French Concession, at had come to read those reports international heavyweights of will go to, but for a brief (I eleven o'clock, but the commander wait Tientsin, The action taken by the with a certain feeling of superi- our time would stand aside in hope) while it has alighted on tions of wind and ilde which suited him. Japanese in blockading the British ority.
reverent and silent awe. If I my face, which I have had for Ten minutes before noon, siganl fing, which is the And now it has happened to were able to go out and were a long time and have grown to plenty of river space, was run up an the tamburg-American docks, and the bs though it were a concentration me!
foolish enough to let them see love.
liner steamed out. She handled nicely It is, in fact, A New Feature, in the fairway, Tugs helped to shove The infuriating thing is that me in the street, my friends clunp, and
subjecting British
her nose around, and within Aftoon min- subjects to personal searches that I shall never know why or how,
ulen time she was moving slowly out hre in most cases humiliating and in The destiny that shapes our
to sea. (This was the last trip made some cases obscene, underlines the ends also provides for the
hy the Vaterland (later Majestie). When she arrived at New York, the remained dangerous situation to which the af- complete obliteration from our
in the neutral port, shelturing from fair has already developed, and gives memory of all the circum-
British warships,--Ed.). colour to the belief that the Japanese stances of auch an accident. I are seeking to worsen the dispute only know that one day recently by introducing wider and more far I was a normal man, normally reaching issues of policy that will driving Londonwards, and that affect not only Great Britain but other Great Powers as well.
now my remains are lying on
Mr. Cordell Hall, the American my back in a town I never Secretary of State, has announced expected to visit again.
| Chino."
سيا
OTHERS tell me that the
that while 'The 'United States is not concerned with the original Incident relating to the four alleged Chinese terrorists, it is concerned "with the
car I was driving is a nature and significance of the sub-wreck, and that a lorry is also sequent developments in their badly damaged but beyond broader aspects, coupled with past that, all is mystery. I can nak acis and utterances in other parts of myself a thousand times a day, "How did it happen?" but no Japan is in no condition to with-light whatever shines on that stand an economic boycott by Bri-problem... tain, France
Americi, and
This acems very strange to Britain should not hesitate to seek to concert common action along me, because in carlier years I these lines to be promptly taken it was involved in a number of the necessity for. It should arise. aeroplane crashes and could So long as aggressors are allowed always remember the details of to think that they can bluff, bluster them afterwards.
and
and bully, they will not call a bolt Anyway, it happened some to their threats and intimidations. how, and now I find myself once What is happening in the For East
gives additional urgency to the need
for the speedy establishment of a
Peace Front by Great Britain, France more, after twenty years, In and Soviet Russia. Threats to peace hospital where I have renewed will only end when the aggressors acquaintance with old enemies realise that Peace will be defended whom I had thought never to and aggression resisted by the col-meet again--the long sleepless hours, the pain that will not let Iective power of peace nations,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
think Bob's getting various to-night ho asked me if
you and Dad word ploasant to live with!"
10 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1920. While the United States is exhorting- the Russian Government to remember the Kellogg Pact, it is reported that hostilities have broken out balween Itusalan and Chinese troops at two dif- ferent points in Manchuria.
It is stated that the Russian troops opposlte Munchull, who have been heavily rainforced in the past few days, I crossed" the border, yesterday morning
and captured Manchull, which is about. 10 miles Inside Chinese territory. At the other end of the Chinego. Eastorn Railway, the cause of the crisis, Soviet forces have invaded and taken · Pod- jeranlchinaya, another Chinese border town,
We, cannot -hulp think that a great deal of time was wasted in the Legisla- |tive Conne!! Chamber on Thursday in the discussion of the resolution put | forward by Sir Pollock, urging that, the permanent measures advocated by: Mr. lenderson for Increasing, the Colony's water supply be proceeded with, and completed as soon as possibin..
5 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1994, As the distant clocks of London wero striking ix yesterday morning, two men, simply clad in blue dungarees, stapped across the Bouth side of Water- |loo" Bridge and with elaborato careless- nesa placed end to end two scafford polen were the entrance.
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^ An · approaching pony cart-drową up. | sharply at the barrier, and, after ex- clied pleas by three Prema photograph- (or, was allowed by authority' to” pass | small group of unemployed cheered lustily (to order)s, and the two B.C | engineers," "squatting; behind a zsingie microphone, recorded for posterity: the sound of the last vehicle crossing Waterloo Bridge.