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HongHong: Monday, Feb 15, 1926.

SPORT..

SERIOUS CLOUD.

MOST SERIOUS IN LOCARNO SKY.

SUSPICION OF A, TRICK.

(Reuter's Service,);

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 19

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

two

There were Very Pleasant. men In partner- ship in who loathed each other: one happened to be very tall, and the second, by equal chance, was undersized.

"I'm feeling out of sorts," com plained the small man Trout. complaint," I fancy."

London, Feb. 13. -Confleting British and French viewpoints on the subject of the Fiew permanent members of the

"A man of your height." declared League Council are becoming what his partner, "Can't possibly tell the "Dally Chronicle" calls the whether he is suffering from most serious sloud!! that

haryngitia or housemaid's knee

so far appeared la the Locarno: sky.

The following demptes.

It is

A Bloomin' how watchful eyes are

Passenger.. ever upon us.

also a striking com

certain type of

The London papers. urge Sir Austen Chamberlain to oppose tho admission of Spain, Poland, und Brazil, which, will probably be con strued as a trick to cancel the ad-mentary on a vantage that Germany is likely to passenger..

A traveller heard the head sere from Council membership..

steward of the ship on which her happened to be, rating a young assistant.

No Common Sense.

"Paris, Feb. 18.

"The Complete Angler" is an other name for Fuclid, because he wrote all about angles,"

Clive committed suicide three times...

Oliver Twist had a very good effect for people saw the work- bouses in a different limelight..

Degrees of Comparison of Bad: Bad, vory sick; dead.

Shakespeare was the author of "Omlet.""

-י

The plural of ox is Oxo. Crewe is the biggest conjunc tion in England.

H

Menai Straits are spanned by

a tubercular bridge,

One of the funniest bits of scientific thought is expressed" thus:-

Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogint Oxygina

is pure gin, Hydrogin is gin and water.

A budding medical student de-

The newspapers vigorously sup- "You do nothing." complained port the French standpoint.. The the steward, "and what you do doclared that "doctors now treat "Gaulois" says that Germany's ap you do very badly. And you eat, patience with ultra-violent rays." pearance on the Council as equal upon my word, you eat, like e

Is there anything alles challenges the common sense bloomin passenger!"

Kind Thought, to equal the sym of international justice..

pathy shown by The Geneva correspondent of.

Modernism in the London literary man who form the "Matin" argues that since Up To Date. Church can be of led a band of nature lovers to Poland is one of the pillars of the

two things. Here is Locarno Pact she is logically enzone side of it in a notice lysued with ice in the summer?

supply the polar bear at the Zoo titled to a seat alongside Germany: by a London pastor!!

"WAIT AND SEE."

(British Wireless Service)

"Come to our church, my friendš,.

The ex-Speaker of the where we preach a sermon as it No Fear, House of Commons→→→ ought to be preached and where

Viscount. Ullswater- we offer bigger poultry prizes than tells a number of good stories in else in his book. Hére is one of them:--

.you'l find anywhere

Bethnal Green!"

1:

:

The favourite hiding You Don't place at times of Mind ocrisis was! South Africa, and if the

Rugby, Feb. 14. The question of the admission of Powers other than Germang tol permanent seats on the Council of the League of Nations continues to be discussed in the newspapers, which fully recognise the import escapes allowed a sufficient margin ance of the issues raised. Hopes of time, all was well; one can fare expreased that the claims wiimagine that the difficulty came in

not be pressed, and technical, as selecting

Inst. convenient well as political reasons against moment. In any case, there were,

present increase in the number for certain, periods of anxiety, of permanent sents- are fully man, fearing that at Waterloo he might be recognised, drove all the stated:

the

A farmer's wife, going into a barn, saw her husband hanging from a beam, upon which she ejaculated: "Well! I wonder The what you will do next? story goes on that a friend said to her "Didi not you at once cut him down? And that she replied, "No, for he was stil alive."

A

Was It

spect. "Above all is the important fact that sport is becoming univer- Bal Golf and football and boxing are not now the particular games of, say, Britain. Other nations contest for supremacy in these matters, to the great gair of the games concerned and the outlook of numbers of people, unknown to each other But drawn invisibly together by a common interest., It

A Priest writes the may be along these lines that the

following to a well- peoples of the East and the West

nal-Late one night F will find a bond of sympathy past. The new of the British Govern-way from London to Southampton Suggestion known Mterary Jour- all understanding.. helping towards ment is that, although the issues this was long before the day ofwas summoned. to attend a sick are being carefully studied is far motor-enry-secured his boatman. Half an hour later I saw that complete understandings is practicable as this stage: it is ticket, and went aboard the hip. I could notice no sign of which is the desire of true sports- impossible to decide on the course steamer, where in a cabin thut did severe illness, yet he was choking which will best serve the interests not please his requirements for a for breath, and an ominous rattle men of these places,

of the Council and of the League long voyage he shaved off his came from his throat. He said the generally until.the claims are de-heavy moustache and put on a doctor had advised him to send for Sinitely advanced, and argumentatravelling-cap with ups cpvering l'a priest.

The boat, was on the for and against are fully consider the ears.. bed by the

Was representatives at point of starting, and he Geneva.

pacing the upper deck and no doubt congratulating himself on his escape from the law, when hand touched his shoulder, and gruff voice suid-

NAVAL ECONOMY.

TWO MILLIONS SAVED TO THE TAXPAYER.

FIRST LORD'S CLAIM,

(Reuter's Service,}

Torquay, Feb. 14: Mir, W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord the Admiralty. in a speech here, announced that the Admiralty

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in this connection the "Observer" remarks that: "When the moment urrives for the British vote to be east, her policy will be determined by her loyalty, to the Locarno ideal;" by an honest interpretation of the promised restoration to Germany of the full status of a European Great Power, and by the best interests of the League itself."

economies not only would Cover CHARLEY'S'

the whole cost of the new construc tion programme, but would also save the taxpayer over two millions; sterling, besides, without depriving

FAIRY STORIES.

(British Wireless Service.)

¿

Rugby, Feb. 14.

AUNT.

A FAMOUS FARCE: ON THE SCREEN.

11

FINE. QUEEN'S FILM..

Exactly how many people have laughed at "Charley's Aunt" since

the play was first staged over

The picture

He pointed to his throat, touch- ed it, and snatched his hand away. assif it had felt something uncanny..

examined his throat, and found it hawn and sunken as if under great preasure. He was being choked to death.

"Isha be dead in the morning," he laboured, "but I want don't mind, sir."

a favour from you before I go." He collapsed full on the deck, He pointed to a child asleep in a and did not recover.

cot. "Two years ago my wife placed on his shoulder belonged die." he continued, "and it was not to Scotland Yard, but to the her last wish that should have steward who had managed to effect our little girl baptized.

1 pro-

"I'd like to speak to you if you

en exchange of cabins.

The hand

mised to carry out. her wish, but... I have not kapt my word. Will These are always ae-you baptize her?" I did so. I had Schoolboy ceptable, and the latest scarcely Anished, when the prea

Howlers, batch is as amusing as aure was lifted from his throat, the many others which and a few minutes later he was have amused the world

quite well..

WHEN IT WAS RATHER DARK.

Thoughtful minds deplore the! great amount of time given tot sport and the things of sport. I is probable, at the moment, that a vast proportion of people is more concerned that two con- tinental prize-fighters have fought a draw that Mdme. Lenglen and Miss Helen Willa are meeting at the Navy of the power of carrying tennis than it is' with the en-out its duties. trance of Germany into the League of Nations, or the sizzling utterances of a bucolic, Mussolini with their possible dis-

thirty years ago, it is impossible. It is no wanton paradox to sug historian knowa poth too little and turbing effect. The reason may

to tell the number must run into not be far to seek. The issue"ini

millions-but it is safe to say that gest that the darker the age the too much

So it is that one book (or play) In the course of his speech at the Agure will be eclipsed by the easier it is to shed a liftleigh about "Saint Joan" goes on creat sport is plain. The methods em-

numbers who see the film version on the subject.” When a man isfag another... Mr. Shaw could Torquay, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman said of the famous farce in all parts reconstructing an epoch from an hardly fall to draw Are There ployed' do not need deep thought that practically all the economies.

of the world where the with which to understand them were devised by his advisers at the

silver inch or two of bone he at least is published to-day by Mr. Cobden- It is not a question of mere brawn Admiralty and settled in agree-creen holds sway.

met with an

instant success in gains, confidence by knowing that Sanderson a book by Mr. J. M...

Robertson called "Mr. Shaw. "and only, but the judicious exercise ofment with the Treasury. The only Hongkong yesterday when it der he is in possession of all the facts, the Maid:"

!point on which they did not agree

Mr. Robertson is an thought in the games played, was referred to somebody else to lighted crowded holiday audiences although "the facts about 10,000 admirable controversialist.

Whe- at every performance in the years of human life may be limit-ther the enemy be the Protectionlat which makes aport so "under-arbitrate. The stories of disagree-

Queen's Theatre.

ad to a few relics which could be on the priest or the misguided standed of the people." Andments between the Admiralty" and

The role of Charley's the Treasury could be completely from Brazil where the nuts come if a man of letters chose to write and Condell were infallible editors aunt, put into an attaché case. Thus, wretches who think that Herningh out of it all they get something disregarded.

from," was filed by Syd. Chaplin, chronicle play about the owner of Shakespeare, he hits them hard which passes the time; something

brother of the great screen of the Píltdown skull or the doings land hits them clean. He thinke about which to talk-and, if they

comedian, and it is safe to say and wooings of the Neanderthal that Mr. Shaw has gone over to engage in any branch of sport

that nobody, not, even Charlie him- man, the critica could no more the romantica and the obscurant- something with which to exercise

self, could have played the part punish him for mishandling theists, has praised the Mald in the better. W. S. Penley, who made facts than the friends of Mrs. wrong kind of way, and has let the the body. In politica, such is not

the character famous more than Gamp could have blamed her for Cathoile Church off far too lightly." the case.' The issues are often

thirty years ago on the stage, has a misrepresenting Mrs. Harris. OnMany people will admit that Mr. obscure, and those who take part

worthy successor in Syd. Chaplin the other hand, where there is a Shaw's eagerness to justify the on the screen,

positive blaze... Hght the critis authoritarianism of the Church in it, prone to do so with a "lie

Needless to say where "Charley's must equally, confine himself to was stimulated by his eagerness to upon the soul" and a "lie on the

Aunt" "loses through the absence matters of tendency and judgment. discredit the authoritarianism of lips." Dean Inge, in a purposeful

of the dialogue (though, be it said If a dramatist were now to write modern science, and we can, surely, the substitutes are very clever) ita chronicle newspaper essay says that politi-

play about Mr all appreciate Mr. Robertson's more than" gains by the bigger Gladstone he could have no pos- thrust at Mr. Shaw's Insatiate zezi cians always talk with the finger

settings and greater, mechanical sible excuse for muddling up the for signing minority reports. But on the popular pulse. Their mea-

Cairo, Feb. 14.

acope offered by the screen. Thus actual events of his here's career, when it comes down to these die- What is believed be a record the fullest spice got out of the observes the Manchester puted actualities of Joan's career sures, their speeches, their tactice,

donation for humanistic science hilarious episodes which follow Guardian.” The life is sufficient the debate turns dull, however are no more honest than the and research has been offered by each other in quick succession and ly well known to make it obvious eloquent the speaker. Intricate angler's balted hook. "Politics Mr. John Rockefeller, junior, to a general impression is given of that criticism would descend upon considerations of military tactics, resolves itself into the art of ad-King Fuad and the people of Egypt, quick, diverting comedy,

the writer's valuation of the value of Joan as an artillery, amounting to ten million,, dollars, As to the plot itself, all that Gladstone's work and his estimate expert the strategy of Complèyne, vocating what is known to be bad, for the purpose of building and need be said here fa that those of motives, and not upon the and the ethics and politics of as the only alternative to some maintaining in Uairo a museum who know it already will be de narrative of the hero's schlove- ecclesiastical jurisdiction are thing worse." It may be that the which will probably be the finest lighted to see how ingeniously it ment. The real trouble of the his- points on which we can and Just in the world and establishing an has been adapted to the conven-torian occurs when his subject is enough light to stage" a "good" peoples of the world tacitly agree Archaeological Institute in con- tions of the screen, and those who neither radiant with the light of quarrel, but not a sufficient blaze and turn to something about and junction therewith

I do not know it have an even contemporary and consentaneous to and the satisfaction that in O in which there is little or no cor- Profesor Tumse H Breasted, the greater treat in store, novelty and evidence: nor pleasantly sunk in cogent proof, and certainty of

noted American Orientalist, who surprise being added to the the gloom of prehistoric mists and knowledge. So the raption. It Shanghai has beaten formally presented the offer to measure of enjoyment, the picture fogs. From this point of view will continue to be Hongkong at football, the face of King Fund, declared in an inter provides.

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ica, the newest land of the West, Street" and the latest topical day for history. The story of eternal bone of contention how it was done. Shanghai, per- for, Egypt, the oldest hand of the gazette complete a delightful holl-on of Ard provides a first-rate, it happeneli d day, programme.. upa, becomes an object of re East Gen

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