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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927..
OUR $50 PRIZE.
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Result of Twelfth New PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
Puzzle.
THREE TO SHARE AWARD.
[To the Editor of the "Chins Mall"]
Sir, It has come to my notice that certain persons in the Colony are sending anonymous letters to people in the town which are detrimental to my name and The "China Mail" has pleasure business.
in announcing the result of the These letters do not come from twelfth Cross-Word Puzzle of the anyone in authority in the circus, and I state that the contents of new series. This has been won by three competitors who had one same are entirely false.
I have, already reported this error each, as follows:- matter, to the Police who are in-
vestigating the matter.
As is well known in the Colony,
I have been in the Circus business
for many years, while for the
Miss R. Judah,
The "Dew" Castle Steps,
A certain recruit was on guard for the first time in his life. About midnight the orderly offi- cer paid his visit of inspection.
"Anything unusual been hap- pening?" he asked the sentry.
"Yes, sir," came the prompt reply, the sergeant-major came home at ten-perfectly sober."
An old gentleman was taking a Hong Kong,100g, country walk, and going past a farmhouse he heard loud. yells. He went to investigate the cause, and found the farmer's wife thrashing her small son.
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last 35 years I have been pro- "Attte" é Machado, prietor of my own Circus. My name is well known and it is general knowledge that where ever I have been. I have never left A Becker, without paying my just debts. This is well known to my artistes, some of whom have been with me many years and are still in my employ.
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"What has the boy done?" asked the old man, feeling sorry for the child.
"He's let all the fowls out of the house," was the angry woman's reply.
"Well, well," said the old man, "it's not so bad, after all. Fowls "China always go home to roost, you
know."
The correct solutions are A5 follows:-
ACTORS,
TAFFY; 5, HOG; 7 SPEER;
"Yes" answered the woman, glaring at him. "They have."
Some time ago a gentleman 11 OYES; 18 SOAR; 14 US; 16 paid a visit to a friend in the ENOW: 18 OURS: 19 TN. 20 Highlands, taking with him a pet APT: 22 DREADLY: 28 ERN: 24 talking parrot. One morning the NEAF: 26 UN; 27 EL; 28 BRAE;
Sir, I have seen a lot in the 29 TEG: 30 AS; 32 YE: 84 AIL: parrot escaped from its cage, papers recently regarding the im-35 IS; 36 APE: 38 MY; 40 1; 4 and perched on the roof of an old provements to the Star Ferry, but GO; 42 SHERD; 49 UN; 44 N; man's cottage.
The old man, seeing the bird, with all that they are going to do 46 NE: 48 ALE: 49 AX; 51 DAB;
Down.
1 TRUANT; 2 FO; 3 F.Y.E.;
ER: 10 RUNNEL; 12 SORUS; 13
In trembling tones the old man exclaimed "Excuse me, sir; A thocht ye were a burrd."
the
that no one in the room could answer but me.
I still think there is much more 58 NW; 56 AT: 56 TIS; 58 ETUI determined to secure it, and, pro- was just that should be done. In the first 59 RA: 61 EC-62 FEAK; 63 curing a ladder, he place, what about the many 10; 68 CUTE; 69 DOWS: 71 S.R.; ed "What do you want?"
WIT; 64 FAYENCE: 66 ELI; 67 about to catch it, when it screech- atrocious efforts that are made
72 BOSH; 74 YEAD; 75 POISE; the American proposals in the daily by the coxswains to get 76 ARA; 77 RIOTS. name of his Government, and did alongside the piers? Admitted there are current difficulties at so without reservation and with times to contend with, but some YEND: 6 ON; 7 SORY, 8 PAS; (Every evening except Sunday.
Mabel (struggling with wire out equivocation. Thus was the of the men subscription, excluding
in charge of these! Annual postage abroad, K. $86, payable
making of the Washington Treaty ferries do not seem to possess the SULLY, 16 SPEED; 17 WEN; 18 netting)-Oh, Mr. Spivvins, do in advance. Local delivery free.)
Overland China Mail. Conference, initiated by Fresident shaped landing stage, 80 35 10N: 36 AHA; 37 ERE: 89
rendered easy. For the present slightest idea of handling a boat, ODE: 19 TRAIN, 21 TAG: 23 you know how to make a chicken-
Why cannot we have the slipway ERA: 30 AS: 31 SPELK: 33 EM: run?
The Curate-Well, I usually Harding's successor, it can now be that the ferry could just glide YUX: 45 RATIO: 47 EN: 49 AT: cap my hands and say "Shoo!" said that Britain was, and is, pre-into it and come to rest at its 50 RIALS; 51 DEWLAP: 62 BUT in a loud voice. pared to go further than at first appointed place, without all this 54 WRATH; 56 ACCOY; 56 TEE:
fooling around
Little Lucy - Mother, in order to get 67 SKIRTS; 60 AYE: 61 END; 64 was either America or Japan, alongside? The Company, sup- FUSE; 65 EWER: 68 COS; 70 SAI; teacher asked a question to-day while it is still uncertain that the posedly a public-ultility one, has 72 B.I.; 73 OR: 74A DO. two last named Powers will be a fine monopoly, and should be persuaded to follow where she is able to afford to make this im-
provement, if no other; prepared to lead. This fact is the more noteworthy seeing that the British delegation is representing a Conservative Government, the Conservative Party in Britain being traditionally more jealous of maintaining the strength of the Imperial Navy than has been any other political party in the State. Certainly no more emphatle and'
more convincing testimony could be given of Great Britain's desire to promote a wide limita- Giving judgment yesterday in tion of armaments or to fulfil her the case in which Percy Sidney pawn them himself? He promised "You sound very fond of him,”
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STOLEN CLOTHING.
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FAT BOY."*
When a Chinese was charged he- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen-
"Splendid! What was it?" "She asked what-our-tele phone number is."
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"Well, Willie, and so you go to school now, do you?"
"Yes!" said little Willie. "And you love your teacher?" Willie gave a loud laugh.
tral Magistracy this morning with "No," he said. "She's not a bit
the
unlawful possession of six my style, you know.”
pieces of woman's clothin... he said
they were given blm to pawn by "Loafer Fat Bay."
Mr. Lindsell: Where did he get
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There was a world of affection- the clothes from?-They belong to ate respect in Plimson's voice as his wife.
he spoke, and Flipkins turned to Mr. Lindsell: Why couldn't he him in surprise.
Hong Kong cannot but be im- mensely interested in the lengthy and practicability, as a signatory Sergt. Heywood in the execution was jailed last month for stealing, showed confidence in me when the speech by Sir Austen Chamberlain to the exacting Covenant of the of his duty, Major C. Willson and that the story he told in Court clouds were dark and threaten-
found that Sergt. Heywood was was entirely different from the one ing."
"In what way?" defining British policy in regard to League of Nations.
perfectly justified in stopping he related at the Police Station. Whilst the three Powers confer-defendant and questioning him, dant to four weeks hard laboor.
His Worship sentenced the defen- "He lent me an umbrella." small cruisers. These, as he has clearly shown, are vital to an Em-ring at Geneva are agreed in but stated that it appeared from
Brainlow was always assuring pire 30 widely scattered not alone regard to capital ships, the pro- the weight of the evidence that the officer exceeded his duty by
his friends that he knew a glass in war time but in a period of blem of small cruisers remains to striking defendant.
of wine when he saw one," and pence. Great populations overseas be solved-hence Sir Austen
invited a few select friends to dinner to prove it. are dependent for their daily Chamberlain's explanation of the bread on seaborne traffic, and it is present position in the House of imperative that the sea routes Commons. There are more lions should be maintained and protect-in the path yet to be
obligations, to the limits of safety resisting search and obstructing tion, told the Court that defendant
Inspector Grant, for the prosecu-{ "I am," replied Plimson. "He
ed at all hazards. This is primari-conquered.
If
the
accept-
The
WES boots and
Major Willson found as a fact STUDENT RIOTS IN VIENNA. that the Sergeant struck the de-
A very old-looking bottle was fendant but also found that the defendant resisted or obstructed jer students at the University produced.
Repeated riots of Hakenkreuz- the officer so that the latter was have claimed attention.
"Ah, John," remarked the obliged to put him to the ground ringleaders are protected in-host, "you've forgotten to dust in order to effect his arrest.
directly by the Government for those cobwebs off again." On the grounds that the Ser-political reasons. Their leader is "But I never thought you by the work of small cruisers when ance of the parity principle in geant merely suspected the defen- ex student from the High wanted 'em off after stickin' 'em danger either arises or is anti-respect of cruisers would mean dant of carrying stolen clothing School for World Commerce, and on 50 careful," answered the cipated.
The plight of Hong the retention by Britain of the and did not stop him for the pur-has nothing whatever to do with butler, who Kong, during an international existing number and tonnage of first charge against defendant of provincial students and stu-
pose of searching for arms, the the University. Quite a number gardener too. crisis, for instance, can well be these vessels as the basic maxi- was dismissed, on the second (of dents from other institutes have In the club they were talking imagined were the British mum to which the United States obstruction and resistance) the joined the ranks the Universi- of men who, though famous and strength in small cruisers to be may build up, Japan, for obvious personal bond of $100 to be of Pan-German professors openly very mean.
ty rowdies. The Senate and the wealthy, were at the same time wantonly depleted as the result reasons, may baulk at it. On the good behaviour for twelve favour the Hakenkreuzlers, who Butler, "who was so economical
"I once knew a man,” enjoy much greater advantages that he used to cover up his ink- Provocation Given.
and privileges than any other well between dips in case With regard to the counter-students.
It is a matter for should be lost by evaporation."
defendant was bound over in a
said
any
of the Geneva Conference.
other hand that it should involve] months. At the Washington Conference a material reduction only of Bri-' of 1921, it will be remembered, tish cruiser strength and a whole- the limitation of ṇaval arma- sale scrapping of British ships summons for assault against regret that a group of irrespon- "But I knew a man,” observed ments proposed by the then only can hardly be in the mind of Sergt. Heywood, His Worship im- sible young hotheade, incited by Cutler, "who stopped his clock
posed a fine of $10 but added that fanaties, should thus discredit the Secretary of State (Mr. C. E. the Empire's representatives. in his opinion, unnecessary and city in the eyes of foreigners every night to prevent the works wearing while everybody was Hughes), the mouthpiece of the The interpretation of parity in the uncalled for provocation was attracted by the Vienna Festival.
asleep 1 Gross insults have been pla- "I know a man meaner than late President Harding, was so connection here applied has yet to given by Lai.
Mr. Hall Brutton contended carded against the Jewish stu- either of those," said Putler. "He radical and involved the sinking be made plain. If, however, all that the second charge against dents and the Jewish citizens of gave up reading newspapers in of so many thousands of effective three Powers are of the mind and the defendant was merely put in Vienna and Austria in general public libraries in order to save British war tonnage that Ameri heart and have the will to by the Police to amplify the first The Hakenkreuzlers have now his spectacles."
and that once having found that concentrated their energy against can statesmen of the day scarcely agreement on this vital ques- the first charge could not stand, the socialist students, and ill- One of the straight-cropped His Worship could not find defen- treat all who are not Pai-Ger- girls of to-day, sat up in bed dant guilty of the second.
mans. Normally the University smoking her cigar and sipping Mr. Brutton asked for a recon-is beyond police jurisdiction, but her morning cocktail, while her sideration of the decision.
the other day the rector himself, sister read the paper,
...
of smaller cruisers entertained hope that it would be tion
be acceptable to the British Govern- tremendous advance will ment. It was, as a fact, taken for made toward that consumama- granted that the scheme pro tion devoutly to be wished,
After considerable legal argu-feeling afraid that the Haken- "What shall I go to the fancy pounded, if agreement were to be a world- voluntarily disarmed of ment, His Worship promised to kreuzlers might damage the build-dress dancs as?" she asked. reached in reapest of it, would its weapons of offence. Nothing reconsider the question, the bonding, was obliged to call in mem-Why not go ад
a girl?" answered her sister. have to be substantially modifed. surely would exercise a greater in- of $100 to be held over pending bers of the force.
final decision.
Herr Seitz, the Burgomaster of Vienna, in the capacity of Provin, Duncan-So you and the hand- cial Governor, has now asked the some Bramble girl are one? Police President to maintaini Titcomba That's what I safety within the University, thought when the minister mar grounding himself on a state-ried us, but I have since conclud- A Chinese woman who cut down ment of 1904, according toled that we are ten.TRE
brauch from a dead tree was which its autonomy is not gua- Duncan-What do you mean? fined $5 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at ranteed unless its authorities Titcombe She is one, and I am the Central Magistracy this mornare able to maintain order. nought.
To the surprise, and even amaze-fluence on the Continental nationa to reduce their land armamenta ment, of the New York Press, and
than to find the three greatest of the United States politicians naval Powers in the world ridding and public, the Earl of Balfour themselves of the burden which (then Mr. Balfour), who led the the upkeep of huge navies entails British delegation, on the day im- on their respective peoples, and, mediately following the inaugura at the same time, pledging them tion of the Conference endorsed salves to the cause of world peace.
Ing.
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