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RISKY FLIGHTS.

UNDERMINE FAITH IN

AVIATION.

GERMAN LEAGUE'S VERDICT.

Berlin, Oct. 10.

UNWASHED DUSUNS.

THE PADI, PLANTERS OF

PUTATAN.

A BORNEAN IMPRESSION

THE CHINA MAIL,

NELSON'S SIGNAL.

CONFIRMED BY OFFICIAL

RECORDS..

FACTS RECALLED.

fidea must be spelt.' His Lordship raplied in haste, and with seeming entisfaction. That will do, Pasco, make it directly." When it had bcom answered by a few ships In the van, he ordered me to make the Bignal for 'Close action' and to keep it up: accordingly. I hoisted No. 16 at the topgallant masthead and

In

of

Passengers who impatiently sit S. Van B. Nichols writes to the there it remained until shot away." The misfortune which appears to

Putatan station, Manila "Bulletin":- have overtaken the American aero- in the train at plane "Old Glory" and other recent which is always hot, dusty and gen- disusters of a similar nature, are cited by aviation experts here as erally a seething mass of Chinese confirming their bellef that non-and natives scrambling in and out, atop trans-ocean flights, with ma-1 chines incapable of remaining afloat have no idea of the sylvan charms in a heavy sea, hinder rather than of Putatan village,; lying about uid the progress of aviation.

twenty minutes walk from the rall- Director Otto Merkel, of Luf- thansa, the German air league, in way track. discussing the matter to-day anid:

A stroll along a

muddy path, "We have thought from the be- ginning that the crossing of the pockmarked with clumps of many

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About two-thirds of the pupila under the care of the Manila Rad Cross staff already have received individual health Inspection, and

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Confirmed By Sailor. .the "Remark Book" I have noted with. regret a will- ingness to accept a recent unwar-Richard Francis Roberts, whom ranted refutation of the last signal Captain Hardy of the Victory pru made by Nelson at Trafalgar, 1.0., moted from A.B. to Midshipman man two days before, the Battle of Tra- England expects that every

falgar, we find under date of that will do his duty.”

In an age when no tradition ap.battle "At 11.00 dinner and groged after by the Red Cross this year.

Victory telegraphs general signal pears sacred, I believe the folow-England expects that every man Ing facts to be not without their will do his duty." interest, for such a message as con- In this connection it is intercsit the hoped that the remaining tained in the signal in all of its

Orion gives the code numbers for end of October. stitution, and as such, similar to an this same messago, and the log of

A series of health clubs have been cess and therefore we have Scattered along the twisting river unwritten constitution, the heritage Nalad, which repeated the signal, organised in the schools and health garded it as belonging to the realm

of all mankind.

also ангеев, both being with talks and health drilla include a of sports. We realise that the first banks are the crazy 'altap' cottages,

Southey's Account,

Euryalus verbatim with Admiral part of the weekly programme of successful flights wonderfully The geography changes every year

While Southey's "Life of Nel Pascs. The phrase "Telegraph the students. According to reports stimulated aviation and caught the imagination of the world, but later as the river bites into the bank or flights, even have they succeeded, a tumble down house is replaced son," 1833, is merely an enlarge- Signal," being in use some thirty made by the Red Cross nurses, the a great deal of enthusiasm for the could not have added to this en-and, maybe, last year's buffalo wal- ment of an article in "The Quar-years previous to the invention of pupils all over the city have shown terrly Review" of February, 1810, the electric telegraph, naturally rehealth educational work and are nursery for young and has little value, save its liter-ters to sending messages at a dis- exceptionally responsive. The recent failures not only are padi. It is well worth exploring,

The number of staff nurses con- deeply regrettable from the view-especially just now,during the padiary style, still it briefly describes tance.

Personal witnesses cannot be re- ducting the work total, six, and, in work at the point of the brave lives lost but acusen's activities which bring all the events leading up to the famous also because they have scared many the women on to the scene-trans-sigual and has been repeatedly quot futed where so any agree, and to addition to their

their number should be added schools, they have, for the past people and undermined faith in aviation. A trans-ocean service of planting the young, blades in tufts

"Nelson, certain of a triumphant William Beatty, M.D., aurgeon to year, visited an average of 1,000 the future can be contemplated only from the nursery beds. I watched

mere child, en issue to the day, asked Blackwood the Victory in the Battle of Tra- homes, given 3,000 treatments and made 600 corrections of physcal if carried on by planes fit to land for some time a

by the rapidity and what he should consider, as a vic-falgar, who writes in his "Authen- defects monthly; a record that the on water and currying radio equip tranced ment.

rhythm of her movements as she tory. That officer answered, that, tic Narrative of the Death of Lord local chapter of the Red Cross just- Major George Von Tschudi, presi- deftly inserted the young, shoots considering the handsome way in Nelson," 1807, "About half an hourly considers amazing.

December of this year will be de- was offered by the before the enemy opened their fire, dent of the German Aero club and with her left hand after dibbling which battle representative of the international a hole in the mud with a sharp enemy. their apparent determina- the memorable telegraph signal voted purely to educational talks in weronautical federation, said:

She stood nearby, tion for a fair trial of strength, and was made, England expects that the schools outside of the regular home visitations, inasmuch as the; Trans-ocean flying, not only with land machines but even with sea. knee-deep in water, swaying in the situation of the land, he thought every man will do his duty, which individual school inspection will be January, planes, is still extremely hazardous. Waltz time and back again carry-it would be a glorious result if was spread and received through- Anished this month.

February and March, of 1928, will In the case of land planes, the ven- ing on her back a big emerald green fourteen were captured. He repli-out the fleet with enthusiasm."

ed: 'I shall not be satisfied with less

be devoted to Immunization work. ture borders on frivality. So long bundle of juicy padi roots.

In 1908 the question of what was A few weeks ago the entire! Chance alone did not bring than twenty. Soon afterwards he as motors are not absolutely perfect it is tempting fate to venture out! Sombre brown houses, shaded by asked him if he did not think there the real wording of Nelson's last Manila staff of the American Red Norma Shearer, one of the stars

requested by the bamboo and coconut palme stand over the ocean.

Was a signal wanting. Captain signal was again raised, an inves- Cross was sea-out dark against a shimmering Blackwood made "What is even; the best of

answer that he tigation followed and in October of X.1.C.A. authorities to assist phy-screen, her debut in films being due her own per- planes when forced to descend on foreground of wet padi-streaked thought the whole fleet seemed very that year there was printed for his alcians in examining the students in great measure

of their organisation. The

sistent efforts. Miss Shearer's a heavy sea: our senplane competi- with orange, red and emerald-it clearly to understand what they Majesty's Stationery Office "Nel Cross responded and about 300

parents were wealthy residents of tlon lust year showed how imposai-also reflects the blue sky in the were about. These words were son's Signals. For Official Use," pupils were examined. ble it is for seaplanes to rise again shallow waters. Beyond all this scarcely spoken before that signal written by W. G. Perrin.

This On the request of the Philippine! Montreal, but owing to an unfor- once they alight on rough waves. feast of colour lie the foothill of was made which will be remember-booklet is conclusive. It not only Health Service, four Red Cross tunate turn of events, most of the family fortune was lost in a buai- lot or else they wouldn't be fliers." ethereal greys and mauves, which led as long as the language or even gives the history of signals but ex- nurses, in addition to their

Miss Shearer did not consider Prof. Emit Everling, aviation ex-intensify into deep blue as the the memory of England shall en-plains the methods in use, at the pert for the ministry of transporta- morning creeps on.

The signals durn-Nelson's last signal: "Eng-time of Trafalgar.

on vacation, by holding weekly working a disgrace and at once set the pictures. tion, had this to say on the sub-] Fluffy clouds, now obscure, now land expects every man to do his were made in numeral code from clinics in some of the public schools about getting into ject:-

Accordingly she went to New York the 'Signal under the health service care. reveal Kinabalu's cobalt peaks duty? It was received throughout the vocabulary of "We are most anxious to have

One of the most noteworthy fen- to find a post. There she met Louis the public differentiate between the which, like King Charles Head, the fleet with a shout of answer Booka" then about six years in air service and air records of a must creep into every Borean desing acclamation, made sublime by use, and "confiden," which Admiral tures of the Manila Health service Mayer on one of his tripa to that UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS sportive nature. Non-stop transcription. So dominant a mountain the spirit which it breathed, and Nelson first used, not being in the furnished by the Red Cross is the city, and he was immediately im- ocean flights belong to the latter that it is visible, so some American the feeling which it expressed. book, and "expects," being the manner in which the parents, teach- pressed by her beauty, a type that

ers, Philippine Health Service phy- was new to the screen. from there assured ua, 'Now,' said Lord Nelson, I can do nearest synonym, the latter

sicians and nurses, and students. Miss Shearer brings to the screen rainistry's duty to forbid them, as from Kagayan Sula, one of the is no more. We must trust to therefore used and could be signal- have co-operated.

more than beauty, however, for be human progress must not be hind-lands of the Philippine group.

great Disposer of all events, and ed in one hoist, while "confides" re- The work done by the health ser-sides being an actress of ability, ered by police orders, but we close- ly examine the personality of the Finally I settled down to paint the justice of our cause. I thank quired eleven flags in eight hoists. vice in subsidized by the insular she possesses "quality," a thing My library of Nelsonia contains government while all the expenses that many actresses strive for all but seldom attain. crew and the excellence of the mate- under the shade of a mango tree God for this great opportunity of rial before giving permission to but had hardly opened my paint doing my duty.”

many other evidences verifying the of the Red Cross are paid from the their lives statement that the actual signal funds of that organisation, raised Among the pictures in which Miss start,

box before I found I had selected, Noted In Warship's Logs.

annually by an organised Roll Cail. Shearer has been seen in Hong "Our ministry, as such, is inter- spot beloved of fire ants which

It is well, however, to quote the made on the day of Trafalgar was, The Roll Call this year begins on Kong are "The Snob." "A Slave of ested in the development of

Who Gets gular trans-ocean communication, swarmed over me and It was ten greatest Nelson authority of our "England expects that every man November 1 and lasts until Nov- Fashion" and "He

ember 30. "Manila Times."

Slapped." For this we believe several atopa minutes before I'd pinched off the day relative to the signal, for John will do his duty."

"But then, fliers are a dare-devit

wooden peg.

We do not feel it the visitors

re-

the

en route are essential. We also be last straggler and moved my pitch. Knox Laughton in his "Nelson' Let- lieve that trans-ocean punes should Their formic acid injections may ters and Despatches," 1886, writes: have several motors and should be be very salutary, but It is a palu- "The exact wording of the cole- and able to ride the waves."'

ful waste of time to seek them out brated telegraph has often been and remove them.

WAR TIME FACTORIES.

SCRAPPING CONSIDERED BY SPAIN.

WAN

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warmly and angrily discussed. It Tethered in a mud patel near by is not a question for discussion at a young buffalo plaintively all, but one of simple evidence. mewing-(no, not a printer's error, The Naiad and Euryalus, the for buffaloes do not moo as one peating frigates, noted it in their might suppose but mew like over-log, and that they repeated it. Other ships also noted it. The grawn kittens).

Orion noted the code numbers.

Now comes À swish of sodden There is thus no possible doubt Madrid, Oct. 14. skirts along the path and I look up about the matter. The words were! Possibility of a reorganisation of to see a troop of women returning England expects that overy man Spanish war factories was admit from the fields wet to the waist, will do his duty. Many inaccur ted to a "United Press" correspon and tralling their mud-soakedate versions were, of course, quoted dent to-day by the Duke of Tetuan, "sarongs' after a long morning's from memory by the several officers Minister of War, while declaring planting of young padi. As a con- of the fleet, and these have been that it is still premature to talk of traat to these bedraggled creatures repeated till people have begun to transformation of war material there saunters along presently the doubt whether they are not the factories into manufactories of au-tallest Duaun girl I have yet seen, real thing. The most extraordin- tomobiles, typewritera and other though some of them are a goodary, and in a way the best authen- peace-time articles.

height and carry themselves well ticated of all these is the inserip- "The Morocco campaign is This girl was very graceful and tion on a ring which belonged to finished," said the Duke, "and of well made. She wore a new black Collingwood and was presumably course our orders for war materials velvet skirt, long enough to be rais engraved by his order. It reads: will diminish considerably, but the ed coquettishly with one hand England expects everything; men, Spanish main factories will con- whilst the other grasped a red shot-do your duty. Whether this ver tinue activities within their own silk parasol. A heavy silver girdlesion is Collingwood's or not, it is and button knobs of silver decorat- very certainly not Nelson's; it is

Belds."

He did not deny the possibilityed her little Eton coat disclosing a not the signal which was made at of some sections of present war snowy chemisette. Her well olled Trafalgar." factories altering their shops of hair, sleekly drawn to a high knob An error, not unlike Colling. manufacture of peace articles, but on the top of her head was skewer wood's, was also made by Captain said that "the factories will noted with aliver daggers. Indeed she Blackwood, who writes to his wife lone their military characteristica." was a comely wench.

that the signal was, "England ex-

It is known from other sources There was much coming and go-pects every officer and man to do, that the last order of arms from ing on the path near where I sat his utmost." Paraguay, and other expected and much to interest one. Fisher

.

signal,

The log of the Naiad reads that' orders from South America induc-folk in painted red and green hats the "General-Telegraph" od Spain to continue a fairly full were bringing home fresh caught "England expects that every maz production of war materials, but fish of many kinds and colours, will do his duty," was made by the many anticipate that once she has their silver scales glistening in the Victory at 11.85 a.m. and adds covered internal needs and has sun.

under "Remarks," "Repeated by created a surplus for export ship Chinese tramped stationwards the Nalad immediately,” while the ments, part of the present fac with baskets of fruits, purple log of the Euryalus reads; "At tories will be refitted to produce potatoes and musters of live poul- 11.56 repeated Lord Nelson's tele- peace articles with a view to cut-try and three little Chinese sisters graph message, England experts ting down imports from abroad. staggered along with large flat that every man will do his duty.” News from Seville confirms the bankets filled with a water word for The difference in time may be ac foregoing. Unemployment

pig food. One of my audience was counted for by the fact of the Seville factories induced the autho Dusun, boy, clasping a bunch of signal being repeated from ship to ritics to make proposals which were sulphur-yellow flowers, crystallised ship. However, Admiral Paste, well received in Madrid, with the with dow-It is unusual to see a then Nelson's Flag Lieutenant, result that new machines have ar- native pick or cherish a flower, thus relates the manner of the rived and old machines have been unless it is heavily scented, which signal being executed: altered for "newproduction."-this was not. With the discretion "His Lordship came to me on the gained from former experience: I poop, and after ordering certain had placed my back to a tree with Bignals to be made, about a quar my feet sloping down to a broad ter to noon, he said, "Mr. Pasco, I ditch to avoid the usual crowd wish to say to the fleet, England FOR STIFF, SORE MUSCLES, THY which loves to press round. Forty conndes that every man will do his CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM - or so (and I counted one day's bag) duty, and he added, You must be Bruises and strains, stin, swollen, unwashed Dusuns of all ages do not quick, for I have one more to Joints of hands, feet or other, party of allow for much ventilation though, make, which

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