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-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27,--1927.

FAMINE RELIEF.

A MILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN.

NORTHERN DISTRESS.

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In the "Sunday Herald" Charity Cup match to-day?

The French Consulate garden was

A million dollar campaign is be- the scene of one of the most im-ing organised by the China Inter- pressive ceremoniea ever witnessed national Famine Relief Commission A Scottish merchant at the close here when on December 19, M. for the relief of famine in Shan- of his financial year called his staf Fernand Roy, Consul of France, tung and Chihli, according to an- together. and Senior Consul of Amoy, was nouncement made public by the "Well, men," he said, "we've awarded the Cross of the Legion of Famine

the had a splendid year, and I'm going Honour at the hands of Admiral strength of the latest reports, it is to divide £100 between you. I've J. Stotz, Commander of the French estimated that in the seventy haien written out three cheques, one for Naval Forces in the Far East. affected by this year's drought and Mr. McGregor for £40, one for Mr.

It was high noon when the locust visitations, there are at least Grant for £35, and one for Mr.. Kulangau Police Corps, under the four million people (an earlier re- Gordon for £25. I congratulate you NETS direction of Captain-Superintendent port put this figure at nine million) all for the way you have worked

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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1927.

MOTOR NOISES.

G. R. Bass, appeared on the Parade who suffer and look for assistance, and if you do as well during the grounds leading a contingent of Hundreds of thousands wander next twelve months I'll sign the Marines from H.R.M. 8.a. "Somme about the countryside in seek for cheques." and the French Battleship, 8.8.food and livelihood. Already 25,000 "Julea Michelet," lead by a military have arrived at Tainan. Local offi- band from the latter. In addition cials there have established four wonderful ear for music. I am there was a large crowd of foreign oup-kitchens which distribute food sure he will become a great con- and Chinese friends present to wit-to these people. The Shantung ductor.

Proud Mother: My boy has, a

nees the popular Consul receive the Committee of the Famine Com- Bored Guest: Really? 'Bus or highest honour of his country. mission is distributing emergency tram?

The Marine Companies and the relief in 19 worst haien and more Police Corps formed a Guard of funds are urgently needed, hence Honour around Monsieur Rey, who the campaign. was accompanied by group of

nine French Naval Officers, all of

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Two men renowned for their laziness, were shuffling along in timber yard. The foreman stopped them, and asked them where they

"Just taking this plank up to the mill."

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whom were members of the Na- ELONGATED WOMEN. were going. tional Order of the Legion of Honour. Admiral K. K. Lin, the local Consular Body, and various high Chinese Officials were also pre- sent. After the ceremony the off- Mr. Bernard MacFadden, the

U.S. EXPERT ON VIVACITY WITHOUT VITALITY.

"Plank," said the foreman. don't see any plank."

They both glanced down at their

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Mistress: What is baby crying so much for?

cers and the local residents assembl- father of the physical culture move, hands, then over their shoulders ed gathered at the Consular.resi- ment in the United States and and finally at each other. "Blowed dence in the form of a congratula-America's leading exponent of the if we ain't gone and forgotten the tory reception where Champagne strength-and-beauty crusado, was plank," said the spokesman.

entertained at dinner by M.P.s at was freely served.

the House of Commons on Nov. 16. Later in the afternoon Monsieur. Mr. MacFadden has not been in and Madame Roy, in honour of the Great Britain since before the war, occasion, gave a reception at their and the impression he has gathered residence for the visiting bfficers of the physical qualities of our and the foreign residents of the people seems to be far from com- Port. The band from the battle-plimentary. proach of the motor vehicle, but ship "Jules Michelet" furnished

To a "Daily Mail" reporter he said: because far too liberal use is made music, and after tea had been serv- of the ear-piercing instruments cleared for dancing and merry-mak-I saw them. last 14 years ago.

The people of Britain are not ed, the spacious reception room was nearly so good physically as when

Services In Yunnan,

can account for it only by the fact, that they have not yet recovered from the depressing influence of the

Maid: Master's shirt studs, Mum. Mistress: Why don't you let the little darling have them.

Maid: I did, Mum, and he's swallowed 'em!

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"George!" she screamed. neck!"

"What's the matter?" "There's a pillacatter" "A what?"

"A tapplekiller_"*

My

"What in the world do you

mean?!?

employed for that purpose. The ing. screech of the mechanical horn, compared with which the bulb

A membership in the illustrious war. horn is but a gentle admonition, Order of the Legion of Honour has If there was one distinctive attri- threatens to make life in our been awarded M. Roy in recogni-bute of British men and women in great cities unendurable. It tion of his particularly distinguish. pre-war years it was their liveliness

"Oh, dear," she moaned, as she ed services in Yunnan in 1922. At and quickness of demeanour, and clutched him frantically. "A kit might be urged that something this time he was still a Vice Con- glaringly missing.

deportment, but this is Dow terpaller! You know, George! A strident is required to soar above sul.

The defect is Circumstances necessitated noticeable both in your men and patter-killer!" the normal din of traffic in busy calling away his senior and superior women, but the boys and girls I

"Oht!" sald George, with evident thoroughfares, but the trouble is Officials, thus leaving M. Roy alone have seen are better all round. relief, and he proceeded to brush aggravated by making the maxi-situation.

to deal with an exceedingly difficult British womanhood, at the cost the future butterfly away.

The arduous task of of appearance and health, is deve- mum of noise in circumstances overcoming the difficulties before loping the tall, thin, elongated Teacher (during, geometry leg where it is wholly uncalled for.him were firmly met. The tact and species. They have become more son): "What is a polygon?"

Besides the mechanical horn diplomacy displayed in arriving at vivacious, but their vivacity is

forced

Tommy (sleepily): "Please Miss, and unnatural. They a dead parrot, misa." there are other contributors to problems soon attracted the atten-Possess vivacity without vitality, the hideous cacophony which is tion of his home Government. So putting unnecessary strain upon outstanding and conspicuous

the excellence of his work that he the nervous system of people who has been given this elevated rank MAN UNABLE TO GIVE ALARM cannot escape from it. The noisy and honour, exhaust, especially of the motor

solutions of difficult and perplexing

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FIRE DILEMMA.

BECAUSE OF CHILDREN.

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Kind Old Man: Why don't 'you want a wireless set?

broadcasting homework.

Tommy: I'm afraid they'll start

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Landlady: On the bed.

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For twenty-three years M. Roy

Prospective Lodger: But 1 cycle, ought to be suppressed, and has been in the service of the So real was the danger to which thought you advertised bed-

French Government. He came to hundreds of children were exposed sitting-room? xs mechanical silencers can be China in 1911, and immediately when a fire broke out at the back used for this purpose there is no joined the Consular Service of Street-"Petticoat-lane" Aldgate, the bed, but where is the sitting-

Landlady: Well, this is it. of a butcher's shop in Middlesex Prospective Lodger: Yes, I see apparent reason why it should France in Shanghai. Here he was London E., on Nov. 16, that the room? add its quota to disturbances that located for nine consecutive years, man who discovered the outbreak after which he was transferred to had to remain on the spot without In the local Magistracy the are preventable

The heavy Yunnan. There he served as Vice giving the alarm until he could find other day many interesting

motor lorry is an offender, too, Consul for three years. His next someone else to call the fire

Bill: Say, Jack, did you read things were said regarding motor-

but one that has some claim upon move was to Chungking where he brigade.

about that Scotsman who left his ing noises. Some were more in- toleration, for we would fare il gul. In December of the same year occupied by Messrs. E. Barnett and

remained until 1925, as Acting Con- The fire broke out in premisa change on the.counter?

Jack: No, Bill. teresting than their significance

if there was no need for its ser-M. Roy came to Amoy and reoper- Co., Ltd., butchers,

Bill: And you never will either, was legal. However, matters of vices. Yet it may be hoped that ed the Consulate which had been W. G. Morse, a corporation work-old son.

man employed at buildings over- a. similar nature, we observe, are the time will soon come when the closed during the War. In January looking the back of the butcher's f being discussed at home, the advantages of motor traction for Amoy, and since that time he has porter:

1927, he became Senior Consul in shop, said to a "Daily Tall" re-

Smart Lad: Father, do school notification of the Home Secre- merchandise will not be diminish-continued to distinguish himself as

tenchers get paid wages? Almost a second after I saw Father: Why, of course they do, tary, Sir Joynson-Hicks to the ed though it advertises itself less an able diplomat in maintaining smoke coming through the roof my boy.

conspicuously in

amicable relations between the flames burst through. the public Chinese and Foreigners in his Dis. smell the fat burning. Sparks and kids do all the work?

I could Smart Lad: Then why should we urging them to put into force the streets. Life has become so trict. In addition to regular duties boiling fat were falling all over the powers they possess against strenuous and complex that we and the extra work which devolves place.

Hundreds of children were play-

Mother: Oh, John, don't you motorists whose cars offend in should not be compelled to suffer upon M. Roy as Senior Consul, he ing in the courts of the buildings, think we'd better send for the respect of unnecessary noise avoidable irritation.

And there Spanish interests in

has also been looking after the and they rushed for front places doctor? Tommy says he feels að

his District to watch the fire. having met with wide approval. can be no doubt that noise is a since May of this year.

I had to drive them back and keep His many old friends in Shanghat them from harm until I found some, It is not as noise that we rail prolifié source of irritability. against the honking of motor

Je spolnite will no doubt remember M. Roy as one who could give the alarm.

a prominent actor in the A.D.C., of The fire brigade quickly subdued cars; it is as unnecessary noise

which Club he was for some time the outbreak, Noise, in some form or other, is inevitable; and against it we de- velop certain means of protec- tion. Against the unnecessary noise no protective, measures in- 'stinctively exist, or are develop-

Chief Constables of the country'

OFFICIALS JAILED.

Stage Manager. He was also an

active member of Cercle Sportif

Francais, Among his other acti- ROBBED DEAD WOMA

POSITION AND PENSION LOST vitles during his residence in

AFTER 35 YEARS' SERVICE.

TO RESTORE MONEY.

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bad!

Father: Oh! he's felt bad like this before and got over it.

but never on a half-holiday.

Mother (anxiously): Yes, dear,

A young married couple were well on their way to their destination when suddenly the wife jumped up

"Oh, John!" she exclaimed, "Fre Just remembered that I left the A charge of robbing a woman electric iron burning on the kitchen patient who died in a Bayswater table." nursing home was made against "Never mind, dear," replied the Edith Lucy Manning, aged 96, a husband, quietly. It won't burn nursing slater, at Marylebone Police for long. I've just remembered Court.

that I left the bath tap turned on."

Shanghai, he was an Officer in the NURSE FINED £20 & ORDERED from her seat with a start. French Volunteer Corps, and was Sentence of nine months impri-French Troops in Shanghai.-Con- during the War in command of ed, and hence its danger. No ob- sonment for embezzlement was tributed. servant person, observes one of passed at Hempstead, N.W, on the critics, needs to be reminded William Alexander Cochrane, whe that the most modern type of on Oktober 14 last was dismissed motor car is comparatively silent from the post of asperintendent of in its movement. It is precisely Hampstead Cemetery after 35 .for this reason that it is obliged years' service. to make a noise, for it must warn -The sums pedestrians of its approach. And the carelessness of the man in 28. and £8 158, belonging to Hamp-named Emmanuel Bruce was sen. Turner died Manning handed over The meating had been very dull.

A British West African native

It was stated that after Mrs. the street is no small factor instead Borough Council.

tenced to four years' imprisonment to the matron the handbag and

with which

he wae charged with, embezzling were £5

BOGUS £1 NOTES.

PRINTED IN GERMANY AND SHIPPED TO AFRICA,

She was accused of stealing two.

£5 Bank of England notes belong-

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"What did you stop that clock in ing to the trustees of the late Mrs. your room for, Jane?". Blois Turner, of Sandling, hear.

Maidstone, Kent. Manning pleaded has some sort of a it every morn

"Because, mum,the ailly thing guilty.

Hendra | tng, mum, when I wants to sleep."

adding to the babel of noises

at Nuremberg for issuing counter- It was stated that his salary was feit English bankastes. Bruce other artfeles that had belonged to The lecturer had been discussing which arise from the endeavour vestigation showed that from 1920 graver named Hayden to print for Turner Inter

£504 a year, besides a house. In-prevailed upon a Nuremberg en- the dead woman. A sister of Mrs. the prophets, and, at last, he said: of the drivers of vehicles to pre he had taken sums amounting to him 100,000 £1 notes, which he about the contents of the handbag place shall we give to Isiah??

became suspicious "And now we come to Islab, what vent accidents.

£1,409. In one case he sold a grave shipped to West Africa concealed in and the police were informed. Two A small man in the audience, rosa

On the other hand, the occasite for £500 and kept the money, mattresses and empty oil barrels. of the missing notes were traced, up and said: "Here, he can have my sion for sounding a warning is

and in another kept 40 received His relatives in West Africa put the When questioned Manning told the place, I'm going home." for the maintenance of a grave. notes into circulation, but were ar-police she got one from a gang of often needlessly increased by the Mr. Hornby, for Cochrane, zak-reated and imprisoned. resort to excessive speed on the ing the Bench to show mercy, said Bruce and Hayden were arrested card-sharpers and the other for Mrs. Dibbs: Every time I also part of the reckless driver. The that Cochrane had brought rain at Nuremberg on the complaint of some old clothing. Later she was my hand my husband gives me an problem, however, has become not only on himself but also on his who pleaded that he printed the the two £5 notes and another £20.

the British authorities.Hayden, arrested and admitted that she had awful beating wife, two daughters, and a son notes thinking, they were an adver- Mr. Bingley, the magistrate, fined intensified not because it is neo was penniless when within sight tising device, got off with one her £20 and ordered the restoration

a call the police? fe cessary to make known the ap-of a good pension. Alanah month's imprisonment.

of the stolen money

Mrs. Dabba Heavens, why don't

Mrs. Dibbs: What do they know about Bridge?