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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This erosa-word puzzle has been niade by an expert but Our readers are warned to look' ant for occasional phonetic spekings, such as harbor, plwa, and altho.)

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HORIZONTAL

2-To walk conceitedly 7-A scaport, Island of

Fayal, Azores B-One of a wandering

rate

11-To bridge 13-The path of a

heavenly body 14-A food fish 16-Broken off 17-Specimen 18-An Interna)

antiseptic 20-Soft mus 23-Sped

24-To happen

27-Tender or sorrowful

feeling

29-Dress

30-Gentle 31-Threefold

34-stop

37-8eon

88-A tatter of the

alphabet.

-40-Parts In dramas

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ÖTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 41-To go in 43-To smear 45-Ta become red 47-In this place 48-Bland 49-A date in old

Roman Calendar

50-A flower

51-Baffle

62-To let

VERTICAL

1-A wicked king of

Israel 2-Halts

3-A deposit on the

teeth 4-Harmony

$-Sum

6-An Image

8-Onset

10-Appearance

12-Feminine form of

Paul

18-A small monkey-like

animal

VERTICAL (Cont.) 19-Most indolent 20-Mean hatred 21-To Bay 22-A Christm**

decoration

24-A fur-bearing animal

25-Polita

26-Recliner

28-To observe 29-Conjunction

32-To erect

| 33-Sounds loudly, an a

trumpet

35-Mean

36-A river of France 38-To bear

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41-An artist's picture

stand

42-To pasu a rope

through a black (Naut.)

44-To plend 46-Paradise

(The solution of the above creas-word puzzle will appear in ta-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for July (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Green wich), are as follow:--

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VALUED WORK FOR THE BOY SCOUTS

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EDUCATION

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ENACTMENTS IN THE FAR EAST

́MENTION OF HONG KONG

The following is taken from theon was ample evidence of the fact The annual conference of the "Silver Wolf," the popular journal that he was continually keeping his British Commonwealth League was for Scouts and Guides:

eyes open for material likely to be opened last month at the Royal If ever any of the younger of use and interest to Scouts. Society of Arts, John-street, Adel- generation of Hong Kong residenta We were sincerely sorry that phi. Delegates came from a large have a chance of getting a really when we met to give him a farewell number of societies throughout the "old hand" to yarn about the earlier dinner and singsong, or rather Empire.

days in this Colony, we strongly "camp-fire," many of the party had Mrs. Corbett Ashby, the presi advise them to do so. Such oppor- to leave early in order to attend to dent of the League, who took the tunities are getting increasingly their duties at the Theatre, but Mr.chair, said they were determined. should have their rare, and one such opportunity was Blason's leaving message to as was that women taken from us when the "Naldera" an inspiration to all who heard it share in building up the work of bore from the Colony Mr. C. H. and made us all the more deeply the Empire and in trying to solve Blason, or more familiarly speaking, sad that inexorable Father Time the problems of a just and fair re- as he was

known to his friends, was taking him away from us. May lationship between one race and "Charles." When the yarn is en-he long enjoy his retirement in the another.

Miss Sarah Burstall, a member riched by the personal experiences Old Country, where he will for cer of one who was not afraid to ven-tain find more than enough to fill his of the Colonial Office Advisory ture, and who always remained a time in the Scout work he so loves. Committee on Education, said that the problems of education in the boy at heart, then the enjoyment of G. T. WALDEGRAYE.

Dominions and Colonies were ex- the listener is more than doubled,

tremely complicated, owing to the Pioneer Resident of Shek-O

SUICIDE changing conditions throughout the To have heard of how "Charles”

world. The problem in Africa was with a few friends managed to get HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE IN A one of the most difficult. About the late Sir Paul Chater to let them

PARIS HOTEL

90 per cent. of the education was have at a very nominal rent a

in the hands of the missionaries. bungalow in Pokfulam, then con- Robgeanski, a former lieutenant In 1923 a conference was held and sidered almost the uttermost part of in the Russian Imperial Army, a committee was formed to advise the world, a bungalow with a lusty committed suicide in a small hotel the Secretary of State. Their first tree growing through the drawing-in Paris recently by blowing him- work was to produce a White Paper room floor and out through the self up with a stick of dynamite. which was submitted to the Secre- roof, how he laid the ghost of a His suicide was due to hopeless-tary and to Parliament. That now Chinese suicide in the garden withness resulting from his changed formad their constitution and ́in it

length of magnesium tape on a fortune,

dark night, bow after a hard ay'e

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work, and within sight of home, his HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS pony was scared by the Arst motor

July 9, 1929.

car in the Colony and bolted in three "fights" (or should we write "frights") back to Kennedy Town, how he and a friend or two bought Mr. and Mrs. H. Bisbjerg, Mr.

Mr. Gordan Adair.

on of Banty.

Mr. 11. Fasson

certain lines were laid down. The first principles were co-operation between the Government and educational bodies and adaptation to native life. Religion and moral instruction were stressed, and the idea was that an African should be a good African and not a

Learnestly that oversea women should do their utmost to help ́all E.matters appertaining to women,

especially in regard to education.

Messra. WM. Gray, Gectschel, and M. F. D. Graham.

Messrs. Inglis Hosang, W. S. Hooper, and Capt. A. P. Harcourt. Messrs. H. J. Ivison and. B. J. Israel.

an old sampan and made ar adven-. Brandel, Mr. and Mrs. A. sham Briton. She urged most turoua voyage in the dir Tsun Wan, from which they return- ed with difficulty the next day badly. late for work, was enough to show that the mor of former days with far fewer conveniences made life really amusing and even exciting at¦ small cost and in a simple "family" way. Or take Charles on holiday in Australia, starting out alone on horseback to see something of the interior for himself, and forgetting that compasses work the opposite

Miss H. Lillie, Mrs. E Lund, and Mrs. M. A. Lawrence.

Mr. H. Marsden.

Mrs. Richardson.

Capt. and Mrs. C. W. Saunders, and

way down, there, finding himself Messrs. T. W. Saunders, miles away from his intended des- E. W. J. Wesson. tination in the exactly opposite

direction. It was this spirit of The war Office has received £5 adventure which made him the sent anonymously from Plymouth Pioneer resident of Shek-O, and as "conscience money." which sent him to Gilwell Park in England to recapture, as if he need- ed to do so, the spirit of boyhood. And What Not!

Free At Last From Malaria

Dr. Williams' "Pink Pills

Rescue Another Sufferer In Ceylon

relief of malaria, quinine loses Efficacious thought it is for the

Harm of Examinations Referring to the question of examinations she said that they had done enough harm in Britain. and had done terrible harm over- seas. They had tried to give the lead in altering matters in this respect. If they had to have the examinations at all, they should be soarranged as to suit the condi- tions of the places. African people | had many gifts which only want- ed cultivating, and among those was the gift of art, which, at Wem- bley, it was clearly shown that they possessed. They were very anxious to satisfy the demand for higher education in Uganda. There was already a good college for Uganda men where they could study agri- culture, medicine, and other sub- jects, but much yet remained to be done. They wanted students to have a means of higher education at home.

Miss Wrong, missionary secre- tary of the Student Christian creased educational facilities for Movement, strongly advocated in- women in Africa.

Add to this spirit of adventure great versatility, for he was artist, photographer, musician, reciter, wireless experimenter, and what not, and one of the most generous and warm hearted natures that man could desire, with moreover extreme modesty, and you have but a very faint idea of "Charles."

He joined the local branch of the its helpful value in time, and Scout Movement in 1922, in time to when taken in large doses be- Mr. G. Lathom, Director Native be of very great assistance at the is not the case with Dr. Williams' also spoke of the importance of a comes positively harmful. Such Education in Northern Rhodesia, Jamboree in 1923, having accepted Pink Pills-the tonic remedy-be-wide education of the women, but the office of Hon. Treasurer to the cause their action is never any-in whatever they did he thought Asunciation. He at once threw

thing but beneficial.

that they should proceed with the hims if into all our activities, ex-

The reason why Dr. Williams' utmost caution. · amining, instructing, advising and Pink Pills have cured great num suggesting, and when on leave in bers of malaria sufferers, as is 1924 made the most of his oppor- proved by abundant evidence, is tunities in the way of Scouting by because they rapidly purity and going through a Training Course at enrich the blood stream, and the Gilwell and immediately afterwards

cannot live in germs of malaria helping to represent Hong Kong the rich red blood they create. Scouts through the whole nine days The case of Mr. E. P. Nathianel, of the great Jamboree at Wembley of 25, Elie House Road, Mutwa), He also saw as much as possible of Colombo, is but one example out the Scouts in his home district, of the

many cures recorded as Southampton, and returned to Hong having been accomplished in this Kong, keener than ever.

Great Inspiration to Local Scouts

Shek-O immediately became al centre of Scouting, for he began to prepare sites for camps, both stand- Ing and hike, and Stoneyhurst" was more than once a haven of re- fuge to campers washed out of their tents by sudden torrential down- pours. Car No. 1603 was at times a regular camp transport, and many the errands, that and varied wers he fulfilled for scouts who had done that unscontlike thing, forgotten some necessary item of scout gear or food

Sunrise. Sunset. Those who visited his bungalow, will remember that the spare bed- room, was also his wireless room, 7:11 and that his receiving set stood near.

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Mr. E. P. Nathionel

the bathroom door. Two small In 1920. I contracted malaria

scouts once spent an evening listen states. Mr. Nathianel, and m

Miss Rugby Rich (Australian Racial Hygiene Centre) moved a resolution congratulating the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the report of the committee appointed to examine the new enactments in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay. States dealing with the protection of women and girla. It was asked that the recom- mendations of the report should be put into effect as soon as possible, and that the application of the report should be extended to Hong Kong.NA The resolution was carried.

Heavy Responsibility Mias Chave Collision, the Honorary organizer of the League, at the afternoor session, submitted a proposal recognizing that a heavy responsibility rested upon both Im- perial and local Governments for the care and welfare of races of less forward development governed under the British day. It express- ed a desire especially to refer to the responsibility In relation to the women of such races, and their |right both to education and to pre- paration for the fuller citizen life in proportion to their ability. It

Falso asserted the willingness of

5.48 7:10 ing in but also kept the eyes open, spite of all the different medicines women of the more forward raves and hours after they had some back tried I could not get the fever out to take their full share of respon- sibility under the Governoients, to their tent and were presumed to of my system. I had aches and and expressed the desire that in

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Efforts are being made in the United States to utilize the Talkies. to put down the divorce rates, Marriages have already taken place at which the vows have been made in a strong voice so that they may be clearly recorded on A sound film

The promoters of the scheme hope that married people who have quarreled will be forced to hear the reproduction of the mar riage ceremonies before being granted a decree by Court.

Humoriste are already busily an exploiting the scheme and draw ing pictures of faithless husbands the welcomed home by the sound of avi their own voices reciting the mar arr riage promises:

Chateauroux.

be asleep they presented themselves pains all over my body and was all matters of policy relating to with the request that they were often confined to bed. For two women of less forward races, w very hot and wanted a bath, could whole years I remained in this men advisers, and women members they have one? We need hardly condition.

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say that the appeal did not fall on """One.......... day, reading of Dr. should be appointed, and that deaf ears. Only a small incident; Williams Pink Pills as a cure for efforts should be made, where 7.07 but it was just that willingness to malaria, I decided to try them possible, to have the needs of the 7.07 put himself to inconvenience for Even after the first bottla some women of such races examined by

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