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son's "crusade to introduce sim. pler and saner materials into our factories," with its elegant slogan "Come Back to String," Of course, like an honest man. he admitted that his material! has, at the moment, its limita-1 tions:-

You could; he continued, pull | almost anything with string, given a sufficient quantity of it, but there had never been)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931,

PUREE DE POIS

By

BESOMORO,

found means whereby you | CLAUSTROPHOBIA. could pusti with string.

would revolutionise our homes and our industrics.

(Laughter). He averred that Do you experience nervous if any scientist found a means uneasiness in closed spaces? Ir of pushing with string he you do, then you are a victim of claustrophobia. And, if you But what are limitations for ever happen to be in France and if not to spur on the adventur- unlucky enough to find yourself ous and resourceful to their ulti-sent to prison for an offence, you mate removal? One of these

days instead of trying to split can get out of prison by being atoms and square circles the men certified as suffering from claus- of science will bend themselves trophobia, which means, in other (but not, of course, their trans- formed material) to the grand words, "being tired of prison task of pushing along with a life." This, at any rate, is the piece of string. And then, as reason given by French medical Mr. Heath Robinson rightly hint-experts for recommending the ed, all will be well on the home provisional release of M. Oustrie, front. And, oh! how much bet-the banker. It will be recalled ter to be string-pushing than that this once-prosperous finan- wire-pulling.

cler was arrested on charges con- Perhaps when Mr.

Heath nected with the introduction of Robinson has solved the string Snia Viscosa (Artificial Silk problem, or spurred others on to Co.,) on the Paris market. solve it, he will devote some of

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A CURIOUS VERDICT,

At an inquest al Leesfield, near Oldham, last month, on the Rev. Frederick Willam Charles Woollett, vicar of St. Thomas's. Leesfield, who was found gassed at the vicarage, the jury return- ed a verdict that at the time of screed of an evil spirit," and that his death the Vicar was "pos- he was of unsound mind when he died.

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THE NEXT WAR,

Mr. H. G. Wells saya that the

next war will begin with a local ised conflict and spread. "Yes, the Sino-Japanese conflict might

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be the starting point.” ONE YEAR'S SUNDAY SCHOOL.

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Two thieves, who persuaded a boy of 15 to join them in one of their expeditions, were sentenc- ed at Hamilton (Ontario) to see that the ad attends Sunday school for a year to repair pos sible damage to his moral.char- 'An advertiser in a morning lacter. This was the condition on

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his great talents to the vexed WANTED BLOOD FOR TRANS- question of "dowsing." Some FUSION. handy little mechanical device for divining the existence of pre- cious metals without any of the contemporary invites öffers, and which a sentence of one year's uncertainties that attach to hu-promises liberal reward. Curi-imprisonment, passed on the two man "dowsers" is long over-ously enough, soon after read-men-for-shopbreaking and theft, due and no one will mind howing the advertisement, I hap- was suspended.

This is a smile provoking sen- much string Mr. Robinson uses vened to come across in a for

eign publication the story of a tence even Gilbertian, if you up in constructing it. A pecu-Paris undertaker who saves lives like. liarly unsatisfactory

Nevertheless, it contains message in this manner. bearing on this subject comes

He has al- the germ of another great idea. from Lille, where various dow-ready given about 27 gallons of Have not the churches lament- Singapore newspapers, been chal-sers are reported to be looking has heen "tapped" 452 times, congregations?

Heed, in recent years, of dwindling

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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1931.

Colonial Defence.

revenue.

lenged in public print. All that the dissentients have done is to prate about the advantages gained from Great Britain, about the comparatively light taxation in the Straits as compared with Britain, and about their pride in

a

his blood to save others.

British citizenship. That, how-summer like the one recently ex-

tating - particularly after even go to the extent of "cutting dral at Sunday matins and

for a buried treasure which tra-

Well, in order dition says is worth £2,000,000. refuses to accept the usual rate to ensure "full churches," why One of the experts now declares tween 1d. and 1%1⁄2 d. per gramme magistrates, instead of "impos

of payment, which varies be- not approach Government so that that he has ascertained the cor- is not sure the deposit is gold, rected site of something, "but he of blood, but relies on the grati-ing (as reporters love to say) tude of those whose lives hea sentence of three weeks' hard, and thinks it may be another saves. Some people have been may "flict" (also another fa- generous, he says, but others vourite with reporters) "xx metal, or even water."

Could anything be more irri- give him no word of thanks and months' attendance at the Cathe- him dead" in the street. When evensong." Those indicted of ever, is to lose sight of the prin-perienced? Fancy hiring a dow-he first began to give blood hemoter offences and found guilty ciple involved in the resolution ser and his merry men to locate found it to be an amusing ex-might be given a year's attend- and dig up a gold-mine, only to erience, but now his veins are ance at "The Litany." Magis of protest. It is a principle that ace the operators come climbing getting tired and every trans- trates, of course, would be ex- must ever be the guiding factor out of a most expensive hole fusion hurts. He professes to be pected, at the same time, to in all relations between the with the bland assurance, "Well, amply satisfied by the mere joy specify the amount to be placed in the collection as a matter of fact, sir, it doesn't of seeing life re-born in a still each Sunday governors and the governed not

form.

bag or plate. seem to be gold, after all but alone in the Straits Settlements anyway we've found you a lovely but in Hong Kong and every pool of perfectly wet water."Kowloon Godowns No, 3 wharf, a been left open.

Whilst climbing up a rope at the room, the back door of which had other Crown Colony at the mercy

Manchester Guardian,

coolle, Cheung Chan, accidentally of benevolent autocracies and

fell and injured his back. He was red-tape officialdom in Downing Street. That principle lies in not seeking to make capital out) of the loyalty and generosity of any Colony, not to make undue

and therefore unfair

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Compulsory Appendix Removals,

Will the removal of appendices sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital, in childhood become compulsory?

The Annual General Meeting of The suggestion sounds grue-| some, but probably not more so subscribing members of the Helena than the first suggestion of vac- May Institute will be held in the Institute on Thursday, December cination to our grandfathers.

Personal Par.

Mr. Francisco Xavier Place da Silva died at his residence, 4, Ob- servatory Villas, Kowloon, yester- day afternoon, at the age of 85

years.

He joined the Government

A mass meeting in Singapore, fully representative of all sec- tions of the community, has voiced a strong protest against the Defence Contribution Bill, there being only a dozen diasen- tients. This is not exactly a revival of the hoary annual in all Crown Colonies in regard to the payment from the Colonial Treasury of 20 per cent, of the What is aimed at is the imposition on the Straits Settlements of a levy of a fixed sum of $5,000,000 for five years, An offer to contribute such a huge sum, be the five years lean or prosperous, had been put into the mouths of the Unofficial members of the Legislative Coun- cil. by Sir Hugh Clifford. The Unofficials have repudiated this in no uncertain manner; but, unfortunately for the Straits, Sir Cecil Clementi is seeking, to commit the Colony to the annual

the trustee of the governed, it convincing only when the sur- rayment of $5,000,000 for five

will wash out the proposed 'ob-geons can tell us what the death-

An opportunity has occurred to years under the impression that

Chun Yung (stated to be unem- send mails to Europe via Brindisi noxious Bill and leave it to the rate will be among the children ployed), of 531 Canton Road, aud- this week-ond by the steamer "His Majesty's Government has

Unofficials and the people to make for whose benefit they now pro- denly collapsed in Jordan Road yes- Gange. These malls, which will

to introduce compulsory terday. pose met the wishes of the Unofficials

a fresh offer consistent with operation-Evening Standard.

He Was taken to the he closed in the Kowloon. Post in every point." That declara-

Kwong Wah Hospital, where, on re- Office at 4.30 p.m. and in the Gen- prudence and reason. To per

Kaining consciousness, he statederal Post Office at 5 tion was firmly challenged at

p.m. on petuate even inadvertent mis-

that he suffered from heart trouble. Saturday are due in Brindisi on the mass meeting. The chief

apprehensions in the form of a

December 21 and should reach speaker emphasised that Sir Hugh Clifford did not propose a fixed sum of $5,000,000. The Un- official members of the Legisla

At any rate, it has just been 3, at 11 am. After the meeting put forward as a serious propos-there will be an auction of 1992 tions during a period of depres-al at the clinical congress of sur-magazines. Advt. sion, not to cover up obvious geons at present sitting in New! errors and innocent misunder-York. standings in old negotiations. If the Government of the Straits is honest to itself and if it is desirous of fulfilling its role as

Audit Office, going to the Treasury on January 1, 1883; as a clerk in the

in July, 1890. He became a clerk. in the Money Order Office the fol- Mlas Luba Pecker will give a loving month, and entered the Im The advocates of compulsion Planoforte. Recital at the Helena ports and Exports Office in 1902. sought to strengthen their case May Institute on Thursday, De-He retired on pension in November, by statistics. In the United cember 3, at 5.30 p.m. Music 1923. States alone 25,000 people died from Chopin and Liszt. Members wishing to reserva tables for ten from appendicitis in 1925.

This argument can become please ring Matron 22160.-Advt.

News in Brief.

HOME MAILS.

London early on December 24.

To-day's Thought.

Use

Two different persons. can

and yet entirely different

Bill, particularly after these A Yaumati tailor was acquitted

A gambling debt is stated to have have been lucidly explained at a of a charge of arson by Mr. Fraser been the cause of a fight, between two Chinese in Reclamation Street public meeting, would have the yesterday afternoon.

yesterday, resulting in both, Cheung regrettable effect of alienating

The management of the Hong Kwai (31), and Chui Tak (34), tive Council did not propose the sympathies and support of Kong Hotel will serve a special St. being sent to the Kowloon Hospital, exactly the same words fixed sum of $5,000,000. They the people with the administra Andrew's Dinner on Friday. suffering from Injuries to their convey two proposed a sum of $3,600,000 for tion in its unenviable task of trý-

heads.

meanings. local defence, and, subject to ing to solve the riddle of the certain principles being recog-sands propounded by the day nised, they expressed their will-dreamers of the Colonial Office. ingness to contribute a larger aum which Sir Hugh Clifford personally thought might be fix-

led at $1,400,000. No person has;

num.

From Other Pens.

with a condensed calendar for 1935,

A handy little calendar for 1982,

The case in which two youths, has been issued by the American In- Chung, King-man and Li Fat, are aurance Company, Newark, NJ., charged with armed robbery at for whom Messrs. J. M. da Rocha No. 7 Kak Hang Village, Kowloon and. Co,, are local agents.

City, on October 16, was concluded before Mr. Fraser yesterday, after- The Rey. E. C. H. Tribbeck, the noon. Accused were committed to new Wesleyan padre, Was the the next Assizes. speaker at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club, yesterday, when he

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mai!" of November 25, 1921.)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%

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A partnership action which is Hikely to last for several days wae begun in the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice (Sir William

ever had any authbrity on be-Strong Line on String,

A Chinese merchant, residing at half of the Colony or the Un- That seems to have been a talked on the subject of unemploy 769 Nathan Road, alleges in re Rees Davies) yesterday afternoon. official members of the Legiala- very beautiful speech which ment at Home, in the course of port to the Police that his servant tive Council to propose a fixed, Mr. Heath Robinson delivered which he dealt with the manner in woman, aged 88 yeare, absconded The plaintiffs are Getz Bros., of payment of $5,000,000 per an-Club. There in moral grandeur as ed the

to the Manchester Luncheon which machinery had reduce from the house on November 8, and the Orient Ltd., who are seeking to required number of that he has since discovered that show that Lam Kal-pang was a well as mere humour in a man workers. Не Riso spoke of she had taken with her money and partner in the firm, of Tong Lluy & This comprehensive denial who can take his hearers right the mental agony Buffered by Jewellery to the value of over $1,000. Co., against whom they obtained

out of the sordid (or sanctimoni- those who wanted work but could

judgment by default recently, for was not put to the acid test by ous) atmosphere of general elec- not find any. The dole, he said, The theft of clothing and Jewellbreach of "contract involving $85,- any of the dozen persons in the tion and away up into the Pla- when it was purely insurance, the ery to the total value of 3375; also 000 damages. crowded hall

who opposed the tonic regions where string be unemployed felt no shame in tak-13 go in sterling, has been report

Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed resolution of protest. It has comes an enblem of the higher ing, but now no one was more ed to the Police by Mr. Hutchings, by: Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) life and fuller efficiency. Would aware that it was borrowed money residing at 21, Fung Fal Torráce, was for the plaintiff, and Messrs. not, so far as we have been able that the FB.I would pay a little which he would never be able to Happy Valley. He states that the F. C. Jenkin and Eldon Potter (in- to see from a perusal of the more heed to Mr. Heath Rohin-'repay,

property was stolen from his bed-structed by Messra Lo & Lo) for

the defendant..A..