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ter... In spite of the fluctuations of Ministries so common to France, he held high office oftener, than any other French statesman. He sustained his fervour and his bril- liance to the last, over devoting himself in the years since the Allles' victory to the cause of per manent peace throughout world. Francs and the rest of Europa will greatly miss his spare figure with rather bowed shoulders, his noble Load, his mobila

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MARCH 8, 1932.

PAINTING

PETER

AND HOW A TRUANT GOT OUT OF

A SCRAPE.

By W. V. N.

The evening, sun was falling be.

I pointed him out and pushed lips, and his dark eyes that on oehind the low hills and lighting up back the canvas a little to enable casion Bashed with Celtic fire, the slow-moying river with shimmer-him to get the full effect. Hẻ Above all will be missed his in-ing shaft of red and gold.

screwed up his eyes and whistled. . This "You've missed out the jam jar," exorable stand for all that he was just the moment I had been he said. held to be right and pure and un-waiting for, and there was only a

I explained that detail had to be Ballied.

short time left to enjoy. Soon the sacrificed in a picture such as this; night clouds would come to subdue it was the whole that mattered. the sunset tints, and the river No composite part of the picture would become a ribbon. of liquid mattered in itself, I told him, but

News in Brief.

established.

Normal working of cables with grey between darkening fields. Ione was able by a few deft strokes Shanghai and beyond has been re-vas and coloured it lightly: the hills

had sketched the scene on the can to produce an effect,

"I don't Bike it, anyway,". Peter were there, smoky and neutral, { said. "That could be me or Tom The lowest open air temperature waiting for the sunset glow; the Duckworth or anybody. What's stone bridge and the willows and the use of me being on the bridge the river itself were all awaiting for you if you can't tell it's' me?". the livening colours that I hoped to give them. Seriously I set to work

yesterday was 63 degrees. The humidity was 67 at 10 a.m. and 77 | at 4 pm.

Lost in the poetry of sunset one

He seemed disappointed, and as I have long ago learned not to argue at length with Peter, I packed up my canvas and easel without con tributing anything more to the dis- cussion. He emptied his jam jar knock my stool over as he passed of water and walked through to

Mr. Hansbeck, chief officer of oak and birch trees and the liquid and it weat tumbling down the the German 85 Bremerhoven, was sound of the river there was no dis- short bank on to the path.

Once sent to hospital yesterday, suffering turbing noise. a courting poetry of sunseta, the marvel of from bodily Injuries received couple passed, but they did not colours, the images of dryads and through a fall in a nullah near the heed me. I began to wish that a fauns seemed to have vanished com- Blind Home at Pokfulam.

dryad would come out from the plately. I felt a dull anger at wood on the left and dance across Peter.

The total output of the Kallan with washed brushes. Mining Administration'a mines for the week ended Rebruary 20 can imagine all manner of things, amounted to 24,382 metric tons,

and vague wishes seem to suggest and the sales to 63,518 metric tone. rustle that evening breezes make in themselves. Except for the low

A lecture on "The Beauties of the path, or that nymph would Japan" will be delivered by Mr. pause along the river bank to in D. O. de Silva, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A., spire my work. The picture need- any practical compromise with the at the Union Church Hall, Kowloon, ed a figure. The silhouette of.

this evening at 8.45 o'clock. Ad nymph or a faun leaning against the INGLIS.-At the French Hospital, Radicals, whereas Briand believed mission is free. The lecture will birch tree near, the bridge; that Causeway Bay, at 3.30 am. on that they should be supported in ba illustrated by 150 beautiful would just finish it off. But figures March 8, 1982, after opera- measures of reform. His expul-coloured, lantern, alldes......

were not my line; I was a landscape artist: tion, Alexander C. Inglission from the Socialist ranks, Funeral at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, which then contained his most March 8.

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Mar. 8, 1992.

bitter opponents, instead of ham pering his career, enabled him to progress with greater freedom.

A WEEK'S DISEASES. Five Diphtheria Cases Notified.

SIX SMALL-POX CASES.

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"You're a blinking nuisance," I said, "and I don't know why, your mother lets you out in the evening. I wish I hadn't asked you to pose for me now...!

"It wouldn't have made

difference," said Peter.

have looked the same."

any. "I'd still

I walked behind him on the home- Then came a whistle from the ward path, marvelling at the pre- bridge. Even a little boy with cocity of youth and feeling uneasy trousers can look moderately ra Peter always kept a few yards mouse-coloured hair. and short about my amateur artistic efforts.

mantic from a distance.

"Stand where you are, Peter!" I called.

"What for?" he yelled, his untidy the sun behind it.

Don't argue, and do as you're

Peter hung over. the bridge and

ahead, still carrying his jam jar and splashing in every puddle ho could find. When we came to a stile he left as much mud and clay on the wood as he could,, amearing the handrail as if on purpose.

"Pull your stockings up," I call- ed after him. "You look as if you've come out of a freak show.”

1 spit into the river. I could just- He turned round eagerly. "I wish I had," he said. "Have you ever seen a man who could swallow awords? I have."

His first Ministry in 1909 Was chiefly memorable for his courage-m ous handling of the great railway The official retura of diseases hair looking soft and golden with "A Tenacious Breton." strike, when

and deaths during the week ended by the simple March 5 is as follows expedient of calling up the rail-

Cases Deaths told." France to-day mourns the pass-waymen, as reservists, to the Diphtheria ing of a great statesman in M. colours, and then placing them on

Typhoid fever Aristide Brland; Great Britain duty on the lines, he saved France Cerebro-spinal: fever....

Smallpox laments the loss of a brilliant from an economic disaster which Paratyphoid fever... friend and ally; and the League cannot be gauged. The industrial Scarlet fever of Nations is deprived of one of life of the country was paralys

Tuberculosis Its staunchest supporters. Since

One case of diphtheria was ed; for a week no trains had fun; ported. 1902, when he first entered the had not Briand thus released those

Summary to March 5. Chamber of Deputies, the political

The approximate returns from I could not quite make out his history of France has been inter-rorism of their leaders, the for- following figures:

men willing to work from the ter- January to March 6 give the reply, but it certainly was not woven with the

flattering. Peter and I used to midable conspiracy might have Briand.

Cases Deaths go on painting expeditions until I nearly ruined France,

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had.

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8 discern that be had his, dirty green jersey on under his school jacket. He leaned dangerously, over the low 1stons parapet and swung a jom jar 59 which was suspended by a place of Im-string.

"Keep still for a second," I called. "I'm painting you."

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1 discouraged the conversation. “A man once drew me at a fair,” he said, "and it looked like me" It was his Parthian ahot, --I let him see that I had nothing more to say,

Peter's mother was waiting for him at the garden gate with an angry expression on her face..

"Serves you folly well right," I ⠀ thought, and I looked gloatingly at his clay-stained boots, his torn jacket, and his muddy hands. "You'll get it hot for making such a sight of yourself."

I've

He was by descent a bourgeols

This very decided change from Typhoid fever...... 22 and 1 Breton- "tenacious

his opinions of ten years before, Cerebrospinal fever Breton" he called himself; and he

A bent stroke of blue to the can when he had been an avowed Syn- Puerperal fever possessed in a high degree the

vas and a hazy fringe of orange, and dicalist. advocating the general Scarlet fever

there was Peter leaning over the ready, and persuasive eloquence of

strike as a justifiable weapon of Tuberculosia.....

Paratyphoid fever

bbidge-a little too graceful for Peter grinned sheepishly at his the Celt Although a barrister,

500 Peter, perhaps, but nevertheless a mother, and said "Hello, ma, the proletariat, naturally provoked politics and political journalism the utmost fury of the Socialiata.

figure to complete the landscape.Ilust been having a painting lesson.” B. & F. B. SOCIETY. but that brief moment of self-ap-excuss. Good luck to him; I hoped leaned back on my stool admiringly, So that was going to be his absorbed all his energies. He His old colleague, the redoubtable early identified himself with the Jaures, accused him in the Cham- Highly Successful Year shrill volce shouting "Coming!" as Peter had been able to get hold of preciation was rudely broken by a he would get away with it. If most extreme Socialist thinkers, ber contributed to an anarchist paper, with a dramatic but effective ges of betraying the workers.

Reported.

if we were playing a game of hide- paint he would have smeared his Land-Beek.

face with it. But he was a blithe defended strikers in the Courts, ture Briand held up his hands and The annual meeting of the Hong bridge and along the river path, matter if he did not appreciate art. Peter came clattering down the youngster after all, and what did it and made attacks with an acid pon exclaimed, "Look! There is no Foreign Bible Society was held kicking small stones as he ran and That's right, I found mysel Kong auxiliary of the British-and upon capitalism. Membership of blood on them.”

The strike had last night. The Rt. Rev. C. R. stooping. 10 and then to throw a saying, "He fell on the river bank the Chamber and then the respon- been crushed without bloodshed! Dappuy, Bishop of Victoria, pre-stick into the river. His boots in trying to rescue my stool." sibilities of office led to a widen- Briand was Premier from Octo-aided and paid farewell to the were grubby. The sun had almost Peter looked grateful, and his ing of opinion, a consciousness of ber, 1915, to March, 1917, the most gathering.

disappeared and dusk was rapidly mother's expression changed for the the failure of the old panaces, and, critical period of the War, when Rev. Frank Short, who spoke of a ed in a faint mist.

The report was presented by the deepening. The fields were envelop better. As I left them together, I heard Peter call after me: "It was: like Millerand, he was later detest-Falkenhayn was hammering with highly successful year, the state- I was closing my box of water- a bit like me leaning over the ed and feared by those who ad terrible onslaughts at Verdun,ment of accounts showing that a colours when Peter came scrambling bridge, really. It'll look batter in been his most ardent supportere. when the "defeatists" appalled by larger sum than last year had up the bank and stood at my side. the daylight."Manchester Guar

appalled by been forwarded to the London "Which is me?" he asked.

dian. In a remarkably short space of the dark prospect, were industri Office. time after entering the Chamber, ously working for a peace that Referring to the Bishop, the his practical ability and eloquence would have been surrender. By Be Short, who called him the "Perpetual President," declared

led to the offer of the portfolio of unfaltering confage and untiring that Dr. Doppuy had taken a keen ENGLISH TO AMERICAN ORDER. Public Instruction. It was at that energy he sustained the spirit of interest In the auxiliary's work time a particularly difficult post to the nation. Those who heard his and in the extension among the All, for the task before him was speech in September,

to give effect to the law separated against the

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