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HOME - BOUND

MAILS FROM

AFRICA GROW

Volume On Steady Increase.

ENTHUSIASM IS HIGH.

That the inward air-mail from Africa is now heavier, each week,

THE CHINA MAIL.

Engineering

Versus Chinese

Devils

Some Queer Experiences

In Central China.

THE "FENG SHUI”” MAN,

"In China a very great propor- than the outgoing mail from Eng-tion of the population is illiterate! land, is revealed by statistics which and superstitious; in consequence have just become available.

the "eng-shui" man is consulted "Approximately 14,000 letters a over the propitious days for nam- beginning of week are now reaching London by ing, burials the the inward mails," explains an off buildings and such like," writes cial of Imperial Airways, "while the Johnnie Stretcher in the Saturday [outgoing mail amounts, on an aver-Supplement of the Evening News.

age, to about 12,000 letters a week. The "teng-shui man has more Not long age, in the earlier stages knowledge than some Europeans of this service, figures showed that imagine, and it is very seldom that the heavier mail-loads were, on the

an experienced practitioner is services outward from this country-caught out by giving a wet day for "One explanation for the change clients weddings, junk launching now apparent is, no doubt, to be ceremonies, or funerals. found in the enthusiasm with which

business houses throughout Africa

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When it comes to installationa

are adopting the air-mail. In many in a factory, things are a bit more firms a member of the staff is now difficult for him. But as the fac- deputed specially to familiarise tory hands have tremendous faith himself with air-mall dispatch, such in the pronouncements, he must be a personal study of the system en-consulted if the engineer wishes to suring that no time is lost through keep his labour troubles to a late postings, and also that delays minimum. Liberal application of are obviated which might arise palm oil undoubtedly helps, but through air-mall letters being in-there is a genuine substratum ef astrology in his calculations and sufficiently stamped.

predictions.

Big-Time Saving.

An Engineer's Difficulties.

"It is our experience that firms overseas are as a rule quicker to grasp the potentialities of the air-

Here are two instances out of mail than are organisations here at home, right at the hub of affairs, many related by a German electrical twenty years' up- and not confronted so frequently by engineer of the problem of distance. It is only country experience. natural, of course, that the way in

A big dynamo had to be bedded which flying can reduce journeys of weeks to days should touch the im- down on coment, and the shed built agination of those in territories over it for a new part of a cotton The "feng-shu!”· `man where transport is still tedious and factory.

is that they are held up all work for the placing of slow; and hence in a frame of mind which leads the dynamo for a fortnight, saying! them to use the air-mail on every the times were not yet propitious.

When pressed to explain by the possible occasion.

German, who could read Chinese "This is an opportunity one would characters, he demonstrated the like to take of reminding those at problem patiently, as if he were home of the time-savings offered by speaking to a child. The German the Africa air-mail. Leaving the checked it up from his text book Lordon air-port every Wednesday of geomancy, called "The Chart of

are in Cairo on the Opposing Backs." evening, letters Saturday, and at Khartoum on the

First, the spirits of the" disturb- following Monday after which Nairobi is reached on Wednesday, ed soil had to be placated (there Broken Hill and Salisbury on are little plaster and brick shrines Friday, Johannesburg on Saturday, to these spirits all over the fields and Capetown on Sunday-eleven in Central China). Next, the "Lu days after the departure from Lon-Shal" or Six Deadly Influences don. This enables the following were on the rampage at that season, savings of time to be effected as but within the next four days, if he had a clear night, he hoped to compared with surface transport: invoke the aid of the "Lu Kee" or

Time Saved

Six Heavenly Breaths against them. (Days). 5-7

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12

14

15

16

17

119

20

22

24

Destination.

26

127

28

North Sudan

South Sudan

6-17

30

31

Kenya

8-29

(29

Uganda

12-24

133

34 35

36 37

Tanganyika

8-24

North Rhodesia

12

29 140 141

42

11 6

44

48

147

51

152

HORIZONTAL

HORIZONTAL (Cont)

1-To rub roughly and 43-Exist

with a karah sound|44-Half a cere 5-City of Greece

10-Parity

11-Torment

45-Trall

|47-Human race 48-Garden tool

12-Enclosed spree for 50-Pronoun

combau

16-Half an im

15-Combining form.

Child

17-Barrowfal

18-KHled

21-The Jung-bug 22-Pair (abbr.) 23-Ocean

24-To decrease

26-A; sentinel 28-Greek letter 29°F]sh oggi *** 20-Covering of a ̈wod 33-Time period 36-Anglent musical

Instrument

39-Leaner

42-Old time (Poot).

51-Worship

53 Depart

55-A title 50-81ab 67-Boy's name

VERTICAL

1-Claspe 2-imitated 3-To cure hide 4-Rubber

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VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-Chinose plant... 13-8career ||16-Famais deer.

19-Pince 20-Lace fabrie 23-Guide

184-To steep, as tax-

36-Come

36-Period of time

(abbr)

37-Entertain

88-Doctrines 38-Narrow strip of

leather

|40-A vegetable. |41-Part of the log

4-Corroded

*47-Greater in cranthe -43-Ever (Poazzjoni,

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And Wang The Heavenly Ruler Sarbel

"As regards air-mail charges, it may be noted that it costs only 5d. to send a half-ounce letter from England to the Sudan; and the rates! are not more than 74. to Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, 9d. to Rhodesia, and-1/- to South Africa; while recently official permission was granted for the dispatch of postcards by air. This means that one can now send a postcard by the Africa air-mail to Kenya or Uganda for 3d., to Rhodesia for 4d., or as

The gromancer said that when Codfish far as South Africa for 5d. And when one remembers that our figure he had verified the working of the Crabs

Of The Thunderbolt Is Com-Bream

Mutton

Sausages

No.

Fish.

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manded To Restrain The Seventy Canton Fresh Water f Two Erratic Demoris of The Stars, Who Are The Enemies of Cerp.... Mankind."

3

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the Imperial Airways African ser- the dyname in. vices, for the last quarter was 99.68

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Yellow

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per cent. In the north and 100 per ment of a worn-out factory whistle. Dog Fish cant. in the south, we feel that Em-When the German, mentioned cas- Fels, Conger pire air-mail transport is worthy of ually that the factory hands would the fullest support of the public, hear a new whistle soon the "feng- here at home as well as overseas. | shuf” man came along in great Froga

alarm. He said the old whistle Garoupa was a very good one and helped Gudgeon him greatly in attracting the good Herrings influences and keeping the

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Brinjala, Green

25

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