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The China Mail

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

Remote Control

After being laid up for the past

year or two the robot battleship

SHEER PLUCK HAS GREAT CHARM

MOST POPULAR OF THE

VIRTUES

Centurion is once again acting as PET BOGEYS OF REAL HEROES

a live target for the Flect, and naval aircraft,

At present she is at Malta, where the ships of the Mediter

(By the Duchess of Sermoneta.)

THEN all is said and done, thought him charming, by the

rean Fleet, shortly to go on their W that ag-

aummer cruise, are trying to sink] her.

peals to the greatest number of tremely low dance hall in Barce

to.

A naval officer who formerly people of every class-men, wo-lona to which I had been taken the served in the Shikari, the Cen-men, young, old. No one can re-night before, he shook his head. turion's control ship, states that sint the charm of sheer luck; soberly. Someone took me it was

uncanny, particularly at and it covers a multitude of sins. that dive, but I left at once," he

ruthless

was scared. Even a bandit so

as said. "Too risky. I night, to watch the steel leviathan

John Dillinger, of America, wins there.**

am frightened of And I, who ploughing through the oceau with-

a certain grudging admiration out a soul on board her..

when he fights his way out of the millions of things had spent half (net drawn round him by justice, the night in that dark haunt of escaping in the face of over-the Spanish underworld, delight- whelming odds. We feel that being in Its local colour, talking to would be a wonderful companion lots of the queer types of people. their cigarettes. The "Farmers' Weekly" made its in an emergency-if he happened to and accepting

without an uneasy thought first appearance on Friday, June like us.

Real pluck consists in being Matador Fears His Wife. 122.

certain things and The memories of a varied axis- crowd round. me.' What

The

Splendid Market

British farmers have

parer of their own at last.

a

It will be read as widely by the frightened of industrialists as by the farmer. yet doing them or facing them all tence He may learn in that way that his the same. But, as one man's bug-about the celebrated balloonist own business interest cannot be bear is another man's cup of tea. who took some friends and me for divorced from those of a pros-people may get a reputation for an ascout in Paris? He saved pluck which is often not quite de-our lives by keeping his head dur- perous farming industry.

ing an extremely perilous descent

aiming at. If we further under-prosperity for all. stand that most politicians do not like the law and have never read even ex- the prophets, we can

Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 28, 1934. plain the present condition of in-

Our Free Port Status.

ternational trade.

Forearmed.

Your Daily Smile!

I remember my great-grand-In the middle of the night in a Ahe Was over raging gale. With a pilot who

the was less cool in danger we might.

various

few hundred

British farmers produce wealth served. to the value of over £200,000,000 & year. They could produce double mother, when that. Every penny they receive for eighty, going downstairs in their produce is spent in Britain.middle of the night, clad in her easily have ended our

and night-carcers What a splendid market for the flannel dressing-gown

we came down in British industrialist! He should cap, grasping a poker in her hand. As it was,

it. Asked why she did it, she explain-Holland, only a do his utmost to increase Therein lies the only certainty of ed, quite simply, that she thought yards from the coast. As we dis

from the col- she had heard a burglar stealing engaged ourselves the silver in the dining-room. Yet lapsed balloon we heard" a "moj"

ahen-near us in the pitch blackness. she had never driven in som-cab because she thought it. "Mon Dieu said our pilot, far too dangerous.a mode of get-shrinking back, "It may be a bul?" no power on earth and he refused to budge until Old Lady: "Aren't you ashamed ting about;

one of us went ahead and shooed to ask for money?" Tramp: "I would induce her to enter one. got six months for taking it with- There was a man who had rid-the inoffensive Dutch cow away.

I have known a professional den in the Grand National and en- out asking."

ex-motorist who constantly faces joyed it above all kis other periences, but he could not he death through every minute of de- A Scotsman got a big bottle of peranaded to try the Crests Run sperate neck-and-neck racen but So he laid by at St. Moritz this laat winter. He who is still afraid to go up in an stood shivering in the snow and seroplane. I have known in avia declared that he would not atter who declared that he could tempt the feat for a thousand never have the courage to be a pounds, although he happened to matador. As for the matador T be broke at the time.

acethet...well, it was difficult to 7 And out what he was afraid of, chiefly because ha spoke only I also know a man who has been spanish, and Italian isn't as like

Spanish as those an exceptionally fine soldier and

feats in the either language imagino; but I accomplished great

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There is one great advantage All the abstract arguments for in employing experts to prepare Free Trade or Protection were ever more efficient methods for influenza cure free. based upon two postulates that wiping out the world's super-his overcont for the rest of ine

fluous population. that the very winter. were taken for granted quite same men, by the same experi unconsciously by most people.ments. also explore the best "There is talking that the next

their war will be fought with radio The first was a fixed money stan-means of counteracting dard gold:--for even silver coun-own-inventions and so giving "Well, I'm in training, I've faced

the superfluous ones a chance to some terrible programmes." tries were regulated by the marlive on in prosperous superfluity. ket ratio of silver to gold. The So many people have been re-

Guest: "My word, I am thirsty." second was that people should duced to panic by the thought of Hostess: "Wait a moment and I'll only ask for gold to settle ba.large cylinders of mustard gas get you some wafer." 'Guest "war. Poor fellow, he is terrified gathered that he was mostly

being dropped and exploded in Enid Iances; just as we may pay the middle of Hong Kong, that bill with two ten dollar notes and the means of safety suggested; two ten cent pieces.

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Soldier Scared By Cats

who know

of cata. When there is a cat frightened, and quite justifiably, the room. he curls his legs up of his wife.

thirsty,

not dirty."

HELPFUL

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the sofa and pleads that it shall

a bad memory you

be removed; if his request in re-

"What Real Plack Is

Now I maintain that people have no great merit in doing the I have heard of a young woman particular thing they do not hap- to be afraid of. But they and le seen no more that day. who has made several parachute pen descents without turning a hair: would be showing real pluck if yet she is so afraid of the dark they did all the things they funk that she cannot sleep without a-for instance, if the fro-rescuer

If it goes out she made up his mind to swallow

All the by the Chief Research Chemist

If you have of the Imperial Chemical Indus- rest of the business was done b\tries, Ltd., ought to be widely can improve it by doing some fused, he rushes out, horrified.). means of documents or notes noted. It appears that if such thing that you would afterwards

an attack should be made, all we like to forget. and entries in a bank ledger.

Now that only the ledger me-have to do is "simply get into thod is left there is no automa-a hot bath, smoke a pipe, and First Comic: "All my life I've

to play A part in tic thermometer to show when laugh; you will then be com wanted

Clearly one of tragedy. Second Comic: "Well, night-light. buying has become feverish, such pletely safe."

our first civic duties must be to you will if you don't leave my immediately wakes and les in bed few pints of sea-water during his petrified with fright, and then efforts to learn how to swim; if as used to be provided by a movement of gold or silver bul- see that there are enough baths fiancee alone!"

screams for help. According to the lady parachutist gave up her her, it is nothing to come down night-light and faced the unknown lion. It is essential to keep the to accommodate the population. The criticism that some time or balance of purchases and sales other we should have to begin

"Il allow your wife to speak from the sky clutching a para-terrors of the dark; if my darling That (she says) happen great-granny had spent her time level by altering the rate of ex-i

can driving up and down Piccadilly fa change; and this does sometimes again to lock after our business to you for just two minutes only" chute.

in broad daylight-and you

a bersom see where you are going. vary so violently that a customs and that it would be fatal for

And what about the big-game The fact is that those daty at a fixed rate may not be quite a longish period to walkid the doctor. What a sport. over contaminated ground is protective at all or may be pro-superficial. His Majesty's Sta- hibitive. The despised econom- fats got on quite well when they tionery office has published a leaf- The Turkish Government is pro-hunter my friends have told medividuals who do not feel either

let at the price of twopence viding only had to deal with merchants.

tre

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with about, who often faces B.charg-physical or moral fear in any cir-

ing rhinoceros (which, I am told, cumstance is the worst animal with which to have a difference of opinioni), and yet cannot eròss a narrow plank

a bad

bridge without assistance? He la so utterly incapable of negotiat ing it by himself that he will walt for hours for a friendly hand-to lead him over; even then he shu-

it is not fair to blame them for which explains how the had smart new uniforms,

WARNING In this official publication, en- being unable to deal with poll-ground should be dealt with. ticlans. It is not their fault

"Never go to sleep on that in the study of "Politicaltled "Defence against Gas," wel

told that "Contaminated temper," advises doctor, For Economy" the emphasis has been ground should be covered with a surely to bed-surely to rise. changed from the second word to

layer, about two inches thick, of the first.

a mixture of one part bleaching, IT ALWAYS DOES -- A customs duty is simply a toll powder to two or three parts of

I read that the cocktail habit is mes along with his eyes half shut for entry. The exaction of a toll earth, and on top of this completely dying out now. But quaking with fright. cannot make wealth; but the thicker layer, three to four cheer up, something just as dx- cash collected may be used to inches, of fresh, earth should be sive is bound to come along. make wealth. In the old days placed. Sand, sawdust, or Boot The when people used to be delayed will do as well as earth.

by swollen rivers, with occasion ground, when covered, should be

al accidents to life or property left undisturbed as long as. Pós- and there was no money at hand gible.”.

Personal Pars

EUROPEAN FINED FOR DOGS.

Two Kowloon Cases.

Mr. A. Mackenzie, of No. 12 What A Gangster Feared

Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, was Then there is a man who once ained $10, by Mr. E.-L. Wynne saved three small children from Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy. blazing house at the risk of his this morning, for allowing his un- own life, and would never admit muzzled dog to wander in Suffolk on the that he had done anything worth Road at 7 a.m. on June 5 Among the passengers

But he couldn't!

Mr. J. M. D. "Almada of No. 22 to build a 'bridge, they got per No doubt the chemical Indus president Lincoln which arrived talink about. mission to borrow enough to try would be able to supply an here yesterday was Dr. R. 8. Von learn to swim because he Kent Road, Kowloon Tong, Was build and to charge enough to adequate quantity of bleaching lein Said, President of the Un- afraid of drowning Nothing fined $8 for allowing his unmur- the travellers who used the powder to the place that was to wersity of Southern California, could persuade him to try deep zied dog to wander in Waterloo. bridge to repay the loan The be attacked, as well as gas to the who is on a plesaurs trip of the water he paddled unishamedly: Road at 6.25 a.m. on May 24. result was a great increase of attackers; but do we keep an

am convinced, would do nothing prosperity not because, a toll adequate stock in Hong Kong? was charged, but because the And L all the troops

Miss E. Ballantine, daughter of heroic in a'dre showed off by tak money was well used,

There is no other principle ap- hot baths, who would do the mix the American counsul in Canton, ing high dives from the rocks, plicable to indirect or any other Ing? taxation. If it be supplement-

ed by the principle of balancing

were

smoking and laughing in

their

The 18th annual graduatio

ledger accounts so as to keep the hange, rate w'stable we can

of Yenching University, Pe Jarstand why even quotas and change restrictions are com king, were held yesterday at 2 thá

Itemkin dally nawa, We University

enough in fact of the law Bent was Dy, H; "H. Kong, Mulator prophets to understand of Finance, who? addressed the overnments profess to be students.

the shallows while people who, I

SHAUKIWAN ROAD OPENED

The road near Shaukiwan, which arrived here yesterday on the Recently in Spain. I met as President Lincoln from Shanghai American who I was told. is a was blocked by a landslide last week

this morning, V where the has just completed her gangster: He certainly spoke after the heavy storms, was opened

W with awesome familiarity of men |studies":

who were the pillars of what ujed Mr. W. Fiz. Arndt, who la con- to be and for all I know still is Dollarbootlegging society, colled acted with

to their qualities, and condoned af

fectionately what are generall stay considered S

hip Com

Lincoln

(Apart from the

Mr. M G. Chen, Principal of “ the Lingnam /University, was among the passengers who arrives nd here on the President Lincoln

Chop has been in.. terdax Bhangbal.