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The Chapter on the Kuomintang covers the political history: of China in 1934. The Chapter on the Chinese Government contains the Text of the Provisional Constitution, the Organic Law, and the Draft of the Permanent Constitution

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China's Communications - Railways, Boads, Post Office, Telegraphs, Wireless, Telephones and Aviation are very fully dealt with

Father D'Elia, in the Chapter on Religions, contributes an interesting Chronological Review of Catholic Missions in China. Mr. E. Kann is again responsible for the Chapter on Cur- rency and Banking, and the Loan Tables

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LORD MAYOR'S COMPETITORS

Recently the Girdlers" Company presented the Lord Mayor with al basker of mulbetries from the} ancient, tree in the garden of their hall in Basinghall-street.

DR. KILLICK MILLARD BUSINESS

ENGAGED?-CONSULT

ME FIRST

PRE-MARRIAGE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ENGAGED COUPLES

(By P. G. Wodehouse)

This is in accordance with the annual custom whereby the Lord) Mayor gems a choice of the "first) ipicking.

This year's crop was a bumper comes up vitally affecting the pour forth a stream of ques one. For the Lord Mayor and the welfare of the community, the tions of which "Did you lock up- Liverymen of the Company to get first thing people want to know everything "Did you turn of Jan adequate supply it has to be. Is. What Does Wodehouse Think all the taps?" "Did you tell the Others besides members of the About It? I was not surprised. milkman to stop delivering Company appreciate the excel-therefore, to find beside my and "Did you leave the cat with lence of the fruit. They are the breakfast kipper a communica-the people at The Acacias?" are tion from the Editor asking me fair samples. I knew of one- London pigeons.

The mulberry tree, which pre- to put the public straight on case where the husband of a Didusis victim was so nervous- dates the Great Fire. is far too this Killick Millard business.

11y affected that he would shy large to be protected by netting. So the pigeons levy à heavy an- Inual tribute from its boughs.

THENEVER a question of always considered his mate nor

nation-wide interest mal is shocked to hear her

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LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. eased

The China Mail

Social Credit

Fair Exchange

If I were a young man start-

were So

hus

SO-

Dr. Killick Millard-try say-like a startled horse every time- ing that ten times quickly is he saw her lips begin to part.

Happy Sequel the medical officer for health at Leicester-and “a jolly good That particular story. how-- tone, too, I believe-and it is his ever, has a happy sequel. One- Two pleasing examples of of opinion that there should be a day when they were driving in ficial courtesy are on record form of Health Certificate to be their two-seater she suddenly In Austria, it is ziderstood, exchanged by engaged couples turned to him and said, “Dið tax-collectors have been instruct-before marriage a question-yeo remember to post that let- led to deal "amiably and sym-naire, if you know what I mean, ter?" As a matter of fact he

pathetically with taxpayers. The which each would fill up and had. but the shock was latter are not to be sent from de hand to the other, telling each severe that he gave the steering partment to department, “compell-other the worst.

wheel a sharp twist and the car led to wander helplessly through There is a good deal in this, went straight up the side of a of course. My only complaint house. falling back as it reached. The Ministry of Finance holds is that it does not go far the second storey window. the view that “by polite treatment [enough. Let us go deeper into Since that day she has never the irritated taxpayer is to be ap-the thing is my advice.

again used the words "Did you..

Space is too short for me to. At Chemnitz, “in Germany, ing life and contemplating dwell on such common maladies politeness, in dumb-show greets matrimony there are certain of women as Breakfast Bright- the motorist guilty of minor of points on which I would require ness. Whatufism (where the ¡fences.

definite assurance before I put sufferer, when addressed, pats. A policeman hands him a notice up so much as a single bann. her head on one side like- which begins: “You have brokèn

Earlier Advice

a canary and says "What?""), the accounts. Over and above (the regulations, but we want you I would be reasonable Spectaculosis (the losing of the total wealth of all its in- to feel at home in Chemnitz.”. would not. ask too much spectacles). Pfaff's Disease- dividual citizens there would

Robert Louis Stevenson advised (the tidying of desks), Hong Kong, Friday, October 4, 1935. be the wealth of the society

Pocketisis Your Daily Smile!

(asking young men not to marry a obtained by the use of “social.

woman who wrote. It would be band to put things in his credit." It is essential to this scheme that there should be no weighs

Argentina brags of a butcher who enough, in my opinion, to re-pocket, such as the subject's:

Including his fuse to marry a 638 pounds.

cigarette case, woman who vanity case, increase in taxation. That is thamb, of course.

wrote bad imitations of Evelyn purse, and, in some instances. The General Election in the merely to take wealth from one.

Waugh

brown paper parcels containing: Canadian Province of Alberta.man and give it to another-it

Deciphered

But there is one thing that dress materials), and Mikopho resulting in the return of is redistribution of wealth not An invitation to dinner had been would keep me from the altar bia (the inability to listen to sent to the newly-settled doctor. In

husband when he starts telling majority of members who are in the creation of new wealth. favour of the scheme of finance, Mr. Aberhart, the new Prime lately illegible letter.

reply the hostess received an abso even if matters

advanced that I had bought stories about two Irishmen which has been advocated for Minister of Alberta, started life "I must know if he accepts or re-i presents for the bridesmaids named Pat and Mike). fifteen years under the name of jas a schoolmaster." His finance fuses," she declared.

and selected the actual carna-¡ ̈ ̈ Husbands Perfect "Social Credit." has attracted is based on study of books and

"If I were you" suggested her hus-tion to be worn in the button- It inay seem in the above more attention to that Western dedictions from what he has band, "I should take it to the chem-hole, and that is the discovery that I have devoted myself too ist. Chemists can always read doc-] farming community than it has read, not from practical experi-cors letters, however badly they are that my bride-to-be. whether closely to the female side of the ever enjoyed before. It may ence.. He was converted to written."

from some

inherited family questionnaire, but a moment's he suggested to the new Hong Douglasism, and in a few The chemist looked at the slip of taint or otherwise, was a Shifter thought will show that that is Kong Publicity Board that if months carried the constitu- notepaper, went into his dispensary, or to use the Harley-street the only side that matters. Al it is merely publicity that is encies with him by his energe a bottle, which he handed over Decoratns--that is to say, one fect. The only thing you ever and returned a few minates later term, a victim of Furor Interio-husbands are practically per- wanted they could get all they tic campaign. At the outset be want very easily by doing some was met with the difficulty that

find wrong with a husband is ̈ There you are, madam," he said who moves furniture thing of the same sort If it what might be possible for the "That will be three-and-sixpence.”

Ashma (the scattering Primary Symptoms

of promised to cure the evil of whole of an “economic unitTM

tobacco ash on carpets), and in The primary symptoms are poverty and promote plentiful might lead to bankruptcy in a

an abstracted restlessness and these days of feminine smoking production and equal distribu-single Province forming part of

a sort of rumay look in the eye, most wives have been down tion without harming anyone. a larger system. He met this it would be the talk of the difficulty by announcing that he

The sufferer wanders about the with Ashma themselves for drawing-room chewing.

the years. world for a month or so. And intended to increase taxation

under lip. She then takes a as such schemes are usually un-all round. Major Douglas was

picture from over the mantel- workable for very obvious rea-sent for to advise, and immeA tremendous kick sent the foot-piece and shifts it to the oppo- |sons, it would be vetoed by the diately disappointed his disci-ball high in the air and over a fence, site wall, almost immediately Secretary for the Colonies at ples by telling them that they where it landed beside a cockerel in afterwards saying, “No, I don't the end of the month, and no had misunderstood his scheme; neighbouring farm yard.

like that so well," and shifting harm would have been done their redistribution by taxation the bird's countenance as he sur-lit hackaday

It is quite fifteen years since being nothing more than the eyed the ball. Then be pushed it At this point, prompt treat- Major Douglas, an able man and dole," or "public relief." only into the hen-house and called the ment may effect a cure. But a convincing speaker, who had in a more awkward form.

let the thing get a grip and

Nanking, To-day. formed his economic ideas by The Alberta election has stand," he said, seriously, but I just before long she will be shifting

The China Literary. Society has watching the circulation of cash caused a new discussion of an want you all to see for yourselves tables, foot-stools, what-nots and recently been organised here by caused by the monthly distribu-old question: What is it that a what is being done in other poultry-even armchairs from under local literary men, with Mr. Yeh tion to large bodies of troops of bank does when it "opens a crevards.".

her unfortunate partner's very Chu-tsang as the chairman and regular pay which seemed to dit?”

trousers-seat

Mr. Chen Li-fn as vice-chairman. consist of a signature on a piece Labour leaders the other day

Professor Nunally Johnson. An Executive Committee, com- coins said that when a bank opens a

the American specialist, tells of posed of 15 members, was also a case where a husband, return organised, among whom are Dr ing home late and not wishing Taeng Chung-min, Vice-Minister to disturb his wife, undressed of Railways, Mr. Esiao Tung-tze, same system could be applied to seen two of our local banks

in the dark and flung himself Director of the Central News javil life, the whole population recently close their doors. They

backwards on to the bed, only Agency, and Mr. Hau Pei-hung, being "borne on the strength would have met their obliga

to discover that during the day la noted Chinese artist- Central of the community and receiving tions by opening a few new cre-

she had shifted it to where the News Agency. a-uniform wage or allowance dits, like the young lady who

chest of drawers used to be like the privates in an army drew a cheque to settle ber

and shifted the chest of The officers. of

The programme of the Feast of drawers to the other end of the course, could overdraft. In the pre-war days our Lady of the Holy Rosary at room with the result that he have their own income and do the fiction was that the bank what they liked with it for it undertook to deliver a certain the Rosary Church, Kowloon, has hit the floor, bounced twice, and was no part of his scheme to amount of gold on demand in now been issued. Three Masses was never the same man again. apolish money or private pro-reality nobody wanted gold will be said, at 620, 1.30 and

Beware Of Didusis perty or trade. The regular unless there was a panic and a 8.30 am. respectively, next San- Furor Interio-Decoratus is "pay" would be an addition to "run" caused by the fact that day, and a Solemn Pontifical Mass perhaps the worst scourge that everybody's income; of special the bank had itself-lost its cre- at 9.30 am

can devastate a home, but there

of paper, GT certain

One of the English

|the counter.

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break that ornament 2:

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Unpremeditated “Oh, Janet, how did you come to

was just accidentally dustin' it." "I'm sure Fiverra sorry, mum“

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The Model

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A look of amazement came

jhens round him.

over!

"I'm not grumbling, you under-

obtained from A bank by a credit it "makes new wealth by ROSARY CHURCH signature on a piece of paper, an entry in a ledger." If that came to the conclusion that the were true we should not have

means,

PROGRAMME FOR FEAST

NEXT SUNDAY'S SERVICES

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value to those who had no other dit. Like other banking quest the evening service, to be are not many happy days in}

but not confined to tions the answer is technical held at 4.30 pm, there will be a store for the husband whose them. The security for pay-and intricate, but at least it Recitation of the Rosary, proces-wife is a victim to Didusia. ment would be the total wealth may be said briefly that the sion, sermon and Benediction. This generally breaks out of the whole community. Old bank incurs an obligation which The Bector of the Church also during the summer age would not have to be in-the customer expects it to fulfi, issues the following notice: when the husband sured against. The price of and charges for its service. It The members of the Confrater-

the Faithful are respectfully in-

the useful things would be is the customer that makes the nity of the Holy Rosary and all raised, and the price of luxuries wealth by using the bowered The additional wealth productively, in some secured by the greater produc-will enable him to tion of food and other useful account. things would increase the revenue from taxation even at from ever the existing level and balance all be

we shou

to gain accorded.

aires.

proach the Sacraments one of the Holy Masses, and also and Holy Commamion to those who visit the said Church the Churf in ord om Saturday aftermon October midnight of the Reast

de-numerons.

Plenary:šinen!

A Plenary Indulgence is

granted to those who assist at granted at each visit.

CHINA LITERARY SOCIETY New Organisation In Nanking