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Two cases each of diphtheria and enteric fever were reported to the Health authorities in the three days, ended on Thursday.

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THE ITALIAN AS A SOLDIER

GRIT AND COURAGE NOT

TO BE DESPISED

BAD HATER BUT FEARLESS FIGHTER

WHEN NECESSARY

(By George Edinger)

HERE is a decided tendency, TE

Capable Of Courage

Notice To Contributors." All communications intended for There has just been received in The mv. Cingalese Prince, from publication should be addressed to England from New Zealand a re- New York, sailed from 10s An- the Eater, and be accompanied by part of a lecture delivered to the geles on November 25, and is ex the Writer's Name and Address English Association in Christ-pected here on or about next Thes- not necessary for insertion, but church by Mr. Ian Donelly, a New day. as a guarunter of good faith. Zealand journalist, who was in

London not long ago.

Chun Shing Institute of Commerce, No. 2 Glenealy, will Eng went to

these at an English public school hold its 18th term typewriting survey the English

in England not to rate the jwould produce lamentation.

The Italian is not a pioneer examination zext Monday, and its military qualities of the Italians Scene and stretch- ed the meaning of that wide th term commercial examination very highly, and it is an undeni-thrusting after the world's open enough to include an Irishman will be held next Thursday.

able fact that the, Austrisas, who spaces. When be emigrates, it in who lives in Faris-James Joyce

never contrived to beat anybody not to the Eritrean wastes or the The coppert stranged

wilderness, but to the He talked with Joyce's publisher

by else, were consistently victorious (Libyan and received a light, which mest Madame Lottie Gordon, to be held over the Italians from 1848 to 1917. sidewalks of the Bowery and the people have never been vonchsafed, at the St. Andrew's Church Hall But to say that the Italians are restaurants-of Soho. Even when on what Joyce, is-driving at to-night has been postponed owing not great fighters is to tell only be does go to a young country to the indisposition of two of her part of the truth. It would be like Australia or Argentins you *Joyce is merely playing 1 assistant artists.

more correct to say that the Ita-¡will generally find him working game," said the publisher, "which

lian dislikes fighting-

in an office or behind a counter at Quite naturally this title will can be enjoyed by those who know The Insurance Department of

The Italian is, to begin with, a Sydney or Buenos Aires. provoke the comment that any-the rules. Mr. Joyce's work must Messrs. Jardine. Matheson and Co. bad hater. In many months' ex But this widespread aversion one who knew exactly how the be read aloud to be appreciated. Ltd, have issued an attractive perience on the Italian fron: dar from hardship is not due to ef dollar would behave next year and he himself reads it aloud in calendar for 1936, advertising the ing the Great War I saw zo single feminacy. It is the natural result would not waste his time writ-the spirit of fun.”

Canton Insurance Office, Ltd. and case of cruelty to a prisoner nos of 2,000 years of civilisation. ing about it. But the end of So Joyce is just a whimsical the Hong Kong Fire Insurance of any discrimination in the the year is a great time for Leprechaun, after all, and not the Co. Ltd. for both of which they treatment of the wounded. balancing accounts and making dynamic force which Bloomsbury are the general agents-

The Italians, like the Jews, LTE For several weeks in succession a show window of a credit holds him to be

I was posted at a regimental first capable of great feats of endur- balance in place of the debit

A dinner dance will be held atlaid post a few hundred yards be The fact

ance and great deeds- of courage. that their soldiers that has presented its ominousį

the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night hind the line and I was respon have won few victories and that protest against extravagancej

and a tes dance to-MOTTOW. Asible for the transpers of the their people shrink from hardship during the lurid interval since Women, in my opinion, are dispecial extra bus service has been wounded from there to a casualty is emphatically not because they the last balance was struck:}ferent now from what they used arranged for the convenience of clearing station about two miles One may infer that so far as to be*

the

are cowards. Patrons attending "Dinner the European-style Banks are

"How's that?"

Persuade the Italian that he "There's my daughter, for instance Dances; these are in addition to- concerned the annual Balanceshe's taking up law; whereas ber the ordinary Time Table Leave

really has something worth fight Sheet represents actuality in its mother lays it down"

H.KH: 8.00 pm, 3.30 pm. and All through the fiercest fightinging about (and that is not going most favourable aspect, and the

9.00 pm. Leave R-BEL 1.00 2 on the Isonzo front I saw the Ita-o be easy with 2,000 years of cash position brings to an im-

115 am and 1.30 a.m.

Han and Austrian wounded tend-Civilisation telling him that war partial test all the hopes of "It's no use." said the director to

ed in strict rotation as they were is a fool's game), and he can be quick and easy fortunes that his colleague, "I have to get a new

Seven typist *

shipwrecked fishermen brought in. I was once even pre-as fine a soldier as any in Europe. have floated through they said his colleague. "Miss were brought into port yesterday sent at a fierce argument_between Englishmen who generalise dreams of the year that is end-Jones always seemed a nice, obliging morning on the Bank Line steam-s stretcher-bearer and all am from the Italian record in the ed.

Great War should not forget that But she willer Dunafric. Capt. J. Milne, which bulance driver as to whether That is all very well, but keep interrupting me when I'm dic arrived - from Vladivostock and more

seriously wounded Enn Victor Emmanuel's soldiers were January 1 brings with it a new tating to ask me how to spell words" ports. The men were picked up from garian should ke precedence badly clothed (they had no water- crop of dreams, and new "That certainly is a great waste the sea when the vessel was two lover

a less uryent case of a proof coats), underfed (with a chances of turning them into time"

41 don's object to the explain- days out of Hong Kong They Sicilian who had been waiting a meal of soup and macaroni twice achievements.

ja day they were lucky), inade The careful

ied the director. "but it looks so bad were apparently the members of few minutes longer. man will call them "plans" and to have to keep saving I don't know the crew of a fishing junk which I do not believe that these Ita-rately supported by artillery “programmes,” but that is only

had capsized

lians deliberately bombed a bus-owing to their country's shortage ¡of coal and steel, and as often as pital in Abyssinia or anywhere and the of the algebraiche will be when he grows on 2"

Fond Mother. What do you think

Mr. T. E. Wilson, the popular else, nor do I think that they will not quite unaware of what they calculation are still vague and

Father (fed up): I don't know manager of the Dollar Steamship ever willingly make war zyzinst a were fighting for

United Italy as a nation is 50 | unknown, and only the "z" Town crier, most likely."

Company's Hong Kong branch, will civilian population. which is our own intention, isn

years old United Italy as a gen- be leaving on the President Hoover

eral conception among the people known. The "x" may be taken to augur better times for the this afternoon for San Francisco to be the political circum-future.

8 well-eared holiday. MY Deprived of the stimulus of is no older than the rule of Mus stances of war or peace, mili- South Africa was the first Wilson will be away from the hating his adversary the Italian is solini. Their ancestors were coa- tary and financial, and the Dominion to give a subvention Colony for five months, returning held up by a distinct aversion scripted to fight indiscriminately is the use made of opportunito a foreign shipping county on Jane 1 next year. During his from hardship or discomfort. Ifor Napoleon against Austria or ties by shrewd speculators who by granting 360,000 to the absence, Mr. W. T. Goodwin, used to have great difficulty in for Austria against Napoleon encourage trade. The ""ment to buy a large quantity of from Shanghai, will act as man-forgo sleeping in sheets when it Garibaldi against the King of which is the least importartį maize. This is unlikely to be ager of the Company. Mr. Good was impossible to wash them Naples or equally probably for factor, is our own wish to have renewed because it was very win is due to arrive in the Colony seldom heard any complaint about the King of Naples 2gainst. Gari- conditions which will make it unpopular, and had become un by the President Jefferson on danger, but sleeping and

baldi living possible for a man to work at necessary when South Africa January 9. his own trade with justified abandoned the gold standard. confidence that he will get the in the meantime it is suspended benefit of his labour.

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