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THE SHAMSHUIPO DEFENCES AGAINST

MURDER

Funeral Service Of

Victim

Everywhere REMAINS TO BE TAKEN TO

THE "SNARK IN LATIN

Translating highly,

in elegiacs.

Hong Kong Saturday, Feb. 15, 1936"

if not

NATIVE VILLAGE

The funeral service took place

SEX

ATTACK

WRONG ARMING WORSE

THAN DISARMING

MODERN WARFARE CALLS FOR

SWEEPING CHANGES

the Editor, and be accompanied by grotesquely, Idiomatic English into yesterday morning of the late Mr. the Writer's Name and Address Latin is an exercise out of which Chinese contractor, who

Ho the wall-known local not necessarily for insertion, but the writer gets as much fun any murdered at Shamshuipo as a guarantee of good faith. the reader. and Lewis Carroll's

"The Hunting of the Snark is awho was aged 33, received three Past Saturday night. Deceased, ideal subject M. H. D. Watson bullet wounds from armed rob-

(By Br.-Gen. P. R. C. Groves) has done a version, just published, pers who raided his house at No-THE folly of giving a lead in denied

65 Fu Wah Street and he died disumament has at length themselves this weapon was even- Some of Carroll has defeated

According to the Germans subsequently at the Kowloon Eos-been recognised by the even Mr. Watson *F-me" and "Fritter-my-wig" he has found to present at yesterday's funeral pital Among the chief mourners

Govern-tually a decisive factor in |ment, which, at the

the baffling, but "What-you-may-call-

recent Aflies' victory on the Western were the widow, three sons and received a Cefinite mandate to greatly delayed by the opposition general election, asked for and Front Yet its introduction was and “Thins umbob"

daughter. adroitly turned by Quisquis-es and Nescio-quic

A large number of persons from repair the serious deficiencies in of our High Command.

our defences.

The fol- "Oh, beamish nephew," become ing Messrs. Sanderson

Shing Men were

lowing statement published by But there is now a grave risk Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, who Puer o splendose. Especially neat shing Man work, Yu Shi-chow, from the Segia of one-sided dis Roval Tank Corps, indicates what

of the that while attempting to There is nothing in the re-dersnatch Herpiseplz.

is the classical version of "Ban Lee Chi-cheung, Leang Fat-chow.mament we shall be caught by that prejudice and conservatism escope was Chief Staff Officer, to the port submitted to the League Dutch there is the ingenious About 400 friends and relatives the Charybdis of wrong Tears cost this country:--

Ng Yuk-so and many others. by its Committee on the Ol pedantically inaccurate rendering Embargo that leads us to lingue Belgarum.

followed the cortege from the latement For whereas the conditious change in

*From July to November 1917, any respect the Rightly. I think there

of modern warfare call for sweep tanks were not efficiently used, Mr. Ng's residence in Fuk Wah opinion that we have already attempt to translate

Street to the Kowloon-Cantong changes in our whole defen- and our casualties per square mile the expressed on that subject. It

Railway Station.

sive system, the military mind-captured averaged 8,202,- words Snark and Boojum can be very easily and clearly remain merely Snart and buïns.

The remains will be sent the nation's accepted adviser in

to

"From July to November 1918, stated. The object of restrict

Canton this morning and inter-matters of defence is opposed tanks were

efficiently used, and ment will take place next week into any such step

CHIT casualties per square mile the Chinese district of the

(captured averaged 85." deceased.

Italy And O1

ing trade was to end the war

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as soon as possible. Trade PASSING DIALECTS restrictions were an experiment

The

- For

is no theme They

to see whether it was possible standard of pronunciation being vision of the BBC'sį

to do this without resorting to war on a larger scale. This

He makes a

present includ-

CAR CRASHES INTO KITCHEN

Foch's Dictum

The teric "military mind.” · in At this juncture we may well the sense used here, comprises the !recall Marshal Foch's famous bawal mind. (dictum: "The military mind al- {ways imagines that the next war

as the last. That has

Tery

accepted in all English-speaking could only be tested by means Weekley with dismay.

countries fills Professor Ernest

Stubborn Navy of a complete boycott. There was accordingly no reason atrites in his book, "Something don their home when a car cras been the case and never will be fact that the British Navy, stab- "This is an awful thought.” he A Liverpool family had to aban-will be fought on the same lines Lord Fisher wrote in his book all for making arbitrary excepAbout Words" just published-

never get "Records". "It is an historical tions in favour of those com-

led into it and became embedded

Over Own modities that Italy speciallyt "the natural, and historically injured.

The driver was dismal prophecy in the kitchen.

history, in

common bornly resists change.” with that of Continental States as examples the opposition to the Be gave wanted to import Ineffective

bears out these truths. sanctions were bound to create; justified pronunciation of English

introduction of steam, iron ships. just as much will as a com- aristocracy and the peasantry but

may linger for a time among the FIRST WEDDING FOR 60 YEARS

The British Army which took breechloading the field in South Africa in 1899 the torpedo, wireless, and aircraft. guns, the turbine, ¡plete boycott. Their only is already making way for an art-

effect could be to raise the price

still bore the stamp of the Crimea Even the submarine, a weapon A wedding which took place re- And although the South African which brought us to the of sundry imports to Italy,

ficial machine-made product.. cently in the tiny 13th century

War taught It is even possible that the boat-church at Mount, on

as many valuable brisk of disaster, was discounted thereby giving a profiteering!

the coast advantage to those who sold Swain' of the 21st century will re- near Cardigan, was the first there lessons, the Army of 1914 had in-witness the facts that no sub- several important respects made murine-proof base had been pro- increasing the financial strain fer to the anterior part of a ship since 1875. on Italy and the consequent Americans who read Professor

as the ore castle","

no progress towards modernisa-vided in the north, and soon after tion For example, the number of the outbreak of war the Grand exhaustion at the end of the

machine-guns per-division in 1914 Fleet was obliged to take refuge war, and withal the exceptions Weekley's book will find that their

Your Daily Smile! was still what it was in 1899 in Lough Swilly, on could only have the result of Pronunciation of duke and duty as

the north namely, „24. prolonging the

How "dook" and "dooty" are historical-

coast of Ireland, while the de- SO ARE CRATES

By 1918 this number had in-fences of Scapa Flow were being could the Dace by going to war ly correct, and though condemned

"Man who never saw a motor-car creased to 500, but meanathile texs hurriedly marshalled. compel anybody to supply him as "bordering cos rulgarity" by a runs news-item- Hospitals of of thousands of lives had been with oil or anything else? lexicographer in 1791, were still in course are full of these.

In view of these examples of sc.crificed to The Committee is only tell- aristocratic

the conservatism what is really an inherent failing which for 15 years bad discounted is it surprising that the naval have,

T21.

1850.

Ise

England in

ing us what we knew before in stating that there would be no shortage if the USA, instead COLLAPSED AT WIFE'S GRAVE of sending the former percen-

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RELIEF INDEED

An astronomer says the world will this deadly weapon, although its and military hierarchies last nineteen million years, and not efficiency had been repeatedly de- since the war, systematically dis- eighteen, as he previously estimat-monetrated in foreign cars dar counted and opposed the develop-

ing that period.

ed. Well, that's a relief.

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tage of 6 per cent, should sell Frederick Last, aged 64, 2

ment of the Royal Air Force, all they were asked for. The dockyard pensioner, collapsed last

INFINITIVES EASY

Great War Examples which connotes not only a new decision for or against doing so month in a Portsmouth cemetery British scientists hope to success-ully "It is a fact that in the near future

To the Great War itself there weapon but one which has per- depended and depends entirely when visiting his wife's grave, split the atom," says a writer.

DO military innovationsistently encroached upon The was

their on public opinion, and all the and died on the way to hospital. infizitive. cit course, bas already but was frowned

The time-honoured preserves?. been shattered beyond repair.

classic example was that of the (Continued on Page 11)

probabilities were that when Congress met in January ali excess over the usual average

would have been forbidden for six or eight weeks, but by The shilly-shallying over the oil the end of last year special embargo killed the enthusiasm importations had doubled the of those who were in favour quantity, bringing it up to per- of assisting the League, and haps 800,000 tons. A complete the subsequent stupid mistake embargo would therefore com- of pressing the "Peace Plan" pel a stoppage of the war even for acceptance did far more-now within three months. It it created a very strong suspi-jis obvious that it is the duty of cion that the whole thing was the League to prove its good only another of those clever but faith by imposing the restric selfish tricks with which tion and leaving the States no American politicians are always doubt that their action would ready to credit Europe. and have the result of shortening England in particular. If the the war.

whole of the "Neutrality" law is The kindred subject of ship- hung up. or even abandoned, the ping transport for the oil is sub- fault will lie in the muddled ject to the same considerations. management or the East side The building and employment of the Atlantic, and not on the of "tankers" has been a some- West

what recent but very profitable Nonetheless the report of the branch of the shipping industry experts is interesting as a proof in England as witness the of the almost complete depen-career of Lord Bearsted, who dence of the modern world on was the pioneer, and became fuel oil Even in Italy the the richest man in the country, ultimate outcome would appear certainly the richest shipowner. to be that the use of oil will be If Italy were to employ every increased. The only alterna- possible ship that she could tive for the use of industry was press into the service, she would English coal, of which the only be able to handle half of import amounted to 1,500,000 the amount required. Un- tons a very welcome item in doubtedly this would be a great the depressed coal-mining busi auxiliary weapon, which had ness of the last few years not been adequately discussed. This has of course heen stopped In any case it would end the by Order in Council, and the absurdity of vessels laden with previous history of trade stop oil sailing past the fleet of al pages is witness that when one country that nominally is try- channel of trade is completely ing to prevent the East African damned up, it is never possible army getting properly provi to get the current to flow that sioned.

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way again. The longer: the Of recent developments the stoppage the greater will be the most satisfactory is that at last use of substitutes, and the the conception of sanctions stronger will be the tendency to being, merely an Enforcement of refuse to buy English supplies, law and not any national trick The oil consumption of Italy suggested by rivalry has begin has been growing at the rate to penetrate the European con- of 13 per cent per annum, and sciousness. The recognition of in time of war that percentage this has been needlessly delay- would probably be doubled ly, but once the idea has been There is not usually any great grasped a big step ahead will reserve stored only enough have been made.

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