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GIRL GUIDE RALLY

ANNUAL MEETING AT KWANTI

SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT PRESENT

CHINA MAIL THURSDAY-MARCH 26, 1936.

ITALY'S NORTHERN CAMPAIGN

CO-ORDINATION OF DEFENCE VULNERABILITY:OF CAPITAL SHIPS

London. To-day.

(Continued from Page 6) But it is after an advance and the occupation of new strategic positions that the real difficulty The of the campaign begins.

Sir Thomas Inskip answered real problem is the building and Through the courtesy of the maintenance of roads for supply questions in the House of Com- President and Committee of the trains over fantastically broken mons for the first time yesterday as Minister for the Co-operation He informed the Fanling Hunt and Race Club the country.

Course.

..

the

Guide Rally and Prince of Wales Northern Ethiopia is a land of Defence. Banner Competition was held on of rocks and dust thinly cover. House that the Prime Minister of Im- Saturday last on the Kwanti Raceed with camel-thorn and low proposed to appoint a sub-com- Ex scrub. Except in a few fairly mittee of the Committee

to consider Thirteen Companies went by fertile valleys-mere pockets in perial Defence train and made quite an imposing the barren mountains-and in periments that had taken place or sight as they marched from, the one or two comparatively small were proposed in connection with station. Each Company made

plains, as at Makalle and in the defence against aircraft and ¡"Home" OB

the Ground, after Entiscio district, where you vulnerability from the air of which the principal part of the may find an occasional syca capital ships-British Wireless Competition took place. The tests more, I never saw a tree that Service.

The commonest were evolved by Mrs. C. E. threw shade. Grist. Mrs. H. Owen Hughes and trees are Euphorbia candela- Miss Brown, a Guider from Eng-brum, 30-feet high cacti, which land. The last two with five others raise prickly arms, tipped with PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY formed the examining committes, red or yellow fringes of flower, DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS to whom the warmest thanks are to the sky.

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མ་་ The contour of the country is sistance as interpreter.

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SERIOUS SMASH IN QUEEN'S ROAD Four People Injured And Car Wrecked

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS and this was eaten on the field run amok in it. The level at yesterday afternoon in Queen's

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A serious accident occurred

2 old about noon. followed by half an which one travels will change Road Central, when hour's compulsory rest.

abruptly every few miles, to model Ford car suddenly swerv- Sports And Competitions

continue again a thousand feet ed across the road and crashed After lunch a Relay Race was or so higher or lower.

into, the verandah. pinning a run as a part of the Competition; The roads carrying supplies man and woman against one of those Guides not taking part in to the front-line positions are the pillars.

woman, Wong Siu-cher, this played games.

more or less a succession of The A Camp-fire was lighted at 3 hairpin bends hacked out of the aged 62, had her right leg so time several mountain-sides, with a cliff on badly crushed that it had to be o'clock, by which friends of the Movement had ar-the one hand and a precipice on amputated at the Government The man also rived to take part.

the other. Their building and Civil Hospital Each Company then contribut-maintenance would be an almost sustained injuries to both legs,

a varied and en super-human work, even if the but not of so serious a nature.

The driver of the car, named joyable programme. the items be-threat of the approachirig rainy ing judged as a part of the Com-season were not hanging over Mo U, said to be a clerk in the ¡petition.

the Heads of the logistical" Harbour Department, and a At 3.30 pm. His Excellency the service that organisation friend, Chan Kwan-yue, were Governor arrived and was received which deals with roads, wells, also injured, the former hurting by the Colony Commissioner, Lady transport, supplies of all kinds, his eye and the latter being cut

everything except the about the face." Southern. During the programme and

The car was almost complete- His actual fighting. Lady Soutborn entertained

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layer of dust of the consistency Judgment for plaintiff, with At the end of the Camp-fire the of fuller's earth, and after 3 costs, was given by Mr. Justice

Hayden, examiners announced the winners sharp shower I had to walk be. J.

Acting Puisne of the Banner and the runners-upside the lorry I was travelling judge, in the Summary Court res- APCAR SAILINGS there being only a half mark bein, throwing rocks under the terday afternoon. in

tween them. They were the 6th wheels to give them a grip in brought by Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry,

(Continued from Page 10.) was gone. The ancient made (Maryknoll Convent) the mud.

Deputy Superintendent

feeble movement of protest with and 7th Hong Kong (French Con- On any road one continually Fire Brigade, claiming $110

"Very," she said in a low, cul- his tail, then resumed his slow car from Sub tured voice, which he His Excellency presented passes groups of road-workers.

instantly path round the Fool the trophies, after which he made whose job is to pour shovelful damages to his

Lieut. A. A. Mowbray, of H.MS.

jknew he would never forget. There "Perhaps you are right" Teim a charming speech, congratulating (after shovelful of this fine dusti Phoenix.

was a touch of Shanghai in her Wao observed regretfully to the the Guides and expressing ap over the side of the precipice. The claim arose out of a collient is a subject of which ancient fish", who am now near- preciation of the great amount of because most of the rock is a!

we know little and talk much. Iing the age of obedient ears, 2

these defendant's work done for the Movement by false granite which powders sion between plaintiff's car and Gap at Magazine

have been researching at the uni-perhaps a trife bld for called for easily.

And yet.. Lady Southorn, and three cheers and a "Fanling Tiger" I think it improbable that Road, near the steps leading to versity into the position of women thoughts..

Mei Fa, alone, came from the to the the Bowen Road tram station, in England. But I see that my even the, main roads

of December 26 mother is waiting for me. For-house. In reply Lady Southern thank-front will be finished before the the early hours

Your next lecture, per "Still watching your fish?" she ed His Excellency for coming fo rains; the smaller roads will last. The defendant brought in give me.

of $108.80; but

inquired. not be.

mid-ja counter-claim By the Rally and for his interest in certainly

When Tsim Sek reached home, Que learns much from watch- answered. the Guide Movement and asked January the road from Mas. this was dismissed. the Guides to show how loudly they sawa to Decamere, the road Mr. O. E. C. Marton appeared after walking as far as politeness ing fish," Taim Was

"Gambia junction near Asmara, had only for the plaintiff and Mr. Peter H. necessitated in the company of the "There is an old fellow there who could cheer, adding

-President, he found the front door has just suffered the loss Lion" as a finale.

just been finished-for during Sin was for the defendant.

unlatched.

succulent fly, because a younger fish The Companies then formed up the 40 odd years' occupation of¦

"Ah, you are home!" his wife came and stole it under his nose. and marched back to the station Eritrea the Italians had done sprung by adherence to accent- having had a happy day with per-very little there Men are stilled methods; and this though he said from the inner room "Come I am a little Hike that old fish***

at work on roads well inside the was fully aware of the prob- and tell us what you thought of

"The allegory, is not perfect,” your audience.” old frontier.

lability of attack

"I walked back with the Presi-she replied. "If the old fish had Now that communications I expected to find training

far centres for officers at the bases, dent of the society," said Tsim but informed the fly how he de- have been stretched so

the room.xired her, she would have taken during the rapid and easy but was told no such things Sek as he went into

various people delayed care to fall, on the water nearer advances through the Tigre, were

all the "And

ito the old fish." further progress becomes in-officers commanding had had me..

"She?" Trim Wao murmured. creasingly difficult with every many years' colonial experi- mule gained. If the Italians (ence. Mariotti, I believe, had said: Tsim Ser's wife, indicating Met Fa shrugged her shoulders. *Women-and fles often pre- were using flying columns of 16 years in Libya. It appears, the girl in brown. "This is her

They have just fer protection from the young, and Askaris, or conducting a puni- however, that tactics in Libya mother, my aunt. tive expedition like Napier's, are not mountain warfare tac- been telling us about your lecture ardent. I prefer okl fish, myself. the problem of supplies would ties There; an Italian staff It seems that they arrived early They are wiser and understand

better the delights of the mind.” not be so acute; but this is officer told me, troops move at at the station.”

"Possibly I was misled by my "Yes," afd: the girl. "It is not war of occupation conducted the highest possible speed in with "steamroller" tactics. close order. It is foolish to polite to arrive before the correct gold-fish," be answered. "I Rome, To-day. Every jump forward must be move fast and in close order up time, and we saw the posters ad always open to instruction." Then, An appalling railway acci- shorter than the last, every a gorge, which may be. rimmed vertising your lectures, as we were after a pause: "Perhaps it is also cent occurred during Wednes-pause for consolidation a longer on its heights with enemy hesitating what to do. I did not ja father's duty to protect his son. day night between Rome and period." Florence, when a fast train that

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RAIL ACCIDENT IN ITALY

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"This is my cousin, Mei Fa"

She smiled.

realise at once that it was you. Yes. Tell me about England.”

"My niece, your wife, soon in "In England,” began Me Fa

left Bome shortly before mid-tary activities will mean that welcomed by the Italian troops. formed us," the girl's mother said "busbands choose their own wives, night was derailed at 3.30 am. fewer Italian troops will be Their morale is still high and "You have married an excellent and wives their husbands. I think just before reaching the small available for road. work Short- they have been spoiling for a publicity agent, Trim Sekit a good custom.” station of Panicale near Peru-ly after the occupation of real fight. The "steam-roller" And Tim Wao observed from Can good things come out of gia owing to the axle of the Makalle, even Alpinis, trained tactics made necessary by the his chair in the corner I hope the West he asked. locomotive breaking The en-mountain soldiers with a great type of campaign is little to now to hear quite a number of in "And it is not usualy there. for gine and luggage van and four reputation battle, were their liking.

teresting facts about England. It's father to live in the bosom of passenger coaches left the rails, navvying it on the roads. Now On the part of Askaris, fight- seems that Mei Fa, here, has been his son's family. That, also, is turned over and were smashed that at least a division of Alpini ing in the future will be piti-studying the subject at the mi-good. Now in Shanghat there is to matchwood, the two fore-reinforcements has arrived, less. A colonel in command of veralty, I am deeply interested mach to hfærnet, and winch to da

pay for. You should see Shanghai."; mast carriages being telescoped. perhaps mountains warfare as black Italian troops confided to in her views.”

"I could not go alone,” he said. Most of the passengers were we understand it will be waged me recently that his men hadcast will be delightful,” said

“It would be most unwise to go asleep at the time, three being! Tactics, up to date, have not seen some of their comrades Txim Sek, as the girl in brown killed instantaneously, while 25 been what is normally practised mutilated by the Ethiopians winted wickedly behind the shelter alone, Mel Fa replied "One en- As in mountainous country, "I There will be no holding of her hand. "Doubly delightful." joya new expériences more if they were seriously injured. the work of clearing away the noticed during the advance on them now," he admitted. "They Taim Wan stood motionless, are shared debris could not begin until Makalle that heights were not are black men, too, you know watching his gold dish. A fly setil- daylight it is likely that more picketed and none of the nor-land though they have beened on the surface. The ancient Trim Was confessed, ruefully. dead will be found under the mal precautions were taken trained by us, they keep their monarch of the pool swam Into That, also, is a matter which ruins.

Col. Mariotti, ran his column natural characteristics. I view and moved, leisurely, towards may be remedied in the future,”- Several of those injured are straight into Degiace Cassa think there will be very few the struggling Insect From the che said demirely. You might not expected to recover Sebat's trap in Enda Gorge, a prisoners taken by our black other direction a smaller, brighter learn from your son

bave Trans-Ocean Service.

Itrap which would

Ash cane, snatched, gulped and been troops in future."

mt have sheet somewhat slow,"

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