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PRETTY MILITARY WEDDING

Ravenhill Spinks

FULL HONOURS RENDERED AT KOWLOON CEREMONY

A

very

Here There and Everywhere.

picturesque military WHAT JOHNSON WOULD THINK

St. The spirit of Dr. Johnson must

else

were served.

serious as

MANY PACTS SINCE VERSAILLES

EUROPE'S SEARCH FOR

SECURITY

INTRICATE SERIES OF TREATIES SIGNED BY POWERS

(By Harold Stannard)

the

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for wedding was solemnised at |publication should be addressed to

the Editor, and be accompanied by Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yes have watched with pleasure over Lt. Collingwood the recent strike at Pembroke Col- the Writer's Name and Addressterday, between not necessarily for insertion, but Ravenhill Royal Artillery, H. Klege, Oxford. When at Pembroke (as a guarantee of good faith.

S. R. A. the eldest son of the late he was the ringleader in every Lt. Col. Ravenhill, R. F. A, and protest against the discipline of Mrs. Ravenbill, and Miss Violet the college. And did he not say (Peggy) Spinks, the only daughter that "he who does not mind his of Major and Mrs. C. W. F. belly will hardly mind anything WHEN the modern sort of signed on the same day. The Spinks.

nation State began to treaty was weakened at The Rev. E C Davies, MA, Whatever may be the sequel to come into existence some 400 start by the refusal of the ¡C.F., officiated.

Entering the church on the arm tainly will not be as

the strike, the consequences cer- years ago it had to work out a United States Senate to ratify of Lt Col H. H. Blake, RAMC those of a protest about food at

technique for dealing with its it. neighbours. Such rapid pro- Covenant And Treaty Defence Co-ordination by whom she was given away, the another Oxford college in 1748. Sress was made that Sir Henry

bride looked very charming in a

Its first part consists of the Wotton, who was born in Queen A Whole-Time Task

In that year five Gentlemen classically cut white crepe mousse Commoners and 29 Commoners of

Elizabeth's reign, could define Covenant of the League of "gowe, with train, and a high cowl

whose provi- It was time that the name of neckline, her tulle veil being held their names in temper off the cal-

¡the Queen's

jan Ambassador as "an honest Nations. under College scratched the new Deputy Chairman of in position by

man sent to lie abroad for the sions, (Art. 19) all the remaining a Russian balo

Commonwealth."

parts of the treaty could be the Committee of Imperial De-head-dress. She carried a boo-

lege books. fence was made known. There quet of pink carnations and lilies

They did so because the dons diplomacy became

In the eighteenth century amended or even annulled. But an elegant the Germans hate the Treaty of is urgent need for him to be of the valley, and was attended by plaines of the way the commons expected as indeed they are the League, propose to negotiate

refused to listen to their setting to work. The Govern the Misses

com- profession whose members were Versailles, and, if they rejoin Rosamund Hancock ment's intention to create the and Sylva Morris,

who worei

(still-to know the exact differ- for the separation of the Coven- post was announced a month dresses of

In retaliation the Provost re-jence between a peach-coloured moire

"note verbale" ant from the Treaty. ago. With Mr. Baldwin's selec silk and carried

fused

Some them the customary per-land an "aide-memoirc."

provisions of this bouquets of tion of Sir Thomas Inskip to African daisies.

mission to migrate to other col- The plain man of the nine Treaty have lapsed through fill it the way is cleared for a

The bridegroom looked very

leges. start on some of the pressing smart in full dress uniform, with

teenth century, when Britain's fulfilment, the section dealing problems which await the new highly-polished field boots and

policy was one of splendid isola-with the Saar being a "cons- Minister. It is not only as de- Sam Browne belt.

tion, did not bother his head picuous example. Part VIII, puty to the Prime Minister in

The original protest at Queen's about all this technique, but the which deals with Reparations, presiding over the Defence The duties of the best man were was actually made during hall, plain man of the twentieth, who has gradually disappeared be Committee that heavy responRamas, while

discharged by Lieut. P. de N. but the Fellow at the High Table quite understands the truth of cause it proved unworkable. Clausewitz's doctrine that war Part V., which deals with "Ger- sibilities fall upon him. To a

the chief grooms to whom it was addressed simply is diplomacy carried on by other man armaments, was repudiat- degree never possible to the man was Lieut. C. C. Garthwaite answered: The commons were Prime Minister himself he will As the happy couple left the worse in the late cook's time."

means, is anxious to knowed by Germany a year ago a few weeks after Britain and where he is, particularly with be charged with the effective Church they passed under an

The controversy. which seems regard to the treaties which he/France had proposed to Ger- co-ordination of the three Ser-archway of swords held by the to have been very clumsily han-hears so often invoked.

many to negotiate a new agree vices and with the rectification bridegroom's brother officers. Idled on both sides, created a stir Records Of Past Years

İment to replace it. of defects în inter-Service) There was a very large gather in the University.

Last month she was reported organisation which sprang froming at the reception, which

It is not easy to satisfy him.to have repudiated the sections ilack of close control and a ten-held at the Royal Artillery Mess, the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of was quoted in a London paper internationalisation

Much feeling was aroused when A couple of months ago there of Part XIL dealing with the dency to shelve major difficul-Kowloon. The honeymoon will be Houses actually passed a resolu- ties about which the Services spent in the Netherlands East In-tion thanking the Provost and paper that the European Powers actually negotiating for their ja statement from 2 German partly German, though she is ind it difficult to agree.

His dies.

Fellows of Queen's for upholding had concluded 115 pacts of one amendment the discipline of the University. sort and another during the last sequence of Germany's asser Such is the con- 10 years; and the relations of tion that, so far as she is con- European nations since the war cerned, the Treaty of Versailles, did not begin in 1926.

which she regards as a docu- They began with the Treaty ment imposed upon her by her Some noisy relatives were visiting of Versailles, which was signed conquerors, is valid only to the a couple, and happened to men..on in June, 1919, by Germany on extent she chooses. their dog. a big mongrel.

"He's just like one of the family," said the pap's proud mistress,

"Which one"

e?" asked the hostess.

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is to be the mind which must think in terms of three elements

at once, give day-to-day super-

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Bona Dea

vision to the whole field of de- EXPLANATION OF fence needs, and quicken essen-¡ tial machinery where it tends to lag. He will be expected to supplement the activities of the Chiefs of Staffs Committee by his own initiative, so that no aspects of the defence situa- tion escape due consideration and every difficulty is squarely faced.

THE Roman Goddess, who in:

life was so chaste that she

WORSE ONCE

Your Daily Smile!

Why Bring That Up?

*

*

you can't keep both yourself and never saw or knew the name of your business in a liquid condition. It is foreshadowed in the very deified as the Goddess of Womanly

any man but her husband, was: circumstances of the time that virtue. Her sanctuary was in a the duties of his new office will

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of rivers

the one side and the 27 Powers with which she had been at war tant clauses of the Treaty of But some of the most impor-

on the other. It is important Versailles were cancelled with to note that, though the British the full agreement of all parties these, Powers, the United King- to be found in Parts I and III, Empire is described as one of concerned. These clauses are dom, the. Dominions and India Part II. being entitled "Boun all signed separately.

daries of Germany," and Part Small Credit

The treaty is divided into 15 III. "Political Clauses "Prisoner, you

for are found not parts, and the treaties under Europe." They were replaced

which Britain and the "But I've been kept in custody for States made an alliance

United at Locarno in the autumn of Does that entitle me France are not a part of the main many herself.

with 1925 on lines suggested by Ger- Treaty of Versailles, though} (Continued on Page 11)

* small crime free 01

tend to increase; for with re-rotto in the Aventine, and men ruilty and are discharged." armament comès extension of

were not even allowed to know the machinery of defence and her name under pain of death. It a fortnight. the right and efficient use of was also death for any man who to commit enlarged resources in men and would look at her statue. No charge?". material can only be finally as male person was ever allowed in sured through perfect control the House in which her statue and co-ordination at the head. Was located, not even the picture Moreover, Sir Thomas will be of a man was tolerated there. Chairman of the Defence Policy

The Spinning Jenny

and Requirements Committee of the Cabinet, which has the special and significant duty of THE Spinning Jenny, the great- est. source of England's foreign policy and must advise wealth and importance, was named when changed international con-after Jenny Hargreaves, wife of ditions require an adjustment James Hargreaves, its inventor. of defence proposals. Here is Hargreaves was a native of Black- jenough for any man to do. It bura, and the thought came to remains for the Government to him when he saw ordinary spin- consider what ought to be done ning wheel overturned ON the to provide its new Minister with ground, when both wheel and more effective assistance. spindle continued to revolve. The What is still required is a com-first jenny was constructed in petent secretariat, or small de- 1764. At the invertor's death in partment, which can concen-1778, there were 20,000 jennies in trate continuously on combined use planning. It is of the essence

correlating defence policy with TH

of a successful defence policy

IN AMERICA

Suffers From Third

Attack

that the Deputy Chairman and "YAWNING WOMAN” the Chiefs of Staf should have -as the individual service de- partments already have the assistance of their permanent experts devoted to the purpose! of planning the relationship of the services. Even with all such aids granted him, the new

Morrison (linois.) Minister cannot possibly be ex- Mrs. Harold McKee, the "Yawn- pected to give proper attention ing Woman," is suffering from a to the further duties, at the third attack of the disease which moment assigned to him, of causes her to yawn eight or eleven chairman of the Principal Sup-times every minute.

ply Officers' Committee. This In 1934 Mrs. McKee had is a matter which the Govern- yawning fit that lasted nine days; ment must now earnestly con- in 1935 her yawning continued sider. We shall hope that a eleven days. Worry and straîn hint conveyed lately by Mr. over the care of an invalid. hus- Chamberlain indicates the in-band and a diabetic son are be-: tention to allot those onerous lieved by doctors to be the cause responsibilities to a separate of her complaint. control

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