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Notice To Contributors.

LOCAL TRAFFIC Here

ACCIDENTS

Four People Killed

Last Week

Four people were killed in traf-

the fe accidents reported in

There

and Everywhere.

course of the week ended April FEW STUDENTS OF JAPANESE

All communications intended for 18. Two met their death when The School of Oriental Studies, public "tion should be addressed to running across the road,

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STRUGGLES FOR THE RHINE

SEVERAL CENTURIES

OF CONFLICT

MANY RACES HAVE STRIVEN FOR CONTROL OF RICH VALLEY

(By Jasper H. Stembridge) THE story of the Rhine is one. Those prosperous days passed, By the third century the The least to establish the river as a boun-wane.

people. Three were injured when African and Oriental language of constant struggies either and the power of Rome began to

The Budget

the of

a surplus of nearly $3,000,000,

very frms

the

running across the road, three! The most popular are Arabic, when walking on the roadway, one Persian and Chinese. when appearing from behind an popular, last year, were E5k and dary or to obtain control of its Romans had been forced to yield other vehicle, two in collisions be-Isoko, West African languages, basin. These conflicts well as the right bank of the Rhine. be con- to that most virile of all the Ger Hong Kong, Thursday, April 23, 1936 tween vehicles, one in a collision each of which had only one pupil. trate the truth that though rivers low its confluence with the Main,

between vehicles also involving A surprisingly small number of may suggest themselves as damage to property, and two when pupils learn Japanese. Last year.venient lines for the demarcation man tribes, the Franks, whose jumping on or off, or falling off, alout of a total of 424, only 13 were of frontiers, yet often they unite Saxon brothers occupied the lands

somewhat farther to the east. vehicle when in motion.

learning Japanese and they were rather than divide.

· France's Conquerors no fewer than 23 principally Army and Air Force: Most of the world's great rivers, | There were

Within a hundred years the The Chancellor

Franks had established settlements Exchequer budgeted for an collisions between vehicles during officers Despite the increasing such as the desert-bordered Nile

of them involving commercial importance of Japan of Egypt. the Ganges, and estimated surplus of £500,000 the week, one

few English commercial Hwangho, are natural channels of in what is now Belgium; and by last year. Actually there was damage to property.

trouble to learn its lan-communication: they form links the fifth century had occupied Co- jguage, excusing themselves on the and not barriers between the peo-logne and driven the Romans from ground that it is too difficult.

ples living in their valleys. The much of their territory main objection to the Rhine as west of the Rhine. Other Franks

crossed the Main at used frontier is that if so

(the ford of the Franks), extend- total of £14.000.000 during the

divides a rerion which forms

ling southward up the Rhine, and year. This is indeed. in the.

and university prize natural geographical unit. words of the Chancellor, a Warsaw, To-day-it

The Celts, whose history wonderful demonstration of the ficially announced yesterday that poets usually fade into obscurity buoyancy of the revenue. And the Premier, M. Koscialkowski.lin after life. An exception was familiar to generations. of lower with that record behind hirm will arrive this afternoon at B-Rupert Brooke, whose father was form schoolboys who have made Mr. Chamberlain is surely adpest for an official visit which a housemaster at Rugby, and who their acquaintance justified in locking to still was originally scheduled for last wrote and recited the prize poem Commentaries, further expansion of revenue Sunday, but had been cancelled at there at the age of 18. in the coming year. True, the the last minute. The Premier figure for expenditure is up to will remain in the Hungarian can be sold in 5798,000,000, but increased pital till next Sunday morning. revenues are anticipated from Trans-Ocean Service. Customs and Excise amounting

in spite of budgeted supplemen-

jtary expenditures of £4.000.000

which in fact were swollen to a

POLISH PREMIER VISITS BUDAPEST

*

was of-

POET'S SELF-CRITICISM

School

TO the

Frankfurt

is westward to the basin of Paris. until by the seventh century they had conquered nearly the whole of

in Caesar's

France.

Charlemagne. the great Frankish were the first- ruler and inheritor of the Roman known people to inhabit the Rhine tradition, moved his capital from

An autographed copy of it will Valier. But in the centuries im-Paris to Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen).

mediately preceeding the Christian from which base he conquered and London shortly. On

era German tribes, advancing

converted the Saxons now inhabit- it is written his own criticism of from the east exerted pressure on ing the plain between the Rhine the poem - an exclamation mark these Celtic folk, forcing them and the Elbe.

Ec-

across the Rhine and dispossess-

So powerful did Charlemagne to £10.500.000, with a further promoted him to that exalted"Such," he writes to Arthur

become "that his realm included- £10,000,000 from income-tax, position. Richard adopted himkersley, "is my criticism: I expecting them of its valer.

But, after all,

the whole of France extending over The Roman Road duties £10,000,000 from

on as his patron saint during the yours will agree.

the it is only a prize poem, so be not

B.C. In the last century

the the Pyrenees into Northern Spain; various articles and commo-Crusade, and attributed dities. and £4,000,000 by the successes he won to his in- too severe on it."

westward advance of the Germans Germany as far east as the Elbe, of

while

II. prevention

Edward evasion. Huence,

In the same sale is the only was stopped by the Romans, who land from the North Sea south to Further there is another 3d. in finally enthroned him as the copy ever offered for public sale made the Rhine the eastern bound-the Aips; and Italy as far south

saint of the on income-tax, and there tutelary

England, of an earlier poem, "The Pyra-ary of Gaul Later the Romans as Rome Thus the whole of the is to be an increased duty on where he now is and where he mids," also written and printed at extended their territories to the Rhine Valley lay Itea.

tax

will remain.

Considering that the country Cynics, in considering the

is now involved in prodigious history of St. George, will see commitments for defence pur-analogies which only too well

poses,

it

to So often

the

Rugby School

Your Daily Smile!

*

*

scores of ways

of

a

and

within his

east of the river, and built a de-domains, forming the main chan- fensive wall from the right bank nel of communication for his king- of the Rhine, opposite point doma channel not only for trade, midway between Bonn and Cobbit one through which Mediter

(Regensburg), ranean civilisation filtered by way can congratulate bear out that legend of "per- Italian soldiers in East Africa who lenz, to Ratisbon

of the Alpine passes, and pene itself that much more drastic fidy" with which the name of are unable to go home on leave are on the Upper Danube.

Under Roman role. life in the trated northward to leaven that of demands have not been made Albion is sometimes associated-allowed to be married by proxy. One on the taxpayer. Indeed, most St. George was a Cappadocian or tr, no doubt, would have pre Rhine Valley prospered, and Basle the Rhine.

and Strasbourg, Speyer

Empire Breaks Up people will be surprised that so There he started business as anferred the option of going to East

Africa by proxy.

Mainz, Coblenz and Cologne, all Soon after the death of Charle little is asked of him army contractor, were be suc- Labour critics of the budget cumbed

fortified towns on the left bank of masne his Empire broke up, and temptation may be expected, of course, to which

besets the We are told by a window dresser the river became important ad- in 343 his territories were divid- ministrative and trading centres et into three parts. Those on the make the most out of the in-breed. He supplied bad bacon that there are

and creased duty on ten and the to the

The paved Roman road, running west formed the Kingdom of the fact that money is

from being escaped

along the left bank and linking West Franks afterwards France; the

these places, echoed to the tramp those on the east formed the lands "thrown away" on armaments soldiery who had to But they should remember that He then reappeared as a tax.

of the legionaries; merchants of the East Franks, which were the proposed defence loan is collector in Constantinople, arid

Voice (on the telephone): """Zander! travelled to and fro through the known from the tenth century on postponed, that the defence las far as records can be trust

Zander! Z! Z!! No. not S: ABCDEFG valley, and ships sailed up and wards as Deutschland (Germany). programme is being met out of ed, did fairly well for himself. HIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ." down the river with their loads. (Continued On Page 10) revenue, and that the figure for Up to this time he seems to

been the debt service is to remain have

qualifying for £224,000,000, a reduction sainthood by a Efe of profitable lof £51,500,000 in the floating isin. But he then went to debt having already been made Alexandria and there blossom- last year.

ed forth into a saint after the

12t

army

making coloured paper attractive. narrowly Most girls prefer it cut inte enraged pieces and thrown over them. eat it

Altogether the comment of process known as "conversion." the Daily Telegraph and Finan Richard's and Edward's cham cial Times seems to be most pionship finally set the seal of 2 glamorous appropriate: that the Chancel-approbation on lor has 'erred on the side of career and secured for him a caution.

There is not much canonisation which stands

this day. sense, either, in talking about

to

what the country might have It is extremely improbable saved had the armaments pro-that the private lives of any closer gramme not been decided upon. saints will bear any

of St. The bare truth of the matter is scrutiny that that that its commitments in this George. Much more to our direction are inevitable and, in purpose at the present time is the circumstances, extremely the influence which his the moderate. The country knows patronage has had what it has to pay for increased characters of Englishmen and armaments in the year, and it the English nation for cen- has been disclosed that it can turies. It is characteristic reasonably afford it. One may that the patron saint is usually deplore the necessity for in-depicted in and associated with creased expenditure on the de- his heroic role of slayer of the

all There is

the fence services, but only the dragon. wilfully obdurate will insist inmate chivalry, gallantry, “old- that the necessity is not there. school-tie" character of your All in all, the budget discloses Englishman who likes to think moderate and cautious treat himself typical in a nutshell. ment. The country should be He is the gallant rescuer of thankful for small mercies.

St. George For England

dames, the doughty fighter against fearful odds, the man of action who likes honest beer, who can still be stirred to action, in Chesterton's magnifi- cent. line, by the "dim drumm's Today is St George's Day, throb on the hill half-heard." and St. George is the Patron! The "saint" part of St. George Saint of England. For 1,400 still stands for something, that years there has

con-Englishmen can honorr. - Long St troversy as to his merits or may it continue to do so. demerits, while it has never George for Merrie England!

explained been satisfactorily

beer

how he came to be accepted za the patron saint of England,

The RMS. Empress of Canada with which country the "Holy Cappadocian" seems to have arrived at Vancouver yesterday had absolutely nothing to do.afternoon and will leave for Hong But two of the greatest fight-Kong on May 2. She is due here] ing kings of England, Richard on the morning of Friday, May Coeur de Lion and Edward 22, and will leave for Manila the III, took a fancy to him and seme evening.

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