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DICTATORS VISA-VIS

John Y. It, as is suggested, Signor Mus-

TN open competition for strang men at the Boston YM.C.A. All communications intended for recently. 70-year-old publication should be addressed to Smith made them all sit up ¡the Editor, and be accompanied by take notice when he did a

the Writer's Name and Address hand slow curl from the floor over Italians will hope that it will be:

FLK.$36.00

One Year

6 Months

3 Mouths

BKS 9.00

- Postage Abroad Brizs

and solini pays a visit to Herr Hitler

in the autuma, Germans two-

and

MUSSOLINI AS AN AVIATOR

BOOK GIVES DETAILS OF

DUCE'S FLYING

EARLY INTEREST DEVELOPS INTO PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE

A

Rome:

Pin-

not necessarily for insertion, but bead of 176 pounds. Again, plac-more successful than their meeting as a guarantes of good faith. Ling clenched fingers against the at Venice in June, 1934

inside of the bar and at right ang- This, the first meeting between

S the armies of Badoglio drew¡lini — Aviatore,” Subscription Bates.

les to it, using thumbs alone for the two dictators, was not an m-

near Addis Ababa there was sciana) grip on the outside, he curled from qualified success politically. The FLK $15.00

Early Influences the floor overhead 165 pounds. gentleman's agreement between a rumour in Rome that II Duce During the past year Smith has the Fuehrer and the Duce on the would fy to Ethiopia and take In 1909, when the practicability spart in the triumph that followed of heavier-than-air apparatus had done a one-hand dead life of 407 subject" of Austria lasted but

the occupation of the capital. Had begun to be realised: "Mussolini pounds with either hand, and few weeks, challenges any man in the coun What was more, the visit was the rumour become an actuality was writing articles for a Trent Įtry, no matter what his age or not a personal success for Herr Dace could have covered the Socialist paper edited by Cesare A postcard published in 2,500 miles, with a possible stop in Battisti, who was later to be "Agreeing To Differ" weight, to defeat him at his own Hitler.

Germany after the meeting bears Libya, Italiana, by piloting the executed by the Austrians. Mus- the caption, “Adölf 40-Pound Anklets

Hitler-plane that bore him.

selini at once became fascinated Benito Mussolini, the guarantors The various lives" of Signor by the then incredible feats in the of European Pesce”

Mussolini pay considerable atten-ļair; thus fascinated he foresaw in Less than six weeks later one of tion to his avocations-horseback his articles the possibilities

Hong Kong. Friday, October 9, 1936

There is nothing new to be said about the Budget per se,

..

THE native girls of Africa are

which has already been suffi-Ethion leaders of the the guarantors mobilised 500,000 riding, motor-car driving, swim aviation in commerce and

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ciently discussed in the press. and especially after the exhaus-world when it comes to personal men on the Brenner Frontier after ming, fencing, and labouring in Aeronauties in its broader sense

Among the various the murder of Dr. Dollfuss. tive analysis of the figures and adornment.

the fields-but quite ́ ignore the}did not then seem to appeal to proposals provided by the Un-tribes. I have seen not only ank-

It is no secret that Signor Mus-fact, or caly incidentally mention him. officials speeches at Wednes-lets of heavy wire and iron that solini, on his part, formed no very it, that he is an experienced avia- day's debate.

Four years later he took his. Within the weigh more that 40 pounds, but high opinion of his brother dictator. who, solo, has flown more first fight. In the meanwhile, liraits of a newspaper leading 10- and 15-pound earrings, nose-tor. The Fuehrer has, however,

miles than the poet-aviator, Battisti's paper, Il Popolo, devoted article it would be impossible gear and month decorations. Dur-changed a good deal in the last even to summarise all the ing the building of the Kenya and two years, and the Duce may have Gabriele d'Annunzio, did in the periodically a full page to the de-

World War:

velopment of the phenomenon-a points of criticism brought for-Uganda Railway from the port of occasion to revise his opinion

"Live Dangerously” development which, although sur- ward; and it is enough to sayMombasa to the Colony of Uganda, that they were all cogent and, the contractors lost hundreds of NOT LIKE THE FILM'S

Oddly enough he who gave to prisingly rapid, nevertheless of beary copper and in the circumstances, showed miles

Mr. G. Cowan, of Portsmouth, is the world the maxim "Live dan-obstructed by constantly appear- sufficient unanimity on princi- galvanized wire and thousands of ples to carry what we hope will rail bolts and telegraph insulators, in the French Foreign Legion. Helgerously," and recklessly adheres ing factors which had to be over- has written from Sidi-bel-Abbes, to it in all other pursuits, in his come, circumvented or adapted be be effective weight when next all of which the natives pilfered. Algeria, to a Brighton newspaper fights, from taning up to the last fore the problems of safety and

to be in style. Even to-day the rail- year's Budget proposals are

revolution of the propeller, guards speed. lifting power and drawn up. Two points of the way must keep the closest watch appealing for correspondence.

"I don't want to pretend that against all possible accidents in a trol could reasonably be solved. debate, however,

be over their properties because the may

They natives like nothing better for ear-am lost in the burning sands of way not even excelled by the me- examined with profit. are the Hon. the Colonial Serre- rings than a railroad spike pulled the limitless desert," he says, "but tieulons Colonel Lindbergh

one can get the blues anywhere." tary's reply to the Unofficial from a crosstie.

Perhaps he wants to read about speeches and his detailed treat- ment of specific points, and His Excellency the Governor's pro-

posed change of procedure.

CORRESPONDENCE

In the first place the Hon Bulbs

Mr. R. A. C. North dismissed the representations made on

Govern the subject of the

ment's general exchange policy

Allegedly From

Holland

con-

These factors and problems Mussolini intelligently discussed

bis Hence, on the various occasions in

own paper, Il Popolo

the glamorous life of the Terri-that he has taken over the port d'Italia, which he started in the folio of aviation and has made interests of intervention in Milan. torials in Sussex

drastic changes in the administra-This paper also had a periodic tion, both personal and tactical page devoted to aviation. he does so with full information.

First Lessons

Your Daily Smile!

-Why do so many people sing in

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And the same first-hand know- It was in the last year of the the bath who never sing anywhere ledge has marked his conversation war that he received his first les- else?” asks a reader. Perhaps be with inventors and constructors, sons in flying from the famous To The Editor, “China Mal"]

cause the bathroom door is fastened for he has not only worked in the Swiss pilot Taddeoli, at the flying Sir.

have the honour to from the inside.

laboratory where air velocity is field of Cascina Costa. His sec- lin what can only be described as inform you that I have been re-

gauged and models are listed, but oad teacher was Sergeant Antonio fan air manner. It is hardly quested by my Government. to

A Possible Antique Gentleman sufficient to remark, on this all-

(who has struggled also in the factories.

Stroppani at Borzoli. His experi- warn the general public against

with This little known phase of ences with both pilots and unsuccessfully to write a telegram important point about which taking any notice of advantageous with the post-office pen, to girl be Duce's life, which had its incep-those who taught him later he the Unofficials as well as the offers of bulbs, as often advertised hind counter): "Might this pen, by tion 27 years ago by the birth of graphically related in his paper. general community feel by Netherlands bulb-growers in any chance, be the one with which rather strongly. that "the

velopment is manifested in one, of Mattioli's · book. There are also official view of this matter has newspapers, periodicals and maga-King John signed the Magna Charan ideal and whose present de Extracts are reprinted in Signor

zines, without making, enquiries t been very fully explained in beforehand at the nearest Nether-

Girl: "Enquiries on the right, sir." the largest feet of aircraft that copies of letters exchanged be this Council in the past and lands Legation or Consulate. as.

the world has seen, is now for the tween him and pilots and manu- I am afraid that this is one of such advertisements are often in-

The Comparison

first time described by Guido Mat-facturers. The first he asked to Brown: (pointing to railway warn- the subjects on which we must serted by unscrupulous persons (ing): "See what it says there: Stop, tioli, the editor of L'Ariazione, in take him on flights; the second to agree to differ." We respect-with fraudulent intentions, and look, listen." Those three words ilusa book of more than 300 pages, the furnish him with plans, in order fully suggest that the matter the members

text of which is illustrated with to conduct his campaign which of the Netherlands trate the whole scheme of life." cannot simply be left there, to

Jones: "How 'you make that 50 photographic scenes and por- preceded the March on Rome, în Bulb Growers Association have A very large go by default.

traits, with several reproductions the Antaman of 1922. His brevet Brown: "You see a pretty girl; matter of principle is involved agreed not to advertise in news-

of holographic notes, and with aļas pilot was then just a year old. purpose of

you stop; you look; you marry her preface by Paolo Orano ("Musso- to say nothing of the finan-papers, etc., for the

(Continued on Page 9), selling directly to the public. cial interests at stake. The

I shall be very grateful if you business community, which

would kindly cause a warning to pays the piper. feels rather this effect to be put in the editorial strongly that the Government's attitude on the financial issues columns of your newspaper. I have the honour to be.

Sir, Your obedient servant,.

G. H. BYVANCK, Acting Netherland Consul

General

involved

least, is, at the obstructive, and at most, pos-; sibly completely wrong-headed. Who, then, shall prevail-the autocrats who sit in their high places or the rank and file who put them there and keep them there? It seems to us that there is ample scope here for the reference of this important matter of policy to some higher

When a tank wagon in a sidingį council of appeal. Filched at Pontardawe, Swansea Valley. nest-eggs of $500,000 a time Steel Works exploded, sulphuric cannot always be provided, very acid splashed through the open much in a manner of manna windows of the works office, but from heaven, to help reduce de-

ACID THROUGH OFFICE WINDOW

ficits. What does the Governino one was hurt. ment propose to do when the

ito

time for the presentation of the words, "for the Unofficial Mem- next Budget comes along?bers to meet and question the How long is it proposed to con- Executive officers of Govern- template, with something like ment,” will indeed be “invalu- complacency, a recurring defcitable from the point of view of annually, while what appears to both sides." How much infiu- the ordinary man and the ence the Unofficials as a body ordinary man's duly elected can assert when they come up Unofficial representatives on

jagainst a brick wall remains the Council the elementary yet to be seen. But any proce step of pegging the local curdure which will give a little bit rency to sterling is continued to more power to their elbow is be regarded as one of the sub-to be welcomed. Whatever jects on which we must agree else happens, of one thing the differ?? These are not Goverment may be sure. The rhetorical questions which may general community believes the be treated with Olympian aloof-present policy vis-a-vis the dol- ness but are, so far as we can lar to be wrong; not all the gather, burning questions blandishments in the world, nor which the general public of all the casual wavings aside of this Colony is continually ask-subjects on which we must ing itself and the high gods, agree to differ" will alter that with but airy nothings for an opinion, so long as the general community sees for itself-as There is no doubt that is it bids fair to do for-ever and Excellency's suggested revision ever, apparently a succession jaf procedure, which we heartily of unbalanced budgets" and no, welcome, will go some of the or very little, attempt being way towards effecting the re-made to alter a fundamental quired change. The opport rinciple which might (and pro ties it will give, in Sir Andrew's bably would) work the oracle.

answerdae

jout?"

and then you listen.”

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

NANDI (Africa) FLAPPERS

WEAR ANKLETS WEIGHING 40 ZELEACH

RAN LOZE FONTS

MANUEL DIAZ

PHILIPPING BILLUND OWMPÉN

1927

HEWFOUNDLAND SEALER

"BROUGHT IN L045210. SEALS – ONEI

JOHN SMITH

BOSTON YMCA.

AGE 70

WEIGHT 154LB.::

LIFTED 176 POUNDS FROM FLOOR:OMERHEAD"

{TWO HAND SLOW (LKL)