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-Lord- Derwent, - however, is-go- To illustrate the delicate mea-

publication should be addressed to Economica has won another Duff Cooper, and other public men the Editor, and be accompanied by tory, is afforded by the announce

have accustomed us to Englishmen the Writer's Name and Addrement that Herr Wilhelm Keppler, not necessardy for invertion, but the Nazi adviser to Herr Hitler speaking to French audiences -in has been removed from his post and (as a guarantee of good faith.

will be given new duties by Gener

surements which can be al Goering in connection with the ing one better. He is to lecture in

London this autumn in French on made with scemacy to-day the four-year plan.

Herr Keppler belongs to the Baudelaire. The lecture will be following facts may be listed:

One part of gold in a billion ado Radical wing of the Nazi Party, given at the French Institute, the which favours a measure of State Council of which he has just join-parts of seawater can be weigh 182

ed.

peri ed. Socialism-Beuter..

Whether it crushes an egg or stain. Lord Derwent speaks and writes both languages with equal facility. a steel girder the force requir-ly use. Berchtesgaden: Since the plenis published book of poems, ed can be determined by ma- standard. ary powers bestowed on General which gave him a place amongst chine. Goering by the Fuehrer for the our contemporary poets, contains Master gauges can measure pound was

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Hong Kong. Wednesday, Oct. 21. 1936|

Nelson Day

OFFICIAL VERSION

execution of the four-year plan several in French. include also the power to settle all

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the millionth of an inch.

Temperatures can be deter When F. A

It is extremely difficult to economic, questions: that may other French scholar of the Formined all the way from nearly intendent of t find anything new to write about, arise, the Fuehrer withdraws the leign OfficeLard. Derwent served absolute zero (minus 450 de reported large d Nelson Day. Everybody knows mandate delegating special powers an apprenticeship in the Diploma-grees F) to 10,000 degrees F. weights and me on whom the commemoration is in economic matters upon Herric Servicey well envy.

the estimated surface temper the various port based, what the observance of Keppler.

Lord ature of the sun).

ment realised tha A cultured young man, Nelson Day typifies, and just In notifying Herr Keppler of Derwent has not confined his

Machines have been made ling Customs reven why it is so vitally important his decision, the Fuehrer heartily tention to literature. Besides which can rule 50,000 lines to jof standardisation to the British nation as a whole thanks him for the work accom-critical estimate of Prosper Meri- the inch and more, all straight lent. The units fina that the observance of Nelson (plished as special delegate. Herr

on and parallel and exactly spaced, were cumbrous, yet mee, he has published books Day should not be allowed to Keppler, it is announced, will be Goya and Rossini.

If we bring up these feats it lones possible at the t fall into desuetude. On this entrusted with important special

on jone knew whether the His knowledge of the Spanish is because they are based day 132 years ago. Admiral Lord work by General Goering in his

the highly accurate measurements and British systems we painter he acquired while at Nelson secured the command of new' capacity as the

Fuehrer's Madrid Embassy. It was

there and because June. 14, 1936.manent. So Hassler- the sea for Britain. Ever since Deputy for carrying out the four-that Castile impressed him as the marked the centenary of a re- upon a yard of 36 inches that time something that has year piss-Trans-Ocean Service only civilised country in Europe solution adopted by the United avoirdupois pound of amounted almost to a sacred charge has been faithfully and jealously preserved. Not even the most bitter calumniator of things British can with truth accuse us of failure to carry out our obligations in this respect. Indeed, the boot is on the other foot. The charge that we have arrogated to ourselves the func- tions of the world's policeman fis not altogether without foundation. The influence which Britain has been able to wield in performing those police func-) tions has generally been on the side of peace and order; but it!

AIR SERVICE IN NORTH CHINA

May Be Repudiated

By Nanking

FULL OFFICIAL REPORT CALLED FOR

[From A Special Correspondent] Canton. To-day.

that still keeps a personality.

Your Daily Smile !

A British enthusiast is prompting a Home for Aged Golfers. They have

interest in a home.

States Congress "to cause agrains, a gallon of 251: complete set of all weights and inches, a bushel of 2,150:42 measures adopted as standards bic inches.

to be delivered to the

But

to be aged, you know, to have much a uniform standard of weigh the gallon and the bushel did

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"Have you any good pork?" "Good pork? I've got some pork that will make better chicken salad than any toma fish you can buy.”

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Governor of each State in "the Of these standards the troy Union

to the end that and avoirdupois pound were

those of Great Britain. and measures be established throughout the United States. not agree with their contempor-

British In 1838 a joint resolution

of aneous

counterparts. Congress directed the Secre- Hassler adopted the wine gal- tary of the Treasury to furnish lon of 231 cubic inches and the Winchester bushel of 2,150.42 balances to the States.

(cubic inches both abandoned because

Diversity and Confusion

It took much prodding on the in Great Britain part of Washington and other they came closer to the gener Grocer: "If a child were to come Presidents to achieve this really used capacity measures of is a fact that other peoples It is said by a spokesman of the racam of maltreated milk, what submitted by Thomas Jefferson

in and say that her mother seat her sult. Important plans were America than any other... have looked upon them with Chinese Foreign Office that

Anticipating The Resolution thewould you give her?” varying degrees of enthusiasm. Central Government at Nanking is

and John Quincy Adams which. All this work was done with- New Clerk: What to one section of the world ignorant about the Hui Ting Com- of course, siz."

"Why, malted milk, despite their technical merits. out waiting for the resolution that requiring protection pany, the proposed sponsor of a Grocer:

The whole of 1836. Since Congress did not *Fine! Our last clerk were not adopted and safeguards has appeared North China-Manchuria air service hanted all over the shelves for a can period from 1775 to 1838 was specify what standards were to Ito be a beneficent neutrality, to He added that the details of the

(of whipped cream.”

one of uncertainty. The stan- be used, the Treasury promul dards were diverse, commercial gated Hassler's. By 1850 all the others has smacked of bluster-alleged agreement with the Japan- ing bullying: and while always ese have not yet been reported to

It was States had been supplied with "Now these shirts, Sir, are extra transactions confused. holding the baby in others' dis-the Chinese Foreign Office for ap- strong," said the eloquent shop assis-probably the need of uniform his standard weights and mea- erally as a wholesome function,tical Council.

tive action imperative. The England, France, Japan and The Central Gor- "I know," remarked the eastomer-States might use what weights (Siam it is also beginning to be borne ernment does not know anything "Tve had that kind before.

The last was made for in North Dakota in 1893. in upon the minds of Britons about this service except what it came back from the laundry with and measures they pleased themselves that this car some has learned from the newspapers: their sides split!"

commercial transaction but ·àa (Continued on Page 6) times be too much of a good It is understood that it is quite thing and carries the Chinese Central

putes may be looked upon gen-proval by the Hopei-Chahar Poli-laugh at the laundryman

tant "Believe me. Sir, they simplylity in coins that made legislasures. Sets were presented to

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In every such police function, the agreement. as well as in the vital business of the defence of our OKA realms, the British Navy has played a preponderating part. Argument about it and about will never cease; opposing schools of thought can never hope to

other. convince each One section holds that big bat- tleships are a back number, that air forces have taken their place in the strategy of war;TN the spring of this year the

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

The Ghost River

the other holds with equal firma-I "Ewell Woe Water,”

ness that the battleship is as Ewell, England, supposed harbinger vital a part of our defence as it of dire distress, was up again and

ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING—ever was There is scope for invaded the cellars of houses for

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the active encouragement of the first time since 1923. This both schools of thought, and the phenomenon occurs about every answer would seem to be, as it seven years and is believed to be as- so often is, that the treth lies sociated with a similar occurrence somewhere in between: that just outside Croyden where it is both sections are vital and termed the "Croyden Boudewater." necessary, that their functions The strange and sudden rise of the are largely complementary, and water is believed to be due to ex that one can never wholly re-traordinary heavy rains which also which abo place the other.

{come every seven years

In the circumstances these The Ghost River is known locally are academic disenssions. What is Diana's Dyice.- Queen Elizabeth is much more to the purpose in was supposed to have bathed in thei any commémoration of Nelson Dyke when staying at Nonsuch Day is that the "Nelson touch" Park, and the title Diana's Dyke which gave the British Navy was bestowed on it as an extrava- its greatness and fitted it for gant compliment to the Queen the magnificent role it has play-petition

ed in British history must never

be allowed to lose Its signific-plished and for what they stood ance. There is not the slightest for in the naval tradition. The aign that the influence of the observance of Nelson Day helps great naval commanders of the to crystallise what would other past is losing its savour with wise be an abstract sentiment, the snavy of the present. On difficult to capture and still

we have seen more difficult to define

They

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