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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936

The China Mail

ndham Street, Hong Kong

Telephone 20029.

Landon. Onces

Garrick Street, London, W.C.2

Notion To

To Contributors.

MORAL POINT IN Here

LAW CASE

Gramophone Records As Evidence

JUDGE HEARS THEM IN HIS ROOM

There and

Everywhere.

"THE TIGERS" ELEPHANT

he

માં

WHERE CLOVES COME FROM

ROMANTIC HISTORY OF

E. INDIAN TREE

STRANGE MARKET PROCEDURE"

IN ZANZIBAR

Major Click Alexander, Keeper All communications intended for After gramophone records of an publication should be addressed to imitation by music hall performers of the Privy Purse, who was the (the Editer, and be accompanied by of an air raid, had been played first to greet the King when the Writer's Name and Address over to him last month in his pri- landed at Heathrow aerodrome not moussarily for insertion, but vate room at the Law Courts, Mr. after his recent holiday, once gave ez a guarantee of good faith.. Justice Lewis, the Vacation Court an amusing account of a hunting WHILE you have been est-the skilful handling of

ing your apple tart or Arab_crews; are capable of judge, dismissed an application trip with M. Clemenceau in Africa

Major Alexander was asked to your apple dumpling have you great speed and put out in seas for an interim injunction

wondered where the that would cause most of us to

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The application was for an in-act as "the Tiger's" white hunter fever berim injunction to restrain the M. Clemenceau was then about 74 cloves with which they are fav hesitate before entrusting our

they lives to such frail craft. Six Harmonists, music hall, radio Although he knew nothing of big-loured come from, how

The growers naturally want and flm artists, from an alleged game hunting, he decided that he grow or how they are market-

ed? Probably not. Perhaps you to obtain the highest possible |infringement of copyright claimed must shoot an elephant.

judgment as to the right quan- flm and radio artists, in a com- for a winter night in Paris, the to tell you. position called "Take Cover." old man set out with his doctor. The clove is the unexpanded tity of water to sprinkle over. Mr. Wilberforce, for the Four Major Alexander and a native run-flower-bud of an East-Indian the dried cloves to increase tree, the "Caryophyllus Aroma-their weight has been reduced Aces, said that the dispute related carrier.

Hong Kong. Friday, October 23, 1936 by the Four Aces, also music hall, Dressed in thick clothes suitable have, but nobody has been able price for their crop, and their

will always be scoffers like Hotspur, who will say: "Why.

"No Copyright In Noise"

+

THE SOUL OF TACT

Girdle Round About The Earth

to the copyright in "Take Cover," They were able to reach a point ticus," which somewhat resem-to a fine art. If cloves come to "Tll put a girdle round about e composition which they contend within 40 yards of a grazing herd bles the laurel in height and in market too camp the buyers the earth in forty minutes,ed was invented by them. It con-The Tiger" was placed in a suit- the shape of its leaves. Cloves will either not purchase them boasted Puck, and while, of sisted of the representation by able position, with his rifle resting originally came from the Moor will only offer a low price for lucca Islands and the best still them and the addition of water course, the feat is to be com raid with the accompanying

vocal means of an impression of an on the branch of a tree.

He was to take first shot and come from these islands. Once naturally increases the cost of mended, it should be remember- ed that he could call spirits oises of aeroplanes and gunfire. Major Axander the second. Im upon a time, the Dutch, in or-freight and, as far as the Pem- this branch of ba crop is concerned, the Cus- Counsel asked Mr. Justice Lewis mediately M Clemenceau blazed der to secure

It from the vasty deep (though to hear gramophone records

of away, and Major Alexander then commerce to themselves, des-toms duty in Zanzibar. this feat is attributed by theke Cover and of the alleged ared. dropping his elephant.

troyed all the trees growing in would therefore seem that hon- Bard to quite a different per infringing performance by the

the other islands and confined jesty, was the best policy, and son) to his aid And there s Harmonists.

the cultivation to those growing that it would be more advan a ther in Ternate. In spite of this pre-tageous to deal with M. Clemencear's target and the caution, however, cloves were joughly dried crop, but the so can I, or so can any man; but The Judge said he would do so,!

records rest of the herd charged, fortun-transplanted from the Moduc-growers presumably know their

cas into the islands of Mauri-own business. will they come when you do call and a gramophone and

were taken into Eis private room.stely missing the party.

Sellers' Sacks for them?" Also, a genius of where a performance was given.: When the dust had subsided Mtins and Bourbon and thence to

When either the Zanzibar or another day conjured up the splendid vision of a cumnaviga-Counsel representing the parties Clemenceau approached Major Al-other tropical islands, such as

exclaimed: the West Indies, Zanzibar and the Pemba crop arrives at the (ware present.

exander's victim, and

Pemba.. tion of the globe in 80 days,

Iport it is carried in sacks to a When counsel and Mr. Justice "Ah, mon elephant!” which was the time taken, if we Lewis returned to court, Mr. Wil

After the tree has burst into long shed set aside exclusively He seemed quite unaware that remember aright. by Jules berforce contended that the com- his own shot at the enormous tax-a profusion of flowers, the for the clove trade. The shed Verne's voyager. Now, how-

position of the Four Aces was of get only 40 yards away had only cloves are gathered either by is divided into open, fron barred. ever, science has outriden pro-such an original and artistic char- ficked the animal's ear. Major hand, by means of hooks or by partitions with a wide central phecy. Without the adven-

acter as to be entitled to the Alexander, the soul of tact, com-beating the tree with hamboos, gangway; every grower is al- turous aid of sprites, goblins, djinns or the "little foll man protection of the Copyright Act plimented him on his fine specimen. after which they are dried by lotted his own partition in He submitted that the composition During the expedition. Clemen-exposure to the smoke of wood which he stacks his daily pro- has arrived at the stage when of the Six Harmonists as shown by locau ate eggs and bacon for near-fires and then to the rays of the duce. Some growers The can contemplate the

(only 20 to 30 sacks to market; per the gramophone record was simply ly every meal He told Major Al-sun. formance of this miraculous

Zanzibar Market

others as many as 200 to 300. an imitation.

exander that the invention of this feat in something like a quar-

Britain's most Mr. Martin O'Connor, for the dish was one of

From 7 o'clock in the morn. The writer was recently in ter of the time The arrival

Six Harmonists, suggested that valuable contributions to the world. Zanzibar where he had an op-ling until mid-day these sacks here of the China Clipper from the record of the composition of the At the end of the trip. Clemen-portunity of seeing something remain in their partitions, open Macau this afternoon provides the final link in a chain of air Four Aces showed how much the ceat gave Major Alexander a of the clove market, an account to inspection by prospective public will submit to and endure." souvenir. It was a post card sent of which may be of interest to buyers who handle them very services which will make it pos- There was no evidence of infringe him by an American asking for others. The Zanzibar crop had roughly. They enter any parti- sible for the air traveller to set out from and return to Hongment of the alleged copyright. The his autograph. Clemenceau scrawl-bean picked and disposed of betion that takes their fancy and Kong, completing the whole of Four Aces could not have any copyed his name across the card and fore his arrival, but the crop without taking the trouble to presented it to Major Alexander. from the adjacent island of open a sack by untieing its his journey by means of rou-right in mere noise.

Mr. Justice Lewis said that he

Pemba, which matures later, mouth to examine a sample of tine commercial air services.

was quite satisfied that the motion

was being brought to Zanzibar its contents, they cut a great Puck's record still stands, it isailed and must be satisfied. "I

and hole in its side with a penknife where ocean-going liners true; but it was accomplished

freighters call for cargo. The into which they thrust both Many fires have occurred reccnt-Pemba cloves are brought over hands and extract a double Hav- ly in the Dagenham and Romford in dhows, narrow picturesquefhandful for inspection. districts of South Essex, and in-sailing vessels with a single ing examined this sample, in-

under (Continued on Page 7) cendiarism is suspected.

triangular sail, which,

by miraculous inspiration and have had the advantage of hearing help and is therefore out of both records." he added, "and in view they are completely count. What man has at last

dissimilar." accomplished he has accom- plished solely by the exercise of his strictly human faculties- and is surely a magnificent

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In a few years' time these things will no doubt be сот monplaces, taken as much for granted as the daily, almost! hourly, flights across the Chan- Firemen fought for nearly an nel are to-day. It is not so hour to save the lives of two men long ago that. Bleriot blazed a who had been overcome by gas in trail in what was then account-a trench while they were laying a led a remarkable feat-as, in-gas main at the North Circular deed, it was. From Alcock and Road, Palmer's Green, N. last Brown, through Lindbergh to month. Merrill and Richman, the un- Two oxygen sets were taken) equal contest

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in fact, all the Seven Seas have surrey, district took part in the been conquered one by one, sonnual competition organised last that

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A man took a valuable watch

Let us not belittle their feats meads Old Woling, and Newark for they were valorous-· · · and mighty. The air girdle round labout the earth to which, this afternoon's arrival of the China Clipper will testify, has only been accomplished at great cost, human and matemale repaired. The watchmaker de

hated about the price of repairs, bet į There will be time enough in finally agreed that the charge should the future to take it all for be half of what the watch cost the granted. "In the meantime it young mEL may be greeted as a portent of jeven greater things to come, it

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