1936-11-26 — Page 6

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Lady Caldecott attended the an-REVOLT OF A HUNTER All commiamications" intended for anal meeting of the Girl Guides"]; publication should be addressed to Association yesterday, when Lady Here is a shooting story from Genius For Friendship the Editor, and be accompanied by MacGregor presided and`an indica- the "Whaddon" country, printed in. the Writer's Name and Addressition of the continued progress of a London paper. Duty Paidt necessary for insertion, but the Association was given by the The host of a shooting party nor, published in a Straits paper,

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ment on the non-hunting list ow- In extending a welcome to Ladying to leg injury to draw the Caldecott, Lady MacGregor said game cart.

Bong Kong Thursday, Nov. 26, 1935jever she visited it.

King Leopold's Declaration

:

Chinese Speaking Guiders

*

from

to

THE following graceful tribute otar-cars but also once remarked

that "history is bunk i to have said recently: "There

is

purpose, its reason for being.” It is of particular interest to

I recall reading an instructive Malaya that one of her more dis-1 singuished civil servants should belittle book by an eminent Anglican playing

#prominent part in such/divine some time, ago, entitled momentous: happenings [the conWhy do men suffer" and as far solidation or the Anglo-Chinese as I can remember, the general relations. We who know Sir Aconclusion to which the

drew Caldecott's renius for friend-

author ship are happily confident that he came was that suffering was sent will make the utmost of the op-by an all-seeing, all-gracious, all- portunities that have fallen to him forgiving Divinity so that men's He went to Hong Kong at a criti-spiritual lives might be enrrobled cal time and events have so shap by passing through the refiner's ed themselves that his name may become outstanding in Anglo- Chinese history. And so say all of us.

force. Little or no explanation waS offered for the visitation of the sins.. of the fathers on innocent children; though the author did repeat, somewhat apologetically, the statement once made by * Let as hope that the jolt to the nurse: "Nobody who has ever nars public conscience by the dysentery ed a cancer patient can believe in epidemic and its most lamentable God." accompaniment of the deaths of

Sanitary" Conditions

the gathering appreciated her at- Either from boredom or tendance, and assured her of a disapproval he broke his bridle, hearts welcome to the But when got away with his driver, and

after a fast run of several miantes) The Colony Commissioner thank across ridge and furrow jumped a ed Lady MacGregor for becoming five-barred gate inte a'farmyard. President of the "Association, and The gate was smashed by the before asking that the annual re-wheels of the cart, which was un-! port and balance sheet de receiv-damaged and right way up, with ed, Mrs. King said that Guides had the driver still on board, when the suffered an overwhelming loss in hero of this exploit pulled up. In the present temper

of Europe no big decision can be the departure of Lady Southorn The leap of Flying Honey taken by any Government with- and Mrs. C. EL. Grist. They were give the hunter his name mea eat occasioning an exaggerated both so full of enthusiasm and sared from take-off to landing, was excitement King Leopold's de-energy. she said, that their loss 24ft One may well wonder what cision to pursue a policy ex-could be if spared

the horse can do when he is sound. clusively Belgian" did make a difference, since Belgium's de

NO POPERY" VICTIM finite commitments to her co- “As usual on? greatest need, is; signatories of Locarno were re for more Guiders" declared two distinguished men. Sir Edgar of making such conditions as these reason for being"

It was a strange coincidence that eight children will have the effect! "Everything has its purpose, its placed by, uncertainties as

to King. "We cannot allow new com Britten and Mr. Francis Blundell, less prevalent in Hong Kong.

Will somebody her attitude. Whether Belgium panies to be formed without ad-who died suddenly within a few take the particulars from a report malarial mosquitos, or filthy, leath

Titell me what cobras are for. is allied, or isolated by her own equate gaiders to train them pro-hours of each other, should have in a morning paper of a case beard some diseases which affect not only choice, the inviolability of her perly. If you hear of any Chinese come South within a day of each at the Central Magistracy last those afflicted with them but one soil cannot be a matter of in-speaking Guiders, please let us other from the small district of Tuesday: difference to other nations. know."

boza. generations who cannot by Pacts do not alter the facts of The

Blandelsands near Liverpool

any stretch of the imagination be Det. Sergeant Dewar prosecuted Sir Edgar was resuming com geography. For the Belgians, in Danby reported that the finances mand of the Queen Mary. Mr.

and stated that the defendant held to be responsible for the fall- the words of their King, to were in a satisfactory-state and Blundell had come to London to

were arrested during a hawker raidings of their ancestors, or cancer. jaim resolutely at placing our although a considerable amount of attend the wedding of a relative.

on Monday. Both stalls were in a or beastly wars and pestilences, or Sithy, condition, and when the foods, famine, eruptions and selves outside the conflicts of

all money it beer spent on repairs) "Mr. "Blundell" was the chief pro-

derboards, were, removed kerosene the cruelty and callousness of jour neighbours” is a natural

to the Hurt the generosity of moter in the Commons of the

had to be poured on the rubbish policy, but, as history has friends had enabled income to ex-Catholic Relief Bill of 1926, though shown many times over, na-

ceed expenditure. tions seeking to gain an advan-

jit was an Anglican, Sir Dennis In moving the adoption of the Herbert, who eventually saw tage in conflict will choose what!

it easier report and balance sheet Mrs... through to the Statute Book. At they believe to be the

M. Henderson paid a tribute to the any rate, it ended Mr. Blundell's path to their end, irrespective Guiders, many of whom, she said. Parliamentary career. of other nations claims to aloof-worked in schools and offices, but In 1929 he was beaten at Or Market ¡ness.

still found time to teach others mskirk on a "No Popery" cry. Some of the military implica- This was the true spirit of Guid-

I am also informed that a pretty!

What one particulariy objects to He took his defeat with equani-little discovery was, made by the in the cinema and all its ways is tions of the change that King ing, she said.

mity, remembering that many of Government officials his forebears the family have held earlier this week

concerned not necessarily its vulgarity and It was of a its truly homeric ability to cheapen the Crosby estate at Blundellsands storehouse, in which large all that it touches, but the bare- for 700 years were fined for their quantity of alleged tea was faced brazenness of its deceptions. allegiance to Roman Catholicism found.

This tea, which was Does a single week go by in which after the Reformation.

apparently to have been made up we are not promised "the most into packets and sold to the un-magnificent production ever stag suspecting public as "Chinese bea,”jedi,”-“a" super-colossal spectacle, consisted of the leaves gathered harrowing the heart-throbs of from

discarded teapots and spit-nation,” etc, etc, od lib.? What toons all over the place and then do you suppose brother, you would

Treasurer

Mrs. D.

Those Present

Those present at the meeting

HUMAN BONES FOUND

underneath them to kill the awful as humanity, and all the blood strench. The feet of the stall were and filth and dirt which men can resting on the gutter of the street Take up in their relations with one and this prevented the rubbish from another? Not that I'm really passing into the drain pipe. curious to know, but an attempted

The stalls were unlicensed and explanation might be interesting. were situated near the Central Cinema Ballyhoo

Leopold announced in his wish Mrs. C. G. Alabaster seconded

to keep war from Belgian terland the adoption was carried ritory" gave rise to consider- able discussion in neighbouring countries. For France, as the comments of her publicists in- dicated, a new difficulty is rais- Were: Lady Caldecott, Lady Mac ed, inasmuch as if Belgium were ging (Colony Commissioner), Mrs. Gregor (President), Mrs. T. H resolved to remain neutral the

G. A. C. Herklots (District Com- Belgian fortifications which continue the Maginot line would missioner), Mrs. A. R. H. Phillips not be a dependable barrier. (Secretary), Mrs. J. D. Danby Human bores, believed to be placed in a warehouse, where, after see in a picture labelled, in letters Whether in view of past experTreasurer), Mrs. J. H. R. Hance over 100 years old, were unearthed certain mystic rites have been per- half an inch in an advertisement, Secretary), Mrs. M. Ejby workomen during recent exerra-formed, it is made up into packets 10,000 Men Loved Her!" Cleo ence and the changed situation Burslem (Hut Secretary), Miss H. tions at Chingford, Mount-road, for general sale. : on the Rhine the French peo Sawyer, Mrs. A. W. Barthole Chingford, Essex

patra, the Queen of Sheba or some iple would have been content to

(Continued on Page 3) regard this as an impregnable new. Mrs. J. J. Hayden, Mrs. A. safeguard is very doubtful, and Miss Fega, Mrs. T. H. Lunson, K. Dibley. Dr. (Mrs.) G. R. Nash, the lengthening of the Maginot yrs. J. W. Riddoch, Mrs. Wright, line to cover French territoryrs. C. G. Alabaster, Mrs. L. Dus to the sea can never have been

(Badge

absent from the mind of ther. Mrs. John Fleming, Mrs. R. French General Staff as an ad-M. Henderson and Mme. Midza ditional precaution A war in sawa.

the West in which Belgian neu-

trality was respected by both

sides would simplify the milit-]

Jary problems of the nations:

that face each other across the

Rhine, and. if that neutrality were violated by one side, fresh

and formidable forces would be brought into the field

on the

other. Past history would, in short, repeat itself.

QUEEN MARY'S GIFT

To Save Wren Facade

Queen Mary has sent an anti-

que nest of drawers in a cabinet

These considerations relate inlaid with ivory and tortoiseshel to eventualities that all hope to the Rector of St. Lawrence fervently will never arise. From Jewry-next-Guildhall, E. C. the the practical standpoint it is Per. A. Lombardini.

doubtful whether a Belgian wish! It was to be sold at a bazzar on for isolation can ever be effec-November 20, organised to raise} tually realised. King Leopold funds for restoring the eastern had his thoughts apparently too facade of the church, which is re- exclusively fixed upon internal garded as one of the purest and |political difficulties, which com-most classical of Sir Christopher pelled him to seek national Wrer's “enda,” and is in danger unity. He ignored the reactions from corrosion. More than 100 likely to result from a seeming{pictures from well-known artists} change of policy -- markedly were also presented, and they affecting nations to which Bel-jwere on exhibition in the historic gium has given pledges. What-vestry of the church before the ever her desires may be, Bel-sale. gium can never rest her, secur Jity -- wholly upon her own strength Although the Euro- pean guarantee of Belgian inde

His Business ....... pendence has never been abrohan I do my stuff on the stage they "Believe me," said the comedian,! rated, it has in fact been replac [TORY_".

Your Daily Smile!

led by the more precise under-How wonderful! cooed the pretty taking of Locarno and the Lea-young thing "Are you a lion gue. The speech of King Leo tamer?”

old should not be read as con veying an intention to dispense with pledges of security sought

Her friends

of the

Take It. Either. "Way allowance, and as she Ested her marry She had spent much more than her

expenditures she exclaimed

Sear me!"

“I men inclined to agree with mobserved her husband sweetly,

"Water attracts

the beley

What price sanitation?

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

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