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Because a baby cries after his feed it does not necessarily mean that he
· TOGETHER AND APART conceived, beautifully written How does it happen that a man little novel. Not a word is wast needs more food; in most cases the caused by indigestion
Four London flying boats of the and wife, who have lived for ed. What a relief after all the crying is
years in amity, suddenly find sprawling sagas and bulging bags through overfeeding.
An effective and absolutely safe No. 201 aquadron commanded by emeres estranged? Is divorce of nothingness that pass for no-
method of relieving little children's Squadron Leader J. D. Breaker looked upon so lightly by modern els "to-day!
digestive troubles and of quickly By Wilhelm correcting any irregularity in the Calshot on Thursday neople as is generally supposed?"Italian Summer”
Speyer. (Bles 5/-). ·
alimentary process is by means of for a cruise to Mediterranean and what effect does the divorce of
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the parents have upon their, ado-
THRILLS IN A VILLAGE
have a mild laxative action: they first These are the
of all remove the cause of the trouble. The outward route will be via lescent children?
Miss Can cows prove an alibi? Aak and then by regulating the bowels Hourtin, Berre, Malta. Algiers, questions investigated by
publishers of "One Man's prevent any recurrence. Gibraltar and Lisbon.
Kennedy's new novel. Together the
Originated by a medical child and Apart" is the kind of problem-Muddle" They also refer to the specialist, the tablets have been used In in thousands of homes where there The flying boats will reach Gi- novel that involves unsophisticats as a "detective story." braltar to-morrow week and Lis-led hippy families in spirited al- point of fact the cows have very are children during the past forty bon on January 25 and will leave (tercations over
and little to do with it at all, except give, the tablet form ensures accuracy years. Pleasant in taste and easy to the rights again next day returning to Cal-wrongs of its chief characters. that James Strange was resting in of dosage. shot on 27th. - British Wireless. |
REFORMING THE LEAGUE
ELEVEN MEN TO MAKE REPORTS
in
At teething time, too, the
Keep Baby's Own Tablets handy; Alec and Betsy Canning area field of them when Mrs. Whar drifting apart: or, to be more acton was murdered; and this novel they are invaluable when your beby has indigestion, is constipated, has curate, Betsy is determined to seis not a detective story it is a diarrhoea, suffers from colds or parate, and dec, an amiable, self-hard-boiled thriller with a few croup, is feverish, or troubled with indulgent. lethargic man, is allow pinches of detection, and a first-WOTIDE. ing himself to drift. The trouble rate one too. with Betsy, we suspect, is really James Strange goes down to the pains and inducing reatful, sleep. that she is jealous of her hus- sleepy village of Cold Spring to health safeguard for infants and band's success: she married an forget his past but, as it happens, little children anditinguished civil servant, and it is just there that his past is ly he has become a famous writer of ing in wait for him. He becomes
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Geneva-The League Reform Committee has appointed a team jot II rapporteurs" and thus,
A reconciliation nearly takes indeed murder, blackmail and the words of its chairman, Prof. Bourquia, completed the
first place, but is finally rendered in-drug-addicts. The harsh, at times possible by the well-meaning in-¡scarifying, realism of the tale is stage of its work.”
terference of Alec's mother. Alec relieved by some comic situations. The task of the rapporteurs will is thrown into the arms of Joy, and the grim wise-cracking of the be to prepare for future discus-his wife's "companion," a beauti-chief character.
By E. Bak sions in the plenary meetings by ful hat inordinately dull creature: "One Man's Muddle." establishing the connection be-Betsy is clearly all set to marry tween the different questions. The May St. Mullins, a Socialist peer, work will be shared as follows: at whom she has been tentatively
tilting her cap for some time. Viscount Cranborne (Britain).
* The motives are very confused, a very odd novel. It leaves Senor Pardo (Argentina) and M-and the crisis is precipitated by strangely indeterminate impres Stein (Russia): Separate aspects irrelevancics and coincidence:sion on the mind "strangely of the question of League univer-which is true for all motives and because it is written with great sality.
most crises, and Miss Kennedy de-precision of style and is clearly
er Quinn. (Heinemam. 7/6).
ODD BUT READABLE All The Trees Were Green" is
Baby's Own Tablets.
EMPIRE SOCIETY
LIEUT-COL WILLIAMS ADRESSES ROTARY
“A WELCOME TO LONDON
Some ideals of Empire were the subject of a talk before the Hong Kong Rotary Club yester- day by Lieut-Col. S. P. Williams, CIE, Travelling Secretary of
the Royal Empire Society.
Speaking on the objects and work of the Society. Col. Williams said it catered particularly for the welcome of people arriving in
His Excellency the Governor. Sir Andrew Caldecott, attended
M. Rutgers (Holland) and M. serves credit for not shirking the the product of a keen sensibility England from Overseas. Paul-Boncour (France): Sanctions fact. In the next section we see One is inclined to attribute this the mud being stirred up. Alec's indeterminateness to the lack of article of the Covenant.
M. Enteran (Iran): Questions and Betsy's friends take sides: a central character; this is not to the luncheon informally and was relating to . guarantees against mischief-makers get to work and say that a novel must have a cen-
accompanied by his A.D.C., Capt. do their best to make Alec's new tral character; the trouble here w, J. R. Cragg The President, aggression.
Life with Joy a misery.
is, possibly, that Mr.
Harrison W. N. Thomas Tam, express- Article The effect of all this on the Can-could not make up his mind whose ed the hope that His Excellency of warning children is worst of all. Ken-story he was telling; the constant
would call on them, more often, 3 neth, revolted by his father's in-shifting of emphasis is confusing Ar-fidelity, sole recipient of his to the reader, and the theme
mother's hysterical confidences; not strong enough to force these breaks under the strain, becomes various cross-currents and altered neurotic and nearly ruins his life. stresses into a pattern.
*M. Unden (Sweden): dealing with action in case or danger of war
Senor Guani (Uruguay): ticle dealing with the review treaties.
of
is
wish that was spontaneously
echoed.
Col. Williams said: Mr. Pre- sident. Rotarians and Guests.—1
M Kormanicki (Poland): Do-Elina takes her father's side, and The foreground is first occupied much appreciate the honour you mestic organisation of the League. is sadly domineering for a while by the de Freyne family, a mother have conferred on me as repre- sentative of the Royal Empire So- Osusky (Czechoslovakia): at the expense of the feckless Joy.and three daughters living in Articles concerning the peaceful In the end things sort themselves Kentish village, dominated by the Ciety in asking me to address you to-day. The rapid growth of the out haphazardly, as such things shadow of their aristocratical Rotary movement since its often do,:
cestry and haunted by the ghost!
M.
settlement of disputes.
Senor Umana-Bernal
(Colom
1
in-
*****
Miss Kennedy gets nearer to the of the son of the family, who was ception in 1905 to its present bia): Methods of modifying or in-bone in this than in any of her killed in the war. Their stery is embership of I believe I terpreting the Corenant.
the Rotary is making a big
previous novels. The characters of narrated by Robert Browning (not right in saying-172,000, shows Prot. Bourquin referred to the the young Cannings are particu- the poet of that name), a girlish, the great appeal that Rotary, with feverish and agitated state of the larly convincing- While she is narcissist. selfish, dreadfully pre- its ideal of service, has, to think- world at the present time. He holding ber characters at arm'scious young man who becomes in- ing men of all countries in intimated that the problems be- length, so to speak, her novel is volved in their fortunes and with World fore the Committee were so wide very impressive. Where she falls the youngest daughter, Betty, in contribution towards the promo- tion of good fellowship and that they could not be separately is, perhaps at the moments of particular.
between settled.
climax: her close-ups lack the in- Robert is an admirably contriv- mutual understanding
nations, which is so essential in the
SAILOR INJURED
Accident Aboard The German Liner Potsdam
A German sailor of the N.D.L liner Potsdam was seriously in- jured yesterday and is now in Kowloon Eospital
jed character: but he is such 2 tensity. the sheer candle-power, which should make them stand out leech that fictionally he seems to world in which we live.
Over a more limited field, the in or memory against the middle suck all the blood our of the de
Freynes distance of the rest of the narra Figg and his son, Eldred, it is a
With Count Juniper Royal Empire Society is making a
similar contribution. tive. But “Together and Apart”
To an audience of this nature
different matter. These two co-
7/6).
The principal aim of the Royal Empire Society is to promote the preservation of a permanent union between the Mother Country and
PROMOTE WORLD all other parts of the Empire and
is a novel of acute observation and lourfal, eccentric and thoroughly shall possibly sound somewhat rare honesty, and it can heartily delightful rogues remain unaffect- Parochial but the parish is big and recommended.
ed by the blight that young Mr. very scattered and I am sure that Together And Apart." By Ma Browning seems to cast over the those of you who are not British
garet Kennedy. (Cassell 7/6). rest of the characters.
citizens will forgive me if my ONE MAN'S QUEST ·
"All The Trees Were Green. By address is perhaps primarily of "Italian Summer" approa hes
Michael Harrison. (Barker domestic interest. the subject of sexual love from a The Potsdam arrived here from very different angle. It is more Europe early yesterday morning romantic than Miss Kennedy's no- and during the working of the vel, yet finally perhaps gets down TO cargo a sling of goods swung round to a deeper level of truth. Though in the bold and the sailor, Wil-it is concerned with the disilla- helm Rex. 26 years, and Yang siement that lies, like Blake's Yang-sing. 55 years, a coolie, were invisible worm" at the heart of knocked over. Both received se-love, there is a pleasant summer vere injuries and after being rush- ed to hospital were reported to be quality accentuated by Herr Spey with headquarters at Geneva, is the other, and. both are vitally er's charming dialogue and the reproposed in a manifesto issued by necessary to our Empire if we are petitive use of certain phrases and
a group of distinguished men of to be able to ensure the safety of images that works upon the mind various nationalities and profes-all peoples living under
Isions
security of our Flag.
in a serious condition.
bumour
UNITY
NEW BODY PROPOSED
to maintain the power and best traditions of the Empire
Candidates for admission to the
Society must undertake to sup- A new international organisa-port this object. about it an idyllic tion called the World Foundation, strength each is dependent
Unity and
like a retra.n. in a lyric poem.
CAPT. CAMPBELL
FUNERAL SERVICE
YESTERDAY
The hero is a man who leads an
the
Twenty signatories include aimless philandering life, always Lord Allen of Hurtwood, the Earl The past few years have seen seeking for an ideal beauty in the of Lytton, Sir Arthur Salter, Sir the world.
many revolutionary, changes in flesh and blood of his real mis-Norman Angell, Dr. Ray Lyman
Few countries have trees, and always disappointed wilbur, Dr. J. Bonn, Signor tional relations. are complicated nemained unaffected Interna- Finally, in a little Italian town, he Guglielmo Ferrero, M Jules Ro
by internal dissensions. There The funeral service and crema-'mets Aglaia, who is destined --
mains, Cmdr. Stephen King-Hall, is a widespread feeling of nervous tion took place yesterday of Mr. though he fights hard for a while Mr. Tom Mann, Prof. Gilbert Mur- Dougias Lorne Campbell, Captain/gainst his destiny — to solve the ray and Senor Salvador de Mada-\countries in the world' to-day re-
of the Chinese Preventive Ship riddle for him Cheongkeng, who was shot dead
by his cabin boy early on Monday morning.
•
**You're living in a phantom world, she told me as I stood is front of her. You kiss vindow on the wall of your cove, and the stone tastes bit ter to you. It never occurs to you to turn round and face those who stand behind you and
riaga, who is chairman.
tension. I believe that most
There is no doubt that this Em-
The World Foundation will be Empire as one of the most potent gard a strong and united British
will be to promote the idea and servation of peace in the world. an unofficial institution. Its aim
factors contributing to the pre- the feeling of world unity amon people of all national communities,ire with its nearly 500 million Deep sympathy is felt with Mr.
in order to prepare the way for a British citizens bound together by Campbell's widow, formerly Miss
[system of world management sup-| Eileen Rose Cameron, daughter, of j
ported by an informed public a common loyalty to their King. throw the shadow.” Mr. and Mrs. W. David Cameron
opinion."
is a very great steadying infinence in world politics. of Yokohama. The two were mar-He tries to escape from the too eating reality of Aglaia He
Loyalty to `Crown" ried at St. Andrew's Church, Kow has an affair with a Countess, bat
The Director of St. John · Am- This loyalty to the Crown and loon, in April last year. The Rev. this is spoilt by the old romantic balance - Brigade : acknowledges person of the King is a very won- J. R. Higgs, who officiated at that idea of love embodied in a sea-with sincere" and grateful thanksjderful thing when one realizes the ceremony, read the funeral ser-godiness who speeds useb day the following donations:--Hong vast area covered and the great vice at the Protestant Cemetery across the bay on an aquaplane. Kong Singers, Proceeds of King! diversity of race and religion of Chapel yesterday.
Wim he finds that this unattain-Claf Concert), $500 Dr. Ip Kam his abjects. It is only when
Mr. Campbell was 27'years of able creature was none other than Wa, 25 St. John: Cathedral Emas one has lived amongst the people nge and lived, at No. 128, Austin Eurica herself, be has learnt his Tree Fund, $20 Childrens' Clothing în distant parts of the Empire, Road. It is understood that his leson. He returns to Aglaia, Kmas Tree Fund Childrens Cloth- learnt their language, and kot "to widow will retum to her parents able at last to accept her on her ing, Mr. P. K. Kwork and Mrs. know them, that one realizes- its shortly.
own terms. This is â beautifully)Smith:
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