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THE CHÍNA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1937.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

HIS is the fourth and (we all.

THIS is and be the

SON OF

CLERGYMAN ARRESTED

Strange Story Of Treason

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

London, To-day. Another strange drama of the

an

thrilling story of one Horace and Spanish civil war was unfolded his activities in a newspaper office yesterday when

18-year-old It is not meant as a guide to bud-student of Leeds University, nam- ding journalists. In fact, anyone ed Philipps,

with was charged behaving in the mammer I have de-treasonable activity in trying to scribed would not only be sacked, induce a member of the Royal Air fired or discharged immediately but Force to desert the colours. would probably be confined in a padded cell

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It was revealed in court that Philipps had approached a sergeant in the BAF. and suggested to him Horace works in the midst of that he steal a military plane and what is commonly known as a Bed-induce other members of the Force lam. There is the clacking of to fly with him to Spain. typewriters, the grating of reporters here, he is alleged to

have who are always chattering, the bel

said they could join up with the lowing of the editor, the shouts of

loyalist forces. "Boy," the noise of the presses and Philipps, who is the the traffic. He works ahead, pay-clergyman, was remanded for trial ing no attention to all this. The only thing that disturbs him is whistling. The slightest hint of a whistle and the offender in teen in pieces.

Bedlam, by the way, is the Hos- pital of St. Mary of Bethlehem used

asylum. Also AZ as a lunatic

madhouse or scene of uproar. (Ox- ford dictionary):

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-Trans-Ocean

e son of a

WORK OF ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

New Territories Cases Last Year

Statistics

But all this is really nothing.

issued in connection Horace's real problem is type. Type with the work of the St. John is what makes the newspaperman's Ambulance Brigade New Terri hair grow grey. He curses Caslon,tories Medical Benevolent Branch the Romans, Cheltenham, the Goths, shows that a total of 151,268 cases Bodoni and his relative, Ultra were dealt with during 1936, in- Bodoni. And the reason for allcluding 96,000 old cases and some this? When you see your headlines 53,600 new.

screaming (as some put it) at you, Over 24,000 cases were seen by give a passing thought to the un-doctors, some 6,406 were visited in fortunate individual whose job it is their homes and nearly 4,000 were to compose them. The first type-vaccinated

founder could not, apparently, see Maternity cases totalled 1,325 in- ahead, and he cast his type in me-cluding 329 at the Haw Par Hos- tal. It will not stretch and will pital at Cheung Chan

not squeeze, especially the latter. And the heads on all papers are limited by the column size to irdlexible e count. All of them have a maximum count, and this is al- ways one or two letters, sometimes only half a letter, less than enough to say what Horace wants to say

in the head.

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COMMUNIST SESSION.

Moscow, To-day.

of The central committee

the Communist Party will meet for the extraordinary plenary session, m- der the Chairmanship of Stalin, at Then there are the foibles of the beginning of March. editors and publishers. Only such The session will be the forerunner and-such headings must be used; of another reform of the Soviet certain words are permissable, Constitution.--Trans-Ocean. others forbidden. Style is the bee

his

in their bonnet and woe betide Horace if he launches out on own and introduces some revolu- tionary change in heads.

Mr. L Starbuck will be the speaker at next Sunday's meeting of the YMCA. Discussion Group. His subject will be: "Christ Among But of course Horace doesn't the Scientists. worry himself over all this. He does most of his job zutematically, as

you can

by glancing at almost gets old and flabby, or he tries to any paper. But some take an inter-escape by getting out of the news- est in their work and try to do the paper business and seklom sic- best they know how, though the sad ceeds, Taken on the whole, however, part of it is, and most of them know Horace and his bre

it, that everything they do is fuale sant and intelligent The dear, stupid reading public tually above the

(that's you,

fatheads)

know or even ́Cas

contained an

buldn't!

are a plea-

intellec then!

head was I don't know how to bring this conclusion set in umpteen different types and nonsense to a

number of so I'll just

groes, grammatical and technical I hope you haven't been too bored. errors. The same public skips un-After all, you haven't got to read worried over, misspellings and typo- the darned stuff.

graphical

withput. gry

a thought to the painstaking effort A Bishop and a Jadge were dis-

that has go

the paper.

|cussing the relative imp

their respective

said the bisho

see from what I have damned, wher

You well you that Horace's Life Sou be har

tried

a hard and a narrow one. Every the judge, "but when

thing in the job tends to sour him hang

on life. He goes on the drink, or be

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