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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1938

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Wreckage of a foreign-style building in Kweilin after the bombing last week.

MR. DALY TO BE DAD AT 77 “ARCHITECTS SHOULD SERVE

Mr. Thomas Daly, the seventy- FIRST AS DOMESTICS” seven-year-old councillor who dubbed Cobham, Surrey, "Sodom and Gomorrah," is expecting to become a father again next March,

Mr. Daly's wife is forty years his junior. They were married five

years ago. .

"Yes, it's quite true, and am I a proud man?" said the grey-hair- ed jobbing gardener and local pur- ity campaigner at his home.

"It will be my tenth child, I had nine children by my first wife.

"But this is going to be the prou: dest moment of all. It has been an act of God.

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GUERRILLAS OR 'GORILLAS"?

Not much "news with a laugh” comes out of the Sino-Japanese war but the recent transfer of Shanghai vernacular newspaper attention from guerrilla warfare to "gorilla warfare" provides a considerable grist.

The initial dispatch was telegraphed from Kiu- kiang by a Japanese correspondent who sent a story to Tokyo declaring that the Chinese were training 5,000 orang-outangs to throw hand grenades, seize machine guns and attack Japanese company commanders.

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It appears that the beasts were credited with enough intelligence to differentiate between ordinary "If all young architects had to privates and company commanders do a spell as domestic servants and

no intention there would be a wonderful im- wasting time on the former.

the planning of This hoax went to Tokyo where provement in

women would have it was picked up by a British news houses, and much less unnecessary work to do." agency and relayed back to Shang-

So said home service director of the Bri- At once the Social Daily News, a Mrs. Eilwen Murphy, hai, where the fun really began.

tish Commercial Gas Association Chinese "mosquito paper" of un- at a Rotherham conference.

certain place of publication, pro-

HE BAKES EVERLASTING LOAVES

Mr. P. C. Goddard, baker, of Bridgwater, is giving mothers of newly-born babies in the district miniature cottage loaves, that will last a lifetime... It is real bread, made with all the in- gredients used in baking, but with something else added. That is Mr. Goddard's secret, and he is keep- ing it. Recently, he was offered £200 for his recipe by a well- known London bakery, de

A course in domestic science duced another story to the effect would help them to appreciate the that six or seven regiments of added. problems of running a home, she "monkey troops," carefully trained to storm Japanese positions and One afterthought was delightful: each equipped with an army uni- "Before you choose an architect to form and cap, were under command build your house, you should get of Gen. Ma Pa-fang, Chairman of to know his wife and if she com- the Kokonor Provincial Govern-bloom" for twenty years of plains of too much housework take ment. it as a warning."

* * ** WORMS DO A GOOD TURN

Even a worm will turn into money if this man has any thing to do with it. He's Mr. Jock

UNKNOWN WARRIOR'S TOMB

Plans for remodelling the Un- known Warrior's tomb in West- minster Abbey are well advanced,

Abbey officials, with the Imperial War Graves Commission, are con- sidering the raising of the simple black stone beneath which the Wilson, of Brighton (Sussex), the Warrior rests so that it would rest king of worm-diggers. He's made on a monumental granite base. £20 £25 a week selling worms to anglers for bait. In his best year he dug 1,987 gallons of 'em single- handed. There are about 16,000 worms to a gallon, so that's-31,792,- 000 altogether. And if you placed them

to end

well, they wouldn't half wriggle!

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HER VISION ALAS, CAME TRUE

Fortune teller Margaret Cousins told a young man that in a vision she could see him in a big build- ing with a man who looked like a Judge. She also saw two other men with peaked caps and a thin vaguely female figure.

Her vision came true for the young man was a defective and had her summoned for “pretend- ing to tell fortunes."

Apparently impressed with the accuracy of Margaret's prophecy the magistrate adjourned the case for fourteen days to enable her to leave the town where she did not belong.

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GENUINE TURNER FOR 30%.

"Mountain scere,"

30s. at Birmingham,

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Municipal voters in Cowbridge, Glam, were so pleased with the work of Mr. Robert Thomas, bus inspector, whom they elected a councillor, that they elected an- other Mr. Robert Thomas to back him up.

Now a third Mr. Robert Thomas, a builder, has been elect- el ·

The three "Bobs" are known as Bob the bus, Bob the bank and Bob the builder.

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£35 SMUGGLING FINE

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After baking the tiny loaves varnished to keep their

more. Mr. Goddard has several of these loaves which he made fifteen years ago. They are still BB good as when they were fresh,

They were solemnly declared to carry four hand-grenades apiece, accept command from human of- ficers, go out for exercise, in mili- tary formation, and at the end of each day to receive. 10 cents with STRANGE AIR

CONSIGNMENT

This sheepdog puppy is quite prepared for the cold and foggy Winter weather, "Bunny" likes to wear a scarf and looks quite "Dog- gy" too. He belongs to Miss Mar- jorie Tucker of Haslemere.

Francis Francis, thirty-seven, which to go out and buy fruit. So Albion Gate, Hyde Park, London; genuine painting by Turner, was sold for was fined £35 at Croydon for try- intelligent are the little creatures

ing to smuggle a $30 Art treasures collected by Mr. through the customs at Croydon W. J. Cross, the octogenarian con- Airport. Another man, Walter noisseur, during the last fifty years James Currie, Cranmere Court, were being auctioned and prices Sloane-avenue, S.W.3, was similar

ly fined. Both pleaded guilty. were low.

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RATHER THE OLD DAYS

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that they know enough to yell and argue" if the shopkeepers fail to give their full money's worth.

It is interesting to note the sup- of all this. One posed origin theory is that the Japanese corres- pondent meant to report that the Chinese were training 5,000 Minos,

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Imperial Airways freight depart- ment came across a strange con- signment the other day. It was a shilling's worth of ice cream which was sent by air from London Stuggart, Germany. :

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This is the first time that of- ficials can

recollect having han- dled ice cream as air freight. (It was sent by the Eldorado. Com- pany).

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CRISIS SENT UP SAVINGS

Stability of the British public in Crisis Week is shown by figures given yesterday by Lord Mottis- tone, chairman of the National Savings Committee. Investments in national savings certificates,

the Post Office Savings Bank and Trus- tee Savings Banks increased, des- pite the growing international ten- sion, from £1,433,000,000, at the the end of August and $1,455,300,- end of March to £1,453,000,000 at 000 by the end of September.

There was no sign of panic here.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police courts:-

: Woman Witness at Tottenham : or aboriginal tribesmen from the My husband would like to pay Reginald Gardiner, British actor, Southwest, which is the fact. The these debts, but he can only get suffered a triple fracture of the Japanese characters meaning "Mi- work when there is a crisis. "I would rather have the good left elbow, by falling 10ft. down nose look and are pronounced the Willesden Witness: I know the old days," says Mrs. Jane Hicks, the steps of his home. The studio same as the word for organ-out- door was shut, because I had just of St. Budeaux, Plymouth, on her intends to rewrite the script of ang. However, the story of the walked through it. ninety-ninth birthday. She still the film in which he was playing so monkey troops is an old one fre- Elderly Defendant at Bow-street: reads, writes and sews without the that he can continue playing the quently appearing in Far East le- I am so old now, I am past unem-

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part with his arm' in a sling.

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