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"Perhaps I'm hard to please .

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I até or drank or

smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas- ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't cat a peach unless it is. English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

You see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should, I be

put off with anything less than White Horse? admit that perhaps I am hard to please -- but take it from me, it pays."

WHITE HORSE

WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

Sole Agents for South China: Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGI

SPIES OF

CAP:

Frait-bulled in the moun- Sometimes he may come. burtling tain snows above La Tinee, of the enemy's greatest secret muni- down to within two or three miles

on the Franco-Italian border, tion factory, or disease-germ labora- the burnt wreckage of a tory, or polson-gas works. 'plane was found recently. The men in the works cannot see a It bore traces of German re- tiny aircraft three miles away, but H.O.

the pilot can press the buttons that gistration letters. But the release lenses of marvellous infra-red German authorities were cameras mounted on his wings. strangely reluctant to claim the machine.

uniform!

And then, when he goes soaring away he takes with him a sèries, of photographs which may be worth a at a pitched battle to the authorities

Th World-B Fli

The 'plane had come down in military area forbidden to civil air- home, craft. And it had carried eleven pas- There is “George” to help him when sengers wearing German Air Force he turns photographer. Absorbing one drop of purest olive-oil at hourly in- They were all dead and, ever since, of shining steel cogs, levers, wheels,

tervals, "George", an intricate mass birds, whose details

tion. the matter has been hushed up and spinning gyros,

And very necesar can perform Queer,? Yes, but many queer things modern miracles. He is the automa- have to meet a spy are happening on Europe's air routes tic pilot, the airman's friend. just now. For the ancient art of espionage has shifted its scene the sky has thousands of eyes .

and

equivalent of Ilkley and not be late, tho Sometimes for hours he takes con- night and no signal trol and leaves the pilot free to take his pictures or read Morse.

There is another traption in the air

A spy, system-whether ours or that of any other country-involves the "George" was fitted on Mercury', is a radio. device use of "post-boxes" who simply pass the upper part of the Mayo com- shadow of your own. made various across a ground glaş messages on, train-watchers, respec- posite machine that able pigeon breeders, commercial tra- trans-Atlantic flights and broke fly- of you in the closed vellers, barman, typists, as well as ing records recently. He has taken The screen is a n "notables" capable of pulling off the his place on some of our new war- a white line represen big jobs.

These people can get the secrets. What they have not been able to do, in the past, is to send those secrets out of the country.

And that is where the expert pilot of all nations, especially and danger- ously trained and given a machine built for the job, comes in.

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MORRISONS OF CHINA

Part They Played In

Ravaged State

——— SİR HENRY POTTINGE

These sky spies are little men chos-

Sir,-Apropos the truly appalling buried on the 5th ide en because they are light, and the

sufferings endured by Catholic and left seven children- world's fastest machines are almost Protestant missionaries in China dur- wife and five by his built round their bodies. Each plane ing the last two years, it has occurred has a special skin of glassy, metal. It to me that you might wish to publish His eldest son, Joh carries no guns or bombs and is for the information of your readers in the British Service in son, after a distingu something between flying engine terested in the propagation of the and a short-winged bullet. It is cap- Gospel an authoritative and histori-Kong, succumbed to able of climbing to almost incredible cal note, concerning Robert Morrison, that colony in the aut heights,

Henry Pottinger, Bat who translated the Bible into 'Chinese'

was appointed the fi You know all the big countries are in the face of surpassing discourage-

Hong Kong in April carrying out secret experiments in ment and in the midst of unsurpas- John Robert Morrise stratosphere flying! Here is the rea-

positive national cal:

FAMOUS UL

son.

sable difficulties.

I enclose herein a copy of the note, which was written by the late Sir Every Government is now able to Robert Hart, Bart., G.C.M.Ġ., of Pek- send trusted servants up to a region ing, and Kilmoriarty, County Ar- I may add that S where no defence machine can follow magh, in the Chinese capital in ger, who was the fif because of its extra weight. Up, and November 1906, when in the 72nd year Curwen Pottinger, o over the frontier, too high for mech-of his age and was printed by the ger, County Down, b anical ears, and beyond the reach of Canton Missionary Conference Com- of Robert Gordon, puffing anti-aircraft guns. And then mittee, Robert. Morrison Memorial, in County Down, was down, in a place appointed.

1907-exactly 100 years after Morrie Pottinger on October son had reached China.

was educated at the which he left when hi years old, and went

Every detail has been worked out for that purpose. It is likely that, when the spy pilot comes down it will be over some bleak and forgotten moorland.

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NATIVE OF MORPETH That dauntless soldier of the Cross he proceeded to India was born on January 5, 1782, at Mor- ed a cadetship in the peth, Northumberland, and when he the nomination of Lo

1804. After serving His landing will have been timed was three years old his parents to the minute. So that he can photo-moved to Newcastle where he joined brilliant distinction graph strange patterns in stones set the Presbyterian Church in 1798. At China and Hong K there by his accomplice, each pattern Macao on February 20, 1800, he mar- and incorruptible Ul bearing a vital message.

ried Miss Morton who passed away in pointed Governor of

re-

Or, so that he can read as he cir-1821. In November, 1824, he married Good Hope in 1846. cles above, the flicker-flicker. of an Miss Armstrong. In 1817 he was India as Governor of electric torch, telling in Morse and in made D.D. by the University of Glas- He died at Malta in a very secret code all the informa-gow, and was elected a Fellow of the was burled at Vale tion that has been so perilously col-Royal Society in 1824. He died at

R. E lected.

Canton on August 1, 1834, and

was Upper Norwood, S

EAT AT

Kitchen

mining

Bringing Up Father

LET ME TAKE THE LITTLE SHAVER-

GAW-

WANT TO PLAY WITH HIM NOW- PAW-THE

LITTLE DARLING LOVES HIS PAPA- YOU

CAN PLAY WITH

HIM LATER-

BY GOLLY- THAT SON OF MINE. IS PROUD OF HIS BOY AN' I DON'T

BLAME HIM

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NOW WHAT'S HAPPENED?

THE KID

IS CRYIN-

INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

6:30.

Cópt, 1939, King Features Syndicate, hii