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B.P.'S WAR SECRET, A BRITISH RUGBY TOUR.

GERMANY SEARCHED FOR

CHIEF SCOUT..

RUMOUR RUSE.

I was never behind the Ger- man lines during the war." I spent most of the time in France, and in England."

This statement, which was made to a Press representative by Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, "clears up some of the mysterious Jumours about the part he took in the war.

The legend that he was behind the enemy lines was revived re cently by a woman novelist in her Aniscences:

Lord Baden-Powell, however, ex plaias that away.

A Test Rumour. During the war," he said, "wo believed that there was a leakage of information from the British line to Germany.

To test that, a rumour was very carefully spread in certain plies that I had been sent into the heart of the enemy country on an espionage mission."

"The report was entirely.without truth, but it tested our leakage of information. The news that I'was

in Germany spread to that country, and an amazingly careful search was made for vie. All the time. I was in England.

Most of my espionage work was done before the war, when I went to practically every country in the world, picking up information.

I had several remarkable ad. ventures, particularly in Russia, where I was captured when finding certola information about searchlights. I managed to escape, however,

out

While the war was actually on, 1 spont a great deal of time hunt- ing out spies in England and in France."

The pronoun "I" is used more in telephone conversations than any other word, if the results tabulated by two engineers who listened to so.com words in 3,000 long-distance telephone conversations are typical. The engineers, heard the pronous I exactly 3000 times. You." was a close second, scoring 3540 times. The three next mest popular words were "The." 3110: "A" 2000; and On," 2016. And the "That," "To," next five wert

"It." "Is." and "And."

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THROUGH AUSTRALIA AND

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NEW ZEALAND.

The British team who, during next summer, will tour New Zealand and Australia under the management of Mr. James Baxter, the Chairman of the Rugby Union Selection Committee, will be- as follows:-

J. Bassett (Penarth and Wales), GM Banker (Bradford and Yorkshire),

CD. Aarvold (Headingley and England)

S. R. Reeve (Harlequins and England

JC Morley Newport and Wales),

A. L. Soris (The Army and Eng- land),

TE Murray (Wanderers and Ireland,

M. P. Crowe (Landsdowne and

Ireland.

R. Jennings (Redruth and Cora wall),

TE. Jones-Davies. (Loudon' Web and Wales),

T.. Knowles (Birkedhead Park and Cheshire),

K. Spong (Old Millians and England).

W, H., Sobey (Old Milkillians and England),

1. Poole (Cardiff),

W. W. Wakefield (captain) (Har- lequins and England),

Rew (The Army, Exeter, and

England),

D. Parker Swansea and Wales);" W. B. Welsh (Hawick and Set- land),

R. H. Black (Oxford Eniversity an England),

F. D. Howard (Oxford Uaiser- sity. Old Milians, and Eng. (and),

M. J. Dunne (Lansdowne and Ire- land),

G. R.. Beamish (Royal Air Foret' and Ireland).

J. L. Farrell (Bective, Rangers » and Ireland),

J. McD. Hodgson (Northern and Northumberland).

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.

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THE FAMILY 'PHONE

IGRİYAS DURITANS

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

REMEMBERS HE WAS TO CALL UP ED.DIM- MICK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK

FINDS WIFE IS USING TELEPHONE, ENGAGED IN A LENGTHY COMMITTEE DIS- CUSSION WITH MRS. PEBBLES

SNAPS FINGERS TO

* ATTRACT HER ATTENTION, AND WHISPERS FOR PITY'S SAKE TO HURRY UP

ONLY RESULT IS TO MAKE WIFE MISS WHAT MRS. PEBBLES WAS SAYING WHO HAS TO START ALL OVER AGAIN RETIRES TO NEWSPAPER

AFTER AWHILE DE- CIDES SHE MUST BE THROUGH. DARTS OUT AND FINDS MILDRED ON TELEPHONE

THE PROVINCIAL

LONDONER.

UNABLE TO LOCATE CAPITAL'S SIGHTS...

ASH A POLICEMAN

HABIT.

VIOLENT ARGUMENT. BREAKS OUT AS TO WHY HE WASN'T TOLD WHEN WIFE WAS THROUGH

William Furse, General Sir H. O'H. O'Neill (Queen's Univer-

director of the Imperial Institute, kity. Belinst, and Ireland),

Ivor Jones (Llanelly and Wales), South Kensington, London, re- H. Wilkinson (Halifax and Engratly confessed that when he was land),

F. D. Prentice (Leicester and England) and

5. A. Martindale (Kendal and Englandy

The team will leave London for Southampton on April 11, and will travel rid the Panama Canal, the blanding at Wellington. They will return rid the Suez Canal in October. Ae as present arranged, gineteen matches will be played in New Zealand and five in Australia.

appointed to that post he had to ask a policeman the way to the institute, although he only lived

mile away.

This lack of knowledge, which is general among Londoners, applies in a remarkable degree to many of the City's most interesting buildings, and is evidenced every day at the Imperial Institute, Sir William stated.

After I have taken parties of people round the building," he

RETURNS DISGRUNTLED TO PAPER. KEEPS EAR OPEN SO HE CAN LEAP UP THE SECOND MILDRED FINISHES

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said, "they turn to me with an air of righteous indignation and demand the reason why they have aot been told of the place before. Our other great allies are school children. They are brought here on conducted tours during term, and the first thing they do in the bolidays is to ask their parents, to accompany them on De second visit and they then have to lead the way."

St. Paul's-Knightsbridge. A pointduty" policeman near "Alter se- Charing Cross was satirical about the typical Londoner. veral years of experience on this job," he declared, "I have come to the conclusion that the average London man and woman knows the whereabouts of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, and Hyde Park, would possibly "be able to reach two or three other places of interest with the help of the tubes and buses. but doesn't even sus- pect the existence of all the other places.

MILDRED HANGS UP REACHES PHONE JUST AS IT RINGS WITH CALL FOR WILFRED. GOES OVER TO EDS AND GIVES MESSAGE IN PERSON

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The commonest mistake, of course, is that the British Museum is somewhere in South Kensington. I should imagine the Metropolitan Railway thrives on return journeys I have heard owing to this error. a man whom I know" to have lived all his life in London plead ignor ance as to the whereabouts of the Mansion House to an inquirer at Ludgate Circus, while scarcely a day passes without dozens of in- quiries for the Law Courts by Lon. doners who have occasion for the first time to go there.

"The funniest thing ever re- member Was in Knightsbridge. when a man and woman, bearing St. Paul's Church there referred to by name, exclaimed, 'Oh, we really must go over the place now we are passing,' I waited with" considerable interest until they rame away from the church, and 1 caught the man's remark, 'Yes, my dear, a fine place-but rather smaller than I thought, and it's funny about the Whispering Gal- lery. That must be in the Abbey,"

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