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Hector: Cat About Town Notorious Gossip

Professor: "ând what on earth made you write a paragraph like that?"

Student: "I quoted it, sir, from Dickens."

Professor: "Beautiful lines, aren't they?"

"Mrs. Jones, I'm so sorry I forgot your party the other day." "Oh, weren't you there?"

"What is a diplomat?"

"My dad is an Elk, a Lion, Moose and an Eagle."

"What does it cost to see him?”

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UNITED STATES

IN FLOOD

Worst Disaster of Past Century

New York, Mar. 18. The door disaster is the worst of

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 Anniversaries and Holidays. St. Cuthbert, Bishop. (1.687).

Auctions-Household Furnitur

at Lammert's HK Sales Room 2.30 pm.

Cinemas.

King's: "Break Of Hearts." Queen's-The Goose And the

Gander."

"A teacher who can get the modern youth to take both Latinits kind in the United States in and algebra on one programme."

the past century. Thousands of square miles in the Eastern states are submerged and the damage Central: "The Crimson Trail" runs the countless millions of dol-Oriental:-The Informer." iars.

World:"Chinese Picture” dead, Alhambra:-"Thanks A Million."

Majestic:-"Thundering

Night." Star: The Wedding Night."

Lectures. Rev. H. W. Baines, at Helena May Christian Fellowship Meeting. 10.30 am.

Wifey: "I think you ought to talk to me while I sew."!

Hubby: "Let's change it around and you sew to me while I read "

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Dumb Hunter: "How do yoù đe. tect an elephant?”

a faint Guide: "You smel! cdour of peanuts on his breath,

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"Why do you call this women's club the Charity Circle?"

At least thirty-four are twelve of them in Pennsylvania which is the worst hit state.

Three quarters of the great Bethlehem Steel works" is under water.

At Wheeling, Virginia, 30,000 persons are homeless as a result of the sudden rising of the Ohio River woich reached the highest food level in history.

The

Queahoning Dam In Pennsylvania is leaking badly and is likely to break at any moment. This would be a horror of the worst description for it would allow mil- "Liza, you remind me fo 1 de lons of gallons of water to rush world of brown sugah."

into the valley lands and add to the weight of the flook.

"My wife belongs and so I set three evenings a week free."

"How come, Sam2

"You am so sweet and so un-

regned

who wanted to know, before taking lesson on the riota, whether the teacher would guarantee her jab after she became an accom- Filshed violatοr.

is in

The Susquehanna River. spate and thousand of people are leaving their homes in the Bing

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The

-Meetings-Kowloon Chess Club. 5.30 pm: St. Andrew's Girls' Guld, 6 p.m.

Miscelaneous. Jumb.e Sale, Kowidon Union

Church Hall, 3 7.m.

"Stations of the Cathedral, 5.30

Religious.

Cross," 14.m

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Sports Athletics. Wantsal Schoo: (Causeway Bay), 2 p.m.

-- Badminton.--Mixed Doubles. Si John's v. Fire Brigade: Club, de Recreio "A" v. Chinese R.C.; St.

Then there's the young ladyhampton area after fruitless efforts Andrew's Cup de Recreio 'B;" to stem the rising tide with sand-Gallors and Soldiers' Home v. Tai- bags. Men are still working along koo R.C. the river, thousands of them trying Hockey-East Lancashire Regi- to barricade their homes against the water, working feverishly with-Cith seconds (Shamanuipo Camp), nent seconds ̈v. Hangkong Hockey

out intermission in a hopeless en- deavour to save their properties.

Lawn Tennis.-Open Bingles, La. Everyone has been ordered to leave Farmington Valley, Connec-wong-tsun v. M. W. Lo; Club Championship, L. Goldman v. B. tice where the danger of the flood OM. Deane; Club Handicap Sing-

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Wise Guy: Is that dray horse you have there?"

Race Horse Owner: "No, its a brown horse, and stop your baby

ta't "

Is growing more pressing.

Many localities are isolated in "Wille. Cenne the Vermont and the Connecticut River is transformed into a raging tor- rent and is still rising. A huge ice ace is jammed against the Ver- toont Dam giving rise to the fear that it may burst.

Teacher: word puncture.'"*.

Willie: "A puncture is à tctle hole in a tyre, usually found in a great distance from a garage."

A schoolboy's definition of Lean heuter. Year:

Leap year is instead of its being the next day on the same day next year it's the day after.

VIEWS STILL CONFLICT

Powers In Decisive Conference

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FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS

New York, Mar. 18. The flood disaster in Pennsyl- vania grows worse hourly.

The rapidly rising waters, which are already over 18 feet deep in Johnstown, scene of the food ter- ror in 1889 when 2,300, lives were lost, have invaded the much larger and more important city of Pitts burgh.

The famous downtown section, known as the "Golden Triangle" 1 deep in water and 700,000 persons are virtually isolated and withous food and good water. The waters London, Mar. 18, of the Alleghany River have risen While the divergence of British to the unprecedented height of and French views on the Rhine- forty-four feet and fire has added land crisis still persists, it is stated to the confusion and danger. Fire in French circles that to-night's fighters have to battle the rising conference of the Locarno signa-food water as well as the flames tories will be decis.ve.

in their efforts to rave immensely No indication of a decision either valuable factorles from destruc- way has been given by M. Pierre | tion. Flandin. the French Foreign Min- The death roll is mounting hour ister, but he made it quite clear by hour, and thousands of terror that a definite result would be "ob-stricken people of the metropoli tained. Whatever, decision 1stan area of Pittsburgh have been reached, he said, would be entire rendered homeless.

5 p..

les, M. Pagh v. R. Henry: Club Handicap Doubles, C. C. Stárk and F. A. Joseph-y. T. C. Monag- han and E. J. McMullen; V. R. Gordon and A. H. Penn Y, HR

1 Bowker and A. K. Mackenzie v Butters and D. Macdougall A

G. Marseille and F. F. McCabe: H. R. McGilchrist and H. L. Tudor" 7. A. Bremner and A Drummond (Hongkong.C. C. Courts), 4.30 p.m. Shooker-Steel Coulson League, Catholic Union v. The Rest (Roya! Nava Yard Police Club), 8 p.m.

Moon.-II Moon; 27th Day. Sunrise.-8.28 a.m. Sunset.-6.31

p.m.

Tides. High at 8.08 and 19:01: Low at 1.35 and 12.40.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21' Anniversarios and Holidays. -- Vernal Equinox. (Ch'un-fen). St. Benedict, Abbot.

Cinemas.

King's: Break Of Hearts." queen's:-Mary Burns Fugitive." Central:-"Sweet Surrender." Oriental:The Informer." World: Chinese Picture." Alhambra:-"Thanks A Million," Majestic:-Thundering In The

Night."

Star: The Wedding Night."

Dances-Wah Yan Past Stu- dents Association Annual Ball at Hotel Cect, 8 pm

Meetings-Annual, of the Hong- kong and Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd.,

ly under reserve and subject to the Fire have also broken out in fac at Co.'s office, Jordan Road Ferry approval of the French Govern-tories of, Etns and Lawrenceville Pier, 10.30 am

ment"

following explosiona caused by the Miscellaneous-Claims

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against

At 4 o'clock, the Locarno Powers, nooding or boller rooms and fur- the Estates of Samue! Baker and after a brief luncheon adjourn naces. The oil tanks of the Courtney Carling due: Annual Ins ment, resumed their search for a formula to circumvent the conflict-ville, which have been afre, ex fence Corps.

Waverly Oll Works at Lawrence-pection of Hongkong Volunteer De-

ing French and German view- ploded with a deafening roar to- Social Craigéngowir Cricket during the negotiations, Great Bri-day and blazing oil is spreading on Club Whist Drive. 9 p.m.

the food, causing the fear of still; more frightful destruction and logs of life- Reutre

points. As a temporary measure,

tain has proposed, first, that a zone on both sides of the French and German frontier be policed by in- ternational forces, as was the Saar during the plebiscite, and, second- ly, that the Franco-Soviet Pact

should be referred to The Hague be included in the peace structure for a ruling as to whether it vio- at any subsequent negotiations, but. lated the Locarno Treaty,

Sports.

Cricket.---Becond Division, Uni- versity, v. R.AM.G. (L).

Football--First Division, South China "B". Chinese Athletic (Caroline Hil), 4.30 p.m.

Moon-II Moon, 28th. Day), Sunrise-6.27 am Sunset 6.34

at bresent it.hes not entered the It is taken for granted that a | stage.n Western European Air -Pact will | Keuter.

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Tides High at 8.24 and 2001; Low at 2.10 and 13,40.

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