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No. 24235. 號伍卅佰弍仟輝萬式第日登初月年子丙

DRAKE AND HIS MEN, THOSE HEROES OF OLD

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THAT THE SPIRIT'S AS NOBLE AND 'SALES' DAILY 80AR- AS HIGH AS THE 'SAILS' OF THOSE PROUD MEN O' WAR.

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Hector: Cat About Town

Notorious Gossip

During a scripture lesson the master told his small class that there would be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth among the wicked who passed on to the next world.

**What about "those who haven't any teeth?" asked a small boy, a stickler for small detalls.

"Teeth." said the master, aus- terely, will be provided."

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The prison governor was his t- numerable reforms. He was par~ ticularly keen on the sports side of the priscia routine. Yet, in spite of all these reforms, the prisoners were still dissatified,

One day he addressed them th the main hall. Tve giren you cinemas, football and, various other entertainments, and still you

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KING GEORGE

Proposed National Memorial

London, April 1.

A resolution that a national and

Empire memorial to King George should take the form of a statue und a philanthropic scheme was proposed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday, at a meeting convened by the Lord

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Anniversaries and Holidays.--

St Anselm, Archbishop of Canter- bury, and Doctor, (1109). Auctions.-Household

Furniture, Lammert's H K Sales Room, 2.30

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Cinemas

King's: Rose Marie." Queen's:-Two For To-night" Centa:Wings In The Dark" Oriental:-"Ruse Of The Kancho." World:"Chinese Picture." Alhambra: "Rose Marie." Majestic:-"One Exciting

Adventure.

Star: Shipmates Forever"

Lectures.-Prof. W. L Gerrard, in School of Surgery, University 6

p.m.

Meetings-St. Andrew's Club Committee, pan; Kowloon Chest Club 5.30 p.m.; St. John's Cathed- ral Mothers' Union. 3 p.m.

Miscellaneous. -- Rotary

Hotel, Hongkong

Tito. Mr. Laszlo schwartz on Two happy bed-

grouse," he said, "What else do/Mayor of London at the Mansion | fellows, Commercialism and Art.":

ers.

House,

you wants?"

The statue would be placed in "What about a Cross-country run?" suggested one of the prison- come noble setting in London, and & site near Westminster : Abbey was suggested. The philanthropic scheme, which would be one to benefit the whole country, would be decided upon after suggestions had been received by a committee set up for the purpose of receiving them.

On arriving home father found a franc in his small change, so he went out to do a little shopping. taking his small son with him. He went to the tobacconist's, and the tobacconist. looking at the trac said with an air of suprise: "Why, He went next to the chemist, and the chemist sald-refully, that the coin in father's hand was of foreign extraction, and useless to

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Moon-New Moon, 333 pm III Lang) said that no words were

eded to contend & proposal Me Moan pay that the nation and Empire should possess for all time some worthy

memorial of their late fear and honoured King: Should there not" "Good heavens, so it is!" ex-

be some central memorial which claimed father, "I wonder where would represent the unity of na-- I got that from?"

tional love and loyalty and be per- "Don't you know, Daddy?" saldanently and visibly associated the small son, "That's the one you with King George himself? showed the tobacconist!"

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WEDNESDAY, APRIĻ 22 Anniversaries and Holidays. Saints Soter and Calus.

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King's: Last Of The Pagans."

"I trust I shall not be abusing | Queen's: Two For Tonight." the privilege given to me," con- Central:-"Gold-Diggers Of 1935."

ETHIOPIA AND tinued the Archbishop, "If I ven- riental: Front Page Woman."

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Dances-Austrialian sacred shrine of its history, and Zealand Assn. Dance, at Gloucester the Houses of Parliament. the Hotel,

pm.; Cheero Club Tea scene of its Government. If the Dance, 5-7.30 p.m. houses on the south side of this Entertainments.--Hongkong Sing- Fears are expressed in us high-area, in Abingdon Street and Olders' informat Concert at Peninsula est quarters here lest the Powers Palace Yard, were removed there Hotel, 9.15 p.m.; Cheero Club Con- represented in London may, in the would be disclosed for the first cert, 9 p.m., Incognitos Concert absence of an Ethiopian delega-me and for all time a truly Party in Ambulance Headquarters, tion, seek to find a speedy and to splendid view of the Abbey rising Tai Hang Road, 8.30 p.m..

the Italo Ethiopian war by impos- above its Cloisters, of the Jewel

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Lectures-Dr. F. J. Farr, in ing an armistic and peace terms of Tower now almost hidden, of the school of Surgery, University, a "common sense" kind upon two chapter House, and King Henry beligerents in view of the situa-VI's Chapel, of Westminster Hall,

Meetings.--Indo-China Steam tion which has arisen owing to the and of the Houses of Parliament Navigation Co., Ltd., 85th Ordinary action of Germany In the Rhine-

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It is well understood here that, not this new great open space be General Meeting, Queen's Building, although the breach of the Treaty indeed a worthy setting for

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of Locarno in no way constitutes statue of King George? It would, j an aggression like that committed I think, appeal to the imagination

Football-First, Division, Royal SEIMOX OELKI against Ethiopia, European affairs of the people of the whole United

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wile necessarily impress European Kingdom, and also of the Empire. Ulster Fales v. East Lancashires TAKARAZUKA statesmen more than African, and And it would have a special asso- (Chatham Road), 5pm; Royal v. St. Joseph's *(near Kobe)

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