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"I'd like to get a pair of stockings for my wife."

"Sheer?"

"No; at home."

Little Peter was a member of a very strict household, and had been caught that Sunday was not a day of play, but one to be set aside for church and plous thoughts. Na- turally, his mother was surprised and shocked one Sunday morning to find him sailing his toy boat in the bath.

"Peter, don't you know it is wick- ed to sail boats on Sunday?" shë demanded.

Local Exchange Quotations

T.T. ON LONDON: 1/3 (nom.) T.T. ON NEW YORK: 321

ROYAL NAVY

Aircraft Carriers

H.M.S. EAGLE FOR CHINA STATION

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

Anniversaries and Holidays- Birthday of Emperor of Japan. 1901. St." Peter. Martyr.

Cinemas

King's:-"T Last Days

Pompell,"

Of

'Queen's:-Woman Trap"

Oriental: "The Bishop Mis-

behaves,'h World:"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:-"Drake Of England. Majestic:-"Front Page' Woman." Star: "Here Comes Cookle." Daners. Cheero Club Tea Dance, 5-7.30 p.m.

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Entertainments.

Cheero Clat Concert, & p.m.

Lectures.-Fr. Byrne's Unprofes- elon Talk to Medical Society. the University, 5.30 pm.

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- London, April 14. HMS, Eagle, at present in re- serve at Devonport under the com- That's all right, mother,remand of Commander P. 8. Smith, alled Peter quietly. This isn't a

is due to be brought forward for

Meetings Annual, of Hongkong pleasure trip. This is a mission- further foreign service early in 1937 Women's Guild and M.CL,

Annuzi. ary boat going to Africa."

to take the place of HMS. Hermes, He ena May, 10.30 am.: Captain the Hon. George Fraser, or D.oresun Old Girls' Association, D5.O., on the China Station. The at Messrs. Lo and Lo's Offices. 3.15 present ship's company of them.; General Committee of S. and Hermes joined her on November 1. S. Home. 6.15 pm.; Kowloon Uni 1934, and according to the normal Church Women's Gulld, 10, a.m.; routine of service she should return Annual, of HK. Auxiliary, British home by the spring of 1937. At and Foreign Bible Society, Helena present the Hermes is refitting ut May. 5.30 pm Hong Kong, after several months at Singapore.

Little Archibald had had his Arst arithmetic lesson that morn- ing, and

was telling his mother that if he had two apples and omeone gave him two more he would then have four apples.

"Now, then," said his mother. "If you had three bananas and 1 gave you three more, how many would you have then?"

"Oh we

haven't done bananas yet, Mummy." said Archibald,

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Some of the tourists who visit notions. Palestine have

queer One lady sald

"Well, now, if only I'd known that Palestine had so much to do with the Bible, I surely would have brought a copy along!"

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First Mechanic: "Which do you prefer, leather of fabric upholsTM tery?"

Second Mechanic: "I like fabrics; leather is too hard to wipe your hands on."

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A Negro servant of the rather worldly variety remained away from his duties without excuse, only to show up one morning with the apology that he had been Initiated the day before as one of the deacons in his church.

On being reminded of his seem- ing unfitness, be stated that "the rough element in the congregation Just naturally demanded repre- sentation."

COMMUNIST GAINS IN FRANCE

Paris, Apr. 27. The Government of France be even more Left Wing than that under M. Albert Sarraut bas been with the participation of Socialists and the support of Communists the most commonly anticipated result of the elections.

According to a writer in "Brassey's Annual," the rellet of the Hermes by the Eagle will prob- ably involve an addition, of six carrier-borne aircraft (21 instead of 15) to the force on the China Station There are four cruisers on the station each equipped with

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Osprey seapiape, the Kent (agship). Berwick, Cornwall, and Dorsetshire. At the moment the Berwick is detached for duty in the Mediterranean.

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Social Whist Drive. Salors Home and Seamen's Institute, 4. Gloucester Road. 9 p.m.; Whist Drive and Tombola. Garrison Ser seants Mess, Queen's Road. 8.30

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Sports

Division. Elast v. Club de Recrelo

Football-First Lancashires (Chatham Road), 4.45 p.m.; Price St.-Joseph's (Kowhion Ground): 3.15 p.m.; Second Division, Royal v. Roya U ster Welch Fusiliers Rifles Chatham Road), 3.15 p.m....

Moon-II Int'c. Moon, 9th. Day Sunrise.-5.52.a.m.; Sunset.-6.49

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SABOTAGE IN ANOTHER. SUBMARINE

Spanner In Engine

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Landon, April 11, Detectives were last night in- of vestigating a reported case sabotage in a submarine at Devon- port Dockyard.

Half an hour after the electrical equipment of the 154 had been examined a large spanner was found under the casing of the main motor.

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L54 had been undergoing refit in the dockyard and had just under- hour trials Batis- gone twelve factorily.

Consequences would have been Candidates for the Prime Minis- tership will be M. Paul Boncour, serious had not the discovery been M. Edouard Daladier and M. Edou-made when it was, for the whole of the submarine's under-water ma- ard Herriot, all of them strong in Leftist clicies. M. Heriot's report-chinery would have been disabled. ed retirement is no longer men- tioned.

The success of the Communists in yesterday's ballot.resulted in an all-round slump on the Bourse. Bank of France shares were parti- cularly affected, and dropped off by 645 pölats. Keuter.

FRENCH ARMY'S HONOUR

A court of inquiry was conducted on Thursday-the day after the accident and Secret Bervice men have questioned all workmen en- gaged in the craft.

ADMIRALTY'S STATEMENT The Admiralty stated last night that the accident occurred on "Wednesday, morning when one of the main motors of the 154 was being started up.

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

arid Anniversaries

Holidays. St. Catharine of Siena, V.

Cinema "King's:-"Here Comes Trouble."

Queen's: "Woman Trap." Oriental: The Bishop. Mis-

behaves."

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World: Chinese Picture." Alhambra:"Drake Of England." Majestic:"Charlie Chan's Bec-

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Star:-"Here Comes Cookie." Lectures-Mr. Laszlo Schwartz's Address to Arts Association; at University, 8.45 p.m.

Meetings. Hongkong Philatelic

Chess Society, "B. C. M. Post" Board Room, 5.30 p.m.; Victoria Club,

Theosophical 5.30 p.m.; Society, 6 p.m.

Miscellaneous-St. Andrew's Wo- men's Fellowship Games afternoon. tea and address. 3 p.m.

p.m.;

Social-St. Andrew's Club Open Night 9 p.m. p.m.; Tombola on board HMS. Tamar, 7.15 Civil Service Cricket Club Whist Drive, 9 pm.; Cheero Club Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m.

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WAR SITUATION

This is the eighth case of sus- pected sabotage in four months.

(“Hong Kong Daily Fresa" Special) The previous cases have concern.

Addis Ababa, Apr." 28. ed damage to the battleship Royal

The general situation as regards Oak, the submarine Oberon at Devonport, the cruiser Cumberland the state of the conflict is surmised and the destroyer Velox at Chat-In Abyssinian circles as follows: the Bouth Front on April 14 to 17 hain, the submarine H28 and the After the first Italian offensive on battleship Repulse at Portsmouth and the new destroyer Griman dur-the collapsed Italian troops began a new offensive in the direction of ing trials.

Basábanch on April 24 Despite the tremendous efforts the Italians

Editor Imprisoned For Slander

("Hong Kong Dally Preas' Special

Paris, Apr. 28. The editor of the Communist organ "Humanite" was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined 500 francs by the Paris court ter and 500 during the winter of failed to reach Sasabaneh after for permitting the publication of 1934-5.

several articles which alleged that M Bonnet had been arrested on the recruits of the French Army March 13 under the edict of the were ill-treated and badly nourish Laval Government for publishing ed as well as exposed to undue ex-false allegations about the regular ertions, with the result that 200 army. soldiers died during the last with

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