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No. 24330, @@ƒX120' =&†Â§4TH HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936. AND DEMANTE#ATI Price

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Miky: "One of the secrets of strength is plenty of onions.”

Pat: "An' how could anyone have opións and keep it a secret?"

Employer: "While I'm away you will take your orders from the mis- tress. Qiles."

Gardener: "Yes, sir-same as You was at home."

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"Is your new son-in-law nicely off?"

"He can just about keep my daughter in gloves. I pay for everything else."

"Then be deceived you as to his circumstances

"No. I remember he merely asked for her hand.”

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morrow?"

Young Lawyer: "Twice. if con- venient! I have an idea that folks think you are a client."

Local Exchange Quotations

T.T. ON LONDON: 1/2.13/16 (nom.) T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30.15/16

TIN CONTROL PROBLEM

London Journal's Suggestion

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 Anniversaries And Holidays.- St. Philomenin.

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King's:-"Trouble For Two."

Queen's: "The Ex-Mrs. Brad-

ford."

Oriental:-Bordertown." World:-"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra:-"Drift Fence." Majestic: Variety Programme" Star-"Anything Goes." Miscellaneous. —Rotary Hongkong Hotel; Entries close for Radio Ideas Competition sponsored by the Telegraph.”

Tian.

London, Aug. 10. Social-W.Os, & Bergts' of Z Advocating continuance of tin Coy., RAMG, hold Whist Dove restriction, opposition to which has at Military Hospital Mess, Bowe: now dwindled down to dealers on Road. 8.30 p.m.; REW.Os. & S/N. the Metal Exchange, the "Times" cos. makes the starting suggestion to Cheers Club Whist Drive. 8.30 p.m. Mess Tombola. 8 p.m.:

go on with unlimited production

If the price reaches a certain

will result

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figure, but a definite percentage Bowl-Pairs Semi-final J. E of restriction when the price falls Henson and A. Bright v. J. E below a certain level. This, the Noronha and F. X. M. da Silva

Times continues, will provide (Kowloon C.C. green). 5 p.m. consumers and dealers a basis of Darts.--McEwan-Younger League. calculation, while at the same time EKARA, V. Chle: and Petty

safeguarding officers; Royal Welch Fusiliers

Royal Naval Yard Police; Rorai Artillery, Lyemun v. Royal Azil!- lery. Stonecutters; Royal Disler Rifles v. R. Engineers.

Swimming.-R.W.F. Long Dis- tance event, Shamshulpo.

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THE KING STUDIED

MR. SICKERT'S TASK

London, July 32

Moon VI Moon, 26th. Day... Sunrise-3.58 am Sunset, -4.58

Tides-High at 3:15 and 17.45; Low at 11.15 and 20.20.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12

Anniversaries and Holidays.- St. Clare.

The statement was exact. The official figures just published show D that at the end of 1935 Johore had no public debt and a surplus of over £3,000,000.

The surplus would have been £500.000 more but for the Sultan's gift to the Singapore Base. This was paid out of the

annual re-

venue.

BEST EQUIPPED EMPIRE SOLDIERS

Cinemas

51.

King's: "Moonlight Murder." Queen's:-"Dangerous" a Oriental:"Bordertown." Alhambra:-"Drift Fence Majestic:-"Variety Programme.”

Star:-"G-Men.”

Dances. Cheero Club Dance, " 8

Meetings-Volunteer Sergts" Mess. Committee Quarterly Meeting 6 p.m.; Hongkong. Aquarium Society. in Biol. Dept., H.K. University, 8.30 Kowloon Union Church P.m.; Women's Guild, 10 am.

Social-Whist Drive at Sailors' Home and Beamen's Institute. · 0 pin: Mah Jong Drive, Women's Section Y.M.C.A., West Lounge, 3 pm.

Sports

Mr. Sickert's full-length por- The Sultan of Johore might trait of the King at the summer have made another boast,

Swimming-Army Sports (Heats), exhibition at the Leicester Gal- If the Brigade of Guards were European Y.M.C.A.; Y.M.C.A, Gala, leries is surely the most unconadvancing alongside the Jobore 8.15 pm ventional royal portrait of 1

Tennis.-"B" Military Forces, with both in full

Division. Indian monarch ever painted. He pre-service it, first prize for the R.C. v. Club de Recreio. 5.15 p.m. sents King Edward in Grenadier most efficient equipment would go uniform coming out of a building to the Johore forces.

Moon-VI Moon, 28th. Day. carrying his Busby before him like

Sunrise.--5,59 am Bunset.--6.57

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a bouquet, his legs look almost On the recommendation of their Impossibly thin in their foreshor- British

advisers they tening as he walks. The artist have just been supplied with new rust have consulted photographs, equipment that has taken as he did in the portrait of the years of exhaustive experiment in late King George. He makes no fuss England to bring to perfection.. about the assistance of photo- The new equipment, known as graphy. No more did Degas, The the Braithwaite, gives comfort, great Turner was intensely curious reduced weight, and a balance un- about that new discovery in his known before to the marching time, and would no keep out of soldier. It has not yet been sup- the studio of one of the pioneer plied to British forces, because, I photographers. Mr. Bickert ta a understand, a vigilant · Treasury master and can use anything he insists that the British Army shali has a mind to and blend it into wear out what it has. The design the alchemy of his art. He makes of the present Brigade of Guards one think of Swinburne's line equipment dates back to 1908.

about Burns:

He made the cup Shine from which he quaffed.

like a planet fore and art.

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It is a delightfully exciting pic- ture and an extraordinarily con- vincing portrait of the King, al- though it is transposed out of realism.

TYPHOON WARNING

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Tides.-High at 4.25 and 19.59; Low at 12.40 and 21.30.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13

Anniversaries. and Holidays.~. Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners. St. John Berchmans,

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King's: "Moonlight “Murder." Oriental:-"42nd Street,” Alhambra: “Devil's Squadreri Star: The Count Of Monte

y: Cristo,"

Meetings. Toc H. Supper Mezt- ing at Seamen's Institute, 7.30 p.m.. Miscellaneouk-St. Andrew's Club. "Open" Night, 8 pm

Bocial Cheerb Club Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m.; Civil Sez- The following typhoon warning vice Cricket Club Whilst Drive. '9 was despatched from Manila ap.m. The pale pink of the pm. yesterday through the Amefi- King's scarlet tunic is as far from ean Consulate- the real scarlet of that garment-

as the almost colourless face is Typhoon in about 125 degrees from Resh. "But it is all or a piece Long. E and 17 degrees Lat. N., in its relation of tones, charming moving N.W.

in colour, and strangely lifelike, The Hong Kong Observatory re- end, for all its summarfriess, a fine ported at 5.13 pm, yesterday: The paychological study of King Ed- typhoon is about 220 miles to the ward in the first year of his reign.; northeast of Manila, moving N.W.

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