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Paris sang and danced, danced and sang, indoors and out o' doors recently.

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Paris said-in 1914-18 Tommy Janguage san fairy ann to wars, dictators, crises, thrests—and sang and danced.

It was a July the Fourteenth night free from worry, Troops from the Maginot Line; The people danced everything on leave. Foreign Legionaries, Bri-from Viennese waltzes to "swing" tish Guardsmen and sailors, and to the music of accordians and tourists in Aannels and sporta violins, coats crowded round the stands of open-atr orchestras that were set up in the side streets outside cafes.

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From a lorry in the Place de l'Opera, which

packed black with people, Marlene Dietrich

sang some of the songs that made her famous In "The Blue Angel; and then set up a roar as she came down and danced with a Foreign Legionary.

In the modest Paris suburb of Menilmontant, where he was born

Mr. Robert E. Farrell who has been appointed Honorary Vice- Consul for Spain at Hongkong. (Photo by Josepho).

A Brigade meeting for all mem- end where as a boy he earned his [bers (excluding Distric. Officers ving by selling newspapers. Mau- and Surgeons) will be held to-day Hice Chevalier, his straw hat cock-at 7.30 p.m.

ed on the side of his head, sang

to other hage crowds.

GUARDSMAN CHEERED

At the Bastille, where the largest

open-air dancing piace was ropedį

MOTORIST WHO

DID NOT SPEAK MALAY

Ft/LL. R. W. Wallace was fined $5 by Mr. C. H. Whitton. Traffic Judge, Singapore, when he pleaded guilty to the charge of disobeying the lawful orders of police con- stable outside the Alhambra Thea- tre.

Court Inspector A. H. Frew stat- ed that the car parka were full and accused parked his car in front of the Beach Road Police Station

A constable asked accused to re- move his car but the accused went into the cinema without doing so.

In explanation, F/Lt, Wallace stated that he did not understand Malay though he knew the con- stable was speaking to him: There was no other parking space` there at the time.

Ft/Lt. Wallace admitted he had been in the Colony for the last three years.

NEWSETTES

Mr. Alexander Steven, of the, Mr. Finn

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Koren, Norwegian

off on the very site of the old prison that the mob tore down in the French Revolution 150 years ago to-day, a girl wearing the tri- color costume, of Marianne, the Medical Department, celebrated Minister to China, Japan and traditional figure of revolutionary his birthday yesterday.

Thalland, who arrived in Shang- France, was cheered when she

hal with Madame Koren recently danced with a Guardsman.

The speaker at the YM.C.A. from Japan, left on August 31, in The day started with the big Discussion Group on Sunday at 9 the 8. Scharnhorst for Europe parade of armed forces in the p.m. will be Mr. T. Herman. His on long leave. Champs-Elysees in the morning. subject will be "The Promise of

In the afternoon the more polt-China's Industrial Co-operatives.“ |tically minded Parisians turned out for the annual celebration at the site of the Bastille.

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smuggling from the Orient to the Pacific coast of the Mr. A. M. Thomson, of the Public United States has come to a vir- Works Department, received the tual standstill because of a shor- In the Elysee Palace President congratulations of his friends yes- tage of

opium in Japanese- Lebrun gave a formal luncheon to terday on the occasion of his occupied areas of China, the chief the officers who had taken part inļ birthday.

of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau dis- the parade, including the repre-

closed recently. sentatives of the British forces.

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A wire to the entire nation ap- pealing for strong support to the

Apparently Mr. Chamberlain

Chinese National Government was finds solace from his political wor-

Issued by Mr. Chang Chun-ries in music. An observer who him at a member of the People's Political recently sat behind Council, from Chungking on Aug.London concert noticed that he Sat without moving a muscle for one and a quarter hours, listening

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B.B.C. ENGINEER'S LOVE AFFAIR

Questions were asked about love affair, at the Uckfield, Sus- sex inquest on Ernest John Hatt, aged 26. a B.B.C. research engi- neer, who was found gassed in a car in Ashdown Forest.

Hutt had lived at Dovercourt-

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The United States Naval Trans-to Beethoven. port Chaumont, arrived in Shang- hal on Aug. 22 after a trip from

The death occurred in Shanghai, the United States with personnel on Aug. 18, at the Country Ho8- replacements and supplies for pital, cf May Esther Gutierrez, road, East Dulwich. The coroner, U.S. Naval units in the Far East. aged 6, daughter of the late Mr. Dr. E. F. Hoare; was told by

a The Chaumont came upriver to Edward Lawrence Gutierrez and witness that he had worried Shanghai and

moored to Mrs. Marle Gutierrez. The funeral

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about the general "situation, and buoys 11 and 12 in the Whangpoo service was held on Aug. 21. at the he asked Hutt's father

if there River.

Pahsienjao Cemetery. was not some more personal an- xiety.

Yellow River floods are gravely, Mak Wong, 21, unemployed, was The father, 2 schoolmaster, threatening the

to North Kiangsu sentenced six weeks hard sald there had been a love affair areas. The provincial government labour. at the Central Court, by which had been. "unfortunate." has ordered immediate dyke re-[Mr. T. J. Houston, on a charge of Referring to two notes found pair work to be carried out along unlawful possession of an electric in the car, the coroner said that the upper reaches of the Grand motor horn, valued at $5, the in the first Hutt said he had no Canal Out of a total នៅព ct property of G. A Payne, of 14. sleep for days. Th» second was $880,000 required for undertaking Tai Hang Road. Sgt. Pockson a general statement and an at- the repair work, the Chinese Gov-prosecuted, tempt to explain his motive.

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A verdict was recorded, of sui- $100,000, the remaining amount to Mr. B. M. Simansky, acting Con--| cide while, the balance of mind be defrayed by the provincial sul-General for the U89F in was disturbed.

treasury.

U.S. NEWSPAPERS IN CARIBOU

Reach London Two Days After Printing

LONDON, Aug. 12 (By Air Mail)-All the New York morning” and evening newspapers, published on Wednesday, arrived at the offices of "The Daily Telegraph" at 5.30 yesterday afternoon,

They had been brought across | the Atlantic by Imperial Airways fying-boat Caribou, which reached Southampton yesterday at 232 p.m. She left New York at 9 p.m. | on Wednesday, arrived at Montreal at 11.29 p.m., and reached Foynes at 10.32 yesterday morning

Among the newspapers brought by the Caribou was "a copy of Monday's "Montreal Gazette," in which was a facsimile reproduc-} tion of half of the front page of last Saturday's "Daily Telegraph," with the caption, "Carried across Atlantie on first regular (air-ma}} flight." A similar reproduction® of "The Daily Telegraph" front page had appeared in Tuesday's "New York Times.”).

There has thus been a com- plete exchange of newspapers between England and Ameries in little more than six days.

The Montreal Gazette" com- mented: "A day and a half after reaching its regular readers, in Great Britain a copy of "The Dally Telegraph was delivered to John Bassett, president of the "Gazette.” The Gazette devotes almost 11 columns to news and pictures of Whe Caribou,

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Shanghal, accompanied by wife and child, left for Moscow on Aug. 16 by way of Europe in the Fres- dent Doumer. Mr. M. A Konstan tindi, Vice-Consul will be in charge of the Shanghal Consulate until Mr. Simansky's retum.

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| 12 at St. Paul's Church, Adelaide, [of. Mr. Edward : Chung-gon and Miss Gladys So, daughter of Mrs. 80 Sum Choon, of Rundle Street, Adelaide, A well, attended recep tion WALA beld at Wentworth, North Terrace, Adelalde, following the church ceremony."

Production of wolfram, anti- mony, tin and other minerals has been considerably increased under. the Bagts of war, as a result, or the extensive exploitation carried out in Inland areas under the auspices

of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Chinese Government

The wedding took place on Aug. [18 at Community Church, „Avenue Pétain. Shanghai, of Mr. Neil Delton Brown son, of Mr. and Mrs. T. Brown, of Beattle. Washington, and Miss Dolly van Heemsbergen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William van Heemsbergen, of Lõu Angeles, California. The Rev. Carleton Lacy omelated.

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