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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1926.

Treaty of Versailles in this ro-

spect was a classical error of judgment.

DAY BY DAY.

A MAN'S FATE 18 HIS OWN TEM-İ-

MIXED

·ASHLEY STERNE

GRILL

AVTHOR OF

·TWISTED TALES

But there is another sido to the PER-Disraeli, war debts question, and it is the ⠀⠀

The British steamer Tolema- one to which the United States

chus reports sighting on over- has loaned. That country claims turned sampan. at 10.40 a.m., that for the sake of international yostorday. The position was 21. probity and morality evory na-29 N., 112.59 E. tion must honour its debt-at

Thore will be a lecture at the!

I am most distressed that I of our streets in their flimsy Hoast in principle if not to the Helena May Institute on Mon-have to commence this week's little shoes and diaphanous stock. The Russian boot for uttermost farthing. Cancellation day, February 1st, at 5.30 p.m. Mixed Grill with a rotton tomato, ings.

untitled "The Story of Heligoland so to speak.

But here stand we spinsk, a it is called was was impossible, says her leading before and after the War. Adat. bare three weeks journey simply shrieking to be naturaliz

from Christmas; and there stande od. And now that this has come statesmen because even if cir-

M. du Courthial, the French an American scientist predicting about, I am feeling distinctly cumstances. Irad permitted, it

has yet. would have been in the long run Consul in Hongkong, is to suo- the end of the world for that hurt that nobody

ceed M. Andre Dangou at Singa-particular day. What are we borrowed a hint from abroad. for unwise would not only have gore about the middle of March. Koing to do about it? Are we the protection of the male trouser saddled America with the main M. Dangou is appointed to Can-going to tell our eager and expoc and spat. Why, for instance, tant progeny that there will be no should we not adopt the fashion burden of war but would not to,

need for them to write their of the Basques and walk about have been, in the. real interest The Government is calling for customary letters to Santa Claus; on stilts whenever the condition of the doutor nations them-tenders for the purchase of two or to hang up their stockings on of our streets places our pedul selves. No American Govern-steam fire engines, one of which Christmas Eve, owing to the and crural clothing in jeopardy 1. may be seen at Kowloon Fire calamity due to befall them on The only difficulty. I forenoo would be that when a fellow WAY Mr. Kellogg in Station and the other at Wan- the morrow; or are we going to

defy this dismal seer, and flaunt taking his girl out they wouldn't a recent interview) could have chai Fire Station.

our banner," Christmas As Usual",

be able to walk arm-in-arm (un. contemplated the gift outright to

There was a slight error in our in his face? I think the latter less, of course, his fiancee were Fother nations of billions of dollars

raport of the Horticultural So- for on reading of the prospective chimpanzee), while conversation subscribed on the terms of a loan city's meeting, the name of Sir disaster I at once called that old would necessarily have to be by the American people. Ameri- Shou-son Chow having been given ass, Dr.. Bulkley Stodger, for his conducted through a megaphone Moan- ca's terms to a dobtors has as being elected to the Committee has now cabled back or portable tolephare. toe. This should have read Mr. to the offect: "Curry On.

Have while I'm having a gusset insert- investigatod and find prophet lasted in my gumboots. "MUSTARD & CO., LTD. always been as veral as possiblo, Chou Po-sien,

Michaelmas ronowed lease of his it is claimed. Certainly, the

The forthcoming wedding is house for seven years, and also

A year ago, writes 講 Lorms on which Britain, has had

took out Endowment Policy pay: dramatic critic, the dear old announced of Mr. George William her, debt to the US. funded, was Reid, engineer, of the Asiatic able 1945. That being so, I shall Christmas pantomime was on its last logs. This year will see its hailed at the time as an act of Petroleum Company, Shemeen, bang the customary saxpence on

A Keats calendar for Aunt Louisa, final obsequies." Friends, don and Miss Isabella Welsh Strang, generosity. But Britain is, apparat i en route from England on and one-and-six on a box of fifty your muffled gloves and crape- Flor de Cabajos for Uncle Pator.odged diokios, and follow me to ontly, out to treat all her expen-tho a.. Serpadon.

without more than a passing the Requiem Department, while ses fover and above what she has

I strike my muted lyre and give economic qualm.

voice to my deep emotion

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SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 1926.

WAR DEBTS."

mont (ays

I

to pay back to Americal as boing. Tenders are being invited for repairs to the sea wall founda- her own, and says that whatever tions at Queen's Pier. The work Sir Barry Jackson has been ex- she receives either in the way of consists of the deposition of pell.pressing his chagrin that the re- debt repayment or reparations in melt rubble in front of the son cent modern clothee production Now that Britain and Italy excess of what she has to pay to wall and the strengthening of its of "Hamlet", while freely patron- foundations by cement concrete ised by pit and gallery, did not have settled their debt question, the U. S., she will credit to the filing.

attract the habitues of the stalls. there will doubiless be a fillip agreed outstandings, of her eredi-

I can't pretend to explain this A concert in aid of an offort to lamentable noglect on the part of given to the matter of war debt tors. America may think this

raiso, $2,000 for the renovation of the stalls; but I will go so far as settlement 18 regards

other action onwise, but there can be St. Peter's Church will take place to say that the experiment might countries. There are, doubtless, no possible doubt as to its gone-as St. John's Cathedral on Wod-well be tried of dressing a modern very many who think that Groat rosity or its likelihood of pro-nesday. The following will take play in ancient garb and seeing part: Mr. Victor Sanders, Miss what effect that has on the jaded Britain's leniency to those who moting real European friendships. Raymond Lam, Mrs. Balean, funteuils. Let the stage Earl of owe her money is all wrong A nation's riches includes the Mrs. Morgan, Rev. G. E. Arrow- the Modern Society comedy wear havings regard to the fact that

medieval armour. Let the in- evitable crook don the pictur- sho, herself, is paying to tho

esquo pirate uniform. Let the low United States very large sums

The Prince's Accidents." The following names have been comedy man wear chp-and-bells, annually which she really bor.

added to the list of medical and bang said canned nobleman rowed to loan to others. Thoro Whether the Prince of Wales practitioners: Dr. Suegoro Haru, in the tummy with a gilded blad-,

difference..

goodwill of its neighbours.

smith, Miss Aileen Hynos and Misa Iris Woolley.

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POEMS ON PROMINENT PERSONAGES. Juck Hubbs. O mighty wielder of the whang-

ing willow Take your well-earned repose: to

leisure yield; Yet, as you hibernate upon your

Weep ye, sad fountains Sab, cypress grove l Blubber, O mountains!

Weil, plaintive dove l' Whimper, O willows, ».

Over my head §. Shed tears in billowe Panto is dead! -

No Cinderellas,"

No Forty thisvoD,

No little fellors.

Covered with leaves ! No Widow Twankoy.

Snow White, Rose Rod! Lend me your hankey-

Panto is dead!

No magic arbour.

Bramble-ensphered!

No All Barber

Shaving Bluoboard! Vanished is. Little'

Riding-Hood (red),"' Lock, fot and tittlo-

Panto is dead!

Gone are Aladdin, Dick and his Cali, O, what a sad in

Fliction is that:

Gone, too, are Crusoe, Beauty and Boost 1.

Don your black trousseau-

Panto's gone past. (*)

To rhyme with "beast." But really gone west,

is a fundamental difference of is not more unfortunato in the 25, Kennedy Road, Bachelor of der. Let the port French maid Medicine of the Imperial Kyushu bo swathed in the exiguous roile opinion on the question of war hunting field than the majority of University; and Dr. Freidrich of the Grecian slave. Put the Maximilian Pfister, St. dashing young stockbroker into dobis as a whole and it is indeed riders, the fact remains that Otta interosting in view of the nature mishaps in which he figures occur George's House, Kennedy Road, the Tyrian purple toga of the an- of Britain's settlement with Italy all too frequently. In the latest Member of the Royal College of cient Phoenician trader. Stain Surgeons (England), Licentiate the wrathful husband with woad, to study, for a moment, that instance, which has resulted in of the Royal College of Phy-and sew him into the raw-hide skin of Neolithic man. And the fracturing of his collar-bone, sicians (London).

finally deck the orring wife with it is gratifying to know that no The preponderance of thought

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,a festoon of grapes, a couple of complications have set in andis to-morrow making a hig effort saucepan-lids, six square inches in England is that war debts, as

that a complete and early recov- to raise $3,000 by free-will offer of batter-muslin, and a Bacchanto- whole. should have bsen ory. is expected. It is probably ings. Special Thanksgiving ser-like smile.. I, for one, could easily "washed out" between the Allies. the case that His Royal Highness vices are to be held during the tolerate an evening of Tchekov it's Britain would have stood to lose has no more spills than the morning and in the evening. The without a single visit to the bar, a large sum of money by the average huntsman, but thus owing evening service will be an im-in circumstances such as those.. to his distinguished position, us prissive one, a fitting climax to procesa, but it was felt that what Heir to the Throne, when acci-what promises to be notable in cach nation could afford to pay dents come his way the fact gains the history of the church. The during the war should be taken wider currency than would be keenest spirit prevails and it is the case with others. The Prince expected that the sum aimed at as part of its contribution toward is known as a bold and fearless will be given. the common cause. The nationsrider, and his daring in the field

Two Chinese were each fined that had to be assisted in the may have something to do with

these recurring falls. In the $5 or five days, by Commandér matter of munitions, etc., should United States, the newspapers G. K. Hale, at the Marine Court not be asked to pay for them bend especial interest in these this morning, for using drags and cause they were fired on a accidents to the Prince, the slight- grapplings to rescue articles from Recruit your strength for next different front. Why should Italy est mishap usually being given the sea bottom, outside the man-See that the spring shall find you what originated it. Yet I should

great prominence in the day's of-war anchorage.. have to pay for shells mado in Bri-news. Indeed, quite recently, wo tain and fired off on the Austrian encountered a formidable list in front any more than she should one of these journals, setting have to help to pay for British shells fired by British gunners on the French front? Why should the British people have to pay the American people for shells made in America and fired off on various front when, to have made and supplied those shells is claimed by America as being part of her grout contribution towards the final victory? There was a great moral case for all-round cancellation, and if that process

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pillow,

year's tented field.

St and well, bo "I We'll need your best against the

Kangaroos.

At 8.15 on Thursday morning,

Chinese

arrested at forth what purported to be a full Bowrington Canal in possesion of record of the Prince's falls in the an automatic pistol which had. field, many of which we have four cartridges in the magazine, never before heard of Here, again, The explanation given by the the personality of the Frince is prisonor was that he picked up itsolf sufficient to account for all the woupon on the Praya Ro

Two this publicity. As we say, how-clamation.

Magistrates ever, universal gratification will were to have sat to hear the case be foll at the fact that His Royal this morning at the Central | wedincazumiones Highness has not been seriously Magistracy. hurt by his latest accident, the effects of which he appears to have borno with characteristic serug froid.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, Jan. 29. To-day's exchange notes are as

139

The latest diet craze in the follow: fashionable world is yaghourt, or Paris

New York Brussels Geneva.... Amsterdam Milan Berlin

if cancellation would have meant Bulgarian sour milk in solid form. that the United States and Groat (It is said that vaghourt is respon- Britain would bays had to boar sible for the undoubted fact that there are more centenarians in the greatest financial contribu-

Bulgaria than in any other coun tion towards victory, it could be try of any size in the world. This argued that they were best fitted dish, which is quite appetising when you get used to it, is not to stand the strain. Of course, really new, though its popularity the theory of war is that the van-is now much higher than when quished pays, but Germany could professor Motehnikoff first recom never have been saddled with the monded it. But the idea that it is good, for the complexion has tremendous weight of monetary now become firmly fixed, and the roparations represented by the demand is growing so rapidly that Allied war-timo expenditure, al- the Greeks in London, who eat it regularly at lunch, and dinner, though an attempt has been may shortly find that it has pli made in that direction. The migrated from Soho to Mayfair,

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The Russian boot for ladies, is, without doubt, no mere passing vogue, but a 'utilitarian custom adopted for keeps. Like wrist- watches and umbrellas and nose- powder. It has long boon a my- story to me why, hitherto, ladies have been content to paddle about amid the slush and slime

ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS.

ITALIAN STUDENTS BURN NEWSPAPERS,

Rome, Jan, 29. Following the example of Florence, Rome students to-day de-

In response to a pressing re- quest from the leading archeolo.. gical socioties of Europe, my loarned friend Professor Pifflinger Rottenbleiter, of Potztsusend, has agreed to emerge from his retire- ment and journey to Egypt to, examine the crack in the Sphinx's back, to which calamity I referr ed last week. Interviewed on the eve of his departure, the Pro- fessor remarked: Without having seen the crack it is im- possible for me to say definitely

never be surprised to find that it had been caused by pelicans stropping their beaks on

the Sphinx's spine. As to "the bost method of repairing the damage, I must again suspend opinion until I have boasured the wound, The Sphinx may have to be un derpinned, or even pulled down and rebuilt. On the other hand, the damage, if slight, may pos sibly be remediod by pouring in melted dripping or candlegrouse." As on previous occasions, the whole of tho Professor's stores are being supplied by Mossre.

John Walker and Sons, and Messrs. Haig and Haig..

monstrated against the alleged anti-Italian" campaign in Bavarin They paraded the principal streets and demonstrated before the German Embaaay, where they burned a number of German news papers, Moasures have been taken by the police to prevent a repeti- tion-Reuter,