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FIGHTING AGAIN IN PROGRESS

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Shanghal, March 1. The whole lat Kueminchun army has left for the front, and the order for the general attack has been issued, the centre to ad- vance to Tongkoontuan, the cast wing to Taku, the west wing by Yaochinto, the left wing. to Tai- shing, and the right to Siucham.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926.

CHEMICAL SUPREMACY.

GERMANY'S DESPERATE

EFFORT.

If proof were needed that an aye for the humorous does not impair appreciation of the practical, we should put in evid- ence the series of observant articles on New Zealand and London, 2nd February -The Australia. which Mr. A. P. Her

bart has contributed to the Daily Times Frankfurt correspondent Telegraph. Mr. Herbert was a says that Germany le making member of the British Delegation desperate efforts to regain her. supremacy in the chemical in- to the Empire Press Conference. dustry. A gigantic trust has been Like all his colleagues, he returne warmly appreciative to the the of

variety and vigour of Australian formed to secure the most effective exploitation

life, and the actual and potential wealth of the continent, and markets in every quarter,

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a thorough scientific Australians to agree with him. training enabling them to cope He doubts whether a White with the intensified. demands of Australia can be securely attach- modern chemical science, especi-od to a rigid principle of selective ally by chemical technical schools, immigration. If, as he says, It is reported from a Kuomin colleges and universities. chun source

that the Kuomin greatest efforts are being made to Australian spaces are to wait for the influx of ready-made farmers equip a class of students capable with the advertised £800 to £500 THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY army was

rather progressing favourably on the 27th instant quirements, thereby assisting ever. The farmers have to be of anticipating the world's re- of capital, they may wait for and the fighting is, proceeding Germany to re-enjoy her former manufactured out of the material tween Tangkontuan and Chan-pre-eminence in the chemical available and the capital lent. world which she is determined at During the war any ablebodied all costs to recover.

man was a potentiel soldior. Until Australia has filled her vacuum, any ablebodied man with the will to learn should be

wantuan.

General Feng Yu-hsiung return- ed to Pinglichun on the 28th inst. General Fong Pun-yan telegraphi- cally announces that he has in structed Tang Yu-tuk to lead his forces to the frontiers of Hupeh, and that he himself will stay be Eind to look after affairs at the

rear.

General Kan Wan-ngoi,.of Gen- eral Wu Pei-fa's forces. entered the capital of Honam on the 27th

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"The complete Angler' is an-skim the cream." And even if other name for Euclid, because they do, there is not enough he wrote all about angles.

cream to go round.

This is one of the amusing; schoolboy "howlers" in the en-gramme, takes pride of place:

Some intruments used in an tertaining selection from entries:

aro: Vilos, cellars, submitted to the University Cor-j orchestra respondent in their annual com- trumpets, hornets' baboons, old petition.

boys and bubble bases.

Now we know 1

In the answersmade by school- boys in history, geography, grammar and literature, the fol- lowing queer errors occurred

Clive committed suicide three times..

Oliver Twist had a very good effect, for people saw the work- houses in a different limelight,

Degrees of Comparison of Bad Bad, very sick; dead..

Shakespeare was the author of Omlet.

The plural of ox is Oxo. Crewe is the biggest conjunc- tion in England.

Menai Straits are spanned by atubercular bridge:

The first wage of the 11,000 miles fight by the Royal Air Force to". Cape Town, under the lendersp of Wing Commander Pulford, with five officers and two mechanics, hae been completed by the arrival at Assuil, from Heliopolis, "ef four Fairey 3 seaplanes, fitted with under-carriages, instead of floats each having one Napier-Lion"450 horsepower engine

The flight is following the route mapped out by the R. A. F. at the

One of the funniest bits of scientific thought is expressed thus

Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and

water.

A budding medical student de- end of the war, whee dense bushclared that doctors now treat and tropical jungles were cleared patience with ultra-violent rays.",

and aerodromes established 200 miles spark.

The trip and return are expected to occupy ten weeks. There will be no attempts at record-breaking. Reuter

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"CHEQUERS."

There is something more than meets the eye in this paradoxical error: "Water may be made, hard by freezing, and the hard- ness removed by boiling it." And could any of our groutest scientific highbrows beat this for lucidty of] thought: A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

One can see the association of ideas in the statement that "One- quers is a public-house near Wales": George Graves might|| have told us that "Rhubarb is a kind of celery gona bloodshot, while there is unconscieus satire in the remark the lad wrote that Genius is an infinite capacity for picking brains.

The first book in the Bible,'

| sion of the Commanding Olliver. wrote one youngster, "is Gui-)

The mother of the children, up-nessis." The Navy," wrote peared and pleaded guilty. His another, "is sometimes called the Worship bound the parent over Senile Service."

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