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HOW THE INNOCENT

SUFFER.

planes have wrought terrible damage to civilian life and pro- perty, so much so that Chinese residents as well as foreign Con- Buls have been compelled to pro test against the outrages. The same kind of thing is apparently happening in Napning, if on a somewhat smaller scale. Even hospitals are not spared, apparent- ly, though the British institution which has suffered appears to have been hit by shells fired from the walls by the defending forces. This hospital has been doing a splendid work of mercy in tending to the wounded, and some little time back an effort was made to ensure that it should be safe guarded from damage. The garrison commander then made a promise that this request should be respected so long as the Red Cross and the Union Jack were displayed. These emblems, how- ever, have not secured immunity, for yesterday's report shows that the upper part of the building has been riddled by shrapnel shells and one of the wards rendered uninhabitable. Moreover, even some of the patients and the

DAY BY DAY

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While resisting arrest, a Cologne

The name of Mr. R. W. Webber, of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co. has been added to the register of chemists and druggists.

It is notified that the name of the Ming Yuen Recreation Garden Wing Fat Company, Limited. has been struck off the Register.

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Welfare Coubell. The number of beggara is listed at 2,000, makingTM their average estimated income £1,000 each. Golden Gooss

His Excellency the Governor man who was suspected of being has appointed Mr. John Heywood member of a band of coiners was Gelling to act as Secretary to the shot and wounded by a police

From Germany comes a story of officer. Ho was conveyed to hos Sanitary Board.

pital. During the night three men a child's life being saved by a It happened on a farm entered the ward. They said that goose, they were police officers and had a near Sangerhausen, Saxony, where structions to remove the patient the hands working in the fields to another medical station. The were surprised when the excited night sister consented, and the men goose ran towards them and then. carried the patient to a waiting back into the farmyard. As the motor-car and drove off. The next excited bird repeated this per- adopted the ruse to effect their hands followed the bird and saw. day it transpired that the men had formance several times, one of the comrade's escape.

the farmer's two-year-old child in A 65-year-old woman. (Mrs. J. the pond. The pond was not very ferryman, of Tunbridge Wells deep, but swampy, and the child Kent), has for the third year in could be rescued in time. succession won a competition for Powder Does It! - the most beautiful hair.

Indelible powder led to the arrest Stout Buttons!

of a domestic servant remanded at Tenders are being Invited for

Percy Firth, foreman erector, Northampton on charges of at- to atcal four ten- the purchase of two Gwynne was in danger of falling 40 feet, tempting turbine pumps complete with air because of a rope breaking, while shilling notes from a trousers

which he pumps.

pumps,

the was engaged on new pocket in a wardrobe at a house in.

buildings at municipal

Peter-St. Michael's-avenue, Northampton," may be seen af the Central Fire Station, are constructed almost borough. A fellow workman grab-where she was employed. It was wholly of gun-metal and have each bed him by the braces and held on stated that the numbers of the a pumping capacity of 500 gallons until he got assistance. per minute against a head of 230 fect.

The Government is inviting tenders for the first section of the catchwater and contingent works in connexion with the Aberdeen Valley waterworks scheme.

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be.

Indelible notes were copied, and powder. placed in the trousers Knobs for the "Nobs,"

pocket. The next day a detective Gold plated doorknobs are the saw the woman had powder on the latest Paris luxury for American face and one hand. hotel clients. The costliest order

The road is being built for the United.

States Government. This "ramb- ling fortress" will, it is claimed, be bomb-proof and gas-proof, and be able to carry a load of 12 tons, through swamps. estimated cost is $7,600.

even

The

"His Excellency the Governor has dressers have been wounded.

These facts serve to throw into made the following promotions in

the Hongkong Volunteer Defener on record for door knobs has just A Rambling Fortress.

An amphibian tank that can prominence the consequences of Corps to date from 18th August been given, to an American hard- civil war in China. If the mili-1936:-Company Sergeant-Major ware corporation who are to supply swim at 10 miles an hour, travel at John Henry Lawrence to be Second gold-plated knobs for the decora- 50 miles an hour on rough ground, tarists themselves alone suffered. Lieutenant; Company Quarter-tion of many rooms of the and at 70 miles an hour on a good it would not greatly matter, but master Sergeant Jose Victor Vieirr new Waldorf-Astoria hotel

to be Second order approaches, £50,000. when innocent civilians lose their dos Remedios

Sergeant Lieutenant;

-Henry lives, private property is damaged, Joseph Silva to

Second Growing Pains.

A bantam hen which had been and the humanitarian work of Lieutenant.

missing for some time from the hospitals is jeopardised, it is high

is inviting farmyard of Pitsea Hall, Pitzea, The Government time steps were taken to render tenders for a licence for the Essex, has returned with two gos-

It is exclusive maintenance of the ferryings. Apparently she found the 40 Reward, these things impossible.

A boy at Little Missenden, of geese eggs in a corner of the services for the conveyance

and marshes where wild geese aro oc- Bucks, found a woman's handbag, certainly nothing short of lamen-persons between Victoria table that, as reported yesterday, Hunghom, Victoria and Kowloon asionally found. The hen guard-containing money and jewellery. City, Victoria and Sai Wan Ho,ed the goslings fealously, but show- His mother, finding a name and some seventy, or eighty shells Victoria and Shaukiwan. Hunged alarm at the rapid rate at which address in the bag, travelled eight miles by 'bus, paying Bd. for the be fired into streets hom and Kowloon City, Hunghom they are growing.

fare, and walked a further three The plight of Nanning, the should well-known Kwangsi city, is at the adjoining a missionary hospital and Sai Wan Ho, Hunghom and Speed!

Shaukiwan, Kowloon City and Saf A card posted in Bristol on miles, to return the bag to the present mon at a distressing one. which is doing a fine work in the Wun Ho, Kowloon City and Shauki- March 3rd, 1904, has just been de-owner in a remote part of Am- Having fallen into the band's of interests of the Chinese. The lat wan, Sai Wan Ho and Shaukiwan.livered to Mrs. F. Rose, of Spring-ersham. She was rewarded with

field-road, Cotham, Bristol, having-18. troops which do not recognise the of the foreigners in such

It is notified that the Cavern-taken 26 years to travel two miles Where Laughter is Banned, authority

Crewe (Cheshire) Corporation of the Nationalist institution, under such conditions, ment proposes to erect a public The postman was instructed to de- Government it is undergoing an must be a most unenviable one. latrine on Crown land off Sai Yee mand a surcharge of one penny, as have decided to close a children's Street east of Kowloon Inland only a halfpenny stamp was used paddling pool on Sundays. It was experience which must be That they should stay on and con- Lot No. 1579 and aauth-east of

contended that there was the risk extremely terrifying to its in- tinue to serve the unfortunate Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1580. If New "Sport"

A new company has been formed of the children soiling their best. Another argument was habitants. For weeks now, Yun-victims of war is a tribute to any owner or occupier in the im

mediaté vicinity of such site in Norway to exploit a remarkable clothes.

to such erection, such method of killing whales by elec-that people living near resented noise of the children's nanese forces who are said to be their devotion and self-sacrifice. objects loyal to Nanking have been None the less, we cannot, but objection must be sent in writing tricity. A harpoon attached to a the endeavouring to capture the city, bemoan the happenings in this to the Colonial Secretary so as to cable is fired. When it strikes the laughter on Sundays. reach his office not later than whale it becomes charged with Somewhat Out of Date.

electricity and electrocutes the When a toy drum made in Ger- and working in co-operation with stricken city, the inhabitants of Friday, 12th September.

monster. Death is instantaneous many was broken up at Ports and the carcase remains afloat.

mouth a parchment marriage cer- them are Cantonese airmen who which do not know what the

tificate written 180 years ago was have been making periodical Lo-morrow may have in store for

an extraordinary acuteness of Beggars' Profitable Profession.

A startling increase in the num- found inside. It. The certificate is bombing raids in the hope of them.

perception with a rare gift of ex-

of written in English and refers to ber of beggars in the streets considered 'judg- pressing their

the marriage of Benjamin Spark subduing the defenders. So far,

New York, whose earnings are ments. They are more worth however, the assaults appear to

estimated at £2,000,000 a year, is and Catherine Morworth at the while listening to than were their revealed in the annual report of church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, have been unsuccessful, with the

parents at the same age. consequence that the city is still in the hands of Kwangsi rebel

an

Children as Companions. The maxim that "children should be seen and not heard" has gone the way of a great many

other forces.

Victorian principles of "correct" Some idea of what life must be conduct, and will probably never be like in the city under siege còn-revived. If the present generation ditions was given by a corres-of children seem, by contrast with the last, a trifle too self-assured and pondent in yesterday's issue. For a fortnight at least there have lacking in respect for their elders, their emancipation from the form- been repeated assaults by the er strait-laced discipline has result Yunnanese, aided by air raiders, ed in a spirit of youthful candour, and the details given yesterday of which has done everybody a great these happenings show that the deal of good. A child is never people have been undergoing more subservient to discipline than when treated as an equal in the terrible hardships and very con-household, never more rebellious- siderable danger: Apart from the and "difficult"—than when his risks of warfare to which they are parents, or well-meaning relatives, exposed, there are sanitary "condescend" to interest them- problems to be faced, owing to the selves in his supposedly "inferior" dumping of the bodies of large point of view, Mrs. Spears, who is better known as Mary Borden, numbers of dead troops just out the novelist, goes even further. side the city walls, whilst water She maintains that children ought and food supplies have been very to be taken, into the confidence of much cut down. One of the worst their elders 'much more than they features of the siege has been the are. "I find, when I have a dif- ficult problem to solve," she loss of life and damage to pro-

stated recently, "that no one can perty caused by the bombing planes which every now and then give me such good advice as my chlidren. Children aré' good visit the city. If only military judges of character, and they have objectives were bombed, there an extraordinary instinct for truth could not be much objection, but and sincerity." Quite irrespec- it is obvious that, as in other tive of the doctrine that cach cities in the war zones in China, generation is older, and, therefore, civilians have greatly suffered inherently wiser, than the pre- ceding one, it is indisputable that and much private property been children are far quicker in form- destroyed. The wrecking of the ing a true estmate of a person's Roman Catholic. Cathedral can character than many older people. only be described as a disgrace- Their perceptions are keener, ful plece of work whilst the in-thefr purely animal instincts.un- discriminate dropping of bombs spoiled. Because they are not al- ways blurting out home truths in other areas, as reported by our does not mean that they are un- correspondent, indicates that the

observant. It very often implies, Invaders are not very particular in in the present generation, a dis- what they do. During the civil inclination to hurt the feelings war in the North, there have been of those they admire. Our many occasions on which bombing modern children seem to combine

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a sub-committee of the New York London, E. C., on July. 21st, 1750.

"And this will be your second marriage?" "No. This is my second, going on my third."