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CHEVROLET

In the Chevrolet design, rough roads can have no effect on the stability of the radiator and front fenders.

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

radiator In most care, the and front fenders are fastes

the frame. ed directly to Frame movement, therefore, Is Transmitted directly to them fender with the result that

IN #nat

vibration radiator aften quite annoying on rough roads. With the Chevrolet design, the radiator, fenders and headlamps are all mount- ed in an independently sup

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not Elve

DAY BY DAY

In the African Veld.

AFTER along,

IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE LONG TO- fuER THAT ANYTHING IS "WORTIT WRILE," UNLESS THERE IN HOME EYE TO KINDLE IN COMMON WITH OUR

monotonous fixed on their shadows, are grey UTTERED

dangte OWN, SOME BRIEF WORD NOW AND THEN TO IMPLY THAT tour among the villages on as iron. Bronzed leaves

at from black bougha waiting ΤΟΥ WHAT IS INFINITELY PRECIOUS TO the high veld, we got rondy

tho Rome sildon gust to set them rust- US IS PRECIOUS ALIKE TO ANOTHER inst for a short descent to

ling. On other trees copper leaves chief who Kafue River, to visit n MIND-George Klint.

hammered out,, farther bank. have been

And lives beyond the Never before have we been in the struck off to lie coffered in the whtless hollown. The seed pods of

Mr. J. Russell

will speak

on

"Our Attitude towards Life" at the Valley of n bir African river, and the mpondo trec, dark and shin

war. Some are poorer than others in natural resources, but under the necessity imposed by war they obtain far more thun previously out of their potential wealth, and rely on borrowing for the rest. In wur time nations will eheerfully sign huge obligations to pay for necessary commodities, as the Inte Allies did, reserving the reckon ing to an unknown. (uture, when they find that according to peace- time standards they could nfford them. Indeed, about Inst inquiry a State makes before embarking on war is whether it

of urea us with a spell of its own. In Often. can afford the War.

since it seems that we ought to being as gun metal, crack opens in the fact, the people's conditión may

Rond descending into a country of foli hent and scatter their iron bullets. uge and greenery, of Africa's Kafir oranges, like balls of old be so impoverished that the Gov

brans, hang out sign that this greatest want supplied. Shakes- ernment will take the

How often we have said, con-world of buse metal is in pawu. pearean course of giddying their

A coulle in the employ of Mr. V. M. templating our thirsty garden six look about me for some cool, live minds with foreign quarrels so as Grayburn, Chlef Manager

of the first-burned already to stave off internal disturbances. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Cor- or seven months after the last rain thing on which to rest my eyes.

poration, at his home at 357. The has fallen, when our only water At the roots

from a hote in a Peles sono new growth

the fierce light, it is precisely because war muy

Peak, was injured yesterday through supply comes

stream bed, "Oh, if this ventures out, In be regarded 'an a way mut, or

a full from a window. He was taken dry

Kreen of country only had water enough, it, too, seems only the to hospital with a fractured skull, safely valvo. like bankruptcy in

what a wonderful place it would verdigris. he."

We come sharply onto the fals private life, that it behooves the

The Tragic

young nations to make peace more attrac-

Now, at last we shall and a wide, from the hillside, and a wave of an open furnace tive. Unhappily, current happen-Chinese girl came to the notice fawift stream, blue and dancing heat as from

the police authorities yesterday, when! Ings suggest that the leas

they removed to the Pubile Mortuary like a mirage, reed-lined, randy strikes chin and cheek. I get into

hat. sil to be learned.

the body of Tam Tal-tai, aged 18, battemed, fah-filled, hippo-hiant- the machine and pull down who committed suicide at her home ed, a river to dream about. on the third floor of 27. D'Agullar Bumping along In the mathila. Stiert. The unfortunate woman was I am aware that my feet are more the Bwana us he passes. found hanging from a bed post it and more often a good deal lower

IL

has

A Backgammon Revival The revival of interest in back- gammon in Britain is enusing

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

WAR FALLACIES.

churia, and

DOW

usual weekly pubile lecture the Hongkong Lodge, The Theor phieal Society, 17, Queen's Central. to-day at 6 pm.

cubicle.

of the

of a leath

DOLLAR DECLINES

SLIGHTLY.

SILVER MARKET

WEAKER.

not

T

my

"Where iH this river?" I ask

"Four o'clock," he says. He in than my head. Sometimes I stop answering his own thought, but at a horrid angle, and hang by it is so nearly like mine that his my hands in the pole above my reply is only partly irrelevant.

bearer The carriers any there are puku head while the forward picks his Why down

a stony hill (antelope) at the edge. I'm go- side, and the back oue braces la ing on. Try to sleep." heels following blindly, as he can- He disappears, and I turn away watch his fontatepa. Somo- as the light strikes intolerably off times it becomes too difficult to his Keen barrel. I pull down a carry me at all, and I am spilled cushion from behind my head, over out on my feet to make my own my face. For a moment the soft. way for a little.

thick darkness is deeply comfort- It is not pretty landscape ing. move the cushion just The Hongkong dollar declined 18th this morning, reflecting under the pitiless sun. To right enough to let me breathe, and fall

fall in silver both in London and left of us the hillside is colour- asleep. and New York.

less as if it had been drawn with I wake to the rolling shout of in cureless

pencil, and the flats a river song, and a changed pace in my machin team. An acrid below smudged in with the stub.

It is nutuma, and the country smell of sour, wet mould greets me has been awept by bush fires, some with doubtful promise. I unstick of long standing, some reent, and my chin from my shoulder and charred gmas clumps. At night From my little dark hole. I can see fitful splashes of light on the the flats atretching away, for all horizon beteken these autumnal the word like a battered tin plate. pyres. Only on the fats the long During the rains the water must have covered our present track, grass rustles and cries for water.

does a definite renetian from the post war frenzy of life. If it has done nothing else, it is to be com- mended at least for divulging to most persons, certainly to those ut the younger generation, the pur pose of those four groups of alter- nate red and black spikes on the inside of the draughtboard. Backgammon brings up pictures uf elderly ladies with lave cups London reported silver downin and Paisley shawls, sitting in the 1/16th ready and 1/8th forward. early hours immediately following india sold, and Chinn bought and After in winter twilight, by the light of a sold on a quiet market. guttering candle, grossed in the the official fixing, there was n board lying pes on their kneen special feature. Americs holding the black ash has drifted into the peer out under the convaя cover.

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In New York, silver is down quarter, with the market easy.

Tacally, the market is still dead, there being no inclination to do

PRESUMPTION OF DEATH.

MISSING CHINESE

PASSENGER.

peer a

between them. Backgammon was a game of gentility when games in which women could engage were

Down, down, down. Ås we and, in retreating, combed the Whatever may be the outcome few indent. Its origin is clouded

descend, the thought of the river, reedy river grass into a flat, thick of the Sino-Japanese conflict, it is in something approaching my

distant, cool, refreshing, seems to tangle, through which a path has already apparent that, apart from stery. it is supposed to have been

draw us with the unreality of a been hacked for us. The smell little further losses in man-power, the operations invented in the tenth century, but

mirage. Will we never reach it?

agnin, and are likely

Nothing in the heavy stillness over the edge of the canvas ham to prove extremely there are those who will tell you that it goes back four or more

Reems alive. The bush has a mock to see the forward bearer's costly to both sides. Indeed, many

curious metallic look, as if to re-footprint impress the dark soil millions of dollars will be involy.thousand years. It was known to

mind us that we are in Rhodesia, ponder on this sleepily, ustil ed before the fight begun in Man- the Romans as "ludus duuleim

and probably under our very feet suddenly I am stopped with a jerk or "welve-lin continuing at seriptorum,"

a world of wealth in base metals and a shout. A ahod foot crashes write

lies hidden. I could easily believe in the brittle reeds. There is a Shanghai, comes to an end. It is game," and Plato

that we are descending into the tug at the canvas the other side pertinent. therefore, to take note frame in which dire were cast and

The mysterious disappearance great primeval amelter from which of the machila, and a voice says. of an attitude, which was beeno- men were moved after due con

It was forged and "Here we are' best from a ship. bound from Vancou- It was cast. ing prevalent before this outbreak.sideration. It is

ver to Hongkong in October last wrought in heat. A stone thrown when discussing the issue of peace played by two, preferably before

just an open fire

| year, of a Chinese passenger, was into it should clank and elang.

I feel like saying, "I've and war, tending to dismiss the

recalled this morning, when at the

looked out and we can't possibly shadows dancing on the walls, and Supreme Court, before the Chief possibility of certain countries en-

The sun beuts down through the be anywhere." but the excitement with the wireless loudspeaker Justice. Sir Joseph Kemp. Mr. shimmering air. The trees, trans-and relief in his tone is authentic. gaging in war, because they were

I roll out on my feet, and the "too poor to fight." Aside from silent in order that nothing may Len d'Almada jun.. made un a

cushion falls with me. disturb the peaceful quiet saveplication, on behalf of Sheung Shi

A search of the ship trieve it, and stretch up with it, proach to the problem, this atti-the elalter of the dice as they roll for leave to swear to the death of

her husband, lam Tak-wa, alias hours,

suddenly, there, cut from the Lenst of the hox upon the board and Lam Nul, for the purpose of ob-proved fruitless. tude resta or a foundation so un- substantial as to be completely it-the soft scraping as a man is mov-taining letters of administration Captain T. B. Ireland, master reedy tangle an if with a cheese

the knife, is

river. It is un- of the steamer Tyndareus, said believably blue, bluer than the sky lusory, anil therefore doubly daned by us or another of the plays regards his estate.

There may be a little chuckle ers.

and smoother. For a moment

its undesirable nature a

perous.

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World War to see that economic

conditions do not prevent war.

that sends

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More polished

Touss

the surface to a filigree, then

We need only look back to the In 1914-18, no fact was more clearly demonstrated than that in taking up arms a nation was not neces- Dussy duzing on the rug before the half from Shanghai, a passenger him granting leave to swear to make for where, at some distance.

sarily handicapped by the absence of a well-furnished war chest or

even

war

arsenal. Immediately on the outbreak of the war all pence-time economic checks were suspended. The nations harness- ed themselves to war-making under a regime which, like that of pre sent-day Russia, forbade internal competition. Excess of plant capacity erase into service, new

it might be well to have

fire, not deep in its dreams but.

at the

crusty it with jewels. If it is metal it la precious, too, and my heart goes out to it in relief.

We turn to the right again, and

clumps of trees buried in tall, feathered

stand

Mr. d'Almada, read an allidavit in an affidavit that at 3.30 when one of the contestants "hits by Ching Hing, cook at the Boston when Lam was last seen alive. nourily.

blot" and takes up one of the Cafe, Vancouver, who said that he there was a strong monsoon with thing

left Vancouver on September 9, heavy sea. He believed that metal," but a tiny breeze men of the opposing player so that 1931, to return to Kwangtung. On Lam either fell or jumped over- he has to start all over again. Also board he made the acquaintance board and was drowned.

On October 14, Sir Joseph Kemp said a sleek of Lam Tak-wa.

the when the boat was a day and a evidence was aufcient to justify same table as Lam, told the death, and made an order to that it can find instant delight in Ching that Lam was missing and that effect, setting the date down chasing a rolling piece that may †hnil not been seen for several as the month of October, 1931. have fallen from the board. But there is nothing jazzy about back- gammon, 1 smacks of return to a milder ern when a game can be played a deux and an enjoyable time can he had even without the accompaniment of an playing "va-dee-n-do" and "cop- boopa-doop" songs.

orchestra

CARLTON CLUB'S

CENTENARY.

factories were built, vacant felds yielded to agriculture, and flower gardens gave place to vegetable allotments. In a stock-taking in post-war England four-fifths of the reporting firms stated that after making allowances for de- terioration they had more plant INSTITUTION THAT SET- than before the war, in some cases |TLED FATE OF STATES four times as much. England, the

great dependent, was in a fair The Carlton Club, soon to cele way to feeding herself, even when brate its centenary, hus settled Rome sources were stopped and the fate of many a statesman since others hindered. No question of it was founded by the Duke of Wellington and his friends and gold stacks impeded this activity: aince Gladstone (in the Conserva- The nations quickly separatedtive part of his career) Was themselves from the restrictions member. imposed by the gold standard and One of its historic gatheringa international competition by using in recent times was the dramatic the printing press to finance pro- meeting which put an end to Mr. duction and consumption. Among Lloyd George's Government. The the allies Great Britain steered club preserves not only the por the longest course in "paying her traits of its heroes, but may also way," but soon, she was comnelled be said to be the seat of the Dis- to follow the example of the other rall cult, since here is preserved

Beaconsfield's chair. belligerents and dilute the pur chasing power of her currency. All the powers in Europe came to the peace conference with an in- convertible paper money.

Before it set up in Pall Mall, where the Reform Club in its neighbour, the club and premises, In Charles Street, St. James's and Inter in Carlton Gardens. The

This, of course, is not to say present buildings was modelled on that all nailons discover that they Sannevino's Library of St. Mark's are El Dorados when they go to at Vonico.

"Hadn't you and Dad better be moving on out to the kit chen? He'll be here any minute now.".

Krass.

Thoy dangle their

almost

river

root

In the water, and form little

islands to coax the water round them. We are to cross in tho dugout canoes waiting for in the shade.

Already the Bwana has ancer- tained that hippa may be seen up- stream tomarrow morning, at the old crossing place. Last year the Native Commissioner was held up all day because a family of rogue hippos lay off shore and defied him, cavorting, snoofing, yawning and bellowing, and practicing on each other the lively upsets they would like to give to the canoes.

We watch the crossing.

the

tent make

the

with Its guardous office box

and, even more

BO

anxiously, the blankets and beds. As the blue deepens, and the sun withdraws, the lovely water, rare with us, so doubly treasured, gathers to itself the romance of river and lake and stream in other hunting grounds, happier, or at jenst more comfortable.

tben

Africa.

Soon we, too, embark. We are to go further down stream to join the the loads at the point where river is nearest to camp. We glide out onto the water, trailing our Angers and wrists over the sides Midstream We rapture. with quiet

the scem to strike a cleavage In heat, wind-tunnelled and cool. The sun is setting behind us, and dark waterfowl-gather from the banks, following us with strange fall throated cries. They are like us under the spell of the. Nowink- water, and the promise of relief at....... the end of the long, hot day seems. amply fulfiled as we share with thom the refreshing beauty this-wide river of the veld,

E. G. B.