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that can be done is to put the system on a better footing. The Director should specialise in the work of the Department and not merely regard it as one of several posts which, in the course of his career, he might be called upon to fill. Ho South Africa's history Mr. should, moreover, have under Tielman Roos, former Minis him a Junior Cadet who, before

According to a contemporary, he comes to lie Colony, should [ter of Justice, leader of the receive specialised training in Transvaal Boers, and for the bridesmaids at a local wedding pedagogy. In course of time, years principal lieutenant carried bouqueta of pastel shaded this second officer would auto- to General Hertzog, has aweet pears, Very fruity! matically become Director, and stepped into the political as the system was perpetuated breach with all the dramatic morrow's game should develop in-

We suggest that next Chinese The Observatory is temporariir Once again at a crisis in New Year all crackers should be discontinuing its 9 pm, light sig

Atted with silencers.

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nal. That'll make it dioult for some of our young bloods to know when gin-time is anded,

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Several Australian batsinen car-

ry evidence that the English bowl- cera havo struck form,

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Two whales are reported to have

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the boon seen off Stanley. Unfortun a dual botwean either of continuity of practice in all-consequences of his former o

Shanghai attack and our defence ately, they got away before they ing the post with trained men. appearances.

or the home attack and the could be interviewed, but didà good deal of spouting none the This would be a marked impro-

Always tho enfant terrible of Shanghai dofence."

logo. vement on the mere pitchfork-a nationallem whose unshakable ing of Cadets into the position. severity of principio and ideal is But, when all is said and done, a second religion to the Dutch- the more logical plan would be to open the headship of the Do- partment to men with practical experience of education in the Colony, men of the type of the talented Director who has just retired.

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We wonder if it makes "a whale speaking race of the Dominion, of a difference" when it's stuffed.

ᄆ Mr. Roos hae this time gone bo rond the limit of what his faith. ful followare on the backveld, most of them still professed Ro- publicans, have previously re- garded as his indiscretions.

Sir Kingsford Smith, the famous Australian flair, now has a son. Sire Kingsford Smith!

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Ho has declared himself as an opponent of hla former loader

A prisoner in an Australian gaol and as the apostle of a crood of Peace Rumours

reconciliation between the two was allowed his liberty for an hour great peoples of South Africa, the in order that he could marry.

Sentences will be cumlative. The stories emanating from Dutch and the English.

A familiar figure in the clubs.

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With so many his jovial. Pickwickian presoner was the presentation of a peace is always welcome, he posscases armed robberies offer on behalf of the Japanese the gift of dropping the cloal of these days, it

for ho seems to militarists, are frankly puzzling. his high appointments, Well-informed quarters in the has been successively Minister case of here to- day and gun to- ancient capital appear certain and judge.

It is this human attribute, Bomorrow. that Tuan Chi-jul went as an

២. ធ emissary. He has close affilia- contrary to the Calvinistic tions with the Japanese, it is tority more usual among those

Edward Kelly of his race in high positions, to- pointed out, and furthermore, gether with his politics, seemingly has found he is known to have had con Capricious but always both timely that when you versations with Japanese milit- and purposeful, that have mado can't moet ary officials before his departure of him the most potent influence in your creditors from Peking to Nanking. The South African politien! life to-day. you only denial of the rumours of No other man in the country by ado.

plain statement of policy could impending direct negotiations have set the Government totter- comes from the Chinese Lega Ing. And none other than the tion in Lendon. Peking and former Nationalist Lion of

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Many middle-aged women give themselves away when they give themselves a weigh,

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Trafic Oficer: Madam, didn't you hear me whistle and ece me hold up my hand for you to stopp

Lady Driver: That's the laat straw! I'm going to re- eign.

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"Bitterly cold in Ireland." Tho the Irish Freezo State.

Hongkong Telegraph Nanking official circles have, North-as Mr. Roon was known

SATURDAY, January 28, 1933.

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A cortain sum. has been set aside to fight the mosquito menace at the Shing Mun Dam, A lump sum?

In the matter of the Central · British School,

the Government apparently thinks second sites are best

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A pessimistic Peak gardening

enthusiast avers that nothing will

keep the deer away from his vegetables. He should take a leaf

As a bowler, Larwood Is said to from a cabbage and stalk!

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Before his resignation from the Hongkong. He should be able to Hertzog Ministry, in which ho express some expert views on this hold the clear roversion of the Leg (pulling) Theory. Premiership, be rejected appeale to form a party such as ke has in contemplation.

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Barbers are in attendance on modern air liners. They're known as akyscrapers.

so far, preserved a somewhat before ill-health drove him to the The attitude seclusion of the Bench-could, strange silence. of the Chinese Legation in with any hope of success, declare rise to great heights.

himself as head of a still London is the logical reaction existent party uniting the moder

It's a jolly good job that the other of the average Chinese, that the ate Interests of Dutch and Eng

The Australians say that it's leg gentleman who squashed

people's hats when a goal was Chinese Government could not, lish within its ranks.

scored at the Isterport, Isn't dare not consider peace pourpar- Mr. Roos's decision to cast aside before wicked.

cricket enthusiast. lers while Japanese, troops re- his judicial cloak to re-enter the

More- political arena, though sudden, is Bernard Shaw-will soon be in

not unpremeditated. main on Chinese scil. over, the reports hardly square with the interview given by in Shanghai, Marshal Tuan when he appeared in favour of that declared resistance and China prepared was not afraid world. of any country in the Nevertheless, there seems to be more than a little colour to the suspicion that has been aroused. It may be that Chiang Kai-shek and Chung Hauch-liang are awaiting an expression of public feeling in the matter, now that the hint has been thrown out, before committing themselves to any line of policy.

THE DIRECTORSHIP OF EDUCATION The Colony's Education De- partment has suffered a heavy loss by the retirement of Mr. G. P. de Martin, who has just given up the post of Director of Education. Mr. de Martin has Berved the Government with unremitting zeal for a period of close on thirty years, all in the Whe Education Department.

inspector or ther as master. Head of the Department, he has

hi shown marked ability in work, and has always kept be. fore hit the highest ideals of

These his calling.

factors, coupled with his intimate know ledge, from practical experience, of the educational needs of the

The Debt Problem. Colony, have singled him out as a man of immense worth to the

Britain points out a serious Government. It is only natural that such a man should come difficulty but has accepted the to know the Department from American suggestion that war top to bottom, and, without debts and world economic pro- disparagement of the work of blems be discussed at Washing- The re- those who went before him, itton simultaneously. can be said that he did more servations attached to British re- of real value during his terra ceptance have not exactly pleas

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According to a ladies" page; a miniature fountain playing on the table makes an effective dadora-- It looks as if the correspondent tion. If this is a little too expen of 1926 this one-time rabid Re who advocates that our trams sive, a nice, juicy grapefruit publican staggered the Republican showed. go at twice the present makes an excellent subsitute. backvold by demanding the dola-speed, is a member of St. John's tion from the party's Constitution Ambulance Brigade. of the famous Article 4, which laid down a Republie na the Na

lonalist Party's ultimate aim.

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An innovation in boslary is a

"crape-like stocking so mado that

The trouble about the Daventry runs can go upward only”. And

talks on Htorature is that by the now for a procese to keep runs Mr. Roos's parting shot before his departure from politics was a time they reach Hongkong they from starting anywhere except at suggestion that if his extrem'st

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colleagues were not satisfied with sound like Esperanto,

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This moneylending argument is California is tearing dows 100,- 000 roadaldo billboarde. The idea might appease them to have

of making it possible to na America first is spreading. king of their own, chosen from the naturally exciting interest,

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Family.

Lots of school teachers can find What will be the result of his intervention between the almost a perfect vacuum without resort- traditional enemies in the Union's ing to laboratory apparatus.

口 political life, General Hertzog and foresec. But that it will be far- General Smuts, is difficult to

This Irish election result is the

of office as Director than all his ed the United States, who preaching and in the end beneficial Devil-era and allf predecessors put together. On parently desire to use the debts

the Education Board particular-ne a bargaining, counter with to the country seems certain.

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ly, his work in shaping the each individual debtor. educational policy of the Colony must, of course, give way

crials was of the highest merit. In this point. The world his contact with the teaching cannot be solved by isolated staff he gained the respect and measures. The governments in- confidence of his subordinaten volved, instead of encouraging becruen they know that in him their respective peoplén to be- they had a Director who was a love that their own views are practical educationist, one who right and should be maintained, had first-hand experience of the must explore the possibilities of Colony' schools and was thus compromise. Congress so far able to appreciate to the full seems to see only the first the problems encountered there fact; some people in Europe see only the see- in. Firm when the occasion seem to

he was always ond. Both should give at demanded,

to a middle Way. eminently fair and just; withal, tention his abilities most marked, heIt is impossible that the debta was characteristically modest can be collected in full; it is also in all that he did. If it has unlikely that they will be com done nothing else, Mr. depletely cancelled. But there are Martin's career has shown that distinct possibilitles of partial there should never be any need payment under batter arrange- for the Government to go out-ments for transfer. The United receive side the Education Department States would have to to find an ideal Director.

payment in goods, but if those the deed, it seems only logical that goods could come from future Directors should be re- debtors' colonies in the form of

In cruited from this source.

raw materials not produced in this connexion, it is reasonable America, they might be paid to assume that Hongkong loses and received with less difficulty. a great many opportunities of There are various plans for engaging really talented teachers commercialising the debts much from Home when it is known as a portion of reparation was that there a little prospect of commercialised under the Young their rising to the top of the plan, or for turning debt pay- If, however, the monts into the development of Department.

to backward countries from which Government la determined

United States would keep the Department as a pro- the

receive payment. serve for Cadets, and does not ultimately intend to be shifted from that These proposals are all worthy point of view, then the least of norious investigation.

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"Now, I'll be right back and I don't want to have

to hunt for you.men. In some Club bar.

"Follicla."-The best way to keep your nehool-girl complexion is to bide it from your young sister.

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The average Hongkong man is

proof that women can take a joke.

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When it comes to love matters, the blonde lan't alwaye fair.

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France and Italy are engaged in a trade war for the honeymoon buafness of the Continent, and each country has made epociál travel rates for newly married couples. If the competition gats keen enough, somebody will be forced to redecoraté Niägära Falls.

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There's nothing like a nice quick avening at home to make you wish you weren't.

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What about an Interport early-

to-office competition?

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The Nudist revenient is never likely to become popular locally Most people we know prafer knieks to nothing.

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A certain circus performer enla cinders: If our cook-bay had his way, wo should be doing the same.

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The case is mentioned of the bride and bridegroom who partid at the church door seven years ago and haven't seen each other since. It's possible, however, that they may moet some day by chance în a mixed foursome.