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NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG INNERS AND BULLS
WAR IN ARABIA
establishment of virtual hege- mony over the land of Yemon, Ibn Saud is the frat human being since Mohammed, who has really ruled practically all of the sandy waste of Arabia with its fierce and jeal
ons tribes.
IMAM'S DEFIANCE
games:
ex-
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seem slow in their movements but These P.W.D. road-menders may we've often seen them tearing up the street.
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The old maid who said she' wouldn't be seen in some of the
The Volunteers and the En-
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May 26th-Rose early this tologram to the news sheetes, that When the reader in Hongkong corrected the entries in my diary, krickett against the Australians. morning and looked over and he neither can nor wishes to play picks up his newspaper to find a which I had jotted down somewhat And herein I do think he was brief cable stating that Ibn Saud is lending his forces, against the later, where very busy, and
In haste overnight. To my office wrong, but the provocatioun waa Imam of Yemen, it seems as remote back to the Clubbe, after the pre- binmed by Mr. P. Warner but 80 Intense. And for it he hath been and unimportant as if the war view of were being fought on the moon. approve. There,
picture, which I did not recently in the Arst number of the and yet Iba Shud is one of the of wine, and dinner being taken, that it was a Harlequin cap, when glasse or two Cricketer, yet Plum. doth forget world's most romantic, Agures of playing at Contrakt, at which I do worn by him, that did first rouse of the Central British School in to-day. Ibn Saud ta the Moslemlose and win a rubber but I do be the ire of the Australian crowd;
The placing of the construction Roundhead, the Mostem Puritan. Hieve that 3 was the better off by and that the obloquy for Str, the hands of a private firm is all With his Wahabis he has almost swept the boards in Arabia. With few floring, at which I was Jarding was-at first-but in-
right so far as it goes, but what pleased. And so to bed.
herited. Now, as to his telegram, about handing over the whole 26th-Up very betimes, and to I am in doubt, this way or that, as machinery of Government to the my office where I had been minded to whether it was expedient. But, K.R.A.7 to despatch my business enely, and having shaken off the dust of his one of the King's small shippes. doth seem to me the naughtiest then to drink a glass of wine upon feet, as it were, against them, But Lord! 1 am so thronged by thing in the world that Mr. D. business that I do fall of my aim, should proceed to make money IBN SAUD'S VICISSITUDES
and so to the Clubbe, where I fall from the Tests. And so, as I do Into talk with Mr. Rush about a say. I believe it not without fur- bowles match in which I am to ther witness. Comes also a report The little wars that made this play. And he says that we shall that Larwood will refuse to play possible were full of treacheries. be beat, which displeases me not in the Tents, he having been Like the Arabian aands, Ibn would amoorth and quiet. From walking pace to do Kather tribes into his armies and where I do find him to be right, which to my mind is as silly a lie bathing costumes observed at Re-
little. Later, to the Valley, offered £2,000 to report the .p.b. In just over 20 seconds. Fite an ofke the sands they would flow speel, this 14 h.p. model, 66-10 m.p.h., 25 to 80 through his fingers at the first sign better of us by five shots, and in-thereby daran himself to all eterni
as the Bowling Green do have the as possible, for the man would pulse Bay was scarcely correct. miles per gallon, Araxing responsiveness.
Only thoroughly appreciated by of defent or the prospect of more deed are the better men upon two ty. against which the interest trial. We will give you a
loot by deserting to the other side. rinks of three. do.
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Thn's fate was to be conqueror and all very merry and much
After the game. upon £2,000 doth seem to me some conquered over and over again, fellowship, and I do and that at the oflice, and later dined with gineers were at their beam-enda
good what inadequate. A busy day at but gradually he extended his this now game. (at whielt, indeed Mr. Stephen and his pretty Lady, at Belchers on Thursday night. away. The world war came and went. Ibu Saud was a friend of
am sadly to seck) I do meat and wou a rubber or so at Con- England but he managed mainly many pleasant fellows and I take trakt. Walked home, and so to to maintain a benevolent neutral- great pleasure in it. But whather bed. ity. The time was coming when am in doubt. Later to the Clubbe asleep at once. after drinking my moonstroke. A certain party on I shall preserve my place or no I 29th. This day, I did fall is quite possible to be affected by he wanted to measure swords with where I dine very pleasantly, and morning tea, and later am awaken- Hussein, whom Britain had set up read after in my chamber a as King of the ledjaz, with its pleasant book of Mr. J. Buchan, the clock. And this I do present-demonstration of moonlight raving,
ed by gun-fire at about eight of a recent night certainly gave Kreat Moslem holy cities of Mecca which I have not scanned these ly discover to be saluting, and so even although they did not enter and Medina. At last in 1924 his two years. And I am of opinioun it doth go on, disturbing me time flie water. opportunity came, through Hussein's forces as if they pleasure in
He walked that there is the greatest possible and again when I do seek to were paper. Meeen fell into his favourites, and do make a note And at the end, I am tempted to reading again old order my papers at my office. hands and, later, Mediu
These bargain sales are becoming Jeddah Hussein fled of an Eng-Cross again, and some others of deplorable waste of powder. And Dollar Days at the Races.
and that I must soon take up Handley wonder if any man be worth this infectious. They're lah ship.
Ibn became King of the Mr. R. Surtees, his tales. Hedjaz, as well as of Njed.
then I do meditate as to how many SCHOOL PROBLEMS
27th, Lord's Day-Lay inte, as poor people this morning's I did praetermit to note that it penditure would have kept in food
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was Trinity Sunday. And I am for months. Moreover it comes One thing about the white lines is beginning to interest itself in
sorry for it After trimming my into my mind that this barbaric on the Pedder Street car park, It is only fair to say that Ibn Half I do fall to writing In my relic of the technical education, it is worth Saud did not seek the war with chamber, and later to the Barre, should be done away with, and man quite a sporting chance of prchistoric ages they're suficiently wide to give a nothing that the subject is en-has imposed somewhat ignominious with Creed, There I learn that times in salute, thus saving the passing the sobriety test.
the Imam of Yemen on whom he where come Mr. Povey and others, instead a flag dipped so many gaging attention at Home in con-peace terms. The frontiers be- Mistress W. Moody plays not in Exchequer of the price of the pow nection with the demand which tween Yomer and Ibn's domains the tennis at Wimbledon this der, and the ear-drums of his is being widely voiced for the have never been clearly defines. year. And I am sorry for it, yet Majesty's iieges from the rever- raising of the school age. Opin- but there was one district over of the same mind, as i do con-cheon, I do find a minute's leisure hills, containing tons of material. White ants in Queensland are ion is now becoming consolidated which the Wahabis did not admit
would I fain know if her Lord Ia berntions. Before I take my nun- said to raise remarkably hard in the direction of viewing a of any dispute. The aged Imam ceive nothing more irksome than to senn the news,sheetes, and within a few weeks. These hills higher elementary school age as defiantly occupied with his troops to be an appendage of one of these find that Mr. J. Hobbs doth lack are not affected by rain. What a necessity, both as a desirable this onals, at Nejran, and Ibn Saud famous females. From the States but three centurionof his two piece of educational reform and might have put up a better fight, tell me that he hears that, If the I learn here that the Gold Bar
was provoked into war.
The imam
of Amerique comes news of more hundred, and it is my earnest hope about importing a colony of them as a contribution towards the but revolution broke out among troue doth continue, Mr. Rouse Exchanges do close down of their
strikes and riots, and Mr. Povey that he doth fulfil them this year. for work at the Peak car park? relief of unemployment. the fact is becoming increasing-fence collapsed.
But his troops and people, and the develt will name Mr. Dillinger na own volition, upon which I do con- ly recognised that such a move ditions imposed menn
The peace con- should go hand in hand with King of the Hedjaz will now be in places. Some talk of War Debts, And now I de judge that it would sent (or any other moment) is
the sheriff to set these Reds in their gratulate thum
meat heartily Hongkong's rainfall at the pre- school reform, since the mere control over the trade of Yemen, when Creed doth call to mind that, bers of other brokers, and I have
#position to exercise complete and we all laugh very merrily not be amiss to cut down the num- below the average as usual. putting of another year on the port of Hodelda having been default to British bond-holders might well be done. For, if I had school life would; under existing occupied.
in the mid-sixties. Amerique did conceived a scheme whereby this circumstances, have little real educational value. The need. CENEROSITY THE BEST POLICY which in these hard times
for some ninety and five million-my
my way, I would
The latest cocktaila harmonise therefore, is that some scheme
operate save that he did give with the colour of the gown of of reorganisation should be put
worth double. But short security in a handsome slim for their hostess. We presume that Great Interest attaches to the memory is a blessed thing. Mr. the stability of his operatiouns, Nudist hostess would serve neat into effect, preferably on the meeting of the Governing Body Povey speaks of the Passion Play and did upon his profits pay a gin! lines of the Hadow plan, which which is undertaking the organiga at Oberammeragnu, und tells us nominal percentage as tax. would provide senior schools tion of relief for the Jewish and did attempt to purchase the film their gettings amount to so much "Pink Lady" would be more in
But some horrid tale that some partles this tax they should only-pay-did with specialised tendencies in This body was set up inst Septem: rights. But I cannot believe that that they could fairly afford to
other refugees from Germany,
'On second thoughts, perhaps a preparation for industrial and ber. at the Assembly of the League any one would be so sordid. Some it. So that I would hold him free commercial life. If this idea of Nations, although to meet Gere talk also of Nazi reforms, of a who did make but a thousand a
keeping! were adopted, the case for rais-many's susceptibilities it was not but I deem it too horrid to be true. profit of fifteen hundred a month states that sausagee are a particu- ing the school age would be im-made a part of the League's or Later I do walk upon the Peake, should pay at one per centum,larly nourishing form
Nordic Christ, and a Jewish Judas, month; while he, who doth make
Another London specialist measurably strengthened. Howdinary refugee organisation. It is. serious the present position iation with the "Nansen Office" and so, after reading for a space, all this should be reckoned upon a
however, acting in close co-opera-
115, and so back to a bath and dinner, and so upon a rising scale. And Just the stuffing, in fact! may be gathered from the fact, that at the commencement of Donald, has been busy during the
The High Commissioner, Mr. Mc- to bed.
twelve-month, and paid in arrears, the present year there were paat weeks. He has been in Bernews-sheets, I am somewhat at a to me that the sound Brokers 28th-Reading this day in the For upon this scale, it doth seem. nearly 200,000 unemployed in arranging questions relating Jardine shall be paid to report the would be quoted at nearer their juveniles
who invented white ating stende to find a story that Mr. D. would profit, while our shares face is still at large. England and to Wales. It'
passports and property.
He has is,
also been in the United States con- estimated that in three years'
Test Matches at Krickett for a true value. time there will be almost 2,200,- appeal on a large scale for the sent a most oplonastre electrick
fee of some £5,000. But this I can 30th. Very busy all day at my 000 young persons between the necessary funda. Meanwhile,
(Continued on Page 4-) ages of 14 and 18 available for been arranging openings for workers in overacas clear that industry will not be South America and Asia can do many of the States of able to absorb these unless well enough with the services of adults are to be displaced. In the doctors and similar specialists this connection, it must be re- whom Germany has preferred to do membered that a lad of 14 is
without. almost as good a machine-minder 19 a mun of 40-and he is cheaper. The result, unless measures of some kind are taken,fugee Office consists of represonta- The Governing Body of the Re- must inevitably be the exploitatives of the State chiefly interested tion of school-leavers at the in the problem, that fa to say the expense of their parents. With State bordering on Germany which conditions as they are, the time refugees, and some of the over-
received the largest number does seem opportune for raising sean States, such as the United of the school age. There is no States, in which, it is hoped, some shortage of school places, there of the refugees will finally find are large numbers of teachers their home. All action which the waiting to be absorbed into the High Commissioner may take is, service, and, above all, there is of course, finally dependent on the the fact that thousands of consent of the Governments con- children are being turned adrift cerned, so that it is necessary they with nothing to do. If the dicate their attitude towards men- should meet periodically to In- Government would raise the suros he may propose. The actual school-leaving age to 15, and task of tiding the refugees over remove a whole age group of the most difficult period and of potentially unemployed adolefitting them again into the frame- scents from the labour market,
corond
of socioly must, however,
in
that
suffer no man to
pay
moreover,inuing his efforts for a united hardly credit, as he has already office, and later, writing in my
has
employment, and it is becoming count onal wor
HISTORY'S PROOF
he
of
would be reduced to that extent day, when every profession atoms the goodwill of individuals. To- But it is one thing to keep over-crowded, no one wants a students at school, and another newly arrived competitor. to see that they are beneficially blatory proven abundantly that Yet employed there. Hence the de- every country which has expolled mand for simultaneous provision refugeea, whether it hae bocn of technical training, so that Spain with her Jows or France when the student eventually with her fluguenots, has impover leaves he will at least have, for country which offered them hos ished herself thereby and overy his future well-being, specialised pitality has done a service, not knowledge of some kind.
only to them, but to itself.
"This is the fourth time they have held us up. Why do you keep on making them?"
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always played after Chinçse dinners." We would point out that this is
so, excepting when froi appears on the menu. The popular game is then croquet!
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We suppose that when some of these accountants abscond, they take the money with them to cover running expenses.、
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Some fish, says a natural history
writer, cross the Atlantic. That's
nothing; we've got a goldfish that
goen round and round the globe.
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Six more monthly paymenta, and the Christmas present your wife gave you in yours,
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Privileges to women are said to be killing men's clubs. In the ago of the Cave Men it used to be the other way about.
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The long Garbo bob la no longer in fashion, say hairdressers.Han't It about time wo beard from the foot specialists?
An M.P. says no-one can be blami ed for the depression. Woll, at lenst not until the next General Election.
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