1935-03-12 — Page 6

Boots

PURE DRUG CO., LTD

OFFER YOU THESE AMAZING BARGAINS IN QUALITY DRUGS.

Armstrong's - Influenza

Family Liniment

$1.00

Mixturo

$1.25

todisad Throat Tabs

Aspirin Tabs

.50

Milk of Magnesia....

.75 .60

Asthma Relief

1.25

Palm & Olive Soap

Boracic Powder

.25

per tab..

20

Bronchial_Lozenges

...75

Pine Inhalont

1.00

Cascara Taba

.50

Shaving Cream

.75

Catarch Pastilles

.75

Shaving Stick

75

Children's Tonic

1.25

Throat Pantilles

.75

Epsom Salts

Dyspepsia Tabs

.75

Tincture of loding

.60

.30

Tooth Pasto

.50

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1935.

BRITAIN NO MORE AN ISLAND

NOTES OF THE DAY USED CARS NATIONAL LEAGUE OF

of EXCEPTIONAL

VALUE дед

AIRMEN

League of Airmen of Great Britain'

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

Compiled By Juliet Lowell The formation of the National By CAPT. NORMAN MACMILLAN, M.C., A.F.C.

Quit Your Kidden BOUT 35,000 years ago Eng-tant from London, the German is an enterprise which merits the land was geographically join- frontier one hour, Berlin 2 hours

think support and respect of every, "O the motorist desiring a ing citizen of the nation. We say, ed to Europe: The Rhine was a 18 minutes. Paris and Berlin and Manager: Hat Store, ....

sound and attractive used this of nationtradiction, river that lowed into a long arm bom her. Paris Europrine to Gentleman:

Say follors My hat blow of the ferry boat. What do you think of car at low cost we offer for There is nothing of the militant of the sea that ran up to the north. your to-day what the villages of the

parish wore to your grandfather,

The tradition that there la a wide that? Yes airs, right hers in the immediate possession the follow- about this League, although it will. There was no outlet for it past the

in re-

re-south of England. Then came the certainly serve a purpose ing!

lation to the defence of the realm, glacial period when the ice-cap stretch of water guarding Britain Bay. What are you going to do For many years Great Britain was settled over great masses of land in a dream of the past. The speed about 117 My alzo la Number 9 1932 AUSTIN ROADSTER with the least vulnerable of all the in the Northern Hemisphere. The of the modern acroplane has reduc-80 you better send another one Dicky Seat; 13.9 h.p.-6 Cylin- European powers, because she had excoriation of the ice-cap forced a ed the size of the Channel, to a right away or I'll come and get der Engine, In excellent natural bulwark in the English way through the soft chalk-and boundary stream. Britain is goi Condition

Before the glacial period great $1,150.00. Channel. Providing she maintain Britain became an island separated longer an island,

ed her supremacy on the sea, she from France by the Straits of

reptiles roamed the lands. Un 1932

CADET VAUXHALL

could afford to ignore the strength Dover.

That geological disruption has couth creatures wallowed in the with Dicky Seat, of the great land forces of France, COUPE

pushed to Britain Awampa and marshes and Germany, Russia, and the rest. meant everything Almost New

How about some action?

Yours, Mike D

(signed).

27. h.p.-6 Cylinder Engine.ut to-day the development of alr-Freedom from the tramp of foreign their tank-like bulk through for P.S. I am not kidden either.

к

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. 1931 ESSEX ROADSTER with seen that the heart of the Empire" of Britain have fought a foreign yet free of the terror of kas

SOLE SELLING AGENTS

FOR

HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA, -

NOW ON

ON SALE

MARCH

"H.M.V." RECORDS

Including Eleven Outstanding

Dance Records

(New Serles!

Ask for an illustrated and

descriptive supplement to

be sent to you.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Building.

Chater Road.

ALL GOODS

IN OUR

HARDWARE

DEPARTMENT

MUST BE CLEARED!

SPECIAL NEW

REDUCTIONS

THROUGHOUT

NOW IS THE TIME

$,1650.00,

craft has changed the complexion armies aver since organisation be cats in the quest of food. The Ice 1931 HUPMOBILE SEDAN, fuil of things. Should some power take gan to control the destiny of our Ago killed these creatures and made For, way for man to establish his first 5 Seater Body In Perfect Con-It Into its head to invade Great country and the British raco. dition throughout $850.00. Britain from the air, it would be hundreds of years, wherever sons precarious existence in a land not

is its most vulnerable point. This foe, It has been on foreign soll vicious beasts. Dicky Seat.

A very Attractive Is no play in words. It is a cold, tion was the air fighting over Eng- with one exception. That excep- Car in Sound Condition

reasoned fact. There is no portion $600.00.

Inspection and trial invited.

of the Empire overseas, with the land against the Zeppelins and possible exception of auch places as Gothas that bombarded us during Hongkong, which would be less the war of 1914-1918.

When scientists meet and talk able to take care of themselves in the event of an air attack. The about the fourth dimension they very area of such countries as visualise the immensity of space. Canada and Australia makes them They picture a universe wending a comparatively safe, the immense circumambient way about the star- distance between them and any dust that fills the ghostly twilight potential enemy makes the danger beyond our stratosphere: an infin- Stubbs Road, of aerial Invasion almost negligible. Itely expanding cosmoa in which But Britain is in a very different men are microscopic organisms position.

whose destiny seems meaningless. That is the fourth dimension look ed at through a telescope.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE SHOWROOM

Phones 27778-9,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAR. 12, 1935,

•

WHAT AIRMEN THINK

*

Through the years that followed, century after century, the Britain that we know developed with the changing climate, the rise of man, the dawn of real intelligence, and at length the ordered life of ganised endeavour.

Into the irregular sequence of events by which the Fire to Western civilisation has been attained kan come swiftly in the last few years this growth of speed. Those who have looked upon it with the mic- roscope focussed on the fourth dimension, Time, see that it laya Great Britain open to

threat

凸

My hat blow of the forry.

I have fifteen year acperience an

from which we formerly felt secure. The old freedom which we have

A Sassy Sausage I like to examine it with a micro- It is interesting to know what scope as well.

enjoyed for centuries through that Piggly Wiggly Stores. airmen think. The League Is Then I see a new meaning in the comforting stretch of water has Gentlemens: designed, primarily, to end Brit- fourth dimenalon a terrestrial gone for over and never can return, ain'd air weakness, to draw to-shrinkago in the separation of oneį The crude prehistoric monsters are a Portegy sosage maker, also rether the Empire's War pilots and dynamic object from another, for no more, In their place has come owing to the fact dat some of my civilian fliers in an organisation on the surface of this earth the civilisation that the world has ever been sell Portegy sasage. I feel. the greatest scientific threat to friends they tole me dat you fella's which will lend its influence to the meaning of time han altered

re known the possibility of unleash sure dat mine sasage is of interest in aviation, through the ingenuity of man-ed fury in the air. GERMAN SHIPPING ticularly among the youth of t the created machinery.

British commonwealth of nations. The nations have come nearer to Famous airmen, Buch

LA

■

Yours,

Manuel C

(signed).

Take Time Out Time Magazine, Chicago.

Sirs:

more better than any sasage that you CHANGES

The very beauty of an aeroplano sell and I think that if we could The fact that German ship Charles Kingsford-Smith, Colonel the 10-knot ship that uned to cross through the skies on outspread big idea. How do you think?

Sir each other. By comparison with is ominous. Its swift passage | transfor business this would be a ping interests are putting a W. A. Bishop, V.C., Captain Roy from Britain to the Continent, the

Brown, all applaud the endeavour. 240-miles-an-hour aeroplane has wings is presaged with the calm number of big, modern liners on Sir Charles says he has "long reduced the time of travel to one insolence of disaster. Is it just the Far East service has given urged" such a plan for Australia. hour instead of twenty-four. To chance that birds of prey have been "Only when Australia realises the day, in terms of time, we must the symbols of some foreign coun rise to a rumour, which is now importance of air defence will her picture Britain moved so close to tries while that of Britain is a lion? The lion king of beasts- revealed to be incorrect, that the young pilots be encouraged to Europe that it is no longer an is but useless in the air.

undergo specialised training." Inad. dissolution of the Hapag-Lloyd That, Incidentally, is something for

The ages of this earth of ours In terms of the speed of the 10-; Union is imminent. What is longkong to remember. A very knuts ship converted into distance are many-the Ice Age, the Stone essential part of the H.K.V.C. Is its the aeroplane has brought Dover to

to Age, the Iron Age, the Age of

After reading your magazine' a actually taking place is that a "air arm and anti-aircraft de- four-fifths of a mile from the coast So swiftly the last has come upon year, I want to inform you gentle-

Steam, and now the Age of Speed. big scheme of reorganisation of fence units. There should be in of France; Cherbourg 31⁄2 miles the world that few have realised men, that I'm about ready for a the Union is being put into teresting work for keen volunteers from Portsmouth: London 9 miles that it is the dawn of a new age paychopathic specialist. All I can

here. Colonel Bishop, опе of from Paris. The German frontier Jeffect. The fusion of these two Canada greatest War aces, officially Iles 10 miles from London, 12 miles an ago that brings with it the think of, and all I can noe, are shipping companies was effected credited with 12 enemy planes, a from Hull, 15 miles from Man-pity of disruption of our people who are pigeon-toed, knock- carefully bullt way of living. kaced, pot-bellied, big-chinned, in 1930 under a plan whereby veteran of 170 air battles before he chester, 16% miles from Liverpool. Gone is our old security. We must beak-nosed, two-headed, frog- was out of his twentica," will pro- Berlin to London is equivalent to correlate our way of thinking to hoaded, pin-headed, mouse-faced, competition was avoided, all bably attempt to organise a branch 23 miles. But 13 miles separate the facts that face us, or we may horar-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet- property and assets pooled and of the League of Airmen in the Aberdeen from Norway.

perish as other Empires of the past faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel the net profits divided betweenpend upon the air strength of Great Dominion. So much would des

These figures, relative to the illusions.

have perished through cherishing self-conscious when I look at my the two concerns. It has now Britain in the event of another war changed speed of travel, show-the-

own wife and child. I worry as There is no means to throw a to what animal-Istic” and ̈puppet-~ been found desirable to modify that it is well to be fully prepared," fourth dimensional reduction of the rampart in the sky against the latte characteristics I have. the agreement in order that the there would be no need to call upon Britain and the

he warns. He adds that he hopen

that lies between Great threat of aerial invasion. We are space

Edward D. Continent of no more immune than any nation concerns named may be able the pilots of this great defence force, Europe. The English Channel has on the Continent from any sudden

(signed). better to compete with foreign but the mere fact that they were shrunk to the width of a river. threat that might arier. Through interests. Following the intro-ready would act as a deterrent to a the North Sea to the size of a the vehicle that traverses both land nation looking for conquests. moderate lake, by comparison with and sea an enemy can strike at ua duction of new blood on the Another Canadian, Capt. Ray the time taken to cross it 60 years as surely and as swiftly as though

This year we've bought a lot of directing board of the Union, Brown, the man who is credited ago.. various changes have been made German, Baron von Richtofen, is and give you pause. Stop for one

we were terrestrially joined to now flower seeds. Scores of little with having shot down the famous Let this one thought strike home Europe.

packets: so small, some of them, in the South American, African, heart and soul behind the movement moment in the rush of life by which the dire necesalty be forced upon powders.

Let Britain face the truth before they look more like a chemist's Levant and European services, fathered by the League. These you are surrounded-housewife in us, as it may be forced by over- and these have been followed by gritain must become a nation of ter in train and tube, in office and then the day will be too late. We est one can get, these days, to the We spent some time, yesterday, men, and many others, believe that the home, husband, son, and daugh-whelming aerial strength. For turning them over. It's the noer- rcorganisation of the two com- airmen to preserve the position she factory-and think for one brief shall not then have time to pause Lamp of Aladdin.or to All Baba's panies themselves. In this con-occupies to-day, and that she has moment.

for breath and build the aeroplanes cave. nection, consideration has been occupied since Trafalgar. Britain

The lands that were so far away we need to save us from defeat. won her power on the sea. She are now as close to you as the next The latest weapon of man's skill given to the traditional services must maintain it in the air! of the two lines. The N.D.L.

village was to your grandfather in the bombing acroplane--has des- his youth. Paris is 54 minutes dis-troyed our insular security. has been given the passenger

and cargo service to and from owner-company alone to ensure the Canary

the greatest possible economy. Leland, North Brazil and the Pacific, as well as

A. Hapag-Lloyd combine will the cargo service between South continue to control the North America and South Africa and Atlantic and Australian routes the passenger service to and and cargo services to the. West from the Far East. It may

Coast of Central and South be noted that the Far East America, Cuba, Mexico and the service has been the special Far East. It is felt that the domain of the N.D.L. since scheme will provide a definite 1886. The Far East Line and better working division of will be served by the the different routes. The cen- Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau,tral organisation which was also to which will be added the newment is to be separated again. merged under the Union Agree- Potsdam, still under construc- Both companies will have their tion. This ship was originally own managing directors while laid down by the Hapag and has remaining connected by a com- now been transferred to the mon Board of Directors. This Lloyd. The Hapag will control will guarantee the continuation the passenger services to and expressly laid down that the new of the union agreement. It is from Cuba, Mexico and the West agreement cannot be cancelled Coast of South America, a cargo for 15 years, as it is essential in service Hamburg-Santos-Gulf of the shipping business to be able Mexico and a passenger and to reckon for a definite period) cargo service to the Dutch East in advance. The re-organiss tion has been carried out with Indies, South Africa and the the greatest care, certain fea West Indies. All these lines are tures of the merger which have to be worked by three boats of proved themselves advantageous the same class at present. If being retained while the two

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. it appears necessary to put on a companies have been given back

HARDWARE DEPARTMENT

RHONE 28151

fourth boat on any particular their independence. In brief, route, the other company will the new plan is devised in the SIX LINES supply it and the profits will be shipping and the manner in general intereats of Gorman equally divided, whereas the which it works will be watched ☛☛☛ expenses will he carried by the with worldwide interest.

"I'm always kidding my old man about not knowing anything. except how to make money.”.....

SESAME

For in those little packets thoro's enchantment. Form, scent, colour-beauty, for what the term Is worth. "Magic casements, open- ing on the foam"-that's no more exciting than a rock-garden. And all we have to do is to wait.

I can even forgive the gardeners. the barbaric names they dig up. Matthioln Iberia — Aubretia Helianthemum; there's a sort of music even thorol. A preludo to July sunshine, and to patches of blue and lavender on yellow stone, Matthiola Iboris -Au bretia-Helianthemum. Waves of colour shimmering in the summer heat..

It's as though one could even now heart trumpets, the other side the wood.

Tragedy in the Hunting Field- What has become of Nicodema.

Knox?

She last was seen outside the

spinney...Zoundst

The woman looked exactly like

a fox

No doubt our huntsman throw

her to the hounds,

.

•

*

Genius Burning

"Sometimes I do not know who committed the crime in my stories until I am near the end," said Mr. J. S. Fletcher, the seventy-one- year-old author of 240 mystory atorios and 700 short stories.

It's the same with us humble way.

our

Sometimes we don't know how to begin a paragraph or how to end It. And sometimes when we have: ended it we don't know what it's all abont