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LETTERS FROM EVE.

I must tell you the most priceless joke : something in the nature of a faux pas,

WAR RASH IN

· MANCHUKUO

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

APRIL 1, 1935.

SEA LIFE AT

IS DULL

FASHION NOTES

NOTHING TO WORRY

ABOUT

Last

FORTY YEARS IN SHIPS

night, our new Manager and his wife dropped in for a chat, and she is really a sweet little thing. She and I were discursing various domestic and other problems, and happened to get on to the I told her that there was no question of shoes. need to worry about that sort of thing out here, because Cordon's are so thoroughly reliable and up-to-date. While we were chinwagging away. Bungho was doing his best with the Taipan such a cheery soul and whether he was only dropping a hint or not. I cannot for the life of me but evidently he overheard me use the name "Gordon's " interjected with the remark

bay

and thereupon

"

don't mind if I do!" Of course, it was extremely tactful, because we were just wondering whether to offer cocktails or not. They stayed on to pot- luck and we quite enjoyed ourselves. By the way, I've decided to go in for Gordon's Instalment plan a really fine way of making the budget cover shoe therms. When it becomes generally known everybody will be doing it.

MOTH

Child- Now has Bi

SOMETHING TË

MUST BE WRONG RIBLE HE WON'T EAT, JITH HIM. CROSS, SEE 45'S ALWAYS)

PALC

DON'T WORRY ANOTHER, DAY,

JUST GIVE

HIM A LITTLE CASTORIA, IT WORKS

-WONDERS!

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NEXT DAY

ugry-

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WHAT ARE YOU STIL AFTER THAT GREAT THAT'S WONDERFUL,

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BE BACK IN. YOUR CHEEKS!

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MRS MOTONO

By LEE BRACE

After nearly two score yenra experience I can say quite truth- fully that life at sea to-day is dull and monulonoun. It was different, certainly, in the days of sailing ships, but the modern steamer has completely altered things.

A

Three-quarter Length Coats Favoured

IN LIGHT TWEED

"Cont, and Skirt Vogne Re- trus", "Ar 1718 Rari gatherings there are as many three-quarter length cants ns there are short ones." The Auit sketched was made of anoth light tweed with hairs wores into the surface,

Small boys will not believe this. For them the sea si spella Older folks, especially romance. those who have someone at нea, will not believe It either. To them every puff of wind is half a gale, and every gale what they R storm. firmly believe to be When the wind howin round the chimney pots, and windows rattle in their frames, they are cun- cerned for their folk at sun. Quite apart from the fact that the ship to which their thoughts fly may at that particular moment be losting along in a flat calm in the Tropics, they quite wrongly Imagine that wind Inevitably means danger.

bad IA

ship well-found

zabor weather, even what the terms bud wenther, means dis- comfort rather than danger. Danger and disaster are usually the result of defects to rudder, LEEKS WITH WHITE SAUCE propeller, or machinery-anything HERE adelleious way of that prevents the ship being kept, serving teeks. Choose thick under proper control. Only in such circumstances is bad weather white ones, and cut off most of the green tails-do not throw them really dangerous.

nway, as they will do for broth. Tie the leeks into bundles of or 4 with unrrow while tape, and boil 1!11 tender. Drain them

Very thoroughly of water; this is im- portant, as, otherwise, they will b very sukten. While they are cook- ing, make suge white snee—one oz. buttey nedted in a sunil pan. ene oz. Bour stirred in, and, . pint sir of milk added gradually;" all the time the sauce teils eighi minutes. Remove the tap from the leeks, place each little bundle on a large slice of hot buttered tast, and pour the white sader all mer them.

NOTING TO WORRY ABOUT

cynt.

;

Since I rat went to sen nearly 40 years ago I have only en- countered two storms (using the word property), although 1 have heen through many a gale. But, as 1 have said, a gale is nothing to such against worry about, and weather must be weighed months ant months of fine weather,

This, however, was not quite the side of seafaring to which I eferred when 1 took as a title the bald statement that life at son te dull. What I was thinking or s the normal Bre, and not the odd hippeding with male cruka pate news, although they affect but n of the friction of one per ships at sea,

Let me draw aside the well romance

reveal the life

what It is, everyday job of work that offers little in thes way of variety. but more often than not dull monotony, and which necessarily robs its followers of the wider and I and forth, back and forth. much more interesting life open four interminable hours.

Ab. but when one gris to those who live and work ashore, i

mand? Well, things One at least seen the world? Who was it and with deadly truth, then of course.You have much sallor la one who visits all more responsibility, for one thing: Puntries and Bets naile?" The An about the same salary coval in a foreign part is merely senior clerk in a derent allee wha signal for cargo work. Down has no responsibility at all. And hout all day, tallying cargo: you have more leisure, for you do

or not keep a regular watch. arding against pilfering keeping watch to see that only the discharged, proper packages are Night work is by to comon.

the the

for

sca

an

means un-

pany. What are you there for Just waiting. You do not eva I have the satisfaction of feelingg that you are 'doing something. Nothing ever happens, or at least it happens 80 seldom that it amounts to the same thing. because it may happen, it is absolutely essential that you keep a bright lookout and...pad back

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FEVER CATCHING IN BORDER AREAS

FRONTIER STRATEGY

Peiping.

With Soviet Russia and Japais. Klaring at each other, across the Amur River. desperately building railroads, frontier fortifications and ying fields, it has not taken long For the virus of belligerent distrust and its resultant war seare lever to permeate Their "wards," Saviet

hed Outer Mongolia and Manchu- kno.

The frat outbreak of the rash when long Etat

nyu occurred Japanese-Manchukuo patrola clash- ed with Outer Mongolian frontier xuards near Bair Nor, a large lake 150 miles south of, Manchull, where Railroad Eastern the Chinese eresand the Siberian border to join the Trans-Siberian. Japanese map- makers had begun to make all maps within with the lake entirely Hsingan Province of Manchinkus. Later, when Mongol patrols were observed inside this new boundary. they were first warned, then driven combinest Japanese- HT by Manchaku column.

Sa

Liberid and immediate applien- tion of diplomatic balm has np. parently ensired that the rash will not spread at present, but reparla filtering in from Outer Mongolin

well is from Manchukua inllente that elaborate defenco preparations are being undertaken on both sides of the line.

STRATEGIC IMPORT

The strategie importance of this h(11) has often particular area

read, Pressing a new Russo Japanese war in the Far East, it is erimenty taken for granted that one of the major Japanese drives wil direteil at the supposedly vulnerable stretch of the Trans- Railway between Lake Serian Baikal and Chita. The attacking column, it is nsumed, would ad- von westward from Dolonor or om the gion of Baie Nor onto the steppes of eastern Cake Mous polis, then swing, northward, di- leal for as the Sirian frontier and strike at the railway. A trougly militarised Outer Mongo- a, it will this be seen, would form au impertant lest he of defence for the Soviete.

Owing to careful guarding military secrets by The Japanese, But information regarding what is go ing on hi Manchukuo is meagre, sd, however, indientes that the One oficial report recently publish. ntire northern half of the Man chukuo-Mongolia frontier is to be guarded by a series of frontier posts. The exact nature of these posts is not announced.. but there -Twenty-eight of them. will l

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placed at strategic points along a

500-mile stretch of the border.

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A dance that sarily, lead to (hyphen).

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does not,

double-dealing

K Where I had to go back with

nothing in Americn. Dowdy.

11 Turn away from an ofil-fashioned

green.

The avowed object of these posts is "to prevent further encroach- ment on Manchakuu" by the Outer Mongolians, like that which necur- TAKING TO CARPENTRY redal Butr Nor.

Hut your extra leisure is

not!

Well-informed vircles discount 22 Cut into thro

to This roller is quite in order. An odd evening ashore, ; much good to you, for your choler the possibility of armed, strife14 Short trials of a schoolboy. ard with luck a whole Sunday. It of company is limited to the chief breaking out in the near future, but is Curt pin (Anag.).

thrilling, engineer,

it can be seen that neither sides 18 Shows, solitary person, sound very difes not

Dat of sheer boredom you may

trustful mood. And with No end of a diplomat, is in d.90s it?

mount the bridge, ostensibly as such fuel ready, a very small spark 22 These days are not necessarily

hol. master but in reality to have a

start a very large fire- cause!

24 Cast down.

one

BURDEN OF LEISURE

at yarn with the officer of the watch. United Press, What of the time actually ken? Two spells of four hours That is permitted, though it isn't ch on the bridge, and the rest done, to hobnob with the officers f the time is your own. Or some when off watch.

Juf it at least, for there are other Perhaps I should explain here for dds and ends of duties besides the benefit of the uninitiated that actual watch-keeping. But you I am speaking of the average cargo Ado have leisure. The trunile is steamer, which forms about

what to do with it. The same few per cent, of the British merchant yarus. No change, no relief. service.

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is the chief officer's specluí pro vince he doesn't like that either. The master, in short, is a rather lonely bird aboard his ship.

This brief outline might he filled in with innumerable details to prove my point, but I have told Day after day the same old thing, Many masters take to earpentry enough to show that a life at sea A voyage may last two years with to keep them from dying of ennui, is in general n dull and moutonous the same half-dozen shipmates.but they are apt to absorb too procession-of days with little if On the bridge, occasional sights, much of the time of the ship's anything for an intelligent man to

carpenter, and the chler officer gel his teeth into. occasional azimuth, and circle of horizon around you, doesn't like that. Others contrive

What is the old saying? "Who'd Back and forth across the bridge to take a little too much interest you pad. your thoughts for com- in the work of the ship, and as that sell a farm and go to sea?"

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SALESMAN SAM....

JEST FOUND THIS SIGN PASTED ON YER WINDOW

AN' I'D LIKE A JOB' AS

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COOK!

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WELL, HAVE\YA HAD ANY EXPERIENCE), BUDDY?

One Job Gone Wrong!

(HAVE I HAD EXPERIENCE? SAY, I WENT CAMPIN', ONCE, AN' DID ALL TH"COOKIN' {

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LIGHT LUNCHES SERVED

INCHES

IRVED

IRE

HERE

SO FAR, SO GOOD!

NOW, ARE VA A

GOOD. WORKER?

AN HOW! WHEN I COOK, MISTER, I PUT EV'RYTHING

I GOT INTO IT!

SORRY, BUT WE

CAN'T USE YOU-

27 All owners show this permit.. 28 A clown who shows teraper. 29 H, there]

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18. unwise. The inference

dain on both sides,

16 Such speeches may be made after

A good luncheon.

13 Regeet with disdain.. 17 What the

*hops.

ploughman does

la

10 The dying-men are in the cafe

-getting something, to hold drink (one spelling).

go Sell cap (anag).

21 Hewers of wood and of water.

23 Sticks to the fox till the death. 25 Decidedly pate,

26 Punk these if offering shelter,

Saturday's Solution.

CAREF BREAKFAST

RACE A

35 This malkerable word is formed

STRESS BUCKFIELD from these letters, C E E E E H., WAR SCH LNRSS 9 S.

SHURT AGFGREELE

FS ERBE B TEHERAN CLUBURE - BETA!

MOON ABSOLUTE

#This wild animal's hend's all

right.

3 Scottish dish, larguly typical of

England,

4 Just a line that the compositor

won't be able to read,

5 Shows where n nervous“Affection"

put an end to an unbeliever. Side getting on for a scere. 7 Feminino name.

8 Between husband and wife this

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