1936-09-11 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FijDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936.

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. It is not generally

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HE average height of

the buildings in New

York is less than five storeys. Another stagger- ing to me, at least-fact is. that not one human life was lost in a railway accident in the whole of the United States last year.

Jan't travel broadening? I have come home simply bursting with such important discoveries as those. And these:-

that.

by H. W. SEAMAN

who han just returned from a trip aerons America.

amellier, and noisier than Lon don's, but faster, and, for lon distances, much cheaper. Mor over, there is good service a night.

THE Fifth-avenue busc

are of an antiqu pattern similar to "Old Bill" an the other London buses tha served in the great war. Ne York taxis are cheap and sóm of the drivers are honest,

American navvics, lumber jacks,

motor plumbers, mechanics, street sweepers, an

we outdoor labourers

all

gloves.

A 20oz. loaf of ordinary brea costa Gd. anywhere 1 America. But milk is a litt cheaper than in England.

There appear to be mon Government buildings, and biş ger ones, in Ottawa than i London, and more in Washing ton than in all the Europea capitals together.

You can get an exce lent light supper i any Hollywood night club fo five pounds.

VENERALLY speaking, war. I knew another in Munich. The coloured boys who dive

Uncle Sam's postal There is one in Paris that dis- for shillings in Havana harbour services are much worse than use a stroke that any profes ours,

penses champagne. In many big towns the

Britain has the second larges sional Awimming instructor first letter delivery each day God gave the American Nia- would denounce as awkward begins at 10 a.m.

In all but gara Falls. They thank Him by port on the Atlantic coas Montreal, which handles moy and inefficient. It is more like central districts letters are col throwing red, white, and blue trafic in soven months the Stubbs Rd. & mud-turtle's wallow than the lected only twice a day, and no

Weissmuller crawl. But.

the Inter than 7 p.m. boys get the shillings all the

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8810 Sandy the Farmer

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Lovely Lady-Waltz

Madame-Ah ! La Marquise-Ah

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LostFox Trot

Dream Timo-Fox Trot

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Is it true what they say about

Casani Club Orchestra. Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. ..Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. Dixio ?—F.T.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11, 1936.

CIVIL

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Plano Medley No. R.18

8812

Robins and Roses-Fox Trot

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I'm a foarner in love-Fox Trot The Scono Changes-Fox Trot

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Plano Medley No. R.19

Johnson's Orchestra.

Primo Scala Accordeon Band. Charlie Kunz.

SERVICE STAFFING

The article from the pen of the Rhythm saved the World-Fax Trot. Johnson's Orchestra. Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, dealing

Six "Hits" of the Day

Primo Scala Accordeon Band. with the staffing of the Govern- clerical service. which Charlie Kunz, ment

appeared in our issue of Wednes- Casani Club Orchestra. A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra. day, should serve as a wholesome corrective and help to dispel I nearly lot Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. many erroneous ideas concerning Got to dance my way to Heaven--Fox Trot.

the employment by the Govern- Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. ment of locally-recruited servants. ..Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. Let it be stressed, first and fore- Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. most, that the policy which the ..Johnson's Orchestra. Government is now putting grad- It's been so fong-Fox Trot Every time I look at you-Fax Trot..Johnson's Orchestra.ually into effect is not based on racial considerations-it rests 8817 Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)

solely on economic grounds, and is made necessary in order to cut down the cost of government to a level which the Colony can afford. Even before the decline in the

has tremendously added to admin- Chater Road. istrative costs--it was yearly be- coming apparent that the Govern- ment was spending far too much on emoluments. The low dollar, coupled with 'decreased revenue, has made retrenchment absolutely imperative. In other words, we have to cut our garment accord- ing to the cloth available. Gov- ernor after Governor coming-here from other Colonies have been surprised, even astounded, at the strength of the sterling-paid per- sonnel of the service and at the relatively few openings for local

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This year's Presidential elec- tion in the United States will cost that country more than four times the amount of our entire Civil List, including all provision for the Royal Family.

floodlights at it.

Boston, Philadelphia, or Balt lation of Montreal is larger tha But air mall is so good that "Pop-Eye the Sailor," has more docs in twelve. The pop a letter can be sent 3,000 miles largely taken the place of of Glasgow or Birmingham.

You may find it hard to b affection, and Jack Bennie has leve. that most of the Net in less than twenty-four hours Mickey Mouse in fickle popular

ousted Amos 'n' Andy from top York streets are paved with place in radio.

cobblestones.

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CALIFORNIA now pr

No mathematical subject be yond simple arithmetic is com- pulsory in Massachusetts second- ary schools, which are said to is the Planetarium, where the harbour, is magnificent, by Chicago Seagulls are seen every day in be the best high schools in stars in their course are pro- Chicago, seen from the lak

overwhelming. mid-ocean, but they never roost America. A high school student jected on a black dome while a is

lecturer talks of grandeur, however, is most! on ships. Where, they do sleep

can get his leaving certificate mellifluous is one of the facts I was unable without knowing who Char- space and time. There are also facade. to pick up, although I asked lemagne was, or

Alfred the planetaria in New York and many learned people.

duces more wine th Great, and without even a nod Chicago, and Boston is going to I did, however, add to my ding acquaintance with sound, have one. Germany has four, France and Spain together. Th local claret starts at 25. a gallo collection the one about the man light, heat; electricity, and the Britain none. Why?

all-American Whisky can be obtained an Recommended who thought they were pigeons. halogen elements,

res where in America for 4s. 6d. Somebody told him they were

"Set-up" and "go for" are the feed, obtainable at any gulis, and he replied, "I don't American catch-phrases of the taurant: Fried oysters, lobster quart. Our British tax care whether they are gull

up," for example, means the with sweet potatoes, strawberry bottle-which is iniquitous pigeons or boy pigeons; they moment. "The European set. Newburg, half-brolled chicken spirits is more than 85. 6d. are mighty fine pigeons."

European situation, alignment shortcake. Alternative menu: good according to taste, poi LOS ANGELES, Cali- of Powers, etc. When a fellow Clam chowder, fried soft-shell of view, and one's opinion fornia, is the largest tells a girl, "I could go for you," 'crabs, planked steak with onions the use the politicians make city on earth. Eighty miles long he means he thinks she is swell. and French fried potatoes, apple all the money we give them.

pie a la mode. and forty miles wide.

You can stand on the rim of

the Grand Canyon in Arizona The and spit a mile.

Times

arc

hard 50

H.L. MENCKEN'S new

BROOKLYN BRIDGE

A

FEW years ago I so

d

the Union Jack burne and revised edition of American Language"

used to afford the best by a mob on Broadway. To-da weighs nearly half a stone. Even view of the New York sky- that is unthinkable. Our sto that

at that, says Mencken, he has scrapers at nightfall, just before is higher in America than it h Missouri is using cardboard only scratched the surface.. the lights in a million office ever been. Wherever I ha

Colorado aluminium money,

windows were switched off. Now gone Americans have spok and Briti It is a physical impossibility that the skyscrapers have spread with admiration of British way money, and New Mexico lead money. The coins, of one mil for any human being to read all uptown I suggest the Queens- British things,

people. denomination (five to a farth- of a New York daily newspaper borough Bridge instead.

But I like Americans too. ing are used mostly to pay in twenty-four hours.

Britain has nearly twice as like their shirts. You do sales taxes in shops, but chil-

Niagara Falls, Ontario, dren buy candy with them.

Canada, is further south than many motor-cars as America- have to put them on over yo "And you can get a-good cig

BAFFLER

"NOW

"NOW, that's what's call a sold Wilbur party," Tweedle. "Couldn't that girl dance! Does a fellow good to have a night out with the boys once in a while."

And then he remembered Hattie. A good spouse Hattic, but she didn't seem to under- stand a fellow has to jump a few hurdles now and again. The out-

of a highly Ingenious and

line that involved stóry to ac-

Bornesvi

count for his lateness was taking form in Wilbur's mind when he in arrived home. The house was darkness. Hts luck was holding. As he quietly opened the stout front door he heard the old clock back in the grandfather dining-room strike once. Taking off his chocs he noiselessly mount ed the stairs, silently undressed, and slipped into bed beside his beloved, who was asleep.

Wilbur lay awake wondering what was the time. He didn't dare strike a light. The old clock downstairs struck once, again. Time dragged on and again the clock struck once, Wilbur was like puzzled, but when after a

heard the period of time he again single note of the chime, Wilbur decided he "had em'l Finally ho fell into a troubled sleep.

The clock worked perfectly. Wilbur had heard it strike once four different times, and it sound- cd only the hours and half-hours, so perhaps you know what time he arrived home?

head.

most of Massachusetts and all per mile of road. of Maine, and New York City. is. Fish-and-chip shops, unknown 750 miles further south than in America ten years ago, are at a price you can afford to pa London, which is level with the plentiful to-day. But they have Labrador coast.

a long way to go before they displace all the hot-dog and New Yorkers always lead us hamburg sandwich stands. Europeans to their Automat

Antediluvian tramcars still Restaurant, which has stood in Times-square for about twenty clater along Broadway, even in- years, and expect us to goggle ut to Times-square, which is New the marvel. But there was an York's Piccadilly-circus, The automatic, coin-in-the-slot res- underground, which is called taurant in Cardiff before the the Sub-way, is much dirtier,

BAFFLER

It was midnight when Wilbur got home. He heard the last stroke of twelve o'clock sounding as he opened the door. The next stroke he heard was 12.30 the third one o'clock, and the fourth 1.30.

BADAJOZ-CITY OF SIEGES

of bloodshed OR a hundred years or so it was NADAJOZ-city

comes into the news again with

BA

French forces

In 1811, through the surrender left in comparative peace until the Spanish Governor, Jose Im

the War, when Peninsular

Marshal Soult gained possession the latest roport received last night the from the battle front in Spain. It has severest of all the Battles of Badajoz the coveted city.

There followed the heaviest fig been the scene of florce Aghting be- brought British and

ing of the whole Peninsular War. tween the Communist and Patriat into historic condict.

Three battalions of the All Anti-Red foreca.

It was in 1808 and 1809 that the troops under Beresford were an the first attacks were made by the hilated in one terrifle drive by Fre Grim and forbidding under shadow of its ancient and now crumb French. They were the signal for cavalry, ling fortifications, Badajoz seems as four years of deadly fighting.

be

if it might have been built to besieged.

Dow

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OWN through the centuries it has been the key town of the Portuguese frontier.

Ita gaunt stone buildings, clustered on a hill top, can just be seen from the surrounding countryside as they peep above the lowering old fortress walls the battlements that with- stood the onslaught of armies.

in Government positions. An analysis of various branches of the service.shows innumerable instances in which duties which could well be performed by local men have been reserved exclu- sively for Britons recruited from Home, to say nothing of many other cases in which locally- enguged Britons have been placed on sterling pay. Not only are salaries affected by many of these appointments, but there are other additional commitments in the form of passages, long leave for officers and families, pensions, and other benefits which all add to | the bill. If we turn to another aspect of the question, wo find that the Colony has been spend-ment therein. There are thus

They have come, these warriors of ing big sums annually on educa- two facets of the problem-the many lands-vast numbers of them tion, but offering little inducement necessity for cutting down expen from Britain-to storm this strategic for the products of our schools to diture, and the duty which the

For a while, in 1188, the Portuguese regained its enter the Government servico. Colony owes to those who make took control; then it

Independence, which it kept until its The number of posts hitherto their homes here and many of capture in 1229 by Alphonso IX of Leon-years of atruggle between available, and the standard of whom, whatever their race, are Moors and Christians.

Siege after siege was launched pay, suffice to explain the failure British subjects. The policy nowgainst its stout walls a determined of the Government to attract to being followed is therefore fully attack being made by the Portuguese Its service young men of a type justify; it is, in fact, inevitin 1880. Then came the onslaughts

the War of of the Allies in

the Spanish Succession in 1703. eminently suitable for employ. ' able..

What time was it when Wilbur Tweedle got home?

Look at feet of Column Seven.-

Since the eleventh century, when It became the capital of a small Moarish icingdom, tens of thousands its of soldiers have been slain at

gates,

city.

The Gates of Badajoz on the rond out to the Portuguese Frontier.

Marshal Soult' in command of the

The French pold heavily, howay und eventually Marshal Soult. 6,000 killed and wounded on the fi It was in March 1812 that Welli ton launched his famous att After ten days' march he reached gates of the city.

He fought against time, for feared that if he took long over siege it would give opportunity the two Marshals, Soult and M mont, to unite in a relief

altemp

were

With his plans and preparati unfinished he ordered the storm of the defences after only 20 day It was a bold move and the los

terring.

after time Time' men surged up to the battlem only to be driven back by a merel barrage. The

of Badi heights seemed well-nigh impregnable beh the

mnesive fortifications.

main assault on the bread falled, and it was not until two d

escal

slona gained entrance by that the French were forced to render.

Five thousand men were killed wounded, but the battle proved of the turning points of the war, only

a few months later Welling

French was handicapped by the heavy entered Madrid in triumph.

Again Madrid is the objective to taken of his forces by starvation,

one of the warring armies in Sp Wellington held his band while and so Badajoz-Europe's 'most hunger depleted the ranks of the leaguered city-comes once more SF.IL

enemy,

the news.