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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1986.

EMPEROR HAILE APPROVES CHIEFS' APPEAL

Woman

Shanghal

Instructor of the Burcat of Public- Safety, in white uniform, and a newly recruited police woman cadel, are shown at the inaugura- tion ceremony held recently.

Cowboys Are Rivals For London Bride

COWBOY suitors are lin-

MANDATE "LESSER

OF TWO EVILS”

Order

Maintained

Galla Country

In

THE Emperor of Abyssinia recently discussed the news -reported in the "Telegraph" yesterday-that 60 Galla chiefs in the Western region, which the Italians have not penetrated, have appealed, to Britain to take over this tract of 50,000 square miles and administer it under a League mandate.

"Yes, I have heard of this appeal to Britain," the Emperor said in rapkl Amharic (translated by Dr. Martin, the Ethiopian Ambassador inj London),

"You will know that the task of government was delegated to cer- tuin officials in the Gulla country, of whom Ras Imru .(a first cousin of the Emperor) is one. They are carrying on the government în orderly and proper wuy.

AN UNHAPPY SHRUG

ди

"It is clear that the chiefa have not the authority to make this op- peal in the nome of Ethiopia; but one knows that they are anxious that their country shall not fall into the hands of our enemies." ·

Asked what was his own view of the chiefs' appeal the Emperor made a strange little gesture... an unhappy shrug.

'If it is a quesilon of choosing between two evils we would close that as the lesser,” be Bald.

to

ing up gallantly for the Asked whether he whs able hand

of Miss Charlotte father ccurate and up-to-date in

formation of conditions in Western Thompson, 19-year-old Scot-Abyssinia, tish Inssic working in Putney TELEGRAMS DELAYED Hill, who wanted a Wild West sweetheart.

Shty Charlotte wrote 10 the Governor of Utah about her

am-

AMERICANISMS NOW USED AS

ENGLISH

Researches Of Sir

William Craigie ' TEN YEARS' TASK

Watlington (Oxfordshire),

Sept. 15.

Sir William Crulgie, the famous lexicographer and part Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, sat to-day in his hill-top house overlooking Wat- lington and told of the new "Dictionary at American Engilsh on Historical Principles," which will be the counterpart of the O.E.D.

During the past ten years this vast

IN SHANGHAI

TO-NIGHT

September 25th at 9.30 p.m.

FIRST SONATA RECITAL

WIDOWED BY OUTRAGE

by

PRUE LEWIS

and

Mrs. T. Watanabe, widow of Mr. K. Walanabe, the Osaka "Mainich" correspondent who was killed fa the Chengtu Incident. has left Shanghai for Japan accompanying her husband's cremated re- mains, Above picture shows Mrs. Watana be and her two children. with whom is Mr. N. Yamamoto, brother of the widow,

The Man Who

Had 10 Wives

Olney, Illinois, Sept. 21.

SYLVESTER PLUMLEE, 63 years old, is now on his work has been in preparation, under

honeymoon near here with his tenth bride, Mrs. Sir William's editorship, at the University of Chicago. Professor Violet Martin, aged 54. James Hulbert is the principal American collaborator.

·Sylvester, who is now working for the Government Un- employment Relief Organisation, is fond of telling acquaintances of his wives, who are mentally catalogued as follows:

"No," he said. "Communications are not as good as we should wish. Telcigrams may be sent as for us Gumbeiin. From there to Gore, the centre of the provisional Govern-It is not a mere dictionary of Ameri- The first part is now in the press. bitions: Sent him a sealed letter to not, they have to be sent nearly canisms. Nor is it concerned with

100 miles by messenger.”

alang. Rather, it includes as far as The Emperor gave on

as possible, every word, phrase or assurance usages which has originated in that reports of dissensions between America, as well as

Second, "importations": the Galla tribes were not true.

connected with the development of the country.

be handed to a cowboy.

PHONE PLEA

Mr. Badger Hall, of Didcot, Berks, read about Charlotte. Saw her ple- ture and wrote to say he was going back West in a couple of weeks and would like to take Charlotte along.

J. T. Brown, of Wichita, Kansas, wrote: "My occupation is ranch work in. the western part of Texas. If I am not too late I would like to have her letter."

Flakey "Green, from Idaho, could not stop to write. Sent his proposal over the long distance phone to

ΓΟΥΕΣΤΙΟΣ,

Utah's

A correspondent went down to tell Charlotte about all these unxlous young men. She said:-

"I never expected an answer or that

any one would take it seriously. I went to stay here."

All the same Charlotte modestly folded away the letter from Mr. Hull.

She is keeping her reply a secret.

Not So Crazy

MEMBERS of the

Workers'

Militia were called in to search the lunatic asylum of San Deudilio, at Llobregat, near Barcelona. They seized three hores of dumdum bullets.

. When they had gone the staf of the asylum examined the cells a second time, just as a precaution.

They found that the inmates had acquired additional arms; they had stolen them from the militia during the search- United Press..

Bones of the Great Auk Found

On Desolate Atlantic Rock

Mary, May, Loy, Sada, Stella,) Lulu. Sarah the First, Sarah the Julia, who Laura, and divorced him last month.

Sylvester claime n record in swift transfers from one wife to another. wife No. 5 waited to be married to

COLOUR BAR

Westmorland county councillors have protested to the G.P.O. that The dictionary will be a mirror of

they want the telephone kiosks In American culture, One can trace the

the Lake District painted green-not red. history of the nation in its language.

Said Councillor C. F. Webb: "Ned Take only the first word Sir William him one municipal courtroom,

while Wife No. 4 was, gelling may be all right for London. The mentioned to-day, the word "swamp."

elly is, man-made, the country is During the Seventeenth Century this divorca in unother.

God-made, We do not want the appeared in East Anglia as only a dialect expression.

colour of Hades brought Jato the Lake District."

FROM THE 'SETTLERS

New

his

His shortest marriage was seventh, which lasted one day. His longest was 18 years, with his third Yet in nearly every township re-wife, who bore lum 10 children. card from the early years of England "swamp" recurs constantly. The seitlers, dealing with uncleared round, used the word time after |

ti acquired a new importance; to-day it is a link with the birth- struggle of the colony.

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Then, again, the pioneers, settling along the coast, would speak of the land behind them as the back coun- try, the back settlements, the back-

familiar expression

word, new

Was # but with

It

gutried a In Amerien

in England, meana

in America, however,

old

the

See the

English "timber."

took a fresh meaning and

In

Blackfellow's Reception At Levee

PRECEDES DEMAND FOR SAY IN

Sold Lady Maureen Stanley, wear- Ing n red cardigan: "I hope Mr. Webb's remarks don't apply to my dress.'

Said G.P.O.; Red telephone boxes or no telephones.

Tested Every Stitch that's why it's so clear and lovely...

GOVERNMENT HOLEPROOF

New York, Sept. 20. where auk bones had been dis- its turn "limber" became adopted as RECEPTION of David Uni

FTER spending only five hours on Ann island where they had hoped

to stay a month two young students 'became two of the few ornithologists

auk.

covered.

TRAGEDY OF SIX MEN

J

the word for standing trees-for ex- ample, "to age changed.

Д apen,

full-blooded ab- tall timber. So the languoriginal at the Governor's levee

ever to collect a skeleton of the great through the five miles of shoal watering industry. After the wood was been followed by a request that!

When they approached the island | "Boom" derives from the lumber in Adelaide, South Australia, has that encircles it they found it to be collected the loggers would walt for the South Australian aboriginals Theirs is the first complete skele-a mass of rack seven-eights of a mile the river. When the flood came the self-government. As precedent,

the spring floods to carry it down should have some ton of the extinct great auk to be long, 200 yards wide and 38-ft. high. spoke of, of the doar of the water-the aboriginals cite the practice

the "booming"-thinking, no There was only one ledge where) Apart from its scientific value the landing was possible. It did not and ultimately the word, in a figur- of the. British Government in financial and to the two young men fore the Newfoundland Government; the fascinating process of substitution self-government to her subject cheer them to learn that 20 years be- Sir William continued to speak of giving representative powers of

found in 48 years,

discovery of the banes will be

the veniurc.

a

K

In 1934 the skin of a male great nuk was sold in London for about

£625.

floes and the sixth lost his

ative

sente, reached this country.

to

measure of

Thomps Gilliard and Samuel George, who put their savings into had put six men on the island with and elimination in the American coloured people, says Austral

the intention of leaving them there an for a year to study conditions, with maize, which they called "Indian

language. Thus colonists discovered News..

Five of the men were lost in ice States means maize; a "cornfield."

view to building a lighthouse. corn" to distinguish it from English

Speaking on behalf of the corn. To-day "corn" in the United natives, Mr. Baden Pattinson, un Amerlean, is actually a maize- Liberal M.P. in the State Parlia- ment, cited the example of AMERICAN "BEE-LINE" Uniapon and said: "Uniapon Another change of meaning is seen, is a respectable and loyal sub- In "biscuit," which in the United ject of the King, with high In- States now denotes a small, soft bun.

mind

After a great deal of difficulty from being alone. Gilliard and George found a fishing nkipper to take them to Funk Island small boat. The ledge was two and They were rowed to the ledge' in a

fa half feet wide and several feet The island, which is little more above the water. than a rock, la the Inst-known place

---off the const of Newfoundland.

· Reduces

5 lbs. the FIRST WEEK Amongst the many thou- Bands Canadian women who thank Bonkorn for freeing them from ugly fat is Mrs. W. Ronald of Grand Forks, B. C **First part of April I weighed 195 iba. 1 pacchaued a bottle of Donors and reduced 5 lbs. the first week. Afte using a bot- klyn i wudh 163 lb und feel 20 years younger."

Os) lenkera today

at your druggial

When a

fold.

wave raised the boat to his usage began about 1800, and for tellectual attainments. The only

the level of the ledge Gillard ** jumped. When another wave raiseda me the Americans had to it high enough George followed him ferentiate by calling

biscuit." to the ledge. Then the fisherman threw their cameras to them.

They began hunting and digging frantically because the explain had refused to let them stay on the is- tand overnight in case the weather] broke,

DANGER SIGNAL ́If it became rough he would have been unable to get them off again.

They had been on shore only three and a quarter hours when the cap tain signalled them to come off again.

dur difference between him and his rusk hard fellow natives is that he has This gave way to "cracker" received exceptional opportunities

came from Or, since they

te for educational advancement." Boston area, "Boston crackers”—and "cracker" is the American word for biscult to-day.

artificially-produced state of insen- Sir William said that current

Bibility to pain. Oliver Wendell English contains many more real Americanisms than most people Holmes, a medical man himself, sug- gested this usage of the word also imagine. Ile mentioned "being back number," "aking a

the companion "anaesthetic"-to back

Boston friend during the late Forlies,

"to get along," and "10 very soon the expression, reached Bee-line, meaning a straight line, London.

is purely American; but English Sir William Louched on many other people have adopted it, although they things-the prevalence of various have never taken to "air-line" (oddly "buffalo" words west of the enough, a direct railway route), Mississippi; the fact that "bogus." They returned the next morning The making of the language has found aret in a local newspaper in and had only been digging bones for been largely a process of adaptation. 40 minutes when they again got the Many ordinary English words obtain 1626, meant originally a machine for signal to return.

making counterfeit coins; the Ameri- They argued, ed greater currency acos the At pleaded and even threatened the lantic or were applied in

can "vine," which applies to any captain until he finally let them go American sense,

special creeping stem or plant; the puzzle of back, this time for an hour.

"caucus," used for a political clique, There

has been, of course, a great which has been traced back as for of. invention

well. as Boston in 1700, but still remains

But then the captain lowered his dear main-call, which had been agreed on Colloquialisms appeared more freely mysterious in origin.

REDUCE

The HARMLESS WAY

Without

Starving

as the danger signal.

..

or

the langungo after about 1830, whan authors began to write as they They got off safely with their com“ | spoke.

In

►

pleto skeleton after Gullard had HOW "BOGUS” ORIGINATED

Piscomfort

paused to take a last few feet of

One was left with a keen senso of the virility and spontaneity of the American language. The work will not be falshed for a long time; but

film with his cine-camorn.--Central | A good example of adaptation is Sir William and his collaborators are

the use of "anaestheala" to denote an accomplishing a remarkable task.

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