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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936.

CHIEFS' APPEAL

EMPEROR HAILE APPROVES CHIEFS'

Woman

Shanghat

Instrucior

the

of Bureau of Pubtle Safety, in white uniform, and newly recruited poller woman cadel, are shown at the inaugura- tion ceremony held treenily.

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 trimin," the Emperor suld in rapid Amharic (translated by Dr. Martin, the Ethiopian Ambassador in London).

"You will know that the task of government was delegated to

er-

tnin oftleials in the Galla country, of whom Rus Iru (a first cousin of

one. the Emperor)

They are An carrying on the government in orderly and proper way.

AN UNHAPPY SHRUG "It is clear that the chiefs have not the authority to make this on- peal in the name of Ethiopin; but one knows that they are anxious that their country shall not fall into the hunds 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 question of chopsing between two evils we would choose that as the lesser," he

id

Asked whether he ing up gallantly for the

was able to hand of Miss Charlotteather accurate and up-to-date in- formation of conditions In Western Thompson, 19-year-old Scot-Abyssinia.

AMERICANISMS NOW USED AS

ENGLISH

Researches Of Sir William Craigie TEN YEARS' TASK

Wallington (Oxfordshire),

Sept. 15.

Sir William Craigle, the famous lexicographer and pari Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, sat to-day in his hill-top house overlooking Wat- lington and told of the new "Dictionary of American English on; Historical Principles," which will be

the counterpart of the O.F.D.

During the past ten years this vast

WIDOWED BY OUTRAGE

IN SHANGHAI

Mrs. T. Watanabe, widow of Afr. K. Watanabe, the Osaka "Mainichi" correspondent who was killed in the Chengtu incident. has left Shanghai for Japan accompanylag 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. NYLVESTER PLUMLEE, 63 years old, is now on his SY work has been in preparation, under- honeymoon near here—with his tenth bride, Mrs. tish lassie working in Putney TELEGRAMS DELAYED

Sir Willem's editorship, at the

Professor Violet Martin, aged 54. Wild Hill, who wanted a

"No," he said. "Communications! University of Chicago.

Hulbert 15 the principal West sweetheart.

are not as good as we should wish. James Telegrans may be sent us for as American collaborator, Gambellu. From there to Gore, the Shy

The first part is now in the firess. Charlotte wrote

centre of the provisional Govern-It is not a mere dictionary of Ameri Governor of Utah about her 1117TM billon. Sent him, a sealed letter to ment, they have to be sent nearly canisms. Nor is it concerned with

be handled to a cowboy.

PHONE PLEA

to

thu

100 miles by messrøger."

assurance

The Emperor, gave an that reports of disaensions between

Mr. Badger Hall, of Videot. Berks,, the Galla triber were not true. read about Charlotte. Saw her pie-j ture and wrote to say he was going back Went 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 toj have her letter."

Pinkey Green, from Idaho, could not stop to write. Seut his proposal} over the long distance phone to: Ulah's governor.

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

"I never expected an answer ur that any one would take it seriously,{

I want to stay here."

All the same Charlotte modestly folded away the letter from Mr. Hail,

She is keeping her reply a secret.

Not So Crazy

to

MEMBERS of the Workers* Militia were called in search the lunatic asylum of San Bauditio, at Llobregat, near Barcelona. They scized three Lock of dumdum bullets.

When they had gone the staf of the asylum examined the crlla a second thie, just ⚫ precaution.

E

Then found that the inmates had acquired additional arnis; they had stolen them from the militia during the United Press.

search.

Bones of the Great Auk Found

On Desolate Atlantic Rock

New York, Sept. 20. where sul bones had been AFTER spending only be hours ou covered.

un island where they had hoped

to stay a month two young students

became two of the few ornithologists

auk.

Thomas Gilliard and Samuel K

the venture,

TRACEDY OF SIX MEN When they appranched the island

cheer them to learn that 20 years be-

slang. Rather, it includes as far as possible, every word, phrase or ages which fins originated in Americu, as well as "importations": connected with the development of the country.

Sylvester, who is now working for the Government Un- employment Relief Organisation, is fond of telling acquaintances

his wives, who are mentally catalogued as follows: /.

of

Mary, May, Lon, Sada. Stella, Lulo, Sarah the First. Sarah the Second, Laura, and Julla, who divorced him last month. Sylvester claims a record in swift transfers from one wife to another. wite No. 5 waited to be married to him in one municipal courtroom,

The dictionary will be a mirror of American culture. One can trace the history of the nation in its tigunge Take only the first word Sir Willam inentioned to-day, the word "swamp." while Wife No. 4 During the Seventeenth Century this divorce In another. appeared in East Anglia as only a dialect expression.

FROM THE SETTLERS

COLOUR BAR

Westmorland county councillors trave protested to the G.P.O. that. they want the telephone kiosks in the Lake District painted green-not

red.

Sald Councillor C. F. Webb: "Red was getting may be all right for London. The city is man-mods, the country is God-made. We do not want the the

Itin shortest marriage was his seventh, which lasted one day. He longest was 10 years, with his third, Yet in nearly every township re-wife, who bore him 10 children. cord from the early years of New England "swamp" recurs constantly. The settlers, dealing with uncleared! Eround, used. the word time after} ume: It acquired a new importance; As link with the birth- to-day

the

struggle of the

of the colony. Then, again,

pioneers, settling ulong the coast, would speak of the Jand behind them as the back coun→ try, the back settlements, the back- Woods

"Los" WDB !

word, but with

new

"Lumber,

familiar

expressions.

wown English |

it gained a Amerien. significance it

in England, menns old rubbish; in America, however, the

took fresh meaning,

a | word

superseded the English "timber."

and 1л

Blackfellow's Reception At Levee

PRECEDES DEMAND

FOR SAY IN GOVERNMENT

apon,

а

dis-its turn "timber" became adopted as RECEPTION of David Uni-

the word for standing trees- for ex-

full-blooded ab. ample, "tall timber." So the langue original at the Governor's leveo age changed.

"Loom" derives from the lumber in Adelaide, South Australia, has ever to collect a skeleton of the great through the five miles of shoal water collected the loggers would wait for the South Australian aboriginals ing industry. After the wood was been followed by a request that that encircles it, they found it to be the spring floods to carry it down should have Theirs is the first complete skele-a mass of rack seven-eights of a mile the river. When the flood came they

some measure of ton of the extinct great auk to be long, 200 yards wide and 36-ft. high.

self-government. As precedent, spoke of the "booning"-thinking, found in 48 years.

Apart from its selenting value the

There was only one ledge where doubt, of the roar of the water the aboriginals cite the practice and ultimately the word, in a figur- of the British Government in discovery of the bones will be a landing was possible. It did notative sense, reached tils country of giving representative powers of fnunelul and to the two young men fore the Newfoundland Government the fascinating process of sul self-government to her subject

Sir William

to continued 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 language. Thus colonists discovered News. for a year to study conditions, with maize, which they called "Indian In 1934 the skin of a male great

corn" to distinguish It from. English auk was sold in London for about Five of the men were lost in fec- States means maize; u "cornfield," to

Speaking on behalf of the view to building a lighthouse. corn. To-day "corn" in the United natives, Mr. Baden Pattinson, £525,

foes find the sixth lost his mind an American, is actually a maize- Liberal M.P. in the State Parlia After a great deal of dificulty į from being alone,

cited the example of Gillard and George found a Ashing

ment,

"Unispon skipper to take them to Funk Island small boat. The ledge was two and They were rowed to the ledge in a

AMERICAN "BEE-LINE" Unlapon and said: -off the coast of Newfoundland, a half feet wide and several

fect

Another change of meaning is seen is a respectable, and loyal sub- The island, which is little more above the water.

In "biscult," wilch in the United ject of the King, with high in- than a rock, is the last-known place

States now denotes a small, soft bun. tellectual attainments. The only This usage began about 1800, and for difference between him and his

time the Americans hud to

dif ferentlale by colling a

received exceptional-opportunities or, since they came from the for educational advancement." Boston area, "Boston crackers"-and "cracker" is the American word for blacult to-day.

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Without

The HARMLESS WAY

Starving

Discomfort

field.

rusk

it high enough George followed himi biscuit." This gave way to yellow natives is that he has

When a

wave raised the bont to the level of the ledge Gilliard jumped. When another wave raised

to the ledge. Then the Asherman threw their comerus to them.

They began hunting and digging frantically because the captain had refused to let them stay on the i5- land 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.

artificially-produced state of insen- Str Willam said that current

Wendell to pain. Oliver Engilsh contains many more real sibility Americanisms than most people Holmes, a medical man himself, sug- Imagine. He mentioned "being a gested this usage of the word-also

"Laking a

back the companion "anaesthetic-to scat." "to get along," and "too Very soon the expression

Boston friend during the lato 'Forties, aliead." Bee-line, meaning a straight line, London.

back number,'

-reached

.

is purely American; but English Sir William touched on many other people have adopted it, although they things the prevalence of various have never taken to "air-line" (oddly "bubalo" words west of the enough, a direct railway

route).

Mississippi; the fact that "bogus." The making of the language has found arst in a local newspaper in They returned the next_morning and had only been digging bones for been largely a process of adaptation. 1820, meant originally a machine for 40 minutes when they again got the Many

ordinary English words obtain-in signal to return. They argued, ed greater currency across the At-ng counterfeit coins; the Amerl

"vine," which, applies to any pleaded and even threatened the lantic or were appiled in a special creeping stem or plant; the puzzle of captain until he finally let them go American sense. 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 far deal of Invention

well as Boston in 1760, but still rembina

can

But then the captain lowered his Colloquialisms appeared more freely mysterious in origin. main-sall, which had been agreed on in the language after about 1830,

as the danger signal.

when authors began to write as they

They got off safely with their com-spoke. plete skeleton after Gillard had

HOW "BOGUS" : ORIGINATED

One was left with a keen sense of the virility and spontaneity of the American language. The work will not be finished for a long time; but m with his cinc-comera-Central A Food example of adaptation Sir William and his collaborators are

the use of "enaesthesia" le denote an accomplishing a remarkable, tasic...

paused to take a last few foot of

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