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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

JANUARY

1988.

JANUARY, BUT NOT IN HONGKONG LORD CECIL-

HARD TO BELIEVE, ISN'T IT ?———But this is a January scone on an Australian beach.

"THE GREAT HOPE Tragedy

OF MILLIONS"

Many countries united at a League of Nations Union reception at the Dorchester Hotel, London, to pay tribute to Lord Cecil on his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prizo. Lady Gladstone presided, and M. Pierre Cot, French Air Minister, and Joint President, with Lord Cecil, of the International Peace Campaign; Professor Gilbert Mur- ray, chairman of the League of Nations Union; and Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, M.P., formerly Lord Cécil's secretary. and assistant, were among the speakers.

"It is the great honour of my Earlier in the day, Lord Cecil had public life," suld M. Pierre Cot, "to received the congratulations of the be associated with Lord Ceell, who Union's General Council, and, In represents the highest and noblest reply, appealed to all agencies work-. ing for peace to close their ranks conscience of humanity.

und redouble their efforts.

"There are millions of men and women who have a great need for peace and for whom Lord Cecil represente great hope."

Lady Gladstone declared that there was no Englishman living, she be- lieved, who had so many admirers und who was so deeply trusted. LONGING" "PASSIONATE

Mr. Noel-Baker said he thought Lord Cecil had more conscious devoted followers than any other man in the world.

Lord Cecil

He said the award of the Nobel Prize to him was a vote of confidence in the League of Nations in Britain.

MUSSOLINI'S FEAR.

"One cannot doubt that Musso- lin has left the League because he was afraid it might succeed in keeping the peace, and in prevent- ing his nationalist endeavour to break the peace.”

Lord Ceell added: "We are now taking a reasonable attitude with regard to the attack on our ships in replied that he the Yangtst. interpreted the award of the Peace "I want to say very strongly that Frize to him, and the great stream the attack On China Was 21 fur of congratulations which he had greater danger to us and our interests received from all parts of Europe than the attack on our shipping or on and a great part of America, the lives of our subjects. Let us get the expression of the passionate

Into our minds tha! Brlush longing for peace which possessed interests are not only a matter of the world.

territory and commerce, but of maintaining the law international affairs.

Singer Joins Husband

Jellyfish Hold Up Liner

By A Correspondent

Shoals of jellyfish, believed to· ́ total 100,000 tons, were swept by the wind into Durban Iarbour recently. For six hours they Held up the 5,242-ton Union Castle liner, Dromore Castle.

Massen of the fish choked the suction pipe, thus cutting off Uid engines water supply. —- .

A tug backed up to the month of the pipe, reversed her engines and washed out the jellyfish by the force of water from her pro- pellers.

CANADIAN BEER JUDGED FIRST

to

In Ogpu Prison

Warsaw.

Aime, Anna Maksakova, thirty- year-old Soviet opera singer. wife of Jacques Davtian, Soviet Ambassador to Poland. now un- der arrest in Moscow, has joined her husband in prison..

She was arrested uccused

On

..

Saturday, her helped of having

one of the diplomal husband, Bolshevik old guard, in the "high treasonable activities.

"

Three weeks ago the Oggiu secret police forbade her to go to Paris, where she was to give a concert..

She is reported to be in the Lubyonka prison, headquarters of the Ogpu.

.

London. Judges at the first British Empire boltled beer competitions had

AUSTRIAN WANTS TO BE "sample"7,000 bottles entered-by-homo:

HANGED and overseas breweries before de-

Vienna. ciding the winners. In the overseas

Adolf Bremer, 24, accused 31 class, the gold medal was won by the Riedle Brewery, Limited, of Winni-murdering the daughter of an inn- while the Northern Clubs keeper, told police that he wanted to ред. Federation Brewery of Newcastle-commit suicide but, being afraid to on-Tyne carried off the silver, chal-do so, he decided to commit the murder instead in order to be hanged. lenge cup.

£5,000

For a Stamp

of

The world's second most valuable

stamp Swedish three skilling banco-coloured yellow by mistake instead green, only one of its kind in existence, has been sold through Mr. I. R. Harmer, of London, for £5,000.

The price is the highest ever bald for a European stamp and the second highest for any sing

specimen-highest being £7- 400, paid in 1922 for a British Gulana stamp.

The Swedish stamp was issued In 1855. About 1880 eight, la- cluding the yellow, were sold for about 85. cach

N. Z. FOOD CONTROL

Lord Allen of Hurtwood, proposing a resolution on Colonial Territories,, sald the German claim for the return of colonies was likely to become a cancer in the body politic of Europe. It must be insisted, he said, that the question be dealt with within the framework of an all-round peace settlement.

B.-P. WILL BE 81 IN FEBRUARY

Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, left London recently for |Africa, on what he said might be "the end of the trail." He sailed in the Llandaff Castle for Mombasa.

"B.P." will be eighty-one years, old In February. Recently, ruddy- checked and in high spirits, he looked, more like the inan who, asked by a party of Scouts the other day to try to live to. 115, said, "Why stop at that?"

But when I asked him the reason of Wellington. 'his six-months' trip he repiled:

may be going there to die. We The Primary Produce Marketing I ma Amendment Bill has been passed by must always 'Be Prepared

"I have had the House of Representatives,

along innings. I'd The bill authorises the fixing of rather dle in Africa, where my heart

anywhere.. prices and selling conditions for dairy is, than

"I'm going to see my daughter produce, fruit, honey and other foods which may be specified by Order in Betty (Mrs. Gervase Clay) and my little grand-daughter in Northam Council-Reuter.

Rhodesia, then my şen Peter and my grandson in Southern Rhodesia, may go down to South Africa, and up. to the Gold Coast to have another look at Ashanti,

Boy 'Sentenced To Go To Church

On condition that he goes to church at least ones overy Sunday, a boy of thirteen was bound over for a year at Linslade (Bucks) Juvenile équrt recently, mak

'.

He was accused of assaulting two girls. It was stated in extenuation that he left a London

school, where boys and girls are taught separate- ly, for a village school where boys and girls are taught together.

Because he was a big boy and well dressed. the iris. It was alated, "made a dead set at him and teased him."

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"A GOOD END"

I

"I'd probably catch fever there, but I wouldn't mind dying in Ashanti, That would be a good end........”.

The Chief Scout Look a famous part in Sir Francis Scott's 1895 cx- pedition against King Prempeh, which brought about the downfall of his capital, Kumass), "The Death Place.” "Daddy is amazingly lively," said hls tail, auburn-haired daughter Heather, who is staying at home to hunt. “He's very keen on this Gold,' Coast trip, but I'm sure when it comes |to the point mother won't let hinx do it. He's been very ill after previous fever bouts, and the risk is too great.”. But the old campaigner, kidding good-bye to his friends, handed Lady Baden-Powell into the car for the West India Docks and, refusing to be helped up, the high step, did an Irish J before climbing in.

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NEXT MORNINGA

It's going ∙to be

CLORIOUS

of a tired-

looking bridesmaid

I don't want to see the wedding. picture. I know I look dreadful!

TWO MONTHS "LATER

Betty darling!! what is the matter.

You even wake fired these

days. You ought

to see a

doctor!

What a lovely couple! -and the bridesmaids. aren't they sweet.

•Pity Betty looks to dull-spoils

it rather

From a wedding comes a wedding, but not for Betty' if you ask me!

AT THE DOCTORS This waking

tired tells on your whole appearance. During sleep you burn up energy by breathing and other automatic actions. | if this energy is not replaced- of course you wake

tired. It's Night

Starvation!

Oh, mummy, I'm so thankful to

for helping you

me!

A FILM BLAST OF TRUTH-

Where's my

bouquet?

∙I'm so thrilled

THINKS

How I dread

this look awful beside the other my face so dull- and this Firedness!

and so every night

Does your daughter wake fired?

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