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I fall in love with you every day-F.T. (V.n. by}

Dance Orchestra

BD 5371

Denny Dennis ROY FOX How'd ja ce to love me-F.T. (V.R. by Mary

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the Golden West")

(Both with V.R. by Denny Dennis)

Please be kind-FT. (V.R.)

When the organ played "O promise me"-F.T. } JACK

(VR)

You got the best of the bargain-Waltz (V.R.)

(Both from Film "Goldwyn Follies")

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OVER

PEACE ENGLAND

WOODEN fish sits

on. the wall

-smokes a pipe.

and

It is a fish from the

waters of imagination, but

by BRUCE

feels that the corner

has gone.

been

BLUNT.

"Eye-witncases say that between; thirty and forty other people were blown into the river by the force of explosions. Their bodies were swept away by the tide

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MISSILES are

being

flung at the Toby Inn,

but they come rolling harmless- ly buck down the long chute to the players.

"I thought that skittles was dying out," I said.

A

"Only for about five years," shape on the wheel from a lump from its high perch it looks

"Not a bit of it," retorted one. over the waters of the river she said. "It was my husband's of clay in less than a minute.

own idea."

"A skilled man can make 900 of the players. "They are build- Parret as it flows through Such inconsequence will prob- of these small pots in a day," he ing a lot of new skittle alleys in the West. This is one of them." Bridgwater.

ably last when other more pom- told me. The

Behind the skittles with a pint Parret snuggles pous place-names have

It takes thirty hours in the down between its muddy changed and forgotten. One kiln to change these grey shapes of beer beside him, stands the banks at low tide.

will keep into the red and ringing flower- "sticker-up." He is there to re- its name long after the jester pots in which your plants and place the fallen skittles after a Bridgwater snuggles

cuttings will grow.

player has had his throw. "That is a very accomplished One could see. the colour of pleasant, thirsty job. the sea, and wears a decep- fish which you have on the wall English gardens which I am glad that they are build- tive air of slumber. Bridg outside."

spring from those pallid ranks. ing more skittle alloys in the "Oh, he's not so good as the water always sleeps with

Jugs and bread-pans, washing- West. A good game to play in flah on the other wall. The bowls and chimney-pots stand that countryside on one eye open.

other one sings, and keeps on there as well, waiting for the evenings, with the Quantocks

looming purple in the distance.

A ball goes on its noisy way along the wooden alley. Two skittles fall.

Hongkong Telegraph. down between the hills and

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31. 1938.

PRECAUTIONS ADVISABLE

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will

FASHIONS may change catching little fish in its mouth fires next day.

at the same time." and trades may I went out to look at this fish vanish, but Bridgwater will al- of genius. It was a bold and Other fires are already alight. ways find something else to do.

Its bright red "At night the countryside is doited It never intends to be left in a

licans are burning their dead." backwater, but it moves forward nose outshone the mellow red- with bonfires where the Repub in its own unflurried way, with less of the old brick wall.

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the dignity of ship.

a well-handled

gurish creature.

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It is perfectly true that in the past decade there have been all too frequent cries of "Wolf!" and that the British public, BD 5373. particularly, may have come to

There was news of a different take them almost as a matter of

On the curve of the wall be- red on other walls. course. "Newspaper talk," is

neath the fish one reads the

"General Nicolai Bielov, ez-chief so often the label pinned to the words "Joker's Corner," set out of the West Russian Soviet Army sensational stories of disturbing in neat black lettering like any a shot in the Lubyanka Ogm

Prison, Mokcow. and sometimes frightening poli-other street-name.

"Several other high officers were tical events, in the mind of the The little creeper-covered shop exceuted at the same time." reader of despatches from the fat the corner sells lollipops and capitals of the world. But that cel-hooks.

BD 5375

My Heaven in the Pines-FT. (V.R.)

Love walked in-F.T. (V.R.)

Love is here to stay-F,T. (V.R.)

(All with V.R. by Sam Browne) Take a tip from the Tulip Quick Step (Film HENRY

"Radio City Revela") [ You got the best of the bargain-W. Rose of Tratee-F.T.; "Tis I myself—F.T.

JACQUES BD 5370.

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TEDDY

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(V.R. by Dan Donovan); DONOVAN BD 5372 Ole King Cole-F.T. (V.R. by Teddy Foster') Swance-F.T.

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summer

"All-day bombing of Canton One hundred and fifty-six killed.

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ON the opposite side of and missing."

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the river is the Rope

Here they will make you a

THOUGHT, "I will call Walk.

upon Miss Smith, who 180-yards ship's cable which knows the Quantock Hills by weighs a ton, or some fish-net heart." twine which is so thin that it takes a mile of it to weigh a pound.

I did so, and asked after the Quantocks.

"You have come too late for GREAT cone of deep. The roofed Rope Walk is 230 the rhododendrons," said Miss The one who never liked lolli- is neither just nor sensible.

red brick rises nearly yards long, and run the whole Smith, a little reproachfully. pops and could never catch an Opinions of trained observers eel, it was a relief to see that the a hundred feet against the sky. length of a street.

It is the kiln of a pottery, or, The machine which carries and statements from responsible shop sold cigarettes as well. One rather, the outer shell enclosing the stands travels by cable from meadow-sweet and mallow," I spokesmen are not conceived or can ask questions over a packet three large kilns.

papers, but for the enlighten- ment of the general public. Headlines merely call attention to them. In the last forty-eight hours developments in the Euro- pean arena have come so swiftly

"BAND - LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL” FIRST RECORDS-TATTOO-ALDERSHOT, 1938 Masted Bands of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands conducted by issued for the benefit of news of cigarettes.

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Slavonie Rhapsody (Friedemann)

Tudor Rose Combined Band and Bugle March

Royal Review-March (Bassett Silver) Tournament March (A. Young)

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B 8745

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The Blandard of St. George March (Alford)

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asked her.

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"But in good time for the one end of the building to the answered. "I think that I like them better than rhododen- Up a few steps, and in through other. You need length if you

drons." A middle-aged woman came to its doorway, and the world was are going to make rope.

A pained expression crossed the counter from an inner room. shut away.

The Waddons have been mak- "Has this spot been known as

No fires were burning in the ing rope there for more than a Miss Smith's face. I had spoken alightingly of something which Joker's Corner for long?" I kilns, and the vast, circular hundred years.

only space was hushed. The

The present head of the firm, grows on the Quantocks.

But, all the same, she took me sound came from the wind out- Mr. Clifford Waddon, is in the and so confusingly that it has velopments in Europe likely to side the small, dusty windows. tradition of that hundred years, to the hills.

On wooden shelves were rang- Tall, broad, and Independent, Through lanes with hedges so been- difficult to sort them out end in compromise, graceful ored thousands of grey flower- he would rather make no rope at high that one could see nothing Land, removing them from their otherwise, then? It seems

rhetorical embellishments, to likely.

For the terrible and pots of all sizes waiting for the all than make a bad one. But we climbed into hills which were CHATER ROAD. examine them in a revealing needless risk which Germany firing. They stood like a multi- he intends to go on making rope. so high that we could see every-

Modern substitutes may have thing. light. What do we find? Ger would face were she to under-tude of ghosts in the dim light.

to the done the industry

Across Sedgemoor some harm, many has mobilised a mighty take hostilities seems to be too

machine for what she great

WILLIAM ROUTLEY, but there is plenty of life in it Polden Hills and the Mendips,

across the Severn Sea to the hills. chooses to

the foreman, moved yet. call

military manoeuvres, formidable which will extend, incidentally, Moreover, there are brilliant among them. He has been a Here you can buy cow-spans of Wales, away to the Brendon made of horsehair, pig-nets, Hills and the brooding bulk of over period of months; men working desperately for potter for forty years. her press is campaigning compromise, and among them is

I asked a question which had ricknets and rabbit-nets, cables Exmoor, and across the far- for big ships, painters for little stretching lavel greenness of very energetisally, to arouse Lord Runciman, trying to bring never occurred to me before.

some of England's richest grass- sympathy for the cause of together on common ground the "How does the hole get into boats.

land, strung with tall elms and. Sudeten

the Sudetens and Czecho-Slovakians. the bottom of a flower-pot?"

dotted with grey stone manors Sudetens themselves are refus- He may well be the key-man in "It is made by the thumb of

and farmhouses of which the ing to consider any compromise this puzzle of people whose the potter," said the foreman.

centuries have hardly scratched.. the surface.

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Other people's boats.

on "Across the bridge,

the

in their quarrel with the Czecho- rough edges are so difficult to fit{ And he showed with his supple Honan side, the bodies of forty- Slovakians: hence, suspicion and into any sort of peaceful pattern. hands how a flower-pot takes nine boat-dwellers were laid. distrust among those peoples | But he has not lost hope and who have reason either to fear | is still striving. Admittedly the

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"During the desperate Aghting. of the past month Sarrion has

Germany's motives, her expan- position is delicate; and there is GRIN AND BEAR IT. By Lichty shelled, bombed and dinamil-

sion into the Danubian basin, or no use denying the danger of¦ her infringement of the rights an explosion. One shot, one of free peoples. On the other knife thrust, even an ill-chosen aide, so to speak, France word might bring catastrophe, has quietly moved troops to for national feelings are at the frontier for manoeuvres; fever heat. But the position is the Czechs have unquestion-by no means hopeless. Even if ably hastened the strengthening a Sudete-Czech compromise is of their defences; Great Britain not immediately possible, if the is believed to have taken certain German attitude can be softened precautionary measures, prob-it may mean the difference be

Just the ably in the form of gearing up tween peace and war. her mobilisation machinery; and same, while it is well to have a nebulous alignment of nations faith in the diplomats and of enormous strength has statesmen in whose hands the appeared to have taken shapa negotiations must remain, it is agalnet which Germany, and not wise to trust entirely to possible allies, must collide in their efforts. It is as well to be any march across the Czech prepared for all eventualities. frontier. Thus, the German If His Majesty's Government radicals, if they do contemplató takes any precautionary step It a Czecho-Slovakian adventure, will have the sympathotic will probably pause, and recon- support of every British man sider. Moreover, there is good and woman who believes that reason to believe that Britain Britain's strength may yet and the United States, with prove the decisive weight in the Canada a mutual friend and scales against hostilities. participant, hirve finally achieved would be infinitely more desir the long-awaited reciprocal able if negotiators could succeed trade pact, which brings without the threat of force be- the great Anglo-Saxon de hind them. But nothing should mocracies closer together than be left untried when a solution they have boon since 1917or of the prosent dificulties means falnce: 1776, fort that ima 8o..much to all thes

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"YOU must set Stogur-

sey and its church,'

""The name

said Miss Smith. is really a corruption of Stoke Courcy,"

Storgursey or Stoke Courcy- it matters little. The place will survive under either name.

It is cool and quiet under the great Norman arches of the church;

The strength and grace of pillar and arch scem almost as timeless as the hills beyond the window.

Beneath one of the arches is' a high stone tomb, with the re eumbent figure of a knight upon it. The date is 1481.

Close to the figure is an in-- scription which reads:

"Of your charity pray for the soul, of mistakes

JOHN VERNEY,

who 500 years ago dit a thing, and left us Bonoble