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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 1, 1938.

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The Vauxhall Ten is be lost cconomical official trial, over 1,000 miles of pubile

"Ten" in the world. On a recent I.A.C.

IN

Hermit of

the Hills

ONE of the most extraordinary food was cooked in a primitive cases in the history of old oven made from four bricks on Hongkong was the strange story which rested a Chinese corthen- of an English soldier, Thomas ware pot, the property of some Chinese household. Weapons, Banbury, who during the later however, he had none, unless a 'sixties earned an unenviable re-heavy stick which bore a strong Indian war- a fit

toade, the "Ten" esloon did $3.4 m.p.g.

Reliability is unquestioned Vauxhall 10, standard in every way. covered 2.275 mites across Europe in the Monte Carlo Rally, Through snow, floods, ice-Lound roads and over Alpine posa iipulation as the "Hermit of the resemblance to an

But not 10se a mark,

Every part of the Vauxhall Ten is moitern but proved. It has Independent Sproging, ilydraulic Brakes No-Draught Ventilation and all-sical Integral Body and Chiersia,

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. Mr. Thomas Banbury was a private in the 20th Regiment which was stationed in the

VAUXHALL Colony during the year 1867.

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Very little is known of him pre- vious to his enlistment, but it was said that he was about 29 years of age, a native of the | west of England, and had served in the army for a number of years. Unfortunately, th young man bore a bad character in his regiment, and his sojourn in Hongkong seemed rather to aggravate his determination to resist military discipline, As

Hongkong Telegraph. might have been expected, he

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938.

Racing the Sun

THE MEMBERS of the crew

covering JACK HYLTON,

(From Film "Romance and “Rhythm") When you dream about Huwail-F.T. (V.R.)

.....GERALDO.

(From "These Foolish Things") ..........JACK HYLTON, BD5102-On the sentimental side- F.T. (V.R. 1ỷ Al Bowlly)

Aly heart is taking lessons-FT. (VIC by AL Bowlly)

(Both from Film "Donor Rhythm") BD5403-I hadn't anyone till you-FT. (V.R. by Eve Deckel

It's 'lovely (From "The Piect's fit up") BD5390---The Flat Foot Floogre...-P.T.

Pent up in u penthouse -- FT.

Was

suddenly determined on "taking French leave" and in January, 1867, he was reported missing.

HIS

can

*

Was

club could be considered arm for a former soldier.

PEDDING consisted of a pile had spread an army blanket, and of rice straw upon which he on this crude bed the poor fellow was lying, shivering with ague, and badly in need of medical at- tention. He was conveyed to hospital for treatment, and in the meantime, the news of his like wild fire among the arrest having been disseminated

by T. PAUL GREGORY

re-

sidents of Chinese squatter huts, a number of women came for- ward with serious charges against him.

date ar-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lichty

"1349 39 Cadied Tenture Syndenta, kon

"Would you mind letting your hair down, Miss?"

Aren't the days

drawing in?

Y

ES, AREN'T they? memory as far as the weather In fact, just re- is concerned all took place either cently it has been in the autumn, winter or early

spring.

CAN remember a day in January of this year

when the sky was the colour of blackbird's egg, and the bare solutely still water of Shing Mun.

trees were reflected in the ab-

IS disappearance was so com of the German Condor plane

plete that the authoritics are to be congratulated on their were mystified, and it remarkable achievement in thought that he had succeeded Upon this, he was arraigned in escaping by boat from the at the Magistracy on Charges of the distance be-

criminal assault, and his trial Island, or, unfortunately had set for the April 26 Criminal brought home to me that tween Berlin and Tokyo-met with foul play and had been Sessions. When this over 8,000 miles in 47 drowned or murdered. The rived, it was revealed by the At-winter's here, and for one hours, this including refuell- military command held to the torney General that Banbury I'm not altogether sorry. latter view, and their surprise was still too ill to be permitted In fact, I'm positively glad. ing stop-overs at three points.

be imagined when nearly to attend Court, and according Look at all the things The actual dying time GERALDO.

two months later, a party of y he was remanded over to the we've got to look forward just

40 over

hours,

at police combing the hills for ever, when the time for his trial to. Quite apart from a gas And when the sun went down, average speed throughout of suspicious characters stumbled came at the May Sessions, none bill as large as Japan's war the day had barely half finished upon a curious little rocky cave of the Chinese women who were clebt, there are muffins, fires, because there were tea and boil- more than 200 miles an hour. or stone-but on a hillside not far to testify against him, was pre-bare trees along Nathaned eggs waiting in front of a fire. It is easily a record and, with from Shaukiwan. the exception that the Royal Air Force flight was non-stop, com-

favourably with pares Ismailia-Port Darwin flight LTD. Vickers-Wellesley bombers

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"ATS" WALLEINS CONTINENTAL RHYTHM. BD5398–Music Maestro, please-FT, (From "Therr Foolish Things"}

A-tinket, aaskri..

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"FATS" WALLER'S CONTINENTAL RHYTHM.

BD5400—There's rain in my eyes--F.T. (VR)

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AR in the British flight, the Germans have demonstrated that our world is a small place, to be spanned by modern means of communication at a speed that is only six times greater than its own speed of revolution.

In the cavern, which actually

next month's sessions. How-

sent in Court, and he was ac-Road and on the hillsides, February when the rain

And there was a day in

clamation.

One may wonder why he was

Was

some-

of that time recorded, "a sort of lapse. The reason for this has chin; hot-water bottles, over- had no intention whatever of go-

any

cordingly discharged by Pro-complete freedom from the hissing against the window and consisted of a sort of hollow

danger of having to sit on a there was a pretty dirty wind under the sheltering expanse of

coming round a corner three huge boulders they came not prosecuted on the charge of draughty beach.

but Then there will be women where, and I didn't care because upon the deserter Banbury. He desertion from the army,

with was "living," as the local press

that was apparently allowed to

furs tucked round their was inside a warm room and

Robinson Crusoe life in the so-

coats, cold cars and, did I saying out because there were no been revealed. In never

fires? Yes? Well, I'll say it deckchairs on the lawn getting litude of the rocky hills, far re- case, Banbury was released, and moved from any pathway, and nothing more was heard of him again; fires and more fires, coal soaked and I hadn't arranged to overlooking the Aberdeen side for several months. In the res, wood fires, fires with pine of the Island. Even the real meantime, he had reverted to cones, and smelling of resin; gas hero of Defoe's tale could not his "cave-man" mode of uxist-fires, too, and electric fires. have found such a snug little place, as comfortable as nature and invention could made it.

ence, and unfortunately, too,

*

•

rumours of his bestial actions THE greatest advantage

play tennis with anybody."

There are lots more days like that too, but I can't remember one that happened in the aum-

mer.

Chilblains, coughs, colds? I became increasingly frequent.

of belonging to the once had a nasty cold in the nose At length, it was decided to human race is that we are almost all through one holiday I spent The place was about six feet scour the hills in an effort to the only animals that have no in Japan during a heat wave. aquare, and was lined inside with bring him to justice. Parties of fear of fire.

stalked Aeronautical experts say that Chinese thatch, and amply car- police

They really do have heat waves through the Dogs are beginning to learn there. I can remember sneezing peted with a thick layer of dried underbrush and searched every of the pleasure to be got out of myself black in the face. there is an upper speed limit leaves. Nor was this hermit known retreat in the rugged burning their noses now, and past which planes of future this life"; for this larder was bury was not to be found. Final- is a serious danger of us being least that is what the people with Coughs, they tell me, are often lacking "in the good things of hillsides of the Colony, but Ban- cats took to it so well that there preferable to hay fever. At design will be unable to fly, even well provisioned with various ly, on November 2, 1867, the ousted off the hearthrug alto- hay fever say; and chilblains, through the stratosphere.

kinds of "chow"; beef, potatoes, miscreant was caught by a gether, but mantelpieces and fire painful as I am fowl, and other delicacies "too group of Chinese stone-masons tongs, toasting-forks and coal, couldn't be more so than my sun- told they are, Nevertheless, it is a thrilling numerous to mention." This in the vicinity of Shaukiwan, therms and ohms are the grea- burn. thought that they may be wrong,

and severely manhandled before test inventions of modern times. that fliers of the not-distance a situation which was

he was rescued by the police. both future may, flying westward dangerous and open to all kinds around the equator, race with of repercussions. the sun and remain in perpetual daylight so long as they are in

the air.

There is no question but that the situation was replete with far-reaching possibilities, for it

Or will they? Would a flier, is not conceivable that the starting at a given point and British authorities could have flying at a speed twice as fast as maintained the harmonious re-deavour to capture him." the earth revolves, fly from lations which, both sides have Wednesday into Tuesday? If been careful to make clear, remained even after the border incidents last Saturday.

not, why not?

E

AND look--just

look

and

And what have we lost? Sun- bathing? Nonsense, that usually means either a back like a raw of:-

what we have got rid beefsteak or a cold in the nose, THE local press in alluding to as far as I'm concerned,

Wasp stings and sand in the the facts of his capture spoke

butter; sunstroke and the bittor of it in the following terms:

Cricket? Pshaw! What about disappointment of flower seeds football? At least one can usual-refusing to come up like the ple- ""The 'Hermit' is again in the ly tell who's won n football turca on the packets; stubbing custody of the police. He was match.

your bare toes on rocks brought in to-day, in a wretched condition, with a wound on his

tearing holes in your soles in the PICNICS? I can still get sea; photographs of semi-nude head which he said had been in-

a good imitation of a bodies; thunderstorms. flicted by a Chinese in an en-pienic by cating my lunch out of I hate thunderstorms. They greaseproof paper, sitting on the terrify me. It's not the light- His trial in the Criminal Ses-floor of my diningroom, and not ning I mind, it's the noise the regarded with the greatest at- Pretty summer clothes? Yes, with a leaking tent (I did that alons of November 25, 1867, was have so far to walk for it. thunder makes; camping out tention; for upon being con- madam, that doesn't really apply once and still feel pretty bitter fronted with the two principal to me, of course, but I do see about it). witnesses-{}} old Chinese what you mean. All the same It is hard to see how further grandmother of nearly sixty, your evening dress only comes in typhoon months. No more No more tapping barometers incidents could have been avoid- and a young girl of barely four-into its own in the winter, limp lettuces for timin, tea and

teen he broke down and con- doesn't it, and you know you look dinner, no more days when 'you'” ed if the Japanese had proceed-fessed. Strangely enough, how your best in the evening. ed with their intention to enters of the case, he was given by look half-hearted affairs, as ought to be made into cheese wished you hadn't left off, your over, in view of the sordid de- Summor dance dresses always winter vest, no more milk that FOR THE FIRST TIME since Shataukok. The topography of the Chief Justice, Sir John though you were wearing the and nover is..

Sino-Japanese hostilities com- the surrounding country was Smale, a sentence which a "hard-same costume that you had been monced, the Japanese milltary such that violation of British must have regarded as a nice just pulled it down a bit to show to be there, and you feel you boiled" character like Banbury walking along the streets in and ing just because the ses happens And, best of all, no more bath. authorities have shown genuine territory could hardly have been little vacation-two years in your shoulders a little and leng- ought to use it. co-operation with a Third Powor. Favoided.

Victoria Gaol. After this, helthened the skirt. passed out of the limelight, and

I'm going to enjoy this winter The withdrawal of Japancas

: Summer weather? Now you I feel-aren't the days drawing Everyone will breathe a sigh nothing is known of his later are being really absurd. What in? troops from close proximity to of relief that the Japanese have membered as Hongkong's "Her- Just a cheap crack. I mean it. life; but he is to this day re-summer weather? That isn't the Hongkong frontier has ended gone.

mit of the Hills."

The days that stick in my

As you're crossing the ferry, try and work out why man can- not beat time.

Co-operation

-S. J. C.