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It's Stout

BETTER

It's Milk Stout

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938.

BEST!

„It's MACKISON'SHWINA the goodness of mikihi?? does you DOUBLE GODD

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FACTS Hongkong's

Hermit of

for the 10h.p.

motorist

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A

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Every part of the Vauxhall, Ten modern but proved. It la Independent Springing, Hydraulie Brakes, No-Brought

the Hills

ONE of the most extraordinary food was cooked in a primitive

cases in the history of old Hongkong was the strange story of an English soldier, Thomas Banbury, who during the later 'sixties earned an unenviable re- putation as the "Hermit of the Hills."

Mr. Thomas Banbury was a Ventilation and all-ices Integral Body private in the 20th Regiment

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My heart is taking lessons-F.T. (V.R. by Al Bowlly)

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which WIR stationed in the Colony during the year 1867. Very little is known of him pre vious to his enlistment, but it LET US DEMONSTRATE

was snid that he was about 29 THE 10 AND 12 H.P.

years of age, a native of the west of England, and had served HONGKONG HOTEL

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years. Unfortunately, the Tel. 27778-9.young man bore a bad character in his regiment, and his sojourn in Hongkong seemed rather to aggravate his determination to Aa resist military discipline.

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York Building

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in

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

*

HIS disappearance was so com

can

or

oven made from four bricks on which rested a Chinese earthen- Ware pot, the property of some Chinese household. Weapons, however, he had none, unless a heavy stick which bore a strong

Indian war- resemblance to an clab could be considered arm for a former soldier.

>

a fit

a pile

BEDDING consisted of

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

fire among the re-

by T. PAUL GREGORY

sidents of Chinese squatter huts,

a number of women came for-

with serious ward

charges against him.

Upon this, he was arraigned at the Magistracy on Charges of criminal assault, and his tria! the April 26 Criminal set for

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

· Cathal Feature (traduse, zen.

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

Aren't the days

drawing in?

Y

memory as far as the weather is concerned all took place either in the autumn, winter or early spring.

I CAN remember a day in January of this year

a blackbird's egg, and the bare trees were reflected in the ab- when the sky was the colour of

solutely still water of Shing Mun.

plete that the authorities are to be congratulated on their were mystified, and it

was

ES, AREN'T they? remarkable achievement in thought that he had succeeded

In fact, just re- in escaping by boat from the covering the distance be-

cently it has been Island, or, unfortunately had

to me that tween Berlin and Tokyo met with foul play and had been Sessions. When this date ar- brought home

miles - 8,000

47 drowned

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. Look at all the things points latter view, and their surprise was still too ill to be permitted In fact, I'm positively glad.

be imagined when nearly to attend Court, and according The actual flying time WAS two months later, a party of y he was remanded over to the we've got to look forward just over 40. hours,

an police combing the hills for ever, when the time for his trial to. Quite apart from a gas 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 more than 200 miles an hour. upon a curious little rocky cave of the Chinese women who were debt, there are muffins, fires, because there were ten and boil- or stone-hut on a hillside not far to testify against him, was pre-bare trees along Nathan cd eggs waiting in front of a fire. a day in sent in Court, and he' was ac-Road and on the hillsides, February when the rain was It is easily a record and, with from Shaukiwan

In the cavern, which actually cordingly discharged by Pro- complete freedom from the hissing against the window and the exception that the Royal Air

consisted of a sort of hollow

danger of having to sit on a there was a pretty dirty wind Force flight was non-stop, com- under the sheltering expanse of

One may wonder why he was

coming round a corner some- favourably with

Then there will be women where, and I didn't care because the three huge boulders they came not prosecuted on the charge of draughty beach.

with furs tucked round their was inside a warm room and Ismailia-Port Darwin flight by upon the deserter Banbury. He desertion from the army,

pares

next month's sessions. How-

clamation.

but

And when the sun went down.

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AND look-just look

been revealed. In any coats, cold ears and, did I saying out because there were no Yes? Well, I'll say it deckchairs on the lawn getting litude of the rocky hills, far re- case, Banbury was released, and fires? As in the British flight, the moved from any pathway, and nothing more was heard of him again; tires and more fires, coal soaked and I hadn't arranged to

months. In the fires, wood fires, fires with pine play tennis with anybody.

cones, and smelling of resin; gas overlooking the Aberdeen side for several

There are lots more days like Germans have demonstrated

of the Island. Even the real meantime, he had reverted

that too, but I can't remember one that happened in the sum- that our world is a small place, hero of Defoe's tale could not his "cave-man" mode of exist-, fires, too, and electric fires. to be spanned by modern means have found such a snug little ence, and unfortunately, too,

THE greatest advantage place, as comfortable as nature rumours of his bestial actions

{ Chilblains, coughs, colds? of communication at a speed that, and invention could made it,

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 is only six times greater than its

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. own speed of revolution.

aquarc, and was lined inside with bring him to justice. Parties of fear of fire.

They really do have heat waves Chinese thatch, and amply car- police stalked 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. leaves. Nor was this hermit known retreat in the rugged burning their noses now, and

Coughs, they tell me, are often lacking in the good things of hillsides of the Colony, but Bun- cats took to it so well that there preferable to hay fever. At this life"; for his larder was bury was not to be found. Final is a serious danger of us being least that is what the people with well provisioned with various ly, on November 2, 1867, the ousted off the hearthrug alto- hay fever say; and chilblains. kinds of "chow": beef, potatoes, miscreant was caught by

a Rether, but mantelpieces and fire painful as I am told they arc, fowl, and other delicacies "too group of Chinese stone-masons tongs, toasting forks and coal, couldn't be more so than ray sun- numerous to mention." This in the vicinity of Shaukiwan, therms and ohms are the grea-burn,

and severely manhandled before test inventions of modern times. he was rescued by the police.

And what have we lost? Sun- bathing? Nonsense, that usually means either a back like a raw of:- beefsteak or a cold in the nose,; Wasp stings and sand in the THE local press in alluding to as far as I'm concerned.

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

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

your bare toes on rocks and 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 sen 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-picnic by eating my lunch out of rodeavour to capture him."

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 sions of November 25, 1867, was have so far to walk for it. regarded with the greatest at- Pretty summer clothes? Yes, with a leaking tent (I did that 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-an old Chinese what you mean. All the same No more tapping barometers It is hard to see how further grandmother of nearly sixty, your evening dress only comes in typhoon months. No more incidents could have been avoid- and a young girl of barely four into its own in the winter, limp lettuces for tiffin, 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. wished you hadn't left off your ed with their intention to enter ever, in view of the sordid de- Summer dance dresses always winter vest, no more milk that tails of the case, he was given by look half-hearted affalra, asought to be made into cheese

Aeronautical experts say that there is an upper speed limit past which planes of future design will be unable to fly, even through the stratosphere. Nevertheless, it is a thrilling thought that they may be wrong, that fliers of the not-distance a situation which was both Future may, flying westward dangerous and open to all kinds around the equator, race with of repercussions. the sun and remain in perpetual There is no question but that daylight so long as they are in the situation was replete with the air.

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 the earth revolves, fly fromlations which, both sides have Wednesday into Tuesday? If been careful to make clear, remained even after the border incidents last Saturday.

not, why not?

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

Co-operation

*

•

what we have got rid

FOR THE FIRST TIME since Shataukok. The topography of the Chief Justice, Sir John though you were wearing the and never is.

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

Victoria Gaol. After this, he thened the skirt. co-operation with a Third Power, avoided.

I'm going to enjoy this winter passed out of the limelight, and } Summer weather? Now you I feel-aren't the days drawing nothing is known of his later are being really absurd. What in? membered as Hongkong's "Her- just a cheap crack. I mean it. Ife; but he is to this day re summer weather? That isn't

The days that stick in my

The withdrawal of Japanese Everyone will breathe a sigh troops from close proximity to of relief that the Japanese have the Hongkong frontier has ended gone.

|mit of the Hilla.”

-S. J. C.