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only too well and can to this day scent! the aroma as I qmerged.

"I saw a puppy in a bottle to-day". "In a bottle? A puppy? Oh, Ho- ward, you mean a ship, don't you?"

"No, I don't" I repiled, a bit shortly, "I know the difference between puppy and a ship".

TIIIS

December 22, 1938.

The Singapore Naval Base

Britain's Assurance Of

Adequate Naval Force

LONDON, Dec. 21.

SPEAKING IN THE HOUSE of Commons to-day, Lieut.-Com- ZOOLOGICAL discussion

mander R. T. H. Fletcher asked by what date it was intend- hading to nowhere, and even threased to station at Singapore n fleet adequate to obviate the tening matrimonial relations, had to necessity for Australia to acquire capital skips. be side-tracked somehow.

Mr. G. H. Shakespeare, the Financial Secretary, replied that "Let's send her a pair of Moslem trousers-you know, that voluminous it would be apprechted that it was not in public Interest to Carment that seems to have no begin disclose the possible future dispositions of II.M. ships, ning nor ending. I saw a luss at the Bay on Sunday gazing at a pale (are

The strength and composition;

was a matter for the decision of Burma Bridges And

Chinese Lorries

they or it a pair?) in entranced won-of the Royal Australian Navy dler"

"Oh, Howard, dear, do try to be the Commonwealth Government, little rational for Heaven's sake, even if it's an effort. We must think and their present intentiona were ut something, the mall goes on the announced by the Minister for

Defence

the in

House -of 111h."

"Oh! d...... I don't know, every-Representatives at Canberra on thing I suggest you squash,"

December 6,

MAVIS SIGHED with that air of patient resignation zo irksome to the irritated male, and settled gloomily into her chair, seemingly at the end

of her tether.

"Well, anyhow, let's put it off till 10-morrow, shall we, Mavle?"

"Oh, I suppose we'd better. Oooh!

Southern

England Snow-Bound

London, Dec. 21. Snow fell all day in London and southern England to-day, causing considerable traffe delays of the ronds and sen.

slight increase in There was a temperature compared with yester duy, but the maximum registered in London was 28 degrees-British

Wireless.

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the

MANY DEATHS_REPORTED

Paris, Dec. 21. Walle a light fall of snow

Cherbourg, from reported heaviest snowfalls for a generation have occurred in Britain.

Many deaths are reported, some of them being attributed to Ares and explosions in a number of homes,

The cold snap is delaying the re- armament programme, practically ali building operation being brought to a standstillUnited Pres.

Journalist As Foreign Minister

Japan's Monopoly Of in which capacity he

Chefoo Shipping

London, Dec. 21. Mr. W. Craven-Ellis asked in the House of Commons to-day whether the bridges in Burma from the rail- Mr. Shakespeare added that the way head to the Chinese head on the United Kingdom Government would Burma-Yunnan. rond, were to be welcome any steps taken to increase strengthened to carry 19-ton loads.

Lieut-Col. A. J. Muirhead, Under- the strength of the Australian navy Secretary of State for

India and and Australian participation in the Burma, replied that the Marquess of

Bucharest, Dec, 21. common task of imperial defence,

Zetland, Secretary of State for India

King Carol, having accepted the Lleut.-Commander Fletcher asked and Burma had been informed that I know, Howard, I know!" She is the naval staff was satisfied, in the all bridges on the Burma side of the resignation of the Foreign Minister,

of capital ships

Burnia-Yunnan highway were able M. Petrescu-Comnen, has appointed becoming now as perky as her ornithological event

cx-Moniu Cobinet,

Grigore namesake in the soft, April rain. necessary for the defence of Australia to carry londs up to the loaded weight the former Secretary of State in the

of the lorries, which he understood "A collection of coolle hats all in the near future. that the pro- the Chinese authorities at the present Gafenou, as his succesSOT

The new Foreign Minister, since the shapes and sizes particularly that gramme outlined by the Minister for proposed to use.--Reuter,

the fall of the Manla Government, woman one with the blue Colton Defence would be able to provide

has been editor of the Bucharest thein. hanging down."

dally papers, Timpul" and "Argus," Would they sit Auntie?"

Mr. Shakespeare said that the

has strongly ber7" Mavis yells. "Do you Australian Minister for Defence in his

advocated close co-operation between suppose Auntie would wear them?" speecht said that Australia looked to

Tran13- the Danubian countries. →→ The vision of Auntle, middle-age, the United Kingdom in on emergeney

Ocean. Austere and sedate, solemnly proto station at Singapore a deet strong

the ceeding to Church topped by

enough to safeguard the Empire's

London, Dec. 21. coolie hal was the last straw!

interests In the Eastern hemisphere.Į Attention to the delays caused to Mavis collapsed in hysterical. choking laughter, and even I felt a That was an accurate statement of British shipping at Chefoo owing to ittle light relief and indulged in a the position, said Mr. Shakespeare the Japanese authorities granting a

monopoly to lighter-transport, WOR Lleut. A. H. P. Noble, son of H.E. inclancholy grin.

drawn in the House of Commons to-Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, is at- "Well, what's the good of sending

day by Mr. J. F. E. Crowder (Cons), tached to H.M.S. Dainty in Hongkong. 'en, then

What would she do with

coupled with the enquiry as to what Mrs. Noble has also arrived at the them?"

netlon the Government was taking. Station and is living at the Repulse "She might show them to her

Mr. Butler replied that Viscount Bay Hotel. tilends as a sample of what we have

Halifax had received no recent re- to put up with here-the hardships of

Mrs. Pencroft, a handsome well-ports on this subject. Represent- the exile, and so on."

"Now, Auntle loves experimenting set-up woman in the fortles--by no allons had been made to the Japanese about with gardens and bulbs and means the prim and rather unattrac- Government on the general question tive figure suggested by her niece-of discrimination against British things. Couldn't we give her some pleasantly greets the postman shipping in the North China ports,

iramping up the neatly gravelled including Chiefoo-Reuter. "Yes, and get run in-they're pro-path between the dwarfed hollies. tected, you know. Besides, I'm afraid of Vinjar."

orchids

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Christmas is cheerful and festive, the clammy moisture obscuring the outside world.

"Oh, thank you, postman, thank

dears!"

"Oh, from Mavis and Howard, the Hines Trial Set For

New Year

"Oh, Howard, dear, I'm afraid you. Merry Christmas! hopeless-we'll never think of any thing. Let's go to bed while we're

Come s more or less sane, dear." "All right Shut off radio."

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