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The BIRDS HAVE NESTS But the Foxes Have Holes
by
" VICTORIA
T WAS but a tiny and solitary, albeit green and pleasant, plateau.
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tion, indeed the facts are evident and speech superfluous.
"Well, you can't stay here- people complaining. Must get
He gazed up speculatively out chop-chop, savvy ?" and longingly at the inacces-
The derelict expostulates,
sible height upon which it though half-heartedly and dis- mally. Where can he go? He lay.
does not want a camp, He Tattered and forlorn he wants to find work. was, old in aspect but not "None of my business, John, in years, bent and lean, you've got to quit, and quick, too. I'll be back to-morrow and ghastly-complexioned.
if you're still here..
Might he do it? There at GUTIERREZ, Maria Asteria.On least was pence and safety-if
27th January, 1939, at her
residence, 505 Nathan Road, he could attain it! Kowloon, in her 60th your. (Shanghai, Manila and Macao papers please
p.m. to-day..
1 "
ESINE DOESN'T much relish
On three consecutive days he RES his job; has more than a copy). Funeral reconnoitred, finally deciding sneaking sympathy with the that he would risk whatever underdog, and something about
will pass the Monument at 5.15
KEW-At his residence 551 Wong
Nei
Chong Road,
carly
this
No reason except ho must not
wrath the Gods might pour upon this particular specimen jobs MRS. MOREBRIDGE resigns
herself to her well-served, glimmers through his weary a defenceless head. With steady, him rather uncomfortably in his patient labour, with the calm and interior. He stamps off, humane tempting lunch, after which, brain,
"Why?" and again "Why?" morning, Irvin Whiteley Kew, at unperturbed tenacity of his race, instincts camouflaged in official sipping coffee upon the sunny, the age of 59 years, the Cortege he cut in that crumbling granito bluster; he slides and slithers flowered verandah, she glances is the refrain roaming through will pass the Monument at 6.15 cliff a comely little stairway, down the descent, and calls upon towards the scene of her victory. his tired and questing mind. p.m. to-day. (Shanghai ond
Squatting upon the freshly- His ways are not the ways of Australian papers please copy), deep between the cool, dim gully. Mrs. Morebridge nearby.
reaching to the cyric far above. "Yes, Madam, I've cleared him cleared little plot, knees to chin, Mrs. Morebridge, and she, whilst The
A delightful approach, fifter out... Yes, only one, Madam. face buried in gnarled and toil- the dispossessed is sadly, slowly, perhaps to Corydon's abode than I don't think you'll be troubled scurred hands, he seeks of the uncomplainingly but doubtfully, demolishing his half-completed It would have been a tiny work,
in rushes No,
her "last- can't moment" way into the car to her
bi-weekly golf.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26616 January 27, 1939
The Earth Moves
for this battered taterdemalion. again. Yes, they're a d....er... future.
Ascent assured, he proceeded to a terrible nuisance,
he do it?
clear the brush from the tiny thank you, Madam. Good-day, home for him, and why level space-all that the gruff, Madam! unfriendly rock afforded. Bam- boo poles he brought, and flimsy matting and cord up the rural, climbing pathway.
A refuge he would have EN THOUSAND PEOPLE against the night.
die in Chile and a great
TEN
country lies in ruins.
For all his skill and brain-
power, man ia
Nature lets loose her?
when forces.
her
THE EXILE OF DOORN
TO-DAY the ex-Kaiser is 80. The
spectacic ot the
life
once "All
a veritable prisoner Doorn 80th Birthday of the "All-Highest
Highest" spending the evening of his while Europe including the country he once ruled-grows more and more obsessed with war fears-has un- denlably its dramatic side. The once war lord is living in undisturb- return great war
dreamed of conquering Europe now
War Lord"
usually, consists of a sandwich and a glass of port. In the afternoon he attends to his correspondence and sets visitors, while in the evening after dinner he enjoys talking and listening to the wireless. His second marriage has been a very happy one, and the calm, tranquil temperament of his consort, the former Princess: Hermine of Reuss, has undoubtedly been very soothing Influence ove the once turbulent Kaiser. She is the only perenn who, smilingly, dares
a puny thing MRS. MOREBRIDGE, from
cosy apartment, stepped to He builds his cities on the verandah and looked upon the thin crust of the earth, he the busy street. flings his railways and roads Would Arnold never across the plains and hills, he with the car and let her get out?ed peace, and the man who once sets his harbours most cunning- She idly scanned her sur-contents himself with cutung down ly on the coastline, where they roundings....What!? A squat-tress and planting flowers.
It has to be admitted that the ex-/his wish to pay-a visit to England, to contradict or criticise. him, and may cheat the winds and cur
ter? Here! What impudence! Kaiser has shown more dignity and and about three years ago soundings the Kulser is still as dogmatic as rents and shelter his ships.
Then the crust of the earth We won't stand for that! Boy!!tact in retirement than he ever did were taken in London regarding the ever in his views. moves like a sheet of ice over Dial what? Dial 58071! Police when he was relgning Emperor. To advisability of such a visit. The in- white. He is as alert and ville vs with an unfavourable reply, but the
licute
negotiations returned to Doorn which a skater is passing. Citics Station? Hallo! Yes, Inspector, day his hair and beard are snow termediary entrusted with the de- Attitude of Nazis
He is discretion itself, however, ever. His conversation is always crash in ruin. Gigantic waves three's a gang of beggars putting heave out of the sen to spread up their dirty matsheds right animated, and despite his seclusion ex-Kaiser has not yet given up hope when discussing the present-day mother's Germany. It is obvious, neverthe- death and destruction in the against my flat. Will you please he keeps in closest touch with world of seeing once again his
lesa, that he is no fervent admirer of send someone to clear them affairs. Seldom a day passes but he native land. ports.
receives distinguished guests from The fact that his wreath in re the Nozi regime, and it is known that Pity the lords of creation! away?"..."Beg pardon? No, all parts of the world, but rarely are membrance of Lord Jellicoe was ac- he strongly disapproves of
membert All their knowledge does not they're not contractor'e coolles. their names made public. A number repted by the British authorities of his family publicly associating. Buffice to warn them of the hour No, there's no room for building. of well-known Brish people have greatly cheered the former Emperor themselves with it. when an earthquake will come. They must be sent away....All mode the trip to Doorn during the in November 1935. His life at Doorn childishly pleased, on the other hand, Nature keeps these secrets too right, thank you, Inspector. At past few years and all agree that has altered very little this last ten that his pre-war warnings about the pro-British years. He still takes his stroll be- "Yellow Perll" are being at last fore breakfast, and conducts a re- Justified by Jopari's present militant dark for the human mind to once, plense."
ligious service every morning in the policy, read. The workshop where an
main ball of his home. All the staff earthquake is made may be miles deep, hidden for ever from
human eyes.
Big Money
the ex-Kaiser is
than ever before.
Pro-British
more
He is almost
family, and guests have to attend all the respect due to
At Doorn, the ex-Kulser
receives
linen, and silver have all the In- perial mms
Inscribed on them. A
a reigning INSPECTOR RESINE, when he He is very fond of talking about this service.
After breakfast the ex-Kaiser sovereign. He is addressed as "Your has a moment to spare from Queen Victoria, and there is a large
Imperini Majesty” by all visitors and an over-burdened day, philoso-signed portrait of her in his private works on his estate sawing wood tozal residents, and his notepaper, phically marches off to the in-study. He has frequently expressed watering plants, &c., and his lunch
of the encroach- THE HIGHEST PAID workman dicated scene
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a day then. Yesterday he bourhood turned into a thorough-. carned, for a brief 149 seconds going
per
but
unofficial refugee
en-
in the ring, approximately $10,- camp. 000 Hongkong currency
Resine, one of the chubby, accond-much more during each
ruddy-faced tribe, despite the tick of the clock than the aver-1
disillusionment inevitable age Hongkong resident, Euro- pean or Chinese, earns in a year. gendered by his calling, remains Einstein's brain, Edison's in- at least three parts human; ventive genius, or Shakespeare's rubs his chin fall of them, in creative gift never earned for fact) and peers up the gully them the sort of money Joe steps.
face.
Louis gets for crashing his "Neat job! Got some spunk, tawny flats into an opponent's these chapa!" Up he climbs un- willingly and gruntingly-he is Louis has now fought 202 not too well adapted bodily to. rounds. He has worked in the caprine gymnastics. ring for a total of 605 minutes,
or just a fraction over ten Arriving considerably, nearer hours. And for those ten heaven he stands a moment, hours the iron-jawed pugilist puffs, and surveys the landscape; has been paid, including yester: then bellows: "What's all this day's winnings, the amazing mean, ch?" to the leau little man, sum of $1,444,034 In American mouth full of bast, inshing to- currency. In ten hours ho has gather the stout bamboos. carned more than the Hongkong
Removing his deplorable head- Government'a total revenue for
two months. In other words, gcar he explains in bastard Can- Louis has earned money at the tonese that he is making a home; rate of forty-seven thousand that he is a refugee from Canton Hongkong dollars an hour, Bach more for; that ho has no home
of his 36,320 seconds in the ring or people and is looking for work. Thas meant a thousand dollars.
There's money in boxing!
Inspector Resine understands
at least the gist of the perora-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
few years ago, a famous American
By Lichty "medium" visited the Kaiser at the
"Now that I'm acquilted, aän i have my dun bäck?"
latter's requeat, and it is said that the medium declared that the ex-. Kulser would return in triumph to Germany in 1937! That he
would return if given an official invitation there is no reason to doubt, and it is no secret that the Powers would not. now be so averse to a restoration of the German monarchy as they, were
before Hitler's advent.
Like his grandmother, the Kaiser keeps a regular diary, and he makes his entries just before retiring to bed.. His personal and domestic staff ntre. all German, and they are genuinely i devoted to their master. Most of them are housed on the estate, and the ex-Emperor is fond of paying them surprise visits. Ife usually brings presents for the children, und. Invariably sends fruit and flowera to
sick and the this belleved in Doorn that
agedorn
the Royal exile is a
a millionaire two or three times over, bu
er, but he is noted for
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his love of economy. He ha horror of waste, and when sawing. wood he collects the saw-dust. The ex-Kaiser is now a first-class wood. craftsman, and not so long ago "he, trade an ornamental door for one of his tenant's house.
Film Enthusiast
Although qulat, the exile's Doorn life is far from dull. There is a dne film theatre in the ex-Kalser's home,: and all the leading pictures of Europe and America are privately shown there from time to me. He is fpiritue
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