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"Kindly rest on your oars, Timothy. That contraption is getting you nowhere. And it squeaks. And the Eton Boating Song is not in the key of D."

"What's up, Peter Got a head?"

"Like a gasometer. Very pain- ful. And that noise you're making goes through it like a pneumatie drill,"

"Wam't I on the worpath by your side? And look at me — no ' more hangover than an innocent little child."

"Well, it's not natural. It just,

proves that the Devil looks after his own."

“I look after myself, old son, Last night I look a sizeable swig of Rosa's Lime Juice before hitting tha hay, That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcohol,"

"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy?"

"Peter, you wrong me. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the sip,"

**Then, if you will kindly step ashore, we will seek out a vendor of Rose's. It's time I fell into good habits."

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 15, 1939.

Problem Of Schoolboys Called Up For Militia

Rending,

the

Mr. Hore-Belisha, Secretary for War, referred, ut presentation of prizes at Wellington College speech-day recently, to the problem of University and publie schoolboys liable to be called up for the Militia.

"Those of you who are going to a University want to know whether you should do your six months' period of service before. hand or whether you should defer it until after you have taken a degree," he said.

"There is here a ediflet of opinion. but what is felt by the public schools, I am informed, is tint boys who anticipate their normal period of trining will be too young to stand an equal chance with men of older years,

We shill have to take about twier as many officers in the future as we have been taking in the past, and we intend to give Milimen the "pportunity of Bling this increased the number of posts."

Mr. Hore-Belisha sald the Army had often been Interpreted humor- To settle this matter there willously by cartoonists and many people be a conference next Monday at the thought that Colonel Blimp was the Ministry of Labour in which repre- modern version of the Duke of Wel- sentatives of the University authori- lington. ties, headmasters, the Board of Education, and the War Office will participate."

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Mr. Hore-Belisha then referred to the question whether previous ser- vice in an O.T.C. would stand H Militiaman in good stead,

"Here the answer is emphatically in the affirmative," he said. "From the curllest stages men will be graded and pushed on according to their capabilities. Therefore, although an ex-O.T.C. min will have no privi- leges, he will have many opportuni- tles. It will be up to him to prove

his worth.

"Six hundred offers are commis- sloned into the Army every year, of which over two-thirds come through the military colleges. I have been heartened to And that one, in every Ave cadets entering Woolwich and Sandhurst comes from Wellington. There, indeed, is testimony that it is not in name only, but in service also, that you honour the traditions of the Duke.

"With the raising of the Militia and the doubling of the Territorial Army great burdens fall on the Regulars,

Youth Steals Police Car

CLEVELAND, O.

A 20-year-old youth has been sen. tenced to the Ohlo reformatory for stealing a police car from pollee

man. Edward Lewarski, with an- other youth, were stopped, by Patrol- man Leo Zack. Zack put them in the

" lanve looked in vain for Colonel Blimp ever since I came to the War. Office," he added.

The Earl of Derby said there had always been complaints in universi- ties and colleges about the food,

"In me you see in the flesh the result of feeding at Wellington from 1070 to 1070," he said. "It is not 100 bad."

During the afternoon the Duke of Commuught, who is eighty-nine and resident of the college, who usually

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