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Show brisbane THIS WEEK A King's Farewell Good Soldier Obeys An If or Two 40,000,000 Degrees Paris To "last words of dying men" will be- added those of the late King George V i it W i 3 of England "I am sorry to keep I you waiting like 5 this." Typical of a good, modest king, always obedient" obe-dient" to duty. At the request of his ministers, including Sir John Simon, who waited wait-ed upon him at the last moment, the king struggled strug-gled pathetically to sign his name Arthur Brisbane tQ & gtate paper succeeded, then, turning to his advisers, ad-visers, spoke those last words, followed fol-lowed by a smile -and nod with which he was accustomed, to end an audience. This was published in the Star of Johannesburg, South Africa, in a Reuter dispatch. Mr. Gunia sends the clipping from Gibsonia, Pa. Much obliged. The Italian soldier Badoglio, in the striking uniform of an Italian marshal, returned to Rome and embraced Mussolini, who wore the uniform of a corporal of fascist militia. Napoleon also liked to be called the "little corporal." Marshal Badoglio is an Italian soldier who obeys orders. When Mussolini's forces were marching on Rome, Badoglio, according to the story, said to the king: "Wliat shall I do wipe them out?" The king ordered: "No; no violence." Now, Mussolini rules, and on his orders Badoglio wipes out Haile Selassie and the government of Ethiopia. Anything could happen in Europe, and one of the things considered quite possible, extremely disturbing disturb-ing to respectable old England and others, is an agreement between Mussolini and Hitler to make "a deal on Austria" profitable for both; not for Austria. There is always, however, the memory of 1914, when Austria, Italy and the Kaiser had the triple alliance that did not "stand up." Such alliances usually go along racial lines, if they are to last. France and Italy are natural allies, al-lies, both Latin; England and the United States would probably be found not far apart if a really big World war should ever come, with one or two other IFS. Science proudly demonstrates for the Westinghouse company a new lamp that "rivals the beams of the sun." The demonstrator explained that the temperature at the sun's surface is about 11,732 degrees Fahrenheit, while the new lamp reaches 25,232 degrees Fahrenheit. Fah-renheit. That, however, as scientists know, is a long way from the sun's best temperature. According to Sir James Jeans, there prevails in the depths of the sun temperature of "forty million degrees centigrade," which is considerably con-siderably higher than any man-made man-made temperature. If you came within 1,000 miles oi a o cent piece with a temperature tempera-ture of 40,000,000 degrees centigrade, centi-grade, you would be burned to a cinder; hard to believe, but true. England protested against raising the elevation of guns on American warships because that would make our guns shoot too far. In case of war we might hit a British ship lined up against us. Are animals capable of any thought? A dog on Prince Edward island, whining and howling with its muzzle muz-zle against a pile of clothing on the edge of a pool, attracted men who took from the water the bodies of two brothers, fifteen and seventeen years old. Could the dog have thought out" a connection between the clothing and the disappearance oi its young owners? At Ur, ancient city of the Chaldeans, Chal-deans, they show a gigantic brick temple recently uncovered, where the ground covered through the ages. It was construct- K,n!mally' like tower of Babel, to enable the builders to get up into heavpn r,ri u b. dercl ",SCd..,f" "y " aorca 191 "bomber" niriDlancs-obeertul niriDlancs-obeertul small . "I"''ra. p.r:btjv:r-- ""nrouw's c0,-wml'";c is ir? a- would sonn penmo,,t' no fy "'esc shore, S,,bnu,r, '-""Ke of |