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MYSTISH AND EXPRESSID:!
[Special for the China Mail,
EARLIER TELEGRAMS."
(Reuter's Servics to the China Mali.)
AMERICA AND THE PEACE: TREATY.
New York, December 13th The Democrat. Senator Hitchcock, in a speech, pleaded for ratification of the Fence Treaty subject to the reservations. which he now dented essential
First, iu o dodestic affaits, that, the Laited States shall never be subjected to the jurisdiction of the Langee;"
retained intact;
Second, that the Monroe Doctrine be
nation
The cause of considerably more than half of the execrable waiting to dignity it with the name of Literature would be a betrayal of the Muses
gust) with which a long-suffering but sient.public is offended or bored, as "may suit the individual temperament. may be identified with the preoccupa don of our Time without trespassing the realms of fancy or indulging is that Petitio Principii in which the essayists excel Man is too busy making or losing money to do mora than scan the headlines of a paper, read a cheap novel or write a letter as full of slang as the sen is of fish. [One hunts these fish with a deadly harred if more than a limited and particular style seems desirable thing. Now slang, cheap novels, and The Times correspondent & Washing- headlines all tend to the fixation of ton, commenting on the above, says that thought in groovesa slang phrase the speech must be taken to mean that haa usually but one meaning, a novel Senator Hitchovek recognises that the seldom studies the "double enten-
President must steel himself so áccept the dre" and as for the sense of a head-League is to be saved from destruction.
Lodge reservations in principle is the tine no words of mine can do full justice to its impartiality.
Third, in a dispute with having self-governing Dominions, all the latter's votes be disqualifed;
Fourth, that the powers of Congress to declare war remain unimpaired;
Fifth, that the League shall not control the American Army and Navy; and,
withdraw the nived States shall be the Sixth, that in fae event of wishing to ole pudge as to whether she has perform ed her obligations.
THE AMERICAN COAL STRIKE.
From the earliest periods of thought Definition has beep. the aim of those
NEW YORK, December 13th, who desire for their own gratifica- The 'unardiner Imperator sailed to tion or that of others to batter and day, after a delay due to the authorities bandy words with their fellows, and refusing a clearance because she embark only of late has a lamentable loose The British Ministry of Shipping
ed 3.000 tons coal in excess of her permit. under nesa crept into our phraseology, took to replace the exerss witcin month weakening our conceptions and plant- | The restrictions раз ing unrecognised metaphors broad though the strike has finished. The pub- cast in our pages. Observe, dear lie are anxiously awaiting relief.
reader, the last sentence as an exam. plert do not delend it. Maybe we .kave more to express than our fathers
had-t doubt it. Certainly that! technicality which is the keyrote, of the moderns calls for strange words whose meanings, alas, are too often undefined by the user. So, sad at the prevalence of a language not "understanded of the cenple." full of the deal of a form of expression and Art free from the phrases of com ace and the sciences arose the Mystics and the Symbolists..
Shorthand was invented to enable expressed thoughts to be written at the same rate as that at which they. were spoken. The school mention- ed above strive rather to express the thought shortly enough to enable the pen to keep pace. Thus they prac. tice a form. nt mental shorthand. And apart from this convenience each phrase seeks to embody as large proportion of suggestion as possible
each inga leads to others by simple ase ciations instead of the laborious and mathematical trains of reasoning of the technologists. I will quote by the way of example, a line from The Lily of Malud, a poem by J. C. Squire published first in 1997.
cual continue.
THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM.
ARCHANCEL, December 13th.
A telegram stiff states that when the Bolsheviks for the second time ccupied Voronizh, they massacred whole fumalies, executed all the prests. hanged the archbishop, Dr. Tikhon, ut the Tarsky gate, and closed the churches.
A circular by Dr. Tikhon, denouncing Bolshevism. recently published in Lon- claring that the circular was issued don, has evoked a Bolshevik message de- yeny age. Dr. Tikhon had since recanted and had recognised the Soviets,
POST-GRADUATE WORK.
LONDON, December 13th:
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THE CHINA, MAIL.
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THE SHIPPING SITUATION.
Shipping and Engineering of Dec.
12 says:
POST OFFICE.
A direct exalanga of Money Orders with the Republic of China will come into operation on and after the lat January, 1910.."
The Money Order Forvice with the Philippine Islands will be resumed on the lit Jan., 1920.
Registered and Parcel Malls are closed 18 minutes earlier than the time given bolow unless otherwise stated, and where
alary advertised to close before 9 m. registered and parcel mails are. alcood si p.m. on the previous days.
In the can of Malla olostor before 9am. Registration open at 5 c'elook on the previous evening...
INWARD MAILS.
FRIDAY, December 19.
Australia and Manila-Per NIKKO
MARU
Shanghai-Per SUITANG.
SUNDAY, December 11. USA, Canada and Mani's-Per
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. TUESDAY, December 23. Japan-Por TANIO MARU.
THURSDAY, December 25.. Straits-Per TOYU MARU Japan-Per SADO MARU,
MONDAY, December Bombay-Par TENSHIN MARU.
WEDNESDAY, December 31,
OUTWARD MAILM.
been arranged so that after a certain number of years service with one company, masters. officers and engi-Strafts-Per SEISHIN MARU. neers are granted an annual allowance according to the rank and the number of years served when notice of retire- months leave on hall-pay is granted Also, nine at the expiration of every five years served with any one of the big com- panies.
ment has been made.
FRIDAY, December 13. Straits, Bangkok. Ceylon, Mauritius, Maco-Per SUI AN, 8.30 am.
Ever since the former shipping strike on the, China Coast when the shipping trade was entirely held up for a short while at Shanghai and at the outports in China, the officers and engineers that have manned these ships commonly known as the "Our side Ships and belonging to the
In the outside ships none of these! several small shipping companies benefits are to be had. There is no operating out of Shanghai and Hong- pension granted at the expiration of Straits, kong have to a certain extent been perhaps a lifetime's service with the
The benefits obtained one company; there is no dissatisfied.
nine through the former strike from the months leave on half-pay at the three big shipping companies on the termination of Ave. years service. Chine Coast have failed to affect the This being the case; can it be wonder- officers and engineers manning the ed that the masters. officers and en- ships belonging to other small com-gineers manning these ships are dis- panies and the result can be seen ro- satisfied?
Bouth Africa, lodio via Dhanush- kodi, Egypt and EUROPE via MARSEILLES-Per NOVARA. Registration 9.18 m. Letters 10.00am.
he Parcel Mail will be clover on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 5p.
Bangkok, Loglo, Mauricius,
South Africa, India via Dhanash- kodi, Egypt and EUROPE vis MARSEILLES-Par M1AHIMA MARU. Registration 9.45.EZL. Letters 10:30a.m. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow-For HAI-
HONG, Noon Shangbai and North China Per
HELENU 1 p.m. Straits, Bangkok and Calcutta-Par
CHARSANG 2 pm. Philippine Islands-Per YUENSANO,
8 p.. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritics, South Africa, India via Dhanesh- kodi, Bombay and Aden-Per VANOES MÁR", 2 3 Macao-Per CHUEX CH IW, 4.30 p.m. Haiphong-Per TAI SZE MÂ ̈ ̈§ più...-- SATURDAY, December 10. Гараа _via__Nazaski-Par NIEKO Haiphong-Per HANOT, Ipm. MARU, 10 am. Macao-Fer UI TAI, 1.30 p.m.
strikes that have happened. In Great has been hard hit by the number of The world over 'during the past year
Britain, France, America and in most other parts of the world there have been strikes affecting nearly every branch of trade and industry.
day. Nearly eight years have passed Besides this the wages at present since the former strike but it can be paid in the outside ships are smaller. realized by those who have made a than in the case in the big companies" study of the shipping situation in the vessels. The personnel männi Far East that this strike, which has these ships cannot be expected been so long delayed, was sure to continue to work under such unfavour- recently been formed with a view to pro
A "Fellowship of the Medical Body bus
come in the future. The future has able conditions when compared to moting friend relations among the
arrived and the sixty odd ships which their more fortunate brothers in the medical profession of the Allied nations.
come under the head of Outside "profession in the large companies. 4 writer in the Press is orging the end belonging to the different smaller The attitude that has been adopted by Goverment to gable one or two large companies are now the sole ones to the Chinese shipowners and also the ahensive exclusively for post-graduate
General Hospitals in London equip be affected.
Shipowners Protection Society in The events that have happened and Hongkong. towards the representa- word. He points that the post which have finally led up to the de-tions made by the China Coast Offi- the Armistice to meet the wish of a large little elucidation. Since the former the new scale of pay in outside ves- graduate course instituted soon after
termand for better wages require but cers and the Engineers' Guilds for number of medien officers in the Domin ion forces was so successful that it is
strike the personnel manning the out- sels, although not surprising is never still-maintained.
The proposal now is side ships have had to work under theless to be condemned. The step provide something more permanent. worse conditions and fer less money that has been taken by the respective than has been the case with the mas-Guilds in the matter of member's THE ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL
ters. officers and engineers manning interests in the outside ships has long COMPANY.
the ships belonging to the three big been considered, and it is to be hoped removed from the scene of strikes The China Coast has been well companies operating from Shanghai that a peaceful solution of the problem and the present shipping crisis, al- this line as Mystic ar Symbolic, is a The House of Commons has passed the
and two of the coust companies operat- will be effected without the necessity though it has been foreshadowed for marter of indifference to me. It is second reading of the Anglo-Persian Ouing from Hongkong--the Douglas of officers and engineers striking, and quite a number of years, has more or sufficina to shew that it is practically Company Acquisition Capital Bill, by Steamabip Company and Messrs. thus causing the trade of Hongkong less resulted through the natural trend impossible to express all the meaning consolidated fund is sanctioned, for the
which the issue of £2,050,000 from the emazee & Company. In the big to become demoralized for of the line without the metaphors and acquisition of the shara or loan capital of
coast companies a pension scheme has time. construction used, except by a simple the Company. recital in a paragraph of prose of the
Replying to a debate in which the Com- mental pictures thus called up. Grant pany's acquisition of Scottish shale com- hat the words above represent the ancial Secretary to the Treasury, said that panies was criticised, Mr. Baldwin, Fin- puer's thought then pur them into the new money would be devoted prin the form of pure narrative prese cipally to additional pipe-lines in Persia "When the night seems to be so the completion of the reinery at Swansea, omnipresent that in excludes con- additional fuel oil, bunkering accommoda
and tank stemmers.
"When the world is full of night.
and the moon reigns alone."
Wisther it atther would regard
Losnox, December 13th
sciousness of aught else when the sialo industry in Scotland was in moon is felt to be unique-solitary, a parlous condition, and it was very un- and calls up the idea of complete and likely that private companies could carry lonely supremacy "how fatal an in- on the industry.
sufficiency is seen! Not only is the The Anglo Persian Company was anxi- Frase several times longer than the hoped to carry on the industry in Boot- uus secure the unused stale refineries and fine but every word in the former is land essential in order to express even that They did not anticipate treable with porties of the line which It does ren- their labour as the Company were pre- der, more or less. in its own way, pared to pay the Sankey wages.
Even then metaphor is not completely absent, and there is something logi cal in the idea of a lonely monarch hich reproduces to some extent the same illogicality in the original line.
I were an Editor, I should insist Con each sentence or phrase in the paper conveying at least two distinct
TRINIDAD.
Lordon, December 13th The Daily Express states that serious outbreaks occurred in Trinidad, promoted by American negro labour agitators. The blacks of Port of Spain stormed the three days. The cruiser Calcutta was Government buildings which held on for ideas depending on the mental twist then summoned. A landing party restor of the reader. Then at least would ed order.
it be certain to convey one-an omis sion noticeable in many a moderni article. When Tennyson speaks of Milton as "mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies quote from mem- ory-the reader should consider not only the weight of Milton's utterance, but also the possibility that " mighty- mouthed as an epithet recalls the able that empry pitchers make most noise. For this mystic reason have often been tempted to apply the title of Tennyson himself. To put the matter rather paradoxically, a man only grasps an idea clearly in one way it he has already grasped it in two,
Catholic rintalism has proved a fruitful feld for the mystics. Many
at these, like Charles Williams, a modern English poet, have culled the phraseology and stage property of the religion for their own use, while its Conets leave them cold. Thus in one of Williams' poems the words so hor Frified Theodtre Maynard, another poor, but a Catholic, that a frenzied correspondence was carried on - bê- tween the two in the columns of the New Wliness in which Maynard ac- ased Williams, of blasphemy and diabolism, while Williams retaliated With honi sai qui mal y pense.
HONGKONG DEFENCE
CORPS.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG RIPLE LEAQUE.
A practice shoot for possible mem-. bers of the H.K.D.C. team will take place at King's Park Range on Saturday 20th, instant, commencing. at 2.30.p.m.
Ammunition should be purchased at Headquarters not later than 1 p.m.
on Saturday 20th, instant.
G. E. STEWART, Captain,
Adjutant, H.K, Defence Corps. Hongkong, December 17, 1919."
"WALLA WALLA" MOTOR boats are built for your service.
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which shall direct the reader's mind in the direction of my own and so render the whole more easily to be comprehended,
For myself, I dislike the theft of Feligious atmosphere, but cling whole- Heartedly to that method of expres by nor canly-contrics, a simple ier but also an undercurrent of thoughts, called up by my words," }, "va-EL, C.M]
KEITH WEST.
This ww to amusingly and very cleverly dissected in "Adversaria,
• short of events.
HONGKONG FUND
FOR
DEVASTATED FRANCE.
TO-MORROW
(Friday), 19th December,
PANSY DAY
Street Sale of Pansies in the Morning.
GRAND MASKED
BALL
at Volunteer Headquarters, Garden Road,
at 9.30 p.m.
Admission $5.00 including
-
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS.
Prizes will be given for the most original dominoes.
Tickets btainable at Moutrie's & Hongkong Hotel
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919,
ENTERTAINMENTS.
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"THE TIGER'S TRAIL"
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(THE FALSE IDOL"
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ARRIVALS.
December 18.
SUWA MARU, Jep, 645 tons, from
Keelung, Capt. Nakamura, Sun Riso & Co; Ca
NILE Brit, 3,136 tons, from San Francisco, Honolula, Japan and Shang hal, Capt. E. Eigley, O.M. S.N. Co., 426.
NOVARA, Bris 4,250 tons, from Japin, Capt. W. F. Comey, M. M. & Co.,
13.
ULEARANCES.
December 18. YATEHING, Brit, 7am, for Bobe, J.M. & Co.
KAEO SAMUD, Bismes, 8 m. for Baugkok ria Haiphong, Fak Tai Cheng. SOSHU MARU, Jup 9 m., for Takso vis Swatow and Amoy, 0.8.5
TENYO MARU, Jap, zoon, for Bam Francisco via Shanghai, T.KK.
TUNG LEE, Chi, 6.30 am, for Dairen, Yee Tal Hong
SUNRING, Brit, noon, for Shanghai, B. &
LAERTES, Brit, noon, for London via Manila, B. & 3.
CHILDAR, Norw. 4 p.m., for Bang- kok in Swatow, Ching-Sim 3.1. Co.
DILWARA Brit., 3 p.r, for Bombay via Singapore and Colombo, E. & 0.
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