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remsing in Hongkong office the So -ciety's - standing and reputation will be, greatly affected. Mr. Edo had ever since he was general manager hell in high appreciation the valuable services
Mr. W. J. Stokes, secretary of [To the Editor of the "* China Mall,”] of his Portuguese defk were he in the Marine Engineers Guild is in the Government Civil Hospitst.
The Canterbury Corporation has decided to start its housing scheme with the erection of 23 parlour type and 40 cottage type houses, at an estimated cost of £77,000.
office at the time Mr. Lauder would Sir, have been so much enter-not have committed such a blunder, HE the Governor will lay the tained ro-night by your leading article This is nothing but due to certain foundation stone of the new Hall in in to-day's paper, that 1 cannot for animosity still prevailing among many the Cathedral compound on Sunday bear to write and, thank you for it. Europeans with regard to distinction But while I agree that it must have of race. We understand Mr. Lauder morning after. Matins.
been even better fun, writing it than was the supervisor of the Bengali it was reading it. I most say that Clerks in Calcutta, previous to bis think you are rathër profane and con-transfer to the Head Office; the Direc
And though Itors will act very wisely if they would siderably crzel. imagine that both the subject. of your send him back to his post in India profanity and the object of your finstead of keeping him here.-Yours, crucity are capable of looking after etc. themselves, you will perhaps forgive EURASIANS & PORTUGUESE, me il 1 pocupy a few minutes of my
(Three Signatures.] time while waiting for the "Profes- sor in telling you why I think so. Hongkong, May 29, 1920.
(1) Like the sportsman who sees a Trabbit and reaches for his gun, you see a Bishop and reach for your foun-
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monent when, the parrots having Catholic Church. There have al- censed chattering, the guns ceased ways been more tilkara than think- booring, men and women will stirers It is a Regney.of jungle chat- in their long sleep, open their eyester. Almost any man who has upon one another, and are the light, never really thought about it, lack- They will see that the hopelessing the apparatus, who has new bills have form, that life has colour, read a line of comparative religier and be glud.
is ready to define God and the grust In that day they will mysteries. It is all so simple to IN THAT know that someone. him, by intuition. He tells you something has played that there must be this, and it fol- a practical joke upon lows that that, and therefore there them, that all the chatter about can be no possible doubt that some- Is pains money, and property and duty, thing else, ergo, ergo. and law, and the State, all the bim that you, better instructed, alarumas and anxieties that have better equipped, cannot follow his filled their days with trouble, and reasoning. He renses you of per implanted in then the impious versity. It would never have done doubt whether life in worth living in the Church to have all these
Because the police raided bis was part of silly nightmare, due ignorami chattering their callow to imperfect digestive functioning conclusions, so the Church selected house for alleged illegal drinking They will laugh with the dawn, and men to study and to think, and Harry Olsen, a boarding house keeper their mental shadows will flee away, appointed them the only spokes- at Barry, set up a scaffold and with They will consider the lilies, and men. In this we recognize con- great solemnity hanged himself.
justification for the know that all their worrying and siderable
Mr. Edward Hughes, who serve fussing was hypochondric, that Church, and rather long for some- their quartels were baseles. thair thing like it in politics. There is, in the Buffs in the Crimean mata tain pen. By great good luck it was (To the Editor of The Chẳng Nail" strivings like 'the convulsive move-of course, another consequence of Indian Mutiny, and the China Tar
Sir.I read with great interest ments of an unhappy dreamer.organization: that is less desirable, of 1880, has died, at an advanced only yesterday that you shot a Roman Let there k light? There is light.but which we need not here disage, at Moy, County Tyrone. Ha Bishop, so if you hit an English one
your short article on the University of that great hearted fair mindedness in last night's issue." coming, coming, as eurely as the cuss. It appears that in reaching was totally blind for the last 10 years today it will only be another proof
Fat his lifa.
which has always distinguished the dawn. Our present political. fuss-for his rosea, man must for ever be
Kindly note that in trying to prove, ing after all is the shadow cast by scratched by thorne. But we may & Chinese woman aged 37, living British Press. This unfortunate in that you are right you are damaging the coming light. We all recog safely (especially as they will take nize that happiness is the colour we no notice) advise men that it is on the second floor of No. 18 Arbuth-dividual is put up in a place where he the reputation of Professors Wright not Road has died at the Government cannot talk controversial politics on and Brayshay. Those who know desire, and the political fassers
Civil Hospital as the result of injuries a day when he is bound to say every them intimately. I am sure, will tell among us are trying so hasten the
received by falling into the road from thing good that he can think of about you that they are not men who make coming of the light that makes. it.
the verandah, a distance of some the British Empire; for a period of use of the fire-escape without at least-
about 20 minutes in which he cannot trying to help in putting out the fire The proper thing to do, should you
twenty feet.
go into any detailed argument: beforeYours faithfully, Jask our political,advice, is to loiter at the seaward end of our meta- Ltd phoric Happy Valley, watching the shaping of the pearl fan between the meeting mountains, and mus- ing, musing.
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QULETISY.
not really necessary to talk before, they have something to say It is safe to preach Quietism of the modern sors, so rare, sa choice, so much more contributory to light than the chatter of the troop.
What do we pro- CONSTRUČTIVE pose? Tically
CRITICISM. nothing that we have not herein plainly proposed. Only that the
roost
At the village of Cliffe Pypard, an audience of children who cannot near Swindon, a Union Jack used by appreciate subtle and philosophical Admiral Baynton, one of Lord Nel-abstractions. Accordingly he, utters! son's effcers, at the battle of Tra- certain remarks which in their crude falgar, was used at the official cert concretenes seem to make God, re- mony of the unveiling of a memorial sponsible br every whim and quarrel, every spirit. of adventure or acquisi- tiveness that made the Empire. O
The Admiralty have written to
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Hongkong, May 28, -1920.
IRELAND, ARMENIA, AND U.S.A.
to chatter. So shall we be one rabble should cease proposing untii ( tablet to those who fell in the war. move nearer the bewitching silence it really has a piorosal to make. that precedes the first faint murmur We are-if we could but get you Yarmouth, lale of Wright, Town course it is crude, and of course if [To the Editor of the " Chisa Mall,”], "
to see this no doctrinaires. Even Trust ofering to pay compensation In the old daysbe-in morality on interest is scade for damage done foreshore pro-
Sir,--Many sons of Erin's Islöhave fore the war that. We should consider it im-perty and boats by huge waves sent kong or India or Malta, you can easily found a home in the United States. But if you Home Rule and Amerits seem seem so far removed, pudence to tell other men to do by the destroyer Tourmaline." when prove that it is not true.
ever had had to teach simple folk to have an Affinity. There as it were to a previous life in right. We believe that no man passing down the Solent at an exceS-
instead of the enlightened minds off
W29 the great campaign metempsychotic existence, there can do wrong without paying for sive speed last November.
the readers of the China Mail, you conducted by the Nationalist was a school of Quierists Not the it, and that is his own affair. Yo. religious Quietism that made the We do not insist that other men At Middlesex Sessions, Wiliam would know that big things can only party a few years ago, under the Larin countries s quiet in the shall live rightly, but only that they Jesse Falk, 22, clerk, was sentenced be taught by splashing big blobs of great John Redmond, with great XVI century, bu a derivative, shall argue rightly.
A bad argn- to 12 months imprisonment with paint on to the picture, and ignoring vigour and American dollars. The semi-ifterary cult among people ment for a good deed looks like a hard labour on a charge of stealing details. That is why the writer of Unionist party of that time were aware of the futility of such clamour crime, a gratuitous and superfluous a motor car. He was stated to be the first chapter of Genesis is so often sarcastic with regard to the work. and foes as Victorian and Edward-and wanton in Do what you one of a gang of young Colonial and in trouble with people who cannot see and rather annoyed that America CONCETA. herself in "arı ian materialism was making. The deem right, but for God's sake talk American soldiers who, after being the wood for the trees, and that is should
demobilized in England, entered on a why I am rade enough to think that affaff which was, they considered. religious Quietists did not want to less.
life of crime.
your article. is entertaining.
their "bird." The result was that the abolish the church. but they recom.
Many of you must
If I think you are proline, it is no country was plastered with posters: mended the really pious aspirant to!
SCREET AND have heard the Two boys at Haddington lifted because you talk about God in a illustrating the dollar and is effect cultivate imatediate personal rela-
SUNRISE. mynahs going to from a scrap heap an Army gas shell secular newspaper. We want more should the campaign prove success. tions with God, fy depend less on
at sunset, which had been bought by a hawker. of that rather than less. It is just fal While this was but an election. vicarions communications, on, to put it bluntly, the superfluous That is just where we are now, They knocked off the head of the that English habis of reserving God feature and provided party capital- Middle-men. To be passive and politically. It may be regarded as shell, and the escaping fumes killed for a Sunday topic for plous people, practical in one case and moral in the otheit should not be forgotten. receptive, that was the ideal con- the preliminary to the silence that a horse and overpowered both the boys things that sound seditiqus and product, and it is, goed politically. It precedes the dawn. Darkness and the hawked. The hawker and one that makes nine-tenths of the irrever has a bearing on present day · profane for this reason. When you of Great Britain have always resented. The China Mail. Let
A message in a sealed bottle say that God told you to write that interference on this matter, which believe that none but themselves world noisy and futile, what of the mental darkness cultivate silence. can possibly be sincere or right. world in wartime 2 Every parrot Loiter. be quiet, and watch. At
I should call profanity, or you mean mestic. There are now indica We will not abate or withdraw one on his safe. Derende perch bad the other end of our valley that cast overboard by Mr. E T. Chap article, either you are joking, which they rightly regard as mely do
man, of Braintree, Essex, off the phrase of the carefully worded his own formula for getting on should be happier is coming the coast of Scotland, on November 27, that you wrote it with full sense tions that an endeavour will be of responsibility for making it as fair made to induce the United States to washed Every pot-bellied dawn, the light, the colour. Per 1919, was leader criticized by Acting Ser- with the war. geant, though to reassure good patriot prer age bad his mural haps you may ask, like the Irish- Stavanger, Norway, and has just and just and true as you could, which embark on a campaigns of interference with regard to the Irish question. men like him we would gladly megaphone, blaring continuously. man summoned to marvel at the been safely delivered to the ad-11 venture to think is absurd.
Possibly, in days to come, when The "New York Times" forsees an There was sound and fury and con- st volume "of water falling at dressee, Captain Verdon, of St.
Phwat's to Alban
the children have learnt, and forgot ignoble compétition to see who can fusion, now still reverberating. Niagara, Sore.
ten again, all the sordid details about go furthest in affronting England and The phenomenon is a jungle pher-hinder at?" Although in a way it
The Mayor and Corporation of the opium wars that gave Hongkong trampling on the good understanding omenon, and explains why mon- will shatter the metapher with keys have not yet acquired speech. which we have been toying, we Aylesbury are being petitioned by to the Empire, the Bishop's words will which was one of the most hopeful Those who know the simian in his must answer quite seriously that some of the townspeople to remove be remembered, and the great truth results of the war." This is being The other morning we Habitat know how one of a troop, empty noise will hinder it, thought from the town the newly-presented will stand our that this, and the other carried out by politicians who are The tank on the grounds that "It is a red splashes on the sap. are God angling for the Irish. vote. Should CREDO. kitered at the seaward after a long silence, will begin to less chatter will hinder, it.
end of Happy Valley, make sounds almost articulate slate to be written upon must be constant reminder of bloodshed and given trusts, which demand godly and these politicians be successful in waiting to superintend the miracle Instead of listening, giving the cleaned. It is impossible, though death, the thoughts of which are trustworthy chizens-1 am,
sur-loathsome and degrading, that it is a yours, etc, of dawn. An hour or so before the pioneer a chance, the troop at once prised to hear this, to listen and source of danger to the scores of
Hongkong sciety may be
ACTING SERGEANT. ing inasmuch as the writer scores
first pony arrived for exercise, the and unanimously break out into al
May 28, 1920. a shrewd point that should have beautiful valley was practically clatter of chatter, that dies down to talk at the same time. Stop children who climb upon it, that the
He alludes to the shapeless, for it was dark.
Listen Let the dawn square is completely spoilt by this prevented it.
A thin of weariness, and again the jungle
hideous relic of war, and that its dangers of condensation in dealingframework of stars indicated where is silent save for coughs and grunts. come.
presence causes-anguish and sorrow with big things before little audi- the skylines might be, but that was It reminds us very much of our
to war widows and orphans." encen, a refection which, with some all. Darkness and silence. With own people and their ways, and strong personal emotion we are able to assure him, has more than sel-out formu, and void.". We thought explains why they never learn to of Genesis. that great and yet think. If every man who has
TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC
SERVICE"
HONGTONG, FAJDAY, MAY 28, 1920.
THE ACTING SERGEANT'S LETTER.
It is not often that we get such - well written and well reasoned Metter as that published to-day, and
signed Acting Sergeant." therefore with considerable reluct-
It is
unce that we find fault in part of
it. The fault is the more surpris
sionistic painting method which be
extend it
ADVERSARIA.
Look.
SMUGGLING RAMPANT.
ashore at
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of so-day, No,
OBJECTIONABLE ORDER.-
[To the Editor of the "China Mall"
to.
Sir, passing a resolution recognising the Irish Republic they will place America in a delicate position. The objections raised to the Treaty of Versailles were mainly based on the obliga tion it carried for America' take an active part in the politics of Europe and the same applies. to the League of Nations. The party standing for in isolated The musicale at the Helena May Sir,-The Adversaria" published America, free from the squabbles Institute yesterday afternoon, was in your valuable columns is so very tinent is the one that has carried the and striles of the European con-
zramme, arranged by Mrs. George public in general that many concealed example, there is Armenia. Pre Grimble, was given. The function truths are therein revealed on no sident Wilson's proposal that the was also in the nature of a formal welcome to Lady Stubbs, who has ceremony and without expectation of United States should take the mandate accepted the presidency of the rewards of those who ignored facts for that country was received in silence by the legislators" some of Mrs. Parr, in a brief occasioned eventually in the Colony.
We much appreciate your straight-whom described it as a "colossal
dom occurred to us. The impres childish story of creation, of how nothing to contribute could be per rod said, Let there be light, and suaded to Quietism, what a differ ofers as an excuse for the Bishop there was light. Yea; there was ent society ours would be, how/BOTH COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE. / well attended and an enjoyable pro interesting and appreciated by the day so far. To take a concrete
is an excuse for that which he
found wrong in car leader, but not
for the Bishop. It is allowable to
lay on the paint in big splashes
but the splashes must be the right
colour. We do seriously believe
light all the time, even as now for tremendously forrader we should
on the other side of the world the get. But it is a convention to talk,
"THE DAWN.
queries.Yours,
PORTUGUESE & EURASIANS. May 27, 1920.-
OBJECTIONABLE ORDER.
da
of ridiculous inconsistency." The Home Rule is the unquestionable-and- cherished privilege of the British, and for America to pass resolution of recognition of a Republic that doesn't exist would
interference. The matter must be fought out between the countries.
sun is hurrying to greet us. The to chatter, to repeat the parrot From an official source I learn, human author of Genesis somehow sentences of journalese read at says the London correspondent of a conceived of darkness as the norm, breakfast. In the midst of such Ceylon contemporary, that the amount Institute. and of light as an innovation. We clamour, the thinkers who could of smuggling now going on suggests speech, welcomed Lady Stubbe, and that the Bishop's address was think of light as eternal, and re- contribute are discouraged, cannot, return to the bad old days of which expressed the hope that her term of forward views which every Editor of undertaking." It would be expecting wrong and mischievous; if we had
be should be consistent. That with dealt with it elaborately and at Sard darkness as the shadow that as the saying is, get a word in edge. Scott wrote so picturesquely, Noe office would see the further advance a newspaper ought to possess, firm too much of a politician to ask that
It costs. Without light it seems ways. What a pity.
only is there a serious amount of what ment of the Institute as a place and impartial in your opinions.
Many people ignored the alleged him would beja"align of re greater length, explaining side
All the sentimental I may describe as commercial smug where the women of Hongkong could
Lady malicious order, given by one Mr.trogression and the public genera issues as we went along, we think possible to conceive of darkness,
gling going all the time across meet in social fellowship. the Acting Sergeant would have just as without God men cannot
BEADING. - essays about the joys the Channel, but private smuggling is Stubbs in reply thanked the members Lauder of the Union Insurance Com-lly is prepared to overlookc recognize evil.
of reading, about the seen that we were quite fair and
well, glossed over. An America just. We did use the right calours.
Time passed, and silent company of the library, em-simply rampant. Among other snug for having asked her to be President Fany to his Europesa staff, if true, he Luconsistency which has been fairly however, which would refuse the The trouble with our present critic
the silence co-phasise the theory that reading Bler suspects, not to be too precise, and aid she relied on the co-operation will have to explain, otherwise.
We await his reply to your Irish Republic would be an example Armenian mandate, but acclaim the ia that he has been reading between
tinued. Then, sad should be productive of quiet think are some of the cross-Channel barges of members in all future activities. Who is this Lauder?
But the amount of commercial smug. The programme was contributed to the lines, and reading into them dezly, there was not so much aing. In practice, we sea that it gling, though quite considerable, is in by Mrs. F. C. Hall, Mrs. Coruable, Miss Vivienne Bowen, Messti. G. what was not there, or (judging by Boise as a sense of aleeping things not. By chance, by bias, some the rest of his letter) he could never string. In the east a pearl fan how, anyhow, men choose their the aggregate probably less than the H. Piercy, H. Freeborn, R. A. Green
private Frands that are going on.
and A. Hyde Lay. ten to stupid, so unjust, as Ppeared, representing the first reading. The Tory bays the Tory A friend who had been across to suggest that it is absurd to faint illumination of the triangle of paper, the Radical the Radical, to France lar a sporting fixture.
Mr. Teo To Iu compradore of -suppose that a newspaper writer sky between the meeting moun- instead of, as would seem more
tains. The mountains were made natural, vice versa. They read told me at his party's experi- the Asia Banking Corporation, was
ence. Coming off the bost on the believe himself to be writing in
L. Smith, at the Magistracy, with accordance with the divine will. took on colour. Without losing school, they recite what they read
Finan. The lady was palpably suffer unlawfully failing to cancela Sir-Much grievance has been concerted and spectators are not the Acting: Sergeant and their sky-line, sharpness, the hills with similar noisy results. The ing severely as the result of a bad stamp on a receipt Mr. E. J. Grist caused by the alleged order given by expected to interfere with the corn. others to believe that the passages took reflected light, and gained sub is no thinking Why think, when be picka out were not intended to stantiality, changing from sil-your mind is made up? There is crossing. The gentleman was half appeared for the deferce, and be profanely humorous, but devout houettes to stereoscopic figures. no quiet. How can there be, when supporting her limp form as they tot submitted that he had no case Mr. Lauder of Messrs. the Union in batants at least not for their own
The big thing is Vegetation appeared. Birds were there will be another edition to tered down the gangway. They occu- to answer, as the Ordinance under Surance Society of Canton, Ltd, to benefit. that divine love in this world is now singing, and the tints of day morrow, and you hays only to-day pied the same Paris saloon as my which his client was charged, made the European staff prohibiting or friend and fus party. No sooner hedno mention that stamps on receipts rather admonishing them not to assó- being thwarted by potty chauvin- took their places. The night was in which to reoite all the parrot am based on bate, on xenophobia gone elsewhere, the imaginary void phrases you read this morning? the train got fairly under way, than had to be cancelled. It was painted ciate with the Portuguese and Eure- We have sometimes the lady made a most miraculous re out that the Ordinance under which sians, even in their Clabe, a grafti (hatred of outsiders), and that we corrected, the light of truth arrived.
NO DUTI made the mistake of covery. And gute nonchalantly, Mr. Grist's client should have been ous insult which demande immediate believed the address criticized had It was day
TO THINK. urging that it is, the hour the smallest pretence or con- charged, was Ordinance 14 of reparation. The Directors of the the Acting Bergeant's wise patriot- BY ANALOGI. we thought of the
duty of all men to do cealment, she stooped, tucked up her 1914, Section 2, which provided Society should call upon M Lauder m we take of our hat. To regard
Political dawn that their own thinking. We recant outer skirt, and From a broad pocket that stamps on receipts must be for an immediate explanation of his The Canadian, Pacific Ocean Ser doubtedly an amendment of the munites not only are great contribu kept busy in the past day or two on every bit of our empire as a respon-is-as surely coming to mankind, the that Thinking is laborious, and running round the under skirt, pro cancelled. This Ordinance was un insolent conduct, for the said com vices office in Hongkong, has been other Ordinance. The Magistrate tors to the Society's Fund (say, about account of the frequency of arrival, sibility before God is excellent, but first faint sense of something astir it is really no sin to wish to avoid duced several packets or tes
reminded Counsel of the power vest half a million dollars per andum) many and departure of a some of its that wasn't what the Bishop said having been already felt. The laboriousness. We amend our pro-
led 's Magistrate to amend a charof them are shareholders too: ton vessels. The sa Empress of Asia In that sense we are intensely night is dark, and we are far from position to this, that it the duty patriotic. We are so anxious that the haven where we would be, but, of all who insist upon talking ]
gae convicted the defendant un sequently sich a man like Mr. Lander is due ia Hongkong today, and the r Puntry and our people should there shines the star of hope. We think fnt. That is fair is it not
der Ordinance 15, Section 2, and should not be in the stall of the 8. Monteagle is due bare Sunday passed sentence of: $10 fines
Society as rumour has it if he will afternoon... be right with God that we say look forward to that ecstatic. Perhaps this is the secret of the
can believe in God, or that be cadarker, given form. The open fan and like the..children in a Chinese French side were a Edy and a Real this morning charged before Mr. N. To the Editor of the:" Chiña Maybe regarded as a plece of unwarranted
ly serious.
plain fandency to foster that. To
Musing, returning,
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