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LOCAL AND GENERIL
Mr. Wolfe is gazetted C.SP. Mr. W. J. Gordon is gazetted 3rd assistant marine surveyor.
"
·Police - Sergt. H. E. Mark's succeeds Inspe.. Davis as sanitary
The Pacific Mail ss. "Colombia" inspector at Aberdeen.“
I am assuming is sailing at 10 am on Wednesday.
decked March 23 instead of at noon. A MOSQUITO that the
dinghy sailing YACHT?
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MARCH 19, 1921.
SPECIAL GABLES.
LADY INSULTED.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
VERDUN HERO'S LAPSE. [Ching Mã SPECIALĮ
fought t
and seriously injuring Monsieur and
et route to Tientsin The defendant
tried to kiss the second complainant in the lift at the Palace Hotel ne
MURDERED GENERAL
AMAZING REVELATION.
AMBITION AND INTRIGUE. [China Mail SPECIALI
SHANGHAL, March 19,
discloses The Chinese press amazing revelations in connection
with the assassination of the com-
press
insinuates that Liu inspired the
The lad who wrote, love, and the selfless devotion ehology, presses philanthropy with-
essay
in which is expected from the Beat at redromics, missions without that Thursday's China and theoretical dog? Atas Ke.anthropology. In fact, Newman Mail, on
Watch Jesharun waxed fat, and kicket was only a little more explicit than ing the Traffic," Esau took all as his right, and be the rest of them when he avowed to hurl back the ag-
Mr. Alabaster was elected to Mr* would probably agree with Andrew came perky. Instead of cringing that the object of himself and his Lang, that this world of ours (which was not nice) he began to friends was
No wander the Church is Hough's place on the licensing board. always was and always will be a bully (which was no nicer). When gressive force of the human intel- borrid scramble, with art as, the his master would setila down to lect."
SHANGHAI, March 19. only consolation of the wise. But read or to write, be would butt his despised. Even cab-driver ex- is it wise to waste such art on local leg with his pose, whine, run to pects yon to decide where you wish
Saldum has there been a more readers? I doubt it. I give 'em the door, look back, bark-aying him to drive you. The man in the
extraordinary case in the British what they want, as they like it. in the plainest of doggish ways street knows quite well in his heart Leader writers somehow seem to Come for a walk." Nor would that the Church ought to have
Police Court than that heard on Friday when Mr. F. B. Chaphan, live like Simeon Stylites, on a ter- he be suppressed with a reprimand.clearer vision than he," ribly high pedestal. Yet I bet their He would insist, until the wester
Lt. Commr. Hake, the acting formerly a major in the Canadian
Artillery Corps, who demeanour toward a plate of Mc will gave way, murmuring excuseS Kirdy ham and eggs is very much to itself, such as a too indulgent husband makes who spoils his wife. like mine.
I hear talks of a new After all, it cost be slow for the in a contemporary is one of the barbour master, is garetted assistant Verdum and was wounded in seven magazine that is pro- little beggar; and I bave a certain mosquito yachts. It answers superintendent of water, police in places, was charged with assaulting "The attention of past pupfis of Madame Pernod Darriere who were MAGAZINE. posed to be publish responsibility for his happiness to the same description, eren to addition. ed here, a purely Very well, old thing. Come on and the date of construction. If I am
latter struck out. The defendant literary quarterly, non-sectarian we'll walk up the new road." Off right, the seller is making a real and non-political. I bet they will they start, Esau expressing is de-sacrifice. He paid $160 or $165 Queen's College is directed to an
striking back, the lady appealed to not ask me to write for it, and light with barks, and his love with high dollars for it. and is asking advertisement appearing elsewhere
The sum of £150, voted by the the assistance of an onlooker who don't suppose I'd want to, anyway, encircling gambols. It is precious 125 low dollars. These boats have in this issue. for the non-sectarian and non-pol to be so loted, and the mere man's been a disappointment, although I can bears glows with gratitude and we had no right to expect much for tical tabus would ik me." enjoy a little of their highfalutin livelier affection. Then Esau sees so little money. They looked like Gymkhana Club to Earl Haig's Fund, declined. He has since disappeared trate, remarking that owing to his fine war record he deserved leniency, stufyou know it? Sweet-sound-a canine friend, and stops to ex-suitable craft for beginners, in was remitted before the accounts and has not been located. Defend change the usual compliments. His which to learn sud practice the art were closed and transferred to the ant pleaded-shell-shock. The Magis ing and meaninglesa,
Scott's Shipbuilding and Eng-ordered defendant to pay the costs master calls him, and he takes no of sailing, but they are far from Jockey Club. notice. In flat defiance of repeated fool-proof. They are tricky, and Charmed magie casements, open- and insistent calls, ke races of in need expert handling. As for call-ineering Company, Greenock, have of the prosecution.
launched the geared turbine steamer ing on the foam,
the opposite direction, on his owning them decked," there isn't Of perilous seas, in faery lands affairs, leaving the man to a lonely enough deck to stand a pot of beer "weiwang of 2,560 tons gross and walk. When they meet again, beton. having due regard to the safety 1,600 hp, which they have built for the China Navigation Company's forlorn.
Victorian school Far Eastern service. That's from a fellow called Keats, expects to resume relations where of the beer. who wrote about a girl called Ruthther left off, and his master, weak-
ROWLERS. children have lately
A,Chinese, residing on the first contributed, per Aus- who "stooped in tears and felt here. suffers a repetition of the pro- alien corn, or something. I don't ramme. But in time this sort of
A dog tralian teachers, to my list of happy floor of No. 69, Jervois Street, reports It would be difficult the theft from his safe of a cash box Ltd. profs to remember such stuff with thing must destroy love.
meticulous accuracy. De Quinces which will follow only when it suits howlers."
was the Great The burglars entered his room divided literature into only, two it to do so, and a wife entirely self- to amend, this one, that the containing jewellery valued at $5,900. classes, the literature of Knowledge engrossed, eventually forfeit, the Habeas corpus and the literature of Power. He love they could earn and keep. One Plagne. It means Bring out your through the verandah and obtained: evidently made no allowance for must be roaster or servant, man or dead. There is a genuine con- the key from under his bed.
European unemployment has be Adversaria, which overlaps both. dog. Xatheless, the dreams of a fasion about that one that precludes William Watson, has three classes, love-lorn Cophetus have their the chance of a fake. What is to which he calls the Cantative, the pathos. They so seldom come true.be said of this one: The Five come serious in the Straits and the mander-in-chief of the Kweichow Scriptive, and the Loquitive, Some There were no devouter lover than file Act forbade all old ministers Government is trying to find posts Army, indicating that deceased was poetry, he thinks. is so spontaneous Cophetua, were Copherna beloved. and inspired that it is Cantative. it He is in love with love, and would to preach within five miles of a con. for the men. The sum of $10,000 the victim of political ambition. deceased came to Shanghai. He was was the year in which all the people Planters' Unemployment Committee. by Yunnan soldiers. From Szechuan sings itself. Scriptive is what they give full mete of love. in exchange gregation"? Or of this accidental has been voted for assistance, Last winter, he and his following enli fine writing.
The marriage between Lient. J. credited with being the leading pompous. for lave: but he cannot go on lovias / Truth, that " The Annus Mirabilis together with funds collected by the were forced to retreat to Kwei-bow affected stuff. like dignified lead-the unloving. Esau, of course, can became Church of England 2
You could not sing it, and never be got to understand that this
pity I have wasted Croome, RN and Auriol, daughter figure of gatherings of a highly no one dreams of talking like is the nature of a loving man, but
THE PESHER on Sisyphus, roll of the Rev. G. Henniker Gutley, convivial order. He was accused of ing up the infernal rector of West Ashby, originally ar- attempting to oust patron benefactor Loquitive literature is very like the thought may be of service to
The native menntain his big ranged for April, took place on Feb. general Lin Hsian Hsi, tuchun of cheerful talk and that's the kind some wires. Who knows?
One of my local
Store. He has the 16, the bridegroom having been ap. Kweichow. try for. But however you may
contemporaries. this
assassination in order to protect try to classify writing, you've
himself, The case unfolds an always got to come back at last to
AND SPEAK. Week was poking pull on me. Orpheus asked him pointed to his Majesty's ship "Haw
fun at War Office | how he could endure so ceaseles kina" on the China Station.
At 5,45 am yesterday three astonishing tale of political intrigue a recognition of what T. and Milton, and Augustine Birrell have all said, order about officers' swords, and and vain an employment, and Sisv
Chinese politics. A that more depends on the taker condoling with these men on harphus replied that be hoped ulti
One of them frelative of the deceased' is offering As my friending to purchase such cow, and mately to accomplish the task robbers armed with choppers forced and vaulting ambition characterising
useless, equipment. The sustion Even if not, he sud, I am con- an entry into the second floor of No. present-day was made that in these days ademned at worst to everlasting 31, Centre Street.
the house and blew a police whistle. sword has no more excuse than bow hope. In the Plutonian region of attempted to seize the tenant, $40,000 for the apprehension of the and arrows. Quite so; but I gather my job, the stone rebounds, and I man, who ran to the front part of assassin. from references in Truth to the know that it will never stay put. The robbers made off without taking same subject that there are officers There are no votes to influence, Do anything, leaving behind a pair of pbus did during his first visit to
Mr Mowbray Northcote, Secre **It is a safe stana hades, make these ghoste merry to take up, for we with my jokes. People keep ring-tary of the Hongkong Land Invest feel sure the great ing me up to tell me of things to ment Co., and the Land Reclamation majority are with strafe, and others of them keep Co. leaves for Home to-day on six wash. It is not consistert with us." I spotted this sentence in an running to the lawyers, to see if months leave. Mr L. S. Greenhill I acts as Secretary of both companies.
SHANGHAI, March 19. the rest of the lines, and it ignores editorial article in a local contem-they cannot get me shut up.
Saturday was "Tag" day in code Pope's idea of the reader who perary, and it made me weep, to am weary of it, profoundly depress. in the meantime.. Mr John Arnold, should soled, and only waiting to make sure Secretary of the Hongkong, Canton enjoys what oft was thought, but think that a leader ne'er so well expressed," I hope give away the fact that the leader that it isn't partly liver before I and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., ia pection with the famine relief drive, อ revolution among these also going on leave, and Mr G. E. four thousand students scouring the that The Swastika, the new Hong allows himself to be led, and plays start kong quarterly, may have things to for safety. Was it a cynical or was shades, these pallid phantasmagoria Ellams has been appointed to act as whole of Shanghai and environs. express, and express them well, it a naive confession? I think it among whom I find myself. Zeus Secretary during his absecce. and-well, help me to improve and was naive, snd as I ponder the meant me to march with strong-
A serene and complacent ob- "power of the Press "I wipe my gutted men, and-and-here I am. elevate local journalism.
Out of my path, varlets! Saturday server of the general scene of Stories of children eres and murmur Ichabod.
At the foot of alis come, and to-day I go fortbs destruction in Shanghai during the TEACHER need well telling it
A TOTS LES foreign journal, with free man, that can steer a boat, big godown blaze was a Chinese AND they are not to bore.
joss" mán, carved in stout, perched JOURNAUX. this headline. I re-that can devour a dinner without à. TACGHT. Printers' ink cannot
cently noticed the dinner jacket. and take a taste of spon a heap of debris, almost aver hope to give them, the
pathetic prayer,
Aidez-moi à life's wine from the neck o" the the spot where the fire is said to vivacity derived from roice and
trouver la vérité." I repeat, as bottle, without worrying about have originated. It appears that Worlds call "good this mute representative of the smile and personal charm. To read of the Hongkong boy who had been sincerely, but far less hopefully, what ron
to the same benighted "bunch, fawm.*** God's ruth for the carl philosophy of receiving disaster with inattentive during a kindergarten Help me to find the truth.that would impede me now, twist equanimity was found among the it somewhere. I do have the im- lesson about salt. how when asked But, as Kipling might bare asked Saturday and Monday. I wear ruins by a Chinese fireman, and it pression that they enjoy enjoyment, whence we got our, salt, replied in a moment of self revelation, seven-league boots, and could chew was a thoughful act on his part to though they take their pleasures From the salt cellar,' who put "What do they know of truth, who and spit forth mountains. My sire place the old gentleman in a more to-day. HE, the Governor visited. with dignity, and are rarely cons- it there?" The Boy." Where
was king of the Dipsodes, my dignified position, from which to him on board. His Imperial Highness Bertrand Russell
only journalism know?" picuous by cachinnation. In get- did he get it?" From the com.
How pathetically mother Badebec, and the week THE HAPPY sees the Chinese asting and spending they seem as pradore, must be less amusing
the profiteer nu was born had three Thursdays in a happier folk than busy as we, but perhaps they are than to hear it from the gifted
ENFORTUNATE folds his troubles! Give me the road. They seem more philosophic, chase fewer raconteuse, with her pretty face and
He has a wonder- shadows, worry less, have a shrew terry-twinkle. But I will do my
fat system of ac- "rational hedonists, der sense of proportion, and a truer best to pass on to you one that whose bappiness is made exqui-humour. That, at any rate, is bow deserves to be preserved. The counting, and can show you how
who retired from the Royal-Navy in address is given as St. John's Hall, site through intense cultivation of I would regard and adjudge them, chalk-talk was about the sacrifice much he lost on the swings with
1901 He entered the Navy in 1850, the University, is gazetted as a person their artistic sensibilities, and and I am grateful to Bertrand of a sheep in the old testament. The aut mentioning the roundabouts.
and after service in the Burmese War qualified to practise medicine. who differ from us through the fact Russell for the phrase that made teacher had coloured chalks, and He juggles with the ups and downs
and in the Baltic during the Russian that they prefer enjoyment to me aware of my previously unex-first drew an altar of rounded stones, of exchange so as to show that
War, he became a lieutenant in 1858,
A wireless message has been He says they laugh a pressed consciousness. The Chinese by statement and question trying whichever way it went it was
and in the next year served in the received by the local office of the great deal in all classes, even the are not, in my eyes, a laughing to get them to grasp the idea of against him, and be manages to
"Cormorant in the engagement China Mail Steamship Co... stating Towest. I have not noticed that the race like the people of Burmah the altar. Undiscouraged by the give the impression that he is only
between the squadron under' Vice that the "Nanking" will arrive here higher class Chinese are great that nation of Sunny Jims," as opinion of one maite that the altar in the business for the sake of the
On arrival in port yesterday, the Admiral Sir James Hope and the to-morrow (March 20) at 8 a.m. The laughers. The statement surprises an American drummer called them was built up of Macan buns, she good he can do humanity. Some- me, seems to me not in accordance-but they are certainly, now that drew the sheep, and told them it times be stresses his selfsacrificing master of a fishdealer's boat with a Taku forts during the war with vessel will be despatched to Manila with my own observance. The my attention is drawn to it, more was a sheep. She drew lurid flames virtues. I see that a guinea-pig crew of four, reported that he was China. He afterwards commanded on Tuesday, March 22, at noon. smile that is childlike and bland I cheerful and happy as a people about it, and, at that stage in the director at Home referred to his attacked by pirates about 5 pm, on the gunboat "Grasshopper," in 1865-6, several successful operations
In consequence of the Chinese know, and I have occasionally than are most others. Melancholy proceedings she was called away. company's investment in War March 16, while on a voyage from in in the ease of intimacy, has let in passing, the Irish, the Kelticning of class fidgets, came up to War Loan for purely patriotic rea they encountered a couple of two was specially thanked by the red in a boycott of the fish dealers known a Chinese gentleman who, nations have their jokes (remark. Another teacher, noting the begin-Loan, and claimed that they bought Macao to Aberdeen, Near Castle Feak, against pirates. On one occasion he hotels and resturants having mome himself go; but I should never have temperament) but that is quite an carry on. Glancing at the black-sons, well knowing that it would masted cyster boats making towards Admiralty and Foreign Ofice. thought of reporting the race as a other thing than the mood for board, and getting an enquiry- an- mean a loss.. They got only five per them. When about two hundred laughing race, nor laughter as a laughter, the habit of cheerfulness, swered by one of the children, she cent. interest, whereas they could yards away, one of the strangers common expression of its prevail-Long may the Chinese enjoy it. said: Yes, indeed, children, a bave got much more in business, opened fire with rifles and ordered the ing mood. The coolies are brave Such enjoyment is itself power. ship on fire at sea must be a temble And so on. is important in all complainant to stop. Both the stran freight ships is paralysed, there is a customers at Chinese restaurants can laughers, to be sure, a Pantagrue- It means the power to make the sight. Let us hope that none of these cases to look for a large bonus gers then came alongside and seven tendency for passengers on the Euro have no fish.
Information has been received Tian folk, although, as the show. most of life, to savour the breadth us will see it." And so on, and so or dividend. You will always find men came on board, five armed with pean lines to increase. It is even xoan said of the laughing hyena. I and depth of it. to get out of ton, until one child, who had been it lurking somewhere behind auch rifles and the others with revolvers. recorded that berths have been book. cannot see what the devil they've all there is in it. Merrie Eng listening more attentively to her complaints. In the case cited, the The robbers demanded money under on many lines till July. This at the local office of the Pacific got to laugh at. This makes their land is no longer so merry, and predecessor, or perhaps was a company had done very well in threat of death and when no money being so the Nippon Yasen Kaisha is Steamship Company of the forth- Iaughter noble and virtuous, a sub-it is China that wears the mirthful better art critic, held up her hand. deed, increasing its dividend, and could be found carried the com- now inclined to increase the passenger coming arrival here of the first of plainant's three fakis to their boats fares. The first-class rate of the the fleet of United States Shipping Timated Tapleyism, and I admire champion's belt. That line of Yes 7" "Please teacher, it is having a much larger carry-over.
Dr. T. R. Glover, and sailed away. The only property company, which is now Y900, is con- Board liners, allocated to the Com sidered too low against the £166 of pany for operation between-Hong
San the P.&O.S."N. Co., and the condi | kong and
Francisco. The Esan is smitten WE WANT Cambridge Public stolen was 15 pieces of clothing.
LUCIDITY. Orator, in an address
tions are such, the company com Golden State is due to arrive here COPHETEA AND with the modern self-will. He de-
on Jeans in the
plains, that it hardly pays at the on the 21st of April. She is e aires to live his Experience of Men," said: "That
present rates. even if the liners are standard, vessel of 21,167 tons dis own life." Theo-is just what educated people com
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RUTA, JOSTICK, PUBLIO SERVICE."
temerarious generalizations with the necessary caution. Yet there is a something I like behind his phrase about them preferring enjoy ROXGIONG; SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921. went to power. It sounds as if it might have a truth embedded in
ADVERSARIA.
CHINESE.
him
power."
most.
That parenthetic line is a bit of Miltonic bankum, and will not
them all the more for it, because poetry which speaks of them not a ship, it is a sheep."
THE BEGGAR
ESAU,'
PLAYING FOR SAFETY.
THE
PROFITEER..
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LOCAL PIRACY.
FISH BOAT HILD UP.
CASTLE PEAK BAY INCDENT
I love laughter and laughere watching the legions thunder past, always, but particularly them that only to plonge in thought again, laugh at trouble. I am afraid that has been much misunderstood. It the northern mandarins mist have is in essence a seer's recognition of been laughing at, Bertrand Russell, the fact that they decline to foss who is a bit of Bolchevik I and worry over non-essentials as retically, like a fear their apparent happiness was we do. Equability is a mark of the promised to love, honour, and obey, falk, is not sympathetic with pro really rudeness, and their hilarious superior man. That is probably he should be utterly devoted to his gress, mistrusts Art as much as it demonstrations based on something the thing that Bertrand Russell, master, to whom he came cowed, does.intellect, afraid of Science stuff for export have been tied up Tess happy than love. I fear that looking at them with fresh eyes, and starving for affection. It was and Socialism, clings to out-of-date lately by sirike of those who Bertrand Russell has not been long has noticed.
lavished on hirn. Did love, breed scholarship and pre-Christian pay. Prepare the packing materials.
LOCAL STRIKE.
Local firms and factories that pack
www
CHINA FAMINE FUND. SHANGHAIS BIG DRIVE.
STUDENT'S ORGANISE TAG DAY, '
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
This was the greatest student organi- zation ever promoted. Substantial donations are anticipated, -
JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE.
AT SINGAPORE.
GOING ASHORE TO-DAY.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
"SHANGHAI, March 18. The Japanese Crown Prince arrived
survey the scene. A nice piece of probably lands to-morrow. symbolism, remarks the N. G. Laily News
"The death took place on Feb. 13
LOCAL AND GENERAL..
at his home in Redcliffe-square, S.W„,
of Admiral Sir Digby Morant, CB,
Mr. Phoon Seck Weng, whose
guild in order to bring pressure to bear in a dispute over refunds to
Although the movement of hotels at the end of each month,
office.
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