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WATER POLO,
TO-DAY'S MATCHES.
MONDAY AUGUST 29, 1921
WHO IS GEORGE RUSSELL?
THE GREATEST MAN IRELAND HAS
PRODUCED SINDE TARNELL."
[By Prasinus" for the Chino Mail,”
CORRESPONDENCE.
GOLF AT HAPPY VALLEY.
To the Editor of the "China Matt.,
Dear SirAs the result of meeting If you wish to gauge any persons a golfer who appears to be a reason. acquaintance with the inner menningable human being. I ask you for a of recent events in Ireland bring the little space in your correspondence conversation round to AE.You columns in order to take the sting of a paragram, you know A.E., George Russell, I mean? | ost
The following matches are sche duled to be played off in the V.R.C. bath this evening, in connection with the Hongkong Water Polo League:
5.15 p.m.-R.G.A. v. Wills. 5.45 p.m. V.R:C. v. United. The following will represent the United in their match with the Oh let me see. That's the fellow printed for me on Saturday, who wrote, Collections and Recoller had concluded that absolutely no Victorians...
Itions? Heuvena! No! That's notice had been taken of former an Englishman. Oh, I know it's accidents caused by misdirected golf
balls in Happy Valley, or of the pub-"," that temperance M. P. fellow Nic complaints being made. I was He's 'T." W. Russell * I mean A K... thinking of these golfers as thorough the poet. Oh, there are so many callous and sellish devils, who had Russell-I'm afraid I don't know two other places to go to and who-
A. E. Simmons: W. Gerrard and Leonard; D. Leing. J. C. Finch, Rodger and E. W. Railton.
SHANGHAI, August 27, Please," an Xenelophon,
The Kranded iners "Cordillere" when unkindness of tone or atmosp-i here always makes uncomfortable and "Glaucs are still aground. There is no appreciable improvement and the horrors of theology were Averted. The Fact preened itself, in the position though hopes are still and whetted its beak on the bark, entertained that both ships will be
refloated. I wonder if it can talk" said the
LATER NEWS.
The other fixtures in connection Average, who also wonders if telepathy
SHANGHAI, August 29.with the League are as follows→→ is a sort of wireless," and considers
810 still Aug. 30.-Foxglove, v. Tamar.” he is taking an intelligent interest. The atranded liners
aground. The " Glancus " on Satur
Lusitano v. Victorians.
...
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.:
OTHER FIXTURES.
in geology when he says he is keen on day was dragged off the mud bank Sept. "E-United v. Ganners,
strata ami all that." It might be
using to ascertain what the word by four tugs neaiendeep water and is
now-believed to be safe..
·
are cow
strata means to hin, However. The Cordillere." is still fast and Enough has been said to show that a anxiety prevails as to pulling her off Fact is an augury, which always re-in high water due in tour days. quires interpretation. Suetonius Special cables have been obtained (per Buhn) tells how when Caesar from Hongkong for a big t Augustas offered sacrifice."the livers The "Glaucus" and e" Henrik" of all the victims were folded inward are being lightened and both are in the lower part." This may easily expected to be safe in a few days. have been a Fact, but without on Fact is as
DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENTS. accomplished Augur a
As the result of terrible buffetting meningless as a tightly corked bottle without a corkscrew; This Fact by the waves and the rough weather.. Ltd. observed in the chicken livers of which followed in the wake of the Caesar was regarded by those pre- typhoon, two steamers sent who had skill in things of that ground an the Tungsha Spit, the Bature, as an indubitable prognostic treacherous mudbank, and the of great and wonderful fortune." S southern portion of the Tungsha we see that skill in things of that Banks which block the entrance to the Yangtze liver, says the Shanghai nature" is required along with the Tintes of August 23. Fact. This Fact in our tree. preening itself, was both skilfully and unskil fully observed, but not one of the obsteamers of the Messageries Mari- servers regarded it as the Indubitable times, the French Line which operates between Marseilles and Shanghai, Prognostic it may well have heen.
and the s.s. "Glaucus," a Blue Funnel boat, and a peculiar feature is that they toth ran aground within a few hours of each other after having followed each cther from Hongkong a short distance apart.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One case of paratyphoid fever, Chinese, was reported on Friday.
To-morrow morning Messrs. Lammert Bros. will auction 67 cases
of matches.
Messrs Moutrie advertise that they have received large stocks of new Victrola records.
A Chinese died from enteric fever on Saturday, the only case of notifiable disease reported.
A Hanko compradore has absconded. It is reported that the losses involved amount to Tis.
50,000
The merits of the single or double téral hat are enumerated in Messrs Lane, Crawford, and Co.'s new advertisement.
Nanking is said to have suffered greatly from the recent storm. In several streets the water rose to height of over a foot.
a
Messrs. Hughes and Hough's auctions to-morrow afternoon include the sale of a quantity of household furniture and a consignment of white goods..
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The two steamers are the 's.s. "Cordillere," one of the fast mail
SISTERS IN DISTRESS.
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10
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Wilts v. "Tamar." 2.-Foxglove" v Victorians.
Lusitano v. United. 5.-Gunners v. "Tamar."
Wilis v. "Foxglove." 6-Victorians v. Gunners.
Lusitano v. "Tamar." 8.--United Wilts...
Gunners. Foxglove." 9-Wilts v; Lusitano.
Tamar v. Victorians. 12.-Foxglove" v. United.
Lusitano. v. Gunners. 13.-Victorians v. Wilts.
United v. Tamar." 15.-Lusitano v. "Foxglove."
Wilts v. Gunners. 16-United v. Victorians.
Tamar" v. Foxglove." 19-Victorians v. Lusitano.
Gunners v. United.
20. "Tamar" v. Wilts.
"
the
| him If you have a conversation of this yet perversely persisted in spoiling type you may be sure that any the one big recreation park we have serious consideration of the Irish for our less well to do masses, and for Question of the last twenty years is our soldiers and sailors. Consequent not one of your friend's weaknesses.ly I said that no man who persisted
} in: playing golfin No account of A.E.. Mr. George Happy Valley after all these. Russell, will be found in who's who.
warning) and accidents could be a The present writer is not prepared to gentleman. Now I learn that some apportion the blame for this-it may golfers have ceased to play there. fall on Messrs. A. and C. Black, it in consequence, so that even by my ay be due to that eccentrie figure own severe standards it is proved that A.E. himself.
golfers, may be gentlemen. I have since been convinced that the position was not quite so bad as I thought it. Not as regards the danger-there must. driven hard but as regards, the always be danger where hard balls are "
I am: selfishness and callousness. A.E. is known, or known of, by every seriously assured that with Happy Irishman for a generation at least Valley closed to them there would many golfers who Thereis no more complex personality, are nor one whose influence on Irish be deprived of their game, as Fan- thought and politics is more inexplicing and Repulse Bay are beyond
Mr. Robert Lynd describes him in the words of tlie title of this article. Sir Hamar Greenwood recently. des eribed him as a dangerous partisan, or words to that effect...
Victorians v. "Foxgloveable than that of this mystic.
Picture to yourself a lank awkward Looking figure well above medium
22.-United v. Lusitano.
their means. That would be hard on them. I also now learn, for the first time, what I should have been told.
***.***Foxglove" v. Gunners height, with unkempt beard and long before, that the golfers. did take.
23.-"Foxglove" v. Wilts.
Gunners v. Victorians...
26.- Tamar" v. Lusitano. Wilts v. United.
The times fixed for the matches each day are 5.35 and 5.45 respective ly, unless otherwise mutually arrang.
ed.
The official referees of the Labgue are Master Gunner May, Mr. A. H. Carroll and Mr. R. C. Witchell,
FUNERAL.
Hanford
hair of reddish brown, who looks as notice of former protests, and made if he had kept the Nazinite's vow from several alterations, to the links with a view to minimising the danger. childhood; his dreamy eyes heavily so I feel it wouldn't be fair to let bespectacled. An awkwardness in his them rest for another week under manner and a curious stoop give the stigma Imposed on Saturday, somewhat the effect of recent carica- and I ask you to permit this modifica tures of, Mr. Balfour. Such is the tion of my views now. epitome of Ireland's greatness, the magic figure of AE.. puet, painter, mystic, politician.
Yours sincerely,
ADVERSARIUS."
Next Saturday I propose to deal with the work of the Recreation Committee generally, and will then The "Cordillere" is a boat of 10,000
The following compose the mana- The present writer was first intro-suggest that as these Service tennis tons, which lett Marseilles on July 12 and arrived at Hongkong on gement committee of the League-duced to him about thirty years ago courts have been proved unsafe Messrs. A. H. Carroll, E. Bus in the rooins of the Theosophical where they are, they be moved to the August 17. She was delayed by the storm, and when she arrived about chaert, and R. C. Witchell (VRC.) Society, if memory fails not, then Polo Ground, and that the four or on Sunday, she ran aground on Master Gunner May (R.G.A.), Q.M.S. situated in Ely Place, Dublin raw five Polo players who monopolize that the Tungsha Spiri
Alderton (Wills), Lieut. C. D. Mil- The "Glaucus," a freighter of 7,600 bourne ("Foxglove"), Messrs. A. E. young atripling in his 'tecus, supposed fine piece of land be asked to find to be steeped in Herbert Spencer, accommodation elsewhere. It is too tons, from England, closely followed Simmons (United), S
anyway, they don't play Polo well the "Cordillere" from Hongkong and ("Tamar") and I. R. Soares (Lust was presented to Mr. George Russell: much land for so few players, and,
His look of pity when he heard that enough to deserve it also got caught in the mud-bank, and tano.)
I had read the Synthetic Philosophy lay side by side with the immobile
remains vividly with me to this day. "Cordillere," her sister in distress.
A.E. was deeply interested in Eastern Mysticism at that time, often attended the meetings of the Theosophical Society and, according Mr. Russell is also a great painter. to report, had painted some of the But this facet of his manysidedness Mahatmas which covered the surface is also subordinated, like his poetry, The funeral of the late Mr. of the walls of the room. For the to his mystic creed. For three decades Another steamer has gone aground Archibald Bain Edwards, installation truth of the latter rumour I cannot he has given exhibitions of his paint- on the Tongsha mud-banks at the manager of the Asiatic Petroleum vouch. But he was prepared to de-ings, in Dublin, In a manner which entrance to the Yangtze River, and Company at Amoy, whose death in fend, in argument at all events, the no other Irish painter can equal he has joined the stranded "Cordillere" that city after a short illness was reruth of the Seven Principles of man appeals to that unplumbed mystery and the Glaucus," which ran aground ported on Saturday, took place at Atma, Buddhi, Manas, etc., and was of symbolism and the eeriness of the within an hour or so of each other the Protestant Cemetery, Happy imbued with curious forms of Hindoo gleaming which form such fundament on Sunday, says the Shanghai Times Valley. The deceased, who was with thought. He had, ulready, I believe, the Company's local office, prior to proceeding to Amoy recently was very popular here, and a large gather ing was present at the graveside to pay the last tribute...
A whole, fleet of tugs were com- missioned to haul the ships off the mud-bank, but to no avail. The Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company took the matter, in hand, but alter many attempts, the ships could not be moved from the mud-bank
THIRD STEAMER AGROUND.
MR. A, B. EDWARDS.
The Rev. J. Kirk Macoriacbie con ducted the burial service at the graveside.
written the well-known poem-
Shadowy petalled, like the lotus, loon the mountains with their
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Through the sapphire Soma rising
such a flood of glory throws As when first in yellow splendour Brahma from the Lotus rose."
High above the darkening mounds where fade the fairy lights of day, All the tiny planet folk are waving
us from far away p
al elements in the Irish charmeter.
AE is not really a politician. He only got drugged into the, vortex of politics when he took over the manage-- ment of the co-operative crenneries for Sir Horace Plunkett. In those days nobody could think of him as s practical man, but with his lenchman, Mr. Norman, a colleague in spirit and mystic lore, he has made the co-opera- tive movement the greatest force in Irish unity and national politics. Ir the Irish Homestead the organ of the movement, Ireland has the only
Tariled by Brahma's breath they agricultural journal in the world
sparkle with the magic of the gay.
which non-agricultum citizens can Brahma, all alone in gladness, dreamgrend not merely without boredom
the joys that throng in space, but with delight." Shepherds all the whirling splen
dours onward to their resting place,
of August 24.
The third steamer is the s.s. "Heinrich" belenging to the Kailan Mining Administration loaded with a cargo of coal, and she got sefined necessary. that "someone
stuck in a bank in the north chat Much sympathy has been extended nel, to the south of Tsungming Island, to the deceased's parents who reside must have lost it." and wondered
She is a boat of 3,000 tons and was in the Colony. Here, you what they paid for it." .COCKIN.-On August 21, 1921, at
As a result of a meeting in the only launched last Sept, to operate Finchley, North London, Mrs. nay note, was the Sense of Property Joseph Cockin of a son.. well developed. The Fact was a Canton police headquarters on Fri on the Kailan Mining Adminsitration's LANE-On August 13, 1921, at, piece of capital out of control. It day between members of the carrer line with the north, and with a full
latives, the large gathering included Tientsin, to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. will probably not find food enough," ters and masons' guild and their Sarge of coal she has run aground In addition to the deceased's re The whole feet of the Shanghai his old colleagues, of the A.P.C., Lane, a daughter.
said another. Or if it does, the employers, the strike was finally firm and deep,
Tug and Lighter Company, besides members of the District Grand Lodge change of dier will sieken it and it will called eff. die." There: ss is surely evident, spoke.
Thought to be a dangerous auxiliary aid from the Blue Funnel of Scottish Freemasonry. the St. Science, betraying its bent, toward character, a Chinese was arrested Line's own lighters struggled and John's Lodge 618 E.C., and the Naval JENNER-0 August 22. 1921. at Pessimism. But Xenelophon is yesterday on the second floor of No tugged at the stranded ships and Military Lodge 848 S.C. Mady Shanghai, Ell William Jenner of | right. Freedom means much," 211, Des Voeux Road. West. In the but their efforts were futile, nor beautiful floral tributes were sent. Kent, England, aged 28 years,
marked the Sentimentalist, lacking course of an opium, raid, excise do shipping experts judge that they the logic to perceive that freedom at officers searched his cubicle and dis- will be successiul until another very
Where at last in wondrous silence the price of illness and, of death may covered one revolver, several rounds high tide, for the ships are well
fade in One the starry race. be a game Lot worth the candle of ammunition, on knuckle duster, ground in the soft mud,
took on board the pilot. Just afler.
to have.bove. to. Then there was a Mr. Russell had been from his Ingenuous Puer ran and got a banana,
the watching hour the ship appeared "The "Glaucos" is considered to be in hardly perceptible movement to and laid it in the sight of the bird,
the worst plight but, in some respects, starboard, and five minutes later we earliest years a worshipper of Hindoo hoping the parrot would coine down and be caught. Here was Acquisi- A Chinese who recently arrived she is not as bad as the "Cordiliere" for began to heave over. The angle of and Indian mystic thought. In the whereas she has her nose well in the the decks was about 20 degrees, early nineties he was the centre, and tiveness, and the True Spirit of In from America was yesterday arrested we the lies on an even keel, while Asked whether the passengers soul of a little society, the Hermetic vestment, for the banana was Capital, for the unlawful possession of a A GREEN FACT WITH A BLUE and the escaped parrot, was a possible quantity of revolver ammunition. the "Cordillere," with a draft of 25 feet, were alarmed this gentleman de Society which held its meetings in land of his dreams has been the real
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dividend or bonus, although of this He was allowed police bail in the sumsticks in the mud with a tide which clared most of them were asleep in an upper room in Baggot St. There, Ireland to him the goal of all his Wo bold the Ireland in the heart boy, a inan, from the North remarked of $150. This morning when he case allows her only 8 feet of water and, their bunke. The speed of the ship used to meet a strange collection of laboura
went aground. Only for a very short ateurs, all who were dissatisfied with More than the land our eyes have Great,excitement in a Hongkong that he was "tebble fond of out 'at's was called before Magistrate Lindsell, moreover, she lies on a very uneven was 14 knots immediately before she young poets Eastern mystics, litter- The Blue Fannel Line's lighters space of time at high water were the prevailing tendencies in religion, home yesterday-wrning. Alniest wick. Why do boys, and men of the police said that the defendant had
And love the goal for which we everyone went to the verance li. Into Boyish temperament, so assiduously returned to his home is Shekki. The have commenced lightering the any moderately sized craft able to literature and social thought a venit:
Glaucus and the Shanghai Tug come alongside. To make matters
startAR the tree in front of it had Bows a Fact, collect animal pets? What is the ball was entreated and the contra
The China Mail
* TRUŢA, JUSTTON, PUBLIC AVA VICE.
HONGLONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1923.
and two bottles of morphia. He will" CORDILLERE ON UNEVEN KEEL, appear before a Magistrate in due
course.
keel
which perched there,, a visible, instinet behind the impulse? Herrick band confiscated. Company devoted their energiea to worse there were a number of strong able Cave of Adullam for the spirita
urious, tadieniable fact, a Fact with the poet says they are ---
ailed beak, it long blue tail, and green Flumage. John Willie, by courtesy
Dumb Animal, made the first an rouncement, easily intelligible to those
Shanghai papers record the death the
Cordillere, without success cross currents in the vicinity of the of mystic discontent.
chair surrounded by museum of But toys to give the heart some of Mr. E. W. Jenner, formerly of the and safer transported to Shanghal stranded ship Picture to yourself AB in the
NEW AMERICAN MINISTER humanity He introduces a
Indian blood who from the start throws a halo of mystery, over her
Where care
WILL SAVE CHINA
[China Mail SPECIAL:
HANGBAI, August 27:
an introduction of more tangibility than Mered Colour she seems
Mr. Russell's whole attitude to the English Rule in Ireland may be sum med up in one of his own sentences
The effect of the policy of our présent public men is to turn the Irish into a race of Economic hables, with their lips for ever nuzzling at. the nipples of the State."
But through all the stress and storm of the last thirty years the Ire
More than the tale of what has
been The generations as they rise May live the life men lived before Still hold the thought once held
in
Go in and out by the same We leave the easy peace
The few we ate shall still
ferra
China Import and Export Lumber Co. wift the task of getting both boats off Deceased was only twenty-eight years is considered temporarily hopeless Ne'er is, slight things do lightly of age and he came out to the Far and, it is understood, the ships are to
East in 1913. He was a native of who understand his dialect. Perhaps please.
attempt will be made when the high he had some ancestral memory of It is a little ambiguous. The heart Kent, England, and was unmarried, brightered completely and another BELIEVES OPEN DOOR POLICY Bubject Colour and Disease? After bigger ruptorial birds, for alarin was devoid of care needs to easing. Nor but is survived by his parents in the tide comes in about nine days time the role of his first antterance. As even pleasing. Whatever the poet-homeland and by a large family of and floods the bank sufficiently, to
brothers and sisters to whom the
encourage another attempt. nothing alarming ensued, be changed intended, we may feel fairly sure that sincere sympathy of many friends in to a lively curiosity, and after that to the boy collector of a vivarium the Far East will be extended. A PASSENGER'S EXPERIENCES
Alex there came into his eyes that watchful these are not slight things, and w
At one o'clock the tender Joak which means, when his luck is at that some more, powerful instinct is Two million yen damage, was andra-conveyed the $4 stranded Home, « seizure and a tearing to pieces behind it than boredom's love of caused by a fire which broke out in passengers from the
the Daimaru, largo dry goods store: Shanghal, (under dest Bat there were also observations on toys.
But our Fact is still der commer the Fret tint were intelligible to
at Kyoto, last Tuesday. The build- ditfons The boat which callous
ofice and
magone without interpretat
auce of the Fact, that wetho
oressary, if we are to get the sign
Feview the Foot in the tree
phone way)
then one by one. Thus
of the soft heart, gues wary, luppy mÓW
kere
tant: businens
reach the
lom he
that the open 4 sor policy.
Would
explains firme for a moment as that, all the diseases are aberrancies Fof the
Jaundice,
In fealty to
Been linga
Of unimaginable light,
We would no Irish sign
But yet