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When our aviating heroes Irishman's speech to Dai
BATURDAY, OCTOBER
1931.
BIG OPIUM SKIZURE,
read, weeds of the Crown Colonies, it completed. There periods are as SPECIAL CABLES. -IN 108, were cloing stunts very and is in quotation from a speech would be a much safer pro- separate hours in a busy day, or they well indeed, we referred Lloyd Goerge made on April 1017 position. In the same way, afraid of should be. The semi-colon ant colon to them as aces, and meant it as a The wats must have sounded oddly increasing unemployment, the Ad- are the halves and quarters, of which compliment. The ace s the highest) in 1941:
miralty has reversed its own decision it is convenient to take notices but value card in a suit. In dice the one.
Centuries of brutal and often and is keeping on certain docks that the commas are odd minutes and SHANGHAI POLICE BAG- is called the act. Why? Becase the ruthless injustice, and, what is it has no use for, in order to find em-seconds which even panetaal people| Greeks took the game. fam the wette, centuries of insolence and ployment for their staffs. This will may disregard. Finally, do not look
NEARLY $500,000 WORTH. Remans, and called ups ons, which insult, have driven hatred of British mean general slackness at all its at the punctuation in any printed in Greek means an ass The Tarsons | rale into the very marrow of the docks, for it will parcel the work out essay on punctuation. Printers ignore had the game from the Gresia, and
Irish race. The long records of amongst them all.
writers in this matter and persist in trataisted the cnos into ass, which we oppression, proscription, and, ex•,
going their own wủy, have, corrupted into see. So now, in. patriation have formed the greatest, your next fiff at the club bridge table, blot on the British fame of equity you may call your adversary "the ace and eminence in the realm of govern of clubs, thereby easing your own nuent." heart without hurting him.
THE DOG
WAICH
Most people know what a dog watch is, and' many what is is Sor, but why dog! The natal watch is four hours, and the two dog watches. from 4 to 6 pm, and 6 to 8, serve to prevent the same set of men being on watch always at the same time. Dr. Brefor suggests that it is therefore the "dodge watch, by which the crew dodges or shifts its hocr. The forgetful bather who jumps into the sea with his wrist watch on calls it something else.
A fassiery bridge drive is
I'M being organized for Oct- INVITED ober 19. in vid of St. Dunstan's Blinded Soldiers, and I've be invited. As ar inducement, the inviter tells me the names of some respectable ladies who will be there. Alas! That prevents acceptance. When I play Bridge I'm usually in negleesbay, which is French for trousers and singlet, and I hardly think I'd be welcome. However, I've sent St. Dunstan my little mite, so it will not matter. But lock you, me lads, doesn't an invitation like this prove that I'm getting on! Sext thing you know I may be standing for the committee of the Wantsai Canary Association, or the Constitutional Re- form Association, or summut o' that height. Then I guess Cap Bayliss will regret ordering me out of the Sailors Home.
CANT
In the reservatious" to **Doanicion - status”
• ; * Punch's "cartoon : about the Russiari famine is a noteworthy one. Lenin
HARD HEARTED NOTE
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[China Man SPECIAL.}
SHANGHAI JAIL ESCAPE
RUSSIAN WOMAN ACQUITTED OF AIDING.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 1. . Nearly half a million dollars werth The proposition is not of opium was discovered by the Shang- XOKEA nna to get hot about. so hai palice and detectives yesterday. is represented address-
ANTI let's not. It is that al-and confiscated by order of the Inter- ing a Lady Bountiful
IRELAND. most every argument in national Mixed Court. The chauffeurs (Charity) in these words:
the Irish problem applies and coolies found in charge of the Ah! So you have come in response to Japan's Korean problem, and vice opium are now in custody. proposed in L. G's first to my appeal, to save the Soviet versa. The circumstances may not be letter, clanse i read as follows:
Republic." In order that the movement too. I have come to save its victims resemblances are sufficiently striking To which she retorts: exactly parallel-few un-but their wards the limitation of armaments and in spite of your appeal." The to suggest the proposition. which is now making progress in
The the world should in no way be often is, unjust. It suggests, what may question of Japan's safety, just as cartoon is probably, as Punch quite propinquity of Korea brings in the bampered, it JA stipulated that the Irish Territorial Force the solely responsible cause for the England's. This was admitted during or may not be true, tha: Sovietism is Ireland's geographical situation does shall within reasonable limits, Russian famine, and it misrepresents the Russian war. In each case the confonu in respect of numbers to Lenin's appeal. But now comes my advocates of As-you-were bare a foot- the military establishments of the owa hard-hearted note. The cartooning, the dumtion of each occupation charged with aiding Norman and other parts of these islands. To which reasonable proposal with presents Europe. as a famme re- and administration not affecting the Muncie to escape from the American canting reason De Valers retorted: merely keeping up her bad habit urged that the people cannot zianage Prisoners are now in the British jail.
liever. in a noble light, whereas she argument. In each case it may be all was acquitted yesterday. England is a great Power. The of meddling British officials, with their own affairs. Both are "small popriation of England is 50 millions, We have only 4 millions in Ireland, consent, donated to vacions forces determination." And so on. How
Parliament's knowledge or nations," entitled ahke to yet this island with 50 millions expected to smash Bolshevism, stores comes it then that some men are pret-ms it is afraid of us, and to and munitions to the value of simultaneously keen on the subjuga- carry a the pretence it stipulates 17,828.000 1f the famin is due tion of the Irish and the emancipa that at armaments must be to Bolshevism. apart from suck tion of the Koreans? You may search duced to a size they consider aeces sary. We are never ly to cofa- pete with Britain 14 brataments. (Applause.)
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For me the most
A PRACTICAL striking thing in the LESSON. Sanitary Board's dis- cussion of water
informal war against it, why should we naw tom round and attempt to save these people from the effects Therefore we have no hesitationThe soul that sinneth it shall die.”-
of their own persistence in error? in entering into any anecment of After vainly spending eighteen millions the limitation of armaments, pro trying to kill it, we are now sub-closets versas collecting buckets was viding it is for a good and wise scribing more to prevent it from a point made by the 10. The purpose, and not shaply for the dying of Nemesis. Such tremendous European, fancying himself very purpose of disarming us and making social experiments as the Russian one. knowing in sanitary matters, instals s as helpless. We do not mean to be
In his as we have all along maintained in his own quatters. helpless.
should be left scrupulously alone, to servants' quarters he thinks the old The Premier stipulat-survive or perish on their own merits. good enough. He cverlooks the ARBITRATION ed that Ireland must we should not, if we want to lea.nward from servants' latrine to master's housefly, which jumps back and for remain responsible
SHANGHAI, Oct. 1.- Vera Pohlman the Russian woman
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The
pointed Dr. B. E. Mellon to the post of Second Health Officer of the port The Secretary of State has ap-
of Hongkong.
Medien
Three cases of fancy silks of various designs will be put up for auction by Mess. Lammert Bros, on Monday morning.
The days on wh our public recreation grounds may be used for strtain sports are stated in to-day's Government Gazzile.
The Tai O Electric Supply Com
Let me play dove for a proportion of the War Debt their real value,, either hinder or food. When this lesson penetrates, pany, Limited will, unless cause is A SQUEAKER help. It seems we do both in tan. ON PIGEONS and show that in submit that to arbitration. before the which is foolish.
for his remark: "quite good enough the register and the company will analysing and ex-U.S.A. President as umpire. if he
Correspondence in the for them." He will realize that what be dissolved three months hence. posing nonsense I have no animus would act. L. G. replied that the
HOPELIKS. China Ma this week seemed like a bit of unnecessary al- against its authors. It is a duty to British Government cannot consent to
indicates that most of truism was really an act of self- make wrong absurd, but not necessary the reference of any sich questions the arguments for sweet reasonable regarding prudence. to expose the wrong-doer, or wrong-which concern Great Britain and Ireness have fallen, not on stany ground, saver. So I will not tell you where I land alone, to the arbitration of a but on wood pavement. A "Patriot met this typical bit of modern jour foreign Power. nalism about a heroit pigeon. 'Twas It is the physically stronger side
AND
an editorial note, and it was headed “A Pigeon's Heroism." I referred to "the fidelity to duty" of a carrier pigeon Wounded mortally, the ARMIS faithful bird" daw home and died., And this improver of our minds then went on to say:
This little incident not only seems to show that birds are capable of a heroism with which they are not usually credited but with a degree of intelligence and appreciation of circumstances rarely associated with animals lower in the scale than dogs and horses. A picturesque touch is given to the story by the statement that memorial services were given by the Japanese garrison at Vladivostok. Perhaps, after all, the whole story is only a charming piece of fiction.
The story could be true enough, but
Mail.artled by all sorts of presame the scitorial comments never. There
*TOTE, JUSTIOR, PURLIG KERTIO“
HONGKONG, SATURday. Co~, 1, 1991.
ÚLAHO
ADVERSARIA.
ably busy people, and I get a sense
of being in the thick of that commer was not a tittle of evidence in what rial energy which has made, our
the bird did of heroism, or faithfulness,
The
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OWD
The name of Mr. Wan Yik-shing, member of the Royal College of Sar- geons (England) and licentiate of the No more this Royal College of Physicians (Lond ́n) *** ADVERSARIUS
Thatness of that has been added to the local register EEJOICES AT THE Thisness
of medical practitioners. CHIEF'S RETURS. in my humble:
shack
Now will find that I'm a creditor Since the Boss is back,
Never would he hear my reasoning Locum tenens slack
was kicking about a few binoculars openly offered as from a well-known which refuses arbitration
(and good) maker in Berlin, by a As for resort to arms, in local trademan. He has evidently- preference to arbitration made up what passes for a mind to! I can get on with my business it is gratifying to read that hate the Germans all his life, and to Now the Boss is back, our Prime Minister has the carry on the war
on his own The idiot left in charge as editor, right idea. Writing of the relations account Long after his
Miserable hack! of Sinn Fein and Ulster he wrote: King has ordered him to be at peace. But no such common action ran So it will be no use talling him that be secured by force. Union cane in these articles represent part of the Canada by the free consent of the indemnity we are- collecting from his provinces. So in Australia, so in euernics. South Africa. It will come in Jre- land by no other way than consent. There can in fact, be no settlement on terms involving on the one side or the other that bitter appeal to rap) must be bloodshed and violence which all good teacher as men of goodwill are longing to which is even better. He asks On the bankward track;
a good educator, See me march in gladdest ruiment his pupils why some people think I am reckoning or full payment
terminate.
Bat he'll see me add some seasoning Now the Boss is back,
I entertain the opinion THE WAY TO that Mr. J. W. Marriott, Watch my weekly Adversaria,
author of A year's Free from his attack, work in English," (Har-More merry grow and merrier,
mach a Now the Boss is back.
EDUCATE
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Here, to be going on with, is a slight
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To-day's programme at the Hoang ong Th includes dramatic piece editled "Sirens of the Sea," in 6 parts, featuring Louise Lovely Barmel. Hrers and Jack Murray.
A fine comedy is also screened.
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The marriage of Mr. J. R. Wood and Miss G. F. Kember will take place at St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday, October 12, at 4 p.m. No invitations are being issued, bet all friends will be, welcome at the ceremony.
The wedding takes place in St. John's Cathedral at pm, on October 6, of Mr. Donald Burlingham," Assistant Superintendent of Police, to Miss Janette O. Besant, of Govern- mart House. The bride will be given away by E. the Governor.
It was rather naughty of De Valeta a harmonium more suitable for Sun- Now the Boss is back. to annotate that passage as follows: days than a piano. They do, you
"We cannot admit the right of know. I feel that I could easily write: the British Government to mutilate a couple of columns of speculations on our country either in its owr. inter- that problers, and even then perhaps MOAN'S MORN, smile from an Ameri- est or at the call of any section of miss the solution. It's a queer, in- our population. We do not contriguing question, that simply forces paper: template the use of force. If your you to think. Have a go at it. There Government stands aside we can is no age limit. I will award the OA- his best girl. Both were quite honest the Local Commissioner for the A young man went to church with ed the Rer. G. T. Waldegrave, to be effect a complete reconciliation. We (Order of Adversarius), with handsome and modest, When the collection Boy Scouts, in succession to Lt-Col. agree with you that he common diploma to the sender of the letter I was being taken up the young man F. Bowen, who resigned on leaving action can be secured by force." may consider to be the best answer.
HE. The Governor, who is the Chief Scout of Hongkong. bas sppoint-
The record of rainfall in the
Our regret is that this wife and true. Mr. Marriott, by the way, has written explored his pockets, then whispered the Colony for duty in Singapore. principle which your Government novels by Roger Wray."
to the young lady, "I haven't a cent; prescribes to us for the settlement
I changed my pants." In the mean- A saying by Thomas time she had been searching her Botanic Gardens during September Hobbes is thus re- pockets and, finding nothing, blushed gives 15.77 inches as the total for the corded: "If a man rosy red as she whispered stammer month. The highest daily figures says God spoke to ingly, "I'm in the same predicament. were 7.75in. on the 3rd, 1.05 on the
BY THE
AUTHOR OF
of our local problem it seems u willing to apply consistently to the fundamental problem of the re- lations between our island and "LEVIATHAN " your
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him in a dream, he
The princiule we rely on in the means he dreamt that God spoke to. one case we are ready to apply in him." It is a capital illustration of the other, but should this principle the fact that the same thing can be not yield an immediate settlement said in two ways, each way importing. We are willing that this question too a very different suggestion. be submitted to external arbitra-
As one can see at once oth., and 2.05 on the 4th. The other and on 15
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A FEW and but that anca how figures were all blow WORDS goes old time away, so daya no rain at all fell.
MORE may man think that on
that day he knows en- High mass will be celebrated, ough, or all there is to know. Yet with the special Dominican tites, by -Old Aldus Manu-ere the dark descend and silence seize the, Very Rev. Father F. Noval, PUNCTUATORS. tius(Teobaldo Man the world, his eyes may well be raised assist d by twn Dominican Fathers, nucci) was the to scan the west aglow for signs of at the Cathedral of the masculate
Empire what it is to-day. Motor or sense of duty, or "appreciation of Cars come out of similar shops, the
circumstances." Carrier pigeons travel fronts of which have been removed when free always in one direction, to let them, and cross the sidewalk homeward, to the place where they without troubling about my toes.
źre used to be fed. In any other Chinese gentlemen walk three abreast, direction they have to be taken. Their one basking continuously, the other homing instinct is as remote from "You may have Hall two grunting responses. It is for- anthropomorphic virtues as is helio- Caine's latest if you like," tanate that I am in no hurry, bat tropiem in plaats. DOMINI said the librarian when I unfortunate that I cannot understand geranium in the lodging house window, was looking over his stock; the drift of the harangue. This although mortally wounded by caked but I didn't like. All my reading intance of Chinese worries me most soil, tight pot, lack of water, and life I have been patting aside certain when two coolie women, followed by itiated atmosphere, faithful to duty so, the sort of book our feels two more, come along, bumping and straine and grows toward the light. me ought to read, but never being bumped. The first two ate This shows (doen it not?)-that ger- really wants to, to read when I should having a fierce argument, or calling aniums are capable of loyal persistence be jo. The list di such aika has each other bad names. A young man to a degree hitherto associated with long, in spite of the fact smiles as he catches my eye, but pigeons, dogs, horses, and editorial that at one time I read seven or eight beyond that, no one seems to
writer a week. I always meant to finish the notice them, though their noïse Decline and Fail, for instance and and their gestures would draw a big
I heard two men, talking cf Darwin's Coral Islands, a crowd in London. As they pass me
Tu's the hotel and restaurant aven't done either yet. Now are they are shaking their fista in each some waiters, popular with customers, waiters' strike. both say that
in all that is reasonable and just scholarly printer whose sensible notion things to come. How should he hear Concertion at 7.30a.m. on Tuesday, mini begins to intervene in ways other's faces, yet moving along all the take as much as $40 a month in tips.
The responsibility for initiating and of system in panctuating has been the sounds that are not made, or see October 4, in commemoration of the picted. Not only are my eyes while at a good to knots. I am The China Mail reporter got the same
effecting an honourable peace rats garbled and made silly by modern what is not there to see? Yet such, 7th Centenary of St. Francis of Assisi. ing out, bot 1. nod Over reminded somehow of a running dope, and his editor passed it as in-
pr manly not with our Government printers. See how they sprinde com-is man, aflame with hope, proud of books now, and fall asleep, fight at sea, say the Battle of Jut formation. Where do such stories
but with yours. We have no con mas as from a pepper caster, so that his powers, aware of his will, conscious en when I struggle against ft. This is:d, only this is a battle of jutting originate? It. is a well known fact vance but the one that we be freed moto it, these commas so many right, unparchmented yet known. Humphrey's Building, Kowloon, ditions to impose, no claims to ad- the reader feels like a Hongkong of craft, firma stanced upon his human cook employed by Mr. J. Wattie of An amah, a house coolie and u ms to me sufficient excuse (eren chins. When they have reached a that at most of the places the waiters had no other) for not reading peint many blocks from where I pool their tipe, so that the good
from aggression." : Chine: It is a horrid thought lotter, I can still hear them, squabble waiters ("popular with customers") editorials based on Renter's selected calon st all now the color that close shut, his heart-athrill, and in an indecent proposal to her and when. arching and coolies loitering in the His eyes are bent or that which is figured in the Poline Court yesterday. 2 million people who are reading gabbling. I
Do not form your opinions on road and blocking it. Few use the afar, his fists are clenched, his mouth The amah alleged that the cook made know something that I don't; but plate-glass now, fascinated by soine
am looking through cannot get any more than the others. cannot be helped. I shall make sticks of red sealing wax. Who buys municated by an employee (not s
Editorial note.Our news wascom-Passages, but read the whole corres should mark a sentential transition, the inmost recesses of his mind lurks she refused to comply be cut her on
pondence. It is an eye-opener,
As for the semicolon originally the this thin thought, that thinking is the the elbow with a chopper. The coolie Marquintance of the worm, the these now! Who uses sealing wax any waiter) of a well known and popular
The cock of the Churchill Greek query mark) it is shackled to thing that counts. Now these he helped in the assa! She raid that mes, and the famh, without more, in these days of envelopes and Chinese restaurant where the trs ar REASONS of the wise judnę m2
WRONG ridden must have heard a sin juuralistic convention that noble words indeed, sweet on the on another socativ the cook came ing fir translatet adhesive wafem? I don't know, and I not pooled. We think Advenarius*** ips of sin and atonement, and cannot even make a plausible guess, has not sufficient ground to say fist icons t
is for use only before"and" and tongue and sweet upon the ear. What into her room through the window ot the pleasure of marking how
but. Where the word and do they say? Thon that hast read and attempted to assault her. The bert can weld lasciviousness and
By fitting words tips are pooled at most of these place. He must have beard and for needed. As for those delightful dots sonorous benteures, these lilting ranks and the house boy gt one month.
on to punctuation mark is them, tell it out; what say these cook was awarded six month's jail. A PROPHECY having as initials a Championy knào, the, tort of
the vowels in their
I've just been reading gotten it, for he proposes to invest which we call periods, og du poeta, cards, tlust biveres med en the full text of the De money in developing the Crops or full stops, nepaper wars seem tickling pleasing this test?
16,0 Cast - the home order, they got Allés Erdreich Ist
e of the respectable. Ab well! Oesterreich. Unterthan, which was cannot haverserything, can one? | freely Englished into Austria's E-
sor
tion.
Thus we are ready to meet you
· POLITICAL · Valera-Lloyd George Colonies a good decision-in order to afraid of them, and defer then as Nay, but read them re once more. ABUTMENT CONTespondence. I'm make a temporary market for Loups long as pouble There is ofte no What tunt thou thay SUNSHINE AND COMMON SENSE It is my whim at times, pire Is Over all Universal" Frederick any politics arguizenta än yon, but I The temptatior in placing orders for and they seldom lean stap, fore in time to come, and when words "Lktiem, fra mamet iapplicare »
not going to inflict proderers which had reason point in the sentence they point, Dam ad Coptet. Take care there FON'T doston your lined for therm to and sung there the Third in the XV century composed most point out how one or two ames milway material, and all, apparatus because the fellow knocks them down seem to make a soothing-tinkling few days it will get you up anlatanto game totions where fat his Latin sentence on the same modeling bile in this correspondence strike needed to develop the astoral zer and runs on, agam like a motorist, sound, remember these, that nothing the assbine, then stars will store iun of Chimberlain's faisoire "In s Chimine shopkeepers Austria Et In Orbe Ultima (Austria a man who is so absolutely impartial sources of the Crowa Colony, when That is to take to literal de Baid at all, and if you do not see the rich red blood to your hus sho * seó bạing bought. Here which has about come true.
stocks of small wares - will yet be lowest among the empires) that he doesn't care a darn either the reason-in' the one given, to from the phrase full stop. The clock idog in the window, ask for it in 15% 1-rid theystems of this teonblendens””.
disesas. For pale by all Chewists and - Blockere
way" "The richest bit ours in the overdo it. If the reason were the should go on; though the bour be