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If the "Hongkong" is not the best books now, or soon to be, available. Further copies can be had on applica-hotel in the Orient it is certainly not BONDHOLDERS ARE BEREBY tion. The list. will be added to each because the enterprising management D NOTIFIED that the FOURTH month and members will be advised have not atriven hard to make it so. DRAWING of the 3rd. Year Loan EIGHTH [China Mail SPECIAL. ]
That must have been a thought in ($2,750,000) and the when freeh books come to hand. It Are we entitled to acnclude from
proving a fascinating, it bewildering the minds of the 300 odd guests who DRAWING of the 7th. Year Issue of Short Term Bonde ($4,800.000) will be SINGAPORE, Nov. 30, occupation, noting the issue of new sat down to dinner last night in the held, as announced by the Loan Bureau the interesting interview with Presid
grill room. Lod Northelifle arrived today, books, reading the reviews.which do new
It was of the Ministry of Finance, in Peking, ent Sun that the Daily Press publisk- ed yesterday that this statesman was He intends visiting Siam, Java and not always agree with the advertise happy inspiration which prom- on 1st and 10th December respectively the Management to and that payment of drawn bonds will in a state of undesirable cerebral Indo China. Interviewed, ho said monts, and wondering where all the pted excitement when he talked to Orsin that he was surprised at the ignorance books go, who buy them, and who read Ex St. Andrew's night, for the in- bo made en 31st, December
Bonds of the 1st Year 6 por cent Loan Keith" He was certainly far from concerning Malaya, even in Hongking. them. Just now there seems to be a auguration of what is only the first being diplomatic. He declared war Cheaper cable rates were necessary as vogue in the publishing of collected stage of an ambitious programme of (converted issue, which were drawn on against Japan; he spoke words likely ignorance of the empire bad in it the editions of certain authors-dead improvements to a hotel, that is 10th November last, amounting to and alive. The issue of collected already famous. The China Mail has 89,719,611.40 will be redeoined on 1st. December next, and the inperest coupon to make Wu Pei Fu get busy; hold-seeds of danger. ing out bis hand and curving the
editions of the latter I notice is very already given a description of the new 81,631,766.84 will be på 3 on sama fingers he (is said to have) said:
much questioned. Those who have grill room. Last night's assemblage, date. "General Chen I have in the hollow
collected Thomas Hardy for instance, it is enough to say, was such a gather- of my hand;" he announced that his
must feel they are being bad as that ing as seemed all of a piece with its people felt "bitter" against the
veteran of letters is by no means sumptuons setting. British; he made the surprising an
finished. I have W. B. Yeats' collect- The Hongkong "gril" deserves to nouncement that our Hongkong
ed works up to 1908 and one feels to become famous and there is not Government "had its plans all laid to
with an unknown writer that they much risk in predicting that it will. seize the territory between Kowloon
SHANGHAI Dec. 1. are now as inadequate an epitome and the East River, thus bringing The committee of consulting of his work as if they had never been the British lines right up to Canton."
engineers investigating harbour published.' Such jostances could be In reply to this last the Ch na Mail evelopment yesterday completed its multiplied. It seems to raise the has only three remarks to make. (1) labours. Fifty se aions have been question: Is any writer of our own We do not believe it. (2) The Houg held. The report was submitted by generation worth collecting? kng Government, being purely a Major-General Black to the Whangpoo colonial administration, does not Conservancy. Mr. Gordon Lowther. meddle in such matters. (3) If it on behalf of the Board thanked the did, its uost hostile, active, and effec-committe for the important results Ltd. tive critics would be, not Chinese, achieved. The report will be trans
not foreigners, but British subjects. mitt. d to the Chinese Government. The British people are now dead against such policies.
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Meanwhile, President Sun would be employing his toe better in Canton, investigating the circumstances which led up to the allegations regarding the Canton Tramway Concessior, publish- ed in most important correspondence revealed in last Saturday's China Mail. We have deferred comment pending issue of a statement by the Canton Government, to which we have addressed telegraphic enquiries. We are now studying the reply. More
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RUGBY FOOTBALL.
LOCAL INTEREST BEING ROUSED.
That there is a distinct "Bullish ** movement in the Rugby market in Hongkong has been apparent since the beginning of the present season.
The dormant condition into which this section of the Hongkong Foot ball Club naturally fell during the war has been shaken off.
This happy resalt is in no small measure due to the example of the teams put in the field by H.M. Ships on this station.
Club players realise that with so much Navy talent available it will be no easy matter for them to achieve victory over that side when the Cup matches begin, as they will do just before Christmas,
I have read somewhere that the
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While a quarryman was at work who see a novel filmed are anxious to blasting rocks on a building site in read exactly that which issued from May Road yesterday afternoon, a the moving, but silent lips of the film heavy boulder which got loosened by hero, heroine, or villain. It sounds the blasting suddenly rolled down the likely. Barnaby Rudge' came my hill and before the unfortunate man way on the result of seeing it filmed, could get clear, he was crushed. ATN aid of the wife and children of the but I cannot say that the impulse was rescue party was promptly organised late Petty Officer Maxted. Admis-- to find out what certain characters and after much strenuous labour vion to Stand-50 cents. A collection said. Generally screened classics are managed to dislodge the rock and will he made at half time. a bit disappointing, for after all the renove the badly crushed man from beauty or the elusiveness of the under it. He was still alive but an- written word, or the atomsphere of the conscious. The motor ambulance was book, cannot be given. O'Henry's A commandeered and he was speedily Double-dyed Deceiver shown the removed to the Government Civil other evening at Kowloon is a casa in Hospital, where he died soon after point. One wonders if notice of admittance. filmed books which are to be shown in the Colony, might not be given earlier instead of being advertised at a moment's notice.
The Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., with capital stock pesón 700,000 divided into 1,000,000 shares, ad- vertises that its dividends this year will equal those paid last year when P300,000 was disbursed.
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HONGKONG HOTEL GRILL.
THE NEW GRILL ROOM in
I'm afraid this is very far from the caption of Book Club' notes. There is however not much to say. The membership is now 41 and might easily be increased if we tried. No great efforts have been made to do so, and as a matter of fact, 40 is a cosy number and I think the number sug- gested when the idea of the Club was A great deal of keenness has been first mooted.
} The writer has several tracte of the cycle will be auctioned by Messra. displayed in the early games of the Hughes and Hough to-morrow morn-season, but what is still required is Society for Fure English which he is
more combination as a result of willing to loan. Also................
.but practice: and there is room for any better give the catalogue a chance. promising young players there may be A thoughtful reader recommends in the Colony, particularly in the back No. 92, World Revolution. In the division, which, as always, comprises fiction section there is a, demand for TEA DANSANTS will be beld in those positions which a Captain finds Main Street, Kimono, Simon the Grill Room from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. most difficulty in filling.
Called Peter,' and 'The Love & Duck, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. An entrance charge of $2 With the coming of the King's
C. G.
per head will be made which will include Liverpool Regiment into garrison
[Readers will discover the afternoon tea. during the course of the season some
gives an exaggerated unexpected results may be achieved; "Kimono " but in any event the Club may be sketch and distorted impression of! "Simon Called counted on to maintain their position things Japanese.
ing.
To-morrow morning Messrs. Hughes and Hough will auction six bags of white and 77 bags of brown
sugar.
During his recent visit to Peking, Lord Northcliffe appointed Mr. W. R. Giles as Peking Correspondent for the Daily Mail.
The annual Ball of the staff of The Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Co., will take place in Kowloon Docks on December 30.
Mrs. Hara, wife of the late Premier Hara, donated a sum of 13,000 yen to the city of Morioka for the benefit of public works,
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has organised a street rale of roses for to-morrow in connection with its 38th. annual bazaar on Sat- urday.
results will be surer. We think we can see the idea behind the President's Napoleonic plans. A successful or showy coup against Peking would impress the ignorant foreign diplomat Mr. Maurice Roy, manager of the more deeply and more quickly than a Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orient, lustrum of model government. Bo funds would be the more easily Peking, and well-known in the Far obtained, and "recognition" brought Bebec Fredericks.
East, has quietly married Madame closer. The cynical aphorism that God is always on the side of
Capt. and Mrs. W. H. Lunt re- the biggest battalions applies also to turned to China by the "Golden European diplomacy. It is wonderful State." Capt. Lunt is improved some- how military strength appeals to them, what in health as a result of his right and induces in them a sweet resson months in America, or away from PRESIDENT SUN'S MISTAKES.ableness foreign to their nature. But China,
President Sun ought to know, 38 O The China Mail has so far uttered student of affairs, that their day, like
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as against the other two contending Peter" has the true ring, and is TEA, AND DINNER Denys d curtainly exciting. The others named teams.
The Cup, however, is not the only we have not yet read. Among the object of the season's sport.
A year's new novels is one called cordial invitation to visit Shanghai "An Island Wooing" by Saffront has been received from the Rugby Middleton, which in our opinion is Football Club there, which has been probably the worst on record. It is accepted.
the most imbecilious farrago of fictional balderdash we ever wasted time on.-Ed. C,M.]
The exact date of the visit has yet to be fixed; but it is hoped that it will take place during the month of March.
No effort will be spared to raise as strong a XV as possible for this trip to the North; which is certain to be most enjoyable not only from a play- ing standpoint but also as affording an opportunity of meeting the Shang- hai Rugger enthusiasts.
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Four weeks' are labour was tho sentence passed by Magistrate Lind with having assaulted. another Chinese with a chopper, causing serious in juries
According to Mr. M. M. Watson, for
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Hongkong, December 1, 1921,
NOTICE.
CHINESE HORTICULTURAL MASTERS & LABOURERS' GUILD.
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WE have pleasure in notifying the general publio that the opening The mountain lands of Virginia hold CEREMONY of our GUILD will take some of the most beautiful scenic place at the Tung Ting Restaurant, spots in America. Rugged rocke West Point, on December 8, 1921, which date will be held as a HOLIDAY by the crowned with sweeping foliage sway members of our Guild. Members of the ing under the liquid sunlight of the Community cordially invited. Bunny South; ruching rivers like silver. threads winding through the shadows of the hill; mountain suns and moun- taiu storms. Many of the most beau- tiful of these sylvan splendours havo been wonderfully photographed in picturization of Margaret Pre cott "Seeds of Vengeance, Select's Montague's convincing story of the FOR RUN-DOWN PEOPLE. Virginia hills. This intensely dramatic
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H.M.S."Goat" (Lieutenant Com- no protest against Sun Yat Fen's the day of the militarist, is nearing its mander Cosmo Hastings, D.3.0.) was seli yesterday on a Chinose charged contemplated expedition against close. Public opinion is regaining its expected to arrive in Shanghai waters Peking. Partly we hoped that it own and the time is not remote when on Sunday. She will be refitted be might prove to be the "bluff" that such arguments as Canton's visible fore returning up river which will Home people represent it. Partly we progress affords will be more effective probably take at out a month. were afraid that our well-known than military victories. Moreover, antipathy to war might appear as we would put it to him that such an A claim for Tis, 41,386,25 is being the complainant, the affiny took place our King Charles Head in such a adventure is a tremendous gamble, mate in the British Court at Shanghai in the market on Oct. 27. The om protest. The time has come when it and that the stakes are not his own against the General Hospital by Wong bundle of cabbages belonging to the an oath to kill he man who shot his in fu paired, the ner ved at impoverished,
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a, but rather worry and mental arrived on Thuridy, Int ) ec. 198), con We consider that, even in the in-equipped than he, rieked all on the claim is that the Goneral Hospital defendant who lost his temper and father. It is swift in action, con
of args are hereby notified to thair Kills of Lading for counter- such a military adventure would be a lost all One of the weaknesses of tract dated April 25, 1917, by delay. attack causing two dep wounds.the conflicting omotions of a great copro
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ffected iyanture, and take in mediate dolivery grave mistake. Our sympathics have war as, a solver of problems is its in furnishing certain particulars which Besides these injuries, the complainant love at an intense hatred. The
dramatic intensitys sustined up to you of cuistes everywhern
Aralief to the fund, from alongside stranier or the Company's been enlisted on the side of the uncertainty. Assume (and it is a big under a specification attached to the also received a fractured shoulder.
Godown, where Improve Doléndent said that it was another the final scene in which late stops in the blood in quickly fel immediate discharge impeding
felanded at consignites risk,
ill Cantonese chiefly because they are assumption) that the armies of the contract had to be furnished by the man who attack d the complainant and relieves David Cred of his oath toughout the entire system, The constitutional party, but also North can be routed What then? Hospital.
with the clio per, and be attempted and brings to tim a great and largely because they fosed as anti-They have been routed before, and militaristic. Any filibustering by didn't stay out Thefautones The following is a translation of to prevent him in the strupale the loiting happiness. them of this kind must deprive us of themselves abould realise this, because the Imperial E let issued at, Tokyo man dropped the chopper. The wit anddence in the rightuses of support although they have mes & feat on the on November 25 Owing to Our Bess poked it up and was accused of
them. We hold that Prea dent battle field, they have persistently red chronic disease. We find Wasrappable assault.
terests of the Southern Government, hazard of the dice of war and has committed a breach of a building con- picking up a chopper, minde a vicious Vine ug in portrayal and ourris alongsion. Fatiguo yang
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Sun Yat Bon has enough work for his fed to accept it. What can be the to administer the affairs of state so bidion to dis in restoring order (not use of a war which, whatever its out- We hereby declare that, submitting modrly restored yet) in the two come, can only bo te first of a new to the advice of in Imperial Family bouring pray pres. Reports series 1 1 it be true that Chen council and of the Privy Council, thing us from Weất River d'atricts | Chlung Ming is averre fout this havo justalled the Crown Trin
tea deplorable state of brigand. į northern botojugu, or even only Fitchito, in the regency, Prince And lawlemner. There is fair lukewarmly seeking to it, let bis, Karin, who accompauled the Crown ** od by, wetting up a really mod 1 advice be torn carefully beeded. He Pines on his recent four,, will act ne
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