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THE CHINA MAIL.
Court case amused me. Defendant was charged with defrauding the | Government "by false pretences and incorrect means.” What are the correct means for defrauding a Govern ment? It might pay to learn this.
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WORD-BUILDING.
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, –1922.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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The local embargo on coal, rice, and flour imposed during the strike the Boss, that Tm ruining the dear ready with a word into which he has been removed.
combination, so far as it is built, must old China Mail, Fact!
SHANGHAI NEWS.
MARSHAL JOFFRE'S BUSY. DAY.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
afternoon.
In the evening the French concession was illuminated. Marshal Jofre, with his wife and daughter were the guests of the French com munity at a dinner at the Cercle Sportif Francais.
The absence of the eleven SPECIAL CABLES.. Is Sir Arthur Conan prize pipe, donor and myself will be
ELEVEN o'clock, morning reviver A Doylea Hongkong man? final. That's a competition. It isn'
O'Clocks was the tragic-part-of- HONGKONG I ask because of his
trouble. the late the game itself. Let me explain. method of argument efst
Two or more shall not forget in a hurry the first As Truth puts it, he
forenoon that Hongkong went : dry. (and the more seems to think that when he has
Several of us met, after finding the satisfied himself of, or deluded himself
the
merrier) regular fount of comfert closed, and into a belief in the reality of so-called
place" where the Don't grumble any more
spiritualistic manifestations, no one play it. If many, draw lota to decide we all "knew A TAXES about Hongkong taxes.
has a right to express & contrary turns. First turn starts with the same could be signified in the usual That oficial Was un-
SHANGHAI, March 10. opinion. Here in Hongkong I find letter E. Second sura (thinking of the manner. We were quite lighthearted. doubtedly right who said we are that even to hint at the bare word "shoeblack") answers ER about it, and our trouble was to decide
Harshal Joffre spent a busy day which one to favour. The toss-up lightly taxed. The Hongkong Tram-
pssibilty that academically some way Company thinks so, and is now where a contrary opinion may be Third turn, with the same word in resulted in the selection of mina, and resterday. He had tin at the-
Fourth turn we drew blank there. So we did at French consulate where the many registering under the local Ordinance thought e as existing (contrary, mind, says OEB. in order to save on taxes, According those here who know everything baffled the others by saying OEBU. and we and giving up its Home registration, that is, to any opinion entertained by thought of the word "Koebuck," and two or three other. Then what guests included the allied consula
began as a joke became a grievance,The Aurora University and Franco- became desperate men. Chinese Institute of Industry and were visited in the to a newspaper report, there is need
"correct" and in good standing) is to Fifth turn, unable to think of a word Desperation did it. But it was real Commerce for some such economy. It paid only about all things, and who
combination in it, frightfulness for a little while. a bare 10 per cent. in 1918 and 1920 invite retorts compared with which with that
According to Lord Doyle's to Fison Young was the "challenged his predecessor, who, Riddell, back from the mildest of mild chaff. It doesn't if he could not supply the word to AMERICAN Washington Confer matter to me, because Fre got a thick fit. would have bad to put ten cents ence, the children in a skin, and wonki as soon go out of in the pool. The challenger, getting big elementary school Hongkong with a bunch of mistletoe the word, had to pay. This challeng in God's Country fang for his berefit. attached to my coat tail as not. But ing prevents blufing, inasmuch as "They sang the American National they keep on telling each other, and every contributor of a letter must be Anthem to the tone of God Save the King!" They must have been cate
The usual Hongkong Hotel gril kids, to squeeze the eleven syllables.
Naturally, the Bots it. If only two are playing, it is not of "Ob say can you see. by the AN AWKWARD wants to save his pro-always safe to build the first word you room tes dansant will not be held on
perty, and please these think of, because the player who Monday, March 13. dawa's early fight." into the six of Carey's dirge. Yes,
critics, but he loves names the last letter that completes ébords
a word is fined.
Four Mr. H. M. H. Nemazee is having indeed, they gave proof that me because I have nice manners and
with S, you the name of his latert teamer par their pep Was still there, belong to the same Onion Club as be proment starts
not add 0, because chase, "Historia," changed to In the same article, I notice, he does. He would like to be rid of such must praised the "accatacy "of the Ameri- dangerous contributor as I am, but So is word. You may (this is im- Arabestan." can newspaper chaps. A man who he cannot make up his mind to sack Portant to remember) add your letter recognized the Star-spangled Banner me. I tear he has been moving behind or before the combination as when sarg to the tune of the British heaven and earth to get me a Govern- it reached you: and of course the first Ltd. national anthem is some expert in meat job to that fit willingly quit turn may start with say letter, end accuracy, seems to me I'm feeling without hart to his good nature. I or middle, of the word he thinks of rather peeved with him, I don't reind told him I was quite willing to take One man started with Z, and I, think- telling yon, because, knowing nothing on the job of Secretary for Chinese, ing of the word "furze," replied RZ
The Hongkong Hotel Co.'s motor of music, I took his word for it, I Affairs. There are not many men Oddly enough no one con'd think of a learned the war's when living in the anxious for it just now, I believe word with RZ in it; the next turn coach service schedule for the Repulse States, and of course I've always But, of course, there is the detail of challenged," and was stuck. The Bay and Magazine Gap routes known the tune of our own anthem. embarrassing fact that at present the pool" of fines may be used to pay beginning on Monday is advertised in
for the refreshments, etc. It is this issue. It is the one ture I can matter, the post isn't vacant. Somehow I do not obviously an educational game as only tune I can dog without going think I'm aver likely to get it.. more than half an octave fat. So when pressed to sing at a Police Social this week, I etarted of quite confidently.
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The accompanist stopped there, you see, and there I was with the essential verb and a big bunch of hefty phrases still left on my hands -eticking out like rails where a bridge has been washed away, or like one flap of your waistcoat when you have started at the wrong button. I bad Lowhere to
Fut red glare, and rockets' land of the free and the home of the brave positively hadn't'a semiqdaver or a demijohn or what- ever you call these Churchillian cots. They all hought I'd forgotten the words. As if I could! Besides, how ridiculous it made those grand words sound. "Fight o'er the ram" last line was not dignified. Myd
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POSITION.
The quip for the times, which old Bill Bailey must have forgotten, is to point an index finger in the manner of the war-time posters, and to demand: What did you do in the Great Strike, Daddy?
PLACE.
I saw a Sanitary Board coolie taking an unusual number of dead rats out
of a collecting can the other morning. Baking enquiries, I learned that the finding of many dead rats is a bad sign, and that the experts are expect- ing a bad plague year.
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TYPHOON SALVAGE CLAIM.
The "Glancus" action was resumed The the Supreme Court. plaintiff's case was closed and the defence opened with a speech by Mr. Ronald Macleod, counsel. The hearing was adjourned.
COUNCIL NOMINATIONS.
Council Dominations are
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The Peak Tramway was handed back by the Government to the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., to operate after follows-fers Gardet, Lambe, the last car was run on the evening of Lawson, Lyman, Sakuragi Simms, Lester. and Wilson Retiring:- Mrass. Brooke, Smith, Mackay, and March 8.
Whitham.
well as a mild gamble, and I recom- Postponed owing to the strike, mend it. Meanwhile there is the pipe the St. Andrew's Church (Kowloon) and the perfume to try for, as above. day of help in aid of the. Tunnanfi Address your answers to "Adver Hospital and the St. Dunstan's Home sarius," c/o China Mail Office, and for Blinded Soldiers will be held on write your name and address plainly. March 20. I have a bet with the offerer of the pipe that not a dozen competitors will be forthcoming, so if you love me, don't compete, and don't mention the competition to your friends. I hate to lose a bet.
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Over 250 words are required in to-day's Government Gazette to cancel the proclamation calling out the Volunteer Defence Force for actual military service.
You people have me
The 15th ordinary annual meet MEANS completely fiammar- YOU.
ed. I thought I knewing of Gande, Price and Co., Ltd., will be held on March 17. The share something of human. Talking with a pal nature. Indeed, I bragged that I did. register and transfer books will be closed from March 14 to 17, both RAITLED, about the phenomers I thought I had you weighed "P-daye inclusive.
CORRESPONDENCE.
STRIKE OUTCRY.
To the Editor of the " China Mall.")
Sir,-Do you not think that careful reading of this morning's leader in the Doily Press makes it obvious that this journal is engaged in subtle pro- paganda for shipowners. The con- elading paragraph of that leader is false. In its hymn of hate of the Hongkong Government this new- paper not once has alluded to the truculent attitude of the two leading shipping companies of the Colony when the seamen first broached the subject of increased pay. In my opinion Sir, the origin of this strike was purely economic and it was only
of foolishness apparent And now I'm feeling like the ran when folk get rattled, he reminded me who gave a good banknote away. The 44th. ordinary annual meet- later or alter ranch irritation and that sometimes poetry has a scientific believing it was a bad one, and went ing of the China Sugar Refining Co., shabby treatment that the strikers
Your own home and ate a piece gi soap under Ltd., will be held on March 29. explanation to offer.
The were possibly influenced by misguided the impression it was cheese. Kind transfer books of the Company will politicians. In the eyes of many Wordsworth." he said, says that
Distempered nerves mixed in my notions. Where I be closed frotu March 15, to 29, both men (with the scanty information just Infect the thoughts; the languor find you not to be cheese is in that
days inclusive. of the frame.
matter of rumours. Tre heard so many rumours-all straight from the
Depresses the soul's vigour.
FARES
now before them) the shipowners are the people much more deserving of
The rainfall for the month of condemnation than the Government.
I bave been requested to horse's mouth--that I'm doubting if February at the Botanical Gardens The Hongkong Daily Press is con- RAILWAY point out that while the I'll ever again be able to recognize a
return ticket to and fact when I meet it. Where I find was bis 49 on 16 days, at the Matilda tinually reiterating that what it Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was says is universal opinion. This also American friends will not be pleased from Fanling cests orly $1.50, you are the good bankncte is in theirs, 12 on 15 days, and at the Police is not true and if it was, it would single return from Fanling costs splendid way you all bear discomfort Station, Taipo, it was Tins 68 on 6 merely stamp its efforts as good when they hear about it.
$1.00 and a return (taken at that and inconvenience, like laughing days. Riddell says they are a peaceful peo-ed) costs $2.40. It does seem all philosophers, and the still more ple, and determined to have peace;
splendid way you stand by one
but I'm sure they will not want peace wrong somehow, but you cannot
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journalism.
good journalism or propaganda. It is greatly to be At Saturday's Repulse Bay Hotel deplored that the feeling of the at that price. He even had to work expect a golfer to grumble. about it another and help. If you hear an cinner dansant Miss Rita Shield (the majority of people who make a noise body running you down as being not in a jeer at the teacher whose kits I'm a bit of a golfer myself.
up to sample, refer 'em to me, and melody girl) will be heard in latest in this Colony are taking up the There was an altercation Il chip in. You deserve a pat on the jazz songe, Mr. Will Hender again Attitude of the Hongkong Daily Press, were entertaining him. He says the
between two boys at head from the Prince of Wales, all of heads the jazz band. Motat coaches for the whole business merely con teacher thought "Eale Britannia”
you. But do, please, beware of may be reserved for private parties to stitutes a reactionary attack on our reach the public eye" I had to wes "my national anthem," How ALTERCATION.Ho-mun tin the other
day. One called the the TUMOUR The China Mail.enicker at that el max of seriousness; does he know that it isn't? A lord
babit. You've no Repaise Bay and return at a charge Government and is largely supported by those with "Prussian" views. If not checked they will lead to our but I was really after our duty," who thought he heard theirs sung other a name that refected on his idea what a lot of trouble it causes. of $24.
sure antecedents. I may be this and Helping the regular newspaper fellows be
andoing. 18E 8STICA, FUELIC SRVICE"
and I read co. The second paragraph to our tame carnot
the musical that," he cried, "but I'd have you during the crisis, as well as I could, A small collapse occurred at No. demanded speedy and drastic action, what's
in what
ram, all right. know one thing, that my father's which wasn't much, I wasted most of 30, Possession Street, at 11.30 yester He's BONGZONG, SATUrday, March 11 18 and that a loyal and law abiding line.
name is in the Dollar Directory." my time finding mare's nests, the eggs day meming Apartion of the back citiz ar 1hould stand by the Executive.
Appropriate to Cela va sans dire. Our duty is to
FOOTBALL China Mail leader on remain calm and unruffled." Foch!
this, which did not And that after rattling us by telling
ADVERSARIA.
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Yours, etc.
ENGLIERMAN.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
I got into a group of in which were always addled. The wall of the lotchen coming down and Hongkong, March 10, 1922. OLD-TIME old-timers telling stories. regular workers also enffered. In one smashing the stove. Luckily there STORIES. . One was new to me. It case it led to a trightfully embarras was no one in the place at the time. told how a Bank taipan, sing position. I must tell you about Sharings were immediately pur in and
effectively guarded against. walking near Tytam, got soaked in a that in the text paragram, because it danger of a further collapse was iTo the Editor of the "China Mali saddan shower. This was before motor is quite a good clab story. took off his wet clothes, and spread cars. The road seemed lonely. He
them to dry when the san came out.
REGRET.
No
تكسية
And in spite of all this. us about the seriousness of it all. My wection the incident, I hear that a THE STRIJE I am told there are colleague in this stant reminded me referee in a match on February 25 had people who pretend vividly of the scared small boy walk to order both teams off the field. I
Bir,In view of the numerous let- ing through a dark wood at night tine, presume that he then went to the
The rumour was that
To-day's Government Gazette con- ters which have been published: The Straits Times of and whistling to show that there is Eaces. I hope he won, for I admire
thanking firms and individuals for AMBIGUOUS cue of our officials bad RAY-TAH! Singapore reports that a nothing to fear. However, on re- a man of nerve.
In the streets of The trunsers, weighed with a few
resigned A China tains particulars of the terms on loes! collector of ancient Bection, I guess his advice as to our
Mail man interroga- which loans for the purchase of articles their services during the strike. I BOTTOMLEY London, when my silver dollars and a bunch of keys, coils possesses a one ant coin of daty" was as good as any we got.
I am an advertising
country was at war, slipped off the wall into the reservoir. ted him about it, and the following from the United Kingdon will be think it is only fair that the attention granted under the Trade Facilities of the public should be drawn to the Branei, Borneo, with the date of
ADVERTISING expert, and always and the war not going too well, I used He put on what was left, and while conversation took place. 1304. The coin," it says. "has been
loyalty of the lady operators that the interested in any to see huge piscarda urging the people in that state was spotted by an Indian "There is a widespread rumour Act which empowers the Treasury to fact that it was only due to the well preserved." "It is considered of
had policeman, who showed a desire to be that you have re-igned. Init true guarantee payment of interest or
principal (or both) in order to promote telephone service did not cease. The high value not only by reason of its contribution to the study of this art to read what Mr. Bottomley
male operatore were the first batch of That's or science or craft. Consequently, to say about it. I used to blush with inquisitive. He outpaced his purster,
"I'm sorry"
employment at Home.
public utility servants to strike-and antiquity (!) but
nough. I suppose most people with was tickled to see a Daily Mail article shame and swear, and think that my and found a Chinese suficiently trust
There was a twinkle in the official
the ladies concerned gallantly lazing enough to read Advertoria by Canon Meyrick of Norwich. A country had sunk low indeed, when ful to lend him his spare bifurcations
Replying to a letter from the volunteered for all night duty thereby must have guessed already that 1304 was once wrecked on my way to at each a time and in such circam-on promise of a dollar. Thus, in eye, you may be sure, as he demand-
Hongkong General Chamber of earning the thanks of the whole is a Muhamadan date, and that this Norwich. Went down with all bands stances it bad to turn to such a man. Chinese pants, he walked back to
Eh? What? Why are you Commerce, Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director community. antique coin is a little over thirty in three fathome. But that, so the London! Ichabod! I feel a little town told the water authority all yeats old. Any exchange shop in cow suid, 16 an under story. The better now. It has taken a long time scout it, and requested that they fist sorry 3" Hongkong will sell you a Brunei cent Norwich Canon is worrying about the to put him on his proper level, but he up his trousers for him, for the sake of the keys. They did and fined of that came date, and be glad to, for propriety and/or advisability of seems to be thereabouts now.
giddy adventures lithographed weather map. "I have Hongkong, March 11, 1922. Conan Doyle says that him $50 for polluting the water
supply.
and I certainly interviewed Mr. Edkins, the Chairman SHERLOCK Filson Young is no
of the Shipping Committee who, I By this time you should hope there will not be another understand, will make further pro- CROSS. gentleman, because he
attended ons of Doyle's FASTIME all have get over your for a long time.
excitement, and be look sure's you live, I'm going poeals on the subject for the order to dispose of surpins personnel STRIKE Bounced the Mourning seances and wrote in the Saturday
of certain unita, it has been decided Because I honestly Drinks. Po. "Dashed" was le Review that it was all bunkum. ing for a pratime. Il sp, let me to take lessons in cooking to be on consideration of the Government arising from forthcoming disbandment the people there introduce you to the game of word the safe side. I wonder how “maay
Mr. D. O. de Bilva, the local that substantive promotion in all "OUR DUTY." am interested in
mat jule, fox the anewer Young our duty," and was antely a lemon. If this seems were “ consciously but very building, which I have found most fellows made the same sort of riskaker quite at a loss to see what it ir, Tertiess, remember the advice of the willingly, deceiving themselves fascinating. A local resident offers a that I did, and got the same colis. It agent of the Sun Life Assurance Co. warrant and non-commissioned ranks read a leader of this title in Wise Man, that the only cure for the aid
Doyle drope pipe for the man; and I guess I can was easy enough getting the stuff, and of Canada, is mentioned eight times will be suspended throughout the Mike time Felegraph very cagerly incurable horror of transpontine his
ing that the afford a bottle of perfume for the there was never any need to feel in the January issue of the Company's Army Acting rank instead of sub-
by way of lady, she supplies the most words nervous about that part of it. But Agency Anything I can do, and ought to do, tagedy is to turn it into farcek
believing that that contain the following combine the kitchen end of the contact was place in I want to get started on a quickly is possible. The leader consisted of Saree paragraphs. The first said that the nitrations had become serious,
the outlook that
· one new Hongkong cant. The Straits advertising, his business. I reflect
Tines has been badly had. What on earth could it be thinking of to dream that Brunei in 1304 A.D. could have xay coinage at all?
that the first essential in good adverting is to have the goods to
advertise.
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Hopes again dashed"
The best way to party the the air in '% house PRÓLOSURES, to open all the dow** Conserto SOLZy that Fatty
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Yours, etc.
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