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JOYE
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THE
FATURTAY JANUARY 18, 1928.
Nightmare black abyamat, held me "And whom did you vote for, Miss in its terrifying grip until morning Acesrding to a Home Sophy?"
brought win comfort and growing magazine, which bughtWell, you are, the Conservative security. Even the gonia! warmth of to know, when a tele-candidate was simply stunningly the sun, however, almost failed to phone subscriber in good looking. But the Liberal had abap away the grim sp ctrea of the Japan rings up, the always been splendid to Lis family, night and disprove the hideous dream operator may be expect so I marked both ballots, closed me that had kept me in a cold swest- What number does the eyes, shuffled them, put one in the he gruesome, paralysing dream thak box and tore up the other. Nothing I had been house-huntlug in expwded could be fairer than that." Nothing, Hongkong!
What the rare rock painting .THEN" means to the modern
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
But that, sarely, in sweeping. The and a cheap company of pirate tooth is not cokeen, Because thou art politicians with a grain of rait, chance, but tvrably emtain, to dream, average almologue, delving into the passengers ready to undertake any not seen, Although thy breath be | The Passing Show tells it past, can still enjoy prosent beauties coups this piracy is a speculation | rude.' sometimes the more because he can often attended with great profit and a- share the entaser of the great spiritedom with irrions risk we shall not who were in vid to transmnts their be durprised to see the Jolly Roger iu feelings into exquite art. Who liestne Straits of Malaces one of thes not the more enjoy the lark's long days. Munchausen's body' les a rose. Lacing read Shelly's beautiful odo; mind'ring in the grave; but his soul who dare not the more admire the goes marching on; mambing ised to ask, Grecian urn having road Krate poem; coloma-Daily Graphic colon D."uonourable son of the moon and stais ¡ who does not the more love human ty
After-that it is only accesary to dezire?" The reply comes, “Hobi. baving read Shakespeare's master eay that the $70,000 could be called two-three." Silence. Then the ex- pieces 1.
$50,000, which still further reduce change resumes, Will the honour Next year
the the rewards deled out to the faithful able person graciously forgive the - AND 'arobiologist - endeavouring United States creatures aforoasid, That man from inadequacy of the insignificant service NOTE to reconstruct ancient lif spends
Dearly Hongkong must have succumbed to and permit this humble slave of the from grava. relics, that will $900,000 000 • fer the effects of the Hongkong Club's wire to inform him that the never to the present day newspaper, mean to
The total output of the Kailan defence Jant think cocktails and the sunset's afterglow be enfficiently cenanred line is enthe learned inquirer seeking (say) Mining Administration's mities for the nearly $600,000,000 for military mentioned above, and when con gaged!" Hongkong's sons of the five thousand years hence to re-week ending December 30, 1927. engines useless fre years hence:ience said "But is this really, really moon and stars, when the never to construct life in these troublous amounted to 90186 tons and the nearly $600,000,000 for battleships true?" exaggeration-an imp who be sufficiently-censured line is engaged times. The alarms, hopes, fears and sales during the period to 05.061 tons. obsolete even, sooner.; nestly lurks in most minds-promptly re-usually express their feelings them sensations-those Bttle intimate
Competitors in the Open, Billiard $600,000,000 for unproductive work. plied, Dash it all, what does any selves in one cheerful, gracious word details which history ignores, the Suppose this money, with the huge thing matter much less a few strayer, what's that I give it ? Certainly newspaper faithfully recorda. Wat Championship of the Colony ato sums other nations are spending the details!?
-"markee Charming people, earthquakes, levees, regattas, wrecks, invited to attend the V Rat 5.30 Peak dwellers thought Hongkong's sons of the moon and strikes, bangusta, murders, sporting for the various rounds, ard ́arrange ›
p.-on Jannaty 17 to draw Isms way, were devoted to useful work like medical research, public services, poor relief, educat-but, of course, the notion's utterly absurd. Waste nearly $600,000,000 for humanity's good! Whoever hard of anything so stupid, so idiotic. Hub
LIVE
AND
That the climate is unhealthy. That the Peak lights shine like the
windows of a mazic castia. That the saspius! lanteros ĝiake the harbour look like fairyland. That this can have very insidions
effects..
That sitting in the Hoogkong Hotels |
grill roon you wan are the sampsud lanterns.
That you can get to Cantan. by tisin
in one hour
ITTY THE
J.
a
~PRINCE'S ENGAGEMENT RUMOURS
DEET AND
DARK.
CAUSE
AND
fests, suicider, divorces, executions.
Home paper now an inventions fire, funerals, explosions, conditions. nounce that Mr. Dadley coronations, revolutions and A.D.C Field Malone, collector of plays-human endeavour in every
ex included a new bole on there.
To
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The Hongkon e General Chamber
Consequent upon verrganisation and the introduction of the regimental to into the Indian Army the 102nd K.E.O. Grenadiers (now in Hongkong) are to be the 2nd Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers (King Edward's Own).
The London Gazete notifisa that
At the Magistracy veslerday, aD People who com- unemployed Chinees was senteneed to BOPPING rait au cidé mast sit int mx maths hard labour for the illicit wrrn like this writing their posscasin) of 13,135 vfficial doses of HORRORS last wishes: Does morphine, which were confiscated. Ha it rolly need to minch was arrested on Tiisumday evening by | Detective Forpector Han Hang at the Hongkong wharf of the Yaumati Ferry. His pla b'fore the Magistrate
was the ancient on of the ding
THAT, they had sufficient grounds stars. FEAK for sell pity with the shop TRAX ping ladies swelling the CROSH, usual tiffin hour rush. They know better nor.
the port of New York in farm, the newspaper-reflects. Like of Commerce Chinese Language The Japanese naval visitors have
1915, has released, his rewise, the queer, the quaint and the School resume its sessions an on- shown them (unintentionally, doubt port on the cargo and contents of the but what was it. I ataited out today, Jadeary 15.0*ing to insuliinat How much better they fees, but none the less effectively)" Lusitania" because of "insistent mention? Oh yes. The following numbers of entrants, there wI be no DILATORY, do these things in what this rash can be made. Schem demands from all parts of the world." curious, item crept into Tuesday'a beginners* class —A Ivt,
Shanghai. You reading deeply to secure costi, several The report states that the "Lasi Chin Mail and thereby. haige a the account of the Sattismant'a Peak dwellers yestermora walked tania" oarried neither masked nor tale: John Bunyan's tomb in. Christmas ten meeting for rich down to Barker Road and there unmasked guns, carried neither Burkillfield's, City Road, C., was Ltd me? This happy gathering semel attempted to board the apgoing tar Canadian troops nor troops of any rededicated after repairs which have
to breathe true brotherly feeling; it with tog intention of sitting tight for other nationality, carried no was clearly appreciated by the mon the downward journey. This little plosives, but carriel 5,400 cases of cumbent effigy in place of the one themselves. The qusty Baterally effort to present the other prospective ammunition epifically permissible missing for several years." Doubt arises, why is Hongkong so backward passengera waiting topside with that under the rating of the Department loan the workman who made the in this respect-a query, which he Dow favourite political situation, the of Commerce in forde vinos 1911, repaire. rendered his account pro- comes more neute as the tram car, the fail accompli was foiled, however This report which could easily have safcally enougà, probably "for work motor car, and the taxi make the for the upgoing car was full and the nailed wany wicked stories and done," unlike the twelfth century Captain F. L. Browa O.B.E. of the Royal. Engineers ratized ou 90th ricsha-coolio'a lot the harder.
officials refused to allow them to settled much bitter controversy, has craftsman whose bill for similar November zad that Major and Br stand. As a result, they had to cool been withheld until now-as a State work, still-preserved in the Winches Col. W. A. Blake, O.M.G., D.3.0. of Perhaps you haven't yet realised what a remarkable their heels while two crowded car paper. This typical examp-but ter Cathedral Record Ofoe reads:-
t ausfired to the King's Rgment to placs Rongkong is. The went up and two crowded cars came why labour the matter. The official To soldering and repairing St. the Willahir Regt. has brea
Joseph...
Os. Bd.
be Lieut. Colonel. LEARN suthor of a short story in dowo again. With the service almind, who can fathom it ?
Home magazine evident waye heavily taxed in the rush hour,
What is the magic toosin To cleaning and ornamenting the ...08. 8d. ly knows, for he states (among other am confident our visitors, able to
which halte harrying Holy Ghost,
As the bends of the Canton things)
came ond go no s'er they list, would
multitudes ia their stride; To repairing the Virgin Mary and not taze amiss the suggestion that EFFECT. rouses the idle from their cleaning the Child........ 8d. Nanyang Tobacco Go.arei Shanghai,
torpo; makes them,
screwing a nose on the devil, and the local management Fas telegra they leave the barried business man the car in the busier ¡acts of the everyon!, quiver": with excitement;
putting in the hair on his bad, and phically informed them of the men's day.
imbues their minds with frab pur-
placing a new joint in ble tail.... demands. Nothing will be decided ..5s. 6d. by the Hongkong office till instrze- Had the Prioco pose; and sends them hotfout towards
Here's another little tiou's have been received from Shang- Wales married one a common goal? What is this sum.
HUMANE. story that might have bai. per cent the fair mons that makes the clerk desert his
been written originally ladies the nowed-ek, the barbar leave his lathered
Leong King-mow, recently papers have select onstomer, the taipan forget his balance for Hongkong:
"Why didn't you blow your harn brought back from Shanghai and ed for him he would have been the sheets, tas conlle abandon his ricsha? world's record Mormon. The latest What is this call which wrests awry when you saw the man in the road?" charged before Mr. R. R. Lindseli was "Well, I thought it would be more brought up on remand you orday. He choice is the daughter of a well-known the day's routine, driving away. That Shameen's main street, has Scottish ear. She has, the cables thoughts of joy or care, and consum merciful if he didn't know what hit is alleged to have embezzled $12,700 from the Wing On Bask of Kongmoon line of low, white bungalows," said both beauty and braint, and her ing the whole soul with its burning him."
This is the type of motorist who and Hongkong. He pleaded guilty That Hongkorg cao phone Canton.family, "one of the oldest in the query, its unique thrill? What is That the Hongkong Club's cocktails peerage, owas castles north and this same cry that performs thess doubtless inspired a certain American and the case was adjourned to neza
and the sunset's purple afterglow south of the Tweed. Among the wonders in the comfortable cocurity newspaper's opinion that the kang. Honday. make men think: "Dash it all, other possible brides the newspapers of daylight but (usually) strikes chill aroo is just one of Nature's abort va "what dosi maything matter?” have relented are Lady Rachel Cay and oftimes, terror when darkness efforts to produce a safe prd-strias.
Hongkong must thank lib. Lady Mary Cambridge, Lady has cloaked the desert d streeta in Emystery, Duszrtainty, and danger? the Penang Stats Echo Paris Gordon Lennox, Lady for the following serv.co, Bowes-Lyon. Lady Mary Thynas and Cheap enough, it is, and common, too. PIRATE, performed with that Lady Diana Bridgeman. The first More swift than any magic batton, paper's usual trenchant two, when the Prince returned from more potent than any mystic.cabalá,
his Eastera tour, were generally said it is the police whistle the robber's courage for a man to kill h mueli ?
The worst part must be the The_China_Mail.838) the credit of William III's ability--
Government was so low in London. "Hitherto we have considered the to repn ernt the choice he would be terror, the citizen's friend. Likewise that it was impossible for it to borrow Daily Graphic to be a sound. sessible ven. Both Lady Mary Cambridg-is-it-my-friend also, for were it not simple act of stretching out the hand,
having been entrusted to him by any large sum; and the avil cas the little paper; but, if it is going to and Lady Rachel Cavendish were that I have just beheld again the grasping the weapon, and feeling its greater, because in consequence of the pablish auch preposterous twaddle bridean Ja to Prince Hary and both excitement which follows its shrill chill.
But no, I am holding it in my friend.. left hand....I "place the barrel Hororeno, Saturday, JAS. 15, 1923. French wat, the financial straits of as that which appeare in an ions to are, held in equally high favour at call this column had been to day
the Government were extreme. At baad by last mail, under the headlines Court: The right in the very mid- one halting paragraph the less.
What strange against my temple... the sensation. There will to some matimental. last sobeme was hit upon which China's. Pirates The World's die of the season the Prines dropped
not at all disagréemblé."" "A" little regret among tmvell Es on the North ACHIEVING
abiver Should you have already would relieve their necessities. The Worst Paid Adventurers we shall out of sight-took to the secluded life
...then the steel growe Atlantio at the dis ppaamanes under THE choern Hongkong for the plan,' says Macaulay, was that have to revise our opinion. The and gave full, rein to his love of
their old name of a.`vard well-known "No that cannot be the most liners in the Canadian trade. The 18 verue of your next £1,200,000 should be raised at what offending artisle purports to have exercits. During his Indian visit, when an exalted old prinse, with crims-murder, song, was then considered as the moderate been written by a man from Hong Oriental simplicity, asked him how Germany. I am not too sure," he terrible moment. It must be the Canadian Pacific Bisamship Services forgery, poem-change rate of 8 per cent. In order to induce kong. If he is from Hoogkong ho your plane without delay. Select the subscribers to advance the money must have written it with bis tongue many wives he had, Prince Edward added, "if we are yet beginning to second when one prace the trigger.han announced that their "Ecapecem London, Paris, New York-any one of promptly on terms so hufavourable to in his cheek! He tells the Daily that he was as yet unmarried." Bu: last. This week's events would
laughed tremendously and repled recover from it." That was in August the fast order the sont gives the of ledis will ic future be known as the Monthurier, while the popular He lesser known cities. But foreswear the public, the subscribers were to be Graphic's readers that the Chirst you must be very lonely returned certainly seem to confirm his doubts.
"Who knows? Perhaps even Victorian has lost her identity in the Hongkong. It's not the crime itself. incorporated by the name of the pirates are coolice acting on behalf of the old man, "No," mid the Prince Anatole France records that a high-glamour has get hold of you, you feel the Marval: the Tunisien, the
that is nothing . . . Once the "Marloch." The "Cormican” besome You can leave your revolver lying Gav. rnor and Company of the Bank rich and unscrupulous Chiness about here with impasity or speed of England. They ware an incorpor. merchants who, when they bear of a lonely. And now they are saying manunts who once discussed this is the sand the
with decision, I am anything but lyinfelligent woman of gentle
“Marborn"; and the "Bootian,” the your motor with abandon. No, it's a ́ed, and the £1,200,000 was ship that is loading a rich cargo,
I understand that perfectly... Marglen." not the crime iterif; it'a'the remorse. obtained."
Hlace a company of Chinese coalies again that the Prince has his own batred with him, proclaimed its sign
You must feel as if you no For almost any book you open wili
longer existed. You have read about abcard her as passengers, and leave plane, that nothing will shake bis of progress and a proof that with the bring your mind back to the scene of
A report from Honolulu tells of m The coolits resolve, and that he will not allow passage of time our system of morality the rent to themi
You are no longer conscious
atrenuous fight against fire on board the crime with some allusion or
then Beiza the
Limself to be married off. This Prince is reaching perfection, Hair, she of any sensation ship job is not all beer and skittles, clear said, was a virtue; it was perhaps the picture, Hongkong's teaming, so
the st. "Clan MacBrayne," bound The Unknown calls you from Port Arthur, Texas, to Hong you'll appreciate this and take everything that they can ever know when your paper would thereupon ventured a timid question the first convenient opportunity. Suppose that you youres'f noblest of virtues. Anatole France famous, The latest example is quite
Draws you, envelops, you kong, with gasoline on board, Fire flattering for the Colony. London. Maugham's new book "Ons Chinese lay their hands on The faithful select a bride for you and blazon its how it could be possible to Esta
occurred at sea on November 6, and And you press the trigg when the atramer arrived at Honolulu creatures. then-convey the swag tö choice. abroad. their employer who rewards the married for peace. That's possibly he urged; "a whole peopla;, it la a Loudly the book slipped from myfour daya later ber-borkers were
Why you'd get whole people. "Think of it, madam,” "I was introduced lato a beat with a few cash, with which they are at the Prince would have done good deal. A people composed of so
ablaze and only a wooden bulkhead Hangkong is honoured, placed among enough room, brightly lit, divided antisfied until they receive sailing long ago had he been less spirited, the wonders ni ancient Egypt. The ato cubicles the raised floor of which, orders for their next piracy. It must
many millions of individuals, allervelees fingers. The noise, notually
́explosive cargo. A fire tug stood by, marvels of Babylon the glories of covered with clean matting, formed a be a wonderful thing, to be a Pirats
winter wind! Thou them resembling the rest! An in-shin with monstrous clamour, while a crew of stevedorm worked day "Blow, blow, theu different from one another, not one of light enough, struck the eerie, separated the flames from ber highly Greece, the splendoars of Rome, the convenient couch. In one an elderly King on the China Cosit. The man trimple of Ans, For the little, old gentleman, with a grey head and Im Hongkong is quite clear upon COUNTLESSS art not so ankind a finitesimal number of them desired Brow moist and hand shaky, I
THOUSANDH man's ingratitude....... the Colony, you must know. diouts a very beautiful hands was quietly this point. He says that if the pirates
still Cemaller crept stealthily. nervously, (carfully and night to remove the gasoline. photograph in the new 400 page Wells reading a newspaper, with his long of the Bui An were set to work
Monday bable: number was responsible for it; into bed. Screwing my courage to the When this had been done the burning history parveying time from the pipe by his side. In another, two according to custom the hand of
Le Matin says that the the innocent masses have switching polat I managed, to turn coal was removed and all danger to out the light. Then, prey to the full the vessel averted, so that she was death and anguish
able to continue her voyage to Hong-.. molten world to the latest praca coolies were lying with a pips between sixty fiv will consider themselves Sovist Government has requested the suffered wrangle. Barely, though, the London them, which they alternately prepared paid with overwhelming generosity French Gavernment to send to Russia from it. To hate people-why, it terror of the dark. I cursed the felly. publishers could have found for this and omiked. In a third, four mon if they get a thousadth part of the military mission headed by Marshal is to hate opposites, good and evil, the weakness, which had kept me story of mankind, a more attractive squatted over a chessboard, and n £70,000 of booty they are reported to Jofre to reorganise the Red Army, beauty and glines. For all that awake long after the midnight hear picture than Queen's Road (seemingly) little farther on a man was danding have secured. Now, a thousandth of The French Gover runt has replied though, the French and the German devouring Grand Guignol creeps, twenty years ago. Docen't the Colony a baby (the inscrutable Oriental has a £70,000 is £70, and £70 among 85 to the effct that it is not dispend at seem to have brought the insiness each (qu'iting the glib reviewer) offer a pector Pintott charand the twe boast something more interesting than Pasion for children). It was pirates is £1.1. 01 ssy about 59 pressut to send the vietor of the down to a fine art, which may yet ing the greatest impact in the employees of the Bank of China whom shortest space. Impossible now he brought up from Singapore this, something more distinctive cheerful spot, comfortable, home each! Call is seventy thousand Marne among the signatories of the end, if they're not careful, in another found to dismiss these gruesomely recely with emberalen nt. Only hilleide city, a magnificent harbour, a like, and coy.... Fiction is dellate which is nearer the mark, and Treation of Brest Litovik and fiue art-the one that de Quincey weird stories from my mind. I had $1,000 has been recovered at of the bountiful Peak, a superb Repulse Bay, stranger than foot."
our buld pirates receive the gallant Hapalo." H. G. Wells' "A Shart wrote about,
capped full with horrors." The $10,000 alleged to have been And funique this!) n Garden Rond
Mr. Maugham
Bum of one dollar and eight cents History of the World" There can
Woman, "aid Hazlit supp:sedly dead man thrown appropiated, When th ́iwo men have more of what is to the ravenous hounds, and the arrived in Singapore where they were fine contempt for the apisce for their trouble. One would be no doubt that the early appearance
terned good sens than frightful, inhuman death rattle which arrested later, they rent a letter to Justy scholar. This is imagine that a Chinese coalie could of Russian armies in East Prasis in
FOURT. 8 pmber, 1914, diverted the energie how he describes the find work, less arduous.
men. They cannot rea and
their Bank Mannger splaining that proclaimed him still alive; the ENGLAND, how his heroine, Koralie, laol gue
more remunerative without ran- and the attention of the Germans from
son wrong, for they do agonising remote of the husband prior to leaving Ilon ketg they was so fascinated by a Here is a man who has touched niig the lisk of being hanged their first v ctorious drive on Paris. not reason at all This applies very who found that he had unwittingly handed $28000 to strand o bring The sufferings and deaths of soures of neatly to the fashionable young wo buried his adored wife alive and the to, them on the bout The friend rperusal of Walter Bagdad lo book, reality only through the printed page. for murder or put away for a
Lombard Street," that she ultimate The tragic splendour of the lotus ong term of rigorous imprisonment thousands of ill-fed Russian pasante minu who did uut know for whom to fatelul camera, plate which showed never turned up. On the ship suther ly became a woman-banker. Decide moves him only when its loveliness is ar piracy. But in the pesant saved France from complete over vota dating the recat election and her eyes bad moved even while the $10,000 was stolin (rum,them, they ly there is an element of romance is enshrined in the verse of Li Po dad distress amounting almost to famine, throw in that momentous opening asked the polling booth policeman!
still more ghastly horrors thronged they leand it would lead to their the atoly Bagobot tells of the found the laughter of demare Chinese girl pirater aru at discount. It must campaign, and made all Western That actually happened. You must in the coffin-these and other were afraid to totily. Uk- Police an ation of that world famous institution stire his blood bat in the perfection of indes, as the man from Hongkong Europe, the debtors of that great and take this other like London Kee says my cowering mind, Ifell fata & arrest. The Inspector, asked for a
• Thy the fastidious cantibala take their sual: sumber. Sleep for Not: pare week's retused and this was granted. the Bank of England: "In 1891 (he' an exquisí sly chitalled quatrajo. absorver, be even easier than usual to tragic people."
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Paris, New York-trein and most thi world's other capital cities are nubbed, completely ignored, while
In bis latest best
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or Mr. Hutchinson; relates
BONE CHINESE
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