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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, · 1928
CANTON NEWS."
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS.
TAIKOO BALL
1
ANOTHER BIG SUCCESS.
proved in the light of modern know While the great conflict ledge of geology and biology, that lasted, the war was blamed modern man bas undergone very little for almost everything that obange during the last two hundred was not as it should have, thousand years. Indeed, more than ABOUT bern-soaring living costs, this "An individual whose bones (From Our Own Correspondeat.)ry Hors to the annust hall of the
ABOUT
Ir
AND
stormy weather, rough have been une:tthed from pleistocene
collar edger, garrulous neighboura, deposits might, ware be alive to day,
NOẠT RONG-PING IN CHARGE.
CANTON, Jan. 19.
AS
Strings of motor-cats made their way to Taikoo last night taking bappy
Taikon Rrezeation Club, which was held in the apacious club building. Floor clothe should not be allowed to remain wet. Wring them after are dirty trains, naughty night clubs, be taken to shops in Mile End Road No political or military develop. The attendance was almost a reporă, and hang them op to dry..
watery soup; these and a thousand and fitted out with ready made meats of importance have taken place and over 100 people spent a very Hops should be well shaken after other evils equally bad. Now that clothes, boots, gloves, and a hat, all since yesterday ambers of the delightful evening.
The decorations were not on such use and placed head uppermost to dry. Europe has naively adopted the word from stook tires. In these he could Kuomintang state the Dr. Sun has
scale peace to cover its troubles, the long probably walk up Leadenhall Street appointed Chow Los commander-in- lavisti Pens. If pen points are wiped be
on previous fore being laid down they will last suffering war is getting its own back to the Bank, and on down Fleet Stront chief of the "anti rebel army" and years, but there was about them a much longer.
and has entered into this b'aming and the Strand to Charing Cross with Wa Han-min Civil Governor. Ngai, delightful eimplicity. As one ap- Pios-Keep is containers. If
business with gusto. The controversy out attracting more attention from Bong-ping has assumed control of the proached the entrance to the Clab the allowed to lie about on a desk theyWho began it 1" provided the open the crowd, which now takes aliens for Peace Maintenance Burean, com-firat thing which caught the eye was an are likely to be swept away by sing and the number of the accused granted, than would a modern negro prising military, naval and police archway of vari coloured electric fairy- daster.
grows over greater. Obloquy has or Chinaman." Presumably our detachments. It has been reported lihts hidden amongst foliage. The Soap.--Bors of soap should be cut fallen in turn on the Germans, the descendente will be writing like this that Dr. Sun has definitely deaded to stairs leading to the dance hall weze into piears of serviceable size and Russiaus, the Austrians, the Serbians, about us two hundred thousand years come to Canton in the near futura decorated with brightly coloured allowed to dry before use. This the Bulgars, the Tarks, the Greeks, later or will constant riding have but others state that his plans will be bunting and not plants lined the makes the soap last longer.
Blame has centred in armaments, weakened man's legs until they have governed by Heu Shuog chi's move sides. In the dance bail, rivergreen Have you read the economic conditions, political in fually disappeared; unremitting us mente. Another cams of importance festoons ran right round the room. latest book by. And trigues, Socialist plate, capitalise of hats bave caused him to become again in the foreground is Sham They were hung at irregular intervals then they will besitate, echemes, French revanche. None of Fermamestly bald; and age-long diet Chan bauen, ex Viceroy of the Two with pretty little illuminated Japanese Legiuzing again: Have thres, however, is the real culprit. I of tabloids have made him entirely Kwange and one of the Seven Ad lanterns which formed the principal ministrative Directors in Dr. Sun's fenture of the decorations, An ill- you read the latest know and I'll let you into the secret. toothless ?
When the fussy little Military Government à few years uminated portrait of The King or book by William le-le-le.... Ob! The war was started by an atmy, not
engine has made its lastrogo II is a native of Kwangai copiid & central position at one end you know whom I mean. The man the Russian Army, not the German
TASK's journey when the long and it is claimed that Sham of the room, draped with the Union army, but the army of men who are
atting of tracks has emptied Hang-ying commander
the Jack and White Ensign. On the op- now making fortanee, big and small,
the final load; when the Kwangsi force now in Kwang-posite wall hung a similarly adomed writing about every aspect of the great tassle. When they have no expensive breakwater has been com tung is his sapporter. Shum Chan- portrait of Mr. John Swite, the head more revelations to make, no more picted; when imposing thoroughfares heuen fell out with Dr. Bun when the of the firm. The supper and card memoirs to write when they have have been laid; when huge godowns Kwangsi militarists were driven from rooms were in the lower portion of the exhausted the war as a subject, why, are rising everywhere; when modern Canton in 1920 but they are reported building and were also very prettily they'll just engineer another little dwellings are taking shape; when the to have joined hands again.
whole vast Praya East reclamation ecrap and begin over again.
scheme has been completed and Hong. kong is sixty acres richer, then will they erect a status and place it in the position of honour. They will erect--
NOW AT
LAST.
who writes-x-nsational-novels-No, not Oppenheim. I've forgotten his name." The problem is neatly stated by ono candid reader who wrote
the author in the following straia:
It troubles each sex,
So I put it to you;
Is it Wilkam L- Quex. Or William E Queux ?
We give you the cus,
So no Longer parplex, It is William Le Queux, Not William Le Quex.
13
TOLD
to
The happy father of A 17 tripleta was explaining to a friend that he could only account for it by the last that his wife had been to the film version of "The Thren Musketeers" at the Corozet recently. "Good Heaven" replied the friend. with a horrified look "my wife cama back from Home the other day and she was telling me that just balora she left London she went to ang The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" How will the future historian write down the twentieth can.
THE WORLD'S GREAT AGE.
не ourselves now
LIKE
WHEN TIR
O'IR.
+
of
EXPEDITION AGAINST
WATCHOW.
d'corated. The Cafe Wiseman Band supplied the delightful dance music.
Funeral-surely! These
Amongst the guests wore:-Mr., Woebegone looks, these
Mrs. and Miss H. W. Robertson, Mr. OTHELLO drooping banners, these
and Mrs. G. T. Edkins, Mr. and Mrs. mournfulstrains, obvious
ibiz atatue to the humble, toiling Although it has not been ascertain. J. Reid, Mr. and Mrs K. E. Greig. tokens of sorrow were cooli
whote labour made this ed where Chen Chiung-ming is, the Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Young, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
"SOON.
they. "Funeral ? " The knowing Aladdin like feat possible. Yes, they troops that left with him are now in
|will do this thing—I don't think. Weichow. The pro-Sub leaders seem Kent, Mr. and Mrs. D. Templeton, China oncs hail, very determined to drive the remnant of Lt. Conway Hake, Dr. and Mrs.
one with me sniffed "What you see,' he said, "is a procession--the Burg fars' Goild procession" "But--?" Istamm red, "I don't quite under- stand." He replied shortly. "Fare well procession.
guild clused .. buzacss dead...ture down. jelutary; sentences.
deterrents. stoad.
-
severe
Then I-and-r
QUILTY
UUT
SUPERFLUOUS TROOFS.
long ago, an emperor Chen's army out and are organising Black, Dr. and Mrs. McKenny, Dr. who ordered the den- an expedition again it Waishow, and Mr. Forsyth, Dr. and Mrs. PENITENT. truction of all books,
Urquhart, Dr. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. save thosa on agricul-
Lang, Dr. and Mrs. Heauley, Miam medicine and divins inn. His
Tassell; Miss Jean Macgngor, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jokosor, Mr. and motive was wholly bad-be wanted
The only diequisting feature in Mrs. T. 8. Morrison, Mr. W. Russell, literature to begin with his owni reign-but bis decree, barbario Cauton at present in the number Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lows, En Capt. Does poverty aid Art though this may sound, was not of troops billeted in all parts of the Garwood. EXAMPLE This question I wholly bad. Ilad he been a trus city, although-they-ere quits-orderly.The committers in charge of the
BETTER prompted to ask because sebolar, not a conceited ass, he would Ngai Bog-ping, when asked to be arrangements were as follows
THAN I neti e that an American have preserved every good book and Civil Governor, replied by asking Decorations:-Messrs. J. Simpson TRECEFT, literary papor-The Dial burned only the rubbish. Instead of what was to be done to get rid of the (convener), Gray, T. Young be
-awards annually the being infamous in history he would superfluous troops and where were the Grimshaw. tary? Will he and quite respectable sum of $2,000 (gold) then have been famous. Obviously, funds forthcoming from to support Supper: -Messrs. McCubbin (can- the tale of its way to a young "American writer whose The real tragedy of the Alexandris them.
vener), P. W. Ramsay, 'O'Brien suð cat weighing the tale services to literature it considere Libraty was not that its books were Fantan saloons are springing up in D. Morrison. of its west; will be declare the sum of worthy of recognition. Unlike most burned, but that they were burned all parts of the city. There are by no Bar and Card Room Marure, C. its failures overshadowing the sum prizes, this award carries no condi without discrimination. The modern means clandestine, as large signboards B. Matthews, Whyte, Russell, Weir nita successes? It is interesting to tions. The recipient can use, the
sage who first said that never spoke have been put up. The authorities and Jas, Sloan, speculate apon posterity's verdict, money any way he chooses The ob with greater truth. The world is have not restarted, the gambling Door 1-Mesra, Russell, Drammond the more epcially ject, however, is to enable him to carry becoming choked with books that monopoly but various commanders audi Grimsbaw.
occupy the on hie work without financial worry should never have been writter. The with their troops quattered in the *Dance M.C.:-Mesers. Seath, Hope, indgment—est and review the for twelve months at least. This ex world should therefore make a regalar streets give protection" to the C. Young and Peoples. centuries that have already paused. ample is worth noting and emulat practice of burning its Alexandria salons in return for payment for their Among these a modern historian finds
ing. How often have authors lacked Libraries-burning them with diacri- upkeep. Nothing bas been done to the Gtb, century BC., one of the the assistance which would not merely mination, of course. The never end, stop the evil. most-remarkable-in-history-for-that have 1ssed their borden-and-who ing. flow of print-books, tracta, period, hs explains, saw mankind'a knows --possibly have enabled them brochures, manusle, magazines, adolescence begin. During the 6tb. produce faer work, but would pamphlets.journals, periodicals, newa- Century B.C. lived, unknown to each indeed have saved them from sharing papere, and circulars-the never- other, such
The damage to the Kowloon Canton January cordingly he prepared the sermon, | Buddah, the teacher who bald that Chatterton's fate. Surely if the late ending flow of print it terrible to Railway caused by Chen's trompa has Mr. Carnegie could endow politiciaus contemplate, especially when one teen repaired and the full schedule but he omitted to verify the text until man has conquered his personal-he gave Lloyd George £3,000 a year reflects that most of this vast supply was resumed this morning, expresses until the morsing he was to preach. cravings his life is trouble and his ead to free him from financial worries is treasured with miser cate. And leaving Canton and Kowloon as usual. Then he found the real text to read: sorrow; Iasish, the Jewish prophet; surely wealthy men can be found who nov-horter-even while I do-lore Between Susk Pai and Tang Mei, the "The Lord hath brought me home also Heraclitus, Confucius and Lao will follow. The Dial's fine example this surging flood, I am myself increas stations are damaged and no stops
Tso. Three of these names are now and by endowing genius enrich the ing its volume-the very words will be made there. An Italian, whose frait-universally known, standing for the world of ideas. Burely,
write to confess my offense drip barrow stood in a crowd. way of peace and the way of content-
Some men you might further drops into the inky sea. I' think were descended stop. I'll stop right away. Therel RELATIONS from the shark, the hoar, or the beaver, GORILLAS. but they the great, mysteriona "they"
Seafaring Men please note we can now supply the following Cigarettes ex hoil, at viry moderate prices, Sandorides Club, Teofanis Kings Own, Chairman, Mage, Cavandors Army Club, Chus Stewart fast and Present, best Virginians, urat Yafiadis Egyptians.
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ons for bis first sermon when he re- joined his Home Alock again. Ac
BYME THOMSON.-On
18th, at. 53 The Peak, to Mr.
and Mrs. F. Syme Thomson,
.BOR.
&he China Mail.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
Hongrong, Saturday, Jas? 20, 1923.
a
again empty,"
HEARD THIS
ed street, grew annoyed ment. DEFORE? at the way people con-
THE
man
Gautam
:
OUR
I'll guess there waS KOMIS Ruotsing dons here daring the week. Ameri- cans claim that they
THX
tinually handled Lis LACONIA wares, pinching and mauling them. LACONICS
LOCAL AND GENERAL After a while he put a notice ap o s large card: If you must pincha da have adopted this word direct from who never rr-they trace man's
The "Empress of Canads" went The Sirens never callel a frait, pincba da coco-ant."
Chaucer who ared "gesse" very descent from the ape. That's the into Kowloo. Dosk for her annual THE Ulysses more insistently
The Home decision to frequently in the present slang sense. origin.I grandparent they have found overhaul this morning. CALL than the leaping, hughing
CHERISH destroy the war tribunal The word may be good old English for an-even for you and for me. And OF, waves were calling me Low,
records naturally but it is not-I guess-good modern now by way of driving home their Mr. Hajee Mohamed Haszan THE Gracefully I saw the bows of
THOUGHT. Ruggente the question English.
conclusion they publish an article; Nemazee has been appointed a life SEA the vessel risa and plunge
what has happened to into the long, green roller, our own Hongkong recorde. They
Some kind fair "Anthropology," in ono of the three member of the Court of the manttering its foaming creat into a will presumably lie in the offici
WITH THANKS. wafted this into the Encyclopaedia Britannica" supple University. shower of spray. Then down, down archivee until came-remote age when week. Whence it came, by whom been issued. In this they declare office during the meatary volumes which have recently
Mr. George Andrew Bun, of down' I felt her surge and I held raya bright young cadet looking for the 'twas writ, both I know not, but I that "in spits of not intrequent Taikos Sugar Refinery, has been breath in fractul ectasey until the harbour scheme papere will stamble valdly print it because I think you'll attempts to disprava man's kinship granted letters patent for an inven- next great wave seat her quivering upon them and while away an hour-- like it. upwards. Greedily I drank in the the tiffie boar, of course-glancing
with the apes, recent research intion for improvemente in means for keen, fresh air while the satt epray over
"It is a night of sublimas anatomy, embryclogy, and com swinging derricke in cargo ships.”. pages. That his
witchery. Stare everywhere. I leapparative pathology as well as the
Yesterday an armed robbery conclusive test of blood-relationship Lough caress among my hair. What carious early in the Government is full. I would embrace all the world;
their
RAILWAY RESUMEŠ.
DE COLBERT RELEASED.
Dr. de Colbert has been released without farther trial. It was stated that as he was charged with an offence against Chen Chiung-ming he is not liable in any way now as Chen has
fled,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Cloak Room:Mears, Lillicrap and Laing.
Chairman: J. Russell. Hon. Treseurer: B-Matthews, Hon-Sec- retary: James J. Whyt
The dance programme was follows:--
Waltz.......Idle of Sweetheart 2.-Fox Trot........... .Georgia
4-Fox Trot.
3.- Падсега...
5.-Waltz.
Gondoliere.. ...Lo-La-Lo Three o'clock in the
One Stép 7.-Fox Trot ... 8.-Eighteoue Reel
Morning Sunshine
The Shiekh
Dié among the Tailor .....Mazis
9.-Fox Trot 10-Oar Step..I got It, You'll get It 11.-Waltz
„Dalihla .My Home Town 12.-Oas Step... 13.-For Trot... ...Song of Indis 14.-Caledonians
..::Eramures on and Aws and Donald Dhu
15.-One Step.. 16.-For Trot
17.-Waltz...
18-Lancers.......... LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY 19-Fox Trot.......
PROFITS.
20.-One Step
(To the Editor of the " China Mall.")
Sir,-Allow me a little space in your valuable paper.in order to bring to the notice of lovestors what I consider au
and
slang ay lace and the wind made prematurely solemnisce (they become. (or want to,) dance, ring. My heart has definitely established the fact of took place at No. 210 Winglok Street, injustice dons by the Directors of the joy, what delight! Hongkong, the service) break but once into a smile, even load it money. Anon my word man's close kinship with the occupied by a-Chiaras Californian Hongkong and Investment .crowded, toilsome city for away Lowever superior, then have thenhanges and memory overwhelms anthropoid apes, and especially with Merchant. Five robbers dressed' in Agency Company, Limited.
astorn and the great, open sea calling me-calling me insistently, clamantly, irresistibly, What bounding joy, what supreme delight! And then that damned telephone bell rang.
WAR
LINES.
me. I remember
p
21-Fox Trot
22-Waltz...
Why Dear
Yoo-Hoo ..Rio Nights .Gondoliers
*Stumbling .Will'em with
Kindpom
..Smiling
...Lovely Lucerna
Extras 1.-Fiz Trot...Con! Black Mamay 2-Waltz.
.Back to the Ok
Swimming Bole
BLACKMAIL
records been preserved not in vain.
I notice that the Directors of the the gorilla (1) But the fundamental long coats obtained admission and things.
AT CORONET THEATRE, London's cenotaph, that That first kiss. She who gave
conclusion is not in any sense after binding and gagging the inmates asid company have decided and saw holders in the way of boous although "monument of simple it. The others....The glorious moons invalidated by the clear recognition made of with $2,000. The Police fit to redone the return to the share- the company is reported to have.
Something of the seamy side of MEMORIAL and austere beauty," that made intoxicating the nights of of the further fact that the ancestors are investigating the affair.
of KI und the gorilla res This song, doubtless, Los
has its inscription, and my youth. The friends who were
A Chinese arrested this morning done exceedingly well. Last year life which the rest of the world finds b came differentiated
the bonus BOME lost much of ite savour, will doubtless in due course also have that made the bloot lasp. I feel
Hongkong's memoria nd are not. The whispered nothingspectively
to the shareholders o fascinating is pictured in "Black SWEET much of its charm for
early as the Miocene Hongkong and Taiping, for illegal
pistol told the only $8. It may be said that the Fait charming Viola Dana figures an HOME. some people here-those its graven legend. Unless it bas again the slender fingers that caressed as
who have long since suc-
already been decided to ocpy theme. Glorious hours of youth. Gope, period (millions of years ago)." possession of
mother profound Magistrate that he forget to leave dividend for the year is orcased the charming daughter of a notorious cumbed to the happy, maskot spirit Home inscription it would be. As they lash before me I weep bitter. According to
authority. time was-about two the weapon behind when he came from from $5 to $0, and therefore the crook. Acting upon her father's at the East and what Conrad calisthe gracious thing to invite suggested ly, bepelessly, noisily. comfortable feeling of being white lines. This thought has been inspirad
hunired thousand yours ago when Taiping. The Police believed his story return is exactly the same as the death-bed jistractions she enbares a man of the type existing to-day lived and a hoaxy penalty was not asked for. Previous year. However I must paint young man whore chief bid for famo by Chesterton'a "For
cut that a company pays a bonus is likely to be the size of his bank- The great pharah lay side by side with another species of Defendant was fined $150.
to shareholders as its profit for rail bafore he began spending it. dying. "Sire," said inan, every bit as human, every bit an
the year justifies. In other words However the young man's lawyer when a company mikes more profit apikes her gund, only to fall dee- than the year before it will distribute
from the other, at least, on the Wo Fat junk plying between WEK $9 and this year, it mail," Sunday'spietarent the Corona
reads:-
"Druck again."
1 War
THROUGH
THE CENTURIES.
:
"Still to the last of crumbling time Upon this alone bs iend How many men of England divl
Still, Home Sweet Home" can set Memorial," the last verse of which for many people make the beart glow and the memory kirdle. Hera in Hongkong, however, the song is perhaps now got so much sung ss thought, Tan's (of all' places) bay a Leonorate reminder of ibe-song-a stained glass church, window to the memory of Fayne, the author who was onetime coccal there. This ¦ wlodów, bears the-taxé "The Lord
To prove they were not dead.”
TAKE PINKETTES
TO-NIGHT
"You'll feel better lu’the morning”. -
PINKETTES
his chief high priest, advacond in development but your fam shall structurally as different from modern outlast time." There man
as the gorilla from the. thousand years slipped away. Then chimpanzas. This species, B Youo-day the great-pbarob'e temu was extinct way regarded until recoutly. The Great Western found, And such was his fame (or as the less specialized ancestral typa woarn Railway Company in auch was the fame of his treasures) from which modera man had been NOTING. England has issued a that the discovery vied with a sens-evolved. The evolutionist now realises
little book of "economy ational murder trial for chief place that both forms are finished products, Tae detaily little gentle armaturo lava- hath brought me home." A clergyman hints" to its employers. I pass a few among the news. And thermafter the terminal twigs of a yet older also, I carta pač vial, past free, frum who visited Tanie in the course of his of the bints along to air, Winslow when anyone thought about the mur branch of the same stem which gave Dr. William adioins Co., 60 Kingse gravely thought the text, ad exorliens "lor, the consideration
der trial they thought also rise to the monkey and apta More Roa, Shangla
tivas are sold by chemists avaywhere.
bigger bonus to the shareholders. Porafely in love with her and an
intriguing contretemps follows: But in the case of the Hongkong Land · For next week'i programme at the TAVEN MAUL ANT Agency Company Caronet two special attraction tava Ltd, the Directore bave done just the been chosen. Flower of the North" opponite thing.
Enclosed plea fiul my card.
Yours, eto.
A SHAREHOLDER. Hongkong, January 19, 1923.
“ዩ
a stirring tale of love and romanos based on a novel by Jamsi Uliver Carwond, in one of them and the other is Charlie - Chaplın'a litast,“ “The Idle Class.”