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The sub-editor said he would do
Hongkong's radio his best, and the politician went
140 RADIO enthusiastsshould. away, quite satisfied NY The judgment of the balance, not
ENTHUSIASTS 'cut this item out. This incident calls to the yardy Desk
BEWARE and paste' it above EVEN mind another obituary Ho loves not words, but matterj BETTER : howler" which ap-'tis His pleasures an
their wireless To buy His wares by weight, and gear, for reasons which you will not by measure: A
soon perceive. According to latest In the days of our BOLSHEVISM fathers and grand Houo papers a curious wireless AND Fathers He phenomenon is exciting the inler
peared some years Lago In a small American local: The story is told by Tom Brown, the well-known black and white artist,
who, in course of conversation with a New York resident, said he was. anxious to obtain specimens of characteristic Yankee humour,as he
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big noises inuch was heard, spoken
SATURDAY, MAY 12 1923.
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SHANGHAI CHAMPIONS.
ROASTED ALIVE,
POULTRY BURNED IN SHEDS.
Of 335 turkeys, 92 geese and 782 ducks housed in three sheds la the Hoog Kee poultry farm at Kowloon City, the mapfority were roasted alive through a fire break. ing out at 7 p.m. yesterday..
LOCAL MAN WINS SECOND mised, but with the sourcity of
PRIZE
A party of police arrived on the scene shortly after the alarm wak
water little could be done. When the brigade arrived, the three Mr. A. McKirdy, of the Taikoo poultry sheds were almost gutted Sugar Refinery, was the fortunate and nothing remained for the fire drawer of the second prize in the men to do but to confine their at many friends in this port will the The farm is about fifty yards Shanghai Champions' Sweep. His tentions to the ruins. more heartily congratulate him in from the Saikun Road and is own view of the fact that he purposes ed by the Yee Hing poultry taking a trip Home during the dealers of No. 6t, Main Street, year. It may now mean retirement: Kowloon City. The actual damage
has not been assessed as yet.
·· LOCAL AND GENERAL,
DWYN WEN
NEW OWNER'S PLANS.
ISLAM, Gladstone *** Bild cat of listeners-in at Birmingham. t "Disraeli were the The other, night, Mr. D. M. hoped to embody them in a funny and written about the Russian Reril. Bloomer, a metallurgical chemist, book on America, when he return and the Muscovite march on India; was enjoying the usual programine ed home.
and of course the party politicians broadcast locally, when he heard "Well," said his friend, "the only made the most of it. In order to with the greatest distinctness a item I can give you for your book is commteract this ntchace." Dizzy" voice which he recognised as that a letter that a friend of mine in took ade stage of the 500 year-old of a lady living next door. It Anaconda wrote to a newspaper.implacablé hate between Russian Anaconda is a Western town, and and Turk, and wooet the Ponte. seemed that his neighbour was also my friend is a miner there. His To-day all is changed. In the great listening-in at the time on her own letter contradicted an obituary wave of unrest which has lately set, and it was her casunt remark about hintself that the newspaper swept over the Near East; fed that "I ought to be frying some had printed. It ran like this old enmitiés into friendships, and
Sir, I desire to call your al estranged races previously bound fish now that reached. Mr. tention to a few errors in your by many bonds, gothing seems Bloomer, The latter's apparatus fà obituary of myself of Wednesday more paradoxical ban the marriage last. I was born in Washington, between Bolshevisms, td Islenteovalve set, tuned to 350
The May criminal sessions are not in Wheeling and my retire But we hark buck, several metres, and the lady's a crystal set, to be held on Tuesday, May 22, at ment from the flour and feed centuries, much that seems wague the respective aerials being separ- 10.a.m buiness in '96 was not due to il- becomes clear. Instead of Islam ated by a distance, of 25ft, The The name of L. Suzor and Co, health but hard-times. The. cause we should say "The Turk, for sentence was apparently picked Ltd. has been struck off the re- of my death was not pneumonia" these two torns jure not syn up by the crystal set and trans- gister. The same thing has hap which the late Mr. R.E. Belilios pur- The "Dwyn Wen the yacht The London nouse We have long been evening paper's familiar with the two phrases: mitted to the valve set ought pened to the Yuet On Banking Co. chased and seat out from England a year ago last February, leaves "Scratch a Russian and you find a to be frying fish now" is a harmless Lid experience, quo-
here on Monday with her new WASHINGTON. ted above, sug- Tartar" and "The Unspeakable enough remark, Indeed, it has gests that well-Turk." Both the Muscovite and the something uplifting about it, some
An advertisement today re- owner, Dr. Ellis, as skipper, and a But just minds music lovers of the farewell Filipino crew. known people with wicked pets Turk are products of the Asian thing alinbst poetic:
MP W. C. Nicholas is mate and could make quite out a lot of toney plains, and both were driven west- think what might easily happen. recital to be given by M. Alexander from libel damages by giving out ward by Mongol pressure. Peter Fancy, hearing a candid analysis Sklarevzki in the City Hall on May Mr. W. B, Crane radio operator, the the dianer you gave 22. Tickets for it are obtainable at other deck officers being Mr. Henry reports of their own" de.ths and the Great sought by almost super of Ltd. then coming down heavily on the human effort and Tartar ruthless your neighbours only the night Moutreerita
Ellis, son of the owner, and Mr. J. T: Hamilton. The yacht is ultimate- unwary papers. But this profesness to open for Russia a window before; fancy hearing what they
to impose actually think about your "per- In response to a request by they bound for Portland. Swatow sion would not succeed ia America, on the Baltic and where quite recently a Socialist European culture on his Asiátic fectly lovely" gramophone; fancy Twenty-Four Commercial Guilds and Amoy are the first two ports of got himself four months jail for subjects. Some of his successors, hearing them frankly appraising Association of which Mr. Ho call. Sail will then be set for Kee- libelling you'll never guess notably Catherine, tried to emulate your personal worth and describing
lung and the Ryu-Ku Isles, where George Washington! This luck his example, and the World, your physical peculiaritics; fancy
it is hoped to obtain some deep sea less limb, had been incautions judging by the Imperial Court at hearing them wondering how you
fishing. Some of the ports between enough to declare, in a letter to a Petrograd, believed the transform ever make ends meet; fancy hear
Nagasaki and Yokohama, will be newspaper that America's first ation to have been effected. Such ing them appealing to the dark
visited and then a course will be laid for Portland, which it is ex- President used profanity and was not the case. The boundless Powers to know just why your
pected to reach about the middle of still more hideous crime-drank steppes and endless Siberian wife ever married such a shrimp, liquor. About the profanity I don't Plains were still breeding the old Worse still, fancy them hearing A meeting of the recently July.. know, but I saw, reprinted in type while Petrograd was merely you saying all these little things formed Hongkong Radio Club is the Home papers only last month putting arthin European veneer on about them. And then fancy what shortly to be called for the purpose a little bill that had been found an insignificant percentage of would happen when you ran into of confrning the draft rules and SERIOUS CHARGE FAILS. anong Washington's papers show- Russia's millions in spite of all the each other aboard the ferry next regulations. It is likely also that the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, ing that he was very partial to port efforts of the Tsars, Grand Dukes, morning! wine. Which only shows you.
and Greek Churchmen. The Turk
The Straits Echo told acting Colonial Secretary, will less, and, has changed even
MORE
some little time ago the attend the gathering and speak on Straits papers were
HARDY story of the Penang Government policy regarding radio ACCENT. greatly tickledrecent- whether he calls himself an "Old
.who By over
thought activity in Hongkong. the Negri Turk" or a "Young Turk." he still STILL lady
Thomas Hardy was the Sembilan St. Andrews Society's remains essentially true to the type
Arabian author of "How to be Happy There was recently exhibited complaint that many local Scots who, in the days of nien had lost their accent. One decadence, infused fresh fan- though Married," a book written in the window of the Star Garage, wag even suggested that the aticism into the arrested cause of by a former Hongkong resident. Shanghai, a beautiful newlimousine. Islam and struck a new and greater The Penang lady, says the Echo, built by the China Motors for Mr. society should set an examination terror into the heart of the wily has a Wahlverwandschaft in Paris, J. H. Taggart, managing director of paper for intending members, Here's an item I might well add, Byzantisic by his unparalleled if we are to believe the Manchester the Shanghai Hotels Co., Ltd., and an old Scottish toast which the ferocity. His alliance with Bolshe-Guardian's correspondent who the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. To candidate should rattle off without vism is another proof that his writes: I heard this story of Mr. those interested in high-class hesitation: "Here's to a your fouk barbarian rotalastincts have a George Moore lately Mr. Moore coach-building this sample of what an' a' oor fouk, an' a fouk that's rmer grip unon him than that re- was introduced to a charming can be accomplished by Chinese been kind to your fouk an' par his huster stamp ever since claimed. Ah, Mr. Moore, I do a foreigner 16, says the N. C. Daily ligion or which he has impressed French lady, who instantly ex-workmen under the supervision of fouk; an' if fouk had aye been as kind to fouk as your fork's been to he wrested the leadership of Islam love your,nielodies!" Mr. Moore News well worth inspection. The paint work and the upholstery are. vor foak, there wad aye has been from the Arabs five centuries ago. bore it like a man.
He has ever beenía Vandal, never guid fouk i' the warld, sin' fouk's
STRANGE boats,suburban villas, the finest quality.
After naming sailing admirable and the fittings all of been foul."
and that is the why and wherefore
EQUINE new cocktails and This charming little of his finding himself on congenial
BAPTISM hapless infants per- poem comes from ground with the Bolshevists..
haps less original London, theatrical in- thought is displayed in the world SHADE telligence, according to than in naming race horses. No-
Of an up-to-date Russian where in the East is this painful Grimstore has resigned his commis JOHN review: "On November fact more apparent than it is in sion in the Volunteers. GAYI 2, in London, the thou this Colony, Hongkong has already
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TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1923.
Before now I have
CHOICE.
- the Cambridge Review, where it was first published over the initials A.M.D. Rainbow's End" it is called
This story, which a Lon-"I came to the end of the rainbow, | HEARD don paper prints, seems Long-so long ago:
THIS to have the bloom of I found a fair Spring meadow BEFORE youth upon it-The
there. Bishop, on a visit to a And a futter of harebells every- parishioner, found the small
where, daughter of the house absorbed.j
"And what are you
Aird a treasure of gold below. drawing. doing, my dear?" he inquired, benevolently. Drawing God," JUDICIAL seen a Magistrate was the brief reply. But, my KNOWLEDGE. dismiss a case dear child," expostulated the against an erring Bishop. "How do you know what God looks like? Nobody knows. publican because the police had I don't know." "Wait till I'se inndvertently omitted to submit done my picture," said the four- formal evidence that the hotel was year-old confidently, "then you situated within the licensing dis- will." trict. And I have seen the Magistrate at the very moment he gave this decision casi a glance
GROSSLY
Recalling Mark
Wednesday's
4.
:
building but always destroying
Kwong is the chairman, extra police have been assigned to the water front on Connaught Road West and Kennedy Town Praya to cope with cargo broaching from godowns, lighters, trucks &c.
SOCIAL, AND FERSONAL. Second Lieut. Sydney Ernest
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST REVENUE OFFICER
Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. R. Wood heard a case in which the serious charge of demanding $100 by menaces with intent to steal was Perferred against a revenue' officer named Hung Hajand another man named Lal Kee who claimed to be Detective Inspector Willis in- Mr. R. E. A. Webster prosecuted and Mr. CA S. Russ defended that complainant was an old friend. the Revenue Officer, who pleaded whom he had asked a loan, Kee stated that he went for the par- pose of watching some banishees.
former.
Lar
Dressed in Earopean clothes, the complainant Lam Hing-chi- gave evidence to the effect, that defendants came to his house, No. 361, Reclamation Street on May 4 he made arrangements with the Atter receiving a verbal demand. Yaumati Police to lay a trap by.. taking the number of a bank-note. officer accepted a ten-dollar note He also alleged that the revenuc and the informer two five-dollar
potes."
His Worship dismissed the case After hearing further, évidence against both,
MURDER THREAT.
MR. ROWSON STILL HELD. CAPTIVE,
sandth performance was been held up to ridicule in a lead- Mr. Alberto Gashal de Alba is given of an opera written by an ing Shanghai daily; and it must be now afficially recognised as Consul Hammersmith. It was revived two when owners select such puerile eighteenth century beggar named confessed the gibe. was justified, for Panama in Hongkong. years ago Another eighteenth names as Have-a-Snack, In spite Mr. J. A. Fraser is to act as Head century opera,"Polly," by an of, Even So and Knock-uh-Leg. of the Sanitary Department during equally famous composer, Kings- Imagine a bookie having to shout the absence on leave of Mr. G. R. took the gold of the rainbow
And hid it where none should
way, will be revived shortly." the odds against the foregoing; Sayer, who has gone to Shanghai
This excellent Irish the first ane would develop with the interport cricket team. know; But it vanished in a mist of laugh-
IRISH. story comes from an into the Aversack and the
article in the Cornhill third into "Eavens ob. But the The death is announced of Mr.. In a veil of broken laughter,
ter,
Magazine entitled "Ireland under local stewards can do nothing, Arthur O'Connor, K.C., formerly two flags."
Thus you have Dapper Dan and one of the best-known Nationalist Long-oh, so long-ago,”
A magnificent Rolls-Royce, care Dapper Don, Manifest and Mani- members of the House of Commons The Manager of the British Crusader (late Royal and afterwards a County-Court American Tobacco Company here je Lock what blew into fully driven, came round the corner festo, LAVISH. the office this week from Bond Street into Oxford Crusader) and Royal Crusader judge.
still anxiously awaiting news as 10 from my only con- Street, where its pace was retarded (late Starland), Naturally this causes confusion. Twain's famous start reader, who found it, he tells by the traffic. It was followed, at similarity.
Surgeon-Capt. H. S. Burniston what steps are being taken to obtain EXAGGERATED. I e mark, me, in a book. Thus a coloured headlong speed, by a disreputable. Likewise the frequent changes. C.M.G., MO. and Lieut. Col. F. G. the release of Mr. Rowson, who is a parson addressing his flock-looking Ford, which promptly Really some deterrent should Fitzgerald D.S.O., R.AM.C. have captive in the hands of Chinese out the Court window and actually China Mail published a photograph Oh Lawd, give thy servant this charged into the rear of the larger he made, pay a fee of $25 been appointed members of the brigands. A latter was received see the hotel itself. Simply be showing a returned soldier stand-morning de eye of de eagle and deed but the driver of the Ford was public finds most the money to Earle is to be a member of the Aumulier and Maycs announcing
car... Both cars were badly damag for each registration. After all the Medical Board. Professor H G. three days ago from Messrs. cause he had no "judicial know-
wisdom of de owl: connect his ledge" that the building was thereg beside his own "grave." Since soul with de gospel telephone in obviously in fauit. He was sp-support racing, and the public is Board during the absence of Pro- their safe arrival at Pakhoi, where
the war similiar incidents have he had to assume it was not. How been common enough. What was de central skies; luminate his brow proached by a tall policeman note entitled to protection against this fessor K. H. Digby.
they were to confer with H.3.M. ever, the Benth occasionally trips, that story about the hero who care with de sun of heaven; pizen his book in hand, who put the usual confusion in nomination. Racing
Contul from Hoihow, but since witness the following neat little home to receive, not the plaudits of mind with love for de people; question: "What's your name?", men tell me the stewards have the Princess Asa passed through then no word has been received story, which I repeat without his townsfolk, but a little bill for turpentine his imagination: grease
My nome's Patrick Finnegane right to refuse nominations they Hongkong aboard the Hakosaki from them. The threat of the offence: A Scorsman and a Jew funeral services, "fully choral"} his lips with possum oil: lossen hig
‚' An' where do you come from?" consider unbetting. The Hankow | Maru," bound for Paris to join her bandits to murder Mr. Rowshri, if were brought before a Magistrate fund these vista "other chez tongue with de sledge hammer of come from Clonakilty, in the Stowards, I know, two years ago husband, who was injured in the, the ransom is not forthcoming, need on a charge of having bein uilly the newspaper which prematurely with delightnin' ol, de Word: put By the time considerable secinis pony as Sky Pilot the samo ship were Viscount Ishii, since the money is what the bandite
Thy Power; 'lectrify his brain County Cork
refused to allow an owner to enter recent French motor smash. On not be taken seriously, it is thought, of disorderly conduct while in an reported the death of a leading wetual motion in his arms; fill him tion of the population of London This action caused a good deal of the Japanese Ambassador to Paris, are out for They have demanded intoxicated condition. These citizen. Nothing abashed, it appear cases must be put back," said his ed next morning withabas, are plum full of de dynamite of Thy had admbied to watch the pro- amusement in clerical circles at who was accompanied by his wife: $80,000, Worship, solemnly," until we find paragraph something to this effect: kerosene oil of Thy Salvation, and won Cionakilty? exclaimed intended for the equine race or the editor of the Peking and Tientsin
Glory; 'noint him all over with de ceedings, but the conversationalists the time, one Irishman enquiring out who has been giving these men Having been the first to an set him on fire. Amen!
were unperturbedaan
whether the supposed insult was Mr. HG.W. Woodhead, C.B.E., drink,"
NICE HEN EGGS 1 nounce Mr. So-and-So's death we
the man in blue. Do you tell me Church! However, Hankow was Times, and China Year Book left HARKING you may think the mile of it myself. And tell me What the owner should have done six months furlong. At the East
This joyous language so, now? Sure, I come widin a clearly taking the other extreme. Tlentsin, for Home on May 3 for WOMAN HAWKER'S DENIAL BACK special glory of the this now Do you know the was to have added an to the station there were a large number To substantiate his statement sought (vainly) paper prematurely reported the
modern American Cighertys, down there? Sky, But, simply, adding an af friends to see him off, including that a woman" defendant," howhad 10 controvert death of well-known Society figure negro, but it is not, as you will the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock's claim and found itself mulcted in £5,000 speedily find if you glance into don't be talking sure, isn't me kong Dames Like the bad Rotary Club members of the staffs Chinese detective told Mr. R. E
Do I know the Clohertys? Ah, would hardly redeem many Hong-officials, representatives of the without a licence yesterday, 8 that the criminal law should deat bel damages because the obituary that little known volume Glean cousin Dinnis married to Mury entonces that cannot be of the North China Daily Mail, the Lindsell how be followed her from with landlords who attempt to dis notice had ignored the great ings for the Curious. There you Bridget and strightened out they must be Peking, and Tientsin Times, and Circular Tallway to Upper Lascar place tenants or evade rent control national motto which Wilde once will see that books published in the Ah now, is that a fact? Tisoutirely remade. Dash it all, if we others. through bluff. Having agreed worded De mortuis, nil nisi tline of Cromwelt bore titles which fine lump of a girl Mary Bridget must have tour In Spite Ofs and with my contention that Mr. Pollock bunkum, Equally comical, though are well distinctly odd From deserves the strongest support in vastly less expensive for the paper, the long list given select A shot this move, you will be interested was the mistake a provincial aimed at the Devil's Head Charters to learn that the Home Labour journal made when it briefly through the Tube of the Campo leader, Mr. J. H. Thomas, also recorded the local MP's death, the Covenant High holds that unscrupulous Inndlords During the morning! the for Dwarfs in Holli whould pay for their sinsir latest gentleman himself made his tual Mustard Pot, mail papers reporting him to have appearance and complained about Sneez expressed the hope that the Gov- the misleading statement Act ernment will realise profiteering in cording to Low Warren, this is Charity this great human question could what followed
Last week I are glad to be the first to announce reviled the local he is still alive." Quite recently,
JAILING UNSCRUPULOUS landlord who too, a leading London evening
LANDLORDS.
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diall, with by definite
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Now and into Lower Lascar Rows
hand five eggs to a customer and in In the first street he had seen hier
was whin I saw her last An Knock-h-Legs, why shouldn't we A very pretty wedding was cele where are you livin yourself in also have our Bookies Delight, brated of May 5 in St. Joseph's this town?
The Mugs Pet,
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