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that she has. It is sufficient that fortune must still rank hinu sebond. in the aris of the things that after The Duke of Westminster's wealth is in land. Ha owns 600 acres in all really matter, she is, if not Mayfair, Belgravia, and Pimlico. supreme, almost 8, The Welsh When the leases of Belgravia fall Community in the Colany is prob-in, ha will be evily the richest man nbly af no great limensions so far in England. The Mitsuis and the
Iwasakis are financiers, traders, an!! as nutubers is concerned. The day shippers, The Gackwar of Baroda's may come when its numbers will so wealth is almost impossible to increase that it will be possible to estimate, but his diamonds alone hoki a miniature Fisteddfod. Then are valued at £250,000, and he has jewelled tapestry worth £500,000. Guns of gold weighing 400 ponads stumd at his paluer gate.
we shall see what we shall see. They have a saying in Wales that "Wales wass Wales before England was born."
The Hidden Hand.
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To-day's Poems.
(The Wisdom of Satan.) I never knew what Hell was for. (Or, why shonki one to Hades go; Until I met the vilest wretchi, Who always says: "I told you so!"
JOHN KYOTO,
(Sleep My Heart.į
During the war it was the custous to put down everything that went wrong to the Hidden Hund. Prior to that it was the Germans. But it | became sickening and foolish
reiteration to ascribe everything Sleep my heart! Just sleep and that happened wrongly or didn't! | happen at all to the Germans, and the Hidden and was substituted. It looked better, was not so one-
Sleep my heart for all things seem eded and included everything and Tn sleep, like the hard won gual. overybody--Cabinet and ex-Cabinet |
dream
Tint she loved you with all her
Boul.
Ministers, high dignitaries in Best and fret no more. It is past Church and State, politicians, and Kest and no more weep,
OM FENWICK,
even Russinus who had then consed | Age-old passions must die at hi to become the Steam Roller and The Just sleep my heart, just sleep. "Torer that was to aller the world's i conception af what was what." I was but other extension of what happened during the French Wars for a hundred years ago. . Then it Ltd. was "Bones" who had a few rhym-
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Horozoko, SATURDAY, Srer. 15, 1923.
EISTEDDFOD.
Hear a
il
ing lines composed on his alleged attributes to came everything to goj wrong.
"Who makes the quartern loaf
and Linkdites rise?
Who fills the butchers' shops
with large blue flies?"
1923.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
AS YOU LIKE IT.
WEEKEND SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Old Lady (seeing GOODBYEE her niece off): "Goodbye, Emily!
BAZURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 11928.
COLOFN Y CYMRO.
"AR ARTERION UYMRU GYNT NEWID DDAETH O DRO I DRO."
(Centoo),
Yn y flwyddyn 1817 mewn
God be with you till you get to Laigaa-after that, you won't have eyfarfod cyhoeddus yn un o bent refi | Gogledd Penpro pasiwyd yn mysg" to change trains."
Our Japanese repethau. emill Y pendorfyniad
FROM KOBE presentative tells
how he lands 'em! canlynol:- "I go out into country in Ford car." "I see Japanese wan in field," "I say, Come here.""
"I say, "You subsclibe. China
Mail?!"
"Fod y Gymdeithas yn rhoddion ariano! y gwrthod Tywodraeth tung ut gynai addysg, tra y maent yn cael eu cyayg ar yr mod noi ddealltwriaeth fod Addyng Grefyddol yn cael ei roddi yn yr ysgol.
"He say, No." "I any, You damfool, sign here." " A local motorist
Fidy cyfarfod hwn yn cyfrif y PESSIMISTIC. has the following dylai Astina Crofyddol ddeilliau a Dobsonian triolet ymwybyddineth gyfrifoldeb pasted in his pocket-book: moesol yn unig, se id news
ufuddod i
anchyw We're riding to-day, .
orchymyn swyddog gwladol, nãe er
But shall we to-morrow? Let it be as it may We're riding to-day. And yet in my tay
1s a savour of sorrow We're riding.to-day-
But shall we to-morrow ?
Strop! Lather and Scrape! Every morn have to shave, Then with hair tonic to grow my
MORNING HYMN
OF HATE
lair
The top or my head I lave, And this is the song I sing
While giving the razor a strop, "Why can't I be hald upon my
chin
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| derbyn breintiau, hawlian, ne ow
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LAST DAY.
SECOND VOTING CONTEST,
SEND YOUR PORMS "ALONG,
To-day's China Mail contains the Inst entry form for our second big_voting contest.
"All forma must reach this office not later than Monday.
Any forms received here after Monday will be discounted.
Final judging will take place on Tuesday,
The result will be published in the China Mail on Wedoes- day.
On Monday our third big voting content begins.
The prize will be the estne $50:
WINNERS.
PROGRAMMES WORTH FIVE DOLLARS!
Mewn cydyinffurfiad ag egwyd- dorion sylfenol y Cymdeithas bin, ni ehaninteir eynni un math of wasanaeth crefyddol yn yr ysgol ni orfodir un ysgolhuig fod bresenol yn gyfarfod o'r fath mor belled ag y mae yn yuurferol, ni ddefnyddir Hyfry crefyddol, ae os defnyddir yr ysgrithyrau a Hyfran value with any of the advertisers crefyddol, ni cimniateir an eglurkan the China Mall. nne esboniad arnynt."
The holders of the following theatre programmes are requested to forward same to the China Mail office when a coupon to the valu of $5 will be issued which may be changed for goods to the same
Star Theatre Programme No- 123 issued Thursday and Friday' September 13 and 14.
Coronet
Mae genyf with law lyfr gu Brifathro uno Golegan enwadol Gogledd Cymru, a dyna yılıyn aj
Theatre Programme ddywed ef yn 1923:
No. 505 issued Tuesday to Friday' - And grow all my whiskers an
Parchu'r awdwr y tadau a September 1 to 14. top}"
theim rym
y rhesynu
Patrons of the three Cinema We hope our local harweiniold i gani dysgeidineth Theatres, the Coronet, Star and DHOOLIES. Brass hats will for-grefyddol allan o'r ysgolion gwladol. World are advised to retain their give us if we say Ond gyda mwy o ystyriaeth a programmes and study the number that we get a considerable amount phrofind yn myd, addysg, ne yn to be found on the front page. September 15.-Coronet Theatre; of spiritual and mental uplift from arbennig yn wyneb y cyfnewidiadau Priscilla Dean in "Wild Honey," the varions "Command Orders" Ja'r datblygiadau mawr a chyfynı The latest sydd yn taenu rhwydwaith yr
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
ANNUAL MEETING HELD.
BAR PROFITS IMPROVING.
Yesterday evening the shnual meeting of the Kowloon Cricket Club was held.
And the answer was of course "Boney." During the war TEO
September 15.-Star Theatre; which come our way, general ever nule a mistake, no
2.30 Buffalo Bill; 5.30 Jack has an absorbing sentence on the supplies were
ywerin, cred fod egwyddorion ever delicient no Pickford in "In Wrong" and vexed question of "Dhoolies." ysgolion a'r colega dros holl fywyd KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB, troops ever failed! All things were Tina Gerald and Tom Fenwick in Not Mr. Dhoolies. Just plain com-addysgol y tadau eu hunain yn gofyn am all-vstyried cu cymhwysiad always right, but the Hidden Hand a repertoire of One-Act plays, 9.15 mon or garden Dhoolies. Nothing more and nothing less...Dhoolies! intervened and brought our plans | p.m. Ruccessively to maught. It has been
Cofier maè prif September 15.-World Theatre; It is herein enacted that "a return weddoliad yng nghyfundrefn
showing the number of Dhoolies in addysg y wlad. suggested, without any explicit con- "The Flirt,"
Hongkong should be submitted to safbwynt wreiddiol y tadau celd vincing evidence to prove it, that September 16.-World Theatre; the Hidden Hond is very prevalent H. B. Warner in "The Haunting the C.O.O. China Command as car-ne crefydd a Beibi oedd pennaf O'n hanfodd y ly as possible." And then myster- peth addysg. in this fair Colony of our The Shadows."
ously, standing all by itself on a goddefusant rwygo corff byw addysg Hidden Hand is back of the chit
separate line and as a separate yn ddau ysgerbwd rhag gosod systems: the property question; and
sentence it is further enacted: crefydd o da reolaeth c ar all the other ills assumed and
"Nil returns are required." Shades gynhaliaeth y llywodmath. imagined under which we live:
of Sherlock what does it all mean? Rhodder ei lei bwyslaie newydd Mr. H. E. Stevens. There was a What indeed are Dhoolies? In gwybodaeth ddiweddar ar unoliaeth good attendance. frantic haste, search us. Our organaidd meddwl, ysbryd, bywyd Discussing the profits made by Cassels one and tuppeny describes in diwylliant dyn. Ystyrier y camre the Club, Mr. Lindsell compared it, or them, as a covered Hitter, but bras a gymer y wladwriaeth. heb the $4,000 made on the past year does not say if it is a litter of neb yn gwarafun iddi, i feddianu with the $5,120 made the previous ser, nerth a noddion addysg yr year, and pointed out that the Boy, that Indian Love Lyric:- ieuane. 'We are all Socialists decreased wages to the staff, and, Oh Dhoolies in our hours of case now, obe Syr Williaut Harcourt more important still,
drastic way in which they Untender, roy, say what you genhedlaeth yn ol. Draan ohono! please.
The Hidden Hand writes; and,
having writ,
Moves on nor all your Piety nor
wit
Shull lure it back to cancel what
it writ's
Nor all your Tears wash out a
word of it.
SOCIAL. September 15-Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Promen- ade Concert, 9.15 p.m.
September 22-K.C.C. Concert, at Kowloon.
September 15-Victoria Recrea- tion Club night-swimming fête at 9 p.m. sharp.
SPORT.
LAND SALE. Septeinber 17.-P.W.D. five lots of Crown Land at Pokfulam, 3 pim,
AUCTIONS.. September 18-Lammert Bros.,
Here again is the Hidden Hand attempting the impossible--and, strange to say, achieving it. That "Kingsclere" Kennedy Foad, Hidden Haul idea is altogether too a large quantity of valuable house- prevalent. It needs amputation.
any The Rich Men.
chosen poet. The stones of the the world? Henry Ford is easily Who are the ten richest men in
Gorsedd civele in the recent the richest, while Mr. Andrew W. Eisteddfod stood on levelled ground Mellon, Secretary of the United half way up a hill which gave a States Treasury, was mid in mail week to be the fourth wealthiest. good view to at least a thousand Who are the other eight? men and women. The Archdruid They must possess private fortunes caring white robes with a gold of over- £20,000,000 to secure a embroidered state and a gold collar place in such a list, and fortunes of such proportions are almost impos- sible to estimate with accuracy.
bas moved towards the sacrificial
hold furniture 11 a,m.
MEETING.
September 19.-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Duddel! St., the s.s. "Wali Kiu," noon.
September 20-Lammert Bros. at "Craig Ryric" No. 13 The Peak,
hold furniture 2.45 p.m. a large quantity of valuable house- September 21.-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Daddell "Cheklang," 3 p.m. Street, the s.s.
September 18-First ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Sandakan Light and Power Co. (1922) Ltd. at St. George's Building, Chater Road, 11 a.m.
September 20. Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd., at 67/69, Des Voeux Road, 12.15 p.m.
October 2.-Ordinary general meeting of Douglas Steamship Co.. Ltd., at Co.'s Offices, 20, Des Voeux Road., II a.m.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
20,000,000 The Long Vacation of the 20,000,000 Supreme Court is to begin on 20,000,000 September 20 and terminate on 20,000,000 October 17.
kitten or puppies.
Where ah-are you now?
five 10
Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Vice-Presi dent, occupying the chair, sup ported by the Secretary, Mr. P. Heathcote, and the Hon. Treasurer,
10 the
down the value
of the Club pavilion and
beth a ddywedai of am danom had written heddiw ac yfory. Rhaid addef furniture. At the last general hefyd and yw'n bosibl, fel faith The following are
the smallness of the bar profits, defini ymarferol, enu allan yn llwyr Feibl meeting Dr. Forsyth had criticised DEFINI- some recent
chrefydd o unrhyw yagal n which were then about 20 per cent. TIONS. tions
choleg ou nn chyfyngir hwy of the purchases. The Secretary "Two or three" always means rifyddiaeth a gwyddonineth naturiol then proposed that a bar committee at least three, or three and upwards. addysg beiniannol a materol. Fel be formed, and Mr. Herridge was "One or two" seldom if every daw addysg yn fwy hanesyddol, appointed convener. This com means one. In a minute" means llenyddol a humanistic', rhaid mittes entirely revolutionised the fifty wybodaeth grefyddol wrth fwy o le methods by which the bar was rull, anywhere from minutes.
vnddi. Pay a all ddysgn in and a bar manager was engaged at "That reminds me of a story" Cymru i blant, fel y dylid el dysgu, Ja chan allan bob cyfeiriad at Feibl means. "Now you keep quiet while I tell my joke."
a chrefydd? am now going to defend "
Beibl yng nyhynllumau'r holl this year about 30 per cent. of the "While I do not wish to appear critical" means," But I am going Ysgolion Canol a sefydlwyd yn total of the purchases. He thought "Kid oes amhenneth nad y Beibl, "Of course it's no business of to have my say out anyhow." mine" means, "I am simply de-i iawn ddefnyddis, yw'r cyfrwng
goreu oll, nid i ddysgu defodau voured with curiosity."
a high wage. They certainly kept
a close eye on the issues from the stores, and, as a result of their
"I hold no brief for" means, "I Canintawyd rhywfaint a le i'r supervision, the bar prohts were
1889**
As a matter of fact" means logmatau, ond i ddiwyllio meddwl "what I'm saying is perfecly true. ac ysbryd dyn a phlentyn i'r
"Now just one before we go' pwrpas pennat. means "It's time someone stood another."
"
'Between you and we' means "I know you'll tell this to other: people."
"My conduct calls for no apology, and needs no explanation is the usual introduction for an apology or an explanation.
the Bar Sub-Committee was worthy of special mention. (Applause.) ~ Out of these figures, continued Mr. Lindsell, the question arose of reducing the price of drinks. (Hear, hear.) He thought they would all agree that the Kowloon Cricket Club should not really be run as a money-making concern. They had now a cash balance to their credit of something more than $25,000, and he thought that that entitled
them to adopt A somewhat more liberal policy. There
were several directions The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice in which increased expenditure
benefit might
the Club.
bar, they could still have a fair
HOSPITALS.
HOSPITAL DONATIONS.
I
'No one could possibly have Metporial and Affiliated Hospitals they cut down the profits of the
mistaken my morning" is what we say when some one has mistaken
it.-
R.G.A. CUP
FINAL OF WATER POLO ON TUESDAY.
acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the funds of balance in hand. It would be re- the Hospitals-
Messrs. E. D. Sassoon &
Co., Ltd.
Mosars. D. Bassoon & Co.,
Ltd.
membered that in 1908 and 1905 their reserve was only $1,500, and $100.00 their profits in 1908 were only
It is more than likely that ere long the writer of our Welal Notes will let us into the secrets of the thoughts and motives behind those mal meetings of Welshmen at stune in the centre, and mounting Authoritative estimates however, home described as Eisteddfods. We the central stone to the sound of a supply the following list of men credited with the possession of more cant conceive of no Welshman or trumpeter calling a note to the east, individual wealth than any other Welshwonmu for that matter, look the south and the west, makes a
group in earth :-
£ you, being indifferent to the claims Proclamation. The great sword is
110,000,000 of an Eisteddfod. It has been our brought to him, and having pulled Henry Ford privilege to listen to the singers of it a little way out of the scabbard, John D. Rockefeller.....100,000,000 Duke of Westminster... 30,000,000 the world-to Italians, Germans, the question is asked in a loud am Mr. Andrew W. Mellan 30,000,000!
Haiwaian resonant voice: "Is there peace? Sir Basil Zaharoff....... 20,000,000 French, Americans, even, but none have equalled the The answer is Peace." Further Hugo Stinnes simple and native grandeur of the ceremonies include the presentation Percy Hockefolier
Baron H. Mitei Welsh who sing because nature has of the drinking horn, or horn of Baron H. Iwasaki ordained them to that beautiful plenty, and a boquet representing The Gnakwar of Baroda 20,000,000
In the health returns for yester- Mr. J. B. Duke, the tobacco king. purpose. It permeates the national tho fruits of the earth. There are conscience, and every section of the other picturesque formalities and George. F. Baker, of the First day two cases of small-pox and National Bank of New York, and one of enteric are reported. All
the patients are Chinese. Principality contains its mest of these being carried through, the T. B. Walker, the Minneapolis singing birda.
Welsh Eisteddfod proper begins its life, to timber landowner, might be added
As motor-car No. 218 waS (UFT3- Choral Society in any Coleridge be over in a few days. Each day to the list, since they all have for-ing a comer out of Wanchai Road Taylor's "Hiawatha" or Sullivan's has its own particular function tunes estimated at £20,000,000, last night, one of the occupants, a while there are at least three other Chinese girl, fell out of the car. There will be a children's day; Indion rulers whose fortunes prob- She received rather serious injuries "Gold Legoad" or sozne of
The
In the RA.SC camber, next Bantock's Eastern fantasies and the day for choirs; for bunds; fornbly exceed this amount.
to fikr face and head.
Tuesday, the final for the RGA fooling is akin to seeing Naples and elocation, and the other things Rothschilds, Guggenheims, Van-
The Hongkong Lawn Tennis Water Polo Cup will be played, then dying. These Eisteddfod which go to make up a complete derbilts, Weyerhansers, and the
Mark the judges and
Astors do not appear because theirs Association having decided to send the game commencing at 4.30 p.m. ceremonies and the competitions Eisteddfod,
are family fortunes, The Rothschild an interport team to Shanghai next The 83rd. company, having defeat Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & they foster are the common meeting notice how their considered verdicts wealth has been estimated at from month, trial matches are being helded the 94th company, have become grounds of the Weleb. A man many are received. How intense is the £50,000,000 to $100,000,000, and locally. Nine names have been challengers and are to meet the be a builder (a jerry one perhaps interest and how intense the enjoy that of the Astore nt from submitted for these trials. They 88th company, the holders. Mr. for the legend is that Welshmon mont. Each principal meeting will £20,000,000 to $100,000,000. Tenry Include Messrs. S. E. Green (K. C. G. May will be in charge of the
Ford is possibly the richest man in C.), Harrington-Smith (HK.C.C.), game. do, or did build spider-like con, have its Chairman, & sinning fight all history. He has a net business T. Honda (MB.K.), Yvanovich structions) or a draper, or a non-probably of the Welsh people and income of $24,000,000 a year, (Recreio), Wong Po-keung and T.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. comformist minister or a rainer-nation. Here is one refuting the which capitalised at 5 per cent. Lay (C.R.C.), O. Rujmahn and S. A.
This remedy bas so superior & a cars for colds, croup and whooping cough. it matters not, ba is one of Wales idea that the Walsh language is represents £180,000,000. He earns Rumjahn, (I. R. C.)
£46 por minuto. Crossus may have
It has boens favourite with mothers of own sons, all foregathering in the dying out. Why there is more been richer, since his famous HONGKONG BOOK CLUB. 500g bilde for almost forty yours.
Ubamber ad's Cough Remely can great cause of music and of litera-Welsh spoken to-day than ever gift to Delphi cost £2,000,000:-
always be depended upon and is pleasant
At the usual 9.15 show, Misk: It is a quaint thing the before in the history of the nation. and that, reduced to to-day's
Twenty books have been added to take..
Tina Gerald and Mr. Tom Fede terms, might mean £40,000,000,
It not only rares colds and grip, but morning ceremony of the Druids Think of the thunderous appliate John D. Rockefeller gave away and these will be listed when presents their mining in pomo:ia.
wick will appear in selections from and the Bards. The Barde have that probably followed such a statu- £100,000,000, to shurity and to further additions have been made. embelian Cough Remedy on Hemedy followed by a dose of castoroll their repertoire, four in all, first of all walked in procession ment. We cannot say if Wales has foundations before 1921. He is the The authors Include Owen Seaman, fans no opium or other maroclio and will efs toally cure the most stubborn
All Chem'xts and for summer diarrhoos in children. For dies, and Mr. Fenwick's own headed by a brass band; they have produced great warriors and fighters head, however, of the biggest group Hugh Walpole, Stephen Leacock, maybe Kiren's confidently to child some of dysentery. It incep chilly good including three first-class come
sale by all Ch mists and Storakse pers. mystery play," The Intruder." opened the Gorsedd circle withi we should be disappointed to hear of wealthy men ever produced by Joseph Conrad. Owen Wister
single, industry, and his private., &c.,
ture.
Nesile & Anglo-Bwins Con
denged Milk Co. ... The Hon. Mr. P.H.Holyoak Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Mesara. W. R. Loxley & Co. Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd. Messrs. Pentreath & Co. ...
K.C. Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock,
Co
$1,000. On the previous year their 100.00 profits were only $87. At that time membership was only 193, as 100.00
compared with 447 to-day. 100.00
They had had quite a successful 75.00 year, continued Mr. Lindsell, both 75.00 financially and in the world of 50.00. sport. He proposed that the re- 60.00 port and accounts be adopted.
Mr. Abraham seconded, and the 50.00 resolution was carried.
50.00
THE STAR!
VARIED BILL OFFERED
After spending 2 years in Singapore managing the firm's branch there, Mr. R. V. Meyer, of Messrs. Lazarus and Ca, the
"There is quite a variety of 'enter": opticians, returned to Hongkong tainment offered at the Starto-day. on Thursday, Mr. Moyer, who At 2.30 the usual children's matinée was married in the Straits, was acis on, showing the "Adventures of companied by his wife,
Buffalo Bill' At 5.30 only Jack Pickford in "In Wrong" will be shown.
Treatment for Dysentery Chamberlain's Ooie and Durban