WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 1923
A BAD LIAR.
* DONT BE CHILDISH.“
--44MMAN DRI-HECKWITH'S ADVICE.
If he is going tell me a lie, let him tell me a drept one. Tell binj song to be a fol,"
The jeet if these remarks, to which the Maring Magistrate (Com maruder C. W. Heckwith, R.ND] mawe mttermus this morning, was a Chinese who was largest before | him with having unlawfully gone all Loud the N.B.1, steamed "Palz" yesterday.
whirls loud ben bremsheet.
CHARIVARIA.
SATURDAY TO MONDAY
FEELING.
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R. U. R.
THE.INSECT PLAY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Weather Summary-:- Not-quite-_ADC's_NEXT_PRODUCTION...
so situnery.
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ACCIDENT.
MRS. WOODS HURT.
We regret to hear that Mia! Aileen Woods' mother' met with a serious accident a week ago, says!
She was As forecasted in the China Mail, The Pinang Gazette. Hongkong's Complaint ;-Lang the A.DC. is to produce in Decemsisting her daughter at the pinto Frontiole,
ber the famous Insect. Play. We during lessons at the club at Tand- give helow a precis of the play, jong Poem. Sunutra, Turning The pessimistic philosophy of from the pianes at the close, she life which inspired the creators of made a misstep inum the platform this play is not new, but the man on which the piano was placed and gerand media of expression chosenfell, hearing her whole weight on by the authers, the Brothers Capek, her right hand. The bones of this are somewhat starting in their hand are seriously fivetured. originality. The insignificance of nkind in the scheme of the universe and the ultimate futility of life as it is lived on cur planel have been dwelt upon variety of moods the melancholy remaining
in £1 Goode arrived by as. "City of Hankow" onigrad after to-day of Omar arid the jaundiced will be subject to rent, Agents,
The Bank Lane Ltil. satire of Schopenhauer recur to
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Crowded out :-Open spares.
The up now is in the water.
Although all the entrants for the Hashoor med are not likely to get medals, we certainly hope fly will
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Evidence was given by Sergt.get_aemiss, Wright, of the Water Police, to the
feet that the tmm was found in Coming up Wyrudhran St. These possession of a case of puket knives, day--Sands Teeth, sy
isdid taste, ronds everything.
Bongkong's Massage Haile soin "Who asked you to go aboard ** į to rub akong all right, opened the Magistrate. "There is
The defendang explained that dhe went abused to work.
The stranding of the Changsha
a statement here from the ship tol the effect that you had to authority: Was alte mi an unexpected current to be aboard."*
The men explained that a woman.| whose magne bi gave, called hiin in 20 aboard.
which gave it quite a stuck,
Kowloon will soon lave three Ministers. We didn't think it was
Tell him not to be childish," so bad as all that. sol Commutater Berkovits to thef Court interpreter as he passedį
In view of the prevalence of soontones of two months' jail with{{
Herme in Yaumati ani district, it is painosed to christen the place, the New Ferroriories,
DREAM GARDEN.
How I remember whist a boy. My heart would always jump
joy
for:
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The suggested ide o milising our, sile walks for ulvertising, likely to be trodden zi
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ong's mind. Here we have cynics and satire enough, re-
eved certainly by the play's engrossing curiosities of expres sion and lightened by a rather beautifully produced epilogue (Death and Life") visualizing the ephemeral existence of the mayfly. Life in its carnal, material and war-like aspects is successively presented, as the title of the play indicates, it terms and images of the insect world. One suspects (the authors are Czecho-Slovaks) that it epitomizes the social history of the Stavs and the psychology of their late environment; that it reflects their racial anripathy to the lows and their rebellion against the tyranny of militarism. Indeed The China Mail's competition presents life as a series of tyran- should play Punstitutional Henics, social, material or industrial. Its view of huuran affection and (forters. It gives then the voter.
the relations of the sexes, seen in the first act, The Butterflies," is I not an exalted one; and it selects the Jew as its exemplar of avarice, Landus fashions still give us the greed and cruelty-attributes not monopolized by the children of Israel. Mr. and Mrs. Beetle with Berkait's Bavourite quataliere their golden pile-" our beautiful said to be "Our life is round-end pile-our little all "(presently to by a little sieru,“ whilst abe stolen
Robber by the The remansia da de bark-ground¦ pentier's is "A punch in time saves Beetle)
shown as tor,
fattened profiteers, ultra-gross types of Semitic humanity regarding their wealth with miserly solicitude, their only desire being to double it. The Ichneupon fly is indicated as a rather elegant Jew of the predatory kind, plunging his dort into the vitals of newly wedd- ed Mr. and Mrs. Cricket in order
When are gad upon as sorties- A printed gundenbedew in green!
The rarest flowers.elnstered there,
With statues two beyond eeanpare.
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Potbell has a fiu od kiek in it.
The trees and storales about the jroad shoulder,
plates
Wens trimmed and nainst in supplej
grater.
Was Fairyland to my young view, ! The gables grant, and geest the halls Wherein iied Biry balls,
nize.**
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The sign on the tits :--t hits,
一定一
What rents seem to have
Beside a fountain booking pensivejupacard fendency,
town,
A lovely umiden draped in wondrous
gown
Returned my gyn enraptured gaze ;;
Twas Mother in her former days:
The Chat problem :--Plaggers,
an
The Primarno Path:-Bedeons
held Arvado.
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Displaying feverish activities
escended at an ancient race. Possessing charm of gentle grace-Rengust Reviving past orough songs-it:
seeprod
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The China Mail's staff of alliter
Of days gone by, she lived and five Artists is excelling itself. That
dreamed:
"Kl Klas Kku Kriticised" Kaptivated the Krovd.
And oft-tood the dear old dear: "h, darling usther do not fear. Ba I will take a home for fie A bane just like this one we see? ⠀
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to feed his darling and already gorged "larva" In the third act, The Ants," the industrial and military machines, with men in their inexorable toils, are express ed as ants operating laboratory and factory for the production of agents of destruction. These ants presently go to wor with other ants: ard, at the moment of fancied victory, their leader. exclaiming "God has blessed The cal scasm has a light out-our cause," bestows a decoration on the Deity. Almost instantly the tide of resurgent battle gives the mastery to the other side, the deluded first "conqueror" is put to death and his successor in victory repeats in exact terms the praise rent. and patronage
lock in from of it.
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The Dairy Farm see the Then q'ee the years that passed us arrival of New Zealand lamb and
ley.
Australian rabbits. Somuls quite
Through School and lafties. trav; fri-ky.
orsed F
Oave in-pired by Mother's kind! And gentle boltiness of mind.
To have ansiar now I may My hallowed mother's gone away; She's in the churchyard all alone Her curly tension
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1923.
Jous Kyoro.
KIDNAPPED.
INTERESTING STORY..
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"CITY OF KARACHI" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all gor are being landed at their risk into the hazardova and for extra bazardour Godown of Holt's Whad, whence delivery may be obtained.
No chims will be admitted after the Gouds have left the Godewes, and all | Goode remaining undelivered after 22nd Oslober, 1923, will be abject to
of the Supreme | All claims against the Steamer must A har idea ;-flassical dancing, Bring The whole thing is in-he presented to the Undersigned on or formed with a cynical irony with, before 29th October, 1923, or they U Labour camiot rim a daily throughunt, a philosophic human will not be recognise).
"All broken, chafed and damaged newspaper, it cannot hope to run tramp as chorus. The play may Mol.
Government, sys ME. E. have suffered something (but not Goods are to be left is the Gedowns, caulers of course.
the much) by free adaptation, but where they will be examined on any 11 depends upon
enough remains of the spirit of a Tuesdays or Fridays between the truly remarkable, if rather depres-hours of 10.45 am. and Noon, within Sing, theme to convey to an Eng lish audience something of the post-war mentality of the liberated peoples of Central Europe.
The Odi Volumes Society is dead. Bat we have the Book Club very
subtle !)
The cool and vald weather should 31011 coming amiss to our Bank Managers. They deal in draughts
as a mother of course.
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I de nut believe then is a site By trying to defund the Stern-person who would not love math bont Co.'s farming syndicate of the naties if it were taught propery. paltry so of fifty-five vents an says a harmed person. This is the unknown thingse kidnapper lost his su total of the whole mitter. Proy sturdy Chinesey boy of about ten years of age with a plon-
ent chubby fren
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Going to Canton "High" on Monday was a
Solte people can only kick up dusty kuocking down buildings.
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Semingly before you raise theatrical troup whose propsings you have to raze then, were curried on the lower deck.
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PEACE PRIZE $1,500.
The China Weekly Review of Shanghai announces in its issue of this week two prizes amounting to $1500 for the best and most practical peace plan for China. The person submitting the best plan will receive a prize of $1,000 and
| $500 will be awarded for the second
a best plan. The competition is open to all Chinese and also the foreign residents of China. Manuscripts buiki-must be in the office of the Review by January 1, 1924. They may be written in either English or Chi-
Cha their ticket-collecting rounds, "A Tale of Two Cities” hits been nese. In suggesting plaus attention the misprudeme stuff discovered the the very Dickens of a film,
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tittle boy wedged in between twaj
Today's polsating thought big trunks with hardly any breath- | ing
Fear has got a whole lot of people Cross-examination | cliciter a statement that he was into tanide, and a whole loi niort the only son of a Tai-kok-tsui widow into Heaven,
who eked out a living by carrying firewood. He confessed to Inving
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should be paid to the actual condi- tions which exist in China; the ad- option of a workable constitution control of communications; main. tenance of internal onder affecting the lives and property of both Chinese and foreignets; construction of China in accord- ance with the hopes and ideals of the statesmen of the leading nations as expressed in the deliberations and results of the Washington Conference. The review states that this prize offer has no con. K.A.S.M.A, Excites Anonymous nection whatever with any political
Mr. T Tan Tai writing to been enticed from home under a nursing contemporary refers to promise of finding henerative something which "Knocks
botter out of the famous Chinese employment in, Kongganoon and that,
the
he had been brought on board by | pickled eggs." A bit addled surely
a bald-headed man named Ngan who gave him a few buns af 砟
Yautati ter-house. A square meal Scribe Manufacture Abuse.
in the compradore's office brought forth the other details of the sordid
story and the boy was taken around
to identify the erook. Somehow or other, there was no tan on the ship who answered the lad's description and a further scrutiny on arrival at Canton, also proved fruitless.
The boy was taken care of by the j compradora till the ship returned yesterday. He was taken to the Central Station where it transpired his abeonce had already been no fied to the police.
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party or individual. The judges will be of American, British and Chinesenationalities and the names Popular:-To be gifted with of the foreigners and Chinese the virtue of knowing a whale lot { co-operating with the Review in of uninteresting people.
the offer of the prizes will be announced.
A Pioneer: The young lady next dour leurning to play the piano.
Mr. L. H. Watkinson, of Messrs. Brooke Bond and Co., Colombo, MË, G. A. R. Mackintosh and Mr. who in a motor accident recently w O. Deacon, wholeft. Siam som sustained severe injuries to his time ago to take up planting in head has led at the Colombo British East Africa, have accepted General Hospitat. He was marri So was restored to mother and posts in the Sriracha Company, with fed at Kandy 'only a week before thus was one of many plots which which they were previously asso he met with the mishap and Mrs. seldom come to light, nipped in the i ciated. They have left Mombasa Watkinson, who was also badly bud by a pure accident.
for Bingkok.
hurt, is still in hospital.
the free storage period of one week.
by
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THE BANK LINE. LIMITED,
← General Agentr Hongkong, 17th October, 1923.
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INSTITUTE.
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Hongkong, 17th October, 1923,
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Agreement recently conclud-| ed between His Britannic Majesty's Government and the German Government relating to the paz- ment out of the proceeds, of liquidation of German property in China of the following classes of debts due from German to British nationals, viz.; debts payable before the war or arising out of pre-war contracts and transactions, and due
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Debts falling within the scope of Article 296 of the Treaty of Versailles, and consequently due for settlement through the Enemy Debts Clearing Offices, excluded.
are
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A. G. M. FLETCHER, . Colonial Secretary..... Hongkong, October 12, 1923.
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