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HONGKONG SATUrday, Nov. 10, 19:3,
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"We who are left, how shall
look again Happily on the sun or feel
the
rain
Without remembering bow they
who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
wonument
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THE CHINA MAIL.
You may not break faith with
Surely snob times should rouse us neighbourhood of Blake Pler the stranger them in this great task they have to a tæng reallastion of what is due which will toll
and the newly arrived given into your keeping. Neither from
We could fill our alloted space where certain places are to be may you break faith with them in twenty times and more to prove our found or in which direction that other solema trust. You must "Singing Birde did indeed sing. they lle. There should be some
the dif 1798. never forget their dependants and And they were not our own men indication of where their broken comrades.
either. Here is Alan Seeger, who erent ferries are situated. They alas fell, an American not too doubtless well known to the Chinese, but to the European proad too fight, and who enlisted assciring to get to Castle Peak, elsewhere months before his own Chung Chau, Aberdeen, Hunghom, country thought of participating the situation of them is wropt in The final stanza of his hounting mystery. Sonnet "I have & rendezvous with Death. must auffice and with which wadee's brief tribute to the man who sing as well as fought:
"I cannot quite remember There were five
Dropt dead besides me in
the Whispered their dying messager
trench and threo
to me....
I cannot quite remember....
* ̈ ̈*: Those dying messages the dazed and wandering soldier pitifully fail- ed to remember, you know for whom they were whispered. They were meant for those who perhaps now need your help. To-day is Poppy Day. You have a debt to meet. Boe you pay it in full, for it is a debt writ in blood.
Singing Birds
In the thoughts which surge through our minds to-day, the ove af Armistice Day, and which we trust will become more vivid to-morrow, we wonder if a thought
will be given to the many gallant men whom without any offence we have dubbed "Kinging birds? We refer to the small army of men so affected by the conflict through which they were passing who were constrained to put their thoughts on The paper in the form of verse. outbreak of war evoked a chorus of patriotic verse, but with some noble exceptione it gave us little of These "early perinanent value. poems are chiefly concerned with the glory and glamour of war, aud many foretell a speedy victory. They appeal in glowing language to the righteousness of our couse and to the tradition set by our classical and natiqnal heroca. Towards the end of the year the tone is some- what changed; victory is no longer imminent, the casualty lists: tell their tale, and the struggle threatens to be long; the idea of service aid sacrifice has taken the place of glory and self-confidence.
"Uso me, England, in thing hour
of need,
Let thy ruling rule me now in
deed.
1915 and 1916 are worked by the advent of the Soldier Poets. Those were the days of battles that were almost victories, of plans that nearly succeeded. Neuve Chapelle, Galli- poli, Loos, the Somme, were all hailed as the beginning of the end. The end was not yet, but still hope ran high, and we looked forward to the great offensive which was to end the war.
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struck; by this time many of our But in 1917 a yet sterner note is
Soldier Poets have sung their last song, Failure after failure has
DEATH.
If people would only write their thoughts, suggestions and com- plaints on paper instead of "God knows, 'tware better to be whispering them into our ear, how
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deep Pillowed in silk and scented
down. Where love throbs out in blissful
sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to
breath Where hushed awakenings "are
dear.
But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in same flaming
towa;
When Spring trips north again
this year,
And I to my pledged word am
true,
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I shall not fail that rendezvous.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1923.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Ching Mall;"¶
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wolf. My enperficial good- humour depends largely on the weather so that if you want to know how I am, you have only to consult the stars.
SUNDAY. BUILDING. Madame de Segigne. The weather is fine all day, Sir, I hope Observer's" letter and quito warm. I bellove it will receive the widest publicity. It has made an assignation with is an absolute scandal, and has been the Glastonbury Thorn, and so for many years, the way mission- that they are to dance toge ary and other religious bodies, ther on old Christmas Day have openly countenanced work in Walpole.
connection with their buildings. A 1805: A beautiful morning. When, bfg divine some years ago is we were at breakfast we supposed to have dismissed the heard suddenly the tidings of matter by saying it was the custom Lord Nelson's death and the of the country and had got to be: put up with, but had nothing to say victory of Trafalgar.
when he was told that adultery,
·Dorothy Wordsworth.
and thieving might also be considered the custom of the country. It is idle and untrus to say that the matter cannot be arranged and that contractom insist on work being done on Sun days. Contracts have been signed in which there has been a clause to the effect that no work must be done on Sundays. If we cannot expect YMCA's and other re attempt to observe Sunday and not ligious organisations making an merely that, but to bring some respite into lives they profess to have some regard for, the position. of religion is hopeless. I hope the matter will be represented to those who certainly ought to know better, and a sod state of affairs remedied. Yours etc.,
HUMANITARIAN. Hongkong, November 10.
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much better off we might be. | References come us of the mystic words of the Rev. E Strong who spoke on Friday week of "Experiences," and sald
"Build you own future," says an speaking of the earthquake in
advertisement. It is the one thing Japan:-
Not a single missionary had that nobody else can do for us. baen killed and he did not With the best intentions or the know of a single Japanese worst, thee about us cannot control pastor among the dead. He the lives we are to live or decide did not wish to make any com- what we are to become. For bere ment on this; it was just and hereafter we build for careelves. mystery which оде could
ponder over and decide about for oneself.
It
One gentleman whose know- ledge of Japan is extensive bluntly states these good people were pro- bably at Karjuazawa which is a ENOTURK summer resort. Another refers to Schools and The Valley the number of HAPPY VALLEY. now takes on Churches actually destroyed and
a Venice air not "allowed" to be saved. each time it rains. This fact has only proves that propagandists prompted a reader to suggest that should be careful of the language the following, notice might be they use and the statements they make. More and more are words shown in a prominent place
"This lagoon has been solely being submitted to the cold test reserved for the sinking of the of reason. Emotion is being ratepayers money therefore decried on all hands. Why, even anyone caught net-fishing, Bishops suggest there can be too surfing or using their motor-much emotion in hymn-singing. launches on this portion of the Council's property will be pro-
The word seems to secuted.
have died its natural death but it has been interesting, in looking over some old papers, to come across the following
After God had fini. CREATION. shed creating the universe, 2 few remnants were left: the figure of an angel, the brain of a rabbit, the heart of a wolf.
God wondered just how he might utilize them.
"I have an idea!" cried Satan. "Let us combine them into a wife for Adam 1"
The common fault is to FAD. mistake woman's answer
for her decision.
ཝེ་ During the time of HOWLERS. Cromwell there was ⚫ no King of England, but Pandemonium reigned..
The Greek God of Marriage was called Amen.
Vanilla, capital of the Philippine Islands, is noted for its peculiarly flavoured cigars..
John Bunyan went into the fields to preach, and stood on a box to reach the hearts of the people.
As Sydney Carton left the tumbril to climb to the place of execution, he kissed the little seamstress, saying, "This-is-the- bravest deed of my life."
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STRAFE.
-MANGOK COLE.
SHADOWS BEFORE:
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail,
ENTERTAINMENTS.
SCOUTS.
November 10.-Coronet Theatre;
(To the Editor of the China Mail.) Nazimova in "Salome."
November 10-Star Theatre; Sir, In view of the repeated Mary Pickford in "Little Lord statements about the shortage of officers for the Boy Scouts, there Fauntleroy."
November 10.-World Theatre; must be a reason or reasons for the Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last." shortage.
I suggest that instead of a November 10.-The Grand Theatre; Max Linder in "The Three Must-Parson, a Layman, preferably a Business man and not à Naval or Get-Theres."
November 10.-Theatre Royal; | Military man, be appointed Com- Forbes Rassell Comedy Co.,missioner. He would be more officers than a Bought and Paid For," 9.15 p.m. likely to get
Parson who is engaged in other Hongkong social work in the Colony; one work must clash with the other in
SPORT. November 10-12.
Strafe (straf), v. slang. [From the Ger. phrase Gelt strafe England, Jockey Club's Gymkhana. "God punish England," a common November 12-First Tourna- the matter of attention paid to salutation in Germany in 1914 and ment of the Hongkong Boxing either or both, and scouts are of the following years.] trans. Used Assen. at the Theatre Royal, all Creeds. The Scouts should avoid giving the appearance Parson (originally by British soldiers in 9.12 p.m.
November 12.-Football at Soo- of being led by & the war against Germany) in
or by the Government. Further various senses suggested by its kumpoo, Navy v. Army, 4.15 p.m.
November 15.-Palsco Hotel is not the policy of the Scouts in origin: To.punish; to do damage to; to attack fiercely; to heap im- bandicap billiards tournament com England to be self supporting (except in the matter of administra precations on; also absol Also mences. Strafe sh., a fierce assault.
tion expenses) and to include all nationalities? In Hongkong they are neither self-supporting (e.: grants for clothing and picnics) nor international.
December 1.Hongkong Jockey
· 1916 Timės Lil. Suppl. 10 Feb Club's extra gymkhana. ruary 62/1 The Germans are
Intermittent
SOCIAL November 10. Dancing
at
In the Scout Movement in Hong-
called the Gottestrafers, and strafe is becoming a comic Eng- Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9.15 p.m.
November 11- Empress of Hish word. 1916 Black. Mag
Canada "
Band Repulse Bay kong a little band of only 169 boys February 284/1
appears to get far too much atten- stafes we are used to. 1916 MS. Hotel, from 4 to 7 p.m. Let fr. Front (Feb. or Mar.) There November 13, 20, 27-Hong- tion to the detriment of other is not much Hun artillery fire, kong St. Andrew's Society Practice important matters. but as our guns strafe them well Dance. every day, I expect they will wake up and return the compli ment. 1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 4/4 The word strafe is now almost universally used. Not only is an effective bombardment of the enemy's lines or successfui trench raid described by Tommy as strafing the Fritzes," but there are occasions when certain brass hats"
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Owing to a strike of firemen on the "Aki Maru," the ship 15 detained.
We hear that three new Assist- ant Parsons are coming for Kow loon. Are all these Parsons neces sary for the salvation of Europeans in Kowloon, are they going to be Scoutmasters or could they, in view of the reputed shortage of Parsons at home, be better used at home?
Yours etc.,
INTERESTED.
Hongkong, November 9.
The rainfall for the month-of October at the Botanical Gardens INADEQUATE SENTENCES. are strafed by imprecation. And was 1284ins. on 9 days, at the | * quite recently the present writer Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, it [To the Editor of the China_Mall,”] heard a working-class woman.. was 18'0gins, on 8 days, and at the shout to one of her offspring, Police Station, Talpo, it was 9'oolns,
"Wait till I git 'old of yer, I'll on 5 days. strarfe yer, I will!**
Red the last cloud of a sun that What of your sleeping though
Flanders remembers, What of your walking, if England
forgete?
is gone, and there only remains the spots, have been purchased by the Their lives for us loved, too, the daily roll of missing and killed and Fell and Rock Climbing Club for
emn and rain?"
the crowded hospitals; the thought preservation for the benefit of the of a decisive victory is far from us. nation as a memorial to club mem- Tomorrow Britain mourns her This theme runs through most of bers who fell in war-time. Will dead across the sen. Over the the poems of the period. The some one do this for Hongkong?
Some member of the Council, This Armistice anniversary we cele-world, at the cleverth hour, her gloom becomes even more intensay: one or two of our local
at the opening of 1918; there are a brate to-day and to-morrow is the
sons pay silent tribute. In the few bright incidents such as the rapidly being eaten up by the
commercial houses. Hongkong is To-day's Poem.
(To Captain Fryatt.)· moblest in the year, most soloma Empire's capital, the King himself naval exploit at Zeebrugge, but they moth of progress; its beauty is
Now is the Trampled but red is the last of the for millions in every part of the lays the nation's Wreath before the are only flushes in the ever-increas rapidly diminishing,
ambers, world. Novouber eloven five years Cenotaph, that
ing darkness. Hopes, after years of time for one or two spots to be pre- battle and toil are baffled by the served for all time. Who will do nga saw the end of the blood welter austere und simple beauty," Thon- German advance; Paris and the t which had taken eight million lives sands visit the nation's historic Const are once mare in jeopardy. in battle and cost another nine shrine, wliere sleeps the unknown Then the tide turns and there million deaths, the end of the horror warrior, symbol of an Empire's loss follows that great October which brought the long-sought Victory. which bad spread rapine and disease, and sorrow. Millions have their The themes suggested by waring the common or ordinary things
sacred memories. The whole nation courage,~• bravery, self-acrifice, of life. We found it hard to see Why should you share in the hearts
of. our Rien of light that we harden mourns its dead.
righteousness, are all dealt with by certain
dancing with our Soldier Posts, but not many, and leading
In the shome of our nature that So in-
see it and live, if any, sing the praises of war. Its their dinners, as one
comes horrors are vivified; they will have elegantly put it, Now
news that Mr. Rudyard Kipling How more than the godly the
greedy can pardon. has been jazzing with no more of it. And anon there is a note of sarcasm. Listen to Biegtrol
How well and how quickly the St. Andrew's students Sassoon in "Does It Matter?" and
bungry forgive. True he seems to University. agree with the truth, contained in have been compelled to do so. It hig stinging words-
may be that ere long Rudyard may Ah tell us in his own inimitable prose
caused widespread ruin, and sown the seeds of trouble yet unreaped. To-morrow in nù mere official anniversary of a great and decisive victory; it is something immensely grander. To-morrow in the day, the people have set apart for them- 'selves, the day they wish to be alone with their daad.
For many, of course, November leven is a day of thanksgiving the
"Saloma the drums thrill; Death
august and royal
Singe Barrow up into immortal
spheres
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There is music in the midst of
d.aplation
And a glory that shines upon our
bears.
The Poet, in his grief, has oried Armistice meent safely for someWeep, you may weep for you may loved one in danger, gunwing four touch them, not," and the heart dissolved in untold relief. Their grows heavy with sorrow, They are very joy, however, gives these happier ones deeper sympathy with a forever game. But they have loft a divine message, these daunt those for whom Armistice Day less spirits who fall with their faces. means a numb grief flaming again to the foe, fighting to free the world into a poignant, stabbing surrow for from the horror of war and the some father, husband a brother
ghastly stupidity that makes war numbered among the
possible. To you from failing hands brave.
they threw the torch, They charged b the tank they had begund if la to ase "Lava" not
they
Maro than a great b Ldate to-morrow'a': anniversary is even For more than the solemn bqur
ing. It is the people's day
the special day when they ledge their debt to those who the Homeland's foam Loween Bold
of
divo breake faith with na whe
sleep 1 thou
Does it matter?-losing your
lege?
For people will always be kind, And you need not show that you
mind
When the others come in after
bunting
To gobble the muffins and eggs. Does it matter?-losing your
sight?
There's such splendid work for
the blind
And people will always be kind,
It is difficult some- KIPLING. times to visualise Our great ones do-
what he thinks of it all, or per chance we may get another "If.”
the
well if the soil of the stranger
had wrapped you,
While the lords that you served and the friends that you knew Hawk in the marts of the tyrants
that trapped you, Tout in the shops of the butchers
that slaw.
If all about you jazz when you don't want to CVET On the other hand it may lead to our Soldier Poet laurdate devoting all his time to jazzing in which case we may expect, another such Why biting phrase "Where the Rudyards cease from Jazring and the Kiplings write no more.
We commented approve SIGNS Jngly some time ago ba the black and As you at on the terrace remem-white signs which attorn the out
bering
sides of government property in And turning your face to the Beaconsfield "Arcade. The Gov
light
eroment's birck and white artist bas again beep busy and the result. is a neat sign on the post office building which catches the eye of the pedestrian as he comes along
Moduli the fact that
Office
Do they matter?-those drea
from the pitch You dibink and forget and be
To-morrow afternoon, by the courtesy of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. Ltd, the renowned band of the "Empress of Canada" will play at Repulse Bay. This band is composed of especially selected and talented musicians and music lovers have Indeed a treat before them, which none should miss.
with interest an account of a
Sir,-In to-night's paper I read!
burglary at a European house... resulting in a heavy loss to the
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The house I am living in, la Percival Street, was entered by burglars last week, and, as a result of what was presumably-a smart bit of delective work, one man was escorted to the Police Station,. before Mr. Wood on Wednesday last.
These burglars pleaded guilty to entering our house and stealing The Committee of the Navy goods, the property of two English League Ball desire to thank the men newly arrived in the Colony, Committees of the Tung Wah Hos pital, Chinese Chamber of Com- also to a further charge of burglary merce and Po Leung Kuk for their At least two of these men were kind donation of $1,165 in aid of
at Yaumati. M
the dependants of those in the stated by the Inspector of Police Navy, Mercantile Marine and the to be refugees from the Cantonese Auxiliary Forces who died in the Army. We all know what a. Great War. The Ball Committee splendid hunting ground that fa For the two crimes, sentences of also desire to thank the Honourable for all species of criminals. Mr. Chow Shou-son for kindly col from two to six months were impos lecting the above sum. ?
ed by Mr. Wood, "without one of. those who had lost their goods bos. ing called upon.
is
The Government of Hongkong advertising in Great Britain,
These sentences I claim, are total-- through the Crown Agents for the ly inadequate, both as a punish-- Colonies, for an electrical and wirement and a deterrent for crime, and less executive engineer. Salary of the light sentences given are cert--- |-|| £800 p.n., rising to £950 by annual ainly an incentive to other crimin- increments of £25, is offered, plus als to chance a few months in a temporary "exchange allowance." prison in the hope of making a The person engaged will be re, good haul, quired to undertake the general I wonder if the Police and gen- supervision of wireless telegraph eral public are satisfied with the arrangements in the Colony, and to administration of justice as-served advise the Government on matters
Yours, ofc In connection with wireless: telew out in this and similar cases. graphy, and on any electrical
RESIDENT. questions that may arise.
Hongkong, November 10.
abould you wake for a realm
that is rottan, Stuffed with their bribes and as www.doad to their debts? My Sleep and forget us, as we have for.
· For “Flanders remembers
England forgota.
G. I CHESTERTON,
and
WEATHER CALENDAR.
NOVEMBER 100
On One Who dearled the Concise Oxford Dictionary and laudede
He does not like to be Concise,
nisers vins his solid'Faith
na fot this sites.