THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 1923.
JOTTINGS FROM MACAO MILITARY SMUGGLERS. WHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Armistice Day.
YUNNANESE - WITH AMMUNITION,
Included in the political refugese
The 11th November, was celebrati ed quietly, and without ostentation. Schools and public offices kept | arrived in the Colony last night: open all day, as the Government has consecrated the 19th April, (anniversary of the Battle of Lys) to the memory of Portuguese sol- diers who gave their lives in the Great War. A fow were observed wearing Poppies, evidently brought over by same excursionists on the morning boat. The "Honam."
Owing to the continued unsatis- factory state of the harbour, and to the relatively deep draught of this well-known vessel, the departure for Hongkong to-day will be at the
quaint hour of 5 a.m. Educational
Mr. Constancio José da Silva, teacher in the Municipal Boys' School, petitioned to be allowed to retire on grounds of failing health. Mr. da Silva first taught in this school thirty-six years ago, and his retirement, which was approved, is felt as a great loss by his students.
We trust that with the increased amount of time that will thus be at his disposal, Mr. da Silva will find leisure in which to continue his Doble and disinterested journalistic work against hypocrisy, corruption and double-dealing.
are a number of men associated with the various armies in Kwang tung. Two of them had ammunit- ion on them and this led to their appearance before Mr. N..L, Smith this morning on a charge of possession without a permit from the C. S. P.
The first had only four rounds of His Wor- revolver ammunition. ship asked if he was one of "those Yunnan generals" and defendant replied, "No, I am only serving as
a soldier,"
TEMPERAMENT.
Í MEN AND WOMEN IN THE WRONG
JOBS
Thousands of men who are still at the bottom of the ladder of their profession or trade, after striving for years to rise, would now be at the top if... According to Dr. G. H. Miles, assistant-director and secretary of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, High Holborn, W.C., that if" represents temperament
In a very large number of cases persona possess the ability to at tain high positions in life, Dr. stated but their tem- Miles perament clashes with their natural powers of mind and prevents their full development and use. Dr. Miles said:
..
His Worship (to the interpre ter): When he comes to Hong- kong he must stop being a soldier.less in the experimental tage. Our operations are still more or After defendant had denied Temperament is a very mysterous that he had a
covered exactly what it is. When revolver and thing, and we have not yet dis- we have done so it will be very much easier to understand why a certain occupation would best suit a particular person,
Inspector Purden had stated that the Police did not take a serious view of the case, a fine of $100 or one month's hard labour was im- posed.
THE WRONG JOBS.
BIG GENERAL'S BROTHER. Claiming to be a brother of
The world is full of people in the General Chu Pul-tak, commanding wrong jobs, and that is why every- one section of the Yunnanese army thing should be done at the period now at the East River front, des of youth to made certain by the cribed as "The First Army direct-study of natural bent and tempera His career, a continual strugglely controlled by the Central Gov-ment what is the ideal job for a
man or woman to obtain.
for Republicanism, Secularism and Freethought, against persecution on the part of the reactionaries, fully entitles him to the title of the
Holyoake."
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Captain Rosa Duque, Hon Mem- ber of the Municipal Council of Macao, has proposed that -substantial sum be voted by the monicipality towards a fund that has been opened in Lisbon for the erection of mausoleum in memory of the lats Carlos da Maia, ex-Governor of Macao, assassinated in the Dutultista revolts. Un- happily his praiseworthy project was not well received, Mr. Julio Pancracio moving the admendment that a sum as insignificant as two hundred dollars, or even one hundred, would meet the case. Rationalism in Macao.
There are signs of an awaken ing desire among the educated classes of Macao to bring the benefits of the knowledge of modern scientific discoveries and modes of thought to the public Negotiations are pending for the establishment of an agency in Macao of the Rationalist Press Association of Lon- don referred to by Sir Ray Lankester as the Association which has done most for intellect ual progress in recent years. Journalistic.
ernment," another Yunnanese was charged with possession of 188 rounds of ammunition.
Every week "vocational tests" are made at the institute, and as a His excuse was that the luggage result it has been found possible to belonged to his brother general put many boys and girls on what and he was unaware of the pre-in life. Most of the boys and girls should be their high road to success sence of the ammunition.
The Magistrate remarked that 188 was a large number to have been carried unnoticed and flied the man $500.
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who undergo the tests want to do clerical work, but we have found that about 40 per cent of them are unsuited to the work because they do not possess the required tem perament.
LEISURE OF SEAFARERS.
day
From my meanderings around the world in tramp steamers I have come to the conclusion that those who follow the sea spend their spare time as follows:
D. W. Griffiths' latest production now at the Coronet, is in every sense a remarkable production, and quite in accord with the big reputa- tion he enjoys in Filmdom.
Firemen and sailors, when not
passing love for her father shown is exhausting,
The story deals with the surplaying cards, sleep, for their toil by a young girl. Brent, the father, has the misfortune to kill a man by accident in circumstances that are very incriminating.
He hides out in a small island in the South South Seas, only for his enemies to search him out. His daughter, normally a timid, quiet girl, sinks the boat which is the only means of escape from the island, and then in her desperation, tries to murder her father's enemies. A striking scene shows her attempting to drowa a man by seizing him from under water as he is swimming.
Nothing further transpires in Macao as to whether a foreigner may be permitted to have a religion other than that which Tennyson, Poet Laureate, referred to in his "Sea Dreams" as the "Scarlet Woman." Signor Vulpicelli has Richard Barthelmess is the explained that this phrase, as popular star of the film, and he is offensive to Catholics as theably supported by Carol Dempster, Catholic grouping together of who acts splendidly. Atheism and Libertinism must be The scenes were made in the to Atheists, had its origin among South Seas, and are unusually religious refugees who fled to picturesque,
England from persecution in the
XVI and XVII centuries.
Signor Vulpicell we should
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Quartermasters, with their lighter
The galley staff are content to sit and smoke where they may best fill their lungs with the night air.
The apprentices sing-and they can sing.
I sat one evening on the poop rail of a tramp steamer chugging her wheezy way round the coast of North Borneo. Below me, in the gloom, I could dimly see a group. of sprawling figures. From the murmur of voices that floated up to me I gathered that the apprentices were discussing their inevitable evening sing-song,
The programme satisfactorily arranged, they stood up and form- ed a circle, and an apprentice from Greenock led off.
Clear and · full the words of Anoie Laurie" rose on the night air, triumphant above the thudding of the twin screws and the coughing of the circulation pump.
The next was Taffy, a Welsh lad,
The following analaimed telegrams who sang in his native tongue. So
ure lying at the office of
it went round the circle. Two Tha
Tyneside lads sang selections from Treat Northern Telegraph Company Chu Chin Chow" and then all ~Limited):
Kwong Shing Hing, from Shanghai,joined in singing "In the Evening by the Moonlight," taking parts Shimon, from Kobe.
state, was Consul General for Italy UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. ân South China for twenty years, and now resides in the picturesque village of Taipa, which, though unknown to the Sunday tripper from Hongkong, is well worth a visit from the serious minded. Signor Vulpicelli is the possessor of a typewriter with which he is able to write all the European languages and several Oriental ones. He is an ardent student of the hermenentical rules of gematria, and it is hoped that he will give the public, from time to time, the benefit of his researches into this fascinating branch of paleography. Signor Vulpicell was also a student for a time at the Hongkong University.
*Social.
the
Mr. Butters of -Supreme Court, Hongkong is in residence here, together with Messrs. Grantham, Scott, Williams. *Mr. Scott on his well-known roan mare "Jenny" is a regular figure on the Band, now that the after- noons Lic_growing cooler,
Mme. Solor Difranco arrived from Shanghai the other day.
There was an animated Soirée dansante at the Macao Club on Saturday, which continued until 2 a.m.,
the musicians of the Victoria Cinematograph being in attendance.
Those present at this reunion in-l cluded Lieut. Diaz de Siva, Lieut. and Mme. Braganza, Lieut. Sanches -da Gama, Mme. and Mile. Beca, Senhor Lara Reis, wid many others.
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ALL preliminary notices of forth
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Sang Hing Hingloong Street, from cleverly-harmony of no mean Shanghai.
Jensenias, from Stockholm. Chong Ke Kai Long Englook
Street, from &moy.
"Thok Yuem, from Yingkow.
Berpao, from Amoy..
order.
A figure came across the hatch and was recognized.
"Let's have a song, Sam."
The newcomer, a West Indian native, obliged with same senti-
Po Bong Tai Des Voeux Road mental ragtime he had picked up
Central, from Peking.
0524, from Cheloo
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Obensoon, from Bhanghai.
in Panama, snapping his brown
fingers and step-dancing to his melody.
"Some more!" chorused the
Yen Poo Great Eastern Hotel, from apprentices, but the shrill blast of
Shanghai.
8283 5729, from Ansoy, Basil, from Kobe Kunghing, from Kobe. Yakam, from Kaba.
N. LUNE, JAZNO Act. Superintendent. Hongkong, 8th November, 1923.
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Brustend, from Lourenco Marques. Christin, from Waltevreden. Clanzwater, from Lewistonida.
·Esmohler," from Seattle. Palmer Emprais Cacapac Shanghai.
King), from Singapore emb. Thogerson, from Gilankans.
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a whistle was heard from the bridge.
The first officer was calling.
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VOTING CONTEST.
OUR $50 PRIZE.
POPULAR CHRISTIAN-NAMES.
What are the most popular Christian names 7 This week we give the first list-twenty boys' names. Write them out in their correct order and win our $50 prize. Other lists will follow each week, including girly' names. After these Hists have all been decided, still further contests will be held to decide the finals, For each event every week we will give our usual $50 prize, Someone must win! Why not you?
Twenty Christian Babies are · diren below: Select the tem you consider the most popular and write them out in the gedez of your okafes. Than cut the form out and send it to the "China Mali"! ömlös marked "Koko""
The list which comes woteeet the correct solution will win thu pefte. Tha correct solution will be decfited by the gizani rote, the item polling the ment. rotas being pizced fret, this own coming nare being plined sécond aka só en watta the list of tan la complated.
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Therefore the secret of the contest is Not to select the ten most popular Kamus in alphabetical order from our list, But to select the ten most popular names from our list and judge what place each individually will occupy-which will come first, which second, and so on until all ten have been placed.
The contest Lanta tram Monday to Saturday. The result will be annouanDİ. in the “Chias Mall” on the encoeeding Wednesday, when the winner's nAMS'MËTË be published along with the correct list,
Busey copy of the "China Mail" contafas one forsa giving the reader can try for the prize. Regular readers thau hare not loss than six tries in aus wook.
Competitom may send in as many forms as they like.
Forms should be sent in to zench the "China Mail" by Monday. Any fun received by the "China Mail” later than Monday will be discounted.
When making your aholos use only the words diyan below. Any formom wrongly marked, mutfisted, or indistinctly wzition will be ruled out.
The decision of the Editor upon axy półuts which may arisa shall be full, Mambers of the "Chlas Mall” staff are dobarrack from entering the content.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE HERE
Below we give twenty Christian names. Belect the ten you think the most popular.
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... Alfred ...Alexander
Augustus Bernard Christopher Cuthbert
Donald Edmund
Eric
Frank
Gerald
Gregory
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13.......
Horace
Regain
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Jack
15...
Kenneth
16...
Michael
17...
Owen
18... ...
Percy
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Ralph
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Hongkong, November 15, 1923.
Hongkong
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