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Bili, 2 Lancashire poultry fancier, had his cote, and he, along with four pals, went to remove it to its destination. Each of his pals: took a corner and lifted It on their 1684.
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1913
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Exchange on London is 2/334r on Shanghai 691
Rubber is quoted at 50 cents.
When the weather is fine, us it has been these last, three per lb. days, I go out at two o'clock, i
and walk as long as I can There will be a Musicale at without stopping, passing the Helena May Institute on Thurs-- and re-passing the labourers day next, November 29th, at 5.30- who are abopping wood; look. pm, for members and their friends. ing for all the world like the Tickets, to be obtained in advance figures in those pictures of a from the Secretary, 50 cents each. winter landscape-Madame -Advt. 'de Sevigne,
CATCHWORDS.
R. L. STEVENSON.
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SHADOWS BEFORE.
Leading articles in today's China Mail deal with Sunday Labour and The Round Table Conference. There is also a specially contributed article by Mr. A. Í Crook and some topical verse by R.K.M.S.
Professor Iki, of Tokyo Univer sity, who has just returned from a year's sojourn in North Saghalian.. says petroleum is oozing out of the ground all over the northern part of the island, and that oli pools of great size are found everywhere.
"There has been some misun- dertanding as to my motive Some are suspicious because I first proposed that the Diplomatic In reading the symposium of "Corps be present at the Confer views gathered by our Special Com
ence and even undertake to call it together, but my reason was shoulders. missioner, and which appeared in
that in diebanding our huge amy. As it was a very hot day, they our Saturday's, issue, it would
and in setting the soldiers to rested halfway up the hill over appear that the time is not quite' work, foreign capital would be which they had to travel, when they needed. Others have been missed him, and each asked the rips for the introduction of a rest
suspicious because I have been other, "Where's Bill" when be! day "hmong_Chiness workmen. I
a friend of Dr. Sun Yateson and hold, a voice exclaimed from with we take the word of those who were because he is so enthusiastic in the cote, "Ah'm inside, carryin' spoken to as indicative of the views for my proposals. It is true he th' perches."
is one of my friends, but I am of their fellow-workmen, as
not concerned in his party
If we have any per must, they are in the main, against schemes. I am ready to be on FUNERALS. ~Sonal dislikes it is it-against it because the gain on good terms with all the lenders.
attending. Christen- Still others blame me for workings, weddings and funerals, the the monetary aido, if we may be
`ing with Liang Shib-y!. Many, most important landmarks in our pardoned another Irishiem, would also, cannot understand how it is lives. Someone has put it this be a lose, and in money matters we I a Chinese, am a subject of wav" Hatched, matched, dis- Great Britain. My position is patched." The fuss and frillings a class incre
To have a catchword in your have yet to meet
They
like that of the late Dr. Wu Ting- attendant on, these ceremonies mouth is not the same thing me to practical than the Chinese.
fang. I was born and brought shocks our sense of decencies-hold an opinion; still less is it the frankly do not understand or appre- | up in Hongkong and to corhan just as it does when a fool maname thing as to have made one for ciate the matter. They might even under British Jaws, but I have comes along and talks about the yourself,
never lost my love for the land "best girl in the world." We notice Born the proved fact that a person
of my fathers. Instilla Chinese that quite a lot of people who or- perfarming six days work, with n and am not ashamed of it. Others | dinarity/have no time" for the day off for rest, is likely to do more thought I was using this scheme parson or the Church, are ever
of unification to feather, my own ready to make use of their ser and better work than the person
nest, but whether my motives vices at the appropriate times. who works seven days without a
are good or not, must be left to Surely a lack of the
sense break. The question of coolies and my actions to disclose. It is of of consistency. We have always!
no use to simply assert that my wondered what happens to those the tendencies they are alleged to
motivea are all right. If I say who die consistent to their convic- have in the way of spending days
anything at all, it is that being tions to views as non-Christians. in debauch does not affect the
free from business cares and We know what some people' will matter. In dealing with and talk- having enough money to live on, say concerning what happens to I find it a pleasure to put forth them, but we are thinking of the ing of coolies, the unconscious
my energy to help my country ceremony, if any, carried out when attitude is assumed that the coolie
to become strong and be at such as we have "described, are| peace. I also have the natural buried. That there is a ceremony Ltd. a person of enlightenment, with
desire to succeed in this new is obvious. There was once a book. an appreciation, more or less, of
kind of work. Is there anything "The Seculariat's Manual of Songs finer thinge. If he were it would
wrong about this?”..........
and Ceremonies" written by the be reasonable to assume he would
The reasons advanced by the late Austin Holyoake and describ- a question- not very long remain à coalie to apponents of Sir Robert Ho Tunged in Parliament as be universally scorned-"an out- are quite understandable from a able book." It is now out of print, east of the people."
Chinese point of view, since but we leam that interments or What is
altruistic motives among politicians Cremations are often conducted in needed is a little education and in China are practically unknown, silence-notably that of Charles vast agunt of sympathy. It is Soon after his assumption of office, Bradlaugh At other times the probably true to say that all our President Teao Kun circulated "officiating" person gives a brief or less appropriate labour and, so far se our domestic by telegram 2 manifesto to the and more
effect that he was working for the address. concerned, bouse unification of the country, so that hold troubles are due to this lack of as he and Sir Robert Ho Tung are sympathy. In how many homes in working for the same end, there should be little difficulty in a work- the Colony is Mr. Moeller's planing. arrangement being reached the Shanghai Short Story Club the Royal
HE. the Governor entertained adopted of seeing that house ser- whereby the much discussed round-members met to discuss W. W. Dramatic Club presents the famous the following to dinner at Govern vants are given the opportucity of table conference can take place. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw." We Robot Play the "RUR" 9.15 p.m.ment House last night: Capt, and
Some may urge that the wonder how many have read this one day "off" per week, or in other present uncertainty in Canton story and will agree that it is an
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HosGrong Tuesday, Nov. 87, 1933.
SUNDAY LABOUR.
CALL AND INSPECT;-
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where servants are at least free in the evenings as soon as the evening meal is completed, or servants are
occasionally when the "friend from the country' bas to be seen. The day of rest for the Chinese workmen should not be dismissed because it appears to be of no apparent moment, or because those who ought to speak about, and discuss it, refuse to do so. Our previous experience in strike matters does not appear to have taught ne much if we are to judge by the indifferent Sympathy
!
So many Gode; so many creeds Bo many paths that wind
wind.
and
When just the art of being kind To all this sad world needs.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail,
ENTERTAINMENTS.
ROCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Booking for the famous R. U. R play, the A.D.C.'s production opens to-day at the Anderson Music Co.
Mr. F. Mason the Cathedral November 27.-Coronet Theatre; organist is prepared to receive puptis in singing, planoforte and "Orphans of the Storm."
November 27-Star Theatre: organ. Mary Pickford in "Through the Back Door."
November 27-World Theatre; Mary Miles Minter in "The Heart Specialist."
November 27.--The Grand Dr. 1 Theatre; Harold Lloyd. In Jack."
November 27-Hongkong male Voice Choir Concert at St. John's Hall.
December 1 to 8.-Star Theatre; A. Carpi presents The Italian Grand Opera. Co.
December 3-Theatre Royal; We notice Piano Recital by Mr. Harry Ore, MONKEY'S PAW. that at the last 9.15 p..
meeting of December 8-10-12-15.-Theatre Hongkong Amateur
Mrs. M. M. Hogben, and Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Mitchell of the London Mission Staff returned to the Colony by the " City of Paris."
Mr. and Mrs. D'Almada e Gastro.. Mrs. L. E. Lammert. and Mr. and Mrs. v. Gennep Luhrs were pas sengers on the incoming "City of Paris."
Miss GAL. Bendclack, and the Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Rogers of the Church Missionary Society were passengers on the incoming" City of Paris."
Mrs. Brodie, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe, APORT.
Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith, Miss December -Next Tourna- must militate against the suc awesome experience to do so atment of the Hongkong Boxing brooke, Mr. and Mrs. Haslam, Mr. Beatrice Wilson, Lt-Com. Rush- cess of any such meeting dead of night, preferably alone in That does not necessarily follow, a room, with the house quiet. Assen. at the Theatre Royal and Mrs. Wynne Jones, and Miss
SOCIALISM.
Mr Fletcher's ad- mission of being in favour of a free
December 1.-Hongkong Jockey Murphy. Club's extra gymkhana,
King's Farewell Football match at Sookunpo ground, 4 p.m.
December 2. The Jasper
Clark challenge cup to be played
Ferry to Kowloon is aggravatingly interesting.. It was left at the stage at Fanling.
as whether victorious or defeated Dr. Sun Yat-sen can be depended upon to stick to his promise. In the event of the Chen party proving the victor pressure can easily be brought to bear to make them fall into line. In view of the approach of a mere expression of personal December 9-The Royal Hong of the year-end and the known opinion, without elaboration and kong Golf Club St. Andrew's sident Tsao Kun is not likely to wondering. Is he in favour of such emptiness of Peking's coffers, Pre explanation of it. We are thus left St. George's match. need much persuasion; once he is a Utopian scheme because people, won over, the other leaders are many of whom have been forced November 27-Hongkong St. across the water on account of Andrew's Society Practice Dance. nearly certain to follow suit.
housing conditions in Hongkong, December 3-Lantern Lecture should not be penalised through at Helena May Institute, by Col. having to cross to and fro? If so, C. W. Davy, C.M.G., 5.30 p.m. the matter cannot be left there.
RUR.
SOCIAL.
BAZAAR.
"Mr. A. G. Stephen, Chief Mina- ger of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, returned to Hongkong yes- terday after a brief visit to Shang-
hai, whither he went to meet Mrs. Stephen on her return from Eng- land. Mrs. Stephen, who is accom panied by one of the daughters of Sir Charles Addis, will come to Hongkong later.
Shanghai papers report the death of Capt. Neil McLean ou October 18 at the Vancouver General Hos- pital. Capt. Neil McLean had been
a master mariner on the China
Domain
the Why should people be penalised December 8--Hongkong Wo-coast for the past 20 years. He had servitude of man toman who live on the Peak, or at the
and the enslavement of extreme ends of the Island? Why men's Guild and M. C. L's Grand retired from active service and was man to matter will cease. There'll not free trams and free taxis as Fête and sale of work in the on his way home to Scotland The be no artisans, no clerks, no bewers well as free ferries? The matter of grounds of Government House, remains will be shipped by the T. of coal and menders of other course would not end there, but it 2 p.m.
men's machines.
AUCTION.
November 29-Lammert Bros woollen and Tweed suitings and overcoatings, Sales Rooms, II a.m.
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUES AND
Edwards Co. to Glasgow, Scotland, and from there to his home in the would do to be going on with. It
Isle of Skye, where interment will sounds very much like what Mr.
November 27-Lammert Bros., take place beside his late wife. feciing Gladstone said on a historic a collection of Postage stamps THAT KRUSCHEN: may easily occasion.-"We're all socialists 5.15 p.m.
be invoked now." in Hongkong. All you need do is to get a friend pussessing a motor-
The phrase "Enter bike with a side car to take you for ANGELS. taining angels UD« a little jaunt or bump: procred
awares" suggests the leisurely Shaukiwan-ward. From thought: If you had to entertain Causeway Bay to the Taikoo Dock an angel, how would you go about your possessor-friend accelerates it? Say your favourite angel come He speeds. Within reasonable to Hongkong. Repulse Bay? The at Hongkong Hotel, Noon. and legal limits of course. That is Grill? Round the island? A Visit
to
MEETING.
November 28,-Hongkong En- gineering and Construction Co; Ltd, first ordinary yearly meeting November 29-Annual General
of
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
LL preliminary notices of forth- coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each. as announced. In May and June of
In
will be placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates.
schools and sacred buildings on the attitude displayed. very day, they sought to impress connotes kindness-not the namby SASSOON-Suddenly, on Satur-
others with the high message of pumby stuff, that doles out miserable 'day last,following an operation in London, Hector William their calling, and doubtless recited and empty platitudes, but one that Sassoon, Director of Messrs. the Sinai-given commandments one recognise that the labourer is E. D. Sassoon and Co., Ltd: of which expressly dwells on the, Warthy of his hire, and duo for that necessity of a labour term of six treatment which those in the past
have earned for us, days, the seventh being devoted amongst other things, to rest. It may be argued that these com- mandinente are not binding on non-Christiane, and we need spend no time in disputing what may be an abvious fact, and also an, effective argument.
But it does appear to us to be binding on those
all that le necessary. The thing to RUR Afternoon tea at the Meeting the Hongkong 1922) providing that they do not will remind you of a classic of Peak? A Visit to Committee Society for the Prevention of occupy more than four Hoes, Mr. Gladstone left it on record in authority in Christian matters. Round Table Conference.
another day which had to do with meeting? Its a tremendous and Cruelty to Animals at Messa future if this space is exceeded they that from a moral, social, and and they, or some of them stand Latest news dispatches state Greek legend concerning some difficult problem. What topics Jardine Matheson's board' room,
What could you engage, upon in talking 5.30. p.m. physical point of view the obser- convicted for delinquencies in thus that Sir Robert Ho Tung is en route one of whom it was said:
A change is to Peking to seek, an interview ho! She bumps!" Bump you to on angelic one? The thought of wance of Sunday is a duty of respect in the past.
will. Your liver wil! shake as do the subjects of daily conversations What he coming over the scene, although it with President Teao Kun with a the adiposeness of some of our between mortals is enough absolute consequence.
ones, and you will make one shudder when thinking weant by observance is not quite must be admitted that those who view to persuading him to consent great clear to us but, we shall be safe in are responsible for the building of to a round-table conference of the regain that youthful feeling of the possibility of spending a much desired and which few moments in the company of assuming that included in his the Young Men's Christian Associa- leaders of the different factions in so
Perhaps. Perhaps your wife, If meaning was the observance of the tion do not come too well out of the Chian, whereby it is hoped that an puts monkey glands to shame, an angel day as a period when the work of matter in spite of Mr. R. agreement will be reached, by you have at one well you have nt, the week was for the nonce left on Moellor's admission that the matter which peace and prosperity will be may become a sorrowing widow, restored to the republic. Sir Robert and your children, if again you
(The Quatrain Rondeau.). one side, and if possible, the of a clase prohibiting work ou Ho Tung, though a British subject, have them, may have to beg their thought of it, in that way chsuring Sunday was omitted, in spite of is of Cantonese stock and, if the bread, for you may be bumped out The year has cast its weds away.
Of rain, of tompest and of cold, everyone the opportunity of a cesen- the knowledge presumably that the President of China can fall in with of that sidecar and as a result be
his plaus, he will have won a friend, some an angel!. If there is a bad And put on broidery of gald tion from bodily or mental toil a Government insert, such a clause who will prove far more valuable road in the Colony it surely must at least one day of the work. It is in all its contineta. We take the than any of the Southern militarists. be the stretch we have referred to, of sunbeams bright and clear and unnecessary to point out that this liberty of ponning, these remarks In a recent press interview, Sir There is probably a good reason Triers is no bird or beast to-day
Robert stated that there is no why the bumps are not smoothed day of rest is one aux most priceless assuming that the Y.M.C.A. change if his purpose to convene to reasonable perfection, but there But gings and shouts in field and
Bold, posscnsions which we would not accepts the Christian position re- a conference, but only in the plan can be no reason why gaps and readily barter. In considering the garding the commandment referred and time for holding it. Tsao Kun holes are allowed to remaks rext The year he cast its wade away ta. If not then our observations is the only prominent leader who the tram lines, Our motor car, of rain, of tampart and of cold. question of Bunday Labour in the
has not sent a reply to Sir Robert's and motor bike owners are such The silver fret work of the May Colory we are on slightly different are uncalled for and we withdraw favitation. It is conceivable that emidently respectable gentlemen Is over brook and spring enscroll-
now he is the head of the state he that we should hate to lose them as
ed, ground, and the mbjact assured
Ablazon kwaly to behold. angles and difficulties it sooms at It is unfortunate that i desling feels reluctant to follow in the foot a result of accidents due to these
steps of the smaller fry, but, yawning gaps. Wo say nothing of Each thing has put ch new away first sight dificult to negotiate and with the question of a day of rest if he was to summas the con-users of rickshas', and pedestrians. The year has cast ile wode away overcome. Added to tliese facts is for all classes of workers, no matter ference himself, ho could not They, of course are without the
Of rain, of tempest and of gold.
thati the
forrige what their creed, or colour, the only save face, but make a pale,
EUSTACHE DESCRAMPS (FOO name for himself. The reason that population is seemingly indifferent question of the religious aspect of
teenth Century). Translated by and takes the to them practicate thatter scoate de oreop-in. That view that the present system or does not concert us We reler to custom is good and should not be it on the purely boobom
the one
intertored with
That;
we the outward
religious
bodion,
them.
Cine ta
he did not reply, befors occupying thepresidential chalry was probably? due to fear of the Tientsin, clique
-Here is a Turkish -THE MODEST story i–An angal
| ARMENIAN.
of Chihli politicians. Natural Sir Robert has met with a certain farið ati
xintʼof. hostile criticism,so
Today's Poem.
A FALSE ALARM. Explosions crash! and the gongs begin!" The horrid moment, sure as fate, Of sudden straafs that usher in
The stirring up of evening hate."-
Hills and streets resounding snatch mo Back to moods in which I'm scared That the nasty Hun will catch me.
Changing over, unprepared. Unseen plonks, and distant thunder,
Vicious barking near at hand Make me want to dodge and wonder
Where the next one's going to land.. Blast that gong, it means "stand by Ora biinkin "Gas Alert"!
F: 0.0.'s will soon apply:
The S.
SOS. call, for's cert
Hark the stuff they're pouring o'er us
Twelve fach, five nine, field gun, how; Mortar and Archie Join the chorus
Barraging Bike blazes now.”
You get that feeling of a push on,
You hear the swish of awky, bit You make a plous resolution
To be calm, and keep your wits. You have windup to the ayo-ilds," Feel the old familiar shoc Catch your Breath
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