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THE CHINA MAIL
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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1984
LOCAL AND GENERAL 1
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tically at a stand-atill. The China its nefarious propaganda from a
'Robinson Crusoe's plicated by tragic happenings to Mail haa received many complaints house in Chinese territory, the ORIGINALS gun has fetched urge the friends of the 'captured. from interested parties anxiousCorps Diplomatique raised no
FOR SALE £250 at a London man to greater efforts. And the that steps be taken to expedite the the Legation Quarter. The pro- collectors fall for that sort of thing, difficult by the existence of a diphtheria and two cases of enteric,
objection to its seeking sheltor in
anction. Since sad dicker is rendered
During the week-end. there more were reported one Chinose caso of work. One complainant informed pagunda of such men as Comrade a Chicago paper, asks how about market in which us that no clinkers were available | Karakhan is the more dangerous auctioning off (1) original looking vicums
unhappy one American and one Indian. are bought, specula. and that there was little likelihood in China as evidenced by the sup-glass used by Alice in Wondertively, from
one gang by an- that the course would be ready in Fort given him by Dr. Chiang land; (2) genuine cheeses manu other. Small organizations with- Law" will be the subject of this "Early Wisdom and The Social Mon-ling, President of the Peking factured by the Swiss Family in secure hiding places dispose of week's Public Lecture of the Hong- time to allow the fifth extra meet National University and Dr. Tang Robinson; (3) hypodermic.set used their prisoners to more firmly kong Lodge The Theosophical ing being held on October 11 and Erb-ho, a physician who was, at by Sherlock Holmes, and till lately established concerns, while there Society, 16, Queen's Road Centrale Our one time Vice-Minister of Educa.in the possession of the family of are even capitalists in the business, on Wednesday July 9, at 5.45 p.m. 13, according to schedule. informant is not given to "talking at the meeting on June 20, the Long John Silver in "Treasure able rule the bearer of payment tion. Both these gentlemen spoke identical wooden leg worn by Cash before delivery is the invari
Dr. Watson; (4) wooden, leg, the dealers quite in the wholesale way. All are welcome-Adut. through his hat" and though former being credited with having Island"?
being poetically known as The states that the fire on the cargo A telegram from Nagasaki matters may not be quite so bad uttered the following ambiguous
Man Who Shoulders (the Silver steamer Manchester Civilian," aa he paints them, men with years statement: "The Chinese people
Some idea! Pole." Το wipe out of, local turf experience are decid-appear to be very peculiar when › WEMBLEY RECORD. of the ex- disgrace and danger, interna sugar for Vancouver has been such bound from Java with a cargo of edly pessimistic with regard to the you do not know them, but once
tent of the tional reformers need waste no extinguished after pumping 14 you know them and consider them catering arrangements at Wembley time, of course, on the lawless feet of water into the hold. situation.
as friends, their friendship for can be gauged when it is officially symptoms; the underlying causes cargo is badly damaged, but the Against these gloomy views, we you will be permanent." Comrade stated that in one week there was are wholly knows. Such horrible captain is of opinion that not much have the cheory statement from Karakhan is playing a dangerous served:
outrages will go on regularly, damage has been done to the hull. foreigners being involved just as Colonel Hall Brutton, the Senior game and may yet live to regret his random utterances. As for
often as opportunity offers, until a Steward, "that-it is confidently his Chinese associates it will be
firm central government shall have Wo". Is reported to have been The Chinese gunboat "Tao expected that everything will be interesting to Peking foreign
been established. By which is setzed by pirates on the East meant, naturally, an actual admini-River, off Tsang Sing. The story ready by the end of this month. residents to watch them scuttle
stration, able to put the feudalistic is that the "Tao Wo" was escorting In the meantime, the publicity into the Legation Quarter in the
military governors of the harassed a number of cargo junks on the given to the matter can do no
provinces in their proper, places, harm and will have worked a miracle if the course is ready to be thrown open before August 1.
Educational Help.
event of another internecine war near China's capital.
CHINESE
FILM STAR
Anna May Wong, the Chinese film celebrity who will appear in Douglas Fairbanks' "The Thief of Baghdad,” is thus extolled by "Mimi" in an American screen, magazine:-
Black almond eves, Smooth ivory skio, With tips of lacquer red Those tiny hands Like two white wings Can carry me
Across the sca
To the Land of junks And Flaming Poppies. Your throat is like the lotus, Your hair is a gleaming poem by
Li Po.
1
80 tons of meat. 300 tons of bread and cakes, 1,700 cases of Colonial fruits..
2,000 gallons of soup.
40 tons of potatoes.
6 tons of tea,
7,000 gallons of milk.
·
dried
The
500,000 bottles of mineral waters. and to police the country to the 3rd instant when it was seized by doing away of the "Men Who strong. The pirates, it is stated, a gang of pirates several hundred Mr. Arthur Shoulder Silver Poles" and all took away the cruiser, as well as LATEST WILLS. Bradbury, of others "higher up."
Bryn Lupus,
the junks, with al hands on board. Llanrhos, Llandudno, late of Messrs. Bradbury and Hirsch, To-day's Poem. general brokers, of Dale-street; Liverpool, and of the Nene Sul- phate Works Company, Northamp ton £118.487.
Mr. John Smith, of Glengariff, Lichfield-street, Walsall, Staffs, currier and leather merchant gross £84,364.
The Rev. John Drake, of The Chestnuts, Long Molford, Suffolk, for over 30 years rector of Great and Little Wratting, near Haverhill £64.521.
Lady Evelyn Mar Scott, 78, of 51, Chester-square, S.W., sister of the sixth Earl of Clonmiell, left £9,000 upon trust for her brother the Hon. Dudley AlexanderCharles Scott £25,764
Non-Chinese the world over might do worse than take a leaf from the book of, local Chinese educationalists philanthropically inclined. This does not mean that the classics are recommended for all occasions, but the spirit with which certain Hongkong gentle- men have taken up education for their compatriots might well be emulated. Only a month or so ago, our Kongmbon correspondent wrote that Mr. Fung Ping-shan, a Hongkong merchant, was spending over $100,000 to found a. public library in the adjacent district of San Wui. Yesterday our Canton correspondent mentioned schedule of grants by Tung Kun resints for natives of that place who take up their studies in dis-
The cool white jade of it? Li Po mentioned above is the Mr. Martin Albert Tarmey, of tant parts of China or abroad. Irrespective of kith or kin, any and sang best when tiosy. He was ham, described as a rabbit-skin now-famous bard who composed 86, Bromsgrove-street, Birming body from that district is entitled to a certain som per annum while brought to the Court of the Emperor merchant-£8,448.
Tong Ming (Cantonese pronuncia- Miss Rosa Hannah Green, of 64. sojourning in the pursuit of know- tion) Over ten centuries ago,| Whitehall-park, Highgate, N. chief ledge. Nearer at hand we have when one of the regal empresses nurse to H.M. the Queen with all the countless free schools con-known as. Yeung Kwai Fay be her children, who had also pursed
a
The music of the lute Comes from your lips. Pale Chinese child,
My hand is hot,
Wil't let me touch your cheek And see if it can melt
(Silent Folk.).
The mountains are a silent folk; And the clouds that kiss their
They stand afar alone,
brows at night
Hear neither sigh hor groan. Bach bears him in his ordered
place
As soldiers do, and bold and
high
They fold their forests round their
feet
And bolster up the sky.
-Hamlin Garland.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
Mr. Francis William Grant, of Bella Vista, Poplar walk, Herne Hill, S.E., for some years chief of the Law Courts staff of the Press 1667. Association £8,889.
ducted by the Confucius Society came notorious. This bard is the Queeds or Norway and Spain
♦♦ and kindred associations. Not so known to the Cantonese as Li£1,275.
many years ago there was an Tai Bak and the Tai Bak Lau association of gentlemen who had gardens at Kennedy Town were been in Hongkong all their lives, named after him. To those up-
generosity of the public-spirited persons responsible.
A Dangerous Game.
moon's reflection.
Mr.
Four
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. H. M. McTavish will be at home to friends to-morrow and Thursday,
ኾነ
The engagement is announced of Mr. H. W. Ireland, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, to Miss Elise MacIntosh, of St. James Place.
The following passed through here by the P.and O.'s.s. "Soudan": Messrs M. R. Fetherstonehaugh, T. Cooley, L. C. Esser, R. Bouncken and Dr. Rucker.
The engagement is announced of Mrs. John Snodgrass, widow of the late Capt. Snodgrass, to Mr. H. S. Well of the Asiatic Petroleum Company.
JULY 8.
With my wife by coach abroad to Bow and Strat-
The marriage announced be. ford, it being so dusty wea- tween Mr. J. S. Blanford, D.F.C., ther that there was little and Miss Maude Nathan, will take pleasure, in it.
place at H. M. Consulate-General, Tientsin, on August 16.
-Pepys.
"GREAT" AND "NOBLE.".
The Daily Mail of June 4 contains an excellent picture of
fast levee of the season at St. costume in which he attended the Sir Robert Hu Tùng, In Chinese
James Palace..
...
death at Allahabad on May 24, of News has been received of the Captain William Hugh Robinson, R.F.A., son of the late Pay-master-. In-Chief W. G. A. J. Robinson, R.N., and grandson of Captain William Robinson, RN, whose naval service dated back to 1811. Captain W. H. Robinson was the eldest of four sons, all of whom held commissions in the Army during the war.
great deal of interest how careless I have sometimes noted with a we are about most words in our Doctor" My friend, language, and yet how careful we S-SH! you are suffering from are about some others; for
Dr. Ku Huog-men M A., who is A certain sum was raised for the acquainted with the Chinese
a chroole complaint." example, there is one word which widely known as a writer and express purpose of assisting boys classics he will be remembered for Patients "I know it, but please, we do not use carelessly and that scholar, celebrated the 58th from local schools to enter-univer- his attempt to salve the moon (a lower your voice; she's in the next is the word "noble." We use the anniversary of his birth on June sities abroad There are at least phrase from Mah Jong) from the room."
word "great" indiscriminately. A 29. His death was erroneously two or three names well-known in bottom of a Take-really the
man is great because he has had reported ig
Northern papers He had not local professional circles, of Hong-supped wisely and the effort
great material success and has last month. kong boys who have benefited brought about
piled up a fortune; a man is great. his death by
CURRENT COMMENT. from this scheme. All the fore- drowning. On the Cantonese stage
because he is a great writer, or a
Among the passengers arriving going are merely instances of he is usually pictured as having what is being done by private first become a celebrity for his out of China more dispatches to notice in him some distinct quality Captain M. Morales, Captain E. The past few days have brought great orator; a man is great be- yesterday by the "Empress, of cause he is a great hero. We Johnson, Compte M. M. de Barletta, Canada" were Justice and Mrs. E. effort and our recounting them is translations of ultimatums from tell of bandit activities directed that overtops like qualities in Refell, Captain. R. L. Bodine, simply to inform those who may foreign devils" who were pro-againstTMTM foreigners, notes the not have heard of the work-andbably the Tartars of the time.” Christian Science Monitor (Boston) other men. Bat we reserve the Captain N. Dingley, Dr. Li Che
American and English word "noble" carefully for those fang, and Mr. E. des Voeux. mission workers have been cap whose greatness is not spent in Moreton tured near Chemping, on the Ho, their own interest. A man must Mr. Charles A. Daily, who re HOLYROOD Frewen tells some in South China, and held for have a margin of energy which he presents a large number of news SURPRISE. entertaining ransom. Others stationed at does not spend upon himself in papers in the Far East, passed anecdotes in his Kweilin are said to be threatened order to win this title of nobility. tbrough Hongkong yesterday by recently published volume of Were the event less serious one He is noble in our popular concep- the s.s. "Amazone." He has been On June 20 there was held a reminiscences, "Melton Mowbray might be moved to the flippant tion only when he goes outside the covering the activities of the dinner at Central Park. Peking, at and Other Memories." Here is query asked in the ancient joke: narrow circle of self-interest, and American world fliers in Indo- which Comrade Karakhan, the what happened once at Holyrood, "Is it again or still?” head of the Soviet Mission to occasioning some scandal, which word would be true in the present terest of mankind. Then, however headquarters at Peking, accom
Either begins to spend himself for the in- China and is now returning to his China gave vent to a number of is remembered even unto this day; case, for Chincse brigandage of fulsome utterances in an endea-Commissioner's functions is to to be a continuing and therefore we give him this titile of nobility,
At Holyrood a part of the High this particularly ill sort is going humble his gifts, however undis panied by his wife.
tinguished his intellectual force; vour to convince his hearers that entertain the bishops on the Friday. a recurrent phenomenon just so Russia was the only real friend They all appeared at the levés long as the two causes of it stand and admit him into the high peer- of China and was determined to except the Bishop of Argyll and uncorrected. While tuchuns are age of men who will not be for rescue her from "all her unequal the Isles, who sent his dean to able to gather personal, indepen-gotten... treaties with the Powers."
The represent him, a functionary, that dent armies-forces they can by
---Woodrow Wilson, dinner was ostensibly given by Mr. Rosslyn described as a ridiculous no means always pay-there will in "Robert E. Lee." Shao, proprietor of the "Ching and pawky person. His apology be deserters from those levies, liv. Pao,"
a Soviet organ which for the Bishop's absence was a ing lawlessly to raise money, recently has been attacking the noteworthy one. He said, "My either through ransoms for kidnap- Corps Diplomatique on all and Lord High Commissioner, my ed prisoners,, natives of foreigners Hall Brutton on the opposite page. every occasion. As intimated by Lord Bishop is unable to attend; or, in the latter case, through bribes When it was announced early in our Peking correspondent last he is ill, indeed he is abed with from Government officials to be June that the course would be week, there is little doubt that the High Commissioner put his inevit these conditions will persist while
housemaid's knee."
"The Lord good." Again, and more basically, closed for six weeks immediately defrayed from Soviet funds. That, Dean, that is the strangest excuse as Impotent, not to say farcical, a cost of the entertainment was able glass in bis era and said, Mr. the central administration remains sfter the fourth extra meeting, on however, is a small matter in com that I have yet encountered. thing as it is-to-day. It is however, June 9 and 11, owners and trainers parison with the utterances of Pray what has your Lord Bishop more than a matter of foreigners asked the Clerk of the Course for Comrade Karakhan on behalf of done with the young person's] captured and held in hazard of Mae Murray in" Peacock Alley." Lieutenant Beatty was appointed
his government (whose accredited other organs?!! SHARP On July 1924, în at least a week's grate in which representative was presented at
itself. It is only of this, to be sure, that the outside world hears, Montreal Cañada, Harry to "let down" their ponies. They the June Levee at the Court of James Sharp, late of Shang argued and rightly that if the St. James) in so far as they reflect
It hardly seems tures less than half the story. Charles Ray in A Village Sleuth."
and all too often! But this pic- hai and Yokohama, passed
a matter of won- Brigandage has become not lees away after a brief illness,necessary repairs were to be com-on Great Britain's attitude toward
der that horrible than a recognized industry in aged 61 years. (By cable), pleted in six weeks from June 11, China. In railing at the Corps Diplomatique, Comrade Karakhan
crimes of an to present-day China. It may, indeed, July 9-Lammert Bros. ; at Sales ROZARIO On July 3, 1924, at a week's grace could easily be included the Minister of Great speakable nature are being com- properly be held as a brother guild Rooms, valuable household tural-
44a, Cumine Road, Shanghai, granted. They were told that it Britain, with whom the Soviet is globe to-day, when the almost organizations which centre north
News of the death of Mrs. mitted in various sections of the to the beggars and thievesturs, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m.
Whitamore (nee Lorna Way) at Emmanuel Alfredo
July 10-Lammert Bros., at Tongshan Hospital will be re was necessary to start the drainage on friendly terms. After avowing equally horrible crimes, which are of Hongkong, though it is further Mesura, Kwang Nguan Seng'a ceived with dismay by the whole Rozas Rotaru, aged 81% scheme at once in order that the that, he belonged to the cost of being committed right along in spread than they. For ao-ordinat- Gode, ved Vests bead slices, Tientsin commualty, among whom Rozario, of Mr. Mrs.
course should be stripped in time "Propagandists who advocate the the name of so-called science, and ed kidnapping is well-nigh brass wires and preserved olives, she has spent her life, and made
freedom of China and the abroga- advertised extensively, are con-universal in that distressed land. 11 a.m. for the laying of the clinkers and tion of all her unequal treaties sidered, comments a contemporary. The usual victim is a native, and
July 11-Lammert Bros., at P. & T. Times Mrs Whitamore many friends, says the extra sand to raise the level of with the Powers," he added: "ao Just recently, for example, ten tons when "only Chinese are con-Sales Room, 20 cases
Owners and long as these treaties are not of melinite was exploded at the cemed no official outcry is raised Cloth, 11 a.m. the inner track.
Cotton spent nearly all her girlhood and her short married life in Tientalúj trainers were advised to make use abrogated, China will never be ministry practice ground of La They are ransomed, if rescued at
and like her sisters, took a very, usc able to see the light of day." After Courtine, half-way between fall, as best their friends can of the polo ground in the mean asking why he should be, accused Limoges and Clermont-Ferrand, arrange. The negotiations are a general meeting of The China port. She took a prominent part September 16.-Extraordinary active part in the social life of the time. Like true aportamen, they or conducting unlawful pro- France, for certain experimental protracted and expensive business Bugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the In A.D.C. and other entertain did not press their claim; conadent paganda, he urged the diplomats de crater over sixty feet always: Bargaining enters into it Registered Office of the Company, ments, and was one of the most that six weeks from June 11-to papers which daily insuit China. results of the explosion were, how message from a middleman,
to interfere with those foreign being produced thereby. The life. There comes to the relatives'
wide and nearly twenty feet deep as in all other phases of China Pedider Street, woon. Those interested in activities in wit July 28 the course would By these he obviously meant the ever, described as disappoint-fixing a secret Appointment and
Whitamore, of Whitchurch, New donnection with the race-course at again. "be available. With com- British, French, American and ing, it being recorded that of naming a sum, and, first of all, this
of her death, and of the peculiar Happy Valley, either a as owners of mendable despatch, the Clerk of Japanese papers published in the animals which had been placed wretched parasite must be race-ponies or as members of the the Course saw that the drains forgetting that when the Chinese fifty yards from the explosion, appoints an agent, for neither side Hongkong Lodge, The Theoso great shock to her husband's and Peking or Tientsin, conveniently in twenty-three pits not more than sweetened. Then the family July 9-Public lecture of the which it occurred, will come as a paloful circumstances under "liver brigade," will read with were cut; since then, however, Government refused the Resta only one, a gulben pig, was found is to appear in 'the open, and the sphical Society, at 18, Queen's Road her family's many friends through interest the remarks of Colonel work on the course has been prac News Agency permission to spread dead."
barter proceeds, oftentimes com Central, 5.45 pm
out the Far East.
BIRTH.
COLLACO.--On July 3, 1924, at hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
No. 66, Haskell Road, Shang-
Collaco, a daughter.
months.
DEATHE.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, July 8, 1924.
THE RACECOURSE,
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
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An expression of Admiralty commendation has been conveyed to, Lieutenant Thomas R Johnnie Walker in "My Dad."
July 8. Coronet
careful | Beatty, RN, for the Theatre;
manner in which he kept his remark July 8-The Star Theatre information
books for 1923, and for the useful contained therein. Hoot
July 8-World Theatre; Gibson in "Ride for Your Life."
July 8.Queen's
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popular girls in NOTIN CHIA. Sho was married on February 18, 1922, to Mr. Rupert Alexander