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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A CHINESE STORY.
This is a Chinese story from an EX❤ cellent book on Chinese humour pablished by Messrs. Kelly "& Walsh, which may, or may nut, have a bearing on tigers in the New Territory and the discus- sion at the Education Board on the appointment of certificated teachers
About the middle soldier on its outstretched wings, BEL FAIR of May there is an the soldier carrying a crusader's.
annual migration of sword. The memoris, it is ex When it is remembered that young sels up the Thames at pected, will be dedicated on June the flower of the Government Kingston. They appear in shoals, 28, 1926, the anniversary of the service sleeps on the Peak, the giving to the margin of the river arrival of the first contingent of an appearance not altogether American troops under "Maj Gen." scant attention which the Govern- agreeable; but their origin and Willian L. Sibert in 19ry. Under ment gives to that Olympian destination are alike matter of Prohibition laws the Status of region seems all the more remark conjecture. It is reasonably sup- Liberty has often come under the able. Given an act of God" or posed that these swarms migrate joke that is personal. an accident that might have been from the lakes in Richmond Park, averted resulting in a heavy where. immense. numbers are mortality in Government servants, annually bred, and that they and this Colony would indeed be descend the rivers, stocking the in a deplorable condition. On the creeks and streams for some miles I principle that it is not wise to above the town. There is gener have all your eggs in one basket ally a crowd of eager men, women it follows that it does not seem and children, provided with every wise to have the flower of a ser possible vessel wherein to catch vice living at the same altitude. the slippery prey on the first This, we confess, only occurred to intimation of their approach; and as to-day when thinking of the the animated scene has caused the happening to the home of a occasion to be called Eel Fair. University servant who, seeing that the Government. makes a huge grant to the University is ROGATION half 8 Government servant. SUNDAY. Surely the powers that be "—
newspaper £4 on Rogation Day once in seven description should take warning years, to defray the expenses of I didn't eat them.. from the warning already given. perambulating, and keeping up the
And why not? enquired the Feak residents are entitled to boundaries of the parish. At reasonable facilities to guard Stanlake, the minister of the
--Well, sald the tiger, the against fires just as much as any parish, in his procession in. Rogs first I met was a frowzy priest;I other portion of the Colony, ton Week, reads the Gospel at a couldn't stomach him. The second Within living memory only two barrel's head, in the cellar of the was a B.A. who had all the sour houses have been destroyed as the Chequer Inn, in that town, where, flavour of a literary pedant; I
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A tiger, which had been hunting on the mountains complained loudly of hunger when it got : This occurred. last home. Sunday. A certain What cried the other tigers estate in Husborne didn't you meet a single man to Crawley has to pay day?
I did replied the tiger, but
others.
Then I came
across a superanimated student of to others a cross, at which they the Academy, and I didn't eat him. read a Gospel in former times; over which the house, and particu-others.
But why not?" asked the
teeth:
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A manner slightly facetious.larly the cellar, being built, they Because, replied the tiger, I Guilty Let us put it on a are forced to continue the custom. was afraid, it would break my more serious plane and suggest that the number of children living on the Peak-If nothing else-- suggests that there should be facilities to fight fire, and that the woefully inadequate condition of things which the last one showed pirates from the China Sea? should not be tolerated for a
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Hangkong, Tuesday, May 19, 1925.
STILL BEING CONSIDERED!
lost and more injury done to British trade through the activi ties of the pirates. Why be im- patient? Some day the Admiralty will waken up to the acuteness of the menace and "muddle through" to success somehow in the British way of dealing with crises affect- ing British lives and British
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trade.
If it is true that "constant dripping wears away astone," it
is well in a sense that the piracy question should continue to form the subject of "questions in the House."
If a fresh question is asked every week or every month between now and Christmas, the intermittent dripping may wear away the stony hearts of the Admiralty,
Seriously, however, it is patent
moment..
FIVE YEARS' JAIL
MAN WHO WAS SHOT
IN ARREST,
Formerly employed in a house hold near Kowloon City as a ricsha
Hongkong has: BARRISTERS'ts. Brakers; BUILDING. 2 Alley; its Cloth Alley, and pro- bably other places known specially to certain classes, or callings. It looks very much as if it has a Barristers Building as well; for there is a block offices which seems to house more barristers than any other building in the Colony, and they are all on the third floor!
LIBERTY.
No doubt the FEMINISED speaker who
WAYS. cently deplored the fact that men "are" adopting feminised ways just as rapidly as women are becoming masculine in their outlook on life believed himself justified in his complaint. But after all it is de cidedly questionable whether there has been just such a great change In basic fundamentals Men used Perhaps there to pay the car fare and the restau- are some who, ant chit he is quoted as saying.. have forgotten "but now girls "have their own which was erected in 1886 to come their handbags." Well what of it? that America's Statue of Liberty, cents and dollars hidden away in Does the non-possession by women of cents and dollars make for more trus feminity in women or less timeliness in the plea for funds a story in the life of Diogenes, in and hence there seems a particular masculinity in men ? One recalls now being made in America to which, Plato having defined man to The defendant's case was that defray the expense of the moun- be a two-legged animal without he did not participate in the ment to be placed in the harbour feathers, Diogenes plucked, a cock of St. Nazaire, France, which will | and brought it into the academy robbery but called at the house mark the landing place of the first with the remark, This is Plato's. On which account this' to a certain extent by the mistress
puller, Chan Ki was charged at the Criminal Sessions this morning, with taking part in a robbery which memorate the centenary of Amer. took place there. A jury yesterday can independence, was the gift of had found him guilty by a majority France. Such is the case, however, of four to three, but this had not satisfied Mr. Justice Wood who ordered a new įtrial.
another matter. This was borne out
American troops to take part in man." the World War. This soldiers' addition was made to the defal-
of the house who said that she was memorial will be France's Statue tion" with broad flat pails" But! negotiating with him, but as of Liberty; it is, the symbolic the amended definition is just as against this he had been found in hiding with one of the men who figure of an eagle coming to rest lacking in persuasiveness as we admitted having taken part in the on a rock, bearing an American logic of the speaker. robbery.
The defendant was found guilty
this morning and sentenced to five
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"Oppressed Chinese Seamen,”
Once again has the piracy ques-that eventually will, the mat- tion been raised in the House of ter be handled in a manner Commons. Mr. H. W. Looker, worthy of British statesmanship Conservative member for South- and of Naval traditions. Hope East Essex and a former Hong- deferred in this case may not * kong resident. asked yesterday exactly make the heart sick, for whether the Admiralty proposed we have the solemn assurance that to provide for the construction of the whole question is now being additional patrol boats for ser considered." vice in the West River of China in any scheme of new construc- tion now being considered. The reply was not a decided affirma- tive. Oh. no! It would be quite beyond precedent to betray the slightest suspicion of expedition regarding a matter fraught with such vital importance to British lives and British trade. There was not even an implied assurance that the First Lord of the Admiralty would make it his first business to ensure that trifling with the question would cease once and for ever. All that was forthcoming was the simple phrase: "The whole question is now being considered."
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sentence being on account of his wounded in the having been course of arrest.
ILLICIT ARMS.
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The lengthy debate in the sion characterized by lack of free- House of Lords on slavery in dom, of action or of will, then we reduce the number of slaves. In general, with particular reference China, children are bought and to Africa and the Far East, reveals sold freely, and sometimes they the persistence. of the Upper
House in its grandmotherly self. are badly treated, but in many cases they are adopted into families complacent methods, despite the and their lot is little worse than A cabin boy on the s,s. President experiences "of the past decade, that of the servant classes and Cleveland, who was found at Fraya says the "Shanghai Times." We the unskilled workers in Western East near Spring Garden Lane have no desire to hold up the countries, where there is a slavery with a parcel containing boxes of House of Lorde, or any member that no legislation can abolish, in all 300 cartridges,' also a loaded thereof, of ridicule, but what are namely that of casin. revolver, was charged at the we to think of such a remark,as
It is a little difficult to under- Criminal Sessions before the Chief that which fell from His Grace the stand why the Archbishop should Justice, Sir Henry Cowper Gollan. Archbishop of Canterbury, namely be startled by revelations regard
It was his case that he had met a that it was high time the League ing Chinese slavery. passenger on the boat who had of Nations was at work (on this have made himself conversant with asked him to carry the parcel and problem of slavery in China) the facts at any time. The stir he did not know what it contained. What. may be asked, could
He could
He had explained this at the time the League hope to effect in China, created at Hongkong a year or two "The Whole Body of the Exploited the discovery, he claimed, but this persist in spite of the influx of his best to make Britons at Home Is the recent circular issued by to the policeman who had made where the, customs of centuries ago prompted a certain investiga
tion, and Colonel John Ward did and Oppressed Chinese Seamen"
witness said that the man said no foreigners with their, Western to be ignored.They make state-thing about it until he got to the civilisation? What could the fee with him on the subject. But a ments which are either right or Magistracy.
well-known naval officer and League do even In Shanghai,
wife his
were allowed to Defendant was represented by where our local government in the sacrifice themselves in the interests wrong. If the latter they should! be condemned. If the former they Mr. F. C. Jenkin.
Foreign Settlement' is nearer the the should be examined on their
of
muitsa, and those in Ideal of a League of Nations than Britain who were interest merits and if found to lead to
the assembly at Geneva. and yet "oppression" and therefore dis-
DAGGER IN CAMP. where aufficient interest cannot be ed returned to their usual.
concentration on things nearer content, some effort should made
stirred to get the various foreign home There is only one manner to right a seeming wrong. One:
nationals to attend a meeting A. Chinese who was arrested at where a by-law is to be presented children can be eliminated, from complaint is that "jobe” are
in which, the practice of buying obtained through agents, con- the Yaumati ferry wharf with a which has for its object driving the East and that is by convincing dagger hidden inside an umbrella the first nail into the coffin of what
was sentenced to six months many regard as one phase of child those who fudulge therein that herd labour at the Kowloon slavery in this country? When the majority understand their act is morally indefensible. Magistracy this morning,
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tractors or' guarantors who practice the most vicious forms of exploitation." Another is that "head stewards, cooks and others
The form of slavery in China that the minority will discover must buy their respective posi
which the Noble Lords discussed that legislation will debar them tions "at prices varying from a STABBED IN HEART. is unlikely to pass away through from committing such acts with Those who can derive even a
few hundred to a few thousand
any effort by Western nations Impunity. But 10 day the Chinese The third com minute crumb of comfort from dollars each"
plaint is that Chinese seamen dre
That be killed himself in a fit of short of the deliberate inculcation sees no harm in buying a boy of modern ideas in this regard if he has no son, or bis wife this reply from the First Lord are obliged to pay fees to the depression on account of being a lovers, perled of many years, if not any evil in purchasing a girl to welcome to the feast of assurance dormitories and public organisa victim of drepsy was the reason
It is necessary to define tie incat once had a cook whose wife died and hope contained therein. tions. After these deductions, fiven by the family of one Lam centuries. In speaking of slavery act as her servant The writer Firates may come and pirates may is pointed out, very little remains Yung-bam who was found dead ating of the term, The days of the without issue, and when he re
No. 112 Shepo village, Kowloon go during the next few months Chinese seamen
from wages thus compelling the City, with a stab wound in the
to smuggle What of it Is not the Admiralty passengers and contraband.
heart inflicted with a pocket knife. considering the whole question" all this, is true will not be
heels
STAME
slave natkets have passer almost marked he will land no son for
eats. Suddenly he "Intro entirely, but there are slaves: 10 Loma. day in Britain on the Continents ducen a máje child and announced of Europe and America, ond else that he hadadopted him, where, In spite of the
perly sesic
zaping
the
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