TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925.
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to-
RESULT OF TEACHING,
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There is hardly anything more certain in our uncertain human world than that a new factor has taken prominent place in the com- plicated
Current
"FORMER LADY PIRATE.
conning the red-bloodedly male exploits of pirates, have read with surprise-and disappointment - of the appearance of lady pirates the devicus. and muddy in estuaries of chaotic China.
When the old gentleman päid a fown. vasis to the city, he saw and head1]
There was demure little Mary
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Victoria, Hoogkong, standing on Section D and the Remaining Portion of laland, Lot No. 170 to be. Sold by "Order of the Mortgagees
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Mr. A. G. da ROCHA, 2A, D'Agullar Street, Auctioneer
Hongkong, 9th October, 1929.
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THURSDAY,
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at No. 2A D'Aguilar Street, by Mr. A. G. da ROCHA,
Auctioneer
ground may stringe thing, but Rene for instance, who adopted For further particulars apolly to:- he was always way in his on-the career at the age of thirteen and dying in jail some years later.
Posed As Boy.
Mr. A. el ARCULLI
17, Queen's Road/Central, Solicitor for the Vendors,
or
Mr. A. G. da ROCHA 2, D'Agullar Street,} Auctioneer. Hongkong, 13th October, 1925.
That the West is doubly Recent reports of the participa-Nos. 136 and 138 Wellington St.. Whilst the ex-Kaiser choones to. see in the Far East, possibilities responsible for the present move-tion in fighting or piratical uttreks. of Russo-Japanese alliance ment for self-determination in or hobbed haired, bare armed against Europe with particular China by reason of its teaching Anuzons of China leads Bassett reference to the development of and its promises and that it must Digby to, the following comment China, the Beast Telegraphnet-in-sympathetic co-operationib in the "Singapore Free Press" thinks that the end has not been the burden of an article on "The Many untravelled Britons who een of rivalry between Japan Orient: Awake and Aggressive," derive a "sneaking delight from and Russia in this aren. "If appearing in the Christian Science Britain were driven entirely away from the Chinese const morrow.'
states this ournal, "she would simply leave a clear Bald for Japan and Russia to
of equation Sight in." with the possibility of
This is no development, how For further particulars apply to German intervention and possibly events. The East-Near and Far: ever. Lady pirates. have ever Mr.. A. el ARCULLI, that of the United States at a from the Pacific through to Egypt,been a commonplace institution of
17, Queen's, «Road Central, Later stage.
Fand so acress North Africa tothe Far East, though their func-
Solicitor for the Vendore The "Belfast Telegraph' article Morocco this far-flung East notions are less specialised than in full is follows:-
longer is to be treated as was those of their male colleagues. The strike at the Japanese natural enough in those earlier Theirs is a pleasantly diversified Factories in Shanghat, which has generations when, obviously, it and domesticated piracy-throat- been the pretext for so much anti-scarce more than stirred uneasily sitting rocking the cradle, set- foreign agitation, in China, has in its age-long slumber under theting captured junks ablaze, cook- now he settled but the trouble impact of restless aggression from ing lunch, opium smuggling, mah- else where is still far from being the other side the globe. It is Jongh, and the throwing overboard at an end. A good deal of the very much awake, now, It has of slaughtered victims, inter unrest which is visible in many become distinctly self-conscious, spersed with a quiet half-hour oV parts of the world to-day arises is fast growing as consistently so of gossip with the other girls, from the stirring up of racial feel active as for so long it has been and a shampoo, True words, it ing: noticeable in various ways of persistingly passive! More andpoken Rippantly, may I assure lale years, but specially through more it is playing a part, with you. There are numbery of lady the Great War, Some 200,000 increasing resistance to being pirates, too, among the ranging Chinese were on that occasion in played upon. Above all, from the pross haunting the remoter by- the service of the Allies in Straits of Gibraltar to those of ways of the Malay Archipelago, munition work, the manning of Tsushima, it is insisting on being worthy wives and mothers, good ships or making roads behind the its own master. In a word then: plain cooks, skilled needle-women lines. The number of Hindu our times must provide immedi-and navigators, deadly wielders troops serving, in the war was ately some readjustment of relu-jof the dirk and most unpleasantly very large, and their losses,tions between the civilisations of efficfens with the cutlass especially in Mesopotamia. were East and West, or the smouldering You probably do not realise heavy. Although Britain did not discontent of to-day may to-mor-that, only a couple of centuries empby African negre troops on row flare up into the blaze of open. ago, we had some very workman- the Western front, the French did
widespread trouble.
like--or should I say, work- so to a large extent. It is certain that these members of black or
womenlike-lady" pirates of our "coloured" races brought back to their homes changed views as to Jife in qural and a certain
amontent dissatisfaction with mente their lost, the desire being felt for One day his fistle panighterslightly before gentence of death a more ample scope for existence. enticed him into in ten-shop, and by hanging, was to be carried out. There is a demand for more room, leading him to a small table, p-In her crowded, and not very brief as it were which finds vent in aed to orde? some ecisirs, a de- blind striking out in all directions, leny of which shi ane extremely career on the Spanish Main sho Of this we have examples in China | fond,
set an example to adventurous at the present time. There are
"Eknow you'l Betlem gran]. | Young, women that deserves better aspects of the situation which are dad, she said rougingly and the than the slowly descending dust of not wholly to be deplored. There polt gentleman bravely tackled the oblivion. is an undoubted danger to the familiar object. white rave in some-parts of the "Isn't that delicious inquired
Mary's mother," who was had discovered the two girls deep globe, like Australia and Cali-l' the little giri, seeing a strange ex- fornia, of being "swamped" by pression come over her grand-married to a sailor bore a son in an intimate tête-tête, for Chinese or Japanese settlement. father's faco: as he tout his first shortly after her husband left
England on a voyage from which clothes. Anne had to give away Mary, of course, was in male The Chinaman has always been mouthful. looked upon as an economic dan-Well, it may be," renlied grand he was destined not to return. Mary's secret in order that her ger whenever his labour comes faber in a non-committal tone. When the boy was a year old the life might be spared. Then har- into competition with that of the but doesn't it appear to vou a mother took him away with her mony prevailed, and what proved
from her late husband's prosper to be a European. "The Chinese coolie."trifle under-baked in the middle?" Says an American writer, "is the
most lucrative cruise pus relations, with whom she had ensued. The shipping lanes from iden industrial machine, the per-
been given a home, for a stay with Jamaica and other West Indian felt human ox." He can live in
her own friends, who were poor.isles were repeatedly raided, and almost any
Variety of climate, pect of German intervention and While away, the boy baby died.
possibly that of the United States The mother, loth to risk being cast the cream of the cargo of and once he gets unchecked ad at a latter stage. It is clear that off by the family that had been chantmen. secured. for ultimate mission is likely to drive out the we have not yet seen the end of pensioning her, adopted a girl disposal through marine "fences." white man. To some extent the the rivalry between Russia and baly--Mary-dressed her in boy's In the course of these operations same applies to Hindu coole Japan in this area. In the actual clothes and passed her off as a Mary fell in love with a gentle- labour. If Hawaii is being fighting Japan won the first
swamped" by Japanese, the round, but the Russia Bolshevist lad. island of Mauritius has been diplomacy is now seeking to re-who was thirteen; got a job as boy crew, was informed-after the When her mother died, Mary, have a row with a member of the manly captive, who, happening to taken possession of by Hindus, venge the disasters of 1904 by who now form two-thirds of the striking at Japan and Britain, attendant upon a French. lady sporting manner of those spacious whole population. Only for the whose moral support contributed Her next job was that of cabin times that he could go ashore enactment of an Exclusion Law not a little to the victory of the bay on a man-of-war, after which and fight a duel with the object of recently, something of the same former country on that occasion. cadet in an infantry regiment. that the latter was the crack, all- she turned up in Flanders as a his antipathy. He did not know sert would have happened in Natal.
Whether the Chinese will con-Failing to land a commission she round weapon-wielder of the ship. WAR SERVICE RESULTS. tinue to lend themselves to be changed over to the cavalry and Mary did, however. A few hours During the Great War, as in the used for this purpose long enough was getting on very nicely when before her lover's duel was due wars of the middle of the to suit the designs of Moscow is a disaster befell her. She fell in she picked a quarrel with the eighteenth .century between doubtful question. In the case love with an army comrade. They piratical marksman, who had been France and Britain, the conflict of Japan's awakening she proved both left the army a few months swigging rum not wisely but too was not waged by whites alone. her capacity to develop along the later and were married. Her hus- well, challenged him to a duel on The lack races of Africa, the lines chosen by her, retaining band lived only a short time. the spot, there and then, and killed "browns of India, and the foreign assistance up to the point After his death Mary, impatient him. Alert presence of mind, in "yellow" of Japan took part in the at which it could be dispensed with domesticity, dressed again as emergency has ever been woman's actual fighting to a greater or less with safely. No discrimination a man, went to Holland and joined extent, and the services which was exercised against any an infantry regiment. It bored they rendered in defeating the particular European nation, and her. She joined a ship sailing for
Games to the Last."" Germans were not allowed to sink an absence of violence charac-the West Indies which fell into into oblivion.
For a while Captain Rackam's. The movement terised the proceedings. Japan's the hands of British pirates who luck held. Then came an ill-fated now visible in China is part of a circumstances were, and still are fired her enthusiasm for the morn when a British man-o'-war world-wide stirring amongst the vastly different from those of carcer She joined the gang. "coloured" races against white China. The latter country, with
caught him red-handed, "with the For a while the pirates, taking goods." The deck of the privateer domination. All the benefits her vast area and population of advantage of a royal amnesty, became so palpably unhealthy an which the European has bestowed over 400 millions, offers a wide lived peaceably ashore. But money abiding place
that are ignored, but it is also for field for industrial development. began to run low. Faced with the scuttled below, except Mary Read" everyone gotten that China is not yet at the The construction of railways, the dreadful prospect of honest and and Anne Bonny, with one male stage at which she can dispense opening up of the great coalfields ill-requited toil, they made strenu-pirate (who was probably weak in with extraneous guidance, whe- and other mineral resources ous efforts to secure some employ- the head), ther from the Europesa or the would give lucrative employmentment that would be more con- Mary, who, having called down the This exasperated scarcely less unpopular Japanese, te many Chinamen now on the genial and lucrative They signed, hold in vain, exhorting the male The attitude adopted by the Soviet verge of starvation, and there are on with one of a group of pirate to emerge and acquit them Government at this juncture is extensive areas in the west which privateers that Captain Woods selves like ment opened fire on true to the traditions of the could be made productive by cultiRogers, Governor of Providence, them, killing one and wounding
Czarist" Government, of which vation on up-to-date lines. The was sending down to Central others te geklemma it is in many respects the true men who have made such a tragic America, to rob and harass the The man-o-war, captured the heir. Bolshevist intriguers may muddle of splendid opportunities Spaniards. Mary was among privateer and the naval captain help to keep alive the agitation in Russia are not likely to lead them. against the foreigner, but the real the Chinese along a safe path to
expressed to Mary his surprise. object in view is the regaining of national regeneration. Japan self canny in staffing His that meant her going to the Doubtless Rogers deemed him that she should embrace a career that ascendancy in Manchuria could do so with a fair amount of raiders with experienced Union gallows, if captured. She replied which the Czar's advisers gained, success, but she would be certain pirates who could be relied on not that all true pirates approved of only to lose it in battle with to exact a heavy price. Britain, to become the prey of delicate that risk, as. it kept out craven Japan. If Britain were driven which is being assailed most moral ecruples, but human nature tramps and cowardly lift-raff entirely away from the Chinese vigorously of all the supposed asserted itself, and no sooner had generally from the profession. oast to-morrow she would simply enemies of the "New China," is the vessels sailed than the pirati Anne, too gave her erstwhile leave a clear field for Japan and the best qualified to be the friend cal crews promptly locked the lover a piece of her mind just Eussin to fight in, with the pros of that country. If the present officers in their cabins and took before he met his end
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will be a tragic blunder from the point of view of the whole coun- Aboard the vessel on which his execution, Anne remarked try, and the consequences will be Mary found herself she encoun- crisply that had he fought like s There is no better medicine made for regretted in days to come when tered another young lady pirate, man he would not be hanged Eke than Chamberlain's Cough it is too late. There is anoth Anne Bonny, who was in love a dogtersNORAIST Remedy. It acts on nature's plen, Intellect amongst the Chinese With the mutineer commande.Mary died in jail when Wesw the lungs "bealla iha, moguklumą, grople to avert the cat estranhe Captain Rackam---Thare- wasia, retched home rain: No alds expectoration entarde araben to a healthy so if it is properly aroused and led pretty how-de-do one day after the of the end of Anna appears to
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