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Hongkong, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1925.
LACK OF AIM.
It will be remembered that when Mr. 'Enery 'Awkins asked his "donah" to become Mrs. 'Enery 'Awkins she was coy.
"First she said she wouldn't.. And then she said she couldn't. And then she said she thought
she'd see."
3
PIRACY
ARRESTED MAN IN
COUBT. N
A VICTIM'S ACCOUNT..
The story of the piracy of the steam launch "Po On" in British
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A CALENDAR 1926
*18650
the
Ded. 1925-Jan, the time comes to advance their
own ends, and causs, twi 28, Mon., Lord actions to suit themselves, Macaulay died, Faionaries suffer again. 1859
Some missionaries „TRADING ·Bre. accused of
"forgotten that
waters near Nam Tau in the 29 Tues., W. E Gladstone born, early part of July was related at 1809. the Kowloon Magistracy yester 30 Wed., Rudyard Kipling born, MISSIONARIES, trading. It T day when one of the alleged gang was brought before Mr. E. W. 81, Thurs, Leon Gambetta died, Hamilton. Accused was charged on three-counts of armed robbary, holding a number of paafengers for ransom, and unlawful posses- sion of arms.
1382
1, Fri., Old Age Pensions start
ed, 1909,
2, Sat Sir George Airey died,
...1892. .
there are Industrial missions an well as educational and medical where the work of natives is sold.. There may be missionarla, who all things and thus eupport tham selves or their work. Very often, in the inland atations, when it is known a foreign missionary la to The present gen-pay a visit to a big town, he re- eration has no colves requests from villagers to statesman raised on visit the big stores or offices to the pedestal which buy bits of mechandise. In these the working people erected for a casos It la possible for the action
A greaser on the a.. Saf On" 8 Sun, Douglas Jerrold born
1808, MA which arrived from Macao-racog nised the Accused as one of the vy to pirates. The man was promptlyTHE GRAND arrested by the Police. He had OLD MAN since been identified by four of the kidnapped passengers.
It was stated in evidence by score of years to William Ewart of missionaries to be miscon
Gladstone. Mr. Lloyd George strued and for the term "trading. was a national here even bigger, missionaries" to be used. but that was during the war.
the greaser that he was one of quite lost all its hair. There those kidnapped by the pirates. The launch stopped at Wan Ha remains some left to be grasped, (on the north side of Deep Bay) and grasped it should be by those where two women came aboard.
Mr. Gladstone. was one of those At Lik Shu eight mon approached who recognise that just as Judy the launch by sampan and on rare men who do not narrow with O'Grady and the Squire's lady gaining the deck produced arms. age. Nobody could ever say of are the same under the skin, so The passengers were ordered into him: "Ah he was a fine Radical there is in Chineas and foreigners the hold, and the launch was once, but now Right to the taken to Wan Ha, where another end he was a fighter, and he alike some ground of common con- six pirates joined the gang. The fought for causes in which the tact which seen, understood, and launch was then taken to Sha masses believed:
cemented, will tend to make not merely for the glory of a place, but for the happiness and content ment of a diverse people with a diversity of gifts, but with the same spirit-the spirit of a desire to see and understandi
Propaganda.
Cheng, where the passengers were robbed of their valuables and 28 of them were
Most of the things for which takan
The causes ashore and into the Interior, Wit-he fought are won. ness was ten days in the hands with which the Liberalism of the of the pirates before he escaped eighties was associated are for during an attack by the village the most part, buried in Acts of volunteers on the pirates' den. Parliament, though the need for After further evidence the the Liberal spirit can never die. One wonders sometimes what the case was adjourned:
Grand Old Man would think of the Liberal benches to-day.
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AMBULANCE DRILL.
LOCAL INTER-COMPANY: TESTS.
Those who have only MISUNDER- & nodding acquaint- STANDING. sace with mission- The annual competition in work, in China, would hesitate to aries and their
'On
sideration
Kowloon-
1. Dress and equipment
men,
2. Stretcher drill.
The
3. Neatness, accuracy and
finish of work
4. Time taken in completing
case.
&
ter up with the District Magie trate and geting no satisfaction of it goes to the Yamen. Both the Yamen and the Magistrate do not wish to be bothered. The Over- seeing missionary is dragged into the matter and probably a consul is also compelled to interfere and these dashed missionaries". as people who come and upset the are probably cursed right and left
established custom of things which has existed for centuries This may not be called politics— but anyone desiring to decry mis- sionaries will soon pas any desired misconstruction upon the
How many, the Shreda A BOOK. man wonders, sighed for a book as a gift
this Christmas. How many, he wonders, got a book, and how many got the book that satisfied the sort of book that Dorothy Wordsworth in a letter to Cole. ridge sighed for
*** Yes, do send me a book, for my birthday. Not a bar gain book, bought from haberdasher, but a beautiful book, a book to caress peculiar, distinctive, individual; a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming. and when the gathering dunk doth blur the page, well sit with our hearts too full for speech and think it over."
There is some hope if an SPORT understanding of Mrs, Diana
Watt's recent lecture is cor
Do you never take an antesest in any outdoor sporter" nuked" hia hostesentriously,
Never" he said, "nover. For- give me; I'm not tolling the mth. I do remember, on one
When Sir R. E. Stubbe, at the luncheon in his honour at the Colonial Institute on December 10, reviewed the conflict between Hongkong and Canton, it was felt that real good would eventuate in general Ambulance work of the the direction of enlightening the St. John Ambulance Brigade took suggest that some of them futere There is no need for n slay tab
fere in the politica of the country performance of exercises and 3 public, at Home. Most naturally place Sunday, fourteen Reuter contented itself with Sections," from the Saiyingpun, Very often they are indirectly, dulgence in games to alkan
not directly, responsible for the and balance and lose YMCA., cabling a
mere summary of his Chinese
prove. A Chinese Christian Here is a story which may illust speech; and a summary is often a Canton Railway, and Indian suggestion as the following may cult of games can be
competing dangerous peg on which to hang Divisions, criticism. This fact seems to Judges were Dr. W. V. M. Koch pastor is placed in charge of a
district. A village in that district the point. Surgeon of the
One Sunday aftomcon Beca have been forgotten by the "Japan (District Chronicle," which went out of its Brigade), Sir Eric Stuart Taylor, may suffer unjustly at the hands
of bandita. Members of the Wilde, staying at a country bount way to belittle the speech made and Major Stevenson, R.A.M.C. pastor's flock make representa for the week-end, found himself by our late Governor. It refers The men were given a strend ions to him. He takes the mat deserted by the other grunts, who to his remarks upon the troubles ous. test, and in making their that commenced in June of this award the Judges took into con-
had adjourned to the law for gaa. year, and seems incredible that Sir Reginald should have said
"the Ninety-nine hundredths of the that
Russian influence human race pass from the cradle began to work after Sun Yat-sen's death." A more careful perusal to the grave without ever knowing of the cabled summary should exactly what they want, nor how have shown our contem-
that Sir to get it. The few who do know porary
was much more. become Napoleons, and Cacsárs, than that.. What he did say was, and captains of industry, and firstly, that "the troubles in members of select clubs. But the Hongkong were started by Rus
YM.C.A. Division *. sian agitatora from Canton,. plague which afflicts humanity, all who made no secret of their in-
Indian Division but the great strong souls who tention to ruin Hongkong"; and,
Railway Division Saiyingpun Division ... 305 succeed, is not lack of intelligence secondly, that the result of the
The Shield is awarded, accord- but lack of aim. Corporate bodies death of Sun Yat-sen was that
power had passed into the hands ingly, to the YMCA Division are not exempt from the opera of certain persons who had Mention should be made of the AGAIN work of missionaries is tions of this malady of the will neither his interests nor those of work of the Railway Division
his followers. Certainly the which, while not adopting the Magistrates and Governors who induce There was the army of the King Japan Chronicle" admits, rather ordinary routine drill, has de perhaps make concessions, gifts, ment of France which marched up the grudgingly, that "Hongkong and veloped a scheme specially adapt etc., to show their appreciation. hill and marched down again, and the British generally are being ed to the work the men are often The enemies of these officials, do was no doubt soundly trounced made scapegoats at present in called on to perform in connect not forget these actions, and when
China"; but it is adamant, in re-
ion with the Railway. after its half-hearted exhibition. fusing to discredit Bolshevismi as There is no corporate body in the the primary cause, Which, again, Colony to be compared with a serves to show the need for pro Municipal Council; and we should paganda not only amongst the public at Home, but amongst the think twice before suggesting that newspapers much nearer Hong- in many things the Government, kong than London. has lacked alm. It is the indivi-} dual who must face the charge.
Not in lacking aim in the pursuit
of his own idea's, fancies and fame but in the field of what has
Reginald concise
5. Improvisation (where pos
sible), Marks were alloted as below
marks:
325 7814
310
matter..
Another thing tha
often applauded by
Glomacos
THE YALU.
lade a café.
Parie!
POLICE RAID,
GAMBLERS CAUGHT AT WEST POINT.
The train came to a pause as if and winte square sails of Japanese taking a breath for a fresh start, boats cofching the early light of Armed with a warrant, a party The Hakobs Tunnel was behind May morning, and, more than si of Chinese detectives raided a male the grey memory of alee, sa endless procession of timber gambling den af No. 246, Des the ple Torin Castle. Vaux Road West, first floor, at beer, for hours on hours, thread out of America and out of Europe. We had rafts, place the picture definitely 8 p.m. last night. One of the ing the southwestern skirts of the These strikingly fashioned timber detectives watched the progress of massed heights of Heian. Hokudo rafte of the Ya'u are famous through- As a rule the State spends a the gambling for a few minutes in North Chosanas Kores should out the Orient Every year
THEY SAY THAT-
money with the minimum result.
Sir A. Mond, M.P.
now come to be called “better great deal of the taxpayers before the signal was given to always be called. The huge engine the woodsmen go into the forest on the others to enter the floor the head of the "Seoul-Mukden either side of the river and fell the Altogether 17 persons were caught
understanding. There has been no lack of aim, in the corporate
I give you my word that we sense. The Government is bene, shall defend the franc with the volent in its attitude and in its same constancy as we defended
Verdun M. Painleve. labours: There is no need to stoop
logy Through Express" bore the crest trees. In March when the thaw Evidence was given by one of of a great American locomotive benes they cut the timber into logs the raiding party when the men works. Small Chosen children stood eight feet long. These they tio were charged at the Central Magis. Hurd, by and walched it gravely: together in sights to form the units. In a hundred years time a trary this morning and fince of 18 the steel dragon literally breathing of which the rat na made. to argument to defend or prove standard dialect will be spoken all each were imposed on 18 of them fire and smoko was no longer a thirty to a hundred such unite make the statement. But it is very over the British Isles Professor who were present. The others fancy of the old legend,
ona raft. It is usually one much open to question if in the Daniel Jones
had their 35 bail money estreated r cayed a sigh and took a feet long and about tw New An additional charge of keepin
a common garing house Against
goatle grade ahead. Then suddenly, It comes tires bm the first defendant was not prav
with the dramatis siidenness of a hundred miles down the and he was acquitted
the full sweet count
daily contact of peoples there has Truthfulness is part of the ideal been the desire to appraise rightly of Euglich gentlemen, and it is
the week day religion of the Eng and appreciate fully. The statelah peopleDean Inge ment cute both ways. It would ill become us to apportion the blame to one side only. The position is
difficult, There
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