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in the fortheumide side must look elsewhere. We are. inclined to think that a more promising topic of Ministerial friction and general public inter Fest is House of Lords reform. It
MONDAY, FEBRUARY.
REFUGEE SISTERS.
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SOME RECRUITING MISTAKES.
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London-Dr. A. F. Tredgok) had
"war nerves" When loetaring at the
pledged himself explicitly to tackle this thorny problem" "dur- ing his last election campaign, The twelve Spanish Sisters who rooms of the Medical Society of when everyone had the "RED" arrived from Foochow following London, undor the auspices of the peri thrust down their throats. the riets by the student and, coole People's League of Health. Thi
bibb and the boting sof" füligible was the tbhcluding lecture of a We think we are correct in state Institutions left here on Friday or sales of The Mind, And What We ing that Mr. Baldwin never com- the a.a. President Taft for Gught to Know About It," and Dr. mitted himself to any specific de Manila to which place they have Trudgold's subject was "Mental tate of any proposals he may been called by the Superler of Deficiency." bave had in mind. He simply their order.
He said mental defalenoy should Prior to their departure the hot be confused with scholastic Agreed that urgent necessity would compel a remodelling of Sister left a letter expressing their ability. Some people whom he the Constitution as Mr. Asquith's gratitude for sympathy shown would have no hesitation in stage- them and help given while they ing as mentally defective were magnum opus, the Parliament were in Hong Kong.
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Act, left it... single-chamber A copy of this letter has been quite learned; and, on the other government with slight modifica-handed to us for publication by hand, there were persons who had tion. What the Commons decree Father F. R. Noval, Procurator of been stigmatised. is mental defec three times running in general the Spanish Dominion Procuration tives simply because they
duffers at school. He would not Acts of Parliament is law. But for Missions, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, Feb. 4. call them mental defectives, butze now the ingenuity of politicians
Dear Mr. Editor-Having been merely of a lower grade than the One that would circumvent recalled to Mahila by our Superior normal Eighty per cont. of the God, quoth Hamlet has dis-we feel that we cannot leave these cases were inherited, and certainly covered that, under the guise of ashores without writing to express the great majority of cases of shell- Finance Bill everything needed to our many benefactsova dur shock occurred in persons who were the in-predisposed to it. Indeed, he knew to the compleat Red. revolution heartfelt gratitude for could quite neatly be forced numerable kindnessca received dur-of cases of shell-ahock in men who
in our short atay.
had never left the country at all through the Westminster factory
We arrived in Hong Kong a firt-and had never seen a shell of destiny. Hence the eager de-night has terribly scared and upset very large number of cases would sire to safeguard against possible by the horrors of dur enforced never have "gone bff the deep and future House of Cammons flight from the violent and the Red they had not been taken from majorities whose complexions hordes in Poochow and by the total their civilian employment, and a might be of the roay hue. Many destruction of the labours to which large percentage of them could have suggestions have been mooted in we had dedicated our lives, our been recognised if the medical political circles at Home, and it hearts and our souls.
recruiting boards had had is known that there are twoHong Kong, and the many kind- neurologist on the staff. decided points of view among nesses shown to us have to a great As it was, the boarda simply want- ad to know a man's height and members of the Cabinet itself. extent helped us to overcome the
weight, and whether he had ten Moreover, it may be taken forshock of our sudden fight.
Angers and ten toes, and they did s granted that the more moderate We crave the courtesy of your not care a rap about his nervous members of the late Labour Min-columns to express to Captain system. The result was that they istry are by no means anxious of Stewart and the officers of the recruited a tremendous number of "Hatching" our sincere and Reart- doing away with a very con vendent excuse for not walking felt gratitude for all their care and men who were quite incapable of solicitude for our welfare, and for withstanding the strain of the war. the Communist plant on some the prudence and bravary shown The Americulis, on the other hand, future occasion. Whether -MT during our terrifying Journey from subjected most of their recruits to Baldwin intends proceeding, with Foochow. The loving reception and neurological investigation, and the that which they are 30 in the reform of the Upper Cham-many kindnesses received from the men whose nervous system wis not ber during the coming Session, Sisters of the French Convent dur-considered sound were not recruit- dustriously foisting on to
remains to be seen. We muating our stay with them can only ed credulous people. The student await His Majesty's Speech from be repaid by our prayers and our deep sense of obligation. We are class of agitators profess to the Throne to-morrow. be anxious to shake off the
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lalism," little reckoning that they are themselves rapidly becoming enslaved in the toils of their Bol shevist tutors whose chief objec-
HONG KONG RESIDENT MARRIED.
The welcome accorded to us in
deeply grateful to the Itailan and PRINTER'S MISTAKE. the Maryknoll Sisters, and for the Konerous accommodation they offer-
et us, together with the moral suu-
port we received from their words! of ponclusion and the differenti manifestations of sympathy, "
We thank most sincerely the
HOW RARE DUNYAN BOOK WAS SAVED.
London-An interesting explana-
An interesting wedding took French Consul. M. Georges Dufaure tion as to how Bunyan's little tract. tive is avowedly the destruction place very quietly in Shanghai at de la Prade: Mr. Choa Po-sien: "Book for Boys and Giris, sold for of everything British. In regard the British Consulate on Febru. and Mr. Leong for all they did in £2,100 in London, was preserved getting up subscriptions and other was fortheoning later. Mr. to the brief history of Sovietary 1. The parties were Mr ways of helping us. Our heartfelt Rowlett-Jones, the local librarian H. J. Pearce, M.C., of Hong Kong thanks to all those who generously at Hemel Hempstead, who was able
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dealings in China there is every and Miss Mary Leckie of Han-came forward with donations.
owner, Mrs. purchase much needed articles of inform its late thing that is mean and sordid and kow,
Mr Pearce is well-known in clothing, or who sent us much re- Miller, that she was the possessor cunning. But there is not one
Hong Kong. He is an executive quired clothing for our immediate of literary rarity, stated that there wid abundant evidence action that either the Soviet or engineer in the Public Works requirements, and to the ladies and
young ladies who devoted much of that her good fortune was due to China can cite as truly tending to Department here in charge of the their time to helping us with out an error by a printer or his boy in 'collating the pages of д little prompt the real welfare of China Buliding Ordinance office and is sewing
To the Press last, but not least, volume. The "Book for Boys and as a nation. The mere abolition a keen yachtsman, owning the
yacht "Argulla II" in the Handi-we, express our gratitude for their Girls" was bound up with Bunyan's. of Soviet extraterritorial rights cap class which he regularly sails kind expressions of sympathy and "Water of Life," which was intend- for the help which we received|ed for elders, and a number of ad- was nothing but a bait for the in the R.H.K.Y.C. races.
To this mistake in To one and all who in any way"make up" was due the survival of Chinese to swallow. Moreover, He is also well-known in con- through the appeals made by you.vertisements.
nection with the Ex-Active Ser-took interest in our sudden flight, one of the only two copies known the Soviet have done what neither vicemen's Club, being a founder and contributed to our comfort and to be in existence, the other, which Great Britain nor any of the of it and at the present time one well-being we would say that is in the British Museum, having Mr. and Mrs. A. Rahim, Mr. and other foreign Powers have done-of its Vice-Presidents. He served thank you heart and soul Never come from America forty years
ayo. we will ever remember you in our "It was only by accident." ed the Military Cross. He is a Mrs. M. R. Salleh and family, wish they have openly taken sides in the Great War and was award can we forget their goodness and to thank those who attended the with one of the contending fac son of the late Edward Pearce Prayers and ask that God reward Jones added, that the literary trea- funeral of their father, Mr.
From the most grateful Domini-sure, was discovered. When I was
consulted by Mrs. Miller's daughter.. Fattadin, and other friends for tions in China and supplied them Esq. and Mrs. Pearce of Wey-you for all that you have done.
can Sisters. of Foochow. mouth, England. with arms and munitions to pur-]
Miss Leckie is of Hankow,
I was asked if the copy of the American Fathers' Thanks," sue the civil war. They have in- where she has been living for
Four of the American Fathers Water of Life' was of value. I dis- cited one section of the Chinese some eighteen months. She is who arrived in Hong Kong last covered that the copy was dirty and to rise and kill their compatriota. the daughter of the late Alex-Sunday with other refugees from torn. Just as Miss Miller was leav ander, Leckle Esq. and Mrs. Foochow and the interior of Fu-ing asited if the advertisements xien, left for Seattle on Friday on were complete. It was in looking These are facts that must be Leckie of London. weighed in the balance whenever
The ceremony was very quiet, the s.a. "President Jackson. These for them that I found the 'Book for Fatters of the Dominican Misslor Boys and Girls. was then able and wherever the slogan of Bri- both bride and bridegroom atat Fuktion, together, with Fathers to disclone to her that she was the tish "Imperialism" is raised intending in travelling dress. Mr of the Mission still in Hong Kong, possessor of Elittle tract, possibly E. G. Jamieson, Acting British write that they wish to associate worth about 4200. I admit the ex- consul, performed the ceremony themselves with the Sisters in their traordinary Bum of £2,100 was and a few friends of the parties expressions of gratitude to those above my or anyone else's expecta- were present among them being members of the Hong Kong com- tion" Lt. Col. T. Coates of the Punjabi munity who so.kindly responded to They arrived the appeal for aid. Regiment how stationed in here destitute of all except the
Eng. Shanghai,
Commander clothes they stood up in, having Rampling, of H.M.S. "Hawkins," been forced by the soldiers to leave long after their arrival in Hong Miss Somerville, Mr. A. Hanson all they possessed and it was not and Mr. F. Over.
Afterwarde & reception was Kong that they were provided with held at the Astor House Hotel much of what they required.
While expressing their, thanks to
their sympathy, letters of con- dolence and floral tributes in their recent baresivament.
Hong Kong. Monday, Feb. 7, 1927.
"A MEANINGLÈSS SLOGAN.
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CLANKING
"GHOST.
Very properly the First Lord of China. the Admiralty, Mr. W. Bridge- man, has declared that the cry against British "Imperialism" is The Re-Opening of Parliament, a silly meaningless slogan, and; if The really fascinating thing it has any meaning, it is a lie. It about the great game of politice is questionable, indeed. whether Is that it is such a gamble. You never can tell what may happen, those who use the term most as when, where, why or to whom an invective against the British Great controversies arrive where friends of Mr. and Mrs. all who generously helped them beard" in East Barnet, Hertford have the faintest conception of its suddenly and dramatically, as air Pearce from Hong Kong, Shang-with money or clothes, the Fathers shire, was, according to the state- true significance. Unfortunately raids, and famous statesmen are hai and Hankow gathered to offer ask these who have not already
such slogans, however meaning
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ENCOUNTER
The ghost which has been
as uncertain factors as race their felicitations and later in the come forward to extend thelf gen- ment of Mr. Charles Anthony horses. To-morrow's ceremony day Mr. and Mrs. Pearce left, for erous help to the many Fathers Gibson, a night watchman employ- less, are apt to cause some mis at Westminster provides fitting Peking, where the honeymoon is who are yet to come from the in-ed by the urban council, actually
terior, and, who, like themselves seen by him. He said:25. chief amongst those who do not opportunity for some comment being spent.
are sure to arrive destitute of all A few minutes before midnight except what they stand in.
I was standing smoking my pipe take the trouble to stop and upon the political situation at Home. At the present moment think. The longer they go an- the outlook at Westminster seems refuted the more will the illiteralmost uninteresting in its lack
HONG KONG JOURNALIST MARRIED.
by my hut when I heard a strange noise a few yards behind me, Turning round I saw what, at first appeared to be a man in s long military coat, but I could see right through it, and there was nothing there but a skeleton, I am not going on duty to-night, but am being relleved by apother, watchman. The clanking apparition, it was
ate cling to a belief in them and of potential excitement. There At St. John's Cathedral on KOWLOON TONG SQUATTERS. are the Tories, chastened in spirit Saturday morning, the Rev. H. V obatinately reject any arguments by harsh adversity and the Copley Moyle, MA, Colonial
Mr. J. P. Brags will subraft the to the contrary. They are too un- menace of Socialism, holding Chaplain, officiated at the wed educated to take the trouble of office with, we believe, the big ding of Mr William Alastair following at Tuesday's meeting
gest majority since 1882. The Donaldson, of the "Hong Kong of the Sanitary Board ascertaining the versions publish- one topic of the hour is the situa- Daily Press and Miss Mar "That in the opinion of this ed in their own respectable ver- tion in China, and here we find guerite de Dibon Faber, who ar Board the close proximity of a nacular papers, and even when the Socialist leaders, making pro rived in the Colony by the P. & O. squatters' settlement to the new previously stated, was heard in an nouncements intimating their 9.8 Mantua on Friday. and growing residential district old house connected by an under- they learn of certain facts pub support of the Government. Following the ceremony at the of Kowloon Tong is prejudicial ground passage with another house, lished in the foreign newspapers. Everything in the garden appears Cathedral, a largely attended ze to the public health, and in the now demolished, with which legend they are as unconvinced as ever. to be lovely Most people thought, caption was held at the Hong interests of the residents of the had associated the ghost of Geoffr
To those who refuse to 100% {took form, that; fiscal Issue might married couple were there the squatters should be revoked when arst the Baldwin Cabinet Kong Hotel, where the newly-district the permits granted to turnias tas inevitable apple of cipients of many congratulations at as early a dato as practicable" discord. There seemed auch in Mr. Donaldson, who has been hite possiblities of friction, associated with Far Eastern what with the "Die Hards and Joumlalla fot Mr. Chureftill, a willful man years, joined: ed: book. It would destroy theit his own mind, in charge of the) of the "Hony prestige with the literate, mobil Tresatiry Yet this realid CHAD IN JUNE BE
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