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optimism, but it is possible to add a cordial "Amen" to his hope that the end of the civil war may mean the end of Bolshevism in China.
LOCAL CELEBRATIONS.
Colony yesterday, the largest being that at the Chiness Club where Mr. Benjamin Wong Tape, President of the Club, directed the proceedings.
So overpowering was that Inter
•
The office boy was late as usual. "Do you know what time we atart 7" asked the manager angrily. "No, sir," said the lad. "You've
There were some eighty members always begun when I come in."
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her young
It is good to learn from him that present and several speeches were
delivered, including that of Dr. Wan "Oh, you wicked boy!" exclaimed' Britain's recent sympathetic atti-Man-kai who atressed the fact that a lady, who had caught him rob- tude is appreciated: China may a long transitionary period of un-bing a bird's nest. "What do you' well be sure that her aspirations rest and difficulty marked the in- think the poor mother will do when will be viewed with sympathy by ception of new forms of government she returns and finds
In no matter what country. In the ones have gone?" all British peoples, who have light of the little that had been ac- "I'm sure I don't know, mum; learned to venerate freedom, complished he thought there was you had better ask her; praps
every encouragement for a success- that's her in your hat" ful issue in the future and he ap- pealed to all to help in the attaini- The farmer and his hired help ment of the ideals to which the new | had stopped for a few moments to
reat their backs after weeding.
What About It?
W
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What has happened to the plans nationalisin was pledged. for the formation of an Interna- Other celebrations included the "Which weeds are the easiest to tional Company of the Police Re-meeting of members of the Chinese kill?" asked the young man.
a concert Has the Chamber of Commerce, Berve in Hong Kong?
The farmer glanced at him scheme, BA we have heard, been and dance arranged by the Univer-shrewdly. abandoned? If so, it is a pity.sity Union, functions arranged by "Widows," he said. “You've only The idea was and le-a splendid the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the to, say 'Wilt thou?' and they wilt. one, and was taken up with enthu-Y.W.C.A., a concert and boxing dis- stasm by the Portuguese, Indian play by the members of the Ching A case came before a police court and Chinese communities, each of Woo Club, a concert at the South Involving the ownership of an eight- which now possesses its own Com-China Athletic Association and con- day clock. pany of partially trained men who certs at St. Paul's Boys' and other soon will be ready to turn out with schools and colleges. the regulars in the event of trouble. The original purpose was to have a British Company in addition to the above, but it was soon ascertained it might have been known at the
outset that there was no more
IN THE NEWS.
ITEMS FROM TO-DAY'S POLICE
REPORTS.
chance of recruiting a force of fifty Suffering from injuries to the Britons for such a useful job of head as the result of being assaulted
After listening to both sides the Magistrate turned to the prosecu tor. "You get the clock," he said, gravely. }
"And what do I get?" asked the accused.
"
"You get the eight days," replica the Magistrate.
A darkey, being the father of
work as there is for a snowball to by a number of men in Lower twelve children, all of whom had asked to relinquish
retain its composure in the place Lascar Row, a Chinese was yester-been rocked in the same cradle, was equit to which talpans are usually men-day removed to the Government putting the latest arrival to sleep. able claims because the tally and sometimes verbally con- Civil Hospital. national attitude has now be-signed. Then the local police au-
i
"Rastus," said the wife, "dat cradle am 'bout worn out."
***Tis 'bout gone," replied Rastus, "You all bettah get nother, and get
good one-che dat'll last.”,
Teacher: "How is it you were not
Knocked down at the junction of come forward-looking. The other thorities widened the appeal, and
announced the proposed formation Ice House Street yesterday by a is that a white-heat, of national of an International Company, open bicycle ridden by Mr. Albert K. enthusiasm must Inevitably to nationals other than those speci-Shim, an, elderly Chinese woman radiate a destructive, as well as a fed above, who, at the time either received injuries which necessitated constructive, energy. All history had one in process of formation. Hospital.
possessed a Company of their own or her removal to the Government Civil at school yesterday, Johnny?"
Jahany: "Please, sir, when I was. -particularly recent history-The response, it seems-wo are
coming to school I saw a steam roller." points the danger of national en- writing unofficially, of course-has
A coolle employed at the Talkoo
Teacher: "Well, what about it?" thusiasm raised to the point of been disappointing. What, then, Dockyard suffered injury to his
does the it and active European spine as the result of a 20-foot fall the shoulder and said, 'Mind that Johnny: "A man tapped me on Chauvinism, and in the case of member of the community think he while at work on board the 8.8. steun roller, boy,' and I stood mind- China the danger is intensified by will do in case of emergency? Just "Daviken" which is in dock. He the illiteracy of the great mass of sit at home and wait for the local was removed to the Governmenting it all the afternoon." the people.
government authorities to call him Civil Hospital in Professor Kwong
a serious condi- up for service, a power which they |tion. alludes with justifiable pride to possess? The Volunteers do not ap-
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"Leach played me a mean trick the other day," complained Robin- BON.
"What did he do?"
"He was visiting at our house, and boasted before the whole family that he had never been ill in his
J
"I don't see anything mean about that."
the fact that literacy has increas-pear to appeal to the newcomers; by The Chinese storekeeper of the ad from 1 per cent, to 15 per cent. A reading of the weekly orders more s.s. "Chinan" was yesterday remov- of the population during the 15 people are leaving than are joining; ed to the Government Civil Hos- yet when an eminently sensible pital suffering from injuries to his years following the establishment scheme as the Police Reserve is put head and right thigh as the result of the Chinese Republic. That is before the community, a scheme ao of a bag of beans falling on him
life." unquestionable educational arranged as to take up the mill-as it was being removed from the feat, but 15 is still a very small on, the public turns it down-ig-
mum of training time, drills, and so hold of the ship.
Or so it seems to us. Hong Kong, Tuesday, October 11, 1927. percentage and literacy per se nores It.
does not necessarily connote the What about it, Hong Kong? power of logical thought. Nation- alism which Beems to bel
SPIRIT OF CHINA.
an
As a complement of our article tense national patriotism- yesterday on the Chinese Repub-is
a
STANDARD OIL EMPLOYEE WEDDED.
YESTERDAY'S CEREMONY.
A dog owned by Lieut. Leo Healy of the U.S.S. "Asheville" at present
"Perhaps not," snorted Robinson. "But one night; not more than a month ago, I told my wife I had
malaria attack!"
in dock at Taikoo, yesterday bit to go and sit up with him through dock coolie in the thigh. The coolle was removed to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment, while the dog was captured on board the "Asheville" and taken to Kennedy Town for observation.
Auntle: "James, did you put a penny in the plate in church?"
James: "Oh, no, Auntie. Father' pays for our pew, so I just whisper- jed 'Season.""
& modern synonym for in- PASSING THROUGH.
in essence
thing lic we have come across some of the emotions rather than the comments on China by Professor reason. Its danger lies chiefly in
A dog belonging to Staff Sergeant Waterfield yesterday bit Miss But- K. L. Kwong, who holda thethe readiness with which it ean
The wedding took place at St. terfield, daughter of Quarter Master Chair of Economics and Business be exploited by self-seeking ad-John's Cathedral yesterday, the Rev. Sergeant Butterfield of "B" Block, Administration in the South-venturers, who see in it a most H. Copley Moyle officiating, of Mr. Military Married Quarters, Kennedy back?" Eastern University. His observa- potent agency wherewith to attain T. M. Jordan, of the Standard On Road, and was removed to Kennedy tions may appear to some belated personal ends. China's belated Company, to Miss Gertrude Elser, Town for observation. Miss But-I say now, father?"
terfield received treatment at the inasmuch as they were published but intense. national self- Mr. Jordan has been stationed Military Hospital, Bowen Road... whilst the Professor was touring consciousness is probably a thing with the Company at Manila and at
of Manila.
Traveller: Is your father. In?" Jones, jun.: "No, he's gone out." Traveller: "When will he be
Jones, jum, calls out: "What do
It's his fire," answered the policeman.
Bowen Road. Mistress: "How was it I saw a Australia with the Chinese foot to be welcomed by the world, if the time of his wedding was pass- A Chinese youth was this morn-soldier hugging you in the kitchen ball team, which has already re-the long view be taken; imme-ing through on his return from leave ing charged before Mr. R. E. Lind-last night?"
Maid: "I don't know, ma'am, in the States. His brids made the scli at the Central Magistracy with turned to this part of the world.diately, however, it is exposing journey from Manila to Hong Kong riding a bicycle without a light in the keyhole.""
unless you were peeping through Still, it is interesting to know and will expose her to many grave and they are later leaving for Sai- Des Voeux Road West last night, what he told the Australian dangers. She has absorbed the gon where Mr. Jordan takes up a policeman who stopped kim. The
The policeman shouted angrily to Press, which is often as much in Western cultural ideal of human new appointment with the Standard and offering a bribe of 85 cents to
Oil Company. A
accused having pleaded "guilty," the crowd, "Now then,, now then1 need of enlightenment on Chinese progross, and is learning that it There was a large attendance of Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of $2 You can't stand here looking at the affairs as the British and Ameri-must be bought at a price. Un- Standard Oil employees at the wed-on the first charge, and $20 on the fire.”
"But you're letting that fellow can Prese. The greatest thing happily for her tutors, some of ding, also others from the Ameri-bribery count
can community, both at the cere
over there, look at it," returned an in China to-day is her change of that price must come out of their
angry man... attitude," says Professor Kwong, own physical and moral re- "She is passing through a period servoirs. of revaluation, and whereas ler Professor Kwong is inclined to typical attitude used to be intro- minimise the danger of Bolshe- spective and retrospective, to vism to the now China. He points day it is outward and forward," out that only a proportion of the There is, perhaps, no exact his students, and the industrial class, torical parallel to this radical have become indoctrinated by the change in the psychology of a tre- propagandists, With real plausi. mendously populous nation, and bility, he stresses the fact that it is matter for small wonder that the converts are numerically in it should be accompanied by signs, considerable, since a bare one per portents, and much travail of the cent. of China's population earns national spirit. Professor Kwong wages from industrial undertak- insists that the dominant feeling ings. On the face of it, that of the Chinese is less anti-foreign argument appears conclusive, but, than pro-Chinese; that it is, in the Weat Australian," which fact, a Pentecostal inrush of the published the interview ith the spirit of ardent nationallem which Professor, adds that unhappily has been responsible for the anti- there is an foreign
mony and at the reception later at A 65-year-old Chinese named Leo "Aldadena," the Standard Oll Mung-Ching was yesterday removed to ger's reafdence, where the toast of the Kwloon Hospital as the result her and bridegroom was of being knocked down by motor heartily drunk b
car No. 350. owned and driven on The bride's sister, Mrs. Harrison, the Main Road at Shamshulpo by I couldn't get it.
Jane: I'm very sorry, mum; but was bridesmaid and Mr. Rensor Mr. Frank Lee of the S.C.A. The Mistress: "Couldn't get it? Chief Officer of the "President man was admitted to the hospital Couldn't get what as
at 8 p.m., suffering from serious Jano: Woll, as a matter of fact, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are spend-head injuries from which he died mum, they said they didn't keep it ing a week's holiday at Repulse Bay at 11.80 the same night. before leaving for Saigon. ››
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IN AUSTRALIA.
DOMINIONS SECRETARY
ARRIVES
London, Yesterday. Amery, Secretary for the Dominions and Colonias, arrived Albany, Western Australia, He proceeded to make a tour of the fruit growing districts..
an interview Mr. Amery pressed the hope of seel.
Mistress:
"What didn't ⠀ they While motor car No. 24 was pro- Jane: "They didn't keep what you
keep?" ceeding along Des Voeux Road told me to fetch
Central yesterday afternoon, going
In a Wasterly direction, its right Mistress: And, pray, what did
I tell you to fetch ?". frontwheel left the axle and bound-
ing scross the road, crashed into ane don't know, mum, I for- window of the Supreme Court Bot Luckily the car was not going fast
at the time and the driver was able
"How dare you throw stones at to pull it up without mishap, to the my little dog, you great big machine or personal injury. A recoward, shrieked the ancient spin- scue car later arrived on the scenester to a coalman in the street. and towed the cripple away.
The brute bit me, that's why? retort
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