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Sunday: On the Virtues of the Game of Lawn Bowls. Monday: Our Kitten Is Going to be a Fool Mouser.
Tuesday: About a Man I Do Not Like. Wednesday: The Going of the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. Thursday:-About Bumptious People; A Thrilling Picture. Friday: Pirates Plunked; Wife Practises The Hornpipe. Saturday: The Closing of "The Better 'Ole."
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IN HIDING. WILL IT NEVER END?"IRENE" MISSING. Disposition of Canton's Labour Union Chaos in All But 14 Accounted
Communists.
Canton.
For.
GOVERNMENT'S VIGILANCE.
FRUITS OF MISGOVERNMENT.
Police Authorities Keeping Down Trouble.
Effect of "Flirtation” With The Authorities.
8 CREW AND 6 OTHERS.
Seven Suspects Detained For Identification.
Canton
[By "Li Chung-yin."]
In fairness one admits that the average member of the union. is not to blame. He only wants to work in peace and, accordingly, | leaves all decisions to the handful of men who run the show.
A BROADSIDE.
IS THAT SOP
Thoughts Terse, Perverse and Worse.
* BY “THE MAILMAN."
"What for Missy angry?" the It is rumoured that protests will be made regarding the Blas compradore asked the young bride Bay affair
What the who had returned into his store. LA?
One reason living, prices are higher is because some of us are living higher.
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It was so "taken" with a cor-
race meetings that it published respondent's opinion of the Macao his letter twice in the same issue!
Suspicions
From the official report made of the authorities having been aroused, With such a strong bearing on by. Capt. Johnsen, of the 8.8. an order has been given to the Hong Kong commerce, labour "Irene" which was pirated, taken police and military to exercise unions in Canton invariably at to Bias Bay and later sunk fol- vigilance against a number of tract attention. To these unions lowing the intervention of H.M. Communat agitatora who are hid-can be traced much high-banded Submarine LA, it appears that, in
Congratulations to the "Morn- ing in the city, having returned action in the past leading to dis-addition to the six officers there
were 100. Chinese crew, and 155 ing Post" on an original method recently to be ready for action. ruption of trade
Gossip in the city is that these On a good many occasions Can-passengers on board when the of displaying enthusiasm for a
point of view. I see that at the two
Is it not strange notorious Communists, had hoped ton unions have taken unto them-ship sailed from Shanghai.
"Of these, the officers. 138 pas- Sunday. utter ends of sport- Tuesday. how a personal for sympathy from the Ironsides. selves duties which do not come
ing activity, polo and
like or dislike can The latter having supported the within their own sphere, such as sengers and 81 of the crew were a boycott against brought to Hong Kong by L4, also lawn bowls, little Hong Kong has rise to the surface after a period Government, the agitators are maintaining been well trounced by the of somnolence? Says Kipling, said to be biding their time. domestic or foreign institutions. three suspected pirates, whilst Shanghailanders. Perhaps with somewhere or other, smells are the in-between games such as mightier than sights or sounds to football and cricket we may do make your heartstrings crack. It better. Polo, methinks, is a fine was a smell, caught in Pedder sport, in that it makes the blood Street, which made not only my circle and is full of risk. A game heartstrings crack but my bile for youth and old men who refuse duct burst, my blood boil, and my Reported Purchase Of Craft For to yield to Anno Domini. Lawn temperature hit the top mark bowls, on
the other hand, is a that was ever painted on any "try comfortable game for the middle your strength" machine. 'It was aged, withal possessing its points the smell of a particular brand of of skill and an amount of stoop- hair oil, and it reminded me at once of a man I knew many years ago. I never really liked him. He was a villainous creature. In but one decent article of clothing! he would appear grossly over- dressed. He looked like a publi- can and acted like the other bird. No, I don't think I liked the man. Drat that hair oil.
A
BIT. STEAMY
ing which is good for sluggish
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AGAINST PIRATES.
Capton.
A contract has been signed for. the construction in Hong Kong of a shallow-draught vessel which the Canton Government intends to use for unti-piracy work, says the "Hong Kong Evening Post."
The price is stated to $100,000, of which $40,000 has been paid as bargain money.
It is intended that the vessel will steam 15 knots. Delivery is to be made in eight months.
Only this week it was reported that seven motor-cycles had been shipped to Canton, out of a quota of ten for use by the City Police is pursuit work.
If all lived as wisely as the doc. tors advise the doctors swould
H.M.S. "Curlew" Replies To River starve to death.
Attack.
FIGHTING ON YANGTSZE.
Wuhu, Yesterday.
The whole of ship's armament
Terrible weather this, when the Charge of the Light Brigade can be stayed by a mere cold!
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Some people are like price-lists
of H.M.S. "Curlew, a British-you have to know what the dia- cruiser now on the Yangtaze count is on what they say. River, had to be used to silence an attack by Nationalist_troops, belleved to be of the Wu-Han faction.
Arbitrary. "Bosses." Going a step further, it in dif- ficult even to blame the respective unions. The most vital matters are controlled by the arbitrary la bour "bosses" who never do a stroke of work themselves. There is no need to call a general meet- ing and put a projected strike to the vote. There may be a pre- tence of such procedure but if the views of the agitators are defined, the result is a foregone conclusion. Quite a number of the unions in Canton have similar names to those in Hong Kong but there is very little connection. A name
These troops were engaged by has been chosen for one trade and
two Nationalist (pro-Nanking) that name is applied to unions of
gurtboats farther down the River. men in that trade all over Kwang-British Naval Wireless. tung province. ANTEA
No Refered um Taken.
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The troops were 41 miles above Wuhu, at the North bank wall village. They used rifles and machine-guns in their attack on the "Curlew."
Says Peter, some people's beads are only used to keep their ears from rubbing together.
The girls are taking, courses in home management, but husband management they understand without instructions.
"I've been cheated," was the re- [ply. - "I ordered macaroni for
dinner, and all the boy brought me was a lot of empty stems"
When a girl warms up to a fel- low he thinks he has her "knock- ed cold."
Who said that budding jazz en- thusiasts over Kowloon, way are of Anglo-Saxophone extraction?
After being given away at the
that she has been sold. altar many a young bride ands
Local advertisements are giving early reminders of Christmas pre- sents. Most of those worried- looking chaps are not thinking of what to send to folk at Home but are wondering whether they can afford the gifts their wives will insist on buying for them...
What difference does it make what the calendar says, so long as one'a arteries are still fairly young?
He "There, now, you've gone and ordered flower seeds that take two years to bloom.".
Bhe "You mind your own business; this is last year's cata- logue.
So the Reverend J.
In spite of prohibition, the Wednesday. Kirk Maconachle
American goba seen in town this is to leave us, it
week'scomed pretty 'ale and 'arty, being given out that negotiations
There was once an absent- will be entered into in due course
minded professor who, buildingja Says Peter, perhaps why people for the engagement of a new
No referendum to the men has H.MS. "Delhi" brought back four dog kennel, cut one door for the in places like this are said to be pastor for Union Church to ar Hence the Government's orders to rive, if possible, next autumn, deal with them sternly.
ever been shown to back up any of the crew four passengers and mother and nine smaller ones for more sincere is that everybody * knows how much everybody else the pupastaj of the so-called general strikes four suspected pirates. We shall miss the reverend
Secret Arsenal Raided.
makes In the old city, the Police within the last few years.
:Of the 155 passengers, 149 have gentleman, and he, whether his departure takes him to a larger raided an establishment where Everybody knows that the thus been accounted for (the sus After careful inquiry we have fold in a big city oras is often rifle ammunition was being made Chinese crews during the 1921-pected pirates must be included come to the conclusion that ad- 1922 scamen's strike did in the original number of passen. vice to use gas as a means to the lot of clerics going home after secretly.
According to the report, the not know that· B
strike gers as they embarked as such at wards economy in Hong Kong is vice in a trying clime-he returns Police seized 14,000 uncompleted had been called. In fact, Shanghai). This leaves six of not based on the examples set to some obscure country parson-rounds, two bags of explosives, a the original Chinese Seamen's of the passengers (or pirates) either by the Legislative Council
bag of gunpowder, a jar of acid Union in Hong Kong was formed still to be accounted for, and it is or the Sanitary Board. and a quantity of old cartridges, as the result of a chance remark. fairly evident that these were Apparatus for manufacture was dismantled.
a strenuous spell of goodly ser
livers. Some of its youthful fol- lowers have attempted to justify their participation by a whole hearted denial that it is an old mán's game, that it is, in fact, a pastime for striving youth, Which is merely an admission that striving youth, in some in:] ___L_ stances, puts on middle age mighty soon these days. How- ever, our friends from Shanghai trundled mean woods, and some steamy ones too, in the interport, and according to the expert fully deserved their win.
Monday.
That cat of ours, the wife assures me, is going to develop into a fine mouser. I am not so sure and I think she is only. saying this to justify her selec- tion of a knock-kneed, flea-bitten eared, gravy-eyed specimen of immature catdom such as I would
not even allow to hang around
TOO SCARED
TO YELL
To Prevent Riots.
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Toleration is a virtue.
A student of sports form tells us that the reason why the Police have not been successful in the Football League is that there is
towards the referee when they a pronounced tendency to dash
hear the whistle blown suddenly.
Blow your horn but know your tune.
Staying on and off in the local drowned or burnt.. acamen's boarding-houses were a Of the 100 crew, 92 have been few men, educated above the rest, brought back, leaving eight still PARTING
He whose head la caally swelled Labour riots having broken out who had been to sea and made missing.
When the heart declines to An identification parade of the often finds himself in tight places. REGRETS in various parts of the city and in easy money and were not prepar-
grow old along with the rest of Honam, the Police Commissioner ed to work hard again for a living. seven suspects was held at the
Following the recent series of the physique it's apt to lead to a has instructed all stations to be Luxuries had come their way by Central Police Station this morn-
confidence tricks by means of lot of foolishness.****** prepared to put down outbreaks their funds ran low the luxuries
clandestine methode and when ing. t?
{ } $ !! ས་ Three Shells Fired. wads of waste-paper, local jour- at all cost.
Vanished.
In his report to the police, the nalists have given up carrying Meetings of labour union mem-
“I Told You So." Captain states that LA after firing rolls of "copy" paper for fear of bers will now be controlled by
One of these Idlers suggested the blanks fired a high explosive arrest on suspicion. Police supervisors.
A decision has been reached to his friends that it would be a shell and later two armour pierc
Methuselah probably lived to causing a change in the military good idea to form a union for sea-ing shelle.
In spite of the efforts of the his ripe old age just to spite some administration of Kwangtung men,
He was the moving spirit. The warships standing by and of the girl who married him for his province. Appointments of dis-
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trict Defense Commissioners will writer happened to run into him Dockyard tug "Alliance" which money. be abolished. Preservation of as he came out of the Secretariat was despatched to the scene, the peace and protection of order will for Chinese Affairs with three or ss. "Irene" sank at the entrance be in the hands of district admin-four of his colleagues, where they to Bins Bay yesterday at noon istrative bureaus.
had been called to answer ques from the effects of fire subse- tions in connection with the pro-quent to damage by a shell from fect.
H.M. Submarine L4....
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Deputation Detained.
OFFICERS' ESCAPE.
CAR PLUNGES INTO THE HARBOUR.
Writing about the harbour race, the "Daily Press" says: repeated his "Cooke success in 1924, 1927 and again this year."
Kothing Ilke being ahead these days.
If you would achieve success in almost any line you happen to choose, say little and look un- utterable things.
Returned studenta in the Chin- ese Nationalist Party seem to be auffering from their senior wranglers.
the dustbin if I had my way. age, he will miss us. That man That kitten is going to be, I think, has, I think, succeeded in knock- labour unions is believed to have emphatically to his colleagues, A deputation from extremist "I told you so," he observed a fool cat so far as mice are coning the stuffing of self satisfac- been detained by the Canton "the official (meaning the S.C.A.'s cerned, just like our pup is going tion out of the average local re-authorities.
deputy) will believe us when we to be a fool dog. As an instance sident who troubles to think about There were about a dozen in the say that we have been requested of the present value of the pair of 'em, let me record that the other things more than anyone else has deputation. They all belonged to by many crews to form the union.
were What were you afraid of?" night I was awakened by a series done. He has been embroiled in extremist unions which
Bank Bubble Burst. of disjointed puffings and blow- arguments, verbal and written, afiliated to the Leftist General
concerning matters material and Union. -
The strike was launched by spiritual, more than anyone else, The purport was to petition the these officers of the Union. After A PRAYA INCIDENT, with the exception of one or two Government for release of all ar- the settlement, the Chinese Sex local cranks, I know. He has a rested by the Police in this week's men's Bank was floated elde Capt. Campbell and three Euro- good following regarding num-raid on the anti-Hong Kong strike A scandal followed the burst pean officers had a narrow escape bers that is and, on the headquarters and the Seamen's ing of the bubble which involved from death in the early hours of
I saw her dress other hand, amongst certain Union.
Bums believed to have totalled a this morning as they were return-
And laughed at it, people, is heartily disliked. Many On the other hand, the Leftist million dollars. Ning from the direction of West
For brevity's PASSI who would not dream of going to General Union officials, having The effect of the strike victory Point along Connaught Road
The soul or witg hear him in his church never fail been cold-shouldered by the Iron was more than counter-balanced West in a motor car, amma to read his seITRONS. 2 sides from whom they had expect by the failure of the Bank, (which Apparently in an endeavour to
Motoring Note:-Don't proceed ed support, have announced "item- never opened although subscrip- avold an empty ricaha which was Reading something porary suspension of activities tions were collected extensively). proceeding in the opposite direc past traffic pointemen with a lass Thursday, or other in a paper in view of the Government's un- Confidence among the rank and tion, the car was pulled up sud- and alacrity.
fle has never recovereddenly and skidded into the har the other morning favourable attitude.
Ings coming from the next room Switching on the light and jump ing out of bed, thinking that the hot water pipe in the bathroom
had burst, I investigated was the wife sitting too scared to yell, but ma funny noises, and, the precious pap: and that kitten sleeping shi Best
Declares the "S.C.M.P." anent. the latest piracy: "The sub- marine's great exploit does not, however, move us from our view
Is That So?
When it comes to making your self unpopular, there hasn't been anything discovered that beats telling the truth all the time.
The Bishop of Birmingham at- tributes modern disinclination for church-going to differences as to the theory of evolution.. Presumably the evolution of the golf balla
A subscriber is a person who. wants newspapers to be absolute- ly independent on all subjects ex- cept that in which he is particu larly interested.
The introduction of women into business has created more work; for other people, stated a speaker at the Y.M.C.A debate Must have been thinking of the people who have to ranscribe her shorthand notes for her.
Two bears on the burning as. "Irene started fighting each other, we read.
Must
have mistaken each other for pirates.
I think it was a sermon-sen- Military Transfers..
If the Chinese Beamen's Union bour near the Bal On wharf. Two Chinese women who were tence caught my eye. It said: General Wong Shiu-hung or any other unton for that The four occupants were fortun-shot for propounding Communism
This Is a pushful world and Kwangsi is believed to have as-sations in Europe, such a state of clear of the car and, as they were bob between them, eh?"
nota In announcing a sunrise ser, matterresembled similar organ-ately precipitated into the water were shingled
evice, a Colorado paper says bumptious characters are at tem sembled six or seven thousand of affairs could not have come about. all swimmers, succeeded in gain-
Those attending will be able to Dorary advantage in it, especially his men In and around Canton
"My husband and I are going to return to their homes for break- when they are unscrupulous, as city. These are from Swatow and Labour Explained. ing the Prays in safety. they are apt to be." How true the East River and, according to
Although an rbanised labour. The car struck the ricaha which be divorced. We own our house fast and have time to dress be but the coolle jointly. How shall we divide it?" fore Sunday School, Let's thought, were the first two asser General Wong, will be sent back ing class is coming into existence was damage
escaped without injury. tions though, looking around me to Kwangsi for rest. Over B
Divide it equally, of course hope they did would omit the third, preferring thousand have already sailed for
You keep the inside and give him The
ment matshed cabl: the outside. cles at Repulse Bay Bench will be `closed on and after, the evening of Sunday October" 80%
to regard such category at all rs than knaves. Oh,
home by the West River,
Lt. General Haleh Yo, who was In command in Swatów, after the
defeat of the Communist Invaders,
to be transferred to Sh
the North River) terminus
onve
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