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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928.
The above, of course, is congregate. The Talpo Topicist CORRESPONDENCE. Cocoa, only 'a surmise by a person goes on to say that he observed.
THEIR GOOD WORKS.
who knows the ropea" when in the Straits recently that aboard vessel in harbour here. I the authorities there have various trust my friend is wrong, however: kinds of illustrated placards, BX- otherwise I may feel constrained to plained in four languages, dealing Inaugurate an agitation for less with flies, hookworms and mos-two daughters, the Misses Aileen
time being spent on cocon-making quitoes.
in the Navy. Let the lads, by all means, have their cocoa, but why
Why, I wonder, are books
not provide a large-sized thermos All Red, of reference, nearly al- ways bound in red? I Bask for the night-watch and ob- vlate that visit to the galley? That look along my shelf and see from gun must have cost forty pounds the Foreign Office List to Odgers sterling; a thermos flask costs but on Libel and Slander and from a few.bucks. But perhaps the Who's Who in America to the cur had nothing to do with it. rent Whitaker's. All red covered. I think I had better drop There must be a reason for it. the matter before I get involved.
сосод
To the Editor of the "China Mail.” Dear Sir,Mrs. Woods and her
and Doris Woods, have found it. expedient to leave the Colony, to start their work afresh in Van-
couver
A few friends have already col-- lected a sum of money which was. given to them before they left, as- a token of appreciation.
Donations may be sent to any
of the undersigned.
It has been felt that in. view of their unselfish and unsparing efforts on behalf of many Char- ities, and in connection with gen- cral entertainment work in the Well, the Great Colony and elsewhere, there must This journal, I am told, Blameless. Fyramid 'falled to do be many who recognise their good work, and to whom an oppor-- Toujours has secured, with a de-
its stuff, didn't it? We tunity should be given of showing, Audace, gree of enterprise it is are all still here, a little older than their appreciation in a practical
not my place to com. we were a week ago, a little further manner. mend, a photograph of the skipper in debt, perhaps a little wiser, of the Tean, the Taikoo vessol but still carrying on as before. which last had the honour of being Which is a disapointment to many. pirated. I haven't met the gentle- The weak that has gone and which man yet, but in view of what is was to witness, according to the being said in other quarters, and Pyramidical grophets, Romething among his coastal colleagues, I startling, passed off quite ordin wonder what he thinks of the arily so far as most folks were con- whole business. From what I can cerned. 1, personally, consider it make of it those pirate johnnies a wonderful week, but the Great. were daring until the end, and how Pyramid had nothing to do with they simply paddled away practi-that! cally under the eyes of a man o' war beats common understanding.
Just as the simplest way
Do You of taxing a people is to
Incidentally, I made a Wonder? institute a poll-tax, so Now You few inquiries during the
the simplest way of gov Know. week among people who erning a people, it seems, is to in- would be supposed to stitute, and keep on instituting,
Yours, faithfully, Pauline Pollock,"
367, The Peak. R. Sutherland,
c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson
& Co. G. E. Towns,
c/o The Hong Kong & Shanghai
Banking Corporation.
W. Ti Featherstone, c/o The Diocesani Boys' School.
SKYLARKING.”
GUARDSMEN AND A FEW CHINESE GIRLS.
Accused of having assaulted Mr.
Mr.
is the legal aspect of this matter? I think the chair bearers should be know all about it. A Captain, ordinances. I do not like to see compelled to run the risk of losing would have liked to see was away so many of them, but what I like. Hau, sub-officer of the Kowloon of Fire Station, at the La Chi-kok their Heenoe if they are discover-from his office, and a Commander I less is to see the way some
man John Duncan, of the Scots ed refusing to work. We all know did see said a lot without saying them are carried out. Theag bond-bathing beach, on May 13, Guards-
Guards, appeared before the taxi-man's excuses"waiting anything at all, if you know what ed warehouse summonses are mere for a fare's return," "just run out I mean. The real "dope" came pinpricks, but they are very irritate Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis of petrol," "engine trouble," from a Marine. "D'ye think," he ing whilst doing no good. Then tracy, yesterday afternoon. when he doesn't want to be employ-said, pityingly, "that if the Old there is that wonderful printing ed. I suppose our chair soolies. Man knew what they found out at and publishing ordinance. I hear would think up something equally the enquiry he would tell you? now that the authorities require party. He complained and, the ac-- Them sort of things go straight to Chinese firms printing envelopes to the 'Admiralty we can't talk about add their Imprint. So are our em." So there you are, Which laws interpreted; ♬‹ ›
ingenious.
A refreshing
ac-
The complainant said that the
molested some of the girls of his defendant and five other soldiers
cused struck him several times, Pleading "not guilty," the cused said that he and his "pals"!* were only "skylarking and jok ing among themselves, and that thought the girls, appeared annoyed with he could them, for what reason not say. The complainant struck him, so he retaliated.
His Worship warned the defend-
V refreshing contempor-Heads-mo to belieke that the first Boshosily, ary (not, this time, we'll hear of anything that took
local) terms as bosho-place will come via Reuter's, if it Calfskin, these sticky days-is
them as strikes
worth send-
that, even in our winter sity the assertion of an Eng- lish
mere males are not lady doctor
"aning, or via the Home papers. If that
is only child
terrible there's anything in it at all you monstrosity," I am inclined
&
period,
we
to may depend that Comminander Ken- troubled to a great extant. by the ant and his friends against "sky- fur coat problem. Up north they larking" with Chinese giria. "Sky- agree with it (the paper, not the worthy, late of the Silent Service, ase, but if they know the ropes the larking in this country, he said, doctor). Moses, Mohomet and will have a lot to say about it. We menfolk can obtain their skins was likely to be misunderstood.
cheaply. Which reminds me of a Julius Caesar were all in the "only must be patient. child" class as were many other
fragment I saw in the "Golden "Our Taipo corres Treasury" or maybe somewhere men and women of note whose
re- elset Hong Kong, Saturday, June 2, 1928, names do not come readily to hand. From Taipo, pondent" whose
H.C.-His Column.
It.
For the first time in
the
Did.
mark regarding the "Anopheles Maternity Home"
in I'd like, if I were able,
But they're so simulated
Copied and imitated
BANK OF FRANCE.
BIG DECREASE IN ADVANCES.
Faris, Yesterday,
The weekly statement of the Bank of France shows a decrease of Fes. 000,000,000 in Bank ad- That which is which the experts vances to the State.—Havas.
only know...
.....
The furrier's a deceiver; He synthesises beaver.
Racoon and otter, for and
Persian lamb; ·
Or mink or seal or ermine Mr. Mussolini, who put his district may always be relied To buy you coats of sable
rohite as snore.. If They castor oil on the Italian, upon to raise a laugh, has his sub- menu, frequently broad-ject-or is it his object?-fully at casts aets of instructions heart. He sends me a cutting to Didn't Like four years I attended to the people who allow him to the effect that Salford, a suburb of
Evensong at
dietate to them. Now, I see, he in Manchester, is setting a fine exam- Cathedral last Sunday, demanding more children, though ple in teaching the people the laws and must say that I do not consider seem to remember that little of health. Exhibits and object the Service has been improved. I more than a year ago he was say-lessons on infection, food purity, am no alarmist and do not imagine ing that over-population was and golden rules are shown in the I can detect the "evil influence" of Italy's most serious problem, or windows of the health offices and Romae in every little act or gesturewords to that effect. He changed weekly. Hong Kong, adds that does not conform with strictly wants numbers; but numbers do the worst-liked man who uses the Low Church Ideals, but, frankly, I
sarily mean strength railway, please copy. Which, re- serurity. If they did China, with minds me that this journal. some ten times the population of Italy, little while ago advocated some- would be ruling, the world instead thing similer, something in the of whirling the rulers.
way of pictures of giant-sized mos-But I've found something flossy
In Genuine Old Bossy-- quitoes to be displayed at the Ferry
I know it's right because I know and other places where the public
the cou
do not like that processional buelt neas now in operation at St. John's Also, while I am at it, I may add that I do not like to see all those candles blazing merrily away, and I do not like the way the Cross is toyed with, I do not think I shall go again.
not:necessarily”
badbusiness
13
A Bad masters, is this dis Business, appearance of a maxim gun from the deck of a Mention of the Catho In Harness dral reminds me that British cruiser riding at the. Naval
Arain
our old friend Copley Anchorage, moro audacious an Moyle has lost no time act than was the theft of a ship's In performing a job of work now propellers from a local dock 48 regards "the that he is at home. My Dally the other
Telegraph tells me that on April 28 missing gun, it would be easy, he officiated at a wedding at St friend tells me, for such an object Peter's, Eaton-square, the con- to be removed by anyone who knew tracting parties, being Mr. Jasper, Scawen Blunt, of the Royal Artil lery, and Miss Doreen Marguerite Parsons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward:. Parsons, oran Pont- street and Leigh, Suri
the habits of the watch aboard the Lan old
Milled" there÷8805- took him into ingarm On such
vessel. My Informant
avalan -befora” Jour her all-exhi
During that day-laet wat Those Chair:week in which we had
Well
three inches
of rain:li
I'd like to buy them for you, To prove how I adore you;
But I can't tell the real from
the sham,
Why, even rat and coney
Are very often pitony
You'd hate an imitation fur,
vow
“NUT” THAT'S KNOWN AS FILBERT.
Oh the people on the Peak
Think it most unholy cheek.
If you criticise or chip them or compare them to "the rest".
But when unkneesy nosey females.
Take exception to their "hemales"
Tho it sells the evening paper Why it ought to be suppr
On their own funic'lar train
You must never breathe a d-n
PRESS CENSORSHIP.
Mr. M. K. Lo cross-examined at length Mr. Lau Sheuk-chong, one of the Chinese press censors at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, yesterday at the remand- ed hearing of the case against the. "Hong Kong Shun Po," which was eummoned for publishing two ar- ticles on May 9 and 10 without having submitted them to the
censor...
Lt. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O. ad journed the case till next Thurs day afternoon.
TEASERS.
Answer The "China Mail" Questions.
TO-DAY'S POSERS.
From day to day a series of half
a dozen questions, not tremendously difficult to answer but not always
If a pup should spoll your crepe de chine or lick your "plcbby" so simply solved as may be thought,
hand
You should discipline your spleen
And enjoy the nicotine
appear on this page. Answers are given on page thirteen.
From the pipe that's just to windward as you ride to Promised. What is the capital of the
Hong Kong Tramways Ltd.?
2. Who won the last Eton- Harrow match?
Land
sthere
So if you've got the pip
arter-
And your purse allows a trip
the
In search of honest grouses don't go 'bove 600 feet
Keep your level and I say
ime
Take the tram to Causeway Bay
When the smalls will paralyze you and let's hope your
Ltd.1
are sweet
There's a mut that's known as filbert
this
And (with apologies to Gilbert!)
thất
I'd compare it to the writer on the Evenin
aph
Who wrote such awful tripe
Bout the knees and dogs and pipe
In the hope of r starting something
ho are the general managers Green Leland Cement Co.,
the Great War, cost,
How much
Tas thl.
OʻRell
how wil tennis