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air, was Lord Chesterfield's dea cription the Westminster Church suffered interior damage by fire and exterior ridicule right from the day
of its construction.
Glad I'm not There.
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 11, 1928.
The early scones of Ing, "B" for those not quite as good, Two Chinese, youths were brought "Sadio Thompson" "C" for those a Httle doubtful, and before Major C. Willson, at the compelled the draw-"D" for those with whom busineas Central Court this morning, charg- ing of comparisons is not advisable. That is one in-ed with gambling at Upper Lascar Bow and Stanley-street. Both between the island of Paga Paga teresting secret, lan't it? Now here pleaded guilty and were each fined
The Bank will open($2.
and Hong Kong. Paga Paga, likes another. this little Colony, possessed a credits with "C" class dealers. If
At the Central Court this' márne Governor and, I suppose, the usual this information is true, I think the
are real ing. a Chinese youth pleaded "not. box o' tricks that go with Governors, johnnies at this Bank
Fancy being able to geteilty" to a charge of hawking pork But the amount of power enjoyed sports. by this bird in Paga Paga was re- eredit, which I suppose means without a licence yesterday after dis- Major C. Willson markable--and unhealthy, I would money, from à big bullding such as charged the boy after evidenec had imagine, for anybody he did not these nice young men work in If, all been given by an Indian constable ke. In the film the professional the while, you are a firm which is a and the youth's master. The Int
It sounds too ter verited the accused statement reformer, because bo does not "little doubtful."
noon.
a hotel.
fancy Sadie, lodges a complaint good to be true, doesn't it. Perhaps tint he was delivering the pork to with the Governor. And, dear it is. reader, in a jiffy or two, there coniea
I referred last week to abode, appeared before Major along a deportation order. I am
Rulla Shak, an Indian of its fixed
Central Court. glad I do not have to try to hal! Solicitors' local solicitors' letters Willson at the
which have made me this morning as being destitute. - my job down in Paga Paga
laugh and I am remind-The Police said that defendant had
Away."
Letters.
arenand.
ed of a particularly priceless effort just come down from Canton, und, A little while ago I re-which recently emanated from the In view of the fact that they were He "Ran ferred in these columns office of a firm which seems to get not quite certain of his identilica-·
for to a fellow who at one i
tion, they asked fair amount of business. The re-Defendant was remanded in police time was a resident here.minder is contained in a Renter custody for 48 hours. For doing so I have been, taken to cable of last month which stated task, my critic demanding: "why that the Soviet had founded an tell us about people like that? This institute for the study of Buddhist fellow only stayed a year or so and culture in Tibet, Mongolia, China, CORRESPONDENCE. then away to another job." I write India and Japan. This message,
to
shrink mentally
apart from emphasising the So- vict's desire to poke their nose into territorios now more or less closed to them, took my mind back
THE NANKING RAPE,
To the Editor of the "China Mail." Si must say that your
to the brief sojourn in this Colony leader of August Ninth surprised of an individual whose name you
me hot attle. That such an would know as soon as I mentioned article could have originated from
learned pin is hardly conceivable. to be candid, I may justly inter that whoever wrote that leader of
it.
<
What happened, was yours is what i would term racially that his namo was prejudiced..
about such people because they are intereating. True it la, as my critic said, the subject of my paragraph "ran away." He was in a junior position here and, as I know full weli, would have not been much better off had he stayed here till now. Instead of succumbing to the false and empty lures of the Far East, instead of settling down in an underpaid job and allowing him- What They self
and Wanted. mentioned. together Without a second thought hơ physically year after year, he ran
with rather unedifying vehemently neruses the Nationalist away to a firm where his energy particulars connected with its whele as one not to be trusted AAlong came the solicitor's letter, at all. It is my contention that any and ability were appreciated. nunctity when he arrived here he On behalf of their client they want-notion, will not infringe a breach of person who has the faintest politieak
would, owing to the local mannered apologies breadcast through-internationalism as that so malici- - ef doing things, have been a non-out the world; they wanted very busty perpetuated by our 'pali- The greatest misfortune entity to-day. As it is, he is at substantial damages, they wanted cinn" writer in his article. ́ that bafell St. John's, the head of his profession-and all all kinds of things. Actie a work Ile next ventures to criticise the Westminster, was, in because, I honestly believe, he "ran or two, however, they did not want the opinion of many. away."
anything to do with the business. in consenting to negotiate a pact ter regarding the latter's intention the calling of the Rey. Charles
Their precious client had to "beat on similar terms to those offered to Churchill to the curacy. He was a
Just study, if it to fields fresh and pastures new. and accepted by the United States robust cleric was Churchill, the like Not Pedder-street, you please, this He asked the police to get him to a concering the Nanking Rape. H of whom we are never, in these
little pen-pic- country where Bhuddism was prae- then alludes to the non-fulfillment days, likely to see at St. John's ture:-
tised.
That is why the measure of the pact by the Nationalists. Hong Kong. He succeeded his
He finally accuses China under Thrir 'faces are set in one mould concerning the Soviet's, achitiena! father and was a clergyman, as he a dull desire-desire to be amused, reminded me of local solicitors ar promises, and sums up with the įvarious pretexts for having broken testified, "through need and not for the costly things of life, forters.
As for the individus to climax that Britain is going to be choice." His heart was in the pan, the gilt without the gingerbread. whom I have referred t suppose painfully disappointed if she ne it is true, but it was the pen that!
some of our senior Government cepts Theirs are otherwise expressionless
terms similar holda ink and not the one that holds
officials will recall him. He stayed accepted by the United States. over a fairy lengthy period in a politician writer seems Buddhist monastery iz Ceylon oblivious of the fact that the Sino- roundabout the time some of them recently concluded. It is only na
American Pact has but been very were there..
A Robust Cleric.
J
sheep. He passed from one literary fercs. No individuality shows success to another and eventually through. The word "radiant” is turned out The Rosciad, a brilliant dead, so far as the faces of the wo satire which will live longer than men are concerned.....Their little any of the Queen Anne churches. wases are lifted above the sense of Hong Kong, Suturday, August 11, 1928. | In the end his parishioners kicked | anything that is real. Their him out. but Churchill, by way of mouths are as uniformly red as a | his writings, bad reached fame and
rote of pillar-boxes. Their pen
action of the British Prime Minis-
tu these
Our
to Le
I am informed that fortune. so I do not suppose skine only with the reflection ofing from petty restrictions in Hongfallure to evneunte American pro-
H.K.O.M.A.A. recent Home leavo
movements have oc- casioned a few gaps in the ranks of the Hong Kong Organisers Mutual Admiration Association. Every effort will be made to all the all pointments before the cold weather senson starts, though, as will be readily understood, the weeding out
the three vacancies that will exist
minded very much.
tural that absolute and stringent observance of such an Agreement Life, as I think I can only ultimately ensue as a mat- Toujours Les have said before,ter of time. That the National- Autres. keeps an even 'keel ists have broken faith in the Sino- Whilst we are suffer-American Pact as regards their
shop windows....
Kong others in other places are also perty is veritable enough. Such an And so on.
unfortunate incident is however And you would say, getting it in the neck.
We have trille in In case some of my thinking of the morning hour when
its significance it our readers do not grasp cocktail time chimes in a thousand have
our rotten ordinances, and so politician' writer has unnecessary
Shanghai and the purport of my re-female hearts:-"How like Pedder The young women of the former, If
Peking. made a mound 'out of `an ånt-mole-
one were to reflect ference to the long
upon strant!" Come off your perch, city have been ordered by the Na-his hyper-exaggerated convictions, Hong Kong, I would refer them to stail and respectable and afraid of wear ear-rings and the Mayor of amend this regrettable Incident but time it took to build St. John's, George. Hong Kong is tos darned tionalist Government not
There is not the slightest doubt
Eiter's Europe in China-The Hin anything that is not just so"-to Peking says that all Chinese women until than
Four Years'
Delay,
tory of Hong Kong. The savant
1843.
ng.
Hard-Faced Hags.
49
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members of
to
that the Chinese Government will'
it is not rips at the
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I do not propose to diserts and modify the erroneous Ideas our | learned writer has of Nationalist China na And it hardly worth the while trying to convince and rectify an already biased mind. The In-
of College-gardens tells us that the justify a description of its woman- under thirty must bob their hair, present moment for any one to pre- of suitable candidates is a process Cathedral was ordered to be built folk such as the above. It is Bond- I think steps should be taken to diet misconceptions of any actions which will require a fair amount of
at Government expense and was de- i street at half past eleven in the enrol the Nationalist commander at of the Nationalists. time and much consideration. For dicated to St. John on October 17, morning that the writer was depict Shanghai and the worthy Mayor
Sir Henry Pottinger was at the end of this month 32 can-Governor then and things generally didates have already signified their moved rather slowly, as they do
1..for one, would nost willingness to stund. Further up- plications, however, are invited as water, provisions. Anway, it was now in cases, such as adequate
heartily repudiate the suggestion that the the Association wants, of course. not unt!! March 1847, on the fifth
The next Criminal Sessions will ference which I derive from such pen-picture, alluring open on Monday, August 20.
an injudiciously worded articl nothing but the best qualified per day of the idea, that Sir J. Davis as it may look, typified that noble
concerning so delicate a matter 13. sonages within the fold. Which laid the corner-stone, Lassitude on thoroughfare yelept Pedder-street
that it is a case of:-
"for fools rush in where angela remfads me that mere persons need the part of the authorities, accord- at cocktail time or any other time, has been struck off the Register.
fear to tread.” not trouble to send in their names. ing to Eitel, was responsible for the Applications may be made through clubs on the Accepted List or in- dividually to Wm. Gratianus
I went to see "Sadie Boltlocks, Esq., O.E.E. Hon. Secret Sadie" Was Thompson" during mornings, it is generally my. plen
the week, Those aspirants who knew this gon
Andeant lot to meet with ice-maidens tleman well enough to address was the film. I am under no obliga,
want to say how fine and matrons. him as Bill Bluenose might stand ation to do anything of the klad as, better chance than the others. following my usual custom, I paid A· Few. Class tells, you know.
for all the tickets I required. I'd Secrets. not know what the, local critics
| ary, H.K.O.M.A.A., 951, The Peak.
delay.
Good.
True it is that in the centre of the Mr. E. L. Jones has been ap- town you will run across hard-pointed an assistant Government fnerd hags who obviously know how marine surveyor as from August 4. many glus make a bottle, but,
|
Mr. Tang Chi-ngong has been appointed a Life Member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong,
Yours, etc.,
NATIONALISM. Hong Kong, August 11, 1028.
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An Interesting experiment was Kong
and Shanghal removal of their Office from No. 4 carried out lost, night with the. Banking Corporation as De Vipux-road Central to No. 12"Auto-Total" Fire Extinguisher or Apart from the fact wrote about the film as, nowadays, presented
motor cars. The engine of a motor Peddar-street on August 14, from Shanghal, I
car which was in perfect runnin Two St. John's, that it took a long I do not read what local critics have no compunction about
The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, order was saturated with gabholena while to build and write about anything. If, however, the matter. I have no overdraft C.M.G, LL.D., is to leave for and set alight. The "Auto-Total" it does not seem to know how it it had been my lot to describe it I being nursed and I am not à Hong Shanghai on the 3.5. "Presilient was applied through the honeycomb stands regarding pew-rents, St. should have stressed the wonderful of sufficient long-standing or busi Madison," together with Mra. of the radiator and completely ex- John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, has acting of Lionel Barrymore as the ness ineptitude to require "carry Kotewall and a son on Tuesday. He tinguished the blaze in a few had a fairly uneventful existence. professional reformer who eventual. ing. I have not even a current ac is going on a private visit and will seconds.
The witnesses of this novel ex- How different has been the life of lý fails as other pen fall but count with 'em, having, long ago, probably return in about threa
periment, it is understood, were its fellow-church at Westminster, who adopted the unusual means of arranged such matters in a British weeks.
surprised at the efficiency and spebd which has recently celebrated its a sharp-edged razor in seeking his possession where Wayfoong does Mr. W. H. ("Bil!?) Edley, of extinguishing diaplayed by this bicentenary. The Home-side edifice soul's redemption. Most people, not cut co much fes as it does here. wharfinger of the Hong Kong, Can- type of fire extinguisher. The car (a handy word, that) was built to perhaps, were carried away by
page for a ton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd, suffered no fl-effects from the con- rellove the congestion at St. Gloria Swanson'e able portrayal of
Now for the secrets. left the Colony on Wednesday on tents of the Auto-Total" and was Margaret's which was then as popu the name-part. Lionel Barrymore, Sounds Too The Hong Kong and the "Empress of Canada" for started off Immediately after the lar as it is to-day. Always however, showed more artistlé Good. Shanghai Bank lags! Canada on holiday. He had been demonstration without cleaning. suffering from pleurisy, necessitat. The Agents of the "Total": Fire considered an architectural abor
fles dealers ander the
ing a long stay in hospital. His Extinguishers intend to repent this tion-“an elaphant thrown on its trionic execution than any of the first four icttare of the alphabet- mans friend, will wish-himes lemonstration at an carly, date for
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