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to centralise power
The leaders in Nanking have ruled that certain Nationallats
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928.
LOCAL BIG WIGS
must register again in order to ORDER OF PRECEDENCE IN PRAPS-PRAPS NOT!
attend. Further, a majority for those in power is to be assured
THE STRAITS
CONSULAR OFFICIALS
Sandy MacTavish left his four
by the proclamation that they
The following, from the brothers in Aberdeen, and reach-. will nominate a vital percentage "Straits Times" may have a de-jed out for the wide spaces of the of the delegates. No wonder gree of academic interest here:-earth. Returning after 20 years there have been murmurs. The Foreign consuls in Singapore abroad. he found the four decor- local Nationalist organisation in the table of precedence" which chests. When he asked the rea- will study with some amusementated with beards down, their Nanking (as distinct from the has been published in the S.S. son for this abnormal growth. "central") has raised its voice in Government "Gazette." The Hector, the youngest of the fami-.. indirect protest, Nationalists in painful fact is that these repre- ly, regarding him with gentle re- sentatives of foreign Powers, who proach answered him with the Canton are in restive mood. Gen-enjoy a semi-diplomatic status in question: "What forr did ye tak eral Chang Hsueh-liang in Man- the Colony, rank very low indeed awa' wi' ye the ane razorr in th churia delays putting the Na-in the list of local big-wigs. hoose?" tionalist mode of government into the "Gazette" notice, which is Actually they do not appear in operation. Which all goes to confined to Government officers, prove that there is need to make but anyone who has attended an China a republic in fact as well as official landing on Johnston's Pier ing," in name.
must have noticed that bishops, judges, Municipal Commissioners. you?" representatives of the Services-- "No... He took off his boots to in fact every inhabitant of the ease his feet, and trod on a rusty Noah's Ark of colonial officialdom nail with his big toe.'
Baron Davidson
"How's your carpenter friend?" "He died from maintoe poison- "You mean ptomaine, don't
•
If popularity may properly be except departmental heads-are ascribed to one holding so exalted granted precedence over the con- a position as that of the Arch-sular body. The rules in this mat-
A teacher said to a pupil: bishopric of Canterbury, surely ter are, we believe, regulated by a "How much is four multiplied by
former three?" Tommy: "Twelve, sir." it is a very fitting term for the document issued by a retiring Primate. Dr. Davidson, Secretary of State for the Col-Teacher: "Right! For answering it will be noted, is leaving his onies, and the story goes that so quickly I will give you twelva great office amid universal indica- this aristocrat, while governing sweets." Tommy: "If I'd known tions of the best of goodwill. He some portion of the British Em- that was going to happen, I'd have has received a peerage from the pire, was so annoyed by the im-said more." hands of His Majesty and will portunity of American. commer henceforth be known, very appro- cial attaches that he later issued priately, as Baron Davidson of the present instructions. That is Lambeth, and will thus be en- the reason why consuls in the abled to continue his good work Crown Colonies are kept strictly in the House of Lords. The res in their place, and why the ponse to the invitation for sub- Straits Settlements--one of the scriptions to provide the aged pre-smallest administrations in the late with funds for his future has world-are not among the most been excellent, as it will be seen popular posts in the foreign con- that a sum of over £17,000 has sular services. been subscribed. The American
in the Church, too, shows splendid feel-
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"DEATH
the Church of England by pre- rebelled. And it is because we senting the retiring Primate with very much hope that there will be an address and the handsome gift similar of G$10,000 in a golden casket, (on repetition' motives) that we repeat our note other manifestations of goodwill Surely all these and the many
of warning.
being shown are positive evidences
no
WHAT "
ART" IS
LECTURE BY THE REV. H. V. KOOP.
"SPIRITUAL VALUES"
In Peking there are 1,812 mem-of the remarkable popularity At St. Peter's Young Men's bers of the Kuomintang. The which the aged Archbishop now Club, last evening, an interesting finds showered upon him. As a lecture on "Art" by the Rev. population of the former capital is matter of fact this remarkable H. V. Koop, took the place of the 800,000. Therefore, the United Scotsman is one of the most popu-usual fortnightly debate. Press concludes, there is one per-r men throughout the length
and breadth of England. son in about four hundred who is
From Saturday to Saturday
Is such a long and barren way! And yet I wager this is right: If Saturday came Wednesday
night
By some strange shift of For-
tune's boon, We'd need our wages Monday.
пооп
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Clubman: "I've struck a per- fectly priceless idea. I've arrang- ed to give a man 10,000 dollars on condition that he relieves me of all my worries."
Friend: "That's fine, but where are you going to get the 10,000 | dollars ?***
Clubman: "Ah, that will be his first worry."
She: "Do you believe in clubs for women?
He: "Yes, if kindness fails."
+
According to the lecturer, Art, Dolly: "I told Mr. Nicefellow in the sense in which it is gen- that I bet. Reggie twenty kisses erally understood, is an expres- our boat would win a race at the sion spiritual values. A man regatta."
or
Daisy: "Well, wasn't he shock-
a member of the Nationalist Party; It is probable that this
a woman might be termed The Old Bedfordians in the Col-artistic if they showed some ed?" proportion is higher in Peking ony advertise the holding of a taste in buying a new tie or hat, than in many other parts of the dinner at the Hong Kong Club at but discarding all these loose ap-stakes." country; accordingly, it is pre-8 pm. on November 27. sumed that perhaps one in every
For causing obstruction in the five hundred "owes allegiance to southern fairway of the harbour, the Kuomintang." We are not two masters of cargo boats were concerned about allegiance. Our each fined $10 at the Marine point, based on the ratio quoted, Court this morning.
has a vote. And the funny part about it all is that the proportion is much higher overseas (for in- stance, in the United States) and
Dolly: "No; I let him hold the
plications of the term, Art was best defined as translating into. physical or tabloid form the in- "George," said old Angus Mac- ward spiritual realities of life. Tavish, to the ancient man of all Proceeding to further analyse work on the farm, "ye hae served
Mr. Art,
Коор said thatus verra faithfully these thirty a man might be an experienced years, an' frae now on we will re- poet or musician, and confess to gard ye as a member of th' fami
Barber (testing the razor): "Do I hurt you, sir?"
Victim: "No: not so badly as the last man who had me in his chair."
Barber. (highly gratified):
Victim: "The dentist.'
is that only one in five hundred S. C. Feltham, of the P.W.D., tatal inability to paint a good pic. y. As such, ye'll receive no more"
was fined $10 by Major C. Willson, ture: Yet, the same artistic tem-wages," O.B.E., for driving round theperament was present in both the Dairy Farm bend at the foot of poet or musician as in the paint- Glenealy at 25 miles per hour at er, but expressed in different
forms. 10 a.m., on October 29. much lower in Kwangtung, the
Grotesque Combinations! province where Nationalism
The lecturer said that educa- Arriving from Bangkok and tion quickened the artistic in- originated, excepting in the larger Swatow with 22 passengers oclination of the young, but he "Ah! who was that, pray?" cities. More peculiar still is that board, the 8.3. "Kiangau" report sounded a note of warning against ed the death of a male passenger throughout the interior of Kwang-who committed suicide by jump introducing the jarring note inte tung there are many semi-official ing overboard.
a precocious mind which had al- His body had
ready possessed its own idea of "I am going to give you an im- institutions using the terms "kus not been recovered.
what was harmonious and artis-portant part in my next play, * min" (ie., national) but caring The Indian driver of motor car tic. In this connection he con- said the manager to the super little for the Kuomintang. Such a No. 253 was this morning fined demned the modern school of with the large hands. state of affairs can neither be $10 by Major C. Willson, O.B.E., painting which applied the name "So?" said the ambitious assist. Hong Kong. Tuesday, Nor. 13, 1928. satisfactory nor likely to bring road Central at (1125 p.m., on
for careless driving in Des Voeux- of Art to certain grotesque com ant. "A leading part?".
binations of colours which some "Exactly. I want you to sit satisfaction.
out in the audience and start the argument October 3. Mr. Brooks of the called "Cubist."."
dodged across the road and then
LONGHURST.-On Nov., 7, 1928, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, Peggy Whitlock, the dearly loved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Longhurst, aged one year and six months,
"IN NAME ONLY"
One
against this contention, however, Fire Brigade said the defendant civilisation is judged from its
Mr. Koop then showed how applause."
..
is that the people are ruled by the back again in front of a tramcar Art by alluding to the high stand- Figuras, not necessarily con- Government, local, provincial or and finally drove on the wrong contributions to sculpture, pot school for the third time was A little girl on arriving late at ard of the ancient Greeks whose clusive, are now available to sup-national; the Government is sub-side of the road.
tery, poetry and music, etc., made scolded by her teacher and told to port a contention which we have servient to the Party; and, there-
Mr. W. V. Robson, Chief En-life in every department beauti-write a composition on "Punc made consistently, and which we fore, the people are guided by and gineer of the s. "Puriri" re Grecian sculpture are found the ter of an hour she produced the ful. In the best examples of tuality." After a strenuous quar- have made with good intention in close contact with the Party. ported to the police that some and without cant. The National- It is not guidance that is so tiime between 10.30 a.m., on Satur- embodiment of all that was following; "Punctuality is know, ist Party of China, also known as much desired. Contact is essen-day, and 6 am., yesterday, some beautiful and ideal, and for that ing where to make stops."
one entered the stokehold and matter, unattainable, the Kuomintang, claims to be re- tial. Such entails responsibilities atole 12 sets of pulley blocks needed Art for their expression, to a prospective buyer-a lady
The highest spiritual values An agent was offering a house presentative of the four hundred and duties, for example, of each with 50 feet of chain attache and it was, Art utilised to ex- but the price was extortionate,, millions in China. The National obedience. "Something must, howed and four coal shovels. The
lonese get about to build their own "But look at the front rooms, Government has decided to re-ever, be given in return the stolen property was valued at press the beautiful when the Cey- and the lady protested.
$820,
Churches combining the best that madame," replied the agent, em tain the title of "Republic of right to vote, which is now a pri-
Songs popular during the Great was in their art and he viewed phatically. They face the main China," but, as the United Press vilege and not a birthright, and
this as War were lustily sung at Volun which could be applied to the of people always passing. Have a commendable practice roads, with motors, and hundreds one in five hun says, "this is merely an euphon- extending only to
teer Headquarters last. night ism
We recall that when dred. An annual session of the when the Ex-Active Service Men's Christian Chinese Church out you thought what an advantage that will be, madame, when you Bugene Chen was wont to be Kuomintang is held to elect the Association held their annual here.
The Temple of Heaven at Pe are ill for three or four months
bombastic about the mandate he various bodies, one of which is the Armistice Day dinner. There was king had something definite tot tim
a large attendance, including and his colleagues held from the Central Executive Committee. many at present in the Fighting offer along those lines, in its em masses, we pointed out that the The Central Executive Com Services. The Band of the 2nd bodiment of the beautiful sug Nationalist Party was a political mittee, in turn, ordains what shall Batt. King's Own Scottish Border gested by its spaciousness and era was in attendance. After the simplicity of outline. It was apt organisation with, comparatively, constitute the Government and Silent Toast, the "Last Post" to call it a "home canonised," as a very small membership, and was appoints the officials to take part and the "Reveille" were sounded. one writer had done, under the domination of a few. in the Government. If there
any,
The Chinese charged with have ing been concerned in the recent piracy on board the Butterfield and Swires." "Anking""" was
China is ruled by a Party auto- were a universal" vote, as exists Dr. David Yul, National Gen-Passengers departed on the again before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at eral Secretary of the V.M.C.A President McKinley" from Hong the Central Magistracy, this morn cracy," the United Press adds, in some other parts of the world, will be the speaker at a special Kong to Seattle via ports to-day ing, when on the application of We are not prepared to go so far those elected, would certainly be membership meeting of the included: Mr. H. A. Schoenen, Detective Inspector Lane an- as that; but we do conscientiously representative. The Government Young Women's Christian Asso-president of the American Gin- other week's formal remand was business trip to given until November 19. Inspec- that if the National Govern, thus vested could claim to speak ciation to-morrow, at 3 pm, at Shanghai, Mr. W.-R. Farmer, tor Laurie reported that two B. GS. ment seriously intends to do the for the people. But we have the main feature of the local pro manager of the Victoria Hotel in ships were due to arrive on the bidding of the people, much more had authoritative communications gramme for the World's Week of Shameen, Canton, travelling to 22nd and 23rd on which two off- Prayer which is observed annually Shanghai; Dr. Korff, a partner of cers who were on the "Anking" will have to be thr from Nanking itself to the effect the Messra, Melchers and Co local during the piracy were now serv open to common vote than that those in office now are to dle the National Christian Asso-agents for the N. D..L., on a busting. Thede officers would be able there is tries Since Dr. Yul will speak ness trip to Shanghai, and Dr. P. to come to Court on the 23rd, and In English, friends as well as on Bruggencato, a Dutch scient from the 29th onward the police members of the AW.CIA, are corlat from Batavia, Java, returning would be able to proceed with the
Ito the Netherlands on furlough..... case. us soonally invited to attend
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