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There is ample China's New evidence in the Year Chinese shops of
the hear
ACER
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STATEMENTS BY FOREIGN OFFICES OUTSTANDING ISSUES
Tokyo, Yesterday. Speaking in his capacity gas
lar, has been made by His Excel- they meet with lency Sir Cecil Clementi, in ap- dastardly twork, pointing Dr Two to one of the new Unofficial seats on the Legis- lative Council. This appointment, In a sense, places the coping stone on the fire work of the past eighteen months or so in reproach of Chinese New Year. establishing cordial relations he- Every day, sees the Chinese silk tween Hong Kong and Canton and and cloth shops, thronged, whilst Foreign Minister, Baron anaia in demobilising simultaneously the owners of streets stalls in the announced that the Japanese the barriers of distrust and of vicinity of Bonham Strand are Cabinet conference on the Clan- bitterness raised in the recent doing a roaring trade. Prices past by the Communist enemica here are generally about thirty had reached an agreement, of ese-Japanese tariff negotiations of law and order of civilisation per cent. cheaper than in Canton which the draft text for signa- in any form anywhere,
itself. During the past week ture was expected shortly, there has been an influx of mary grad To estimate the chants from Canton not only buy- The Chinese Foreign Office
Nanking, Yesterday, A Real
worth of the reing for Chinese New Year needs spokesman, Interviewed, said he Fraternal habilitation of but adjusting accounts with their was hesitant to commit himself to Feeling friendship between creditors or debtors as the case optimistic remarks regarding the
Hong . Kong and may be, so as to start the New Canton, one has only to pay a Year with a clean sheet and coming visit of Mr. Yoshizawa
(the Japanese Minister). personal visit to the latter city good "josh
Encouraging Gesture
and compare public feeling with
The Japanese, Minister's Tokyo", that existing just three, years
Only a small ago. The Britonto-day, as în
The Floating percentage
of statement he considered as "seem- University the pre-atrike days, is Canton's
ingly an encouraging gesture by the public has "big brother” allies in trade na
come into direct Japan, and went on to say he in the Great War. A visitor from contact here with the party of was happy to hear that Mr. this Colony can walk through American students on the Float Yoshizawa in his visit would enter miles and miles of Canton's ing University. But the writer into negotiations for the settle- streets and alleyways, visit the deponeth that they are a splendid ment of pending Sino-Japanese large manufacturers of black-set of fellows and gentlewomen issues; but recalling that some wood furniture, silks, em- one of the finest batches of believed the purpose of Mr. broideries, china ware, fans, and globe-trotters that the Colony has Kada's mission to Nanking was to so forth, and he will feel that he seen from the United States. tide over the Coronation crisis, he said the National Government is being made welcome. Not a They are practising as well as un- scintilla of estrangement re ostentatiously preaching the cult officials were wondering if the mains. All that the great Chinese of Education out to know at purpose of Mr. Yoshizawa's mis- manufacturers in Canton desire first hand all that is to be learned ston was to tide over the opening
Diet session on Jan. 12. is the peaceful development of about the various foreign coun-
The National Government ain- their own city and province, and tries and Colonies they visit. One
a settlement of the steady expansion of their own and all they have been enchanted cerely desired particular trade with Britons in with Hong Kong. They number pending issues with Japan, and Hong Kong and other portions of in their gathering several pros- sincerity by the Japanese Gov- the British Empire. The last few pective journalists, whose study rnment would undoubtedly bring years have been lean ones indeed, is in charge of a lady, who is res-about the desired settlement.
Reuter, and they will to-day welcome any-ponsible for a notice on the black-
[A later cable appears on page thing that will help to ensure a board exhorting students to read stable regime receiving perman- all the local papers and be pre-
1.] ency and that will encourage pared to report on local happen- prospective customers of, British ings whilst in port. It would be nationality to visit their fac interesting to pop in during their on board the "Hainwah," whilst tories and offices with a view to study hour-9 to 10 am. daily
business. All this, of course, and hear what the budding jour must be placed to the credit of nallats thought of the local res howlers culled from various until they are placed in employ- the public leaders in both centres treatment of the "Heinwah" sources by the office boy. Whe ment again, both they and their who have placed mutual con- disaster or of the "China Mail's" ther these are manufactured or dependants must suffer from the cord in the van of their pro- publication of the life story of the the actual replies handed in by absence of steady, wages being earned. As for the large number gramme and emblazoned fratern notorious Carvalho Yeo. It is a careless or imaginative scholars Overland China Mail. drowned, it may not be possible it. one with the other on the pity that a little round-table chat we do not know; but what does it for the exchange of ideas could matter so long as those in- to trace all their families or, pinnacles of their policy.
not have been arranged between genious and ingenuous transla- even if located, to extend to them
If.. British mer the journalist students and the tions and explanations cause & the hand of the Good Samaritan.
An Open chants and other members of the local Fourth sour face to lose, even for a Even so, there are the Captain
Britons wishing to Estate. Such things will be pos- moment, ita solemnity! and officers, of the ship, besides
further the good sible, of course, when Hong Kong "Ave Domine," we are told, means the regular crew, all of whose families should easily be traced work of concord between Hong can boast of a Press Club, and Immediate succour given. It Kong (and the Empire) and Can- may be suggested that a public ton (and China) there is no "open subscription list should be opened, to converse with the Chinese in sesame" so effective as the ability. headed by the Government of Hong Kong and that one of the the vernacular. In many large Banks should be requested to act manufacturing places in Canton step'in deciding to postpote the Coup de grace. we are told means
the number of Chinese who speak production of "On Approval, Asia Lawn-mower. Fas Hon. Treasurers:
English is steadily increasing: usual during the cold season there "In the United States people are but in many others, again, Eng is a surfeit of travelling com Unmeasured praise
killed by elocution." .: Herplc has been heard of lish is to them an unknown quan panies and artistes visiting the "Tarzan is a short name for the Fishermen every hand of the tity. To such as these, therefore, Colony, and, apart from booking
American flag," he sa
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MORE HOWLERS.
Herewith the latest harvest of
"Lord, I am a bird." "Cum grano galia' is rendered by The A.D.C.Pax in bello" is euphemistically
Although with a corn,
"On Approval" has taken a very wis e
described as "Freedom from stomach-acha
borax."
ultra-violent rays.”
Panel doctors are different from other doctors: they get paid.” The first book in the Bible is
Guinnessea" (Stout fella!) "Acrimony is another name for
marriage.” a tota
magnificent/the British visitor who can con- difficulties at the Theatre Royal, Petroleum is what you cover bravery of the crews of the verse with them in their own their performances would certain- ["floors with." Chinese fishing boats that effect mother tongue is doubly welcome ly have clashed with those of theTo kill a butterfly you pinch its in negotiating business for A.D.C. or vice versa. The public
And, as in the does not want either a feast or a "Doctors now treat patients with mutual profit. In
streets and shops in this Colony, famine of things theatrical or so in Canton, the Chinese may musical, and it will appreciate our easily spot a stranger, but their local Hamlets and Fortins all the the only demeanour becomes immeasur. more when they are ably more cordial when they hear pebbles on the local dramatic the same stranger express him beach. Chinese language. After all, if self, even far from fluently, in the Consuls and Government Cadets a sine qua non,' are required, as to study Chinese and decipher Chinese writing, surely it is not too much to expect that the aver age British assistant in a mercan tile firm should know sufficient of Chinese to dispense with an inter- preter on each and every occasion he engages in a transaction with a Chinese merchant, trader, or office employes. To paraphrase the age-old motto, "Let Glasgow
ed rescues as gallant as any in the annals of shipwrecks. particular the heroes of the fish ing boat who clambered down ropes into a lifeboat, passed ropes round the waists of the survivors, and so transferred them to their junk, merits most laudatory tributes and a tangible expres sion of appreciation of the whole Colony. A few minutes nesita tion would certainly have been Hong Kong, 'Saturday, Jair. 19, 1929. {fatal and there would have been twenty survivors less of the ap- palling calamity to the "Hsin- wah." All honour to such gallant men and women who effected so timely and daring a rescue. They have brought a lustre to their calling that cannot but cast Its halo over their own little fishing hamlet but upon the Colony as a steamer "Hainwah" will form the whole let the Colony, there
STILL WATERS
In due course the "Hsinwah" calamitous disas
Disaster ter to the China Merchants fine
TEACH ME THY WAY
[Edith A. Goodspeed] Teach me, oh Lord, the way. To guide my steps to Thee: That I Thy law obey, And clouds may flee, Leaving a light that gleams And shines that all may see, Guiding their footsteps in the
path
That leads to Thee.
Chevalier J. M. Alves has been
Subject of a Marine Court fore, see to it that, whilst weep flourish by the preaching of the Enquiry. By that time the tense-ing with those who weep, it re- Word," "Let Hong Kong flourish ness of public feeling that ajoiceth with, those who rejoice by the learning of the Chinese re-appointed to the Board of wreck of such magnitude, involv over the successful rescues and, language." That is a door to Education for a further term of ing nearly four hundred lives, is when the time is opportune, see Chinese trade that need not be two years.
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"A parable is a heavenly story. with no earthly meaning."” "The people of Athens didn't be
Heve St. Paul Edinburgh is Hike Athens.”
The papal bull supplies the pope with milk. It is kept in the VRCUUM."
"The great fire did good to Lon- don: It burnt down a lot of dirty streets and eighty-nine churches."
"Quotation means the answer to
division sum.”
A grass-widow in the wife of a
dead vegetarian."
A herbaceous border is a vege
tarian lodger."
possible practically within hail of to it that these heroes go not un-knocked upon so often to op: The name of the South China "A Job's comforter is a thing you
rewarded.
.
when one's knowledge of the ver nacular tongue is practically nil. Dyeing and Weaving Works, Ltd., "In the multi-
has been struck off the register of The average member companies. Two Graceful tude of tributes Gestures to the public
"Act of of the community ek
y work of the
State" may not be, particu- Liu Shu, a foki of the Kwan HomeM. P. Braga and the Hon.
larly interested in the Shing native bank, fa reported to Tao, on the pecasion of their legal aspects of the heavy claim have absconded with $6,000, en- promotion to be members of the for damages brought by the trusted to him to be paid to the Legnitive Council, a most im- owners of the steamer Tree," Cheng On medicine shop. portant factor has not so far but the dismissal of the case
"A fort is a place to put men in,
& fortress to put women in.'
give to babies to soothe them."
"The Salic, Law means that you must take everything (In- cluding these howlers) with a grain of salt.”
our own harbour may have abat- ed, That, however, need not deter the most searching enquiry on several points that need not be unduly emphasised here points that are in certain respecta aimilar to those raised in con- nection with the recent wreck the “Vestris.” In thể case the "Heinwah, of course,
· DIRECTOR OF POSTS International feeling can be excit ed; but until something approach been chronicled or mentioned against Lieut-Commander Hala Alterations to the local regie-
Shanghai, Yesterday. ing a reliable narrative of all the almost casually. The appoint han has been received with very ter of chemists and druggists are It is reliably reported that M. circumstances can be officially ment of Mr.Braga is not alone a great satisfaction. It was inevit notified. The name of Daniel Henri Picard Destalan has re- compiled and a verdict given Sersonal compliment to himself: able that such an action should Wilson" previously appearing signed the position of Co-Director thereon, the public mind will con- it is a graceful gesture to our have been brought. Likewise was should be Donald Wilson and that General of Posta and it is believed tinue to feel considerable disquiet little friend and neighbour, For It inevitable that the defence of Peter S. Wong is added that Mr. Tollefsen (a Norwegian) Nothing can be gained by mere tugal, and her little Colony of should have been that sink theorising or suggesting culpabil Macao Vive la Portugal! No ing of the Irene
has been appointed to the nfire Early this morning a fire vacancy Reuter ity on the part of individuals with one could have been more surpris from th
broke out at No. Soy-street, ocM Destelan joined the Cus only, the scanty versions of a few ed than Mr. Braga himself at the
cupled by the Han Hop Bak Chan thi $1898 He ente Survivors versions that, given high honour conferred upon him
Little "damage, was done, and the
Fostal almost as soon as they were And he may brought safely into Hong Kong, his additional cannot be given the same weight publie cause reason statements and modesty
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