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STILL WATERS
Blazer
As they moved on, the, pries! walked three extra long paces, bent acrobatically down on cross- ed legs, leaned his body forward and bent down to the ground, his nose touching the horizontally placed symbol of the burning joss-stick. Then he would rise take other three stops, chanting the whole time amid the rapping of the1gong and the twinkling of the bell, and rehearse the whole affair "over again. "And so the party moved further along Wel lington Street, with a great crowd encircling them. Several Chinese gave ten cents to one of the priest's assistants, which seemed very acceptable!
News in Brief
Dr. Willians Thomas Rush, Diploma of the College of Phyiclans and Surgeons of Alberta, Canada, has been included in the list of medical practitioners in the Colony.
Mr. T. C. Wong B.Sc. (Eng.) Architect of Denison, Ram & Gibbs,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1930.
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WOLVES PROWL OVER
EUROPE
SIGNS OF HARD WINTER.
[By Geoffrey Pinnock]
[The wolves have crussed their For us in Britain it is difßeult to western frontier-the almost cer- realise the seriousness of the wolf tain presage of another sovare.menace existing every winter winter on the Continent. In throughout the greater part of Serbia, it is reported, the pen- Europe: Four centuries have sants are holding drives against passed since the last wolf disappear- the packs.]
ed from these islands, after pro- digious destructive efforts carried on almost ceaselessly from Saxon times. But Frenchmen of the
destruction of wolves. Auvergne still pay taxes for the
NORMALLY
the wall-frontier is an indeterminate line that can be drawn roughly from Helsingfors to Baske, and thence, to the mid- point of the Pyrenees. West of that line the grim phrase, “wolf- winter," common enough in Central Europe and the Balkans, has only a metaphorical meaning. East of it la the added terror of literal The hungering wolf is as merciless as the cold which drives
truth.
him forth.
Ardennes,
Snarling Shadows
un-
To-day mast of Europe east af the line is harbouring larger, stronger, and forcer wolf packs than have been known for half a century. During the four years that the nations were fighting each other, and during the busy, settled following years, men had Within the past five years' wolves
no time to attend to the wolf enemy. have; devoured children in In the forests of chaotic Russia the Roumania, Poland, and remote dis-wolves have multiplied thirty-fold, tricts of Jugoslavia. In 1925, in mated, bred, and grown, to sweep Has been elected an Associate MemRussia, they accounted for 10,000
down upon a dozen nations, ber of the Institution Structural ng pair, slinking through the horses and 50,000 cowa... A. year
Last winter was one of the moat Engineers . (A.M.I. Struct. E.)
severa experienced on the Continent London.
for thirty years. As the snows drova, westwards from the Urals and the Caucasus the wolf packa fad ahead. In Poland wolves lurking near a village attacked a group of trading peasants and kill- ed four of them within sight. of their cottage doors. And while the Simplon-Orient express lay snowed up in Macedonia, lean, grey snarling shadows slunk to and fro not fifty yards from the crippled. train.
In Slovenia the wolf menaca haa become
a perl, and for the last two years intensive measures have
penetrated Northern France and reached Boulogne, to throw back their heads and howl almost within sight of the coast of Kent.
The following tender 'has been accepted by the Government of Hong Kong:-Messra. Dodwell & Co., Ltd, cleaning and repairing. typewriters
Government westward from in mil offices at $3 per machine per annum.
The two Chinese charged with
two turkeys intended for the being pirate agents made a third
appearance before Mr. A. W. G. H banquet. He arrested" the tur Grantham at the Central Magis keys also and took them to the tracy yesterday afternoon, when after further evidence was taken, Central Police's
Station' to be prohis Worship gave another adjourn- duced as evidence before the mont. Court the following morning.
The removal of all graves, within When the Naval cook (six months from date, In those In
went to the market portions of section A and trenches in Ho Mun Tin Cemetery in which Custody for the turkeys, he bodles were buried during the years was told that the 1822 and 1923 has been ordered. This order is made for the purpoan Police had them. It was now only of the execution of a public work a few hours before dinner and namely the proper laying out of poor cookie had nothing to cook! such area for the purpose of burial He appealed to a high officer who therein of Chinese dend. got into touch with the Police
and explained the awkward post.
tion unless the turkeys were re- SUBMARINES TO FLY? leased. By order of the Superin-
tendent on duty, the turkeys were Quaint Prediction by Sir handed over, and the dinner partý
J. F. Flannery ·
was a success:
#...
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pro-
Now, once more, they are fleeing the advance of winter: They have been seen in Alsace, in the Auvergne, and as far west as Pampelung, in Spain all within the past few weeks,
WEI-HAI-WEI
Agreement for Its Retrocession?
cross
been taken to combat It. Patrols of three or four good shots, armed with magazina rifles, station them- selves on clear nights near the light plank footbridges spanning the Nanking, Yesterday. forest, streams, which the wolves * Dr. C. T. Wang Informed Press must on their marauding men this morning that the draft | forays. The patrol crouches among agreement regarding the Shang- the dark firs. There is an hour or hat Provisional Court has receiv so of intense waiting, and then the ad the approval of the Governight padding and rustle of an ap ments concerned, and the formal proaching pack. There are two signing will take place on Febra volleys when the wolves are thickest on the plank bridge, and two moré ary 17 in Nanking...
Dr. Wang also stated that hein quick succession as the ambush- and Siri Miles Lampson haded bhasta scatter, howling Tear-and the retrocession of Wel-hai-wel. has been good, Imp bodies in the reached agreement::regarding defiance, lexying, if the shooting
The draft agreement has been initialled.
Upon approval by the British Government, the agreement will be signed. Dr. Wang declared that the retrocession of Wel-hal- wei will be the first step towards, the retrocesalon of all leased ter ritories held by foreigners In China-Router.
Sir M. Lampson
Hankow, Yesterday. Sir Miles Lampson arrived this afternoon by 'plane to attend a meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce this evening. Reater.
snow.
.1
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall,” February 16, 1920-1
To-day's 'dellar is worth 6-7%d. Mr. Johnson bas 'accomplished his perial
voyage ratcccafully despite the Hong Kong Government and foggy weather. This was made known by a cable received by Commodore Louis D. Beaumont, president of the Commission · organising the first Aerial Derby around the world, which reads as fol lows: "Hong Kong to Macao Curtiss Seagull flying. boat in 23 vla minutes. Very Foggy. First flying boat to fly in China--Robert Johnson."
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MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
An Ancient Ceremonial: Unusual Episcopal Experiences: Governor Of Bengal: Death Of The Pope's
Brother: Bound For Jericho
Bome
...
However, Inspector
Rugby, Yesterday, Speaking at the annual dinner Evidence Fowler was in the of the Society of Consulting Entent difficult position of Marine Engineers, Sir J. Fortescue
prosecuting the Flannery, past president, market fokis without evidence, phesised that if submarines were which had been eaten, and no they would combine the qualities retained the day would come when doubt enjoyed. The position was both of the submarine and the The meeting of explained to Mr. Granthant. The aeroplane. If, however, their A Distinctive the Council of Magistrate was sympathetic, but abolition was
a step to lasting peace it would be welcomed Bri- British the Hong Kong "law was law The Inspector tish Wireless Service. Football Asso decided to take a chance of the ciation on Tuesday was charac market fokis pleading "guilty,” terised by some remarks made in which case it would not be which were not at all friendly or necessary to produce the evidence. sporting. In the opinion of many, Ignorant of what had happened Mr. A. V. Gösano's request for a over night, the market fokls, may distinctive blazer was justifiable. be from past experience, decided His record is one to be envied. to admit the charge and thus get Not only in Hong Kong but in all a light penalty. They were fined other Eastern ports, we think $25 each and executed the Cutting the Baddeley Cake very few footballers can claim to Turkey Trot in a very graceful THE Baddeley Cake was cut at have played in Interport matches manner!
Drury Lane on Twelfth Night, for five consecutive years. His
The other day a queer and an ancient ceremonial, with request, therefore, as the Chair
Street sight was witnessed in which not even the war years in- Scenes Wellington Street by terfered, was duly observed.
the usual Chinese. It has been cynically declared see the rhyme' or reason of any crowd. Three Chinese men, who that no investment in theatrical a month which covered the period of objection, The sooner some appeared to be from the north, publicity has brought a
The two are lifelong friends, and both are natives of Jersey. Yet Mr. people understand that a body of probably Shanghal, were seen reward than the "100 in the morning, on the receipt of a warn
He describes how, on a Sunday Hicks, by some strange chance, has amateur sportsmen who play the walking and chanting In the Three per Conta which the ing, he had to dash round in purple game for the game's sake cannot
Cassock
jock getting storm cones holated, be controlled and governed by elderly, with moustaches and pig. Baddeley left for the purchase of safety of Government House
actor Robert making a trip across the harbour to The Pope's Bereavement Two of them, rather eighteenth-century
the l
lighthouse, and attending to the
COUNT Ferme Rattl, who has died. Prussian methods, the better it tails curled on their heads, were cake and a few glasses of wine ibrary in the hurriesine, just as he was the elder, brother of
Incidentally the Bishop lost ha
suddenly - irian hotel in Rome, will be for football in general. And to remind a player of clothed f dark blue, whilst the for the Drury Lane company to had Completed a catalogue, which and it was rumoured, that his Hallness
The priest, was consume on Twelfth Night. The homeone to tackle! third, who was the priest, was attired in a light blue gown, with donor's object was, of course a small glass box. Enclosed in the purely one of good-fellowship: box, there was an idol. The box but it is a fact that since his was thrust over his shoulders and death in 1704 116
year basend back, from which hung two black without extensive tion of his cord tassels. In his
the name.
man (Mr. R. Hall) pointed out, was a modest one; and we cannot
good time he had had in Shang that and the souvenir he had re ceived, was, to say the least, childish.
street.
Turkeys party Arrested Officers
French
Naval to
dinner. which
priest carried
the cruiser
a metal vase, in which
were invited, nimöst
on Thurs
a Irrga, joss-stick, exposed to the air.
The
responsible for Gong and
two
Belle
richer
unusual episcopat experiences | Visitors to America during the recent hurricane in the West Indies.
In addition to the anxiety caused by the destruction of church pro- perty he has had the responsibility, as he explains in s letter to a friend, of being acting Harbour-master for
the hurricane..
had been waiting forty.
Sir
Stanley
AMERICA is attracting London's
eminent theatrical folk. Mr. Seymour Hicks is sailing for New York in the Olympic, mainly in con nection with film, business, but hopes to be back by the end of February, Lonsdale follows, and will go to If not Booster. Mr. Frederick California, in addition to spending
about ten days at Palm Beach,
never yet appeared in one of Mr. Lonsdale's plays.
wer to loave
Vatican in order to attend his funeral
the precincts of the
The Count spoke English fairly well, and some fifteen years ago ho berhad # ylila at Bordighers, where he was much liked by the large Bri
Sir Stanley Jackion LIEUT-COLONEL
Jackson, the Governor of Bengal, has obtained "permission
His hobby in those days. Was call home on leave inayanthard he would spend the whole
ing boats, at which he was an adept, will probably spend the greater part oraising along the coast, quite alone; of the summer in England. He could reigns at Drury As a late All England cricketer with great skill, and some o
...also, carve, model ships:
of these Sir Augustus and for many years captain of York used to be sold for local charities. nx Collins the in India, must be looking forward hop on to Jericho
shire, SL Stanley, after three years
the oppor
ded the
this function with keen anticipation to
Income of unity offered by a summer of fcom/PROFESSOR Garstang,
theatrical paratire idiomus
watch!
*serious cricket
rice
Swhich bat
date of his
stlif l-am- praparing to
aked & kourty welcams on
devute all inga saida Volopkas
the mince pin
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who
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