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From a reprint which appeared in our imae of last evening it will have been seen that very wide AML HIS SERVANTS ARE WICKED. IF A RULER BEÀRKEN TO LES
*Diversity of Creatures.”
travagant study in this "D.versity from The Navy to hand :— Tow
The following paragraph. powers have been conferred on Proverbs
Reviewing Mr. Kipling's new of Creatures," he pictures the incidents of the war have more the Committee which has been
Book, "Diversity of Creatures," world of 2065 A.D. when the stirred the imagination of the appointed in the Strait
in the Observer, Mr. Arthur whole universe shall be under the British race than the gallant and Settlements for the control of food.
A year ago to-morrow, M. Wangh.mys:-
dominion of an Aeris! Board of chivalrous conduct of the affce The regulations do not merely Z.imis agreed to the Entente's
The art of Mr Radyard Kipling Contrul chosen for the panish and men of the Middlesex. Rag empower the Committee to make proposal for the dissolution of the can be viewed under, so many ment of rebelliona Stales. enquiries with regard to prices Greek Chamber, and guaranteed different aspects that no single To create
ment, on the occasion of their 8 crowd * bas be- (presumably with a view to the an attitude of benevolent neutral definition could ever hope to sem come an international offence;
transport, the Tyndarema, striking prevention of extortion), but also ity.
marine its effect; but there is a the privacy of the individual may the ship was apparently sinki mine off Cape Agulhas. Wi phrase of that very suggestive act be invaded except under Colonel John Ward, the famo critic,
Dizon Soolt, which heavy penalties; every house bas navvy.M.P., who was in command, dagrios, etc. It is also The opening rase of the dollaria always worth remember ground-circuit of electricity in marshalled his men, did "Birked- laid down that Du person, ou demand to-day was ing when any work of Kits front drive, by which an ad- head drill," and they all coully without the mathority of the 25, 5,15/183, The dosing rate Kipling comes under considera-welcome visitor can be arrested and calmly sang "The Long, Committee, may have in his will be found on Page L. tion, Kipling," mid Dixon before the doors. Everyone sleeps Lone Trail," face to face with possession a greater quantity
Scott,bas always been, as much for eleven board out of the twents death. The behaviour of every of any article than is needed for
as Barrie himself, one of those four, and most people live to be a man on board was worthy of the ordinary use and consumption in A Chinees has been conveyed blessed born innocents who never handred. The civilised world has finest traditions of our Island his household or establishment. to the Government Civil Hospital grow up, who are never quite a combined to suppress anything story. The baroism of the Die- This latter power does not, of suffering from slight injuries home in the world, but who like perty feeling or co-operation; Hords" will become, historio. course, apply to dealers and sustained though being knocked wander through it, like Hawthorne the spirit of the crowd has been Colonel Ward cried to the men 2 manafsotarers, or to home-pro- down by a motor ear,
or Poe, a little alien and elf-like, proved to isene in hate, fear, Be British; and right nobly duced or home-made articles." It
Alice Memorial Hospital.
little envious of the happy blackmail, pablicity, the power was his appeal responded to. is obviously designed to prevent The Hon. Treasurer of the folk in hausen. This of the people. Sa compromise Happily the ship was ultimately persone from making nodaly Alice Memorial and Affilia ed description, of course, is far bas been established, by which towed safely to port, but the large purchases of commodities Hospitals bege to acknowledge from representing the of which, owing to the war con- with thanks the following dous plete Kipling or, indeed, did sacred independence of the in- Middlesex Regiment has added com-the anion of States defende the magnificent discipline of the dition, there may possibly be a lion to the Funds of the Hospitals: the critic himself imagine dividual. shortage in the near fatare.-Chai· U Tin, $100
for a moment that it did; bar it
new laurels to the glorious record which Viswed generally, the regulations
This, of ecurse, is the region of of the British Army. does undoubtedly eapply an in with are similst those which were
Too Many Passengers. Before the Marine Magistrate, valuable connecting link
extravaganza. But the wise jaater to enforced at Home in the early Commander C. W. Beckwith, establish communications between the more directly hamon aspect birthday, the Royal Academy did never jeste without a purpose, and Though it is nesting its 150th to-day charged with carrying an antagonistic sides of Mr. Kipling the imagination in the wonder Fleet Street antil some 45 years excess of passengers on board bis artistic temperament. Most launch. A fine of $100 was readers, it is safe to say, must have "Swept and Garnished." This is day, though an extra forenoon in fully vivid little story called azo and then only set aside ans imposed...
been struck by the apparent in-
an allegory of the German nation- also granted now. Oca could congruity. On the one hand you oharacter. Frau Ebermann draw up a remarkable list of men A married woman living at have, as it were, a trained citizen, had been trained from infancy in of letters who have written about have been in the habit of import Kowloon City has reported to the inspired by a devoted reverence the Tenton school of machine the Royal, Academy. It would ing from Europe and America. Police that on the evening of the for order-the disciple of Mao-like orderliness, and when he begin with Dr. Johnson, whose That is probably due to a variety 19th, nine men entered her dwell andrews'e hymnology, in loyal found one day that she had association with the body, like that of causes in part, perhaps, to ing, and, after telling her not to submission to the foresight displayed by local make a noise, they ransacked the Law, Order, Daly and Re-developed a fever, she set every of Oliver Goldsmith, was due to houses in accumulating stooks. place. Someone blew a police straint, Obedience, Discipline.
thing in order in her room, 'his intimate friendship with Sir. However, the time may come whistle and the men made off, but Every man, we are reminded, arranged everything for her Joebus Reynolds and others of its when it will be desirable that they took with them an earthen-mast fit into the scheme of thing to recover. She had reckoned, it already mentioned, there can be own comfort, and went to bed founders. Off-hand, besides those some larger measure of control ware money box containing $10 like a nut in machinery, and just a trae, with every material con recalled Hasliti, Charles Lamb, than an present exists will need in Hongkong money.
as you are getting this idea drum:tingsoor; bat she forgot that Leigh Hant, Thackeray, Dickens, to be applied here. Conditions in
med into the brain, your moralist there is a spiritual realm beyond Waite-Danton-these, of course, the Straits Settlements are not A Chinese complainant, quite dissimilar to those obtaining in youth, told Mr. Dyer Ball, at the playing a jealous solicitude for rose to her brain, she found her like Ruskin, P. G. Hamerion, seems to go off at a tangent, die the material. And when the fever in addition to the professed hands Hongkong, and for that reason it Police Court this morning, that he the rights of the individual, a is to be hoped that the authorities had just returned from Americs. solicitude which is easily stirred room full of spirit-children, the W. E Henley, G. A. Sals, R. A. here will keep a keen eye on the When called, he stepped smartly to rebellion, if there is any sigo infants, the deserted, and the This leaves cat critics, til ghosts of wronged and massacred Stevenson, and a host of others. into the box and prepared to of tyranny or injustice. So you fatherless, who came to demand happily alive, and some of them swear in Scottish fashion. When have in the same planes passion home where no home was. In at work to-day, of whom Sir Haury asked his asme, he exquired for discipline eat an eatbasism rain she protested in her delirium Lacy is doubtlese recognised, an whether his Chinese or foreign for individuality, and when you that the war was going very well, the doyen. Not before time have several name was wanted. He was sp- look about for some connecting that everything was in order, members of the British aristo-pearing againn a man of the coolie principle to unite these qualities and that the children must gŝ cracy, bearing high-sconding class, charging him with you will hardly find a better one
Aresso, victim of a destructive German titles, thought fit to stealing $4.60 from his pocket than Dixon Scott's. For the factay at once and not dare to earthquake, is ancient Arretium. change them to appellatione more at Wing Lok Street, It was is that Mr. Kipling has never mire and blood.
strain her polished for with the capital of Tasonry's most in accordance with British ideas alleged that after defendant bad quite grown up, in the sense that
There was fertile provinos, and has played a and tastes. The British have good picked his pocket, ha paseed the the plump, sleek stockbroker has perative than machinery; and, It became subject to Florence something to be faced more im- notable part in Italian history.. grounde for thoroughly detesting pares to another man. Complain grown up, or the oleaginous when help arrived. Frau Eber-after the Battle of Oampaldino, anything German, and hardly antcaught hold of him, and defend potentate, or the Government mann was found upon her knees, in which Dante fought For anything could be more objection. ant endeavoured to assalt him. official with his brain full of babbling incoherently of a world cities of the same sise have pro- able to them than that certain mem- Assistance was rendered by a figures. He is always a The complacency of the German official mind with reference to bera of the Royal Family should Sergeant. Defendans denied the alien, a little auspicions of ag unrealised.
duced so many grest sons. Ainong peice has of late been frequently reflected in the newspapers of the continue to be known by titles, obarge, but His Worship sent prosperity. And with a boy's The wretched German Fran, celebrated men born here, are Fatherland and in the speeches of some servile underling of his always incongruous, but which him to prison for three months' clear-eyed independence he wants in short, had yet to learn that man Kardenas, the famous patron of saintly majesty, the Kaiser, such as Herr von Bethmann Hollweg, are now absolutely detestable. It hard labour.
every man to goow to bie own must win his place in his environ- literature during the Angustsa the Imperial Chancellor, or Count Hertling, the Bavarian Premier, is, of course, not the fault bat
proper stature, to realise the ment before he can be counted age: Petrarch; the four Aretinos; who is regarded sa the Chancellor's probable sucosssor should Herr rather the misfortune of those
capacities of his own soul, before worthy to live at all; and the rest Ceaalpino, the botanist; Redi Bothmann Hollweg, as was the case recently, find himself in such whose titles refer to "Sableswig-
be allows anyone else to decide of the stories in this brilliantly the physician; Pope Jalise It a tight corner with the members of the Reichstag that he will deem Holstein," (which originally was
for him what is the particular diverse collection may be regard the notorious Marshal D'Aucre: it adviesble to depart into the shades of retirement. To all appear doubtless a Danish title), "Batten-
niche in the machinery of life
(Foring Biga-posts to and Vasari, author of "Lives of anoe, there is no country in the world, unless it be Austria, where berg, “Teck" and other Ger-
into which he is designed by different paths by which the soul the Painter." peace is more spoken of than in Germany and where all sorts of man places; but the least they
Nature to fit. So individuality can work out its own salvation.j fanciful schemes are put forward so being a likely basia for the much could do is what they have now
The fact that the War Council desired creation of hostilities. All of which proven that the aggres dous, namely, reject the Teutonic
rust come first, and the discipline There is a purely hamaroga of order afterwards,
story of 6 magoste-ridden | has noted through the Jocker sive Bun has realised that he has had more than enough of war and in favour of purely British
Six licensees were prosecuted It has taken a good many worde village which was reduced to Club in easpending all race met that he will have piled up a mass of debt for which generations of names. No doubt; those Germane in far-distant years will curse him heartily. Therefore the members of the British aria-at Royton, England, a few weeks (acfortunately) to set out this reason by being plunged, to the iage may enrprise those who Bun of to-day does not like his position at present, nor the protocracy bearing Teutonic titles for breaches of the Central theory of Mr. Kipling's attitude neck in ridicule. There is the not realise the supreme authority bable opinion that may be held of him in the fature. In congewers and are just as loyal to the Control Board's Order. There to life, but it is a theory which tale of a preposterously self of that institution in all matters
were four cases of treating and may, perhaps, be of some help to satisfied subaltern, whose only connected with the Tarf. With quence he talke of peace, not, however, in terms of moderation that British cause as any other mem two of selling for "off" consump experimental readers of bis last possible discipline depended out a shred of legal authority, the would become one who has fallen so low in the estimation of the ber of the aristocracy. That has tion during prohibition hours. new volume of stories. This new upon bis own realisation of bis Jockey Club grants and controls world-and who, despite his colossal egotism, cannot possibly now never been doubted: The only One case was dismissed, and in volume, let it be said at once, is still-backed absurdity. There all licenses to trainers" sad abské himself free of the knowledge that he is certain to meet with objection lay in their German- the other the licensees were ford representative of bis many-sided are the lovers, drifted apart, who jockeys, arranges all race-ineet- a defeat the more crushing the longer it is delayed-but sounding names, which to-day sums ranging from 20a. to £5, genius in its most brilliant are yet so Decessary to oninge and senda ita stewarde to he talks of peace as though he, like Alexander of old, had nothing more than at any other time could and members of the public can- fecundity. The variety of themes, another that the machinery of run them, and sets as a tribunal, else to do but to sigh for fresh worlds to conquer.
not possibly be pleasing to These ref-otione have occurred. to na in copequence of reading British ears. Those who have
earned in the offences were fined the wealth of obaracter, the their very vices must be employed civil and criminal, in all the from 10 to 40%.
penetrating sab:lety of hia to bring them back into one affaire of horse racing. From its an article contained in the Bavarian Stante Zeitung, ■ "semi-official" obapged their names will have journal, the owner of which is no other than Count Bertling. the estisfaction of knowing that
In one case a man was fined method, the haunting air of other's arms. There are, again, decisions there is no appeal. In the course of the statement, which, of course, is on peace, they are now considered to be of for treating his wife and the wife suggestion with which the thing the two victims of a desperate
suddenly for consuming liquor she bad not said
melts sud drag, who meet by chance, and Is it not likely, saka a corres the Count, or someone writing on his behalf, is good enough to say the genuine stcok of British paid for, Mr. W. Lees, who de-merges into the thing merely help one another to overcome pondent to the Daily Chromida, how German officials to-day view pesce with the deliberate and aristocracy, and that their popul- fended in this case, declared tha: adumbrated and left in a state of temptation and then having risen that the "Iry" Bridge-lane is calcalated intention, we fancy, of deceiving their own much-deladed arity will increase in consequence, regulation which prevented a suspensior; above all, the superior to the fate that simply s modernised format: countrymen. The writer rises to the cocation gaits ably, and ex for the British, as a whole, are man from treating his own wife tremendous seat of life and the in- threatened them, part on
the" Ave"? Such a supposition presses his views in the style of a conqueror. It will not be necas inveterately conservative in mat-
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917.
GERMANY AND peace' temS.
situation.
British or German Titles?
Three-Card Trick.
"MONSTROUS."
Man Fined for Treating His Wife.
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sary, he concedes, for Germany to demand a casts indemnity. With ters of this sort, and can never be as beard. It was the sort of domitable sense of youthfal vigour threshold of their friendship, would be borne out by the fact that opinion the Allies will be in hearty agreement, for if there in reconciled to such as anomaly as thing to bring the law into em-end hope which inspire every having no further need of that in Stow's map of London any talk during the coming peace conferences of sa indemnity's British institutions or British tempt: Treating, he argued, was page all these wa m and radiant beneficent companionship. And Ave Maria-lane is given as Iry. being provided, it will be as to bow defeated Germany, with her aristocrats hiding their real paying for something out of one's qualities keep the reader in close yet once more, there is the lane. In mediaval limes, chapels- pocket for the benefit of someone, and esger relationship with every ineri able pair who meet by fores were frequently built on or near empty ecf re and her bankrupt fiances, is likely to be able to identity under foreign and espec. else. A woman had no separate fresh turn of the author's fancy, of circumstance, the playthings bridges in order that pilgrime raise ope. The writer in the Staats Zeitung, however, does not think ially German-sounding names, in that way. He knows better what his fellow euntrymen want to
estate in her baebind's house, There is, perhaps, no living writer (as it seems) of chance, and sup-and wayfarers who passed to and read. Be therefore tells them' that instead of the money indemnity,
and everything was his. As the who establishes and preserves so plement the inadequacies of two for might pray therein. Bache which he thus acknowledges is not likely to be forthcoming from
order cow was, if a man gave his keep s personal tie between characters by the alternative chapels were in many cases the enemy, the Germans will be kind enough to sco-pt a supply of
wife sixpence before leaving home reader and writer.
qualities without which neither dedicated to the Virgin Mother of "needed raw materials at a low price, or perhaps free." The writer and when he saw the constable for her own refreshments whilet must first
"The other man held the bank with her, so that she could pay Mu, auga M Kipling, in effect, could be complete cor at ease. So God. Two that occur to one are reiterated the Hans' modest and pathetic wish for the return of their he ran away and left me," esid
resiive himself, and by slow degrees and with agony the St. Mary's Bridge, Shaffald, colonies and of their ships; slso for an agreement by which German Chinese at the Police Court: this an offence. It was monstrous,
they were out together, that was then fit his capacity into the of mind, hardly realising his own and Our Lady Chapel on the trade will be permitted on farmer terme in the old markets. The morning when charged with
scheme of existenas, But he must metamorphosis, man works out Bridge at Leicester, surrender of the German colonies and whips, the writer gracefully gambling, before Mr. A. Dyer one of the cases, and that the mastery of him:
A polios miser, who proved never let the scheme get the his true relation to his world. explains, would be considered by Germany as equivalent to Bali. Acting-Inspentor Davitt company in the smoke room of the billions of indemnity." No doubt it would, bat is it likely that the aid the men were playing the hotel Allies, with Germany in her present position and as she will be three-card trick. When defendant possibility of police spring, and discussing the when peace terms are seriously discussed, will enter upon any such was brought to the Police Station, one man sitting by bim declared project ? The moner the better will it be for Germany and for the he had some money in his boots that he could always tell dateo- German officials to intimate frankly, the true state of affaire and and about sixty, contain his tives as they shifted their eyes to prepare themselves for the truth that" Germany's immediate, mouth. A fine of $5 was imposed, about like ferrata,—Laughter.) fatore is a matter for the Allies to decide.
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Whatsover, for any cause, Brekath to take or give Power above or beyond the i
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Sadler it not to live! Holy State or Holy Kog
Or Holy People'a Wills,
Yet we were what we were,
And, fashionel so,
It plasser us to stare. At the far show
Looking before and after, sontea travailing with the bitter, travail, viniest
of the son, we may arrive at last boismar at soms faint shadow of our stolens
best." Bat
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