LEAVING LONDON,
A NEW ZEALANDER'S THOUGHTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
GERMAN SECRET.
SCHEME SPOILT BY RED TAPE.
"I think the Gormans lost the war in the air. Fokker., the deadly German maker, hae told Mr. W. G. Shepherd in an interview at Amsterdam.
A SOVIET SCHEME,
ORGANIZATION BY
COUNTIES AT HOME.
The Daily Herald published recently in a prominent position an article by Mr. W. L. George, hitherto known as a sensational novelist, who has become a mem Fokker at the same time blamed ber of the Clerka' Union, entitled the Berlin War office for bung-"Be Prepared! People! Mako ling a plan of his for overwhelai Ready to Rule." ing the Allies by scrapping the After explaining that "the big gun altogether in favour of prople" must be prepared to take shelling by flocks of wirelons-ovur the management of this controlled scrupiance.
"It seems to me that the Allies permitted Germany to do all the pioneering in air fighting They let Germany set the pace in all improvements for a time, tant Germany was whipped in the air in the summer of 1918 That was one big rouson why the herman army and to quit,
Leaving London is like going} away from nowhere else. It is Fas though a thousand hands hold 'you it is a saying good-bye to hopes half-realised-end of an episode. All roads lead to Lun- lon and the outward tracks go to newhere in particular, the pauses hy the way being merely stations where we stay awhile to rest from our heavy burdens, er
we and go on sume them again wards...
in a circle, back to
Calvary London, the
of the Mediocre.
Once the trap moved away it was not so bad. for the carriage was full of Colonjuls, each with is tale to jett The tram moved more slowly than the talk and even three uur delay in the darkorse of a rathedral town, I had buift 3,000 seroplines which is beautiful only “pendant for the fermans to like in the light, passed speedily enough Įspring drive, him the Allies hai
erd, and a tramp five to our un14, I think the Ger rough railway track mans lost the war in the air" through turk Harkness and thin rain
host The wastly news of searching a strange main for quarters, the making an of bunk, and Du lying awaka sinoll ing the dễ sdn of a mattress -tuffed with mouldy straw through helt one's bones felt The boards any better like chur
Can"
JK
SATURDA
HIGHLAND TARTANS,
NOVEMBER 22, 1919.
GIRL COMPOSER'S TRIUMPH
OVER ONE HUNDRED OF WHAT LONDON IS TALKING
THEM.
ABOUT.
All musical London is talking about Miss Dorothy Howell, the girl composer, whose symphonic poom, "Lamia," created such an instantaneous effect at Queon's Hall in September.
"Tartan" is an English word, and, according to MF Forster, Financial Secretaf to the War Office, has an English meaning
It is a technical term applicable to a particular make of material
Sir Henry Wood decided to vary irrespective of colour."
Highlanders can never think the following Saturday night's of tartan--or to give it its proper programme, a most unusual pro- Gaslic name. Brehcan-without coeding. to give promenaders a colour, as the whale Mories of further opportunity of hearing country, Mr. George sets forth the tartans are distinguished by their what is in every sense a remark- following definite programme :-- respective colours." A popular, able work.
! "I am not at all surprised at TOWARDS A PEOPLE'S PEACE. English encylopaedia says tartan "Our first duty is activity. It is a woollon fabric of checkered Miss Howell's success," said her will not have been enough to force pattern, and generally many master, Dr. McEwen, the Royal down the throat of the Capitalist coloured, worn in the Highlands Academy professor. I have long the emetic of the social revolution: of Scotland as kilt or plaid. Each regarded her as one of our most we must be ready to handle as fit clan wears a particulary coloured talented young composers. What men the gains which he disgorges, pattern as its distinctive dress. she has done is entirely her own This means that if the change is In the Scottish Lowlands a black work, and neither as regards the upon us, the trade unions alone and white checkemi plaid known letter nor the spirit of the music has she received any assistance. can feed us, clothe us, house us, as shepherd's tartan is worn!"
It is now no longer a subject
"Miss Howell has written some protort us. The Labour Party is
as the a political party, and has no of ridicule as it seems to have pianoforte music, such machinery for registering its been to Max O'Rell, who, after studies which are well known to "If the war had gone on for itembars, distributing money or he had been to Glasgow, wrote, musicians, but this is, 1 believe, as a hood her first important excursion in several mora yours.
for gods. If the change comes, theThis tartan servor how
of orchestralism. would the aeroplane fever the trade unions alone can transform whom it is cold. as an umbrella the realms exipped Fakker wa
the people's war into the people's when it rains, as a blanket in Naturally I am more than delight- peace. They can do this only winter and a mattress in Kummer, ed at Miss Howell's success, and through one merchanism, which as a basket when they go to, no, I may say, is our principal, I will call the I glasse Emergenev market, a towel when they do Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who their dry polishing, or a cradle travelled especially to London to
he present on Wednesday. in which they carry their nabies."
Tarlan claims
boary antiquity. If it was not fashion able in "the days when wild in wood the noble savage ran." its. designer must even then have been at work. It is asserted that the first Scotsman to wear it was Malcolm Canmore, to whom it was brought by his English queen Margaret. But this origin of
His answer rave glad wht to de Clared her banen y gore në militari
t
Cat
W
|
Committer *
I therefore make the following uggestions to the workers;
(1) That the secretary of every trade union branch in every part
We would have put the stil Nor was the wakingi ler
of commission Camps have a feci
would have nvade the big guns as old fachi and to spears. man halliani inally a
he ex And thetamund 1 waw all the front of
fook" of the irony attore in Berlin that of the country should today call
The keys of a pestin
amp har lind 'he worst them all inne na prunas iune feu knew it.
{{ *4*, * 1 Like dis
you
#
C
qin
W15
very
¦
A
a meeting for to-morrow night, to appoint a delegate to the local 1.abour Emergency Committee.
(2) That this delegates should meet in every locality on Wednes. day night to take over and to dis. | tribute among themsolves the local functions namely, to pro- vide substitues for the present local authorities, to determine at once who should be responsible for local food and rual control.1. treasures in 1471 paid £1. sanitation, police, pour relief,
A dozou men I knew Wore
To 1916 armis authorities there, all practically idle the half asked me if I could make a very of them torn between s desire cheap aeroplane, with to stay and the knowledge that cheap engine, expable of Rying Fate called them back. The old about four hours, Ushich could he story of parting
which is ever steered through. <w Bal Always rained
Our werelem great white Kiwi wineped at
"They intended to load each and it no bogat lag t home of these arroplanes with a mocked be the patern che by huge boul, and wond them int made. It was the gray hom the air under the trol of one The idia present, what it 1994-2016
Is T
wh would bank
(3) That each of these hural true the future is iglund
them through the sky by wireless į comunittees should nominato a The rain ceased, and my usate und be a fork of shum p He would delegate tothe canoty committee,
Tramped
ship to 41.4
Siper them as an which should uret on Thursday mutaplargood, and cord them sicown. p. and proceeds in the same way as upon the pled-up brick ferrank arth in mod exactly lo quit he above namely, choose indivi.
walitat
present
23 1
Country 1 Tadworth
MAN
seeing i mean realisingi sud- denly and do the first time what keeping a standing tray wal I am pacifist, nor hehevet that the nature of man can b ale pot But the Waste t
Big - a colonial, crowded with heal
W
ITAT,
The Germans' idea was that
termembers waste to seed holi through the air means explosives. Their sea to pot all their explosives and then we to the shit- thy men lying an artificial life | að e sin Hls to their destination la each of ther: a non-producer, pasodine prawer away from a city and nuguesad at even by us who had best in camp 24 ugles away
Peçtan sentir N { 小
"They had really lost faith the
The use of lng gus Bertha' which fired shell-175 miles
Paris was probably partly, *ted to delete the Altes into loneliness, and showe Eus the love benewing that the Germans were pitality of their muss,
Trish regiment book sign
fine, stranke dr
|
F
dual to take over duties of the County Councils. prins. Funatic asylums, and a portion of the trans: rt
it
tartan cannot of course be accept- ad by a Scotsman. In any case it must have been fashionable towards the end of the fifteenth century, for wo find that James
And
welf To the
Miss Howell showed me the score on its completion, and I at once advised her to take it to Sir
Henry Wood. Sir Henry, with his usual promptness gave Miss Howell a hearing, with the rosult that the work was at once ac. capted for production.
F How old is Miss Howell " That is a delicate question, but I think you will be safe in saying that she is not yet of age.”.,
Trogs
1
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. A mysterious affair happened in Hankow a few days ago when 10s. for "ane eine and NAD
shortly before two o'clock ga hater of blue tartan to line his Chinese coolin was found hanging from one of the branches of the gown of cloth of goli." when James V
bordering the Race Club Kupa moths showed tha Highlands on a hunting expedit- rod
he hurt been dead some time, but.. ion in 1538 he gate, as many a Nimrod has done since, fall it seems highly improbable that if particulars of the dress he must he had committed suicide in a wear. A part of it
from was to be position so easily seen made of three ells of Heland such a well-used road, especi
Charles Lat turtan."
bis ally
the body on Saturday. royal would not have been discover- Club Race ed
Fooner. The officials at once communicated with the Chinese authorities and requested that the body be taken away at oner. The Chinese. at first demurred requesting the Club to give "coffis money," but affair was Huter settled the satisfactorily.
have been
t **{4) That each of these county marriage in 1662xWore
On his committees should appoint a da.Stuart tartan ribbons legate to the Central People's dress. Committee, which duuld sit in When the Highland clans come Westminster on Friday, to do in their own distinctive tartan can scarcely be known with any perming, the distribution of the
accuracy highest', functions, and to take appraxi.elop over national policy, such as de. Originalis titan was worn only fence, taxation, foreign relations, by natives of the Highlands and and to lay down for the guidance i it is only in comparatively reccni of the local con mi og general times that fartans
and Invented for Bordertribes such as "Terrabile, quos eloping their tag guns, inst ad rules. E 100.
Douglas, Johnstone, and Lindsay, as t trian, land, any part of 11.3 od preparing to Ewart Pontiransport.
Vind if they had not got kan,eve "That is, teisedbe, how I see the Now there are in all alat the Highland garb, wud if 1 do so up in the *
way for Labve to rise to the hundred of them, varying from may be enrsed in my undertak- opportunity which may be given the brilliant hues of the Macgreings, family and property, may I and for labour to perform gors and the Maenabs to the never my wife and children, U Patine sondre shad a of the Mankays father, mother, lay boats 4. do not want
and the Ma firkines, Confusin mar fhe ville! pi battlus bundled a vist mary, and Ed.
is d by ignora
Cowart, and he witho as das will happen: 1 da Bew at al madi hanget, and for the fart the manga olan had, a 4aristia a burial in a strango fand want dat pearly for what night aidations ordinary elanlar from the grace of my fee
And, at de wet i Parish, sjonal pattern word fathers and kindrel may all this Lap
ita vandt, 15, through Tonks by the
made merry with us, and the jew hours The keerde, WA
The or were the be glast would have remolered ...
-worn.
д
has not fol
we shoubi preko Paint interfere. 1:
these fat,
י 44
Kahvel,
* * *
*
a
Hey
1030-
is and two coul nyag gemal gith engines that were
drhgisting planes
My far
one must W
L'
Г
stemanende in the north Towing Bat one, whom wat wat ng dr bright go ask or was, wej, splodind found was real del be! "Balt! Who goes dong "ja New Zea'at t
as so notam >
weak..
11
or hesitation, the
word as a 1 ..
aef aed his heir. Just me l
across my it taking
th.
.. best leg 15e the week
luns la
ar sad put men will have gone
*
M: we asked at an errand was
1 ...,
In 1782, er de vans of this Alle aarse para sae of the
Tirana wa gespukurits, and Art, the unlinna, the Dak of aero,dines, with its batte, wonbi
Montrose ipal and be own sp when the bomb
War his banktam in slow t 16 PS DAD The who, Fang was
adro organ toon, takie
Mat the Art of agan, bu 14 kell ewer To others of the partion have selva tartan. ugh: more capelasive than
vidite and Peberam tax pratlar Kernent it : seturus an ts of years beson simill; 1747 for "Fa first gorange cells, and
Siswhori bap Werin take on ta Eight and Dress definty.
calle i trousers. te de and lar Hawald le jar
hug at best from the the them hart. egomaly tha Hegdanfers
fol confortable and at his worn, and bus tapia was more detdiy
caporalister to drill the sultiere, words "that we are or partly work
ad +3706 who fixed as le sputke Iscareci, saw t "My plans were to cepted by
tony nien: of the moral veletion for the coloured plaid of stut shall be The
title nine, ung then the War B-11.
anlands expect tren when they shall have to dis used for great costs or upper go to the was at the ready, and as me ice mach is grab must den la
coats; and Tenders were likuks fine to go barethead, ask-iairest | move the Left went back an decuted to make the aeroplanes their vistory."
to be transported beyond the seas in in dress; kun tartan ar; dos lod | Forward and a cartridge idlen the self. The War Ofice buglest
on conviction, for & second effence to a much disappointment as chamber. Death was plenenough along with the myonfacture of
"I had just got ready to manu-To providė against evasion, the those who go to Wales and expect then. Three minutes later a vir- the planes for many math, and
facture dem in wholesale quanti- | Government of the day made to find this wonen titors wear the poral was explaining that the when they had finally turned out sentry had done no more than his a few machines, they found that: ties when the end of the war came. Highlanders take the following hich hats they are represented as "Those a roplanes whould have "Indemnity Oath," "1, A. B., do wearing. Infoad tartan is a mora duty. He had strict orders to keep they could not be dep nded upon.
swaar, as I shall answer to God (common sight to our large south- all "horse thieves" away while "In the summer of 1918, three worked havoc wherever they ware
at the great day, of judgment, ern towns than in its native north the strike was ur. Under the months before the armistice, they used. It would have been like
have hot, nor shall have, in wy and covers Southerners oftenar, frosty stars we laughed at the came to me and gave me a huge shooting huge shells hundreds of description of all uur
order for the wireless-steured miles with a range that was abso-possesión any gun, sword, pistol, thin it does Highlanders.
Exchange. lutely accurate."
arm whatsoever, and never alagt- A. P. Godfrey Turner.
acroplanes.
trilu.
TAXING THE FAMILY
A plan which, it is claimed, will increase the taxation on unmarri- and childless, people and ed decrease that on the wage-earners with large families was explained at a recent sitting of the Royal Commission on Income
Tax. Major Leonard Darwin, president of the Eugenics Education should society, said the tax
be assessed in such a manner as to be dependent on the number of persons in the family to a far greater extent than at present. He suggested a reform to make the total income of the family count as a number of separate incomes, this number to be equal to, or dependent on, the number He of persons in the family. belloved that that would make it easier to raise a given revenus, and eald, the larger expenditure on the education and training of ran incurred by the more,
DOINGS
or
Alas
FRENCH STORE
FRENCH BREAD
The Leading Bread In The Colony".
The undersigned beg to inform the Public in- Kowloon that from the 1st December henceforth our assistants will distribute bread in Kowloon between 6,30 to 7:30 am, daily. All customers who wish to have "French Bread". are requested to register their names and addresses at The French Store.
THE FRENCH STORE.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
ENGINEERS & LAUNCH BUILDERS.
MARINE MOTORS OF ALL POWERS IN STOCK.
Works:-Footung, Shanghai.
cole Agencies:-Sterling & Evinrude Motors. Makerg
"EWO" Motors. '
Associated British Machine Tool
Makers Ltd.
A.B.C. Boller Carmel.
Rexine Ltd, Leather-cloth} Edgar Allan & Co. Ltd..
(Tool Steels &c.
"Saroo" Steam Trapı, Temp. rature
Regulators &c.
Linotype & Machinery Ltd. Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd T. & W. Smith Ltd. (Wire Ropes). Imperial Light Ltd.
ESTABLISHED
1814 100 YEARS.
JOHN
1914
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote We shall bo your interests pleased to ente: nto correspond- enri *. h a view to arranging mutual advantage.
*
te du
CASH
.0
BANK CREDITS ARRANGED. ADVANCED AGAINST
JOHN
SRIPMENTS.
HADDON
WHY DID YOU
HAVE A NER! I WANT YOU TO HAVE À GOOD
DRESS SUIT TIME. - THE "THING Bá Kicking
MADE IF ABOUT IS THAT THIS IS A Dress
"YOU DON'T PARTY- YOU KNOW! How comfocitABLE LIKE, "TO
WEAR QUE? I FEEL IN A DRESS BUIT-
OF THE DUFFS.
NOW DON'T TELL ME,TOM AT THE LAST MINUTE THAT YOU'RE NOT- GOING TO THE DANCE THIS
EVENING!
WHY DO YOU TALK "DAT WAY?. I TOLD YOU LAST RIGHT THAT I DIDN'T" THAN WE'D GO-
Tom Tried To Put Up a Staff Argument.
TOM YOU'RE GETTING SET IN YOUR WAYS-
• YOU TRUNK OP NOBOON BUT YOURSELF -
YOU GO OUT TO A CLAMBAKE NI THE. AFTERNOON AND THEN THE EVENING YOU WANT "TO SIT HOME AND EXPECT ME TO HAYE A GOOD TIME WATCHING YOU REST UP-
MAKE IF YOURE GODIG SUCH A PUSS ABOUT IT I'LL 20-1LLGO- THAT'S THE
KIND OF A
GUY I AM,
KANT YOU TO GO PLACES
To
i
AND
Co.
Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents,
SALISBURY
SQUARE, LONDON, EC.
TELL HIMET
BY ALLMAN,
WELL, I'M GOING AND I'M WEARING A STIFF SHIRT. "100 - RIGHT AGAINST THE. DOCTOR'S ORDERS 7.
} You KNOVÉ VERY WIELL DAT.
HE TOLD ME TO AVOID ANYTÙNG
WITH STARCH 11, 17′′-
WELL TIL NEVER
Page 10Page 11