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[BY "TONY."]":
Even taking into account the FASHION.-Thackeray.
a
We have received from "S. N.” batch of literature for the troops Many thanks!
| very heavy rains of the past fow Įdays, it is hardly a credit to our local road authority that, it has been found necessary to close three of the principal roads to traffic Notices have been pro- minently displayed at the Star: Ferry wharves, talling passengers
One non-fatal case of enteric that the roads from Shaukiwan) was reported yesterday, to Repulse Bay, from Lai Chi- sufferer being a Britisher. kok to Castle Peak and from Shatin to Taipo ATO
the
Įtemporarily closed. One could The new Swashway Beacon hardly have expected anything Light was in working order again else seeing that the surfaces of on Tuesday night, and the fixed the roads in question are eom-light discontinued. pased of soft earth liable to become saturated and to remain
so for a considerable time. Earth When the Colorado Springs slides must be looked for and came in this morning from San tolerated until our P.W.D. learns Francisco ria Manila there was "that it is truess economy to make found on board a stowaway.
is road properly before opening
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. it. Now that these roads have
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ORIENTALISTS,
I cannot help but smile at tha
eulogies in the press of late about
[Ta the Bitter of the" Hongkong Telegraph."]
BAD TEETH.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
Whilst congratulating the Colos tial Republic on its
wirnless efficiency it is gratifying to re member that China' owe its rapid rise in the latest com-
Sir,-The article ön "Bad the call of thes East. "Calls," Teath" in your Tuesday's issue-mercial science to an English- "wanderlust" and appellations was excellent, and victims who man, Mr. A. H. Ginman, whois of the kind are usually associated follow the advice given will no now at the head of the thiness with inherent wanderers who doubt
Wireless Telegraph save themselves many National bava in their blood the legacies hours of pain and discomfort, but Company. Mr. Ginman, a native of restlessness handed down by I would like to add a tip given me of Chertsey, in Surrey, participat- farboars of a byegone age, some seven years ago by a naval ed in the first game of cheas
Campania against
who with the musket or the lieutenant It is to brush the played by wireless, playing for ledger, penetrated to the fast-teeth vertically rather than horiz- the
Besses of wild countries
established the British Erapire, the brush dislodges any tartar
and ontally. The joints being vertical, Philadelphia.
But how many of those living in collected there, which is the
the East today, who are pleased primary cause of bad teeth. Moet Girls who are
of the East" that
Yours etc..
MARINER. Hongkong, July 21, 1920.
the
being gently
to believe they posses the "call, people I've seen cleaning their edged out of Whitehall to make are true wanderers? A few I teeth rub back and forth, in line room for ex-Service men are ex- But the majority with the gums, but if they try periencing some difficulty, we AIS grant you have been spoon-fed in comfort this simple expedient they will told, in redistributing themselves since they were wafted East by have even cleaner teeth still. among private firms. Unfairly, the magic of modern enterprise This applies to those who have flapper" sticks to them, and it is in many caves, the label "White- and invention. The Owing to bad weather, the 8.5.
males, good teeth also, if they wish to hard to persuade managers that been closed we sincerely hope
So im- keep them so. they will remain closed until Fatshan had to anchor of Tiger most of them, were
with the "call
departmental experience has any they have boen made really
Island and did not come into pregnated
they did
commercial value. The outlook decent. Let our motorists wais harbour until at 11 o'clock this
not bear the call of the West
for those who are supporting. awhile before they begin to morning.
when it was so insistent. No.
relatives is gloomy, unless—well, take beavy ears over surfaces
my friends, it is not the East that
unless there are enough single ex- that they are helping to ruin.
Service men to absorb the girls The total output of the Kailan calls, but the flabby life of sase The manner in which the new
into "home" industry. Mining Administration's mines and plenty. Otherwise most of toad to Castle Peak was cut up by motorists after one of the for the week ending 3rd July, us would be driven away by the recent heavy rains was almost amounted to 90,841 fons and the heat and was pestilences and enough to make one wonder sales during the period, to 82,999 parasites to seek places less enervating and where longevity whether motorists deserve the tons.
synchronizes with work and road at all. The stretch from
natural exercise. Shatin to Taipo has been in a positively dangerous state for while, long
opened to
3
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PROPAGANDA.
"FOR THE TROOPS."
The censos just taken of the Sir-Amongst the troops of the population of New York shows Garrison there is a constant de-that the commercial capital of the mand for tennis racquets and United States is well at the top of balls, and owing to the beavy the list of the world's biggest A Chinese who returned from
prices which have to be paid for cities. But, though the number a ten years banishment term was and
new ones, smaller units especially of inhabitants-5,631,000~~~es The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- sincerely trust that before it hard labour. In a similar case, a of little red and white signboards selves supplied. Perhaps some the density is less than one-ball. to-day sentenced to one year's In the east of the city a number find it impossible to keep them-ceeds the population of London tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a
traffic again full month.
opportunity will bave been taken whilst in the Colony was the scribed, Dangerous Road Up." which they have no further use, Bronx, Brooklyn, Richmond, and Chinese woman, whose business have been erected, candidly in- of your readers have some for The five "boroughs"-Manhattan, The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered frea when the addressee to get all work finished and favourite pastime of flying the Wall, well. A lot of people, par-but which could still be used. Queens which now comprise is accessible to messenger. Feak subscribers can have their copies a hard surface provided. There white pigeon." got a term of one ticularly those za delivered at their residerces without any extra charge. On copies is no dire necessity for motor
down by If so, I should be extremely grate Now York City, cover an asset of sent by post an additional 81.50 per quarter is charged for postage.
roads here: they are a luxury at year.
motor cars, are quite aware of it-ful if they would entrust them to over 300 square miles, and the Single Copies, Daily, ten cen.s.
Then why advertise it ?
me for disposal. They may be average number of people per Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for lostead of all this tinkering, the Following a raid conducted
sent to me co DALA. and Q.ÂG., square mile is approximately fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
doing of bits here and of bits by the Yaumati Police yesterday
LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Headquarters Offices. May 119,000. London, within the LC.C. be farat No. 120 Reclamation Street.
Ka estimated The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be there, would it not
A little way in front of the add that I shall always be thank-boundaries, has belivered to subscribers by. the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd.better to have one good bite at which resulted in the discovery Zonnebeke Road, with the much-ful too for gifts of literature, population for each of its 119 Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
the job first get the whole of 23 taels of illicit opium, the blasphemed Hell Fire Comer playing cards, or indoor games, square miles of over 41,000. So work finished and then say to owner of the drug, a Chinese some distance to the right, is a which may be sent to the same London is easily first in point the Colony's Foto: owners:
of congestion. woman, was to-day charged at stretch of ground undulated and address.-Yours etc. "There's your road, go and use the Police Court before Mr. R.O.pockmarked with craters and " As things are at present Hatchison. The Magistrate re-sbell holes. Tom and furrowed our roads are an invitation for gistered a conviction, the prisoner by shell fire for three
Chaplain to the Forces. calamities and a rather nosatis being sentenced to a fine of $750 and drenched with the heavy Hongkong, 21st July, 1920. factory drag on the Colony's
or three months.
winter rains of many weeks. Spances
да living thing appeared
its surface.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1920.
IRISH TERRORISM.
best, though a valuable luxury,
a
to
од
ago
years
Below
this bad been a Not B
life
of
in the soil
M. W. SHEWELL.
..
The official church of the Cor- poration. St. Lawrence Jewry, will attain a new importance. with the appointment of the Rev. Walter Philip Bealey, the sab-
rector. He is of the most setěvě v broad-minded of the
man-one
$12
new
WOMEN J. P.S.
The ss. Robert Dollar II, com- the ground, men lived comfortless excelled in the quaintness dean and librarian of St. Paul's The gradual raising of the ing down from Ichang to Chung-lives at certain intervals of space. of their names and in their Cathedral, civic status of women
and grotesque figures anking
few days ago, took the Overhead, planes circled geatly aerisms. They appear the more and The dastardly and cold-blooded murder of Colonel Smyth, the equality with that enjoyed by useful precaution of borrowing accompanied by puffs of fleecy extraordinary in these days of cathedral clergy, and a splendid
men could hardly have been more from the gunboat Wilmington a smoke. But scattered over this Munster Police Commissioner, by Sinn Fein cut-throats whils: he forcibly evidenced than by the couple of machine-guns and a vast and dreadful area number Reginalds and Violets (for the type of Churchmao. The "Street was engaged in conversation with a friend in the County Club, is receipt of the cable intimating crew and a warm reception was less men slept their long sleep in Sarabs end Silas' of the Victorian of Adventure" tearced # but another instance of the campaign of terror which is now in full tha: 210 women at Home have given to a band of pirates who the brown earth. But a little ers are now only spoken with a respect for Mr. Hesley during the swing in that distressed country. These stallywags make no bones been appointed Justices of the attacked the vessel from the rivertime
sbudder). The origin or meaning war, for he was one of the officers about whom they kill-bigh or low, rich or poor, no matter whom Peace. The few prominent names bank and from sampans, a few region of desolation.
of most Dames with which we are of the journalists' special com- they may be so long as they happen to holds views with which the given indicate that choice has hours out from Ichang. The vestige of vegetation or
familiar can be traced to some pany of the Volunteer Force. For Sinn Feiners do not agree. And these are the people who wantfallen on those women already robbers were easily driven off of any kind appeared in the day. I calling or relationship; but what some time he commanded:
liberly want it whilst denging it to others, whose lives they do identified with public life, and with some casaukties in killed and light. In due course the summer
can possibly be connected platoon, and proved a highly not hesitate to cut short. It is truly a terrible state of affairs, and the
with Chadband,
or efficient and very popular sob- most ardent
Squrers defender wounded. this particular instance funishes us with some idea of the risks of woman's sovereignty in purely
sun came and shed its rays into Chuzzlewit? Codlin, it is true, altern. His keenness was shown that have to be run by men who are carrying out their duty to feminine matters could hardly
every hole and crevice in the we associate with the apple of when he went through a Chelsen ground, giving its message their country. Tas terrorismo exercised by these Sinn Feiners is as object to giving women a place on bad as, if not worse than, any ever practised in Russia. And to the magisterial benches of the adjusted in Ah Kee's pair of germinating
As much as 3114 per cent. was welcome to tiny seeds patiently that name, and Swiveller with a course with success.
swivel. But what of those night- expect any responsible Government to put up with organised murder country, seeing that justice has to scales to operate unfavourably Like magic, plants and grasses and dozens of others equally mare names, Quilp and Scrooge,
Strange ignorance still exists of this type is asking altogether too much.
be dispensed to women as well as against bis customers. The pro-came to life and exquisite flowers But the worst feature of it all is that the Government to men. It has always been some-fiteering instinct was great witbuodded in the breeze, colouring the strange to be found in the land of jamong most of us regarding appears quite incapable of handling the situation. The Irish thing of a censure on our system him, bu: Ah Kee had a glib reply walls of deep craters and trans More traceable, but not near-ead of wives being put up for make-believe created by Dickens? marriage laws, says the Daily. Chronicle. We still occasionally Secretary, in the House of Commons, denounces the
marder that to men alone bas been given to offer the Magistrate, before forming ancient parapeta and of a very gallant and distinguished officer." and gives an assur- the right of assessing the serioas-whom he was charged this morn-dugout openings into arbours of
15 so fascinating. Bre the ance that every effort will be made to assassins. But that does not cut very much ice, does it? Equally offence, whether committed by and Scales. Inspector Earner. since abandoned, were redolent of Castle, for instance, is obvious: the leasing wis wife by a husband does it theness or otherwise of every pesty ing by the Inspector of Weights beauty. Mephitic canches long names in real life. The derivative sals, but it must be admitted that unsatisfactory is his declaration that he will continue to suppon women or by men. every police or military officer endeavouring to carry out his duty have had experience of
All whoh Kee said that he had two pairs English country lanes. It is the Johnson, Williamson, etc. were to another man, as reported from Cardiff, is wholly exceptional. our of scales, the more accurate of old, old story of life after death. sons of men with a single name: The search for a precedent would in this most critical situation. Moral support, given from London Home police Courts That cannot avail much whilst in the meantime officers are being full well the narrow
know which be always used for bis Nourished by the dead enriched while Madden and Madson bring shot down in cold blood. Then we bave Mr. Bonar Law stating judiced viewpoint often displayed weeks' hard labour, was imposed came to life and confounded the
and pre-business. A fine of $15, or three soil, these wonders of creation to the mind corybantic gyrations probably be in vain, although
performed in padded cells.
Birmingham police court records that the Government's polics is unchanged. And what is that by the amateur Bench; how the by the Magistrate, who found the human intelligence which pro from the delinquencies of ■ Gotobed almost certainly came
tell of a somewhat analogous policy? The taking of every possible means to restore order and class of men who sit most fre-tale too big to swallow.
Case Mure than 60
yearo simultaneously to carry out the provisions of the Home Rule Bill."quently at country police courts
pounded the theory that the naughty boy punished in the go. In this instance a carpenter, But is either the one thing or the other being done? Mr. Bonar are bopelessly unfitted to decide
destruction of all life in the pal-orthodox way: and Lovelace tiring of his wife, decided to lesse Law does not think that the proclamation of Martial Law can do what often amounts to the most
verised and poisoned earth was any good. That seems to us to be rather begging the question important crisis in
and Loveless could only bave himself to another women, un- The first whist drive of the complete...... ....From this spot originated from
woman ad- married and with money, A How can he tell until it is given a trial? If there were a thousandth fortunate person's life. On ques- the Royal Engineers was held history, a soldier picked a little on the shelf. Wright may base two was drawn up, and it was on Junior X. C. O's and Sappers of famous in the annals of British dicted to finery and another one formal agreement between the part of the present Irish commotion and unrest in any other part of tions of
Pressed public morality. of last evening in the R. & Theatre. flower.
gome
between the
the British Isles, the Government would not hesitate for a moment drunkenness, child neglect, petty The drive, due to an excellent leaves of an old pocket book, it/been broken off from wheelwright|expressly stipulated that the con-
Dear
nature
+
磐
to
to declare Martial Law. Then why not practice the precept that larceny. etc.. what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander too? Is greater natural capacity for doing every success, and it is hoped people. On the leaf next to the A lot of pleasure is to be derived apport the other. All the parties women have organisation, was attended with was found and sent home to his orcartwright, but more probably it dition of their living together was is a corruption of the word right. that each should work for and it that the Government is afraid? As to the Home Rule Bill, why the right thing than men. The that another will he held faded dead flower, written with it should have been put into effect long ago. And yet latter are too coldly academic, in the the latest news
to be left over the
future. indelible pencil, were these words: from this absorbing pastime of concerned looked on the agree we have is that it is
former just buman and The winning players were:-
-When 1 see how
fitting names to their meanings ment as legal and binding. until after the Summer Recesa. Does that mean that the sympathetic enough. We Government will refrain
ca Ladies 1st, Mrs. Burden (155); brings forth life from the barren Botif only we could trace our gen- from exercising its fall powers to imagine that the appointments 2nd, Mrs. Laws (144); 3rd, Mrs. soil where lie my dead comrades, ealogy sufficiently far to discover
One new LLD, the Spanish restore order until the Bill is is the origin of our names, most of Ambassador, will further make from Mr. Bonar Law's ramark when he speaks of the acclamation at Home, and we (116). Cente-1st, Mr. B. Smith cannot die."
as would probably be rather good bis claim "simultaneous" carrying out of the one thing and the other. No:join in what must be the general (153); 2nd. Mr. Vosper (150);
shocked at the history this honours at the University of classical we fear that even on its declared policy the Government is not hope that it is only a step to 3rd, Sapper Coupland (149); 4th,
MUSH.
delving would reveal. So it is best doing all that it might. And the only other remedy suggested is a something that will be much Mr. Barden (148); booby, Sapper
to take them as we find them, which is not a race meeting, but Cambridge Summer Meeting, hint of additional powers by new legislation. All we can say is that more embracing.
Pause at any bookseller's shop pleasant or unpleasant. After all, if the Government cannot cope with the situation with the powers
Newing (108).
Cpl. Hill. R.E and you will discover the execra- What's in a name? That which history literature and art of lecture course, chiefly on the carried out the duties of M.C. in ble taste in literature of the public we call a rose The mind Spain. that it at present possesses, no amount of new legislation will enable DEMOCRATS AND LO.N.
a pleasant and efficient manner of to-day. Can you buy a volume recalls the derisive chant of deliver the inaugural address on His Excellency will it to do so.
The problem is an intensely difficult one, we concede. But we to the general world-wide accept- Those who are looking forward
of the works of Charles Dickens, schoolboys of years ago and pos July 29, and will doubtless do not think the solution will be found in hesitancy or in kid-glove ance of the League of Nations
of Shakespeare, of Thackeray, of sibly of to-day: methods. There was some talk a little while ago of drawing a will bave found
emphasise the point that wa cordon across Ireland, guaranteeing protection to the loyalists, and
something true, and thus it is that they work born of the brilli
raised in these columne-Damely, ant intellects of OVE completely isolating the disaffected parts of Ireland. That would fact that Governor Cox, the far superior to the general run writers? A single book here
to encourage them
great in the contest has a world-wide interest
the advantage to this country of a firmer Hinguistic link with - the- be drastic, admittedly, but is it not time drastic measures were Democratic candidate for the of Presidential struggles. The
and
perhaps, after
land of Cervantes and copper taken? The Sinn Fein idea of "All for Ourselves" in the very US. Presidency, has discovered Democrats have a very attractive a set of volumes? Preposterous. much diligent searching. Bot
mines. Robert Browning, WO negation of liberty, besides being utterly impracticable. No country that he is in absolute agreement case de present and, although it The bookseller knows his public, nor no people can live to themselves, much less the Irish. Indeed with President Wilson on this would seem at first sight and caters for them accordingly.
remember, fell under the spell of if every British soldier and every British policemen were withdrawn matter. The effect of the disco- though America is determined on For every book of thought you Salisbury did not know at the need of the hour, has a more the Spanish tongue, lared by ita from Ireland and the country left to stew in its own juice." Sinn very is that the Democrats will a reversion to a Republican re will find fifty of sickly mush of Theatre Royal Bat I do know distinctly commercial bevis. koow. soft luxuriance, but the pressing" Feiners would soon want us back. At times we almost feel tempted be an absolutely united party in gime for a while, more remote obscure origin. to say: Let these hare-brained mischief-makers be given all they its struggles to get America to things have happened than that ask for; and they will soon want to come within the Union again. recognise and enter the League, they should win in November But there are the loyalists to think of, and why should they be made ur prediction that the presidetial We shall soon be having news the prey of cut-ibroats and seats? One the thing is sure it's fight will wage more particularly through of the actual campaigns Dickens is undoubtedly the time to-day before I could even mablished in Buen about time the Government finished talking and took a firm stand. around this point than any other and certain it is that interesting most prolific author of char faste it. And I am usually Things csunot, go on as they are indefinitely. Everybody knows w now certain of coming reading will be provided:
there,
asters of
NAMES
Sticks and stones will break
my bones,
But names, will never hurt me.
WHERE DO VLIES GO IN THE WINTER TIME?
not
I simply do
{
where they go in the summer Spadiah is still the prevailin time. Two small ones and a big language of commercial, Boufr: one went into my soup at tifin Americs of the 279 meta
period; He gourmet for sový,