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An organ recital and carol ser- be held at St vice are to Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on December 23.
up the history of the Second and quarters. Third Punic Wars to refresh his
1990.
ROSEMARY AND RUE.
(By
"Tany.")
THE MIRACLE MAN: Yesterday, a man left his hotel, passed through Dea Voeux Road, Ice House Strest, Queen's Road and Flower Street without being once bailed up by the rose gallers.
Blocks
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
have thought I was off my bean. I suddenly thought of the episode of you and Marie when we were in billets at Reniscure, Remember? The “Undergraduatta ” is the name and den appearance of the given by the Isis to the lady divvy general and all his students now recognised by the nabobs on a surprise Inspec- Oxford University. New students tion. Some aurprisa, old son. cannot be called freshman, and I can see the whole funny freshwomen is an`atrocity; so tha business now. Marie and slang fresher " will probably be.
an accepted tarm by the wooien Ua-
TOU....
"SCOTLAND FOR EVER."...
This boy was simply aching students. Coming under St. Andrew's Cross flashed out!
for old pals; someone with whom iversity discipline, it will be in- from the gloomy height of the big ha could yarn about the past and teresting to observe the Prociar's building Motor cars slowed up who could take the place of those approach. Will he address them. idea that the war was caused by Yesterday's health return to the brightly-lit entrance and
German attempt at world-power, shows one fatal case of plague remained purring softly. Women, who, in all probability, he willName and college, madam To trace the
genesis of the imported) and one non-fatal case in gorgeous cloaks and dresses ever meet again. The public and, in addition to the raised colossal conflagration in detail of diphtheria. Both
were as beautiful as themselves, hurried meeting to-night at City Hall is mortarboard men receive, add a
to be devoted solely to the dis-bow with women? will be an onerous task for the bis-Chinese.
through the inviting archway, tariko; on the main question of
while men more soberly dressed cussion of building a place where
"It was one of the finest thinge German aggression the peoples
than many would be in the weex-service man and other civil- An lodian, said to be insane, was sma hours, stood in little groups Kindred
ians may meet army and navy have ever beard of,” said Lond of very varying nations have
spirits aud even to Riddell, in describing a recent their black and made up their minds. When the yesterday removed to the Governin
Whits
reside there. It is ex-Chancellor speaks of ment Civil Hospital following a clothes
a kintly experience during a speech at a for
world all the
thought on the part of the City dinner. His Lordship had unparalleled apparatus for the attempt to commit suicide by like
af magpies. oppression of a vanquished jumping off the verandah of the The deep murmur of men's Promoters. It is far more human been dining at the hall of a City
and helpful than a useless piece livery company, and WAS nation" he would do well to read Sikh Temple, where he bad his voices mingled with the light of stone that nobody will take the waisted pants and Generals. laughter of women as they passed trouble to look at after ashaking bands very heartily with into the Baronial Hall. Hero on few months. If you are in the beadle. It turned out that memory concerning the kind of A metal shoe buckle and a plain was at once transported, as by terested you will attend the meat- the beadle had himself been terins Rome imposed upon gold safety pin were found in the magic, from the atmosphere of Carthage. He might also re City Hall on Tuesday night, the the East to the pleasance of ants and will put all you know into General. During the war he as belping the project It be alold soldier, had risen from the member that the world had 30th. instant. These articles may ancient Scottish home. And no
splendid success.
ranks to be a Generat, and then never witnessed" such an appal-be recovered on application to spur to the imagination was need
I. W. W.
having served his country, be ling catastrophe as Germany let Mr. T. W. Hill, Hon. Secretary of ed to people this hall of make
I have, for quite a lo time, came hack and re-entered the ser- loose upon it. As to the Peace the St. Andrew's Society, co believe with a kilted laird of the looked with a suspicious eye on vice of a City guild. So much Treaty it is only too certain that Bradley & Co., Ltd.
long ago and his family and the source of Sinn Fein seisities might be written on this that we tainers. The oak panelled walls, at most it does not provide for
in Ireland, and after comparison leave the narrative as it stands reimbursement of all the Allied
the broad swords and spears and losses.
St. Andrew's Church magazine stags' heads, with the massive of other events and analysis of
This is a queer life remarks & Wells-ian Humour.
saya-We are thinking about the grandfather's clock, age, even the the methods used, i am quite formation of a Tropp of Girl glowing log fire, lent their aid to convinced that the Irish trouble writer in the Deity Chronicle for Not long ago a volume appear- Guides, and hope to call a cieet- thedeception. One would not have is not organised by Sinn Feio at those who are neither sainis nor The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36]ed under the title ofThe ing during this month to consider been greatly surprised to have all: but that that body is merely sinners but just ordinary people, per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
Journal of a Disappointed Man," the question. A lady of consider heard the gutturs! sounds of used as one more stepping stone and, after all, the world is made to world-wide sabotage and the up of ordinary people. One re bas kindly Gaelic voices in place of the destruction of capital. Looking calls the frequent complaint that The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- purporting to be the work of one, able experience Hons for any period less than one month will be charged as for "W. N. P. Barbellion." A fore volunteered her assistance.
The sign bearing the words "Taback on the outrages in America if you are no: rich enough to give murmur of English conversation. full month.
word was contributed by Mr. H. G.
Haggis Ha" filled one with ad Australia, a careful com-a cheque or poor enough to need The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee Wells, and the public jumped to
Efforts are now being exerted further anticipation of things that the present trouble is are not of much interest. Here
parison will reveal In accessible to messenget. Peak subscribers can have their copies the conclusion that the putative by the Police in a search for the quaintly Scotch. But here the magnified one of those which is the latest version of the same the fact gifts of coal and blankets, you delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies whole story to be a product of der which has come to their the brilliancy of the Supper the States in the early part of woman asked the magistrate to authur was a myth, imagining the] perpetrator of a most brutal mur-illusion anded. A bridge led to took place in the Antipodes and feeling: At Tottenham a young sant by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920.
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
Italy has
career. It now appears that another volume to which Mr.Dear house No. 11. Wella "contributed an introduc-
tion first
the g3 w
-MERCHANT-MARINE
I to the mystification by enigmatic state of order was resumed.
observations in the course of the introduction. These might hvae been intended seriously or jocol sely. Readers had some suspicioni that Mr. Wells was indulging in espulling, but an element of doub remained. With. thel publication of a new edition, puss is released from the bag. Postal Facilities.
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"GOOD EGG."
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are lew people who
I. W. W. a deadly organisation one or the other" she said. hall. Shiny ballroom floors seith its headquarters in America; That's the difficulty," was the one's feet a-move and lounges and its agents are simply a pack reply. "Not knowing a magis tion is his own handiwork A false alarm of fire brought appeared invitingly comfortable of criminals and assassins, whose trate you have either to be ill throughout. When the publics-out the Brigade belier sketter at The rooms and balconies throbbed livelihood depends on the taking or very good to obtain the friend.
light, about 11 p.m. last night to Oa with life
and beterogenous of human life and the destruction ship of the others who may sign. in 1915, the reading public Lan Street where the fire was colours wave and flashed among of property. Wherever they have were considerably exercised are supposed to bare broken out. On the crowds of gay people as ther Jestablished-themselves-there-also- There the extensive and facetious title their arrival it was ascertained moved from place to place. Man has been a fructification of a would care to descend into the page, which read as follows:that a man had tripped over the it's a
bra nicht the noo. series of malignant crimes. They crater of Vesuvius, as the Boop, The Mind of the Race. furniture in a house, and the dinga ken a bonnier tar-r-ra draw into their ranks a class of Director of the observatory on The Wild Asses of the Devil, and inmates, in a condition of extreme An' the whuskey was superrr, men dissatisfied with their posi-the volcano, Dr Mailadra, has The Las: Trump: Being a First alarm, emitted cries which were man. Super-r-ro, I tell ye." And tion in life and envious of their just one, while it is in active Selection from the Literary takeu, to mean that a fire had superb is the word for it. There more fortunate fellow men. And eruption (writes Diarist in the Remains of George Boon. Appro-broken out. Of course, opportacity is little doubt that the canny so it has been in Ireland. This Westminster Gazette.) During priate to the Times, prepared was fully taken to make use of Seat is no sue canny when Sa organisation of scoundrels has the eruption of 1911 a portion for Publication by Reginald Bliss, whistles and a panicky chorus Andrew's Day arrives. It is then gripped the passionate Irish of the crater toppled in, and ic by H. G. Wells." Mr. Weils added the Folice and bremen, when a winds in his enthusiasm to make People, has played upon their 1906 the destruction was so great with an Ambiguous Introduction was kept up until the arrival of that he throws all caution to the
unrest and hatred of English that the height of the volcano St. Andrew's Ball one of the most government and made them their was reduced by over 300 feet, brilliant functions of the year easy victims, Thus, masquerading Some faint ides of the intense Friend Scat, here's tae ye!
under the Sinn Fein banner, they heat in the crater during the direct that unfortunate pary to period of an eruption may be How many of us know the bit its undoing. Premier Billy Hughes, gathered from observations made terness of the parting of old war of Australia (as well as English on the temperature of the ejected pals: the longing to meet again statesmen) touched the nerve lava long after the activity of the the boys who shared the times of centre of this malignant trouble volcano has subsided. Two years. joy as well as of agony. Long when be said, "The Sinn Fein after the outburst of 1996 lead years may eventually deaden the outrages are the result of a wires placed on the lava lying on desire, but the longing remains widespread plot against still. The following is an extract Empire." Bat it goes even fur fused, showing that even then the the slopes near the crater were from a letter written by a young ther than the The ambition of the temperature must have been wounded officer to a pal: and it the Independent Workers (?) of between 600 deg. sad 700 deg. radeship which only such an epic universe, to over brow the system plainly shows the spirit of com-the World is to dominate the Fahrenheit. event as the great war could of law and order and destroy the breed:
In the composite biography of constitution.
The: has been the late Sir Beerholm Tree we are ..and so, here I am, old proved absolutely. And in order told that Lady Tree still possesses son, cracked.but in a good job. to accomplish their desires, they Holding it well down and will have set out with great delibera. Play written by one of our soon be set like a jelly. Bittion to destroy the greatest obstes; statesman," the third act strange at first, this silk shirt sacle to their plans the British of the Foreign Office. One re- of which passes on the staircase and sock existence after the old Empire-whom they fear. Bot viewer suggests that Gladstone life of staats and mud and good only by reason of its power, but pals. Got to put up with it, because of its moderation and should this suggestion prove was the statësman in question, what? Jolly no at first, old politics and level mentality. man. hotel lounges, dinner With the Empire overthrown. true, the pumber of British Pre- dances and all that sort of and these dogs snapping and miers known to have written thing. But a chap gets bored sparling over the choice bones of plays would stand at three, the stiff after a time. Misses the its treasures, there would be the Lord John Russell. Disraeli's other two being Disraeli, sad boys, you know. Poor sort of removal of the greatest obstacle to Alarcos," a five-act drama show this, when the freshness world insanity. Anyone who has published in 1839, was staged has worn off. No real life; nofseen the result of their abomin-
at Astley's Theatre, Westminster roal pals; no reunions and ations in other countries must Bridge-road, in 1868: The play that sort of thing.
Gives agree that the indictment against ran only five weeks, and so proved you the what
call them is not one whit too strong a bad speculation for Miss Ágnes itpip-raw subaltern kind of It we wish to save everything Cameron, the American actress feeling.
Good joke, what? that we love and venerate then who produced it. Lord. John Awful lot of bunk here about this beast must be killed.
Russell's tragedy, "Don Carlos," memorials, as if the dear old
also proved failure on its pro- blighters care a cass whether
When will Asquith realise that duction at the Olympic in 1846, they put up a tablet or abe is no longer of political im-and, mere over, caused its author cathedral. Jolly lot of rot, old portance, that his is a voice in to lose a vote at the next general son, gen take it from me. Not the wilderness? Heaven only election. When Russell's com many girls here to give a chap know that his administrationmittee held their first meeting an the good old times again. Met nearly cost us the war, and no old member declared, "I won't one little thing. Introduced to if it were possible, he would bo vote for him. We don't want any father; not a bad old boy in to Ireland as he would have poets in the City of London. Be way; but mother standoffish. bowed to Germany had he
kept his word, and took no Asked all kinds of rot about remained in office. It is common farther part in the election. the war. You know, the old knowledge that his repugnance. stuff. Had to admit I left ato bombing Germany resulted in Hule bit of my leg at Ypres a ferocious increase of air-raids they will spread through the After that they gently edged on British towns. But when his whole country unless or states. me off the gal Nothing like stronger colleague, who displaced men refuse to listen to the paurile the old times, old son. Re-him, chastised Germany with pleas of Asquith. Ruthless action member little Odette in the their own methods, enemy air must be taken. The boot must pub at Cassel?. Some girl, raids gradually ceased. Just now be used beavily. It is madness what?. Sweet and nice and 1.W.W.-Sina Fein raids are to attempt to kill a'snake with
At a moment when business conditions are dull practically the
China Coast Changes. world over, the question of a resumption of trade with Russia has again come to the fore. Within the past week or so the draft of the
Captain G.D.S. Mills, of the new trade agreement between Britain and Russia was handed to 3.
Chungking, is on leave. Krassin by Mr. Lloyd George, and although there are certain clauses
Captain A.V. Harrison, from in this document which have evoked Soviet objections, it is felt that Our attention has been drawn reserve, has gone master. Chang- satisfactory arrangements will eventually be made. already reopened trade relations with the Russians, and there are across the harbour which have
to the inadequate postal facilities | king. ziso reports indic
indicating that the United States will before long formed the burden of several Lungchoz, has gone chief officer Mr. R. H. Fairies, chief officer. intercourse with the Soviet. One-difficulty complaints addressed to us. It Tatung resume commercial that has arisen has been the question of recognition of the Soviet appears from these that some of Mr. A. Herd, chief officer, on which point we recently read a ples by a prominent British com- the more progressive districts of Tatung, is on leave. mercial magnate that recognition should no longer be withheld the mainland are without the Mr. D. Jones second officer, According to this authority, the Soviet Government has promised usual convenience of a branch Chekiang, is on reserve. to recognise all the debts of the Tsarist Government-all goods |
Mr. I. Callender, bird engin- supplied and all services rendered to Russia-exclusive of Govern office, or even the ordinars ment war loans, which are to be the subject of separate negotiation, in particular, is obliged to con-
postal box. and that Samshuipo, eer, Tungchow, is on reserve.
Mr. A. McPherson, from, leave, on the one condition that it shall be recognised as the successor of vey its mails to the Yaumati has gone third engineer, Tung- the Tsarist Government. That is cited as being common sense, for Post Othee, the only one within chow. no Government can be held accountable for Tsaris: debts until it has been held to have taken over the Tsarist concern.
Mr. G. Elkinson, second en- easy distance. We understand! On the question of the desirability of resuming trade without hands for the provision of more
that contracts are in Chinese gineer, Sunning, is on reserve.
Mr. J. L. Cruikshanks, second delay, some interesting opinions were recently expressed by Mr. houses in the western side of engineer, Wachang, has gone Arthur G. Marshall, who is the managing director of the Becos Samshuipo, and, in that cast, at second engineer, Sunning. Traders, Ltd. (formerly the British Engineering Company of Russia its present rate of growth, it will Mr. P. Evans, from leave, bas and Siberia), a combine of over a hundred British engineering firms, be found necessary. if it has not gone supernamery second officer, formed for the purpose of trading with Russia. It represents & been already, to establish capital of some twenty-five millions in British industry. În Russia
a Wosang. the company, besides various agencies, had twelve branch offices be utilised by its inhabitants officer, Wosang, has gone chief separate post office which could Mr. E. R. Huntington, chief sad a motor car works in Moscow, the capital of which was over
and those in the immediate officer, Kwaishing. half a million sterling; it was also engaged in the business Di
Mr. W. H. Watson, second be equal justice Soviet Goverment came into power, a Commission was sent to the plied to other progressive dis-chief officer, same ship..
ap-officer, Worang, has gone acting. works and informed the manager that they would be commandeered-tricts of the mainland where the Mr. W. C. Youngs, from leave, An assessment of their value was made, and a promise of com-lack of this convenience, whilst has gone second officer, Tungwab. pensation given. to take effect whenever the opportunity arose depriving the Postal Department
Mr. J. Malcolm, second eng of paying currency. The works are still running, under of its rightful share of revenue, ineer, Hsintab, has gone second Bolshevik manager
works controller, and the former at the same time encourages the engineer, Toonan.
Captain T. C. Parkinson of the
importing into Russia all kinds of machinery. A year after the icinity. The same remark can
with
Owners
and
never sitempted any sort of obstructionis practice of smuggling letters.
or sabotage. According to Mr. Marshall, what Britain needs is This is more marked in the case Rotorus is deceased.-Shipping the flax, timber, grain, oil. various minerals (eg, platinum, gold, of traffic over the border, and, we divi Engineering. etc), hides, and many other commodities which Russia has in believe," has been sufficiently abundance. The corn bins do not bulge, he says, but they are by illustrated in prosecutions at the no means empty. On her side Russia's most crying need is for Police Courts, to indicate pne transport material of all kinds, especially railway transport; then pressing need which the develop she needs machinery for re-equipping factories and re-establishing of the mainland bas necessitated. agriculture, and she needs clothes and medicines.
KING ALEXANDER'S HEIRESS.
STATE GRANT FOR WELSH
LIBRARY
At a meeting of the governors of the National Libeary of Wales The matter of credit is naturally an important factor in the
Mr. Herbert Lewis, MP, anno- Case. Credit, of course, is impossible in present circumstances, at
unced that the Treasury had any rate so far as private enterprise is concerned. No directorate
The judgement issued, touch-agreed to recognize the import- would be acting fairly to its abarebolders in granting credit to. Russia at present. A Government loan, on the other hand, ie posing the disputed estate of the sat work being done by the sible, and, in the opinion of some, highly desirable, to restart trade. late King Alexander, recognises Library by making it a grant of Another suggested condition of success is that the Government the alidity of the marriage con- £12,000 for the current year, to should grant export licences for any gold imported into England to racted by him with Mlle. Manos, be increased by £1,000 each year! Buy British firm working on Russian contracts. Otherwise roubles arid disallows the case advanced for the next five years, so that Immediately drop in value on entering England-an impossible-King Constantine in op-in five years' time the grant
position to her claim..
would be £17,000. situation so far as trade is concerned,
THE JACK IN THE BOX.
that kind of thing. Not many taking place to strike at the bands, it must be crushed. of that kind here. I had a fit the very heart of England's under foot Now is the time for of laughing in the office the industry and commerce with the strength and action. Listen to other day. The others must object of paralysing trade, and Asquith and our lopa is assured.