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Hung Chang.
The meeting between aged statesmen is recalled by a list of famous man who disliked the practice of early rising.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
To-day the number of princesses
THE WARWICK COMEDY COMPANY.
Excellent Opening Performance.
The public mesting on Thurs- day last at the City Hall was who are eligible for marriage with princes of the British Royal vary representative recalled that held at the Theatre house is very small. For two
The Warwick Comedy Com- definite TRASONS Royal a couple of yours ago to
moat Royal pany last night inauguraled their consider the question of constitu- ladies are out of the running. vial: to the Theatre Royal by tional reform for the Colony. First, no English prince can presenting Douglas Murray's What the outcome of the meeting marry a Roman Catholic without four-act comedy Uncle Ned." will be is a matter on which I forfeiting his right of succession It is a well-worked-out piece, and would not like to exprass an to the Crown. Secondly, it is ready approbation greeted each opinion. Of the oratory the Hon. inconceivable that any marriage curtain-fall, while at the close Mr. Holyoak's speach was voted is likely to take place for years there was sustained applause. excellent effort, delito come between an English The theme is of the most familiar vered in convincing style. prince and a princess of one of kind, and the success of the His Excellency the Governor the countries with which we playwright and the players shows his were recently at war. As far as itself in the animated and divart-
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photographed together when the latter visited England "I hate getting up in the morning." Glad- stone once tok Sir Henry Lucy,
For snatching $50 from a com- and I hate it the same every patriot in Queen's Road Central, morning. But one can do every- Chinese was to-day given six thing by habit, and whah 1 have weeks by the Magistrate. had my seven hours' sleep. I get jup." Li Hung Chang held the
Among thosS leaving the threw same views At the close of his Colony to-day by the 3.3. Talibs-reserve and appeared to be fired Germany is concerned there is ing treatment of the subject visit to Petrograd in 1896 the bins was Mr. W.. Webb, late of heart and soul with the scheme an additional reason. To avoid matter.
hinese statesman wrote in bisi
complications with Sir Robert Grahim is the diary: "I have learned that we Co. Mr. Webbis proceeding Home
Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw for creating a club to be run by the political
Y. M. C. A. Rear Admiral Duff foreign countries, princes and typical commercial magnate, a start early to-morrow morning. This is not to my taste. I would a business trip and hopes to really set the ball rolling when princesses of our Royal house sort of Batter Sing or Margarine he declared that the Navy did do not marry members of any; Monarch; be trades in all the return to Hongkong later. much prefer to begin the journay
not stand for a teetotal institu- Royal house which has been chief easentials of diet and now and sleep on the train. To
tion. His oratory was of quite deposed by its former subjects. prides himself especially opan ariso so early is the morning
the success of Graham's grease." Lip to the present, no definite different type to that of the other seems to be a foolish Western step has been taken to reopen the speakers. It had a taste of the There are now on the Continent Success has made him an auto- among statesmen, who could so Some members of the Cantonese was like the boiling fluid upon a houses that are Protestant-those and his family with a rod of iron. much better transact their affaire Party are not anxious to see the much colder surface, which he of Denmark, the Netherland. A widower with two young daugh- at night, when all is quiet and the return of the M. P. if their press-sought to animate with some- Norway, and Sweden. The King ters, he is in a predicament as to mind is most alert. But from all organs represent their sentiment. thing of his warmth. Mr. Lang's of Denmark has no daughters the safe succession to bis wealth, I can learn these statesmen and
erticism of the scheme of having He has two unmarried sisters, the more so as a peerage is in Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires lawgivers look for their pleasures
a canteen attached to
He therefore the who were respectively born in early prospect. them to forward their nimas and addresses with communications at night, going to banquets, The telegram quoted below was premises as against all the tenets 1880 and 1890, and they are, invites bis younger brother, whom addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an theatres, and parties. To this I received by the American Con of Y.M.C.A. work was very sound through Queen Alexandra, first he has not sean for many years, avidence of their bona fides.
attribute much of the intrigus sulate General, Hongkong, from and if those responsible are wise cousins of cur King. Then King in order to satisfy himself whether All communications intended for publication should be address-known to all these Courts. We the Manila Observatory at 3 p.m. they will take advantage of the Christian has also two nieces, the latter would be a desirable to the Editor.
This brother. Uncla cannot enter the council sesterday-Tha typhoon is advice and either abandon the the daughters of his brother. Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager. chamber or make speeches in crossing the Visayas Islands in canteen ides or disassociate the Harold, the elder of whom wased, turns out to be the deus
Parliament, but they work their the form of a shallow de-scheme with the YM.C.A. born in 1919, and a cousin, the
meching of the play, bis The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36) wiles at the partira and pression."
Princess Margaret, born in 1595, irrepressible optimisim being the par shown. (Payable in Advance.)
operas." This last clause
instrument of the transformation but s'e has been brought up a The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional Subscrip-would need re-writing to-day,
If so appeal for funds went Roman Catholle. In the Nether-of the inflexible rais anthrope tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a jso
The official police report states home I am almost certain that i lands there is only one princess, into a genial, even jovial, old boy far as the first part is that five were killed and four would fall on deaf ears with concerned, for we bare womeni full month.
Juliana, the heir to the throne; amenable to every generous ora woman-making speeches in collapse at No. 114 Queen's Road became known that a canteen injured in yesterday's bouse Y.M.C.A. supporters OCCE it
she was born in 1909. At the pre-impulse this after pretty Parliament: bus the concluding East, Wanchai. The injured were were to be run in conjunction with Norway. In the Swedish Royal
sent timǝthere is no "Fair Maid of tough fight. part is presumably as true
as removed to the Government the Y.M.C.A. everso one judges after reading Civil Hospital, while the dead of
A good deal Family daughters are not so Seat change is wrought are support Сап be the Memoirs of Margot.
human. Several Though the King has eminently Public tained from sympathisers sona only, he has one grand-
things contribute, as, for instance. and appreciatiors of Y.M.C.A daughter, the Princess Ingrid when Sir Robert (having decided work, and the only way to get it born in 1910, and two unmarried to solve the problem of sacces- In referring to the Premier's
aged 28, would be to make the institute a nieces, born respectively in 1901 sion by remarrying) proposes to recent Guildhall speech, A Malay woman, wherein M. Lloyd George living at No. 107. Praya East, teetotal one. There is nothing to and 1905. Of the Orthodox his lady secretary, and receives a stated that Germany
was yesterday attempted to commit prevent the promoters getting an princesses, the daughters of the heavy jolt becauseMisa Manning. Awallowing opium, individual to put up-scanteen i King of Humana, who have who is engaged at two pounds acting sincerely in the suicide by ̈ ̈ matter of disarmament. her forces She was removed to the Govern the neighbourhood of the building, visited England since the war, a week and her board, rejects the having been reduced to 150,000 ment Civil Hospital. It is stated but I personally think the are the only marriageabing" millionaire, as she is in fact, in with prospect of reduction to that the rash attempt followed canteen run
manner and the betrothal of the elder has love with his brother, Uncle Ned and she baving formerly been 100,000 before long, we remarked on a quarrel she indulged in with indicated by the speakers at the now been announced. There are
public meeting would be very no Serbians, and the Russians literary workers together. The Į that it would be well to know the her husband.
indiscreet. We all love to call a and Greeks are excluded by the chief factor in the magnate's re precise signification of the figures
spade by its real name, and to call having regard to auxiliary asso- ciations. The Berlin correspond-salary list for the subordinate Y.M.C.A. is clever. Still, I wish respective houses are "rois en
It is rumoured that the revised what is essentially a Services Club fact that the beads of their demption, however, is his elder daughter's secret, marriage, and of the Ts reports that the that is the Asiatic staff of the thescheme the success it deserves, the Prince of Wales will have to threatens to disclose the con
exile." At this rate it looks as if as the approach of a happy event recents Hongkong Civil Service has been and I hope that its establishment| the Diet that received from Home, and will will serve as the Service men he marry a British non-Royal
accept the Times injonction that cealment * Red
organisations shortly be published. This, we desire, to break down the social lady. possess 463,000 rifles. 140 hear, stipulates for a general in-barriers that exist in this Colony, machine-guns, 240 pieces of crease of 25 percent, with certain and other parts of the British artillery, and 26 aeroplanes in ad-modifications in regard to time Empire. The task of getting the dition to bomba andotherexplosive and nature of service.
money must be performed with no weapons, and that the dissolution
small tact..
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1920.
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"SAVE OUR BEACHES?
Appeal to the Public.
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means, ways and Ensocial and otherwise, with the young husband and wife for a Bight to the Continent. Uncla Ned, the literary artist.
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Mr. N. Thorpe-Mayne
Robert showed all the
judge of human nature, relies upon the separation and the prospective little stranger to be equivalent to suicide. The Last week's health return shows Times correspondent, commenting two cases of diphtheria (one
Quite a departure from the appeal to the heart of the mer- on the statement, says that it is Eurasian and one Chinese, im- Goverument.in secaring an offer usual method of expressing public the fight is more obdurate than chan: prince, who on bearing of conclusive proof that the dis-ported). two of puerperal fever at yesterday's auction for the old opinion in the Colony is evidenced ever and declares that he has armament in conformity with the (both Chinese), one imported case Post Office site bas been a surprise in the following spirited appeal finished with bis daughter. This Spa Agreement is pare farce. of plague (Chinese), one case of to everyone. All the reports that which appears on a number of brings things to a head, and the and one of have been current in the Colony posters displayed at public places brothers go at it hammer-and- RECONSTRUCTION - ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL. It may be that the correspondent enteric (Chinese)
over-estimates the situation paratyphoid (British). The plaque for sometime about individuals of entertainment:-
|toags-fortunately "The public bathing beaches atverbal sense. But Uncle Ned is when stating that the German case and one of the puerperal and corporations determined to
only in a disarmament has been pureferer cases were fatal. There secure the area have now been North Point and Kennedy Tow not to be beaten, and when he We do not hear so much nowadays as we did immediately after farce-it cannot well be doubted were also six Chinese deaths from falsified. The Government will are to be taken from you and takes charge of bis brother's the war of the tremendous task of materially restoring France and that Germany has been com-influenza.
now most likely proceed to sell built over, anless you object. basiness and adjusts a big strike Belgium to something like pre-war conditions. But the workpelled enormously to diminish
the area in five lots, and the Have you protested? Save our going along, none the less. The restoration of towns and farm lands her armed resources. It may
on Sir Robers being seized with consensus of opinion is that they beaches!" to their former condition has been more nearly completed in Belalso be remembered that Bavaria|
The 11th membership campaign will be successful in getting
anliness, the transformation The originators of these posters, proceeds rapidly to a happy ending gium than in France,, as the damage done in the smaller country, has been standing
of the Canton Y.M.C.A. will the upset price and a little are to be complimented on the all round. There were a number though appalling, does not ever to be quite so extensive as in some from North Germany, and bas close this evening, December 7. more, at least for most of the lots. public spirit thus displayed. of humorous interludes. sections of France. Although the results already achieved in had internal plots and cross-plots, at eight o'clock. According to The Epset price of $1,906,000 France may seen meagre in comparison with the vast devastated rendering its rather difficult reports so far received, the desire for the site is very large, and and Shanghai Bank But what Sir regions still barren of life and industry, in the opinion of competent task perhaps for Berlin to exed umber of members for the few corporations can afford to observers the French are working conscientiously, and are really ercise surveillance which makes coming year, that is 2.500. has lock up such a large sum in only ever may be the precise signifi-hard, incisive manner of the doing a prodigious amount of work. The work is being pushed with it the more necessary for the not yet been realized; but of land. It is felt that the lease of 75 cance of these figures, they commercial magnate, while Mr. splendid energy, and the spirit of the people is truly remarkable. Allies, without any undue alarm, course, this cannot tell as some years and the excessive rent of nevertheless picture to us in Edgar Warwick in the title-role That, we need not be surprised at, for the French people have a deep to keep their eyes open. teams will not make their full the land have militated against clear and forcible outline the was a host in himself: Miss and undying love of country, and the spirit which saw them through
report until the last minute. the sale, also the interest that magnitude of the Bank's Dorothy Radford was admirable the war will see them through the great tasks of peace.
The Argentine's Secession. When the final report comes, was to be charged by the Govera- with which its operations are while Mr. Dudley Howard as business, and the ability as the ingenuous young wife However, there are other than material factors to be reckoned with in this great work of restoring the areas laid waste by the war of Nations of the Argentine previous campaigns always gave previously been, and if the Crown management of the Hon. Mr. who still has to make his way in
The defection from the League 2.500 looked for, as most of the
more than the ment. If the lease were for 999 conducted. The Blaszkorg and her husband, Henderson Burke, According to Dr. Hibben, the President of Princeton University,
as many leases have
Shanghai Bank during the the promising young scientist who has recently toured the battle areas, the paramoun: problem of Republic is not, so for as the greater numbers than a first
rent were moderate, it is stated France and Belgium in rebuilding the devastated areas is economic. individual State is concerned, an asked.
bad occasion to the world: adequately enacted his and the chief economic need is a readjustment of the ratios of Sent of capital importance.
that the upset price would have Stabb has
increase its capital to keep limited part in the piece. Miss been secured. I hope that no tima exchange to a point nearer the normal level. French industrial och prosperity has attended the life must be brought to a flourishing condition again before much Argentine of late years, and the The fire which broke out on will be lost in advertising the abreast of the vast strides that Joan Mayne, the lady secretary, the Corporation was making upon whom falls a large share of progress can be made is the reclamation of the waste land; hence country is growing one, but as board the Cheong Bhing yester-next
and that the until to-day it is the leading the acting, was excellent in every French manufacturers must have the franc worth enough in other compared with the major nations day morning was caused facilities that are intended to be
by
ona time ranking 25 currencies to make it profitable to export manufactured articles, in in the League the South American spontaneous combustion amongst offered to the purchasers of the Bank in the East, at the same way, and Miss Marjory Clark an
of the the younger daughter was order that material requisite for repairing the havoc of the war may None the less, the secession is the No. 3 bold amidships. Prompt
republic is not a great factor. a cargo of Chinese medicine in different lots will be real
leading Banks of the world. It delightful romp. Mr. Frank be imported. la this particular connection, Dr. Hibben. himself io
has prospered considerably during Wheatley was true to the charac- American, plainly told an interviewer that the fact remains that deeply to be deplored. for concord attention was paid to extinguish Many will learn with interest Mr. Stabb's regidie, and his name ter of Dawkins the butler, and France and England have been the greatest sufferers financially of the €930nce of the ing the fire by the officers and that the Hon. Mr. Stabb, the will long be remembered in the Mr. Tom Fenwick as a pert and that the United States has emerged from the war with the League's being. It. bars
when the Fire very popular General Manager East.
inquiry agent engaged by Sir minimum of damage to its economic power. One thing, he said, start which, to those who had not Bridge float arrived, under the of the Hongkong and Shanghai
Robert to trace his married which strains the bonds of friendship between the United States formed exorbitant hopes, had command of Commander Back Banking Corporation, will be Mr. Stephen, bis successor, is daughter represented the charac
To-night the Company will in Paris this summer it took thirtsen, francs to equal the American Argentina bas acted bastily in fire was slight, though a COT- been the Manager of the Shanghai genuine business he has assisted present H. V. Esmond's, "The dollar in purchasing power. Not in France only. but in England withdrawing because her propos- siderable damage to cargo was branch and has acted on several it. He has always set his face Law Divine," in which the and in Italy, similar unfavourable ratios prevail. Of course, Frenched mendment to the Covenant inflicted by the water from the occassions as the General Man-against speculative enterprises, eternal triangle" is shared and British indebtedness to America bears on this point, but, has been deferred. The defection is fire hoses.
ager here, arrived on Batraday by financing only bone fide trade. by
Bas (Mr. according to Dr. Hibben, the general discontent of Europeans further to be regretted because of
the Sicilia. Mr. Stabb is of a He takes a very broad view of N. Thorpe Mayne) his wife with the financial situation does not show itself in any definite the peg it affords to opponents of
retiring disposition, but a sterling things and as the direction of the Edie (Miss Joan Mayne) and claicas upon American money; the people there are not reasoning Senators Lodge and Knox have course, the absence of the United
the League, peg of which
man all the same.
policy of the Bank is largely Daphone. Gray (Miss Bestriz the matter. They merely observe the unfavourable international lost no time in availing them- States means a big hiatus in the
rested in its General Manager, Wyoo), with a number of breezy market and almost unconsciously feel some resentment against selves. The many believers in world-comity, but even without
the Bank's dinetele look forward characters to provide the comlo those who possess the upper hand in all trades.” That is an in-
He is a very able Banker and to L liberal policy being relief. teresting sidelight on the present international outlook, especially the League will find encourage- Uncle Sam the first assembly has has served the Bank magnificent pursued during the regime of meat in the fact that on the whole created a favourable ly. The technicalities of bank Mr. Stephen. Lay men think 2.5 it is it days, high finance, with its worldwide ramifications, plays a great nations, including Britain, the porters must rest for the present difficult of comprehension and wholly controlled by the General and supply. Exchange is a very embraces 40 impression, and League suping are, to the non-expert,that the Exchange position is controlled by the world's demand: part in national stability and greatly affects the lot of the people. Dominions, France and Italy, and in the hope that the Grez few are able to fully grasp the Manager of the Hongkong and intricate subject and this is not The sooner, therefore, that conditions become more normal, thei better will it be for humanity at large. And in this regard the that Austria and other countries Republic will sooner or later fall stupendous figures shown in the Shanghai Bank in Hongkong the place in which to enter into United States has a big part to play,
have applied for admission. Of into line.
balance sheets of the Hongkong That is an erroneous ides. It is an academic discussion of it,
seamen, acd
auction,
and France is the rate of exchange, which is a constant irritation first sight it appears, too, as it under control. The damage by successor, Mr. Stephen, who has Wherever there has been
much that was encouraging. At with, the flames were kept well retiring Very shortly. His A very able maa as well. ter suitably.
to Europeaus generally. In 1914 five francs were worth a dollar;
in the relations between the New World and the Old. In these
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