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NOTES & COMMENTS.
More German Evasion.
DAY BY DAY.
OPPOSITION MAY INFLAME THE ENTHUSIAST, BUT NEVER CON- VERTS HIM,-Schiller.
THE BOOKSHELF.
(By “Librarian.”)
The cable intimates that Ger- many is adopting the same evasive
A PEASANT POET. tactics in relation to the charge
In the last two or three waska for the army of occupation as she
The total output of the Kailan attention has been directed to pursued over the question of
Mining Administration's mines volumes of a political character. roparations. By this time the for the week ending 5th March, This week we will consider a Allies have grown a little tired of amounted to 78,532 tone and the piece of pure literature in the Fritz's manœuvres, and a per-sales during the period, to 83,321 shape of Mr. Edmund Blunden's emptory Note has been despatched tons.
Life of John Clare, the peasant to Berlin. Contrition is still so
post
The of Northampton. far from the hearts of German statesmen that their whole policy
biography makes its appear- Two robbers waylaid the pantry anco apropos of Clare's centen- isdirected towards hampering and boy of H.M.8. Carlisle on the ary. It may be remarked that not towards helping the Allied road from Hunghom to Yaumati the present yoar is riob in representatives in their task. An yesterday and relieved him of a centenaries. Among these are two honest attempt to assist would be sum of $50. They bolted after at this juncture much appreciat- having successfully effected this ed, and could hardly fail to be to haul.
| Germany's advantage as well as
to ours. There is every reason
to believe that Germany's present)
Pore.
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poets whose respective careers, with their aftermaths, have been widely different. One of these ia Keats, neglected in his brief lifetime; now. recognised as among the brightest stars of the fatal Clare, who enjoyed a wide vogue
Yesterday's health return
and prospective capacity to pay shows two cases of cerebro-spinal frmament. The other is John is much greater than had been at fover (one fatal). ono one time expected. Her recovery occurrence of small-pox and one on his appearance, only to fall has been substantial; she had non-fatal case of diphtheria. The into an obscurity from which the no invader on her soil to last-named was British; the morit of his work should have doctroy as she destroyed in others Chinese.
preserved his memory. Belgium and France; the energy and preserverance of ber
The peasant poet was no mere
uitizens aro to all appearances Mr. H. C. Lee, who has hitherto jehance rhymer of the kind that preparing the way for a great in-boen engaged with the late Mr. every now and then emerges from dustrial revival; in short, she is J. H. Gardiner, has now sovored some unexpected quarter, flouri- not the bankrupt concern that his connection with the firm and shes for a season, and is then ahe would have us believe. That has commenced practice for him-forgotton or recalled only as a boing so, the Allies were amply self. Mr. Lee was enrolled here freak; this humble votary of Parnassus was endued with "the justified in rejecting Dr. von last September. Simons" "ludicrously inadequate"
vision and the faculty divine." Mr. Blunden has written
а
suggestion. There is considerable To-morrow's picture page will fascinating account of Clare's likelihood that Germany will contain illustrations of the land-life, and has prefaced it to a prosper in the futuro as it is ining of the Japanese Admiral in selection of Clare's poems. It is our interest that she should and Hongkong last week; a snapshot
s story as melancholy as that of we must duly share in the fruits of the Crown Prince of Japan Burns. Poverty, a large, depend- of that prosperity. Such is the near Lake Chuzenji; a portraitent family, intemperance in later] argument of France, in any rea-of the late Mr. E. J. Noronha; life, and maduess all figure in it. sonable interpretation of which two pictures taken at the Polo His journey home on foot from she is entitled to the undivided Club's 'gymkhana; and a group the asylum in 1841 makes a support of her Allies.
of the Harbour Office staff taken background against which we on the occasion of the recent read his verse with a doubly presentation to Mr. McIver.
poignant interest :-
Che Hongkong Telegraph A Far-East Celebrity.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1921.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE AGREEMENT.
the Transactions of the Asiatic
New Japan, and, being master of
at the local office.
The first night, he says, "I lay down with my head towards the north, to show myself the steering-point in the morning." On the third day I satisfied my hunger by eating the grass on the roadside, which soomed to taste something like broad. I was hungry and eat heartily till I was satisfied; in fact, the meal seemed to do me good." And "there was little to notice, for the road very often looked as stupid as myself." At last between Peterborough and Helpston "a cart met me, with
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MR. BONAR LAW,
whose resignation from the Cabinet is announced in to-day's telegrams.
I love the muse who sits her LOCAL HOTEL DISPUTE.
down
Trouble with the Fish Guild.
Upon the molebill's little
lap,
Who feels no foar to stain her
gown
erow gap;
A difference has arisen between the local Hotel Guild and the Fish Dealers' Guild, with the re-
And pauses by the hedg-sult Not with that affectation, praise Of song, to sing and never
вес
A field flower grown in all her
days
Or een a forest's aged trọc. Een here my simple feelings
nurse
A love for every simple
weed,
And een this little shepherd's
purse
Grieves me to cut it up:
indeed
I feel at times a love and joy
For every weed and overy
thing,
A feeling kindred from a boy,
A feeling brought with
Spring,
The interest which the occasion.
that the former has asked the Eating House Guild to join in a boycott of the latter. For the past two days all eating houses have displayed notices saying that fish is not supplied.
dealers have jointly refused to
It appears that the trouble arises from the fact that the fish
rofund to the hotels the custom- for the cost of the fish at the end ary percentage on the price paid of every month. This sum is usually reserved for the firing by the hotels. It is hoped that of crackers on New Year's day
the dispute will be settled soon. J
LOCAL BOXING. Arrangements for Next Week's Bouts.
wished me to get into cart/something more than the transient are asked to state that for the
more
London:
.Geo. Allon
T8-
For some time Sir Ernest Satow has been engaged on his memors, Advices have been received at: and it is now announced that his the local office of the Pacific book has been published under Steamship Company of the forth- the tittle of Diplomat in coming arrival here of the first of Sir Ernest's record of the fleet of United States Shipping Japan." his life in Japan should prove Board liners allocated to the very interesting. The retired Company for operation between diplomat was born in 1843 and Hongkong and San Francisco. entered the Japan Consular Ser-The Golden State is due to arrive The signing of the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement vice in 1861, arriving in Japan here on the 21st of April. She is (the text of which Reuter outlined in yesterday's cables) two years after the country had a standard vessel of 21,167 tons marks a very distinct advance in the relationship between been opened to foreign residence displacement, 12,600 tone dead- Russia and the other countries of Europe. The agreement he watched with observant eyes and maintains an average speed For more than twenty years after weight, has a length of 535 feet. is one of tremendous importance politically as well as the process of the transition of of 17-1/2 knots. Bookings for financially because the two Governments forming the Japan from feudalian to the berths on this vessel are now open a man, a woman and a boy in contracting parties undertake to act in precisely the same modern industrial State. A fine
it. When nearing me the has reawakened in the peasant tournament at the Ming Yuen In connection with the boxing woman jumped out, and caught poet's works should gain for them Gardens on Thursday noxt, we manner as though a formal treaty of peace had been signed. Japanese scholar, he recorded in Those undertakings are particularly wide and virtually Society of Japan the result of
fast hold of my hands and An Indian and three Chinosó mean the cessation of all friction and dispute. Only by his historical, philosophic, and schoolboys were this morning But I refused; I thought her tion of centenarios.
interest attaching to the celebra-convenience of patrons attending six months' notice after the expiration of twelve months literary investigations, and he charged with the larceny of a either drunk or mad. But when
Lho tournament who máy can the agreement be terminated save by a breach on compiled, in collaboration, an bicycle from a shop at Tsim Tea
I was told it was my second
wish to leave before the end, Britain's part of one of the main undertakings. One From the Consular Service he hoy engaged the bicycle from the English Japanese Dictionary, Tsui. It appears that the Indian
wife, Patty, I got in, and was In "The New Japanese Peril" the main event of the evening, soon at Northborough.". cannot read through the abbreviated text without realising passed to the Diplomatic, being shop and spirited it away to He lingered on in various stages Unwin Ltd; 10s. 6d.) Mr. Sidney between "Sky" Berrison and Sea- and namely the championship contest that the British authorities were particularly keen to meet appointed Minister Resident at Hongkong, where he and his of madness till 1864. Some of the Osborne shows himself to have man Codlings, will take place the Russian delegates' viewpoints.
Russia Soviet Russia--can now be said to have Video in 1898, while he was ap-shop in Cains Road, This took book fall under the heading of thesis is that Japan took advantment, as has been previously the Bangkok in 1885, and at Monte associates sold it for $10 at a most moving poems in the present been a diligent observer of events immediately after the interval
in the Far East, His main and not at the end of the tourna re-established herself among the trading Powers of Europe pointed Minister Plenipotentiary place last week, but the boys Asylum Poems:"
to Morocco in 1895, Thence he was were not detected until a casual and the effect of it all must inevitably be a brisk revival transferred to Tokyo in 1895, and discovery by a constable of an
Clare was, perhaps, the closest age of the Powers' pre-occupation custom.
to establish E Japanese The public will also be interest- in the commercial relations of the two peoples. It has witnessed the recovery by Japan attempt to sell the lamp to a shop observer of bird life who had been claimed that Russia is still a great storehouse of many of, full fiscal and judicial auto- at Lascar Row resulted in the appeared till his time in English hegemony over China, and he is ed to learn that the seating
apprehensive that the result may accommodation has been He enjoyed observing boa China of the four culprits. verso. needed essentials and also that she has the financial capacitynomy in 1899. He was appointed arrest
developed under arranged and all the scats num- almost British Minister to Peking in Questioned by the Magistrate, things to purchase manufactured goods to a large extent. Just 1900, remaining in China for six they all blamed each other, and naturalist than an imaginative followed by an advance upon be sure of getting their correct like Japanese tutelage and domination bered, so that those backing will how all these prognostications will work out remains to be years, and then retiring. His ac- as the result were all sentenced man. In a good sense he was as Europe by a mammoth Mongolian scats asperplan at Moutrie's. The scen. One has to realise that Russia is a country of great count of his experiences will be of to be soundly whipped.
realistic about animals as Crabbe horde under some modern Attila Hongkong Tramway Company is vastness and also of great natural wealth which all the uncommon value. Having wit
was about people.
Ghonghiz Khan. This to run special trams from the or At the same time, like Mr. W. ів internal strife could hardly have dissipated. Her millions nessed the transition from Old to
hardly now. Probably Post Office to the Ming Yuen The Mission being conducted H. Davies, the itinerant poet of Mr.. Osborne is of people need much that Britain can supply them with the art of narrative, Sir Ernest's by Father Lynch continues to our day, he could touch realism
referring Gardens, which will be illuminat- and, contrariwise, Britain has need of the raw products with monoirs are likely to rank high draw large congregations to the with emotion, as in his address to the latex developments of ed with 2,400 lights, lighting of Japanese policy, notably the 3,000 candle-power being provided which to feed her industrial machinery. From the economic in autobiographic literature. Catholic Cathedral. This evening solitudo:
Twenty-One Demands, which, directly over the ring. and commercial standpoint there is nothing but what is good Apart from his Far Eastern ox-there is to be a rather unique
Sweet solitude, what joy to however, he admits have been We are also asked to state that be alone- to be said for the pact just made. It is from the political periences, the ex-diplomatist has service, when Father Lynch will
partly upset through the sudden it has not yet been definitely In wild, wood-shady dell to termination of the war leaving decided whether the tournament side that one might be forgiven a doubt, though that side written upon Frederic the Great, give the Stations of the Cross and and is the author of "A Guide to deliver fourteen sermonettes, on
stay for hours. of the question has been very thoroughly thrashed out. In Diplomatic Practice."
the Powers free to protect their shall be a "benefit" for Kerrison, Twould soften hearts if they interests out here. The subject, the matter still being under con- a comment yesterday we ventured the opinion that the
were hard as stone Soviet regime in Russia would not stand the test of time,] A Queer Request.
To see glad butterflies and and that opinion was based on the knowledge of an unbias- It is noted somewhere in Mr. For 600 years the Franciscans
smiling flowers,
blem, upon which not columns, the peril, Mr. Osborne might ed critic (not British, by the way) who has had first-hand Norton Kyshe's judicial history have been allowed by the Turkish
Tis pleasant in these quiet but volumes could be, have been, rejoin that he has put the case at that Chinese authorities to make the Way of
lonely places, experience of the conditions under which the semblance of of the Colony
and doubtless will be spent, its highest to emphasiss the Where not the voice of man Within the compass of a single danger in time. He advocates the ordered government is maintained. There, again, time is prisoners showed a partiality for the Cross through the streets
our pleasure mars.
Anglo- volume of moderate dimensions supersession of the the only test that will reveal the true state of affairs, quarters and victuailing arrange- days a sermonette is preached at
gaol, presumably finding the every Friday, and on Good Fri- To see the little baes with Mr. Osborne gives us a succinet Japanese Treaty by an Anglo- though the present revolution, the import of which the meats tolerably agreeable. Such each station
coal black faces
analysis of Japanese operations, American-German-Russian all- marking a spot Russian Trade Delegation is so eager to minimise, can be episodes have been recorded in attached to some particular phase
Gathering sweets from little political and commerical, on the ance to ensure equal opportunity flowers like stars.
mainland. One's firat impression in China, all the parties to taken as an index of non-unanimity. The Soviet has other countries. It is said that of the Passion. This it is that undertaken to refrain from hostile action and propaganda when the Parisians stormed the Father Lynch will reproduce at
In the same poem in which this is that he lays all the emphasis relinquish such privileges as Bastille many of the victims of this evening's service.
verse occurs we have a striking- upon one side to which he extra-territoriality and similar -in fact both parties have agreed to a political truce--and lettres de cachet showed no eager-
ly real description of a ohanging would probably reply that, concessions as a token of their it may be on the strength of that that the British noss to quit their colis. This was
sky on an April evening:-
the title denotes, he goodwill to the new Republic. authorities see no danger in the agreement. But whether probably due, though, to their The local Printers' Guild,
The sunshine's gone, and is dealing with the question This carries us into the whole field- now an April evening
particular a
aspect. of weltpolitik, but manifestly does Britain has concluded an agreement with a government having been reduced to a state following the decision they have that will stand the test of its own people is a matter on tion, where insanity had not pressing
of apathy bordering upon aberra- come to in Canton, are now
Commences with a dim and Be Japan's motives as Machiavel not enter the range of practical the local Chinese mackerel sky.
lian as the author represents politice just now, whatever may which we have considerable doubt.
actually set in. In some cases { printers' shops for an eight-bour| Gold light and woolpacks in them to be, the sequel is hardly be said for it as a general propoal- Be that as it may, there is room to welcome the agree the predeliction for gaol appears day for their members in place of the west are leaving,
likely to follow the matter-of-tion. In allusion to the sinister ment. International commerce (and
And leaden streaks their course lines that he adumbrates. element in Japanese politica eleven-hour day hitherto on that largely to be positive. A few weeks ago the
splendid place supply.
The resistance which Japan ia which Mr. Osborne sees in the depends the industrial happiness of most peoples) has been a prisoner-not at all of the dee- obtaining in these establishments.
Sheep ointment seems to daub experiencing both from China militarist clique and the Genro, all too sluggish of late. Too many channels of trade in-titute class, to judge by the The dispute has been referred to report-appealed to a Magistrate the Secretary for Chinese Affairs
the deadhued sky,
and from the Western Powers is he scarcely makes sufficient tercourse have been closed, too much distrust and un- in the Old Country to give him a for arbitration, but the matter is And night shuts up the light-making itself felt, witness the allowance for the growing force certainty has been abroad. To have re-opened the longer sentence. But a case at still in abeyance owing to the someness of day,
abrogation of the Sino-Japanese of public opinion in that country, All dark and absent as a military fact, the announce which id potential field of Russia to British commercial interests is the Old Bailey is surely without reluctance of the employers to
becoming corpsen eye,
ment io
Diet the
that outspoken, both in the Press to have relieved the pressure of trade inertia. And to precedent, the accused entreating fall in with the men's demands,
Flower, tree, and bush, liké| Siberia the Bench to award him the which they regard as inconsistent.
is to be evacuated and among the generat have done that is to have done something worth the doing "cat" The reader feels a sus-Information received to-day
all the shadows grey.
(though, admittedly, no date is public, on the matter of arm Revision, in the light of changed conditions in Russia picion, however, that the prisoner indicates that a strike is impond. In lesden hues of desolation given), the proposed consideration amente. Whether one invariably itself, might be necessary in the future, but if that revision was enough of a lawyer to knowing. The employees of a number
fade away.
of the Shantung question, and adopts the author's conclusions. is necessary it will be in co-operation with a regime with that the penal code does not of shops actually left work after We find the whole of Clara's Baron Hayashi's affirmation of or no, the concise and lucld
Door inflict corporal punishment for their masters had failed to give poetic creed stated in "The Flit the Open which British political ideals will be in much closer housebreaking if violence was a pledge that is regarded as ting," in which he mourns over repudiation of "special rights," renders it distinctly serviceable to with the material assembled in the volume
sympathy.
not used.
necessary for future negotiations. his departure from his old house:If taxed with over-stressing the political student.
the Passion of Christ. Some years ago, Father Lynch, when in Jerusalem, took part on two occasions in this observance,
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of course, lands us right in the sideration. throes of the Far Eastern pro-
from
vory