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CHINESEENIN
The Expedition to
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him, buy it I do to becaus 1 know that I shall have entertain- mant, that I shall mir with people of broading, whether they be low born or high born; people with So the Chinese delegation to the THIS ERROR OF IMAGINING THAT
ideas and ideals, who behave Pacific conference is to number WE ARE GRIEVED AT A FAULT.
PEN-PICTURES,
themselves, and who take it for:
Char Canton WHEN WE ARE ONLY GRIEN ED *1⁄2 hundred:"* There is a certain
sorrespondant For a number of years granted that there is something writes that the Commander of the amplitude as well as a certainAT HAVING DONE SOMETHING TO precision about the figure given by STIMATION.-E. M. Sewell,
LOWER QURSELVES IN OUR OWN the editor of the Acis more in life than getting and unnan troops has been approach
Mr. Lewis Hiod, has also spending.
ed by President Sun Yat-sen to Banter, who, however, does not
written many works himself,
JOHN MASHIIELD.
brganise an allied army composed enlighten us as to the respective
especially in reference to art and Of all Englishmen now writing, of Hunam, Yoonan and Kiangvi proportions of (a) the delegates The Government is inviting artists, so that he possesses the John Masefield answers readiestroops in preparation for an attack proper and (b) she usual completanders for repairs to the steam dual qualification of author and to the fine ald term Man of Let on the north. ment of advisers, secretaries, launch H. D. 1. and the No. 1 eritic Naturally, he has met theters. He has turned his daft hand
The Kwangai troops in the assistants, and valels, without Fire Boat,
majarity of santemporary figures to everything, and he has succeed-in fact it is said that they bave Lungehow district are still active, whom faw Parliamentary delega-
in literature, and in his latest ed in everything. tions of any country seem abla to
volume,Authors and 1" (John
assumed the offensive against the BERNARD SHAW. get any sort of move on. Nor
His Excellency the Governor|Lane, 10/63), he presents some
To me a volume of "Plays with mants of the latter have now been
Cantonese troops. are we informed as to how Peking has appointed Mr. Eric Rice to piquant miniatures of many of Prefaces," by George Bernard sent from Naguing to attack this Two regi- has overcomə the difficulty be his Private Secretary, with them, the following being among Shaw, is an eveal In bim I find last remnant of the Kwangi concerning united representation, effect from the 15th August, 1921. the best-known:
those high forms of pleasure-army. in view of the importance of the
mental stimulus, inward laughter. South being heard. By appear-
He is like his own "Lob" in and the truth, the truth as he source that on the request of Wo ances. bowever, the Chinese
A Chinese, who sustained Dear Brutus": he loves to spring sees it, unsarnished and unde- Pui-foo the Peking 'Government authorities are bestirring them-fall in attempting to board surprises on rather a dense world. corated. What matter if I do not has borrowed $3,000,000 from the aelvas to get on with the business tramcar at Sand Street whilst Ha is the child-a silent, inward agree with him? It is G.B.S. I am local banks, giving the revenue of constituting & aubstantial sort was in motion, was yesterday langhing, restless child, learning reading, not myself. of delegation. One assumes that removed to the Government Civil his lessons in his own way who
of the province of Hupeh as among the members will be Mr. Hospital.
security. will never grow up. There is In future when I am asked devoted to the campaign against The money will be nothing of Darwin or Spencer in what I know about Hugh Wal- the Hunam forces. The report is
AS WATSON & CO., LTD. Alfred Sza, the Chinese Minister.
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BARRIE.
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It is further said from the same
Suffering from injuries to his him. nothing of blatthew Arnold pole I shall answer: "He wrote circulated that a large part of
or Dean loge. The pathos and *Jeremy."" bumour of actual life suffice for bim.
BELLOC.
and Dr. Wellington: Koo, now accredited 10 London, though contradictory rumours have beed head caused by a bammer flitting about. These two gentle - | a Chinese WAS
admitted men have bad special experience to the Government C.vit Hospital Western procedure. both yesterday: His assailant bas having served at Washington absconded.
In manner be is rather like and at the Court of St. James' in¦,
bull in a meadow, and as he pro- turn. As to representatives direct
ceeds, ramping and tossing, from Peking, it is said that the Pre-
Mr. C. Lauritsen, managing although I appreciate his know- mier and the Foreign Minister will director of the Dragon Motor ledge and power of expression, SEVERN-On 19th August, at Tanderague, 132. The Penk, to be members. This would accord Company, has written to the feel that I like him less and less with the practics of the Occident, Police reporting the theft of a There is too much of the school. but would be an innovation in four cylinder Bosch Magneto, master in him, too much of the Chinese politics. The reports are valued at $100 from the garage Pope. He is the kind of man rendered more doubtful by thelat Des Voeux Road Central. who would not wait to be elected ucsettled internal conditions.
Pope; he would take bis seat. Possibly the Government of Chiusi
and then defend it without pity and without compromise.
Birth.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Severn, a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921.
AN AUTOCRATIC ATTITUDE.
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wisbes to avail itself of the His Majesty the King has been opportunity to demonstrate to the pleased to approve the appoint- world that their country is com-ment of the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird ing into line with the other to be an Unofficial Member of Powers. Meanwhile we are glad the Legislative Council during to see that the Pacific Conference the absence an leave of the
Association.
organisation Honourable Mr. E. V. D. Parr.
of from 955 to 100. Oce, regarded "the" official thermometer, registered 981, and this stands as
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ARNOLD BENNETT.
CONRAD.
GALSWORTHY.
H. G. WELLS. He is a seeker. His thought is always on the wing: it does not rest. Most minds, as years go by, recline into apathy and resent change and the new thing, The mind of H. G. Wells is always alert, mora so to-day than ever. There is much of Mr. Britling in him, but he is tougher than Mr. B., and he has learnt to drive a motor car batter.
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prospect
of
Is there any cheaper books? The Publishers Association hive advised their members to abstain as far as
Hpnam troops were bombarded by river gun boats and were forced to retreat.
Information has come from the President's Palace in Canton that the plans for the attack on the north provide for an army of no fewer than 200,000 soldiers, made up of troops from the six pro- vinces of Szechen; Bunsm
weichow. Yunnan, Kwangsi and Awangtung."
A telegram from Shanghai says that the negotiations for a truce between the Hunam and Hupab forces have fallen through sad that fighting is still proceeding.
Shante:" realised £500,
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
Arnold Bennett is not only possible from putting out now dyname: he is also the controller books until the cost of produce Boras, father of the post, was The family Bible of William of the dynamo. I mean by this tion has come down. A director sold at Sotheby's last month for that his well-controlled will can of John Lane (the Bodley Head, £450 to order his well-controlled men Ltd) told & Press representative secretary of the Trustees of the Mr. T. C. Dunlop, ("formed by the public bodies ia
tality to do exactly what the will recepty that he say so im- Burns Cottage at Ayr, in which the Chinese capital, is putting
dictates. Inspiration, ecstasy.mediate prospect forward a strong ples for open! Notice is given in the Govern-loafing, and inviting the wool-books.
of cheaper it will be "The cost of book pro- Burnsian enthusiasts will know housed, (probably diplomacy and
us concomitant, ment Gazette that the time limit what are such things to him?duction is now so enormous that whether this gentleman is a complete publicity. Another note for filing claims at the Local Nothing. Dynamos don't have our profit is nothing like so big lescendant of the poet's bene- worthy sign is that when Mr. Clearing Office against debtors of ecstasics. Dynamos don't. loaf.
as it W&S before the war, Lloyd George relarred in Parlia German nationality has been He is the controller of the
factress). Seventeen years ago bo gaid:
wages Japan, and Britain as the Powers ber 30th, 1921, instead of March energy into £10 per thousand very high, but we cannot accept Messrs. Quarich, and passed of Robert Burns's family Bible was ment on Thursday to the U. S., provisionally extended to Septem- machine that converts mental printers aud binders are sold at Sotheby's for £1,560 to We published a letter yesterday from a correspondent chielly concerned with the Pacific 31st, 1921 after which date no words energy.
the advice to pass on the increas from them to Mr. Dunlop for the who signed himself "Salud" in which he protested against he was interrupted with cries of further claims will be sccepted.
ed cost to the public. Only a museum. Another relic secured the autocratic attitude of the Head of the Sanitary Depart-Chins" and promptly adopted]
Joseph Conrad is eager and few people will pay 5. 61. for a for the Barns Masenm was the ment towards the opinions of his subordinate staff. Our the correction.
farthright as prompt in speech book, whereas a very large bum- complete MS. of "The Jolly Beg- His Excellency the Governors in action. which is, what we ber used to pay is.63. in the old gars," which realised £450. For readers possibly remember the circumstances that led to this London's New “Mode." has received a telegram from the might expect from a "Master in days. English people do not like an indenture containing the very letter, but in case they don't we will remind them. On Our remarks a little while back Secretary
of State for the the Merchant Service," who has paper bound books. The experi- rare signature of Jean Armour, Tuesday, at the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the soacercing the possibility of Colonies to the effect that an spent many years of his life at meat has been tried. and was a the post's wife, £16 was paid. She Sanitary Board, there was discussion on the matter of whites at Home prove to have Order of His Majesty the Kingses. His literary style is as failure. Advertisers do not care
been anticipatory of the event, as in Council was issued on the 10th broad. deep, and full as a rolling to take the back pages of a book was later taught to do so. The was unable to write in 1788, bát Mr. providing a lavatory at the playground on the Peak. C. G. Alabaster pointed out that, although the Head of thalwe read that pioneers of that August, 1921, ordering that the Atlantic breaker. He handles our lor publicity, and in any case writing on the indeature, in a mode have mado their ap-26th July, 1921, shall be treated sonarus and plangent English such advertisements would spoil very unformed band, reads "Jean Sanitary Board had advised the non-erection of the pearance, and. not only in outer as the date of the sermin ton of with the ease that a captain the look of a book. However, we Omour." A few days later, af convenience, two Sanitary Iuspectors, who had been sent Londen bat within the conven-war between His Majesty and randies a ship, and yet he is no: still take risks. We do not ignore Christie's, the MS. of "Tem o up to make a report. thought that it should be provided. tional area known as the City-Hungary.
ao EnglishmaN..
the new author." Then it was that Mr. Sayer, who is the President of the The heat-wave has set the scribes
DRINKWATER. looking up meteorological records, Board and the Head of the Department, said, in effect, that and one gives 94 deg. as the
Why was Joha Drinkwater, au There was quite a large crowd English poet, not very well known, it didn't matter what the opinion of his subordinates might English 13inum. This
is of interested spectators at one able to do it, when there are so be, it was his opinion that the Government had been errone us. On a memorable day of the river boat wharves on many able dramatists who should supplied with. He added: The opinions of my suboria August 1911. as those who Thursday
the have been able to write a play dinates are, of course, for myself alone, and if it verurs will probably remember, unless was
were then in the Old Country remains of the actor who about Liveoln? Is it because he shot and killed in. is a poet and an idealist, who had that their opinions have fallen into the hands of members they were only toddlers. the the Wo Fing Theatre on 'Tuesday
a vision of Lincoln as God's pan, It used to be the fashion tor the thing for weakness. It's a com. during the circulation of the minutes, the members author-mercury mounted practically tonight were conveyed on board the and kept that vision blear and sentimental covelist to tell us mon mistake even in everyday ity does not entitle them to comment on any discrepancy the three figures. At Greenwich boss. The funeral of the deceased clean?
that the world was ran on business affairs. Time was when between my opinion and the opinion of my subordinates. Observatory four thermometers.will be taking place in his native
love wi' a capital L. But by the I had sympathy for the South of differently placed, gave readings village in Kwantung. He might have added. And so you know."
I heard him lecture and read Hokey Fly that's no true nowa Ireland; mind ye, mainly based What does all this boil down to? It means that when
more than once, and had I been days. This terrestial sphere, as on the fact that a people canos" asked to introduce him to an au- Joe would call it, rather seems to be forced to be or to do this or a Sanitary Inspector is sent out to make a report on any proposal affecting the Colony's health his report will count
doing so I should have startled (o' your lukewarm kind o' bates another nation. But after read- for nought, unless it happens to coincide with the opinion bad as has just been experienced
him and the audience by compar-jeither, but a deep, sound, copper- ing De Valera's arrogant state- of his chief. It means also that the large body of Inspectors in France, where a shade tem
The End of the War..ing him to Charles Dickens. They bottomed hatred of the kind so ment I'm through wi' him and I must feel that it doesn't matter what they report. parading the boulevards in his perature of 103 led to a Parisian
had this in common-the burning lucidly expounded in the gospel hope Dail Eireann will feel because Mr. Sayer has his own ideas and they alone pyjamas, with a subsequentation published in last week's Gov. basic motive of Charles Dickens. wonder wi' a name like that I'd to believe that De Valera would With reference to the notifica-to right wrong. That was the according to Dail Eireann. No suitably impressed. It's difficult must stand. Soother ideas must see the light of pearance, in more austere garb, day, because he said quite plainly that it members before the Prefect. The adoption rnment Gazette a telegram has that is the basic motive of John hate myself to belong to it. dout the chance of a settlement
for that pig-headed which offered Ireland so much. of the Board thought they were entitled to comment
"whites" in the British been received by His Excellency Galsworthy. It is explicit. in And
the Governor from the Secretary Dickens: it is implicit in every son-of-a-guu De Valers I'm It is plain that the Government capital provides an amusing on any of the papers sent to them the opinion of illustration of what the professors of State for the Colonies to the play, neval, tale, and sketch by through wi' bim sad I don't will now be in a very much subordinates would have to be withdrawn from the files. are
care if he knows. He's a trouble stronger position to organise fond of calling -herdi
breeder onyway. The only thing drastic resistence to irreconcilable In other and plainer words, the policy of the Department psychology." Each year in early the King in Council has been is to be dictated by one man. That is not as it should be summer the same kind of thing is issued under the Termination of In a word. Thomas Hardy de- he has done well, and instinctively separatism. Even its feeble op and it is an arrangement not conducive to the best running seen. Every one wants to don the Prosent War (Decision) Act, mands respect-deep respect and at that I suppose, in to interpret position in Parliament must be his straw hat, but is waiting for 1918, ordering that the 31st Aug.. diligence and unless you can the blind unforgiving character of on the other side, now the Irish of the Department. Mr. Sayer himself must surely re: somebody to give the lead. On 1921, shall be treated as the date give him that, in full measure, the Southern Irishman. As I've having been offered all that they said before every one o' them (the Wes Freos) said should be alise that men who have spent practically their whole the first day the bold individual of the termination of the present read somebody else.
WOLFS a mental hair shirt given them, Politically Lloyd lives in the Department don't like being treated in that may walk miles without seeing war, that is to say, the 31st Aug..
He is just himself; he goes his ingrained hatred in principle to George cques out of it all way. It so happens that Mr. Sayer, until he went to the another similarly batted; on the 1921, is the day at midnight on
which the present war will and. own rapid, riotous way. withony thing Englisb. Lloyd George stronger than ever, Hat Samtary Board after returning to the Colony from active second strawa" are everywhere. The Order further provides that everything shaped in his mind; bas asked them to leave it off for no give way &hairsbraadth service, had had no experience of sanitary matters. True, fanatic
A generation ago cobody but "a
would have dreamned nothing in the Order shall affect be twists and turns in the mar good but apparently they're for to Dail Eireann. War or po
accumulates the having nothing relations between His Majesty rative, be he has been in the Colony eleven years, and has been con- of
might war, there'll be nothing else doing. entering
office ลด nected with the administration of the New Territories, the the fibrous headgear,
and the Ottoman Empire until characteristics of his characters; eventually deprive them o it. Besides in the present temper at the ratification of the Treaty of he peppers the page with argat, Take away the Irishman's grouse, Dublin the now, if we gave them Police Force, the Official Receiver's office, has been Private extra-hot summer
Peace with that Empire shall street bumour, misquotations that agin-the-government some tentative efforts to introduce
the Empire as a cumshaw they'd Secretary to H.E. the Governor, attached to the Attorney the lighter headwear within the have been exchanged or deposited. (intentional), singes the narrative feeling and what has he left? next want a fence to pat round it. General's office and Acting Chief Assistant to the Secretary sacred precincts of the business
with pathos and pity, and then at They remind me of what I've I wouldna' like to bring religion the end starts · the for Chinese Affairs. That is a record to be proud of but quarter were witnessed, and the
surprise read about regarding one of the into a screed like this, more one that hardly qualifies for a show of autocracy on matters problem engaged the attention service at Canton, where they are always a surprise. It makes my people who want about the coun- Ireland
staggering, ironical, subtle but orders of the mendicant friars, especially in connection
bot realising; tho connected with public sanitation and health.
cautiously simpathetic, of the also now employed in Government elevator boy think; it makes me yside lashing lumps out of matter what happens, that force We have seen fit to say all the above because we know that Press Fortunately, at the crisis offices, including the telephone think.
themselves. Even when there's will never do, I believe' at this of the discussion, a-leading bank department. In this respect, at- the Sanitary Department staff feel hurt at the way their manager threw his august vote any rate, the North contemplates
nothing in the wide world present juncture that the word reports are
to Cause bim Book after book by him ap the average Irishman, every now problem. There's precedent for uneasiness, of one individual might solve the things, too. When's man," whose work for years has been progressives. Can it have been book, according to a report fromterest, they may be different, as his conscience just to remind the Vatican tried to make pease, on the practical side of public sanitation, is, in effect, told that the missionaries of London's Peking.
The director of the "Stalky is different from "Re- that his opinion is worthless and doesn't count, he becomes strial fashion were old Telephone Department there bas cessional; but in each and all himself that he's one of an op- if the mass of the Irish popula
Ching hands?
sent a petition to the Ministry of there is the magic that starta Pressed people... a much less keen public servant. That members of the
mation are wi' De Valera I can sen This De Valera bird's got to no other means o' making an end. somewhere, if not verywhere. come off his bigh porch. He's to this business but if they're no“, point only of any question will rob the practice of circulat- Who says China is hopelessly with thirty young ladies. "Hello ing minutes of nearly all its value. Members might as well conservative, especially in regardare you there! We wonder Kipling. have a private chat with Mr. Sayer and save all the fuss and to her women? A little while bow the answer sounds in Chinese ago we heard of women workers from the lips of, “unmarried girle trouble.
being introduced into the railway below twenty"?
the record. This is not quite so A CLEARER DEFINITION,dience (once I came very near be run on hate to-day, and none that at the beck and call of
of
with Then
effect that an Order of His Majesty
Communications with this object,
Galsworthy.
HARDY:
0. HENRY.
KIPLING.
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wi
Sanitary Board are to be allowed to see the official view-The "Hello' Girl" in China.He proposes to make a beginning in everything signed Rudyard had a rush of high office' and then it means a bold-up, and the
W.-J. LOOKE. I count myself & Locke man. If can't borrow a new novel by
responsibility to the brain. Dail sooner the murderous gang are Eireann his mistaken fairness extirpated the batter. Bad icran. and desire to do right to them ónyhow.