MONDAY, AUGUST
THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY.
SPARKLING MINERAL NOTES & COMMENTS.
WATER.
Pyeris
Delicious either alone or blended with
wines and spirits.
A Chance.
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There was a clean bill of health what its share of that effort should fin the Colony on Saturday.
The British Premier bad painted a sad picture but a A young cool 'e was yesterday pisture not quite so forcefully accidentally drowned whilst at appealing as that given by Reuter work at the Taikoo Sugar Re- on Saturday when be repeated | finery Wharf. the repart of a Russian educa-
nart October.
FEAST.
TO-DAY'S
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The following paragraph from - an English daily will be appresłał. id by dwallera te ikki. Colony- | Like us, the people of the United FIND OUT WHAT YOUR TEMPT- Queer Dishes For Pressmen.
Stated ́are suffering from about In an editorial last week deal-ŢATIONS ARE, AND YOU WIÊL
A monster sturgeon af 300lbs ware of unusual moverity: But fing with the Russian famine we FIND OUT LARGELY WHAT YOU! Honolulu, Hawail, July 13
Henry Ward A typical cld-fashioned "ivan" or has been caught in the Dee, bat fortunately we are better able to pointed out that in view of the ARE YOURSELF. --
native Hawaiian feast, replete Ramsgate's glory is still un-fandura temperatures above the 50 wide International effort nooded to Brecher.
with many delicacies unknown dimmed, and the landing there la deg, mark than are Americans, [combat the suffering and disease, Hongkong might well consider
outside the islands, will be one of 1902 of a fish weighing 3lbs, is particularly those in the eastern the features of the interesting still an unbeaten record for the States. Owing to the proximity program being prepared by the century. Whathar the sturgeon of that part of the United States people of the territory for the was ever good enough to become to the atlantic Ocean, the per- entertainment of delegates to the a
Royal monopoly many | centage of humidity in the air is Press Congress of the Warid hare be doubled. It certainly is not always vary great, and the effect to-day a dish for opicurea, and its af high temperaturs is vary great- To the uninitiated the feast appearance on the tables in kings" | ly accentuated when the air is will at first appear crude and, palaces must be rare. But tastes molat. Damp air prevents free tional commissary dealing with Seven days" hard labour was perhaps, barbarie; but once they vary with the times, and Royal perspiration, and when the natural the plight of Russian children. this morning awarded to a Chinese have tasted the wide assortment Plantagenets prized as a delicacy method of relieving our over- No fewer than 300,000 children for the larceny of a door mat be- of native foods cooked in genaine what many to-day deam, but hested bodies falls quite moderato have been abandoned by their tonging to the Bank of Taiwan. Hawaiian style, and bare tested coarse fare. The kings had the summer temperatures are parents and are now a charge
the deliciously appetizing flavors old Romans on their side, and bearable. upon the state, while on the banks of the River Volgs thou- enger to-day by the St. Albans, new bow to bring out, they will brosial feast.
Mrs. Harry Woods is a pass-that only the Hawaiian chefs Martial thought sturgeon an am-
Heat waves and great droughts sands of children are, sleeping leaving for a trip to Australia.fall to" as eagerly as the
have somatimes been accompanied without shelter and are living The Misses Woods will remain "kamaainas" or old-timers.
Entering on his tenth year of with unpleasant phenometa, by begging, prostitution and this in the Colony.
The Hawaiian chef does his office as Premier of New Zealand which fortunately we are not ex- fing.". One does not want to stress
cooking in a large hole in the Mr. W. F. Massøy, holds a longer periencing now. The summer of ifacts S0 distasteful as these.
A godown situated at No. 143 ground. This he lines with the record of service as the head of a 1783, for instance, according to but they serve to point out the East was the day leaves of the ti" plant. Government than any of the Gilbert White, was an amazing There was a succession of The International Commission of seagrass and rattan cord of the oven, he places it in the hole and Imperial Conference. This is his alarming thunderstorms, there will doubtless be the prime value of H00 was stolen.
literally stuffs it with red hot fourth visit to London at the call [were earthquakes in Sicily, a agency through which work will
stores. Around the pig he places of the British Government.volcano sprang out of the sea on be done, but its resources are not
an As the result of an accidental chicken, beef, taro, fish and sweet It is
July 10. so boundless that contributions fall whilst at work aboard
1912 the coast of Norway, while a a potatoes wrapped in leaves, that Mr. Massey, having de peculiar base or smoky fog, hong master from what source steamer berthed alongside one of Then he covers the whole with feated the Mackenzie Govern over every part of England. All would not be tha: kfully received. the Kowloon wharves, a Chinese several layers of leaves, sprinkles munt, assumed office. He had the time the heat was so intense Whether the officials at Home
seamen was yesterday taken to them plentifully with water, and bean a member of Parliament that butchers' mest could hardly are going to issue an Empire- the Government Civil Hospital. 6lls up the DVED with dire continuously since 1894. Mr. de estan on the day after it was wide appeal has not yet beaɔ
Several hours later the earth and Massey was already a Freeman killed. The country people began made known. If they do Hong- The body of a Chinese famule, Isaves are removed. The pig has of the cities of London, Edinburgh, to look with superstitions awe at kong will doubtless do its bit, but 10 years of age, was removed to been cooked to a turn, sad, like York, Cardiff, Londonderry, Bris the sun, prophets of disaster even if they don't Hoogkong the Public Mortuary by L.S. the other edibles, has retained tol, and Manchester, and two sprang up on all sides, and then should still do what it cao. We have been rather inclined to boast right who from a police launch all of its natural favors and is further similar honours were con when things were at the worst
discovered it floating in the water tender and juicy.
ferred on him during his recent the weather broke and England But these are not the only visit.
Ibecame itself again. near the Yaumali Feiry Wharf,
items that go onto the long:
that Suffering from injuries to his "u" table
has been foot as the result of being knock-decorated with ferns, flowers and ed down by motor car No. 496 in leaves. The menu for the Press. Des Voeux Road last night, a Congress "lose" will in all prob- Chinese was removed to the ability read about as follows-
Poi the staple cativa focd.) Government Civil Hospital after the accident.
made from the steamed root of the taro plant: pork, chicken,
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. urgency of alloziating measures. broken into and a consignment After preparing a pig for the Prime Ministers attending the one.
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BRAGA-On 21s: August, at the French Conven: Hospital, to war charities and we should be Mr. and Mrs. E. 1. Braga, a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 22. 1921.
The W mezor
Kowloon hospital.
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Between Ourselves
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By Robt MacWhirter.
keen in keeping up that high re- putation. Here is a chance we should gladly take hold of. Motor Ambulances.
The arrival in Hongkong of the ambulances marks another improvement in the public equipment of the Colony. The
Good morning! Ape. I know o' prickly heat unless he's only old hand ambulance and even the By a score of 6 to 3, the Canton beef and many kinds of fish cook that by the time ya read this been a dog's-watch in the Colony. old motor ambulanca cried for Chinese Baseball Team proved its led underground; kukui nuts, red bit screed it'll be afternoon and It's the safest way of making replacemec: The lates: arrivals superiority over the Japanese salt and chili peppers, the maybe night, if the delivery coolie an enemy for life that I know are vehicles admirably fitted for team from Hongkong at yester Hawaiian condiments chicken wills it so, but never mind. a new of. CENTRAL CHINA'S CASABIANCA.
the work they will have to carry day's game at the East Garden Stewed in coconut milk; Hawaiian day's coming to-morrow, so mind I met the other chap just out. Kowloon residents will be which was attended by more than
"spinach" or taro leaves;" hee,"
your step.
coming off the Ferry. I grinned, o: squid, stewed in coconut milk;| Wang Chan-yuan's star. which lately rose so high in pleased at the presence of one of 1,000 spectators.
I said good morning" this wished him "good morning" and several kinds of dried fish morning to four folks between would have passed on but be China's political firmament. has set in a sulphurous haze them in the Peninsula for ther
have felt very much neglected in Between 1 and am. yesterday
opibi," or sea urchin: "lomi"
my home and the office. That insincatad his 223 lbs between Only three or four months ago Wang gained admittance to this respect for years. Now Kowa burglar entered the bedroom of salmon, which is a happy com- doesna include the matinal greet me and the pay box, scowled and the upper circle. in the conferences at Tientsin and Peking toon has its own ambulance not a Mrs. Mils residing at No. I Peace bination of raw salt salmon, ing between Janet and I which demanded to know what the be formed one of the Big Three. Wang was out-jockeyed few residents are wondering when Avenue (Homantin) and stole onions and
green
peppers developed into a scrap about a devil I was laughing at onyway. shutter which He'd have me know the tent was there by the other two, or at any rate by Chang Tso-lin, they are going to see the new clothing and money of the totalspar or shrimp, both fresh and curtain and a
idried; sweet potatoes; It has al value of $87. Entry was gained or shellfish: "kulolo." a Hawaiian overnight. I didns believe in course it was but started in who got off with the lion's share of the spoils, including a
OWN somehow or other bad got closed his
-o0yway. I said of fat sum for the Crga expedition, which has not started ready been made public that a from the verandah.
start will first be made On
pudding made from taro and beginning a
new week, never thinking hard. He could do yet. In fact, the rise and fall of Wang's fortunes pretty the executive buildings which It is reported to the police by coconut: baupia," another mind a new day, wi' raw nerves, what he liked wi' his own pro- well synchronised; the meeting of the triumvirate, which will contain about forty beds, a Japanese houseboy, at No. 16 native dessert "koale" or sweet so I merely waved all argument perty couldn't he? I heartily marked the zenith of Wang's success, murked also the the proposed main wards of the Wyndham Street, that whilst potato padding, "limu" or sea-aside and mately pointed to the agreed wi' bim. Ye canna get topmost pillow which looked playing fast and loose wi's start of bis decline. Scarcely had be returned to his institution being erected after-delivering
wards. The Committee of the residence of Mr. Lewis, of No. 39
message at the weed, and lobster.
Fingers will serve in lieu of as if it had spent the most of the couple o' hundred-weights o' satrapy than the military riots broke out at Ichang and Kowloon Residents Association the Peak, a dog came out and knives, and forks, and thers will aight steeping in the bath. But indignant energy. I didna' feel Wuchang. The soldiery's pay was in arrear, while some has recently had the matter in took a bite at his leg.
be leaves for napkins.
as Janet said she couldns' help like it, on a Monday morning battalions which Wang was compelled to disband for lack band, we understand, and it need
it if the wind changed after we'd onyway. So I left him in the of funds expected a larger gratuity than was forthcoming, not be so very long now before an The moulders of the " Cos-
gone to sleep sad blew on the middle of a three-line swear, A FINE FILM. and indemnified themselves in respect of the balance at the actual start is made. Kowloon mopolitan Dock went on strike
end off the house instead of on hoping he'd no'dropdown on the bas wanted this institution so on Saturday morning as the re-
my forehead. Besides she wasun' wharf. I was sorry afterwards I expense of the inhabitants, native and European.
badly that it is to be hoped the suit of a dispute with an Indian At the Hongkong Theatre. ony better off than me. didna' see it through, for I might The super-Tuchun of Central China had brought back consummation of the scheme will watchman. No acts of violence A film of unquestionable inter-was something in that when have waited till the new motor some funds from Peking, but not a large sum. Chang and not be sovery nuchlongerdelayed. took place. The man have not est is being screened at to-nights ye come to think of it. And ambulance came on the scene. Tsao having cornered the bulk. For some days the Pilgrims to the East. yet returned to work."
and to-morrow's performances at what's more forbye, says she, as Yon man would have made disappointed soldiery pillaged and gut out of hand generally,
the Hongkong Theatre. It has a for the curtain, re grumble if it's good dead-weight test.
My third "good morning" It was more by good fortune than prevision on the part of the growing political importance It was reported to the police rising young star for its leading no' there and the light keeps ye Wang that no European life was lost among the indiscri attaching to the Far East. Not by the manager of a shop at So. character. According to notices from sleeping in the morning and broke loose on a taipan wi a six from America, ye have something to say when figure balance at the bank. His minate slaughter and looting. Plainly the Super-Tuchun's only are we soon to bave one of 11 Des Voeux Road Central received here prestige had suffered, but Wang scornfully derided any seen-perhaps the most unique
the raos: unique conferences erer yesterday that a sum of $200 was Violet Mersereau, who takes the it's in it's place. But just because vocal organs couldna bave got. changed-No, first into play by that time o' day, for obtained from him by a boy un title role in "A Child of Nature the wind suggestion of resignation. Desert his post Never so long but the Far East is becoming der fals pretences. The boy is a recent discovery in picture round to Janet and no ill-feeling, all I got for my pains was the ber work with This morning I made up my mind standard three-quarter ood affect- as a breath remained in his noble body. He would soon something like the Mecca of bo is engaged as a servant, has circles, and
since disappeared.
Universal in the feature picture that nothing would disturb me. ed at land sales and Annual put things to rights. Wang did the sort of thing Chinese international personages. It is
at the Hongkong Theatre is much Even when I was putting on my General Meetings. I wouldna'
There can be no question of;
mismanagement.
one
a
September. Lord Northcliffe is Dutch Consul,
は
There
governors usually do. Heads of the humbler type were not so many years ago when the
Balkans had to be "did" br Two manhole covers have dis-admired. The child of a hundred collar that four-fold badge of even let that frozen reception lopped off by the dozen, officers up to the rank of colonel everybody who was anybody in appeared from their places in moods perplexing in their quick respectability and servitude- damp my feelings but thought were cashiered or went through the formality of being the political world; there were Wood Road. It is thought that changes, now from the elated whistled so loud that Janet must instead as I crossed the tram lines cashiered. and sufferers, from the looting were promised plenty of opportunities, it was they were stolen for the sake of feelings of a spirit of the woods, to have got the idea into her head what a terrible life a talpan The the deepest feeling of despondency that I was in good fettle. Jeaet, most lead after all wi Dock compensation: while a trainload of recalcitrant soldiery said, to study the effects of the price of the metal. experienced a fate which it is to be hoped is not common seams to be taking the place ale police. bf Mr. Dickson of the first time in her young life. Violet couldna' very well tell her I had need to and oil steamers wanted The Far East matter has been reported to the grief overtakes her for the she never misses a chance and I shares dropping when there's no even in China, being treacherously massacred on musste.
Mersereau makes 8 living no money, her baving helped me the wide world o'er. Balkans occupied, not because Public Works Department. With the Tuchun of Hunan butting into Wang, there are opportunities to study
portrayal of the character of to change. So I had to hand
Joe's "good morning" I could Dolores Winthrop, the daughter over my bard-earned poker win- see was merely artificial, the more though there appears to be no quarrel whatever between mismanagement-though China, Fifteen deportess from Sag of an American traveller. Long nings. Janet, she doesna believe so as I had no copy ready for
anfortunately, presents them-dakan were received info the peoples of Hunan and Hupeh, the Super-Tuchu but because it is the centre of police custody on the arrival of secluded from the outside world in card playing on a Sunday, this corder. By this time I was has evidently decided to play for safety, even though bumper and conflicting interests, the str. Yaanis in port. Another Dolores's first meeting with a especially
when I lose but fed up. Joe was the camel that Peking supported by Chang and Tsao, promised aid. We have already had
-oh! never mind what it broke. or batch of 54 undesirables, who young man was, for her a novel what's the odds. onyway.
experience, and the impression I SAW MacPherson Wang's Casabianca-like pose lasted just long enough to get two important French personages were brought into the Colony by which he leaves with her was Ferry and he had a face on him onyway. Were bis arms the only on the Joe broke all my good intentions his goods and chattels (an imposing stack of them) en route through and Marshal Joffre is the str. Tilbodas, were detained oaly that which could be like a motherless foal wi' a lip arms sore wi' sunburn? And to the welcome shelter of the International Settlement at sailing on a mission to Japan in peading action taken by the anticipated. With the aid of this like the bottom step of a bis head" the only head that Shanghai. the Super-Tuchun having changed his role So now on his way from America to
young lover, she discovers her bathing coach.
ached? I got on to him proper, completely as to dispense with the customary formality of Japan and China, and Hongkong Larceny of a sum of848 formed caused by despair over the death bright and cheery like.
father whose unbalanced mind, Good morning.. Mac" says I that I did. Hang bis arms. and his head. What about my back? permission to resign (other reports say that Waug will soon be giving him the burden of a complaint lodged of his wife, had sent him wander- Mor'a", grunted he. I could Was I making a song and dance has sought refuge elsewhere.) Meanwhile the creditors welcome. The visit of the Crown with the police by Mr. A. A in respect of the looting are waiting for their claims to be Prince of Japan to Britain is to Crestijo of No. 3 Yin Wa Terraceing all over the continent. In the see, he'd got over the wrong side about it? Aye, it was hot yes- terday (he was coming round s be returned by
end, Dolores also foils the effozta o' the bed. General Wu-Pui-foo (right-hand man of Tao Prince of Wales to Japan, and in stolen from his bedroom by a thiefa diamond toine belonging to her visit of the who stated that this money was of a greedy Spanish Don to steal, settled.
"What's the trouble, Mac"? bit by this time) but it was just Kun, the War Lord of Chihli) steps into the breach as a this connection Hongkong will whose
"Prickly
as hot where I was. And I did identity has not been father. Without doubt, "A Child bad" says he. fully-blown Super-Tuchun on his own
not rest well last night either. account, with scarcely be overlooked. Apart established. He, however, suspects of Nature, is one of the best "It might have been worse" The breeze, well, he had to take dominion over both Hupeh and Hunan. The Hupebese from all these public personages bis servants as being implicated pictures shown at the Hongkong says 1, thinking of the Governor's his chance of that as well as me. say they don't want any more Tuchuns, still less Super- there is plenty of evidence to in the theft.
Theatre for some considerable story the other night.
I had no lien on it onyway, Tuchuns. At present the Tuchuns still have things their visitors to the Orient has this show that the number of ordinary
time past.
"Hub, what"?
Baarling over the paucity o At present, high prices have to own way, and, as governors go, Central. China might be year heen larger than usual be paid in Macso for fresh fieb.
"Smallpox" says E
"copy" didn' help his head in worse served than by Wu, who is a supporter of the North, During the war we felt as though and shrimps on account of the
He only glared and pointed out ony case. It would ache the WATER POLO. - the Siberis that came in yes harder every time he thought of not because he loves Peking, but because he opposes Can- we were out of the big things of scanty supply and the large de-
the world, as though we were in mand for these foods among the The following will represent
terday. I remarked that bosts it. He'd be asking me to hold ton. It may be, though, that the Tuchuns' day is drawing back stream that didn't count people, says the Canton Timce the United Athletic Club.in their going. Then he got on to talk eau-de-cologne from the dis
do get somewhere if they keep bis flaming head next or send for on; even Chang Tso-lin's supremacy looks less assured, with very much. Now that the war is One of the reasons accounting for dissensions between his generals. As for Wang. he will over wa find that we are in the the present high prices is that the first League Water-Polo match as born used to be on the hotel lengary. What's wrong wi probably find comfortable quarters in the European reserve, very centre of world thought. settlement of the strike of the against the Royal Navy on Tues-ar tre used to be on the Kores long chair and an amab to fay with plenty of assets as a solatiutu; and possibly before May the result of it be that the restaurants in Hongkong which day, the 23rd. inst., at 5.30 p.m. years ago, From that it was but bin and keep him lushed up wi
B step to enlarge on the cold drinks. long he will recover "face" by having Chang to keep him nations comprising the Far East was declared against the fish sharp-Messrs. A. E. Simmons, in countenance, so kaleidoscopic are the permutations of therein will find this phase to quantities of fish and shrimps from Laing, J. Leonard, E. W. Railton drink even at that time o morn- fone and happy confidant morn and all those vitally interested mongers, is withdrawing large G. R. Razaret, G. T. May, D. possibilities of s nice, large, cold I'm through wi the cheerful ing. Take my advice and never log salutation. It dǝvens' work. Chinese politics,
have ended to their lasting benefit Macao?
talk in that strain to a mad foll Good-night!
&
and A. Botelho.
heat and damned