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Pyeris
Delicious either alone or blended with
wines and spirits.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Chinese Wallingfords.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23; 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
MR. FLEMING SAILS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Guernasy money in now identical with EngHib. The oki French or Norman digļo valusa, which OPINION IS AS IT WERE THE (From Our Own Correspondent) The ex-Speaker's decision to be 10d and d English worth 21 mada a Guernsey shilling worth How the get-rich-quick mania QUEEN OF THE WORLD, BUT
Shanghai, Aug. 23. known as Viscount Ullswater is Guernary shillings, were abolish. - has been growing in China may ('FORCE IS ITS TYRANT,-Pascal,
Mr. Fleming, the American easy to understand. The ancestral ed in April 3 of this year be judged from some statistics collected by a correspondent, who,
lawyer, against whom a charge home of his family, Lowther There was one fatal case of of criminal tibel was dismissed Castle, is in the neighbourhood of writing in a Shanghai paper, plague and one fatal case of last week, has
A auribus feature of London for the beautiful Cumberland lake streets just now is the number of sailed states that during Jane and July small-por reported QTET the Washington.
and so is Hutton Jahn, the old itinerant boomsters, whb are stock exchanges" and trust week-end.
home of the historic Hudlestons, usually found only in Hyde Park companies to the number of 6%
which he must have rented for or country market-places. On made their appearance, with a
A
SHIPPING MISHAP AT nearly 20 years previous to his the waste ground by Marconi nominal capital of $200,000,000,
Chinese was yesterday It may be that an element of accidentally drowned whilst
SHANGHAI.
father's death. And among the House, in the Strand, yesterday a Cumberland Hills near Ullswater racing prophet in full jockey's Butter" once in a way does no boarding a lighter alongside the
he bas bad many good days deerrig out, planked down saddle, harm to markets and may do Canton wharf.
Blue Funnel and French stalking, and has grassed stage of bridle and whip, and spinning his some good, but the multiplication
Mail Boats Aground.
20 stones. The mountains there- of speculative agencies at this Last week the Colony enjoyed | paca must be exceedingly de-a very clean bill of health. There From Our Own Correspondent) England where asalking red deer tim as if he were at Newmarket. Abonts are one of two parts, ofan of stable information sold trimental. That speculativeopera- was no death from any notifiable
may be enjoyed as in the High-demolished
Near by an English acientist tions are their main purpose has disease. The non fatal cases
Shanghai, Aug, 23.
(with diagrams) The French Hail liner, as lands. The other spot is Helmsley Einstein's theory of relativity. been made amply evident; and occurring were three of enterie the number of these projects con- ffever and one of oaratyphojà / Cordillere and the Blue Funnel Park, Lord Faversham's seat in But the star turn was in a abady
Yorkshire.
street aff Holborn. In tightly- trousers, and wing collar buttoned new frock coat, creased glistening, bappy-faced negro speaking perfect English, ex- horted passers-by to accept the Christian faith and salvation.
tinues to increase. So rite has] fever (British). Four Chinese diad the gambling spirit shown itself) of influenza. that the authorities at Peking,'
not prone to be over-cansarious; To evade arres: an unemployed in these mattere, has taken to tailor, who was surprised under
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1821.
IS OUR PEAK A CURSE!
with
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steamer Glaucus have gone aground on the Yangtase Bar.
SHIPWRECKED......
Hitherto the English lakes have
а
There is no immediate danger,} but as an approaching typhoon is been little laid under contribution predicted, tags and highters have for the purposes of the peerage gone to the recne.
Kendal in the district, has been used, but Windermere is associat- ed with a brilliant play of the nineties "Lady Windermera's Fan." There is a Lord Derwent,
Scotland Yard, which has been but not associated with the lake hunting medium in the world," described as the foremost man- country, and there has been a Lord excels in patient and persistent Derwentwater of tragic memory teamwork. It has to star per in connection with the rising of formers.. The French detective, 1715,when he roused Northumber on the other hand, is keenly indi- land and so wrote his own doow.
Ividual in his work. He is leas
efficient in organisation, and is. are fifteen, whilst missing total were plenty of houses in and about himself than with his colleagues. Within quite recent times there much more prone to hunt by thirty-three. Vessels are search-London whose owners could snap In Berlin the passion, for organ- |ing the surrounding islands. their fingers at the water comisation produces
The Perlis foundered in stormypanies and the weather, because rather than a team. The human A *machine
Thirty-three Persons Missing. ¡From Our Own Correspondent)
Singapore, August 23. Seven of the crew and the
⚫frustrated, the promoters arehouse at Koshing Street last night.
seeking to
join hands
jumped over the verandah and Europeans so as to establish the was severely injured. He was exchanges within the concession removed to the Government Civil ¦ ·.. area at Shanghai, which has in Hospital under the charge of the pelled the Chinese Government;
police. to request the Diplomatic Corps To move with A view clapping a stop upon this species of cosmopolitan co-operation. The Peking authorities are said to fear that foreign claims against the Chinese Government might be the outcome of such ventures. Irrespective of this question, any steps which the ediles of the
be abundantly justified.
Some
excitement prevailed amongst a crowd of Chinese Captain of the as. Perlis hava
gathered at the landing stage in Frarbara. The total survivors been picked up by a bost near rout of the Harbour Office this morning when the body of a young Chinese was found floating in the harbour. It was dragged on to the steps and later was removed
*
•
You people in Hongkong deserve to be hot, because losses" the colossal sum of three man bad sunk. The body was at the Kowloon Cricket Club on double. Eight doubles make one delighted in the story of how &
necessary.
SE
CHINESE NEWS.
Between Ourselves
Do stressing it 33 known : not only by the majority, of Kowloon residents but by many; Heavy Fighting Expected. from the Hongkong side as well. The feature of Saturday's coo- Our Canton correspondent cert will be the presence of writes saying that it is officially vocalists, instrumentalista, com- edians and jazzers, whilst an additional attractions will be the Illuminated Supper Garden. Whenever I opened the door that can give re a good grip. Ye The grounds of the Club will be last night I could see that there want to watch out for the hard-
BASEBALL.
By Robt. MacWhirter.
GOMES.-At his residence. No. 3 Austin Avenue, on August/Settlement can reasonably take to the mortuary. Fromea casuht weather. When she began to} they possessed wells in their back elements in the detective force 23rd, Dr. A. S. Goues in his 77th. year. Funeral will pass the to check frenzied finance will observation no sign of any wound the water and the Captain saw gardens which never ran dry even are reduced to cogs and parts of
on the body was apparent.
she was doomed he ordered the in the greatest drought Most of AD automaton. It wins its issue of lifebelts and the them have been destroyed by the successes by the vastness of the |U. S. Mercantile Marine.
lowering of boats. An were wholesale sapping of springs by scale on which this machine A drowning fatality has been lowered except the lifeboat, railways, tubes, and sewers but works, combined with the minute- President Harding's reference reported from the New Territories. because it WBS to "unspeakable losses and A farm labourer was drowned in The captain eventually reached stead. over and around which aed by its card cataloguing of the
water-logged. some exist. There is one in Hamp-nees of its operations, as illustrat waste" emphasises the gravity a pond whilst endeavouring to a lifeboat and several survivors house has been built. Like a scene of the position relative to the recover a bucket which be used and additional lifeboat men in a melodrama, a trap-door is upon its laboratories. It calls to whole population. Vienas relies . S. Shipping Board. There is to water the fields with. The spot reached Pulo Pisang in a most pulled up inthe kitchen, and you its aid modern science with its a general feeling that, with ber al-where he met his death was on axhausted condition.
gaze at the dark water bel w. most incalculable wealth.America the road between Aatau Station.
microscope and its chemical is equal to any imaginable strain; and Un Long Village. His
K.C.C. CONCERT.
reagenta, and it utilizes the the seriousness of the shipping daughter-in-law, who was with
A curio which Princess Mary, processes of tnductive reasoning, position is thereby made the more bim at the time, ran back to their
like most visitors to Guernsey, carried out by professors, with a manifest. Not long ago we heard house to seek assistance, but on
Saturday Night's Event. brought away with her, is the minimum contribution on the of a proposal to write off as "war her return discovered that the
There will be music and mirth smallest con in circulation in the part of the professional detective. kingdom. This is the Guernsey Sherlock Holmes would have you have been far too lazy to be otherwise." That was billion dollars in respect of the recovered afterwards.
Saturday night, when, another of Mercantile Marine.
penny, and the two-double bronze, murder committed near Vienna what a visitor up from Singapore told us over the week-
Bat the
those enjoyable open-air concerts equivalent to a farthing, is in was traced to a joiner through end. We were hot enough, in all conscience, without being tinning liability, and every week undertaking represents Ĉ con.
is being given. The pleasure of o evening at the K. C. C.nerale in the island, while the discovery that the dust beaten told that we deserved it. We asked just what was meant brings news of some additional
ender such conditions needs) the one double or half a farthing out of a cap left on the scene of by the accusation and we were very soon told.
is still coined. With the excep- the crime contained minute The visitor bill to be faced. Some seven
tioȧ had had a pretty good run, round during his short-stay hundred laid-up vessels are not
of its bronza coinage, particles of wood and glue. here, had been up to the Peak, over to Kowloon in flatland.ly earning nothing but are round the island and also round the New Territories in a half a milling U. S. dollars per estimated to be costing aver motor car: in fact be had done" the Colony pretty month for upkeep. Mr. Lasker, thoroughly. He thought the people living at the Peak Admiçal Benson's successor were lucky in being able to afford to live up there, that was President of the Shipping Board. reported that Lungchow was all he said about them. But he thought the people living
has characterised the enterprise taken on Thursday last after only in Kowloon were foolish to allow themselves to be hived elephant on record. From the troops fled into Annam territory. as the biggest commercial white one day's fighting. The Kwangsl away in flats. They deserved to be hot: he had no sympathy standpoint of international bat had to discard their arms as decorated in the usual manner, was something unusual on. The faced for them and he had very little to say that was good for rivalry, the situation affords they went owing to the French and the price of admission re-wee yin was sitting as near the settling paw. She's
matron
the soft- the authorities of the Colony who made such hiving together that the U.S. mercantile marine portation of arms. The clearing reserved seats at $1.50 mer now you'll have it the high-falating wi No. 1. copper-bottomed
some confirmation of the claim authorities prohibiting the in- mains at. $1.
A number of edge of the sofa-or couch if priestess of
the high the superficial lacks the requisite experience for of Lungchow now means that the be booked at Messrs Mouirie's of way-wi' a book in her hand but real for pretending to be better What was the good of all the beautiful country on the competing against the British, whole of the Kwangai territory the Club House. island and on the mainland if it wasn't used Need all and so far the state of affairs is is now free of activa Kwangsi
wi'play in her mind. I didus' need than she is. Her life is one con- three guesses to sarree it was tinual pose and pretentious is those acres be given over to greenery and nothing else? reassuring to British shipping, troops.
Mrs. MacPherson that was our ber middle name. We had become like a lot of ants in a little rest. had clung There is not
Har first a great deal of A telegram has reached Hong.
visitor. A fut woman you. commandment is "Though shalt ground for clowing on this score, kong to-day froma Shanghai too much to the centre instead of getting out where the wind's however, seeing that millions of stating that Wu Pui-foo has Saturday's Uneven Game. Won't let the kids move, it tries always go one better than thy blew and where there there was enough air for everybody tons of C.K. tonnage are also reported that the Hanam troops Pitching unbitable ball back sit still like broody hens when the flattened architecture of her har nerves so. They've got to neighbour." And her face under provided they spread themselves out enough. We pointed idle. The US. dilemma appears will not evacuate Hupeh. He is ed up by splendid support, Pace she's about, for the noise of them bair. expresses only studied pol. out to this enthusiast the drawbacks, the difficulties of to be due partly to the unfavour-therefore compelled to take hung the Indian sign on the fair puts things out of her heid. iteness and freezing artificiality. transportation and the waste of time that would be involved able conditions attendant upon military measures. The belief is Nippon baseball team Saturday Considering that there never was To speak and say nothing is her wartime coustruction, which general in the northern port that afternoon at Happy Valley. The more in her than the spoon put ons strong suit. Real facts and by the travelling. We made out as good a case as we could, but he turned it all down as weak excuses. What may be accounted a misfortune heavy fighting is now unavoid-final score was 16 to 1, the in, that's no' to be wondered a knowledge are naver allowed to Nippon nine securing their lone I hadna even time to get my sprain her intellect. She bas as about the Londoner: the thousands of men and women who tion after the Armistice, which to Telezrams from Peking show tally in the ninth innings after hat off when the wee yin was much gaiety as a corpae. Spring have to travel morning and night from the suburbs north, some extent may have been a that the Government is in receipt two men were down.
clammoring south, east and west. We were lazy, we wanted oursels bad already been con-of the south and west provinces & fair estimate of the strength of could she take her tricycle. state of coms.
about my knees the slightest shade of a joke and fack, though probably a lot of the of information that the authorities The final score just about gives wanting to get out to play. And she instantly sinke back in a bedrooms in our offices or next door to them. We had no rated for. And the Emergency are in favour of Tang Shao-gi the respective teams. Sagase was Aye, of course, what for no? "So eye for beauty, otherwise we wouldn't be living in the maze Fleet Corporation could not very being appointed one of China's hit freely when hits counted, and off she went and I slipped into of conversation is to do all of plaster-faced flats that make Kowloon look like a cement well bave foretold that a trade representatives to the Pacific added to this the team behind him the parlour-I should have said the talking herself. And to bear works. The City of Hongkong was a place in which to slump would set in just as the Conference.
wobbled in every crisis, their drawing room-to great Mrs. Mac. her tear her alleged friends to work; the land al Kowloon near the railway and wharves vessels had been completed.
Telegraphic news from Paris team play lacking the snap and bas arrived at Peking stating accuracy which characterized the It's are my luck. The night I pieces! Terribe! Yon woman was a place for industrial enterprises: the land away be-The Soviet's New Policy. that the Chinese students in Paris work of the Hongkong nina. get home kind of early, is the should be summoned for defini- yond the environs of the City and beyond the immediate On Saturday Reuter told us that bave learned that the Chinese Scott was back in the game very night our house is
No of character. Fact locality of the sea front on the Peninsula was that which a concession had been granted by special envoy has negotiated after a month's absence and hand- to bo cluttered
wi wonder Mac's got prickly heat should have been utilised for residential areas, not flats the Soviet to an English financial loan of Frs. 300,000,000 from the led the receiving end in big womenfolks drinking tos and bad. It's enough to give you but bungalows with their own gardens. There was beaps group for the port of Petrograd-French Government. They at league style. One feature that swapping lies about the bargains inflammation of the ears of room for it.
an- once called a meeting and de- contributed to the pleasure of in lace they got the week before hearken to her. But we had begun wrongly and be suppos-nouncement after the repeated granded an explanation from the the game from the standpoint last. I never hear them talking And she had the infernal nerve ed we would go on doing wrongly until, in some distant Commanist falmisations against Chinese Minister, Chen Lee, who of the spectators, was the orrorless about the big washing they did or to say she'd have a drop, just a time, it would dawn upon an over-heated population of "capitalist ** countries. But sent a representative to see the play of the Hongkong team not the dresses they made all by drop, of whisky before she left. flat-dwellers that they had suffered too long. He didn't then the force of economics students. So angry were the one single bobble being chalked themselves wi' the help of a Comes to tes and finishes my know whether a riot or revolution would work best, but must tell in time even students that they beat the repre- up against them.
Weldon's or the new bat they whisky before she goes 4717, upon a Lenin. A subsequent sentative before he had had time.
The fielding feature of the trimmed. No, nothing so com- smelling like a distillery at that Hot air, will the reader say? Isn't there a lot of truth sion, or rather the negotiations
message represents the conces-to give any explanation.
game came in the eighth inning as that. Now if it was It's bad enough keeping her man when the Japanese threatened to Repulse Bay or the launch picnic going in stimulant when he in this man's unkindness; haven't we lacked the vision for one, as being a joint enterprise.
score. Scott threw to. Church to they were at last Sunday, can do. comes, but by the Hokey Fly, I which the beauty and spaciousness of the territory which on the part of British, America, FEWER AND FITTER CLERGY? the throw was low and rolled house and their memory's no to throat like yon and square-face nab & runner stealing third but But anything handy about a draw the line at simicing down a is ours should have given us? We have built a railway tends to crystallise some recent time when they would need fewer runner starting for home. Jimmy and we allow it run through miles of territory almost an- rumours. The concession is to clergymen than at present, when White however, swooped over to her at ony price. She no only committee went into sension.
They might contemplate the past third out into left field, the be trusted for a minute.
what it is wi' increased duly Yon MacPherson women is a and the like. occupied while we crowd in less than few dozen streets. comprise Odessa as well as
know-all, anyway. I canna'stand After she'd gone, the reception We have miles of beautiful coast line untouched and open Petrograd, and will, according to munerated, and when they might the run and without straighten-has the last word but the rest of From now onward there's a new
they must be much better re- the foul hoe picked up the ball on to modern ferry services. We have spent, thousands of programme, embrace the exten- dollars on scenic roads and leave them almost empty of sion of harbours, the establish.insist on a much higher standarding up hurled the ball into Her tongue goes like the clapper 7.30 p.m. Before that, sassy sui the sentence into the bargain. rule. Our Bar doesna" open sill ment of electric trains, and the Darbam at Church of Eugland runner at the plate.retiring the herself. From the minute she can talk till they're more about competence. Bishop of the mit of Scott who tagged the a bell sad her best audience is or lemonade. My wife's friends residents. We have crowded into a City and we have equipment of factories, the con- National Assembly. crammed ourselves upon a peninsula point. The Peak cession to extend over forty years.
side., dweller smiles to himself and says "Yes, but I'm all right." This is certainly zo enterprise of
The steady improvement in the rose from our best armchair and smoking and putting away cock. It might be that out executive officials have nearly always lookers will await with curiosity change of front, of which this that baseball fans will see
unusual magnitude, and
playing of the local team means settled her fish-like paw in mine tails in the lounge but they're no I was har mest till she turned going to practice fancy sensations been Peak dwellers and haven't thought of those others riber particulars of the scheme; appears to be a tangible token. worth-while contest next Satur-the stairhead on har road home. and have hilarious ideas Team- for whom there is no accommodation on those exalted after it bas been "finally settled. It must be assumed that the day when McLaurie's Colts from
I've no time for folks wi' the log through their feather-lined heights. And so our Peak, of which we boast, might well at meeting on the 26th inst business men concerned and ses the Risal meet the Hongkong flabby hand-shake. The man or noddles wi my hard-earned be deserving of our curces, because if we hadn't had it we Meawhile the interest of the ing to it that they obtain appro- team to make amende for their woman wit the jelly-fish flipper's whisky, mind I'm telling ye, might have had garden cities for the humble,
event dwells in the Bolshevik priate security.
no" to be trusted. I like folks I don't care who knows ite: beating a week ago.
with that he wasn't concerned.
and partly to excessive construc-jable.
sufficiently surprising
and German capitalists, which
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