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THE HONGKONG “TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTHING SHOULD SO MUCH DIMINISH THE SATISFACTION
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong
“Talegraph.”
Mere Ink-Slinging.
gallop of inventive in the Ching. Mail” on Saturday, though any man may read its purpose. Is was intended to show'' how: |brilliant was the China Mail per- son. There is, at times, a certain' kind of brilliance' in damfoolery, but only at times. It does not ̈ Sir-Good-natured banter beinstify the weekly infiction of tween rival pawspapers
I can
columns of twaddle upon an un- understand, but mere slinging of affending public.
One quite understands, of ink from a bottle that badly wants
The measure of the washing seame vastly undignified. course. What was the China Mail trying Chinu Mail's stupid spite is the But it to get at on Saturday? The measure of your success. writer of "Adversaria on the goed not give itself away quite so previous Saturday spoke of his foolishly.. brain getting soft. Evidently!
Yours, etc.
RELIM. Hongkong. September 19, 1921.
or. for the matter of that, to set up a rival dynasty
Britain America's break-away from
was certain- ly unaccompanied by any such disastrous consequences as those depicted by the Cabinet, and we have not asserted that the British Government's judgment must always be WRICH WE FREL WITH OUR infallible. The reader will probably have observed how SELVES AS AWNING THAT WE Adversarius" strains the application of his view away DISAPPROVE AT ONE TIME OF back to the plastic days of the New World, when America, THAT WHICH WE APPROVE OF AT a remote region, was just ready for moulding, so could ANOTHER-Rochefoucould, undergo the transition comparatively easily. Mark the
The return of notifiable diseases significant sequel. America required tangible form, and for Saturday only shows one case, so far from the British Cabinet's standpoint being diphtheria (British) restricted to any one type of Government, this same principle is upheld by none more resolutely than by the
Mr. A. P. Lello, of Macao, American Republic, witness the stern hand with which it arrived at Hongkong by the suppressed the attempted secession of the southern Kitano Maru on Friday night.
He took the better part of three! States. With
regard France, Adversarius's "
To
columns on Saturday to "reply Mr. J.D.F. Mulder, of the Bank to a leader a quarter of the other example, his interpretation misses fire altogether. of Canton, returned to Hongkong length. He ran around his sub France changed her form of government many times without by the Kitano Maru from theject anyhow and landed, after a infringing the British Cabinet's principle; there was no North. severance of parts. She could change back to monarchy
Ball lightning, an example of next year. or bark again to a republic the year after. If Working aboard a new ship in he bas still to learn that re- which was seen in North-West the Italian nation decided to-morrow for a republic, it course of construction at the crimination is not argument nor London during a recent thunder- Kowloon docks, a Chinese fell off is assertion proof. He has still storm, is a well-attested phenome- would not infringe the principle.
the plank on which he was stand- to learn that to divorce a sentence non occasionally seen during Even Adversarius himself manifestly recognised ing and dropped into the hold. or a word from the context and thunderstorms, most usually at A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. that his gratuitous afront" bogie was too hollow to pass He was removed to the Kwong to warry it like an underbred dog sea. It always appears after an
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hence that misleading and contemptible Wah Hospital. three-colunin farrago by way of smoke screen, including a lengthy disquisition upon government by consent of the The following will represent governed," which was not the subject of our criticism. But, the "United" in a league Water to speak in paradox, it would be a jest to take such a Rolo match against the R. G. A this evening at 5.45 pm-Messrs, muddler seriously. Here is concrete test of his A.E. Simmons, J. Leonard, C. gratuitous affront. The ether has flashed that Cabinet Logan. J. Rodger, J.C. Finch,
al
great whirl of words, nowhers atj all. Despite all his experiance ;
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
15 a method of argument" exceptionally
lightning vivid which reasonable men would dis- Gasb, and is believed to de-com-- dain to employ. He has still to posed of oxygen and oxone thrown learn that the methods of a cir-off from a negatively charged cus clown are out of place in cloud. It has the appearance of what professes to be a newspaper. a luminous sphere falling very He has still to learn that leaders alowly, or, when near the ground, and sermons and speeches are moving horizontally, as though judged neither by length nor by repelled by the earth, and finally weight, but by quality; and disappearing as the result of an quality involves clearness--the explosion of considerable violence. For disobeying a deportation capacity on the part of the writer, The explosion is believed to arder by returning to the Colony or speaker to make his meaning te due to the energy liberated by after he had been banished for life, a Chinese was sentenced by writer of Adversaria" included called, when the ozone it contains
clear.
I defy any man-the the "fire-ball." as it is sometimes Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal-to find any meaning in the is changed into oxygen. Sessions this moring to two years' hard labour. Prisoner pleaded
Telegraph reply far and wide; rarely can a "gratuitous affront have E. W. Railton and A. Bo:cho
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1921Į
"
A WORD-SPINNER CONFUTED.
been published more openly or more extensively. Where is the storm of indignation?-where the faintest whisper of any Of all the unnumbered millions to read the message Adversarius has the exalted distinction of discovering the Record Mare's-Nest.
NOTES & COMMENTS. BANK OF EAST ASIA.quilty to the offence.
In A Broadway Cowboy" the| Jesse D. Hampton-Patbe feature at the Kowloon Thestra to-day,
actor who
tanderfoot
to
Between
good just now. There has been a rear of the Bank at present used and engaged in a struggle which description o To prevent Adversarius" from quibbling further ufficiently lengthy spell of slows a godown and newspaper ofice. drew together a big crowd of landed.
Ourselves
He
wanted to know bow it cam' aboot
this paper how Hongkong drew Ye'll read somewhere else in
the game in detail. Joe went to
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On Wednesday we dealt with some remarks in last Better Trade.
New Offices Opened.
By Archibald MacPherson Esq. It's little ever I thought I'd There was a bowler for ya! Ha Monday's Ching Mel respecting the Irish question. On The trade report issued by the In commodious quarters locat-Will-am Desmond portrays a
write for the papers, but I fore- wasna gettin' all the help he Saturday a reply appeared. The writer of it affects the Hongkong General Chamber of ed in the building they purchased young hocus-pocus of a dual personality, sometimes first, some-Commerce on Saturday was al and reconditioned in Des Voeux suddenly finds himself the central athered wi' Jos and Mr. Robt. should have got whiles, bus he MacWhirter on Saturday at the fought bard and some o' his draw- times third person. To avoid confusion. we refer to himlittle more cheering than we have Road Central, the management of figure in a lot of hair-raising Interport Bowling Match and ing shots were first-class.
bad for some time. For a long the Bank of East Asia extended a uncomfortable and highly amus- as "Adversarins." who starts by seeking to give 20 time past we have been so used to hearty welcome this morning to ing adventures in Montans and Robt, before the end of the game thed hard to get the lead for impression of marked seniority. It was perhaps as well. such phrases as "market dull" a large number of their clientele all for the love of a girl It's a graciously offered me his bit Shanghai, but it wouldas come, for the reader might have been pardoned for supposing his and "nominal" that we almos:de on the occasion of the open-fast action comedy drams written comer here for the day if I cared Mind you, Ferguson was far from A canning, cunning The by Byron Morgan, well-known to write something aboot the out of it. screed to be the bandiwork of some school-magazine editor epaired of anything with a cheery ing of the new offices.
match. If ye ask me what took, general, that one. I thought that of the inferior kind. We have not space to potice all cosphere to it. But on Satur facade of the building was gaily contributor the Saturday him I can honestly say I don't he didna let the keenness.o' the
day we had such a thing as festooned with strings of greenery Evening Post.
know. I can only say that we game rest on him as it did on the egregious journalist's puerilities. Here are one or "There is a distinct improvement and coloured bunting, while from
met a fine, big chap called Shaw. two specimens. The final sentence of our previous article in our market and considerable an elevated position a long string Pathe's latest star. Emmy Gerrard who said we were the All this time Mr. MacWhirter reads: It's (the British Cabinets) objection is that Sinn sales have been effected." That of fre crackers splattered for Wehlen, will take the leading role guests of the Club that day, and, was giving a fine EX- Fein s stipulation is the symbol of separatism." Adver-related to cotton piece goods and well nigh a quarter of an hour. in the special attraction coming don't be sby, that a second man. bibition of the Scots language sarius avons that this sentence is absolutely unintelligible. port on metals was also in a pro particularly drawn to the facili- title of Lifting Shadows." The that Mr. MacWhirter is not a
fancy cotton goods, while the re. The attention of visitors was to the World Theatre under the took the same terrible risk and and scots enthusiasm and just Of him we can credit even this abysmal degree of density.mising vein; it told of strengthen-ties which the Ba k provide for run of this famous film begins on man to bart anybody's feelings. sbowed his nasty temper. He before teá Joe woke up again and By introducing a parenthesis. ostensibly to help the meaning tendencies. Local dealers the storage of bullion and Friday next. The story is that of When the game started he was ing but in reality to give it a bungled effect. he certainly will be saying that it is about valuables. In the latter case, the struggle of a woman who is very affable indeed and even that if a Hongkong bowl was a
time so te improvement was one hundred boxes guaranteed to torn between ber love for a man when Joe called him a does his best to obscure a perfectly clear statement; but,
Scotch little short Robt. kept hopeful shown on what bag with all deference, we do not think that any reader except experienced all this year and we installed for the convenience of her adoption-America.
bern be Ere-proof. have already been and her love for the country of man" he only winked. I make no and saw aye the chance of it being "Adversarius" had an instant's difficulty in understanding sincerely hope, with them, that depositors who are each supplied Ardel is the author, and he has to state the sequence of events bowl lay short Robt. said "is no Heuri allegations, mind ye; I'm content kancked up, but if a Shanghai it. Again "Adversarius questions our use of the word "con- the improved state of things will with a key. the master keys to written a story of timely interest which ended wi bis kindly amin' use there." **Tuta," says tention." In any case this would be a pettifogging quibble soon even improving. It was in all the boxes being kept by the staged amidst lavish settings and invitation to myself.
Robt. "ye dinna understaun the thas the languid Back. The boxes have been possessing tremendous dramatic where the meaning is as plain as a pikestaff; but the novel evitable
"Keep your e'a en Gerrard," ethics of the game." "Ethics !" says Robi. to me, and I did. cries Joe. Ethics in bowls?. thing is to see a journalist advertising his non-acquaint-siness conditions here would supplied by Messrs Mustard & Co. appeal.
revive ia time, and one Arrangements have been ronde
Some scribblin' body had written Is that another of your genezio ance with the dictionary, as "Adversarius" does. He can trace some of the through the same firm for the
An Indian and an assistant day or two before that he terms?" Then he winked to me. caps this, if possible. by actually asking: What warrant extra business to the fact that provision of 1.500 of these boxes warder of the Victoris Gaol were wasna in his usual form. But Joe's all there at times, I can tell does any contention need? A rational being would not conditions in the neighbouring: If the convenience which they taken to the Hungbom Station ye had only to look at him to see ye. Robt, wi' great inward and need to be told that it needs the warrant of Reason. The provinces have been quiet for the have thus specially provided for yesterday on a charge of dis-that he was a man for a big ootward gentility didna reply.
past month at least, relatively so. depositors meets with the warm orderly conduct. Inspector Aris match. Never a trace of nerves. recognition of this responsibility is precisely what marks If peace can be maintained among support anticipated, it is the in- in relating the facts of the case If ye exploded a barrel o poother the distinction between the rational man and the irrational the southern Chinese provinces teation of the management to at the Magistracy this morning below that man and sent him shead after tex, so I'li no' follow mau. between the logician and the imbecile. Adver and the confidence of native deal extend their present premises at a said that the two Indians who fifteen feet in the air he'd take sarius tells us that he is incapable of perceiving such as is re-established there is no future date by the reconstruction were much the worse for liquor stock of your appearance on the see the baseball and I saw the responsibility. The reader will place him in his category reason why trade should not be of the building contiguous to the came out of a watchmaker's shop way up and write cot a perfect game in peace. At the twentieth
Je when be head Hongkong led 27-21. I think I'm right in want six," says Shaw to Marke, we reproduce the passage from his first article which buying to reduce stocks in the
spectators. The warder had been sayin' that at each o' the first but he had to be content wi" one. was the subject of our criticism: "In effect that bands of dealers and sellers alike
referred to bis own chief to be seven head's he got a hearty clap Will ye believe me wi' five wanted [Reuter's message giving the reply to Sino Fein of and those stocks must be re-
plenished. It all depends on the too. We can afford it better than dealt with departmentally. A fine for bonnie bowls. I've never seen
to tie the game at the 21st. September $1 represented our Welsh hagglers as saying peaceful state or otherwise of the can the Home towns, which haze of $5 was imposed on the other a man off colour play better. Shanghai neatly got them? WI that Republicanisin would undermine the fabric of every country. Prices are coming down their big unemployment
and defendsat
Robt. was in ecstacies and Joe Ferguson playin' the last bowl democratic State and drive the civilised world back to at Home, exchange is keeping housing problems to carry.
was so ashamed of him that he they lay four and a possible fifth. Revenue Officer Lanighan, with tried to look as though he wasn It was fine to watch Ferguson. tribalism" and he added that the British Government fairly steady here and there is we going to do anything?
the assistance of the Yaumati in oor company. A ñne chap, Joe, He stood for a little time con- thereby offered a "gratuitous affront" to France and the every promise of opportunities Developing the Bay.
for business. May those oppor-ji
Police, conducted, a raid on No. but no soul for bowls. He wanted siderin', the long glint ye know United States. In our comparatively brief reference to
There is no question about the 46 Battery Street on Saturday, away to see the "ball game of in his e'e. Never a soul round tunities prove frokful. this point we did not enter into any discussion of whether
future development of Repulse and made the exceptionally large which, so far as I can see, consists the green dared to cough. Then the British standpoint is right or wrong, but simply of Starving Russia.
Bay. In the Government Gazette seizure of twelve automatic pistols o roarin' wi' pain when ye get a he laid down a bowl, perfectly whether the construction which "Adversarius places upon To return to the subject of issued on Friday notice was given and two revolvers, besides a high-pressure power ball in your greened and poised. Joe, who And ain ribs and wit joy when some had just come back swears that it is sensible or absurd. We intimated, and now state starring Russia, on which we that no fewer than ten new build-quantity of ammonition
A Chinese who was body elsa gets a wallop. We kept Robt and I couldns sit still and expressly, that it is egregions. "Adversarius accuses the ventured a few words of advice ing lots in that district are to be opium.
Now kept mutterin' "that's the shot" to local residents a few days offered by public auction later on arrested in consequence of this Joe where he was though. Cabinet of disparaging Republicanism (e." republics in ago, we have noticed in one this mouth. That is quite en-raid (told the Magistrate, when here's a queer thing. Gerrard and things like that in the places
this morning, general, the republican polity). In bis second article be of the northern contemporaries couraging to those who have been charged
that went off his game at the eighth where our beards should be. repeats this interpretation, and on the same page-so enjoying a larger cable service looking forward to the develop he had been paid $3 to take tem- and ninth heads and Shanghai Shanghai had a bowl that close amazingly inconsistent is this Chinn Mail scribe-he essays than ourselves, a message from ment of the southern side of the pary charge of these arms until scored six and two and peeled the to the jack ye couldns hardly a withdrawal of what he has been specially labouring to Home which is well worth island. Farther round on the the return of the actual trafficker, game. Joe got an innings here. say there was room between to hold a rheumatic pain. Fergu- mand until Wednesday prove. His own words remain in print to convict hin. repeating bere. It says: "The road which encircles the land on the following morning. A re-There's your faming walk-over,"
"You'll notice the son's bowl, came up, just touched Com-several buildings are going up on
out the other and lay shot, A........ The rational view, we believe, of the Cabinet's standpoint missioner in the Baltic States, the hillsides above Stanley and arranged, to enable further en- scores are level. Hongkong can
pawn their bowls." Away and noble shot, but there was no is simply this: that central governments cannot acquiesce who bas just arrived from Rigs, there can be little question that inquiries to be made by the Police.
see the ball game says Mr. need for Joe gettin' up on a chair in a severance; if such a right were acknowledged, the is of the opinion that over two a few years time the residential
Three indignant Chinese ladies MacWhirter, Then tô me: and shoutin' disgracefully, Mr. millions of the Russian people parts of the Colony will have world would be exposed to disintegration. The British must die of famine despite the help spread to the four corners of the appeared in Mr. G. N. Orme's Diana listen to the body. He MacWhirter dragged him down. Government is, in short, registering an emphatic protest the whole world can offer. He island. The beach at Repulse Court this morning to bring a has a nasty tongue at times. But This," says be coldly, this is against the whole doctrine of the right to secede. In reference estimates that the daily cost for Bay yesterday was, towards the charge of assault against a what's wrong, I wonder?" I said I
Then Joe started to gang hame, to Ireland the Cabinet speaks of the attempted feeding the starving a pound of late afternoon, almost packed Chinese
bread daily-will be one million with people. Many launches sampan yesterday and demanded hados' seen it and I had to point though excitement had turned separation as a demand for "setting up a republic dollars. Lord Curzon has written brought large parties, many others a certain sum loaned to them by it out to him. "Great Heaven,” his head and sent him in a and repudiating the Crown." This is what has misled the Lord Provost of Glasgow came by road and both the his father. The interview ended says he, "is that a straw hat or an auspicionsis wrong direction towards a tent where were con the short-sighted China Mail scribe. Ireland is merely supporting the suggestion of the matsheds and the tents provided in a disorderly scene in which heirloom? I'd be affronted to the particular application of a general principle. The Lord Mayor of London that every by the Repulse Bay Hotel werd io
thrown offer it as bite to a starving cow. gregated some hearty folk. Bot they were not nearly so bearly question does not rest upon "a change from a monarchic town and city in the Kingdom big demand by bathers. The sight injuring the mistress of the boat. I gave my coolie au suid straw system to Republicanism," quoting an Adversarian immediately inaugurate relief approached that to be seen on a Her two relatives were also hat last week and I'll swear he as the man who was introduced phrase from his second article. A Sovereign entity might funds as the Government are Home beach, though the beautiful much knocked about. Asked if wouldn't change it for that bat to Mr. MacWhirter and is "it's a great privilege to meet anxious that every assistance be scenery was an enhancement one had anything to say, the and a dollar thrown in. And him change to any polity including the republican, but any form given." There can be no mistake the majority of bathing beaches culprit told his worship that hea heid vin in the Government, you. You would have thought of government u seceding portion might adopt would infi
infringeing the urgency of that ples. If anywhere, The people, of this had received great provocation, too. It's enough to put Hong it was Harry Lauder of Charlie the principle. Pennsylvania breaking away from every town and city in the United Colony only need the provision of being called by the old women & kong off their game through sheer Chaplin he'd wet. Mr-Mace
"gaol-bird.” A fine of $3, or in | vexation."
Whirter was becomingly modest, the Union to set up
Kingdom has been asked to a little quicker and easier access
But the mannie sheered off and but when he got clear osside be the principle just as much as Ireland breaking away is no earthly reason why Hong-finest walering resorts not only in
& monarchy would infringinaugurate relief funds then there to the bay to possess one of the the alternative, seven day's hard
Isbout was imposed on the we turned to the game.
bared his head, "God,rald be, up a Republic kong shouldn't insegurste one, the Far East but in the world.
defendant. from the United Kingdom to set
liked Shaw the Shanghai skip,
here's fame
American Red Cross
Are
was says he.
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not the ball game." who boarded their thought it was the hat, but he
half brick was
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