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NOTES & COMMENTS.
A Pattern for us all.
DAY BY DAY.
ROUND THE TOWN.
to thirty feat in length and those in the Museum are nothingʻilke this sine--but they are quits big enough to be unwelcome com- panions on a dark night.
THE HONG MOH DISASTER.
PIRATES GALORE.
IN POLITICS WHAT BEGINS IN By "Gadabout.”
Serious River Incident. The Colony has indeed lost a FEARUSUALLY ENDS IN FOLLY-
Our "A policaman's loi is not a
Canton valued servant in Dr. G. P. Coleridge,
correspondent Jordan whose death it, was our
happy one," they say, and judg
writes today to say, that # unwelcoms duty to record yester-
ing by what I was told the other
numerous and motive bave piratea The only case of notifiable day, a fireman's lot isn't quite all
and bandits become in the south- day. Fewer men have done more diseus reported yesterday was bear and skittles. I was chatting for Hongkong than the deceased that is which an American was with one of the members of the
west of Kwangai, that Mor doctor man who laboured here taken of the ss. Golden State Hongkong Brigade and he was
Cheong-fan, the Commander of the for 36 years in the causes of suffering from small-por
newly-organised Canton health and education. Thirty-
telling me of some of the things Awards For Gallantry.
troops at Wochow, has been“ six years is a long span in
they have to put up with. Having
ardered to distribute his fares in A shroff has absconded with frequently heard and seen the pleased, on the recommendation
His Majesty the King has been an attempt to clear the country, man's life and it can be said of five slicks of pure gold valued at engines careering along the late doctor that he had not,
our of the President of the Board of
A serious incident took place of his streets during the past few weeks. Trade, to sward the silver medal About one bundred cargo junks
00 the river the bot that he had becoms its willing amplyer, a got smith of No. 451 ensured that they are keps for gallantry in saving life at sea due to proceed to Wuchow were other day. only made Hongkong his home $265, the property
pretty busily employed on putting to Captain E. R. G. R. Evans, C.B. formed into and devoted servant. He had Bonham Strand.
out fires in Ho. gkong. But a call D.S.O., R.N., Lieut. Commander Beet, the idea being that if they the vision to see Hongkong as
сле сотраду ог the great centre of British inter-
Ina fight between two coalies leamed. Out of sixteen calls in Gunner J. G. Dewar, D.S.C., RN, chacce of their being attacked. doesn't necessarily mean a fire II. B. B. Tower, D.SC., R.N., and were so massed there would be less ests in the Far East and, through in Queen's Road West yesterday one month, he said, they only and the bronze medal to Leading They started out from Lauchow the medium of the University, one of them was stabbed in the bad one decent blare: all the Seaman W. G. Eldrett, O.N.J. but whan about mid-way to Wa- strove towards its betterment neck and wrist and had to be rest were dads. It's surprising 19631, and Able Seaman A. E. chow they were attacked by over and improvement. There could taken to the Hospital. His for what trivial things people will Whitehead. O.N. have been no finer tribute given assailant escaped."
tur. as out," he said. And then H.M.S. Carlisle.
216443 of 1,000 pirates all iban that psid by Mr.
well-armed. he told me the story of a WOMAN Teesdale Mackintosh yesterday
About 60 of the junks were The Bishop of Victoris hopes who upset a little oil lamp and steamer Hong Mah, of Singapore, of a military force which prevent On the 3rd. March, 1921, the robbed and it was only the arrival and there could have been no to consecrate the Church of our gat so scared over it that she im whilst proceeding from Singapore ed the whole flest being ransok- better expression of thanks than Saviour, Canton, on Wednesday,mediately rushed outside and
to Amoy with about 1.100 Chinese ed. The soldiers then escorted just before he left for the leave, has been fixed so as to allow Brigade turned up they found White Rocks off swatow at about journey but on arriving at Wu- When the passengers on board, struck the the junks for the remainder of the which, unhappily, preceded his visitan from Hongkong to return that a mat bad become ignited. 6.45 pan, and broke in two demise. It would be possible to by the fternoon train.
There was a little hole burned
chow they refused to release the out of the centre-damage about in the Pescadores, was ordered to them as reward. Negotiations H.M.S. Carlisle, lying at Bake, cargo unless half of it was given Serious injuries were sustained twenty-five cents. And then they
the merchants. Our Canton correspondent also
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1921.
THE PAOTINGFU CONFERENCE.
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TYPHOON WARNING.
Cyclone or typhoon W. of the Ladrone or Marions Islands almost stationary.
Between Ourselves
By Robt MacWhirter.
The other day the wee yin brought home wi' her from the
country's cause, and there was just the possibility that the building of the pier on the programme.
resentmen: W&J felt at the magazines make up a delightful
of the man himself. He lived by a Chinese coolie yesterday/Daca received a call and when give assistance, and arrived at are now proceeding between the
them forænd their names and addresses with communications beneficial and he eschewed every. / area it Kowloon Tong. The man tall; it was an armed robbery-which heavy seas were breaking to improve the salt revenue the were euth track in the reclaimed discovered that there was no. fireboard the wrecked vessel, over adds the information that in order addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as anthing in the way of panegyrics/was liken to the Kwang Wah And a dozen other stories be Rescue work was carried on with | authorities have decided to sell
could tell, bat because they get All communications intended for publication should be address, except in appreciation of his Hospital but is not expected to false alarm about every other very great difficulty, but through the salt monoply in the various
day it doesn't make them at all arch a motor boat in charge of
out the day and night of the 7th, districts by auction. life and work of Dr. Jordan with-i
slack. Whether they think it's a Lieutenant-Commander out realising that Hongkong has Owing to premature removal of dud call or no, they don's waste and a cutter in charge of Gunner Mandate has been promulgated A Peking telegram to band to- all too few of his kind
Tower day states that & Presidential How the scaffolding supports, many of us there are who simply verandah of a house under con- can't pick many holes in a brigade tinuously to and from the wreck improving the financial situation.
the much time in getting away. You John G. Dewar worked come to make this Colony a con- straclion on the ares between which can turn out an engine in until all the su ivors on board reducing the military axpendi can which sets out the desirability of Birth.
venience, a place to do our work Bowring and Jordan Roads for the space of two minutes. HENDERSON.-On the 7th inst, at 7, Queen's Gardens, to Mr. in a manter entailing a minimum the Tag Wah Building Company
bad been taken of. and Mrs. R. M. Henderson, a son.
of effort, who indulge in patty collapsed at noon yesterday. No
Captain Evans swam to and sure, assembling Parliament and criticism and affect & belittling one was injured.
To those of us who were at boarded the Hong Moh, and es-
unising the country. humour of local activities; who
Home during the war, the St.couraged and assisted persoas on lack altogether an appreciation of
Vincent de Paul Society's Rose board to reach boats lying off. those who bave helped to make Univmily will
Mr. R. K. Simpson of the Day was a strong reminder of H.M.S. Carlisfe was inetru. this outpost of the British Empire paperon "The critical principles and rose days and every other persons, although unable to get read a short those black years when flag days mental in saving the lives of 221 worthy of British traditions? It applicable to novel-reading* has been well said that the blight the Reading Circte at the Helenaweekly or a bi-weekly feature.
to kind of day collections were within a mile of the wreck.
The telegram quoted below wa of Hongkong (however much Way Institute to-morrow morning. They
The Board have also awarded received by the American Con- there may be) is due to the fact the Sb. December, st 10.30 am. frequency that we all got heartily Reginald Tombull, master of the the Manila Observatory at 9.30 Came round with such a piece of plate to Captain sulate General, Hongkong, from that residents consider them-All embers of the Institute and sick of them and towards the end steamer Shansi, of the China a.m. today selves dwellery here for a season their friends are cordially invited. there only. content to reap and toth
were many who gave Navigation Company, who suc- LO SOW. There are too few of us
coppers where they at first gave ceeded in picking up about 45 with permanent interests, too few In the screen version of the old shillings. Flag days were over-survivors. who learn to love Hongkong and musical comedy "Alms, where done and everybody got tired out its native inhabitants for the do you live," the management with being pestered by flappers to wonderful place that is is and for has secured a film which should buy a flag of this country to-day the marvellous human element prove a great attraction at the and a Bag of that country the "An important conference," as Chinese newspapers
that they are. Dr. Jordan sax World Theatre for the next two next day and then a flower to help describe it, lasting some days has lately been held at things a little differently, and it nights. The story rotates round this and then another kind of Paoting fu. the stronghold of the Chibli War Lord, Tsao been
is as well for us that there have the love affair of an artist and buttonhole
ねきね of his stamp and his model, and is presented with other charity. They Kun. The same has notorious militarist associations, and worthiness. Hongkong was to him careful regard to a true delines-all deserving causes, no doubt, the War Lords were, of course, staging the show. Probably something more than a passing tion of life on the stage and in but the whole thing became a Sunday School & nice, neat wee red bag wi a typewritten request it had no more to do with the welfare of the Chinese nation experience; it was a home of the Laila Quarter.
regular nuisance, and as the war sewn on it asking kindly for some old bat unbroken tay to be than the Tentsin conference held in the spring, which enlightening endeavour in which
dragged on and prices got higher deposited therein and taken to the Church the Sunday after so much still remains to be done. proved to be merely an arrangement for another raid ou He was an example and pattern now being shown The Retura ice before parting with the or other (I really forget which) but anyway, they were for kiddies At the Hongkong Theatre is and higher, one had to think next. The toys, thus gathered were to be given to some instiration the Peking offers by the super-Tuchuns. Even then the for us all.
of Daw Egan the newest But in Hongkong we only get Santa Claus went his rounds. proceedings. have a particular importance, seeing the The Amoy Incident, ·
"bob." who would lie somewhat out of the beaten track when good old pictureever shown in this theatre. influence which those gentry wield over the fortunes of the
It is a Eve-reel drams featuring, this once a year and everybody At first I didas' pay ony attention to the wee yin and ber republic. This time they professed to be really concerned,
A few weeks ago we reported William S. Hart and has been enters into the spirit of the thing grandmother, but I could see there was a great deal of earuest con- as probably they were.
a disturbance which had takep described as one of the most with enthusiasm. The fair sex sideration being given on the part of the youngster as to which The question is, on whose account place at Amor in connection interesting productions turned standing on the street corners member of her doll family was likely to be the banishse. I could Were they just hatching more plans for their own ag-with the building of a new pier out by this great artist. In addi- Friday allowed very few see there was bit of a wrench in the making, so when I was grandisement, or were they this time considering wider for Mess Butterfield and tions excellent comedies Europeans to pass by unless they appointed arbiter or presiding judge if you like to decide which issues, if only through being driven thereto by the course of Swire. It was obvious at the "Kill of Cure" and "Mixed Nuts
had in their buttonholes the pass of the
W&5 to go. events? Even the Tucbuns have paid lip-service to their jrime
graceless-looking kewpie wi' that considerable local together with the
port of the day, yet they didn't nothing screec
but & ribbon on OF 志门 overdressed flaxen- worry those who bad already haired maiden, I found it very difficult to decide. momentous discussions now going forward had prompted particular site chosen-in fact
given. There can be no doubt that me no really knowing the state of affection which at the bese strees collections are an ex-moment existed between them sad their foster-mother. To tell the them to some patriotic perception.
i was found necessary to import
cellent method of raising the truth I didna think the wee yin was very greatly taken op wi' the The conference was held in the dark, so we are left to labour into Amoy in order to get who was charged before Mr. J. R. Everybody gave freely on Friday thing fresh and new for the wee red bag.
For preparing opium, a Chinese wind, if they are not overdone. business at all, so I shirked the issue and suggested buying some- the voice of conjecture as to what transpired. On the the work carried out. Things Wood this morning by Inspector and the total sum handed in whole the event appears to hold out little promise of better 19 over an asssult incident and months hard labour in addition assembled at the "K.E." at life flashed into my mind.
came to a bead on November Murphy, was sentenced to three by the galaxy of beauty that when Janet began to lay off, that the true inwardness of the scheme That though, was where I slipped up badly and it was only things: but let us trace its course. That importance was a British warship had attached to the conference by the parties immediately called in to maintain order. We $50 ia respect of another charge thousand dollars--is very gratia sacrifice as well as give a present. The mite at the other end got
to be to being ordered to pay & fice of time-gearly two and a half double value for money, so to speak.
The person that invented you idea got concerned is obvious from the speed with which Wa Pui-
cow received from the of being in
The little giver had to maks foo, generally spoken of as the most progressive of the lengthy printed document in given by the Inspector to the Amoy Civilians Association quantity of opium. Evidence was
possession of afying.
something unexpected; a gift that was in no real sense perfunctory: Northern militarists, quitted the Yangtze region to attend which is set out a number of effect that he came across the
a gift that meant more than more money could buy. You get the it. Perhaps the haste was due to tidings respecting Dr. accusations agains: Mr. B. G. defendant squatting in front of a from the Philippines surprised I ought to say something on the occasion but never could do it be
A youth probably on a holiday idea? Sun Yat-sen sexpedition, which the North evidently regards Tours,
Every year I've come to the Christmas season wi' a feeling that Consul chatty on which was set a pot the way to the Museum. I say subject about which there is more nearly unanimous hypocrisy
me the other day by enquiring beading accuses Mr-containing several
cause I ertled ever so much to tell the truth. aga; probably this was the chief subject discussed at Regulations
I don't know of say of "surprised me " because I didn't; Paotingfu. Here we are met by the question of the Oppressive
and Exercising in the case but he was discharged alignment of forces. The Chibli and Fengtien parties are greasing the Scope of Treaties, lack of bridence. nominally allies, but there have been numerous signs of and
Shakening Friendship friction. Will they join hands for their joint benefit in
Between Great Britain And. serious
baye
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seriously now, whatever it may have done a few montos Fours of "Neglecting Treatyopiam. There was another man know anybody ever wanted to than that about this business of Christmas. Every year we hope we Measures, Trans- by the Magistrate on account of 600 our Museum. Presumably shall have a little more courage to be a bit more honest "about it;
£174 FOR SILVER TORRINOER.
most people don't want to see it, then suddenly we're right in the rush and clatter of it because I noticed that an Indian and the good resolutions go by for sacther year. constable whom the youth first. at bottom, the trouble wi' Christmas is that it's become an asked couldn't put him on the There is that sense of compulsion. "Oh, dear what do you want official occasion, a thing of the calendar rather than of the heart right track: and he was standing
the Colony of it.
Wasn't it Lowell who said:
opposing the South That is feasible coough, however charges and cae regrets that the
China," Those much they might quarrel afterwards. But there is the whole tenor of the document is third nas, Wu Pui-foo, now a super-Tuchun on his own so sati-Tours that it is impossible £174 at a sale of oh English must confess I don't often fre- maybe to put it more bluntly, the different amounts we feel it's up A Charles II porringer realised within sight of the building. I for Chrismas?" There are the things we feel we must give or account, and still the right-hand man of Tsao Kun, the to arrive at anything like a silver & Messrs. Pottick and quent the Museum myself. It's as spend. There's the Christmas cards we feel we ought in duty Chibli super-Tuchun, but more rival than friend of Chang judicial decision on the merits of Simpson's, London. An Augsburg not a very cheery sort of place bound to send and the horrible fear lest we forget some one, Tso-lin, perhaps because of a mutual feeling that there is certain, that good-feeling towards of George I caddies for £95 and importance
the case. But this much is tankard was sold for £140, a pair and considering the size and not room for both. There seems to be a possibility that the British Consul and, in fact, an 18th century cup chased with I don't think much
of
He gives only the worthless gold the three way form an alliance of convenience, if only
Who gives from a sense of duty. all things British, in Amoy is warriors' heads for £8% temporary one, as is the usual nature of such alliances.
Nevertheless, having nothing bet
Ay, I do wish that Christmas were no' altogether the Festival practically non-existent on the Should they do so, they might, if such be their purpose, we have had it said to us that people will carefully investigate see. A boy was busy dusting We know what the Christmas feeling ought to be, what we wish it ter to do the other afternoon, I of the Shopkeepers and that our giving were more on the lines of part of the Chinese inhabitants. again frustrate the South, irrespective of an alleged "secret the natives of Amoy are maintain the case related above and ex-the exhibits and there were two might be. No matter what it is, where it's bought or what it cost, thought I would have a look the kids in you Sunday School. Ourselves wi' our gift. Aye, that's the point. It we could only be more honest about the whole affair. agreement "between Wu and General Chan King-ming.ing What they would do then is a fruitful question. Report against Messrs. Butterfield and that the British Consul may not though they were passing through without yourself the gift's a mockery. You know that and the
something like a boycott press their just views in order or three fellows, who looked as has it that Wu desires to consummate an alliance in order Swire but how far that is true is act so improperly as to compel the Colony, casually strolling recipient knows it, no matter what camouflage you use. Ay, that's to end the Peking Government and to substitute "a hard to guage without any visible the Amey people to resist with round and taking a desultory
the point-yourself. Constitutional administration." This appears further to British weal or adveraity
evidence. As partners in extreme measures." It is essen-interest in the curios exposed to
This universal gift making at the one time of year is all wrong" complicate the situation. "A constitutional administra-suggest that
we tial that matters should not be view, The Peak, wasn't quite How it started I don't pretend to know. Possibly it & rises out of the tion" is the wowed object of Canton, which suggests a of the present feeling is anything and if any British Consul or firm the old days as it is now I gather the lowly bed at Bethlehem. If so, that then should be the key, to continuance allowed to rest where they are, such a desirable spot to live in story of the rich men bringing material things wi' their adoration to new form of rivalry. It is difficult to resist the impression but desirable and we would very has exceeded what are their ed from one of the show cases, our gift giving. Wouldn't it be nicer to bave our presents from our that the leaders do not know themselves bow they stand. heartily recommend the British rights then we hope they will be If the pythons and other kinds of friends on our individual New Year Day-our birthday. That Apparently they live on a day-to-day policy. This is appeal of the document under The good name of Britsin has criterion of what they bad to put without thought is so much juck? Spoil the “Christmas trade
authorities concerned to note the asked to make due sepsis has criterion of what they had to put and so on. Bat doesn't that just prove my contention that the gifs would be a nuisance you say, the difficulty of remembering dates certainly how it looks through the mists. Perhaps there review which concludes: It is suffered little too much in China up with they must have had some is more light on the other side. It is time, though, that it to be hoped that our foreign lately to allow any further in exciting times. It might have lovely phrase you say? Nonsense, It would only be spread over began to shine through.
friends as well as the Chinese cident tomar our relationship.
been worse some pythons so "Pl neede in ony cast,
the your. Besides Sants would still have to supply the children's
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