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SATURDAY, APRIL 1.
DAY BY DAY.
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Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter."
herose to worship. I think the question means much to the rachy. This feeling is the germ of pro OPPOSITION MAY INFLAME
gress. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own Bitle- Apropos our paragraph con- THE ENTHUSIAST, BUT NEVER
ness than disbelief in great men. Carning Anglo-Chinese relations, CONVERTS BIM.-Schüller. the Colony has an interesting
Ay, wo cauan' recognise the Last work and I had a terriblə “ Ach Damn." Leave of abuse, on private time altogether. What between
qualitias of greatness in ony man visitor just now in the person of Mt. St. J. Lee, an Australian affairs to the United Kingdom,the rain and the pictures I may folk gat terrible annoyed at the these qualities in ourselves. My I've often noticed that some unless we have something, o Chines marchant, an interview has been granted to Major H. Gas well have been working for all least wae thing. There, just the yes. A man may not be great to with whom appeared in last Bagnall, D.S.D., RG. from the chance I got o' a lie back. other sight when I was doing his valet but that's often because evening's issue. Mr. Lee has June Ish to October 31.
At one time I thought I was in some odd jobs about the house the mean valet soul doanna' know played a leading part in the co-
for an afternoon's woeding in the and singing away to mysel", didn't greasiness when he sees it. Far operation between the two races
We regret to learn that the garden and was just in the midst Janet, she get quite annoyed.be it from me to suggest that all in New South Wales, and he is Bishop of Victoria is confined too blessing Him that sends the And yes I hadna the least idea the moderns have lost the power desirous of seeing harmony his bed owing to a slight indis-soft refreshing rain when the but that I was doing fine but some of bero-worship. between Britishers and his position.
Even Da word went forth that we were due folks can be awfu particular Valera way bos hero to some countrymen here. Tais, we be
at the Coronat in another hour when they life. As I said at the Irishman. Londoners no so long lieve, is also the wish of the over-) The Gazette notifies recission of and our tea to get and so I had time I savaed I was no Caruso ago went crazy over whelming majority of British the Order of 12th January, to come indoors and dry myself. bat when a chap's trying his best Doug and we still have the Mary and rusidents; indeed, it is inconceiv-proclaiming Manila to be an in- I'd much sooner pull weeds, rain gey vexing to have nothing heroes of the sporting world. Wi able that it could be otherwise. fected place.
and all, than be sitting in you but ill-natured criticism in every the Prince I think our feeling for discard being inimical to our own
bole in the wall listening to the hand. It's the same about the him approaches more to hero-WOI- prosperity. For the matter of His Excellency the Governor near-circus band and getting Ich Dien" on our pillars. One ship than merely because he that, the same might be said of has appointed Mr. Frank Baylis eighty cent beadache no toman aidled up to me the other happens to be the son of bis the Chinese inhabitants. And to act as Deputy Shipping Master speak o balf price for the wee ret there has been friction. Mr. doring the absence on leave pflyin. Lee ya that since he has Mr. G. W. Coysh. been back in this part of
Go and Forget It— the world he has gained "the im-
On April 16th, Rutal. Building And it was some picture, mind pression that the Chinese are not Lot No. 203, Pokfulam, is to be I'm telling se. What between faeling" This indicates that in an ares of about 34,375 square and the shirt nearly hauled off Mr. Lee's opinion the Britishside feet and the upset price is $4,138. his back, yon reporter hadaa the has been to 30 ne extent to blame;
life o' a dog. I think the whole but it also, what Mr. Lee may ao:
During the past 24 hours three thing
Jake onyway; have ralised, implies a clear con fatal cases of plague and one fatal it's bad eni ugb in real fession that the Chinese side bas case of corebro spinal fever were life having to go and interview been partly to blame-else why the
ties. All expression "not altogether." The reported to the Health Authori- gorilla sitting afore a plate the sufferers were glass desk bot when it comes to British case is that the recent
Chinese.
(sying it wi! an automatic ge dislocation of the Colony's life was the work of Chinese agitators. who adopted an irreconcilab
night on the ferry and gave me a father. In other words we like left earful about this terrible the chap for what he is, his per- business of having German words sonality and his sportsmanship. as part and parcel of car loyal And that's just as it should be. decorations. I was very much The one's real and the other- impressed at the time and cheered might be.
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To the register of medical tham lesa on the pencil who Ecco Homo. All that I'm coo-wouldna' like to leave the ques-
when he hinted that maybe the It's no' the first time that this K.R.A. should take up the matter Gadfly person has annoyed wi I cut him off at the main and told his effusions in the Telegraph. It's him that after son six column funny how soms young lads thin sreech the
night, all they know all about womenfolk. was going It's just as curious to note bow has the ber to take for a while, was a rest. some womenfolk are supposed to For mysell, I'm glad to see the The Hon Mr. A. G. Stephen said know a lot more than the men. [canna" expent the like in Hong- | „ "Ich Dian," and pleased to The rainfall for Marcb, as koog for the money. Besides yon
the other day at the Benevolent registered at the Bo anic Gardens, to thing's very upsetting for think that M. Bird had the Society's meeting, that he had totalled 4.80 inches of which 285 the reporters. It's bad enough courage of his convictions.
fourd from experience that be
person's character better than Altogether there were 19 days on fares and odd tiffins and teas but byway. For myself I dinas
ideas of aeroplanes, special trains cara a curse what Burke's Peerage could men. Well, that's as it may which no rain fell.
and the like are very apito make says about it, and whether or no be, bat no' always. If I was
poor, wronged, deserted female I Practitioners is added the name
All cerned about is that it gives a fine tion of my character in the hands fedicine and Bachelor of Surgery auch buck alongside the res! bye, these two words balance Bnt to come back to Gadfly. He's of Dr. Phoon Seek Wah, Govern-monthly expense account. ment Civil Hospital. Bachelor of Fon about rushing through the artistic finish to a nice bit olo ony womenfolks, no matter ether in search o news is 30 plaster work. What's more for bow benevolent their intentions. of the University of Hongkong. thing; #bich generally amounts nicely on you motto scroll. You a properly in theointment if ever Rural Building Lot No. 204. onto a fallen iostep if scoop imagine how you'd feel if you there was one. Janet, she thinks were an architect and bed to put he's fire when he gets started on the new road from Wanchai Gap go to the Police Court twice la merchant heresway is asked to
an "I" on one side and a "Serve" the servant problem. For on the other: Man, a thing like I think bed bobleno Fox myrels a: the P.WD. offices on April missing at twice the money. I that in professional eyes would having bis head examined. What 10th. The area is about 6,000 hope none of them get scooped make the whole thing look more does a man know about servants?, square feet and the opset price when the Prisca comes.
crooked than a dog's bind leg-Soffering Mother! Does this pink- $720...
No. I think son pillars are going cheeked youth Well, as I was saying, just as to look fine. Maybe if the ear-married
think that life A deep wound which is believed I stumbled out into the fresh air rings on the big ones were a wee
merely observations in reference to the to bave been the cause of death 4gain, the first thing my eye lit bit bigger though they would be in the dark and going to bed at question of holding handa
indiscrtions on the British side The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- may have occurred, though we do tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for aust think there WAR say full month.
antagonism towards the Chinese. However, we have little quarrel wish is that bygones be bygone mità a Cainese gentleman whose
giving place to manual goodwill Lee ster, the desire atmosphere can best be brought about by studying the other fellow's viewpoint. We
races impartially.
As
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922.
A REGRETTABLE DELAY.
A Judicial Query.
We don't think Mr. Lae will regard it as a breach of his ex- cellent maxim if we make a few
case of P. 5. Chan, lately sent
was discovered on the right on was a Chine Mail bill and. ecced at Canton
twelve temple of a Chinese, whose body something about Adversarins and years' imprisonment, because as lound at Hatton Road on 10 Imposter being Discovered. our remarks bare no allusion
Friday. The police are making Ay, says 1 to myself, this is more like the real thing, but they've whatever either to the strike ori er quiries.
taken a long time to find that to Chan's former position of chair-1
Janet, she wasna' for men of the Seamen's Union. The
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case would be the same if the prisoner bad been any one of causes aboard the Van Cloon South China's millions. Chan were removed to the Mortuary was arrested for the murder of his the arrival of the steamer wife, and while being arrested in part yesterday, shot, fatally it was at first report
penalty W38
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them for
more in proportion. But that's
night? Does be think the aver neither bere por Prince'll maybe no par ony heedage married man gets sitting down to his 'chow of a night, without to a mere detsil like that.
having to listen to a chin mer- Loyalty and Royalty.
athon on the deliaqnancies of the hash slingers at present enjoying Next week out Crown Prince bis hospitality? He'd better base passenger who died from natural form paper will be here for some forty-n hospitality?
said. folk Baur live End
eight hours. He's had a pretty part of the trouble. If the men- That's a great besides sbe could usa An essential for any big shipping port is an adequate,
strenuous time, poor chap. We've folk bad to run the servants we'd for the
pantry shelves when all read wi' watchful sympathy have less nonsense altogether. fully-equipped and modern floating fire-fighting service.
I 'was through wii. Map. the story of the Prince's progress Most men have Chinese to manage In consequence of the circumstances attending the outbreak
I was that anxious I couldas' through India. It's been a big in some way or other and ibey of fire aboard thesis. - Japan there is. unhappily, some
fake time and wait till I got home.job. The traditional courtesy of generally manage them without ed, one of the constablas. The Tenders are being invited for room for dold as to whether Hongkong possesses that prisoner fragly confessed hisgailt the erection of a Diniature rifle Janet, she thought it must be that the East was rudely upset by is quarter of the bobbery the aver desideratum. So far as the land service is concerned. it and was sentenced in all to twelve range adjoining Volunteer Head-the Prince's visit had been put off. hooligans and fanatics, Mr. can be recorded that there was a commendably prompt years' imprisonment. Having quarters, Lower Albert Road, ex- than that.
No, no, sase I, it's more serious Gandhi created a Frankenstein age wife has wit the cook and the It's Adversarius which got utterly beyond his coolie. As a rule white women response to the ship's call for help, but we are afraid that beea convicted, it is not clear carated below the existing parade What's be done, says she. In
(don'tknow how to manage Chlosse control. Through it all the Prince, the same cannot be said of the floating service. The upon what principle the capital ground. The walls are to be of
withheld. Io brick and concrete and the roof are, says I. but I think from carried on and who knows may be and when there's a row, as there "Japan first began to sound her siren just before 1230 English w
the look of things that it's me did more than he wotted. Reuter to take his wife's part. Of course, always is, the man has naturally. there i only of reinforced concrete.
And by the Hokey Fly so it was has had a good time too, and has they're bandicapped before ever a.m. and she made almost enough noise to rouse the dead.one sentence for
A proper sell. A case o self- But the first fire-loat did not put in an appearance until crime, and bardly think Major S. B. Coats. MC. is discovery and no even spention
ran the adjectival gamut to his ther get off the mark, for ad- some three-quarters of an hour later, whilst the second took any Chinese will dispute that ociating 2nd. in Command of the police. If the market price often thought where this living to much into Ah Sin's scheme of own satisfaction, at least. I've mittedly, no woman enters vaTY These facts, the English code is not more the 102nd. ... Greunder, o' nerve was round about 5 cants time table must have had its well over an hour to answer the summous.
draconic than Chinese justice. vice Major F. A. B. Johnstone. pound, you as would be rich drawbacks. There rout have considering that the vessel was within easy reach of the If the constable succumbed, as to proceeded on one year's furlough Here's my afternoon fair apoilt been places that the lad would Cockroach Sunday. floats, should be given the most searching investigation. which we have not heard re-to England. Capt. R. M. Newton-what between
With a ship of the size of the Japan," carrying a Gaitels, Chan was doably guilty. Ring, dice Company wiches at Wiseman's, yon fairy bit. But no, he just had to push take far too much to do wi the ten cent sand-havo liked to have hung on for a On the other hand come men valuable cargo, it is matter for serious thought that for in any case he bad, on his own Cammander vice Major 3. Bale in six reals and now a nickel's along wi' the job. I expect that three-quarters of an hour after the first warning was confession, committed capital | Conter.
worth of fiction and ink. Money's by this time he'll be fed up to the servants. I've heard folk speak given the only craft to render assistance in extinguishing limited to imprisonment. But
Just a sight'in this Colony.
neck wi' loyal addresses and how to their boys in such a way
25 would qualify everybody "unfeignedly rejoics"; a most dangerous fire were the ordinary ferry-boats, that is not the end. An attempt be held in the Rhenish Mission--And This As Well.
at the prospect of "proving our were of ony other race than black *58 if said boys the services of which, though much appreciated. were of at rescue having failed, bis sup- Church, Boubam Road, on Sao- And all this is leading up to a loyalty and devotion" etc. etc. I necessity of a limited character. We are aware of course, porters are now petitioning Pre day April 2nd. at 4 pm, the bilo poetry o' bis that he said
Chinese. In see he's to get no less than four
some houses the that the fiongkong fire-floats are steam-driven and that sident Sun to grant a pardon, preacher will be the Registrar of was by Burns. He's a muckle editions of the kind here the servants are chivied about like a
and the document provides the University, Mr. N. Teesdale liar for he wrote it himself. minute he sets foot on Blake Pier. it takes some little time, even under the best of condi-
convicts, sometimes as Som curious reading. tions, to get them under way.
The Mackintosh, M.A. who is taking Mind ye' I've no a word to say Ay, four reels of gush through many as three separate orders Et But, even so, we can petitioners assert that they do for his subject "My Darling Sia" against the sentiment. I've age which we'll be pledged by proxy from different members of the see no reason why in this case there should have been not
wish 807 derogation in The public are cordially invited said that provided the building's to appear as if we were used to family. Next door to a house I one and the same time-emanating such an interminable delay. In this connection, it is respect for the law, but they ask to attend this service.—Adct, water-tight and doesna' go on fire exuding loyalty at every pare worth while to recall the following extract from the re-the President to exercise bis pre- port on the Colony's fire service inade in July last by the offender whose crime is consider parentage. Theirbreastbones were before it had earned is keep, to expect to be insulted
that it would be a shame to pull and the composition of which once stayed in, it was quite a down yon pauedo marble palace will surely entitle the compilers to be tushing around at midnight common occurrence for the boy Captain Superintendent of Police:The advisability of ed pardonable." How they pro- united by a band of fesh, and so to speak. I'm for anything nothing less than a baronetcy: box and being cursed because they keeping both Hoats, instead of one only. under banked pose to reconcile" respect for the thes made considerable guns in the way of getting value My, yes. It's a comfort to think werens as sold as they might, and digging sodas out of the ice fires in future and providing a full crew for the No. 2 law with the gract of a pardon exhibiting in Americs before for my money and I dinga' though that Kowloon residents float has been considered, and full crews are recommended to one who confesses to murder, dying at a fair age in the sacare if the building used for a 50 have so far shown remarkable bees. On the other band they're often treated ower soft, for both. One float would then do duty in Hongkong and co thing of the fate of the year as each other, thus testifying cent hop or for that matter sacred constabl, does not appear. The to the proverbial affinity between concerts every week day for &
restraint in nat entering the getting away almost as soon a one in Kowloon. The possibility of delay in getting petitioners' conception of offences twice. In the other case to which year after, but I canna see far competition.
the dinner is over and without across the barbour should thus be entirely eliminated." We considered pardonable" requires we have alluded, two sisters, the life of me why the Ploughman Hero-Worship.
! seeing that their kitchens wonder whether those recommendations were ever carried some understanding. It is pos- whose names and nationality weard should be dragged in by the
are wasbed out for the night. One thing we do know, and that is that there was circumstances in the case that by a flesh band. One contracted Listen to the guff of this Adver-casion I wonder if there's nyness. Ye generally have the kind Apart from the traditional gup Both methods are equally bad, sible that there were peculiar bave forgotten, were also joined scruff out?
o the neck you way. ladled out on appropriate or making for incivility and slack- no entire elimination of delay in the case to which we are have not reached here; we can malady, and, to save the life of arius. referring, The extract we have quoted is not clear on the only judge by the reports, accord- the other, an operation was per-
: rest bero-worship nowadays?' boy yo deserve. point as to whether it was decided to keep both floats ing to which the prisoner's crime formed to separate the bodies. We make The second also, died within a
Livingstone was my hero and The revelations on Cockroach under banked fires, but from the fact that one of the floats was an atrocious one.
even yet I think be was a great Sunday during the strike brought these observations in no capitous few days, however. In the case attending the fire on the Japan" was towed to the scene, spirit, but simply with a view to reported from Chicago, the other
man. I think wi' most Scotsmen bome the fact that some house we presume the idea was not put into operation.
carrying out Mr Lee's advice as sister refused this desperate ex-
this is still the case. He was wives never lospect their kitchens. The fact of the matter is that our floating fire service to studying the other nce's pedient and the two died
more than a missionary, more Indeed some of them make a boast within is out-of-date, and it is about time a motor float was pro-standpoint.
few seconds of each
thans traveller. His was name of never having done so. - Under cured. Whether any arrangement could be come to with The Siamese Twins." other. Presumably the one sister
that was glorified. He was al-the circumstances is it to be won- did not wish to survive the
most, sacrosanct; and no Scots dered at that many cookhouse the shipping and/or insurance companies to contribute to The pathetic essa reported from other, confrming in another way "I have always regarded these mo, at least, mentioned his name are dirty and cockroach-ridden ? the cost of an improved service, we do not know. But for Chicago of the death of two the sympathy between twins, memorable lines as unanswer but wiederation. That, 1 Again very often the stove the safety of shipping it is essential that Hongkong should sisters who were born with joined Perhaps this is exaggerated in able" zaya be. For my part, I think, was heto-worship for you has séen better days and have the most modern equipment available. In cases of bodies recalls the original "Sismo- relation to ordinary cases, but always regard bis unauswerable of the purest kind, fires afloat the prime necessity is a prompt response to an ese Twine and also a similar where the bodies are actually lines as memorable. They mind alarm. And it is just that, to judge from this particular case that occurred some twenty united it is almost impossible to me more of Harry Lander than or more years ago. The Siamese imagine que long surviving, the anybody else. He most ha' bren case, that Hongkong cannot supply.
Twins were borpin Hiam of Chinese other,
drunk when he wrote them.
rogative of pardoning
anyi
wi'
O, why should the spirit of I mind" when I was young, Dr.
mortal be proud
When caught in the midst of a
rollicking crowd? The rank is but the guines stamp;acarl can dance for a' that And a' that, and a' that and
enjoy it just as weel.
lot o'
it's only when our better-halves
I need not ask the reason why, their own hand that the late Hather should I ask if the multi-cook ia conceded a certain amount tude are still capable of such of respect. It's a marvel to me worship, or if there are ony (Continued on Page 7)