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DEATH.
What of Canton?
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922.
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Oui!
Between Ourselves
but
By Robt. MacWhirter.
nou!
Way
had bad dreams over after, if ha was lucky anough to resah, the convalescent stags at all.
`Is would be interesting to learn the facts of the present aliuation
However, as I was about to say, jin Canton, with particular refer
we sliddered along - after our jence to the part which Sun Yat- Isen is likely to play in the
guldo half a street length in the The other day. Joe, be showed that length but voila! maakse, dark, and by and by we came to a Joear future. Judging from recent
me photograph of bimself that we should worry, for it was ower house wi' a red light burning at reports, the much-talked-of ex he had taken when he first came dark for it to be of use to us ony the door. There wasDa' a roul pedition against the North is
out to Hongkong. I didns' know way. What folk want to live in in sight. Fornenst is our good banging fire at the moment. If
him in those da's which was the country yon the true reason for that circum maybe just as well for be must especially in a place where ye stopped and repeated his action for, Samaritan wi', the whiskers stance could be found, we incline have looked an awin sight wi' arcan get meat and drink sitting story in six non-stop reels and to think that considarabla light would be thrown onaffairs in Can. Weeping willow moustache draped | right on the pavement, beats me. I could see that Nec had-júns“
round his mouth like you. They "Mac," says I, "this is the last made up his mind to plug him top. It is known thas Chan King-call me he was engaged then to time, and if the shap that opens one for taking him to doctoria by ring has been pressed to take a lass that used to help her maritha next door lifts his left mistake, when the door opened active part in this axpedition.ried sister and sing in the choir shoulder as much as three-eighths and a fat woman wi a stomach but that he has shown
Sundays DO
apparently of an inch from the horizontal, like a venetian blind said Borg burry to comply with Sup's nothing ever came of the business I'll ram this chis down his gullet sahr three times running and request, intimating that affairs in the hinderend. That's the and yon cat in Swatow'll have to at the same time looking terrible in Canton demand bis presence worst wearing a thing like yon put up wit what it can get pleased wi' herself. I could bear there. Now it is reported that on your face. It wouldna bave locally. "Right," says he, "I'm tot o anickering ben she bouse Son has decided to defar the been so bad if he'd kept it darkwi'ye bat diona be ower coorse, and Mao, he whispered to me Northern expedition until he has but when he got the length owe might get a drink, if we're that the woman must have bad a "completely auppressed" the having his photograph taken wi' lucky. Man, he'd no' ssoner sair trauchte wi such a big | Kwangsi bandits. And coincident
words Qut *
his family, when suddenly our guide with this report is another that be white suit and topee as acces got the intends returning to Canton forries, I dinos wonder at dog mouth when somebody along held out his hand said something the purpose of tranquilising the self-respecting lass deciding to side him began to speak. I could about un peurboire. He didna situation in Kwangtung." It is stay at home and wash the front just make out the figure of say it nicely either. Mae handed. door steps instead of coming out man. I gave Mac a dunch to be him the address we'd got and said not easy to thread one's way here and letting herself be tied quiet, for I didos' like the quiet poosee Our Gallic friend through the mazs presented by up for life alongside a creeper alithery kind of way he spoke. agreed rooiferously wi’a string o these developments, but there are like you. Ever since, Joe, he has After unburdening his mind for ouis and then some more but in the situation possibilities purened the erea baritone of his the matter of five minutes and of ended up again insistently on the of a startling order. Mean way, though by the same token course, keeping time to the pourboire note. I didns' like the time we can only await develop he strongly suspects he's some-music wi' his hands and the best sound o yoo word. I seamed ments. Something is happening. thing of a basso profundo. Meis, part of his body lato the bargain, to have heard it afore, many But just what it is impossible to
I cleared my throat just to let times. Then I saveed and whis- say.
Which reminds me one way him kon by the noise that it was pered to Msc that what he was The New Earl.
and another o' the time that I full-grown men he had to deal hungering for was a tip. Then used to wear something un-wi
happened the most wonderful piece When Mr. Lloyd George prac.detachable in the way o' facial “Mais oui!” said I. Mais it ever was my fortune to bear tically threatened to resign Atrimmings myself. But I think I
Comme il faut. Coup MacPherson ease BRISTOW-At the Govern-few weeks ago
out of his on account off once told you about MacPherson d'etat Sil vous plait. Que system in the form o" the spoken ment Civil Hospital on 14th. the attitude of a Unionist section, and myself, bow we once run a Loulez-vous? Defense de fumer word, and it just proves how instant, Richard West Wode-conjecture assigned thesuccession whisker-raising race wi' each
Aris avertisse! Appartements wonderfully adaptable the Scot is house Bristow, aged 46, late of to the Premiership to Sir Arthur other. Man, yon was terrible, but
àlour. Le Chat.
when he's far from home and the Sharwood Foresters.
Balfour, and perhaps the exit just shows ye what a body'll
"Pussy," intoned Mac. "pussy, nobody loves him. Premier would command as much do when his wife's at home and poore." confidence as anybody. The he feels in his second youth. Well,
"Non chat, non pourboire" ssid news of bis translation to the onyway, as I was telling se, one suffering mother. I never realised he wi' his nether lip hanging free Upper House may be taken, how-time when we were down in before how deep calleth onto and loose like a motherless foal. ever, to rule out any likelihood Saigon we both set off ashore to deep; how like attracts like. Then it came to me like a flash that the erstwhile leader of the sea a man about a Siamese tom You man was the dead spit and I cursed myself for a fool. Conservatives will again head a cst that we'd trystad ourselverto Mac right down to the point
"Mec” says I 'it's time we're. Cabinet. In these days elevation bring up to a man that was slow. o bis board and the black no bere and if yo breathe a word political connection, obscurity io So the Peerage means, in the 1 drinking bimself to death mourning bands on his finger of this to the wife, I'll brain ye
Swatow. Mat be Was Dails.
| and use ye up a bis at a time for rather than advancement. As extra particular wi' himself that "Poosee, poosee," says Mac, bait." late as Queen Victoria's reign the night but notwithstanding all his no doubt imagining because be "What
ye' says he of all tire assurances which have pposite was the case, Gladstone care wi yon beard of his be said it that way that he was we're done nothing wrong.
being the only Premier to remain couldos" help looking like the speaking Franch.
for you' he said been given. local depositors must in the Commons; but since the wild heathery-looking Hielan "Hold on Mac," says I "you've turning to our guide" what more begin to wonder when they are “G. O. M.'s" time every Premier man that he was. "Never mind. got the idiom wrong and, what's do you want? Ye got a fine hurt going to have a chance of recover-except Lord Rosebery has been s Mac," aaya I, “soap it well down more forbye, there's no use con in a motor car and we didns”
member of the popularly-elected till we get ashore and then we'll fusing the chap that way. Let me even charge ye your share ?** ing even a part of the money Chamber (Lord Balisbury was slets barber loose on ye for try him again wi' the real Wi' that some mutton dressed they deposited with the institu- carry over" from Victoriap half-an-hour." So Mac, be lesnt Mackay.
up as chicken sidled towards tion. Wednesday evening's meet. [days). Lord Rosebery's lack of beary on the Sunlight and in the Passez-moi le beurre. Le vin est-us along the lobby and whenever it compris Ou est le bureau Mec got his eyes on her he saveed ing of creditors was interesting, success was attributable as much dark didns' look so bad at all.
as anything to his not being a Mac was aye awfu" scared o de poste? Le Chat?" inasmuch as it brought out clear ember of the Hons which plays going ashore
also and drawing back foreign-like "Poosey," Mac. He said it five feiled the gentle stranger wi' ty for the first time the full the more active part The effect places, as I know to my cost, for times running.“
the neatest purch on the scheme of M. Benoist, the Judi.of the Parliament Act a dozenjit was a trouser button to a bor "A cheral, ao I mean, is chat jaw that ever Bank ouy cial Administrator of the Bank.rs ago in stripping the Feers spunks that he left what he'd says I.
man artificially to "sleep. of their old powers was, naturalis. borrowed from MS the week By this time we got to a lamp-The women folk screamed like. appointed by the Paris Tribunal to confirm this trand, which before, right doon in. the bottom rost and the more I saw o' you mad and I saw we were in for it of Commerce. The details of democrats are doubiless ready too' bis kist.
chap the less I liked him. He right up to the ears. Well, as I was saying, him and wasna' blate in running the role that scheme are undoubtedly good acclaim as a victory for their
It felt strange to me drunders along the boulevard ower us either. You man'll know principles. sad Hongkong and Far Eastern cease speaking of "Mr. Balfour" and before be'd got time to reckon Mac again, as. even if he was fo depositors have shown wisdom when the Order of the Garter was theexpense I bad him in a barber's meet him on his funeral day. in agreeing to accept the scheme, conferred upon the ex-Premier chair and his whiskers trimmed" Ecossais" said be.
the other day; and, if anything, right down to the thirty-third Le Chat "says I. if it is eventually adopted.
"Poosee" says Mac.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 15th April, 1922,
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
It is almost a year ago since the Banque Industrielle de Chios first closed its doors and, in spite
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it will feel stranger still to read degree. When you beard-barbar
select.
Wi' that I struck a match and,
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When the police came they unfortunately caught Mac in the act of loosening his late opponent's collar and trying to wake him up. wi the toe o his book. Ay, it looked bad right enough, and it occurred to me at the very outset
Affair tbo: the
would. te 'difficult of explanation. I could see the both of us in a
The local office of the Banque of his speeches being delivered had got through wi' the wax. Wi, that he had & lookses at the Six from. "Apother place." received a telegram on foureday almost certain that Sir Arthur Ambassador
It is Mac he looked like a French address again, said "con
in
comio times without stopping and in- the saying that the Saigon union of will aske at least one more pictores. He was that grand that vited
all US. wi BD depositors bad agreed to the speech in the Commons, of which I fair hated to see him wash his bracing sweep to be on our way, cell for the rest of the night and ecbeme, and this nove brings into be remains a member until the face the next day. And yon wax After we'd walked some distance the old man ashore first thing in line Peking Shanghai Hong-actually completed:
patent of his peersze has been takes a bito melting. Mais, Out? Mac's twin brother wi' the beard the morning looking for us like's and the But to get on wi' what I was stopped the traffic and a solitary he'd lost a shilling and found a kong and Saigon. One of the occasion, it may be confidently telling ye. After we squeezed motor car nearly stripped its sixpence. most attractive items in the predicted, will be a notable, through the tablas un the side- gears in the excitement incidental In the meantime the police, memorable, ane. It walk and were just beginning to to stopping opposite us. From after getting their moustaches scheme is the suggested refund ever
seems surprising, considering feel comfortable. I came in mind the way yon man showed us into in order and their swords at the of half the deposits. at Mr. Balfour's alertness, that of the address 1 bad in my the limousine. I think he must proper angle, took as along to pace, the remaining ball being be must be not far short of being pocket of the man that wanted have once stept beside a Cook's the station. They took our lata left
the in
bande of the the "Father of the House" a good home for a Siamese guide. He had it all of to per-guide as well in so ambulance
(period of membership, rot age, pussy. Man, son
directions faction even to the way be left that looked. a CTDSS between Banque for the time being so as being the qualification). A matter looked simpla in Swatow but by me to pay the fare. But that's a spring cart and a coster's bar to give it a chance of carrying| for intéresting speculation is the the Hokey Fly, after a balf & getting ahead o' my story, row. Madame also accompanied on. There are still fond hopes tile he wili
Willdozen aperitifs on the pavement As I was telling ye, we stopped us intimating to the rest of Saigon that the Banque will be able to Sir Arther become Earl Balfour in Saigon they might as well at a street corner and then I her entire innocence in the whole
of Washington ?. - bat
one have been secret instructions in got my first inkling that there affair. I felt sorry for her. It's survive this great happening insurmises that the kinsman of the code regarding the best part o' was something queer about the terrible to have the best part 6'- its history, and it will only be Cecils will prefer something Captain Kidd's hidden treasure, whole proceeding. When I come your working day broken into But as I said at the time, acb, to think of it, it did seem funny like yoo. At first they were for with the co-operation of de- purely British...
we'd guid Scotch tongues in our that a perfect stranger should mauling Mac about but altar. positors on the lines suggested The Tramways Company.
heid and there wsana ony fear take a burl wi' us in a motor car, some argument decided to herd Considering that working ex-o us being lost. Mac sail that even if somebody else did him to the Station instead. will be accomplished. Of course, penses during the year rose by over that might be all right in the pay the driver. I could hear When we arrived, a vin-laden the from the occasional and kind of sodger impaled us wi' a frenzied the scheme rests oy the seruring $100,000, the Hongkong Tramways Coocaddens, Glasgow, or
Co., is to be co gratulated upon Grissmarket, Edinborgh, bat undecided "poosee" from Mac eye and it was as much as we of F.320,000,000 from the Bxer increasing its prosta to the among garlic-scented foreigners that for once he and I wore very could do to keep from laughing. Indemnity, and although doubt extent of $94,739. The number of it was gey kittle work. That's pear of the same mind. I'd been He looked the dead spit of one o has been expressed To some passengers carried, exclusive of the worst o'taking a man out wi' in same queer corners afore the Bandman comic opers police. quarters regarding the possibility monthly ticket-holders, rose by re for the evening that's bepo mind once at Port Said-but that men and acted at first wi' s of getting this money, it has been well over 20 per cent. As the brought up among sheep and the would take ower long to tell. I mixture o familiar condescension suggested to us that a consortium total dividend for the year only pitfall within miles, in a bad also a distinct recollection in and cold-blooded decision. Then of banks in Frauce would beworks ont at 20 per cent., the peat moss. Bat I soon got my being once mixed up in a varia- he took to rolling his eyes. and asked by the French Government original shareholders are doing ici parley too record running and tion of the Spanish prisoner running his hands through bis to lend the Industrielle Banque well indeed, and even at the mar after several streams o' chatter swindle and that sort o' game is hair. He was just about to bite. a sum equival at to the above, ket price the shares show a very and much morsing withe palms lots more exciting than ludo, bit out of the desk forneast the Government recuring such fair Field. The company evident o' their hands, a couple of kind mind I'm telling ye. So I whishim when the bird on the loans by hypothecating the rev-ly ends it less economical to gentlemen directed as in supered to Mac to turn off the fluor recovered. That seemed to enue from the Boxer Indemnity generate i's own electrictly than entirely different direction to poosee" stuff at the main and enrage him worse than ever. It
br the scherpe that such survival
There
Obviobely Chine is not xpected to buy current, as in future this that which we had been taking. for to watch out or we'd be get made him mad, I suppose, to se to pay anything more than ber is to be obtained from the Hong. That's the worst of they weeting our names in the Hongkong case of plain murder wake. 02 annual due and also the Banque kong Electric Co. The Tram turpentine kind o'drinks: they're papers and our effects sent home like you.. could not wait for the many ways Co. is still alive to the terrible unchancey after the first by the British Consul. And Mao
I wish I had the time to tall ye antil it was paid by China. project of a service on the other half-dozen. Moix, Oui.
saveed for once. A terrible man Franch bankers and the French side of the water, despite the Act II opens on the evening of he used to be in his young days all that happened in you place
enough voluble Government will have to do the inauguration of the motor buses, the same day but the scene is before he meet Maggie Robertson Franch shooting about yon Polica negotiating. If M. Benoist's The company acted both liberally laid on a daik and lanesame kind one summer, years after, at scheme meets with fairly general and diplomatically the other of road wil Mac and I just on the Dangon. Since he got married Station to fill half a dozen French support (and it seems more than day in making considerable verge of fossing up to which o Mac's been different altogether, Self-Taught Books. But the talk. likely) then we should not bare concessions in pay to the tram-the two basses on our extreme Now, be's no got the spank o' was ower quick for me. It was- verbal shorthand, only. to wait very much longer before waymen, without admitting left we should approach. The louse. But at the time. I'm the doors of the Banque are once etipulations that encroached upon paper wit the directions was well speaking of the man that goi again opened,
the managerial provingu. thumbed by the time we'd gat "the better o' Arabie MacPherson (Continued on Pags 1.)
Hke
worse.