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manding inspected a small mustar THERE ARE NO RULES FOR of the Hongkong Volunteer De-FRIENDSHIP. IT MUST BE LEFT SCALESs Corps on Thursday night, TO. 159ELF. WE CANNOT FORCE
Some folk must be a terrible work oʻthe jackies? Lots oʻyoR only 141 men being on parade out FT ANY MORE THAN LOVE.— of a total strength of 281. Even
burden to themselves let alone lads can give a long start to some the people they've got to stay oʻour jazz jiggars brought up as taking into account the fact that
Jalongside. [44 members of the fares wern on
There on Monday they are on dinner dansants 'and leave, the numbers were small. Captain Duress Arthur has last, Joe, be sent along a chic that toddling. My, yes. And la consequence of this we been appointed as Assistant had been sent me all about the
Boals. cannot help but thinking tbat His Examiner for Masters and Mates' wee bit yarn I wrote last week. Excellency was extremely geo-Examinations.
I know now what it feels like to And now from balls to boola. erous in the remarks be made.
De called a liar; but really some. As for this lady booling business. As he rightly said, volunteering
folk are funny right enough. No", I diana' kon what to think. Mind in this Colony ought to be taken
mind ye, that I'm paying ony heed ye, I'm no against them trying a little more seriously than it is.
as its very annoying at this time their band at the thing provided He reminded members that the
o' day to have to set to and prove it's big enough, but I wonder if force was essentially one for real
that MacPherson doesna" "exist ong ‘o' yon short-skirted women service, and, although he praised
except in the imagination, If folk aver saw themselves, avon in the work done by the Corps dur Major Christopher Willson, anybody feals in anyway libelled, imagination, bending to the green ing the recent strika period, he O.B.E, is to act as Deputy Re-there's aye the remedy at their just as they were in the act o naked that the work of training|gistrar and Appraiser, Supreme hand, and if I do make a fool of seeding off a bool. Man, come to should be taken seriously and eurt, in addition to his other onybody, I'm quite willing to con- think of it, I doubt the Club made that more local young men should | dutie
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CHINESE LABOUR.
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to
tinue the process in open const, a big mistake no latting them be induced to join. His remarks
It's a matter o' indifference play. Wi' grand stands at each will, we hope, be taken seriously
me, Mao, it's funny and o' the green and admission, Abroad in Hongkong this my how tha CAD would by many. Hongkong has always
seem a dollar a head wi' opera glasses boasted of a strong volunteer uniting ral live Red Indian,
to 6t .. times but what thrown it, the money would be. and there is no question that .ted considerable interest seams more pathetic still to me is worth it. Even the pictures would in times of need a well-or-be rode through the streets
He that after all these years o' daflog have to take a back seat on ganised and trained force of local makes a very picturesque and and carrying on one way and Saturday afternoons. Still non, another wi' this awfo' man Mac, booling's a fine manly game, men would be of tremendous unexpected figure. value. When the local press---
that there still remain folk daft planty o' exercise wi" it and no" including the Telegraph-urged Ng Poi, a street coolie, 29 years enough, obtuse enough, if ye like, no-rly as sore on the knees as the abolition of compulsion at the of age, was sent to the Governor plain dumfoolish enough, if ye sorubbing the kitchen foor. Man, ead of the war there was the as-ment Civil Hospital yesterday will have it, as no" to kon when I wonder what some o' them sumption that a volunteer force suffering from wounds infl.cted chap's but amusing himself. "Bat would like to be at next. No would be well supported, and it on bis head by a man who is now is there ooy truth in it? Suffer- content wi' cluttering up our is not too much to say that those in police castory.
ing sailor, wouldn't that make ye clubs and helping us to drink out casiony ia authority were led to expect a
tired? Why that, dear friends is whiskies and sodas, they'll be better response than has been It is notified that the gate in none of your business. Observe wanting to be on the committee made. Their own protection the west wall of H.M. Dockyard, in this one particular onyway, next and claim dice-throwing should be enough to lead men to leading to Murray Road, hitherto that I do not find it necessary to illegal, Ay, re never know at join up. The Government has known as the "Cressy Gate" has lio at all. been generous in its provision of been re-named "Prince of Wales Balls. equipment; it has made it possible Gate," in commemoration of the to add a Scottish Company with recent visit His Royal Highness. band, a Mounted Company and other special units; whilst the number of drills & man must at-
to it.
who WAS
mortuary.
where they're liable to break out. I don't suppose though, that they've got ony notion of getting
No sooner does the clacking ower a Clean Creche Competition. No. If it's no one thing, it's two. up an Ideal Homes Exhibition or
werena
the Prince's dancing partners get that would be ower near home for A few hours after bis admisa chance to die down but someone some o' them and ower much lika tend has been cut down to the sion into the Government Civil starts up in the path and sets the work. All the same, it's maybe. very lowest minimum. In view Hospital last night, a Chinese ball arolling wall this talk about just as well for their peace o
igjured by wounde, lady boolers. Ay, whenever the mind that, the names of all these things wa ought to have a larger and better Corps stated by his wife to hase Prince got away, the chin music published of the thirteen that than we have. And it is up to been self-inflicted, died, and his started about the way his partners voted against the ladies. What I the man folk of the Calaay to see remains were transferred to the were chosen. They tell me one would like to know though.
just poor dama is pretty sick ower the is
what exactly did head of this business as a result of you member mean when bo The combined orchestra of the some considerable crowing afore- taid
**whenever the ladies Fire Brigade Control. Coronet and Kowloon Theatres hand. It just shows ye that ye can wanted to play, they wanted Hang it We are glad that the Hon. Mr.will give a programme of popular never count on anything, no' even to play with the men." A.O. Lang spoke his mind quite and classical music in the Prince's the mumps, till ye get them., sil are they no ays doing that, Pavilion to-morrow afternoon. Some folk havens the sense of a one way or another? (No' Joe, plainly at the Chamber of Com merce meeting with regard to the If saticient support is forth-beo Sparrow, Ony way. Janet has I dinna' mean what you mean, 60 necessity of disoring the Police coming they will give a similar an idea that there must have keep your mind easy. But you'll from the Fire Brigade so far as concert in the City Hall every been a kind of selection committee admi: it's awfu' hard to keep let loose OD the community from getting mixed, where the As was natural, the Hon. Mr.executive power is concerned. week.
aforehand and that some bird ladies are concerned, once ye A. O. Lang, Chairman of the More than once have we stressed
the point that the Brigade should Through an inadvertence, men-finally picked them out weight get started among this social Chamber of Commerce.dealt with
as being the most stuff). As I was saying it's he under the absolute control of ion of the useful part played by for inches the subject of native labour at men who are experts in the work, Sir Robert Ho Tung in connec-suitable to snuggle and jiggle in bad enough having them playing Royal arms. Of course the monker wit our affections the Chamber's annual meeting.and for that reason we welcowe tion with the seamen's strike. did the He remarked that labour demands Mr. Lang's suggestion that scot appear in the Chairman's beauty might have had some and our hard-earned baw bees but special executive officer, with speech at the annual meeting of bearing on the matter and then when it comes to meddling wi’ coatione apparently without re-fighting and engineering ex-tee Chamber of Commerce which again it mightn't, for we all know our bit sport and our leisure 1 any regard to the inevitable in-perience, should be secured from was published in our yesterday's how democratic the lad is and no' draw the line altogether. My, crease in living costs which the Home without further delay. issue.
However willing and сод enhancement of wages must
scientious the C. S. P. may be in bring about." There, just at the Fire Brigade work, it is obvious Litt. D. Director of the Man. their faces set into the correct out to work. I've heard it put Dr. Wu Lien-teb, M.D., LL.D-practising repartee and getting when women-folk began to go point where a lead would have that he cannot p.ssibly have the churien Plague Prevention Ser- smile, to be chucked aside like this way that the third sex is the
knowledge of a man trained to vice, who is on his way back to been welcome. Mr. Lang stopped the work, and, as Mr. Lang saya. Peking after a two months trip There's some compensation in doesnt want to marry. But why an old boot in the binderend. single woman who's in a job and But whether we like it or not. his time must surely be sufficient in the South, will deliver a lecture everything though. Even Job stop at that? The fourth sex might the matter cannot be left there. Is occupied in Police duties. We at the Hongkong University on all his tribulations hados to well be the married man who,
not know exactly what The Manchurian Plague' Even before the strike, prices
undergo the trial o' seeing his afore others, agrees wi' his wife sitcation DOW iv. but Monday at 5 p.m. Moving face pricted in a Hongkong news and at the same time wisbes her sbowed an upward rather than a до
very loog 50 pictures illustrating the plague of paper. My, yes. Still on the far enough. The fifth might wall downward tendency, affording the trained ren at the 1921 will be shown.
other band It'll be nice for the be the wife of the man that never ground for the Chinese workers' head of the Brigade were subject
next ten years or so to be able to stay at home. Reverse the terms demande, and, apart from this, to orders from quite an army of
Presenting every excitement offopen the tea-table tattle wi' some and ye get another sex quite essy, officials not possessing expert native workers bave begun to knowledge. That was bad. It none of the sordid scenes which said to me that night at the Ball. the lady that wants to be gal- a thrilling adventure story with remark anent what "the Prince I diana' just kea where to place echo the slogan of the Western may, of course, be that the con-
Some poor chapel umphing all over the place and proletariat- & tuller life. This trol of the C.S.P. is now little sally mar similar attempts, you know
Half a Chance." this evening's have to live that sort of thing taking the very boals out oʻ movement is not by any means more reason why it should be is very forceful ad a very is aya sasuring, of course, that and young fools and fools inter- more than comical. If so, all the special Coronet Theatre attraction down for the rest o' their lives, that man's hand. There are old fools restricted to 007 Culony. Inabandoned altogether. We want bomen pictor. With Meblon some of yoa fair damsels will mediale. Thank goodness though. 6 aul 12 Persons. Canton for months past the work. the best possible. service from the Hamilton in the leading role the ever be tempted to hook up wiWhat fools these mortals be!"
ers have been clamant, nor is itained by putting control into
Brigade, and that can only be acting is worthy of the great the common or garden taipan doesns' apply to the majority o to be supposed that these sympthe hands of men who know the theme. So are the setting and after being in such close proximity our women folks onyway, By, toms are entirely attributable to work.
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a bit particular to whom he fyes. If we ist them go on at this speaks to. Still it was hard lines rate there's no saying where the on the also raos" after weeks of thing'll stop. It was bad enough
and
to Royal blood. For myself, I'm yes. right glad that Janet has never Banks. Members of the Queen's College taken kindly to the new jazz
Now for the banks. Ay, the Old Boys' Association are re-steps. Oh, ye never know! Yon minded of (1) the second annual sort o fandango makes them "B.a" are having a run out this Judging by the wording of the Re-union Dinner which takes daft enough for anything.
week. When I got home the cable, the action of the Irish place this evening at 8 p.m. in the
other night Janet, she was sitting Labour Party in proclaiming College Hall; (2) the sanusi More Balls.
on the verandah wi' a face that twenty-four hour general strike is cricket match commencing at 2 But what's coming ower this would havespaned a foal. Thicks a peculiar piece of inconsistency. p., this afternoon on the Chinese Colony o' outs anyway? We Ito myself, the boy's been catching The threatened strike is de Recreation Club Ground at were free and easy at the it again so I started right fa to tell of Commerce at Shanghai a signed as a protest against mili- Causeway Bay, where families Prince's Ball, almost human in her how fine the geraniums were pears a frank article on this tarism and the failure of the and friends of members will be fant, while at the Naval Dance, looking. But I may sa wail hare subject. As the result of contact politicians
come to a welcomed and tea will be served in the same pleos - We were saved myself the trouble. The
seen -Adr!.
even more so. Man, it would bardan o' her plaint was the way with Western civilisation, the agreement." It will be
that the Irish Labour Party
have done your heart good to see she'd been treated in the Bank Chinese workers' wants are ex-assumes all the disputants to be
afternoon. Really, you A Chinese died at the Kwong some of the Beatty Boys rolling that tanding to something beyond a tarred with the rame brush. Wah Hospital yesterday, as the up
asting and getting know, that sort o' thing should be Hration of "chow", and, from the Surely it must be obvious to any result of an attack, believed to everyone to dance. I believe stopped treating folk like yon in "
thinking mind of the industrial
Bort of thing does even a British bank. Standing yon standpoint, no!
mohave been made by a man whom yon to ordinary capacity that this is
robbing more cirlc good than a letter way for over twenty minutes mention any other, it will be wise precisely the time when the side prevented from
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Editor. Some o' oor before au useistant deígns to take to recognise this, even if it entails which stands for law and order the day following this incident elite were never suited better than the slightest notice o' reisus" half' same readjustment of the comneeds all possible backing to enthe -cessed agaic met the they were last Easter Monday, good enough. And then when mercial framework. No pander conditions desired by the Labour stabbel in the back.
able it to establish the settled robber, and in an altercation, was I'll bat ye it made some of our they do tacitly admit your exis The social swimmers come up for a leace some of yon imitation Eig ing. Do weak surrender, but men. The administrators of the police are making enquiries, but long breath. Ay, what we want 'lishmen act as if they'd wooden open-minded coneid ration of Free State have a tremendously have so far not succeeded in is lots more o' that kind of thing. lege wi's spring loose somewhere. orderly applications. Mr. Lang, difficult task in the face of the tracing the alleged sagallant. Of course the great difficulty aye and desperately feared, o' their
republicans' bitter hostility, sơ
is that it's kinda hard to do with trousers. Ay, I could sympathise we should add, returned to the much so that only the revolute
-out giving just a wee suggestion wi my wife right enough. Every point later in his remarks by efforts of Michael Collins and Mr.
lo, patronism. (Joe, he says "time I go into the Bank I have have kept the new the scale on behalf of the treats there's no the
Bach
word but eye the most terrible itch to write quoting
Heir Apparent's Griffith
negime going. With the issue in regolated between Sion Fain's I dions' want to waste time argu- a special article on Dogs I have reply to the address presented to the balance, the fate of the Irish representatives and the Imperialing. All I've got to say is that Met." The struggle no to appear behalf of the Chinese community settlement hinges almost entirely Government, it would have been there is now.) Ay, right enough, ower intelligent, and at the same In the spirit of the Prince's words upos the degree of national sup- practical contribution to
ye can get a lot of the right kind time to obtain a [port for the Free State. If the settlement. To strike is too atmosphere wi" subscription corrugation of the forehead, must may be found the answer to the Irish Labour Party had thrown eggravate a problem formidable dance. We're a Jock Tamsons be very trying. If some of them problem.
its very substantial weight into enough in itself.
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