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Wu's Coup.
03
6. 1922.
DAY BY DAY.
IT'S A WRONG ROAD THAT HAS NO TURNINO.
to the "B" Division of the Hongkong Tennis League, the Chinese Recreation Club beat Craigenzower on the latter's courts by 63 games to 36.
the day.
Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter. ›
end, it would often save as much bather and foolish notion. Mac's Glasses.
Well it's
Man, after yon awfu' dose a {wasna' wearing his new specs. The registers of medical practi-nationalist argument I gave birth So I asked him about them. Man, this respect, wo want to see tionars and dentists appear in toto last wook. I'm very loth to he was embarrassed worse than a tho old days restored, when there day's Gazette.
inflat, for a while, ouything that young lassie after her first kiss. in the least smacks of the country No, he hadpa' been for them- were constant interchange visits
The Gazette gives the names of that gave me birth. But man, yet. He didna' like going into yon“ between high officials of the two
streets in connection with the big just this last week the fancy kind o' shops. Could I no' centras. Let a good beginning reclamation scheme at Kowloon Home mail brought me a new call myself and get them for him be made in this direction, to-City.
paper and it's worried me ever and explain that he had been since I set eyes on it The High- called to China in a hurry and gether with a more intimate as
The assistant accountant of sland News it is, pablished in had clean forgotten about them? sociation on the part of unofficial
shop at No. 35 Gilman Street has Inverness and I havena' the Maybe, as the glasses werena organisations in both places, and absconded with $790 which he slightest doubt but that bidden ony use to anyone else, the shop- away somewhere among the man would let me have them the time should soon come when collected from customers.
Maca there's the name of some cheap rather than run the risk o' the unpleasantness of the past
erstwhile Hongkongite. If folk losing a good customer. But as I will be altogether forgotten.
would only mark the papers they said, what about the address Oh, my, he'd he'd given them. made, a mistake about that and given his uncle's address instead. As I said after, it was Had o' I was busy waling it through thoughtless o' him at the time. Telegrams arriving from the Northern capital yesterday
at for maybe the twentieth time Considering that the Dennistoun Inland Lot 2382, situate morning notified big victory for Shaukiwan Road, having an area the other night, when Archie Free Baths were now ballt op Wu Pai-foo, one of the messages of about 31,950 square feet, is to MacPherson, be stepped ben the what used to be his uncle's coal
So I
I'd rboe, thought
no wonder the glasses stating that "Chang Ta-lin has be sold at the P.WD. offices on house.
ay. And handing it hadna' been delivered. Ay. Mab been most completely defeated in May 22. The upset price is be a battle to the south of Peking." | 131,930.
to him I said something kinda agreed that it had been an un- offhand about it containing news fortunate mistake especially us Some of the reports made this [dificult understand. Tha To-day is the twelfth anniver- some o'his friends. Man, fac's he'd taken a fancy for you now Fengaien troops, distributed along ary of His Majesty King George face lit up like a gas factory on rimless kind of specs.
But I wasna" for having ony. fire whenever he got a sight o' the} ridges nert Changsintien, ad-accession to the Throne Al
tima I could forsse vanced against the Chibli line, the man-o-war in harbour dres-me c'it, and be could hardly At the which broke. Prisoners were
his nose, he was that excited to the country without having captured by the Fengsien forces, sed ship" in commemoration of take time to settle his specs on dificulty enough getting out of but, these turned out
get among the news and the trouble wit the police. Mind ye, to be Honanese of inferior quality.
|scraps o' Gaelic here and there, as I said before, Mac's no' mean, We hear that Chan Ping-sang. Mac's glassen, the ones he wears just kind of cautious like. At Still, the advantage at this point DAVIES-At the French Con. Appeared to be all on the side of the former President of the Chi-that is, are a standing joke loayrate that's how he still hap Fengtien, the only intimation to nese Seamen's Union, who has ourway. Dil I ever tell ye opens to be wearing the same old the contrary being a brief mes-just been released from gaol in the time I got him to order a new glasses to this day. tion of stiffening resistance on Canton, is shortly to return to pair last time we were Home nobody's business after all's said the Chibli side. A later and Hongkong.
together in Glasgow? Well as I and done, and what's more for fuller report explained
was telling ye, Mac, you know, bye, I believe there's a lot in what Wu turned the tables oo his From the Colonial Secretary since the first day I knew him, he says about his eyes baving got adversary, giving some colour to we have received an appeal by used to straddle his nose with an acclimatised to the blamed things. the clainis made on his behalf as Lady Pearson on behalf of the antiquated pair o' specs that he'd a strategist. The Honanese troops Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund, once bought off a man that used Macs Galore.
Well, to get on wi' what I wAS were a stalking-borse. Having full details of which we have al- to mend watches round the lulled the enemy into a false ready published.
corner from the Coscaddens.saying. I banded Mac the High- Mind ya, they were a fine pair to land News and he went over it sense of condence. Wu sent an
look at, only I have a kindaides, worse than a Scotsman looking advance party to the rear of the
It is notified that, at the ex from the way he used to cock bis for a threepenny bitin a railway Fengrien forces, and then de- livered a heavy frontal attack, piration of three months, the bead to the one side that the carriage, but like me, he could concentrating the defenders at Faithful and Company. Ltd., will glass was thick and thin in the see neither hide nor hair o ony- We desire in the most sp- tention in that direction. Simul. cless cause is shown the con-wrong places. The man that fitted thing that was likely to interest rary, be struck off the Register him must have served his time in Hongkong folk. He waded taneously he despatched pathetic manner possible to as
and the Company will be dis- substantial force to join upolved.
a machine shop down be Clyde through the whisky advertise- sociate ourselves with the spirit with the advance guard in the
and I've a notion that he know as ments, read all about the pair
"All night of the plea put forward in our tear.
long the
much about optics as our coolie fauld womanbody at Easter Ross the front was
The Gazette reprints, in con-savvies mnemonics. But as Mac that had a terrible time wi' the issue of yesterday by Mr. A. H.attack from
pressed," says the report: and nection with the protection of life was probaby sesing double when rheumatiz last year till she took Harris for a cluser and more eventually. Enting himself in and property in Hongkong be got them, doubtless they help-somebody's pills, and finally he a Concert announce- intimate intercourse between danger of being hemmed-in, the Harbour during typhoon weather, ed to correct his vision at the landed on
wean could ment, "the best half of it in the Hongkong and Canton. It is a Fengtien commander ordered a the arrangements with regard to time. Ourway; & trite saying. bat none the less retreat, as many of his soldiers as assistance to native craft by see that yon specs o bis were Garlic tongue, and be fair revell-
[rould escaping by train. Shortly naval tugs.
about as much ase to him as ed among all the Mazs there jtrus on that account, that the afterwards the Chibli forces com-
good advice would be to Suo were on the programme. I think yon affair had a representative interests of the two ports are one pletely occupied Changsintien.
trom nearly all the clans north o" and the same. In business and
Forth: MacPhersons, MacLesos, in other spheres as well. Canyon
Well as I was saying, one day MacDonalds, MacCullochs, and is as necessary to Hongkong as
when we were at Home, Mac. be Mackenzies which just goes to Hongkong is to Canton. Our
had some trouble wi's barmsa show ye that music still hath ower the head o' getting a two-power to soothe the savage geographical propinquity no less
sbilling piece instead of half-a-breast, Mac, he slyly hinted that crown, and when things got to be he didoz once see a MacWhirter Hiptoola, the Indian shop as bad as that he agreed that a throughout the whole paper which make it a point of the Erst im banks of the Han-bo. "indicatiog keeper io D'Aguilar Street. pair of new glasses would save just goes to prove what a sensible portance that we should work in a smashing victory along reports to the police that wool- more than their cost to no time clan ours is. Then we got started the whole ne" In addition, len cloth of the value of $5,000 and he was quite willing to have arguing about the antiquity oʻour
Reater despatch from has been removed from his shop his face fitted again. Wi' that forbears, a very unremunerativa. Peking announces that Wu's by 20 unknown thief who I convoyed him into one o' you kind o' discussion at the best for
have surrounded the It is no use blinking the fact troops
evidently had a duplicate key. fancy places in Sanchiehallme, for Mac, he's one o'the kind capital, and that Chang's army that of late there has been a deal in that quarter has been scattered.
Street and Mac. he nearly had that can argue and drink at the heart disease right away when same time.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 6th May, 1922.
GET TOGETHER.
than our interwoven interests
a spirit of harmonicus co-opera- tion.
Effect of the Victory.
how
A widow of Capsuimoon bas Yat-sen at the moment. reported that three armed me. A Terrible Suspicion. one of whom carried a torch, broke into her hut the other night It is learned, from American and stole property of the value of official sources, that the Chibli $17. They decamped after making forces have also been successful this paltry haul. at Machang while other reports credit them with scoring by the
of ill-feeling and misunderstand-Particulars of the engagement A drowoing fatality Was
*
ing between Hongkong and will be awaited with great atten- revealed by the discovery of the bis feet neatly sunk up to the Canton. That is the last thing tion for the light to be shed upon body of a thirteen-year-old lad at knees in a Turkey carpet and A Good Hobby.
before be was finally brought Talk of that kind are brings the number of troops engaged, Taikoktsui. On enquiries by the anchor ín a red
plush me
in mind o' old Andra that business men want to see, casualties. and prisoners. It police it was ascertained that to for the effects of such outbursts should be understood tha:, heavily the boy went to a pool on the chair. It was only when I whis-Davidson, who used to belong at Taikoklagi to pered to him that as a general one time to Perthshire and who as we have recently witnessed as Wu bas scored. Chang's main reclamation a
rule they spread the cost of gear made quite a lot in his day from army was not participating, if the bathe and was drowned.
kind o' that
Ower & period unsuspecting are bad for trade and commerce
who strangers accounts of his forces are say-
o' years, that be consented to would fain bet real money against Our belief is that much of the where near correct. The Man-
Nominations of a Justice of the get on wi' the spelling of the bis contention that the Davidson trouble has been caused by unchurian War Lord has be re- Peace to serve on the Legislative letters on the wall forgenst him. elsa was the oldest in the world. thinking and irresponsible people, peatedly credited with an army of Council during the absence of the Mind ye, Mac's no mean but and had even the distinction o 300,000 strong. Probably not more Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, close to men, be's terrible suspicious. But being mentioned in the Bible. who give too free an ear to then a quarter were in the area day. Up to the time of going to I kept up bis courage. I could After seeing the money in safe- rumour and who only add to the where the fighting took place press, the only nominee is Mr. A. afford to: it wasna' my eyes or keeping, Andra's proof and ex-
Was Chang's action in mischief by repeating all the It
R. Lowe, proposed by the Boa. money that was likely to suffer planation wasn's' long in forth- foolish grasip they happen to hear. sending them southward that Mr. A. G. Stephen and seconded in the process anyway. From the coming. "Well," he would say.
caused, or precipitated, the coa- by Mr. Montague Ede.
optometrical chatter yon goggle-"David was the son o' Jesse and This applies as much to Contoa flict.. What the Yangtze com-
eyed youth kept up. I was sure Jessie was the Flower o' Dun-
that
folk as to Hongkong residents. mander has accomplished, judg The boatswain of the Taibo that Mac would have at least blane. There we are." I paver
It's the tittle-tattlers who do the ing by the accounts, is to score
the nine different kinds of astigma was curious enough myself to came into a brilliant initial success, and Maro, which
up. though I most harm. What Mr. Harris one which cannot fail to have harbour with six Mauser pistols tism and I was sadly looking looki
had a kind o' idea the would like to see and Dr. Wo a large influence upon Chang's and ammunition for which no forward to the day when my old faye Ting-fang is just as anxious-is future. As Wu says in graphic licence was held, was sentenced friend would have a dog leading thing he proved most of all was metaphor, he has cut off the by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the bim. between at times chanting that he was a sbyster. Still & A closer association between the head" of his adversary's army. Police Court this morning, to the Old Testament wi" his fingers, (min must have a hobby o' some " business interests of Hongkong This much is reasonably cer. fine of $1,000 or six weeks. Of two when suddenly the prismatic kind to keep him from wearying. and Canton, as well as between tain,
the Man-other seamen who were charged pessimist said something about Andre used to be a shepherd will be in conjunction with the boatswain, coming back in a week's time, round about where I come from educational, governmental, san- churian dictator
chary of sending more troops one was ordered to pay a fine of and wi' that we stumbled outside and though he'd been man and itary, medical and newspaper to the south of the Wall. $100, while the other "jamped" onto the pavement again, men boy about Linkcumdoddie nearly was tally very much the worse all bis days, folks thereabouts still organisations in the two places, His Canton ally announced by his beil of $500 which
o the wear. I havena' the looked upon him as a kind o' with frequent interchange visits, Mandate on Thursday that the accordingly estreated.
lesst doubt but that the specs yon stranger to the place. Scot's folk expedition to the North was
glass merchant worked out for are awfu' clannish that way. An- After having sentenced the bim would bave suited Mac up to drs, of course, wasna' often seen, prisoner to six weeks hard the nines, but somehow or other, as was natural in bla employment, labour, Mr. J. A. Fraser, in the he kept putting off going to be spending his time on the hillside case in which the wa was fitted.
TYPHOON WARNING.
so that we may all get to know starting. Will Chang's defeat each other better. Mr. Harris change Dr. Sun's plans again? thinks that to know is to under- stand, and that by, some such means as he suggests both Can- ion and Hongkong will, instead of criticising one another, get to appreciate each others' good points and find a mutual benefit in this closer understanding.
charged with receiving 40 gallons
of kerosene from the A.P.C. in A Dirty Trick. stallation at North Point, had the
Mind ye, I'
among the broom and the bracken. no' seeing a soul for days on and and in a quietude that even the didna' know rattle os cart on a bye-road. man again brought up before him about tbis at the time, as I was could be heard miles away. The telegram quoted below was this morning and reduced his at Linkeumdoddle after that, Grandeur and solitude it was, received by the American Con- sentence to fourteen days, with but just a week before I sailed for except for the wailing cry of the sulate-General, Hongkong, from the option of a fine of $20, The Hongkong I had occasion to go curlew or the pee-weep.o' the the Manila Observatory at 4. p.m. change was brought about by the up to Glasgow to look up the bank lapwing mixing w the busy yesterday:
admission of the principal de-references da man that thought drowsy drone of the bumble bee: Mach can be done, of course, Typhoon in about 138 deg. fendant in the case that the man, he'd like to buy a house and stars I hate to say it, but the few odd by frequent and friendly inter- Long. E, 19 deg. Lat. N., moving who was his gardener, was acting town life in the country. It was
then that I noticed that Mac) (Continued on Page 7) course between the Governments N.N.W.
under bis directions..