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A whole leader was devoted to
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
My dear readers: Let me tell [replying to us yesterday, in which Mr. E W. Hamilton relieved 30 right away that I'm no' feal- it was carefully pointed out that Mr. J. A. Fraser with a numbering in form this week at all. all the Hongkong nawspapers had of Police Court cases this more There's are a muakle slippery conflicting reports as to what had ing actually happened at Maoso. Yes, yes, we are always ready to ad mit that the first story of an affair is hot necessarily the most full and
The Lord Bishop of Victoria is preach at the 11 a.m. service St. John's Cathedral to
morrow.
auld bellows have started to
I've aya
stane at ilka body's door. Ay, I've had a sore knock sure enough. No, mind ye, that my plusralise again. No, it's trouble
mind this time. said that ye can prick the bal toon o'a man's mind quicker by The master of the s.s. Pingching ridicule than ye can by the reports by wireless that the angry word but I never thought Hainan Head bank booy bas I'd live to have it proved out been replaced in correct position on myself. I can stand a man arguing wi' me for then I can bim Back in his coin
it I only tanth &
part
accurate and that later raports might appear conflicting as com- pared to the first. But we did not criticise our Canton 'contempor- ary for giving in its arms columns different varsions of the incident; wa criticised it for the locae and contradictory nature of its editor. ligt commenti, That is a totally
His Excellency the Governor Pay different thing. Editorial com has appointed Mr. Edward Irvine a ment represents the writer's con Wynne-Jones to be District know sidered opinions, and is this case Officer in the Southern District the subjec: as compared wit bin. the point was the allocation of of the New Territories.
I can even stand being called a blame. So, obviously, the Por-
fool for in that case my opponent tuguese authorities could not be
might only be guessing or taking Owing to heavy weather, the, a long shot in the dark. But when responsible if the soldiers fired without authority. The Canto Dutch steam lighter Araamaak,ja man takes to parodying re. Tirs Const have it both which left Hongkong on June 1st there's no way of which I know Ways Tha editor the for Sourabaya, was forced to turo of getting your own back. Ye Canton Times possibly felt that back when some forty miles out of canna' even pretend to
of
port
o'
cover
yourself up or do a bit side-step- ping let alone put up a running His Excellency the Governor fight to the rear: ya can only stand has appointed Dr. Wan Man-kai still and be made a monkey of, a and re-appointed the Rav. T. W. silly grin on your face the while. Pearce, the Rev. A. D. Stewart, and pretend ye like it fine. Ay the Very Rev, Father P. de I've met my Waterloo this time. Maria, Mr. S. W. Tao, and Mr. A. Even Mr. Adversarius navertræst. F. B. Silva-netto as Members offed me like this and goodness only the Board of Education.
knows he must bave felt like sloshing me many a time. Even when I called him a muckle list,
A man who was found carrying for pretending he was Burns. be
a basket in which was concealed let me off wi a kindly warning
& loaded revolver at the village of land. I've watched myself ever
without any sense of proportionChi Ma Yuen in the Mongkok since. But in a true saying that i
district, was given the maximum sentence of one year's hard labour when charged before Mir. R. E Lindsell at the Police Court this morning..
ye canna' please evarybody,
he bad to be inaiguant over the matter somehow, so one day be spoke of "the Macso authorities commanding a wholesale slangh ter of our people" and the very next day spoke in criticism of the Parteguese soldiers and police by saying that "the facts show there was no given order to fire." The fault of the t'anton Times was not rhas it gave the news as it re ceived it, first incomplete one day and then correct the next, but that indignation and anger led it to print editorial indictments
or balance. If the editor of our Canton contemporary bad been really solicitous for the Chinese rights of the case he would have been careful to avoid the very indiscretion he was guilty of; The official reply given at namely, the exaggeration of the Thursday's meeting of the Legis- acts of the other side. We ste not in the least desirous of tilting at lative Council to the Hon. Mr. the Caxton Times for the sake of Lowe's questions regarding the tilting, but we are convinced that iccreased telephone charges did in s matter like the Macao affair, not throw much light on the situation. Me. Lowe wanted to know if the proposed increases were sanctioned by the Govern-
wi'a bottle of dead soda water meat, and, if so, upon what
after the dirty trick be helped to factors they were based. The
Seen by an engineer apprentice play su me this past week. No' Colonial Secretary stated the
coming out of the third engineer's that I'm bigotted, mind ye. I proposed new rates were in con-
cabin, Tee Ying, an unemployed believe I could be friendly after- Messrs. Thomson Brothers and seaman, Yam Tao, was wards wi' a Yaumati armed robber formity with the agreement made.
Stedman, of Tientsin, auditors of brought before Comdr. Backwith, provided he came up face to face hut, strange to say, he did not the international relief fund it at the Marine Court this morning, wi' me and cleaned me out fair explain the nature of the agree respect of the famine that charged with being aboard the and square. Ferry ticket and all, ment. He could easily bare devastated large parts of China Takaoka Maru without permis-but I canna" stand this doing the done so, because he admitted in 1920 and 1971, have completed sion. It appears that there were dirty bebind my back.
their task, and certified copies of three men altogether. With the
When he first got hold of this that the Government is now in the accounts have been circalar assistance of the other two, parody, I could see by the grin on position to come to a definiteed. As the famine-relief opera-defezdao: entered
his face that there was something decision as to what are fair terms tions terminated in the spring of engineer's cabia by means of a sadly amiss and that it wasna' a last year, it looks at first sight as porthole. Taking a cash box, in joka onyway. Joe, he doesna" to offer the Company on the if the audir has been conducted in which was 70 yen. be handed even laugh at the Punch jokes renewal of the licence under somewhat leisurely fashion. The this to bis confederates waiting about Scotsmen. That's the kind fact is that the auditors bad a big foutside and then calmly walked o humourist he is. Joe has the which it operates.
undertaking to face, the opera-out through the door. He was proper Englishman's sense of foo Mr. Lowe asked for papers to tions extending froin Shantung arrested by the fourth engineer which is no' unlike that of the be laid on the Council table show-in the East to Kansu in the North and a quartermaster. The other Chinese. The more il burts the ing the nature of the negotiations West, and they have done their two men made their escape. De other chap, whether in body or task with thoroughness, members fendant who told the Marine spirit, the louder the laugh. So I between the Government and the of their staff being occupied Magistrate that he was looking knew somebody was in for a nasty Company, but all he was promis-on the audit from March for a friend, was sentenced to time but little did I think when be ed was that the agreement would 1921 till April of this year. The two mouths bard labour.
funds aggregated $17,358,633, the
Of course, Joe, he has been in high feather all week ever since he got the thing seat him, which jast sbows ya that ye can never trust anybody even your best Another man has been arrested friend. And that was the man in connection with the two recent that I loaned my amsh to for a robberies at Reclamation Street couple of months last year. It's a and Landals Street There is blessing he doesos' folge wi' me evidence to show that although anyway. He's the kind o' in- these robberies were perpetrated dividual that as like as no." would where restraint and prudence in far from each other they were drink all your whisky and try to comment would have been no engineered by the same gang. It make out it was part of his board commendable, our contemporary was in Temple Street that the or even go the length of using displayed a lack of understanding police made this latest arrest. your matches all the time. I and allowed indignation to get the This will be the fourth arrest the wouldas trast yon chap now even batter of its judgment.
| police have made in the case.
China Famine Funds.
of
the third
CHINESE JOURNALISTS OPPOSE WAR.
anloaded the following on me that I had been picked out as the be so lald, after it has been sign-bulk of which, apart from!
victim. As I said before, that only ed. What possible value such |$1,000,000 raised on the Customs,
I don't know the shows ye, a method of procedure can have was donated by foreigners. Ameri
name o' the author. All I know is that be had no objection to my we cannot imagine. The public ca as the largest subscriber.
At a mass meeting of Chinese seeing the thing which I thought and Britishere also make a good wants to know the nature of the showing, including $100.000 from journalista beld in Feking recent very kind of him until I bad read agreement before it is signed. It this Colony. Contributions from with the object of preventing it. But have a look, and judge for
future wars and stopping the have been
yourself. can then judge whether it is fair Chinese appear to
comparatively slight, and of these present conflict, the chief idea and reasonable in its terms, and, the largest came from Chinese advanced was that it was the if not, press for its revision. The abroad. Nine provincial com- duty of journalists to shape public mischief will be done once the mittees were utilised in the opinion so that a strong sentiment distribution of the relief, which might be aroused against warfare agreement is signed.
to a large extent took the form of every kind. In addition econo- mic pressure from merchants) There is one other point on of grain, while cash grants
and famine relief work grants was suggested, and it was resolved which we should have liked some
It would that the people should refuse to were also reade,
same pay their taxes unless the troops enlightenment. In the course of be interesting to have the negotiations, the Government particulars in relation to the last were disbanded.
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quantity of road-construction,
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HOLD MEETINGS. Since General Teno Kun and the licence would be that, after cerned with the financial side. General Wo Pei-fu expressed an increase of profit above & The provincial accounts as well themselves in favour of recon- certain point, the charges to the as the head office accounts were vening the old Farliament, the all investigated. General admin-members have been holding a public would have to be reduced. Jistration expenses were $241,495, series of meetings. It is reported Has that proviso been incorporat-these being kept down to 1.6 per that at one of these meetings it ed in the agreement, and, if so, ceat, which is creditable consider was decided that two represent what is the "certain pointing the wide area. The carefully atives should be sent to Tientsin [audited accounts might serve ́as | to make all preparations for the That, it seems to us, io view of a model for the China Governforthcoming convention. It was reports we have heard as to ment facine-relief fund, raised also decided that letters should out of railway and other surtaxes, be sent from Peking to their guaranteed dividends, is a very and bever yet, we believe, colleagues in the Southwestern pertinent quary, and one which | vouched in detail.
provinces asking them to come Mr. Lowe might well put to the
to Tientsin at the earliest possible | date. A Hankow telegram, in- Government. As the Telephone
dicated that General Hsino Yao, the Civil-Governor Lin, and the military officiers in the province, A party of Japanese Senators including General Bun Chung arrived in Peking for an in-fang, have despatched telegrame estigation of the Chinese situato General Wa Pei-fu endorsing tion and Dr. Ten altertained his attitude toward the re- them to luncheon at the Winter convocation of the Old Parlia
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Between You and I.
m*.
Wat having a cup of tea in Wiseman's the other day with my friend, Zoey, Fell to talk- ing, of course, and presently we came around to the launch strike question. "Now, between ourselves," says Zosy, when I interrupt him: "Please don't put any Robert MacWhirter stuff on to me," I plead. "No, it wasn't that," ways ha; "what I was going to say was "Well," I interrupt again, “on thinking it over, perhaps you couldn't put any "Between Our- selves pabulum on to You haven't got the brains to think of anything, anyway", "Onyway' you mean," says he, just to be clever like. "Do you think I couldn't fill -2 column if I wanted to? Why, man, it's dead easy. You taks 234 lbs. of *Lizkumdoddie," add 1 lb. 3-1/7 ozs. of "onyway," atir well, slipping ■ 14 oz. each of fauld", "dians", and, wee bit while the pot'a boiling, add ́nya' and yes socording to taste, and then when the concoction has arrived at a fine inconsis teney, you lighten it by car fully looking over and removing every from of Bodth from with? (all the same fashion coolie takse ticks
from dorg), than you take away the number you first thought of, and the answer's a' lamon. “Some idea,” says L.
"Well
try it, anyway. Maslen labour. troubles and telling me bow your boy runs up your gas bill, and how many times a week the amah asks 20 cents for charcoal. Just write a few lines (hoping they find me quite well-after reading 'em-as you are at present), giving your idea of Empire Day. There's a subject for you!TM" "Right ob," says Zoay: "I'm a fine subject myself, and a loyal ons, so I'll get along right now and 、start the ingredients stirring.” He was off in such a barry to get busy with a pencil at home - that he forgot to get busy on the obit for our tea, though I did hold out my pencil to him in a moment of impulsive gon- erosity. M'yes. Still, I didna mind; I signed his name to it, o0yway.
Well, I see Zoey again and be bands ma a fine-looking document, foolscap size, very neatly typed, and the whole of it tied up in the corner wi" grena ribbon wit the ends cover- ed wi' a big red seal just like the ones tha lawyers charge an extra 85 in the bill for: and I says to him: "This address is nearly two months too late, my SOD. And the glory that was the Pavilion." No, moo," says he; "I didns put way address in it, only my name at the top."" And then I started in to rend the thing:
EMPIRE DAY:
A FORECAST BY ZOŁY.. Was in big letters right acros the front sheet Mind. I'm a telling ye, I thought at first it must be a horoscope. "Here, Zoey." says I. "you read it to fae. So Zoby starts off in a voice like the parson usas when he asks who's going to give the bride away—you know, all quiet sa' gentle like, but full of something important in the air.
"Empire Day.” reads Zɔey, -“is a day on which the sun ought never to se." ("Why?," *ays I. "Being a holiday,” says he, "an" don't interrupt." "Go on," says I, seeing possibil. ities in the idea). "School- children know that Empire Day is the day on which they cheer for the Empire, but if all the whole year were Empire Day, then they would be continually cheering, and as the Empire is universal the problem of per- petual motion would thus be solved." "What a cheering prospect," says 1) "I mind once. in Linkumdoddie, my auld uncle's nephew—and mind, telling ye, I were only
I'm
a wee youngster then-he was at school, and the teacher bad been doing overtime making the
E comin' generation learn the tunesthey were tosing on Empire Day, an'a saying they wouldos' have a holiday if they didas,
xce
learn them all right. An' the teacher be calls on me to tell him the words of the National Anthem, so I waves me topi in the air and starts off, only in- stead of saying, “God save our gracious King" I says and king," not knowing it oby better than that, and, wi' no more warning than your cook- boy gives ye when be wants to borrow a cigarette when yo've gone to the office, the teacher stands me up and hands out a lecture on the erll tendancies I'd exhibited, an" says sure enough if I keep on the same bad way I'll be going to Hong- koog when I grow up, sad lose my substance in playing bridge, an' then maybe never have enough bawbees to get back to see Linkamdoddio agen. Aye, men, o' all the speeches wi bich the school was afflicted at any time, that one was the most dreadful. M'yes."
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"Now, look here, Zoey ” says I; "that stuff's absolutely rotten. Take it home and twink.
Couldn't you say anything with something approaching a grain of sense in 13" Well, farther down, replies Zoey .''' I'm pointing out that the resi need of the Emplie to-day fa that everybody should work hard in order to pull up the years of waste in the war, and that instead of taking 7 or 8.. hours off at every opportunity, everybody should put in 7 or 8
· hours- hard-working overtime 1on Empire Day to show they mean to help the Empire along bit" Yes,” says 1, " that's not a bad plan for those who likelt, but that deaddean t'agree with the everlasting. day you starte
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