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creta form, da it is, the average British taxpaye probably fela |that the Balfour Nola diantosad a remarkable measure of liberality, the enormous British claims In
I thank "Albion " for his latter your thoughts on the subject, the respect of war debis and repara-
of last Tuesday and accept wit more they look as if they'd been - Įtions being reduced to the suất
pleasure, his assurance that there pinched out of the Wealth of |which bsanctually to be disbursed
Mr. Edward Irvine Wynge are many dialects spoken by Nations". When I say to you Jozes has resumed his duties as Englishmen. Somehow or other "If our Imports are cut down, to America. Lord Grey speaks District Officer for the Southern I had an idea that such was the foreign nations cannot afford to of Britain paying first, then District of the New Territorisa. case. Maybe after this be no pay for our exparts" you are. collecting. Bat if Britain pays
be so subject to the itch of con- bound to feel reasonably certain Rural Building Lot 216, on tradiction. He now realises how in your own mind that old man first without collecting, thereby
Magazine Gap Road, is to be sold hard it would be to state which MacWhirter never thought that subjecting her citizens to the F.W.D. offices on October of them is absolute correct one out for himself., And when tremendous burden, what are the 10:b. It has an ares of about English. Is it no quite possible I solemnly assure, you that
of reimbursement? 12,000 square feet, and the past then that a Scotsman, minus "we cannot
accent and wi' his "="s firmly in industry and commerce by inter- chances Would not her debtors answer price is $1,440.
hand might speak English well fering wi' the inflow and outflow that, since Britain was so wealthy The four-reet Harold Lloyd pough to be taken for a native of goods by means of artifcit," as to be able to setile the Amer}-{comedy, “A Sailor-Made Man
It's a great thought.
barriers" it sounds more than ever can debt of her own bat, there is being shown at at the Kowloon. Kelvinside English. was the less need for the Allies Theatre to-night and "The Girl in the Taxi" will be there tɔ-mor- to meet their obligations? We row and Monday. commend to the reader's notice a manifesto by the Federation of British Industries as to what this one-sided plso means.
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The Telegraph.
reconstruct Our
Nko something you've heard twenty years ago and saw in I think myself
that the the pictures only last week. Sɔ only
tast of "correct" Inever touch the darned subject English is the utter absense of if I can help it, but, by the Hokey Wears informed by the Pacific accent or dialect. That's no quite Fly, when America sats up a few President Taft left San Francisco very apt to distinguish every starts operating next week and Mail S.S. Company that the s.5.0 simple as it sounds, though. more tiers on ber tariff wall and The trouble is that you're I read that the Fordasy. Bill os ber initial varage to the East)
on September 2th and is due accent but your own. That's why at the same time Mr. C. Hastier here on about October 10th. She very Englishman thinks the best Huston, of the U. S. Commerce carri d⚫ full complement of English is spoken in his district. Department heads a Teads Mis
That's why Edinburgh folk think sion East, I begin to feel vaxad passengers and cargo. The motor roads in the New
Kelvinside English a very bad that I didns" say something to Territories are costing the Colony
imitation of the real thing which save America before it was too In the interport cricket match is Elinborga English. They have late. But they'll just have to quite a deal. In the Estimates, at Hankow, the home team the same feeling of pity for the blame Jos because of that, for, a sum of $45,000 was ear-marked defeated Shanghai by five wickets, Geordie, the Cockney, the men you beliege me, he's notorionsly for the maintenance of these score: Shanghai 105 (Spencer from Cornwall, Lancashire and shy wi' a dry subject. Stripping thoroughfares, bus on Thursday 32), and 115 ford 59): Hankow even Oxford. A rough and ready the matter to the bee bones pt the Finance Committee of the 134 (Mantell 47) and 90 for the test might be that if ye can tell controversy and applying the Legislative Council had to vote los of fire wickets, Lowe and where a man comes from by the situation as it will affect the an additional $30,000 on this vote. Cassels bring the top scorers. The sum was required in order to
manner in which he speaks, then Orient, it just means that exports make good the road between Fan-
he is not it to associale w' those from China to the Pacific Hi. Excellency the Officer Ad-who can claim to make known Slope ling ad Un Loang, which has .nistering the Government has their wants in" correct" Eogliab. intended. America.
will decline. Such is been badly damaged by the not-
however, appointed the promotion
of Mind ye, I'm no bigotted on the may rest assured that if she does row tread of the sold tyres used Lieutenant Walter Higby to the point, but merely anxious to not or cannot boy from abroad. by the motor buses In tha
bonorary rank of Captain, with assist in every way possible those she cannot sell abroad, and de- locality. According to the permission to wear the noifarm misguided "Albions" Colonial Secretary, the use of of that rank on his retirement the present have been under the that labour will pay in the long "who up to creased exports inevitably means such tyres has now been pro from the Hoogkong Volunteer delusion that to speak their own run by lessened wages and un- hibited, but apparently the mis- Defence Corps. chief was done before the prohi
language correctly was the easy employment. I know fine that sounds awfo' like the maiden bition was enforced. Over a con- recentsiderable distance, this particular
The Empress of Canada tarried thing they thought it was.
! speech of a would-be member of Parliament or some Editorial Parliamentary debate upon the road passes through paddy fields, way large number of local Sadly Astray.
residents to-day. these including Balfour Note, Mr. Asquith, as we and it is now realised that its Sir William and Lady Ressly an English word and an entirely other way without running the Regarding "Albion" being pare Babu but I canus' say it ony read his speech. favoured punctil made of stone when it was first Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Sassoon, christening of a terrace when a And I wouldna" deliberately do foundations ought to have been Davies, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hall, inappropriate term to use in the risk of being misunderstood. ious discharge of the British constructed, as, because of the Messrs W. E. Clark, A. E purely Sect's favour was intend that for I'm unfortunate enough
HONGKONG, 23rd Sept., 1929.
THE BALFOUR NOTE.
When doctors disagree whoi shall decide ? Io A
obligation to the United States weight of modern trafic, they Crapnell, George Grimble, Ged, my friend
are discovered to have been
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bady
motor!
the
owners to
book.
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*3sures those in that respect as it is. Not that And indulgent treatment of
mainly concerned that they were I object, mind ye, in occasionally spreading to a considerable er-Hogg and Eldon Potter. Britain's debtors. Viscount Grey.tent. There is some prospect of
eadly astray. "Albion," he says. being thought a fool. The sub- His Excellency the Officer Ad-is synonymous wi" "England.", sequent extrication and recovery in a recent speech at Oxford, motor bus services being extend- spoke in similar vein. "Britained in the future, but henceforth ministering the Government has It was the name given by the, of self-esteem is often worth it. the Government's policy is to appointed the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. invaders in ancient times to
Obituary. should par, then collect seems complete road-making before the Parr to be a member of the England, supposed to have been to have been the key acts of his services are started. Looking at Recreation Grounds Committee suggested by the white cliffs of I think one of the hardest jqba address. It is difficult to avoid the whole question, it does seam Hongkong Golf Club during the that must be right. I only wish gat is to write a letter of co- as a representative of the Royal | the southern coast. Well, I guess ony down-right kind of man can regarding these as essentially out dearly for its experience.
as if the Government is paying absence from the Colony of the I had MacPherson's EncL Brittdolence to the relatives of the of-office utterances. Ope need
Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.
here to verify it. His edition goes dead. It's no' are the same wi not, accase the former Premier An Important Point.
back nearly to that time. Thea newspaper man in the matter of Mr. Lang raised an important Two or the erstwhile Foreign Secre
magnificent first-class only authority I've got beside me composing an obituary notice. point when he asked whether railway coaches are shortly to be at the moment is Collins Clear The more distant the relationship tary of insincerity: their attitude the owners of heavy motor bases pat on the run to Fanling. Ofs Type Dictionary. Pocket. Pro- the easier it is to roll off the may be traced to the
New Edition, differere in future to be responsible most luxurious type, they have rouncing.
230 correct, appropriate phrases and ance in standpoint of Ministry for part of the upkeep of the been built at the Kowloon-Canton Illustrations. Price 6d. The word to pay just tribute to the charac
Railway works under the super- "Albion" isaa' there, though. Batter of the departed. Wi' our And Opposition. It is the former roads over which they travel vision of Mr. C. D. Lambert, who wait on. He speaks of the white friends it is so easy. That's
That cur roads are who have the responsibility of damaged by heavy
was also responsible for the de- cliffs. I can very nearly verify maybe accounted in a messure raising funds. Toe Opposition, vehicles there is abzdow sign. They are a credit to the that. Let's see.
for the little that all the rowe-. doubt, having only the role of critic too
and the point railway.
Alb, a vestment of white linen. Papers had to say about old Insturally arises whether fuifi!, can afford to be generous Government is securing adequate kong notifies that it has been re-
Jamia Logan who passed away The Harbour Master of Hoog-
Albescent, becoming white. this week. And there is another in their view of the war debts.revenue from the
Albino,
a person with excep-factor which must be taken into tionally fair hair and skin and accouns in this place wi" its ever- Had Mr. Asquith sad Lord Grey offset in some degree the injury ported on reliable authority that!
pink eyes.
changing community. For nearly the task of balancing the Budget. done. At Home, the licence fees in bad weather, heavy rollers for motor vehicles are based on estimated at between three and
Album, a white table; a blank 40 years wi' the Dock, how many it is a moot question whether the horse-power, which may not be four bundred feet in length.
contemporaries of his of 30 years problem world present itself to the very best method, but it is break over Helen Shoal (Lat. 19
sgo are wi' us to-day. Very low, Albumen.......found nearly pure if any. If Jamie had died twenty them in the same light.
one which bears some relation degrees 12 30 N., and Long. 113
in the white of an egg. to the size of the vehicles. Then, degrees 53 N ) causing a discolor-
YUBIs ago, to supply the details Lord Grey spoke as if there was too, the owners of particularly ation of water over a wide ares. Alburnum, the white soft part of his obituary notice would havs
traction Shipmasters are hereby warned! of wood. an inherent reason for treating heavy vehicles such a
been as easy as kiss, your hand. But to be well and truly knowa" the debt to the United States as engines, are often called upon to to give the above shosi a wide
Ay, the evidence is too strong.in this Colony you need to make contribute to the cost of berth pending & farther notice ou especially as I notice that Janet
road something entirely distinct from maintenance for what is termed this subisce Admiralty Chins uses "Albo" for whitening the Otherwise the newer generation a raputation every five years. the Allied debts. We think, on the extraordinary traffic. With Seas Charts affected.
wee yin's shoes. I hope then know you not and you slowly contrary, that very many people, vehicles bere, this question will the extended use of heavy
that this'll be a lesson to those but surely pass out of all ken. bofolk who show little discrimina The man just & dog's watch bere and not only Britishers, will re-have to be faced in the
left today by the Empress of tion in the choice of names for is the men of the moment. Be gard as quite logical and reason. future. The point is whether Canada was Mr. A. E. Crapnell, their dwellings. And yet I don't basies bimself in a semi-public able the Government's offer to those who use the thoroughfares who is going Home on retirement know. The name of you terrace Way and. most everyone a huge sicrifice as the most are bearing their just share after 20 years in the Colony.might be more appropriate thaʊłknows him. It takes bot & short
of the upkeep.
Joining the office staff of Messraya think. Maybe the folk there time, however, to put him on the Lane. Crawford and Co. in 1902. are in the habit of hanging out shelf. In the matter of twenty Shanghai's Team.
be eventually rose to the positing the family wash-their white years or so, fellow gradustes of his of managing partner, though from vestments to dry, in which case. grifio days have departed and in The Sbangbai cricket team as and the British Government has wired by our correspondent there 1910 to 1918 he had no connection though no Scottish, "Albion few more there is every chance egrees pretty well with the forewith the firm. Recently, when Terrace might not be such a non in the world that he takes the lodg made it abundantly clear that if cast received some days ago, al-the concern was turned into a sequitur as ye think. All the same,trail anwept, unhonoured, and Uncle Sam is not disposed to offer though two places remain to be limited liability company, he be I think it would have been much unsung That Jamie had such filled. It is clear that the came chairman of directors. He safer to have called yon row of Lay remission there is no
northern port will not be fully was also on the directorate of houses "The Gorbals and been for the way in which he had ▲ grand, leave-taking said much intention on John Bull's part of represented. Capt. Barrett and several other local firms. He was done wilt. That would have been endeared himself to all, old and seeking to evade the liability. F. L. Wainwright are definitely keen Freemason, having been Scottish enough.
young, wi' whom he had come Arrangements relative to fanding non-starters, and as no mention Master of Zetland Lodge and
into contract during his long the debt are reported to be in W. R. Wilson, the Shanghai He was also a keen golfer and an
is made of Allison, Cockburo, or bold office in the Grand Lodge. A Dry Bubject.
residence out here. He was kind- It's many a long day since liness itself and many's the one be progress, But, further, Lord team, to say the least, is short of enthusiastic Volunteer. Hismany I touched the subject of belped. Despite his many years Grey opines that, saddled with maximum strength. Perhaps the friends wish him health and hap this huge dead-weight, the time is the match will be more exciting piness in his retirement.
readers will no doubt remember holiday to the land of his birth on that account, for the Model
the celebrated month-long. Har-and latterly it was wi' & some. opportune for Britain to play the Settlement's best eleven would be comer ws-fancy, is another ston-MacWhirter, Free Trade-what pathetic eagerness that he role of philanthropist towards very hard to overcome. The capable performer with the ball. If Protection controversy which would induce fellow country Europe. We should be happy to absence of some of the "stars" the two vacant places are allotted aged in this Colony some years man to speak of his native land. A know that the Old Country is as glance at the names forwarded C. E. Ollerdessen, in accordance fut which I thought would have postry and its lore," he was a is certainly disappointing, but a to the Rer. C. E. Spencer and ago. At that time I had a belly-Scot of the Scots, versed in its prosperous as his lordship implies, from Shanghai suggests that we with the first list received here, lasted me for ever, but reading in national of whom to be proad and The ex-Foreiza Secretary hinted may see some fairly clone play, we shall see half a dozen familiar a Shanghai paper the other day fine example of her sons who, that it would be to Britain's Harry Olferdessen, who has been faces, in all the sextatte were about su Amierican-Trade Mission take the world for their province, in his best form this season, will included in the 1920 team. The having been let loose in the interest to act gezernusly towards doubtless again be the visitors fact that Hankow have just de Orient, I got to thinking of the our allies. Not denying that this batting mainstay, and cricketers feated Shanghai (though the latter subject again. The worst Making Friends. theory may be” trua, up to é cer bere will welcome the op were not nearly at fill strengtbl writing about economics is that The trouble wi us in Hongkong tain point, it would have been more portunity of seeing Shanghai's gives ground for hoping that the no matter what you say it looks trouble
left-banded a trundler. Colony a players will > repent all the time as if Bezoso 30 else convincing if presented in con- Bill" O'HAL. Tippin, a new, their suUCHNI OF TWO YISTs ago, had auid fruit The more brilliant
make
basis of an all-round adjustment
of war debts. That proposal has not commended itself to Americs,
Gear
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