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More human lives are in the keeping of ons lock when it is placed on a rati- road switch than in any ether position.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
observera, whether styling them- selves experts or not, aventually realised that the Garmans were not paying anything like the
THE VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE amount they could have managed PASSING AWAY, AND YET CON- IS LIKE A RIVER, CONSTANTLY had they desired to meat the STANTLY COMING ON.-Pope, obligations due from them. The
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proving that
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was a bit of an eye-opener, and if there should ever be any young "Gadabouts" I'd be pleased to see 'em in the natty rig of the boy scout.
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(By *** Gadabout") Dear old Hongkong may be behind the times in some way-The sight of a sailor in whites at It really is very annoying. We cry in vain for radios and
I was learned this morning shed.
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question which remained-and The Colonial Secretary informs out from time to time and which served as a reminder that it was other little novelties which come the beginning of the month still remains, for that matter is us that His Majesty the King's the folks at Home get as a matter time my how much the country is capable Saturday, June 2nd., owing to out of it. Now that the day has small cumshaw to amah and a Birthday will be celebrated on of course. But we're not quite received its annual overhaul. A of paying without unduly burden-June 3rd. being a Sunday. ing its people or crippling its
come when Hongkongites can couple of days later saw my industries-pictures of gloomy
even run their own private movies botweather attire, sil mended, The case in which the Holland there's no knowing what we'll ironed and spotless, stacked nature that the country's leaders Pacific Trading Company were have next. I had an opportunity neatly on the shelves of my and so-called friends base not an errort permit within 24 hours Pathe Babies the other day. It feeling, too, and the next day summoned for failing to return of having a loot at one of the new wardrobe. Boy got the summer hesitated la paint at everybas, we learn, been withdrawn. was real aute. Only about a foot there was my topee, as white as opportunity. It is doubly inter-
high, but it turned out some quite new cake of blance would esting, therefore, to gote the The second engineer of the good pictures-and you
make it, hanging up alongside. statement made by M. Poincare M.B.K. vessel Fukusei Maru is get everything from educational Then it began to get cold. And reported to have bean drowned in dope to Charlie Chaplin in as every day went by I got more three days ago, at the unveiling the Straits of Taiwan during the three reels. It ought to be and more impatient to get into of a monument to the faller, at voyage of that vessel to Hang quite good fun when we can those whites. Every day as I Dunkirk. He said that France kong, on the 15th. inst,
get the cameras to take the fims hopped out of bed I repeated the made three discoveries since her
for them, and these are expected formula of M, Coue, "every day During yesterday there were The baby cameras seem to offer batter
to arrive in a few months time. and in every way it's getting occupation of the Rubr, two of
and hotter." But it reported three cases of small-pox possibilities. I'd like to have didn't; every day and in every Germany (one French and two Chinese), as taken a film of George last sum. way it seemed to get colder and could have delivered the coal she well as one case each of plague mer when he was in a hurry to colder. But it began to warm awed and that she could have (Chinese) diphtheria (British) and catch the last launch back from up at last. Sun hats and white
cerebro spinal fever (Chinese). made reparations payments in
Stonecutter's and he lost his back bags began to appear on the per- foreign currency. Å German
stud whilst dressing in the mat sons of old-timers on the Ferry, denisl was of course to be expect that General Chan Wing-son's caught some of the lurid English stacks of spotless whites and A dictaphone to have and one night I looked at those fel, and this time it is decidedly condition has improved He is would have been. useful fondled them with loving care.
this afternoon to be operated upon adjunct to portray the evasive.
The next day I would cast aside for the extraction of the bullet properly, but you can't have those reminders of the cold winds The new scheme of repar-which is still lodged in his back
everything. These baby cinema and icy blasts of January and attions involves the issuing of
cameras ought to be just the thing would frisk forth, fresh, cool and three types of bonds, as proposed The Wing Sang, which ha to take on picnice and so on, and to free-with that kind of Kruschen in 1921, and includes provision reports sighting in lat, 21.22 screen at home afterwards is as big you get into drills for the first arrived in port from Saigon see the party in action on the feeling that comes over you when RUTHERFORD-On Sunday, for an offset to inter-Allied debts. north, long. 11332 sast, & small an improvement on ac ordinary time. On the morrow I did. It April 8, 1923, at Kaling Estate Hospital, after a long illness. The plan, a very good one as it floating object, with three lengths photo as the cinema compared was fresh and cool, all right. Too William James Rutherford, of will be seen, is to provide an of chin attached, probably a buoy, to the old-time magio lantern. fresh and cool for me. I joined the quick-change artists, and have Belfast, Ireland, aged 29 years. incentive for Germany to pay
MURPHY-On April 11, 1923, her obligations promptly, with poisoning, believed to have been the City Hall to have a look at Shill, our guardians of the law are From the effects of opium| On Friday I took a stroll round that snmmer has not yet come. now resigned myself to the fact at the General Hospital, Shang the progressive evacuation of the self-administered, a Chinese wo (hai, John Murphy, Chinese Mari-
the scouts. To tell the truth. heroically braving the elements. time Customs, Newchwang, aged Rubr as an inducement. Perhaps man died at the Government I'd never quite realised we had so in summer garb, and although 41 years.
the Germans will at last realise hours after admission from her were scouts everywhere. Land stacked up unwanted on those Civil Hospital yesterday two many scouts in Hongkong. There those spotless whites are still WEI-At ber home, No. 5 that the time has come to give home at No. 27 Hollywood Road. scouts and sea scouts, big scouts wardrobe shelves, I refuse to give Jukong Road, Wei Chiang-sz up the policy of evasion, and
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and little scouts, young scouts up hope. beloved wife of Wei Luk-chune.
bonestly do their best to make! Amongst the passengers who and old scouts, dark scouts and of Shanghai.
left by the P. and O. liner fair scoute, all kinds of scouts, reparation where it is due.
Nankin to-day were the Rev., but every man jack of 'em healthy, this as you sit, well clothed, well You, gentle reader, perusing Mrs. and Miss Shewell, Lieut. alert, cheers and ready to make fed, and comfortable on the Ferry. Comdrs. Gilchrist and Alleyce, himself useful in any way be Majo: E. S. Halford, Comdr. Guld. And I was surprised. I'd or tram top, or in rickshs, or W. Mathew and Lieut. A. Sad a pile of stuff at one time ings of your own home, do you maybe in the congenial surround- Lindsell.
and another about what scouts had ever allow your thoughts to dwell to learn, how they had to conduct on the unfortunate plight of those themselves, what they stood of your fallows to whom the degree
CYALE
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LOWE-On April 14, 1923, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, John P. Lowe io bis 70th year.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 18th April, 1923.
THE PROBLEM OF
REPARATIONS:
It has been evident for some
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There does appear to us to be a lamentable lack of system when the Erst intimation which the Hongkong Post Office receives of an incoming Home mail reaches for sale at Messrs. Lammert but it all seemed it from the shipping Company con- Bros Auction rooms Jesterday good to be, true cerned, on the very day of the afternoon. The auctioneer started I had "ma doots" boat's arrival. The letters which the bidding as the reserve price Anyway, I wasn't in doubt loog but little matters like this mest of the Blue Funnel s.. Automedon of $150,000. but no offers ware at the City Hall. I said a bit beus, I'm afraid, are very apt to has just brought us had been forthcoming, and the property fore that they all looked cheery, forge: aboard that boat since she left was accordingly withdrawo.
but I'm forgetting one of 'em
Truly, one half doesn't Suez, but it was only yesterday
didn't. He was the lad in bed. lives You finish your allotted know how the other half morning that it became knowo Two men were sentenced to Still I don't know that many task, and with pleasant dreams that the mail was coming in. seven years hard labour for un- other young hopefule would have of What we cannot understand is lawful possession of arms by Mr. looked too gay lying on their golf perhaps,
of game question of reparations from
why there is not a permanent Justice Gompertz, at the Crimin backs for a few hours, being you stroll leisurely to the Ferry. At the K.C.O. Germany would have to be re-arrangement between the Hongal Sessions, this morning. Two tucked in every two minutes or Sested in a comfortable seat, attempted. To begin with. there kong and Singapore postal others received five years' each. so, and in the space of ten reading your Telegraph or engeg- is the fact that the Germans fully authorities whereby the latter Another Chinese was sentenced minutes their temperature taken d
advise the former immediately a to one year's imprisonment for regularly three times.
in conversation realise now that any opposition steamer bay left the Southern assault.
I SAW him about half past four and warde, with no troubles, no your friends, you are taken hom- on their part is not going to part with mail matter aboard)
"nurse" told me then that the succeed, and the occupation for Hongkong. It cannot be a
The health return, for the past mercury ghowed 97. It was a world and with your fellow men. anxieties at peace with the matter of cost, for that would be week shows twenty cases authorities also must be anxious inficitesimal. It looks to us as smallpox (eighteen fatal), four of patient would be really ill life this way. To some it is & of tose up, I thought, whether the But it is not for all to go through that any suggestion, from the though the Singapore authorities enteric faver (all fatal), three of closing time or whether he'd be hard struggle. Hard struggles other side, of giving way, should aro extremely slack this cerebrospinal fever (all fatal) and feeling in a condition to give which have led to Socialism, not be allowed to slip by. Ger- question of notifying oncoming two each of plague (one fatal), nurse" what in common parlance Bolshevism, strikes, bloodshed, many not long ago practically is of the utmost importance to (a non-fatal).
mails. Rapid despatch of mails diphtheria and paratyphoid fever is usually termed a thick ear. But and we know not what. Your stated that she was in a chasten-business men.
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is plague cases were imported. All him from both those eventualities. wouldn't some of your fellow ed mood, ready to consider & equally so. is prompt notifica- were Chinese with the exception settlement. Now we have news letters are expected to arrive. British) and the diphtheria cases peep but MacWhirter?
tion of the dates which of the paratyphoid cases (both)
beings give for such a life as Who should I see having a weel yours? What wouldn't your of a scheme which France is Hongkong ought to have known (one British and the other Por-gested that the show would bave give to be sure of comfortable He sng taipan, who lives on the Peak, submitting to Belgium, based on nearly a week ago that this mail
tuguese). bond payments; and it is to be
hoped that a satisfactory arrange ment will eventually be arrived
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gone down better if they'd had a seat in the conveyance which is of March 20th. was on the way here, and it is quite conceivable
few fox-trots and one-steps. But to take him home? that such knowledge would have
After just on 40 years' servira I think he was feeling disappoint- influenced business men to bave in the Customs, Mr. A. H. Harris ed because they didn't have a The Peskites seem to ba taken certain action, or refrain has left Canton on his way Home Scottish patrol, and maybe he getting very worried over the ed from so doing, in transactions retirement. He is at present was expecting to get a few youth- increasing difficulties of obtain There is an important point in of considerable importance. We in Hongkong and intends leaving ful pipers emitting those martial ing a seat in the Peak Tram. connection with reparations-the cannot altogether
by the Empress boat to-morrow. strains he used to hear way back The Company suggests a barrier Bee that question as to whether or not there is any call on shipping A large gathering saw him off in Lircumdoddie. We ran into or a grille at the lower station to
frora the wharf companies to intimate the im-
at Canton, the Telegraph scoop merchant on make the passengers queue up. Germany has been able to pay in pending arrivals; it seems to us Crackers being fired and cheers the look out for "copy" and he The very idea. Fancy putting a Full long before this. Many have that this matter of mail move raised. Before his departure, Mr. wanted to know what the com- Poakite behind a grill! expressed doubts on this score. menta is essentially one to come Customs staff with a beautiful trivance was. After enlightening" Billtop "suggests red an i green Harris was presented by the plicated-looking electrical con-correspondent who signs himself He will him that it was the wireless, Mac- tickets, forty of each, so that first
Unfortunately the facts, owing to within the sphere of the postal illuminated address.
authorities. Be that as it may,
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deliberate misrepresentation and some better arrangement than at carry with him the best wishes of Whirter added the information come might be first served. But purposely arranged confusion, present exists is badly needed in his numerous friends in the East that they'd just got through to what if there were more than have been hard to get at. The the interests of the business of for many yeare of happy retire- Bombay: The scoop merchant eighty people waiting? And we've whole of Germany for long pre-i
the port.
ment. Mr. W. R. McD. Parr suc- was inclined to be a bit sceptical, had some of that ticket game ceeds him as Customs Commis. I thought, but, there, some before when the Prince was here. sented a number of contradictory Peak Numbers..
aioner in Canton.
people won't believe anything The very thought of such features that might well bave
they're told. It certainly was scheme might Residents on the upper levels
revive old 80 interesting show. I memories best forgatten. Appar been the despair of the Allied will have noticed with interest
learnt that boatmen swim on ently some of the season ticket- investigatore. Anyone with the the statement in the annual re- result that one comes
across their backs and at night come holders are in the habit of going port of the Peak Residents' As- striking paradoxes in the sequence out and fly, which I never knew up to Kennedy Rosd, getting on & least idea of figuring things sociation that the Government of numbers. But it appears to us before, that is bostmen who live down car, and then they have a out," however, could see that intends to re-number the Peak, that the bill district la now so large in glass bowls, I mean. And I seat when the tram arrives at the there was something very wrong Apparently the P.W.D. is to make and the residences so scattered saw the blood flowing thre gb lower station. No; neither grills, somewhere, and that whatever key plan, which shall include that the system of numbering the the veins in a frog's leg, and all nor barriers, nor tickets are want new housesand contemplated sites, bouses wants radical revision. kinds of things I'd never really ed really. That's not the way Was wrong was due to carefully-and it is hoped that eventually a In other words, it is time to thought about before Friday at handle a hill dweller. No; I planned arrangements the scheme suited to current needs abandon the method of designat afternoon. I'm thinking even the know how to solve the problem. part of the country'e controllers. will be devised. Such a etap basing the whole area as "The Peak "ind in bed with exhibitionitie Put up a number
been long overdue. During the and then numbering the houses didn't envy that frog, and maybe along the line, at all the stations. Allies found development of the Peak district in rotation. What is needed is the S.P.C.A. man might have had fand in the cars. In the cars they clear water, so to speak, the in recent years, houses have some grouping of districts, with a few words on the subject if he'd could be placed in a position to German Government hastened sprung up on what at one time a separate series of numbers for seen it. But the youth who was match the request not to spft. to stir up the mud at the must have been thought impos- each group or locality. By that looking after that part of the The notice to be effective should sible sites—somė interposed means, it may be possible to programme said it was all right, read like this: The BEST bottom in order to cloud their between residences long pre-evolve some measure of order out and I suppose he knew. Taking PEOPLE have not the Kennedy vision. Most of the world's 'viously numbered-with the of the present chaós,”
things all round, the Jambores Road Habit. IT IS NOT DONE,
Whenever the
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