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in receptive soil for harvest of SAES THAN GOOD TALKERS similar upheavals in China. Coleman Oca
That the Bolsheviks have their
eyes on China and hope to 'win
Captain L D. Joll, H.0.
Bulls
and Inners
From the Office Butts.
There is absolutely no truth" in
her over to their side has long RG... has been appointed Ad-the rumour that the Colony's fat sents the activities of the Hong bean evident. Soviet emissaries |
are to be found all over thejutant of the Volunteers. East. Even in Canton ons of
men intend forming a Girth Control Society.
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We're afraid such an organisa- tian wouldn't be much use to men who get stout in the clubs.
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The following paragraph repro-
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their so-called trade representa- The Government is inviting tives, M. Borodin, has made his tendere for the construction of an appearance, and in the course of open market at Whitfield.
An American is said to have an interview bè has declared that
His Excellency the Governor
"invented a machine which, pro- Chinese labour must follow the
Ahundred-weight of flour or duces sleep" Dempsey, we
hundred-weight of example set by the Russian has appointed Mr. N. L. Smith to
coala should say. It all workers. There are people who be Second Police Magistrate.
Which weighs "most! jbave laughed to scorn our
the compradore's As Monday is a holiday, the depends on warnings of a possibe alliance between China and the Soviet, booking plans for the forthcom scales. based on Bolshevik ideas. But ing boxing tournament will be at it is gradually becoming apparent the Hongkong Hotel on that day.
His Excellency the Governors. We are still hoping, however, that has appointed Mr. S. B. R the fallacy of such an adventure MoEldarry to be District Officer will make itself apparent to those in the Southern District of the proof-reading? who are able to guida the New Territories. destinies of this great nation.
that &n insidious campaign
towards this end is in progress.
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HONGKONG, 10th Nov, 1923.
FIVE YEARS OF PEACE.
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Aftar sitting next to some menfolk on the ferry, we've come to the conclusion that a We must send Mr. Dovey some fortune awaits the genius who of the manuscript submitted to invents a cigar which
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Is the portrait of a prominent Government Official displayed in Battery Path so that Civil Week before last Fords were Servants may derive inspiration.
the
The N.Y.K. has received a reduced; last week we had floods on their way to work? telegram from Kobe stating that What next?
After owing to a strike of firemen, the
King's boxing Aki Maru is detained. Definite! One thing about "Rugger." it's tournament there must have been information will follow later. la fine game for detecting any several participants who would render the local poet's references to a "subtle, glorious profile" into Never argue. ounce of "poignant parody thinking is worth more than a pound on the nose.
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When Peace Came.
A piece of Crown land at "Their_name_liveth for ever-Shamihaipo, having an area of more." Such is the thought that 1,152 square feet. is to be sold will dominate hundreds of by auction on the 25th instant. thousands of Britishers to- The upset price is $2 per foot. morrow, in all parts of the
flaws in your collar-bone.
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The next pressing need requirde by this Colony is heavy under- May Road residents board the wear that will not Iteb. Empire, when due tribute is to be It is stated that Mr. San Fo, tram according to their position
Little Willie "wants to return paid to the memory of those who Mayor of Canton, and Mr. C C on the tram station "Topside"
their to Germany. He's about the made the supreme sacrifice in the Wu, Commissioner for Foreign residents according to Great War. Five years ago on Affairs, have arrived in Hongkong imagined position on the social only one. November 11th, peace came to a and are staying at a local hotel station. war-weary world. The man in the mud-soaked trenches could
The Gazette notifies that the scarcely believe the glad tidings. Hon. Sir Claud Severn, K.BE The folk waiting at Home, hoping CM.G., LLD., having returned the best but always with an to the Colony, resumed duty as over-present fear of the worst Colonial Secretary on November happening. Were likewise for 6.
time bewildered at the thought
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Once in the tram, however, they all come down to the same level as the coolies.
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There are over a thousand.
cars now in the Colony, That's pretty thick, but not nearly as much as some of the drivers.
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We notice Nathan Road amongst a list of alleged beauty spots. That's nothing: we've got three beauties on our left arm
now.
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Canton ex-officials should insure themselves. Premium; the cost of a Bullet Proof Vest.
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A book entitled. "The Second Departure of Li Yuan-hung from Peking," has been recently sold in Peking.
Five years ago, almost to the
that all was over. But the Tenders are being invited for day, the last shots were fired truth at last dawned-the end of dredging trenches on the lines of by the warring nations of the the war had really come.
A proposed pell-mell rubble Or, for that matter, the pedes- By the way, why not test aut Powers engaged in the most far-what a sacrifice, though. Scarcely mound and for deepening an area trians who prefer the roadway to some of these vests on the next
home without a vacant chair: the sea ward of the proposed reclams-the footpathi..
batch of armed robbers we catch? reaching conflict in history. To-Bower of our manhood sacrificed tion at Kowloon Bay East.
✪ [day, we have over the cables the in the grim struggle. These are
December 15th has been A clergyman is advocating five- to whom reverent echoes of the Great War, still the
The Observatory last month officially recognised by Hongkong minute sermons. Wouldn't give homage will be paid to-morrow.
the date on which anybody a chance to get * with us, and likely to be with us They died that we might live. I recorded a rainfall of 17.83 inches brokers as for years to come. The Armis-is fitting, therefore, that there nine days, the Botanic Gar they may commence to wear
deas 12,84 on niae days. the derbys. tice was signed long, long ago, should be a simple but impressive Matilda Hospital 18.05 on eight
k ceremony to-morrow and peace was signed some eight Hongkong Cenotaph--the first five days. The average
the days and Taipo nine inches on One advantage "in wearing a months later, but peace such as we presume, in what will be teperature for the month was to steal it
mean hat like that is that nobody wants we would translate it is not yet. yearly observance. It is to be 76 and the total sunshine 212. It so happens that this very day hoped, however, that not only hours.
Οτι Armistice Day. but on Europe seems on the brink of
every day throughout the twelve-
The Forbes Russell Comedy another conflict. The reparations month the memory of these which Germany beaten after great brave men will be with us. That Company gave an excellent per- formance of "Bluebeard's Eighth
Lots of Hongkong people would sacrifices or our part-sacrifices is why we should like to see the Wife" at the Theatre Royal last have won the Shanghai Sweep if
Home custom followed, by which which we commemorate every passers-by reverently
night The play gave great de-their-tickets had only been num- eleventh of November-has oft their hats (every time they pass ford Lovett and Miss Niqua
light to all present, Mr. Beres-bered differently. this monument to those who promised to make gs and our
Lewis in the principal roles As things are, there's a glut in Allies, have not been met, and gave their life for their Empire-giving splendid studies of their rethe waste paper markat.
Our ex-Service men are it is impossible not to realise membering past days by the spective parts. To-night, "Bought that there has been little desire "Poppy Day" drive and by the and Paid- For" will be the at- to pay even a tithe of the debt annual reunion to-night when
former warriors will meet under! Not only
the arc
prospects more congenial conditions than
have led to
remove
r2-
traction.
Put and take is here again. We put on our heavy clothes and take them off again.
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Dr. Sun's "Second Departure from Canton ** is now in the press and is expected to be on sale soon.
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The child-like faith of some people is tremendous. The Osaka Mainichi bewalls the fact that several convicts who were tem porarily released at the time of the earthquake have not returned to prison !
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The members of the Kowloon ing a fur boa on a warm day.
• of payment increasingly remote, those of the battlefield. We shall British School Former Pupils'
Wild game is plentiful, report
They must More ambiguities! A Malayan but the resultant attempts to all remember the day. And Association held a whist drive in solve this after-war problem
besides thinking of those who the school yesterday evening. our yachtsmen.
to learn that Mrs. X is in gave their lives, we shall also The following were the, prize-have been watching the bowls contemporary says: "We regret
Mrs. last Saturday. E
hospital but is progressing estrangements have a kindly thought for those winners: Ladies: amongst the nations who should others who remain to mourn the Crocker; 2nd Mrs. Himbury; 3rd
Miss Hirst: Booby, Mrs. R. C. Laugh and the world thinks favourably." be the greater friends, for their loss of dear ones greatly beloved. Witchell Gentlemen: let. Mr. you're a broker. common hardships and losses
Dixon; 2nd Mr. Fungate; 3rd Mr. Wright; Booby, Mr. MacFarlane. The prizes were presented by Mrs. A. D. Purves.
N.Y.K. STRIKE.
Weep and they think the same.
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If these huge drug seizures continue they'll have to "haul by truck."
and final common victory. Now the ugly possibility of a German civil war, with all it can mean to the Allies, to the whole of
The Committee of the Navy League Ball desire to thank the Europe, and to the rest of the
Committees of the Tung Wah "Riots in Warsaw," says world, has to be added to the list
Wouldn't Hospital. Chinese Chamber of newspaper heading. of woes that darken our outlook. The local office of the N.Y.K-Commerce and Po Leung Kuk "Warsaw Saw War" be better?
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When it comes to collecting the dough, we'd much rather be a member of China's Parliament than its President.
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About 10,000 patents are sought a telegram from for their kind donation of $1,165, In the meantime some of the has received
Kobe stating that the Kamo in aid of the dependants of those A pathetic little paragraph in a every month, but whisky corks worst affects of the war and its Maru firemen struck on the in the Navy, Mercantile Marine Shanghai contemporary tells of still keep on
on bresking. aftermath are being experienced ground of а 50
cent and the Auxiliary Forces who someone who dropped two quarts
Neighbours would be all right in Britain, and among the vast reduction in voyage allowance.died in the Great War. The Ball of champagne and six whiskys
Sixteen steamers joined in the Committee also desire to thank soda total loss $18. This price if they lived farther away; army of our unemployed are strike, including the Aki Maruthe Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son for is the first real indication of tens of thousands who fought in and Shidzooka Maru. The situa-kindly collecting the above sum. cabaret reform in the northern that conflict which recurs to our tina is very serious and there is
port. minds to-day. They need our ment. It is impossible to forecast no prospect of a prompt settle-
help still, and might need it for the date of the sailing of these} a long time to come. It is this steamers.
that the years of so-called peace has brought us. It is thus that we see the dawning of our fifth Armistice anniversary. But we comfort, ourselves with the knowledge that, whatever befalla, we as a nation will see it through to the very end.
ABSURD NAMES OF PONIES.
NEWS IN THE ADS.
Or perhaps he was Irish.
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ides that the two were the same.
A tunnel 178 miles long is to bo built in the Rockies. This should attract the honeymooners.
A London man started for home the other day in a stolen motor- 'car. He won't be there for eighteen It must have been a cynical months now. telegraph operator who sent us a Reuter message declaring that We notice that dancing is in- amongst professional Notice is given to creditors of France was determined to keep cluded the Hauroto Steamship Company within the "threaty of Versailles. footballers training. We had an "Remembrance" writes to the Ltd: concerning the sending in of North-China Daily News-As claims to Messrs Carmichael & reminiscences of aburd names Clarke on or before the 10th. of ponies are now in vogue, how proxi-Page 4
From recent announcements A. Steno-typist is required im- about "Llatadoogdeninadon" that
anent window casements it would appeared in the Shanghai Race mediately, Page 4.
Notice is given that all Fire appear that while there's light
Strange things happen. & pro- Club Race Book some years ago?
minent cinema star has beeti. Why the owner wasted. the en-and Marine Insurance Offices there's Hope. Q
visiting her husband's home. trance fee on it, is best known to will be closed on Monday, the
12th, inst-Page 4.
Fifteen Church of England On Sunday and Monday "Silent Bishops will be in Hongkong next A woman player at the Hitchin GOVERNMENT TO SUE WARSHIP
Yeafs" is being shown at the March. And they say we have: Whist Club drive last month got BUILDERS.
too much jazzi.
all the thirteen trump cards in. We have repeatedly urged that| Washington, Sept. 18.--Failing World Theatre. Page 4.
one hand. The deal was made by there is a distinct danger of Chins to reach a settlement by negotia Persons having claims against coming under the sway of tion, the Shipping Board has in-the estate of the late Miss Annie In spite of recent shootings, her son. This does not necessari-
ly explain it. Bolshevistic doctrines. Sir John structed its legal department to Wallace should communicate Hongkong is still too crowded, Jordan expressed that fear in prepare suit against the Bethle with Mr. J. H. Seth Page 4 xery pointed language, when, it hem Shipbuilding Corporation for Latest afternoon and evening
Bolshevism in China.
him.
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Whatever his politics, every One of these day
the annual dinner of the Chins recovery of about $2,500,000 gowns are advertised by Leseniss Protectionist, when he give us a neat and Association in London, he stated alleged to have been overpaid Elegances de Pazin, of Queen's that Soviet envoys in Peking under that firms wat contracte | Bond Page 1. are preaching
something to sell and Free showing some Trader when he wants to buys keep away from