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require in order to meet our own debts, we have reduced the whole question to a comparatively simple | basis.
It is gratifying, therefore, HIMSELF; BY DOING RIGHT, HE THE GOOD MAN IS A FRIEND TO
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DAY BY DAY,
· LONDON 'LETTER.
[By Milton Bronner, for the Hongkong Telegraph.].
The opening rate of the dollar on domand to-day is 20. 4.13/16d.
to learn of the arrangement at WILL BENEFIT HIMSELF AND BE kngth come
to with France, | A HELP TO OTHERS.—Aristotle. whereby a sum of £12,600,000 is to be paid to us annually over a period of some sixty-two years. It augurs. well for the final adjustment of the whole question of war debts, as still outstanding.
the big 1906 typhoon, which did To-day is the anniversary of tremendous damage in Hong kong.
Passengers departing by the Empresa of Russia included Mr.
THE BOOKSHELF
CHINA'S NATURAL HISTORY.
A book has just made its appear London, Aug. 12-There is no anco which it is easy to predict doubting the fact that English will find its way all over China, people have the courage of their wherever English is road, and to convictions. There is the so-called good many places beyond. It is the work of Mn Ads C. Sowerby, Oxford trouser, for Instance." It's
is concerned. really a pair of bags sewn together who needs no introduction to the at the top, so far as sartorial effect public, and goes by the title "A In a land where Naturalist's Notebook in China.". baggy trousers have always been What it really comprises is a the rule it's the baggiest, widest popular natural history of the Ling ever seen.
Chinese region, and thus, it meets
of it.
Of great importance, now, is the conference to be held presently at Washington for à settlement of the
The name of Miss Hercilla
It was first adopted by students want which has never been French debt to the United States.
Barros was by mistake omitted at the University of Oxford, but supplied before.
One recalls the interest in nature" by
Recent pronouncements from across hand passos published in regard like the plague,
in the list of slomontary short. it has spread all over the kingdon
And the young
which every healthy child ̧¡in Installing the Atlantic have not been exactly to St. Mary's School.
bloods have inde a regular uniform country surroundings acquires, and encouraging to the section in
the eagerness with, which any PYRENE Europe who expect the American
To be a real exquisite you wear comprehensive, yet not too techni- felt hat with a broad brim, devoured, Mr. Sowerby's book will cul, book on pintural history a chocolate brown cost and Oxford TO-DAY
Government to forego a great deal and Mrs. Allan Cameron, Dr. and trousers of a very light tan colour bring to every enquirer In compact of the money owing to it. Indeed, Mrs. W. B. A. Moore, Dr. B. C. When you have thus rigged your-form a better knowledge of the Britain Inspection
has intimitated her expecta. Ho, Mr. S. Church, Mr. T. Gib-self up you look like the chorus wonders of nature which surround tion that the treatment meted out.
bison and Mr. A. Harper. Invited
to other debtors shall not be of a
And you see the lads all along some extent even in his garden or special concessionary
The latest news of Wu Hon-Oxford Street and Piccadilly, tall. by the suburban roadside. It is a ut
mature, min is that he is to be sent by the drooping, languishing fellows, until work which should be available at without taking into account the Canton Government as a special you get so sick of them and their least to every foreign schoolchild burden that the British taxpayer is envoy to Russle to investigated ds that you want to take a stuffed in China, and could quite feasibly bearing in repaying the American
the political and administrative club and clean out the place.
become a textbook of its kind. systems of that country. It is loans.
There is much to be learned yet A great deal, therefore, said that he will depart by Rus-
of the zoology (and botany) of the hinges on the meeting of M. elan steamer very shortly from
For many months a famous and Chinese territories. Mr. Sowerby Caillaux with the United States his daughter.
Canton, being accompanied by popular Parisian singer, ans been sketches this aspect, referring to representatives.
hoping to receive the Legion of the number of new, discoveries Honour. But the list for the summade only recently, and the need
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PAYING FOR THE WAR.
Under the Dawes plan a little more than a year ago, an agreement was arrived at which has turned out eminently satisfactory, and the first twelve months' working shows that all is running smoothly and a big bone of contention has been done away with. The first annual
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him, and which enn be studied to
. Yet Wo can hardly bring ourselves to think. A Home newspaper reports the mer appeared and his name. was for further investigation in all die, with all that has already been birth of a daughter to Mr. and missing. A few days later he was tricts. It is not too much to hope accomplished, and in view of the Mrs. H. N. de Beaurepaire at 2, summoned by Premier Painleve, that his book, besides afding the Newbold Terrace, Leamington who announced to him that he was amatour student, will stimulato settlement with Belgium, the Spa. It will be recalled that Mr. to be made a Chevalier of the many to make a closer study of italian negotiations, and the agree de Beaurepaire was some years Legion.
specific branches of China's ment between Britain and France, Hongkong Hotel, and during their closed?" Petimmered the happy
ago, assistant manager of the "But I thought the list
zoology. was
To take the volume" first of all toat. America will insist too much lengthy residonce here both he singer. These lust few months have seen on the letter of the contract and and his wife wore extremely
In its popular aspect, It comprises a gradual approach to that idea!
"So it was-for Frenchmen.. But a general survey of all the orders not strain point or two in order friends.
popular amongst a wide circle of state of international finance when
you get it as a foreigner. You are of the fauna of China, with the to bring lasting order to what has
a Belgian, are you not?”
exception of birds and certain the natious engaged in the Great
hitherto resembled internation..]
"What makes you think so?"
mammals, in their proper arrange- War will have come to a satisfac-
"My secretary told me he had ment, with special reference to Anuncial chaos. Seven tory arrangement as regards war
its facilities and attractions should often heard you sing in Brussels, particular genera and species and after the War was ended, the be widened so as to encourage that
"Zut!" roared the angry Parisian the more interesting forme. There debts and reparations. One of the chief menaces to European peace
bright gleams of mutual adjust educational trend which will event-had heard me sing in Shanghai he drawings, which help in the identifi born. "I suppose if your secretary is a wealth of photographs and
foents are eventually shining forth ually lend was the seemingly obstructive
better would have taken me for a Chi- cation. Much space is given to the from behind the clouds.
seashore life on the China" coast, nege?" policy, of Germany whenever the
Perhaps understandings.
and no holiday by the sea can be the next few weeks are to see the Allies endeavoured to obtain proper sun rise on a really peaceful dawn,
without interest after a perusal of The Anti-Red Movement. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the these chapters. satisfaction of
The Introductory their claims.
The news, received yesterday, to Secretary of State for Foreign pages are a truly charming descrip- when it can at last be said in all the effect that the "Red" troops and monocted, and sise he has a of the "wild." The natural history Affairs, is tall and lantern-jawedition of the beauties and attractions truth that the war is being paill have deemed it expedient to
pretty wit..
of Manchprip is dealt with in a evacuate Swatow, will appréciably Not long ago a dapper magazine concise summary, and traverses the hearten those who are looking to writer from a Latin country get an investigations which are fully A Wrong Policy.
audience with Mr. Chamberlain on covered in the author's work "The Although the Education Depart present dominating the situation inters of introduction.
the time when the extremista at the strength of unexceptionable let-Naturalist in Manchuria," of which ment has doubtless catered to a Canton will be sent about their pleasant chap, but he was a most appeared.
He was the first three volumes have vory pupular wish in opening up.
The It has been known for persistent questioner and he jotted
more advanced nature a Technical Institute in Kowloon report, just issued, shows that the for the coming winter months, King-ming's forces have undergone
down notes in a tiny note-book with student, and the scientist, will find. some little time past that Chan a very large leud pencil.
Mf. Sowerby's present book no less receipts from Germany in the way we doubt whether it has been wise the process of reorganization with Indeed, the smaliness of his figure is his reference to the natural, his
And he himself was quite small engrossing. Of particular interest of reparations amounted to approxi- to interfere this year with the ar- mately 893 millions of gold marks, rangements which formerly govern-
view to cleaning up matters in
was very noticeable. The patience tory of the old Imperial "Hunting of which France, received 397 ed the attendance of pupils at the
of Mr. Chamberlain was almost ex-Grounds near Peking, where proof eastern Kwangtung prior to hausted when the magazinist finally exists of the junction of two differ- millions and Britain 190 millions. Technical Institute in Hongkong. The developments are, however,
projected nove against Canton, took his departure. But he forgot ing fauna via the forest belt that It might be emphasised that the Until this year the minimum num still in their initial stages, and it off some scores when he called out is a plea-which every naturalist
his pencil.
formerly: traversed the Chinese satisfactory adjustment of repara-ber of students for the formation
And the Foreign Secretary laid Empire from north to south. There tions problems was arrived at after of any one class was five, but it
may be presumed that the "Red" to him:
and sportsman will endorse-for a good deal of give and take, and has now been raised to ten. Alm
leaders in Canton will exert their]
"Oh, Monsieur, come back, You the Government preservation of a certain amount of sacrifice on though the latter number is not
utmost efforts to stem any move-
have forgotten your cane."
this area as a sanctuary for wild life. Since the Chinese Republic the part of the Allied nations. 1s large, there is every likelihood that |
ment aiming at their overthrow.
came into being, the former it too much to expect that the the present troublous times will
Besides Canton, there has been aj The simplicity of great. French-Impérial reserves have been ruth- other branch of war payments, the affect the number of students and
nen is always thing that for-lessly invaded by the hunter, the very, considerable area under "Red" eigners notice. A crowd of travel- farmer, and the woodsman, and debts owed by the combatants to it is highly probable that certain control here in the South, and itlers had a good example of It the many rare forest creatures are now one another, can also be satisfae- of the classes on the prospectus fore the Bolshevik's are disposed French army in the closing days of China," which is on sale at $8 Mex.,
must, obviously take some time befother day at the Gare de Lyon, threatened with extinction. torily arranged on the give and take will not be filled and that some
Marshal Pétain, who headed the "A Naturalist's Notebook In principle? The latest indications students will thereby be barred, for they have steadily built up the war and won lasting glory for is an edited collection of Mr. suggest that this is to be the policy from enjoying the instruction to their position, boing greatly alted himself, was at the station waiting Sowerby's zoological articles which fellowed, and the outlook is already which they have been looking for by the skill and enterprise of their for the train on which, his wife was have appeared from time to time much more hopeful than it was even ward.
coming to Paris. When the traja in the Chin Journal of Science and Futhermore, the fees have
Russian controllers. When, how finally arrived there was an unusual Arta and the North-China Daily a few weeks ago,
been raised from $6 to $10 (for ever, we look at the general situa- dearth of porters and Madame News, and the publishers are the Britain has for some considerable certain of the classes at least) andtion and realise that the anti-Petain made a gesture of despair, as North-China Daily News and time occupied a position in the though this is not likely to have Reds are becoming increasingly she had about six big valises and Herald; Ltd., who are to be con-
hat boxes.
gratulated on a well printed and active not only in the region of. Bat Petain the soldier, the strate- attractively bound production. marked contrast. to the other things which have been done at Swatow, but also in the West and gist, was not easily daunted. He V. H. C. J.
got hold of a porter's truck, plled;
after-war financial firmament in very much effect, it is one of those
North River districts, there is some
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nations, and so, in another way, the wrong time, we think,
3 wife's belongings on it and has America. We borrowed additional $4 per student will not cause for hoping that the near wheeled them to a taxi. approximately £1,000,000,000 from make the Technical Institute re- future will witness important. "I save a" tlp!" said the great the United States; but lent our ceipts very much higher and might developments tending to free South soldier. Allies double that amount; and had possibly deter some otherwise will- China from a curse which is in-
Wo
She came
"The Yu-Chi Stone." Those who like Oriental stories with plenty of thrills and startling. adventures will find all they seek all payments been adjusted at the Ing students. It may be that this juring Chinese quite as much as the golden mane of hair, the wil Snell's latest novel, which is Jeritza, the peerless, Joritza of in "The Yu-Chi Stone," Edmund conclusion of hostilities we would raising of the minimum numbers foreign trade. can well lowy figure, the dramatic manner published by T. Fisher Unwin, have been well on the right sidfor classes and the increase in envisage the possibility of Canton and the wonderful voice, has con-Ltd., London (7s. Gd. net). However, there was the big bad fees reflects departmental economy having trouble with its hired mer-
quared London.
The tale has Borneo for itaa debt due from Russia,, and the consequent upon the effects of the cenarios from "outside" province reputation tremendously reinforced ing expedition carried out for the
here with a Vianna getting, and it concerns an excit expressed inability of the other strike, but if this is so we cannot once the anti-Red movement guts by her immense New York success purpose of rescuing an English debtors to pay us for years to come, resist the reflection that the Go well under way, At any rate, the For her debut night at Covent Gar-rubber planter. from the grip of Meanwhile, A settlement
den Opera House every seat in then Oriental monster who employ was vernment is following a foolishly. "Reds" will most likely soon find place was sold. negotiated by which we are mecting cheese-pating policy which may that there are anxious days ahead. The box offices could have dia- for the torture of those who ed the mysterious Yu-Chi Stone our obligations to America. On result in triding savings at the ex- and if the eventual result of posed of each ticket ten times over. crossed his path and sought to top of this we have had to face penst of much public benefit. We present developments is to under-
Speculatora resped a harvest reveal his activities to official the inevitable sacrifice of a portion would argue that the present timo mine their strength and power in
owing to the excess prices paid. quarters. There is, of course,
And to packed house rose at strong love Interest Interwoven of what is due to us. On the is not one in which to trim the Canton and adjacent territory, then Jeritza when she sang the title role into the story. Somewhat convau- principle that we wili not expect Technical Institute almost out of the dawn of better days may come in "La Tosca." It gave her curtain tienal in structure, the novel will more from our allies then we existence," but rather one in which earlier than some of us expect.
none the less appeal to those who like plenty of thrills and suspense,
calls beyond counting. It flooded | her room with flowers.