THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927.
INTERESTING PEKING
REPORTS.
A COMBINE AGAINST THE NATIONALISTS.
According to a Chinese news agency, General Luk Wing-ting the former Kwangsi war-lord, has had a lengthy interview in Peking. Marsha Chang Tee-lin with
In the course of which Luk Wing-ting advocated the formation
'Confederation. of a
between Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow and Szechuan, to be known as the Southwest An-Kuo Army, in order to split the strength of the Nationalist armies now concentrated on the Yangisze Valley,
He laid great stress on the fact that representatives of the dissatisfied generals of Szechuan and. Kweichow were alrendy In Peking "with Instructiona to negotiate with Marshal Chang Tso
In
It is stated that the total forces available under the command of the Szechuan and Kwelchow generala is aboul 200,000 strong. whilst General Tang Chi-yao, et Yunnan, has an army of 30,000 men ready for active servier, and Luk Wing-ting himself declares that he could rally to his standard 100,000 men from Kwangsi tind Kwanglang.. With such a com- bination, together with the troups of Marshal Wa Pel-fu and Mar- shul Sun Chuan-lang, acting in und the Nationalist armies could be completely invested.
With regard to this proposition, it is said Marshal Chang Tso-lin and General Yang Yu-ting, his Chief of Staff, have given it their tentative approval," and it is said. that Lauk "Wing-ting has been appointed a member of the Mur- shal's Council.
It is also reported that the re- cent abandonment of Bao Fow Ly the Kuumire hun was due to the radd advance of the Fenglien troops which forced a Kuominebun retreat to Kansu. In this retreat. it is said. five million dollars worth of munitions had to be abandoned and were captured by the Fengtien forces..
By this movement the Fenglien forces have struck a hard Glow on the Kuominchup, as the munitions will take months to replace. Hence military operations in Homari will be somewhat delayed. until the Southern armies have rushed up sufficient forces to carry on the war in this region.
Military activities on a large senie are reported in the South and! East of Homan, indicating that the Allies are forcing the issue of war in that province, and big ballles may be dispected to be Cought for the control of the Peking-Tankow Railway,
TO-NIGHT'S PANTOMIME
TO AID DESERVING CAUSE.
Judging by all that one benss, there is going to be much fun and amasement for the audience at to-night's Pantomime "Little Red Riding Hood" which is being put on at the Theatre Royal, by the "Little Mummers.". At the final rehearsal on Wednesday, every- thing went extremely well and con- firmed the opinion that Hongkong is going in have a real old-fashion- ed pantomime.
As has been announcal, the effort is on behalf of Dr. Bar- nardo's Homes and it is to bo hoped that there will be large kup- port, not only for the sake of the enjoyment which the show will moet assuredly provide, but also for the very excellent object which it is almed to benefit.
A CHINESE "STILL."
CRUDE METHOD OF MANUFACTURE.
On our Picture Page to-day, np. pears a photograph of a Hongkong boot-legger's "still", As' will be seen; it is a weird-looking assert- ment of pots and pans, represent- ing the manufacturing plant of an unlicensed Chinese wine-distiller arrested by Hongkong Revenue Officore recently at Pokfulum.
As to the process of distilling, (it should be explained that the grain is bolled in the flat pan, by menas of a low-burning charcoal. "Bro contained in the rattan stand, and the resulting alcohol-éhargod vapour rises through holes in the upper containor, where it con- denses and percolates through the spout into a jar.
Our picture is by the Police Headquarters Photo Department.
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MIXED GRILL
By
A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne
Once again, messmates-o' my "The modern tendency," says a.. Mixed Grill, it is my pleasure and newspaper article, commenting on privilege' to present you with my the lapsing of Christmas customs, private greeting-card, whleh "is to Ignore, the family dinner- shall feel proud and honoured if table on Christmas Day, and for you will cut out and keep on your each member of the family to go mantel-piece along with the gas-off Independently." From which bill and the Demand Note for pay-1 infer that the present generation ment on Schedule D:-
has no use for central 'eating."
MI ASHLEY STERNE
wishes all his friends the Com- pliments of the Season, and begs to remind them that he has
* NO HAWKERS,
NO CIRCULARS. ·
NO BOTTLES. ·
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A lady reader has written to thank me for the receipe for Christmas pudding, which I gave in this column a year or so ago. "My boys still play soccer with it,"" she writes, "and except for the fact that the polish is fiding and. that two of the raisins are miss Families waited on daily.. Lighting, it is as good as new.”
I MAY work done, with own horse and var, add that my own pudding which I made from..the same receipe is, julas! no longer with me. After Writing about the inordinate serving for many montha craving for animal food displayel knob on the newel-post of my by certain native tribes in S.Estaircase, I yielded to templation Africa, a travelier states that on the other day and sold it to the one occasion he saw a small child Chinese War Office as a canrion- of seven consume its own bulk of ball. meat at one meal. Browning, was probably thinking of something of the sort when he wrote those well- known words, "The little maw and how much it is!" -
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USEFUL HINTS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Remember that Christmas Day is also Quarter Day, and that the [injunction to exercise goodwill to- wards men is intended to apply
You know the old superstition oven to landlords. that every mince-pie you eat be. The 4.28 p.m. from. Ipswich to fore Christmas Day ensures yet at Pechies does not run of Christmas
Day.
To avoid disappointment," note that the so-called ' "jewelled" crackers sold in the shopa at'half- a-crown the box. do not contain real jewels.
Christmas puddings for Tristan da Cunha, the Solomon Islands, and Tail's Bay. ought to have beer posted last February.
.
Den't forget the year. It's no good scratching out the writing on
month of happiness in the Newthe back of the Keats Calendar for Year? Well, my earnest advice to1926 which Aunt Agatha sent you you is, don't waste time and temper last Christmas and then bunging trying it on. I experimented with it on lo demima. twelve ples Jast December, and.
Don't give away "your surplus look what happened to me during paddling and minge-pies to tramps. the past year! For guidance I would add that each "happiness" Remember, you may be a tranip
yourself one day. began on the first day of the month and continued to the last.
January. Severe bout of dyswp- sin, induced by said mince-pies, Subsisted entirely on loathsome diet of tapioen, rusks, and goda- mint.
February-Baby in adjoining flat began teething, chiefly, at mid- night.."
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March-Aunt Logisa (87) cams! to spend the day with me and spent 31.
THE CAROL OF GOOD KING WENCESLAS.
Good King Wenceslas look out Through his drawing-room curtain: "Look!" cricd he, "some tramp's
around
At the back, I'm certain. Heed him nut, though, good my
page,
For the frost is eruol, "And my crown and orb I'll wage
He's only gathering fuel.
"Lots of boughs and logs and sticks Lie scattered in the garden Ile can bave them all for.nix! My heart I cannot harden In this weather cold and blenk 'Chinst this vagrant sinner. Go, my page, and bring him quick Into here to dinner!"
April-Bad attack of mupps, followed by three weeks' isolation
May-Workmen in house doing repairs. Slept in the, scullery sink with my head on the plate-rack and one fool jammed in the waste-Out the page went in the snow pipe:
As his liege commanded, But returned in half-a-mo'
Jule-Occupier of flat im- mediately above began to learn the saxophone.
mps-
July. Fourteen million quitoes came to live with me.
August-Spent rollicking holi- day with Aunt Louisa ai-Scotch hydropathic establishment" (imli- censed).
September-Got". engagel, through inadvertencë.
October. Tried to get urgent trunk-call through to Manchester. November-Had all my leeth out except two, and these were on opposite sides of my mouth.
December.(Up-to-date) Benu standing every day in a coal queue.
BRITISH
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FOR SYDNEY."
Alone and empty-handed. "'Sire, that trump's
rude."
villin
His voice was hoarse with passion- "He's bunked not only with our
wood, But all next week's coal-ration!"
IT IS!"
UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS. DECIDING RULE OF SYNTAX
Viscount Chelmsford, the Agent-
New York.-Four American General for New South Wales, re- cently announced the following Universities are split-fifty-fifty on appointments by the Senate of the the use of the word "is" in the fol- University of Sydney:-
lowing sentence in a Burlington Railroad circular:--
Professor of Philosophy.-Mr. John Anderson, M.A., of the Uni
"Along the right of way exists versity of Edinburgh (in succes-a tremendous area in which is sion to the late Professor B. Mus-produced two-thirds of the oats clo).
and more than half the corn in the Professor of Psychiatry-Dr. United States.”. William S. Dawson of Maudsley
Railway chiefs, differing as to L.C.C. Hospital, Denmark Hill whether the word "are" should be London (in succession to Profes-used instead of "la," referred the 'sor Sir John Macpherson).
matter to Chicago University and Lecturer in Pharmacy-Mr- the North-Western University. Finnemore, B.Sc., F.I.C., F.C.S., of Chiengo decided in favour of "la" Guy's Hospital Medical School, North-Western replied in favour London (in succession to Mr. S. H. of "are" Stroud)..
Lecturor in Chemistry, Dr.
Harvard and Yale were appealod
Thomas Iredale, of Armstrong to, Harvard pronouncing for "in" College, Newcastle-on-Tyne (in Yale, for "Are." succession to Associate Professor. So the ofcials tossed a coin, and J. A, Schofield).
"is" stays in the circular."
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