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SATURDAY, MARCH 5,
1927.
DAY BY DAY.
THE IMPELLING FORCES OF HUMAN
His Excellency the Governor
were precisely opposite in charac tor. Menacing mobs lovaded the Concessions and it was only by a display of remarkable patience ACTIVITY ARE WOMEN AND WEALTH. and tact on the part of the British,Stuart Young.. in face of grant Chinese provoca- tion, that heavy bloodshed did not result. The roferences to British QUALITY & DURABILITYarines having beaten and stab- bed" peaceful Chinese are in, the same category they are wilful mis-statements, broadenst with the specific purpose of encourag-
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MARCH 5. 1927.
"MORE LIES.
Apparently, another Chinese Nationalist "e factory" has been
has appointed Mr. A. G. Frandin to be a Justice of the Pence for the Colony.
Tenders are being invited for carrying out the necessary repairs to engine and boiler houses at Pokfulam Bond pumping station.
THE PASSING OF THE EVENING. LAMP.
'The Old Order Changeth."
It was a pleture framed in a justment: the movies, the club, medallion at the head of an old the social dance, the theatre, the copy of the Youth's Companion, ever-restless family car, and now In cozy oneness of purpose a circle the radio. How changed in point of young faces were grouped about of view, in breadth of experience, sweet-faced matronly looking in kind and variety of information, woman, their eyes intent upon is this evolved family circle.. something which she was reading. There is still another side of Upon closer examination it was the question that cheers and en
of the Youth's Companion; and around the old evening lamp re- each member of that family group "ceiving its first taste of good liter- was eager to hear how the serial, ature was but one bright spot in a story was coming out.
surrounding circle of darkness. --.. Joyous anticipation was pictur
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ing a continuance of the anti- The motor Vessel Malayan discovered to be the latest copy "ourages. That Ideal home group British agitation on which the Na-Prince, from New York, salled tionalist extremists have obvious from Shanghai on the 4th instant and is expected to arrive here on ly set their heart. That they 6th instant. should have been issued under the
nuthority of a Nationalist Govern- | ment agency would be remarkable had it not been that we have lone | since come to expect almost any
thing from this quarter.
tions who occupy their specific settlements in China, even at Hankow? If the movement were
Bitten by a chow deg yesterday, Private Hughes, of the K.O.S.B. was given precautionary treatment at the Military Hospital. The dog was seized and taken to the Kennedy Town Depot.
years.
The prize-day concert of the ed in every face. How a picture For no matter how Ideal that Sacred Heart College is to be held such as this stumbled upon in a group was, In comparison with the at St. Patrick's Hall Garden Rd. search for something entirely homes that had it not, they were on Monday, at 5.30 p.m. Me. Li|different-will start the wheels of few and far between; wherens Yuu-chuen will distribute the memory turning backward to find today the disintegrating etimuli juat such another group around which seemed fraught with so priser.
the evening lamp. Sometimes much menace to the home haye In the same issue of this new
each will be individually occupied brought, to thousands more than publication there is much more
with his books or papura; some ever was dreamed of in those car relating to the foreign Conces
times again it is Dad who is read- lier days, opportunities to entch ing while the rest of the family, glimpses into the great treasure- sions in China, and the peint i
in comfortable poses, some em troves of literature through the streaned that the present light is
broidering, some sewing on little cinema and the drama, and are garments, or busy at the ever- now bringing it to those in the against all foreigners who hold
accumulating pile of family mead- home circle through the radio. territory within Chinese bound-
The forthcoming wedding is aring, listen enthralled.
"The old order changeth giving nounced of Mr. David Hood Max- arles, a term which is used to in-well, Marine Engineer, in the em-order of the evening-when the
It matters not which may be the place to new." clude all Settlements and Conces-ploy of the China Navigation Coin short day was over, rare was that along that white path of light I would not gaze backward sions, and even Hongkong as wöll. Is due to arrive. In the Colony by evening lamp that did not shed radiating from that long-ago eve.
pany, to Miss Gertrude Talt, who If that is really the Nationalist the s.s. Khiva.
its soft light upon some circle of ning lamp either pessimistically this kind policy, how comes it about that
or regretfully. All the real good so far the agitations have only appointed Mr. G. A. Walker to His Excellency the Governor has
that that light radiated has come Fortunate indeed is that man or down to us. Changing conditions heen against purely British Con-act as Manager of the British woman who can look back to such have demanded more
adequate cessions? What of the other na-
spotlight in his impressionable methods. As the parlor with its Section of the Kowloon-Canton
Such an introduction to whatnot and still horsehair furni- Railway during the absence on the inexhaustible, treasures lenvo of Mr. H. P. Winslow or good literature sheds a discrimin- room and the library, or oven to of ture has given place to the living until further notice.
ating light upon all the rest of his "the six-foot shelf in a small hall a genuine onc, inspired by truly parts for the weeks ending February
The Health Bulletin of Easter literary experience. How surely bedroom, so that family circle has
and tactfully such national feelings, would not someth, issued by the Principal Civil
a father or inevitably changed to meet the in-. mother can lead the young flux of knowledge coming, as it steps have been taken ere this to Medical Officer yesterday, contains thought, cuger for excitement and does today, through channels ab
the following cases: Plague, Bom-adventure and the thrills of a solutely undreamed of by those endeavour to get back other Con-
bany 2. Bangoon; 4, Colombu world they have not yet experien- youngsters who gathered about cessions as well? The fact that Cholera, Rangoon, Caleatta 43, ced, into those safe, wise chinucis the evening lamp. rething has been done along these Bangkok 13: Smallpox, Bombay 45, from which they can. see the ex- Calcutta 170, Madras 32, Hangoon 27,periences of human nature unfold- lines is quite sufficient to show Singapore 1, Bangkok 6, Shanghai 7ed in their right proportion and could; we would have an open that the movement is essentially Vladivostok 7.
gret a true perspective of the work that is good in the maelstrom of thought, keenly appreciative of all
anti-British in character. Let
ing out of human qualities, the" A concert is to be held at the fights and shadows of human expend judgment of that which is modern life, being willing to sus- the Nationalists explain that awn 7. Helena May Institute on Wednesperience in, right proportion to wholly new. With our taste for if they can.
day next, at 8.30 p. m. in aid of their causes. M. C. L. Funds The artistes will
literature formed upon the solld Unconsciously they learn to eva- comprise Mrs. G. R. Watt (con-luate, to be tolerant, just, and canons of the classics, yet pro- tralto), Mrs. W. R. Fleming compassionate. Through such Fressive enough to broaden those (mezzo-soprano), Mra. F. Jenner masterpieces they learn to admire standards to include the best of present-day literature, we can en- (elocutionist), Engineer-Comdr, the great qualities of courage, Gardner tenor), Mr. R. M. Keown their certain results the deplor public opinion. Bedella (entertainer), Mr. H. E. patience, tenderness, and to see in joy and help to elevate and steady
(bass) and Mr. H. Hampton (hu-able effects of their opposites. Nor can one afford to stand still mourist). Selections will be given They are broadening their con- by a sextette of the Hermes Band, tacts through this vicarious ex- In the midst of these tremendous whilst the programme will con- perience, travelling with seven- changes in a vein of self-righteous clude with a sketch, "The Last Teague hoots back over the his- complacency that our approach to Train," by "The Skyers," tory of the world, gaining a com- literature was the only right one. munity of human interests with. For while we must admit that the peoples of all ages-with the maturity of the present generation possibilities of this training con- is not an unmixed good, yet they. stantly being enlarged by the have far more light upon their patient explanations to enger ques-, pathway today than had those in tions. How wonderful, how un- that far-off circle. forgettable, are those lessons
With their broader contacts and learned about the evening lamp! their increased means of informa. on there has come an independ- Then as I sat using upon that once and freedom unknown even a
BANK RETURNS.
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We would not go back if we
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The Cost of Progress.
There will be lots of peoplo opened, for we have just received the terrible motor accident on prone to say, when they read of by post the first two issues of a Pending Sands by which Mr. T. G. propaganda publication in Eng-Parry Thomas lost his life, that this craving to register fresh high lish, issued from Hankow by what marks in the contest for high is described as "the Press Office spends is a foolish and wasteful of the Political Department of the one. While they will inevitably deplore the death of one who was Headquarters of the National Re-unduubtedly a brave and fearless volutionary Army of China," the man, they will shake their heads articles in which are noteworthy and say "It's a pity that it was all
for no useful purpose
and so for their extrem: partisanship rasteful" Bat we doubt whether and their deliberate distortion of that is quite the right angle.
THE LATEST FIGURES." Thets. We are told in the fore-Frankly, at the moment we do
The returns of the average amout not see how auch high road and word of the first number that the Finck speeds as are now being stri-specle in reserve in Hongkong, during of bank notes in circulation and of aim of the publication is tá "us-ven for can ever he usefully-ap- the month ended 29th Februny, 1927, spotlight In my life, suddenly was generation ago. To those who sist the truth to break through the plied to the everyday needs of as certified by the Managers of the borne in upon me a voice. It was have not had the privilege of a
mah. It is difficult for us to im- respective Banks eroi- ramparts of lies with which Imagine the day when we shall want to
Bunks., Average Specio In perialism 1s blockading the Chi-travel at over two miles a minute Chartered
"Amount peso revolution," but when we in a motor car, or when and where come to analyse some of the writ-having regard to the other users such a capability will be possible,
ings therein we find that these pre-of the road,, but it is not hard for pagandists have the strangest Im- us to imagine the extraordinary impetus being given to the dove- aginable conception of what truthlopment and perfection of internal combustion engines by this soek- Attracted by an article said ting after high motor car spoods.
Modern matur car engines, espe deal with the lessons to be drawn cially those of enormous harse from the Nationalists' taking po's power and high speed possibilities, sussion of the British Concessions ro little less than a marvel of mechanical enerky contuluing
İN..
Bunk of
Aug- India, tralia and
Reserve.
China ... Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corpora- tion..... $50,183,595 $36,700,000† Mercantile Bank of Indin, Limit-
Tata)975,081,146 $42,480,000
reading aloud, yet somehow it was college education there are op- not mellowed by the warm Padin-portunities for being introduced tion of that old kerosene lamp. It to good literature greater than was professional; the intimacy those offered twenty years ago in was gone; thore were no interrupthe colleges themselves.
And although these classics have $17,090,732 $ 1,800,000ting questions--in fact, there was
no such thing as interrupting. It been modernized and modified to was unfolding, in well-medulited meet the requirements of stage tones, the story of a recent bestand screen, they still retain a sub- seller.
le something of their old value, I glanced through the doorway and these productions often lead and caught the soft glow of an to the reading of the original Plectric blub shimmering through works. ed... $ 1,750,881 $580,0008 pleats of silk. It was a loud- And so as I glance "once more, speaker: You listened or not, as fondly, perhaps but not regret- you chose; wandered in and out fally, at the picture before me, I in Hankow and Kiukiang, we have wonders of synohronisation gov perited
* In addition Sterling Securities do. | and occupied yourself as fancy feel as I move about in a scene with the Crown Agenta fed. At first regret Alled my so utterly unlike that of the past, read it through, and seldom have erning fuel supply and combustion, valued at $1,287,200,
thought. How much they are so colourful, so picturesque, and we encountered a bigger travesty and when pioneers like the late In addition Securities deposited
Mr. Parry Thomas, - Major Sea with the Crown Agents and Straits missing-a personal contact, an in- so absorbingly interesting that
Government valued at 43,108,097. of actual happenings than the re-grave and Major Campbell are
alyldual opinion. Then a brighter the same wisdom which tactfully... In addition Securities deposited side showed itself.
Informed and guided those smaller, ferences contained therein to the equipped with the nerve, skill and with the Crown Agents valued at The evening lamp was passed. simpler circles is still at work, incidents which led to the tempor-powers of endurance to test out £180,000.
Into that narrow home cirule has sifting, eliminating, uplifting and new and more powerful engines ury handing over to the Chinese under actual track conditiona, we
come a variety and diversity of in-guiding the young folk of today terests, and a multiplicity of at-whose background and channels authorities of these two Concos-think that they are doing very fine
tractions from without that would of approach to literature and to sions. It is stated that the change experimental work. Of courge,
make that old life impossible and human Hfs are so complex and there are lots of risk and lots of in the status of these places is thrills and perhaps it is the thrill
inadequate today. It has-phased. due to the spontaneous action of that attracts most. But it is not
through stage after stage of rend varied. the masses, especially to that of a morbid thrill and it constitutes the fabourers and students, "who part of that inevitable urge to- wards bigger and better achieve- replied to the provocations of the ment which has been at the back British." This is followed up by of all the progress of the human Cwm dianater. The funeral, will COOLIDGES MAKE WAY FOR and £5,000 respectively to tho a atatement that Chinese celebration there were the cautious croak take place on Sunday-British
race. In the early days of avia-
CWM DISASTER.
FUNERAL OF 62 VICTIMS:
London, Mar. 4. Arrangements have been made for a united funeral of the 62 miners who lost their lives in the
Wireless.
ing their national victories "inors who would have scored to. pancoful demonstrations" were believe that such sober-minded "bunten and stabbed by British and balanced people as Sir Samuel
and Lady Hoare would, in 1927, "dare-devil" or a "pioneer" ac marines." Could anything fur-fy to India and back without the cording to how the matter is view ther from the truth be conceived slightest mishap. But it has boened, but he was, in any case,a great than these lying assertions? In de 20 years ago indicated. The mourned by all the world's motor
dane and those flying "dare-dovits"etitliusinst whose death will be etual fact, the circumstances Inte Mr. Parry Thomas was alther driving fraternity:
WHITE HOUSE.
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Mr. Charles Ellingeworth, a Cri- moved from the White House to mean veteran, formerly of the 63rd Patterson Manston nearby, which they will occupy for a few months Foot (Southerland Highlanders), repaired and re-roofed-Reuter's buried with military honours at while the White House is being who has died at the age of 94, was
Brompton Cemetery.
American Service.