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PROTECT YOUR CAR been inspired and fomented by
MARCH 12, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
HE THAT WILL NOT REAGON IS
by installing political, fire-brands who have *PYRENE Fire chosen "terrorist" methodsis Extinguisher.against the more effectual and con: A FOOL; AND HE THAT DARE NOT "PYRENE" will structive method of education and REASON IS A BLAVE-Str W. Drun- kill firo without quiet negotiation. China is un-ind damago to the doubtedly going through a time of
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I met him first in the Harz Mounthere no paper money ina soon after the war, in a littlaze Brixton Road, ze lovely Brixton barber's shop beside the hotel at Road, where ze loetle shop was." Mr. J. E. Joseph, who has for Schierke, where soap, fishing some time bean rosiding at the tickle and such like articles form
I met him again five years later for Hongkong last month.
his somewhat bent figure and poor-upright, his eyes had lost that sad, of action.
be frayed up and exploited with-
ing eyes he seemed to belong in peering look. He know "PYRENE"
The forthcoming wedding is an- strange way to the landscape it once. I suppose that is part of out leaving behind n big residue tinguishor is small of dangerous temperament and nounced of Captain Patrick Carson self, to be a creature of the mya- the barber's business; and he wel-
Perfect, of the K. O. 3. Ba.' and terious wooded hill over which the comed me effusively. in size, tight. in bad example, and those self-styled Helen-Ann Hog, of Edinburgh, Renius of Wagner brooded and in weight and easy to "thaders" of the Chinese people Scotland.
which Goethe loved to wander.
"Ach," he said, "I was sad then when I saw you firat, sad like all ze handlo
to-day. who are getting things
Through the little window of Chermans. But ze wage and ze "PYRENE" does one according to their liking by Brooks was taken to the Kennedy of sunlit hilla, far away to these English; but I no longer want A dog belonging to Mr. E. S. C. the shop I caught a glorious view tips, English, nice, kind people, not deteriorato and means of enraged mob help will depot yesterday after it had bitton deep pouls of sapphire that hung ze Waterloo Station again to sec, is always ready find, in the years ahead, that the an amah employed at Queen's ahevo the horizon. I called his ar ze Brixton Road. Za business attention to the beauty of the bad I hear, it better here. Cher- froth on which they now ride is
scene, and he stopped in the net many, she recover.” "PYR- Ikely to persist and bubble dis- The following appointment was of having me, and looked gloomi- But I had dozed away after a
concortingly about them. They made by the Secretary of State for in the direction of the pine-clan long night journey, and are playing with dangerous forces of the month of December, Mr. Jbroken muttural English," as you turn the corner into the
the Colonies during the latter hairhill
"Do you know," he asked in his and the smell of the fried fish shop dreaming of "ze Waterloo Road" which it might have been better Barrow, Cadet, Hongkong.
Waterloo Road?" "London ?" I station. to calm than incite.. Workers the
Mr.
hazarded. A vision of hurry in a world over have a habit of finding (C.B. F., is on his way to China on street in chase of the train which had invited my wife and myself
Ella Ashmead-Bartlett,
taxicab down a particularly ugly mine whom I knew before the war Some German acquaintances of out things for themselves, eventu- behalf of the Daily Telegraph in ally, and we do not think that Chi-order to supplement the work of country crossed my thought.
was to bear me away into the to lunch. I was glad to meet them resident correspondents there. He nodded, and when I added, married an English wife, had been again. The husband, who had nese workers differ largely from others in this respect. When they It is notified for general in pointing to the window with a through the war. find out overything and realise formation that His Honour the lovely scene, his face clouded were alone after lunch, "that we smile, "How different from this "You know," he said, when we Chief Justice has ordered that the over. He whispered eagerly in had a great admiration for the that they have been made pawns next Criminal Sessions shall be my ear, as if he wanted to un-French, British and American sol- in the game of political.schemers, held on Monday, 21st inst., at 10 burden himself of a secret which diers it will not be a healthy day for o'clock in the forenoon.
had long been in his thought: "I German soldiers never sang that who fought against us, love ze Waterloo Road. Ach! to foolish hymn of hate in the tren- those who are now doing all the
be there again. Lieber Himmel,ches, nor did anyone that I know acheming.
to be in ze Waterloo Station again! of. We read Shakespeare and "You know," and his voice grew Longfellow, in our dugout. I re louder, "ze barber's shop-it is member an old copy of Henry underground-in ze station? Full James. We often talked of the of ze people who come and gofuture when it would all be over, and ze tips! Such nice tips, nice and we should meet you again and Under the Companies (Winding-good money. No paper marks in our American friends." in the matter of the Kwong Chow. Up) Ordinance it is notified that ze Waterloo Station."
Hotel Co., Ltd., a first and final His general attitude and old) His voice broke a little, "Then dividend of 100 per cent. has peering look took on a new mean- we found you believed all those been declared.
ing. A man who had lived under-dreadful stories of us, such as that ground, a veritable gnome, not of we starved our prisoners, and we the Harz Mountains, but of a heard that you called us "Bhche London railway station! "Art ze, and Hun. Do you still believe
He looked appealingly at me. Nice shop full of ze little fancy "No," I said. "War is dreadful,
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A Deserved Tribule. His Excellency the Governor last evening struck a most annro- No possible good to anyone can priate note at the annual dinnor ever come out of terrorist methods of the Institution of Engineers Auch as are now being employed in and Shipbuilders when he spoke Shanghai to intimidate, and fright-in glowing terms of the work on loyal workers whose only de- which engineers have done in the
The P. and O. s.a. Nagpore, sire is to do their allotted job of past for China and of the future op- which left Yokohama on the 6th work and live in peace with the portunities along the same lines instant, is due here to-day at 4 rest of the world. Political ex- when peace and order become rep.m. and will sail for Saigon. remists who descend to the level stored. He prefaced his remark Straits and London at daylight works, I kept bulldogs and sold and no doubt dreadful things were
to-morrow.
lived there over my brother's shop.! Brixton Rond," he went on, "I all that?"
them to ze English ladies. Lovely bulldogs!"
done. But who shall condemn an- other nation?" He continued to shave me in He looked at me disappointed. silence for a minute or two while "You don't understand," he said, I waited for him to speak again, "how these things hurt. Just for I knew that he was eager to tell the same stories were told of the
of hiring "gun-men" to deter those with a just tribute to the engineera who, otherwise, would be quiet of Hongkong, who, as he pointed There has been added to the out, have in a literal sense built list of medicine practitioners the citizena, will most assuredly find up the Colony. The ordinary lay- that they are playing with a weapon minn is all too prone to take things of Dr. Mah Sun-shan, of 249. Queen's Road Central. Dr. Mas which will recoil on themselves for granted, and it is therefore
well that now and again some reis Agakushi of the Alchi Medicale something more. Presently allied troops, but I never believed with disastrous effect, although minder should be forthcoming of
College, Japan.
he spoke again a dull, sad tone. them. I have an English wife. I "Then ze war come, Ach! that have French relations. It pained at the moment it succeeds in creat- the debt which we all owe to
was schrecklich (dreadful). me when in England a year after ing that disarray in which the technical men. Two points touched The Hongkong Nippo, a local Manager, he says, 'No more Cher-the war people drew back when i
upon by His Excellency are a Japanese newspaper, has BI- sprend of wrong ideas is most especial attractiveness-namely, aged with the Grand Theatre, I go home, but no one no more
mans wanted in ze barber's shop. gave my name."
"You would be quite welcome in easily achieved. We herd in his references to the future Wanchal, to screen the film of the want my British bulldogs. No England or America"now," I said. Hongkong have had not a little eg railways and aviation in Ching funeral of the late Japanese Em-one no more ouy ze fancy works "You need not fear that again.
particularly as they concern this peror. The show will commence perience in Labour Union intimida- Colony. The day will assuredly on the 16th inst, at 5 p.m., and tania night. You remember that?, frem the public thought.".
in Fritz's shop. Then came Lusi- The horrors of war have fac tion, for both in the 1922 and come when it will be possible to will probably last a whole hour. Ze English, they see mad.".
"I am glad of that," he replied 1925 strikes there was
take a return railway ticket from obvious
He paused, and still I knew that reflectively, "For if it is peace, Kowloon to Calais; indeed, 41 intimidation behind the sweeping ought long since to have been with- Saltpetre (potassium nitrate),
he had something more to say, we must think in terms of peace, seeming disaffection which per- in the bounds of practicality. Chili saitpetre (sodium nitrate) something that he wanted to get If peace is to endure".
and sulphur, in quantities exceed- out of his thought.
"We are trying "to" I said. For more years than we cure meated through all classes of la-remember, there has been talk offing 150 lbs., have been declared night," he continued in the same that I have never met a soldier "Yes, they see very mid that "Perhaps you would like to know bou. We know that house ser-completing the link between Can-to be dangerous goods within the monotonous tone, they could not who was in the thick of the fight vants were made "afraid to stayton and Hankow, which is essen- meaning of the Dangerous Goods it help.
who talked of the Germans as at work, and we also know that in to the prospect referred to. Ordinance. Regulations are als
He peered into my face as if Huns' or 'Boches." 'Fritz' was ni- and had the Chinese authorities issued concerning the storage hardly daring to say more.
ways the word. And the British there was a repercussion of that concentrated on work of this of such goods,
"Yes," I unid, "that was the war." soldier-1 can speak of many I intimidation in instances of rough
"They come down ze Brixton, know--had the greatest admira- chastisement meted out to would-
Mr. Reginald Francis Orlando Road and into ze shop, and they tion for the bravery of the German be bullies and hooligans. There a reality long ago. On the matter Bridgeman, a former member of break things to leetle hits, and soldiers, and especially of the offi of aviation progress, there is, the British Diplomatic Service, the beautiful dogs they take then ders. We thought that you put is always, however, a very large similarly, no reason why, once pre-who is acting as the unoffelni quite away, und there's heddings up a wonderful fight against great number of casily-swayed Chinese wiling unrest is ended, regular propagandist in London for the no more left in ze shop. It was odds."
You really mean that, and your among Inbouring classes ready to services should not be maintained Cantonese Government received the war," he said. "they could not
between this Colony and the big a set-back in his home village of help it. They see noddings but soldiers, said that?" He rose to follow threatening instructions cities of China.
his feet, his face flushed. Indeed, from Pinner on Feb. 5. le aspired to mad things that night." without audible murmer and it is whatever angle we look at matters become a member of the Hendon added. "You know ze Waterloo shall not forget what you said. "But it's all passed now," he "Auf Wiedersehen," he said, "I
it soon the size and bulk of this group there are great possibilities in the triangular contest
becomes apparent the Rural District Council, but in a Station, could I go back there? Iseo that we can really be friends
was at the Where ze people so kind, where again." which gives rise to the impression future of Chinn, end, as in the bottom of the poll. that the majority of the workers ast, men of technical knowledge. are of themselves animated by given the opportunity, play a held last night at the Kowloon and engineers especially, can. If A most enjoyable dance Was discontent and rebellious feelings. leading part in future develot-Dock Reading Room in aid of the We do not believe that this is so.ents.
away money on military expedi character instead of frittering]
tiuns, the dream would have been.
A
"BOB YOUR HAIR."
"LATE DR. SUN.
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BRITISH EXPORTS.
TROUBLES IN CHINA CAUSE DECLINE.
London, Mar..11.
Dock'a Soldiers and Sallors Recreation Fund. There were BIG OBSERVANCES TO-DAY. about a hundred people present, and music was supplied by the
To-day is the second anniver- Lyric Band. The dance pro-aary of the death of the late Dr. gramme included the "Taul Jones, Yat-sen, an event which is being. In explanation of the de- danced for the first time at the observed both in Hongkong and creaee of nearly £10,000,000 in Dock. We understand that good Canton, as well as China generally. British exports, for February na progress is being made with the There is to be a special gathering compared with February 1926, it "Bob your hair: it is the badge orection of the ahedo for of freedom." This is the exentertainment of Service, men
the at the Lee Gardens in Hongkong. is stated that a decrease of hortation made by female agitators during the coming months.
The Canton Municipality an- £4,000,000 was accounted for, by a in
nounces that all due respect must décline in cotton yarns and manu- "and speakers to the women
various towns and cities in Che-
be paid by the citizens to the facturore. Much of the drop in memory of the" National leader, exports is attributed to troublea
NEW CANTONESE SLOGAN.
Reuter reported yesterday two in- stances of strikes at cotton mills in Shanghaj over ostensible rea- sons of utterly foolish character, -and it is obvious-that behind these ostensible reasons there is an- other force at work-the force of threats. It is a force which is having the desired effect at the moment, but we are optimistickiang which have recently been enough to hope that the tradition-included in the Cantonese sphero WIRELESS TELEPHONY. The public are to observe three in China.--British Wireless.
of conquest.
HAYANA TALKS WITH LONDON,
ninatea ellence at noon, all a good sense of Chinese, workers
electric lights in homes and shops will return, and that when they Shanghai Times, from a city in A. correspondent, writing to the
are to be turned on, as well us those in the streets and maloos. unions of merchant, peasants and realise that they have been made East Central Cheklang says with-
workers. No theatrical performances will but the pawns. of self-seeking in the short period of ten days only,
Following the ceremony, there be allowed. Pubile entertainments, will be a big procession and street merchants and other people of ugitators and political schemers note are utterly sick of the new
whether for government organiza-parade throughout the city. London, Mar. 11. they will take their own methods | Nationalist regime.
A new era in diplomatic relation- tions or other organized bodies,
Open-air lectures dealing with authority ship was inaugurated to-day when must be suspended. Music is also the life and history of Dr. Sun and of exacting retribution. It has He writes:What
prohibited.
his principles will be given to the happened in several instances in there is seems to be in the hands the Cuban Foreign Minister at
Two separate commemoration public. A four days! propaganda, of students, well-trained in Bol- Havana conversed with Mr. G. Hongkong, and everything points to hevist methods of agitation and Locker-Lampson, of the Foreign ceremonies will be held at noon. which started on Friday, will con- It happening again in Shanghai. intimidation, but absolutely ignor Office in London, by wireless telee will take place in the Chung tinue till Sunday. Lectures will It is indeed unfortunate that all ant of methods of ordinary local phone, inaugurating telephonie Shan University, to bo convened by be delivered every evening by government. Strenuous efforts communication between London the various youth organizations, prominent personages in various schools and women's unions. schools and theatres, the Chung aver China to-day there is being are being made to get the various and Latin America. mado an appeal to the lowest trades to form workmen's unions, Mr. Locker-Lampson, acknow
The other will be held at the Shan, Lingnam, Kuckdan Univer Fadging the Cuban Mialator's East Parade Ground under the sities, Nam Me and Pui Ching form of intelligence and not to but with little success so far.
message, said that this was won mittee of various classes. This theatres.
auspices of the preparatory com- schools, Ifoi-chu and Po-wa the quiet reason of the people. posted all over the city and pro-less telephony cannot fall to bers of government organizations, tributed by the Provincial Kuo-
placards arc derful development and that wire- Riots and strikes, mob lootings paganda leaflets are being widely bring Cuba and Britain closer the Kuomintang departments, and mintang Publicity Department.
{ ceremony will be attended by mem Special leaflets will be dia-
Revolutionary
and acts of molestation have all distributed.
together.-Router: