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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927:
DAY BY DAY.
WITAT BHADOWS WE ARE, AND WHAT SHADOWS WE PURSUE!--
PROTECTY OUR CAR play towards Feng. But Irrespet-
by installing ative of what might be the parsonál." "PYRENE" Fire | relations between Fong and Yen Extinguisher. It does seem more or less certain
PYRENE will that there is a goodly array of Burke. kill fire without strength lined up against Peking damago to the and that the Northerners will be
There were two Chinese cases of engino, woodwork hard but to it to retain the rom-typhoid fever roported yesterday. or upholstery
nant they possess. Marshal Wutor spreads a
Chang Tsun-chang, now a very petrol fire; sand is mofficient and will thoroughly discredited Tuchun and put the engine out unpopular with everybody, has of action.
notified Chinese and foreign au- "PYRENE" Ex.thorities that he is not going to tinguisher is small be responsible for the safety of in size, iight in anybody in Tainanfu, the Capital weight and easy to of his province of Shantung, and handlo.
we are glad to see that Japan is "PYRENÉ" does taking her own measures to defend not deteriorate and the threatened lives of her nation
for uso.
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H.M.S. Hawkins is going into derstand she will remain there for dock at Kowloon to-day. We un- five days only.
H. E. the Governor has appointed Commander George Ribby Hart
or mRN. (Retd.), to be
an official Justice of Peace.
Falling from the roof of the Green Island Cement works a Chin- where he died shortly after admis ese was taken to Hospital yesterday,
A golf caddio at Deep Water Bay was taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from a bite by a dog owned by one of the "boys."
STREETS OF ADVENTURE.
The Bookshops of Paris.
The quay bookstall with medieval great epoch in the art of the past re- Savour is a witness to the eight cen-sulted from exploiting living artists turies of book lore that bave passed and that the gaps in French art aro between the open booth of early those produced by worshiping tra- shop of to-day. The "bouquinisto" of the art of the day. Paris and the ultra-modern bookdition at the expense of acclaiming
the quay, who has been called the So this bookshop has become a most artful merchant of Paris, suc-meeting place for international cessfully competes with the book writors and painters of futuro shops of mushroom growth fame, whose booke and mavu. throughout the city, though the scripts fill the surrounding shelves, passer-by may rarely view a sale, whose sketches maks vivid splotches and his efforts to obtain a "find" of line and colour on the walls, and prove as unsuccessful as the patient where the newest ideas in luxurious
sher in the Seine.
bindings may be praised from the One book dealer of the quay, tiny tables with thoir green trays. iste," has presided for thirty-events is the advent of the Russian Another reflection of present-day whose title is, "Le pocte bouquin- five years at his brightly painted bookshop in Paris, whose windows," stall on a choice gaay, where he dis- filled with brilliantly coloured book. ploys a variety of treasure, books, covers and printing so picturesque autographs and ancient coins, that as to be decorative, transport the gain him the ample income of 10,000 thought to a far-away land curtain- franes a year. The doyen of the ed in snow. Rich in Russian profession wears a suitable hat of classics and contemporary works, debonair brim, and there is a min- this bookshop in the Intin Quarter, ute violet ribbon of the Palmes has supplied the exiled aristocrats The 31. Kong On and the al Academique in the lapel of his rain for three years with writings of suf-- Yau Kung collided opposite the and sun marked coat, sinec poems, ficiently anti-Bolshevist sentiments the former vessel sustaining dam-dit, any of which for the asking he Country." China Merchants Wharf yesterday, romances and two enlivening books and with a magazine entitled, "The en the "bouquiniste" are to his cre- Voice of the Past in a Foreign age to the extent of $100,
The works of fervid will autograph with a flourish and protagonists of the present regime a sparkle of his blue eyes.
in Russia may also be purchased Those ever-recurring phrases in a here, and that beguiling review Frenchman's conversation, "Avant which is an outgrowth of the emi- la guerre," "Apres la guerre," are gration, "The Fire Bird." full of meaning to the quay Indigenously French and a delight- merchant whose license to trade ful link in the book lore of Paris is and title to a .stall
are the children's bookshop, which has seven times the pre-war charge, devoted sixty years to the publish- and who no longer acquires ing and selling of juvenile litera- his books by lot with a consequent ture. The editor who presented 200 per cent gain on a sale, but "Becassine," the boloved Brittany must purchase them singly from a maid, to the "Wendys" of France. list in a depleted, market.
has also originated the piquant ides of "Bluette." She Is a pretty doll which is only to be purchased in this bookshop and about which a weekly review is published with patterns and suggestions for her wardrobe.
is always ready als. That action Indientes Japan'ssion.
lack of faith in the ability of the "PYR-North to prevent a further South- ENE" handy onorn advance, and might be taken as a good guide to the future of events. The Hankow party seem¦ to be badly left out in the cold as over, and it might be that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will decide that that middle stratch of the Yang- taze will have to be cleaned up. In which event, the Hankow party will find themselves in parlous plight. General Yang Sen has gone back into his own territory taking his terrorist methods with him. Ant meawhile, chaotic China waits the coming of a real leader, someone who will clean up all this muddle and mess and set about the task of effective and con-. structive government.
Mr. F. Fisher and Daughter.
P.P.C.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 1927.
CHINA'S MUDDLE.
more
Ireland To-Day,
The elections to the Irish Free State Parliament," the Dail, have concluded, and the net result
Suffering from internal injuries, caused by some unknown persen, & shop keeper of Queen's Building was taken to the Government, Civil Hospital yesterday.
A contractor at North Point has reported to the Police that he on- trusted a foreman with $67.63 with which to pay the workmen, but the man absconded with the moréy.
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As the result of falling down a
Nevertheless, the trader's profits steep bank at Pokfulum,, a Chinese are greater than ever before be employed by the Dairy Farm Co., cause of the influx of foreigners, was taken to the Government Civil avid adventurers in books. His is Hospital for the treatment of in-not the idler's metier, it seems, juries to his head.
whose time is passed on the quays in absorption of a newspaper or The devoted parent of "Blu-
and book, to the indifferent ignoring' o2 ette"
subscriber to her customers, for the dealer is con- magazine thus learns to make an stantly occupied when not at his extensive trousseau, or she may find stall in purchasing, repairing and an attractive assortment of ready. numerating his waren.
made dresses and lingerie in the
Mr. T. J. O'Brien, in a report to the Police, states that sometime during the night of June 16-17, the padlock of the Dogs Home, Kow. loon, was broken and two brass rice' pans were stolen.
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months past, it is reported, has thinking, the garrisoning by Bri Mariners No. 35 published in Gov- search for books on the quay," had / buildings until to-day his name ap-
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Indicative of the times are the, American boqkshops that are in-
Radiating from the centre where
is that there has been practically no change in the status of the par- ties in the Chamber. There is, however, a very big following for De Valera, the mention of whose
Nor is his carrer. antrammeled. bookshop which devoted a floor of Like "the merchant of the Four its building to "Bluette." Here.one name recalls a great deal that is
Seasons," poor "Crainquchille" of may see little girls shopping with As was stated the other day, the best forgotten in recent Trish The body of a shop coolie who of the pushcart, the book trader the judgment and taste of a grown only thing certain about Chinese history. It is a sign of the chan- succumbed to injuries received with his "two sous box" was chevi- Parisian while, for once, in ged times in Erin that this election while engaged in storing sucks ofed at first from bridge, quay and the momentous occupation, their polities and military groupings is
has passed without any reports of sugar or the ground floors of No street. The unsympathetic Philippe mothers stand silently aside. There their uncertainty. It is impossible outrage coming over the wires-90 Wing Lok Street, was removed d'Orleans, whose signed command are over 60,000 subscribers for to know one day to the next how indeed, the country has become so
to the public mortuary.
as Regent may now be had at a three juvenile weeklies published the various factions will be lining quiet comparatively, that the gen-
stall for an ignominious sum, even by this house. While working at the Taikoo threatened these merchants with
Typlenily Parisian is the book- up-who will be loyal and who will eral public had lost sight of events Sugar, Refinery & conie was in- confiscation and imprisonment. shop which exhibits one book in Ita be treacherous to their erstwhile in the new Dominion, until the jured by a sack of sugar fall-
Nother this decree nor other show window on a gray velvet back- friends. And the news of yester first cable anent the Free Stateing on his leg. He was taken to similar ones, however, prevented ground, much as a delicate porcelain day spoke of a fresh rupture and elections recalled the existence of the Government Civil Hospital suf- the development of these erudite vase is offered to the eye in Japan,
a separate entity in the Empire,fering from a fractured leg.
merchants into "the great seigniors and another housed in a prosaic of a fresh combination that has where previously a continuously
of the Bohemian art of book sell mansion of the Ile de St. Louis made speculation an even
rebellious portion of the British
ing," whose stalls, numbering over whose entrance is decorated with In alighting from a bus on Sai 200, were at last accepted and con-exquisite fragments of antique sta- Isles had obtruded itself on the than usually intriguing procedure.public mind. One has only to cast Kung Road, Kowloon City, a Chi-coded a limited site by the munici-tuary. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the the memory back a few years to He received injuries to his head Seine and became the haunt of the Odeon Theatre arcades introduced nese missed his footing and fell. pal authorities on the banks of the There are the bookstalls of the famous "Christian" General who recall the many cases of murder has supposedly been hand-in-glove conflicts between Republicans and
and incendiarism, the continuous, Kowloon Hospital for treatment.
by an enterprising editor many Aratule France, prince uf years ago with such success that with Soviet Russia for many those who were of another way of
flaneurs, who said he knew "no his trade soon occupied surrounding With reference to Notice to move peaceable pleasure than to told the Hankow party that he is fists, the religious elashes, the am-
tish troops, the outrages on loyal-rnment Gazette of 2nd June, 1927 his famed predecessors. Boileau of Paris.
pears above bookshops in all parts "through" with them and that they bushing of "Black and Tan" forces, it is notified that there is now no Hugo, Balzac and the dilettante Under cover from the rain in the arcades there is nothing to interfere can fend for themselves. If that and all that went to make up Irish objection to ships using the Front Boufllers.
Again the existence of the "bou with the flaneurs' bold enjoyment, proves to be true it is a very seri-daily life in the south of the is Reach provided that they proceed
at moderate speed.
quinistes is menaced in the effort and it is here that some lovers of land Happily, after more than ous thing for Hankow, for it musta century of failure to realise the
to modernize a Lutetia, and to-day books read standing the entire 450 not be forgotten that it was by the determination of a section of the In the Government Gazette is brings threats to dislodge and rele-
Specics." aid of Feng that Hankow beat off people to obtain home rule, superi-published a long list of times and rate to a distant corner of the city pages of Darwin's "The Origin of or statemanship had its way, and lacea at which gun practice will be these citizens of the Bohemian and the Fengtien forces in Honan and the decision was taken to divide carried out by the military author-dusty republic." averted what threatened to be a the country into distinct acctions,ities up till the end of February
All junks, ships and other Near the verdant point of the Ilecreasing in that part of the city complete encirclement and wipe based partly on racial and decided next.
ly on sectarian principles. Inevit vessels are to keep clear of the de la Cite namau for the Vert which may come to be denominated out. It also means that Feng has bly, there was a dispute over the ranges.
Galant of French history, a span of American instead of Latin Quarter. the Pont Neuf connects the quay Fone anti-Communist- possibil-frontier, and that point is not yet Hy that has been hely for some
definitely settled. However, there An Indian lift attendant employ- stalls to a red-and-white brick house Balzac set up his unsuccessful print- is much less of the old enmity, and ed by Messrs. David Sassoon Co. which was once the home of the ad-ing press there is sourcely a street time past. The Christian General for that one can be profoundly Ltd. was removed to the Govern-vanced Madame Roland and now on the Left Bank whose shops are was never as utterly "Red" that he thankful. The Free State is if ment Civil Hospital yesterday suf- lodges the most progressive book-not alternate book venders, binders It was lately as- and printers, sustained by ocen- self given over to party feeling,fering from head injuries alleged to shop of Paris. was beyond salving for the Mo-1 with a big section of the populace have been inflicted by a Chinese in tablished by a member of the old Bional sales in a city where luxuri- derates. It is true that he has in favour of a republican form of Ice House Street The asanilant aristocracy, whose distant ancestor ous volumes. may still be had for mailed against Marshal Chinng government, as distinct from the appeared before Major C. Willson was no less a personage than that nominal sums,
It is a long linenge from the days Kai-shek and it is also true that moderate element's adherence is this morning and was remanded till very Vert Galant, the popular Henri
Quatre, because of a love for books when a noble accured a manuscript the Free State administration. Monday.
and a desire to encourage and by exchanging a part of his landed Chiang has returned the condem-Sinn Fein, at one time notorious, nation with equal fervour, but we still has its following. But gener- In connexion with the special gather talented friends together in estate with a monastery to the concert which is being held for a more practical fashion than the ficoded market of to-day, and hap ally speaking, there is more of a
pily for readers, publishers, since have all'eeme to know that these leaning towards building up a new troops in the Theatre Royal to- anachronistic salon.
An amateur of art, horself paint their earliest appearance in France, pleasantries never mean very much status from out the ashes of the night we have been asked to beyond the expediencies of the past. Hostesses prominent in announce the fact that all theer and writer, this princess is have been scholars as well as mer-
English society are even now tickets have been sold and that an ardent advocate of contemporary chants.
M. F. M. moment. It was also reported riving garden parties in aid of the there will be no room for any artists. It is her belief that every that Marshals Feng and Chiang loyalista who lost their all when others. The concert is exclusively had effected an alliance and that red outrages were the rule, for no confined to servicemen who have
compensation is to be expected eagerly bought up all the tickets. they were preparing to conduct a
from other sources. Time, the joint eampaign against Peking.
great healer, may yet effect what A monkey belonging to the R. A. One cannot help doubting statemanship has not completed, S. C. was taken to Kennedy Town the truth of that last report, be- and the next generation, perhaps, for observation, after biting Lance cause that would mean that Mar-will bury the hatchet definitely, Corporal Dowling at Wellington May the good work accomplished Barracks. A dog belonging to
It is a really splendid film that shal Feng and General Yon Shi-these past three years, in face of Sergt. Major Parkinson of the
There should be big houses: at shan, the Tuchun of Shansi, would much difficulty, continue. As for K. O. S. B., was also removed to is now being shown at the Queen's have to link up forces, and that Ulster, as a presumably perman- Kennedy Town in consequence of Theatre one in which that im-the Queen's to-day; for in addition catly loyalist part of Ireland it the animal having bitten a Chinese comparable artist Gloria Swanson there is a long news reel, a cur would be violently against all past comes in for less comment these in Kennedy Road.
It is the story of an overworked toon comle and the Inst of the
Charleston lessons. doinge of Yen who has been a days, but all is not necessarily rosy buffer between Feng and his hated even there. Controversies exist A Straits paper hears that Mr. Waitress in a little eating house and perint, which close students of Spears, Probationary Police of a small town whose drenn rival Marshal Chang Teo-lin in Irish affairs deplore. One wan-Officer, who met with a nasty colis to go on the stage mainly because Ormo, an assistant Peking. Gen. Yen was reportedders whether the division of Erin lision while riding his motor cycle
the restaurant, Ikea all died intestate at Shanghalon. earlier in the week to have allied into distinctive governments, based at Kuala Lumpur, has had to sufferin
on religious differences, can be a the loss of an eve which was so actresses. She dreams of stage August 26, 1926, have been grant- himself definitely with Marshal permanent solution of the pro- severely injured that the eyeball Luccess and heart success with the ed to Mr. W. F. L. Shenton, attor Chiang Kai-shek and this may be blem. Time will toll, and mean- had to be removed, Mr. Spears boy she secretly loves, and the ney of Stirling Fessenden, the advanced to explain any friend-while one can rejoice that stability was riding a motor cycle past the filin is full of tragic-comedy so administrator appointed by the bas returned to an area which for Station Hotel at Kuala Lumpur peculiarly suited to the famous United States Court for China. Inivas that he might later on disse long was so sorely distressed. when he collided violently with a star in whose hands is the prin- Deceased loft estate in Hongkong
cipal part.
lof $78,400.
motor car.
AT THE QUEEN'S.
GLORIA SWANSON AT HER BEST.
is seen at her best.
At the beginning there, is a glorious pageant of gorgeous dresses and big scenes all part of the Bittle waitress's dreams, and thereafter there is one long and enjoyable comedy-comedy that le true portrayal of life itself with smiles, tears and hard luck.
a
Letters of administration of the estate of Stacy Anson Ransom, who