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DAY BY DAY.
THE YEARS WRITE THEIR RECORDS ON MEN'S HEARTS AS THEY DO ON TREES INNER CIRCLES GROWTH WHICH NO EYE CAN SEE Sare Holm.
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fmplacably against the suggestion. But it looked as though that states- man would have to bow to a more liberal spirit than animated him self. A keener patriot than M. Poincare it would be hard to find, yet one often wonders whether he fully realises the result of his ultra- nationalism. But he is in the as- cendant and he now, dominates in the Colony yesterday. French foreign policy, especially where Germany. is concerned; and It would appear that he has taken evening. Sir Austen Chamberlain along with him in his refusal to surrender one lota of the rights conferred by the Treaty of Versalice.
There was a clean bill of health
The original reason for the oc- cupation of the Rhinelund was to ensure that Germany carried out her other obligations of the Treaty, and generally behaved herself, "In the immediate post-war years,
The B.L. .. Tara, from Singa- pore, is duo here on Tuesday
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THROUGH A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.
The Very Idea!
Three States Hit By Blizzard: Ona Missing,
OVER THE FAN-TAN TABLE
We gather from these American" Chinese merchants to the Chin-rather fercer than usual lately.
Among the suggestions made by headlines, that blizzarda have been
ese Chamber of Commerce for promoting the revival of trade is one that fantan should be per
mitted under licence in the Colony, says the S. C. M. Post, and need any more be sald. Copyright.
clients.
.
The spring which turns the young man's fancy to thoughts of love is a good friend to tho tattoolat, who, in certain districts, Even a still tongue cannot be is particularly busy at this time regarded na impossible to a wo of the year inscribing the beloved "The Nyanza, arriving from Bom-mus, on the contrary, I am now ones" names on the persons of malo bay and Singapore, carried one satisflod that she can be goaded Naval rating for Shanghai, and two into anything. A casual. remark,
An extra boom was enjoyed, by.. a spot of leg-pulling, and it was the tattooing experts this year by Chinese for local disembarkation.
happening. I can imagine a
reason of the departure of British famous diarist running all the It is understood that the after-part way home to write: Am doubtful troops for China, "scores of whom underwent "treatment" before- of the J. C.J. liner Tileboet will be of my future reception at Ella's.
hand. undocked from Taikoo this after-Felt rather reckless, perhaps the
Willesden magistrate: Wero noon, and will be berthed at buoy gins, and did joke with her about 4.31.
women. Did actually see a wo you drunk?-Man: I WAS 08 man remain silent for half an right as rain, sir.
Shoreditch landlady: She acid when all Europe was more The weather forecast ap tour, though suffering was very
plain to see.
to me, "You are a dream." Of less
Ella is a modern, with a habit course there is nothing in what in political fluxnoon to-morrow, as issued by the
might Royal Observatory, is: South of taking you by surprise and life she said, "but you should have from out of which
west winds, fresh, squally; gen-seriously at
one and the same heard her say it. erally overcast, rain."
moment. It doesn't last for long.
Magistrates' clerk at. Menal so I live to tell the tale. One This morning's Harbour Office re- of those unaccountable silences, Bridge: Can I describe you as a "retired gentleman ?"-Man: I ports gave six arrivals and nine de- which even "Pass the mustard"
am going to wear out if I can-I to break, had occurred purtures, of which two and four res-failed pectively were British, leaving 62 round the dining-table. I missed am not going to rust.
the gleam in her eye at my first don't understand police courts;. Nottinghamshire woman: I vessels in harbour, British 26,
remark, which contained a note they are a mystery to me. of surprise, and rambled gally on until I stopped to explain that
or
a
on
hour
.
You can never enjoy your garden
Lady Aberconway,
han.
have come all manner .of events, there could be no moral ex- coption to the Allies' occupation of that part of Germany's territory which abutted on their own. It was an obvious precaution. But, with the passing of the years and disentangling of the political skein, The s.s. Pres. Lincoln, Pollar with Germany a member of the Steamship Line, is expected to ar-
rive here on. Sunday from Vibecause I ducked I was not res-unless you love your gardener.-- ponsible for the "boy" forgetting League of Nations and with thetoria und Seattle, via Japan porta his dishes and holding his nose. supposed rapprochement effected at and Shanghai.
My iden) surgeon is a very hand- The vessel will when peace was restored, the Some man of diatinguished Locarno, it is not longer possible sail the following day for Manila. gleam was still plain to see, and
Ella announced that she was will-presence. Sir Berkeley Moyal- to treat Germany as a country that needs to be partially occupied by The 8.a. Pres. Grant, Americaning to try everything once, though
It is in the hunds of the house- PERRY-At Greenock, Scotland, foreign troops in order to ensure Mail Line will leave Hongkong I admit she' didn't put it that way wives of the country to make)
for Victoria and Seattle via exactly. And for half an
Lady Baxter. either her correct behaviour or her Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama at she said not a word, even a cock- Imperial Preference a real thing roach held closely for her invesWe used to say youth was knock- fulfilment of reparation obligations. 7.00 a.m. Wednesday next,
tigation failed to excite comment Germany asks, and rightly so we arriving at Seattle on August 1st.just at the moment. And being at the door, but to-day youth ing gallant, I forbear to mention rushes in without knocking. Mrs. think, to be treated differently, The most desirable thing in Europe The Hospital Comforts Com the number of times she consult- Half an at the moment is friendliness bo-mittee bags to acknowledge, withed her wrist watch.
thanks, receipt of the following hour went by.
Then the floodgates were open- tween the nations with its conse
for the Hospitals:-Parcels of quent re-birth of confidence and the Magazines from Mrs. A. H. Hamiled. In the next ten minutes I dying away of the enmities and ton, Mrs. A. R. Sutherland and heard all she would have said in
the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes.that half an hour and more. Fur-execration.
A cipher is a sort of bottle that thermore, when the lady begins. disappointments bred of the Great
to call you "Mr. Krabbe"-if Buch squirts. The following ships were ex- is your fate when formerly it The feminine of hare is rabbit." pected to be in wireless com- was "Walter" it is time you took
Mr. Justice Tomlin, in the munication with Hongkong at your leave. Gracefully.
Chancery Division, delivered his Seistan, Nyanza, Tonkin, Hai- noon to-day-President Lincoln. Along the Dotted Line.
Fair Spring is returning. No, hong, Cremer, Tilmanoek, Tjika- what I really mean to say is have spring. rang, Hanoi, Hosang, Namsang, that anyone Novara, Cheribon Maru, Deli fever in the spring, but it takes Mare, Haruna Maru, Sanjin Maru, an artist, or a traffic cop, to keep it going all the year round. For Ceylon Maru, Baron Ogilvy,
the moment, I am hinting at pre- claely nothing-that you'd notice Sergeant Stanley Pokrent, Com-but all the best writers begin pany "E", 31st Infantry, was in-with a premise and that will do stantly killed when he fell out of as well as any other.
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927,
AN AFTERMATH OF
VERSAILLES.
War.
Some time or other we have got to leave behind our distrusts, or else we shall never come upon that unified and co-operative Europe which is obviously natural, even georgraphically. We are sorry that One cannot but express disap-Britain has not decided to adopt a pointment at the statement made more liberal view of the matter in the House of Commons on Wed-than Sir Austen Chamberlain in- nesday, by Sir Austen Chamberlain, dicates,
with reference to the termination
of the occupation of the Rhineland
The New Prayer Book.
can
Foxon,
Some howlers:-
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An Equimo is a man who lives
The lungs are the organs of near the North Pole,
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considered judgment in an action which lasted fifty-nine days and is estimated to have cost £100,000.
The Graigola Merthyr Company, Ltd., sought to restrain the Swan- sea Corporation from Alling one of their reservoirs, contending. that the water would find its way into the coal workings below and would probably destroy them.
Mr. Justice Tomlin held that the a second storey window in his Now talking of dotted lines, an
company failed to prove that this He dismissed the company's barracks building at always ready-to-hand sort of sub-was likely. by Allied troops, because it displays
Manila last Friday. The acci
what dotted action and awarded the corpora- ject, we all know an attitude wholly at variance with The acceptance by the Church dent occurred at 6.4 p.m., short-lines are for even policeman tion two-thirds of the costs. the hopes that were held out at Assembly of the revised Prayer ly after the sergeant had return will be able to tell you next week. Book, marks, as a new cable hased to quarters from retreat. The Locarno and immediately after phrased it, the most critical del sergeant was dead a few seconds said guiding me gently,
But I digress, as the sergeant wards, Sir Austen stated that the sion taken by the Church of Enafter he struck the ground, ac-would a shy young groom to a question of fixing a date for thed since the Reformation. It is cording to soldiers who
likely to cause a great deal of constanding near, and who
were blushing bride, in the general evacuation was not discussed at troversy yet; and the voting was
direction of the white-lined aisle Geneva, and he proceeded to say
round the sacred square at the that the "circumstances in which
Post Office,
the Rhineland is to be evacuated were laid down in the Treaty of Versailles." Of course, all thejected to by the more conservative UNGENEROUS COOLIE. stoutish, ladies, a
world knows that, and has known is ever since the Treaty was signed, but the world has in the meantime been often led to believe that the rigorous and somewhat humiliating conditions of the Treaty in this res-
rushed
WOULD NOT SHARE HIS
SHELTER.
Anticipating heavy rains last
he intended to rest for the night.
A member of the black squad as he had called to visit a mate who had been dangerously ill, and was still emphatically "dicky"!
After the first greeting the con~ vorsation lagged. The visitor sat dumb, then suddenly, feeling the urge to say something, proceeded:
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not unanimous. There has already over to pick him up. He fell been a tense argument in the Press head foremost, and his skull was
fractured.
Anyone with an eye to spare at Home on the question of the pro- priety of the changes, the elimina-
after contesting the right of way. Weel, woel, Geordie, it's some- with a few stout, or shall we say
thing to ken you're on the road tion of certain passages being ob-
fleet of rick-to recovery.Whan I wis climbin elements of the Protestant denom-
shas, a motor-car or two, and they twa staire an' as mony kinks ination. Apart front, sectarial
gentleman with St. Vitus Dance, about the pairt, I was jist saying considerations, one can, approach-"
must have noticed that the white to masel' what a devil o' a job it' 311 entirely
lines, with road attachments, are would be to get n coffin doon!" ing the point from neutral position, observe how the
being removed, and that'a dotted trend for reform and the growth of
line of white marble, or white Policemen in the Central Divi- national and, to some extent femin-
something or other, in accord sion of Glasgow were entertained ine, indepondence, has ailected
with what we all have to do to recently by the clucking of a white even such a matter as the standard night a street coolie erected pect would be modified in the in- Prayer Book of the Church of Eng-covering over the space in which this sort of thing when it crops Leghorn, which was brought to the up is in the process of being office and has been laying from. terests of that better feeling beland. There had for several your The covering proved to be an other playful habits.
laid down. This reminds me of one to two eggs per day. The been a growing set against certain
Take our apprehension was made by an tween Germany and her war-time phrases, which in the light of effective shelter when the rain little friend the lizard, for in- observant officer on points duty In enemies so eminently desirable, Asmodern usage had become inadvia- later began to pour down so much stance. He thinks nothing of dis- Oswald Street. He noticed the a matter of fact, the military eva-able, and even archaic. Terms in so that other coolles squeezed in carding his tail if it is tweak- hen behind a spare wheel at the
common use in mediaeval times, re- under it. The coolie who made ed hard enough, but undismayed back, of a touring car cuation of the Rhineland was so tained in the Christian religious the shelter, however, did not see he continues to stick out his The motorlat could not account. often spoken about just before and books, afe, not always appropriate why he should be called upon to tongue for his own satisfaction for the bird, and expressed the during the historic Locarno discus-to-day, and some reformers would share his sleeping space and and proceeds to produce a new opinion that it might have flown sions, that Germany now asserts go even further than mere Prayer struck one of the intruders on the tail. And I am persuaded that on to the back of the car in a state
Book revision. Women of the new head with a hammer.
the discoverer of the Colony's of fright while he was coming to that when she signed the Locarno.emancipation have increasingly re Ho was charged this morning traffic problem has had his tall the city Pact she understood that evacuation sented the "obey" clause in the mar before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with a tweaked hard enough by Wynd
The hen is domiciled in the lost was part of the bargain. How far ringe service, to take only one in-saulting the injured man, and was ham Street. Now having, in the articles department, and it is stance of the modern way of fined Cs, and ordered to pay $1 as words of the poet, decided to pip stated that the policemen are bet- that is so we do not know, but we thinking, and in some cases, long compensation to the injured coolie, the papers on the post, he seemsting on the number of eggs if will do know that it is a very regret for, this werd has, by mutual agree- 'before' definite revision was called
determined thereby to hand our lay. table thing to disappoint and re-ment, been omitted from the ser-
traffic problem down to posterity. Thus do we and some gooding embitter the present-day Ger- vice. To many, however, these and
all things, if we know where to other cases of tinkering" savour many.
look for it. of the excessively meticulous,, and It is getting on for nine years all attempts to alter the wording of ago since fighting consed on the the services sanctioned by long Paris
Now Brussels usage have been criticised. western front, and ever since that there is a revised Prayer Beck, Amsterdam tima Germany, in addition to the authorised first by the Convocation Berlin payment of colossal sums by way of of Bishops and accepted now by the Copenhagen reparations under the Dawes Church Assembley by a majority. Vienna.
Actually, one fails to see that mére Helsingfors Scheme, lus had a large part of alterations of wording, which aim Lisbon
Bucharest her western territory occupied by at removing what is considered to the troops of foreign powers, ties, can cause any revolutionary You
run counter to certain susceptibili Buenos Aires
Shanghai France has insisted that such a change. There are those who will Yokohamaa New York procedure is necessary in the inter-always rather have the old phraseo-
Genera ests of "accurity," and It is a well-logy and format retained, but in the la
end it in no question of altered Stockholm known fact that M. Poincare, the faith, and nobody need be any the Oslo present Premier, has strenuously worse for accepting the reform, Prague Madrid opposed any idea of freeing the
Athens Rhineland of French troops." Evan .
Rio.. A whist drive was held at Tho. Bombay when M. "Briand was meeting Dr.
Cinema, Mount Austin Barracks, Hongkong Stregemann and Sir Austen Cham berlain at Thoiry, M. Poincare was
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