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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927.
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SINKS US EVEN BENEATH THOSE WE WHEN OUR HATRED IS VIOLENT, IT HATE--La Rochefoucauld."
attitude, and we would enter a plea for mutual relaxition. "Feolors" ought by now to have been extended and we hope that there exists in Shanghal the neces sary machinery to facilitate the»
nking of them. The general lay of the Peak Club, was held last The annual meeting of members opinion is that it is a great pity evening, the proceedings being of that this strike of British officers a private nature.
against a British Company is per siating at so hopeless a deadlock and both parties ought to strive their hardest to got back at the point where negotiations are pos- sible.
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THE
SON OF THE SHEIK.
Story of a Real Experience.
The son of the Sheik was really trip by way of the desert of A find.
He was, in a manager of Sakkhara and promised to procure speaking, something" "off" the an especially "good" camel. Thus tourist track. We met at the came about my acquaintance with Great Pyramid; on the Great Ezra, the dromedary, who bore me Pyramid, to be accurate. arrived by tram from Cairo, I had old Memphis and back the next Having well and faithfully to the site of rebuffed an army of camel-drivers, day, donkey-owners, "guides" and The son of the Sheik rode a other tourist impedimenta before donkay at my side, and occasional. ascending by myself the long slope ly, out there on the sands of the which leade from the tram desert, we would have a little rate. terminus to the Pyramids. I had Ezra, grumbling and growling his oven climbed a little way up the protests, would break into such a first, and had paused there on a trot as no white man could long bit of rocky ledge to gaze across endure, while the little "donkey the mysterious desert toward the would gallop bravely along far distant site of ancient Memphis, below. and the Sakkhra Peraraids which change places, and my friend the Sometimes We could stood forth so clearly in the mar-Arab would make far bettor valously limpid air.
weather of it atop Ezra than I
side.
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Kowloon Noises.
Most residents of Kowloon, or of any other part of the Colony, for that matter, will agree with the remarks made by a correspon dent who signed himself "Sleep less," and whose plaint we pub- lished yesterday. He has outlined a miscellany of noises from which
Thon, glancing downward into had, while on the donkey I would residents in Kowloon Auffor, and
the sandy roadway below, I noted find myself. far more comfortable it is to be hoped that offenders, by
a rather unusual person regarding and doubly secure. And it was st whom we mean those who con-
It is notified in the Government me intently. He waved an arm, Sakkhara that, in company with tribute to the sufferings of re. Gazette that His Majesty the King but I shook my head deeming him the son of the Sheik, I lunched sidents in their locality, will take has been pleased to approve the bat another and more than usually with several Arabs.of the desert heed.
the Indeed, we find that our appointment of
determined "guide." Then Hon. Mr.
he and upon their curious but correspondent hus omitted certain A. C. Hynes to be an Unofficial started to elimb to where I stood, palatable food, while the tourists points that he might have em- Member of the Legislative Coun- and presently there he was at my who had come by steamer and phasised, such as the pandemo- cit, vice Mr. A. O. Lung, resigned,
mótor from Cairo, their huge nium caused by thoughtless resi with effect from 4th April, 1927.ittle testily, for one grows some-borne by well-paid dragomen, re- "I want no guide," I told him a lunch backets from the big hotels dents of suburbia, of Kowloon suburbs in particular, who render The Health Bulletin of Eastern
what peevish in respect of these garded me wonderingly. life for their unfortunate, neigh Ports for last week, Issued by the
gentry in Egypt. hours almost unbearable. It is Principal Civil Medical Omeer of mitted with deep dignity. "I amed into the village of Mena near "I am not a guide, sir," he sub- And that evening, as we retura- bad enough to have yapping dogs, Health, contains the following the son of the Sheik!"
bugles, caterwauling cases: Plague, Bassein 7, Rangoon
the Pyramids, the village of which felines, mah-jong devotees among 5, Bombay 2, Port Said 1, Cholera,
my Arab friend's father was the servants, wood-chopping coolies, Madras 35, Calcutta 11, Bombay characterization has come of late a wedding feast in progress, and The son of the Sheik The Sheik, it appeared that there was and so forth, but there is an, ob-10, Haiphong 9, Basrah 5, Bang- to have a high fictional value, but that I should be warmly welcomed. vious omission in the list the kok 4, Bassein, Tourane and Salgon here at hand was the real thing. And so again I had wandered well allegedly musical, folk whose each; Small-pox, Bombay 17, Nor did the young man's ap- off the tourist truck. The affair height of ambition appears to be to Calcutta and Bandjermasein 11 drown all other. nuises.
pearance Belie in the least degree was like a setting from "Omar, Of each, Madras 6, Rangoon 4, Soura- his introduction. Indeed, as I the Tent-Maker." such are the
saxophonists, baia and Nagasaki 2 each, Aden, thought to myaclf, here is Holly-house of the Sheik a vast space the gramophone enthusiasts, or Vizagapatam, Bangkok and Saigon wood outdone. Once more there is had been covered with a gayly the piano-playing experts who It is just over four weeks age continue with their music beyond
demonstration of the superior coloured awning, and half the that the strike of officers and en-preciate good music in the heigh reasonable hours. One can ap-
novelty of fact to fiction. He was village was gathered beneath, the tall; regular of feature; suitably dark faces reflecting the fitful gineers of the Chima Navigation bourhood, Or Uvon
brown, as of the desert, and light of a hundred torches. Company broke out and, for all
possessed of a markedly dignified Divertissement of many swords, that we know to the contrary, the
bearing. And yet what did héjuggling, legerdemain, dancing, here? prospect of a Settlement is just as
singing, was going on when we We talked, for the young Arab arrived. It was like a medieval remote to-day as it was when the
was quite woll versed in several circus, and I was very distinctly atrike first commenced., During
European tongues. He told me of the only white man present. The people he had met the past week there have
from Sheik and the other headmon been some thoughtless residents are Society, ipstituted fox those who America and from Europe, and he greeted me with bows and much many ramours of negotiations and guilty, is indefensible. We fancy have done the best work for Africa showed me the cards of several touching of breast and lips and yesterday there was a very elabo-lection to appreciate "the other Ross, the Director-in-Chief of the We sat there, indeed, upon that which I tried very self-consciously that it merely requires a little re-hus been awarded to Sir. Ronald rather well-known individuale. forehead," an extended ceremony rate rumour régarding instruc-man's point of view in such mat, Ross Institute and Hospital for little rocky ledge high up on the to follow. A thick, sirupy bever- tions having been sent out toters, and to resolve to be more Tropical Diseases at Putney side of the Great Pyramid until age and sticky sweetmeats
British Wirolesa.
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927.
C. N. C. DEADLOCK.
1 each.
indifferent GOLD MEDAL FOR AID
TO AFRICA.
strains, if they are not prolonged .m. is late for such noises to beyand rational hours. Even 11 coase, in the opinion of most peo- AWARD TO MALARIA EXPERT. ple, but the constant Indulgence in nerve racking "music" up to
London, July 29. midnight, or beyond, of which
The fifth Gold Medal of African
future. Then,
Messra. Butterfield and Swire at there is the thoughtlessness of
neighbourly in Shanghai from their London office those who return home at late
LYING INSHORE.
JUNK MISTRESSES HEAVILY FINED.
Before the
wore
the sun was well down into the brought and I was led to a place West.
of appalling prominence in front And as we talked I became more of the entire company. and more puzzled. Was he entire-
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to consent to arbitration. The hours and wake up the neighbour- tale went further-it stated that hood with jollification long after
ly disinterested in me as what. It was a very unreal sort of the British
everyone else has gone to "bed. Consul-General
might be called an advantageous situation, an experience for more at There are the added noises of the Shanghai
acquaintance; or was he, indeed, to be appreciated in the retrospect was going to act as rickshas or ears arriving, tooting At the Marine Court, this morn-but seeking another means of than at the moment, this to which of motor horns, and shouts of ing before Lieut. Commdr. G. F. access to my scantily filled pocket- my friend, the son of the Sheik, chairman of the arbitration body.
farewell. The whole Enquiries at the office of the Com- obviously, is
issue, Hole, 12 junk mistresses were ful, a sort of super-guide? How had brought me." But the friend- one. of 1 little charged with lying inshore during ever, I determined to récord un-liness and courtesy of the Arabs of pany here falled to elicit any con-heed and thought against the drift dark hours at Wing Lok Street on forgettably this unusual meeting, this firmation, and the Hongkong office seredly take its toll of nerves, and guilty.
into a Bedlam which will most as- July 29.
little Egyptian backwater Defendants pleaded And so, after considerable to-do, were unmistakable, and the novelty adheres to its policy of saying health, and happiness. We are His Worship
I fixed my camera in position on of it all was complete. Occasion- informed nothing. We were told that it is living in the East, where as every accused that he was determined to the ingenious device by which one (gressed and grew in enthusiasm the another little ledge, equipped with ally, as the entertainment pro- not the intention of the Company the minimum of nerve atrain and fines of $10 with the usual alter- of himself.
doctor will tell us, we should court stop tying inshore. Inflicting is now enabled to take a picture and hilarity, there was a aur- here to make any statements; the the maximum of restfulness, after 'rative on all defendants, he stated.
prising interlude. Company has already made one exercise and relaxation of the in court that future offences would
The great awning, It seemed, public statement of its position and right kind. In Kewloon we habe dealt with even more severely about ten seconds, 1 took up a street of the village; and at in- Having timed the device for had been spread across the main a handy suburb, well-served with by the infliction of a $16 lae.. there is no need to add to that. public atilities and conveniences, From such an attitude there would and not unduly expensive. Resi appear to be little indication of dents, by their own thoughtless-
ness and carelessness, to impos- A GRUESOME CARGO. weakness, and it seems as though ing on each other wear and tear the Company has determined to that they could casily avoid. and fight the strike out. It is difficult are making bad conditions where there could be good onca. And
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POLICE RESERVE.
TWO APPOINTMENTS.
In' the Intest
REMOVAL OF ANCESTRAL REMAINS.
W.
The Derwent (Captain Brewer), arriving from Saigon: yesterday, carried 蔬 gruesome cargo in the shape of 3,017 boxes of human bones.
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position by the side of the Sheik's tervals through the very midst of son and endeavoured to assume a the audience there would pass a casual look as I gazed off across heavily laden donkey from the the great Sahara. But alas!fields or a tired "camel from the My arrangements went consider-desert. boasts and their drivare ably awry, for the photograph re-equally unconcerned with the .vealed me minus a considerable scene upon which they were in- to imagine the origin of the past they are inevitably losing frimd
proportion of my face, and that truding, both bent with fiental portlon, unfortunately, which in-singleness of purpose upon com- week's rumours if they have abso-liness as well.
cludes the nose, eyes, mouth and pletion of the task in hand. lutely no foundation in fact, but
chin!
And so, a few days later, I parted we are left to believe that they
However, I have now an excel-with genuine regret from the son lent picture of my friend the Arab, lof the Shelk, having seen with have no foundation. Such is the
whose name was Ibraham L. Said. him the necessary things on the tell-tale and Imaginative atmos-
Possibly he is a descendant of him tourist way, and a number It is understood that these are for whom the famous port is others distinctly off it. In fact, phere of this little Colony. En-
the remains of Chinese buried in named. As the days passed we through his fortunate contact I quiries at the local offices of the
Saigon, which have been disinter- became better acquainted; and I have a feeling that I have got to. Guilds have also brought out the Gazette, it is notified that H. E. building operations,
"Government red owing to the commencement of found that actually his interest know a bit of the real Egypt. fact that the officials here know the Governor has been pleased to In accordance with
in me was in very large degree And whenever I see a Hollywood- recent free from material taint; I can made sand storm in nothing of settlement hopes-at make the following appointments order of the French Government, almost any altruistic, for he saved California desert and emerging aouthern least they say so,
ander section 5 (1) of the Hong-d with the sanction of the in-me much expenditure in these therefrom the son of the Shelk negotiations they will take place 1914, Ordinance No. 27 of 1914:
kang Police Reserve Ordinance, terested descendants and relatives, this wholesale removal to a new
with the "rescued" European, I. in Shanghai which is the head- To be Honorary Commissioner burial site in China is being little cafe not far from a very Sheik whom I knew in the little That evening we supped in a shall think of the real son of the Polico quarters of the Guilds and also of
(Reserve)-Bishan
famous one in the shadow of the village in the shadow of the of the C.N.C. in the Far East.
Singh.
Pyramids, and much cheaper; and Pyramids. To be Assistant Superintendent At the moment it looks
it was then that he suggested the as of Police (Reserve) and be in though there has been no depar command of the Indian Company, ture. on either side from the nt. Hongkong Police Reserve-Sirdam
Khan.
If there are any
DOG LICENSES.
THE LAW FOR JUNKS
carried out.
EXCHANGE RATES,
ondon, July 29.
Pario Brussels
Amsterdam Borlin Copenhagen Oslo Helsingfors Lisbon
titudes originally taken up, and our only comment can be that some doparture will have to be mude at some time or another if this dispute is ever to end. That, of course, is just an obvious state- mnde at some titne or other if is to suggest that this fight of at- trition has gone on long enough and that both parties might very
According to statute, all animals. reasonably begin to concedo what- craft should be licensed, but there on junks, sampans or other harbour
Milan Stockholm ever they are going to concede has hitherto been a certain amount Vionna ultimately. So long as they both of laxity.
By a recent order of the Cap Madrid Prague gay "Wo are not going to concede taln Superintendent of Police, the Athens anything" so long will the strike law is to be strictly applied, Ris continue. Of great loss to the owners of dogs. in all harbour Bombay Company and to the men concern-lowed one month in which to take Silver (spot)
craft, junka and sampans being Hongkong ed is this present uncompromising out Hcenses.
Blivor (forward)
It is learned that the regulations Bucharest with regard to dog licenses for Buenos Aires animals kept on board junks are Shanghai now being enforced.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
TRAMWAY COMPLAINT,
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
M. T. G.
C.N.C. DISPUTE.
NO DEVELOPMENT.
Upon inquiry this morning it was learned that there are no new developments in the CN.C. dis
The solidarity among the Nothing
Sir,-As a monthly ticket holder pute.
of tho Tramway Company might officers is maintained. use a little of your space to ask if further has been heard concerning It is not possible for the Company the rumour that the dispute was to have an office somewhere in the to go to arbitration, and, ag indi central district for the issuance of ented yesterday, there appears to 18.12 tickets at the beginning of each have been little or no foundation
.34.60 month? .1684 For myself it is most inconvent for the report.. 28.47% ent for me to go to the Tramway There is a possibility that de- .870 Company's office, unless it be before velopments may take place in 6.27/829 a.m. until which hour the Tram-Shanghai over the week-end as we 1/5% way office does not open.Yours, understand that there is a likell- .2/0% etc..
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