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EIGHTY PER CENT OF ENGLISH MEN TO-DAY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO AND INTERESTED IN THINGS WHICH THEY NEVER SEE, EXCEPT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF A NEWSPAPER- Hilaire Bellor.
THE FAMILY HAT.
In the He of Limehouse..
Wireless report to-day states that 'n special Transference Board has been appointed). With regard. to reorganization it was asserted that Important amalgamations were in course of negotiation and that others were pending, and that it would, in consequence, be
His Excellency the Governor hasparadox of poverty and pictures-knight.: unwise, for the Government to in-approved the appointment of Mr.queness, gloom and gladness, sun- terfere at this stage. The Gov-Julius Ring to act as Assistant As shine and shadow-that I dis-borne by a big girl, sometimes by covered the Family Hat, the hat a smaller girl, and once a very which literalized the common small girl was all but obliterated metaphor used so frequently by beneath its gonerous brim and.. Englishmen, when they speak of sweeping plume. It was evidently being "all under the same hat." |not an hereditary decoration to bo
ernment was definitely against any scheme for pensioning off the older miners (thus making room for the younger) because it would bb too costly, and there was not" very much that was conerete re- vented to support the Govern- ment's claim that it is making a "grent effort." Sir Alfred Mond made'n valuable contribution, ürg- ing the imperative need for
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His Excellency the Governor has appointed Chief Inspector Walter Kent to act as an Assistant Super- intendent of Police.
It was in Limehouse--that or medieval knight—a Limehouse
Sometimes the banner
Wag
For two monthis or so I threaded claimed only by the eldest in the my way, every two weeks, through family; rather was it a tribal hat the labyrinth of dock-side streets, -a kind of insignia to which any The name of Mr. A. Sommerfelt, past high, forbidding walls, above member of the family was entitled, C.A., has been added to the List of which rose still higher smoke-on vecasions.
I soon raade the additional dia- qualified auditors under the Com-stacks and masts, across low
bridges. panics Ordinances.
covery that the hat usually moved On these streets one rubbed in the direction in which I was His Excellency the Governor has shoulders with silent Lascars who going, and always in front. One pppointed Dr. W. B. A. Moore to glided rather than walked, and evening I discovered it, like a lick as Principal Civil Medical always in the shadows; Hindoos of flame, Illuminating the dark Chinese, Japanese, Malayans, and the hosts of young Limehouse January, until further notice. Scotsmen-one inight
almost gathered for mental and material
act
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BRITAIN'S COAL MINING PROBLEM.
The Gazette contains traffic reassert that every alternate ship's food. I knew then that the hat. gulations in connexion with the engineer encountered in Lime was a ceremonious manifestation, forthcoming Baces and cracker-house was a Scotsman-in fact, all reserved only for great occasions. Gring regulations for the Chinese the world walks in Limehouse. But fascinating as this all was, the children of Limehouse were more 80.
On the last occasion on which, I was to talk to the children of
the building of too great hopes upon voluntary measures and ad- vocating complusory powers to compel any recalcitrant minority of owners to come into an appróv-New Year. ed scheme. The essential incon- trovertible fact is that the old- A bankruptcy notification states
I have talked with children in Limehouse, I had prepared what time individualism in the British that a first and final dividend of France, Switzerland, Canada, and I thought was the most entrancing I was $10 per cent. has been declared in in different parts of the United talk I had ever given. coal-mining industry has collapsed the matter of the Mo Yee Sin Koon States, but nowhere are there going over the most telling parts in face of changing conditions all firm, teahouse keepers, of 42 to 46,children like the children of Lime-ns. I walked through the streets-
house. This may be heterodoxy, now familiar, but still fascinating ofer the world and that other Queen's Itead West.
but I stick to it. The rough and when I suddenly heard a great- methods have to be adopted." "The
It is proposed to lease Tsun Wan tumble existence of young Lime-deal of shouting and yelling... great coal mining strike of 1926 Marine Lot No. 3, at Pillar Island, house, whose playground is the Outside the hall hundreds of chil- will not have been in vain if it re-off Gin Drinkers' Bay. This com- drab street and the dreary wastes dren were waiting until the doors...
prises 200,000 square feet of fore-around the docks, has, withal, pro-were opened, and it was from this sults (as is now promised) in arte. The annual rental is 8160duced children full of interest, little bit of Limehouse humanity widespread realisation of that fact and the apset premium $2,000.
"Red" Reactions.
New Kowloon Inland Lot 1119, situate in Prince Edward Road, with an area of 3,380 square feet, It would appear from a message
is to be sold by auction at the Teaching Peking from Moscow P.W.D. office on the 20th instant that the Chinese colony in the The upset price is a dollar a foot." Soviet centre for propaganda are having a rather anxious time of it There is very heartening evidence at the moment. Reports say that the Chinese Charge d'Affaires, two to be gained from the latest Home Embassy, officials, 30 students and papers to hand that the great pro- 50 graduates of the Sun Yat-sen blem of the British coal-mining in- University have been arrested, dustry is being seriously assailed, presumably in retaliation for the recent execution of Russians in at least by the coal-owners and Canton. The recent happenings eronomists if not by the Govern- in Canton, together with these re- ported arrests in Moscow, serve to
Last year, there were no fewer than 679 samples analysed in the Colony under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, of which 565 were genuine. Milk headed the list with 141 samples, and of these 135 were genuine.
His Majesty the King has ap proved the appointment of the Hon.
Sud- sharpness, and native wit. As to that the noiso proceeded. enthusiasm and spontaneity of ex-denly, the hat was tossed into the pression, what a lesson they could air, amid derisive cheers, but give to the oversophisticated and above all the shouting arose an oo-self-conscious, children which angry shriek, "Give me my 'atl
"Ah-ah!" thought I to myself, too often are the product of wealthy homes and modern city an attack on special privilege and vested interests! The rising. environment and influences,
tide of democracy in Limehouse." In the heart of Limehouse some And then, like an imperialist benevolent Indies had conceived which I am not hurled myself the happy thought of entertain-into the fray demanding protec ing and feasting, once a week, as tion for the hat, at the same time children voicing, a few axioms concerning many Limehouse might be pressed into the large the rights of private ownership. hall which they had secured for The possibility of being deprived this purpose. The auditorium of the loaves and fishes if the.. was supposed to hold 800 at a rebels against the established pinch. It was a three-dimea order persisted in their endeavour Bional edifice, munifestly, yet to abrogate the right of private
ment. There has lately been a very illustrate the boomerang effects of Mr. R. A. C. North to be an Official every time I was there, in some ownership of things, and a hat in welcome disillusionment of the coal-Soviet lotting. We are not con-Member of the Executive and Le-mysterious manner it took on particular, very quickly quieted the owners with the idea that ninez-cerned here with the rights or the gislative ·Councils "during his fourth dimension, for there were
wrongs of what occurred in Can-tenure of office as Acting Secretary
on, when a number of Russians for Chinese Affairs. were put to death, but it is certain
present.
sadly ruminating on the instabill- never less. than 1,000 children turbulent leaders, but it loft me It was to this gathering I wasty of human motives-motives. invited every two weeks, and I which jam can smother, or a fish- paid for the p..vilege of watching bone choket
It was the custom to start off
faire and intensive competition will solve the troubles of their indus try and it would seem that their that these things would not have It is notified that on and after conversion to the necessity of a.
happened but for Soviet meddling the 4th January, radio-telegrams in Chinese affairs. Talking glibly will be accepted by the Radio Limehouse boys and girls eat, and more organised system is proceed of world peace and international wraph Departede by a nuli Tele enjoy themselves, with a twenty with singing, and the children I have ing rapidly. Following the exam amity, the chief diversion of Ofike Building, for transmission minutes' talk to the assembled were allowed to select the songs
and inspirational," I was caution censurship, however), ple of South Wales, the coal-Russia's leaders at the moment British North Borneo, via Justelton throng-"soinething interesting they wanted to sing (subject to a
appears to be the stirring up of at the rate of $0.10 per word.
ed. After the address, each child heard Swiss children singing at a owhers in Yorkshire, Nolts, and trouble, in other countries. It Derbyshire have been considering a was for that reason that the It is notified that, at the the ex-was given two thick slices of Pestalozzi festival, and until I Soviet representatives were kicked piration of three months, the Yee bread and jam, and a cup of went to Limehouse, I thought this But it falls short of scheme for regulating' output. out of London and the Russian Cheong Bing Copany, Ltd, the cocoa; on alternate weeks the was the sweetest thing I had Strident, brassbound, According to a Manchester Guar-envoy given his marching orders Union Printing Co. Ltd., and the menu was changed and consisted ever head. dien correspondent, "the outstandin Paris. So long as the schemes Honshing Mercantile Co., Ltd., will, of a piece of bread, and a piece the singing of the Limehouse On the whole, I think I pre-shrill cockney voices though they ing feature of the scheme is the and plots to smoothly along, the unless cause is shown to the con of fried fish, with a cup of cocoa. children.
instigators are happy, and they trary, he struck off the register and
ferred the bread-and-jam week; are, there is yet something in their regulation of output with cocr- become most indignant when they the companies will be dissolved.
it was messy, 'tis true, but not so singing that strikes right home, cion if necessary to bring prices are pulled up and told to mind their own business. Immediately
odoriferous as the fried-fish week, and holds the listener silent, A Chinese, 23 years of age, never ceased to admire the young almost spellbound. to an economic basis." The re-a revulsion of feeling manifests living at the Tai Loy boarding ladies from refined homes in the ference to reserve powers of coer itself, as in Canton, they begin to house, of 97, Connaught Road West End; who came week after
Every child sings; urging them eion occurs, indeed, in all the fore- squeal and talk sternly of ru Central, was yesterday admitted week to cut bread and spread jam, to sing is something quite un- taliation. If it is true that to the Government Civil Hospital, handle fried fish, and pour into known in the experience of those
of casts of the scheme as also does graduates of the Sun Yat-sen suffering from the effects thick stone mugs gallons of hot who know Limehouse children. the suggestion that the scheme of University in Moscow have been opium poisoning, believed to be steaming cocoa--but this will not After the singing poriod, I began
arrested, then they too will begin self-administered.
be fully appreciated unless you to talk. My opening sentences control, whatever its precise na to doubt whether, after all, the
know, and have seen (and smelt) arrested their attention--though ture, will be
In the Supreme Court yeaterday the Limehouse children.
this was never difficult, at any administered by a Russians are the friends that they.
have posed as being. In the long afternoon, the Chief Justice reserv- system of committees, under the run, before the last of the Cantoned judgment in the case in which
But let's get on to the Family time. In a few minutes one could chairmanship of independent per-happenings has been heard of, the Ching Wen Hsu, living at the Tung Hat.. I had been walking through have heard a pin drop. Then, sons, unconnected with the indus- truth may dawn on the Chinese Shan Hotel, Connaught Road West, Limehouse streets only a few suddenly, at the door, there was a invariably walked commotion, and a big girl about generally that Russia's propagan-sued the motor vessel Juilin, at pre-times-1 try. From these features, it is dists are a set of people with sent lying in Yaumati Typhoon through Limehouse; it was much eighteen years of age, and too old evident that something quite am-whord it is wise to have as little Shelter, for $5,147,50, being the too interesting to miss, by taking to be allowed in the meeting, in- bitious is contemplated, and it is a
as possible to do.
price of necessaries supplied to the the train-when I became dimly terrupted me by shouting, "Liza, vessel between the months of Jan-conscious that, while I met always where are yer? I wants my 'at!" I stopped talking. 1 knew in- highly welcome fact that the
uary and March last year.
the same types of people, bumped owners should be, giving, their
into the same smells, and passed stinctively that it was the hat, To-morrow's programme at the the same landmarks, there was and I became, Immediately in- minds to constructive planning.
Here was something Queen's Theatre is one of the something else that became terested. lighter kind. The feature attrac- | strangely familiar," and yet new manifestation purely in- London, Jan. 7.
tion is "Cheating. Cheaters," the intensely individual and unique,dividualistic, "my hat," not "our 124 clever and amusing story of two like a gash of crimson en a tennis hut" It was evident that a new claim was being advanced, a claim 34.04 bands of society crooks who each lawn. It was a hat.
After A 12.09 believe the other is honest and seek met that hat everywhere, to sole proprietorship.
to steal its jewels. "Cheating though the faces beneath it often good deal of scuffling on the part Cheaters" is supplemented by the varied.
Now it was a fact, in of 1,000 children, and herculean 1924 Intest Felix cartoon, "Rainbow's those days, that a bat on the head struggles on the part of one small 25/32
End," a new Metro comedy and an of a woman or a girl was not as girl to get the desired hat to the .25.29 interesting topical gazette.
#13 on new claimant, we settled down common in Limehouse Ludgate Hill or Piccadilly, but again, and I fumbled for the Attention is drawn to the altera after all, a ant is well, only a broken threads of my tale. But .18.24 tions in the advertisement for the hat. This partieular hat was a I had barely got under way when 181 Star Theatre. Owing to unavold-large floppy thing which ladies a second disturbance occurred; 28.20 able circumstances the opening might describe as a "Gaina-the same party, but this time with 2.27/04 dnts of the "Globe Trotters" season borough."
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In undulating waves almost tearful pleading in her
has been changed from Sunday the broad brim swept round the voice: "Lizal What yer done wiv 5.29/32
January 8th, to Tuesday. January island of the small crown. But the ferver?". desire. It must see to it that the Buenos Aires
There was a dead pause, then a 9/18 10th. The order of the revues the startling thing about that hat .47.13/16
"It's industry is really put on a satis- Bombay
1/8.1/10 remains unaltered, however: Book was its solitary decoration, which semi-weeping little voice: Shanghai
2/74 ing is at Messrs. Montrie's and was a long, bright scarlet feather gorn. I lorst It factory basis.
Alas! the fray which I had 2/0% the Star Theatre at the popular that drooped gracefully at times Hongkong The debate on the industry Silver (spot)
Yokohama
1/10.1/82 admission prices 33, $2 and $1.
-around and over the brim like a stopped in the nick of time-so
I had thought--had been prolong bird's plume. which took place in the House of Silver (forward)
Whether it was an ostriched, long enough to weaken the Commona during the first week in
time to-day besides Eddie Cantor's feather dyed red, or the pride of moorings of the "fovverthe big comedy hit, "Kid Boots," at the a bird of paradise, I never dis daring, gorgeous, scarlet feather! December brought from, the Gov-
Queen's Theatre, include Rudolph covered. In all probability the Somewhere it lay trodden under ornment apokcaman the assurance
A new regulation under the Fri- Valentino's bandit romance, "The owner had secured it from a the feet of Limehouse No more that the Ministry of Labour was sons Ordinance reads:The por Eagle," at the World Theatre, and sailor, since sailors were the pro-would a Limehouse family flaunt Ford Sterling's story of a big bluff, curers and purveyors of many a rod fenther; democracy bad making a "great effort" to transfer tion of the Government Ciri on "The Show-Off, at the Star Then strange and wonderful things in proved itself the victor, but Lime- unemployed miners to other in- is and shall be set apart for the tre. The exceptionally interesting Limehouse. On every visit to house knighthood had gone down dustries and was about to set up purposes of a prison under the topical fim, "Canton Under the Limehouse, it seemed, I would see in the dust. From henceforth Prisons Ordinance, 1899, and shall Reds, is also being screened at the that hat, with its brilliant feather Limehouse would be "all under a special committed to press on
be known as "The Prison Ward, World Theatre for the last time crashing through the drabness the same, hat.
to-day.
A. J. P. the work of transfer. (A British Government Civil Hoapital
pital now known as Ward Thirteen
like the banner of some belted earl