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THURSDAY, DECEMBER
materials for which there is a good SANTA CLAUS THE
WORLD OVER.
[By Leslie Reid.]
20, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
TRUST NOT HIM THẬT SEEMS A SAINT-Fuller.
Chinese.
The Very Idea!
The Rev. Theodore. Philips, president of the Royal Astro- nomical Society, speaking at the Royal Institute of Great Britain, described Mars as the planet of romance, "because," ho Bald.
AB-
demand in Europe, and recently- Issued figures show that the ex- ports to Germany from this part of the world are growing to an extent
Mr. M. Manuk will speak on which is comparable with the Gor-
"Christian Mysticism" at the usual man exports of finished products.
Wherever the spirit of Christ-weekly lecture of the Theosophical The value of goods exchanged with mas prevails and the good old Society, to-day at 6 pm. China in 1927 surpassed the 1013 festival is celebrated in the good
old spirit of.friendliness and good- Thirteen further cases of small-there have been more interesting figures by 48 per cent, whilst the will, there you will find that Santa pox (twelve from Kowloon) were thing written, reported, and at- firstʼsix months of the present year Claus is the most honoured guest notified yesterday, as well as four tem d in connexion with Mars show a volume equal to the whole Ho is known and welcomed the cases of typhold. All were than with any other planet."
"But," he added, "Venus is the of the 1913 total trado to Germany. world, over. It is very strange that a boyish saint from the dark
planet which has given us Other countries are also making ages of European history should
It is understood that the...tronomers from Herschel onwards, hold bids for more trade with China, have become the patron saint of Keng Ning will resume service to the greatest disappointment, for and as Chinese friendship with Bri- children at Christmastide, and that Wuchow in the early part of next Venus is a lady who is very shy tain is now on a far better basin Levon his own particular day has week on completion of annual over and coy. Hor face is unfortunato-
haul and refit.
ly very heavily velled, so ‘that, impossible for us to view the much as we would like to, - it is beauty of her features. Never- theless, we know quite a lot about har, and she might well be doa- cribed as the earth's twin sister." The s.8. Cassum, ex H.M.S.Jupiter, depicting the tremendous Mr. Phillips showed a film of Woodlark is still at Shamshuipo, disturbances taking place. there. but negotiations are now in pro-"They seem to suggest,” he said, gress for her commencing on the "that Jupiter bas been grossly West River run. No date is given misbehaving himself.", for the maiden trip.
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Afghanistan's Troubles. It is. good to learn that the
beon pushed forward three weeks for the convenience of the littlo ones. Yet do it is. Listen to the glorious story..
The Naval Ordnance Officer an nounces that a quantity of con- demned cordite will be burnt at Stonecutters Rifle Range during to-morrow forenoon..
While visiting America, a pro- H.M.S. Stormcloud left Man-minent clergyman met a charming. king and H.M.S. Sterling left young lady, who introduced him to Wuhu on Wednesday for Shang- her mother. The mother had been hai, en route to Hongkong, H.M.S.recently married for a second time, Foxglove has arrived at Chin-and immediately after the In- wangtao from Chefoo.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. trouble in Afghanistan is much portion the flung in another place with Ave and seven, leaving
· The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DEC. 20. 1928
TRADE WITH CHINA.
than for many years past, there is every reason why special efforts should be made to win back some of
Santa Claus is a corruption of our lost markets. The barvest will St. Nicholas. And who was he? obviously be reaped by those who He was born in Asia Minor, in prepare themselves for its coming, Bishop of Myra at an early age. the fourth century, and became and if at the immediate moment the why he became the patron saint prospects are not all that we could of children is not difficult to dia- wish them to be, there in every rea- cover, for he certainly wrought valiantly on their behalf. On one son why British manufacturers Loccasion he heard that a noble should utilise the opportunity to be man proposed to put his three ready when the outlook begins to young daughters to death becauso he had no money with which to brighten. In no aphere is prepared-endow them, and was not disposed ness more necessary than in the to leave them to the tender mercy realm of commerce.
of the wicked world, St. Nicholas marched straight to his house, blow away the dark clouds that surrounded it and through an
The Harbour Office reports for open window cast a purse of gold the 24 hours' ended 9 am, this which enabled the nobleman to morning gave 13 arrivals and 14 his eldent daughter. The departures, British holding top less serious than the trend, of
purse, which went to the noble-67 vessels in port, British 31. events appeared to Indiente and man's second daughter; and on the that the alleged revolution is not third night he provided for the
A Notice to Mariners issued by a similar the Harbour Office states:Ship- only confined to a small area, but youngest daughter in
way. By this time the nobleman owners and mastera are notifed is well in control. It may pos-
was on the watch for his unknown sibly be that the affair has been benefactor, and on the third night that a new scale of survey fees minimised by Afghan officials, he acized St. Nicholas and would will be published in the Govern but reassuring news has been re- not let him go until he had disment Gazette dated December 21.
closed his identity. reived officially concerning the
At the Marine Court this morn- On another occasion St. Nicholas British Legation, which is two restored to life two boys who had ing before Commdr. J. B. Newill, miles out of Kabul, its isolation been murdered by an avarielous D.S.O., R.N., Chan Lol, master of a cargo junk, charged with moor- and openness to attack havingian-keeper and stowed in a tub of given rise to the gravest appre-brine. St. Nicholas saw the crimeing his craft in the entrance to
In a vision and, hastening to the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter In the hope that China is at last hension. An RA.F. machine, inn, accused the landlord of his causing an obstruction, was fined settling' down to an era of peace however, has established that Sir horrible deed. Then he prayed $10. and good government, foreign | Francis and Lady Humphreys are that the children should be res countries are turning their atten-safe, at the same time confirming fored to life. No sooner was his tion with renewed interest to trade the London report that the outprayer ended than the boys sprang Ket to put a chocolate bishop in out of the tub and cast themselves the stocking of the Belgian chilid. posibilities in this part of the break at the capital has been at the saint's feet in gratitude, In world. In a speech delivered to the effectively suppressed. The dis-the Bodleian Library at Oxford only saint who survived the Re turbances, an offshoot of the you may see a fine illuminated formation in Holland, and he is British Chamber of Commerce In Shinwari rebellion in the Eastern manuscript showing, St. Nicholas still immensely popular there, Shanghai recently, Dr. H. H. Hung, Province round jelatabad, are at erozies in his left hand, while his among their warm-hearted par in ecclesiastical robes, holding alike among the children and the Chinese Minister of Industry, tributed to listaste for King right hand is extended in benedic-nts. Curtausly, the festival 16 Commerce and Labour, stressed the Amanullah'a
old date, Westernising
re-tion to the boys as they rise fram till celebrated on its
December 6. Off the eve of that growing possibilities of the' China forms, and we may be sure that the tub of brine. market, and hazarded the view that the end is not yet. His tour of became the patron saint of chi-Har robes, enters and holds a court]
No wonder that St. Nicholas day Santa Claus, clad in his fami- the future participation of British Europe gave King Amanullah andren, that the eve of his feast of enquiry Into the children's be commercial and industrial houses" insight into modern values, and a day. December 6, was celebrated havlour in family life. To the great respect for European in in nearly every country in Europe; good ones he promises a present in China was bound to be enormous.stitutions. Since his return, he and that the festival, moved on-by the following morning if they He based this view on the certainty has proceeded steadily to intro-wards by three weeks, is honoured will leave their shoes on the that with the development of luce a host of far-sighted men- ench Christmas, especially among hearthstone in the parlour. The natural resources and the openingsures with the object of bringing English-speaking people. In Chinn children also leave hay, carrots,
Afghanistan out of comparative Santa Claus
and water for the team of gallant
China, with her supplies of raw sible space of time.
Great new villages carrying his present for in order that he may get over the materials and her market for motor roads have been
con- the children in two flat trays slung vast spaces of the earth in a single finished products, would offer to the structed, money has been diverted across his shoulder on a bamboo. | night,
But, you will ask, how did Santa front military to educational pur- | We in England know Santa commercial world the greatest opposes, new public buildings have Claus (as we may henceforth call Claus, whose festal day in Decem portunity imaginable.
lwen erected, and in European him) as a rosy-checked old gentle-ber 6, come to be associated with In a recent report on the autlook eyes, Amanullah has proved him- man with kind blue eyes and a Christmas, nineteen days later, as in China, Mr. H. H. Fox, the Com-self an exceedingly able adminisheard of snow. In Germany hehe Invariably is in England and
pair mercial Counsellor at the British trator. Unfortunately, the tribal has a heavy grey moustache, his America? We in England forget of St. Nicholas when the Reformation leaders, the Mullalis, have not eyes gleam behind a Legation in Peking. doubted had Amanullah's experience, and spectacles, and on his head is a occurred, but our good friends the re-flat cap. Instead of a Christmas Dutch remembered him, and when whether the time had yet come for their inherent conservatism
some of them settled in America, any considerable development of volta. It is suggested that the tree he carries round his neck a
reforms are not the cause of the bugful of presents, which he dis-in what was then New Amster- dam, and is now New York, they British,trade-a view which seems trouble, and that the newly im tributes among the children to us to under-rato the possibilities. posed passport_regulations
and they le sleeping. The gifts are took the old customs of Desember awarded with discrimination, for G with them, and gave their little He was, however, constrained to call new taxation alone were reapon-in company with Santa Claus goes children presents in the name of attention to the competition being that these merely served to apply the naughty children and carries want to receive them in the dass sible. It is more likely, however, his Knicht Klaubauf, who takes Santa Claus, as they had been
of their own childhood. But offered by other countries, and the spark of life to smouldering them off for punishment. stressed the need of British manu- fires. It remains to be seen how
appears 18.
St. Nicholas is said to be the
up of the means of communication, barbarity within the shortest pos- ten trader, and goes round the white horses which he has to use
EXCHANGE RATES.
Brussels
London, Dec. 11,
sent to the very house from which he had been stolen, to sweep the chimney, and was there recognis- ed.
#5
had a
troduction said: "You noticed my name is not the same as my dunghter's name, but please don't take me for a divorceo. Thank goodness, my first husband died.”
"If my wife would give up stout nnd cigarettes she would be a different woman,An elderly man at North London.
Witness at Kingston-on-Thames: was away
at the time I came
Mansfield Woman: I dropped nto a chair, but there
here.
'chair there!
no
"I have had 16 children and the
family income has never been more than £3 a week. To-day it is a great deal less,"-A woman at A Lambeth witness taking the Willesden, uath: The verdict I shall give the
Court.
[School eldren at Limpaficid
the Pap-Pups (Pick-up-plass: have formed an association called Pick-up-paper) to keep the Com- man tidy.].
The dear little children of
Limpsfield in Surrey, Whom all country lovers will
bless,
finve found that when motorists
feed in a hurry
They leave a most horrible mosa. Greasy paper is lavishly scat-
tered around, Emptins, fruit and 'other, are
frequently found,
And bottles when finished aré smashed on the ground With results you may easily
guess.
So the kind little Pug-Pups. Instond of just sighing And shaking their heads at the
Right, Are working like niggers and
gallantly trying
or Icas
To put matters more
right.
They are clearing the common
ench week with a will When the Piglies have drunk and have eaten their all (Though it may be a commen they're commoner still) And have motored off home for
the night,
"Yes, really,
we think i a capital "notion,"
I fancy the Piglies will say,
It teaches the young genera-
tion devotion;
Far better to work than to play. we hope that the
excellent
movement will grow
It's so jolly to think that wher
over we go
And however much mess We may make we shall know." That the Pug-Pups will clear it
Away!"
Standing outside a public-house just after ten o'clock a woman asked a man who emerged if any body had been thrown out near closing time.
*
"No" was the reply. "Ah, well! My husband has gone to the pictures after all," she said.. "The children need something
children, hence you cannot under.. new every week. You have no
Santa Claus everywhere comes was a far cry from December & to facturers doing their utmost to re- for the vigorous protests will down the chimney. For many Christmas Day, December 26, and
affert Amanullah'a ambitions.
years the English Ambassador in many a Dutch settler, not too well duce production costs to the lowest Probably not at all. The silua. Bertin used to entertain the little off in those hard pioneer days, es- possible level, if our former trade tion is such that he will have to chimney sweeps of that city on timated the weight of his purae he contemplated the two Is to be recovered. In this con-push on with his whole pro-Christmas Eve, in commemoration nexion, it is worth bearing in mind Kramme, or give it up entirely, and of the fact that the father of a festivals. Then someone
past experience would suggest former ambassador, when a lud, brain-wave. Why not combine the that Germany, in particular, is con- that he is sufficiently powerful to
was stolen as a child and put to two? This was done, and hence- was only one centrating on the China market,negotiate the present difficulties Rervice to a master sweep, who forward there
formerly there with results which are being re- and restore peace to his realm compelled him to climb the fluca. festival where flected in a marked increase in without conceding any important He was not rescued until he was were a couple..
principle.
But the single festival is a trade. Figures which have been
joyous one. A favourite poem recently issued show that the ex-
across the water tells how a "minature sleigh and a tiny rein- parts of German goods in stendly
In Austria there pravalls the deer" suddenly appeared on the on the rise, this applying especially
curious custom of young men im- night before Christmas, driven by to hardware of all kinds, machines
personating Santa Claus and go- St. Nicholas, who slipped down and electro-technical products, Paris
124.05 ing from house to house to ex- the chimney into the room where textiles, leather goods, stationary, New York
4.86 9/10 amine the children in their cale- the children lay sleeping.
84.88 chism and award thom according- glass, ceramics and toys. It is re- Genova
25.18 ly. As in some parts of Germany,
awards .12.08 us we have seen,
and corded that the demand enjoyed for Amsterdam
together. The .92.66 punishments go Millan thesh goods is largely due to the Berlin
.20.86 Austrian Santa Claus gives a understanding manner in which Stockholm
..18.12 figuro of himself to good children, German manufacturers are adapt-
.18.18 but the naughty ones receive a Copenhagen Оло
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And away they all flew ilke the gives a scene on the Thames and bo mentioned that the Madrid
mouth, and a birch in his hand. It may
down of a thistle.
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Old customs die hard, it le suid, turbo-electric 8.8. Viceroy of jolce by chocolate images of SL. Bucharest a most useful function in this direc
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5.57/84 Nicholas, or the "Boy Bishop," as but they do die, and in a progres- India. tion, and that at the Spring Fair Buenos Aires
.47.11/32he is known. The patron saint of sive country like America it is not
Passengers arriving to-day en this year nearly five hundred Bombay
1/6.1/82 the little ones is represented in surprising to find Santa Claus Shanghai
....2/7 robes and mitre, and very often discarding his sleigh and reindeer the Empress of Asia included buyers from Asia were amongst Hongkong
2/0% he is shown in company with the in favour of an aeroplane. Some Sir Frederick and lady White, those who assembled to see what Yokohama
1/10.28/82 little victims of the Inn-keeper day, perhaps, wo shall find the old Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, Mr. L Germany had to offer, China pos- Silver (forward)
Silver (spot)
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and Mr. and Mrs. A. H, Potts. scsacs an abundant wealth, of raw
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-British Wireless,
He spake not a word, but went stand."
straight to his work,
"I understand, old chap; I have And filled all the stockings-an automobile."
then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger unide of
lis none,
From Mesara. Måckinnon, Mac-
And giving a nod, up the chim- kenzie and Co, we have received a
ney, he rosa;
copy of the P. and O. and British He sprang to his sleigh, to his India diary, as well ae aetrik-
team gave a whistle,
..