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WHENEVER WE CAN BRING A MAN
the craft, but was due to the timero HAVE A PROFER HESPECT FOR wasted before the news of the dis- HIMSELF, THAT MOMENT WE HAVE aster was passed on to Taikoo. SECURED HIM AGAINST THE COM MISSION OF ANY HEINOUS CRIME- Moreover, there is surely some Sir Andrew Halliday,
the thing seriously wrong when oficial having authority to deal H.M.S. Dartmouth left Malta on "directly and promptly in auch February 28 for Port Said and chaes" does not learn of the sink-Hunglong.
ing of the steamer, in the case
II.M.S. Foxglove is due to ar- under notice, until five hours afterrive in Hongkong early to-morrow aho has gone to the bottom.
morning from Weihaiwei.
Mr. James E. McKenna, U. 8.
Consul to Canton, arrived here by the President Taft this morning.
It is notified that the name of the Sarawak Timber Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.
The rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens during February only, totalled 0.70-inch. There were 21 days when no rain fell.
Passing on to the matter of re- scue facilities, it was fully estab Bished at the inquest that the polico launches are not suitable for work of this character in heavy monsoon,wanther. So much is tacitly admitted by the Government, which adds that it is not consider ed expedient to altor their design to that of deep-sea craft. There remains the rescue-tug Kausing. It would be possible, we are told, to keep this craft continuously
Dr W. V. M. Koch has been under steam at--half-an-hour's
appointed a member of the notfee, but this would incur an ex-Sanitary Board for a further term pense of approximately $30,000 an- of three years, with effect from nually, and as a repetition of the 1st March.. lisin Wah disaster is improbable, it is not considered that this extra recurrent expenditure would be be justified. It may, of course, quite unlikely that we shall gain experience a disaster possessing the fontures which marked the grounding of the Hsin. Wah, on a clear night on an island on which 1st. Order light was burning brightly, but no-one knows when
CHINESE LETTERS:
An Apostle of the New School
"It is most deplorable that those But I assure you that I was not old Mandarin literati are now ex-missing any of the novelist's tinct," said Mr. Ricks, who had words, Ho WDB speaking of Ilved in China twenty years ago. Jonathan Swift; and "that la an- "In those old days that country other key to the satire of the mad. was surely romantic1"
Mr. Lusfi la a keen and jocular re- "But," I protested, as we sat at former. I was questioning him anso in the hotel lounge, "those lit on the anti-foreign agitation that crati, still exist, they are not old was then prevalent in Peking, when Mandarins; but the new style is he mentioned Swift, and he went even more interesting."
on with sparkling satire:
"Why, I thought they were all This growling-at-the-foreignor soldiers. out there! Did you know business is due to the fact that and talk with one of these, er, now Chinn is wenic. China needs to school writers 7"
forget her troubles, and stand up And then I told Mr. Ricks about on her own feet. If she accepta my first visit and subsequent the foreigner as a friendly, equal friendship with China's
most and goes on busy with her own eminent storywriter, Lusin. normal activities, he will máko no
trouble.
One June, afternoon. two of my "And so it is with this illogical university studenta escorted me in groaning against research and in- splashing rickshas through a sum-vention that some Chinese are is net mer shower across the whole of championing. Invention Poking, from the farthermoat the foe of the Orient, but rather south-chat corner to the far west her helper. Horo is a box of wall. At last we drew up before matches which brings fire-making a modest grey gate, and wore led within the reach of every man, into a simply furnished library, It is a handy tool with which to piled high with seta of Chinese light a dreplace on a wintry night, and Japanese books in their cloth but with this same match a man wrappings. A short, sturdy, grey-might light a bomb. The dip- robed scholar was immediately coveries of the West, properly His Excellency the Governor has ushered in by the gateman. Mr. adapted to the needs of Chino,
Lusin moved softly over the mat will bring new strength." appointed Company Sergeant- Major Alec Hutton-Potts, to being floor and took my hand with Second Lieutenant in the Hong- by his unique appearance and his Mr. Lusin where he has been as a firm quictness. I was delighted
The gist of these remarks puts kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
hearty welcome. My attention was a writer for the past fifteen riveted on his face; his plercing years in the vanguard of eyes and firm mouth under a head form. He has been a central of heavy black hair, and his horn figure in the new movement, in glasses, gave him an air of odd dia-Chinese literature.
His connox- Linction.
I listened courteously, and said sive journal, Le Jeunesse, proves lon with that famous progres- nothing, but I thought "How Rus him to be a friend of the vernaves sian you are!" He pointed to a
Passengers arriving in Hongkong from the North on the Macedonin, include Mr. A. J. Wallace Dr. L. Johnson, Mr. W. J. Keawick, Mrs. H. L. Fletcher, Mra Martin Little, Mr., A. Ashwood and Mr. M. T. Johnson. . ས་
Products Distributora
Foreign der Nicol, late of Taikoo, and the shores of the Colony. The Forprodist, Limited will, unless of Mrs. A. M, Nicol, 11, Sen-query thus arises ns to what help, cause is shown to the contrary, be bank Road, Nairn, and Harold if any, Hongkong will be able to strack off the register and the George H, M. A. Honoura,
company will be dissolved. B.Sc., only son of Mr. and Mrs. afford. The answer appears to be: J. S. Hill of Battlefield, Glás--"None whatever." The police
The Gazette contains revised launches are ruled out, and it is scales of charges in respect of 400 expensive to keep the Kau Sing medical treatment at the Govern- under steam. Hut surely theent hospitals. The only varia tion is that the charge for special matler is not to be left there. In-nurses is Increased from $7 to $11 deed, this Colony has a
respon-per day,
gow.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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He took his stand in 1917 under
angw,
to over-
another ship, under other condi- It is notified that, at the ex-group of books on his desk ex-ar movement, realism in litera- Elizabeth Howat Nicol, (Bet-tions, may come to grief close topiration of three months, the plaining that he and his disciples/ture, the critical attitude toward had been perfecting a translation Chinese culture, the introduction of certain Slavic classics, I had of Western thought, social do- by some coincidence already dis-mocracy and reform in all its covered one key to my host's phases. character. Fingering the books, I asked, "What Western literature the banner of the literary revol lins most influenced you, Mr. Lu?" tion, which announced these three (Lusin is a nom de plume, the fundamentals: First man's name is Chou Shu jen, but throw the ornato, flattering, noble literature, and frame the simple, his friends call him Mr. Lu.)
Promptly he answered, "The lyrical, people's literature; sec- Russian. My favourite author is ond, to overthrow the antiquated, Chekhov. Among my favourites extravagant, classical literature I should name Gogol, Turgenev, and frame
truthful, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Andreev, realistic- literature; third, to Gorky, Nietzsche, Schiller and overthrow the complex, dificult has, perhaps, been the most ade- and frame the simple, ordinary Maupassant. Russian literature and scenery-infested literaturo quately translated into Chinese, and social literature. and the most fully appreciated of the West. There is much cultural commonplace; he is any of the national literatures of Lusin's subject material is the a champion Mr.similarity between China and of the common man. He revolts
Russia, and, as it may have against the complacency of the. curred to you, the present political upper classes, against the form- unrest in China is quite similar talism of their literature: and the period of darkness under which ethica. Democratie by nature, he the great Russians wrote. The has become a champion of the broad humanitarianism of the down trodden peasant and a gym- Russian nuvel and the probing pathetic interpreter of his meager search for realism make for
SATURDAY MARCH 2. 1929
THE HSIN WAH DISASTER.
The health bulletin of Eastern
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sibility in seeing that it is not. It Several representatives of the has been suggested to us that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey Kau Sing might be re-engined as arrived in Hongkong on business a motor craft. The expense would by the President Taft this mor- admittedly be large, but we are as-Clark, with wife and daughter, Mr. ning. They included Mr. F. N. sured that the old engines would II. Justice and wife, and most likely felch a good price and Charles E. Manear, HO offset sonic of the outlay. Whether this en is feasible or not
Two lots of Crown, land are to he sold by nuction at the P.W.D. is for the experts to say. At any tires on the 18th instant. These We are far from being impress-rate, the expense, once incurred, are New Kowloon Inland Lot 1211 ed with the Government alatement would not recur, and there would urea about 8,960 square feet, up- in regard to the action which it be the added advantage that theind Lot 2180 (about 11,135 square and the New Ching."
set price $13.410) and Kowloon In-sympathy between Russian fiction and circumscribed condition. His. story, "The New Year," is 鼗 intenda taking on the recommenda- tug could be got under way at al feet, upset price $28,270). tions made to the jury in the lisin most a moment's notice, both for
It had never occurred to me up typical example of his subject to this point that the reading of matter. It is full of vivid des- Wah disaster inquest. Only in re-general as well as for typhoon re-
a particular kind of literature could criptions of the household cere- gard to improving the system of seus work. Falling that, special ports for the week ended Satur- bring about such a marked change monies which accompany the communications is there any pro- provision of some other kind must day last, issued by the Director of in the appearance of a man. Here chief festivity of the year; and in Medieal and Sanitary Services, was Mr. Lu, who by the incessant the course of his description of ise of reform. The equally im- be made, for we surely cannot re- contains the following enses, the reading of Russian books had be simple country living he develops portant matter of making some feet with composure on the pos-figures in parenthesis indicating come quite like the men of Moscow a strong woman character, Slater deaths: Plague, Rangoon (1) in his manner, as well as in his Shiang, a socful outcast, who is adequate provision for the render-sibility of another disaster occur Singapore 1(1), Bangkok 1 (1) bair and spectacles. (I do not forced to live ne n beggar. Harley warm-hearted as Charlos ing of assistance, to vessels in dis-ring under circumstances which Saigon 1, Baghdad 1;
Cholera, know what sort of transformat-as tress is left where it now fa; in make it impossible for Hongkong
tions to expect in my friends who Dickens, his sympathy. is more (31), Negapatam (1), other words, nothing whatever is
Rangoon (1), Tuticorin 1 (2), so persistently read mystery yarns. like that of Dostoevsky, but he has. to render any effective nid. to be done. Something is gifned
Pondicherry (7), Bangkok 19 (7), Is it probable that they may the spirit of work and courage Pom Penh 22 (20); Small-pox, acquire the mannerisms of sleuths that is born of social vision. For
(Continued on Page 9.) by the announcement that the pre-
Calcutta 9 (7), Karachi 24 (4), and plain-clothes men?) went system of communications is
Madras 47 (9), Negapatam 2 (1), Rangoon 6 (1), · Tulicorin (1), undergoing examination with a
Balikpapan 1, Belawan Deli (2), Vinagapatam 4. Pondicherry (1), Samarinda 17.(8), Haiphong 3, (3), Pnom Penh 16 (8), Saigon 1, Shanghai (9), Canton, 25 (1), Macno (24), Dairen 1, Baghdad 2 (1).
Calcutta
Kowloon Development. It would be an excellent, thirig view to the more rapid and ac-for the general well-being of the curate transmission of messages, Colony if there could be any sort and it is also satisfactory to note of guarantee that our administra that news
received of disusterative oficials renline, with Mr. E. will in future be broadcast. Cock, the wisdom of taking, stock These assurances, and particularly of future possibilities, no matter the former, amount to an acknow-how remote, they may scem. station was, in fact, the point of ledgment of the fact, well estab-Addressing the members of the his commenta; at least, its inter- Kowloon Residents' Association, ference with the logical develop- lished at the Inquest, that the pre-his final speech before retiring ment of Kowloon. We need go no sent system is much too cumber- from the Presidency, Mr. Cock further along the line of Mr. again referred to the much dis- Cock's argument, except to men- ilon the facts brought out,' that cussed problem of the Star Ferry the railway, occupying half the approach at Kowloon Point, light-most desirable
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COMMON ERROD /
IN BRIDGE
AND HOW
TO
CORRECT THEM
by ww.wentworth
A SUIT BY TILUMPING BEFORE BEENTRY IS REMOVED
North (Dummy).
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10 3 6
12. FAILURE. TO ESTABLISH ↑ The Correct Method: Eleven:
tricks may be made. Declarer captures the first trick with Ace of clubs. The best opportunity to frame is to attempt to establish the heart suit immediately. Declarer accordingly plays 7 of hearts and fineases Queen of hearts followed by playing the Ace of hearts, then leading a small heart and roffing ft. In closed hund. Thereafter oppon- ent's trumpa ara exhausted and De- clarer re-enter the Dummy by playing to the Ace of diamonds.. After that the remaining amall hearts win tricks. Of course, a freak distribution of the cards may upset this plan and the outstanding-- hearts may not be distributed three and three but when the combined Declarer plays the
the
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West- Leads 4 3
On the question of the necessity of one specific official being respon
land on the sible for dealing directly and
ly criticising the Government's peníngula, has over 1,500,000 attitude by the simple process of square feet lying idle, scarcely- promptly with altuations arising drawing attention to the obvious, used plers three, times an out of shipping casualties, the Gov-though these factors are apparent time must come
tensive as the public piers. The ernment states that the Harbourly not to be taken into account, of affairs will have to be
when this state Master has full authority so to act, For purpose of an analogy in medied. Indeed, we believe there and adds that on this occasion contrast he compared the con-are plans in existence for the re- the terminal "prompt action was taken, in thatditions prevailing to-day with construction" of
as the message was re- those of thirty years ago, and in-faellities at Kowloon, involving vited the exercise of the imagina-point beyond Holt's Wharf. If the removal of the station to i
sig soon
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The Bidding: South opens with
ceived stating that the Hain Wan tion. In anticipating the difference is is, the case, and we have good one spade. West bids two clubs hands. In this manner, was aground, arrangements were between the present conditionsRuthority for so stating, be- North" bids two spades and all law of averagé probabilities what. immediately made to send out the and those of thirty years hence, comes more astonishing that the pass.
usually happens-works in his tug Talkoo to the ship's assistance." There is reason to accept the Government declines to take Into Deciding the Playing: West favour. A sult may often be ez- The Government conception of opinion frequently expressed that consideration this prospect in leads King of Clubs. How should (ablished by ruffling on the third "prompt action," however, is not Government oflotals are notorious dealing with the present-day Declarer plan to piny to make round and the experiment is usually worth while, especially If It is the only way of making game. Care. curs, insemiuch as it was disclosedly lacking in imagination, and, it problem of improving the Star game?
Ferry approach. The last approv-: The Error: Declarer, after cap must be exercised to accomplish at the inqueat that although the Was perhaps to supply this ad plan calls for the cutting turing the first trick with Ace of this coup hofors opponents remove possible deficiency that Mr. Cock away of a considerable portion of clubs, drawe trumps, playing Aca of Hein Wah struck the rocks at went on to paint a word' picture the hill above, which the Water apadon, King of spades and Queenthe necessary re-entry card: :⠀ 3.40 am., the tug did not appear of the rapid advance of aviation, Police Station atands when there of spades in succession and all op The Principle: When you hold on the scene until 6.45, whilst the demanding flying facilities in easy working to be had on the ponents" trumps are exhausted. one re-entry in Dummy and an es south sido. And, of course, the Declarer now plays in succession tablishable sult, strive to establish Harbour Master did not know that Kowloon and the steady relegation last approved" plan cannot be Queen of hearts, Ace of hoarte and the suit before the re-entry is re- the vessel had eunk until he reach-of railways in their importance in proceeded with yet because it la Ace of diamonds and makes his moved if there is a reasonable pro-
contract but not game.
bability of making game thereby... ed his office at 9.30 am. We would the transport field. The railway too costly!
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