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THE ELECTION.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.
China's Political Crisis.
DAY BY DAY.
THE PUBLIC IS NEVER 80, HAPPY AS WHEN IT IS BEING SENTIMENTAL... R. S. Hichens.
Paymr. Commr. A. C. Colles has been appointed to H.M.S. Bec..
Mr. J. S. MacLaren is appointed Assistant District Offcor, in the Northern and Southern Districts of the Now Territories.
Tanders are being invited for the widening of forestry tracks A signal stop has been taken by etc., between Wanchal Gap and Marshal Chiang Kai-shok, prosum-Mount Parker Road. ably in his capacity as President of tho State Council, in the issue of an ultimatum anent the Human of fair. It calls for the punishment of the Hunan generals responsible for the ousting of Lu Ti-ping, and the subsequent encroachment of the
Mr. A. Morley, of the Hongkong Hunan forces beyond their ter- Telegraph, was amongst the passen ritorial bounds, and the acceptance gers who left on Home leave by the of General Ho Chion as chairmans.s. Hakozaki Maru to-day. of the Hunan Provincial Council.
correct one.
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Tenders are being invited for the preparation of site and the construction of an extension of sik additional pens to the Sai Wan Ho pig Lairage together with any other contingent work.
LITERARY COMPOSITION.
The Art of Getting Under
*
WAY.
to over-state the facts, there can bo little reason to dismiss the conclu- elons as absurd. The struggle be-- tween the three parties in the com- ing election will be a keen ono, and although it would be hard to fore- cast the likely result, there are in-
About the general theory of partment. And in some ways this dications that the Conservatives will find their strength much
The Government Invites ten-literary composition I have road, was true. diminished, with Labour having a dera for the construction of two perhaps, rather more than enough.
There are certain processes In Class mooring For years and years I have studied
the learned lucubrations on this every art that do not grow.enaler · bigger following than ever before. roveralbio "A"
buoys,
topic which are written, or rather but, on the contrary, grow steadily We may regret the possibilities, but there is nothing to be gained by Captain H. F. Bloxham is to complied, in such surprising num- harder as the years pass and the bers by carnest young men just artist masters the elements of his. Ignoring the trend of recent politi- act as Superintendent of Prisons out of college, always hoping that wechnic; and in the art of literary during the absence on leave of Mr. I might get some light from them composition I take this matter of cal developments,
J. W. Franks.'
upon the mystery of writing. beginnings to be one of thean..
Althou-h I no longer find it nécoë- If I have not profited much by! these studies the fault must be sary to assist my pen by clenching my own, for the young men of my tongue between my teeth) the whom I speak have been very difficulty of getting under way in Earnest, very learned, and a few writing anything in at least as great of them have even shown some today as it was when I falterod bo- signs of being educated. If only tween "and" and "The other they knew how to write them-parts of an essay give me nothing selves, nothing more could be put pleasure: 1 am not so bad at naked of them but in that case, middios; and even at endings al- of course, they would scarcely be though I always write them reluc compiling text-books. Whether ftantly and postpone thom as long as have profited or not, I am grateful possible--I have some skill,
For these reason I have often for their efforts to teach me how thought that 1 should like to enter to write, and never do I split an infinitive or dangle a participle into partnership with someone, who can de openings, arranging with In all tho circumstances, the de- Commander (E) T. E. Dooksey without a Beeting thought of them him that ho should write the first claration is noteworthy chiefly for has been appointed to H.M.S. The most serious objection. I have its clear recitation of the facts Tamar and Commander (E) J. B: to make to the many books about hundred words of every letter essay, drama, novel, or eple, and writing that I have read is this: that i should go on from there. loading up to the present imbroglio, and for the fairly restrained Sidgwick to H.M.S. Borwick,
that they have not faced the car I am rather good at going on. language used. Marshal Chiang
Llout.. (E) P. C. Deveriell has dinal fact that in every plece of What I should like is to find some- gives as his opinion that the dignity and prestige of the Central Govern- been appointed to 11.M.S. Peters-literary composition whatsoever ment would be threatened by a meek feld, and Surgn. Commr. R. K. the first hundred words are the one who is good at getting under I am confident that there must be acceptance of the situation in Shaw, M.B., M.C., to H.M.S. Ber-hardent, Hunan as it stands, and ho also wick.
So, at any rate, they have always such people, and indeed a good shown clearly that it is so much
His Excellency the Governor has been to me, Thinking back over many of them-people who love to begin things and hate to finish nonsense to look upon the Changsha coup as a purely local incident. It appointed Mr. W. R. Scott, Aa- what I like to call "my literary them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is indeed becoming increasingly ob- alatant Superintendent of Police, career," I cannot remember the was such a person, as even a cur Ivious that the issue is one between to be one of his Honorary Aldea-time when I have not found it for sory examination of his writings easier to write a thousand words will show, and so was Thomas In the body of a composition than Lovell Beddoes and Maurice de the "provincial autonomista" and de-Camp. those who demand central control of
Mr. Walter Kent, Assistant the first hundred or even the frat Guerin. A friend of mine once the entire country. It is equally
the Superintendent of Police, la to be ton. It was so when I first began showed me a whole notebook full of certain. that insofar 0.8
of the Kuomintang. Adjutant of the Police Reserve, to blacken paper in my school poems that read like this: dictums
"The Unicorn strods down the Nationalist during the absence on leave of days, when the sight of a blank Farty and the
sheet of foolscap sat down before hill, Government are concerned, Mar Mr. D. L. King.
ma had much the same effect as His glorious eyes aglow...” wha Chiang Kai-shek's
A splendid opening that, as any- His Excell cy the Governor an audience of a thousand expect- titude towards the situation is the
What is not so cer- has been pleased to appointed Mr. ant faces was to have in later one can see, but standing in need In those my earlier of someone with a talent for going tain is that the provincial leaders C. L C. Sandes to be a Member of years. have ever accepted those dictums the Board of Education during the attempts at writing, indeed, it was on, like mine, My friend has thou- ten words before which my pen that, and I fancy there must bo Now that the date of the General in the spirit, and further, that the absence from the Colony of Mr. not the first hundred or the first sands of euch initial fragments, as
halted and balked, but the Orst thousands of persons such as he Election has been definitely fixed, Nanking leaders can be justified in H. B. L Dowbiggin.
If I could only make satisfactory one. we may expect to be regaled during resorting to armed force in persuad- ing their acceptance. Marshal the next few weeks with plenty of Chiang is Inevitably right in atat
Should I begin with the word "I" arrangements with one of these I political pabulum. Mr. Baldwin, ing that the people of China are
which still seems to me the best of should soon forget what is meant all openinge, or with "and," upon by the phrase "literary toil." Writ In his latest utterance, asserts that heartily tired of internal strife,
which even today I pitch as a soc-ing in itself 1 rather enjoy, but be and that bitter feeling will develop
ond choice? So much seemed to de-ginning to write is another thing he is confident of the result, but in the event of armed conflict be
pend upon the choice between these that, sudden transition which The King's Exequatur empower-two short vocables, just as a good seems more and more Impossible there is something lacking in con- tween opposition lenders of the fidence when, in another speech Kuomintang. In view of these
faets it is more than ever incum-ing Comm. Alfredo Baistrocohi todeal depends upon whether one takes the longer one thinks of it. Well- earlier in the day, he spoke of the bent upon Nanking to explore every act as Consul-General for Italy at the train going north ar the one going in itself is almost as easy and possibility of one of the other avenue towards a peaceful settle Hongkong has received the signa-ing south at the beginning of a rall-natural as swimming, but begin- of. into waters Parties coming into power. Dur-ment before considering war, or tures of the Counsellors of State road journey. Everything else inning to write is like diving of the
issuing threats. The difcultica on behalf of His Majesty the King. my composition, I felt would follow springboard
naturally and inevitably upon the autumnal chin."
While waiting for this col- ing the week, there have been five are admittedly almost overwhelm-
His Excellency the Governor has decision I made between these two bye-elections, the results of which ing, but we feel sure that the trou-
ble can yet be overcome by con-appointed Captain E. B, Deakin, opening words. Well, that decision laborator to turn up I shall have, are distinctly intereating. Two
ciliation, and by placing less stress D.S.O., M.C., Army Educational was frequently too difficult, because as in the past, nothing but theory. were retained by the Conservatives on the dignity of the Central Gov- Corps, to be a Member of the it seemed too momentous, for a lad to guide me in this important mat-
Chiang Marshal
in- Board of Education for a period of six who had just learned to con-ter. The erudite young gentlemen on a minority vote, two were lostermeny has placed himself in an of two years, vico Captain Jamés duct or pen through the intricacies to whom I have already referred. Army
Educational of the alphabet his clumsy hand inform me that the essay, for ex to the Liberals and Labour gained awkward position by his detention Charnock,
assisted by a tongue clenched firm- ample, has only four recognized and ly between the teeth."
reputable openings, and they de- the other. In the five contests, or close surveillance (whichever it Corps.
scribe the several advantages and far Tho offices of the Supreme Court the Conservative vple declined by may be) of Marshal Li Chai-sum,
whose politicial Influence is
Omitting many later experiences disadvantages of these like ex- over 25,000, and the Liberals greater than is commonly sup will be open daily from 10 a.m. lo
almost cer-1 p.m, during the Easter Vacation, of the same sort, I come down, in perts dilating upon the gambits in. gained some 9,000 votes, whilst posed. There is
"There is first of all, they say, tain to, bo n reaction which except on public and general recollection, to those midnights of chess. Labour, increased their following will not favour the Nationa- holidays, when the offices will be long ago when I used to enter my by about 5,000 votes.
list President. The impression will entirely closed. The Enstor Vaca- newspaper office, with a tangled the apothegmatic opening, which be created that no leader who does tion begins on the 29th March.alory to write, just half an hour consists of a single striking, strong, before going to press. As I remom and memorable sentence, such as In spite of recent portents, the not nec eye to eye with the Gov and terminates on the. 4th. Aprilber those times, the longer, the "No one can drive a car wall who "story"! had in hand the shorter has not learned to play the piano,“ Conservatives have been auggesting ernment in all respects has any au (both days inclusive.) that they represent a majority ofsurance of the safety of his per
Among the passengers sailing the time I had for writing it. Next there is the experimental san, even if he presents himself at the nation. What does Mr. J. L. the capital for the purpose of as- for home on the President Jefferson Facts and details which I had taken opening, as for example: "I have gather had to be pieced together invariably run away." Then, third- Garvin, of the Observer, say to this? slating towards an amicable solu- on Tuesday are Mr. and Mrs. D. all day and half the night to observed that cats with green eyes To use his own words, he says "the tion. Marshal Chiang would be Timmins and their daughter in us perfect a pattern as might be, ly, you may begin with narrative: well-advised to take steps to re- After some ten years in the Far with no suggestion of haste, but, As I was taking my walk the other East, Mr. Timmins is taking up most important of all, they had to day I met a man in a brown over- auggestion is the crudest fudge, and trieve this error.
a position on the management of his be introduced by a single compact coat who took me by the arm and-" everyone either knows this definitely
firm, Messrs. E. S. and A. Robin- paragraph, called the "lead," which Finally, there is the method of open- or feels it." The plain dominant
son, Ltd., Bristol, Mr. H. Hutchen, compressed the whole matter into ing by means of a quotation." who succeeds Mr. Timmins in the one hundred words or less. Then truth which emerges from the bye
Enst, is now staying at the Penin- and there it was that I learned, once But these are all, positively all. election of the past twelve months,
sula Hotel.
and for all, that the first hundred the possible ways of beginning an he asserts, la that the Socialists
words are the hardest. It used to osaay, according to the testimony It is notified that the stipula-be said in that office that a reporter of these highly authoritative young are becoming, and, perhapa already
tions of, the Anglo-Spanish Treaty who had written a good "lead" men. The paucity of the methods have become, the strongest single
of Commerce and Navigation of might feel content to turn over the of opening with which they are party in the nation. Both the other
It is notified in the Gazette the 81st of October, 1922, as re-writing of the rest of his story to acquainted may be one explanation vised by the Convention of the 5th the officeboy, or to the business de- parties, he says, are retrograding |
that Table E in the Schedule to of April, 1927, have been made by comparison. From the
the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, applicable to the Colony of Hong- source, there is trenchant criticism 1899, has been further amended kong from the 1st of December, of the Conservative tactics, especini. by the insertion after Regulation 1928. A copy of the Treaty and ly in dwelling almost exclusively 23 of the following regulation: the Convention may be seen on ap- 23A (1) In the case of any plication at the Colonial Secre- upon the past, whether by vessel which is employed for the tary's Office. reciting the Government's achieve purpose of a ferry as defined in ments or the delinquencies of the the Ferries Ordinance, 1917, the Harbour Master may at blo Opposition. Britain, says Mr. discretion upon payment of a fes Garvin, la concerned about the fu- of $30 grant to the master of a ture, and nothing else, and when vessel so employed a monthly
clearance subject to the follow- Paris Mr. Churchill and his colleagues ing previsions (a) every monthly Brusselo talk about the ancient history of clearance shall be deemed to con- Amsterdam the General Strike, they waste their tain a condition-breach of which Berlin
shall render the, monthly clear-Copenhagen breath
ance liable to immediate cancella Vienna platitudinous wire-pullers. The tion-that particulars of all trips Helsingfors Labourities, says this commentator, and of all passengers and cargo Lisbon
Buenos Aires have shrewdly managed their af- by the vessel during the week then last pest shall be rendered
Shanghai.. fairs in the past two years, having weekly to the Harbour Master: Yokohama learned a great deal since the Gen- and (b). deposit of $100-which | New York eral Strike. So far from Con may be forfelted in case of breach Genova
of the foregoing condition-shall Milan servatism having profited from that be made with the Harbour Master Stockholm
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