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The Swedish East Asiatic: Com- pany's motor ship Formosa left Hamburg on the 9th instant and is due hore, on about March 24th.
to information which it desires to possess. If so, and the Gov erament has remained silent, then
IP: WOMAN DESIRES, ́OR`IA FORCED, the fact should surely be made TO DESCEND FROM HER PEDESTAL AND public. We write without any Impw- | VIE WITH MÀN, SHE MUST BE WILL ledge of the Company's attitude ING TO 038ERVE THE RULES OF THE on the question, but it does seem EXHAUSTING CONFLICT. Desmond
Coke.. to us that if the Company is pre- pared to go into the scheme, it might do worse than draw up its own, plans, submit them to the Government, and request every facility for the starting of the His Honour the Chief Justice necessary work. Should the duas ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, thorities still plead financial 17th inst. at 10 o'clock in the stringency, the least they can do forenoon, is to put no obstacles in the way of private enterprise, either by the laying down of unreasonable terms or by, refusing to commit themselves one way or the other. Under existing arrangements, the Colony is needlessly split in two so far as the movement of marchandise, cargo, building materials, etc., is concerned, for, ad has again and again been pointed out, firms requiring motor transport on both sides of the harbour, now have to deal with
The Return of Eunice.
By Elinor Slim.
We left Kuttle in the slate whera,, She was very interested to hear all mixed up with goals and ex-that. Kuttle had been appointed sa traterritorial rights, ho seriously ngent for the big plece goods 'com- contemplated bringing Eunico back bine in Chaomoy, and promised to to China to enjoy with him exile in pay Eunice a visit as soon as she Chaumoy, The law of supply and was properly settled down again in demand in the outports also came Hongkong. Mra. Gherkin knew the in for consideration. Our talented place well, as her first husband had authoress apain wishes it to be boon stationed there in the Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., stressed that while many of the good old ton clipper days. have been awarded the contract incidents are based on fact, the when Chian was a country
living in and, for cleaning and repairing type characters of this thrilling story worth writers in all Government offices of life in the Far East are entirely pans were talpans. She had lived
imaginary.
in a mansion in a huge compound with dozens "of *servants CHAPTER II: EUNICE MEETS and six gardeners, Sho told
at 43 per machine per annum.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has appointed Mr. Walter Schofield to act as Assistant Head of the Sanitary Department, in addition to his other duties. “
eninistering the Government has His Excellency the Officer Ad- appointed Mr. R. D. Forrest to act as Chief Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and also to
A SHOCKER.
Eunice how hor husband usod to go down to tho Well, the result of it all was, that her husband came to the conclusion Racecourse every morning to watch that he would rather undertake his ponias being exercised and how everyons lived in grand style,' with the responsibility of Eunico again lots of money and practically no-
She had heard the stories about i, resolved to resume bis position as Eunice but that did not prevent her. troubles of housekeeping. So he thing to do except to enjoy life.
a properly married man.
from being friendly. She was, The firm could not see their way, naturally a broadminded woman, in the present state of China, to
than continue with the trials and
cich. side Independently. The | be a Member of the Board of Ex-pay his wife's passage out, but and in any case Eunice's little
they were willing to do something scandal was nothing to some of the towards it, and what with their stories she could tell. So long as There has been added to the contribution and a little money he people did not try to patronise her because she had come down in the list of medical practitioners the had made out of some cotton shures, world and kept a boarding house, name of Dr. William Thomas Rush, Kuttle found that in was able to she was very good company. But of the as. Empress of Asia, who send her £50. holds the Diploma of the College. of Physicians and Burgeons of Alberta.
lesser questions of the shifting of aminers. private motor-cars
across the harbour, is left in an almost equally unsatisfactory position. Mr. Beith put it mildly when he kald that the present service is antiquated and far from satis factory. At the same time, the
Major Clarke, officer command public's. thanka are undoubtedly
ing the Argyll and Sutherland due both to the Ferry and Godown Highlanders detachment of the Companies for so long maintain-British Legation Guard, has left Peking en route to Hongkong, in ing a service which, so far from advance of the unit, which is ox being a source of profit, resultspected to depart in March. in, a yearly loss. On this ground
It is notified for general in
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His first idea was to bring Eunice woo betido anyone who tried to put out via Siberia, and he began to on side with Mrs. Gherkin, They.
were very soon brought down to about passports maka enquiries and visas. But by the time he had earth. She knew most of the par- and grandparents of the found out what to do, there was indies in the Colony, and if one of civil war or something of the kind them ever tried it on with her, she going on up there and the Siberian did not scruple to remind her in s route was closed. So he sent her loud clear voice that she knew her a draft and told her to book by one of the new Bohemian Lloyd steam-grandfather when he was 'a tide- ers which were very cheap and good her mother who was a wharfinger's They sailed from Brindisi, which daughter, or something else equal is in Greece or Italy or somewhere ly unpleasant. Not that she bad
even on
walter in the outdoor Customs or
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| THE VEHICULAR FERRY | alone, the plen that the claims of formation - that the following round there, and called at all sorts anything against wharanger's the Ferry Company should be names have been removed from of extraordinary places like Ditbou daughters, of course, but she know taken into account, when a de- the list of authorized architects ti, Karachi, Bombay, Rangoon, they did not like to be reminded of When the obvious necessity of cision is definitely made, atrikes on their ceasing to practise in the Delf, Pert Swettenham, Christmas it. And she wouldn't just mention
Colony-Messrs. Arthur Edgar Island, Saigon and Kowloon. This the project is borne in mind, it is us as being quite fair and reason-Wright, Frederick Wentworth sounded like a world tour to Eunice the fact and drop the subject. She
would go on talking about it, “ dianppointing to learn from the able. The immediate necessity, Foster Turner and Arthur George and she was quite intrigued at the
Wright Ogilvie.
prospect of seeing all these roman-
If Dorset Vaughan had ever had remarks made by Mr. Belth, at however, is that the scheme should,
tic places, and looked forward to the luck to meet her, he would have yesterday's meeting of the Star without further delay, take de- A delightful concert was given being able to hold forth about them danced with joy, and acttled down Ferry Co., that very little progress finite shape. Public requirements at Canton on Thursday evening in to her friends.
the Auditorium of the YMCA,
The B.L. ateamera were one-class wrila neveral moro volumes has been made with the idea of make that essential. We thereby four members of the staff of ships and of course the passengers have provided him with enough ma- on "Chincho Screams, Sho could providing a vehicular ferry to fore suggest that the Ferry Com the Lingnam University. A latge were very mixed, but the fara was terial to write a dozen best sellers operate between the island and the any, either of itself or in con- and very appreciative audience, so cheap that Eunice was ready to exposing the awful goings on be mainland. This matter has been function with piber enterprises, present and had a most enjoyable the best lines one could never be life in the Far East.
including many foreigners, was overlook that. Besides,
hind the painted veil that kides high talked about for years now; yet press the Issue to a con-treat, all too rare in Canton. The sure of meeting only the right peo- She could have, but she wouldn't. nothing tangible has been done clusion with Lip Government. quartetto comprised Mrs. A. H. ple nowadays.
Her experiences. as a profession Knipp, violinist; Miss Gertrude
Getting to Brindisi was the difal hostess to the varied amortiment towards making the scheme a There is no reason, for further Henderson, cellist; Mrs. G. W. ficulty, especially as it had to be of wild young men and tamo mid- reality. The steady growth of temporising.
Groff, adprano and pianist; and Dr. done on less than $10. That diddle-aged women she had boarded Robert Miller, bass.
not allow for travelling first-class and lodged at the average price of by rail, and the only thing was to $120 per month (washing extra) go third and rough it, which she had taught her a great deal about did.
|human naturo, and so long as peo- ple were te to her, and did not It was a slow job too, and if it allow their bills to become more had not been for the fact that the than three months' overdue, she man at Cook's, who was rather nice played the game by them and did to her when she booked her passage, not tell tales out of school.' 34.89% had given her a French and Italian Eunice had enough, senas to 600 25,20 phrase book, she would never have that Mrs. Gherkin was a woman .12.12% got through in.time. Her mother worth making a friend of, and the 02.09 made her take a big cushion with two spent a great deal of time to- 20.37 her, which came in very useful for gether.
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108% books that she had found in the BRUNNHILDE?
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One of her school chumia named Irma, who had married Ο stockbroker and done a lot of travel- ...1/0
2/0ing on the Continent; also lent her 20.3/10 a boolc which she said was a classic .20.1/10 and which give her the key to understanding the Italian, atinos- phere. It was called "Boccaccio's Stories." That was much more in- teresting, but there was nothing
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motor transport in the Colony haa long since established the impera- tive need of such a service, and, until it is provided, Hongkong will
The tendency in some quartors to remain under the stigma of being emphasise the differences at the far behind the times,
Naval Conference and to ignore the
Paris Despite the fact that a public more numerous points of agreement New York'
is playing into the hands of the Bruancla necessity is involved, the Govern- Shearers and cannet too`strongly be Geneva
allege tenalon Amsterdam ment, for reasons best known to condemned. To itself, has never appeared to dis- merely because one of the delega Milan Lions reiterates, in all frankness, Berlin play any marked enthusiasm over its set policy is arrant nonsense. Stockholm the project. Three years ago, it If there were no difficulties to be Copenhagen
Oslo surmounted and 110 ambitions,
Vienna approached the Chamber of Com-there would be no need for a Con- Prague merce, inviting that' body's cóm-ference. Mr. Ramsay" MacDonald Helsingfors
is aiming at adjustment of vary- | Madrid ments on an estimate, of revenue g viewpoints, not at obtaining Lisbon and expenditure which had been foreign subservience to British or Athens drawn up, following which a series Anglo-American Ideas regarding Bucharest
naval affairs. It should be obvious, Rio of conferences was held to con- therefore, that the expression in Buenos Aires
Bombay sider the whole question. Noth-nelual figures of the requirements, Shangbal ing definite resulted from these powers must be preliminary to an Yokohama
apparent or real, of the other
Hongkong investigations. The next step funderstanding. There can be no Silver (spot) was the issuing of a Sessional cause for excitement before any at- Silver (forward)
tempt at pruning Ins been possible. Paper by the Government, in It is in this light that both the which, the view was expressed that French and Italian statements the proposed service would not be should be viewed. France, at the cussion of naval affairs takes, gen about tho Fascisti in it, and it did moment, appears to be entirely offerally, speaking, singularly little not seem to have much to do with ablo to earn sufficient revenue to the rails. By common consent, we account of definite strategic the country she saw from the car- justify the cost of installation. imagined, the Conference was callquirements. Italy; is mainly con riage window. As a matter of fact, ed for limitation and reduction cerned with a comparison of The matter remained in that un-of naval strengths, with which it is strength between the French and Eunice. thought it rather shocking satisfactory position, until, at the impossible to i consile a request for Italian flecta and parity is put for and wrote and told her friend so.
She said she was surprised at her. annual meeting of the Star Ferry an increase in tonnage from 682,- ward as the only acceptable criter
600 tons in 1930 to 724,479 tons in ion of limitation.
France strong recommending such a book, but this Company a year ago, it was in 1986, which would involve not only 13 contests the claim on strategie was not quite true because Irma timated that the Government, be the construction of the difference, grounds and has a good case, and before she was married and you always had been rather fast eveni but enormous replacement of ob- Tialian limitation of armaments by cause of urgent needs in other solete tonnage. It is true, as M doubling fleet strength would most know-zhat Blockbrokers are. directions, could not so its way Tardieu points out, that France did certainly be a bitter pill not only for back, as promised, us she had an Eunice did not send the book to contribute anything to the not build between 1914 and 1920, the delegations in London, but also idea that Kuttle might like to read and has since been forced to keep for Bignor Mussolini. If Signor scheme, but was, nore the less, out of date ships on active service. Grandi can be persuaded to modify it, but she found out later that this prepared favourably to consider But there is no reason for M. his attitude, French tonnage scales, was unnecessary as he had read the any proposals put forward. It Tardieu to state this fact as though we have no doubt, would come down book years before when, he was at France were a benignant observer with a rush. The Japanese claims will thus be seen that the authori-of a naval race, only just stimulated are still more interesting, from tho ties began by doubting the to an effort to catch up. The fact point of view of a good agreement. The journey by sea was very in, was that Great Britain relieved Japan has accepted the figures out teresting and there Wera feasibility of the scheme from a France of practically-all.naval resined in the Anglo-American under- quite a few Hongkong people Bunico soon. made financial glandpoint, and later pensibilities in order that the Restanding, and submila figures in on board.
concentrate her took refuge in a plea of poverty, public might
ratio as she views the situation. friends with one of the According to Mr. Beith's remarks when British naval tonnage has impossible of solution. The spag lady who seemed to know every snorgles on the land war. Equally. The problem is formidable, but not them named Mrs. Cherkin, an old yesterday, the Star Ferry Com-been approximately reduced to one lies. In the eighteen 10,000-tan body In the Colony, and who didn't pany has not yet been able to as half its pre-war standard, the vessels allotted to America, as care a rap for anybody. Bhe had French argument is not aided by an against Britain's fifteen. If known Kuille in his bachelor "days certain the views of the Govern-assertion that she alone has re- America would accept fifteen and when she had kept a boarding house ment as to the terms and condi-duced. Clearly, the French de some additional smaller cruisers in Kowloon and had liked him, so tions on which the projected ser they may be viewed, are not to be There is still a lot to However late he was, and however mands, or requirements, however all would be plain calling she said, because of his nice habits. vico would be required to operate, regarded too seriously at this stage, thankful for... A battleship holida tight he was when he came in at The point which naturally-aug-No well-informed observer believes is practically assured, and so also might, he never forgot to swlich otherwise than that they have been is a reduction in their size. Cor off the lightsand, that's a great gests itself is whether the Com expressly drawn up with, the object tainly pessimism at this moment thing to a lady who Keepe a board pany has made an effort to obtain of shocking the Italians, whose dis would be quite out of place. ing house
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In Wagner's opera, "The
Ring" one of the greatest" musical compositions of al Lime, Brunnhilde the Valkyrie, is a central figuré,
- To Wotan, king of the gods, Erda, Goddess of the Earth, had borne nine daughters the Valkyries, who rode the air on winged horses," carrying to Vahalla the bodies of warriers slain in battle. Of these nine... Brunnhilde was her father's favourite but by reason of her disobedience she was cóne demned by Wotan to fall Into a deep sleep, from which the first man to wake her should become her master. Not all Brunnhilde's pleadings could move Wotan to retract his decree, but he did consent to encircle the rock swhich wELE her resting-place with a "ring of fire, so that none 'save a brave man should ever posseSE hor,
For many years Brunnhilde- Jay in tranced sleep amid the protecting flames, until young Siegfried, fired by tales of her beauty, plered the enchanted circle" and "awakened, har. The daughter of the gods and duct in which they declare the mortal fell in love and the
their passion is one of the loyallest things in all Wagner, By the machinations of their enemien, - however, the lovers were parted, and Bleg fried", murdered, Life, now, "hdid no possibility of joy for Brunnhilde. She had," Blogs fried's body Ight upon the funeral pyre,puni perbe applied the torre mounting her horse, Gra the rode into the heart of the flames..