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LADIES' NIGHT AT Y.M.C.A.
ENJOYABLE CONCERT HELD LAST NIGHT. With the "Ladies' Night" season The Portuguese cruiser Adam drawing to a close, there was an astor, described yesterday, is ex-exceptionally large gathering pre- pected to arrive in Hongkong on March 15.
Now that a growing body of radical opinion is forming against it on the one hand, and the constitu tionalists, have grown disgusted with it on the other, it lacks the Impetus of popular enthusiasm in facing the Northern armies. These, on the other hand, an doubtedly can count on a strong element of local patriotism throughout the North. The change
Owing to the small quantity, a of capital is doubtless disliked by
substance which the police thought those who so long have looked to to be oplum was insufficient for Peking; and there are consider analysis, with the result that a able psychological differences be- charge of being in possession of tween North and South which raw opium which was brought against a coolle before Mr. Whyte make the slower-going Northern-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy era glad at the prospect of being this morning was withdrawn, set free from the more volatile
On a charge of stealing a steel Southern element whose gad-fly pricks have been so sore an irri-wheel and boring shaft valued at $60, a Chinese was sentenced to tant,
six weeks' hard labour by. Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma gistracy this morning. The wheel was stated to have been stolen from the Kwong Sang Lung En- gineering Shop in Thistle Street.
Sovereignty, a T H.Green showed long ago, is based, not on force, however much it may seem that a government depends on its military and its police. It is based on the will of the people."
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1,000,000 The present Government is run-Nam Street was fined $80 by Mr.
IN USE THROUGH UT THE WORLD.
DODWELL &Co., Ltd. got into office, and the present opium. It was stated that the de-
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The
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FRIDAY MARCH 7,
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DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY.
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A coolie residing at 208, Tai' Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- ning the risk of losing that volume gistracy this morning for being in of popular support on which it possession of one tael of prepared
fendant was looking after constitution of the Kuomintang opium divan on the floor, the mas provides no pacific way of sub-ter being away at the time of the stituting a Government which com- [raid. mands the real support of the people. What kind of a polity is Admitting a charge of theft of a a raincoat pair of trousers and required to meet-China's present from 124, Canton Road, a Chinese needs? If there is to be an in- who appeared before Mr. Whyte terim "period of tutelage" what is Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning was sentenced to six to be the curriculum of instruc-weeks hard labour. The defen- walked tion during the period, and how dant was said to have are the pupils to be kept quiet? into the house and taken the ar How is the respect and authority ticles while the complainant was of the teaching staff to be main- tained?
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absent.
individual must sink himself, the State must be supreme.
It seems to us that, partly as an inheritance from Dr. Sun, partly
Very much might be said about as the result of Russian instruc- tion, the Government set up by the misunderstanding of political be doomed liberty implied in the description the Kuomintang may
The Very Idea!
When dining cars were, first- introduced on British railways the trains were not "articulatod as they are now, The dining saloons were separate, and the passengers had to enter and leave the dining. sent at the European Y.M.C.A. car at stopping stations. for this monthly occasion last night, an enjoyable time being spent by one and all.
As in all cases this season, Mr. J. H. Hunt again arranged a most excellent programme of vocal and Instrumental solos, all of the ar tistes meeting with a most appre- clative response from the audience.
Messrs. Grenham, Jacobson and True provided entertaining musi- cal interludes, whilst Mr. Jacob son obliged with violin solos. Koncmumsson THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
Many Pictures of Interest To-morrow.
To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain some especially in- teresting pictures.
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Amongst these will photographs of the officers of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who.. are shortly to be stationed in Hongkong, as well as the Pipes and Drums of the Bat- tallon on the march."
Another photograph of in- terest will be a group taken at Government House on the occasion of the visit of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and Prince Knud, whose portraits will also be given.
Of much interest also will be some photographs of Hong- kong's new Governor (Sir William Peel), as a member of the Penang Mounted Scouts.
Sporting pictures will in- clude the charity football match between. South China and the Navy last Sunday, and several of the Races at Happy Valley on Saturday.
On one occasion, an old L.MS. official says, a batch of diners should have left the car at Rugby;
but they refused to make way for others, and rather than leave they each paid for another meal.
"Did they eat it?"--asked,,ang interviewer.
"They only nibbled at it," was the reply.
In a church, at the font, as her brother, age about eight, is being christened.
Little Girl (hoarsely): Behind- his cars, too. Reverend Smythe!
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Prisoner: I was as tight as judge...
Humorous Judge: You mean as tight as a, lord 2..
Prisoner: Yes, my lord,
Children are
not quite so
pleasant as they used, to be,-Mr. Augustine Birrell,
I am not against perorations-- In their proper place.-Mr. Lloyd George.
In Hollywood the "languorous lagoon" is a 'amelly tank with a stage-hand named Ed. wading about in it in a bathing suit-Mr. P. G. Wodehouse.
The motor car is a common law nuisance legalised, by statute - Mr. Justice Wilson.
Radium never. has been and never will be a cure for cancer. Dr. C. Thurstan Holland.
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Here is a subtie Aberdonian story.
A joiner did, an odd bit of work in a house, and after he had finish- ed, the old lady of the house päld him the small sum due.
"And would you like a wee bit dram?" asked the kindly old soul..
"Ay, that wad I, ma'am," said the joiner, drawing the back of his hand across his mouth.
The old lady produced the whisky bottle. "Hoe dae ye like it?" she asked,
"Half whisky and half watter," replied the joiner, "An' pit in lots of watter."
"When I started out in life I was convinced that the world had an,
"And had it?" "Yes. I'm now in a hole."
Songs were given by Mrs. M. Portallian, Mr G. McLeod and re-opening for me." company were also delighted with citations by Mr. O. A. Smith. The two duets by Mrs, Portallian and Mr. McLeod. Miss N. McNeillie was at the piano and assisted the
ed manner. vocalists in her usual accomplish-
EXCHANGE RATES.
For the last time, prior to his departure Home, Mr. W. L. Patten- Paris York den carried out the duties of Brussels
Geneva... Chairman, and was thanked by Mr. Hunt, who spoke feelingly of Amsterdam the loss the Y.M.C.A. would sustain Milan by the departure of one who had Berlin.
sociation in this Colony.
The first Thursdav in April has Vieana been arranged as the last Ladies' Prague Night of the season.
Stockholm
The Third Session of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Kuomintang can hardly be fruit- ful of result. The shadow of war impends this year even more seri- to eventual failure. It is essen-of it by Dr. Sun, and much more, a world which has suffered Na- tially incoherent. It attempts to by ously than over the Third tional Conference which met at combine the methods of democracy from this kind of exultation of the the corresponding time last year with the system of government by State, might be urged in criticism Last year, too, the asperities of a minority. Just as Russia uses of it, but the point we are now party warfare were to some ex democratic methods of election concerned with is the element of tent modified by the approaching and representation to produce a Incoherence introduced into the funeral of the Leader and Found- dictatorship of the proletariat, the political view of the Kuomintang er. Although that ceremony only rule, that is, of a minority fac by this view. The nation is to cailed a momentary truce between tion, so the Komintang, first by be roused to claim ita equality among the nations of the earth, parties, failed to prevent eivil war its insistence a Government by a
large the State is to be free of control and could not beal the breach Party, disfranchises the caused by the packing of the as-section, probably the huge majori- outside and, as it were inside, that acmbly, yet the nation was picty of the nation, who do not ap-is from counter-revolutionaries, turesquely reminded of its recent prove the Party; and then moze But the citizen must surrender worked so assiduously for the As-Copenhagen unification under the banners of seriously fails to provide for free his personal. liberty to the State, the army which the Leader had expression of opinion within that and become part of a mass welded we have pointed for common action. In spite of blessed and the slogans of the minority. As Party which he had founded. This out before in this connexion, the the fact that, nationality being the year, the disruption of the Party fact that the Kuomintang is. a first principle, democracy (min is more marked. Wang Ching-minority party does not matter inkhien) is the second, the "people" citizens, some supra- wel, who, last year although still China to anything like the degree scems to be other than the sum in exile could be elected to the that the fact that the Bolshevists of the Central Executive, is expelled the are a minority matters in Russia, democratic power elevated on the party, Since he was at one time for the Three Principles can be shoulders of the people by the success of the Revolution, to win recognised as the man on whom sufficiently widely Interpreted to
which the people are mobilised in any shade of opinion Sun Yat-sen's mantle had fallen, embrace
the name of these catchwords. being the actual writer of the two likely to be advocated in China. Wills which the dying leader dic-But the failure to give free ex-One is reminded of the nature of the social contract as conceived by tated on his death-bed, the neces-pression to those within the Party
Hobbes. In his theory the people Hongkong magistrates reverted theis fatal. How far it is an in- sity of expelling him from counsels of Party is serious. herent defect of the Party is not once met to form a government, into the ordering of the stocks for It has been clear enough for long quite clear. Until a settled gov. order to escape the chaos of un-Chinese criminals, with a view to that Feng Yu-hsiang must be coun-ernment is secured it may well be restrainted
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for week ended March 8th, 1909.
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The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 18. 834d.
checking thefts.
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Mr. G. P. Lammert sold by auc tion No. 2, Chancery Lane, Mr. J. was the pur- chaser, on behalf of a Chinese Hennessey Seth client, the price realised being $13,200.
The T.K.K. liner Chiyo Maru arrival in Hongkong on her attracted much attention on her maiden voyage.
individuality. They
The half-yearly report of the ted out, but the final secession of difficult to secure free elections elected a King, and the “contract” Yen Hai-shan after the tremend-There is likely to be apprehen-0 made was held to be irrevoc- Hongkong Hotel Co. showed a ous efforts of the Nanking Gov-sion lest the party machine be able. There could be no rebellionprofit on worlding account of $42,- against the monarchy. Some such 461. A dividend of 6 per cent. anti-revolutionary
was recommended. ernment to retain him means a captured by great loss of prestige to the Gov- elements. But the defect is, we conception of the 'State seems to be ernment. The Government's hold suspect, rooted deep down in Dr. implicit in Dr. Sun's theory and a truer of Manchurin again is hazardous, Sun's political theory In long until it is displaced by while on the other wing stand men meditation on how to adapt the conception of political liberty, it is Hke Professor Hu Shih, who re- three democratic principles of difficult to see how the new State sent the arbitrary rule of Nan-equality, liberty and fraternity to can hold together.
These considerations give some king and demand a Constitution. the needs of his country, he, re-
From a military point of view,jecting equality except as neces-colour to the present demand that the position of the Government sary in a national sense to se. Marshal Chiang should resign, but must be considered to be less strong cure China's place in the family only in so far as in doing so he than hitherto. But Marshal of nations, and relating fraterni- would pass a criticism on the poli-
The annual Ball held under the Chiang has shown himself extre-ty to the question of economics in tical system as it is being work.
of the ordinarily able in dealing with such a way that Socialist and ed: Better, one would think, to auspices, and in Ald difficult situations in the field, Communist might each define it modify the system as soon as pos- S.P.C.A., takes place at the Penin- The political weakness of the Go in his own way rejected liberty sible by introducing a real popular sula Hotel to-night, when it lo ex- sidents will attend. Some extremo vernment is more
serious. The as an individual right altogether. element into the support of the pected that a large number of re- Nationalist Army and the Govern-Some jibe to the effect that the government. Perhaps even some ly novel fancy dress costumes evening is promised. In view of ment which it was able to put into Chinese were so "free," that is, so modification might form a basis of will be seen, and a most enjoyable power has from the beginning de- lacking in unity, that they were discussion between him and his enquirice which have been received, pended more on political influence disparate as the grains of sand on enemies. To his own valuable in-it is announced that evening dress not provided themselves with fancy than on its supremacy in arms. the seashore seems to have touch-sistence on the supremacy of the may be worn by those who have Its propaganda has led the wayed him on the raw, and he heated-Central Government might be add-dress. Tickets may be purchased to its successes. Its representa-ly lays it down that no liberty, but ed some provision for frank inter-from the Anderson Music Co., Messrs. Moutrie's, or the Teang tive character as the armed force welding into a firm national unity change of opinion in Kuomintang Fook Piano Company. Attention of the Revolution has sustained it was the great need of the Chinese. counsels, and eventually alternation is drawn to an advertisement ap.
office."
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WHO WAS....
Jack and the Beanstalk?
Hardly a race in the world but has its version of the tale. of Jack and the Beanstalk, which to-day is treated ont
as a nursery story, but which in its origin wis a symbolics! interpretation of the primál forces of Nature.
The beanstalk stands for the tree of life, Yggdrasil, the. mystic ash, whose three great- roots are set in Heaven, Earth ard Hell; and the giant, with his harp, his treasure-bags,.. and his red hen which lays the golden eggs, is the Creator,. in whose hands are the wind. rain, and sun, or air, water and fire.
What spirit of prophecy in-. spired this legend which has been handed down front pre- historic days, foretelling how man (typified by Jack) would capture the harp (the wind). and turn it to his proft, mak ing it grind his corn, and drive his ships: how he would ride the treasure-store of the world's waters to provide eléc tricity and even steal the sun's.
thousand different ways! light, and fire, for use in a,
And Jack, so the tale ran, prospered and grew rich on the treasures he had wrested from the giant, but whether fie grew happier and more con- tented, this the story does not
say.