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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930.
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Are We Average Men?
who served Marshal Chang, Tao- ling and we know that they have not a great deal in common with the Nanking regime. This in great part explains Manchuria's
OUR LADS WASTE THEIR LEISURE somewhat anomalous position at TIME AND WHEN THEY ARE SO LOW IN PRICE!
ITE Was
ordinary and, She had got out of bed to get the moment. In any other country EIGHTEEN THEY WANT THEIR WAGES
respectable draper in a her mouth-organ when she slipped. 1924 ... Light Six G$1045
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small Midland town and The spectacle of this grave old issue Its 1925 ...Standard,,
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Dr. J. P. Fehily was amongst the he had parted from his wife lady sitting up in bed playing a from (says Thomas Burke in the mouth-organ would be almost in- orders to the provincial adminis- passengers who arrived 1926....
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strations and see that they are Japan by the as. Kitano Maru Sunday News). She sued him for credible if one did not know that
yesterday.
support. Just before the case came it was true. G$1160
obeyed. But recent history has
on he met with a motoring accident]
Impossible in a Novel. 1928 Director Six GS1195 shown that, in spite of all the talk A young Chinese scaman was in which the first joints of the
found unconscious near a bridge fingers of one hand were taken off. That, too, would be impossible int of unification, the provinces still 1929
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On receipt of the summons he a novel, for in a novel characters in Wanchai Gap Road off, Queen's manage to retain a considerable Road yesterday, the man having packed the severed joints in a box must be consistently grave or con- measure of autonomy and only to come in collision with a lamp and posted. them to his wife with sistently farcical, which human
"Here's a bit of creatures never are. respect the behests of the Central Post and railings of the bridge this message:
I have met whilst riding a bicycle. He was your pound of flesh."
many well-known Government when it suits their taken to
I haven't invented. that. the Government Civil
people who are popularly said to It was reported in the Press late be eccentric, but their eccentricities purpose to do so. If that is true Hospital in a serious condition.
last year, and the man was not a have never surprised me. They of the local governments in China
Mail has been received at the course and violent brute. He was are conventional eccentricities, and Proper, it will not be found difficult American Consulate-General for nice, well-behaved, reasonable one suspects that they are deliber- to understand Manchuria reserving the following persons-Geo. A. Englishman who had a sudden montely assumed. But the eccentri-
Bostwicke, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberit in this rather horrid fashion.
assumed; they are native to him, He was not unique. Nice, well- and because he is accepted as or- lain, J. A. Conley, R. G. Cooper, S. Domingo, V. H. Donnelly. H. C. behaved and reasonable people are dinary, his eccentricities are all the Evans, Fish, F. Hamilton, Mrs. G. continually doing little wayward more surprising. H. Kosten, S. Madrinan, Miss E. S. things of this sort.
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MANCHURIA AND CHINA.
the right to exercise its own prefer-Allan, Wm. R. Attaway, Miss Fment of bad temper, and indulged cities of the ordinary man are not
ences.
be
at
.
Gerard de Nerval, walking through the streets of Paris, lead- ing a lobster on a string, does not Moving as I do in all sorts of surprise, because the business is worlds, and making acquaintance deliberately and publicly done with And Jamong all classes and conditions, the intention of surprising.
Keeping Him at Home. Calmly as though talklag of the weather; he explained that his wife had objected to his going out after dinner, because it meant that he
There are a variety of reasons why Manchuria wishes not to embroiled at present in the civil Maynard, G. F. Mentz, J. Murphy. In all Sorts of Worlds.
W. C. Ockland, Miss A. Riggin, G. War in China. Political con~
B. Rogers, Miss M. Reat. Sadiq, "siderations play a large part, in Mrs. K. Smith, A. B. Taylor, G. L.
which connexion We
net Townsend, mat
I have met people of such extra-the minor artists of Chelsea and overlook the possibility of Mud-
In a report to the police yester-vagant colour of character that if the minor poets of Bloomsbury ker's, leaders wishing to reguin day, Chan Hok, licensed driver of presented any of them in a novel equally fail to astonish me with power in Peking. It has been private motor car 764, residing at the critics would tell me to con- their little oddities.
6, Broadwood Road, intimated that centrate on life, not on pantomime, I was surprised when I heard the suggested, indeed, that Man whilst driving his car along and to take my characters from story of a staid, conventional man, churia's policy may be to wait until Queen's Road near Western Street the everyday world, not the lunatic well known on the Stock Exchange. He was found one evening by a the opposing factions in China the engiue caught fire. It was asylum.
taken to Connaught Road where But, alas these limited crea-friend, who had called in for a are feeling the exhaustion caused the driver tried to subdue the firetures, whose view of life is clouded chat sitting in a chair with one by warfare and then step in with with sand, but on the arrival of by the covers of a book, do not arm handcuffed to the chair. a view to securing control of the private car 251, the outbreak was know that the everyday world is put out with an extinguisher. far too purple for the pale pages former capital. Another circum-Damage to the extent of $100 was of fiction.
We are all eccentric and perhapa stance of which note should be caused, the machine not being
Insured.
the most eccentric are those who taken is that Mukden is still in
appear, most conventional, contact with the Soviet in regard A private watchman in the em- I know a serious and intelligent did not return till after midnight. ploy of the Banque Franco- doctor, with a large practice in one She had, therefore, adopted this to the settlement of outstanding Chinoise, and residing at 53, Con-of the more expensive suburbs. means of keeping him at home; and issues and that the situation induit Road, appeared before Mr.Nobody could be more grave and this head of a business employing this regard is still far from being | Butters the Central Police conventional in appearance than seventy clerks, and known as a Court this morning when four this doctor. Yet, whenever his powerful and ruthless man in his composed. The Sino-Soviet Con- charges were brought against him wife's relations visit the house, he world, had tamely submitted to this The relationship of Manchuria ference in Moscow should have accusing him of assuming the de- goes to the drawing-room, stands ridiculous captivity. to the Nanking Government is been held long ere this, but there signation or character of a Police before the fireplace, takes from his If you saw that man in the train, again thrown into prominence by are suggestions that Russia is different hawkers. It was intimat- he bought specially for these occa- There goes the
officer and obtaining bribes from pocket a foolscap document, which or in the street, you would say: the happenings in the North. Re-obstructing the procedure in the ed that Mr. A. E. Hall had been sions, and reads it aloud to them. On his appearance and his general ports of the assassination of Gen- hope of eventually gaining from retained by the defence. Sub Ins- It is a copy of the Riot Act, behaviour you would be right: but pector Ellis applied for a remand which, as you probably know, colls then comes this little fact which eral Chang Hsueh-liang are the developments in the China
for 48 hours, the case being ad-upon unlawful assemblies to discuts him out of that category-a evidently untrue, but it is clear civil war. However that may be,journed until Thursday.
perse under pain of physical force. (category in which nobody fits. You couldn't put that into a serious that his position at the moment is it is obvious that Manchuria ia
No man will admit that he him- A Chinese was charged before novel.
self is an average man; that dis- 2 somewhat embarrassing one.concerned much more with her Mr. Whyte Smith this morning Another casa from my family tinction he gives to the man next As a member of the State Council own position than with that of the with having in his possession 86 circle occurs to me. A serious old door. But if he knew the full of the Nationalist Government Nanking administration. We may Humphries said it was a clear at mics, and the author of some pam-door, he would have to admit that Manila cigars. Detective Sergeant lady of 68, a keen student of econo- truth about the life of the man next one would expect him to be amen therefore expect her to continue tempt to defraud the Revenue phlets on the subject, was found that man, too, was out of the rur able to the orders of Nanking, but to play her cards just as it suits Department by avoiding payment lying beside her bed with a frac ning. As we all are. it is apparent that he does not her own hand.
of duty. The defendant, in reply tured rib. In her hand she held to the Magistrate, said he was a mouth-organ.
When We are Ourselves regard the connexion as imposing
cook on board the Empress of Asin When asked how the accident any obligations which he and hia
We are average men only, in mo- and had purchased the cigars in happened, and why the mouth-or-ments, and for purposes of general advisers think they should not
Manila. He was a cigar smoker. gan, she explained that she suf-citizenship.. Many months ago a Licensing Sergeant Humphries informed the fered from sleeplessness, and that ourselves we are fantastically ec- When we are really discharge. Hence we need not be Commission was set up in England Magistrate that the cigars were she found that it soothed her, in centric. Funduly surprised at his determina-to inquire into the licensing trade of a European type and not likely the wakeful hours of the night, When we say that another person:
tion to remain neutral in the pre-and it seems likely to set a record be smoked by this type of Chinese. to play soft tunes
опа mouth-is eccentric we are only saying that sent civil war in China Proper. for lengthy inquirics. Reports of The defendant was fined $10. organ.
(Continued on Page 7.)
the
Cocktails.
Ever since the present war broke the meetings of the Commissioners
show that they are being
side-
out, the Nanking Government has tracked on numerous minor issues sought, by the use of all the per-and there is an interminable pro- suasive powers which is possesses, cession of authorities making atate-} to induce the "Young General" toments which cannot by any stretch throw in his weight on the side of of imagination synchronise with Nationalists. Chiang Kai- the terms of reference of the Com- оле witness shek has even wone so far as to mission. In fact offer him the position of Vice-naively confessed that he had for- Commander-in-Chief of the Armyquiry was precisely and also hint- gotten what the object of the in-
and Navy, the highest post which ed that the longer it progressed the the Generalissimo can confer on better, as no one with any sense, anyone and second in importance wished to hasten the "sobriety only to that held by himself. But movement" Lord D'Abernon titil-
throughout the piece, Chang lated the palates of the Commis-
LINEN HAND-MADE DRESSES Hsueh-liang has remained aloof, sioners when he gave a vision of a
for
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world imbibing large quanities of listening neither to Nanking nor
a concoction which would stimulate to the Northern insurgents, who but not inebriate. He stated that have made him an offer of becom- a vast fortunate awaited the dis- ing one of five Commissioners coverer of a drink which had all intended to be appointed to con-i the good but попе of the trol affairs in Peking when the bad qualities of alcohol.
Commissioners then discussed new Government there is establish-į
cocktails at length. There is a ed. It will be recalled that to-good deal of nonsense talked about wards the end of 1928, after pro- cocktails, for the point seems to |tracted negotiations, Chang Hsuch-have been missed that they are ex- liang agreed to fy the Nationalist pensive and that their drinking in in Mukden and formally England is confined to the com- Augycs- pledged his submission to the Paratively rich. Recent
tians that the cocktail is likely to Nanking Government. That deve- become a national menace are lopment was hailed as ma. cing equally absurd for the price of the unification of China, but we spirits is sufficient strictly to limit know from what has since happen- their use and life in England is ed that it has meant very little, if definitely against any big spread any, change in the status of Man-in their use. We are intrigued by churia, whose association with which is to replace alcohol. In the Nanking remains very loose. first place it would solve all the The "Young General" is in the problems which face the Commis- somewhat unusual position of hold-alonera, and we can only hope that ing his official position as head of by the time the Commissioners are the Three Provinces by inheritance ready to draw up their report from his father, since whose his vision will have materialised. death he has been little other than
Lord D'Abernon's idea of a nectar
a mère figurehead. He is without
The sale by public auction of Section C of Inland Lot No. 12, doubt largely influenced in his pol-known as No. 88 Jervois Street, icles, if not actually controlled advertised to take place yesterday, therein, by the Elder Statesmen has been postponed sine die.
"Girls, life has become very simple. The radio tells me what to eat, the Book of the Month Club what to read and the Picture of the Month Club what to look at. If some invention would only tell me what to think,"
average man.