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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, “1930.
sible for disappearance of Cus- toms funds, and been busy sug-
WELL-WELL-WEL gesting nominees for the Gd-
H RE IT IS!
DAY BY DAY
Is There a Cure for The Blues?
vernorships of Shantung, Honan and Chihli. Couple these facts
WE DO NOT EARN THE RIGHT TO with the hint thrown out to Nan- BE CONTENT UNTIL WE HAVE REACH- king that changes should be ED THE LIMIT OF OUR CAPACITY.— Pedigree, Style, Appear-brought about satisfactory to all Gerald Maxwell. ance and all for Nix. shades of political opinion, and
OCCASIONALLY, saya Beverley run, be seized by this strange. The forthcoming wedding is an-
Nichols in the Daily Mail, I get enervating spirit of temporary it will surely be seen that these
nounced of Mr. Jens Einar Lyhne, the blues. So do you, unless you despair? activities are hardly those which of the A.P.C., Chinking, to Missure a horribly hearty and dis- I thought yesterday that the one would expect from a subor-Mona Elizabeth Joyce, No. 19, gustingly normal person. dinate official of the Central Gov. Marmion Road, Liverpool. ernment. Nor must we overlook the continued references by Muk- den leaders to the "neutrality" of Manchuria.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 193,
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Whilst it would perhaps be too
The Police Branch of the M.C.L. is holding the last of the Ladies' Whist Drives at the Polica Re creation Club, Happy Valley, on Wednesday, October 1st, at 3.30 p.m.
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5.
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answer right be, discovered in the As awiftly and as unexpectedly East. Indians, apparently, as the clouds sweep over the sun never "blue." Even after gazing in April the light is shut out from upon the curiously depressing my world. A few hours ago features of Mr. Gandhi their might have been planning, with spirits do not sink. The reason tremendous enthusiasm, some for this mental tranquillity WAA work that was going to stagger explained to me by an Indian with mankind. (I knew, of course, whom I had been discussing that
"It is all a question of the
that it would do nothing of the remarkable book “Bengal Iancer.“ much to suggest that the occupa-
The Hon. Treasurer of the St.sort). tion of Peking and Tientsin by the John Ambulance Brigade acknow.
Study of Yoga. And now, for no tangible rea- Manchuriaas has been effected by ledges with thanks the receipt of son. I can't work or think. I look pre-arrangement with the Shansi the following donation to Brigade at the paper with dull eyes and rhythms of your breathing," he
Sham Funds:-Mr.
Pak-ming, count the dreary years which are observed. "If you would study leaders, there can be no question- $100.
left to me before I die.
Yoga, which is the union of your ing the point that the latest deve-
This happens to me, and it also spirit with cosmic consciousness, lopments have meant a tremend-
Pleading guilty to a charge of happens to you, and I want to you would understand." ous accession of influence for the being in possession of 24 taels of know why it happens. So let us "But let me study Yoga at Chinese was fined use the process of elimination. Jonce." I said. "I'll breathe in Mukden Government, which is ob- raw opium, a
$720, or five months' imprison- For though there are a great rag-time if it will do any good." viously not ill-disposed towards
ment, by Mr. Butters at the Kow-many plausible explanations most:
His distant eyes gazed through Yen and his associates.
of them are spurious... It has
loon Magistracy this morning..
me as though they were studying been suggested that the Northern
Blues, for example, are not due the remotest peaks of the Hima- to the weather. I have been aslayas. "You might master prana- coalition may retire into Shunsi The ten Chinese, who pleaded blue as a Dostoevsky widower on vama," he crooned, "which is the and await the opportunity to come not guilty to the charge of stowing a lovely spring morning, with the selence of breathing. But not be- back, possibly in collaboration away on the 5.3. Sui Sang, from sun shining on the cherry blos-fore you had mastered yamaniyama, Singapore yesterday, altered their som. Nor are blues caused by asana, and mudra. Including, of with the Manchurians. This pen this morning and were fined "unrequitted love.". I have had course, the dhauties." would mean that the present deve- $25 or one month's imprisonment an average share of that, and the
sensation is quite different. It is them." I said brightly. "How I would include lopments presage a struggle be- each, by Mr. Butters,
depressing enough, of course, but long would it all take?" tween the Peiyang clique and the
the unlucky lover has not that A returned banishee was sen-same appalling, suffocating feel- He beamed at me. "There are Kuomintang, in which connexion tenced to 12 months' imprisonment ing that a thick black cloud is some men," he observed, "well it must be kept in mind that and 24 strokes of the birch by Mr. smothering the earth, never to be under seventy who have obtained neither Mukden nor the Yen com- Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy lifted. bine have ever really embraced this morning. The defendant had Kuomintang ideas. The situation served a year's imprisonment last
year for the same offence, is full of possibilities, and, so fur from present happenings tending to a unified and peaceful China, the really big battle may yet have to be fought.
The Wrong Kind of Mushroom.
לי
"Of course
a good working knowledge of these things."
Not Always Poverty.
Which made me bluer than They are not a result of pover-ever. If I have to indulge in ty. Some of the happiest people heavy breathing until I am seven- Arrested in Connaught Central in England are on the dole. And ty years old in order to avoid with 32 taels of prepared opium the largest happened to he the sion I would rather pass out of the year when my over-draft was these fleeting clouds of depres- strapped to his waist and round happiest year of my life. Nor do the world at once. his legs, a Chinese, who appeared they come, as the bustling busy- before Mr. Lindsell at the Central bodies would assure us, from hay Police Court this morning, was ing nothing to do. fined $3,000, with the alternative
No. I do not believe that the - cure is to be found in such prac- tices.. I think it is much simpler than that. And at the risk of
I love having a job of work writing in the style of "Eric, or
There is a strange ring of the of eight months' hard labour in which has to be completed, but ILittle by Little," I would assert
default.
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cessation of all civil war and the Parently, eating mushrooms which the Bureau of Public Safety in /hours in which one can tie in the and so do you-far too much.
14
coroner's
one
If there are people who have 'West about the cases reported
also adore a long, golden morning the theory that you will not be when one need not exert oneself blue if you can turn your thoughts few days of come to the conclusion that the within the past
A decree has been published by at all-when there are three clear from seal. I think about myself- Chinese being taken ill after, ap- changes in North China mean a
Shanghai in which it is stated that grass watching a spider spin its were not of the edible kind. It hereafter any woman appearing on web, or if you are a townsman realises that there are forty mil
It is very ridiculous, when one creation of a happy family of all happens that hardly A summer the public streets without stock-wander down any street that bec- the political and military cliques passes in Britain without similarings, or with only half hose, will be ons dallying in front of the ion equally interesting people. in with Nanking in the role of par-mishaps being recorded, and only judged an enemy of the people, a shops, and making up stories England alone about whom
could think Yet we turn Our subverter of publie morality, and about the people inside them. ent, we fear they are likely to be last month there were cases of
eyes inwards, studying remorse- an offender against the laws of the They are not even caused by the lessly, tirelessly, this curious and disappointed. No serious student fatalities occurring. Indeed, an Municipality of Greater Shanghai. state of one's country-by what essentially finite creature called
Burke would of Chinese affairs can have kept expert, who was attending
have called "me." Isn't that enough to make track of the latest happenings I was called in at one
scientific congress at Cambridge
"Thoughts on the Present Dis-anybody blue-that wearisome At Messrs. Lammert, Bros. auc- contents." (If Burke had lived study of a single biped? I think without feeling that there is very enquiry to give his view of the ture and effects
tion rooms this morning, the furni-to-day he would. have needed not it is. much more going on behind the effects of poisonous fungi on the Metropole, which were put up for which to express his disapproval.) beginning to come over me at the of the Hotell an essay but an encyclopædia in And so, as the symptoms are scenes than is apparent on the human system and he also des- public Auction, were bought in stage. In particular, the exact cribed the manner of telling the by Messrs. Linstead and Davis, on strangest thing of all-do they to my back yard and gaze fixedly Nor finally and this is the present moment, I shall descend behalf of the owner of the hotel, arise from the state relationship between Mukden and difference between the edible for $6,500, whilst foreclosure was health. Consumptives are
of one's at the windows of the house next Nanking is far from elucidated. mushroom and the toxic species.also made on the effects of the risus for their high spirits. Even against doing that in England, but noto- door. There is probably a law It would take much space to The popular view is that Chang capitulate his differentiation. Suf-Ridding in the one case started at ful. Why, oli. why, then,, should has too many other people to re annexe, to the amount of $1,100. the blind are astonishingly cheer- a law-breaker is never blue. He Hauch-liang has acted in accord fice it to say that the edible kind $3,200. and in the other at $500. with his professions of allegiance easily told by most country
we who can see, and dance and think about.
to the Nationalist Government,people, and certainly by most and that by stepping into the con- Chinese in this part of the world. trol of Peking and Tientsin he is Either unscrupulous persons may playing the role of guardian on occasionally sell the poisonous" behalf of Nanking. There
species, or else there are indivi- facts, however, which throw grave ference, gather the wrong kind and duals who, not knowing the dif- doubts on the correctness of this eat it. That edible mushrooms appraisal of the situation.
are to be found in Hongkong is First and foremost, it is obvious well known to many non-Chinese that Chang Hsuch-liang has been as well. Golfers who use the at particular pains not to sup- Happy Valley course will know press the Shansi movement by that a fair crop of mushrooms force of arms. If he were really comes up there every year, which the instrument of Nanking, bent are to all appearances
are
I
edible.
on restoring the control of Peking that they are, and may be seen The caddies, at any rate, declare and Tientsin to the Nationalists, gathering these "toadstools" in he would assuredly have treated their hats fer subsequent eating: Yen and his followers for what Up to now, so far as the writer they really are-rebels against is aware, none of them has suc- the Central Government. Not cumbed. There are other locati- only, however, has he facilitated ties where these edible species of the withdrawal of the rebel forces fungi may be found, and they intact, but he has made it clear, eventually find their way into the according to published reports, with apparently no ill effects. market, where they are consumed that "the preservation of Shanai The edible species is a pale greyish- power is necessary." He has, cream, changing to very light moreover, asserted that his ven- brown on ripening. No-one would, ture has not been directed against of course, think of eating the any military faction whatsoever, "toadstool" shape of fungi-which and that all he seeks is the pre-are to be found in Hongkong-of servation of peace. Some of his pretty saffron yellow or reae pink shades, but there are poisonous troops, it may also be noted, have kinds which somewhat closely been fraternising with the Shansi resemble the innocuous variety, at least suficiently so to deceive forces. Let us take the matter at the casual observer; and it has to little further by looking at some be remembered that the rats of Chang's actions since he has ears" variety of fungus which is come prominently into the picture, Chinese menus is very like the such a delectable item in most bearing in mind the point that if poisonous species that grows as i he is really loyal to Nanking his closely-adhering crop on decaying these position is really that of. a. Pro- casca of making mistakes will
tree trunks.. Apparently
vincial Governor. He has wired always occur, just as cattle and to the Inspector-General of Cus- sheep, whose instinct for the right toms to appoint his own staff in than the average man's, occasion kind of herbage is more developed Tientsin, uttered a threat that he ally become casualties through will bring to book anyone respon- eating polsonous herbs,
“Don't you dare flatter me, Mr. Tu