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War, nor did she lose it, although | 6* the burdons which have sprung
from it have become well-nigh in-
tolerabic. In the circumstances,
therefore, Britain could hardly be
expected to make any special con- cessions to Germany or to appear before the rest of the world as á special pleader. Qu her behalf. That much can be said without In the any way seeking to belittle
the growing friendship between two nations.
DAY BY DAY
BAY I AM A MAN AND YOU SAY ALL WHETHER KING OR TINKER 19 A MERE |
AFTENDIX-Carlyle,
Great-Grandfather's Arithmetic.
Dr. N. Gint Gee, of the Rockefeller Foundation in Fexing, is visiting IT WAS printed in London in Gentleman bide him 15 Pounds Hongkong, Dr. Gist Gec is one of the best known blologists in China.
1745. The introduction de- per place, and take all. The young clares it to be, "a curious Piece: Spark tells him it would not be Tis Clean, Methodical, and hand-taken: But, says he, if you will Homely Dressed: so Plain, that give me what the last Ox will As a result of a collision with the the dullest Person may learn by como to, by doubling the whole ging from meetings between the & O. tender Jeanette off Dougins it; and so Compleat, that he need Number by a Farthing, you shall
Wharf yesterday, the motor boat learn no more." On the last
So far as any agreement emer-
statesmen. Kwong Nam was extensively damaged. Great-Grandfather has wage have all: to which the Gentleman
German British and there could be none beyond that registered in the fact that both aldes realised the necessty of in-
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Making his eighth return to Hong- kong after being banished for life, a Chinese was sent to prison for a year by Mr. Schofield to-day for disobey ing an order of banishment.
the
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agents." And pays £4,369 15, "Garret Van Gelder. His Book, 4d. "A great rate to pay fur With art and hand, Mnid this his Oxen," is the scornful comment," Servonte at Command." The Beautiful script, with graceful But apparently "the Gentlemen" flourishes tastefully diaposed, be-were tempting bait. We read B longs to a day when a gentleman little further un took honest pride in his penman- A Gentleman having a soft ship
John Hill, the author, begins by enough, but scarce able to keep a young Man to his Son, Covetous aflrming "Arithmetick to bo an Shop-book, was
minded to Pur-
bid
ternational nction, quite apart from any measures of a national character which may be taken Britain, moreover, has clearly shown her willingness to deni
Teang It was sentenced to twelve Art of Science, divided into the chase for him some considerable with the present crisis in close months hard labour by Mr. Hamilton, branches, Vulgar, Logarithmical Lands in the Country; and
Kowloon Magistracy this and Analytical and proceeds him enquire out some handsome Govern- Int
for having returned from wtih some Aft definitions.
OnEstate that would be sold, and he have morning,
banishment before the expiration of Naught dismaya him, not "super- would buy it for him. said, it is only along these lines his term of ten years, which he particular" nor "aubsequialtera"
Sang war nor "aubsuperpartiens" or "tr- The young Man overjoyed at the that any action is possible. Ger- received in 1929. Lam
also similarly charged and was zen- an reparations are inevitably tenced to twelve months hard labour, plasuperquadripartiens-nay, he News, runs to an inn, where he sweeter morsels, heard diverse Country Gentlemen VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED
but they are too much for me, Lodged; and in all Haste asked AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE | bound up with the whole question He was banished for ten years in
hope the young student was not them if any of them would sell his of the Inter-Allied Belts, and it is
required to learn the spelling of Estate; most of them were very increasingly evident
angry, and near boating of him; becoming that the times call for a 4 institution (French Convent), Cause the inbles at the end of the Intro- Gentlemen, resolved to put
The Mother Superior of St. Paul's
Perhaps it was enough to know but one of them being a facetious ternational conferener
way Bay, announces that it has been
duction; the pound troy, the trick upon him; and told him, how discovered that soran Chinese perang apothecaries' weights, the cloth That he had a neat Hall, with a
are going round with a book taking
nails
goodly Park and Mazor, ไย 4
on the ever, for Britain to take the initia subscriptions for the Hospital Baznar, measure with its
English
Bank of a pleasant River, and tive in this matter. The world and she wishes it to he known that quarter" and its
she has not authorised any subscrip. Flemish "Ells," dry measure with great Number of suillement Ten- knows British feeling and policy tinas at all. Tickets have been issued its pottles, coombs and chaiders, ants; all which, with the Royalty
We at $1 and $2 which have the Convent and liquid measure with its "
a fair Market-town, nad question. on this war debt
real on them and these will be ex-gais, to a firkin if it be Ale, Soap
Patronage of a Parish Church be- are prepared to go into
confer-changed at the Bazaar for a prize. ence on the matter and, if others No ticket which does not bear the
Convent seal will be accepted.
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1920.
STOLE EUROPEAN'S
WATCH.
them.
22
the
Herrings, but 9 gals. if it is longing thereto, should be his. jupon condition, he would lay down beur."
Of course, such definitions are que penny on the Treshold of the bat preffuinary to trouble. For Porch-door belonging to the fall, instance, "How many Sparrows at Two-pence at the next Door, Four- 10 a penny, will buy a yoke of ence at the 3d Door, and so on Oxen, of 10 ba?" A little rough, doubling, till he had gona thro eves on English sparrows, isn't all ne decrs, which were 64 in 17 Such little birds and ach all." mighty beasts!
"I'll have it," saith the young
Yet more grim is this one, un-Man, "and here's a Piece in THIEF SENTENCED ON
der the ironical heading. The Earnest;" and in all laste tells TWO COUNTS. The Coad Indusry.
Golden Rule, or Rule of Three:" his Father what a Purchase he "IT 360 Men be in Garrison; and had made, wishing him to give a After unremitting
Remanded from last week, Wu have Provision for 6 Months; but Hundred Pounds, for that he Any fears that may, have been extended over a period of years, Chiu made a second appearance hearing of no relief till the end of thought could not but abundantly entertained on the Continent and representatives of the British before Ms. Hamilton, at the Kow- Months, how many Men must be satisfy.
"Thou Calf," quoth his Father, elsewhere that the visi! of the Government have at last obtained loo Magistracy this morning, on turned out, that the Provision may
a charge of having received a gold last so much longer?" Turned"the King of Spain's Revenues German Chancellor and Poreign un international agreement
in watch, the property of Mr. D. C.out where? A tragic. thought, for-would not pay what thou has pro- of shorter hours Minister to England might r | favour
for Wilson, Manager of the China sooth, to follow the infant Garret mised-The best is, the Gentle- coal
mines. ThirtyMed, on May 24, and also of hav-to his trundle bed.
man knows thee not; and it he sult in new political align-workers in
did he could get no Advantage of ment
developments will by this nations at the Conference voted og illegally pawned the watch.
Well here's another in which one that has nought; but I'll war- In favour of the British proposal Sub-Ispretor Elston said that the human interest is not quite rant thee he is making merry with time have drewn completely
and fifteen lined up in opposition, Mr. Wilson missed the watch on so gripping. "An hundred Eggs a Fool's Earnest." dissipated. The
the night of May 24. On the are pinced in a right line a Yard but it is believed that the lix-
Now I desire to know what the viously in the nature of a willing sentients will fall into line with following day, it was found by the distant one from another, and the whole would have come to.
police in a pawabroker's shop. On first a yard distant from a Bas- response to a friendly gesture by the majority in putting the agreeJune 2, the pawnbroker recognised ket: it is required to know how digits and is, declares the writer. The answer runs into twenty Britain, invested with no particument into practice. The decision the lefendant in the street, and far une must ge before he brings to the King of Spain's Revenue
to the police. lar significance. litt at The same marks, it is hoped, the establish-gave information
without breaking any After to the loading of twenty Ships.. time helpful in bringing about a ment of the beginnings of inter- who arrested him. The defendant knees on by one into the Ban-us the weight of one red, ferring
had
pawned the watch under anfall, can this problem be
taken Here is another bit of shrewd contact national regulation of the coal in- assumed name, and when he was lightly? His fat little legs trem-merchandising, with personal
a strangely between the leaders of two great dustry, though faken by itself it arrested the pawn ticket, together bling with exertion, would Great- familiar sound: "A Manchester
Trom sutleient. Output. with 45 other pawn tickets,
was Grandfather have to begin all Chapman going to a Fair, seld nations. It was, of course, inevit is far
Juver again if he broke, say, markets, priera and wages must found in his possession.
the Fustians. for 118, the end where- able that matters of common con
all be brought to a more or less After Mr. Wilson had given ninety-seventh
in was gained 15 1. per cent,, and Evidently by the time our seeing no other Chapman had su cera to both countries should be
in evidence identifying the watch, world Common level if the
student hud
fought his way good, raiseth them at the latter
very desirable
visit
WAR
ul
pawnbroker and Sub-Inspector
touchel upon in the discussions general and the coal-producing which he said he missed from the lihrough to p. 137, and geometrical end of the Fair to 12s. I demand- which took place, but these were countries in particular are to rean upper pocket of his cunt. the progression, his moral standardsed to know what per cent he gain-
of a diminution Elston gave evidence of the pawished to withstand
were thought well enough_estab-ed.” largely of a general character. the full benefit
a little ex- ing and the arrest respectively. with no idea, on Britain's part at of expenditure in the effort neees-
posure to worldly guile, for he We turn a few more pages and least, that issues involving other sary to obtain one of its basic
The defendant said a man had is told:
spy another: How pleasant to moment, given him the watch in the street,
"A Country Gentleman, going adorn the arid wastes of "Ques nations could be the subject of raw materials. At the
to a Fair to buy Oxen, meets with tions in the Rule of False," with all is chaos. Britain has tried to and asked him to pawn it. any special arrangement, between
tackle the problem from a purely Mr. Hamilton convicted defen- Crafty Youth who had a com- this little episode. A young pany of very good oxen, in Nuns-Man coming into a Garden, saith London and Berlin, The German
national standpoint by the intro-dant and sentenced him to three her 23. The Gentleman demand-Bless you all, you 10 fair Maids! visitors may or may not have duction of the Coal Mines Act, months imprisonment on the first ing the price, was answered. He Str. you mistake yourself, saith hoped to secure British support which regulated marketing ant/count, and fined him $250 or three should have them for 16 Pounds one (a horrid clever thing) for
months on the second.
the niece, one with another. The we are not 10: but if we were
tions concerned.
in their plea for a revision of the output, reduced working hours. reparations seleme, but the com- and maintained the same rates of munique issued in London makes pay. It has largely failed of its il quite clear, despite the typically purpose, partly because some of not seriously ncial character of the document, the owners have that Britain can only consider tried to meet the unwritten re- the difficulties of the German posi-quirements of the Act, and partly because the coal industry finds tion in conjunction with other the arrangement an economic im possibility in the face of foreign Whilst there can be no question competition. The British Indus- as to the seriousness of the situn-try depends largely upon exports tion with which Germany finds | for prosperity and it cannot com-; herself faced, it is not easy tądis-pete in the same field as its Con- cover the actual facts of thetinental neighbours while wage those in position. Possibly, as one journal bills abroad are half
Britain, and hours of labour are, suggests, they have been ex- aggerated in some quarters. But to the present, considerably longer. The weakness of the Whilst the leaders of the nation British industry, is the clearest seek some alleviation of the pro- evidence in favour of an all- blem with which they are faced, embracing. international 'agree- they cannot he ignorant of the ment. There is profit for all in fact that other nations also have a cessation of the ruinous com- their own burdens to bear. That petition of price cutting and wage point was clearly brought home cutting, and the sooner this is to them by the British Ministers recognised, the better for those
chielly interested. when, in the words of the official communique, attention was drawn to the world character of the pre-
Barred from a shop where his uncle sont depression and to its special is working as an accountant, a Chineso influence on Great Britain. In in alleged to have vented his feelings Di an Indilan watchmen employed this connexion, it must not be lost there whom he pelted with stones. sight of that Britain is about the There is a suspicion that he is not in pornoRsion of his full senses, and most heavily-taxed country in the while being remanded on a charge of world to-day. Another thought disorderly conduct he will to put that must suggest itself is that came before Mr. Schofield at the under medical observation. The case Britain did not ask for the Great Central Magistracy this morning.
fi
"Remember, dear, I'd like you to get the rim off the tub
before you re exhausted."
thrice as many as we are. We should be as many above 10 as
now we are less. How many were there? "Facit, 5 Maids, or rather. Maidens," says Mr.. 11.
Perhaps the same young man had been a member of the group described a little further on: – “Ä set of boon companions, dining at un Inn, the Reckoning in all came to 175 Shillings, but before the Bill was paid off, two of them slunk away and then the Club of those that remained came, to 10 Shillings a Man more: how many ware there in company?"-
pay
Far more sporting was the group in the next example. "Some young Men and Maldons had a Reckoning of 37 Crowns to pay for a Treat, and these were their Conditions, that
every Man should 8 Crowns and every Maid 2. Now if there had been - as many young Men as there were Maids, observing .the same conditions, the Reckoning would have come to 4 Crowns less than it did. How many young Men and Maida were thoru?" Alan, too many Maids, and the girls making it almost Dutch treat at that!
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And so the quaint old book goes on about all manner of folk: the fortunate "Gentleman who bought In House with a Garden and a geod Horse in the stable" "the Linnen Draper with his 30 Crowns worth of neat Linnen; the Merchant with his Pepper and Saffron and ginger and silk Stock- Ings at 80 Shillings the Pair,"
the Chapman, breaking" (whence, our "broko"?), and the "Monches- (Continued on Page 7.)