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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933.
Frederick Lugand, the then WHEN A CHINESE POET The Very Idea!
Chancellor, strongly urged
Naval Manoeuvres
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Timo: 1924
That was the
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"No," we replied.
OUT
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need of further funds if the University were to fulfil its highest destiny. Since that
ANNUAL FUNCTIONS time, financial stringency has
replied. To my surprise at first, seriously affected the institution,
Occasion: Battle between Wa he seemed to enjoy the diversion. By Edward Kelly, Boundar. until at one time it almost Pei-fu and Chang Tao-lin for Then I thought of the monotony of
So many local societies and as- seemed as if an end might be possession of the pass through the his vigil and his constant need for sociations have been giving annual called to its activities. Happily, Great Wall of China at Chiumen, information. Here was something dinners lately that we decided that however, it has weathered the Bei Chien-Wu was seated in Wu that would relieve the one and per- rosier than ever before. The train. He was a poet and an artist. with you in half a me," he said atallian So oty we cordially invite storm, and to-day its outlook is Pei-fa's coach on the headquarters hapa satisfy the other. "I'll be we could not be outdone.ya
As Secretary of the Old Bor new lease of life which it has That means in China that he was briskly.
scholar. Yet he wore the gold- I went back to my companion, the public of Hongkong to secured is due in no small mea braided uniform of chief of staff. Prisently the commander appeared, annual dinner, which will be held sure to the wise and able direct- I put his military rank last because and I made the introduction with some time this month at
hostelry. Tickets at $5 each may ion of its energics by its popular he was no more congenial with becoming gravity. Vice-Chancellor, Sir William his job than was Sophocles when "Um," said the commander, rub- be obtained from Edward Kelly, Hornell, whose tireless energies Pericles gave him a command in the bing his youthful jaw, "I'll have to It may not be generally known, in its interests is too well known Samian War. But it was first in call my navigation officer." A however shrewdly suspected, that to need emphasis. In wishing his thought on this particular night. sleepy, pyjam-ed lieutenant appear we were once a member of that His commander-in-chief had left ed. "Find out what radio ap- noble parent institution. We were for the University a future freed him in charge of the 260,000 men paratus the Hai-chi is using, will attached to the club for some weeks from anxiety, and an increasing fronting the Manchurians. It was you?" said the commander. The during our residence in England, realisation of its aims and pur- careless of. Wu to do such a thing. lieutenant left us for a moment, following a little unpleasantness poses, we are but echoing the But We had his weaknesses. Him- then reappeared with a book, from with the wife over maintenanÇE sentiments of those who are con- self a scholar, he delighted to hon, which ho read, "The Hai-chi has a payments. Pa
"It all came about through also his maximum wavelength of 600 meters scious of the full possibilities of our scholars who were
May friends, even if he put his cause in "And our minimum is 2000 misunderstanding. We were tell- this cultural centre. it go on from strength to as like that. Wu had left his der. "So," turning to Li Sum- to do when he stopped us
jeopardy thereby. Even Pericles meters," interrupted the commaring the judge what we were going. Rockne Sixes are equipped strength and prove a valued in- poet in charge while he reconnol- ling," you see that, even if wo "Do you know what you can do
strument in consolidating tered the Manchurian coast line wanted to, we couldn't get in touch now?" he asked engine, clutch and transmission and strengthening Anglo-Chinese aboard the good ship Hai-chi, with the Hai-chi." Li dimly saw. friendship, thereby exercising an Fossibly a landing party would di- responded somewhat lugubriously are in one domplete unit,
"Three months," he said. influence far beyond the confines vert the Manchurian chieftain, and was led into new conversational assuring rigidity and proper
Perhaps Wu thought he might cut channels, which we explored for al- "Damitali, man, you're pretty alignment of working parts of this Colony.
across to Mukden. What would the most a couple of hours longer.
liberal with other people's time, The motors are of the popular
Japanese, anxious to keep Chinese Sometime or other we had to go aren't you?" "L" head type.
civil war from seeping through back to that train. I suggested So ho gave us another three the Great Wall, say to that?
that we take our departure. Limonths for contempt of court. What would the Japanese Bay? wasn't enthusiastic. "By "this They released us after aix weeks. The "influence for peace" Bei had just received the answer. time," he said, "General Kuo might Said that we gave the placa a bad which we are sometimes told | Momentarily Bei had been expect have captured the
train. You name. adequate navies exert by inspiring an attack ever since Wu slipped never know. It looked pretty bad
when we left." Being a foreigner, for is to do after that, so we pack- There was only one thing left ing respect, has received a strik-away. Now it had come. ing illustration in the
and thus not being under
ayed up our tool-box and came to " versy which has been growing standing in front of Bel Chien-wu. only whetted my anxiety to be on
was particular danger, the information Hongkong. over the manoeuvres of the I had been suddenly roused out of the spot when the event occurred. Society as soon
We started an Old Borstallian as we arrived United States and Japanese my bunk with the words "General At last Li consented to accompany here, and in no time over 100 muga fleets in the Pacific. Japanese Bei wants to see you." It took me nie.
present jingoes have been for some time about two minutes to
had parted with subscriptions. restive over the fact that the for days on spoon-fed information, looking much more cheerful. He/stallian Society, though. He's got myself. Perhaps, after working Bei Chien-wu was still up, and Pete wouldn't join our Old Bor- Mrs. A. R. Forbes and relatives wish United States fleet remains
I was to be allowed to go with Wu stayed Ll's hesitant explanations. an idea that all the members are to thank all friends for their the Pacific instead of being sta kind expressions of sympathy, tioned in the Atlantic Ocean spections of the front lines. I paper containing a mass of Chinese
on one of his early morning in- "Look at this," he said, pushing a male bores. attendance The Pacific is just as much sought to have known that what one hieroglyphics into his hand. Li
We have been asked to make a at the funeral, in their recent sad bereavement,
United States cruising ground as expects to happen in China never seemed to enjoy his up-and-down speech at our annual dinner. Handi- is the Atlantic, and the Japanese happens. What Bel actually said reading. "The Third Division capped as we are by the curse of à apprehension is ill-founded, yet nonplussed me. Could I persuade stopped them," he said to me, "and delicate upbringing, we regret that it has grown somewhat, and is the commander of the British sub-here is a request for something like it will be impossible for us to allow
marine lying off the Kailan"Mining an armistice." The paper, expressed in the Japanese news Administration dock at Chinwang- translation of which
the this to be broadcast to our Great Mr. La Cheung Shiu begs to announce
I obtained and Admiring Publie through ZBW. that the marriage between his papers with more force since the tao to radio Wu to come back at afterward, was signed by Kuo and get away with it daughter Gertrude and Dr. K. W. report that WAY manoeuvres once?
Sung-ling, and ran as follows:' Not, that is to say, in those Chaun will be solemnised at St. would be held in the neighbour- Bel was plainly worried. So I have long heard of your great virile words of one or two syllables Jahn's Cathedral on Wednesday, hood of Hawaii. Those islands would any poet be worried in simi- name, and when I think of the past with which we have, on occasion the 22nd March, 1933, at 3 p.m. and that a Reception will be are American property, and why lar circumstances. But here was I regret that we are now placed on in the past,, expressed the white- held at the Gloucester Restaura Beet, flying the Stars and something-for-me-to-worry about opposite sides to talk on military heat of our emotions. ant at 4 p.m. No invitations are Stripes, should not cruise there and had nothing to do with this way possible to avoid a conflict, heracs ed, addressed envelopes, with eight I was a newspaper correspondent, tactics. While it has been, im- Those who like to send stamp- being issued, but all friends will
at will is not apparent. That but report it, not to get mixed up should respect humanity. Amid cigarette coupons attached, can. be cordially welcome.
some Japanese are inclined to in it, at least politically. Questions the firing of guns and the brandish- take the consequences. take it as a hostile gesture shows of neutrality are ticklish in China.ing of the sword, too much care Old members of the famous in- only how dangerous after all sea it outrality and with my desire wounded, who are now weeping in function will bring their own will
consonant cannot be taken of the dead and stitution attending our power may be. And now comes not to offend Bel was to "pass the the sunshine and wailing to the and mugs. The fish and beer will the story that the Japanese buck" to my good friend, the sub-wind. This is not only against one's be provided, together with pencil fleet is going to do a little warmarine commander. He should conscience, but may be laughed and chit books, If you have a chit manoeuvring itself. With the know how to handle it. Every at. by neighbouring countries. account at the hotel. broad Pacific to select from the naval officer in China waters has Therefore, in order to take com- All Old Boys are asked to wear Japanese plan a cruise in the to be something of a diplomat. passion on the dead and wounded, the school's Tie, the correct design neighbourhood of the Pacific) "What I could do," I hazarded. I respectfully beg to submit for of which is an arrow inverted, » OUR UNIVERSITY islands oyer which the League of
"is introduce one of your officers to your consideration the following black, on a cream background. him." Nations gave Japan'a mandate.
terms, subject to your alteration Guests will be permitted to take The University of Hongkong This seems reasonable enough a member of the staff, LI Sum-ling, ough to sanction this appeal. I
The companion chosen for me was and approval. Please be good ex- away their own empty bottles. celebrates ita coming-of-age to- to everybody except the alert also a general. A long trudge cordially await your reply by my day, On such an occasion, it manufacturer of war scares,, but through the night brought us to the special messenger. is perhaps natural to take stock that gentleman in some numbers wharf off which lay the allent, sub-The terms provided for the ext This, if not the age of great of the position, and to place is pointing out that this puts marine. It was there because a change of casualties lying on the deeds, is at least the age of great against the hopes and dreams of the Japanese fleet between the have to be protected in the event his Chinese brush in his hand. He and generally unreadable.
colony of British subjects might battlefield. Bei beamed. He had reports-monumental, exhaustive, its sponsors the actual results United States and the Philip that the oncoming war put them in was, as I have said, a poet. He attained. There is a danger, pines. Out of just such trifling danger. A lonely sentry took us was, as I've also said, one of the arises, a special Commission, Com Whenever some nasty problem however, in attempting any rivalries and antagonisms spring aboard. such appraisement, since, in fears for national safety from
best artist calligraphers in Leaving the general in what I country. Kuo would get
the mittee, or other conglomerate of educational matters it is difficult, which national aggression readi suppose is called the wardroom, I which would be as richly allusive appointed to go fato the matter and a reply bespectacled question marks is if not impossible, completely ly proceeds. The Japanese fear proceeded to the commander's cabin, as one of Milton's poems and to report. That keeps people qulet to assess achievements. It may, that the American fleet in the and explained our nocturnal visit the Chinese as worthy to be ranked for some months or years. When indeed, be said of a university Pacific may menace, their home to a very sleepy officer. "You've as a work of art as a painting there is no more evidence to be got that the seed which it sows is ports or perhaps some of their got to think of something quick," Unfortunately, I never saw it. for love or money, the Committee always in process of germina-outlying dependencies like For-
I wound up. "That's easy," he
begin to draw up their report. tion. At no stage in its career mosa. Americans are asked to can we stop and tabulate its re- ascribe to manoeuvres of the cord of achievement. There is, Japanese around the islands after all, something far greater which they control a threat to than the outward and visible American sovereignty in the evidence of its progress. This is Philippines. If in both nations the influence which it generates, this fear grows into serious and which depends on the dread, the results may not be character-building within ite altogether fortunate. walls. From this standpoint, the University of Hongkong can be said to have lived up to its
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Che
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 15, 1933.
The Latest Craze
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ideals and to have sent forth a steady stream of graduates who The Americans have tired al- have contributed much both to ready of technocracy, end taken the Colony and to China itself. to jigsaw puzzles. The latter, Viewed from some angles, our no doubt, is the lesser evil. Fac University may not have fulfilled tories are turning out millions all that was hoped for it when it of the puzzles weekly, and was brought into being twenty great is their popularity that one years ago. But if its acti- many cinemas complain that vities have been somewhat they are faced, with ruin. Now, restricted, this fact is purely by having but recently
-евсар- reason of financial considera-ed the grip of the yo-yo craze. tions. When the University and the Biffem addiction we can- building was offered to the not afford to laugh at Uncle Colony by the late Sir Hor-Sam's latest craze. How these musice Mody, it became im- things start, how they sweep mediately realised that the in-a country like a plague, and how stitution could not become a they vanish as suddenly as they reality without adequate finan-came, is a mystery of which cial support. Happily, Messrs.no adequate explanation has yet John Swire and Sons and their been forthcoming. America, allied firms canie forward with a with so many expert psycho- handsome sum of £40,000 for the logists at present out of a job, Endowment Fund, and this, should be able to throw together with the large amounts light on the matter. Civilisation raised in other quarters, gave a may advance, but the primeval semblance of possibility to the urges of the race remain. We schome and made the University never manage to shake off cer- a practical project. Even 80, tain childish attributes. And on the day of ita opening Sir why should we?.
some
The only thing to do
H.B.E.
"I got lots more. These are just the things they gave.me..
to stop sucking my thumb.”
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COMMISSION. MANIA.
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annual
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It usually turns out to be geries of reports, for each mem- ber, alas! finds himself in a virtuous minority of one.
This means that half-dozen re- ports have to be printed, and pre- sented to Government, which finds itself, as a result, more befogged than ever about the rights and wrongs of the business; every- body is thankful when the Govern- ment quietly shelves the whole matter when it thinks no one is looking.
That is how we solve our proj blems, nowadays. It earns for our Governments à reputation for get- ting things done; it keeps our cl- der citizens, who serve with dis tinction on the various Commis sions and Committees, out of worko mischief; it keeps hundreds or thousands of compositors and prin ters in employment, if only in the gael!
In short, it is an indispensable. part of that vast system of make- belleve which, in its mare rhetori""" Leal moments, the Government calla” the spirit of progress hammering relentlessly on the portals of oppor- tunity.
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TALE OF THE DAY.
"I doot Donald's broken got. again."
"How dae ye think that, Rab?". "Last nicht he was lecturing tae a crowd at the Ferry on the evile o'strong drink."
"Am pleased tac hear it's a guld sign."
that
"Aye, but ye see there was nae crowd!"