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This is ALL FOOLS DAY
These Men Fooled the World
By-
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HOW witty, how in
genious, yet how hack neyed in your, simple fun you are, all you jolly leg- pullers.
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This day, consecrated to All Fools, you have licence for your practical joking. For myself, have no talent for such dece tion. I am the poor gowk who always falls for it..
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Fog
tree and goes to sleep in the snow. in the morning:
"It is not easy to conceive y astonishment to find myself in the midst of a villager lying in Q churchyard, nor was my horse to be seen, but I heard him soon. after neigh somewhere above me.) On looking upwarits I beheld him hanging by his bridle to the wee- thercock of the steeple."
the snow, and a thaw coming while The village had been hidden under the Baron was asleep, he had been gently to the ground. But how get the horse down?
let
to
"Without long consideration I' took one of my pistols, shot the bridle in two, brought down the horse, and proceeded on my jour-
neu
Oh, well.
.!
Such Hitle asides as these, spark- ling with colour but thrown off as Higher than the humble students incidental to the Baron's main First are those professors (usually vellous adventures of our other ad- of Japlog who run riot on April the narrative, lent reality to the maṛ- undergraduates) who dress as for venturer, Louis de Rougemont 08 eign potentates or scientists and get told by himself to a wondering Eng- themselves elvic receptions the still-dreaming spires.
among land in 1899.
Received in State
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The burden of his tale was that he had spent 20 years antong the aborigines of Australia. A pearling expedition he joined at Singapore EMEMBER the late W. H. de Vere ran into a tempest which swept Cole? While he was at Cam- overboard everyone except himself. bridge he impersonated the Sultan He was wrecked on, a sandbank in of Zanzibar, was received by the the Timor Sea, where he lived for Mayor and Town Clerk, and shown two years in a house made of pearl round the colleges. He was even shells, with only the ship's dog for
taken to his own room, and someone company. said, "Mr. Cole is away, but he won't mind."
Turtle-riding
:
Once he was received in state as NE day four Australian black- diplomat accompanying two Abys- fellows,
sinian princes aboard H.M.S. Drend-
blown out of their
nought at Portland. Disguised as a course by a storm, landed on the
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"It's All Fools' Day, sir-shall I pull your chair from under you?"
PENNIES THAT
BECAME MILLIONS
T. Paul Gregory Writes a short
navvy, he dug a hole in Piccadilly, sundspit. Between them they bun biography of one of Hongkong's most
THE WEATHER nun calls it the ins, roped it round, und left it, a boat which took them to Australia.
place meeting
between humidity-laden tropical and a cold, dry winter frost. Most people just call it fog.
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In the Haymarket one day he got a Then began de Rougemont's life
man to hold the end of a piece of is a kind of "King of the Cannibals, interesting figures.
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string, saying that it was concerned He married a native wife and took with important surveying work. Then her on a 1.500-miles canoe journey round the corner he persuaded an- which lasted 18 months.
A GREAT figure of the Colony of; possible, in order that he might learn other bult to hold the other end of Finally he rescued two English a generation ago, was that well-first hand the state of the market. the string and took the next bus girls from the harem of a cannibal beloved Parsee gentleman, Sir Hor-It is needless to state that the one home.
chief and ended his aboriginal musice Naoroje Mody, Kt, who obtained this information from carcer Lep-puller
with the was easily the touch. Marching into the camp of be perpetuated by the most splendid reached the shore quickly; was in a
Dr. Livingstone personality whose name will forever the skipper on board, and most famous British hooxer of modern times, though he was run some white diggers, he said, "Hallo, pretty close by Theodore Hook, boya!" and that was that. who died nearly 100 years ago, This was magnißcent stuff, but the embroideries were even more bril- Historic Jest
Hant. De Rougemont described How he got ashore from the wreck by hanging with his teeth on to the dog's tail;
solve. We climb the highest moun-THE Berners-street jest to historie. Hook issued invitations to pro-
we eun
evidence of his generosity-the
position to make use of bis exclusive Information to some purpose in the University of Hongkong.
Hongkong, Canton, and Macao mor- Like that of his business associate kets, by forestalling the trade in -Sir Paul Catchick Chater-Sir these ports. which to conjure up romance; for Hormusice Mody was A name by
his career of achievement has scidom
tains and ford the deepest streams: minent people and orders to trades- low he had seen an "octopus of been surpassed-rising from a sub-INROM auctioneer, his next step ordinate position, to that of a great was to become a power on the enormous size" drag a boat and a capitalist, whose wealth was largely local Stock Exchange, and in the Malay diver under the sea; How he beguiled the time on his community in which he lived and came into such prominence that he employed in the betterment of the late eighties and carly nineties, ho sandbauk by riding turtles up and made his fortune.
became known as the "Napoleon of down the lagoon.
the Rialto." But even In these lator -days,-when-success-had-already-come-
him, he was subject to consider-
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to
make a whisper heard men in the name of a woman against around the world we.
whom he had a grudge. During the can even whole of the following day Berners- vault the clouds, st we can't see street was a tangled mass of vehicles. through them. When
ranging from the equipages of a cloud duke and the Lord Mayor_to_the_ He rend papers before the Royal comes to rest upon the wurth, as it donkey-cart of the local sweep. Geographical Society and the British Nor must n place be denied to the Association. There was such a has rested along the China coast "Captain of Keepenick," the cobbler crowd of scientists and their friends I Hormusice Mody was born at able ups and downs, being at one these past 72 hours, the rule of the who impersonated a military officer to hear him that the Princes Theatre, Bombay, India, on October 12, time, as he stated in his own words, and for days made heels click and Bristol (where the Association was 1838. His father, Mr. Nowrobjee "reduced to a condition of having no right of way becomes abortive, guards turn out in pre-war Prussia. meeting), was taken for that occasion Mody, was a schoolmaster, and like more in his pocket than the price sirens shriek sometimea in vain. But such as these rank below the only. He was an honoured guest most of his profession in India, was of his tima."
the John poor, so that his son was
forced Collision at sea is one of the most rent romancers like Baron Munch- among pro-consuls at
Such unpropitious circumstances ЗИБСА and Louts de Rougemont, Cabot Memorial banquet of that earn his own living at an early age. did not deter him from embarking likely penalties of man's inability to whose thunderings bore the stamp of year.
The hard struggle through which he upon the most ambitious commercial genius,
passed in his youth, led him to adventure in his career-that of ex- conquer this phenomenon of Nature.
Observe the technique of Munch- Crumbling Statue
dream of the Far East, where, as, he plolting the mineral resources of Two great liners met head-on: Rudolf Eric Raspe, a clever scamp TN a speech punctuated with laugh- gorgeous Eust so enamoured
ausen-or, rather, of his creator, one
afterwards said, "the glories of the Tonkin. With his business associate, his Sir Paul Chater, he successfully tragedy is so unexpected that noth-who published his marvellous adven ter and cheers he described boyish fancy that he determined to operated the famous_Charbonnages
tures in 1705. ing can be done to avert it.
himself modestly 怨 J "sort of come to China at the first oppor- Mines. These with their Inexhaus- Here is no pettifogging Obbing Victorian ruler," and told how ha tunity."
tible resources brought him fortune, Fortunate indeed that both the such as one would dismiss with a had drawn á rock a huge picture
and the enterprise was greatly ny- His chance soon came, and at the preclated by the French authorities. Canton shrug of the shoulders. Every single of Queen Victoria to give the poor
statement is so incredible that if it heathen some idea of the British age of twenty, he arrived in Hong-Indeed 50 much was his worth. high stood alone no one would believe it. Empire.
kong. His condition in life was to realised by them that the Republie Every lie is in the company of others "I even made a colossal clay say the least at the lowest ebb; for of France bestowed upon him the Just as barefaced, so that it assumes statue of the Prince of Wales (Ed- he landed without a copper in his decoration of the Legion d'Honneur. its proper proportion and is swellow- ed in the glamorous whole.
Look at this passage from Munch- ausen:
Marechal Joffre and the were "crawling along the sens."
Modern research has made ships invulnerable, almost. to all but this menace. It has tamed almost all the forces of nature. All but that! tantalising, moisture-laden wraith which as someone once said--still "comes on little cat feet," and snarls at puny man's efforts to
penetrate it like a ball of yarn.
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ward VII.), representing him pocket. With nothing else but his armed with many throwing spears, youthful exuberance, he set himself but unfortunately the hot eun to the task of carving out a carcer.
and
caused him to go to pieces very He was fortunate in securing a posi- WHILE his fame has been eclipsed "The only circumstance which
much more quickly than he could tion as a minor clerk in an Indian
to a certain extent by the happened on our voyage worth
have withed. Here, then, you mercantile firm, and in this capacity achievements of Sir Paul Chater, he relating was the wonderful effects have in a few words the strange he remained for a number of years, was nevertheless a leader in many of a storm, which had torn up by
humble part I have played Then he decided that he was well activities, and during Sir Paul's ab the roots a great number of trees
in the government of the British enough acquainted with local con- senco from the Colony in 1809, he of enormous bulk and height, in
Empire."
ditions to warrant going into business acted as Consul for Siem. During an island where we lay at anchor With his "crumbling statue" de on his own- account, and set himself his tenure of office, the ruler of that to take in wood and water; some Rougemont showed the true Munch-up as an
of oplum He kingdom died, und upon him' de- yet they were carried by the wind snow). It was all glorious April vicissitudes until larger schemes ab occasion. His valuable services were of these trees weighed many tons, auser touch (remember the melting pursued unis calling with various volved the task of performing the Important consular duties on that 30 amazingly high that they ap fooling.
sorbed his attention, and about 1870, peared like the feathers of "small birds floating in the air, for they found that de Rougemont was
Disillusionment began when it was he joined Paul Chater (afterwards Cognised by a special despatch of were at least five miles above the former Swiss
Sir
from His Royal Highnes Paul), then a young man in his thanks
Prluce Downwongse, Minister for earth; however, as soon as the Henri Louis Grin. Certainly he had twenties, and together, the two em- storm subsided they all fell per- been in Australia, had done a little barked on a career which was to Foreign Affairs in Sium. pendicularly into their respective pearl-fishing, and may have lived prove almost meteoric in its success. places, and took root again.
for short periods among the blacks. born speli-binder. This stupendous ron Crusoe" had lived respectably in Note the deprecatory touch of the But for 17 years this "modern Robin- lasting two years.
tie was "the only circumstance worth Sydney. German and Italian liners of relating." And before the reader more luxurious build and higher recovers, the Baron is off on some Flying Wombats speeds are already beating British other grand cock-and-bull story. ships on the Far Eastern routes. "Frozen
OG IS not the only thing that brought distress signals from British ships this week.
On Thursday, we published a full account of the warning issued by the Imperial Shipping Committee, which has just completed a survoy
But the keenest menace is from the "great and growing Japanese Mer- cantile Marine."
Japan grants ever-rising State subsidies; her operating costs are lower and her fleets are controlled by a low big houses with wide an-: cillary interests....
Wherens British lines are not hauling together, and keep too few representatives in the Far East.
If the British Government docs not lay out more money to put new vessels on this important routa Britain's supremacy, already lost, will never be retrieved.
Tunes"
manservant
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named
ONE factor which undoubtedly and was especially an ardent sup- IN local sporting activities, Sir Hor- musjce Mody was well-known, proved a great help to his career porter of horse racing. Local news. was his knowledge of the conditions papers of thirty and more years ago. existing in India, as they would
In their accounts of the annual, rating affect Hongkong and China. Thus, events of the period, lay great stress. THIEN his turtle-riding feats were he was enabled to pront by Slim, or on the number of winners fed in by
derided. He gave several dia- which arose from time to time, of him past the Grand Stand. appointing exhibitions to iry to which the average Hongkong mer-i Na journey by coach the postil prove his veracity, but he was chant was entirely ignorant, and was It ON
was, of course, as a publjar". Hon was unable to sound his laughed out of court. Curlously
benefactor that he was most widely... horn, which, on arrival at an Inn, enough, Inter voyagers in Australlas how to cope with. was hung on a peg near the fire.
not only his found that the aboriginals did, In His vocation of oplum auctioneer known. But It was
acts of philanthropy which "Suddenly we heard a lereng fact, ride turtles on the seashore. required the greatest business acu- gained for him such high esteem, tereng! teäg!" tengi · We looked though they were not clever enough men; for in the old days, the state but also the fact that he was a man of the oplum market in India was who was, at all times "a simple- why the pastillion had not been What really brought de Rouge- only learned upon the arrival of the hearted gentleman, with all tho able to sound his horn; his tunes, mont downs was his reference to cargo vessel in the Hongkong har qualities that go to compot respect were frozen up in the horn and "fying wombats." The wombat is a bour. It is Interesting to note that of one's fellow-men." now came by thawing ou, so small marsupial sumething like a the arrival of such
craft was in- ก that the honest fellow entertained bear in appearance, and as earth: |dicated by the: appearance of her is for some time with a variety of bound us an elephant. am
top-stile or smoke-stock us the case its magnificent university; for it was tunes without putting his mouth to But if the wombat had hnd'eagle's might be, and the broker or auc« due to his, initiative, more than to the horn."
wings it would never have been such lower who had first information of the efforts of any other individual, In Poland he ties his lioree to what a high-nyer as Monsieur de Rouge- these signs, made it his: Iramediate that this Institution of learnings owes appears to be the pointed stump of monti
business to get aboard as speedily na
(Contituted on Page 16.)
around, and now found the reason to sail them in deep water.
many
His munificener gave to Hongkong'