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MEIRION HONGKONG,

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THURSDAY,

the 8th April, 1816, at

1918.

`SCOTTISH LETTER.

(From Our Oven Currispondent).

THE CHINA MAIL.

Noo, that's a thing that is 11 to thole,

But it's better to fecht than fee, An"-11 stick is here-like a brook in a holu

Since batter is magu be

But the far-flung line o' the Larg Whang

Road,

EDCHTURGA, February 23. CHANGED IS ANDREWS, A St. Audraws by the Northern Sea. That is a haunted town to me." It is years since these lines were pentad, And the writer of thera la doad, but mach generation of students as it comes up will Icare them, and sech generation of studedia]An' the hoop that's uphalia' me. as it leaves the quiet sheltered existence of

FI' the mune on the sky's schree, An' nothing, but me and the wind abroad,

In the wuss that's hauntin' me.

It's a dream that lifte my heart abano, The swamp that'e surroundin' me- The Lang Whang Rosd, an' the risin' mune,

the old grey Varsity will carry them out

-An' tko niest wind wanderin' free.

I'm thinkin^lang, but I'm thinkin' o'd,

Ob,

a Settarday yeh, near the Baraatane Road, Wi's dog's nose noɗgin” my kaso.

the witchin' currs o' the Lang Whang

Rand

La sight for an exile's voo--

"Fogh Halibarton

into the big throbbing world. They are true for all times and for all students. It taken by a very short time for the grey At the gleamin' hour, wi' the winds abroad, towers against the sunset sky, the rugged. If the Lord wad favour, me | pior where over the sea sings, now load now

- Jow, and the troo, happy life of the 'Scarlet Gown to wesva a spell around even the montansantimental, spell the potency of which they only fully realism after they have gone down..

GOLF AND CRICKET AND BILLIARDA.

Prominence has recently been given to

WAR PICTURES IN

RUSSIA.

THE WOUNDED AT KIEFF.

FUNERAL OF A GREAT PRELATE.

[BY LAN MALCOLM, M., IS THE TIMES.

W

I was not without regret that

HAVE YOU A

BAD LEG

with wounds that dinobargs or etherwine, pachape surrounded witha indexomation and swođen, that when you gras your Anger on the tofamed part

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dados all the beading

TOUDETE D It teh ausder the, shin

you hard Prince. Parbapa yatır icceka are swallow, zha joists being alzarsin, the same with tha ankies, round which the skin may be decoloured, De there may be wooods;. Eher diances, (f nilawad. to coalinde, will depetre you of the power to walk. You may have aciended various howpain, an fold your is hopeless, de advised an anabebit es amputation, but do nota. Try the Gesshopper Trisiment, which is, s Dermain, rare in oksas d Aboss, Chatelar Swellings, Pokonai Headz Cartasoles, Uloured Joint Bops House maid's Kn, or Snaks, instalad Dog Bites Saod st chon to the Drug Star for bora

| Patrograd, but as I had been invited by the Russian Red Cess, Society to travel

aheld and visit such of their institutions GRASSHOPPER OINTMENT as I might and most interesting. and nu I had a longing to get a wider and deeper insight into the present state of the scuntry, I phaked my imal and started, for the South.

the names of two personalities in golf who, and upolas of Kieft, nestling in the

Two days later I saw the distant spires) curiously enough, 20

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both notable wooded hills above and soress theas carefully and speedily as possible. And so to the old town by the Northern Ore is Liens Col. the Hon. F. S. Jackson, Dnieper. As we prepared for our arrival and they started work; as 12.10 not a

examples of dual capacity in playing games.

A noo exactly a whistla. was blown, Sea e bare gone back only to find that it who was selected to second the reply to the standing in the corridor of our carriage.man of the wounded was left in the is but Yarrow Revisited." Surely this address in Parlament; the other in Mr the train stopped and was boardul by a rain or on the platterer. cannot be the St. Andrews we know? the S. E. Fry, who recently won the British gund af frekcoking soldiers with leaded magnificent performance triumph of the towote ate as of yore, but all siad is Amateur Bilards Championship"for the files and fixed bayonets. These trou for which the military and Red Cross City of our drain memories? Thema and

careful preparation and swift execution

changed. In Qund and class-room, in bunk, fourth time. Each is well known on the

(unwritten law,

authorities deserve all peasible praise

Of the many hospitals I visited.

Two

in library, in Varsity Park the atmosphere links, and while Mr Fry has for many were in charge of the very long bridge that is strangely unfamiliar. With the exception years been a clover cueiar, Diout. Col. epans the river; 8o, in execution of their of those classes which are wont to be taken Jackson has earned a wide reputation 43 & out by bajants, the women have the benches cricketer. The cricketer-golfer is by no duty, they ordered us all into our com- and small, all were good in their differens all to themselves. Of course in the Quad means a novelty, as the "Scotsman,"partments, "lest some malicious passenger way, and are one a lasting impression PUBLIO AUCTION.

and the libmry there are still many red referring to this deal skill. The cases of

of the business spirit and the teader gowns to be seen, but the invariable accom-31: L. M. Balfour-Melville and Captain should attempt to destroy the bridge as

hearts of their in authority." THE Undersigned have received destruc.paniment of treacher proclaims to the Cecil Hutchison (now a prisoner in the we went serosa, Temired has surtions initiated that their wearers are all women.

The next novelty, as we hospicula in particular struck me hands of the Germans) have proved that Why do man ever wears his troncher it is fast. The instance of Mr Dry is Peter approactical the city, was the sight ofcellent. One was "mobile unit difficult to say,bat such is the custom, the Indeed, it has been hold that the effect of scores of yery smart-looking soldiers, in of 830 beds, now housed ja a large

golf apon the playing of billiards is not wrought by the rade hand of war, but short of fifty, was not long attached to caps, working cheerfully on either side, sister of the Tur, who has been One could write of many other changes beneficial. Mir Fry, who is but three years blue-gray greatcoats and black astrakhan technical college. Here the autron and auperintendent is the Grand Duchess what end would it serve? Only that of golf when, in 1800, he won the third of his of the se. road-making and building and on active servies with this unit since the saddening ourselves and others. Not since billiards titles. His novitiate in the Royal the days of Culloden have the cives of the and Ancient game sums to have had gardening. These were Austrian-Slay outbreak of war. Great credit should be Coliage of the Scarlet Gown had to little effect upon his table expertness. Ent prisoners, happier to all appearances thun given to this gravions and gentle lady respond to the call of King and And now na then they have gone forth boing rated at scratch within a year, and tho they could possibly have been in the with her hospital," had to retreat

Country, ha

was quite a romarkable golf learger, nobly., Yes, it is a changed City, schanged

with the Army from Rovno. from University. But the change is glorious, it

There are a greas, mans of Lemberg, and elsewhere; yet, by her own tolls of the call of supranie duty, and of

them in this particular neighbourhood. force of character and inexhaustible the answer, and also, too often, of the

Their food is excellent, as I know by spirit, she maintained the moral of staff supreme sacritics.

experience, anil plensiful; their hours of and patients alike, and now, at Ried, labour are not too long, and the entreil presides over as wellerdered an instigan

tion as one could wish to see. - lance is as little irksome na possible.

I a... At their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Dee Faux Fondy Corner of.

Ic Hotex STRZET,

Two Electric. Ceiling Fans in good.

conditions.

One S-light Electrolier, Fittings pic.. Tennis Net and Foles with Spare Notting...

One Bet of Saddlery complete practically XOX,

One Saloon Rille,

Two Field Service Tents.

A quantity" of Tinned Provisions including falian Esusages, Artichokes, Mushroom, Lemmonade Frait Powder,

Die, otc.

Torma-Carb.

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CHINANA DECOLATION FOR WICRON MAN. | Mr David M'Gill, traffic inspector is the Chinese Government railway service, who

possessor of N

aacratch trophy at that early trenches. stage. Mr Fry has several times come near to Championship famo on the links to He was runner-up in the Amateur Obam. pionship of 1902, and he has cocupied a PATI similar position thrice in the Irish Opon Championship and twice in the South of Ireland Championship. Mr Fry holds the belief that the good billiards player is likely bas received the Republic's First-Class to be a good putter and approacter. His Modal and Military Gold Decoration Medal own play is evidence in favour of that for meritorious services rendered by him theory, and Koji Yamada, Japanese Army Department is the son of billiard player, has stated that ho ands golf Mr James M'Gill, stationmastar, New an aid to the table game because it benefits recognize but few signs of war at Luce, and began his railway career under the cue aye." Some finity between the Petrograd, he had better come to Kieff, his father there. He was promoted to the two

development-particularly in favour of golf.

to the

ROSTIRAZ WORK.

I the unobservant travaller

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The other remarkable hospital was very interesting institutiop outside, thes city; it contained 150 beds for armless

These were manufactured."with extra or legless. men who needed artificidi limīų. A

ordinary ill, upon the ground foor, and

HUGHES & HOUGH, Aead office of the Glasgow and Southo may exist, but there are limits to its where he pects them, obvious and each new limb was specially made for

Auctioneers Hongkong, March 11, 1918...”,

Western Railway Company in Glasgow. and afterwards was appointed by the lid 492 innd Railway Company their representa tive agent in connection with the fish trathe in England and Scotland. A few years ago he was safected by

London Judicial Committee for an appointment o the Chinese Government railway system,

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There are cases on record in which players unmistakable, at every turn. True the lay down fell length on the green and used streets are not darkened in the evenings. their putter, hand-end, like sues. idea was thought by some to be a good one, is one well-organized and go-ordinated The for that is not necessary; but the city bas of course it was against the rules.

ice of war-industry from end to enl Every thordlighfare teems with soldiers arriving frout or going to the front, in

WAR SIDE-LIGHTS.

A gentleman who has recently come from

the soldier who was going to wear it. He was kept in the hospital until the leg and he had become adept in the use of it. the sim was exactly fitted to him,

ECCLESIASTICAL APLEN DOCH.

One memorable experience I had

THE Undersigned have received instruc- and it is, understood that his ability in Berlin says that the German soldiers do forms far more varied than those that which, while is laated, was so compelling atzanging for the despatch of troop trains not like to meet the kilted regimentsions noticed in the Northera capital and in its beauty that I think for the first

THURSDAY,

sha 6th April, 1916, commencing

at 12 a.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Vosaz Road.. Corner of

Ice House Street

BUNDRY

FURNITURE

Removed from Ridge Flonso," Broadwood Road, for Convenience of Eale,

Comprising:- Teakwood Dinner Waggon, Chesterfield Sofa, Backwood Cabinets, Teakwood

Cabinets, Glassware, Dinner Service, Cutlery and E.-P. Wars, Cushions, Carpets

in recent roabious times on the Pekin-one man from the Fro Mukden line, and his admirable surveys of

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trade and commerce

mended him to the authorities.

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....... COMMISHIOŃ POM SHANGHAI RESIDENT,"

SCOT VERSUS GERMAN,

'A

e Front said that the

har earned the D.C.M. and another the

re

dating ourously with the pictures. time in 25 months--it drove all thought" When Piper Laidlaw received the V. C of Little Russia With "at. ne rabtay of the war from my bord. It was the for his gallantry at Loos it occurred to some facilities Kiett is also a great centre, not Nief. This title is only borne by three of his admirers that the pipes which had Mr Herbert Sutor, fourth son of Mrs figured so prominently in the exploit only for nursing the wounded. from Princes of the Russian Church, and Sutor, High Craigie, Perth, has been anculd also hare some decoration, and they | Galicia and elsewhere, but for forwarding denotes a kind of super-Archbishop. The wan hold im the ancient, granted a commission in the Royal Reserve. have accordingly been now richly mounted them to the hospitals, whose name is ceremony

legion, in the interior of the Empire. I monastery Church of St. Antoine, us Liontecant sater, in order to join the with silver. VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD survice, gave up a lucrative appointment instance of the nonchalance of Scots troope of its wounded to perfection, Bieff is the No setting could have been more solema A Black Watch officer sands home sa you want to see a hospital-frain discharged most famous and the oldest in Russia.. in Shanghai, travelling, home at his own expense. Ea has had 15 years' sex ander skall fire. The other right we

Imagine, irst of all, or richer in it sober grandeur than the experience in all grades, and holds were marching to the trenches, whiz sad-place to see it. Captain's certificate from the Board of dealy our road began to be heavily shelled. long wooden sheds stretching for nearly frescoed arches and pillars that framed Trade. Another brother is also a lieuten. The men were ordered to lie down, and in half a mile along a specially constructed the centre of this, venerable shrine. We ant in the Navy, while a third is retired the silence which followed the bursting of siding of one of the largest goods stations arrived at 9 o'clock in the morning; the Lieutenant-Commander.

& s shell on the road quite near us, I heard s voica any,

in the world. This huge temporary service had already begun, and one stood bet yo what ye like it was Jimmy Quin that scored the winnin' goal."" building is divided into bath-houses, amazed at the splendour of the scene. A new flip has been given to the recent A certain Edinborgb_atsir has six of its bandaging-rooms, dormitories, and The dark church was entirely ghted by controversy in the press on the respective former inmates at the Front, one of them factories capable of acommodating thous candles that shed is soft warm glow upon merita of Scotsmen and Englishmen by a

It is stated by the silver catafalqua whereon lay the in a lecture delivered by Professor V.C. Naturally there is a considerable 3,000 men at a time. and Rags, Large Wardrobe with Bevelled hi at the Royal Society of exetango cf war naws, and the latest Army doctors and sisters, and a wand body of the dead Prelate, covered with Mirrors, Double Brass Bad, do, &, c. Literature on The Octopus of German gossip is to the effect, that still another of 100 stretcher-beaters who do day and a golden poll and his own purple robe Culture. After reviewing the diverse distinction has fallen upon this particular night shifts by companies of 80; the of office. Upon his breast were spread systems of British education and their tenement... I've a letter fra Bob," general ineffectiveness in preventing remarked the top flat lady to a neighbour, maintenance is provided from funds given his jewelled insignia and decorations, and Garmen peaceful penetration into English and he says he canna gie muckle news by the employees of the South-Western upon either aide of the bier two deacons whose wires and were stationed, with youthful scolytes in schools and Universities, he declared that, the too as he is a C.B. Fancy oor Bob, Bailway system. despite the concreto intelligence! of the English, the nativan wit of the Irish, and boot O.B., and him me modest daughters undertake the cooking and robes of white, holding lighted tapers in the imaginatire expenditure of the other- Soldiers at the Front resort to barmless Seneral house work, not only here but in their hands. Around them, in a sweeping Archbishops and "splendid little hospital over the way. semi-circle, stood wise tarifty Welshman, in his opinion the little artifices, to let their friends 10 which receives those who arrive too Bishops from all parts of Hussia rested hard-headed. infinitely patient, and on what part of the line they are stationeri. industrious Scot had aiona bren able to In corner of a letter which & Glasgow exhausted to be sent on any farther. in cloth of silver, with jewelled Rentves hold the Hun at bay, and beat him in the man got from his soldier son be found the Presently there arrives from Tarnopol-38 or stoles upon their shoulders, and Darwinian struggle for life. Let us all be words. "I and at a place where you wipe hours distant-a train consisting of such domed mitres of silver, studded with pleaded, said almost general applaune, trost." Most of the guesses were that Scotsmen in the future," the Professor your dirty feet when you came from the carriages and covered trucks and vans as priceless miniatures, upon their heads. Jock was ab Wipers; but when he returned could be collected. They are beautifully My place was behind these and", "across home on short leave it came out that the warmed by 'pipes or stoves. Along the this shimmering sea of silver, one's eye proper interpretation of the cryptic message platform are ranged 20 ortozlies in long was irresistibly drawn to the high golden was La Bases. Was the failure of his white coate, divided into squads whose Iconostasis azing with light. friends to guess correctly due to an ignor daty it is to "orcuato" the wounded through its open central gate to the fany ¡ance of geography or the growing neglect

of the Scots tongue!

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SATURDAY,

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Comprising:--- Sideboards, Dinnor Waggao, Dicing Tables and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofse, Arm chairs, & Wardrobes And Tollet Tables, Double and Single Brass and Bras-mounted Bedsteads, &c., Miscel laneous Furniture, several lots of Black- -wood Wars, 2 Carpets, 3 Piance, a few lots of Pekiness Cloisonne, Porcelains, ko, di, do,

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