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short-memoried readers are reminded that Bullitt was the American

at Versalles reporter

Was

when on."

the Fence Conference It is an improper description inas-1d.. much as it represents Mr. Bullitt 198 mere newspaper reporter to

OUR

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To-day's dollar is worth 66.

The Right Reverend Bishop D. Pozzont returned to the Colony last night.

ליי

WEDNESDAY," DECEMBER (3) 1919,

SPECIAL CABLES. VIGNETTES OF HONGKONG.

HONGKONG SPORTSMEN IN

NORTH CHINA.

There was a rush of wings about

A JEU D'ESPRIT.

WHERE ALL GOOD AUTHORS Go.

"This your first visit here? Fichse

This is, the Fiction-History side. Yes, we bracket them.

To-day's return of communic the average reader. Mr. Bullitt able disease has nil scrawled scoss AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE, the Throne. The first harp tuned

up. From the Scottish concession i fill in this card. was, in effect, an official emissary, it

[China Masi SPECIAL]

came the skirl of St. Andrew's pipes Are you here for Life or only - and no one doubts that his state-

as he took the floor. The angels Sleep? Oh yes, most writers come ments were substantially. correct.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 2. Our Shanghai colleague has strong

Messrs Stabb and Moxon of were agog. The heavenly cocktail here sooner or later in Sleep .... prejudices, and he doesn't always

Hongkong have just returned from mixis were set out. St. Pater and a good many become Life play the game.”

Mr. G. N. Manley, of Mesursa shooting trip up the Yangtze in hastened toward the gate as the Members after what you call Death Last week we were mak- Brumer Mond, with his wife, re the Wuhu and Tutung districts. great man topped the last rung. Would you like to walle around? ing an appeal for more turned from Shanghai by the "Ving. They were stormbound, and their escorted by the shades of his de houseboat drifted away while the pendants, and in a deferential voice POLICE. respect for our police chow." Respect is good. They

men were shooting. They passed of thunder addressed him." And deserve it, and would doubtless ap

Bahadur Singh who was charged the night on a native boat, returning what have you done," he said, worthy to be entered by the Record preciate it. But respect will not fit the Criminal Sessions with the to their own boat in the morning. their bellies. It is some time

ing Angel? I built a palace on a ago that we echoed the dismay of murder of Sucha Singh has been

SHANGHAI HOUSEBOAT LOST. hill side..."For yourself?" acquitted.

frowned Peter. "I legislated.

Ugh!" said St. Peter, expectorating in the glassy sen. “I founded. St. Peter turned. "Bring" out the machine for guashing teeth", he ordered. Cast him into the outer darkness and provide him with one box of local matches.

the new recruits who found that their pay was not nearly enough. Apparently nothing has been done to satisfy them, and to-day, if our information be as correct as believe it to be, we are faced with something like a strike. That, just

feeling were

with the cope

as

ED

We

.we

The wedding will take place | shartly of Sergeant A.J.C. Taylor of the Hongkong Police Force to Miss Theresa EvansOO.

A "Social Evening" is being ready held by the Kowloon British School terrible

SPORTSMEN GET HOME IN PYJAMAS.

increase of crime in our midat, would at St. Andrew's Church Hall on Decnear Shanghal there was a motor į

15 fram 5,30 to 8 p.m.

be Intolerable. The Government has

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been chucking money about lately. The new hostel buildings of St. spending for the comfort of mihori-Paul's College in Upper Albert Rand Water's edge. Messrs McBain and Andrew's pipes sobbed into silence.

ties. Let It hasten to do the square will be opened by H.E. the Governor thing by its servants. Probably the spirit of compromise would put all on December 8 at 3:30 p.m. right again. That's just it. Is it

The three motor bandits were being shown? We don't know. We

again brought before Mr. J. R. Wood are in the dark. The public, whose this morning. The case was remand interests are vitally at stake, are ined till next Wednesday" for the first

the dark too.

rum

hearing.

Who'd SHORT MEASURE. newspaper if he The rider of a Henderson motor. could get a gro-cycle ran his machine into the har cery shop? Not only has the Editor | bour just by the Hongkong Club last "killed" several columns of corres night. The wiring was damaged pondence: bearing on the Hankow and one of the cylinders cracked by Consulate scandal. He has, in ac- the sudden immersion. cordance with that decision, also slain a column of "adversaria." As all this occurs in the middle of the working day, it explains the "short measure" you get in this department. Englishmen make BOOMERANG "Irish bulls," and the GLOVES. Rev. Spooner had no monopoly in

or both. Perhaps be thought a

La Favorite has just received a large assortment of Ladies' Winter Hats of the latest Parisien styles. On the 6th inst-a-consignment of hat mounts. hats, dress lengths, flowers, etc., are expected.

-KEITH WEST.

[China Mail SPECIAL]

SHANGHAI, Dec. 2. During a weekend houseboat trip

There was a rustle of settling explosion. The engineroom was aflame and the vessel burned to the wings about the Throne and St.

Prince miraculously escaped by jumping into another houseboat which was in tow. This was'occupi. ed by the Ollerdessen brothers. The laodah promptly jettisoned the petrol. thus averting worse disaster. AD the dogs were rescued. The sur- vivors returned to Shanghai pyjamas.

their

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Translated for the China Máil from the Wah Tes" Yat Po.]

THE FOOCHOW OUTRAGE.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 2. " General Li Hau Ki uchun of Fukien,

has reported that the Japanese are still aggressive, and

that he hears America and France

ster about the Foochew- outrage. They then resolved

on

Once you've found your way, you're welcome here any time, it only depends on Durself. Of course you have to keep the Rules. No, I can't tell you them, you find them out, by, transgressing, you remember them better that way. Punishments? Oh, very severe, from a week to a year's banishment for the worst offence.

This is our Plot-Counter, no atten dants you see, because they are all wanted at the next counter. You help yourself, gratis. its all old stock, and anyhow there are only twenty or thirty to choose from. Some com- plain that there are not even as many as that.

NEIGH-nearly all use it. Oh yes.

የኔ

couldn't visit here. You can

call the

Yes, its very old stock,: I don't think we've had any additions since the last thousand aeons; still, they

..some do " OUR NEAREST

without and seem quite satisfied too. BOUR IN SPACE.” - That next counter is our busiest one...pretty full is'nt it? We call it the Dispensary, because you get all At the Helena May Institute last the ingredients there to mix with the evening, the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie plots. It's wonderful how the old gave, to an appreciative audience, an stock gets transformed..

you would amusing lecture on the moon Our not recognise it. Some of the experts Nearest Neighbour in Space.”

Amongst those present were Lady marvellous results. They all have only use very few ingredients, with Rees-Davies, the Hon. H. E. Pollock, to use 3 Solvent to get the K.C., Commodore Gurner, RN., and ingredients into solution Miss Gurner, Captain Basil Taylour, Ambition. Adventure, but mostly . Love, RN, and Mrs. Taylour, and Mr. Love in some form. The older A. H. Crook.

Authors have complained of Professor A. G. Warren operated the congestion at the

counters the lantern with which the speaker's since the last few years... it's those lecture was illustrated.

In opening his lecture, the speaker vulgar Scenario people... they use up an awful lot of ingredients. The The death took place at the are contemplating the-sending of said that all of us were interested in Authorities have been petitioned to the things rear at hand. That being establish a separate side for these "Spoonerisms." One of the queerest Matelda Hospital this moming of warship to Foochow.

A mass meeting was held by the 50, is there any wonder that we folk. Those pink slips? That's what, balls" we have seen lately was Rosina Cray, daughter of Mr. and perpetrated by Mr. Thomas, the Mrs. Duncan Tollan at the age of 14 Fukienese at Peking yesterday at Should seek to know all we could of they pay with. You get them from.“

which Mr. Chan Lu, the acting for the moon-the most interesting of the Cashier's window over there. He Labour man, at the Albert Hall. He years. The funeral takes place to eign minister, was asked to report the the heavenly bodies, and our nearest keeps the books, every one is more or seems to be hazy about one of two morrow passing the Monument at regotiations with the Japanese Mini- neighbour in space?

She was 240,000 miles away, and less in Credit here; you are, or you things, a gauntlet and a boomerang. 4.30 p.m.

eix travelling at a speed of 60 miles an boomerang was a whizzbang. At At the Helena May Institute on demands from the Japanese. Admiral hour, it would take a person 5 draw on your account, but you any rate, he spoke of the Government Wednesday, December 17, at 5.30 Sah Chun Ping and Mr. Chaak Tuen months to reach it. The question of lust, spend it. We

"effort cheques." Those who as having thrown down the gauntlet pm, there will be a lantern Lecture Ki were deputed to interview the paying for a ticket for the journey at spend most get the biggest credits.. which inay go off as a boomerang." for children entitled: From London president on the matter. The former the present high rate of the dollar if you don't spend, your credit Out here we don't worry about to Weihaiwei. The lecture is open after reporting what they saw in was a question anyone wishing to dwindles. Sleep members have the

members children and their gloves, but at Home (where we to

Foochow, requested the president undertake it would have to take into best chance, that's why the Life carried them oftener than we wore friends.

to instruct the Charge d'Affaires at serious consideration. (Laughter). members run after them so as to get Tokyo to urge the Japanese Govern By the time the earth circulated ace them to use ingredients and plots Boomerang gloves would have saved The fourteenth issue of the ment to make an early reply. The round the sun, the moon circulated they neglected to buy when they Street Index of the City of Victoria six resolutions decided at the meet-thirteen times round the earth. That were Sleepers. Fools and Bores?.. In a paragraph some compiled by Mr. A. Chapman, F.5.1., ing were: (1) withdrawal of war was how primitive man was able to Of course. just as many here as THE POLICE. where above, as well Government Assessor is to hand. As ships (2) apology (3) dismissal of count the time.

Slides of the moon travelling round BUSINESS as in the story among usual it is a very comprehensive Japanese Consul at Fakien (4) punish-

the news elsewhere, it volume and should be a welcome ment of murderers (5) payment of the earth were displayed: also of the

Poets? Plenty, very númerous · appears that we take a "one-sided" addition to the bookshelves on every indemnity (6) prohibition of carrying surface of the moon as seen through

weapons by Japanese, and guarantee a telescope. The lecturer then exindeed. They got permission from view of the situation. We do. So office.

plained that the surface of the moon the Authorities to have their own far as we can see there is only one

against further outrage.„, side to it. In a bona fide attempt The big race meeting of the

The students' representatives had was exceedingly diversided. Some Special place.. over there, on that. to present the other side, if there be Hongkong Jockey Club has been an interview with the Minister fer parts were brilliant, others dull. The bill they call it Fariassus Hill. we approached the Colonial fixed for February 11, 12, 13 and 14. Foreign Affairs about the Foochow oon shone entirely by the reflected we thought it would get rid of theat Secretary, who was courteous as This is unusual, as the racing will business. The latter instructed the light of the sun and was a burnt out all... but only a few went. Those always but pleaded that be knew commence on Wednesday continuing students not to make another parade. Cinder. People said that the darkened that remain you say are not poets? nothing about it." We have had until Saturday, whereas in former The Foreign Relations Committee portions of the moon were seas be Take care. you are on dangerous complaints lately about cable delays, years the meeting opened on a Mon has favoured the eight suggestions cause they assumed that the surface ground. That small counter in the of the moon was similar to that of corner? Yes, it is a free counter but surely it doesn't need a cable to day, and proceeded on Tuesday and made by the Fukien Students.

the earth. There was, however, no No, I am sorry to say it is nearly send information from the Police Wednesday with Saturday as the

water on the surface of the moon deserted. We call it the Divine. Department to the Colonial Sec Off-Day. HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3, 1919. retariat? Oughtn't they to know

which was smaller than the earth. Afflatus Counter. You can take The diameter was 2,160 miles, the such things chop-chop?

earth's 8,000 miles; the bulk of the away all you can carry, but it is moon was 1-15th of the earth and terribly hard to take any away.

We all visit it at least once and the weight 1-80th.

carry a morsel away... otherwise we Alustrations of different phases of would not be here... but very few the moon were next shown and ex visit it twice or more times. Some plained. The lecturer pointed out of the biggest loads have been taken

USEFUL XMAS PRESENTS.

HANDSOME FUR SETS.

JAEGER DRESSING GOWNS. them, we were always losing 'em.

DAINTY BLOUSES & NECKWEAR.

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FANCY HANDKERCHIEFS IN BOXES,

DEATH.

etc.,

etc., etc.

TOLLAN-At the 'Matilda Hospital on December 3, 1919 Rosina Cray the dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Tollan aged 14 years. Feneral passes the monument to-morrow at 4.30 p.m.

BIRTHS.

CUNNINGHAM.-On November 22,

at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cunningham, a son.

HEARN.--On Nov. 22, at Shanghai, to Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Hearn, a

son..

JORDAN-On Nov. 25, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Jordan, a зод

REEN. On Nov. 21, at Shanghai, to Capt. and Mrs. Bruce Green, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

MANLEY-ALLEN.On Nov. 22, at Shanghai, George Noble Manley, to Yvonne, elder daughter of the late R. B. Allen and Mr. Allen of Shanghai.

The China Mail, TROTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

ADVERSARIA.

We announced in SIR WILLIAM this column yester

WILKINSON. day our intention to publish to-day the correspondence between Sir William Wilkinson and Sir John Jordan. It

us money-

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onc,

LEAGUE CRICKET.

C.R.C.. ROYAL NAVY.

The following will represent the C.R.C. in their match against Royal

ARMY REDUCTION.

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Chinese wedding bells were The tuchun of Yunnan, General ringing in Kowloon yesterday, and Tang Chi Yao, has endorsed the presents from the Hongkong side scheme for disbanding the troops but were so numerous that it was found he thinks that peace should be .con- necessary to commandeer one of the cluded first. He sent a telegram to Star Ferry Company's boats to trans-Peking to this effect. sport them. The "Polar Star" was seen lying alongside loaded up to the "plimsoll" with boxes of baked Pig, sweetmeats, and the rest.

a

motor cycle and side car was reported and now we hear of a case

was all put in type overnight, and we Navy on Saturday, at 2 p.m. on car. assure readers that we have not Home ground-Ng Sze Kwong Some few days ago the theft of

But (Captain), Yew Man Teup, Un Hew wantonly disappointed them. Mr. Wilkinson, seeing our announce Faz, H. Ching, Geo. Lee, Shin Man ment, has managed to convince us Ping. Choa Man Ping. Yew Man that publicity at present will be un- Hon, James Wong. Wong Kwok desirable. Sec correspondence. Kwong and Thomas Lee.

We told the story in ROUGH ON this column of how THE SCOTS. the German fleet, in picture, was bombard- ed at St. Andrew's Ball, and utterly defeated. Visibility was blgh, and the marksmanship, considering the late hour, excellent. But we missed an incident attending the first volley

BILLIARDS.

PALACE HOTEL HANDICAP.

In this Handicap last night W. G.,

of bottles. Said C.WB. to. JR, a Gerrard succeeded in beating W. E. Sassennach to a Scot: "If this is Wilson by 14 points Gerrards chief the sort of thing you're going to do, I breaks were 21, 19, 18, 17, 16, but must say 'Good night." You wouldn't Wilson did nothing better than 15. were Gerrard 250, see such unseemly proceedings at a Final Scores European ball." This recalls the old Wilson 236. anecdote of the Australian tax-

BOBBERS. IN NEW TERRITORY.

POLICE PAY.

NEW COMEES DISGUSTED.

that there were mountains and craters

time in a

molten

mass of cracks and mountains. The

ships

with you..only the Life ones are a

degree less foolish than those you

weet.

the Scientific,

This is the box for the Authors. everyone is

in the moon. The shadows on her by quite feeble sickly creatures...a good many of them women, too. were intense, and the sunlight very Yes, a few do come back several bright. There was no mitigation of times...but they seldom take away as atmosphere. It was either hot or much as the first. In that corner? cold, and for that reason the light That's old Pegasus, he watches for The dissatisfaction which has been was very bright or very dark the heavily laden ones and sometimes expressed by the new recruits to the Astronomers bad carefully and at gives them a lift. Oh yes, we bave of apparently malicious damage. Accal Police Force, during the last curately measured the mountains and other sides.. motor cyclist on visiting the house few weeks, in regard to pay and con craters of the moon by the length of Religions, Philosophic, Trade, techni of a friend left his machine in the ditions of service, came to a head the shadows and by a process of cal &c. See that narrow strip of gutter. On coming out he tried to yesterday, when, we understand, triangulation. The mountains ou

the Government Examination Paper: crank up but only one cylinder fired. intimation was given to the authoric the moon were higher than on the sandy desert? That's where we put An examination revealed ́ ́a' cuties that the men declined to risk their arth. The moon, like the earth, Setters. Yes, it's narrow, and magneto wire and a missing spark lives in Hongkong at the rate of was at one

droughty, but they don't mind. plug. It seems that motor cyclists pay fized by the Government. The condition, but being smaller the Why, some of them live all their will have to keep a better eye on officers concerned have requested the cooling surface contracted and the time on a strip only 6 inches wide their mounts these days..

Government to pay their passages matter inside expanding, produced a and don't know it i back to England.

A China Mail reporter endeavoured moon was perpetually changing and Benevolent Fund... to secure official details from the affected the weather in a very slight expected to give what they can. No. Captain Superintendent of Police, degree. The shape of the moon was not pink slips, only tactful apprecia- this morning, but was refused any like an egg with the end turned to tion, Lind words, encouragement. information. The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. wards the earth. People had never We want all we can get, and have A night robbery is reported to have Wolfe was asked whether he would seen the dark part of the moon and never enough to go round. It's per Tonight at 6. p.m.. H. H Tavlor taken place in the New Territories authorise a denial of the above would never see. There were no fectly wonderful how a little bucks on Monday. It appears that a report to which he replied "I decline changes in the surface of the moon, them up. What? Printers, Publishers,

as there was no atmosphere, no frost Editors?? number of workmen engaged in land to give any information."

Now you've done it... sorry. reclamation were in their bat after That's all right if the Government and snow to break up the rocks. The finishing their day's work, when ten dots the right thing. The pay isn't craters, mountains and plains de to mention such people-is the greatest men armed with rifles entered. The enough, and everybody unofficially covered on the moon were named crime here. Banishment one year workmen were held up and gagged adats it. Private firms would not after ancient heroes and famous there's none of those people here. and bound. The hut was then dare to import assistants on such astronomers. The craters were fifty especially the last. This way, mind

or sixty miles in diameter. How was the step The editor, of the N. C.

ransacked, and clothing, money and terms..

Later information shows, that the it that in the moon, which was smaller BULLITT Daily News (the joker

jewellery to the value of $200, were AND, THE who accused A. G. It is interesting to note that in stolen. No arrests have been made. Hongkong Government is prepared than the earth, there was a higher to meet the demands of those men degree of volcanic activity? It was PREMIER Gardiner of being a the list of awards in the Vere Foster

who consider that they have been because everything weighed more on pro-German) seems to Competition which is beld by Messrs.

brought out to Hongkong "under the earth than on the moong da ALEXANDER-ACHESON-On have been misled by some versen in Blackie & Sons, the names of three

false pretences" and their demand The earliest records of eclipses of The New Statesmen, about the pupils of the Sayingpun School

for a passage Home will be met. the moon. were contained in Chinese Lloyd-George Bullitt incident. Two appear. They are Yung Kam Yu,

In addition to the contests already These new men were brought out history. When an eclipse occurred; the prize and certificate, Tseung Kwong Ming, certificate and Li Wing Kong: W your child has hoping from Home and were promised all Chinese turned out with instruments announced as to be staged at the cough be careful, to keep the kinds of opportunities for augmenting of torture and music although it forthcoming tournament at the City. certificate. The competition is open cough loose and expectoration easy their pay: When they get here they was impossible to distinguish one Hall on December 13, the following to the whole of the Empire and is carried on under the name of its giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as find that roughly, their pay, amounts from the other to drive away what bouts will take place. She round Bullitt, had I guessed that you were founder, the late Mr. Vere Foster. In may be required. This comedy will also to about 380 per month out of which they called the dragon,

middle weight contest, Seaman Wil

Just a Yankee interviewer,

the competition there were over 300 lignify the tash mens and make it they have to meet their mea hills At the conclusion of the lecture, loughby, HMSA Hawking. Served Both your ears acock for tips:/ entries from the United Kingdom, rccessfully in many epidemico and as it washing, and other items. They find the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock proposed Rogers, Wiltshires; six round light I'd have locked, not licked my lips. alone so the Saivingpum scholars are contains no narcotic or other injurious themselves at the end of the monthy a vote of thanks to the lecturer and weight contest, Seaman O'Shea, That is the only reason we can to be heartily congratulated on their substances it is perfectly safe. For sale with about five dollars for pocket to Professor Warren for operating HMS. Carlisi". Private Wood think of for his remark that "Our success.

by all Chemists and Storekeepers.

CHUTTLEWORTH FRISCHLING.

On November 25, at Shanghai, Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel B. W. Shuttleworth, 45th Rat- tray's Sikhs, to Joy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Frischling of Shanghai.

November 17, at Peking, Wilfred Archibald Alexander, of the Britlab Consular Service in China, to Mary Prudence, elder daugh ter of Guy F. H. Acheson, Com missioner of Customs, China,

KEES JOHNSON-On Nov 24, at Shanghai Alwyn, only son of the Rev. W. Hopkyn Rees, D.D.. of Shanghai, to Irene Johnson, of Bristol.

collector who found a woman married (-20) meets, E. Hew bett (200) to a Chinaman," and allowed "his racial prejudices to appear. "That's nothing". she said. "The woman

next door is married to a Scotch- VERE FOSTER WRITING

COMPETITION

mar,"

of them run:

It is clear that you and I are

One a dupe and one a liar; If the fault be proved in me, Bullitt, where will England be?

WHOOPING COUGH.

sasier to expectorate It has been used

money.

the slides,

BOXING.

ward, Wiltshiren.

DURAN,