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+G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

HE Offices and Stations of the

CUSTOMS

for Kowloon and District WILL BE CLOSED to Fublic Business од TUESDAY, the 33rd instant, (Winter Bolatice), on TRURSDAY and FRI- DAY, the fath and 20th instant (Christine and B xing Thys) and on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 1st and and proximo (New Year Holidays).

TD. MOORHEAD, Commissioner of Chimero Customs,

Kowloon and District. York Building, Hongkong, December 17, 1919.

THE CRINA LIGHT AND POWER

COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTI

the frat ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Company, Bt. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, co SATURDAY, tha 20th December, 1919, at 11.30 p'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the 14 menthe ending 30th September, 1919, and electing a Consulting Com- mitteo and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON- DAY, the 15th December, 1919, until BATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO......

General Managers. Hongkong, December 6, 1913.

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Boom of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &

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23, 1910, at 5.15 p.m.

(a) To receive from the Committes a report Balance Sheet und State- ment of accounts for the year ended Sept. 30, 1910.

(b) To elect Officers and other mem- bers of the Committee in the place of the retiring members thereof..

an any resolution which may have been submitted to the meeting.

(c) To decide

By Order,

J. W. FRANKS,

Hon. Secretary.

Hongkong, December 18, 1918

HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.

NOVICES COMPETITION.

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Hongkong, December 17, 1819,

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UNDERSTANDING

IRELAND.

against the exposed and discredit Pharisee of North Germany, has a the extra excitement of beating the bad schoolmaster.

NORMAL WARS

By G. K. Chesterton.]

But normal wars, such as those When I was in Ireland, in con- nection with the recruiting work of waged between England and Scot Captain Stephen Gwynne and others, land in the Middle Ages, do not there was still some chance of the leave this radical and irreconcilable enlightenment for which Redmond bitterness. Indeed, as Dr. Sarolea once pointed out to a luminous" pass. spoke and Kettle died; and sil I wrote then was designed not to disage wars as such scarcely leave, any turb that chance. What chance bitterness at all. And certainly no there is now I do not know; but I conceivable war between the English think it well to note that of all pos and the Irish, both fighting freely sible chances what has happened is and frankly for their own land, could the worst mischance.

heap up such horrible mountains of bitterness as are now, before our very eyes, rising and shutting out the heavers.

The present policy infandum re

that

quarrel should be settled. Ireland in a sense has everything to gain be cause she has nothing to lose; in our wildest wrath we shall find it difficult. to give her a worse government than she has at this moment. But we

have nothing to gain and everything to lose for we have deliberately bound up our policy with the Ameri can democracy.

·TIRING EACH OTHER, OUT. Moreover, there is something in the Irish mentality that can stand the strain of such tragic irony better than we can; they are less uncom fortable in an eternal crisis. Mr. Stepben Gwynne, whether, his Irish policy be wise or no, has pursued it with a heroic devotion to Ireland; novare dolorem is worse than the

and would have a right to count even worst that statemanship has sought

For a clean fight would reveal its failure among the failures he has to avoid; worse than complete separation; worse than complete much on the English as well as the praised in a very heroic poem. But collision. Many of us have lived Irish side, It is true that the insular this readiness to fail is the other side. hoping." against hope

at Englishman does not realize Irish of a readiness to fight; and it is the last England and Ireland might patriotism; he falls into the foolish weakness of our position that we be at peace. And many of us have verbal evasion of calling it nation- shall be tired of tyranny before they come to the point of wishing that alism. But it is equally true that the are tired of rebellion.. England and Ireland could be at war. insular Irishman does not realize. But if it were a case of clean war, Nobody who has lived through the English patriotism and greatly and Mr. Gwynne could use his mik last five years will speak lightly even derrates it by supposing it is the tary experience in the invasion of of the smallest war. But the great larger imperialism. It is not an England and perhaps of Beaconsfeld, war was not only awful but abnor Englishman is generally a Unionist, then I should feel no longer in this: mal; and that not only in scale but simply because he is a Nation false position, but should be fully

But it seldom in sentiment. It was abnormal bealist.

occurs to reconciled to my native land. Then that the English I would oppose his entrance to the cause for so many people it turned the Irishman not only the external but the internal man's patriotism is nationalism, or last, if only in the inert manner of a world upside down; the world inside to the Englishman that the Trish hill or wall or other strategic ob a man's head. There was bound to man's nationalism is patriotism. stacie.

be a unique revulsion against the Mostly the Englishman has exactly If I saw Mr. Yeats playing a harp.

German; not merely because he had just exhibited himself as a monster; but even more because he had just been exhibited as a model.

THE GERMAN SAVAGE.

the same motive as Sun Fein: and a jolly good motive too, as far as it goes. He thinks the Irish are the enemies of England; and he will not give those enemies weapons or even release them from chains.

WHAT THE ENGLISHMAN THINKS.

at the head of the advancing column, with a detached expression, then I should feel entirely English, and cheerfully answer him with the simpler music of the big drum.

Then we should rediscover what The English had been lectured for

is really worth defending in England; half a century about German super.

This is not statesmanship, but it we should remember the Christmas. iority, when they found they had to fight to the death against German is at least sanity; and is quite comfort, the ancient laughter and debasement. If we had realized from healthy so long as it can still rise the liberty, and see the whole map. the first that the Germans were to be insular, and does not condes like a maze of inns between the savages, we might have found it cend to be imperial. It is tolerapples of Hereford and the hops of easier to forgive them when they able or even tenable so long as it Kent. Perhaps we might ever, trace behaved like savages; or even to does not talk any Borid humbug the English humour and humanity. recognize some of them as noble about a superior race, or the spread in things more dehumanized; and We should hardly have of enlightenment, or backward make war even for the mighty mis savages.

от the been so bitter if we had actually peoples,

avoidance of takea of England. Perhaps I might Upon these terms. It is be found effectually fighting for been at war with the King of the anarchy. Cannibal Islands or. (as he probably is war; we keep the Irish as captives Liverpool; and Mr. Yeats discovered by this time) the President of the because they are prisoners of war in the act of dying for Belfast. Ar Republic of the Cannibal Islands. we do not let them go because we how it would be a war that could be. It would be a typical modern rethink they could very successfully national" and, therefore, noble on form, and one on the Teutonic model, wage war. We do not rule them on both sides. It would be better to depose the king without deposing because they are weak, but because than this detestable degradation / the cannibal. But if the inhabitants they are strong. We do not distrust two patriotic peoples; eternally try of our lalands had been told nothing them because they are unenlightened, ing one of them to bypocritical about those other and distant islands but because they are alarmingly cruelty and the other to secret crinic. under the southern stars, except that intelligent. We distrust them be they were far ahead of us in safe cause they are the strong, enlightened, fictency of food supply, fa economy intelligent enemies our country. with cold meat, in a wider range of. This is what the sine English Union cooking and a more hygienic mode of fist has always meant; and he would burial then I think it would have have been a thousand times wiser if cough be careful, to keep the come as rather a shock to the unhe had always said it.

For cultured masses of this country, when Now there is an answer to this they first discovered what is the Eag point of English patriotism; the other fish for an anthropophagist, points about Anglo-Saxon superiority The English had not only been are not worth answering. And the Lasked into fury but cheated out of answer for an English patriot is this admiration; and the indignation thar that as things stand it is more vital went out, and is still going out, to England than to Ireland that the

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