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ley heard of it, he remarked: reported that they had no more lines makes these two irreconcile

Sure, and they nađe ut."; So do than 800,000 tons, and needed able statements. ļotheri.

AUSTRALIA.

(1) Nothing but the Colony's

best will express our grati

:

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920,

BOLSHEVIKI AND LETTS CONCLUDE ARMISTICE.

COMMONSENSE OF A CADET.

London, February:-The conclu-

tude to those men of Hone-Book Review by the ADVERGARIAN.)sion of an armistoe by the Lons with

kong who gave their lives for their King and Empire. [That's for the site. I

the Bolsheviki is andounced in a'dis-

Riga

Elementary Cantonese, by N. Lpatch received here to-night from

Smith.

Hongkong: Kelly &

Walsh. Ltd. 181 p.p. boards, cloth grip. $3.25.

Warsaw, Tuesday, February 1-- Stiff Work of framing the outline of peace conditions to be communicated to the

400000 tons at it.. They said the Have they got an officers had reported 80,000 tona **officer class in a Danzig and 20,000 tons at Australia ? Billy Hamburg which did not exist. | Hughes seems to think so, other The Allies asked if this were so. wise he is claiming credit for some-Britain, replied that the original thing he couldn't help-cooking • figures were correct, ». However, (2) I do hope that we shall not virtue out of a necessity as they knowing human frailty,the Allies spend three lakhs of dollars. say. He stated recently that 97 told the Germans that if they could

The cost should be per cent, of the officers of the Aus- prove their figures, the Allied de- limited to, say, $50,000. tralian Imperial Forces had risenmands would be reduced. An

(That's for the money.) The worthy Thomas Hobbes of Russian Sovier Government has been from the ranks.. He added that Allied naval commission sent to the Isn't that exactly on all fours with Malmesbury tells us that "the People began by the Polish Cabinet, which similar opportunities for promotion two ports named found that the the hypocrisy of the man who sings are to be taught that they ought not plans to present them to the Dice early should, and would, be given, to the British figures were not correct. "Were the whole realm of nature to be led with admiration of the Ver- next-week. Recognition of the ins men of his Majesty's Australian The Allies abated £25,000 tons of mine and then slips as threepenny me of any of their fellow Subjects, dependence of border states between Navy. We want that. Keep your their demand. Then a freeh srouble bit into the offertory? Wonder if how high soever he stand, nor how Russia and Poland, discuasion of pro- ears open, and you'll notice that arose, over the division of the com- the Rev. Mr. Maconachie has ever conspicuously seever be shine in the posed plebiscites and consideration of quite decent Englishmen still say pensation. The Allies gave 70 permet any of that breed? This parti- Commonwealth." As one that has indemnites formed the basis of the He's's Ranker in the same tone cent. to Britain (whose careless-culas insect of an "Imperialist done something to teach the people Peace conversation-San Francisco as they would say the poor chap's nesa bad wermitted the cuttling} {pibably am of the Telegraph'e the reverse of admiration, and parti- Chronicle. got smallros. The rank is fut and divided the rest among the own stall. By the way) háp the nerve starly not to expat brainy lesua the guinea-stamp: the raso's the others. America, for example, was to refer to otte ** omary folk from the Cadet system, it becomes. gowd for a" tha^*~

offered two per cent. This worked who want the Government to all my plain dury, with such a book as sell very intelligende points out, kame We bare decided to out at one German cruiser and one the best rite," and to songratulate this before me, to warn the common sort of an aid to memory is requiredt, Botors publish no more U-boat, or ena. 8,000-ton Rock: the panjandrums and the taipans people to whom I am a sort of Game and "it is obvious that the mone bouqueta." They Even then it wanfurther specified | en placing sentiment before mere fel that they must not suppose, nor closely this approaches to the, nearest were good advertising to influence that Ameries must ink ber share tollars." Can you beat that? did I ever go,ep far as to say, that a English equivalent, the less will be the silly sheep who still patronize after one year of receipt. America.timent is nothing but the Cadet cannot have brains, and be the strain on the memory.

"C'mo inferior goods; but we simply can refused to accept ans et all: This best. But the "cost should be clever or wise, or do clever or wise fat that a chees approach was pro not bear the discovery that some is how the world in being recen-dited." Ought soch animals to works. Those people who once asked site. I also maintaid that scientine, decent fellows. came to the corcho-structed by the beaten born be at large?

I any good thing could come on of phonetics (with 'a; uniformily of "sound" sion that we take such things, or diplomatic mompotista, like a lot

We must not let Nazareth were no ancestors of mine, values) can be amined by Mr. N. L ourselves, seriously. Many more of schoolboye quarrelling pra

rasa this bit from have learned, to see and welcome Smith's methods without the need for tributes to our superlative merits marbles.

GRATUITOUS pro-taipan Mom-

ing Fort. Here od whence-so-ever it comes, were way marks or symbols not in the have poured in since we printed the

In the ordinary

i from my dearest enemy. I have alphabet. Ha wül perhaps be grati- [the district west) lase, evidently for publication. It

run of things on e

been known to agree with a Bishop fed to learn of this, and understand isn't praise we want, but your ten

sailing ship a good of the Post Office) for hundreds of (who said that Hegel was a windy ass why I am disappointed that his aim cants. Ten cents invested in the

yards we are confronted with scores and to applaud an utterance by a pro- should have been so good, and the China Mail each evening will make to the man at the wheel. In a way imagination can be said to be con- drink. There is no suggestion here Enough on this point. Apart from any law is not to speak of buildings which by to fight of freer who said "Come and have a score on his target not a perfect bull. Ltd you wiser and honester citizens. it is seditions to do so. and very sistent with the dignity of the of inimical feelings, past or present, desire to learn Chinese, his chapter

Make a point of not forgetting; unwise. But with a following sea, Colony, more especially on Don't send for “an evening paper

N. L. Smith. I don't on pronunciation is good reading. 1. and combers growing, if the helms- send for the China Mail. The man is noticed to be nervous, apt scribed as other than a disgrace to Cacet, is now in our Civil Service, to learn Chinese, if you have learnt water front, which cannot be oknow him. I only know that he was refer the reader to you want best is good enough for you.

to look behind him, a weakling. D History is generally has been found good policy to kick These disgraceful buildings are oc-I have been asking for, unavailingly, mind that you don't want to learn it,

a city of Hongkong's importance. and that he has produced a book that HISTORY. conceded to be the him off the poor and to put cupied by the real makers of our for nearly twenty years.

finest of all studies.another man in his place. In poli- business, the Chinese, on whom we

you should invest $3.25 in this book, This, however, applies to ideal tics that is Bolshevism, or revolu

You know the drawing-room (some-because it is. a very interesting coù- history, honest history. not pseudo- tion, or sedition. It seems a pity, would all go Home. They have to

Without them, the taipans times smoking-room) game of defini-tribution to the study of language history. From one point Of view because the ship of state certainly

tions? Some abstract noun is sub-generally. I hope to see further and history betrays the fact that right now has big waves behind it. If be on the sea-front, for business mitted, and epigrammatic definitions enlarged editions.

reasons, and they cannot do their from the beginning nuen have al

Those terrible tones. are called for. But what's the use?

Thus "modesty ***

it is the work in a couple of expensive rooms might be defined as the China Mail tonic complexity of Chinese that dis- ways been fools. From another,

If some highly in the centre of the city: Not ever on Sundays," and "merit" expressed maxs most of us, and here N.. L. the discovery is made that the

placed men could the taipans are here for the dignity foolishness pertains to the his. torians. As for current history.

ADVERSARIAN's have a look over of the city, but for dollars. Hands the Adversarian's off our Chinese business men. We (ride propaganda) good judges tell

** brief ** these need 'em. us that it is mostly a magina of

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mornings, they would get a shock. No danger, correspondents. That s seen to first. The war mem- orial* stuff has waked 'em up. Letters praiseful, letters abusive,

Plain and Check Zephyrs. After all the telegrams referring to letters suggestive, and alasf not for

publication-have come in. One

WIELOMY

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LOCAL AND GENERIL.

the

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even if you have nude up your ›

the three letters O.B.E. I have Smith is really most helpful. He has always thought that a good definition brought commensense to bear on the of irony "would be the title of the method of helping us to remember the book "Cantonese Made Easy." Per-nine tones, from the upper com- haps it would be impossible to thakemon." and the "upper rising." through the study of Cantonese easy to the whole gamut of

going" and "entering tones. European, but it is not to be denied

By a simple use that this new work by N. L. Smith of the double ruling in the copy-book, Today's dollar is worth 45. 11 d. makes it easier than does any book so rather suggestive of the musical staf

far published. I have examined all he has banished altogether those The Bishop will hold a con- of them that I ever heard of or could idiotic and needlessly complicated one me who hay, a clear idea of man sends cuttings from the other frmation service in St. Andrews trace, and have found them all based diacritical marks. Being a language what they did, or tried to do. Lift Papers, carefully underlined.

on the Palman system, which obliges of monosyllables, Chinese is more a large stone.

may give a few sample extracts. Church on Sunday at 6 p.m. Watch the usayOne, addressed Dear, amusing

you to learn all the French irregular liable to confusion through simi- movements of the pisinires. That Devil," advises us to cool off

The Admiral Line has loaded verbs in order to remember that lar sounds meaning different things is human history.

the Shipping Board vessel "Robin there should be hops in good beer. than ours is. We depend on context and reflect calmly that as the tal-Gray" with 11,000 tons of rice for As N. L. Smith remarks in his pre-entirely to save us from error, and it Presumably you all

pans are invariably left to subscribe know the fable of the 15 per cent, of the cost of such transport to Cuba. The vessel cleared face: There seems to be a sort of a schoolboy reading aloud is heard to

from this port yesterday. fox win lost his tail,

Freemasonry among those who have say: Here is a warm dough-nur. served their apprenticeship with Tread on it, we know that he Of the 90,000 Chinese coolies month of sia-sin-sin-sit drudgery, really means: "Here is a worm. int they make has reference to and endeavoured to persuade all the things, they should have at least 75

INSPECTION INVITED.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mrs. Pelagia M. Hyndman and

of sympathy during their bereavement.

current abral, and they deprecate

the abuse of Ways and Means Account advances. The ehren dest

A FABLE.

We

per cent. of the couttol." There's

The China Mail.pulleys to ensure that the sun shall why he was railles, and advising late for the fair-bas quite a new

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC

SERVICE

FONGLONG, THURSDAY, MARCE 25, 1920.

ENCHANGE AND PRICES..

The parliamentary committée an Currency and Foreign Exchanges and report, and the country isn': After the War" has issued its bapurth the wiser. The papers

two years.

Do

and friends for the kind manifestations the way in which our super-states- other foxes to part with theirs. soraething in that, as the monkey engaged in France, 70,000 had been followed by a simultaneous study of not tread on it." In a few instances family beg to thank their relatives

There some nature in it; recent men have exercised their ingeruity he is into hit the off the fables suid; and curiously eigh it hap repatriated by the end of February, the Chinese written language, and to the Cantonese depend on the context

in tinkering with trade, great in-

pens to be the very paint made by The remaining 20,000, specially ventions to assist water to run down are designed to do. the story should the Editor of the China Mail in selected, will continue their work whom it will seem almost improper to also, but without the tones they would disregard the initiatory rites and other be lost. No approximation of English hill, and a most carefully arranged have shown the fox snob jeering at conversation with us two days ago. for a further period

traditions of their craft. I take his stresses can help us here. As N. L. system of political levers and the unfortunate one, asking him Another one-bough much too

We are informed by the Right meaning. There is more jalousie de Smith reminds us fp. 19] "the fast rise and set each day. They grant-him to buy a brush right away and sensible constructive critic Revd, Bishop B. Pozzoni that the metter among sinologues than among word of the sentence de it now is ed loans and credits to enable The assumption of the crowd that is He argues that the most Revd. Father John Thompkins, S. J.. any other class of men, as I discover said to be the equivalent of the first Goreign States to pay for British it is always perfect, and that the suitable memorial would have been will preach at the Catholic Cathedral ed when employing them to review tone in the upper register. Such exports, while having to pay cash eccentric is always wrong, is a vast a new stone pier to replace the on Sunday, the 28th instant, during each other's books for the Daily Press descriptions are, however, of little for most of our imports. The Commence. The first man who Statue Whari, the matshed and the reading of the Gospel at the years ago. They even seem jealous value, as we have no uniformity of or those who would humbly learn of intonation in English. The strong mitted recommends an unbrella peared without a tail was prob- bamboo horror that as present dis-9,30 Mass.

them, and are about as helpful as the silent man of Action [why of fic- for rain, by pointing out that pre-ly jolly well jerred at by the figures Statne Square-and is in

A Chinese Exchange Bank-the teacher who explained to some small tion. I would probably utter the now Terence should be given to exports normal anthropoids. Even so to-

such discordant contrast with it." to countries able to make payments day they say: Ought you, to whereupon we thought of another Taito Bank-is being established at boys that" epitome is to all intents of the example given in his deepest

wear a green tie with a blue suit? in the ordinary course of trade. Why are you not a member of themument on the $800,000 site. Operations will be confined conundrum, they put in irrelevant stuff the squeak which it is intended to re- argument against the $300,000 Hongkong with a subscribed capital and purposes a "synonym for synthe tones if addressing the villain: he of £1,000,000 one-half paid up. Thesis. Like the man who garbled the would almost certainly not go of in All of which is destructive criticism,

the Club? "Why don't you which we had overlooked.. Won't to exchange business, and branches to make it harder. Vail's constructive criticism? It is dance? Why don't you dress it dwarf the existing monuments in are to be opened at Shanghai, Amoy ous preface to this, work suggests, firm it with personal grief) that anyone As the humor-present." It is mentioned (and I con- of course. What then, is the China ces tertain that any is called for, for dinner"Why don't you Statue Square, and so to speak Singapore and lava.

waste all your inaney at the bar as belittle our beloved Royal Family?"

there is really no sufficient reason why lacking the musical ear will never be are still full of claytrap, and ama-but should it be, it is soon express

they should call a cow a k'mu. 1 look able to speak good Chinese. Unless In effect, why are you The number of applause 'chtte, of teur ecorumists them their tabs ed, and simply sail.

Hack the we do?"

A British shipping manager at their complicated accent marks you can detect flats and sharps (I can- different from us? Wages go | lot,"

The correct the "Carry on. Keep it up stated yesterday that one of the and tone indicators, and I cease to nor, except flukily) you had better give at every corner.

answer is that given by the first kind, has atuazed even ne. One of great drawbacks to the shipping scorn the late Randolph Churchill, for up hope. So. N. L. Smith's fethed Prices go up. Temper goes up.

man to the other anthropoids. the abusive ones accuses us of pri- industry at present is the high cost being bothered by those damned is to use two parallel. lines denoting Wage earners at Home are sick and

A writer in the Far vate malice towards a certain per- of supplies, including coal. He said dors in decimal suris. N. L. Smith the full range of the ordinary talking sore at leing told so often "that

Eastern Regier, of son. That is absurd. We don't that the costs of operation have anticipates that they will be infuriated voice. This gives him sufficient posi wages are now phenomenally high.

Tokyo set out to tell even know the gentleman, have nearly quadrupled," while the freight They are remarkable high-on and

What the Chinese never spoken to him; nor he to us, rates, due to the large number of by the method of spelling he has rions in which to print his Romanized in paper-but in practice they find

JORNALESE. Hongkong lester of coolie thinks of the European.** and have never in any shape or ships engaging in the traffic, have adopted. Let them. Le: the heathen words so that a clear mental picture of Shanghai paper As usual, armed with a good idea, form been toutually interested in a lowering tendency. While some rage. Their own atempts of phonetic their pitch or tone may be memorized. resent the frequent imputation, no that Sir Joba dordan wis on his he tries to prove too much. There similar things, Na, no. Even. Mr. companies are going ahead with spelling were Lamentable, and resulted Above the top line and across it and doubt made in all good faith, that way to England as the guest of the are no class distinctions among the Johnstone over mid malicious their development work, many are in bewilderment for the reader who, along it we have respectively the up- thing of phonetic unilormity. N. L. The same device with the lower line they are overpaid. Incidentally, Governor at Government House." the situation has merit as a visible People frequently prophesy that the Chinese. The Chinese are the most insult." If we have insulted any standing still, awaiting "The Turn like myself, really does know some- per common, rising, and going tories.

truly democratic people in the body, it was gratuitous,

of the Tide."

Smith spells the Cantonese sounds gives others. Ferhaps it might have. answer to some of the arguments Adversarian will ultimately go that world. But it is not true that the malicious:

in the way. No such luck,

coolie is familiar with the Con-

On Good Friday evening a num- (generally speaking) as nearly as pos- served to, take the musical staff at of the Tarif Reformers

Having poked fun at fucian classics, and well versed in

Looking at the ber of selections from the Oratorios sible as if they were English words. once, and be done with it. famous, pre-war controversy. Pro-

marked QUICK the simple and digni- the laws of etiquette and courtesy:

cuttings will be given at 915. by a Chorus of Sometimes, as was only to be expect would have given, between and on ducers are tired of being denounced

CHANGE. fied ** war memorial, It is true that some Chinese who

'from the other three over 70 voices under the direction of ed, seeing that our English spelling the lines, exact positions for the nine papers, we are at Mr. Denman Fuller. These per- is so erratic, this makes for doubt tones. It might have simplified the

that they are worse off than they used to be on low wages, and they

as profiteers, alleging that prices

are fixed for them, and not by

.

ADVERSARIA.

COULIE

We notice in the

MANNERS.

THE OTHER SIDE..

not!

J

That

padre, and believe it impossible for bus on looking up the records, we barians on, whom good manners of their arguments" would make it has been a matter of difficulty for What is "shue, shoo-ay"

a worm turn, so incredibly incon late comers to find seats although she-oo" Inning huy (take by no means exhaustive, I look it te

The Redemption

"Lux

we noted that it sud-are polite to other Chinese are. them. Possibly some of them teil denly became (officially) simple habitually rude to Europeans; but loss what to say. We want to let formances of Oratorio have become The spelling and the sound of a word printing of the book. But I can think the truth, though we cannot pre- and appropriate." At first we it, is not true that they do this be the lads alone on the ground that increasingly popular since their insti-like seen is never in doubt; but of objections to it, and I do not offer tend to be as innocent as a local thought we must have misquoted, cause they think "ce ignorant bar- they are doing their best but sote turion some years ago and usually what of mien, either, and the like? the ggestion as an improvement or After one evening's study of the book, puditeers, to be, or workmen ton found that the old had been would be wasted. Trae courtesy is sistent and stupid they are. There the ordinary scating of the Cathedral away) are we to pronounce the second an educated Chinese friend, and ex- prod. It doesn't help much to swiftly and quietly changed. The chronic, and makes no exception. is the argument about the city's is always considerably added to for word as in the English "buy" We perimented. I was agreeably sum trace the evil to the paper currency. dignity has gone, but the simplicity Those who are rude to us are so

need for ** lungs. Applied to a these occasions. The selection to be are not. This is not the best feature prised, after explaining the iden," and If the Government must have stays. The appropriate simplicity because they are not really cour- money, and hasn't got it, it will is priced at $1,100,000. Sell the teous and well trained, or because site on the ses front, that is a given this year comprises of his book I'll come to that pre-begging to be corrected whenever

they have reason to dislike us. A scream. Isn't the barbour lung" from make it. Nor does it help the site, collect your $300,000, buy

The prodigal permitted to make one or two sug-ful shots I made. With my almost situation to burangne the workers, sirupie and appropriate memorial gentleman is always a gentleman; enough? That jargon of lungs Christi" "The daughter of Jairus," sently and I wish I could have been necessary, by the number of success- gestions before it went to the printers. useless ears, and my generally duf telling them to

The English idea is excellent; it really ferish attempts, it wasn't a laic test.. produce." It is for a quarter the money, and use regardless of race or class, and belongs really to congested resident. By faith, alone," something like asking a man with the balance for the good of the city: intermittent rudeness on any excuse ial areas, and cannot sensibly be son" and "Via Crucis."

furfeits and disproves the title.applied to our airy city or its busi

The Treasurer of the Leper and does seam helpful; but I think he At least it was an exceptionally severe a gum-boil to sing at a party. The Constructive criticism).

Reporting the dis-Many of the Chinese set forms of ness offices fronting the sea.

General Hospital, Pakhni, acknow has departed from it sometimes. No one. I hope to have the reports of Committee talks of the urgent im-

MORE covery of two Brzos polite speech have become as mean-

As was to be expected, ledges with thanks the following Englishman, Following English rules, more accomplished students, to whom would know from this book how to I believe this book will come as a very portance of restoring pre-wur

CANT, there is too much cant gifts: JOURNALESE, and two legs in a ingless as our own. Many cooliee methods of currency control and

about the deserts of

pronounce the second word in fav great help. It should at least possess credit and the re-establishment of

chaay(matches). Chigh even, ugly mnemonic value that, no "other Can legeFor the Leper Christ-- free gold market, much in the chow Creek, d Shanghai contem-each other. However, the article

mas Treat.

2.5 #sk is, would have been better; or tonese primer does. Moreover, the. same way that Mr. Dombey urged porary observes that it is be- deserves attention, containing pro- bis dying wife to make an effort." lived" that they are evidences of fitable suggestions. You will find died right enough, and nobody Cloth to the value of

5 (if that gives too short a sound) cha- vocabulary is well chosen, with un mourns them more sincerely and They emphasise that increased proa murder. No one is likely to it elsewhere in this issue.

British officers re-respectfully than we do. We think Per Bishop Lander, a useful supply. It may be said (the author ex-eye to the student's rarlie require of medicine bottles for the Disins it in his third chapter) that, no dents, as in the Rosenthal sistem dľ dection, cessation, of Government regard then as evidences of a wed

REPARATION ported that Ger- so honestly about them, in fact, of a christening. borrowings and decreased expendi-ding or of a

pensaries at Pakhol and Liem posible arrangement of Roman letters language teaching. There are five adequately represent the appendices, in which gems of Chinese A Tokyo paper.

many had 700,000 that it annoys ns to find people who

chow..

nos which constitute the language psychology, may be found, Have I fore, both public and private, are first essentials to recovery. They

NECESSARY, speaks of a wave tons of dock or other maritime don't mean it dragging in their dead),

Southern China." What I say is made it clear that I think highly of of unrest there, equipment. As reparation for the bodies to bolster up their argu Per Mrs. Lander-A supply of cloth- re-firm their view that the prin

that his excellent idea could have been this book, that it is good? If so, I' cipies of the Bank Act of 1844 are because some workmen are demand scotiling of the German flest at4inente Could there be cant more hetter adapted to the needs of the

more excellently, that is to say more need way no more than Go get it.. -Clothing, books and old linen.moroughly, carried out. As he him- Nee bo shue ho country than are any of the systems

*

bag in the Soo-(not all) are rude and boorish. to those who died that, we might From St. Stephen's Giria Col

Hive, etc. We know why they

ing for the leper ten..

ing more leisure for physical and Scapa Flow, the Allies demanded nauseous than that of Imperial From Miss Innes, Latida Hospital- mental improvement. When Doo 400,000 tons of it. The Germans ist, who within the space of a few