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A CONCERT AT THE OLD PAK-HONG.

"T was a Saturday night't was a lovely night. With our world in beauty and peace immersed. With a moon at full, and the stars aff bright, And a calm still river swiftly traversed

As our boatmen nï-yahd of all their might

And in heathen Chines' conversed.

At the Old Pak Hong there was a gay, great throng

Of happy and frolicking, carefree youth,

There were gowns from Sing Fat and from Yan Wing Hoon Silks and furbelows, laces and satins smooth,

Jade and rubies and pearls and wrought gold by the ton And rouge, scents and powders forsooth.

We had come from East, we had come from West We had come from far-away shores:"

We had come from the lands of dreams and unrest, And nome had seen better, and some bad fared worse, But to-night we were out on a pleasure quest And had made our pact with remorse,

And the Band struck up,t was our Chief P.02

'Twas our Paderewsky who played;

And the way he banged into that piano

Would have made Paderewsky himself feel dismayed:

It was forte, piano, fortissimo,

And a marvel how well he stayed.

Then they gave of their riches, our chosen few,

Our proved ones at humour and music and song:. The fake old clergyman at his pew,

And Salome with her sweet little beru garcon, Charlie Chaplin the great in a terrible stew O'er a Hamburgher-wurst too long.

When the Diva sung, 't was a clarion call From a youth in which many had lost their way, Then there was not a man in that large great hall But beard whispering voices from shores far away: And a young fellow cried, he had lost his all In the treacherous Bay of Biscay.

Then 'Old Sweety' and banjos and mandolins gay And the torments and ravings of fifes and gongs. And the Minor Delights, how they all pegged away At their old, tweet, haunting, melodious songs: Utter sacrilege would it be here to betray How they went at them 'hammers and tongs."

And again came the Band, now an old gramaphone, An out-of-date, crazy and war-battered thing. And the dance glided forth like a tamed cyclone- Little matters the time when Gay Youth wants his fling: Let the weary ones sleep at the foot of the throre Where Young Frolic wields power as king.

So in dance they rejoiced until late-born dawn

As the gramaphone stuttered and wheezed and groaned; Then 'enough is enough' whispered many a fawn Who had ne'er as as a quitter before been renowned, But scarcely by force could young Phyllis be drawn From a partner who sleepily frowned.

--AN ANCIENT MARINER..

SHANGHAI "TRENCHES." | LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

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The ss. "Japan," Capt. Munro, salled for Kobe via Shanghai at 7 am to-day with 120 tons of general cargo.

November 2, 1919, Temperature 70

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OIL IN FRANCE.

PARIS, October ih.

A Havas message SUJṣ:

A large petroleum deposit has just been struck upon in the French province, of Auvergne.

OCCUPATION OF KATTI.

WASHINGTON, October ih General Barnett, ex-Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, giving evi- dence before the Naval Cours of Inquiry in the conditions of the occupation of Hayti by the United States forces, said that 9.950 natives were killed daring the occupation, De 3,250, as previously seated The Erregeons announcement was due to a mis take in addition

MR. MCSWINEY A MARTYR.!

CINCINNATI, October 25th. Governor Cox, repiring to a questioner, declared that Mr. MacSwiney died as a

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SWEDEN'S NEEDS.

STOCKHOLM, October 28th. The Premier, Baron Degeer, has stated that the Government will firmly adhere to the previous Government's policy in regard to the Aaland Islands, carefully consider all possible measures to support the country's industrial and commercial life, and exercise strict economy be will maintain the quality of Sweden's defence.

US. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

"LONDON, October 30th Three weeks ago 3 Repubbeen victory for Sezator Harding in the Presidential elec tion was regarded as a dead certaisty," and it was thought that the Democrat, Governor Cox, will be hopelessly beaten.

Since then there has been an extraonator:

in the situation. Firstly,

change it

the

Harding's uncompromising repodiation of League of Nations amazed the country. staggered his numerous Republican up- porters and subsequent explanations were regarded as lame and unsatisfying; then, a cartoon parodying Raphael's Immaen. 1ste Conceptica" has outraged the feelings of Roman Catholics, necessitating full

ublic apologies, and feally, the

Pathetic appeal from President Wilson, who is ill and suffering, made in a speech from an izvalid chair, has touched popular emocions. wonderfully heartened the Democrats and produced an extraordinary reaction in his favour.

Consequently, i now predicted by indental persons that the Republicans are likely to lose in the Secate, making Serator Harding's election & pyrrhic victory. As present the Republican majority in the Senate is only tro.

WASHINGTON, October stb. President Willson has written to Mr. Cox declaring that he has followed the course *Haiching," Captain of the Presidential campaign with admira Stewart, sailed for Foochow ation and that he believee Mr. Cox will receive ephatic. endorsements from the Swatow at 12 noon to-day with voters of the country. 1,600 tons of general cargo.

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The ss."Telemachus" Captain Spittle, sailed-for: Saigon at 4 p.m. to-day with 1,700 tons of general cargo

A NOTORIOUS DISTRICT. Commenting on the new Chinese police order for the closing of the Shanghai Trenches" from mid- night until 7 a.. and the prohibition of drunkenness, loud singing, dan- cing and noises at places where Chinese territory and the Settlement meet," the Shanghai Times says that whether the Chinese authorities have by their own initiative brought into effect the new regulations or whether

The Hydrangea,” Captain these are the result of frequent Drummond, sailed for Swatow at 5 probing OB the part of the pum. to-day with 450 tons of general Municipal Council of the Interna- | cargo. tional Settlement is a secondary matter compared with the fact that something is at last actually being done. "The Trenches" has been for years a notorious and pernicious place, the favorite haunt of the "Bohemian spirits who love to rove abroad when they would be much better in bed, and who, not mirequently, get into more or less

The ss. "Asia," Chinese, cleared serious trouble by their association with the place. Being in such close today and will sail for Manila at proximity to the International 4p.m. to-morrow. Settlement it was and is a never- falling lure to foreigners spree" and, as stated, was in many respects an incessant source of danger. This unsavoury district is

on the

a conglomeration of cabarets--some

CLEARANCES,

The ss. "Namwan, Portuguese, cleared to-day and will sail for Hoihow at 7 am to-morrow.

Thess. "Taksang.” British, cleared

to-day and will sall for Haiphong at 10.30 am. to-morrow.

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President Wilson concludes that Mr. Cox has spoken truly and fearlessly on the great issues at stake and expresses entire con-

dence in him.

DEATH OF COMMANDER PAGE.

Loxbox, October 28th. Commander G. L Page, who was on leave from the China Station, was found dead in a taxi-cab at Ealing last night. A discharged shot-gun in the cab suggested that the gun had been discharged acident- ally.

FRENCH MISSION TO CHINA.

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PARIS, October 28th, A Havas message saya Profemor Paialeve and members "of the French Scientific Mission, which recently visited China, bare arrived at Mane Iles. Besides imparting practical advice upon re-organizing railroads and establishing centres for higher learning in China, the mission, according to M. Painleve, was able to obtain important results in the matter of futare scientific intercourse between the French and the Chinese Republics.

An institute entirely to be devoted to Chinese studies is soon to open in Paris,

Peking

of them well-conducted, but mostly Messrs. J. D. Jordi, F. Lickley, D. and French University is to be established

of a disreputable character, while Lyle, Cortis, A., E. Lawler, Joan-The Chinese University in Lyons is to be many of the smaller bars were and sen. A. C. B. Tourle, C. P. Marceli, developed, thanks to a subsidy granted by are positive haunts of iniquity, fre- and Master Kirigi... quented in the main by the roughest

and "toughest" of foreigners, mostly

of the seafaring class. The on the action they have taken, Trenches" being In Chinese territory though we must add that it ought to

is of course amenable only to have been taken long ago..

and that The N.C. Daily News remarks Chinese jurisdiction,

As from all reports, it is the until now, so far as this place was concerned, has been lax in the ex-witching hour of midnight before treme. The cabarets and bars could gainty, reaches mything like its and did keep open until five o'clock maximum at the Trenches," it is every morning, and not infrequently evitable that the enforcement of the place, with its glaring lights, the regulations will be unpopular tawdry trappings, drunken denizens, among the denizens there. When its cabaret dancers to their flimsy the notification was inued the pre- attire, was the scene of the wildest mises proceeded to close one after dissipation. Happily, all this is very the other when midnight had struck, likely soon to be a thing of the past only a few of the most obstinate as the Chinese authorities have order having the temerity to flout the Fed that, all the notorious premises authorities. But although only a must be closed by: midnight, and few days have since claimed, the remain closed until, seven o'clock irksomeness of the regulation as next morning.. The night is The already created rebellious feelings in. Trenches is not likely to be the hearts of many, and more than rendered hideous" by the orgles an inclination to return to the old that were wont to be seen, and a regime "sad" pake the chances, is fertile source of besuotation to many apperest. This is only to be expected, will thus be remared, "The Chinese for the loss of the rareane munt be authorities are to be congratulated | comiderable.

Southern China.

OUR TERRIBLE

ADVERSARIUS

We had not until quite lately realized what a pest our contributor "Adversarius ” has become. ··· “A” learned person, contributing a serious article, begged the editor to "keep Adversaitus off it," and to daythe author of the Canton poem in this issue sincerely "trusts that The Adversarian won't get bold of it and pick it to pieces." The wicked old man seems to be regarded" as a bit of a monkey. However, cons tributors may rest themselves tran- quily. We've bought a muzzle-for- him, which is taken off only on "Saturday mornings: The sufrestion that we should send him to the Botanical Gardens (200 department) we cannot accept, for he has his uges, in terrifying wrong-doers,

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