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The empty head (who FUNK ever he was) that wrote that leader" in last

'QUIET OF

THE PEAK.

The people down below are still talk- ing together indigo- anily about the

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1920.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Wilham IL Gale is "recognized” as Consul-General here for the USA.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Ho has reported to the palice that his office in Alessandra. Building was entered last night and a quantity of surgical instruments valued at $415 were stoka.

Capt. E. L. M. Barrett, of the Police Dept, cricketer and all-round athlete, is due back in Shanghai

for 300

these public bathing beaches. The They want to be taught something narrower vision gives. There is Government," answering the sug-new in the soldiering line occasion-nocolourless abstraction" about igestion that they should ship so ally, or their keenness will stale. Robert Burns, for example.

niany thousands to Stonecuttersi (or elsewhere) were almost justified | in saying that was a matter for Private enterprise. But this phrase night's China Mait about Ponson- about private enterprise in turn by Fane and the Japanese ought cheek * of the Peak protest second Lieutenant in the No. 1 Mr. T. P. M. Bevan is gazetted

Sesta

the Government be sacked. It was nearly all against the disturbance of its quiet Platoon of the Light Infantry Cor. should learn its true function and quotation, The China Mail has and the danger to its children to of the V.D.C duty and reason for being. Un-accustomed us to expect thought-be caused by the invasion of less it believes in "municipal trad-¦ ful leaders. "It must not become motors. They point out that the ing. which we do not suspect, like the others, the space fillers. Feak people have no compunctioning freights and shipping facilities to week in December. Capt Barrett If you want your views regard. į from home leave in England, the first manst regard "commercial develop Sack the fellow.

in making noise on the lower levels get before the Imperial Shipping made an enviable record in English UNAE ** es Krictly a matter for

Some nice people with their motor cars, and no care Committee, tell our Colonial Secretary cricket last Summer. private enterprise. The Colony

ADVENTURES invited me to eat for the more numerous children at once. consists of a great number of

AT KOWLOON. my Thanksgiving below. It is one of those abrious

Exchange of lectures between People all engaged in private entr?~

linner at Kow-tu quoques that they were bound Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick American and Japanese Universities, prise.

What is the Government hou on Thursday. I didn't know to see for themselves. But it is a Tudor Tudor, K.CMG, C.B., whose which has been suspended since the for To poem, to keep peace where their house was, so I asked petty matter compared with the most recent post was the Commander European war, will be revived. Efforts among these pople, to safeguard the molokai at the Ferry to Bathing Beach issue--which in-in-Chief in China, has been appointed will be made to bring the two nations their health, to see that no private direct my riesha was. He waved volves for more "cheek.“

President of the Royal Naval College, to better understandings, the pro- enterprise is a inspass on This arus a lot, and sail "caw pin

I rather like

Grimwich, in seccession to Vice fessors concerned not being satisfied comunsawealth. That is the 'Goth several times, and my man

INSPIRATION. definition submit Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham, with merely giving lectures. (ernment's Bib. Hence it seems set ff. He delivered me at the

ted in an article K.CB. K.C.M.G., KCV.O., recently

Disappointed in Iclear, in view of the thousands who church. I drove back to a grocery in The Author, that the main appointed Commander in Chief, North

his hope depend on these baghes, that its ore, and asked the Chinese there stimulus of inspiration is the desire America and West Indies Station.

a happy life with his Fist duty i reserve those tell him where to go.

in There are certainly

his declining They for escape.

years, beaches for the pupin. Why did. He delivered me 3 Victoria any famous, examples to support ball Players were to arrive at maker in Tokyo unloosed his wrath Twenty-two major league base the aged father of a wealthy cabinet should it want to sell them? To school. The man-servänt there the theory, which is merely an Yokobama on protote commercial development had long argument with my poller, other form of the idea that absence Maru" on Monday, November 22 to his daughter-in-law, who has treated board the "Korea by cutting and slashing the face of which is private enterprise? No. who now showed clear signs that makes the heart grow fonder, play an exhibition game the next day him cruelly, says the Mancha For revenue for its public works his chief anxiety was to get rid of to be in England. now that to help celebrate a Japanese holiday Trouble of this sart is not unfrequent and lufi. S long as it gets that He stopped at every house April's here could not have been and to open their season in the Farin Japanese homes, comments the revenue which it must have that showed a light. At the end written in England. in April. East. They were to play a series of paper, which says that most Japanese cannot matter much to it how is of an hour of these explorations, I have myself published a song at games in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and look forward to a life of splendour gets the money. It would be bet-paid the man off, and tried on foot, Home extolling the

superior Kobe and then visit Shanghai, in their son's homes after they them ter to impa *KW fax, sour and the first Europeans I met told charms of the place called Else | Hongkong and Manila.

selves have passed the age of useful- general and dirvet las, than to sell exactly where to go. The where, and though I am too sby three beches. If it does sell them, totkey with cranberry trim to claim intration for it, I don't 1he case against Mr. Beaumont, Some wiser government in der years mings was good. But the sweet-mind admitting that it was the who was proceeded against some to war, forel with the ressity feat things at the dinner were the finest poem published since Vic-time back by Messrs. F. G. Taylor over the management of the vessels of providing what this Government world throw dway, will execrate it.

toria died. Rupert Brooke wrote & Co., Ltd., in his capacity as man of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, the peaches.

his well known roem to the Camager of that firm regarding the five vessels which have been running fand wonder how any bunch et men

bridge sky while he was under the alleged misapplication of funds, came on the coast. are shortly being bell be sé short-sighted. To brips

sky of Berlin; and all the poets to a conclusion in the District Court, despatched to the Black Sea. It is erantmercial development may be a

who have told us about Hearen did Mr. Langham Carter acquitting Mr. understood that a Belshevik manager overnment panengoat it is not.

so while still on earth. The waiter Beaumont of all blame in the matter has been sent to replace the present (their mal job, which is to look after). law and order and the rodile leath

to call the attention of the public The Author suggests that God under dispute, reports, the Straits agent in lapan and, as this appoint- ment will not be recognised, the to the fact that they are able to made the Ugly as a jumping of Times.

vessels are being withdrawn from the and general well-being. Its bise their two bathing beaches up. I ground to land men in the Beanti- to look fety years ahead, and to puse they kick. Isn't it a poche-ful, and that the Land of Exile is nounce a dividend on deferred shares as passengers over 4.000 army and The Peninsular and Oriental an-trade. They are taking with them the enttunity interest first in its tir commentary on the apathy (or the true country of the poets.

Though I was born a Lon- bonus of three per cent, both tax free have been compelled to flee from of six per cent, for six months and a gaval officers and their families who

And bred in Gloucestershire,

making fifteen per cent for the year. Russia and have been stranded in They also propose to distribute about Far Eastern ports. I walked in Hellas years ago.

The £205,000 deferred stock to deferred "Simbirsk" and "Georric" will sail With friends in white attire,

stockholders on And I remember how my soul.

the company's from Kobe, the "Sinferpool" and

And here's another:

Drank wine as pure as fire."

register on November 23. Owing to "Penza" from Hongkong and the this announcement Peninsular and "Indragirka,” which has been under- Oriental" deferred shares made a going overhaul in Shanghai for sensational jump from 445 to over several months, will proceed 10 Kobe 500.

and thence to the Black Sea--S. and

regard. before "nurely sectional; selfishnesses. - 1

A PUBLIC SPIRITED

OFFER.

Yesterday io

the

thina Meil a public spirited Chinese offer ed to defray the cust hundred posters

the hopelessness of the people adi- creatures į

What wholly

THE VEM mirside

auxh Woold

They

here? Fancy having to shout at

. people that they are being hit in the solar plexus. What wortas! be I don't believe that they are ignor were they eil bera dunke. are so girl with baby, They anal papers have told them of the ant of the position. All four of the reful to how the five servants threat. Three of the papers have in order. But they have tongues. When the spirit mes ber, a talkedrawn special attention to fi. The Ching Mail the People's Paper, ative muthakes Tennyson's

their avowed and accepted cham- bank look like an ab ran. Shei bad inst swept the corridor, and lion has devoted much space to jargument against the sale of these when the monkey dropped beaches, and implored them to banana in down there she was)

NEW AND ARTISTIC DESIGNS. nyert, arl wah) se. The informs write short letters to the papers to

BIRTH.

Postal Service, a daughter.

DEATH

CHAMPKIN: --On November 20, 1920, at Shanghai, Constance Gwendoline, beloved wife of Cyril Champkin.

SIDER

posterity,

Our children and our

show the Government what the ed every neighbor within a radius public opinion is. The Govern of two blocks that she was annoyment is at present in a position to e. Her chinion of monkeys and point out that only four individuals of people who keep monkeys was have accepted the invitation thas friend of mine. Parerga, said 1. eloquently set forth under six to help themselves. If God helps and shook myself. Why should heads and seventy-two sub-heads-only those who help themselves.

·SMITH.--Ô2 October 20, 1920, at, worry? I've unrdered mole. In the midst of what may have He cannot help the Hongkong Crengiu, Szechwan, to Mr. and There is nothing better for a man been her peroration, her white rab-people-who do not take the trou Mis. Vivian Smith, Chinese than that he should eat and drink, bit lollana un and at the bananable to try. They are traitors to

and that he should make his soul skin. She looked at the rabbit, Fenjoy good in his labour. There she looked at the are, she looked children's children are, it seems. is 1 Soul enjoyment posible in at the winning owner of the are to be robbed without a proper de- such panerge. Stick to business. and she closed her mouth like a

murrer. If it were only the pre- Nerds must when trap. She became that most ex-sent generation that were being i THE LIGHT

cellent of creatures, a silent

The editor of the meat to hurry up and get it over. drives, so the only

LITERATTRE Sogl Press bas way stick to

and say Serve 'em right. But IN SEOUL. business in this case will be to

literary leanings one must think of those who are make adversaria deal only with the race to democracy, which ofends tion of wors and slackers, and I He prefers autto come after us. It is a genera- lighter side of life, with fun, wuì with llity, and ignore the many

me, but I forgive him for the sake despise it. Outside on the street ways in which men are being mean rare a thing for Far Eastern jour-a strong body of public opinion so of his literary learings. It is I hear them talking, and there is to each other. Fin can be talists to be intelligently interest-expressed. But when it comes to almost anywhere, even from thee in literature. Speaking of the effective expression in the public dry details of Hongkong Volunteer arth-hypnotists of democracy. my Press. items that what is every Defence Corps orders. stance. what did my friend the confrere gets this off his chest: Adjutant mean on Nov. 24 when he passed this clause?

2. Dress. Cans will be worn on all Drill Order Parades until order: Helmets will always be further notice. Musketry, Prill

The China Mail.

KUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC

SERVICE

HONGRONG, SATURDAY, Nov. 27, 192

ADVERSARIA.

This ugly and pedan- PAPERGA Tic looking word

from the Greek, and

means extra stunts. It means

worn."

A LESSON FOR LOCAL

For in-

jobs done by a man outside his Must they wear the cap on top regular avocation.

These adver- of the helmet, on the helmet over Sana are parerga, for instance, for the cap? Seems to me the drinks my steady b is that of squeezing are on the Major. the utmost possible 'pleasure out of ine. I um an artist in living, and

The demand at any manifestation of public spirit

Home for higher on my part is a parergun. Why:

wages b all should I interpunt my researches SHITOWSERS. classes of men in the science of happiness by

employed on mer anxieties and cares for the public cantile ships tres withdrawn. It welfare? What is the public to is interesting to note why. They me, except a monster the gets in at a conference of masters and my way occasionally, and tries to me, at which the shipowners sub- prevent me from being happy in initted for examination their acthal. my own eccentric ways. The voyage accounts. After a study of parergonistic nature of this Satur these, and only twenty minutes dis- day task of mine was brought home cussion, the men decided to with- to me when I noted the poor re- draw their claims, for the present sponse to the China Moil's appeal at any rate. Should freights rise for the public bathing beaches. appreciably. the matter will be All right, I said I'll ease the mooted again. This shows that Government's minds by telling when treated honestly and frankly, thein that benceforth I'm their mariners can be very reasonable. loyal supporter, and that I will Locally, such an amicable confer- bless whatever they do and defendence was denied, and all the evi- it against all crities. Govern-Hence the men hed was ex parte ment." I'll say to them. You figure's informally given, and "have been chastising these people wangled with exchange considera-

with whips. Now go ahead and tions. chastise them with scorpions.

All the same, if any- body cares to take up | BEACHES. the fight for our pub-

Such arathetic clods deserve it. OUR Tread on their necks." And then

body's business is nobody's busi-

The Germans have PATRIOTISM. collections of war letters

(kriegs- briefe)" just as we have. stadent. writing from the front in One defence of patriotism," said :

Joner

In the county that bred me By the sullen Solway ses There are mountains And fountains

And lakes like inland seas Set within their frame of trees.

Wood and water!

Is the chatter

Of the native who would tell Aspects of the tarn and fell, Where the beather And the weather

And the peewit's ceric cry And the cumulusive sky And the sheep trod Leads up to God

Up the glooming glen Imaginative mea.

Not in factory or barrack Do they do their darrack - But out of doors

Where the torrent roars And the red fox will creep Through the frightened sheep And the hawk soars Over the sloping floors Where the plough goes Slow as the corn grows. Here the Cwri dwell

Of whom historians tell That nor Roman, nor Pict. Them ever licked Nor the Vickings Had pickings.

Of this sturdy rare In this high-up place. Hale men and bonnie lasses Stroll through the dadderen

grasses,

E

Owing to the constant friction

H.M.S. "HAWKINS.”

ARRIVAL HERË TO DAY.

ADMIRAL TRANSFERS HIS FLAG.

5.3

A successful whist drive was held at the Catholic Men's Club on Thursday evening. There was a good attendance. The pretty naw rattan card-tables, and chairs to match, of which 35 sets have been ordered by the Club, were greatly admired. They are specially designed to allow of 45 tables being placed in the main hall alone. The following were the prize wimmers -Ladies: 1 Mrs. Blackford, 177; 2. Mrs. Spanton, 171; 3. Mrs. Booth, 167, Booby Prize, Mrs. Bugz, 131. Gentlemen: 1. Mr.

The "Hawkins" will remain here Gibson, 183; 2. Mr. Lee, 177; 3. Mr. West, 176; 4. Mr. Parker, 173, Booby for several months with the exception Prize, Mr. John. 132: Mr. Spettigue of short cruises for firing practice, the acted as MC.. and the prizes were first of which is expected to take presented by Mr. R. W. Brown. place early next week.

HMS. "Hawkins" arrived in Hongkong harbour about 8 o'clock this morning after an extended visit " to the North.

At noon to-day Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Duff. KCB, transferred his flag from the "Alacrity" rathe

Hawkins."

KINEMA NOTES.

CORONET PICTURES.

Commenting upon the latest Peking sensation the P. & T. Times remarks:The escape of 'Little' Hsn is one of those incidents, of much too frequent occurrence, which serve to throw doubts upon the sincerity of the Japanese authorities in China. Prisoners have, of course, been known to make their escape in the face of almost insuperable ob- stacles, and despite precautions which left nothing to be desired, And Little Hsu was not a prisoner, but a re- fugee in the Japanese Legation Heralded by critics as the most Compound, and may therefore have tremendous screen production of the enjoyed much greater liberty than a year, "The Miracle Man' prisoner. But the Japanese authori- to the Coronet Theatre to-day, and ties, who reveal such remarkable is to be screened for one week efficiency in other directions, will find only.

"THE MIRACLE MAN,”

comes

Down the loanin to the lake Mid the briar and the brake As they did in days of yore Centuries ago, sad, moré, Untouched by urban sophistry In the county that bred me.

"Trod" is a noun, not a verb, and means path.Darrak" is old English for Cumbrian) for day's numbered: The refusal to believe city on Saturday afternoon, a great Are the propagandist's days "In the largest anditorium in the work. G.f. The Scottish darg-" the story of the prodigious forgery crowd of men and women watched the final foc of our ideas and Dadderen is quaking or dod of Bank of Korea notes for the pur in silence the last scenes of a pictur.. faiths which glows and enlightens dering grass

it difficult to convince, an incredulous The following report of this master- public that his flight was effected piece, taken from the Philadelphia without either gross negligence on North American, will prove of timely their part, or the connivance of some interest to Hongkong, picturegoers, of their officials.

as well as those who usually pass" the cinema by

To conceive of man as a citizen | of the world is a colourless zh- straction. And to keep far aloof from abstractions is the sign of healthy Rourishing vital periods and peoples. It is never posible for.

If one of these agitators were ness. seized with a bad attack of palsy or St. Vinus's dance." in which all of his fingers and toes and other mem bers wished to go their own free and individual ways he would speedily so far as his own person ality was concerned, become an .. ardent advocate of autocracy, and long for the restoration of power to his sovereign brain. An individual with shaking head, twitching arms, jerking legs, and a stuntering tongue would be absurd if he got up to recite Whitman's "I am the captain of my soul." His arms and legs might assert that they were of equal rank, and his tongue might decide at the last moment on some other poem. This would be disconcerting to him, as well as painful and un- pleasant to his audience.

The analogy is not 25 far-

A lonnin

to our innermost being to be given lane. The lines have been attri- gives some hopes that this is the chestra died away, the paling vision 18 3 pose of upsetting Japanese finances ed drama. The music of an of by the world. Every relationship buted to Wordsworth, but are not case, says the Japan Chronicle. The on the screen faded into darkness, and which alone, can bind as to great recognized as his. If he did write officials of the Bank of Korea reject there breathed from the still throng a ideals exists only amongst those them, it would not be while he was the report and point out that a rum half suppressed sigh. It lasted but who have their origin in a single resident in his native county, our of the same kind was circulated a moment.

Then the spectators living nation. The nation as such Whoever the writer was, absence some time ago. Perhaps it is the streamed out into the sunlight in a is a living and "real" entity be-

or exile had caused him to overlook same rumour which has gone the full strange quietude, but with eyes that dividual and the colourless abstract winds, and other unromantic as- On the former occasion the rumour say, to follow what is called an enter. rween the solitary and unvital in the too frequent rains, the bleak circle and is now repeating the tour. shone.. Curious effects one would

cosmopolitan.

letched and, absurd as it appears, for during the late war it was only because the St. Vitus germs of

was circulated all the banks containment-at best, no more than individualism had not yet gotten the now.

Poor lad! He is probably dead pects of that picturesque land.. upper hand in Britain, France, and evident capacity for thinking could But what a pity such an

cerned were warned, but the shoala fancied tale, told through the Thursday's China BIG DROP, IN Meil reported the Counterfeit banknotes are not un photographic miraicry. Yet the mood of false notes failed to appear. cunning combination of human and America: that, these countries to not have been applied to broader gether with Japan who has so far views: He was quite wrong. Bis

EXCHANCE: biggest drop in known, but mostly sad to relate was something finer than the mere remined the captaincy of her soul eyes were normal, bat he looked corded, and caused a serious flutter notes on the Bank of Korea were be created by an appealing exhibition exchange ever re- they originate in Japan. Two forged exhilaration of contentment that may -were able to raise conscript through the wrong end of the tele on the market. armies, put things on an sutocratic scope. He began with Ego-a big quoted at sixpence-three-farthings, even two swallows do not make a only impressed: they were genuinely The dollar was discovered recently at Tsuruga, bet of artistry. These people were not basis;, submerge the individual, and thing only when seen too closely.

a drop of over three shillings. This summer. The Bank officials quoted moved. finally conquer Germany. Simple With Ego a big thing. the nation was indeed a drop too much," are inclined to attribute the rumour will deem it strange that we turn

None of them, we think, " Honesty requires the admission that must be a bigger and anything and the compositor responsible for to Bolsheviks and refractory Koreans. for a without becoming monarchical in bigger beyond that would be too it (perhaps engaged in an amateur-We should rather feel inclined to momentous or tragical themes of day from the stirring or practice, if not in form, the United big to seem real. Suppose that he is attempt to rig the market) has attribute it either to somebody who material existence, to glance at this States government could never had begun at the other end with been dealt with departmentally. have given the help which the God, the Biggest of Big Things. fordly and supercilious Briton now Getting as fair an idea of the big- nesa of the All Father as is pos

so derides.

I agree that the agitator would sible, the universe itself would seem

wishes to influence the money-market | tniqué product of imagination. Fer

In the interview or to an agent who thinks the it has the distinction of being an AGE OF OUR with the Colonial Japanese are weakening and require artistic and moral achievement. The

Secretary reported & stimulant.

photo-play is called "The Miracle in this issue, that|im

Man. It is a miracle picture." our public bathing

THE HONGKONG THEATRE,

BEACHES.

will go about my real business

lie bathing beaches. I n. Hongkong, which is to have a will not feel able to refuse to help. good time,

I may not be a combatant, but I'll be absurd to recife Whitman's less. Our world in the universe officer says Another thing which help with munitions. Here are & am the captain of my soul." He would seem smaller. Our nation beaches are new features they MELAND. helped me to realize few shells. The suggestion that should preferably attempt Henley's in the small world would then look have not existed for 20 years. He

that fo the politics when the bathing beaches are sold, Leaves of Grass.

On Wednesday next, "The Found- ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.ing," a touching five part drama are parerga was the news from the Government should arrange to Ireland. Do you know, it really provide cheap facilities for putting

What's this I hear individual man himself. It is thus from the earliest beginnings of he perpared for it. Chamberlain's Fain screened in the Hongkong Theatre.

almost as trifling a thing as the is quite mistaken. They were here may be impossible to previt, in produced by David Frohman, and Affected my appetite. I thought the people on the Stonecutters

A USELESS about last week's that the citizen of the world has the Colony:

accident, but it is not imposible to featuring Mary Pickford, will be much about it I had had Island beach sex wrong-headed-

parade of the Voluntests as high and as fervently that the people have felt, and with a bottle of Bar fimment you are These two are all Baird is not beyond anyone's purse, and dreams.

Roscoe "Fatty Arbuckle in "Good ters Wasting their followed, and as avocative of warm should be preserved for the toe of prepared for most, anything" For sale Night Nurse," a Paramount comedy

personal devotion, as any patriot's the people..

PARADE?

I was depressed, and that The attack should have been time on stale stunts they all know? sunny day. Liver, said aagainst any proposal to part with

by all Chervists and Storekeepers.

in two reels, will also be screened..