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It is (within limits) a very important virtue. The policeman's efficiency depends on his remembering that he is no ord nary human being but an impersonation of the law. Unhappily it is not possible to delegato much authority to human beings. without the certainty that a numter of them will abuse it.

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to put officialism constantly to the test of humanity.",

LOGIL AND GENERAL.'

TRE Yokohama District Court is to be re-constructed at a cost of Y.20,000, the work to be completed by 1923,

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending November 5, 1921, A very striking case of the need amounted to 87,642 tons and the for effective criticism is afforded re-sales during the period to 91,424 tons cently by the Home Office officiala,

· LOGAL ́AND GENERAL"-

The Hongkong Jockey Club announces that there will be no far- ther gymkhana meetings this year,

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22 1991

IN THE SOCIAL SWIM.

BY A LADY WHO IS,

LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

HONGKONG STATEMENT NOT HIS OWN, BUT DR. WU TING-FANG'S.

Rodney Gilbert telegraphs to the N. . D. News from Peking— Lord Northcliffe is interviewing journalists, evincing great eagerness for informa- - tion, but he is giving no interview.

He says the statement from Canter WAB a quotation from Dr. Wu Ting-fang who complained hat the

Overheard in the tram the day of the The annual meeting of the Society Ministering Childrens' League Fete. A selection of calmare and for Prevention of Cruelty-to Animals Enter a lady carrying a parcel with a Dickens was never inore English than tweed sait lengths will be put up for will be held at the Helena May small boy. To her a friend "Oh, are tomorrow morning by Institute on Tuesday, November 29 you helping at a stall, dear?" "Oh in his criticism of officials and other auction

at 5.15 p.m.

no, this is little Tommy's tea you persons in authority, and it will Mesara. Lammert Bros. be well if

continue by wo

A Manila message dated Nov. 16 see, he doesn't like thin bread and stated: The Chinese Consular force butter and he doesn't like cake, so I means of the same sort of criticism

have not been paid since April. The have brought down some real thick Consul and his assistante sus living slices with not too much butter, just fordiga pressa was inaccessible. He on the commissions from Chinese as he always has at home, and we says his message constitutes no en- registration fees.

are going to find a "qu'et corner and dorsement, as interpreted in China, have our tea all to ourselves. You but was published to afford an op Sir Edward Merewether, K.C.M.G., don't like this bread and butter, do portunity only for Canton's expres.. R.C.V.O., has retired from the you, Tommy?" N-N--No,sion of views on grounds of fair play. Governorship of the Leeward Islands, Mamma!" "And you would much Comment is unnecessary when the: and has been succeeded by Sir rather have thick slices of brend and above is compared with the following Eustace Edward Twistleton-Wykehan butter than cake?" "Ye-Ye-Yes, Tokyo wire previously published Fiennes Bart., Governor of Seychelles. Mamma," murmured Tommy, who our columns —–—–

seemed very near tears. There has "Lord Northcliffe denies the report, Major J. H. Ross, who was assistant | been rather a halt in the social whirl published in the Hongkong papers of manager of the Shipping Department this last week, though I must admit October 28, purporting to give the of Standard Oil Co, in Shanghai, has to dining out four times, and going to text of a cable sent by him through heen transferred to Hankow where he the theatre twice. On Monday Mrs. The Times correspondent at Hong is is charge of shipping. His place Gompette gave a small dance at her kong to that newspaper. He says in Shanghai is taken by Mr, W. C. house, which was much enjoyed, and that no such cable was sent or author- Ball, Jr.

Mrs. Ram has invitations out for one fized by him. "No such cable will on the 26th.

appear in the Times and this is proof A large number of people were

Next week promises to be a busy that no such cable was sent

Reuter. present in Holy Trinity Cathedral, one. On Friday afternoon Sir Shanghai, when a wedding was

is at home Peter Paul Chater Mr. solemnized between. Mathieson, second son of Mr. Archi- the afternoon for bald Mathieson, of Campbeltown, Club and Patriotic League and Argyllshire, and Miss Dorothea Dal- in the evening Mrs. Bowden Smith is ton, daughter of the Rev. W. E. giving a dance on board the Tamar." Dalton, Glynde Vicarage, Lewes, The Ladies' Bite Range is still very The following appointments are Sussex. Prior to the service in the well patronized, Miss Loureiro (as times! announced:Warrant Engineer H. church, the civil ceremony was per- always). Mrs. Bird and Miss. Dela-

who have ordered a Dr. Levy to leave The wedding was celebrated very the country. In the first year of the quietly at the British Consulate Gen- war, as a German citizen resident in erat, Kobe, before Mr. R. R. McP. Switzerland, he expressed views Austin, acting Consul-General, of Mr. against the German claims, and now Sydney George Stanford, of Kobe, to Germany refuses to let him in, Miss Ida Holzman. naturally. He therefore has no country, and having no country, cannot have a

An Army Order states that in passport. He cannot go anywhere with future any non-European, recruit out a passport, these days, unless it be, enlisted in the 40th Company, R.E., as the Manchester Guardian suggests, Hongkong, will be required to pay to some uninhabited island. Mean- £12, it he purchases his discharge with while the man happens to be ill-less than three months' service. and the Home Office, acting on the Aliens Restriction Act, says he must get out, ill or well. Where to, it does not trouble to say..

'A Peking telegram to the Chinese press states that the captains of a number of Chinese men of war have A somewhat similar case was that resigned in consequence of not having of Dr. Subhindra Bose, a lecturer in received their pay. Here is a simple Ltd. Political Science at Iowa State method of disarmament which might Univesity, and a naturalized American with advantage be passed on to citizen. He desired to return to Washington, observes a Shanghai

hiy return

paper.

in

the Overseas

not mind a bit, but swung nearer to her, and with a scream, she threw

India, after an absence of seventeen

down her rifle, and ran like a bare!!! We women are curious creatures at years, to see his very aged mother, and the British Consul in Chicago

My husband wants to know if he visa'd his passport and assured him it would be easy to get permission from M. Thomas to the "Cairo," on transformed by Mr. C. F. Garstin, H. Mcombe (the Hon. Secretary) being the still thinks a bottle of Australian Bur most successful competitors up to guidy a good thing to finish a "thick" the India Office. Although he under fer from the "Queen Elizabeth." Consul.

date. On Tuesday I looked in at the night with, when you have got to took to take no part in politics, and Gunner W. E. Trowbridge to the swears that he belongs to no political Foxglove," Gunter A. HI. Looker to There was a goodly concourse of Helena May Institute to see the sale negotiate those horrid tramway steps organization, the India Office refused the "Hollyhock," Gunner J. Beese to visitors at the New Engineering & of work done by the blind girls of the on your way home: I don't know permission. Questions were asked in the "Magnolia and Gunn F. A. Shipbuilding Works, Ld., Shanghai, Kowloon Institution. The work was who he is or what the story is, but I last week, to witness the excellent, and it was hard to realize it suppose there is one somewhere. Our Parliament, and the Secretary for Squirrell to the "Bluebell.” India replied: "This Indian gentle.

faunching of the str. "Mei Ren," which was all done by sightless girls. The Chinese typists are wonderful. I heard has been built to the order of the Bishop of Victoria gave a short ad- of a man recently, who got a letter; man is now a citizen of the U. S. A., having applied to

The Japaness Budget figures for American-West China Navigation Co. dress, and then Lady Stubbs declared beginning "My dead Charles," his renouncs British Indian nationality a

the coming fiscal year show cuts in The ship, which was christened by the sale open. I gathered that the fow weeks after the outbreak of war.. the expenditures of all departments Mrs. B. C. Haile, wife of the president girls are now making tennis nets for I am not prepared to facilitate below those of the current year. The and general manager of the new which there should be a good demand Army estimates for the year1922-22 are owners, took to the water very

in the Colony: to India. " It takes time to get naturalisation yen 253,000,000 against yen 273,000, gracefully, amid loud cheers. papers in America as elsewhere, and 000 at present, while the Navy the few weeks after the war" estimates are yen 394,000,000 against suggestion-if that is a point-isyen 499,000,000 at present. therefore a washout. Here were at least three good reasons for being human, a dying mother, courtesy to the U.S.A., and the need for avoiding a bad advertisement of the horrid bureaucratic tyranny we seem to be copying from the late Tsarist regime. The retention of the passport nuisance may or may not be due to the official love of authority. We have seen it stated that the countries are keeping it up for the sake of the revenue derived, but that is hard to believe, in view of the comparative insignificance of such revenue. It is to be hoped that the Press of all democratic countries will wake up and denounce and prevent the ex- cessive officialism of officials, and

China," and he asked her to marry had foxtrots and one-step. while a tion of Assistant Agent General to him for the umteenth time. No, delightful tea was served, which was preserve a grand British teadition.

In the meantime, let us realize

the Peking Syndicate, Ltd., in China, my dear boy" she answered. "I love much appreciated. The Church of that "official" is a very catholic

The Kowloon Fair, in aid of the but his services are being retained by you all right, and shall never love England Men's Society had an enjoy- term. A Prime Minister is an official Ministering Children's League and the the Syndicate in an advisory capacity, anyone else, but you are much too able concert on Tuesday at which the just as a policeman is, and a highly Games Fund of the Kowloon British Mr. Frodsham is also now closely poor, and besides I have just got Bishop of Victoria was present. Mr. Hoggenheimer." Mr. Harry Ore gave some piano- The China Mail. That any Dumble can. Our police galow to-morrow. The fair will be of financial and engineering interests in Hoggenheimer ! That brute, why be

placed diplomat can do more barm School will be held at Chater Bun-identified with some powerful British engaged to man is supervised from above, by his the real, old-fashioned English coun-connection with industrial develop official superiors, and is with them try variety, and the children of the ment in China, and will open his own

all- times

by School will give an entertainment.offices in Peking on his return. checked opinion. public

Where a Dancing will also be one of the attrac- healthy public opinion exists, be tione in the evening. cannot faven if he should be a bad

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MCFARLAND. On November 14. 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mra. H. McFarland, a daugliter.

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Gems from the "Circle," which I went to on Thursday. Clive, dear, if I had my time over again, I shouldn't leave you, but I should He is quite a respectable inember never be faithful to you!" "I was of society, but like many another always faithful to you in spirit, dear,” Six cases of diphtheria, one British man in the East, or in the West, too, "Don't make me cry, do think of my and the remainder Chinese, were re for that matter, he has a little "Secret eyelashes." "Women will always ported during the 48 hours ended Orchard" of his own. One day his sacrifice themselves for self indul In order that the accounts of the yesterday, also one fatal caso of plague wife's dearest (?) friend, who through gence." Ministering Children's League Bazaar Chinese. Last week four Chinese died some man's indiscretion, bad come to On Thursday I went to a concert at hold on Saturday November 12, may from diphtheria, one from plague, and hear, came in, bursting with inform the Helena May. Miss Lowson sang be closed as soon as possible, it is three from influenza.

There were ation and indignation. "But, iny "My old Carayan" charmingly, and requested that any sums of money also reported three rion-fatal cases of dear, I know all about that" said the as an encore gave "Don Vauxhall," which have not yet been sent in paratyphoid fever, one British and injured wife: "And you don't mind?" Mrs. Price played the piano, should be forward dat once to Lady the other Chinese; three of enteric gasped the friend Mind, of course and Mrs. Abney delighted every Start Taylor, Hon: Treasurer, 4 fever, one Portuguese and the others not--you see he is always so frighten- body with her violin solos. The Thorpe Manor, May Road."

Chinese; three of diphtheria, all ed. I should ask him where he has practice dances for the St. Andrew's Chinese; and two of plague, likewise been, whene'er, oh well you know, Ball are being very well attended. On Mr. Herbert William Looker, of Chinese.

that he never asks me what I Friday I noticed Lady Kirkpatrick Great Baddow, Essex, was adopted as

have been doing while he is sup with her two daughters, Mrs. Claud Unionist candidate for Central Hall

posed to be at the Club" Which Severn, the Hon. Mr. Pollock and Mrs. in opposition to Commander Ken- worthy. Mr. Looker was a solicitor

rather gives one to think does it not? Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. Gompertz, Mr.

It was at a dance recently, no, not i Hongkong for 25 years, and retired two years ago when he returned to England. He is a native of St. Ives, Huntingdon,and was born in 1871.

Mr. G. W. Frodsham has been in England for the last few months visiting the various industrial centres, and is returning to Peking by the 9.8. "Egypt" on November 22. Mr. in Hongkong, but "somewhere in In addition to the Scottish dances we Frodsham has relinquished his posi

is

and Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. F. C. Hail, Colorel Nicholson and many others,

forte selections, Mrs. Tinson old enough to be your father, and sad Mr. Crow sang charmingly, the Hon. Mr. Pollock he drinks like a fish!" "You silly while boy," she cooed sweetly, "Why that's

gave us two recitations. The invita- just the reason we shall see even more tions for the Centipedes dance on the of one another than we do now, and 9th December are out. One is re- The P. & T. Times learns that a the doctor tells me he'll probably man) go ao very far wrong without The Chinese arrested for the very important hanl of morphine was drink himself to death in a year, and queated to present the card at the door. Apparently at one of their Whatever form of government authority and power is tempered by of

being pulled up. His sense of unlawful possession of 600 taels/ effected by the Maritime Customs ex- he'll leave me all his money, and dances last year certain people forgot aminers during the week-end on a then!" We have progressed a bit that they had not been invited! Oa raw non-Government opium Japanese ship. The drug was cleverly since the Mid-Victorian days, have Saturday I had intended to go out to LEVINE-On November 15, 1921. People has or may have, there is no consciousness of responsibility. But worth $1,200, on board the a.. concealed in the middle of a large we not? The lady in question is Repulse Bay, but with all this wind

confcrivable form that can dispense the case of statesmen it begins to look "Homni Maru," was later charged number of casks of sulphate of soda. not yet nineteen. with officials. They are, shall we say, as if we delegate too much power and before Magistrate Orme. Chief Reven- A hole had bean drilled in the centre

evil. They

need retain too little control. Affected by tive Officer Watt said the drug was of the solid-looking blocks of soda,

She is a very keen sportswoman, pone our party. Then I had ideas not be and sometimes are not evil. the inevitable tendency already hidden in the floor spacing of ac- inside which cylinders were placed, and very plucky and she insisted on of the Peak Club dance, but, having. So long as officials can be kept human, noted, and answerable practically to cused's cabin. It was wrapped up in mindful of their common humanity, none (for His Majesty the King herbs and marked "Medicine." A containing the tins of morphine, accompanying her husband, when he spent most of the day in bed with which were marked "The New went on leave recently to shoot buffalo what I call influenza, and my better and of the fact which in cold blood must not intervene and Parliament fine of $8,000 was imposed.

Pharmacy, Osaka:" About half the More, she insisted in taking part in half says is only a bad cold, I could they themselves never dispute, name has become a subservient thing,

the game, and she sat quite quietly not face it, so the said better ball consignment of casks contained mor- phine, of which over 300 lb. was waiting, while the jungle was being with a sigh of relief (he would have found in 14 casks.

beat, as a herd was known to be been on duty at the Peak Club other- about. Now a charging buffalo they wise) dasbed off to see if he could get. tell me (thank Heaven, I bave never a seat for "Eliza comes to stay "at, seen one!) is just about the the Theatre. I hope he will, as I

Levine, a son.

GIRONL-On November 17, 1921, a

at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. V.

Gironi, a daughter.

NORBURY-At London England, to Mr. and Mis, Eric Norbury, a son. (By cable.}

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ly, that they are in the service of urider Coalition) these beggars on Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, organized humanity, they can be quite horseback" are rapidly riding our was prettily decorated on the occasion pleasant features of the landscape. country to the devil. Realization of of the marriage of Mr. Arthur Eite, They can function valuably without the position, and its simple and manager of the British American MATHIESON-DALTON.--On Nov. irritating anyone, and without sufior natural psychological origin, is the Tobacco Co. at Hangeliow, to Miss

14. 1921, at Shengbei, Peter ing the mental dyspepsin of arrogance. first step towards amending it. We Mary Boswell Helms. It was an ought to make a collection of quaint most dangerous thing in the world. want to go straight back to bed. I Mathieson, second son of Archi-Criticism is the only means the public must (to save officialdom from its Anglo American marriage, the bride shop signs in Penang, else we shall He comes at you like an express train, have seldom heard anything more bald Mathieson, of Campbeltown, has of keeping um human. Criticism besetting temptation) "respectablize" being the daughter of Mr.J.D. Helms, soon begin doing it une ve, eye you have to wait till he is quite close, dismal than the way the wind is Argyllshire, to Dorothea Dalton, of officials is therefor indispensable to our unofficial censors; instead of of Charlotte, North Carolina, daughter of the Rev. W. E. Dal- good government. Rather than no allowing them to be ignominiously and the bridegroom

and then hold very straight, and see bowling round the bungalow, and I being the road to be cheated; come in that he does not fall on the top of you, feel I want to sit down and ery ton, Glyade Vicarage, Lewes, criticism, excessive criticism should be flouted as Bolsheviks" or whatever son of Mr. T. G. Eite, of Hamilton of this, from a jeweller's shop in him, well, it is most unlikely that any taking notice. The Editor has just Here!" is a classic, but the humour when you kill him. If you don't kill No, I don't, I am sitting up and welcomed. Fair criticism, of course, the catch-name of the day may bap Drive, the Park, Nottingham. EITE HELMS-On November, 16, is the desideratem; but the species of pen to be..

Carnarvon Street, is as good in its thing in this life will interest you sent me an anonymous letter signed 1921, at Shanghai, Arthur Eite, official that most needs criticism-a

way Valuable Gold Leaf sold; Astratige tale of the sea is report worthless only son of the late Thomas Gar quite common species-bappens to be

Gold Bought." That again. Well, she sat quite peacefullyPro Bono Publico;" I am still As did General Nogi and Countess ed by a Chinese press correspondent at jeweller at any rate has learnt the waiting. Suddenly she saw a spider. chuckling over it. She (I am sure

their a first of The Park, Nottingham, England any criticism whatsoever. A writer the late Emperor Meiji Tenzio by from America a Chinese fireman to buy in the cheapest market and and at it to frighten it away. It did style, if nothing else!) apparently so to Marry Boswell Helme, dangh in the New Statesman expresses so committing harakiri on the evening credited with wages to the amount of sell in the dearest. But evidently he

disliked my unfortunate weekly ter of Mr. Jefferson Davis Helure. neatly and tidily ideas that figured in of the State funeral, so did Chugoro 8450. An unthiilty member of the did not stick to the precept on his

efforts, that she tries to overwhelm of Charlotte, North Carolina, this column, that we indulge ourselves Qumaru, an 18-year-old resident of crew, suggested the moment was shopfront, for we found on our way

me with a shower of muddy abuse Anonymous letters not worrying me, in the pleasure of quoting his words. Obihiromachi, Hokkaido, prove to opportune for a substantial loan. The to office recently that he had vacated

the abuse leaves me cold. Lut the "It is," he says, "the inevitable ten the world that he was deeply stricken proposal was rejected, and the would his shop and gone elsewhere in his dency of officials to cease to be quite by the assassination of Premier Harabe borrower, keen on doing business, quest for worthless gold."

last paragraph was a peach." We human—to become parts of an institu by throwing himself under the wheels knocked his man out, rendering him

WHEN you have a bad cold you

want & remedy that will not only do not enclose our card. If we did, I shouldn't GRANT-On November 14, 1921, tion, which is another name for a of a apneding train in order that he unconscious, and then reported to the

give relief, but effect a prompt and you would be surprised. at Shanghai, Joyce Kathlon the monster. The official learns to enjoy might follow the statesman to the captain that he was suffering from an

permanent cure a remedy that is a bit, but in any case, why not enclose plastant to take... remedy that daughter of Mr. and Mrs. f. E. his authority. He embodies in his grave, Beside the tracks at the infectious disrase. The man was

contains nothing inju ious Cham Paul Kruger stagger Humanity and, them and like the late unlamented. Grant, aged sixteen months.person the power of the machino of scone of the tragedy were found taken aphoxe and left high and dry you should not eat food of any kind these requirements. It acts on Nature's incidentally Hongkong. In any case.

berlain's Cough Remedy weats ROZARIO. On November 11, 1921, which He is a part. With the hors photograph of the dead youth near the north gate of Paoshan City when billons, but tako a full dose plan rollerts the lungs aids expectoratit lng anted on me like a tonio, and

at Shunchal, Theodoro Paule machine 7 behind him he will and a letter In the letter the boy. Recovering consciousness next worn of Chamborisin Tablety and drink on opens the secretions and Rozario (Pourpy and 42 years. confidently do thing that he would explained that he did not care to live lng, he went to look for his ship but gonty of water. That will blessed the the system to a healthy condition. This it, it wasn't a bit late (and I had tod EHEPHERD —OL November 17, never dream of attempting in a world that, produced dostards discovered that the vessel, like alanob, move the bowels and soon remedy has world wide ralo and so him I wasn't coming). I would have 1021, at Shanghai, Et,, wife of as a private individual. This sente capable of an act like the Hara money had departed Cand such restore the system to healthy condradd can always be depended upon crawled out of bed and gone to the

Hon. For tale by all Chemise and For sale by all Clonisty, and Store Peak Club dance after all; the late George Shepherd... of authority is not necessarily a vice assasination.

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