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we can absorb a little more. not a problem for the Government, It is merely a factor in an economical sum, and the laws of economics alous must rule it. In this aspect it appears
handicap, but in other ways it helps To the Editor of the " China MaS."] Hongkong. Behind these economic barriers, which aione exist, that flood is our great reserve of labour." It is an awkward deinand" when we contemplate the probletus cf urban hygiene. It is a valuable supply when we consider what it is that must to Hongkang's contribute chiefly success, namely plentiful cheap
labour.
Time it nappod.
What a tug-of-war the week's strike history has proved. The men at one end of the rape of contention, the shipping companies at the other, and the S.CA. standing between to ree fairplay. On Friday, before the employers bud really got a proper grip the ten gave a powerful beave that made the taipans give ground a bit on Tuesday. Wednesday saw the Union, too, relax a trille but the employers threw their weight into it again and yesterday they were both straining away with the rope taut between them. To day--who knows what they wil be at? In the meantime the spectators are thinking that the time limit is just about up. They don't care which side claims the victory as long n they both agree to ' leave the rope alone. "A Loud Speaker"
million
Dear Sir, I have received a cable from London, asking me to organize a contribution from Hongkong to the Empire Marys' gift to Princess Mary on the occasion of ber marriage
DAIRY FARM VISITED.
A COMPLICATED INDUSTRY.
The Hongkong public for one rea son or another having shown unusand interest ol late in the Dairy Farm, the China
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922.
SPECIAL CABLE.
BOMB OUTRAGE.
SINCERE'S STORE WINDOWS SHATTERED.
China Mail SECIAL.]
CHINESE ART
MR. ORME'S INTERESTING
LECTURE.
at
Mr. G. N. Orme gave his second lecture on "The People of China the Helena May Institute yester ay There wore many ladies present and Mrs. Claud Severn presided.
Mr. Orm began by talking about the expression of the character of the
Mail very willingly accepted an invitation to see for itself
SHANGHAI, Jan. 20. what is going on there. The original idea was a special article describing
progress of a spoonful of A bomb placed outside the Oriental A Princess Mary is probably to be the
The bomb was married the last week in February. milk from cow to cup." but our Hotel longing to Sincere's exploded, wo bave not too much time: but 1 ambition had to be moderated. There shattering the large plate glass Chinese people in "art." Learning, fcol sure that the Marys of Hongkong are comers of the Dairy Farm that windows of thatore. will come forward quickly, and that deserve columns of the scription. The made of a cigarests tin filled with ex he said, was very bighly esteemed but they will be glad to have the oppor-whole thing would take more than plosives connected with a fure similar it had to be differentiated from art; Men exercising to that used in the bomis found in if it did not make people live better tunity of being included in this mark a full day to see.
|their gift of awe and of wonder have Sincera's cinema hall roof garder on it would all be wasted. In the The next day the Art of living," which the lecturer of loyalty to our Princess.
Subscriptions are limited to suros toyed with the idea of a gigantic oak January 8.
Here the positions are re-letter demanding $20,000. The polier he included all those forms of express- ing ourselves which are adopted in between 6d. and 10 (say between packed within the compass of a little management received a threatening regarded as the foundation of it all,
Examplea ar making inquiring.
our daily life. 20 cents and $4), and all who have Brom. the same of the Princess, either in versed. Your bottle of milk has an
manners, dress, housing nad Iurniture. From the beginning, the Chinese bad! the form of Mary, Marie, May, Maria, industrious community bebind it, an or Marion, ate entitled to contribute, encyclopedia of technical knowledge.
sturied manners while the West had is understood that. Princess Mars and over so many antecedents the
neglected them. The Chinese dress will use the gift for the purposes of mere cataloguing of which would take
much space.
was one of great simplicity and charity.
this liberated a greater amount of enrgy for more important activities.
All subscriptions should be sent to me by Tuneday the 31st of this month.
Yours faithfully,
MARJORY STUBES.
Government House, January 20.
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PIANO RECITAL
STRIKE NEWS.
¡BY ONE WHO GATHERS IT!
We
what seemed
fetebes up at the Union headquarters life. And there
Was,
to
UR
were
the
of
good square meal of whatever is Beed for spontaneity: Western life going, in the way of strike intelligence did Lot give the individual much We were so full of There, for the nonce, he is raised to opportunity of originating anything
elcome and an entirely Eis ow
luxuries that we did not really appre- the status of a honoured guest.
Joining the stream of strikers that end our humble position in the universe. The feature of our moderu vilisation was that the State in- Blows ceaselessly up the staircase leading to the Union rooms
Darrow
The farm, with all its buildings and enclosures, will be too well known to For the sake of nerd description.
Il, in their own private hearts as
The housing of a nation, he pointed readers remote w many mention that distinguished from their journalistic it stretches across the shoulders and conscieners, the men whose job it is out, was an expression of its charecter spurs and foothills that slope down to to gather fragments of news alkout the and the southern coast of our island. The seamen's strike for public consumptica, monotonous similarity of the houses coarse looking grass that grows in bave a rather wanner spot for the in Chinese villages came really from a tufta or bummocks on plots among Union tolk, it is ao very surprising Ect purpose-not to give anyone cause Our luxuries, he said, were a great the numerous buildings and sheds is thing. Starting ont news hungry for envy or sther evil passions, stacked raw in ensilage towers, pressed his daily round the pressman can
must have simplicity down, and, as one of the party word always be confident that when he stumbling block to the revival of art; too. the As Mr. Harry Orn, the well-knowned it, is "pickled " for the cows. pianist-composer will give his fifth laid before those staid lading after in Des Vous Bond he will get a Unforeseen accidents apart szet)- tists predict, this little old carth has recital on Monday, January 23rd, at milking time, it had a not unpleasing 5.30 p.m., when he will interpret smell. But that was only one course many militon years more to whirl
selections from Brahms, Grieg and in the menu. The farm carries many through space. Just how many
Cesar Franck, the leading repre- thousands of dollars worth of other years longer it will after man sentatives of the earlier Modern foodstuffs-oil cake, for instance, defile 18 beauty, opinions vary. Composers,
The programme fol made from copra dried coconut) or enough anyway Long
from peanuts. The interest on that exchange to reach dizzy hights. (a). Variations on
necessarily "idle" capital must be sgain or the Hongkong shipping strike
added to the cost of your pint of to find solution. With most burn history covered by a span little longer than 10,000 years, the mind recoils at the prospect of life a million years hence appalled, not so much by the immensity of time--for "the poorest day that pass over us is the conflux of two eternities. ... made up of currcuts that issue from the remotest 2.-Lyrice
OK towards the I Just, and gow remotest future”—as by the thought 3-Sonata for piano Cesar Franck
and violin.....(1850-1885). of life in a world unimaginably more artificial and complicated than our The violin pact will be kindly wildest leurs can paint. Mercifully played by Mr. F. Gonzales. iudec, is the book of fate hidden from human eyes. What a Home newspaper succioctly describes ay
loud speaker," a device that bas telephone belp the
from small pox, destroy the privacy of our hones, One
This Chinese, was the only case of notifiabi; has caused these reflections. new invention makes it relatively disease reported yesterday.
Come
1
simple" for equipment to be se up enabling a man to sit at his ease and
a Hungarian thenie, op.21
(b). Intermezzo E
Brahms (1833 1897).
flat
major, op. 117..... (r). Rhapsody E-
flat
major
op. 119,
Grieg 4(1843-1907).
h
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
death
די
Marguerite Clark in at her charin
#really talk 14) 50,0 0,000, or perhaps ing test in "Prunella 1489 600.00 people! Nor is the prindelightful picture which e mes o the gple of the amplifier limited to the Coronet Theatre this evening. telephone: it can be extended to radio telegraphy. The brain reels at the thought of a poet reading his verse to the world at largo, a booki offering odds to a million punters, an advertising agent canvassing waÐ- kind. And the amplifier is still in its infancy. says its inventor. Thack heaven we are morla!!
Wolf Wolf"
A later Reuter cable reports that Mr. E. T. She, Australia's new Far Lae brea Eastern representative, appointed an additional trade com
missioner.
Much that should interest both past and present students of Queen'a College is contained with in the covers of The Yellow Dragon, the January bumber of which has just been issued.
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muk.
much room for the things that were he arrives at the top and pokes ins pressed everything and did not leave hend around the corner. A jostling
To meet the normal demand the ant seemingly impenetrable throng is higher than the State to come into
abould have about 400 wedged up against the grill from our lives. It has well over which a harassed official is issuing
farmi Lead of cattle.
Mr Orme traced Chinese art from which Chincee difficulty 300, and a lot more ordered. It railway tickets. Then ecme one ra- about 2,000 B. C. and, ulter discussing breeds all it can. Naturally, cows cognises hire as the same sehchi that the that yield large quantities of the came here yesterday and the day before perspective puts in the way of Western trice the understandings, mentioned that the fattest milk are desired. So bigb that and--presto!--in priced animals are carefully selected. surge of sweating humanity parts as proportions of the parts were nothing As expression of some definite meaning. Their numerous ailments have to be readily for bim as the Red Sea did to the Chipes compared with the Carefully studied and treated, by a for Moses and his laraelites.
acars the promised land of the Everything meant something; the resident Vet. Sometimes, when an epidemic disease is imported, bung secretary's sanctum behind the grill, pine tree stood for strength and will, goes an investment of (Bay) from Union officials, beaming a welcome, the bamboo for wisdom. Simplicity A box of was a feature of Chinese art and noth- $16.000 to $20,000. It must take a rise to give him a stat.
gale."
one
ies pints of milk to make up for that. cigars is pushed invitingly acros: ing was put in which was not actually Suppose the anxious farmer and the table and then, between puffs, he necessary to the meaning. Going ou to speak of pottery, Mr. Orme said it gete down to business, breeder has luck, and the Vet's trouble
Most of the Union heads that was now unders ood that the pieces
iB with is nothing wor a than leg weariness
deals
Hongkong dating from after the Sung dynasty tram; ing from shed to shed, it is not all plain sailing. Modern people want understand English a good deal which were formerly much admired their milk hygienically
better thao they can express it. If belonged to the rather baser age of Between the udder and the pantry there is no news they say so at once; Chinese art when the Manchua the precautione taken to that end are if there is anything to tell they appear came in. The carlier and simpler art the Chinese artist depend- ed on his lines and more delicate both extensive and expensive. We grateful for the opportunity of mak- when will say nothing of the studious looking it known.
But it's a different game at the features for effect and not on colouring ing gentleman working in a laboratory (there on the farm) with microscope, other end of the stick. There he has or ornamentation was very much. There ought to be in Hongkong, en. From every milking samples are from the rape and insignificant crumbs culture tubes, chromosomes, and so to extract what sustenance he can higher. retained, and a close watch kept. of news that are permitted to drop Mr. Orme thought, an adequate Before the milking, in the clean from the taipans' conference table. museum of Chinese art; at present and very airy byres, the litter Always it is the same mory. "No'
these matters could not be studied
very
is first removed, the cowe cleaned. they say "we're very sorry but Mr. any nearer than at the British He was afraid however a Super-Taipan will tell you anything Museum. Wash and brush up 4d" #88 notice the humourist expected to see there is to be told." After many that the interest of Hongkong in art posted up on the white walls. The fruitless calls the reporter eventually is unlikely to be sufficiently aroused tracks down Mr. Super-Taipan who to bring any master piece here for us A recent incident in the Mediter-
adder is carefully cleaned. Then ranean where an 8.0.8. call sent
very ingenious milk pail is introduced, eyes him suspicious with an air of to study. After touching briefly upon designed so as to prevent the intrusion wondering what those silly blighters the subjects of Chinese literature Mr. the probability is that the more
About 5.10 this morning a fire of casual dirt, hairs, etc. From these in the front office were doing to let Orme concluded with an appeal for commodation we supply the more will reveral steamers hot haste to the sid the people flow in, so that we are as of a vessel reported sinking but actu likely ever to overtake it as Dame ally docked at Leith at the time broke out in a kitchen matshed at it is transferred to coverd carriers. him get through. "Well" he demands the recognition of the importanen you begin. "There's men into luxuries and self-indulgences Partington's broom was to sweep emphasizes the necessity for taking Murray Barracks. The Fire Brigade It is taken to a hall of machinery,what do you want to know?" of art in life. He said: "It is Employ stern measures to suppress the grow was early on the scene and ex- where it is further strained, filtered, Er-about the strike, Mr. Super- a poor reault of civilisation if it leads form their proper work. But there is of the late A. R. Donnelly of beck de Atlantic reas
Cases of direct fight. The outbreak wa caused by machinery affords a curious sight. nothing to say at present" he says which make them less fitted to per- met and better wages may be cae of abuse of a signal that abould be tinguished the flames after a short storilized, and cooled. The cooling Taipsn
falla under sparks from the chimney. Slight dam- that of a Niagara of milk pouring and at that you have to leave it,
The result of the employer'a an irony in life which tends to equalien the attractions. Safety (as compared kept sacred for
The evil
over the condensers (or whatever with the unsafety of the disturbed necessity.
they may call them). It would re-reticence, of their neglect to let the the efforts of those who have many resources and those who have few. provinces) will certainly be another. two beadings-firstly the despatch age was caused.
Students of the University were quire a very careful note-taker to community know what their case
con- The effort needed to produce work The superiority of the accommeda of untecessary calls, and secondly,
into the gets
wax-versation heard on the ferry the which is worth anything is dependent ti offered bad as we may think it, the wilful despatch of entirely falso.
This is other morning.
Two men, newa on certain self-denials, and must be another. But greatest of all, distress iguals. While the panic startled yesterday afternoon to find describe the entire process, before really is, was reflected in a and yet constantly overlooked by factor might explain some of the au unknown Chinese, aged about 30 the milk prople who play with such figures and former offences, there should be no years, hanging from a tree in the sealed bottle you know. enkulations, is the mysterious attrae mercy for persons caught wilfully grounds. They immediately cut him merely an impression and the im- papers in hand, were discussing largely upon sufferings, which at I see they've the end give him the means of rising tion of gravitation that draws the sending false messages. The dangers down and applied artificial respiration, pression we got and wish to pass the strike. "I wonder" said one to the time, perhaps, put the in-
the Government Civil pains taken, the most scrupulous panies are doing. country to the town. A metropolis of cheapening the 8.0.8. are obvions, but without avail. The man was on is one of the most elaborate the other "what the shipping com-dividual at a disadvantage, but in pulls them, perkap with its varied Apart from loss and worry, ship taken to
enormous expense all this involves. It looks as though they knew an increase fellow-beings. Those who have all Excitements and perpetual motion. masters needlessly taken from their Hospital where life was pronounced cleanliness observed, and of the made an offer to the men now-it above his seemingly more fortunate is quite an eye-opener to one whose was due alright and have just been the talents by their very riches are The publication of the census Hongkong must offer fascinations to courses might become reluctant to to be extinct, and the body was
answer distress siguals, while the removed to the public mortuary.
notions of the dairy business have holding off paying it as long as they provented from using them; those figures has led to calculations con- the vast hordes just cutaide that wo
Lon Chaney again established been based on recollections of the old could." "Yes" the other replied "I who have fewest are hereby schooled suppose it'll bump freights up a bit all into achievements of which the others oerning the rate at which accommocnonot easily realize. There is always chances for unscrupulona speculation
The lordly bulls, the sleek and round. We're hanging up our forward are incapable. We are outselves✔ dation has been keeping pace, or not overcrowding in cities. That is what and malicious hoaxing are potent.
kept above suspicion and the law actors, by his performance of the
neighbour, China, by the very lack of doing so, with the growing population, cities are by nature-over-crowds or Emphatically the S.0.8. call must be himeslf as the peer of character; fashioned ways of Home fatus. In the decade of the cuns, acco-spot-crowds. There will always be which is so fond of deterrents should act of Black Juck" Mike Silva, handsome cows, are not the only shipments till we get an idea what's penalised, compared with our poorer In contrast to the attitude of the spur to effort that effort which is modation for about 100 000 persons overorowding in Hongkong. Fort war added, and the Chinese population unately the danger is less serious los no time in providing a smart fiue the San Franciso gangster, in "Out- animals to see and admire. Even the happening."
for unnecessary, and imprisonment for side the Law," the Universal Jawel pigo live cleanly lives. Suob pigs they
"As to the future, China's art has increased in the same perid by than some experts would have us
Dow appearing at the World the pretty little things just born to their labours, is the ready holpiainess in the world.
you of the hardworked S.C.A. Pressman 160,000, so that in round figures believe. Plenty of fresh air by day wilfully improper use of the sea's super-feature in which Priscilia Dean were, too, and so many of them, from shipping owners, who, after all, share necessary to achieve anything great-
Theatre. His portrayal of the wolf of the proud monsters such as 65,000 people squeezed in somonbere compensates the human organism for most urgent signal,
the underworld, fearless and unpriu-sometimes see at cattle shows. But And Mr. Hallifax an (unintentionally) been crushed by the domination of and somehow. Excessivo overcrowd-soma huddling at night: Primitive ing is diduced, and some alarm felt man slept in holes that modern
The following to thcoming mar-cipled, is a masterpleos that rauka pertaps the most striking sight as elusive quarry these days but when hordes from the West; first the for the public health. We entertain hygionists would descr.be as lethol
announced Mr. H. with his work in "The Miracle Man" regards the animal collection was they do manage to catch him, so to Mongel, then the Manchu-and what the writer instantly thought of speak, between conferences he is bow far we ourselves are responsible no Le Grand Hotel dos Poulets. There always approachable and ready to should not like to say. But we are now at a point when we, I hope, can the opinion tall these figures chambers, yet they survived long ringes aro
isa building there designed to house asiat.
help China to renew the national and (which are given with an appearance enough to transmit Us. This is not to Handley Pegg, Assistant Enginoor, and "Tho Penalty."
we decry proper care for sanitation, but P.W.D., to Miss Catherine Taobol
spiritual lllo that made her great of greater "accuracy"
use to alleviate unno essary alarmns. It Watson, nures at Government Civil
The protest by ILM.8. "Am-Ten Thousand Head of Poultry, and
triumphs in the past.-(Applause.) kavo bothered about) are.
..for conclusions, is to suggest that there is a middle Hospital; Mr. R. A. Green, banker, By June next, we are told, we shall way between fads and filth, and to of Haukow, to Miss Mary Elizabeth brose againat 11.1.5. "Caire" still leave ample space for the
Stoker A members of the old crow on the ground It was a striking sight to look down a fields, was not done in a day, and it have courmodation for some 30,000 remind ourselves that in any case we Baxter on route to Hongkong by the including in their Rille League team movements of their nurses and valets. of the 60,600 who are already here. must face facts as they are. If wo"En rose of Russia' If the sugmopiation of population cannot prevent immigration, we cau Stay, H.M.8. "Tamar," to Mies that they have been paid off the ship, long tunnel with fowls' heads and could not have been done for thirty proceeds pro rata (as indicated over maintain the condition we Dorothy Elizabeth Mirthin Blacktaan, has hoon decided in favour of the necks projecting into it, looking cents. Nor can such a complicated. by the consus approximations) it desiderale. The flood must always on route from Loudon; Blaker T. A. "Cairo." The nun ara heid eligible to smaller and smaller in perspective bus emoothly working organization in clear that those who wish to beat our broom. The supply of D'Aeth, II.M.B. "Tamar, in Mias about for the "Calortif their natilat the far end they were soaresly, be carried on by one man and a boy. French Legion of Honour has been fed alarmed, about it have plenty accommodation can hardly ever over Aunio Day, on route from Waltham departure from the Colony, not having of grounds for it. It may be take the intent demand, for every slow Electrical Artificer W. Cboen recommissioned to another ship pointed but that the accommodation addition must aliudate it afresh into Wickenden, H.M.8. "Tamar" to Miss An application from HM.S. Inw
beon granted. itself must be a factor affecting the activity. I may when wo and Ruth Millard, on route froin Barrow kins for inclusion in the league has rate of population growth, and that super-saturated, and flows again when in Furnes.
.Less
né data
than
ja
recoguirable.
The Order of Grand Officer of the
I must certainly rank su one of presented to. Major Argbus (71), GE
lost him yesight through wounds. The work that has transformed Hongkong's great industeles, and it Montpellier, a volunteer, in 1870, who these wedy hilalles into smiling there are any idore interesting or re-collated in 1914, rose to communi concreto work, buildings, cultivated them for you in due course. farms, the retaining walls, now ronds, admitable we shall hope to describe an infantry regiment in 1916, adith
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