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THE CHINA MAIL.
The rotten thing about I don't know where that is taken the Sanitary Board, ignoring it in an PRIVILFAX Conscription at Home from. It may be my, correspondent's insolent way, treating it like a small
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1922
́ ́LOCAL AND GENERAL.......
during the war was the own. It is a very shrewd saying, boy. I began to think that perhaps
Repairs to the Men's Clubhouse from it, by cooshie jabe. I bave heard has been far too much generalising this little bit of suffrage we've got, mesls in the ladies' Ofubhouse. that in Hongkong
but from the particular in this connection. and were starting a campaiga ta
Way "privileged" people were saved with, which I agree entirely. There our bureaucrats were jealous of oven Fanling; necessitates the serving of
THE PRAYA MURDER.
LEUNG WO TO HANG.
The following communication was forwarded" to the China Maß-this- morning by the Colonial Secretary,
0.1.0)
for the time being we'll let that alone, Does a ricsha coolie cheek a certain nub it. Then, reading on, I dia- The master of the s. "Japan" Did you ever bear of the experiances type of journalist He straightway covered that there had been an over-on arrival at Hongkong from Cal-(the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, of some Hongkong old soldiers damas the whole Chinese race. Does sight, admitted and handsomely entta via Singapore reported that who joined up? They were astrike tause local annoyance ! There apologised for. Such things might during the voyage a deck passenger
"I am, directed to state that this handed over on one occasion to are Europeans who immediately happen anywhere, evan in the died of shiorie consumption.
Government, has been informed that Young Pup to be tried out. He was forget all Chine e merits. Conversely, Sanitary Board. Indeed, noticing |*****
the Privy Council has dismissed, the the Son of Somebody, who had been the worldwide legend of Chinese the proposal to refuse a certain Misa Doris Woods has succeeded petition of Leung Wo for special given rapid and intensiva training in, honesty, repeated by parrots, (and application, not on its merits, but "as in collecting $100 in connection with leave to appasi against his conviction order to be put în ni a trainer of often na an odorous comparison with a protest," I reflected that even the the annual appeal for half gowns for murder. recruits. He had certainly picked up alleged Japanese commercial offences) members of the Sanitary Board are made by the Dr. Barnardo Homes It will be remembered that on the a lot of garrison idioms. He told ignores the fact that China, like any not yet angels. Few of us are ad and a draft for £13 0s. 11d. has now 24th March last Leung Wo was these Hongkong veterans to rud, leap other country, has its thieves and damnestly perfect as we think wears. been sent home.
convicted of the murder of Leung a trench, and bayonet a sadd bag, rogues,
This must be intended
Yeak tong and was sentenced to "No, no," he roared, when the first I have sometimes been asked what
THEY LOVE for humour. It is a An amah employed at No. 125, death" one did it. "You'd never bayonet athe climate of Australia" is like,
postoard signed Temple Strest Yaumati, fell from the Hun that way." "It's the way I The questioners know how many are
"Amicus," which first floor verandab yesterday after bayoneted Bours in South Africa when the degrees of intitude occupied by says, "Dear Adversarius, Do you noon while gathering in clothes. She you were in your smadlo," said the that great territory, yet they ask now anything about whitlowe" was injured in the head and was re- Hongkong man.
such a silly question. No less silly is I need no notice for that question. moved to the hospital. into expect a definition of the charac-Take it from me, Ed. They satisfy."
ter ul a great people. It would I don't want another. probably be recognized if ons were to ak: What in au Englishman's character ?" or "What are the traita
My infrequently FLOWER telligant ecntemporary ATRECT the Morning Past, hay ing neglected the op. portunity of tapping publio opinion
TO TEASE
,
++
Among the departures by the "Hakozaki Mara" wero Mr. T. G. I am getting the sea-Hill, Mr. Benuatt, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. MAROONED tion of being matoon Gee, Capt. G. N. Jonse, Major H. d. You know, left G. Bagnall, Mr. H. Walker and Capt. as evoked by the China Mail's recent of an American?" The retort would
Which on an island all by myself. One by and Mrs. W. Griffiths. reference to the Flower Market, be. Which Englishman ? wants it removed from Wyndham American? Why should the babit one old frie, da are disappearing,
Street.
MURDER MYSTERY.
GHASTLY FIND IN LANE.
com-
A mysterious, murder, was witted in Chungeau Lane East, last. Light, The victim, a street coolie, was found dead by the police at the west end of the lane, Four armed robbers entered No. He had two deep wounds on It apparently wants the of speaking of "the Chinese" as some in bearses, come in steamers. Coronet Kinema to go away ton. That homogeneous be regarded as lees Gen is a steamer case, but I lose 41, Gage Street at 9 o'clock yesterday the left side of the neck. and
him just as effectively. Goodbye, morning under the pretext of deliver an ugly gash in the throat, A blood-- would leave more room for the coolies foolish?
Moreover, while I am about it, I old timer. Stand by anchor. Sunging letter. They held up the in-stained chopper was found near the carrying bales of paper to the printeries. Old residents are un- apply the quotation, the effect of it, Another happy cruise is ended.
mates, a shopkeeper and bis family, body. The indications are that the I could find it and a thorough search of the pre-man was murdered while sleep. animous, so far as I can learn, that allowing for inequalities, to individual
The average man is varied, CHEERFULNESS fatally easy to komisas yielded them $2,500 worth of There is no clue as to the identity of Ltd the Flower Market should be main mea.
the murderer or the санке. tained in its historic home; and the frank and clusive, simple and pro-
sad, if I did not property. brand new young gentlemen of the found, etc. Oor complexity is a Morning Post really must not be commonplace of knowledge, yet it regard sadness as sin, and fight downhearted if the Government re- does not prevent us from talking against it. A certain reverend gentle-Hegt., and Lieut. J. A. White of the mon may regard me as a fool crackling 88th Coy, R.G.A., sailed for home cognizes this and disappoints them in glibly of good men and bad men.
8.6. "Glenifler" Other their desire for change.
The best of "good men" will confess under a pot; but that is poor judge by the
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JONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1972,
SWEAT
ADVERSARIA.
If every bead of per-
spiration shed in
wrong with it. I believe in the personal, intimate, confidential note in advertising. It works. The only thing wrong with this letter is that it includes one or two Blang expressions that many English- not understand. The men would gentleman is trying to sell *bigh grade small air compressors for motors, and he opens thos:
A fortnight ago ETERNITY. friend of mine was writing very interest- ingly about memories of former existences. Such mental experiences are almost universal, and should not
be scoffed at. Personally, convinced that the ego is based on memory, that without memory there is no in- dividual personality, I believe that the individuality ceases to be when the mortal brain which is memory's proven instrument perishss. "In the grave there is no remembrance of former things." At that position for the present I am arrived and must zemain. But that does not prevent
A DUTY.
Lieut. W. H. Porter of the King's
to streaks of badness. Therò never ment. If te but knew all. Maybe military departures yesterday were |
in
in him. I am almost shame-faced uttering such trolems, yet our dogmatic judgements of each other, our persistence in classifying men as
they were distinct as "abeep and goats," proves that we forget what we know, and ignore what we can see for ourselves.
There are Chinese who have every
I
misjudge him too. This I
the wisest and most virtuous attitude LC. E. Jones, King's who sailed by towards life is to laugh at it. In this the "Kashmir."
corner of the hubbub coached"
as
"make game of that which makes
much of ma.”
Sadly spake Peter-the one and only Feter Ma dug's deid the day."
TWA SCOTS
It was on the Police Green, just good quality that Europeana claim for after Phenomenal Davis had saved their own race. There are Europeans Kowloon's fare that Wullie had with every Chinese fault. The racial sacrificed to Taikoo Fergie.
ethics, distinction, as regarda
"Man, Peter," says Wallie, "a character, is, in morals, irrelevant. "No ma
fact, give ye a dug."
"What like is it?" asked Feter,
can
tell
.
CANTON, SITUATION;
THE FIGHTING CONTINUES;
The fighting on land at Whampoar between Genaral Chan Kwing-ming's... forces from Heangahan," and Dr. San. A fitter of the Kowloon-Canton
Yat-sen's mankian. continued Railway, was examining the, coaches
all day yesterday, and both of the No. 9 slow train from Canton sides are reported to be holding which had just entered the Sham their ground. Very little news. chuon station yesterday, when he was of the actual -fighting bas knocked down while walking down the lines, by No. 23 train of the Brit-filtered through to Cantan ish section which was backing into the station from Lown. Both the Geral Ng man's legs were amputated below the knees. He was removed to Kowloon in the No. 23 train and taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital where he died
me from seeing that a good case can the truth about them "is true for the wi's wheen suspeacion in his voice, soon after admittance.
be made cut for transmigration of metempsychosis or a chain of lives, Indeed, once immortality is granted, I cannot see how the granter can deny it, since eternity cannot be
Yesterday Chan's forces under
Wei-wa undertook another siege of the Cheungchan fors.. Heavy guna azid bomba ware used by the attackers, but Sun's men held their own very effectively with their 12 inch guns and drove them: back, Many casualties were suffered by the unsuccessful attackery,
reason that no man can relate a long history in a phrase. It would be yoken. hard to tell a falsehood concerning
"Man, it's an awfu' guid dug—a The strike of Chinese rice coolies
San'a gunboats are reported to them, for the reason that human pointer. Mind yo, she's ower ten for higher pay and a reduction of invention and imagination is not so year old-ah wadza tell ye lecs aboot working hours, which started over a have stopped the "Woft" at the her, and che's half blind, and a bittle month ago, has been settled. At a mouth of Whampoa river on Thurs
that would not be true of some unit
"Acb" says Peter.
defendors.
THE QUEUE:
conceived as having a beginning. If fertile that it could think of something deaf forby, but she's an awfa' guid meeting which took place at the Rice day and commandeered 300 bags of the **Boul" is to live for
in such a vast aggregate, No man | dug, as faithful sa ye'll find anywhere." Dealers' Guild yesterday, the employ- tion and /102 bags of flour for the ever, it muat for ever have
ers agreed to increase the pay of those to me. In that can tell the whole truth about any lived, it seems
other man. Of no man is it likely a "It's no as if I were selling yo the who earn less than $10 by 37 per case memories of previous existences list could say what could not conceiv: dug," said Wallia. "And I near cent and the pay of men earning more are not so ridiculous as the scoffers would pretend.
ably be true. I do not believe even forgot to mention she'll ba's a litter than $10 by 321%. They are also willing to reinstate all the strikere in a relativa consistency. The most o' fine paps verra sude.” that manifold human nature can man-
Land to extend the hospitality of their "Ach" Bays Peter. ** Here, age is sa appearance of it, a pretenco Adversarius, mas man," he says,rk, which is fixed for Friday, July some rather unusual street sights shops pending the resumption of The water shortage is leading to "there's a bit for yo on Saturday,” I have just beard he says, a man offering me a dug 14the date on which the increases especially round the water stand-
pipes. Along Praya this morning. WESTMORELAND that some people that's deef, and blind, an' near deid
there was a weird collection of utensils following my recent o' auld age, and in the family way
Mr. Ong Hun Chong, who died pressed into water carrying at Penang recently, was a director of duties. From tha atandpipe in a by "Havers" crico Wullie. "It's no as the Eastern Shipping Co., of the Pen street they wound round in orderly
E
DOES THIS DIAGRAM HELP 1
It seems to me that some people entertain a very queer and impossible idea of eternity. They think oil hound that devents Mobile E like (if you can call it thinking) that each
**Like all Lizzies, my Ford in an
at it..
take effect.
ETATISTICS. Hongkong thie week a flapper inliales hip-flask hootch. It individual soul has a beginning at a reminiscences of tramps in England forby," he says.
had been poured into gets full of carbon weekly and I toil point in time, and no end in eternity were hoping I would get as far as the reservoir at Taitsm, it is computed Sunday mornings scraping and swear. I have tried to figure it in a diagram Westmoreland, because they come if I were asking ye to pay. fort." ang Tin Exchange, ane of the foun- procesrion to the Praya. Almost
Case.
of Tin Lok Lane, as the coolice dump-
ed them there. I looked to see what the boy was stencilling upon them,
It was
ΝΟ
HOOKS
As fast as he did them, the coolies stuck their books into them." and dragged them on to the Stone Pirr.
ing. Lizzie uses too much oil-no question of it. My old Tin did it until I fitted ground pistons and rings
The Straits Echo
Eve Cain
Abel
Adam
(nd inf.)
Generations (innumerable parallels, between each a little longer
than its predecessor)
Returns of the Average Amount of Bank Notes in Circulation and of Specia in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th June, as certified by the Managers of the It is impossible to respective Banka-
Average Specie TROGLODYTE go about Hongkong Beal
Amount In Reserve without seeing that Chartered Bank of th this is a Store Age.
were there too. As for the owners they made quite a little crowd. standing round the gushing fountain
theatening to let the papers know oỀ it if the Government didn't soon get a move on and produce rain from somewhere.
A WATER THIEF-
from there. Although I got nowhere that a wall of water seven feet high would have stood up around the
I hear that a tartleders and at one time secretary, of the every thing that would carry Dear on that particular tour, I could
there. Heading the any a lot about Westmoreland, for I TURTLE hunt is arranged for next Chinese Merchants' Club, the comwater was brimming marge. If all the salt
walked a lot there way back in the HENTING. Saturday-just about amittee of the Chiness Chamber of column were couple of portly looking had been extracted therefrom, and then it used too little and scored
'nineties. A fine county and a fine
week late for the moon, Commerce and principal trustee of the kegs, next in line came a couple pressed into Blocks measuring 100 the cylinders. And that's that. Too cubic inches, and these laid end to much or too little. Being a mere To-day's
folk. Istill have a little picture I by the way-and the dirty dogs Ong Ancestral Temple in Penang of kerosene tins rather battered end, starting at the Supreme Court compressor peddler I'm no Fivver witness
made in a pleca called Kirkby Stephen, haven't invited me, though I am ons Rond. Deceased carried on a large and serving to add to the lustre, by main entrance, it is computed that fogineer and I can't find the happy If this diagram (with a line for Two nights I had slept out in the of the old originals, who went out trade in tin, pepper, and other pro- comparison, with their next door there would have bean enough to medium. But with a Brunner com- every human being since Adam) were heather, and then drizzle drove me to with "Pirate" Gibeon. I can guess ducts, and up to abort time before neighbours, a pair of copspicuously etretch to the end of the Penang Will pressor-ab, as the wife said when drawn out, you would observe another a farmhouse in that village, where they the reason for this alight. Somebody his death was actively engaged in new looking buckets. Rad pausted she found I'd won ten bucks, that's eternity, in the oblique line that could obliged me with a bed. I recall who taken his politics seriously has business. By his death the Chinese gasolene tanks, earthenware pota and different."
be drawn along all the soul beginnings, that the farmer, discussing hours of been huffed by something I've said, community of Pening has suffered sins of all sorts,shapes and dimensions The stencilling of some big STENCILS. bale for Liverpool this The most serious mistake lies in his It promises a triangle with Adam's riding, said that they usually got up though it is notorious that I have no great loss, week was done at the end verb tenses. I appreciate his in-line as the apex, but as Adam's line at 4.30, except on Sundays, when political convictions at all, but only tention fairly, he wants to say that it has no end to the right, there is no we lig on till half past five." They take aides for the fun of argument.
In fact, the impos have a memorable winter dish up there Very well. In that case, mark me. I HONGKONG BANK NOTES. exchanging gossip and probably used to elog, and that he used to possible apex scrape and swear, until be found the sibility of the geometry figures the they call "hot pot. It is a pie-dish prephery that they will catch no perfect compressor, He could not impossibility of the idea.
packed with little pieces of meat and turtle. I wouldn't be after going wid juntil he found the thing he sells) find
I had a card for potato, without any pastry crust, them now, bo jabers, if they the happy medium.
FOURTH O'JULY the Fourtho July and baked. Fall of juice it i apologised and begged me to. Ia reception, and be One winter on one of the lakee (in any case, I may be doining out that AN ARGUMENT says that because cause it asid "informal" I was en- the next county, Cumberland) we noight. IN REVERSE. they DOW have couraged to go and pay my respects were curling, and the landlord of the excellent Stmits to the flag and the Consul, I thought local inn, himself a keen curler, order Ina sermonprint and F.M.8. volunteer bodies down it meant inverting a highball in hon-ed a hot-pot for the team. His ruan our of Uncle Sam, and that can be brought it down to the lake, and. on there, they should not be maleted as Tuesday, I saw it they are of a military contributies. done easily in durgarees. Gosh had to wait, because the game was stated that the poor inspiris" The military are not necessary, but When I got there and saw ladies all still at an exciting stage. Getting in Tamp! Tamp! Tamp! Blast! Blast! does not mean "poor spirited. I if the Imperial Goverment wishes to dressed up, I turned and pan, Iterested himself, the man pat the And the noise of chisels. Granite. wonder how that was font.d out, and keep them there, it should itself bear went to a place I know of and shunted hot pot down on the ice and then Very well now. Get the idea that I what was the autho ity (or shy other the cost. The volunteers are quite that anybody willing to drink to the be turned to get it again. found only am living in a Stone Age, but with interpretation.
capable of dealing with any possible American Eagle could do it on me neat hole in the ice, the shape of this variation, that it is a Stone Age that has the equivalente ‘of newD- I have never heard disturbance, eta, Here in Hongkong There was such a rush that I had the dish.
Thanks, dear papers. There are two morning productions, the South China it surgected that the we reverse that. Knowing that we bit of unpleasantness with the pro-
· FOR A PRESENT Marius, for the
Hong- JOURNALISTIC poet Burns was not cannot get rid of the incubus of the Prietor when settling up. He doesn't
¡OF A PIPE. pipe you Bond. It Morning Slab and the ULOUGHMAN. alan a good plough- wilitary contribution, we say we want take chits and I was short of dough. men. Journalism scd raine for it, and can do without had to leave my watch, and the
is an altogether long Daily Lamina
a highly cultured troglodyte I get ploughing do not seem to go as well volunteers. The argument works worst of it is it isn't mine, bat.com splendid pipe, which is encouraging me both. That is to say, I am supposed. Yet another Bank is to be opened I'm keeping for another bicke. How to smoke to excess. It is easily the to get both. I live in a cave that is in Hongkong shortly. It is the together. A Shanghai contemporary both ways..
ever, it was a glorious Fourth..
best pipe in my collection. But why to about a dozen fest above the level of Oriental Bank Ltd., newly in வாரச்
It is difficult to↑
"An outport render of expensive a gilt? I am sorry to have the plain, and there are easy steps; carporated Chiness concern with Court of Appeal gave audience CONSORIPTION SWear with proper
to drop a blot on the fair sheet of my carved from great trees, up to my nominal expital of $5,000,000, divided Iriah barristers not members MIXTY emphasis at: CODE-
the China Mail for or looking back from the path of cription when the Government tells
MAXIK twenty-five years" (a gratitude, but really such a pipe is cave. But the ravage runners who into 200,000 fully subscribed shares English Bar. The occasion,
(as was once said of honeymoons and conciliation and generosity on which us that there is no intention to try för
are sent ons with the 8lub and the of $25 each. The Bank will doonpy beaning of a case under the -pen-name I greatly ad
Lamind prefer to deliver by standing the premises recently purchased from Act, 1920, which empowers the it. Luckily, seventeen local volunteer mire) anke for my comments on the the proletariat) far too good for me. ollicers by asking for id have given as following passage:
When Treadmy back on the plain and taking pot Mesers. Alex Ross and Co., next to to hear war compensation THE GOVERNMENT Morning papers shots at my cave. Sometimes the the site of the new P. & O. skyscraper appeal from Ireland
AND THE
on Wednesday. Slab comes in, sometimes the Lamina on Des Voeux Road Central, to the Bullivan, SANITARY BOARD I got a vision only rarely both. As a rule 1 get one west of the Post Office, wig as an English KO,
of Dr. Ozorial one day, the other the next, and so The following are the first Directors with the black patch or sign of the
INTERPRETATION. ed locally
THE
"We have put our hands to the
plough and there will be no faltering
it is not usual.
a target I hope that all those men China is a vast and so varied, who know them personally, and who the Chiness so frank and to elusive, have the right ideas about conscripso simple and so profound, so stupid
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A Chinese was this morning fined $10 by Mr. Hamilton for having in- terfered with a hydrant in Lee Yuan Street, An Indian Inspector said he saw the defendant press down the 550,000 | valen, with a bamboo pole, and fill $81,524,000 three basket. There was a crowd
standing round the defendant. The- people dispersed, as the witness approached.
NEW CHINESE BANK.
rish Lawy
For the Brst time in its history
wearing
we bave placed our feet till the end is attained." Ploughing the path might be more seful than ploughing the mands, bot
A focal merodant than will to or chance of rubling it and so wise to cultured sud-so ADVERTISING (British) sends me in. I'm going to say Hello Frits degraded, so slike and so different, na Oliver Cromwell, pointing to the on in regular alternation. Probably of the Bank bfers Chung Chung colf on the top of his wight
business Jetter to the fint of them I meet, and then that no man can tell the truth about government trippery of the mace, and thes, avage runners hava other chenk, Chang Chouetten, Lai Tin-wa, that he wonted from America. He ask him if he'd had a letter from the them, and it would be almost as bard sayingTako away that baable. marks for these lithic missiles, and Chan Ton-po Chung Uki, Hang exists in Leland thou
Hoh-chi and Chung Yu-sang, to tell a falsehood concerning them." Here was the government insulting think one a day enough for me. seems to think there is something dear Kaiser la ely, “
noddly 80 years ag0:
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