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"TRUTH, JUETICZ, PUBLIO SERVICE"

THE

the first firm grip and hauls himself

Alexandra Buildings.

Where publisher cheetahs prowled

and prowled. "Max

was a hawk, but he slept like a sloth, Masefield a parrot, with more than

one oath.

A peacock was Leacock; George

Moore was a camèl; "Logan" a Trivial marsupial

mammal.

Drinkwater was a shy, moon-

washed' gozélte.

A jubilant jay was Ethel M. Dell As she feathered her nest and

decided to marry.

A tree-topping squirrel turned out

to be Barrie.

A beaver, industrious, but of the

earth earthy

Was Bennett; a solemn great dane

was Galsworthy.

.>

An elephant's lithe and prehensile

proboscis Turned out on inspection to be

Edmund Gosse's. Somerset Maugham as a laughing

byena

Rushed round the Circle-I mean

the arena. Herbert and Milne were mice out

for a frolic; Hardy a thoroughbred horse with

the colic.

:

A critical bower-bird built on a

rock

And chirped "Clutton--Clutton" but failed to add "Brock." Below waved a bough with a

Massingham on it

(A fruit-cating owl with a bird in

his bonnet.)

A Begbie woodpecker picked

holes to find fleas,

With Stephen McKenna, a fine

pekingese,.

In the hide of a Bull, half amused

and half.bored:

I woke then, thank Geddes-1

mean thank the Lord!

WHAT'S

After quoting rhymes about Samuel Pepys and William le Quex, NAME? after borrowing the

IN A

findings of learned etymologists, what happens?. I discover from the very next Lon- don paper I open that his real name. was Tutu. The anck-amen was' mere swank, adopted after he became Pharoh Thus it was not, as one writer had suggested, Toot- en-KAR-men

Or Too-TANK-a-men

Or TUT-en-kaymen Or Toot-unk-AK-men Or Tut-ank-a-MEN OrToo-tank-A-men

But simply plain Tutu. Perhaps, ages hence, when we are ourselves with yesterday's seven thousand years and Hongkong's ruins are being searched, brows will be furrowed over names now house hold words. One can almost hear the solemn discourses upon ancient Hongkong vocables, the efforts to pronounce hyphen names especially. Hence the Colony's most distinguished name might find itself dissected thus:

Adver-SAR-ius

Or Ud-VER-seery-us. Or AD-vay-sris.

Or Ahd-veer-SAY-ras. Or Ad-ver-SARIS. Or Id-vay-S-ris

have

THE CHINA MAIL.

And makes (if I may be so blunt) Out of your corpse a paper

stunt??

ETC.

Those tourist parties may IT'S bring grist to the mill of AN the shop-keepers, the ILL garage and the hotel WIND, proprietors, but their passage through this port is not altogether an (unmixed blessing for the Europeart resident here. You will under- stand me better when you have read the following.. A party of six tourists had taken ricshas from the Hongkong Hotel to a shop in Queen's Road near Pottinger Street. The "boss" of the party gave his ricsha man a $5, note and signified, by a wave of the hand, that this sum was for the six pullers. The coolie, like a business man, showed

More was seen through a starlight

screencastlige Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum 1. Chartings undoubt where a woman

· had been s Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum'!,

A flimsy shift on a bunker cot,

With a thin dirk slit through

that bosom spot.

plish blot Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Or was she wench

Or some shuddering maid, That faced the knife

SATURDAY, MARCH

speech with the slightest glimmer ing of Intelligence he would have seen that the transfer of the milite ary Jands, lamentably overdue, is now vitally essential, alike in the interests of the community gener=| afly and the, troops themselves. And, anyway, had he attempted

THE WISEMAN SITE.

SOLD FOR $1,000,000.

NEW COMPANY FORMED.

the slightest thought he must have A new company, known as thữ speedily realised that nonels better Hongkong Realty and Trust Co. And the lace stiff-dried in a pur-fitted, now that everyone else the Ltd. has been formed to purchase Government itself included-has from Messrs. Lane Crawford, Ltd., failed to move the War Office, that the site formerly occupied by the none is better fitted to champion the Cafe Wiseman. A modern seven- Colony's trampled rights than the storied building witha basement is Colony's very own bank. Does he, to be erected on the site. On this for Parthian shot, does he think completion, Messrs. Lane Craw- that the War Office, having ignor- ford's aro to

оссиру the on the ground and jade

heed anything but the strongest first floors, and the basement, By God she was stuff for a plucky ed every other appeal, will now shops

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! language? Truly should O. The other-floors will afford ac- Henry's Fool-Killer, that busy comodation for offices and the man with the reddish, fierce eyes, building is expected to be ready make time to visit Singapore, he for occupation by the end of 1925. will find some easy meat, some very easy meat indeed.

Seemly?

Pah!

And that took the blade?

Certainly these lines possess vigour which scarcely fits Steven son's description of a dull, old neither surprise nor droning sailor's song, with a droop gratitude at receiving 83 cents for and a quaver at the end of every two minutes' work. About ten verse, and seemingly no end to it minutes later, the tourists emerged all but the patience of the singer." and beheld the same "simple"

How many Hongkong ricsha imen awaiting them." Waal CHOICE. bachelors would give

female

the answer Jamies now," exclaimed one

"there are these very same Lane Allen, the American writer, Stentor,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the prospectus which will be found in the ..... advertisement columns of the Issue, the purchase price is $1,000,000, The capital of the company will be | $2,000,000, ́divided into 200,000 shares of $10 each, payment of $2.50 per share on application and the balance when called up,

fellows waitin' for us. Isn' that gave once when asked by a lady. The Education Department is just too sweet of the faithful crea- if he was a bachelor from choice advertising for temporary assistant "Yes," he admitted. But isn't it tures." Yes, wasn't it?

teachers (European.) · Hongkong residents rather ungallant of you to say HOUSING. beset with the woes that?" said the lady. "You must of the housing pro-ask the ladies that," replied Allen blem may perhaps smile wanly

it was their choice,”

Hongkong over the following letter received

DEWI SANT. has its Сут-

deithas

. Dewi

by a worthy house owner

Dear Sir,-Would you be in- clined to sell your house, because

now

Sant. Some twenty sturdy patriots

Major P. Rashleigh, D.SO R.G.A., took over the duties of Major I. G., China Command, vice Captain C. O. Olliver, R.G.A., with effect from March 22, 1923.

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The company's directors will be Mr. J. Scott Harston, Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son, Mr. JH. Taggart, Rev. Father Robert, Mr. AR Lowe, Mr. Frank M. L. Crawford,“ Mr. Fung Tae-hang and Mr. Peter Kingson Kwok. Half the capital has already been subscribed for cash. by the directors and their friends. In addition, the Directors. will allot 30,000 shares, cred- Professor Danenberg's pupils ited as fully paid up, to we have had inquiries for a house having thus done the pioneer work

Lane Crawford, like yours, and houses like yours the Colony's other Cambrian re will give their ninth annual plano Messrs.

70,000 are very much desired by clients sidents should surely cymru forte recital at St. Andrew's Hall, Ltd. The remaining like ours. And, in fact, there are ymuno argymdeithas. And now, City Hall, on April 4 at 5.15 p.m. shares will be offered for public

Cymru a Dewi Sant!"

Tickets are obtainable at all music-subscription.

In addition to allotting Messrs. Two Jews had the stores for $1.00.

Lane Crawford, Ltd. 30,000 shares, ASTIS TOLD. hardihood to

open shops in The engagement is announced the new company will pay to them Aberdeen (Scotland). Their of Mrs. Harold Lubbock (a daugh- $148,781.50 in cash, and the stances were almost next door to ter of Lord Forster of Lepe, the balance of $551,218,50 will be met each other, in fact there was only Governor-General of Australia) by taking over from Messrs. Lane, mortgage one shop between them. Both and Mr. J. W. Beaumont Pease Crawford, Ltd., the Jews went in for fruit. Strange to (Chairman of Lloyd's Bank, Limit-repayable on April 30th, 1927) for that amount now subsisting on say, both did well. But such an ed).

the property in favour of anomaly could not last long, and

Lane, Crawford,

. several clients like ours who would like to live in a house like yours. So that if we had your house or a house like yours, we feel sure that we should be able to arrange a satisfactory disposal of it to a client like ours, or, in fact, to our client. Trusting to immediately have the favour of your attention, we are, undoubt edly, etc.

Someone has

་ ་

soon the inevitable Aberdonian Yesterday, the houseboy and Messrs. Nemesis overtook them. Duncan coolic charged with the murder of Ltd., and carrying interest at 8 per Mcintosh took the shop between a female knitter by shooting her cent. per annum. Besides this, the the two Israelites and had blazoned with a revolver in her house on Company will pay brokerage of Kennedy Town Praya, were come per cent on the purchase price above his door the sign:

mitted to stand their trial at the amounting to $10,000) and also indemnify Messrs Lane, Crawford, next Sessions...

Lid, to the extent of $26,394.30 in

CENTRAL FRUIT STORES MAIN ENTRANCE,

MOTLEY'S THE ONLY

Carlyle once wrote

An evening dance has been respect of the cost of certajā plans

and specifications prepared last. that always there is arranged and will take place at the year in connection with the bulld a greatest fool, add Helena May. Institute, on April Sing which the latter at that time ing." And the most at 8.30. p.m. Tickets, for members

WEAR Foolish man in the and their friends, obtainable from proposed to erect on the site. Earth is now in the Secretary, $1 each. Dancing til! CAPITAL OVER-SUBSCRIBED,

11.30. p.m.-Advt, ⠀⠀ .

It is learned that the proportion

LES MISERABLES.

Letters like this are, the direct outcome of housing problems like ours, in fact our housing problem.

Most respectfully, REAL

most solemnly I wish CRIMINAL to urge the authorities COURT. next time the Crim- inal Sessions are held to issue an open invitation to the Colony's malefactors to attend in force. Grant them immunity from arrest, and give them the services of a capable interpreter. Then send them home again. After hearing a few five, ten, and twenty dubitably living and breathing, and

of capital which the general public. year sentences meted out Pse war- did this morning or lately, eat his

At a public auction held by was invited to contribute was over- rant they'll think twice about that breakfast." Alive today, Carlyle next armed robbery. Do this I say would be much more explicit than Messrs. Hughes, and Hough yes- subscribed soon after the Hong- and I am in deadly earnest-do this, He would say the greatest terday, the Kwong, Tung Mining kong Bank opened for business this and our rulers will vastly fool lives now in Singapore and Company of No. 8, Lee Yuen Street this morning. reduce crime here. Unfortunately, did lately write utter tosh about West, purchased the s.s.Heisho

military Jands. though, I can never establish my Hongkong's

Maru, a small wooden ship of made by the contention, because the police, and Certain remarks maybe the robbers also, will never Chairman of the Hongkong and eight and a half knots, for $20,000, agree to try this experiment. Thus Shanghai Bank gave this maun-

Command Orders state; that dering idiot his cue. "Is this are great thoughts wasted.

seemly language?" he bleats, "Is the official rate of the dollar for all Lady Jersey

this a seemly attitude?" Judge for payments fixed in sterling which FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY- CUT THIS OUT, said INCIDENTALLY. tells another Yet again, some well-known name

Some yourself. The Hon Mr. Lang saids have to be made in Hongkong and with the prefix Hon. and (say) the

where that it is I think it is time that the War on the China Station during the "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo's good story. which you may not yet have heard. suffix OBE might perhaps become for the gods alone to trouble about Office realised Hongkong does month of April, 1923, will be two great story of suffering and "Old Lord Strathnaira, of, Matiny-but enough! Libel laws forbid.

offences against the gods. This not exist solely in order to pay a shillings and threepence farthing sacrifice, will be shown for the last However, libel great truth has now been stated

(28/34d).

time to-day at the World Theatre military contribution of twenty BONGKONG, SATURDAY, March 21, 1823. fame, was once staying with us at,

where It has had a most successful Middleton.

'Religious freedom, even He

*SUPPOSE law does not anew. was extremely

A quantity of tar used for re- career of four days IT deaf and apt to be two or three

protect Tutu in this free country, is one of the per cent of its revenue, and that if this senseless policy of obstruction HAD BEEN YOU. and we now most precious and inalienable

The leading role, that of the and of hampering of British trade pairs to the roof of No. 254, Bonham Headlong he charges. periods behind in the conversation. Someone mentioned leprosy and

certain rights that its citizens possess. By and the natural development of the Strand East, occupied by the heroic Jean Valjean, is played by ACROSS Teeth clenched tight its causes at dinner, and after two highbrow Home papers saying he law and by custom it is the almost Colony is persisted in, it will be Kwong Hop Yuen firm, was the eminent Fox starWilliam and eyes starting out or three remarks, that subject was was a very bad king, whose ka invariable mle that in matters of come a question of whether the accidentally ignited yesterday Furnuin. It is a part so broad, morning. The brigade responded deep and emotional that it shows ABYSS. of their sockets, across dropped, and another took its deserves every outrage Lord faith no man and no Government

the abyss he leaps. 'place, in which connection Lab-Carnarvon's spoliations have heap-1 may interfere with the liberty of contribution can be justified any to the alarm but the fire was put this remarkable actor at his best.

longer." What is that but manly and Flinging out his hands, he clutches served that our clergyman's wife ed upon it: Although he died the subject. But the rock on which open; in the words of the Japan out before they arrived. Hile impersonation is a genuine in-

had eleven children. Lord Strath-young-eighteen years old-dur this dearly-bought liberly stands is

Chronicle, straight from the The following warning appears achievement o nairn, with his mind still on ing his short reign he yet managed the principle of mutual tolerance and shoulde: Seemly-seemly, for- into safety, Scarcely heeding the leprosy, turned to me and in his to undo the work of one of the forbearance. If that foundation be sooth 1. But what would you from in Command Orders issued yester

usual courteous manner remarked, greatest religious reformers who destroyed the superstructure must this lugubrious ass who next day As the analysis of the ables," the Encyclopædia Britan

drinking water in Hongkong and nica says with the authority that is. "It is not catching, I believe?" ever lived the Pharoh Akenhaton, fall with it. The man who deliber demanda: Has economic power

Thursday's founder of the firet zeligion of lately sets himself to undermine it, so overshadowed political power Kowloon shows some degrees of universally conceded to it:

love. Does the world, asks one who mecks at the right of the in- that it is natural for a bank to talk. contamination, all water for drink-Les Miserables, the greatest,, THUS AND THUS. cables re-writer, now owe any respect to dividual to hold whatever faith or face this and then: Does the ing purposes in Hongkong or Kow-eme and dramatic work of fiction.

...ported the

ever created or conceived; the epic of a soul transfigured and redeem- House of Lords gravely concerned Tutankhamen? You must answer, no-faith he chooses, is the enemy quotation above show us Big loon must be bolled before use.

That comes Business bullying the that for yourself. Personally hav- of the whole race." tion of the primal being you and extremely anxious to secure

about Britain's inadequate air force ing found Tutu good for several from a newspaper, the Times, to Empire or does it only represent Two thousand bull-frogs are ed purified by heroism and glori might have thought him the early the defence of vital parts of the columns-what would I have done wit, and the message is one you the negligible impertinence of a reported to have been brought to fled through suffering; the tragedy tree man swinging across some country against possible attack without him during that hectic should: never forget.

Korea Maru" They are to be and Its brightest, of humanity at its and its sense of proportion ?." yawning gulf--he settles down, Seemingly our noble peers do not race week -personally I have a accepted, it would transform the spoilt child that has lost its temper Japan from San Francisco by the and comedy of life at its darkest Whew? Natural for a bank to talk used for breeding purposes. It is best and its worst" All this the sleek Hongkong office slave, share the expert opinion that de lurking, respect for his musty world.

"Ambrose like this! Natural, after the military not stated whether an enlarged William Fox and William Farqura Applejohn's lands folly has played the devil supply of frogs is desired for have transferred to the screea. I Adventure, with the Colony's progress these musical entertainment or for Pietraye BOTTLE OF RUM staged here twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years; culinary purposes, but it can hardly by the Court after our public men have be the latter since frogs are not neidge-Holloway Company last talked themselves hoarse and eaten in Japan. Saturday night must have sent our newspaper editors have many minds wandering back written themselves profane about

The sad news is to hand of among Stevenson's fascinating this bitter topic; after the local the death on the 21st. Inst. nt pages. But surely the portly Am-government and the local military Northam, Devonshire, of Mrs. R. V brose was misreported when he authorities have both confessed Rutter who was for a number of was said, while dreaming pirate themselves helpless to move the years, resident in Hongkong exploits, to have sung

stolid, stupid. War Office Natural? where her husband, Mr. RV. Rut- With to-night's screening the he asks Not natural, I say? ter was employed with the Hong- highly successful season of My Fourteen bien on a dead man's Certainly not natural, Mr. Lang kong and Whampoa Dock, Co He Wild Irish Rose" at the Coronet showed himself super-human in left here some twelve years ago comes to an end. To-morrow the making his remarks as restrained and much sympathy will be felt picture gives place to an ente Yoho-ho and a bottle of num !”.

as he did. Now, in his place, I for, him in las bereavement, ing film entitled "The Murder which features Island" represents the should have said: "Those d

But let me first finish with this The namour published in the Davies and is being shown hist Crew of the Hispaniola ing the capstan bar to the Singapore numskull. Does, the Chronicle some time ago that an one day.

the chorus

quotation above show us Big Busi panese ocean ships of the first class The Sheik's Wife," which deals para ness bullying the British Empire were likely to be built with the aid

Since when, might I ask, has one of Government subsidies, is For only Christian hands tIFTEEN men on a dead man's

unknown dolt in the War Office Ermed by the statement made chest reavo

and a bottle of rumbeen the British Empire 1 Since the Japanese Diat by the the devil had done for when has this single obtuse official

blocking the military monty Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of run

seething maelstrom he has thus

narrowly escaped, and completely.

ignoring the gaping throng, he

secks him some secluded spot.

Then, after this one vivid revela

1

and endorse the views

to gaze contentedly at those sucks Fence against aircraft is impossible, Punch's Editor voices in these

majesty, he bought only yestemoon under and aerial warfare has how re forceful lines to Lord Carnarvon the assurance they were quite, the solved itself into wiping out whole When under earth I too am laid, latest thing. Seven minutes later cities. Plainly the choice has now I hope they'll let my body be the ferry bumps the opposite wharf become disarm or perish. Unless

Samoa got into the powers soon. get together and I hope no person with a spade Comes excavating after me, THE the cables early make a Washington aerial treaty To pinch my treasure Justa ring PHOSPHATE this week and that next war will see genus hama

both evening shuffle off this mortal coll. That's as if I were an ancient King *ISLE

papers had learn deadly serious, but you'll merely. What close-time do you fellows

smile this glorious early summer weather and rush off to tennis. Ere on the dead you peg your Which, of course, is the only claim? logical thing to do, an How long's allowed before the

Hongkong's picks.

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ad leaders about Chinese labour conditions there. Apart from Stevenson's association, however, Samoa exists for me chiefly as the scene of a story Lady Jersey tells. Previous to her depanure, à fare- TRANSMIGRATION, ( literati, will," Are free to start your gruesome, well visit was paid by the son of a

game f

Chis

· native king: "At this visit, after following verses I found in the Or does the question (this sounds various polite phrases had been in latest issue of The New Witness, fold) *** terchanged, Bazett Haggard (Land | (London),. They are from Geoffrey Tum on the dead man's view of Commissioner and brother of Dearmer's clever pen pers

God? Must Only Pagans yield their

What had I eaten? What deep

dissipation

Caused me to dream about

transmigration?

Rider Haggard) premised his ora tion by enjoining on Yandall (the interpreter) to interpret his words exactly. He first dilated in flowery language on the importance of my presence in Samba, on which our guests interjected murmurs of Wella waga doye on the watch for pleased assent. He then went an

toforeshadow que imminent de parture=Thournfut éyahs: Came here and then wound up with ords to this effect i Partings must

ceur on earth; there one place where

Find more

Is the

clay

Shaw was a sheep dog with more And mayn't a Polynesian (s7)

bite than bark,

Come here and ask the Dean for

leave

gloom -Anne-from-MME!

ba-hon, sang, ally out of

down as

YO-HO-HO

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to have

Generally

British

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ettles

Maeds. The Minister

It clear, however,, ditional subsidies are For whether the com

ship

tellectual as well as histrionic

In characterizing "Les Misér

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