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THE CHINA MAIL.

Suppose

indeed than the luckless Mr. Jiggs and suppost himself. Witness ~ Suppose that soon, soon ReNotice. I will not be responsiblo should shatter this sorry scheme of for any debts contracted by my things entire and soon, soon wife from this date... Uncompromising as the ten com- mould it nearer to the heart's 3 12 31*****

EH- mandments,··

desire. Supposo our prophet had Glorious as a psalm,

Notice, I am sorry. I put that ad. truly dipt into the future, further in the paper yesterday. I take it all Gale-swept, cloud-swept, sand than human eye could see and

swept, snow-swept-

back." really had seen the Vision of the Aross these the Wall's crested world and all the wonder that

einuousness"

would be

oppo

3-13 2t Suppose

and suppose. Suppose H. G. Walls was right and his Men Like Gods were but the heirs of the ages, the present

Only Suppose!..

Daring all chasms, Leaping all precipices.. Writhing its stone length Across each challenge of torment

ed rock

ages.

Some day they will ...WAR. produce the real war

To raise again a blunt watch-tower

hoad Down-glaring on Mongolla's fierce

plains.

film, the one that will Like the pianist who. BLANK Idly strums the key-live. The Four Horsemen of the BLANK board hoping to strike just been privileged to see is not Apocalypse "which Hongkong has BLANK the note that will sug that film, though sometimes it gest some opportune comes very near the mark. The theme, I was trailing the old penreal war film will show that war is round the paper hoping the blotchy horrible, ghastly for every alde results would stir my mind. That not merely for the French or outline yonder faintly resembling the British

or the American,

SATURDAY MAY 19 023

COURTS MARTIAL REMARKABLE HONGKONG

ORDER

DECISIONS NOT TO BE PUBLISHED!

OVER THE BORDER. MURDERERS' FLIGHT. (Reuler's Service to the China Hall,)

Instructions having been issued

SBILA, May 15, EH from Army Headquarters that the Yohat bays takea refuge in Afgh

The murderers of Mrs. Ellis at decisions of equrts-martial areanistan, under pressure from the The same tale is told, but this not to be disclosed, a China Afridi and Lashkare, time with rare artistry, in the fol- Mail reporter called upon Mrs. Ellis, wife of the district lowing little poom I lift from a Lieut. Colonel Nicholson, D.A.A staff officer was murdered by Philpotts is the author. Thus reason for the order.. At the out-vengeunce for a British raid: Her recent issue of the Natten. Eden and Q.M.G., to. leara the Frontier tribesmen who had sword

set, the China Mail man stated that 15-year old daughter was kidnap yesterday, over the telephone, he pad but was later rescued, chiefly was informed by the Officer of the owing to the heroism of a lady Day that probably the findings of doctor, Mrs. Starr.] asked for (in a letter to the adjutant the courts-martial, which had been

disclosed and that he (the Officer on May 14); would not be

for the Day) understood no findings would be given to the Press. The editorial on Courts-Martial, which appeared in the China Mall on Tuesday May 15, was mentioned as a contributory cause for the decision. There

thora

a

An amber-breasted thrush upon Made glad the wind-swept lea With mellow melody, To hearten buds and stars and

little leaves unborn.

He sang and loved and sang, that

throstle blest,

Till from the ivy-tod

HOME STRIKE OVER.

ARBITRATION SUCCEEDS.

The strike in the oil refineries-

LONDON, May 18. has been settled and the men are resuming work,

His wife cried, O my God, Do stop your noise and help with

this here dratted ́nest!!"

Bernard Shaw, in his LET

Devil's Disciple, has

The matters in dispute were re- US a pretty little court Col. Nicholson admitted that

ferred to arbitration.. WEEP, martial scene, which Capt. Hannay, A.F.C., the Adjutant at the National Oil Refineries at (Sixteen hundred men eniployed came tumbling back of the 2nd. Bn. King's had tele- Skewen, near Swansea, struck

a mule would have seat my hand Wilde once said that as long as flying across the pad with kinema war is regarded as wicked it will speed, but-well, who wants more always have its fascinations. When military land groans, after all the it is looked upon as vulgar it will railing and walling we have had these, thirty years? That topic. cease to be populär. What we want, ) into my mind when I read the local phoned with regard to the letter work in sympathy with the fitters just now, is dead; dead as the therefore, is a film which will de-order against publishing court from the China Mail reporter, dated who had been án strike for the:

pict war in all its vulgar 'squalor, martial decisions.

Do as the War Office. Then this little sketch here, the one with the striped tusks and forked tongue, likewise taboo. You can't criticise your-host's whisky for public eye the very next day. Like the dear old boarding house sterk-the one. that useter-it's not done, si nuly

Ltd not done. However, I might per-

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was bought and put in a place agreed upon. After three days, Sandy could bear it no longer, and LAWRENCE. At Matilda he said, "McGregor, I am ill"

Hospital, on Saturday 19th May, to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ewas ill all day yesterday."

Too late," said McGregor. "I Lawrence, a son,

The China Mail.

an

Prisoner: I never expect soldier to think, Sir.

a

Adjutant certain instructions. May 14, and he had given the previous three weeks against a

reduction of wages.]

COLOUR QUESTION. AMBASSADOR'S OPINION.

NEW YORK, May 18.

The Japanese Ambassador, Mr.

..

some day we'll get it. all its revolting horror. Perhaps Demands the Irate British major, perhaps we won't..

And addressing a civilian prisoner taken. "I have been friends of the in the 1777 war: Do you mean to Press for years," said the D.A.A, About those acrial deny that you are a rebel?

and have always found them very WHEN

Fords. They have Replies the prisoner: I am an fair until I read the editorial in the HONGKONG been invented al-American, sir. K

China Mail of May 15. When you TLIES,

right. Paris will Major: What do you expect me go. into personalitics it is time to have them almost as to think of that speech, Mr. cut the China Mail out." The re- haps make something of this other soon as Hongkong has its taxi-cabs. Anderson?

porter submitted that no person- one, Strange that the likeness, Credit for this advance is due to a

alities had been gone into in Hanihara, addressing the Japan Idly scrawled, should have been so Frenchman named Barbot who has

the article in question. In Society, declared that the American good. With those feet, those ears, flown from Francazal to Toulouse, This rebuke does not apply with reply, the reporter was told that attitude toward Japanese im you could not possibly mistake at 75 kilometres (47 miles); the rigid.

sway that Shaw if he had not written the migrants was the only question in him; you would Know. him any-

hour, in an "aviette" would make out, but surely it must article himself, he evidently had the whole, bright outlook vexing where, you would, old-Curse glider- fitted with a seven hold with the genius who issued inspired it and he had "picked on most peoples' minds. that noise! Curse it teafold. Not horse-power motor-cycle engine, the local order against publishing three officers in each case as being He declared the question was because it smites the cowering car French aviators hail the event as court martial decisions. Could any incompetent, meanwhile praising of elementary principle in -coolic yells and baby shrieks the opening of a new chapter in order have been more unfair; more the prosecutor. The China Mail international intercourse, namely soon dall the mind--but simply the history of aviation. They be harmful short of making the trials man stated that no personalitics that of discrimination or non-dis- because it comes from suffering. leve that the aviette is the fore- secret altogether? Nothing were involved and that the article crimination based on colour or Down in the street, below my runner of the aero-taxi of the im- absolutely nothing! Really, in question was aimed verandah, only too well I know mediate future, and forecast that question if the official who issued the entire system under which

at nationality. what is happening there. Yelling machines costing 5000 francs (at this astonishing ukase does not courts-martial were conducted. He hordes are lined along the road, par £200) will be able to rise from make himself liable under the libel submitted that as far as the courts-

BURMAH OILFIELDS., watching a luckless sheep, a scared the land anywhere, competing on laws.

Any newspaper which martialsystem affects serious cases ANOTHER STRIKE BEGINS. monkey on its hack, tearing front a commercial scale with the motor published, the proceedings of it would be on all fours if a press- one unkempt lout to another. And cycle and smail touring car. a trial without giving the man could only be tried by member the whip, I can see that, too, as 1 Picture yourself skittishly flipping result would find itself, if of the press. At this stage.

RANGOON, May 18. have seen it before. Sheep may down from the Peak of cross the the accused were acquitted. the reporter was told that

The majority of the Burman. have no feelings for all I know-harbour and alighting upon the mulcted in heavy

damages the interview.

employees of the Yenangyaung those I encounter are usually tough office verandah. Won't the old Ha! So that's it. After this, ukase The interview however, did warning, apparently in connection

was closed.

oilfield have restruck without enough but monkeys are highly coolic jump! How delightful, too, takes effect, the papers dare, not sensitive auimals. Apart from the the cleven o'clock thought, all publish court martial cases. How not fish before the China Mall with the discharge of superfluous actual physical pain they get from those machines bobbing and sway- very subtle. How very neat. The from the D.AA. that he would reporter obtained an admission their brutal owners, the yellinging outside Bessie's Ponder, like genius who issued the order did leave no stone unturned to prevent Yenong-yaung oilfield last month, [Settlement at the strike in the alone must be sharp torture. Down wise, the

But scuse me think after all, and thought deep. the press being admitted to courts in which ten thousand were below there now, two coarse faces; moment. There's old Codfish-you What Tominy would take action martial in the future.

eering broadly, look hopefully to know him-going into Bessie's and against him for libel? Surely none. The China Mail man questioned involved, demanding a large wards ny verandal. Down below I must see him aboot a-aboot aa Then that safely, "gcta" the papers; the legality of such action and was of equality of treatment of Ameri increase of wages and recognition there a dirty hat is held out for tectotal tract

especially the paper which damned told that the findings of courts can and Burman skilled workers, the coins I shall not drop-not if

Stolen from new the court martial system only this martial in England are no longer the din lasts all day. Indeed, could TRIVIA, book written by Logan week, stressing that, where other made public. The reporter failed was deferred, owing to the alleged I thus ensure that these pariahs

Pearsall Smith and than mere regimental offences are to elicit any authority for such abers of the dismissed labour union. victimisation of a hundred ment would stay there long enough, I called "Trivia," this neat little concerned, it is mostly quite un-statement, would drop my pen and hotfoot story will amuse you, because judicis. But our genius, clever As, a parting shot, the Mailman pointment of an arbitration, board, The strikers demanded the ap 'seek the nearest legislator and assuredly, 'somowhen you must though he seems, has not thought reiterated the editorial opinion The strikers resumed on April 25 bring him to the spot, if I had to have had the same experience :-

deep enough. He has overlooked that men charged with serious kidnap him first to do it. Then I They were talking of people I one vital point. Even should any crimes should be tried by civil on the terms offered by the com would tell him just what I thought | did not know. "How do they action lie against a newspaper re- courts.

panies.) about this outrage. And if he did- spend their time there?" someone porting a court martial and falling The D. A. A. G. said that this n't pass a law to stop it, why I'd— | asked.

to announce that the accused was would be subversive of discipline,

PUBLIC HOUSES.

allowed that " even so, the accused would be assured of obtaining jus tice, and was then politely but firmly asked to consider the inter- view really at an end.

workmen.

ORDER.

I'd I'd jump on my hat. I'd per-| Then I, who had been sitting too acquitted, what jury would uphold as in the majority of cases it would form Mr. Wells's Utopian trick long silent, raised my voice. Ah, that action? Only a Brass-hat jury take a civil court six months to-NORTHERN IRELAND I'd blow him into another dimen- that's a mysterious question, when and Brass-hats happily are de arrive at a decision. The reporter sion-pouf -another where sheep and monkeys are the their tinie.

dimension you think of it, how people spend barred from jury service. All this We only see may be grossly unjust, but I have fords of creation. And there I'd them after all in glimpses;

little fear. Court-martial mentality let him stay.

but what, I often wander, do they

is well-gucer, very queer. Strangely enough, after

Figures published do in their hushed and shrouded CRAWLING. by the Bureau of hours-in all the mysterious inters DEAD

seeing "Ambrose MAN'S Applejohn's

Public Roads in tices of their lives?". Adven- CHEST. ture" during the week,

Washington show that 12,238,375 In the what?"

"In the times, I mean, when no and going home with motor cars were registered last the pirate quatra in running through year in the United States. This one sees them. In the intervals.".

means, officials say,. that' one of 'But that isn't the word you every two American families owns used "

HONGKONG, SATUrday, May 19, 1923, my mind,.

WHAT DOES THE PROVERB

BULLET...

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's

Chest,

A car, Last ycar 1,775,000 "It's, the same thing-the in Yo-bo-ho and a bottle of rum,

were added to the list of owners. | tersticos——"NA Lively little place

The Bureau believes that the num- Of course, there was a. dleaf lady

૬. this Hongkong, strangely enough I lighted upon ber of cars will reach 15,000,000 in present what with jazz some new material about "The two years. Think of it Fifteen What are you saying?" she in- bands, typhoons, Dead Man's Chest." Another million motor cars snuffling and quired, holding out her ear-trumpet SAY?-EVERY radio rages, pirate authority, I now find, claims that it hooting and smoking down for my answer exploits, express is one of the Virgin Islands, the hideous, blatant, smelly. Fifteen Peak irans, tea most northern group of the Lesser million And now they've invented dances, and

revolver battles. Antilles, which were discovered an aerial Ford. Thank Heaven Especially revolver battles. Can-by Columbus in 1494 He cites in we're only mortal. ton political refugees come down evidence this interesting passage here, and fearing for their lives, from Charles Kingsley," At Last," obtain sanction to carry arms. Some pleasant afternoon, outside a Chinese theatre, or-better still- outside a British school, these.good

people are attacked.' Follows a pretty little scuffle. Sometimes the political refugees are shot,some- times the assailants, Occasionally both. Hitherto,however,they have. generously, I think, in the circum- stances-hitherto they have always managed to keep these little episodes private. That is they have not yet wounded anyone, so to speak, not in the swim anyone ho was merely passing and might have been unlucky enougli, or if that is unfair to the busy duellists, anyone who might have been indiscreet-yes-grossly foolish enough to collect a stray bullet. However, don't despair; it will happen one of these days, never. fear, and bless your heart! might be the lucky one. How does that strike you, eh? Interesting? Exciting? Spice to life? Oh

published in 1871:1,

and

។ SPRINGS

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

**The Chind Mail will be published at mid-day on Monday...

The third gymkhana of the season will be held on June 2, commencing 3.30 p.m.

An advertisement as to the hours during which the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. will be open on Whit Monday and Empire Day, will be found in this issue.

Truly sonic people are born great. They The body of a Chinese femele, ETERNAL. CUI swear from birth 28 years of age, was discovered with Suppose

alnost. That no-a girdle round the neck under the SUPPOSE suppose.

body, Surely

not even their own verandali of a bouee at Bay View, AND you must have read parents, can understand their yesterday. It is believed to be SUPPOSE. the exquisite little early lingo worries them not one case of suicide.

whit. They just peg away, more

SOCIAL AND PERSONÁL..

LONDON, May 19. The Northern Ireland House of Commons has passed the second reading of a Government bill pro viding for the closing of public houses on Sundays, which the Premier, Sir James Craig, said the Government would insist on carry- ing out completely, S

Commissioner in the East for New Mr. J. B. Suttor, the former Trade South Wales, who was in poor reading of a bill for the abolition. The House also passed the first

health on his return from Australia of establishments where spirits wing to an accident he had in and groceries are sold, the termin the Japan Chronicle... Sydney, is now much better, says ation of bona fide · travellers"

privileges.

manager of the Singapore branch Mr. F. D. Haigh, who has been

of Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, on the Glengarry to take up an ap Limited, since 1917, and who left pointment at the Head Office in Shanghai, was entertained by his friends at the Goodwood Hall A very pleasant evening was spent, reference being made in the course

HOW THE WIND SETS.

POWERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHINA

Reports stating that a mem

PERING, May 18: orandum is being circulated among the Legations advocating post-

quaintance with Singapore, and to Mr. Haigh's seven years' ac forence prove to be inaccurate of a happy speech by Mr, Trennery ponement of the customs con-

Reuter understands, from a

We were away in a gray shore- less world of waters, looking out Mere has woven round these three, force what they lack in eloquence ing junk No. 2052HW has report lyric water, de tu than making up in sheer, brite Leung Ho, the master of fish for Virgin Gorda; the first of simple words, woven with the very soon their real genius deed to the police that whilst calling the many friendships he had made reliable but unofficial source, that those numberless isles which Columbus, so goes the tale, dis name the symbol for lovely verse. which the gods have destined 10 pm on Thursday, the wind

magic. touch that has made his covered on St, Ursula's day, and

velops and they take that place for his at towards Shoukiwen at named them after the Saint, and Suppose and suppose.

the memorandum being circulated News has been received that the among the Legations states in the All this week that charming them that place foremost among suddenly changed direction causing Duke of Atholl has succeeded the preamble, that the present state of her cleven thousand mythical cadence has been running through the world's greatest men, the the sail to swing round. A foki late Lord Weardale as Chairman of China does not warrant any cod virgins. Unfortunately, English my mind, haunting it like the faery of all, the glory of the race. Now named Shun Kan fell into the water the Save the Children Fund The sideration of the abolition of extra-

world's greatest artists, the envy

buccaneers have since then given music of a Beethoven sonats.

to most of them less poetic names. The Dutchman's Cap, Man's Chest, Rum Island, and so Broken Jerusalem, The Doad forth, mark a time and race more though not one whit more wick prosaic, but still more torrible,

Exppose and suppose that s will it

Horse of Magic. Chis cantering out of the sky,

With brille of allver, and to the

mounted To tyand to y.

Suppose..and supppsc.

could I but play sedulous ape to and ia reckoned to have drowned. Duke of Atholl, KT, CB., D.SO., territorially, Chima must first who was born in 1871 and succeed adjust her military, political, and these soaring souls; could but grasp the faintest five of their: Tho P & O, 88, Delta" ed to the dukedom in 1917, has had financial affairs. The Power saddio flaming fury; could indeed, which arrived here this morning, a distinguished military career. He should help China to bring about

but steal the striallest rumble of had on board three privates from served in the Nile Expedition of this, RRRLAN their thunder, quaver their strange, the 2nd Bn. The King's Regt, who 1898, in South Africa In 1899-1002, The Memorandum, it is under- Conquistadores, whose descend-mount into that saddle to fly ed and brutal, than the Spanish Suppose the whole world could their smashing gestures could I selles. It is stated that when the of Commons as Unionist member (1) Ministers should urge their terrible, their crushing oaths, mimic are alleged to have deserted in Mare and in Gallipoll and Egypt in the stood, then makes three proposals

late war. The Duke sat in the House namely (even) catch but the merest echo of transport was leaving the thes, in the seventeenth century, and to fly-away far away, to the their pagan greatness, their bliad quay-side in Marseilles these men for West Perthshire from Igro to home governments to expedite the the more hip and thigh with land where I had lived, alas too ing glory then, and then only appeared on the wharf and bld 1917, and was Lord Chamberlain calling of the customa enfermage great destruction.

little, and that only in dreams would I tell you just what I think their comrades bon voyage They last year, From

n this it is clear that both Suppose and suppose about the the the OH the were spotted and a wire The Hongkong Interport team discussion of protection of cost- The Dead Man's Chest and Rum But suppose dreams camb Shanghai,Champions. But since 1 message Island are among the Caribee true, not dreams for wealth, for am dumb, a mute inglorious Bargee, sul, which

for Swato group. However, caring not who fame, für love even, but dreams merely drop my tickets, sadly.

yes lively little place, thia Hong" wrote Shakespeare but taking the forph how should the sou ex que by one, into the nearest gutter

This little story I came

meworks with boundless joy I worry press the yearning the exquisite and watch them there haver like the charg VERRA across during the hot where The Dead Man's Chest longlog?

poet's snowfall in the river, a mo« R ment

then gone forever lawful possession of And with them all my fond hopes. 5

Like Artemus Ward's ortunate the man

ILL week has rather an VERRA obvious ending, but

you'll like it; nathless Scotsmen decided to teetotallers, but Mc- revor thought it would be GH

@keep alone bottlə sini

may lie, It's the quatrain itself that delights me. What say you ?? Fox Foot WALL

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but surely

suppose. come true,

streak the

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steame terday

trip

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the Douglas merce.

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