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"Rose at twelve, my hand trembled very much bit: I was very hearty; had milk porridge to breakfast, had a mackerel lo dinuer;"

THE CHINA MAIL.

the personality of "Chingso" Murri- | Imanity has not yet learned Hon; remembering, the troublous enough to build itself a home. That times in which he served Ching as the front of our civilization as ony- coines as Dear writing failuira across probably no other foreigner, bas; thing can. retuombering dose who have sought to lend Chim and direct her!

destinies; remembering the intri. gues, the decrite, and the desires, and all the things with which Dr. Morrison had to do, and to realise that most if not all his experiences“ and his views are contained in a sories of diards, it is very nuturni - that we should express a hope timl ere long. a wise Editor will urrange their contents that the world aunty have them for its very own. Hiplomats may speak of the un- wisdom of such a procedure at such | a time as this. If so it is difficult I to appaseinte such a position. We may well say that the world needa to know what one who was a die- interested adviser, thought of the men who, in some enses for only a flecting while, sought power and position. It would certainly add to our knowirdge and might quicken our sympathies with things Chinese and help us. Its a mere completo understanding of the mentality of

FEM neigthours.

To |"godown" Dr. Morrison's diaries | for u perist of twenty-five years. and then to track them on the world, sens, in all the circum- stances, a waste of valuable time

our very

and material.

Touching Wood.

Today's Poem,

(Garlands.)

Oh, happy are the children Stringing beads,

Of graduating blonda- Translucent seeds!

And Youth arranging flowers- The petals Inid

With loving tenderness To greenisid :

The poet secking words Where minbows lond; To weave in garlands thought, And golden deed.

Oh, Children, Youth and Bard Keep on keep oll~~ Transporting Heuvenward Ou wreaths

Of beads Of flowers Of song!

1923.

Лоик ктото.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

September 11.-Coronet Theatre; "Foolish Wives." At 7.15 "The Ladder Jinx."

September Star Theatre Mary Pickford in "Pollyanna"

September World Theatre Edward (Hoot) Gibson in The Gentleman from America"

September 12-World Theatre; "The Flirt."

SOCIAL.

September 15.-Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Promen- ade Concert, 9.15 p.m.

It was natural that the conversa tion should turn on the happenings in Japan. The paper had been hed" and the two most *put concerned had set themselves in positions of comfort--the one to pult quietly and read slowly the latest of the London weeklies and to learn

SPORT. how The great guns of journalism

September 15.-Victoria Recrea- took the world's situation us it was in daly: the other, to have a parting tion Club night-swimming fête at "erack. Th; it came about that 9 p.m. sharp with band in atten- Japan commenced it. And then dance and dancing at conclusion of

"You know we're not so badly off in Hongkong after all. Only eighteen hours from Swatow and yet a typhoon only gets as on rare decisions, Tropical diseases

off."

Our Civilization.

OUR LAST DAY.

HONGKONG CALAMITY-

EORETOLD.

REMARKABLE. SUPERSTITION.

AMAZING CREDULITY AMONG

POPULACE.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 111923

CORRESPONDENCE,

SUBMARINE SALVAGE

POINTS.

[To the Editor of the "China Mail."Į

WINNERS.

PROGRAMMES WORTH FIVE

DOLLARS!

The holders of the following - theatre programmes are requested Sir, I should be very pleased to forward same to the China Mall. if you could kindly find space in office when a coupon to the value your esteemed paper, to permit me of 35 will be issued which may be

to point out certain facts concern-

ing the raising of the Submarine changed for goods to the same

value with any of the advertisers,

possibly be done in the matter until certain leaks are stopped, which would become quite a simple matter if a Diver went inside ihe) Submarine, and closed certain doors, hatches, and valves.

Coronet Theatre Programme No. 12 Issued Sunday and Monday

Singid.

Hongkong will witness an al- most unprecedented calamity. I am of opinion that nothing can in the China Mail. to-day-according to rumour. The most commonly accepted version is that. Hongkong will subside or just disappear from the face of the earth on the first day of the eight 1007. From midnight last night, nearly every Chinese household was devoutly worshipping and rendering prayers and a good num- berof men took part in the

ceremony.

Star Theatre Programme No. 333 I think it is common knowledge issued Sunday and Monday Sep- among the Hongkong community, temberg and re. that a Diver, (himself a rating Patrons of the three Cinema belonging to HM. Submarine Theatres, the Coronet, Star and.

Service) volunteered to go down

The superstition has been spread inside the Submarine and close the World are advised to retain their lately by the distribution of leaflets various hatches etc: and empty ali programmes and study the number which have struck terror into the tanks of water, by blowing with to be found on the front page. hearts of many Chinese women, air from the inside of the

These wordy slips have given a Submarine, and at the same time! specimen of a charm consisting of release the "Drop Keel "* or! of three characters cach of which emergency weight. This would

comprises parts of seven! letters, render the blowing to the surface founded is discovered to be genuine; the most prontinent signifying of Submarine L. 9. a matter ofjand if there are any blemishes in "devil,"

People are advised to hours, not weeks and then the the education of the graduates, have copies of these charms in various other contrivances could be their households to save them from applied.

attempts might be made for their

the calamity. No particular date is The reason a Service Diver has remedy. mentioned in the circulars which not been inside the Submarine to have

come to hand but one close necessary hatches etc., is when he says that the original 1 mile ngree with "Britisher"

of them portends a disaster probably a case of animosity. het- from water in the

Yours faithfully.

LISTENER IN," Hongkong September 10.

ninth ween the different departments, idea was that engineering graduates should go forth and be Saviours of their own country," but 1 must my this: that in making such a state- ment at this time, he is laying him. self open to the charge of being uncharitable and unsympathetic. ¿Judging from his own confession of baving an extended knowledge of

moon and another from fire in the concerning the aftermath. singled out but the whole of China tenth. Hongkong is not specially is referred to. Another prediction is that during the remainder of the Year (this is the last of the cycle of sixty and considered unlucky in! be stricken with a scourge with many respects) many people will!

symptoms similar to cholera and the circular has a prescription of [To the Editor of the "China Mail."] the local University* "Britisher" is

herbs which will save the believing. According to the slips, the various Heavenly Deities

are

LOCAL SALARIES.

fa man of good standing, and ought, Sir.-1 have read "Britishor's" therefore, certainly to be aware of having a bad time of it Kuin reply to my letter, published in the present condition of China. A Yum, the Virgin Goddess, is your paper of yesterday, I am gladne night come when the Chinese in distress. To succour her to learn that "Britisher" is so wonten are advised 10 fast, sympathetically disposed towards graduate will be Saviour of not only pray devoutly and disdain the case of the unfortunte gradiate! his own entry but perhage of worldly pomp. Striving on her referred to in my previous letter.ie other also which he might find behalf are the Choi Tin Jai Seng, it is a happy angary, and I hope starving. The Chuca, by nature,. which means the

All-Heaven that the sentiment evident fiue of the most sympathetic mow Saints. They are supposed to be "Britisher's letter in shared by in the world, and his heart always pleading with Yu Wong Dai Dy, his fellow-coputrymen sles in the melts at the sight of distress. In the ruler of the Deities.

Colony However, we shall leave junt respect he is morally superior September 12.-Lammert Bros.,

A sinister foreboding is later that question to be solved, if it is

to many, though politically his at Holts Wharf, Kowloon, 6 Aeg. preted from the recent (mythical) at all going to be solved, by those ye

Nuture might D. C. Shunt-wound electric motors visit of Cheung Tin See, the Medical who take interest in the latter, accounted as a weakness. with accessories, one set rails with Deity, to Peking. He is said to and take up the "sad' case of the foundation bolts, and one aircooled have drawn up a list of disasters in Engineering graduates. Britisher" point, and that is that the authori And this reminds me of another

events.

2.45 p.m.

AUCTIONS.

MEETINGS.

be

Jave concentrated

But

such as they have say in Bangkok knw s n), Our minor is starter for each motor, 11 LUI,

ten different places in China. To occasionally rile but think of the

September 14-Lammert Bros., prevent these taking place the questions whether it can be said of es concerned bracing winter we have. Puro ice at their Sales Rooms, Duddeli faithful

the local graduate in Engineering their attention so much upon only advised to print arc we get and cooling electric fans; Street, a valuable collection of copies of set prayers. The that he is the practical experiene, one Faculty in the University that our traffic arrangements are excel- Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

distribution of one will save a which is required of him if he is the other two have been almost lent, whilst ferries and motor bouts

September 14.-Lammert Bros., soul. Ten will render a employed. I answer: perhaps le starved. It is all very well to tur

But in turn I enquire:

out Doctors year after year. take us almost anywhere to the at their Sales Room, Duddell Street, family immune while a hundred has not. Island's beruly spots. Entertain a quantity of valuable household will benefit a section. A housand Is it his fault? I emphatically say, the question is: Is there any lati ments? Well we may be a bit slow furniture, one Cottage piano, one will protect a village community no. Britisher" refer to a recent tude for their work? China at pre- there, but we have excellent einerna enamel bath, and a few pieces of and ten thousand, will succour ten case in which when the Engineerst is ot the field for Engineers shows, and visits from Theatrical Canton blackwood ware, II am. thousand the Chinese figure of ing undergraduates were given and Dectors to go and work ju. Companies which keep us abreast September 18-Lammert Bros., speech meaning "legion." The un- printical work in the local work The pioneering work of smoothing of the things going in London. at "Kingsclere". Kennedy Road, believing are threatened with dire shops they had no desire to dirty the way for the Doctors and the No its not so bul after all. And a large quantity of valuable house penalties, the worst of which is a their hands." But so far as I have Engineers is that of the statesman. of his pecadilloes, his desires, his When you realise what Japan has hold furniture, also one full size suddden attack of blood emission been able to ascertain, they did But alan! the very department views, his quaint And so to Bedad, and what she may have again. Billiard table, one Baby Grand from the mouth with fatal results dirty their hands. The following which has for its work the training. UTTING-On September 4, 1923, is a diarist we come to time and you will agree that we're fairly well piano, a large quantity of black-for those who sheer at the prophets, what these undergraduates have budding statesten lies in o

at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. again with added zest.

The ber said nothing, but wood ware, paims, ferns, plants Constant devotion and intercessary said on enquiry, and I give below deplorable state, shorn of its pro- But the with the experience in his mind, and porcelain flower stands, II prayers on the first and fifteenth of the general trend of what hus drop tession and its essential subjects, C. W. Utting, of the Chinese world of the diurists is as diverse and the sickening feeling of it, of am,

each moon will also help to stave ed from their own line: A number for instance, International Law, the tremors which shook the Island September 20.-Lammert Bros., off the coming calamities

of undergraduates were offered which was struck off the curriculum BELL--On September 6, 1923. at as any other, a rich gallery of some few years ago, and the possa large quantity of valuable house- Chinese have pooh-poohed the work in the Hongkong Hotel of the Arts Faculty some three

| at “ Craig Ryric " No. 13 The Peak, Most of the thinking classes of figures, quaint, dignified, absurd, bilities of what would have happen-hold furniture, also several pieces rumours which originated from the workshop for several days. They appearance of any kind that might Garage. They attended thunt years ago, and there is very little lovable, all engaged in self-com-ed had the surd rocked a few of blackwood ware, and a large fable of the prediction contained in

union. Contrast John Fyrom seeds mor, said nothing, ut quantity of palms, ferns and plants, the magical mirror or spectacles were not allowed to touch any part lend colour, to its being restored in | with :-

leaning over-touched wood !

which when offered to a pawn of the mechanism of the cars, but due time.

were to be tuere passive observers. But to return. "Britisher" sayɛ broker in Macao about a ninth ago, September 11-Informal meet foretold nine typhoons for South This proved to be a tiresome job, that the fetish of a University China this season. On the the and they naturally dropped their degree or having been to a Univer- ing of all Brother Buffs at the other hand, quite a number of wo visits to the Gange.

sity alrould not be the sole reason GRAY. On September 1, 1923, at

Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9.30 p.m.

Another undergraduate was offer for employing a person. Yokohama, Japan, as a result

It seems to be taken for granted

September 11-Rugger Meeting men credit the stories with con- of the earthquake, Annie Gray,

that England is in for a very block in the Hongkong Cricket Club siderable misgiving, some of themed work at the Taikoo Docks. He answer: No bat neither should widow of the late J. W. Gray, with that strange character, Har-

winter. Trade is bad, and there Pavilion, 5.15 p.m.

even going as far as returning to has been regularly attending his he be altogether neglected, because, September 18.-First ordinary

their native villages or living in a work over since the first day, and owing to the lack of proper facili and beloved mother of Walterellion, who gave us "The Journal/sectus no prospect of immediate | Gray, Hongkong; J. E. Gray,

improvetnent. The war hus, general meeting of shareholders of far-famed monastery or munnery. intends to do so till December of ties, he was not fortunate enough Shanghai: W. M. Gray, Harbin; of a Disappointed man" :— apparently, laught the majority the Sandakan Light and Power Every day there can be seen in this year. He has expressed to me to have had practical experience. and Amy Hawley, Yoko- "I have come to bath myself; very little, and nations nothing at Co., (1922) Ltd. at St. George's Hongkong streets young ladies how grateful he is to the Dock In most cases (and it "Britisher" is and girls with white thread around authorities for having given him University man he will no doubt all. They are going on in the sume Building, Chater Road, II a.m. finicking. hypersensitive, old way, each of them arming so as

December 12-Meeting of Un- their coiffures, this being a sign of this opportunity. I do not believe agree with fuo) a University man is morbid nature, always thinking, to keep ahend of the other, and our secured Creditors. of the Hong The result has been a harvest for deliberately refuse to dirty their all the years of his training in the mourning for the Heavenly virgin, that the Engineering students will far better than a man who has spent talking writing about myself for great victory has served to place tha kong

the Banque all the world as if the world inost military nation in Europe in Industrielle de Chine, at the City the small places of worship where hands" if it can be shown them that workshop. He may be less practical sacrifice is offered daily. Parveyors when they have done sufficient for the time being, but bo is more beyond did not exist Farings the Continent. The one thing that

a commmmling military position on Hall, 3 p.m.

of Chinese prayer-books and

Ha certainly has within rings, circles concentric can overcome thithe expressed

strings of beads for chanting have practical work they will have a imaginative. also had a "sale season." Com- better chance for and prospecta in may advantages over his less Moreover an fortunate brother who virtually and intersecting, a naze, moral condemnation of the rest of

ment on the childish belief has their employment.

from the becomes a part of the mechanism of tangle; watebing myself behave the world-the rest of the world

been made in the Chinese press engineer just fresh but evidently with little effect and university can be employed at a low a workshop. If a University training. will not utter. Meanwhile we are promise a million and a half of

capital has been made out of the salary till he has gained all the does not possess any advantages unemployed during the

48 hours ending

necessary practical experience, and over a mere workshop training, winter September 9, one case each of

Japan catastrophe. on others or what they will think months, which melha a much

Turning to the brighter side, the when he has reached that stage, he then why should Universities, for small pox, paratyphoid and

and other. of me."

figer number of people who are meningitis was reported. All the first day of the eighth moon Is the ahould be paid as a graduate with trining Engineers

commencement of the moon-cake a full practical knowledge of his scientific men be erected at sub The pen could go on quoting from just on the border line of destitu- patients are Chinese.

season. This morning, despite work. Take a parallel case: Can huge expenso where students have this and other diaries from titne tained by the continuance of the

the foreboding, Hongkong tea it be said of the local Civil Service to spend thousands of dollars to be immemorial to our present day, ] "Dole," "which does not protend to Detective Sergeant Nea! pro-shops brought out their special Cadet that be knows all about his educated in Western Science, cul-

the display for

Fest when it is not so much a diary that give a family a sufficiency on which socuted a hawker before Mr. C. D. Lanterns or Moon-Cake festival, believe, not.

of work when he comes out here? Ilture and fore?

He is employed on Youre, etc., is kept, but a note taken of Things to live, but only enough to prevent Melbourne this morning for selling which always falls on the fifthe result of a competitive examina

their dying out af hend. That we some cigarettes with a cover bearteenth day of this moon, There tion, and when selected, has to

"ANOTHER PROGRESS.'' which have interested me. It is are not oppressed-by the prospecting an improper picture. Accord is an interesting side to the sale of spend some time in studying the Hongkong, September 8. With the memory of some of the not likely that the diaries left by can only be accounted for on the ing to the police the case in which cakes which are intended for subjects that concern the work that the late Dr. Morrison are of the ground that couething of the kind the cigarettes were packed, bore ceremonious use and of course. he has to do in the service, menn our literature, added to oar enjoy. Personal and intimato kind similar counon at all times. The num- the name of a local hong and a re- consumption, after being offered to while receiving his full salary planį ber may not be so large as it is just mand was accordingly asked for the gods. To attract custom, cach other things necessary for his uant, increased our knowledge, and to the ones from which we have now, hit numbers, while they make so that the firm could be charged tea-house has a gorgeous sign studies during his probationary (To the Editor of the "China Mail.'"↑

quoted, Dr. Marrison's position the problem more difficult to solve, as well.›

board with caricatures on the made men and matters stand out in was one of peculiar promise. Auld nothing to the individust suffer

present political situation. Crowds years..

As to what reason the authorities everlasting prominence, the news foreigner, the trusted adviser to the ing, nor the individual deterioration

at the

Sir-I hope the Hotel Cours.. that "Chinese" Mortison kept aud Chiness Government; o partaker a state of things involve.

maintain for not employing the panies will adopt your idea of issu- Yesterday, a fire broke out on spending hours gazing physical and moral--which such

weird representations. No the first floor landing of No. 4.

graduates from the local University ing books of coupons which can be has left diaries "of an intimate most probably in its secret councils, gingle family suffers more because Ripon Terrace, Breezy Point, Bon-

when they are so anxions to make exchanged for refreshments. This nature" comes with more then in its secrets of thought, design and others are better off, and none Are was caused by a portable cook

the University a success," I confess idea has been carried out by the Lady Wilson, widow of Field-ignorancer und so docs, I presume, Kowloon Cricket Club at their open passing interest, Probably the practice; the Counsellor, the one suffers less because others are in the ing stove setting the woodwork Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, who the public. If there is any reason air concerts with a shaible saving greatest diarist of and for all time, entrusted with missions and co-same position. The appalling thing alight. When the Brigade arrived was assassinated in London by I do not see why it should not be of time; is Samuel Popys. Popys, trying to missions; the "buffer" way we bo teken as inevitable, that, to se inmates had extinguished the ed to Belfast the Field-Marshal's made public knowledge. No one]

is that something of the kind should on the scene they found that the Irish gunmen last June, has present-

Yours, etc.. tako apretty modest maid" by the suggest between conflicting persone, an expression of Richard Jefferies, outbreak by caring amp the wood- robe of Knight Grand Cross of the will be so unreasonable na to profeet

INTERESTED? hand in Church, or calmly writing parties and policies. Remembering in all these thousands of years work.

if the grounds upon which such on abstention of the authorities is Hongkong, September: 10/

PFREIRA.--In memory of our be

loved brother, A. J. G. Pereira! (Ico), died in the earthquake at Yokohama. By cable.

HOWE.-On September 5, 1923, at

Shanghai, Myrite, only child of; Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Howe (née Maggie James of Yoko- hama and Kobe), aged. II months.

The China Mail.

Henokore, Turadat, Bart. 11, 1923.

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