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SHADOWS BEFORE.

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finish. generous torima, valunble tracts of the swimmers as they

Those who are privileged to do so land to religions and other agencies,

can watch lie race by following in

Events Advertised and to take largo donations of the umpire's launch while there are

In The Mail. money towards the provision of, others who provide their own facili missionary schools. It may argue ties for following their candidate.

ENTERTAINMENTS. that the legacy of overcrowding, of Could it not be possible to arrange for number vessels to take the

October 15-Coronet Theatre; the non-provision of spaces handed public along? The scheme could be

"The Prisoner of Zenda." down to it by previons Colonial worked as a commercial venture!

October 15-Star Theatre, "The Governments, is too great now to which, one ventures to think will admit of a reasonably solving.imply pay. A number of spectator Flirt

October 15.-World Theatre; Feraft" might also be useful to the Economic conditions Iave provided competitors in mapping out the Hoot Gibson in "Dead Game" also ja tuul been, and it- umst be met. coune for them and prevent drift-view of Tokyo after fire, If there is any reply to that it may ing. Of course, 1 deliled scheme be asked what is contemplated in would have to be devised and even Grand Violin Recital by Jascha This would be xylitional on the Kowloon where there is no anch' suggestion being found practicable, legney on hand. We ruler think but there is an reason why those the matter is one of Inck of vision, who are a keen to see the rice

should not be entered for.- Our legislators have their open spaces: their confortable beds, and, their

·

U stands for tim, whose weaponra

of definer

liverish-feeling removing To-day's Poem. games. They do not get about the plave nad see for themselves what) is needed. Where there is 1K1 vision the people perish. That is true, but it should be trade applie alde lo Governments as well.

PRISONERS.

Are long, shit, curling Horns and

Commonsense,

To these he adds a Natae so short

and strong.

That even Hardy Boers pronounce

it wrong.

How often on a bright Autunnal

day.

Then

1 is generally mulerstood that, The Pious people of Pretoria say, 11.12. The Governor is either keen¦ ou prison reform or the building of

Ltd. prisons. That much has been

SWEATERS

GOWNS

Come, let us lint the

But

no more is heard,

|

Heifetz.

MONDAY OCTOBER 15 1923.

MUSSOLINI.

ITALIAN PREMIER AS

SOLDIER.

WAR DIARY.

$50

FREE.

ANOTHER ENTERTAINING

CONTEST.

CINEMA STAR VOTE.

Signor Mussolini is probably the only Prime Minister in office to- day who has served in the war as a

The interest evinced in the Chinal private, and his war record is cer

He had beenMail voting contest for cinema pie tainly a good one. for many years an active momber October 29-Theatre Royal; of the Socialist Party, but the sutures recently shown in the Colony

him of the necessity of Italian in-{]unotber competition concerning pic-|| break of the world war convinced has induced the judges to have tervention, which he strenuously tures. There is no entrance fee and October 19-Hongkong Volun-advocated in his paper, II Papelo prize of $60 is awarded to the teer Defence Corps' third and final d'Italia, and this led to his expul-winner. All that is required is to promenade Concert of the season sion from the party. Italy did fill in the coupon on Page 9 and November 2--Navy League Ball intervene in May. 1915, and three send it to the China Mail ofice in at City Hall, 9.30 pm.

months later Mussolini's class (that time for judging. November 10-12. - Hongkong Jockey Club's next Gyinkhanu.

SOCIAL.

BPORT.

|

of 1883) was recalled to the

The big entry list for the pro- Colours; although as a newspaper vious contest has proved the state- editor he might have obtained

PUBLIC AUCTIONS. October 16-17.-Lumert Bros., at "Kingsclere," Kennedy Road, [2.30 p.m.

October 19.-Lammert Bros. at their Sale Rooms, Duddel! Street,

His war diary is a collection of Jone determined by all the votes sent the steaan lunch "Peggy 3 notes jotted down from day to day, in. As many compons as competi

October 19-Laminert Bros., at giving his experiences and impres-tors like may be used and those who Messrs. Lapique & Co.'s offices, sions of the war as he saw it. He end in more than one will be well Queen's Building, 11 a.m.

October 20.-Lammert Broa, at their Salos Rooms, Duddell Street, S.L. "Tonkinois," at noon.

exemption, he preferred to joinment that nearly everybody visite the Army, and was drafted into the pictures. Those who voted in the 11th Bersaglieri, in which hehe picture contest should find an served almost continuously at the added pleasure in voting for mer front until disabled by wounds in stare. Competitors should beat in mind that the correct solution is the February, 1917.

MEETINGS.

October 19-Meeting of Credi-

strutors of the Hongkong Hide and Leather Co. Ltd., (in liquidation) at will the offices of Messrs. Percy, Smith, Seth and Fleming, 5 Queen's Road Central, noon.

sounds of Strong Mon gling with a word. Meanwhile, the distant (inn.

grateful eyes. Observes his opportunity, and flies.

Moral.

Child, if you have a rumung kind of

imme

Remember to be thankful for the

stune.

-HILAIRE BELLOC.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

OCTOBER 15.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Hobart, on Saturday, Tas- maxia defeated the Chinese foot- bailers by 2 goals to one.

One case of enteric fever (Chinese) was reported in the health returns for last Friday,

vivid

is wholly free from rhetoric; but advised to vary the order of their his short, sharp sentences and clinice in the different coupons. significant details convey sense of the almost incredible hardships and constant dangers to which he and thousands of other

A coupon for this exhilarating contest will be found in every copy] of the Chiun Mail this week. Coupons must reach this office not

inter than Montag next week aud the result will he announced the following Wednesding,

men were subjected for endless weary months. He first served in the grim Mone Nero area, and first came under fire on September 17, then in the Garnia, and finally near Doberdo, in the pitiless Carso, What struck him at once was the serenity with which the common soldiers accepted war conditions, which they came to take granted, and also the camaraderie between officers and PROGRAMMES WORTH FIVE soldiers :-

A life of perpetual danger binds

for

cordial

WINNERS.

DOLLARSI

spirits together. The officers are The holders of the following more like brothers than superiors. theatre programmes are requested

All the disciplinary

Mr. G. de N. Luders has as-It is fine. sumed direction of the Consulate formalism of the barracks is aboli- to forward same to the China Mail: General of Mexico on instructions Germany" has found no footing in of $5 will be issued which may be

Militarism "made in office when coupons to the value from his Government.

shed.

Italy.

th; i muuds evident by the remarks of His: Excellency in the course of reconi, Council meetings. We are (as yet | unfamiliar with the procedure of how prison administration and prisomers are cared for and wade to! carry out their tasks of punish- ments. Visiting Justices we under-! stand make periodical visits of inspection and doubtless certify that all is in order, although thei public never learns of these visils or

as access to any reports, if such¡ are written. What we should jike 1711. to know is if duy attempts of a reformatory inture are encouraged by the Prison Authorities, or even ¦ part of prison routine. Ministers of the different denomion- 1819. tions we believe pay visits to the prison but as their knowledge of the! language is either stall, or non- existent. their risits, so far as the funtives are concerned, prast be Lady considered of no avail. missionaries occasionally visit the prison and are able to speak to the gested that a red-hot feeling might women einvicts, doubtless giving be generated if a walk were taken good comsel. In the Philippines; MORRISH.-Te Paymaster Com-

mander Morrish B.N., a say along Queen's Rod, and the the American Prison Administra- Mrs. Morrish (née Dorothy' number of bundica noted that attion is beyond all praise, the uninthe air as nothing else can do; il water is twenty-four fathoms in physical resistance; you get killed to be found on the front page.

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MERIDIAN

BIRTH.

UNDERWEAR

Gordon, late of Hongkong" a eon. (By Cable),

The China Mail

HONGEDNO, Moyner, Oct. 15, 1923.

IDEALISM.

lonely

into

The health returns, for the 24 hours ending October 14, con- tala two cases each of small-pox and enteric and one of diphtheria. In each instance the patient is

I am glad I am not at Windsor, for it is very cold. and I won't have a fire till November. I am contriving how to stop up my grate with a brick.-Steift. The harvest has been excel- lent, the weather delightful: but this I must often have Chinese. repeated. To-day I was thin- ning out fir-trees in the thicket, and the men were quito exhausted with the beat..--Scolt,

RIDICULE.

A little ruthless laughter cleats

is good for us, every now and then, first glance appear to be bales of iden being to recluing the criminal to see our ideals laughed at, our ierelundise but are wally humanas far as is possible, and to direct conception of nobility caricatured: heings covered with dirty matting.is future efforts

proper it is good for solemnity's nose to be!

tweaked, it is good for human pon We can understand members of this hands. It is easy to urge repressity to be line to look mean and despised class of the community sint of eritingls but impossible of ridiculous.. using the channels and footwalks of the streets to sleep in the open, in the summer but only the foolhardy will attempt to convince us that it trying.

is done in the winter because the

realisation. Heclaration is difficult but not impossible. I is worth!

habit is an sequired one. Our sag Building Screens. gestion has been the provision of

hundreds of cases

11:1

A con-

-ALDOUS HUXLEY,

VANITY.

a thought that's to-day,

new

TICES.

This is how he describes the changed for goods to the same

value with any of the advertisers different types of artillery:

in the China Mail.

The

The 149's are imposing. detonation of their shells is almost jovial in its depth. 210's have a short dull roar. Then there is our own simpaticissime 305. It comes from afar, from beyond the The total output of the Kailan

mountains, like 1 pilgrin. It Mining Administration's mines for the week ending September 29, passes over our heads, slow and solemn, You can follow its course 1923, amounted to 68,475 tons and by car.... If the enemy artillery the sales during the period to depresses, our own cheers us up. 86.139 tons.

submarine,

The Japanese which was lost on August 21, was successfully towed on Saturday morning to the coast, where the depth. Four bodies have been recovered by a diver.

Rain and lice, those are the Italian soldier's real enemies. Guns come after.

War of position demands in- mense strength and moral and

without fighting.

The author was much struck by the extraordinary stoicism of the Italian wounded- Fifty more taxicabs are due to

I have a window on the "Street" arrive for service in Hongkong Everything passes before my eyes. before the end of the year. The I have seen scores of wounded. service of the Hongkong and The lightly wounded, those who Kowloon Taxicab Company, in have been hit in the arm, go to the augurated a few weeks ago, has infirmary alone. Some of them, been more successful than its though their flesh be torn by shell promoters anticipated.

Coronet Theatre Programme No. 456 issued Wednesday to Saturday October 10 to 13.

World Theatre Programme No. 1400 issued Wednesday to Satur-- day October 10 to 13.

Star Theatre

Programme No. 589 issued Thursday to Saturday October 11 to 13. :

Patrons of the three Cinema Theatres, the Coronet, Star and World are advised to retain their programmes and study the number

The prizes must be claimed within TWO DAYS from this announce ment, otherwise they will lapse. Thi rule will be rigidly enforced in the interest of cinema patrons.

Employees of the three cinemas- are expressly debarred from claim. ing the prize.

1

PEKING POLITICS..

CROP OF MANDATES BEING ISSUED.

fragments,quietly smoke cigarettes. Not a groan. It is wonderful. Incoming passengers by the No wounded soldier wishes to show Canton steamer last night reported himself weak and fearful of his that the restaurants would resume own blood before his comrades. business today or to-morrow. It That is not all. There is a deeper was also hinted that the keepers reason. You don't groan over a

A Presidental Mandate issued at. had consented to the payment of a wound when you are constantly midnight appointed Kau Ling Wei fairly substantial contribution to risking death. A wound is the to take charge of the Premier's

the authorities.

PEKING, October 13.

lesser evil. Nevertheless, the affairs and to be Acting-Minister splendid silence of these humble of the Interior concurrently. sons of Italy.in spite of the pain of Other mandates instructed all BOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

their flesh tom by burning steel is officials to carry out their duties a proof of the magnificent solidity faithfully and ordered the main- The engagement is announced of our race.

tenance of peace and order and the of Mr. Guy Haywood, solicitor, of

He has few complaints to make, suppression of brigandage so that Hongkong, and Miss Violet Searle, and hears few from others, except the tranquillity of foreign residents

protests when there seems to be may not be endangered. Dr. C. T. Wang, Director-General inequality in the distribution of

YEN AS PREMIER. Pending the formation of a per- for Sino-Russian Affairs, has ap comforts among the soldiers. Ilis pointed Mr. B. Lenox Simpson comrades returning from leave in manent Cabinet, Kai Ling Wel will ("Putnam Weale"), the well the interior of Italy told him of the take charge of affairs at the known writer on Chinese affairs, "the handful of old men and wo- Premier's office. Wu Ching Lian is adviser to his office.

men who clamour for peace." anxious to take up the duties of Governo dell' impotenza nazionale is Premier permanently, but Tsao The bandit's who are holding the Mussolini's characteristic comment. Kun and his more intelligent. British ladies, Miss Darroch and The large numbers of emigrants supporters favour Dr. W. W. Yen. Miss Sharp, have reached, the who had returned voluntarily from THE LINCHING AFFAIR.

fight aroused his It is reported that the Cabinet too-mountains at Taying, north of America to

Lushan. Military operations are admiration; those who for the yesterday discussed the Lin cheng absolutely impossible,

last twenty years have wandered affair and decided to accept all the Kaigenfu telegram to the Daily over the face of the earth know from demands except the dismissal of painful experience what it means to Tien Chung Yu, regarding whom belong to nation which is there is still some uncertainty. A The following forthcoming wed-politically and militarily depreciat mandate relative to him has been dings are announced: Mr. James ed." Attached to a bomb-throwing drawn up but has not yet been pub-- Ralston, of Queen's College, to detachment on February 1, 1917, he lished.:--Reuter. Miss Sarah Stewart, en route from was seriously wounded by an ac England by the steamer"Devapha" cidental explosion three weeks Mr. Sydney George Beare, FL M. later. During his stay in a field Consulate, Canton, to Miss Muriel hospital he was visited by the King; Knott, St. Galrish Road, Crickle it was the first meeting between wood, London; Mr. A. J. M. Rodri Victor Emmanuel UI and the erst gues, Jr., to Miss Maria Dolores while revolutionary Socialist, but Remedios; Mr. G. A. Vas to Miss it was not destined to be the last. frene M. dos Remedios,

"Mussolini left hospital on crutches

PEKING, October 14 the following August, his military The first batch of ex-German career ended, to resume his journ and President Tsao Kun are plan- It is reported that the officials residents of Singapore to return alistic and political activities.

The burning topic of whether! Tis not Day evening contemporary has

(at least houses of the Rowton class houses in Hongkong should he done a service in allowing its) colmans to be used in voicing the Where these wails of humanity, in demolished indiscrirnately is of That All is Vanity. "V

we imagine so interest to most people. But only Surprising though, to note the way paramount need that exits for open essential to "the life-blond of the is to walk past a building in the

the poor pedestrians knows what it It tests our sanity.. spaces, or as they are popularly described when used in connection Colony could fired shelter and food course of being pulled down to get With one who loves his righteous- at a nominal sum. The iden as is the some dust or sind in the eye. This with cities, "hings. It is not a

tion of effective screens has been Another's bent is wickedness, lone voice that has been raised, or idea of playgrounds, is worth the is not the first time that tho que A martyr he will be;

attention of the many monied broached. To prevent dust, build- And brag of crime will he.- person ploughing a

Chinese who have found their home ing materials, etc. injuring passers- fnow. The China Mail has long ere this placed itself on the side of and their wealth in this place, to by, better screens and boardings A mother shows how Sonny can up. As the owners are apparently And thinks he is the greatest man those who so and advocate the break from tradition and to leave than those how us d should be put Perform what he should do;

mominents that shall be enduring making "nest-eggs, surely it would A nuisance qure to you. necessity of providing what my described as "The Finer Things," and a tribute to man's humanity to not hurt then to have a sereen of

We refrain for the time grooved boards instead of a few Sone girls will pose a flappers fine, the less spectacular, probably nou.

Whilst others will not touch sweet paying ventures in terms of dollars being from commenting afresh on pieces of matting dangling from And spend their lives on sbow:

pole. those other "Finer things" which

wine, and cours, but none the leas pro-

For fear the World may know. visions which seem to us imperative have been referred to by the

Our greatest men are victims and the people's rights just as they Colony's evening papers.

At home this is the eloquent The Public they will serve; would be recognised in any populous sideration of them all convinces us ely at Home. Apart from Happy that our Legislators in the past at name given to the gentlemen wie To have it known what they can do. Valley there is no "lung" ou the any rato were possessed of a sing-are honoured by being made Jus. If some one calls it "nerve."

In Hongkong of spiritual tices of the Pence, Hongkong side. There is no play- larly limited mense ground so far as we know also on vision-a sense that would descredit no such title is bestowed upon our It seems in truth the same old a fourth-rate Municipality at Homo. J.P.'s for, beyond being permitted

the privilege of the exhaustive and Eaeli wants to wear a crown; the Island. Our recent effort to

Our present Council is content to

responsible duty of voling at certain And on their shield emblaze their arouse interest in this matter has wallow in the honeyed-sounding local elections and in isolated not even excited the outward un- words, that the Colony is in a very instances acting as visiting Justices For Vanity's renown Perturbed calmness of the two anem- bers on the Logislative Council satisfactory condition. It has made at the Prison, they do nothing t decide simple court cases. Why representing the Chinese. They, attempt to grapple with the one J.I.'s sit on the bench and good souls, have their hands full in sun-districts of the City, the over-cannot our own home-made Justices atfonding to a more spectacular crowding of the place, and the pro-do the same here? There must be thing in the matter of details con- vision either of playgrounds or hundreds of simple cases which at stipendaries and lend to delays, cost of effecting some of these which these honoured men could cerning the 1924 exhibition in Lon-open-spaces. It cannot be that the present take up the time of our paid All that is needed is the finer thinga" is the main and take. insuperable problem. The Govern-competent services of a magistrate's clerk or two in an advisory capacity. mont has covered itself with bonour

The Great Unpaid.

game-

ume,

1928.

JOHN KYOTO.

INTERPORT FOOTBALL

INVITATION FROM SHANGHAI.

Bulletin

arc

says

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บ-

IT IS REPORTED."

ABOLITION OF TUCHUNS RUMOURED.

Captains Muhlenbien and [ Mio Diario di Guerra. By ning for the abolition of the don. One other matter which does

Richer. For many years Captain Benito Mussolini. (Milan: Imperia. Tuchunate, and dividing the coun Muhlenbien was connected with 15 lire.] not move them, and which does not

The hon, secretary of the Hung-the ship-chandlery firm of Messrs.

Sunshine and Common Sense. appear to move the Europeans of

kong Football Association, Mr. F. Hartwig and Co., of which he in douating a considerable sum to the Colony, is the question of the

T. James, informed a China Mall re- eventually became the sole partner,

Don't doctor your blood for rheat elooping out of the many unfor- Japanese relief made necessary by Harbour Swim,

porter to-day that any invitation had and Captain Richer was master of atim. Use an external application of tanate coolies who are compelled to the recent earthquake; it is spent Evidence of the popularity of been recetett from Shanghai to the local steamer Wilhelm, running Chamberlain's Pais Beim. In a few do so."Mouths ngo, when the cold ing an additional considerable sum the annuel harbour win is forth-send up a football tear and that from Singapore to Java ports. On days it will get you up and eat into the the Peking police and gendarmerie weather.got at our boues and our in the matter of the 1924 exhibition, coming every year in the large he had written to accept it. Mr. the outbreak of the Great War they crowds which gather on Marmy James said he thought the fixture and their other compatriots had to

Germany. thining blood coursed not so warmly it is prepared, seemingly at al Pier, the Prave, and the approaches would probably be arranged for leave Singapore and return to as hitherto it bad done, wa ang times, to give either free, or onto the V.R.C. to catch a glimpse of about next China New Year.

try into several military districts, in which certain Generala will be in control of military matters only, and not interfere in civil affairs.

CUMSHAW FOR POLICE. President Tsao Kun has given

rid the system of this troublesome dis- sunshine, then Nature will restore the a bonus of one dollar each for their ich rod blood to your veins and soon extra work and for their efficiency tion Courtesy- Daily Bulletin. ». Storekeepers rare. For sale by all Chamista and in connection with his inaugura