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INTERIOR

KÖNGMODIT ATHO

REED

BANDITS AGAINST SUN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

UNGODLY.

CONG

To the Editor of the "China Mall. T

Sir fear I must give you friendly word of warning shall really have to cease buying your KONGMOON, November 13 care. I cannot describe the terrible paper if you do not exercise more Small though this place may be, shivers that crawled down my back comparatively, its political baro-when I read the awful language of meter is usually a true forecast as Mr. Pitle was, crossing in the to the course events will Ferry at the time) ndeg take, in Canton. The political atmosphere is, so disturbed that allowed, to write to, any newspa I do not think he ought to be a crisis' must be reached nor, more especially saying his very soon. Soldiers are plotting to prayers in the China Mailon & sell their services to the highest Tuesday, he might perhaps be bidder; bandits are mobilised and allowed to say them in the Sun- on the qui vive for the slightest op- day Observer being a Sunday portunity to pillage; and the civil population is taking the only course

I do not know whence he derived left to it, which is to call out the the Idea of what he is apparently volunteers and

street pleased to think is Christianity, erect barricades for their own protection but I feel convinced that he is one if not salvation.

of those whom Dean Swift had in mind when he wrote:

him.

General Leung Hung-kai, who was despatched by Sun Yat-sen to quell the mutiny in the south hus been beaten back and is now at Sunning City. The anti-Sun general Lui Tsun-wing is now negotiating with bandit leaders along the railway to pester Leung by waging guerrilla warfare on Nobody can foretell with any degree of certainty which faction the different leaders will side with Most people have an apprehension that the first and third divisions, which form the garrison of these prosperous districts, will declare for Chan Kwing-Ming at the earli est opportunity..

paper.

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QUAM MAUID JET

** THE CHINA MAIL.

THE K. R. A.

NO PUBLICITY: IN FUTURE?

CHARIVARIA,

SATURDAS TO MONDAY-

FEELING

We hear it rumoured that they intoad to call if Sandy Valloy,

ZEINSTE UT

beg to differ, The differenco na wa make it is $9,997.10.03

Adlegyman af drawn attention to the large number of metal what dosort their wives. Via-presume they must do poloething for a living.

We understand that in borrowing fright note.

Me Purves! Secretary of the Kowloon Residents Association, infurmed a Ching Mail ro porter this morning that, in future no reports would be sent to The nights are drawing in. Two much skill is necesery to get the meetings except reports of the the press of what transpired at the are already in the Government. annual gathering in February. Asked for information regards off who had been charged with pipes have been stolen from a A Bindford magistrate let a man hundred and twenty-four organi ing the plans for the orrent assaulting his wife, an condition church at Hall Had they been

Purves stated nothing would be mana sorvico.. at the meeting on November 5, Mr. We prosume this is called doing the the undertaking. year, alleged to have been arranged that he went to chapel, regularly bag-piped we might have applauded

disclosed until after the mecting in February.

THE STAR

"THE NAUGHTY WIFE."

The Forbes Russell Company We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough have chosen a really funny comedy to make us love, one another" for their farewell performance in I am sure he is also very, very "The Naughty Wife" is full of

Hongkongg inconsistent in objecting to golf absurd situations which keep the and bowls and tennis, &c. being audience fa played openly, does he not know laughter from start to finish.

contintial foar of that these games require quite a

It is acted, of course, in the large space, they cannot be played Forbes Russell fashion, which a small secret place like writing means a first class night's entertain" uncharitable letters, drinking and other deadly sins.

ment.

It is to be hoped that this Company will retum before very long, and give the Colony more of their bigh class productions,

Mr. Lly George went to The Hongkong Amateur Photo, Canada, not to make, political graphip Society is, we understand political speeches, but merely to developing rapidly.

thank the Canadians for their great services during the War. While he was about it he might have taken in Normandy on a way back and told the people how grateful we alt are for what they did for us after the Conquest.

It is not true that one or two Government Departments are to be rorauddled.

The Ten Commandments are to be filmed. This is hardly the correct way to observe, thean.

Some people feel a swell when wearing new shoes.

opnsidered smart, to carry one's own whisky, But like Hongkong it is scandal is in its tolling effect.

We read that in America it is!

To some people the value of indiscreet to be seen staggering under the fond.

been reading about should prof This ballet proof vest we have

firresistible.

"Smuts on Europe" says a paper beadline. Not so dusty all the

вище.

"Why don't men propose" is also another beadline. We are not sure, but probably they are learning wiedem.

Besides that, he can go to church instead of looking at them, if it suits him better, always bearing in mind that he would then be the cause of the parson working for his living on Sunday, not forgetting Adminl Chan Chak, who the nice little choir boys and the virtually rules the place, is describ-vergers and the bell-ringers &c.

It would be necessary for all em ed as Sun's staunchest stipporter. By the way, how does he know ployers of labour to see that their He has ordered the return to thirt one of your correspondents employees were provided with the Kongmoon (Pai Kai) of half the "unblushingly subscribed himself registration certificate before em- troops which he recently sent to&e"? Was he accessory to the ploying them.

A party of Americans on being the East River front.

fatal deed? I fear he is romancing All boarding house keepers and shown the House of Commons the Pak Kai, the port of Kongmoon, a little. I think, Mr. Editor you hotel managers would have to other day were much impressed has been under martial law since had better tell him to stop before make certain that all guests had with the dignity of the place. yesterday morning. Passengers he actually tells untruths, which either reaistration certificates (in Needless to say the House was not who arrive by rail are all searched would be a very wicked action and case of residents) or passports (in sitting. and two field pieces have been surely inconsistent with his partie case of visitors) placed on a neighbouring hill to cular brand of Christianity. protect the approaches.

Mines are reported to have been laid at Tung Ma Ling and Ngoi Hoi, the two approaches to this port, but these are not contact mines.

Our local railway has the peculi arity of being able to shed itself of passengers which it probably dis- Ikes. Yesterday there were two such occurrences at Kang Yick, where a man in one case, and a woman and child in another, were involved. It is also said that four lives have been lost on the 9th in the same manner.

ARMED ROBBERS.

LOADED REVOLVER PICKED UP.

S

Yours,.

PUBLICAN & SINNER. Hongkong, November 14.

(To the Editor of the China Mail.)

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Dear Sir or Madam; That letter from the man with, the Saxophone, name "Pitiell," has stirred me very much. I ask you Sir or Madam what we are coming to. I am told by a little bird that the Club in Queen's Road with the shower bath, held a concert which lasted till an early hour on Sunday morn ing. Sir or Madam I ask you as

Masters of ships, registered in In 2023, if women have learnt Hongkong, would have to attend nothing else, they will certainly bo to their crews and the ship owners dressed like men, says Professor to the passengers that, no ticket A. M. Low. A panting possibility. was issued, without a registration certificate or passport.ee, I The gentlemen at the foot of as on the passport would appear wreathed in miles.

On the registration certificate, Flower. Streat are continually the photograph and thumb-print(in the case of certain Asiatics) of the owner,

Above I have given the outline of my proposition and the various details could be worked out when the scheme is adopted. ......

The visit of thirtoon Bishops in March next should lead to a big revival-the revival of the Chess

Club.

Boxing has been added to the

I sincerely trust, the Chamber of Borlin High School Girls pro- Commerce, The Constitutional | Reform, Kowloon Residents and ramme of studies. Evidently to Peak Residents Associations will give Fritz fite:

Enclosing my

card. Dear Sir,

I am

Yours faithfully,

HOMME LY AFFAIRES, Hongkong November 13.

the father of a large family, I be-interest themselves in this scheme. lieve all Editor's have large fami lies, how can we expect to win the next great war when we do things like this. You Sir or Madam as the public prosecutor of the disembowelment of public opinion, should .exert: YOUT utmost to put a full stop to this a revolver each, they terrified the state of things. This thing must occupants and managed to get 550 stop. Please see to it and oblige from the safe. No arrests were one who will ever pray for you and made but a loaded revolver was your family.

Early this morning, two armed robbers broke into the first floor of No. 20, Mercer Street. Brandishing

found by the police, subsequent to the robbery, in Burd Street.

F

THE TUT." SCARE.

Yours most penitentiary

ELLFOIRE Hongkong, November 13.

PIRACY.

MUSIC.

Definition

Golf: Spleen on the great..

The award of the onion in the third degree (unpickled) has been awarded to the successful sweep- ticket holder found shouting: "Yea! We have no Gymkhanas.”

To-day's Pulsating Thought: Ore. bowler hat does not make a Broker.

THE CORONET.

"LOVE: FLOWER" TOMORROW.

"Rich Men's Wives" finishes to- night at the Coronet, and the book- ing for to-morrow in David W. Griffith's production of " The Love Flower" The cast is headed by the favourite Richard Barthelmess, and the players in support are of Griffiths pictures. the calibre always noteworthy in

The Love Flower "is a drama

made in the exotic setting: of the South Seas. It concerns the fight made by a young save her father from the enemies girl, played by Carol Dempster, to who wish to take him back to çivilization to answer a trumped up charge

The people who are hot up on a Apart from the strongly sympa

thetic story, the scenes thing are usually down on it.

beautifully made.

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The Dublin hunger strike is breaking fast,

Thoso Bulgar. factions: Serbis and Bulgaria,

The Hongkong Horticultural Society is evidently a growing oct-

To the Editor of the "China Mait." ↑ Car

PUTO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

JONAL

MARINE ENGINEKES GUILD OF CHINA Hongkong Branch...

are

THE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING The most dévoted husband bas will be bold at the Guild Des, Bailors' Dear Sir, I was a visitor at the moments when the only company he House, West Point, on FRIDAY, 1611

* November 1923, stå si'clock pa Star Theatre, last night on the oc wants is that of his own, sex, sayur

SVELESS: ... casion of the Forbes-Russell, per Mr. Duncan Swan. When heg

Elections and Gekként m formance of Secrets." There was indulges to eIMI.

W.J.STOKES, 20 the orchestra playing, and music

Hrihah Beerolary, which can only be produced by It is a mate a duty to make a Hongkong, November 14, 1923. string instruments was most martyr of himself to pay his debts. excellent, gričke

indeed.

very save Judge Bagge, Even if he Dear Sir,-May I through the difficult manipulation for the docen't got credit for so doing.. columns of your paper, be allowed violins, and to one plece the-Flute

DEATH REVIVES RUMOURS. [To the Editor of the "China Mäll,"

CURSE OF EGYPT.

Is the Tutankhamen scare return

ing?

Shortly after the Luxor excave

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to suggest to the powers that be, a had really very very hard execu- Të makes no difference to ane's affairs now prevailing in the Colony Have produced such a splendid rate of £10,000 a year, or, as I nme remedy for the terrible state of ton and only the best could happiness whether one lives at the WANTED Ground Flpox Offices or Store in Central district tions and the death of Lord Car-and its dependencies, where one effect, which a certainly they doing at present, on £2 10s. a week for Januity or February 1924. narvon rumours raged concerning might say that one never knows did, and yet the audience-Mr. Austin Hopkinson, M.P. We Apply Box 1458- the plagues of Egypt and sinister curses lying dormant for thou sands of geaca.jp/proda

when one may be the next victim of a pirtiest band.

were simply apathetic and cold and indifferent, although ip, two cases It seems to me, and Ithink many only they did applause, and that These rumours are revived again others who have thought over the feebly. Surely, Sir, If,with a brass by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel matter, will agree that registration band, because it happelis, to be the Hon. Aubrey Herbert, Car- of all Asiatics and the issue, of played by Englishmen most rap- servative M.P.for: Yeovil, half, passports to all British and foreign turous applause is bestowed on the brother of the late Lord Carnarvon. Residents should be enforced. | players, which may be deserved, Only seven months are he was with Britishers cannot object, as in because these players happen to be his brother at the opening of the Canton, Shanghal etc, it is nepes of a coloured skin, is geal true ép- Egyptian monarch's tomb, Colonel'sary that every person of British plause to be denied them? Why Herbert, a student of rare attain nationality should register in order the music was most elevating and ment Easter lore, is stated to to receive, the protection of H. M. aspiring, and yet appreciation was have remarked at the time Government and even now every fap slow, and; unspontaneous.It is "Something dreadful is going to person here willó lives at the Peak no wonder Hongkong, cannot happen to our family."

For other reserved-aroa is required produce the best music because of to obtain permission from the this rank apparent prejudice. The Governor to da so

players are all players of the first Foreigners cannot object as it is order, and surely the public'should' the system in vogue in their own show by outward applause at least countries as far as Allens are con- their appreciation and so encourage cerned, and it would probably do these foreign coloured musicians. away with the smuggling of arms and ordinary Brass band by any foreigner as I would suggest with white men were play-

FET SUPERSTITIONS. "Mr. Arthur Welgall, one of our foremost, Egyptologists and, ex- cavators, gave the following views to a Press representative last week:- We People, will have their pet superstitions. Lord Carnarvon was

to any case a very sickman.` What that all members of a crew, before log the applause seams to of the thousands of tourists and they land; should produce a pase-be forthcoming. Instantaneously, others who made the journey to the port, properly vised.

even though the performance does Luxor valley?

Many might say that as far as the not call for gifted talent whereas "I have been in more tombs Chinese are concerned it would'hot in case of men who play strižed almost than I can remember and I be feasible.

instruments only ardent lovers of frankly do not think, there is any Allow me to point out that, real music, music which only adaels thing in these cuROSCALERA & Zalthough it would entall a lot of will appreciate, does require.mgre "People are always sending backwork and expense to start off with spontaneous appreciation, and I am their relies and mummies at the first it would still be possible to accom-certain these expert players at the hint of a death connected with a plish the registration and fasue of Star Theatre" wil, ma new discovery," I am witness to certificates or passports, "A fee give their fehlera för that, decmaeon

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