WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5, 1923
BRIEF.
BABUSY MEN.
Cardiff Port workers are on strike.
CHARIVARIA:
SATURDAY TO MONDAY FEELING.
The conled weather surely.
The Hon. Mr. Pollock says he ling seen kids being skinned. That beats Wo have only seen them
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* Election contests in Ulster are us. descrbed lively.
The new German Chancellor has made a plea for unity.
The sensational decline in the raw cotton market is explained.
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Machperson's" (the Rugby_pla- yer's) suspension has been raised. Siz masked men shot an Irish Civic Guard Sergeant at Scartaglin, Ireland.
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One of the election candidates
has died. A writ for a new election
will be issued.
The formation of a National Air Company with capital
ร £1,000,000 is mooted.
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The question of Ruhr, resistance is again the subject of decisions on the part of the French and Belgian Governments.
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Mr. Baldwin on the eve of the election has issued a manifesto surveying post-war conditions in Britain and invites a mandate.
A Washington cable reports that the proposed ship liquor, and liquor in transit treaty, was deliver- ed at the State Departinent yester day,
GENERAL.
The French Government has been defeated on its Electoral Bitl The Government is said to be more vulnerable in its home politics than in its foreign.
CANTON SITUATION.
STILL ANOTHER INVASION.
·OMINOUS PORTENTS.
News gleaned from travellers from Canton show that interest has now diverted to the North River where it is elated, Sun Yat-sen's men are now preparing to resist another invasion.
tanned.
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Kowloon The higher the flat, the lower the rent; the bigger fat, the higher the rent.
The mention of Christmas dingą uuggesta a stirring time.
Soute women are never satisfied with the wages their husbands give them. And they say women don't count!
CORRESPONDENCE.
DAYLIGHT SAVING.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(To the Editor of the China Mail.)
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PARTICULAEB and Conditions of the Bale. by Publia ¬ion to be held on MONDAY, the 10th day of Bir,In the interests of outdoor December 1923, at 8 pm, at the Chicos sport in general and the common of the Public Works Department, by Order desire to have more hours of sun-Lots of CROWN LAND at Hatton Road of His Troellency the Governor. of five shine available for recreation and and on the New Road contouring billside Above Conduit Road in the Colony of The first use Man made of his new leisure. I respectfully suggest that Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with power of expression was to tell a lie, the Hongkong-standard lime bo put the option of renewal at a Crown Rent
fagid and calculated lie, says forward one hour in winter. As a the King, for one farther form of 75 your
io by fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
nowcomer, I bave discussed tho commenced to play golf.
mutter with friends who have told me that my idea is not new hero, that it has been discussed and found impracticable. An en optimist, I crave, the sourtesy of your columns pud-to make armongst the smouldering ashes. I sincerely believe that tho majority of the thinking public have tho master at heart and if requires only the influence of some public- spirited enthusiasts to sponsor it through. Looking at the matter from the point of view of one who relishes a turn at the cricket ucts or best of three sets at tennis, I think most of the inconveniences will be counterbalanced by the benefit of an extra hour of sunlight. There are others, also, who will welcome ar extra hour of sunlight after the day's work. My suggestion is that either the ckæk be put forward an hour, or the offer hours be changed from 8 A scientist declares that our faces to 4 with the usual lunch interval. are growing longer. Someone has Or a compromise could be made by told hire
Flat the boon' of half an hour. of Kowloon's dwellers.
| Standard Oil Co.'s hours are 8.30 to 4.30 and their largo staff finds no inconvenience. This ineans that this company's employees get half an hour's more daylight at their dis posal after work, which I submit, is Definition: Golf. Three neroa highly beneficial. If the standard and a ball.
tine arfangement burs the way to changing the clock could not a con- Southall Council has decided to cossion be made by making winter, abandon the collection of rates by office hours from 8.30 to 4.00 or menny of adhesive stamps. Appar-14.30, or even 9.00 to 4.30. Every- ently they couldn't stick it anybody talks of dull timeɛ and if that longer.
is the, caso, pressure of work will not forbid this boon. With one or two
Does anyone who knows think thu the prison is a reforming in- Quente? asks Sir Robert Wallace, Personally, we should need time satisfactorily to answer the question,
Overheard at the Gymkhana: "In picking winners one has to be a ges-ni.
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Some women's evening dress sug gests that they bare themselves with equanimity.
The
↑ A drummer in a jazz band, chargexceptions our recreation facilities ed with drunkenness, pleaded that are some distance from the business he had only a couple of drinks, Two, centro but nevertheless the number swallows, of course, don't make a of people interested in sport of one drummer.
kind or another, is legion. Ama I, Mr. Editor, hoping for too much in asking for this? Or will the usunily lethargic public make a move to get something which the majority will nppreciate?
"During the whole luncheon, says a novel, he hardly took his eye of her." Table doting.
Salesmanship is an art, which
Hitherto little danger has threaten-may be acquired by sharp practice.
ed from this direction as the troops
that did get down were repulsed.
The average woman gives for
one else 'does.
Excepting for minor local disorder mare attention to her face than any.
Yours, etc.,
DAYLIGHT SAVING. Hongkong, December 3.
RUGGER RAGGINGS.
A London paper asks "What is wrong with sermons?" Perhaps (To the Editor of the China Mail.) they have no breadth and too much; length.
and the aclivities of bandit 'gangs along the East River and the Bow- kon-Canton Railway, nothing, im- portant has occurred in this region.
Confirmation has been forthcom- ing for the statement made a couple of weeks ago that Sun's Cantonese
Anxions enquirer:-Yea! Picture adherents were gradually leaving him. It is now definitely reported palaces may be considered as reet
that the Finance Commissioner, Chow Loo, whose wife was shot in
estate.
Sir.Wbilst acknowledging that Scrimmage" appears conversant with the game of which he writes and appreciating that his criticis
are intended to. be constructive rather than destructive, may I sug- The Champion wrestler of the gest that a Hongkong as she stepped off the world is a Russian Jow.
more polite form of Excols criticism could well take the place 6.5. Kishan," has rosigned and
(of the rudeness which has been, up that a successor has been appointed. Probably at Jew-jits.
to date, the medium through which his opinions have been voiced.
Enclosing my card.
There has been much heartburning
We hear of a bald player at in the ranks of the Generalissimo's whist drive winning the first prize supporters on account of his handing hair brushes and a comb. Surely over what amounts to supreme con- this can be described no a Bald win. trol of the province to the Yunnanese.
As one merchant aptly puts it,
'A cricketer named Androw Macin-
tosh has invented a pneumatic pad
Sun has placed himself at the mercy for batsmen. This Mackintosh will of the non-Cantonese troops. The Yunnanese are easily the strongest cover a multitude of shins!
and best-equipped army in Kwang-
Pianomakers are the latest to
tung and all the plume of office are agitate for an increase in wages, in their hands. Pro-Chan politicians They think they've been working
are incking capital of this as they too long on the old scale.
hint that a rupture will occur soon
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Advice:-Don't make fun of the
and that the province will be given over to the non-natives to enrich themselves at the expense of the man who is not as "successful" as Cantoness. This merchant vouched you are. He may have mare con
scieneo than you bave. for a statement that none of the proceeds from the Fanian monopoly
I am, Yours, etc.,
A PLAYER. Hongkong, December 4.
M.C.L
SATURDAY'S FETE.
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The annual transformation of Government House Grounds into a huge Vanity Fair is now almost due.
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR (1914) OF THE REPUBLIC
SUBSCRIBERS are hereby notified that the Sixth Drawing of the be beld, as announced by the Loan Third Year. Loan ($2,750,000) will | Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, in Peking on 1st December, and that payment of Bonds then drewn will begin on the 31st of that month.
The Nineteenth Interest Coupon. on this Loan will likewise be paid en the same date.
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F. A. AGLEN. Inspector General of Customs. Inspectorate General of Customs, Peklog, 26th November, 1923.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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WEDNESDAY, December 13, 1993 commencing at 2.20 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Dadriel Stro:t
A Large Selection of Toys Comprising:-
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X'mas Crackers
On View from Turaisy, the 11th
December, 1923
Terms: Cach on delivery,
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Efforts of the variona branches of the Hongkong Women's Guild and ever get into Sun's hand as the skin, mays a contemporary, will reach
'Onion-juice rubbed well into the Ministering Children's League will,
their culmination in Yunnanese genemis retain the lot keep away all pests. We believe it, strenuous "drive to secure for for themselves. He predicte that but would like to hear of a recipe charitable societies in Hongkong the split will come when Sun cannot that keeps away the pest who does aud at Home the generous measure pander to their demands any longer;
or when the public, like the worm, turns against the military despots.
ARMS ON SHIP.
SAILORS. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
this.
(of support which they have come to expect from Britain's most Eastern To-day's Pulsating Thought Colony. It is appropriate that the Ono touch af haggis makes a Scotch charities aided by the annual man grin.
Charity Bazaar are principally con- ormed in work on pehalf of women and children.
POPPY DAY.
RESULTS OF HONGKÒNG APPEAL.
No sooner is one bazaar over than E the various branches of the organisa- tion resume their work in readiness for the next. The Naval and Dock. Three sailors from the motor ship
yard Branch, which always aims at "Malaya" named George Halte
The China Mail has received a novel setting, is this year making. (22), Peter Thorsen (24) and Ole copy of the audited balance sheet its display in a model of H.M.S. Folson (28) respectively, were of the collection on November 10, "Tamar" and tenders: the military yesterday committed for trial at the in aid of Earl Haig's Fund, which stall operates from The Fort Sessions by Mr. J. R. Wood on a shows that as a result of the Ap- Kowloon Dock Branch marshals s charge of possession of arms without peal the sum of £1,006.9.4 was tele-ready band of workers and the graphed to Bar! Haig's Fund on ladies of the Police Branch pureus a permit from the C:8.P..
As reported in Saturday's Chine 29th November. The gross receipts good works with the enthusingd Mail, a number of Continental auto mounted to $9,025.22, and, after with which their husbanda pursue
deduction of expenses ($318.84), the criminals. matic pistols and ammunition were balance of $8,706.38 was remitted Schools of the Colony have their The principal Girls found on the ship in cabins alleged at exchange 28. 334d.
full share in the bazaar, and an to have been occupied by defond-
The Sub-Committes wish to ex interesting new feature this year is ants..!!
press their indebtedness to the a stall supplied by the Children's large number of people who assist-Club, an organisation which aims ed in various ways to make the at bringing the little people together Appeal a success, especially to the Do You Dread the Night? ladies who helped in collecting, for mutual and general benefit. Coughs and colda always me to grow organising districts, at the depot
A great number of attractions AJA "worse at night-fall and orip Domes without warning soldnight Avoid and in the preliminary work, and provided for visitors and those who anungway Fever the slooplow pishi-pe to a number of well-wishers who cannot attend will bare an oppos keeping in the home "boy44 of Chaar donated simas of $500 (1) $300 (2), unity of subscribing for a handsome Her Alan'a Conghi Bernity? Is humooshing: $100° (4) and several smäller ocuvenir programme for which kealle dine forblime to, merondo-Toc amounts whose support made the most artistic cover bau boots
above result poskible, ed by Mr. A. Kirko
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