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Imagination, and as sound as We are not concerned with the "to ensure a reasonable education HONGKONG most dreams are. What we need people who are contented with to fit them for the more sirenuçus is a Union Jack Club.

their lot or after all their very duties of life into which I submit We are insignificant selves. Life has they should enter after they have thinking more particularly of our

given them all they want-and if reached respectively their 17th sallormen, but Union Jack covers they would only see it, it has been year" (net personalty, £10,856), men of both services and doubt-precious little, But music is the less covers the men who are in right of each one, and we know certain grades of local Govern. of no better way in dispensing it on nights such as these, than ment service, Outside the instituin the open. Our plea has been for tions at Wanchai-both connected a Band Committee and for the |-with-religious-bodies, we know of work of enterprising souls to no club or meeting house that bring us the strains of the exist for our Tommies and Jack Supeys, either on the Cricket

ground or the Botanical Garitens.

Tars-ind for the mer of visiting countries who are in port for days at a time. We think it is a duty the Colony owes to all our men' to provide a Union Jack Club and to lose no time in getting on with the theme. The aimless' wander ing about the Colony to which our men are subjected is nothing short of a scandal. That they conduct themselves so well is to their great credit. Even if the glamour of war is absent from them, they are still within Yeach of observant eyes, minds that think, and those who wish for

Await with interest the news of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson's speech at the opening of Shang- hai's Union Jack Clubs and trust he may say something that will move Hongkong to take action to provide a similar, building for Hongkong.

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Agent, Eunadian Pacific wrong, but it occurs to us that a Steamships, Ltd., at his Union Jack Club was to be part residence, 479, Nathan Road, Jof Hongkong's War Memorial. If Kowloon, May 9th, 1924. that is not in accordance with the Funeral from above address at 10 am, Sunday, May 11th, evidence," may we suggest that arriving Yat Pit Ting 11.15

A.

Humiliation Days.

Some of us are more or less familiar with these sort of things.

In times of harvest when rain is required a form of prayer is bised which may be termed a measure-

"Now all the

A WEMBLEY world's assembl.

ODE. ing

and

canoe.

By liner

Australia is trembling, And every kangaroo And Canada is smitten

with frenzy for Great Britain, New Zealand has been bitten And also Rum-ti-foo The world is all a-Wembling And we must Wemble too! "For all the world's assembling From China to Peru; West Africa is trembling

To see what we can do. Nigeria's awoken, And by the selfsame token. The Falkland Isles have spoken: They've all one end in view- Jamaica's bent on Wembling And we must Wemble too!! |" For all the world's assembling

Across the ocean blue, The lion's cubs are trembling To take the Bakerloo. But, the shifts and dodgings To find them London lodgingsTM Apart from drink and stodgings "Twill be a howdy do. But all the world's a-Wembling And we must Wemble too."

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PART INSURED.

of

The accident to a performer in the breaking of a finger- of humiliation. The great, war

nail while engaged brought us missions, Things in a recital recalls some of the weren't going well; we, some of us stories of artists who have in- at least.-were thoroughly wicked, sured their fingers and voices or indifferent, or were making too against the risk of disablement. A much money. It was necessary teacher of singing who depends to make us repent and act the largely 01. his acuteness humble. Hongkong which parti-hearing endeavoured some time cipated in a campaign of repent-ago to insure his ears, but drop- ance and hope, is to take a share ped the idea when it came to in another one-only under a deciding exactly what condition different name. These things are of hearing would entitle him to probably good; but they seem to claim the us to lose whatever force they Companies, were approached re should possess when only a section cently for a quotation to insure of the community take part in pung Emil Danenberg's hands, but declined' to entertain the them. Acts of national humility matter. On what grounds, they did are of no earthy use unless they

not state. are rigorously

and applied' generally believed in: mogl

The reported Paris nations like individuals, are noA STELLAR-invention, -by better than they ought to be. KEYBOARD. 'which the light Human nature is pretty general

from: the star

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sum assured. Local'

of

An elephant is SCHOOL'S IN. a square animal with a tail in frone and behind,

The minister-of_War.is-a-clorgY=. man who preaches to the, soldiers

the barracks.

Julius Caesar was renowned for his great strength. He threw a bridge across the Rhine.

An average is a thing a hen lays

eggs on...

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The phonetic spelling A FRUIT system in vogue now adays leads to some

NOTE,

curious results.

How Huge Sums Cán, Be Saved Every Year

161

PIRACY GRILLS.

SHIP'S GUARD SENT TO JAIL..

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DISOBEYING CAPTAIN:

When the C.S.P.'s Orders Confict.

If I am. ordered to open the "grills and disobey I am guilty of“

A discussion of great import-disobedience and if I open them. ance to the students of Hongkong I am guilty of disobedience tast he and South China, and, as Dr. Captain Superintendent of Police Hingley remarked, to the British

and Chinese merchants of this who gives us strict orders mm to Colony and to some extent the open them" was the statement manufacturers in England, took made by Sarraj Din, an Indian

place at the Hongkong University ships guard at the Marine Court yesterday at the close of the third this morning. and last lecture there on the sub- A proud father sends the follow.jeet of geology. ing communication received from his son Bobs:-

Dear

Daddy I have the mumps. I hav got a fas as big as to fasis and I havy a bandig on it. I hav a barner efre day, Muther sits buy me all the arfternoon.-xxxxxx This letter was sent to France in 1918, and helped to liven the monotony of a certain battery " for a da or to that is, say, a

day or two.

By the way, nobody has yet translated the barner passage

one go.

To-day's Poem.

(Truth.)

in

The hope of Truth grows stronger,

day by day:

I hear the goal of man around

me waking, Like a great sea its frozen

fetters breaking, And flinging up to heaven its

sunlit spray, Tossing huge continents in scorn

ful play,

And crushing them, with din of

grinding thunder, That makes old emptiness stare

in wonder;

The memory of a glory passed

-away

Lingers in every heart, as, in the

shell, Resounds the bygone freedom of

the sea,

And, every hour new signs of

promise tell

That the great soul shall once

again be free,

For

high, and yet more high, the

murmurs swell

Of inward strife for truth and

libérty.

--Lowell

WEATHER CALENDAR.

MAY 10..

The spring is very wet and cold but Strawberry clone contains more Verdure than at France. Walpole..

POINTS OF VIEW.

Charm dominates where beauty fails.—Mr. W. L. George, ↑

London has become the most lonely place in the world. Sir C. Biron,

He was charged, with wilfully' These lectures have been held disobeying orders while on board under the auspices of the Hong- the river boat "Longshan:""

Evidence was given by the, kong University Engineering Society and although they have Master, Capt. Bell Smith, that on been largely attended by Govern- May 7 when told to post two men, ment representatives, University at the grills, defendant refused. lecturers and interested members and said "I don't take your orders; of the general public, it was to the take my order from the C.S.P." students as representing the

The Chief Mate also gave evi- youth of China that the lecturerence and said that on May 5 (Prof. Schofield of British Colum-hen he told defendant to open bia University), addressed himself the grills he refused.

Defendant said that when the Chief Officer told him to open the "I am only a gril he replied. ships guard and must not disobey the C.S.P. If you want it open

t

at the conclusion, of the lecture.

I want to point out a new field to the young men of China" sail Prof. Schofield after pointing out China's vast mineral reserves, "it is the duty of the economic you must open it yourself."

Lieut.-Com. Conway Hake call- geogist to trace the relationship between rocks and ore and loed Inspector Shannon and asked predict what will be found at cer- what were the instructions of the tain depths of the mineral vein. guards. Insp. Shannon said they His advice is invaluable and every were certainly instructed to keep good company now employs a the grills shut but they were also geologist. It is the duty of the told to obey the captain's orders, acientific geologist to make the necessary investigations in con- nection with such a survey as that of China. My experience of the geologist's work, both economic or scientific, is that it is fascinat ingly interesting and I would not change it for any other."

remarks that the short but inter-

Asked what defendant's récord

was Insp. Shannon said there had been one case of drunkenness only against him. He had been a

ship's guard for seven years.

Capt. Bell-Smith was asked. what defendant's conduct had been like on board and replied that other cases of insolence had been

reported:

Government Support? It was at the conclusion of these esting discussion referred to took

The Harbour Master pointed out place and it arose out of Dr. that they should have been re- Hingley asking to be allowed to corded in the log book." It was only encouraging guards' in, such move the following resolution.

"It is the opinion of this acts if proper measures were hot meeting that a geological survey Defendant was sentenced-to-14

taken.

day's jail with hard labour.

of the South of China and the forming of a geological School is necessary to the welfare of the South of China-and-that-i the Governments of Hongkong, geological survey of a district was Canton and the Republic should made one found that such things be asked for their support."

as railways and main motor roads Prof. F. Redmond, who presid- got put in the wrong places and ed, said that the University that important industries using Senate would no doubt be glad to raw materials were often wrongly consider the matter if there was situated. He had then given an a chance of getting a chair of instance of a Company which had- geology but he did not consider lost a million dollars by not the time was quite ripe. He did having a geological survey of its not think the resolution would site before commencing opera- carry much weight and he asked tions. Did it not follow, asked Dr. Dr. Hingley not to press it.

Hingley, that a University which Dr. Hingley replied that this was training engineers for work matter was of great importance in South China should at the same to the welfare of South China: it time have a school for training was of great importance to the geologists if it wanted its engineering students of the engineers to be fully employed? University as affecting their (more applause from the stu- future careers; it was of import-dents)..... ance to the British and Chinese

Prof. Brown said the best thing merchants of this colony and to for Dr. Hingley to do would be to some extent the manufacturers in write to the University Senatë England. Was it not expedient asking them to take up the ques-. that those concerned should pro-tion of establishing a chair of vide the means of establishing a geology. Meanwhile his remarks school of geology in the South would no doubt be given publicity: and employment for the geologists

The discussion was then declar- when trained?

ed closed.

the world over. It is merely Capella has been converted-into- covered by the practices which sound, suggests all sorts govern the lives of particular marvels. Stars differ enormously 1766. races. A Canton contemporary, in magnitude, and with such an "with minichi feelings of grief instrument. capable of being quick- and shame takes up 11 peny locussed, it should be possible to perform quite melodious times (valve would seem to be the correct word) to let off steam. It by selecting in succession stars of beats its breast so to speak and course, is one of the brightest stars differing magnitude. Capella, of calls for the sackloth and ashes in the sky, but improvements in of humiliation. But it spoils it the instrument to make it respond all by giving rolands with its 10 the 5,000 naked-eye stars should olivers. How China" groaned" provide sound variations of almost, beneath the awful avalanche of endless variety. Japan's twenty-one demands; how she lost Macno. Indo-China.

The late Sir Charles Nepaul, Burmah, Port Arthur, andý

ABOY'S Stanford began com. The largest part of the House of others including Hongkong, are

OPERAS posing with a double Commons is drab. Ludy referred to in a slightly Tagoreiop

chant on his sixth. Rhondda.. manner. Indian policemen wield birthday. Two years later, at the There is no monopoly of sex batons at Chinese heads in Treaty of eight, he produced a march where folly at the wheel is con-

which was considered Ports; foreign warships intimidate enough to be performed during good

cerned. Mr. Max Pemberton. China; and there is a big list of the run of a pantomime at the on the assumption that you will Society, as we know it, is based all the things that China is said Theatre Royal, Dublin. This en- to be in bondage to. Having raved couraged him to try his hand at not be murdered.-Mrs. Baillie at all and sundry, the request is the operatic form, and before he Reynolds. made not to cast a stone at any was 12 he had to his credit what It has never been a habit of the There was also Geological of China. Coal, of course, was not body, but to look for our he afterwards referred to as a British to jump on the throat of Society of China with its head-a mineral but it was the most own shortcomings, cowardice, couple of retten operas," parts of a defeated enemy. Mr. Oswald quarters in Peking. It had over important deposit în China and and unworthiness,” and, it which were given a public hearing Mosley, M.P.

120 members and one had only tone which China should keep and is added the nations of the by the University of Dublin Choral It is better to be on the stout read its bulletins to understand conserve. China's reserve of. world who have wronged Chip Society.. Of his later operas only side than the thin, up to 60, from the spirit of enthusiasm with anthracite coal was something are showing signs of a penitentiamus O'Brien," produced at the health point of view.Dr.which it was inspired. The North like 64 billion tons and of ligmite heart" and "confessing their sins." the old Opera Comique in 1896, Edwin L. Ash.

was fully alive to the importance and bituminous coal 17 billion All this is very pathetic. "Far be really captured the British musical

Fatness is accepted generally or geological work and Swedish. tons. It produced 20 million toris it from us to intrude on this public.

and unquestionably as a pheno- French, Russian and American yearly and if it consumed at the method of China's humiliation as

Prizes of a decided/v/menon. to be ashamed of,-Mr. geologists were helping. Mean- rate it was its resources would

Alec Waugh.

while the South stood idle doing last two thousand years. The word "idealist" is much too nothing.

It was significant that the good to be handed over to dream- Asked for his opinion on the greater proportion of the 97 ers, political. brigands, and free- desirability of establishing million dollars invested in coal in lovera.--Dean Inge.

School or a Chair for geology at China was Chinese capital, 22

it is seen in Canton. We only hope

QUAINT; humorous character the brigands and bandits arid

were distributed by pirates who infest the delta share Miss Gladys Cooper to wounded in this sense of humiliation, that soldiers at a lucky draw at the those who are a pest in the matter 84th Sunday entertainment at the of the cable and railway service at the Palladium London. are likewise so engaged, but with a less sense of smugness than is.

They included:- shown by the people who confess with their lips and practice with their hands.

Band Concerts,

Each season brings with it the question that is on the minds of it was one of the many sugges- enthusiasts-band performances tiona-put forward--not merely in in the open. And the question is behalf of solving a war memorial never satisfactorily answered. difficulty, but to solve a difficulty Private bodies do organise open- which seems to us to press harder air concerts-late in the season

speculate on the weather, which,

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Pair of braces with trousers, chocolate-blancmango,-and-a signed photograph of the actress, Box of cigars, two tooth- brushes, a hot cup of coffee.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Geology in North China. In Peking there was a geological Survey of China which was doing

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China's Coal. To revert to the lecture; some interesting figures were given

a great deal of work in the North. with regard to the vast resources

The chief causes of crime to- the University. Dr. Schofield said million being British and 27 day, as in the past, are the ele-he certainly thought some pro-million Japanese. The proportion mental passions of avarice, anger, vision should be made. In the of Chinese capital invested in coal At attache case, rz Lent eggs and-lust. Mr. Justice McCardy. Universities of British Columbia was also on the increase.: China and a comb.

and America geology was a sub-could, however, do even more with ject which all engineers had to her coal deposits if they would take (loud applause from the only pay more attention to modera students).

methods of production. They paid Advantages of Survey. ttle attention to the quality or Mr. William L. Leask has been Continuing his remarks on the the sorting of the coal. A hen, a sponge, and 9 coppers,

Member of the desirability of establishing a

China's Ores. Trilby hat, penknife, and appointed a

Licensing Board walking stick,

With regard to ore deposits.. during the School for Geology, Dr. Hingley Post-dated cheque, clothes absence from the Colony of Mr said he once asked a well known China had undoubtedly the largest brush, and ready-made bow tie. Albert Denison,

geologist who passed through iron resources in the Orient. Double ticket for Zoo, sock

the Colony what

the Some 150,000 tons were mined suspendere, pair of boots.

making a yearly and this was, going to While Mr. C. M. C... Messer is advantages of Pocket wallet, 10.5. for 65. absent on leave, Mr. David W. geological survey of such a increase greatly in the next 3d., à Seidlitz powder.

Tratman will act as Colonial small piece of territory as that twenty years. Ching was also the Travelling alarm clock, pair of Treasurer, states the current under the Hongkong Government world's largest produce of anti- spats, and a crab.

Gabelle.

and his reply was that it had been mony and her tin mines were of Pyjama suit, registered packet,

found in all parts of the world | importance, producing $15,000,000 Mr. John A. Fraser has been that the Economie and fadustrial fortir year. With regard to Alfred appointed District Officer in the progress of a district in which a copper deposits he adrised China SEVENTEEN Brestnall of Southern District of the New geological survey had been made to develop them more than she Eastwood, Notts, Territories and to be a Magistrate, was altogether superior to the was doing and on more modern to open Shanghal's Union Jack Well of course we hadn't or probably eat purry and as God's left £150 per annum for the main Hell holds Small Debts progress of a district in which no lines because the price was Citib on Monday.next, and again havn't, because that Club is a in His Heaven, alla right with tenance of two grand-children Court in Teim Wan, Tal. O and survey had been made. He had improving and would continue to

t may be paredjed that they de dream, a figment of someone's their little pattifogging world until they attain the age of 17, Cheung Chan police stations."" } gone on to explain that if no do so.

Ce China Mait.

Berukona Saturday, Mar 10, 1924-

A–UNION - JACK CLUB.

Argua

are

as the days roll on. There was to is fickle, and that is all that be some sort of a Club for all and happens. We do not

concerts Aundry. To the reproach that that band certain of us wouldn't mix necessity to right living in this-and-a-false-moustache-

Colony. Quite a lot of people

socially, a then very outspoken get through life without troubling member of the community said about bands, or music. True they

Admiral Sir Arthur Loveson is that we'd adjectiveally get to have gramophones, like jazz, and

Mr.

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were