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WEATHER CALENDAR.

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JULY 9.

Amiens. The weather is but lukewarm, and I should choose to have all the win- dows shut, if my smelling

were not much more sum-

merly than my feelings, but, the frowziness of obsolete tapestry and needlework is insupportable.

--Walpole.

OUR DIFFICULTIES.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail"

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CORRESPONDENCE.

APPRECIATION.

[To the Editor of the China Mail.

Bir-Will you allow me a few lines of your valuable paper to express my, (and I am sure the entire Colony's), hearty thanks to "\" Mr. Wallace Young and Miss Colia Avon for their excellent portrayal" of the Shakesporean characters last night at the Queen's Collego Hall.

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The service they rendered to the various places they passed through must be very great, judging by yesterday's performance. Thair enthusiastic and untiring devotion

of education plainly" demonstrated when Miss Avon, in spite of high fever, (102deg. at time of acting) acted all her parts and personally chatted with the boys and girls who are taking the "Tempest" for their

examinations, forthcoming Caliban,

They cuptivated the packed audience with their unassuming friendliriosa. Many expressed their appreciation by. deafening clapping of hands but many more were lost in silent admiration. Never was so line acting wit: nessed, hever was an evening so thoroughly enjoyed.

Yours etc., GRATEFUL YOUTH. *Hongkong, July 9, 1924.

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poses that the question of the reply is ready to the effect that" penetrability of matter” liquidation of pre-war debts should while the Central Government English, replied at once. "Yes. be bound up with the question of deeply regrets the occurrences it Thoroughfaresomeness of stuff." fears that the outrage was the Looking on the other side of the lonn. We need the loan precisely work of disbanded soldiers turned shield. It is trus, but distinctly for the double purpose of enabling bandits, over whom neither Peking propos ip this connection is the us to pay the annuities, of our nor, any other Chinese officials sentiment expressed by Robert pre-war debts, and to place orders have any control! The Waichao-Burns:

What's a your jargon of your pu is always careful to add that in England for goods which are Chinese officials are just as much

schools, Your Latin names for harns and necessary for the economic recon- concerned regarding the growing

stools: struction of Russia. At the same lawlessness as any foreigner in

If honest naturo made you

fools. time, we declare that it is China can possibly be. While such impossible for an impoverished Mission Boards, and a portion of specious talk possibly convinces country, such as Russia, to be the political element in Europe and asked to pay her debts according America, the foreigner, who to their nominal value. According knows his China, fully realizes that to what one hears in the City, the the excuse will not hold water bondholders of the Russian loan While extending the fullest sym- pathy in Peking's present predica-

I like that story which Dr. insist that we shall incur the full ment, one can oak without any

Watkinson used to tell of how the use obligation for the whole debt. If suspicion of a sneer what real

when a boy he was driving with this is true, I frankly fear that in attempt has ever been made by the

his father to Lincoln and saw the future, as in the past, we shall Peking Government to nip" the

before him the vast cathedral evil in the bud. The Southern not be able to pay anything." Government at least has made

towering in their path. Father. he said in dismay, how are we That is a somewhat cheerless con- some attempt to stamp out piracy,

going to get over that? We are clusion. The British bankers have as instance the execution of those

not going to get over it,' answered "A good story his father drily. already laid down the conditions captured since January this year.

We are going NOT WHAT was told the round it. Most of the things that under which they are prepared to Peking, on the other hand, when

it has a golden opportunity of SHE MEANT. other day by keep us awake, at night are like advance Russia money and it is punishing the guilty, as often as

Canon Monroe that. Alpha of the Plough." " hardly likely that they will abate not finds a perfectly innocent Vicar

of Wimbledon and an Three old women party as a scapegoat and like the Irishman, Rakovsky do very much himself. ostrich presumes its action has gathered together in "a Dublin Pressed to explain his formula he passed unobserved. The sooner public-house to discuss the affairs

the Peking Government realizes of their native land. was compelled to fall back on that the Powers are losing pati- the first, I've made up my mint generalities. “Our formula," he ence, the better will it be for all for the Free State. So you may,' replied the second, 'but I'm for anid," is the payment of debts concerned.

the Rebublic. After a pause the considerably reduced in exchange

last of the trib decided it was for a loan. The British delegation:

wisest to be neutral, and pro- claimed triumphantly in a loud presents, us with a formula which

voice: Well, you can do what is not only exclusively one of prin-

Unauthorised levies on ship you like, but I'm patrid 1'" ciple, but unilateral. For the ments of food products to Hong-

Mrs Sarah raising of a loan the Britiah kong have already called forth

LATEST WILLS. Walker Bubb, answer at the conference sent us comment on the little that seems

of Ullenwood, to the City, the City in its turn to have been done towards.

Coverley, Gloucestershire, and of encouraging local cultivation. Gatcombe, Weston-super-Mare, William takes its stand on the Bankers' Yesterday's report that the wife of Mr. Henry Bubb, and Adventurer." Manifesto, and says: Earn our Colony's supplies of cattle and formerly the widow of Mr. John' confidence first; you can earn our poultry from Wuchow, on which Hampson, €145.967. confidence by repudiating your we are to a great extent depen- dent, are likely to be decreased Socialism. In these circumstances because of the West River floods, no practical result is possible." brings home the paint once more, Useless to point out to Mr. If any further cause be needed to Rakovsky that according to show that Hongkong needs to have British ideas of financial honour, its own sources of food supplies, as exemplified in the case of the strike of 1922 when our hapless we'need only refer to the seamen's

A Renter

message from British debt to the United States, position was stressed. rather to

Messrs. Kwang Nguan Seng's copra on fire in No. 4 hold.

July 10-Lammert Bros., at Alexandria says the s.s. Adolf von Bayer" reached there with the debts are just paid without argu-unpleasantly for all concerned. A ment; that the British debt to trip through the New Territories bray Trotter, left £z a week to her Godown, Praya West, bean sticks, fire was soon put out and the maid, Emily Chapman, for life, invariably suggests visions of America was contracted vicari-war could be done in the way of and £500 to her, servant, William brass wires and preserved olives, cargo is being discharged.

Beavin, £15,586. ously for France and Italy, yet we intensive cultivation," to horrow

Mr. Robert William Campbell, "July 11-Lammert Bros., atļ The American world fliers are paying it, in spite, too, of the the American phrase. With their J.P., of The Outgate, Cleator, Sales Room, 20 cases Cotton reached Bushireon · Tuesday- fact that those countries are not antiquated methods the farmers Cumberland, left £250 a year to Cloth, 11 a.m.

morging and left for Baghdad July 11-Lammert Bros,, at the same day. A Reuter message puying us their formal and direct out in the Territories are only his wife, £50 a year for each of his debts; that according to British getting a fraction of the results children who shall reside with Sales Room, a valuable collection received at noon to-day. reports

they should. The periodical her, and the residue in trust for of postage stamps, 5.15 p.m. ideas, the circumstances in which market-days. held at the larger his children £7,ICO,

COMPANY MEETINGS. debts are contracted are beside the villages-prove-this-Has-not the Mr John Henry Board, of 2, September 16-Extraordinary point, and the debts have to be time arrived when the question Upper Chorlton-road, Brooks Bar. general meeting of The China paid if credit is to be preserved or should be seriously taken up so Manchester, cricket coach, for Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the floral tribute was placed at the foot that Hongkong will always have many years wicket-keeper to the Registered Office of the Company, Officers, N C.O.'s and men of the restored. Mr. Rakovsky was an ample reserve to draw upon? Gloucestershire team £6,409. Pedder Street, noon.. ready with his answer. "I fully One benefit which is apparent to

Mrs. Sarah Ann Cooper, of 11, October 8-Second meeting of Regiment, who fell in the battle understand your. dificulties in for Trones Wood on July 8, 1916. Great Britain, but your must also the travelling traders who now fifth of the residue of her properly Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street,

Home Products.

supply Hongkong.

"When France pass- WHAT ed its verdict on M. HERRIOT M. Poincaré, ir targe IS LIKE. ed to a man different

in every way

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Mr William Henry Wood, of The Laurels, Sherburn mad, Giles gate, Durham, nineral water manu- facturer, a former mayor of Durham, £51,134.

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Mr. Reginald Clay, of Mostyn villas, Batley, Yorks, and, of Dews-

of Miller's Green, Palace-yard, bury, wool merchant, £43,141.

Mrs. Caroline Louisa Trotter, Gloucester, widow of Canoo Mow

upon trust for her daughter, Phyllis May, until she is 50 years of age, when the share will be transferred to her £5,690.

CURRENT COMMENT.

(Port Sanitation.)

July 9.- Coronet Theatre; Johanie Walker in "My Dad."

July 9-The Star Theatre'; Mae Murray in "Peacock Alley." July 9.- World Theatre Daddies."

Theatre:

July 9 Queen's

Farnum in

SOCIAL.

The

July 10.-Reception in honour off the Portuguese sviators at Club Lusitano, 5.30 p.m.

July 11.-"Garden Party" at Club de Recreio, from 5:30 to 7.30 p.m.

July 12.-Dancing at Club Lusitano, 9 p.m.4.2

11 a.mi.

noon.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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SHARE QUOTATIONS.

Messrs Joseph Gould, & Co. kindly supply the following stre quotations ruling on the Shanghai market at the opening of business this moming:

Langkats 18 Buyers. EWOS...............' 1034 Buyers. New Engineering 6 Buyers. Shanghai Docks 93 Buyers Orientals........... 34 Buyers. Shanghai Colions 53 Buyers.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The

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their safe arrival and landing at Baghdad.

Yesterday morning a beautiful

of the Cenotaph in memory of the

2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire

The "Uncrowned King of October 20. Third meeting of Manchuria," Marshal Chang Tso- The China Sugar Refining Co.,lin, has forbidden, at Harbin, the Ltd., at Co's Office, Pedder Street, hoisting of the flag of the Soviet

Union of Socialist Republics, and ` has intimated that as he does not

noon.

OTHER MEETINGS.

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July 14.-Further extraordinary mesting of the Peak Club, 6.30 p.m.

recognise the Agreement made by Russia with the Peking Govern- ment the old Russian Consulate at Harbin will not be handed over to the Soviet representatives.

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understand the psychology of our Russian peasant. Even if he had no principle about paying Tsarist debts, he thinks that he has in fact peid his foreign debts by his blood, by the ruin of Russia and by the damage caused by Allied intervention. He also has his idea possible to think of," says a Daily In the course of a paper read by July 9-Public lecture of the

News correspondent. "Physically Dr. E. W. Hope, Medical Officer Hongkong Lodge, The Theoso of right and wrong. It is no use even, M. Herriot is big, with a great of Health for the port of Liverpool, phical Society, at 16, Queen's Road talking to him of gaining con-head, and powerful shoulders that before the Congress of the Royal

Nocturnal pedestrians in the Central, 5.45 p.m."

region of Ming Yuen gardens, fidence in the City. He must be have given a little, as if under their Institute of Public Health at own weight. He is dark, with | Bordeaux this well-known authority

Shau-ki-wan, last night were in all clustering hair, not yet, or hardly, on nort sanitation, says the Journal

probability, saved from unpleasant- laged with grey. His speech is of Commerce spoke his mind very

experiences by the prompt action of a Chinese detective who saw instant, copious, rapid. There is plainly it is to be hoped with

three men acting in a suspicious nothing of the big man's pon- telling effect upon the evils of its derosity about him. When he éffects on trade. Quarantine pro-

manner. He accosted them, but talks you feel that his vivid, colour cedure as practised for centuries "The New York Times says only managed to get hold of one whom he found a ed language clothes his thoughts at dies hard, and he suggested a that the Prince of Wales will pay of them on their very birth. He accompanies periodical spring cleaning of our a fortnight's visit to Long Island in loaded revolver, The date of his them with an opulent gesture quarantine regulation when we September in connection with trial is not yet fixed. which expands and subsides as he adapt them to new ideas and new the Anglo-American International

given something real.” That "something real" the British" are apparently not prepared to con- cede. Owing to the secrecy that has enshrouded the negotiations, it is impossible from this distance to weigh the merits of the opposing demands. All that one can do is

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

to note the extremely awkward tells you of France's high mission knowledge, and when we destroy Polo games He will be the guest Macao will be opened by Lady that the elusive official communi-difficulties which beset the path, from the war."

in the world, or her sufferings the old completely." He saw a of the Polo Association.

Severn

The Foreign Office issued the

The broadcasting station at

tendency once more to increase

Rodriguez, wife of the Governor ques were designed to conceal an and to hope that these will be

of the Colony at 2.30 pm. next the burden, imposed upon com Our amiable and unsatisfactory state of affairs overcome, for it would be a grave

merce by quarantino legislation, Mr. Leo Wallace Young, who is Sunday. Intending visitors are TROTSKY humane friend This anxiety will hardly have been commercial setback if the confer

and urged that there should be a touring the colleges and schools reminded that the 8.x.“Sui An” AGAIN. Trotsky, or Bron

greater degree of uniformity in of the Far East, in order that the of the Hongkong, Canton and allayed by the answer given in the ence failed to give Russia, the

stein, has written a quarantine procedure the world students may get an idea of char Macao Steamboat Co. leaves the House of Commons yesterday by practical aid without which politi-book in which he recants from bis over, and some international con acter acting as it is presented in Wing Lok St. Wharf at 9 am, on the Under Secretary for Foreign cal recognition is largely mean- called Culture and Forms of various countries. He referred to Shakespeare characters at the 12-45 p.m., salling on the return former flerce Communism. It is trol of the methods adopted by the England, took the parts of several Sunday, and is due at Macao at ingless.

Life" and in it he declares that a several The China Mail. Affairs. Mr. Pontonby said the

important points of Queen's College Hall last night. trip at 4 pm. which will allow conference was "trying to come to

distinctly proletarian class culture quarantine administration; the re- The excerpts were the same as ample time for attendance at the is not desirable and maintains gulations, he opined, should not be those gives at the St. Stephen's ceremony. HONGKONG, #SDXANDAY, July 8, 192an agreement." That is precisely Banditry in China.

that the masses, should assimilate regarded as a source of revenue, Girls' College on Friday (a critique what it has been attempting for

the culture of the ages. Of course, bills of health appeared to him to on which appeared exclusively in following on June . Following The brutal murders of the he cannot well repudiate Com- be an almost unnecesssary legacy the China Mail) and they delighted nearly three months now, and Reverend Mr. Byers" and "Mr. mugism, but he endeavours to show of the past, and ship fumigation | the large number of students on the conversations which have "A CRITICAL STAGE." (unless the chief problem has been Hawley once more bring into that it is not opposed to in- for rat destruction, as practised in present. Among the visitors was taken place. betwoon the

solved, it must be as far away prominence the menace of bandi-dividualism, one being the compie various parts of the world, could the Hon. Sir Claud

Portuguese Minister in London According to yesterday's cables from success as ever. The chief and mob-law in China.ment of the other. It seems an im only be described as a farce.

(Colonial Secretary.)

and the Secretary of State for Following closely upon the new possible co-relation, but Trotsky's

Foreign Affairs, it has been from London, the Anglo-Russian problem concerns Russia's pre-war that Mr. Hawley, an American, career proves the proposition--he

decided to proceed with the negotiations have reached a criti- | debts. According to Mr. Rakovsky had been foully murdered on the has always been an individualist,

elevation of his Majesty's Legation The Portuguese aviators, Majors in Lisbon and the Portuguese cal stage. This newe will hardly in the interview already quoted, Upper Yangtze by Chinese Junk but imposes Communism on his To-day's Poem,

Brito Paes And Sarmento de Legation in London to the status of cause a sensation since Mr. there is in this matter a big differ men, word came through from slaves and he butchered all who

Beires, returned to Hongkong Embassies. "The King has been our special correspondent, that actively opposed his individualistic Rakovsky, the chief Soviet dele- Fence between the two delegations, the Rev. G. D. Byers, of Hoihow, autocracy. Jock Garden will be the

from Macao yesterday by the pleased to appoint Sir Lancelot Portuguese gunboat gato, said over a month ago that "the Russian trying to bring the had been done to death in an next to revoke,

"Patria." Carnegie GC.V.Q. K.C.M.G., now Arrangemerts are well in hand his Majesty's Ambassador, therez the conference had arrived at a question on the practical ground-squally foul manner-while-his-

for the official celebrations to be and the Portuguese Government serious point.". Apparently even the British insisting on keeping on wife and child only escaped on

held in their honour by the have appointed General Horton de account of the bandits poor

Portuguese community. A recep: Mattos, G C.M.G., High Commis tion at the Club Lusitano tosioner for Portuguese West Africa morrow afternoon with be to be Portuguese Ambassador in followed up by a gorden party at London. In connection with the the Club de Recreio on Friday. above the Portuguese Embassy A dance will be given at the Club states that Senhor Augusto de Lusitano on Saturday night. The Castro, the present Portuguesa airmen will probably leave for Minister in London, has been Shanghai, on their return, journey, appointed Portuguese reprow via America, on Monday,sentative to the Holy SCHEM

(Bluebell Ship.) Aboard my ship of fancies “I sail the bluebell scas, With cargoes of romances, A correspondent steer between the trees, KNGLISH. Do The Times. That loom, as one advances,

referring to an

Pillars of Hercules

then the silence regarding the the juridical ground." Asked to ninrksmanship. As pointed out by editorial, in which the prevalence negotiations was causing some explain what he meant by "praca northern contemporary, similar of Latin words and phrases in anxiety, for the newspaper cotres- tical," Mr. Rakovsky replied: atro ties have happened in prac-English speech was discussed and Beyond, the pillars reaching

Through vistas green and bluz, tically every province in China, which was followed by several pondent who interviewed Mr. "What we say is this: To arrive but the Peking Government is letters in favour of and deploring 31y bark would fain be beaching Rakovsky pointed out that as the at a solution, it is necessary to find either, unwilling or unable to take the circumstance, recalls a good

No longer I'd pursue, problem was perfectly clear people a formula which brings real steps to stamp out banditry story. He tells about the learned But scan the shore, beseeching were naturally beginning to advantages to both parties. That When complaints are lodged with teacher of English who, when The tide to bring me You! :

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