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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

established at Singapore, it would be impossible for capital ships to operate east of Suez:" Our London contemporary naively cuncludes that the only way to please people like Mr. Bywater- would be to pack up the Empire and bring it nearer Home." That is certainly one of the best things that has been uttered in the whole controversy regarding the Singa-seventeen words pore base. It annihilates in one contain more good advice breath the remnant of that practical common peculiar specię known as the "Little Englander."

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It would be difficult CAL COOL to composa an epigram of but which would

One day I heard BIBLICAL the old Boat- KNOWLEDGE, Swain, whose

Biblical ledge was more colloquial than

kaow and accurate, apostrophising the fo'c'sle .sense than man thus "You're a blooming. President Coolidgo's message to blessed centurions. I say to oas Portuguese.army You are, all the senior class of Tufts College of you beggars, go, and he comes, of Boston, in which he urged that and to abother, do this, and he the aim and duty of a college comes, and to another, do this, and man should be to work hard and he sees me damned first."-"A A correspondent draws atten- to behave himself." Many other Naval Scrap-Book. By Admiral Sir tion to the state of the beach at

more pretentious admonitions will, Reginal Bacon (Hutchinson). Repulse Bay and suggests that students, If their class runs true doubtless, be, received by these matshed owners should inaugurate to the form of the average one. a fund to hire coolies to remove But if they hood the full im the stones and boulders which not part of this exhortation, they can only disfigure the beach, but largely dispense with the ather seriously inconvenience bathers.. counsels of perfection." This The matter may seem trivial to statement, of the those who do not have occasion to was typewritten in two lines President's truly

Bathing Amenities.

'THE FAMILY FEELING.

FELLOWSHIP OF THE

BRITISH EMPIRE.

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on the street now

The following, with

• MUSIC

the last line as the WANTED, title, suggests that all that is needed is setting. A simple tune should not composer to give it, the necessary kong's composers, be without the limitations of Hong-

I know a quiet garden Where April violets blow, Where daffodils are golden, And blossoms burst in snow, Where summer brings her roses,, And lilacs laugh in May, While chestnut boughs are

lighting

autumn

Their lamps along the way; Paths where the lamps of Have kissed the leaves to gold, And Christmas roses brighteri In dim December's cold.

Oh, pray that, when all is

ended.

I may leave the land above Sometimes to walk through-the

twilight

In the garden that I love.

HERBERT KENNEDY.

AMAR VELLOWS**

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BOAT.'

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The University Boat Race. was a

cept- tenary event for Cambridge, when

The founding of the

superb pleasure boat, announc

The proposal to open KIT-CAT a new Kit-Cat Club PIES. In West London may ག་་་ recall the original. It

use the beach often, but to those over the words,

very who do, and these are considerable yours," and his signature. It is now that golf has given place to quite evident that Mr. Coolidge the more cooling pastime with the believes in the sentiment express- advent of summer. the matter so tersely by Alexander Pope, In represents a serious interruption his Essay on, Criticism, when he of a very pleasant pastime. Even wrote: a strong swimmer does not wish

Words are like leaves, and to be continually out of his depth;

where they most most abound, but of late it would appear that

Much fruit of sense beneath is the sea bottom has been so bad rarely found. for such away. out that this course has beer practically forced upon bathers, the pain involved

Away in the misty in getting out of the water being

WHAT OF glens and across such that they put it off until the

? THE ? the seas in the far- last moment. This is particularly

BAGPIPES? flung.. Dominions, hard, as our gorrespondent points

(1) the news that the out. on the poor swimmer or pride of "place

bagpipes are giving non-swimmer whose ephere of phone in Glasgow will come to the s3X0- operations is confined to the beach, as R surprise, and the shallows and who is regret. Jazz. has taken root like à mingled with practically forced to limit himself weed and is spreading. That it to the single part of the beach should drive the national instru which is mast free from thement of Scotland from its native nnoyance. With the approach soil is hardly conceivable; that ing inauguration of a cheaper bus the vogue for shoulder-shrugging first bout club s celebrated, with service between the City and measures should outlast the time the Master of Trinity in the chair. Repulse Bay, the problem is likely honored toetingling tunes is more One of the earliest boats was; importance, and the are in Yet the facts, are present, and

than one can readily. 'concede according to a report of the day. the removing of the stones should Bagpipes in the shops gather dust belonging to Trialty College,

on the face of it there is no gainsaying them. bu the work of that Government on the shelves, while the sales of Cambridge, and manned by nine. ng itself, in golden letters, as department which looks after the saxophones soar. Syncopation has beaches. Failing such action, the usurped the place of the reel, and in the full aquatic costume of straw young gentlemen of that college scheme would be the next best whistles jazz. All of which, how hat, blue jacket, striped trousers, putting in hand of a co-operative the boy thing, for the matter is obviously ever, it must be remembered etc. Thus, "No small degree of one more particularly affecting applies alone to Glasgow. In the curiosity was excited," because it those who use the beach most. Dominions the bagpipes have, if

seemed te partake not a little of Many can remember the time anything, grown in popularity. the marvellous," when Repulse Bay presented as Canada has its bands in many Lavish Display.

fine an appearance as Island Bay cities and towns. New Zealand. That Society for the suppres- as our

does at the present time and Australia and the colonies are sion of Societies has still to be there would be little probability that it sent it to Wembley to per- is said to have met first in an

correspondent remarks

familiar with the skirl of the pipes. India was so proud of its pipe band There is room for it. of a recurrence of the trouble if form. The United States boasts abscure house in Shire-lane, and For the latest addition to the the stones were once removed. many efforts to be up and doing

many bands in tartan, the city of consisted of 39 noblemen attached is aimed at restricting unneces-

Boston alone having three of dia to the Protestant Succession and nary displays of wealth, and the

tinction. Even the shores of the House of Hanover. The Duken expenditure on things that after

northern Africa are not immuae, of Somerset, Richmond, Gratton, all are unnecessary or deemed to

for the Sultan of Morocco, several Devonshire, Marlborough, and be so. Chinese ladies came in forj

years ago, paid £300 for a set of Newcastle, and Lords Dorset, serious criticism at the hands-

bagpipes decorated with gold Sunderland, Manchester, Wharton or tongues of several at the

mountings and exquisitely finished. and Kingston, with Lords meeting on Saturday who are out

Oace considered an instrument for Halifax and Soaters were early for simplicity, at all costs. And Mr. L. S. Amery the Secretury often played by women, and girls' owed its name to Christopher Kati, robust men, the bagpipes are now members. It is supposed to have they mean business. There is to State for the Colares writes pipe bands, even, are no uncommon be a general committee of 500 a Editor of "United Empire" attraction.

who kept the house, where the mnen. Ye gods!. The first thing

us folows:-

club dined, and was famous for those 500 men will do will be to British Empire Exhibition to full

home, the bagpipes an occasional summer meeting- Sir-An opportunity to help the

his mutton pies, which were also arrange a dinner. They can't stress in 1925 will, I feel stre, be

named after him. "The Upper Indeed, away from Flask," on Hampstead Heath, was nvoid it; otherwise the Society is welcomed by every citizen of the The iden of shifting the Univer- foredoomed to failure. It will not Empire, Not every citizen can be sity to Kowloon or the New be a lavish dinner-about fourteen an exhibitor or a guarantor, but all why? Because they bring back True

would seem to be in place. Hongkong does not seem the ascendant. And to have any Territories is not exactly new. courses or so, with the usual au take the opportunity winch is to Scotsmen in exfle associations admits those who are not Engineers peculiar," clubs. the Our senior morning contemporary possibly be wrapped in silver British Empire Exhibition, or its hill, from which the faint Servants.

viands, and cigars that may offered by the Fellowship of the the

Engineer's Lastitute. dimmed by time.

• has ere this, voiced the suggestion | paper.

They recall but the Civil Service club admits There will be glowing Associate Brinch, to give support sounds

drive. high on the plea that already the pre-speeches, and fortified with them to that great Imperial enterprise.

upon those who are not Civil rent site offers no room for expan- and the other things incidental to

of a march can

The Phoenix Club be is interesting by reason of the sion; whilst on the "other side" good dinner, 500 men will set Fellowship are, by the Certificate step out to the rhythm of the notable Clab

Members and Associates of the valley unseen, where the pipers Secretary.

heard-sounds that come from a fact that its chairman is also the there is room enough and to spare. We hope for the very.

forth to preach economy of living, they receive under the signature of music.

Hongkong's most The value of land in the Western but the spectacle of

best H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, inward

They sketch

was the Qaica. to the Why it consed to function is not district of Hongkong is such as not convince us.

a. com- pledged to "loyal service' 500. men

of known.. Perhaps it was felt there does British Empire. Already there are They summon, with a pibroch, the place without deliberately adding to the mountains, lochs, moors and glens. { were sufficient smells in the to make such a move easy, from these dear fellows will set their every part of the Empire; if the short, as the symbol of a day gone

But perhaps groups of Fellows and Associates in face to the foe. They stand, in another the financial side; the present own house in order and having strength of these groups can be in-by, a day when the clan system drawback would be the possibility started to preach economy andereased by a generous flow of new was found to be the regids best of interference with studies, gone to the length of indieting adherents, and maintained after the adapted to Although this doubtless could be their women folk, and the all- Exhibition at Wembley Park has Highlands sentimental

the needs of the

VACCINATION. be. There are arranged. The suggestion has not example. Who knows, this may the aim of the organizers of the held, and with some reason, that ation; many who hedge and miny

important amah, will set an closed-and this, I understand, is with a historie past.

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many in Hong- yone unregarded-or has occurred be the dawn of an era that will Fellowship-I feel sure that the bigpipes are not musical, who would like to be assured. People have kong who losthe the idea of vaccin- to other minds-for Reuter has be a blow to the system of valuable work will be accomplished Yet no less a deemed it worth while to cable polygamy. For once you start by the fostering in all Empire affairs Mendelssohn held them la high

composer than This fron the Monitor may help out the opinion of a correspondent where it is going to end-even if common problems of Empire, both his overture to "The Hebrides an vaccination, wherewith to carry

economising, there is no saying of "the Feeling."

So many figures seen always to In facing the estimation, for he introduced in be available to those to favour of of the London "Observer" sub- there is no saying where it may in this and in snccceding genera imitation of the strains of the their pointing that this practice is mitted in view of the diacussions begin.

tions, the keynote of our policy pipes. One would be rash in his of benefit to the human race, that must be "We are of the one conclusions who family."

regarded the authentic statistics pointing un- The Fellowship will help sudden development in Glasgow mistakably in the opposite direc to keep that note constantly in the as signifying the end of the big-tion are doubly welcome. Aus- minds of all of us.

pipes. Associations lie too deep tralia, it appeals, has been of all for that. For in the sound of the countries of the world the most pipes, to Scotsmen there are free from smallpox during the memories of romantic and past, several decades. Yet Aus- legendary times, memories water tralia of all the highly civilized ed by the music of the chaatero, countries in the world is the momaries that remain ever fresh, mast poorly vaccin tod. Taklog These memories Sir Walter Scott the whole 134 Years of Australian calls in "The Lady of the history, not one-fifth of the children Lake:"

born have been subjected to this Ever, as on they bore, more loud Inoculation. Specially, Queens- And louder rung the pibroch land is to all intents and purposes

prond./

a totally unvaccinat State. It At-first the sound by distance

Ahas been almost entily free, how- tame,

evar, from any "outbreak.” In

experienced one "enidé nic,” and that was in 1892, 01 8 well- And, lingering long by cane and vaccinated quarantin: vil sial came down with the dise on ship

Hongkong. Tuesday, May 12, 1925:

THE UNIVERSITY'S SITE.

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which have taken place regarding

Britain's use of her share of the

mittee of

Boxer indemnity, A-removal to Pack Up the Empire.

Yours very truly,

L. S. AMERY. Colonial Office,

Downing Street.

the New Territories on the ground Express and Telegraph hita upon Now and again the China that there is more opportunity for a phrase, in dealing with Far expansion can well be appreciated, Eastern affairs, worthy of the although at the time the "China test traditions of Mr. A G Mail" made enquiries it was found Engier. Thus, in its issue to hand at the week-end, it "tears to that the University Senate had ribbons" an article by Mr. Hector not given the matter serious C. Bywater to the London Daily E. S. Ford, Mr. D. J. Lewis and. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Alves, Mr. thought. But would the removal News in condemnation of the Lt. Commander E. W. Spencer re- to leased territory for after all gentleman launches out at the cost President Grant,

Singapore Base. The latter turned to the Colony to-day by the that is what it is"testify to of the base; then, without a word England's "goodwill towards as to the protection of the

Dr and Mra

* Chinchillaanbaatever received word from their con Mr. has never been in dispute. The the ground that it is too remote Mr. Wang arrived at Crenera on belittles its strategical aspect on Wang Cheung-hin from Geneva. "Lighthouse."is" but further from supplies. As a counterblast April 1, and was to attend the first evidence of It. Yet the Hongkong the China Express quotes a session of the Commission for the University has been definitely memorandum from Lord Jellicoe Codification of International Law. linked with the question of the Zealand, during the regime of the April 18 to attend an eras who, Cabling on behalf of New He was to proceed to the Hague Boxer Indemnity. If a testimony MacDonald Government, strongly ordinary session of the International of England's goodwill is desired urged that "unless a base were Court,

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