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Hongkong should lend itself to a display of pageantry: There is | space and', there. ial colour) and there fe history aplenty to draw upon. The development of the place. la Itself romance. Think

TUESDAY: MAY A

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

of the early settlers at Stanley: REALLY CANNY, coming down to THE SURE SIGN. company down

the beginnings of trade; "the customs that existed when pre-

A Glasgow man,

London on busi-

“I think there's

stairs.

"How d'ya know?

"I just heard mama laugh at

sumably there was no talk at alls, took a room at an hotel in Westminster. Before he went to of bridging the Feak and Kow-bed, he took out his watch to wind papa's joke." loon! Figures, loom out of the it up, as usual, when he glanced pasta late Governor once outside and discovered that he assured us they were giants-end could see Big Ben from his win-SOUND ADVICE. milk should not. seeds were then sown which have dow. So he didn't wind up his resulted in mighty enterprises. watch.

A pageant might well be attempt-

Faw of-those

Parties who want

seat themselves. on a stool, in the middle of a field, In hope that the cow will back up-- to them.

ed. It wo bring together diversity offts, and the result NOTHING TO READ, who criticise would be something worthwhile.

. papers and The Services perhaps could dismiss them with the remark-NEAT. went to

An attractive girl recently úmulate sir, Singapore col- "nothing in them"realise the

a fancy dreas leagues an give us something infinite care and trouble that is of her friends recognised her, and, dance as a pillar-box. One- either naval, military, or both. invariably taken to produce a said to her, "But, my dear, why Their recont display makes paper. Mr. G. K. Chesterton has this extraordinary costume?" interesting reading and we have indicated a teertain class in his "To attract the males," was no doubt it proved a stimulating, linee

the answer. interesting, and educational dis- There is nothing in the papers play. Not for the first time has

pageantry, been suggested for As he lights his pipe next morning

Hongkong. So far it has fallan on, deaf ears. With Singapore's example in mind perhaps some- thing will now be done;

Dogs and Their Bites...

the h-less man exclaims

with the Balliol scholar's brains.

U

THE SUPPER Bank

a

Down, down he

with groan in a shop- entrance off a busy thoroughfare, The following advertise and only just clear of the jostling ODD. ments are said to have apture of agony and despair written and pushing of passers-by, a mix-

peared in, London papers during 1903-

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on his face,

If only his wife, had been with. Wanted. By respectable girl, "Once you bite me, twice I am passage to Cape Town; willing to would not have been suffering him, he contemplated sadly, he shy" remarked the French lady take charge of two children and a such, awful pain: she would have learning English. It is something good sailor“... like that with cases of biting by Mr. Smith, furrier, begs to an-him entirely of this agony.

known just what to do to relieve dogs. A person is bitten and sent nounce that he will make. capes. to hospital for treatment, whilst jackets, etc., for ladies out of the dog is taken somewhere or their own skins. other where it in placed under To Let: Furnished apart- observation.. No one hears any ments suitable for a gentleman more of such cases. The bitten with folding doora

A

i-

A scientific

person presumably becomes “shy" Wanted-An organist and passed him by with a and the dog is returned to its boy to blow the sume. owner. It would serve some pur- pose if periodical returns were made of the number of persons AUSTRALOPITHECUS. g en 'leman bitten and the results of observa- AFRICANUS. has been and tion of dogs. It would be inter-

gone ала esting to know if owners of dogs

found are responsible for the acts com- fragment of another gent mitted by their pets. If so, the

buried in the ground. fact should be emphasised. What up an' calls the fragment ever prompts people to keep dogs, wot's as harmless as a dove the fact should be insisted on that The scientific moniker wot's it is a paramount duty o train signerfled above, up a dog in the way it shall go." Wen dogs become a menace it is priately place the seal on His Ex-time to cry a halt. cellency Sir Edward Stubba's un-

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BIRTH.

GILLON-FERGUSON On May 1926, at 117, Avenue Haig, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gillon-Ferguson, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

HARRISON

OLLIVER At the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs this morning, Mr. F. S. Harrison, to Mrs. Philippa Olliver.

Hongkong, Tuenday, May 26, 1925.

Colony, both European and Chin- se. When His Excellency eventual- by leaves those shores for good" it will be with a paean of praise for work on behalf of the Crown well and truly done. And he will leave"

BANDIT OUTRAGE:

-A‚P-G-MAN-AGAIN CAPTURED.

SURPRISE ATTACK,

He

1

dropped, with a groan fit to tear Dawn, still further down he

the heart-strings of one who loved him. groans, but, callous-minded folk And passers-by heard his

that they were, most of them smile on their eruel lips.

Only a few were anxious for to turn aside and offer the poor him, and they had not the courage

sufferer a helping hand-for that he was in great pain was obvious. As his head, sank lower and lower the seething human tide which rushed continually by vanished from his view. And as his head sank lower and lower bis pain grew more intense.

But it was beneath his dignity to exhibit his suffering to The pipers was delighted on passers-by for longer than he

they, ses it proves a lot;

could possibly help. A shy man, That men was come from mon-he disliked the publicity which

keys or they otherwise wos was thus being forced upon him.. helpless as he was, he must at. He simply could not stay like this:

least make an effort ta risa" with. out assistance and move along

Slowly and painfully, he raised his. head. he straightened his aching, back, Slowly and painfully

at last stood erect. Then, though and with a final agonising effort "feeling terribly dizzy, he managed to stagger into the crowd and escape further notice.

The fat man had done up his bootlace!

'ot.

The alks about it dyely, an' I pose before they stop We'll all can spell the nobby nime

wot's mentioned at the top. But down in Covent Garden, if

We wants to tell a bloke

behind an impression of goodwill (From Our Own Correspondent. His ace would mike a helephunt

d sympathy toward the Chinese of the New Territories in particula "that will assuredly be as lasting as the tablet that has been set up to mark the restoration of the iron gates and of a loyalty that will be perpetuated as long as the tablet and the

gates themselves.. To-day's ceremony may appear simple in itself, but among those most intimately. " concerned the

Chinese of the New Territories

PAKKAI, KONGMOON, May 25. The report has been confirmed that Mr. Rasmussen, manager here for the Asiatic Petroleum Co., has been captured by bandits.

'Such are the meagre details to hand. This morning it was con- (tinually rumoured that one of the few Europeans of this community had fallen into the outlaws' hands.

According to information reach. ing, Hongkong, Mr. V. A. J. J.

of the A. P. C. motor launches

fact.

was released.

pack up 'is trunk an' choke, We'd call 'ím an Austral-i-o-wot

'e said, I don't fink- We'd simply sye the perisher's a

bloomin' missin' link.

THE VICTORY OF THE AIRSHIP:

Both

The "ill wind" that dislodged air-travel self-supporting; . Rasmussen was travelling in one R33 from her moorings has blown interests have been most signally its story will be passed on by word with his wife when he was captured.the airalup as an institution into a sarved by the involuntary flight of of mouth and thus be the means Mrs. Rasmussen was subsequently stronger position as regards the last week. The crew of Ras wilf. of inculenting a like spirit of loyalty released, it is stated, and toward the British Raj in the returned to Pakkai but our cor confidence of the public and of its feel twice the men they were, now That is respondent does not mention this now, that it has ended happily, be exacting and prolonged trial of all ow navigators. The adventure, that, launched by surprise into an generations yet unborn. a "great and noble-thing to accom-

The Hongkong office are send. comes one to which there is no the qualities of their profession, plish. Whatever may be the future Ing up Mr. S. J. Clark to In-debit wide at all, remarks the they have come through it with "Observer." It might have been flying colours. It is needless to of the New Territories, the loyalty vestigate.

About three sad a half years otherwise if the vessel's own say that the tonic effect of such a and the affection of the Chinese can ago, Mr. Rasmussen, was an up obsolescent character had been success extends itself to all other always be counted upon as one of country inspector and he was coupled with any shortcomings of units of the service. And the. the greatest and most priceless captured by bandits on the skill or nerve upon the part of her public will note that few tests of assets of British administration. Baraboo River. After eight trying human complement. The foremost airshup efficiency could have been Governors and District Officers will weeks in which he suffered from feature of the story is that which more thorough or significant than come and go with the passing of the prions and several wounds, he displays the entire absence of any that which it has just, followed with (auch "handicap. R88 had only such anxious attention. The re- years, but the seal has been set by

-BARLIER three-fourths of her crew when she dentials of R33 for surmounting a Sir Edward Stubbe not only on his

Pakkai has just heard the news took her unforeseen departure, and sudden emergency were none too own personal worth is representa that a large gang of bandits carried her management under storm con-impressive. Her destiny was from out a successful surprise attack ditions involved a corresponding the first experimental, and sho was tive of His Majesty the King, bu yesterday on the port of Kamchuk, increase of strain. But the thirty built soven years ago to a design upon every act of his successors. which is near to Kowkong a little hours ordeal only brought to the which is now quite superseded." Surely it will be borne in upon the further up the river. All the doors surface a reserve of capacity equal! That such a craft, obsolete and un- were closed but, nevertheless, to all its needs. Fight-Commander dermanned, pitched into the trough'. Chinese to-day that there STA

Sermons in stones and good in even uses were plundered and Booth and his men played for of a gale without a moment's wan- even burned. A large number of complete win against the weather, ing and with a perilous leak in ber everything" connected with the men and women were driven away and by their own exertions brought envelope, should have survived to

for ransom. 15 British Bag.

their ship back to its resting-place.retum to the starting-point under In the critical repairs that were her own power, is no small tribute. carried out in the height of emer to her British builders. Soundness. goncy und in other technical de of structure, competence of naviga tails of their experience, they will tion, and stable perfection of wire- Football League on Thursday, the of their young art.

At the meeting of the Hongkong have contributed much to the lore less signalling are the three essen question of school football and the broader success of theter achieve-ship, and they have all received in But the tial elements of trust in the air- possibilities of its coming under ment is the main thing, and, in this case, a telling vindication. the League suspices may be deed, its importance is immense. What has occurred should help discussed.

They have shown that the airship substantially in the process of pull- need be no shuttlecock of the sky ing ourselves together again after even in the roughest of conditions, the pitiful abnegation of public if she is in th charge of men policy at the close of the war. We equal to the power that acdence have lost much ground through" confers on them. While the crew that incontinent abandonment of of RS8 are to be heartly oon the airship and refusal to hear, the gratulated on escaping the trop future's call. In our crapping laid for her and for themselves by of effort. and

we might

FRIENDLY FEELING.

Today's ceremony at Kum Tin, in the New Territories, when the iron gates will formally be restored Prince George, by His Excellency the Governor, is

Hongkong this week will have symbolic of the friendly feeling established a record it seems between the British authorities and hardly likely it will ever break the Chinese. It canrot but have Within a few short, years. It will alating effect, beneficial in

in every have given a welcome to two aspect. As stated on the tablet, it princes of the reigning house

The natura of the one welcome will. "marks, the deep-sympathy and necessarily differ from the other great goodness of the British but in sincerity of thought they Government What is better, the will know no difference. The sea. tablet is set up as a mark of the is England's glory, and it is very shed recognition of loyalty, and is speciel- fitting that our

ly insribed on stone as a record that visitor should hav

older Ice to

it may never

There

the

SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

TO-DAY'S SATTAPA

the hand of socident, they are to well have acm ped experience. be honoured still more as the tradition wh rainers of a moral victory that will