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HARLOW. — At the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, on July 7, 1925, to the wife of Mr. E. A. Harlow, of the London Mission, Hongkong, a daughter.

Hongkong, Wednesday, July 8, 1925,

CHINESE SERVICE.

In

Thousands of Chinese owe their protection in the past and in the present to the Union Jack, There is no more benevolent colonising Power in the world than the British.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Champagne, when

ever

makes them possessed of fanatic sincerity and earnestness. The Dauphin instead of a weak, childish youth, is portrayed as a strapping young husky. Of no movement perhaps in the light of the more reprehensible things

The newspaper statement done by the Bolsheviks, but suffi-BATT: that in a Queensland port CHAMPAČNE. good, is certainly cient to indicate that nothing is

a shark was caught, and

better than any - ancred in the eyes of unprincipled that on being opened a three other sparkling wine can destroyers.

penny piece was found inside, has hope to be it requires greater been brought to the notice of care, is made with better grapes, Harry Lauder. He now wants to of blends of finer and more suit- know whether the coin had two able wines, and is also matured TROUBLE BREWING. teeth marks on it, as he general- in bottle longer. All other

ly bites all his,

sparkling wines aim at coming as near as possible to Champagne, Death sentence but their chance of beating it la THE DEATH passed on a Kanaka only on the question of price. SENTENCE. in the Manadated There are many sparkling wines, Territory combined made in a similar way to Cham- That all is not well, internally, the iudicrous with the tragic.. A pagne, which are light, sweet, with the present Canton Govern-Manus boy had been convicted of wholesome and palatable, and ment is evident from intelligence the murder of a Chinese woman are, moreover, much cheaper. brought down by people who have in Rabaul. Finally, it fell to the There are others, however, which left for Hongkong since the alleg judge to pronounce the fatal are made of any cheap ordinary ed attack on Governor Hu Han-words. These had to be reduced wine filled up with artificial gas, min.

to Pidgin-English. Solemnly the sugar and 8000 flavouring

POSSIBLE CANTON

OUTBREAK

MILITARY RIVALRY,

It is an open secret that several judge recited the customary essence or other, such, for in of the leaders, civil and military, phrases of the Court. Then the stance, 48 elderberry fower do not see eye to eye. General Interpreter walked over to the essence, which gives a wine a so- Hau Shung-chi is said to have prisoner and delivered the follow-called "muscate?” flavour. Such made overtures to one of Chaning: "Now, you savee, first time wines give pleasure to some folk, Kwing-ming's subordinates, you makem Cong-Cong (China-but not to Connoisseurs.

#

"Squab Pie," which

rather than let territory slide into man) die, all right, now number the hands of General Cheung Kat-one Keup (Judge) he talk you die sek who commands the Cadets and too. Behind some fella catchem Zoo PIE. figured on the menu of to whom is attributed pronounced rope along neck belong you, Soviet leanings.

pullem up die finish."

the. Cornish dinner re- cently, is almost as great a mystery as the haggis, all A young woman manner of strange ingredients POLICE COURT at Old Street ask- being anid to go to its making., A HUMOUR. ed the magistrate certain West Country poet once to have another had a vision of a squab ple pre- pared according to the following recipe-

As yet there is no trouble on the surface at Canton. Nor can it be predicted with any degree of certainty how events will pan out. Chan Kwing-ming's name is again prominent but gossipera woman cautioned for calling after probably mean his active lieuten- her.

ants who are now in the field for Magistrate: What does sho themselves. The pro-Chan in-call you?

fluence is stated to be widening Applicant: A Sunday school in the hinterland of Swatow but teacher. (Laughter). Hung Leuk and Hung Shia-lun Magistrate: That is a compli- are also alleged to have quarrelled. | ment. I am certainly not likely

Taking all in all, there may be to caution her for that. cause for surprise in the not dist- ant future as political agents are very busy at the moment.

1

TEAPOT DOME.

Clerk at Tottenham: Is the man referred to your lodger?

Woman: He was.

Clerk: He doesn't live with you now?

your

Woman: Yes, he does. Clerk: So he is still Woman: No, he is my hus band: (Laughter).

lodger? The Empire has been

rather slightingly mentioned a the refuge of political exiles from outside: in that description may

| be found a genuine compliment to the tolerance of the British-to their justice and to their fair- mindedness.

Propaganda.

So long as an individual or a section is peaceable and law-abid- ling their nationality matters nothing. There will be the same

degree of security, for him or it under the British flag as for the that in a time of emergency this fact should be appreciated by the Chinese in our midst who are at present engaged in the perform- ance of work of real service to their own and other communities. Their example must act as a powerful deterrent to. their weaker compatriots.

true-born Briton. It is as well

But-there

MOTION FOR RE-HEARING

DENIED.

SUIT DISMISSED.

(Reuter's American Service.).

Cheyenne, July 7.

bus

people

Very few YEARS AGO. probably would be able to tell offhand what feature of Pharaoh's throne would have been manufactured until exceedingly recently in practically the identical manner Federal Judge Kennedy denied a motion by Government that it was 3,000 or more years Yet the answer is simple, counsel for the re-bearing of the ago. Teapot Dome lease annulment and for the gold leaf which gilded has dismissed the suit against the that chair of state was obtained by virtually the same hammering Mammoth Oil Company.

Counsel sought to re-open the out process as is the gold leaf cuse, to present additional testimony hitherto used on the store win- regarding the alleged transfer of dows of the twentieth century. Liberty Bonds from the Continental But now electrochemistry has Trading Company of Canada to entered the field, a method having ex-Secretary for the Interior Fall; been invented to obviate the great and to have depositions from amount of labour necessary Toronto fled therewith.

heretofore. Thus, upon a ribbon of silver is elecrically deposited a film of gold. This silver ribbon is then laid upon a celluloid band and immersed in a bath of nitric acid. The gold leaf is thus left

ARMED ROBBERS.

Two men entered a Chinese on the band, whence it is blown by warm air between protecting tobacconist's shop at 131, Queen's sheets of paper.

Though crude Road West at 8 pm. yesterday plans of manufacture may sur- and asked

a packet of vive for centuries, it would seem

for

is room for further propaganda, and no pains should be spared by those in authority to ensure that such propaganda is created and cigarettes. Soon after they were that they must inevitably go down fostered. The ways of the intimi- joined by three others, and the before the onward march of time. dators are silent. and secretive. inmates. were threatened with They can be countered by equally weapons, bound and gagged with unobtrusive methods. Those who walnuts. The men stolen $290 in are weak and timid must have the money and property to the value truth of the position brought of $30. home to them with candour, I always keeping in the forefront the prestige of the Colony and of

the great Empire of which it is an LOCAL & GENERAL. important outpost. If that pro-

Bolshevised.

"Tis made up in dough from the

bread-fruit tree,

With a layer of gorilla or chim-

panzee,

And a young hippopotamus

cut in chunks.

With kangaroos" noses, and

elephants' trunks.

ק.

A man, charged LIVING. PICTURE. at the Guild- hall with theft, was found to have been exten- sively tattoed. On his chest sailor, a ship, a lady and a flag; there was a horse and dragon, a

of Buffalo Bill, a cross and two on his right arm a representation

doves, and "In loving memory.of. my two twin brothers;" on his left arm, a woman in tights, a harp, clasped hands and two age; on each knee there were tattoed two birds.

SCRE

If I should dle to-night

And you

should come to my cold corpse and 187,

Weeping and heartslek o'er

my lifeless clay-

If I should die to-night,

And you should come in deepest

grief and woo-

And say:

"Here's that tan dollars that I owe,"

I might arise in my large

white cravat

And say," What's that ??

If I should die to-night, And you should come to my

cold corpse and kneel, a Clasping my bier to show the

grief you feel,

I say, if I should die to-night, And you should come to me, and

there and then

Just even hint 'bout paying me

that ten,

I might arise the while, But I'd drop dead again.

THE WEMBLEY LION.

The House of Commons is much lassociation of a lion with the tribe

occupied with definitions. This zeal of Judah is, of course, se old se

not find our

Much of the resentment at the senseless strike of Chinese has been tempered to a certain degree

we applaud as conducive to an Genesis, but in other ancient lands, by the loyal manner in which the paganda is wisely and discreetly The Sincere Co., Ltd., wishes politicians, observes a

accuracy not hitherto found among in Assyria, for example, ind

London authorities have been voluntarily carried out, it should then become to advise that all customers with paper. But there is a certain Myceuse, lions were ever emblems assisted by Chinese of a tempera- an easy matter to separate the pass books will be supplied with diffusion of energy. Not content of royalty. That the ancient Kings

Chinese. sheep from the Chinese goods ment different to the average goate the loyalists from those accounts by arrangement with what, if any, is the limit to the mum- the Kings of Judah is doubtless sa against their monthly with investigating what ailk in and of Scotland were descended from labourer or house servant who is who are ungrateful for the protec- the Manager or the Accounts ber of ways in which it can be true as that England was colonised all too prone to listen to the tion afforded them in the past.

Department.

artificial, bonourable mombers have from Troy. Let us also believe the whisperings of intimidators.

other legand that Charlemagne, who gone off after lions. There was almost every phase of community

Mr. Richard Williamson, Bar-one who felt that his country had nothing to do with either life Chinese are randering excel-

rister at Law is temporrily ap- pected him to inquire whether the Scotland or Judah, conferred the lent service that must be appre-

Bolshevism, in common with pointed Solicitor General, Straits Wembley lion was the lion of Judah. badge of the lion rampant upon the

Settlements,

The bearings of thin observation Scottish Kings. But, although have used beasta se their elated by all-including, be it other movements, had its own

probably lie in the application man observed, the well-disposed opportunity to justify itself. But

The Bar Committee of Singapore thereof, as Captain Bunsby would standards or totems from the dawn its beginning was bad and its con- is thus constituted: Mesurs. G. B. have said; but we have no notion of time, we do Chinese themselves. Looking to tinuation in ways that are dark" Carver: H. B. Baker, A. P. Robin what mordant satire is intended. European Binga dad. Princes bear the supposed origin of the strike has deceived no one but the on, E. A. Stevena and C. Dicken- Another honourable gentiem,ing arme till the twelfth century, and to the tendencies of a certain upholders of it, and, in time will Bon Mr. J. G. Campbell to be however, was incited to declare that The first English King whose great

decelye those Chinese who seem honorary secretary.

the Lion of Judah in the Scottish seal shows his shield emblazoned in section of the Chinese elsewhere, to see in it, that equality which

lion, and the Minister who had to Richard I., and he bears a loa this voluntary service of the levels everything. In all that it At a certain dinger recent deal with a situation like that most rampant. The three bons posmat Chinese here must act as a stimu- has touched, Bolshevism hasly, the principal guenta vory have the sympathy of all humans gardant on the moderns Royal Arms, defiled. Nothing is sacred to it. well-known financier, having risen poople. Mr. Samuel boldly com which some of our enennen, ike lant to the general body of Chinese Ideals go by the board. Morals, to respond to the toast of his health, mitted himself to the opostas Napoleon call "leopacils, seem to who, though perhaps willing to do ethics and religion are unknown, proceeded to give a brief sketch of the Lion of Judah is the Palestinian have come from Novosady, Maine, something, are holding back for unless it be a brand emanating his early days. I was born lion, such a creature, we presume, and Aquitaine, one lion from entr reasons best known to themselves. from the high prieste of the move he began and then, after a pause as Beusish slew in a pit on a mowy province. The Boottish lion rampant, Undoubtedly the army of Chinese mont. The work of men's hands to lock at his notes, continned, in day and his information is that this gules, armed and langued setre, But what consun-I creature is rounder and shorter in was adopted a little earer than our and the fruits of their imagination Manchesters!! workers can be increased.

body and shorter and curlier of Richard Cour de Lion by King That are subject to malestation, even mate contion f

mane than the Wembley lion." If Willism the Lion, who claimed tha can candidly be said without in the when the work is that of one who

At & Stats function 6-year or this sort of thing under those who upalent ordered slightast degree reflecting on the own not Russia as his abiding number already at the post of Place, Take a very homely two back the Princes mens follow behave that the Kings of Scotland The badge of the Earls was a lion ngte were descended from the Kings of rampant, and if has been thought example the play "Saint Joaning the King and Queen

hair Judah and inherited the lion of that probable that King Willisan ado duty. The great thing that must The many who saw the file towards the royal bor

serious faces when they bed it tribe, we shall be gratified but mr this as corroborative evidence be kept to the fore in any men revelled

gave little evidence that they were prised. It seema water to rely upon the theory, of cOKIKSI SÚ LOGI laxploding fafional);

The undeniable fact that neitherity invalidate the snol

Kembley, nor she hans of

sures of a propagandist, naturs undertaken by the Government is that the conditiong here and in ↑ Chink proper are