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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Accounts of the say- SAYINGS. ings of quite young

children are

fairly

We can say of the Chinese common, but not of those who are ohaou this week that at least it is verging into boy and girlhood. A not worse confounded, writes Mr. "China Mail" reader sends along J. L. Garvin in the Observer."a few which he has garnered, There is fierce intimidation by although he does not vouch for. the strikers at the ports, but their their accuracy {~~-~ funds are giving out. At Shang- hai, Chang, through his lieuten- ants, has begun to restore order with a decisive head. At Hong- kong our vigorous Governor has his business well-In hand, while those who forced the mischief in that quarter, the Cantonese Reds," are riddled with dissen-| aion as usual. It seems probable | that passion and disorder will diej down again in the next few weeks, but for long the ashes will remain hot and full of live sparkles. If nothing is done by the Powers in concert, this trou- ble will flame up again sooner or later. The nationalist resent- mant that smouldered before this outbreak will be stronger after it. {

A PLAIN BRITISH POLICY.

Mr. Austan Chamberlain's de. clarations on behalf of the For eign Office have been firm, but not ) narrow We cannot yield an inch to the attempts to convert anti- foreign feeling in China into a concentrated anti-British move- ment. In this respect we have had less support from some of the Treaty Powers than might have been expected. Our business is not to shun investigation into the origin of the Shanghai disturb- ances, but to court it and to insist that it shall be full and impartial. When all this is said, we have still to prevent our whole commercial position and due influence from being weakened by popular mis- understanding. We have to prove conspicuously that we are not the I particular and obstinate antagon- ists of Chinese nationalism. If we are wise we shall promptly accept and encourage the Ameri- can suggestion of a Conference to provide for increasing China's tariff-revenue and to enquire into the future of ex-territoriality. The latter part of it will be an elaborate and delicate affair. At the end of it not much will be done, but there will be no excuse for blaming Britain alone.

THE JAPANESE. PRECEDENT.

when a choir boy timidly cropt up the pulpit steps and handed him the keys of the church. "When you have finished, sir." he whispered, "will you please lock the doors?"

Are Colonial Governor- DOES IT ships financial para-

· PAY? dises? Is £5,000 per annum adequate pay

Dinner not being ready when the parson arrived, Mum sent her little girl on the veran- for "bossing" a few square miles? dah to amuse him. "I know Can a body save out of this sum? what we are having for dinner | Aspirants for Governorships had. to-day," she opened with, better interview Sir E. Stubbs "What, my dear," he asked. | before he leaves. He may be in- "Roast mutton, taters and duced to talk about it. On the punkin and roly poly pudding." other hand he may not. There is "And how do you know we are a widespread idea that the Gov- having roly-poly, pudding"" ernorships of colonies, depen- "Mum's only got one stocking dencies and groups of islands, which are so often bestowed upon distinguised soldiers and others,

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Little George, hearing of says a Home writer, are in the prehistoric times from his nature of a pecuniary reward; but the reverse is almost invari teacher at school, was very worried about things and ask-ably the case, for these posts gen- ed: "Mummie, in the times A very famous British soldier was erally cost more than the pay. when people didn't wear any discovered the other day settling. clothes, how would they know a down to end his days on a foreign. policeman.?"

shore, and when asked the reason he grimly replied: "I can't affòrd to live in England because I have been Governor of Blank."

My new office boy is where he is through politeness. "Why did you leave your last poai- tion?" I probed, when he

Many a man is applied. "Well," he confessed. SQUARE PECS. made unhappy by "they asked me to leave and I didn't like to refuse !"

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Mollie's little brother broke off some thistles, and seeing the milk, commenced to suck the stalks when Mollie snatched them away, and exclaimed, "No, Billy it's got to go through the cow first!"

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reason of the fact that he is a "square peg in a round hole," fated to do work for which he is temperamentally un- fitted. Various examples could doubtless be found in Hongkong. Here is Sir Johnston Forbes- Robertson toward the close of his "A Player, Under Three Reigns" telling us that:-

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Never at any time have I gone on the stage without longing for The parson was preaching the moment. when the curtain' his usual long sermon and as I would.come down on the last act. the dinner hour approached the Rarely, very rarely, have I enjoy- restive congregation began to ed myself in acting. This cannot leave the church by twos and be the proper mental attitude for threes. Absorbed in his sub- an actor, and I am persuaded, as jert the preacher was still I look back upon my career, that arguing with himself cfter the I was not temperamentally suited last worshipper had gone, to my calling.

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THE TRIUMPH OF BROADCASTING:

Lord Gainford's estimate that When it is borne in mind that When in 1894, under Lord about ten million men, women, there has been no interruption of Roseberry, this country took the and children listen, either

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memorable initiative and aban- regularly or occasionally, to the the daily programmes while these doned our ex-territorial rights in varied programmes radiated from extensions have been taking Japan, that empire had become a the stations of the British Broad-place, it will be admitted that the coherent State advancing in casting Company, suggests the company has done well. It has civilisation under efficient govern-

character of the revolution which brought good music of a varied ment and settled law, China is has taken place in our social life character, from the severely Lord Milner left. It is a confes- cannot resume sirailar jurisdic- "Daily Telegraph" (London). Ittens of thousands of homes, and sion of faith in the destiny of the tion except in return for similar will be conceded, even by those provided lectures on almost every

guarantees. But some present who British Empire, bearing the cap abuses of foreign privileges in critics of what was regarded sermons

are the most outspoken subject under the sun

on Sunday evenings; tion at the head of this essay. In China 'might be pruned, and it, originally as little more than un

while the special needs of the it he has said: "I am

ought to be done. an

One fortunate interesting experiment, that re children early received attention. result of this trying crisis has markable progress has been made. When the extent of the services Imperialist, it is because it has been to revive a lively sense of under a system combining the offered by the company are con- been the destiny of our race, good-feeling between Britain and merits of private enterprise with trasted with the smallness of the owing to our insular position and Japan. Prince Chichibu's recep- the advantages of central control, fee charged for the licence, it supremacy at sea, to strike fresh tion in London has had a happy which only the State can exercise must be agreed that listeners-in effect in Tokyo.. Nothing but effectively through one of its have had good value for their roots in distant parts of the steady understanding and con- Departments, in this case the Post money. And yet no one is quite world. I feel that Canada, Aus-cord between the Treaty Powers, Office. Freedom from all control; satisfied, not even Lord Gainford tralia, New Zealand and other can ensure parts of the Empire are as much against efforts. like those of have produced chaos, with prob-pany. He wants a larger revenue. the peace of Asia with unlimited competition, would himself, the chairman of the com- my country as Surrey or York-oscow extremism and its agents ably a gradual lowering of the in order that further develop

to make a catapaw of the awaken- tone of the programmes. shire." This is the credo of the ing nationalism of China.

ments may be pushed on, for he public owe, Lord Gainford and his realises, as everyone must, that average imperialist Briton which

fellow-directors gratitude for the infancy, It is probably no bad broadcasting is still only in its has stood the test of ages and is

manner in which they have

likely to endure to the end. It la LOCAL & GENERAL.

this feeling of affection for the scattered parts that has made imperialism the sound and sincere fiable diseases for the 24 hours There was a nil return of noti- thing it is. The Empire wit ended Thursday. Hongkong, Saturday, August 22, 1925. would have us believe an

"accident"

A local Cleric is positive that it is a divine gift or trust. Taking no extreme views let us admit that the Empire has

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would have heartened members natural imperialism -that the of the British rate to a consider forces of reaction, disorder and able degree. Britain has had her disruption rail in vain. No need Empire bullders and the stock, here to stress the question. Lord though depleted by death, hasler's voice though silent in not altogether run out. These the grave peak in clarion men have served the nation in all tones through his credo. It opens manner of positions and in all now page in the Empire's his. sorts of conditione ungrudging-tory, and the hope has been exc ly and unsparingly with high pressed that it should be taught in ideals and “a true belief in the every elementary school of the destinies of the British race to

Empire. Actually, hundreds of colonise, to rule and to shoulder will be circulated through

thousands of popina of "Cre the burdens of civilisation.Itish schools, colleges. cluded in this list the name at the late Lord Milner must take a high

sitles, We should place His work in South Africa

assured that Hongkong ed in this most

at a peculiarly trying time stamp

ed him as a great man-a leader a builder who buil

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The

country. If everyone who takes should be about' to hold an developed broadcasting in this thing that the Government advantage of the service were. inquiry, if only that criticism would have been even also a licence-holder, the progress may have an opportunity of find-

ing expression. more

This decision rapid; but though the number of work which has been done, rather implies no condemnation of the licences has riseh to 1,871,581, the opposite. "In little more than His Majesty the King has not there are still many "pirates" been advised to exercise his power whose evasion of their obligation two years," as Lord Gainford has of disallowance with respect to the is retarding development,

"reminded us, "broadcasting kas following Ordinances

company has done a good deal not only been established as á Orindance No. 5 of 1025-An more than it agreed to do when necessary part of the machinery Ordinance to provide for the it entered into its short-term con-exert a definite influence on the of civilisation, but it has come to incorporation of the Trustees of tract with the Sailors Home, Hongkong

the Postmaster. Ordinance No. 6 of 1925-An intended to erect eight stations- tion on a generous scale. That General in 1929 It was then already amusement and instruc

minds of the people," It provides. Ordinance to provide for the Ten relay stations, have, in addi- those who have been responsible incorporation of the Mother tion, been completed, a new main for the building up of the Superior in this Colony of the station has been built, and, as a Society of the Peties Soure result of experiments carried out that they have done better than organisation, though conscious des Pauvres, .81. Peru, at Bretagne, commonly known as station at Daventry will be work is the best proof of their high Chelmsford, a high-power was expected, are still dissatisfled The Little Sisters of the Poor ing before the end of this month.

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