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THE OLIVE BRANCH.
BUILDING,
does not help matters much. except that it strengthens the arguments of those who urge direct action of no uncertain kind.
The bearers of olive branches find their occupation almost gone. Sober-minded Chinese in Hongkong urge that, "something" be done, and are quite clear what that "something" should be. We were disposed at. one time to suggest that the situation at Shanghai had some bearing on that in Canton. But
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925.
with general approval. If it la the least they could do, it is the best they could do. Self-respect can go no further. If the Shang- hal situation becomes a settled
Some Hongkong!
If you don't sponk up fact, what then of Canton? Ever since the revolution, Canton has A DEDUCTION, people get quite a MODESTY. for yourself no one
pleasure at not-
else will, is frequently been the stormy petrol of Chinessing the various dedications they heard in Hongkong. The writer politics. She cannot always re- find in the books that come into of the following letter which re- main such. If the north returns their hands. Here is one that cantly appeared in a New York should tickle their palate, and be paper, leaves nothing to chance, to sanity it is possible she may hard to beat. A fourth member and atates a case in no uncertain attempt to put the strait-whist-
the Gibbs of
family has junguage. Here it is: coat on the erring province in the just made hia bow (૪ Sports Editor Evening Post south. This is probably the direct an author. He is Anthony, While there's a great hullabaloo action that would give more | Son
of Sir. Philip, whose Arst being raised over the candidate novel, "Little Peter Vacuum," who should face Jack Dempsey in satisfaction than any other..
was published in London a few his first re-appearance in China's weakness has been in days ago and went into three ring, permit me to say a few having go". many warring editions on publication date! words in my own behalf as to why Young Anthony, who is much I feel that I should receive the elements, instead of one united taller than his father, dedicates preference over the other heavy- front. Canton has been the his book:
weights when the champion steps offender. Shanghai settled, let us
into the ring In Michigan City. hope for the olive branch from Peking. Perhaps we hope in vain. The "Red" stain will need some labour ere it is obliterated.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A Crisis Over,
"To my father;
+
Who does this sort of thing So much better than shall
ever do,"
Charming modesty !
the
My sensational fifteen-round battle with Harry Wills, which I would have surely won had it not been for bad cuts received by fng over the eyes in the twelfth round, lost me the chance of a lifetime As it was, the that night. Black panther, whom everybody is ducking... was lucky to get, the. official award.
During the Labour Ad. TIGHT. ministration in England, it was natural that at Everyone who is concerned for some of the social functions which † the stability of government in Great play so important a part in the went to Ireland after my great Only a few months ago, when I Britain in the critical times through Government of the people by the i which the nation is just now pose people, there was exhibited, at knocked out Tim McDonald, who fight with Jack Renault, I met and |ing, will be glad to learn that the timea, shall we say, a slight un-}
Musterial crisis is oven, and that familiarity with the customs of was looked upon as the best harmony and agreement have been polite society, by guests who were there in years. McDonald had a heavyweight turned out over. restored in the Cabinet. It is rather not, so to speak, to the manner great record, having whipped the a remarkable coincidence that two born.. We recently came acroSS Chuchills, father and son (Lord an amusing instance of this. The best man on the other side of the Randolph, who was Chancellor of occasion was an official political polished him off.
pond, yet I found him epay and the Exchequer in Lord Salisbury's dinner. second administration, and Mr. to nuts, was done in first-class being a set-up for the champion Everything, from soup It's all right about talking my Winston Churdil, who holds that style, including the serving of and all that, but my record proves same office in the present Govern- various kinds of wine.
One, that's all wrong. mt should each, when in office, gentleman present developed a Coffey, the Dublin giant, was up When Jim have fallen out with the Lords of rare liking for the champagne and, in the big money and looked like the Admiralty, and that in each drank deeply of it. His wife, he would get a shot at the crown, me a crisis should have been pre-perceiving this, became greatly he ran cipiulad over proposed naval exagitated and to a friend inquiring punch and was knocked for a up against the Madden penditure. In the earlier case Ford the cause, she replied: Randolph stood to his guns for
goal. I also 'knocked out Joe "Me shoes are tight; me corsets Jeannette, one of the greatest reonomies, and resigned, it being are tight; and, now me 'usband's coloured heavyweights that ever commonly supposed that he expeet-tight. I want to go 'ome!" ed his resignation to be followed by
entered a ring, in Jersey City.
the neconditional surrender of the
Little fly,
thoughtless
My hand Has brushed away.
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Am not I
A fly like thee? Or art not thou
| Cabinet and his restoration to office VERY TRUE. Thy summer's play
on his own terms. The sequel, (however, was entirely different. In the recent en Mr. Winston | Clanehill, possibly mindful of his father's fate, was less intransigent. Ho did not-get all his own way, but he did not resign. In this case, unlike that in which Lord Randolph Churchill was concerned, his son had the Prime Minister and a majority of Cabinet with him, and the upshot was a compromise over the naval budget which has happily restored Ministerial unitv.
THEY SAY THAT→→ Men of the present day eat too fast and too much.-Sir T. Horder. It must be apparent to every one that Great Britain is overcrowded. -Sir Robert Howe, M.P..
The night club can be more do pressing than Mrs. Grundy's back. parlour.eorge Grossmith.
Subsidies are essentially unsound, as they can be only temporary in character-John Gretton, M.P:
There is no possible chance of
it is a position which now is far Canda ever becoming a part of. from tenable. The olive branch any country except the British. Hin-- has been held out by the Shang-pired-Howard Ferguson, Premier hai British Chamber of Com- merce and the branch of the
of Ontario.
Englishmen are glad enough to employ science with a brand new industry. But they are reluctant to employ it in the day-to-day work. The Prime Minister,
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing Till some blind hand
. Shall brush my wing,
The members
My record conclusively shows sey the fight of his life. I have that I will be sure to give Demp- met, besides the above mentioned warriors, Martin Burke and other big guns, and whipped them all. I feel that I am right in prophesy- ing that should I get the match with Dempsey, I will give the champion a fight he will remem- ber for a long time to come.
I am ready to sign for the match. I hope the public will back me up in my stand that I am entitled to it,
A WORD PUZZLE. of à South Lon-
d'on bowling 3,000.
I
BARTLEY MADDEN.
After addressing a meet- ing in Chicago; so great club were puzzled by their secre-
was the enthusiasm about tary's latest notice, which ran Lieutenant. Hobson, the hero of "Members who cannot play away' the Spanish-American War, that please put A.T. after their he was. forthwith kissed by three names." The mystery was solved thousand women. by the secretary's explanation. Hobson was asked whether she - When Mrs. "Wot do I want to put A.T. for? objected to this, she replied: "Not at ome?" And everyone.agreed prefer to have my husband kissed Why, ain't that the letters for in the very least! T, infinitely that he was right. They do better by three thousand women than than this in Kowloon and at that he should be kissed three Happy Valley.
thousand times by one woman."
1
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GLENCOE.
Why is the nine of diamonds that the King's special command The Premier has an Arabian called the curse of Scotland? Was that the miscreants be cut off Nights mind. He thinks doors China Association there. It seems can be opened merely by using the There is more than ons answer in Mot and brunch, and that if this was not done without fond on to us to be full of olives. The words "Open, Hesume.D. Lloyd tradition. But we hard to note favour," he would be dealt with as Bertiments expressed are not George, M.P.
that the phrase came into use about & mun not fit to hold a commission. merely those of Shangha: Britons,
1700, and though it does not seem What is the natural inférence from but of Britons in Hongkong and
in the least likely that the Master such queerly-phrased instructiona? Hongkong, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1925, in other parts of the world. They
of Stair used a nine of diamonds to Glenlyon must have seen that his write on it the order for the mis mujor did not like the business, and may have been late in coming:
acre of Glencoe, there is no deny meant to put it on him. In fact, but they are none the feas sincere,
fing that the arms of his House were Duncanson did not reach Clenco at We might argue that if there is
The unemployed are not going to ûn, on a saltire azure, tine lozenges five, not till six hours later. But an excuse to explain the delay, it be fed by copybooks maxims, and I of the first. The Glenent business Glantyon accepted the ugly leak, If any doubt existed that the is that the possession of such sentiment from the Prime Minister his diary, when he was working on whose guest he had been at the up-
would prefer to have a little less is sufernal, Macaulay confided to and murdered the men and wome position of Hongkong in relation sentiments has been taken for and a lttl, more practice-Philip the details, The Master of Stair pointed time. There seems to be no THE ÎN TOAN HE 343 MBUSH 10 ENOTE 33E UNCUTEEN LANZEN LESERTA to Canton is a separate thing, and
is u perfect Ingo," And Macaulay debt that he did a brutal thing in granted. In Hongkang our alive Snowden, M.P. has nothing to do with the gen- eral position in China, it must be branch has been shown in the
was tempted to mali, da light of, a wantonly brutal way, but we feel The appointment of a committee dissolved in the latest news. The exercise of much patience; a vast in a facile expedient which offers as he could for the guilt of the inclination to absolve that
mussare involved his hero, William spectablo gerileman, Major Dan. "Anti-Imperialis Joint Union"mount of tolerance, and a desiremost irrealatio temptation in. The world has by this time canson, whi passed on the order. moments of perplexity to even the meat up ita mind that the slaughter The obvious-hesitation of Dancha and the Seamen's Union as to end an unnatural state of
most-watere and high-principled in Glucoe. wub, one of the moet son, however, is a crushing refuta express things. It almost Impossible Governments-Lord Oxford, their wishes to those in power at to deal with petulance and petti-\: From 1801 to the last census the victuig its perpetrators not only of. Glencoe wok but an ordinary opisode dastardly crimes in history, ooms tion of the ples that the batchery of Canton, and those wishes, becom nees. The legitimate strivings of number of monoglot Welsh fell from callon brutality but of it tretichery of clan warfare Duncanson was ing practically a demand, are another people after good Gay-half a million to 180,000; and there a messinesa of spirit are oven un much of a Campbell by birth
Thus ernment, nationallem, equality of are now also in the Principality over shipping embargoes, strike treatment
ernational million and a half monoglot Eng pickets, and all the rest of dia politics, must excite interest In list-Archbishop of Wales.M orderliness, gain Government pro- others, even when methods of tection, and become part of the reaching such things may be ques present Government's policy. tioned.
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ordered to be observed.
How long this will last remains to prove
But Canton as yok to
be seen. Successful coups have things The unholy alliance, alte
pisced the "Red" element in con-has contracted with the
trol of the situation in Canton forms of mod
Though flushed with power, there how dangero
is a suspicion that those in offic
are not yet prepared to exert
among the brutal. The orders upon Glenlyon or Breadalbane, but he which the executive officer of the felt that whatever might have be messure acted have now come done in the past, in 1892 even into the market, and an attempt McDonalds ought not to be mu to which we wish all success, is sacred by treachery The Mastor being made to secure the document of Stair whio, contrived the whole. fde the National library of Scot affair, had no doubts of its justice land say the Daily Telegraph" and no remorse He gained nothing London.) Captain Robert Camp by Is in position, or money, De boll, of Glenlyon is ordered by his pres What under heaven was; Jery Robert Duncanson to fall the Master's brass in this matter?
cred Wie truth is that
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