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CHATER ROAD.

added to their contentions.

We

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925.

have suggested that a probable SHREDS

AND PATCHES.

settlement Hes between London. and Moscow, Russian diplomacy in Canton has been skilful It

When has played with fire and; so far,

the Strike"

7. At our pitcher house 6 white Foon broke out, several good cupe. has not burnt its fingers. All that CosraoL. patriotic Hongkong peo And at every time of our moving, we know is that its influence in

ple, were heard to wish one whole carb for the carriage things Cantonese la predominant; they were in Devon. Devon, at her stuff. and on this it must be assumed that time suggested peace and quiet

and three or four-square meals:

There must be a big that if it cared to stop the activi- day. It is the question of the THINKING, Imber of Hongkong ties of strike leaders and regularity of meala which is such a

people who emulate the armies, it could do so. This, and deciding factor, and of course the countryman who spent his time other irrefutable facts, should some of our bothered ones, would, the combination became too irksome ability to pay for them. Perhaps in setting and thinking." When make it possible for the Home after reading what follows, wish to be just "sett." Here is a farmer Government to force & decision be buck in 1829. Our food control speaking, to the wife of an eminent

ler: should be particularly interest statesman:- with Russia, and end an intoler-ed in this extract from i book re able situation.

The life of the cities to-day is no life | Dane.

cently published called Varia and which gives copy of an order of King VIII, for one day's provision for one of the Indies of Honour of Catherine of Aragon. It runs thus:-

a

Morinaga's Ice Cream fe for a woman.--Miss Clamenos sitioin of beef at our kiteban, one

AND

Cold Drinks

ARE

Exquisite

Nothing Superior.

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London Offices:-The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Ltit., 24 Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.1.

Does your husband 'himt?' She said "No, he doesn't hunt,” "Does he shoot?" "No,"

"Docs be fah?"! "No.

1

""Then whatever doen he think of o'nights. ***

It is renonsble to assume that many "eminent statesmen" do not think o'nights. They just "setts." How else to explain a non-reply to time $700 Cable?

THEY SAY THAT—

Government by a third of the

We will and command you to House of Commons on the sufferance allow daily from henceforth unto of another third is not a system of our right dear and well beloved Lady Government which can endure. Lucy, into her chamber, the dot Mr. Ponsonby, M.P.

and fare hereafter erimuying.

1. Every morning at Jouf at our pantry bar, and a gallon POT SHOTS, that it is quite pos of us at our buttery bar.

sible for people to live 2. At dinner a piece of beef, a on mars. If only Kowloon ran stroke of roast, and a reward at our bus service there! said kitchen, and n gullon of ale at our battery bur.

A fire broke out the other day in a Scottish bagpipe factory. An answer to prayer arely.

All over the world the masses show themselves increasingly cureless of their Parliamentary rights. Mr. Winston Churchill.

When a man says that the conn- try is going to the dogs we may be sure that be is on good terms with his banker-Dean Inge.

A day will come when the only passports in the world will be found alongside of Aztac idols in our his- torical museums.—Mr. H. G. Wells, Nothing an Buglishman believes en he heresy.--Mr. Bernard Shaw, There would seem to be an an tagonism between democratic rule and administrative efficiency,--Pro- fessor W. W. Willoughby.

I believe it is not in the English people to master foreign languages,

Sr I. Golbariez,

The frane is depreciated for psychological Tensons.-M. de

| Tasteyrie.

Certuin ethicnt ideais churacters istic of the Inbour Party commend themselves very strongly to a large (number of thoughtful people who aro by no means ready to subscribe to the theories of economie Pocial- ism-Principui La. P. Jacks.

Bad weather wouses our not very literary race to real force and eloquence,—Mr. Edward Shanks,

OBITUARY.

MR. CECIL HYNES LYSON.

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3. At afternoon a loaf of bread at our pantry bar and half a gallon of ale at our buitery bar

4. At supper a mess of porngo, a piece of mutton and a reward at

suid kitchen, louf of bread; and a gallon of ade,

5. At after supper half a gulion of wine at our cellar bar.

6. At our chaundrye bar in winter every night, one preket and 4 sizes of wax, with 8 candlen and one torch.

A

"SHOCKER.”.

UNDESIRABLE PUBLICITY FOR HONGKONG.

LATEST LONDON PLAY.

Hongkong has come in for a den} of unwanted publicity, not warrant- ed in fact, as a result of the Isyered outpourings of a few novelists and Playwrights whose object appears

!

"

A scientist declares

Hongkong's two journalists were Put in chains in Canton. The irony

of it.

*

The number of officials working in me Government offices is half."

The Hongkong Angling Club says thore is Bass in the reservoirs. Yes! but why in the reservoirs? Wa prefer our beer neut.

CHINA POLICY.

FAMOUS HOME WRITER'S VIEWS.

AH MAN NEEDED.

While the British public have still hardly the faintest sense of the real magnitude and obstinacy of the affair, there is no improvement of the Chinese position except upon our to be to paint this city as a place own ground at Hongkong, writes bends. The latest such creation At Shanghai our trade in hard hit. where hectic adventure of kind. J. T. Garvin in the Observer."

centrating on it to the utmost limit. The issue has been described as the furtherance of Bolshevism. It is that of course, I never read a sentence of Sir Ian but it is likely to be something here is a man who fought and did Hamilton without feeling' that else as well-the consolidation of his bit and came away puro, L Russia in China for the further-who took from the tumo that of the imagination is a play appear The anti-British movement is pur- ance of her own ends-political strange peace which pussett undering at the Queen's Theatre, London, sued by the native Press with entitled The Man From Hong- Foxtraordinary virulence, and there standing--Mr. Ramsay Mac- and social and the extension of mal

kong,"

is no doubt tint it is encouraged and trade. For Russia's interest. in

thening this "shocker" the subsidised by the Peking Govern-. Publicity is. For a politician, the "Daily Telegraph" addresses to ment Judicial enquiry into the China is not of recent date. It line of least resistance.—Mr. Philip the uthor, Mea, Clifford Mills, the shootings is assured. It will be car does not begin with the gesture of ¦ Chedalla,

following candid comment. We ried out by an International Board renouncing concessions and send-

piment of sapping that in writing lain, and Japan. But a Chinces sland not pay her the doubtful com-representing chiefly America, Bri- ing an Ambassador to Peking.

the aimed at anything higher than indge ought to be included. What The Chinese--or some of them

giving a shock. Unfortunately, we have to get firmly into our heads. have doubtless been impressed

However, her methods turned out to is that the old days are dead for with these outward manifesta-

be too artless even for a Bunk | ever in China as in India, and that. Holiday sudienes. The story opens new methods misst be adopted. The tions of goodwill, and with honey-

in a vile Chinese restaurant in Houg Peking: Government will only be ed assurances of friendship and

kong, and soon we have one Li-Tony | brought back to its suber sanses by the promise of assistance against.

murdering an Englishman and hid a joint warning from the Treaty ing the "orpse behind a screen. Powers, After that nothing but. the wicked Imperialism of the

Then Anthony Travers, R.N. en-conciliation in earnest will serve. Powers. They forget-for it is

tars with a hither officer, They The future of British commerce in easy to forget that Russia's

Deap regret has been caused by discover the "corpse," which comes the Fur Bist depends on this busi-" large debt due to those who ran to Ruky Mount, Conduit Roud, of dies unmistakably; the two officers ultimate was in that quarter of the the death yesterday at his residence, to life for a few moments and then news. Force cannot save it. Even her succour in the early days of Mr. Cecil Hyles Layson, solicitor, are then set upon by Li-Tong and world could only compléte its ruin, the war, remains unpaid-and 1s Me, Lyson had not been sailing for his minions, but excape with the We shull need u big man to handle likely to do so--and that such long and the news of his deccuse aid of an electric torch, and the car on the spot the Chinese end of our nations as Britain and America sympathy is felt with the widow, amit loud applause.

shock. Much tain comes down on the first net feira, came somewhat as either refuse to recognise her or daughter and aged parents in their In the second act we are in Mrs. Cursdale's bungalow on the Thames, refuse to enter into trade treaties

The late Mr. Lyson was admitted where Li-Tong, pussing half of with her, proving that there is a as a solicitor in London about eleven as a rich Englishman, becomes the higher morality than that of years ago and upon the outbreak of betrothed of the daught of the glossing breaches of trust and war just as he qualified, he joined bungalow, the fair-haired Vivien. LYSON-At Rocky Mount, 39, faith. So far back as 1689 is up us an officer in the Army Ordin- who had previously been engaged to Conduit Road, on September there evidence of Russia's keen in Frise for it time but for the account of his having nothing but ance Corps. He saw active service Truvers; R.N., and jilted him ou 9, 1925, Cecil Hynes Lyson, interest in China. The treaty of most purt ኖህና stationed at his pay to live on. And when the Ronald Sinclair, in the port of her aged 38 years. The cortège Nerchinsk of 1689 states: Plymouth, England. passes the Monument at "Everything which has occurred fat, Mr. Dyson came to Hongkong | bìm'a drugged cigarette and carries ng into an all too short scene they. At the conclusion of hostilities the appears, Li Tong promptly offers husband, throw a touch of real feel- 5.30 p.m. to-day.

hitherto is to be buried in eternal as partner in the firm of Lyson and the mundan off to his heqsebut never quite felt that the desired had in the bungalow. But we oblivion." And on it has gone Hat He was the nephew of the leaving the representative of the stuck came off. During the latter from the aggression of Tsarist late Mr. Chan Kai-ming upon whose sur shfeld unconscious and half of the strenuous lost act the decease he became the manager of breathing stantorously in an arm-udience acemed quite cheerful→→ Governments, to the latest form of his valible estate and Chairman of clair. In the third act we witness a shocker that does not ter aggression the lavish expendi- the board of directors of Gande the Chinese rufian coatinming lus

SILVER WEDDING. MASON HARVEY. At the Union Church, Hongkong, on the 10th September, 1900, by the Rev. Geo. A. Williams, Janet Rambay Mason to

David Harvey.

DEATH.

Hongkong, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1925.

RUSSIA AND CANTON.

bereavement.

He wus

gallant officer, still hopeful, re

Landlord: "Look here, I'll meet you half-way. forget half of what you owe."

I am ready to

i'll meet you. I'll forget the Impecunious Tenant: “Right.

other half."

ture of money that should rightly held for some time the position of tive, kissing her, finging her about. We fear, but a poor sort of alıbeker Price and Company. He had also evil work upon his fair-hard captily but only asts people smiling is, be in other people's pockets, in Chairman of the Craigengower and generally reducing her to the "DAILY HALL" COMMENT.

ut the best. If the Colony's resolution has subtle propaganda, and the Cricket Club in the affairs of which very imbecility of terror; undil eo far not stirred the dove cotes specious lies that, unhappily, he tour a keen interest, Trivers, R.N., once more steps The play by no means nda of the British Foreign Office, it weigh so well with the hot mason; promitent Free upon the scene, this time with a favour with the critic of the gun" and, after the and ex-Daily Mall" Dope fiends, The funeral takes place to-day at cursions and alarms, Vivian is able traffic in drugs, a man who mas Happy Valley cemetery, the cortege to collapse in happy confidence upon querades as a Chinese, have their sang the monument at 5.30 p.m. flis bosom, and the mirtein finally parts, not alwave Interesting."

descends

The players did their best for the writes, "in an odd mixture of a play, the plot of which conveys all writes the critic. Mr. Hutchison nothing in particular

Travers wrestled gallant- ly with a part which we are bound whilst allowing that if ap irit, "The to any no actor in the world could Man. ever hava, lifted on to plane of

has caused some comment in headedness of the crowd. It is Moscow. There is an irony in suggested by a writer in the this, although it may be possible ! “Contemporary Review” that the to find a crumb of satisfaction. Russian revival in the Far East is Comrade Karakhan, enjoying but another phase of the conflict. furlough from his questionable between Russia and Japan for work directed from Peking thinks some sort of dominance in China. the resolution indicates the posWe in Hongkong are vitally con sibility of the Canton Govern- | cerned = with Russia's activi -mant's armed overthro Some Canton and the damaging effect would like it indicate the pois having not merely on fore

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