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"WAIT AND SEE."

Tel. C. 4702.

China. The quieter section of the community, if it has not dis- puted a reasonable contention, has felt that the ples for direct action which the former opinion suggests, should find no favour. Mr. Amery's message sets doubts

at rest.

His Majesty's Govern- ment is not likely to countenance any local "Jameson raid." It will adhere strictly to the canons of British administration; keep treaty engagements, find a re- medy consistent with them and one likely to serve vital interests of the whole Empire and especial. ly of Hongkong. We are not to imagine that these are a collection of words compiled with the brevity common to cable mes- sages, with the requisite sugges- tion of sympathy added. The Foreign Office and Colonial Office are served by, permanent officials who may be regarded also as advisers. Both have had the benefit of the experience of such men as the late Sir John Jordan whose death at this particular

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

I have a partiality for the trombone, and desire nothing Detter than an epitaph, such as I have seen, which reads: "Here lies John Jones, who blow down a trombone and brought up a virtuous family."

"Canton

There are those. But here is another quotation. the late Lord Salisbury that it is PACHMANN. Who say that Fach decided and humorous this time not wise to prophesy-unless you

mana the pianist from a Doctor Frank Batos:-- know. This, however, does not is "not all there that whilst he... prevent us taking the view that is playing there is an individual Canton is likely to get that which in the front row who has a keen eye on the player. It may be 80. is her just and long withheld due To hear Pachmann play Chopin You may fool the people some of must be considered one of the the time, but not all the people all joys of life to which the writer boasts. If Pachmann came to the time. This applies parti-

Hongkong it seems, almost certain cularly to a genérally peace-loving that crowds, as at Home, would people the Cantonese. The in- throng to see and hear him play. A THOUGHT Gazette" is, ink

capacitated from junction therefore is "Wait and And they would probably be re- warded with a touch of the

following the true Sec."

famous mannerisms, which in- functions of a newspaper. eludes the well-known one of stop- ping in the middle of a piece to

THEY SAY THAT

I look upon immortality rather as a prize to be won than as a birthright-Principal Jacks,

There is a great lack of leaders in industry to-day-Sir Arthur Duckhun.

If it were economically pos- sible, everyone ought to spend at least ten years of his life just thinking. Mr. Oliver Baldwin.

In the hour of triumph we are equally anxious to be fair and just to all.-Mt. J. H. Thomas.

No business is more liable to be devitalised by external help than a newspaper. Mr. St. Loe Strachey.

I have suffered much myself from abuse based on the reading of misleading reports - Dean Inge.

I know of only one journal that is consistent, and that has some- thing to do with anti-vaccination. -Mr. Philip Guedalla.

The sort of snob who sneers at poverty commonly calls himself n Conservative., The sort of prig who peers at patriotism com- monly calls himself a Liberal- Mr. G. K. Chesterton,

Of all gumes for the tired brain-worker I believe golf to be the worst.-Dr. Harold Dearden.

THE OIL TRADE,

CANTON VERSION OF PROSPECTS.

The following, in the "Canfor Gazette" of Monday, is given as it is published :—

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OR TWO.

The French seem to be getting

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explain how it is done. Pach on with their Morocco leathering, mann has no delusions about his playing, and in what he says there is a lesson that puts the alpshod and shoddy to flight. Listen and ponder.

One of the reasons why I am a great pianist is because I have patience and perseverance. I have played one piece of Godowsky thirteen thousand times, and I will play it more before I play it in public.

If any doubt the statement' that Pachmann stops to explain listen again to the great mun→→→

It is not eccentricity, it is to

.. • American farmers have had heavy rain in response to prayer. Let us hope too much of it won't go against the grain.

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Whilst there is so much lawn tennis in Hongkong, there should be no maidens forlorn.

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The amount of perfume used in Hongkong suggests that a great many women are scenty. mental.

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The St. Lager race was a frost in a Manna of apesking.

Here is Ronald

me natural and necessary to CONSIDERATE, A. Knox, towards talk and explain what it is, the music of Chopin, as I play. It

the end of a short work of fiction, "The Viaduct is not fanfaronade. Last con- Murder." shyly inserting this cert I did not talk to show them, footnote:-

and three hundred peoples. To the Reader: This chapter wrote to Mr. Powell and said, may be omitted if the book be "Why did not M. Pachmann thought too long."

talk? That is what we love."

Now, it seems to the Shreds But if they are wicked about man, it only remains for leader- me again, I will punish them, writers and others to fall into and nevaire, nevaire speak.

line. Then we may read some- thing like this:

vertisements will be as uplifting.”

To the reader: The writer Musicians can be having spent QUOTATIONS. decided people, as moments in writing the follow- several weary

the foregoing re- ing, suggests that it may be garding Pachmann proves. Like skipped. A perusal of the ad- others they lose a lot in life by centring their affections on one thing to the exclusion of others. Here is a gentleman rejoicing in the name of Otto Flugelmann dog matising on the place and position of woman:-

An almost similar idea hes been adopted by a poet who has had his book made up into per- forated pages. At the beginning the considerate bard has a note, quite serious, stating that nobody will be pleased with all his verses, A woman's place is at the and that he wishes his readers to urib in the home, not at a piano tear out those pages which they in the concert hall. The mother don't like (if possible passing of the Gracchi did not play in along to some other persons who public, neither did the mother may) and keep what they like, of Beethoven! They gave us though it be, but a single poem. great men.

Such examplea of modesty sug- gest there is hope for the world. We contrast them with that of the man we knew who used to sing and what were known as comic songs.

The Shreds and Patches man holds no brief and has no parti- cular views. Gracchi

As a means to oppose the stamp tax on kerosene oil, the Standard Di: Company and others declared an embargo, withholding all its Beethoven were great in their On occasion the Shreds man play- oil with the object of blockading particular-ways, but doubtless of ed the piano accompaniments, but Canton. The embargo has been the earth they were earthy. A before doing so had to "go over"

venience.

rendered abortive by the importa previous note in these columns the songs with the budding Dan tion of Russian oil, and though wondered why people in certain Leno who drew his attention to the emburgo has continued for callings-poets and musicians in such remarks on the score a nearly three months Canton has particular-were not full of the "Walt here for the applause not suffered, the least incon-beauty of their vocations, instead "Continue when applause has

Faet! of being, very often at any rate, finished.” The Oilcompanies, realising the

Fortunately keen on such things as the audiences never, took the Corney Tutility of the embargo,

bus bawbees...

Grain one at his own valuation. recently deeùled to withdraw it. Tis reported that a launch louded: with kayowenië all bus boan de- spatched to Wauchow to ascertaiv the sentiment of the people there which if found favourable, the golowns of the Oil companies will be opened shortly.

POLICING THE ETHER.

The Postmaster-General con- of the hypothesis of ether. These templating, we trust without ian-i Inevitable, indispensable assump- due complacency, the variety of tions are always in such rapid

evolution. But the Postmaster-

It is significant that in the out-juncture must be regarded as dis- STABBING CHARGE. This functions must feel that General assumes his ether, and,

with a knife: wij

pourings that have come from astrous and, we may well feel

Pooh-Bah was, a narrow special" as loyal customers of his, we Chinese mobs, youthful and assured, know very well the trend JAPANESE QUARTERMASTER 1st compared to him, observes a take his word for it. Ether, or impetuous "students" and the lof events. Heat and passion, the

SENT TO JAIT

Home paper. He is the banker no other, whatever it is the wire and atook-broker of the million, less waves of, electricity run. class that claims to have sat at worry and the burden, suggest the feet of Western culture, little drastic action. Why should a

Hootence of thiée, mouths hard the tax-gatherer and the fairy through or over, there is no labour was imposed at the Kowloon godmother, the common carrier doubt that in populous corners of if anything has been said concern peaceable people and Colony and Magistracy yesterday, on the quar and the special messenger of us the world, like Western Europe, ing the position at Canton. There through them a peacouble pation termaster of the as Taikwall, and beside these old familiar they are as congested as London. has been a suggestion in this that be held up by to be quite Mara, a stive of Formosa on a parts, he is a magician, sending traffic under one of the plans of either matters there are not charitable cut-throat collec charge of wounding an Indian guard human speech vast distances the Ministry of Transport: The through the air and the earth and Postmaster-General has to keep a clearing understood in the North, tion of what in the Philippine The accused in a statement said the waters under the earth. Of way clear for the messages of the or that Northerners regard their Islands they call Politicos? Why that he had not been on friendly late he has begun to be careless Services and merchant shipping Southern brethern as the out- not go in and finish the lot-clean terms with the India following an which of these ancient elements and for the long-distance work of of quarrel and that he was slightly surrounds his wires, and rely on Imperial communications, as well casts of the family the rebels up the place? Such an attitude intoxicated when he committed the that hypothetical substance the au for broadcasting and for the beneath contempt. No, one hears is only natural, but it does not see offonce

ether as his means of communica amateurs making their private of congratulatory telegrams being far enough. We have adopted The Magistrale considered that tion. But in relation to the ether, experiments. The Importance of received at Canton from either the simile of the sick to the Can- provocation and in imposing on Mitchell-Thomson has just been gerated. The new station at there had been a certain amount of our Postmaster, as Sir W broadcasting is not easily exag- Feking or Shanghai, and a Teleton situation the symptoms, the tence said he was dealing with him explaining, is not merely a Lord Daventry is constructed to reach graphic Transfer for any sum disease, the cure and the con-aniently as he had made an honest Paramount of telegraphing and any crystal set over an area. whatsoever has still to be an valescence, We have suggested character by the chip ongineer of communications, he is also a 22,000,000 people. Lord Gain

stiftemont and was given telephoning and all manner of which contains a population of nounced. If the northern faction that a settlement might probably the vessel.

policeman." He is empowered to ford estimates that 90 per cent. has consistently raised its voice he made miles away from Canton

control etheral traffic, to secure of the people in the United King against imperialism and un-between the Chancelleries-of Berlin Septe

etheral rights of way for those dom are now within crystal just treaties, we may be sure London and Moscow, This reeds French Ambass

who have the best title to them, range of one of the broadcast 60 per cent. ind, we suppose, to make the pro punishment fit, the crime for all have

of more than one. posed obstructionists and Hooligans of The

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it is not likely to put up with emendation. It looks as if the ex Herr Str another "sort" of "imperialism" settlement will, still be miles Ailled invitation,

vende conference on a tha that hails from Moscow. In this

away, but Instead of ndon and Security Fact light the message to the Colony from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs that is Mr. Amerte amended title becom

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