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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
INSOMNIA.
to
The peace-of
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A paper refera
'Politicians'. brains." PRAYA RECLAMA- Wanchal Such a thing never on- tered into their heads, ..
There's a fine esprit de corps about some people in Canton,
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And yet this very natural shrink- ing from all that, is common and va unclear in a socially innocent someo must be ruthlessly, purged from our hearts, if we are to be able truth- fully to call ourselves Christians--to carry the sign-manual upon us of having passed from death unto life. In His humanity, Christ kept Him- self-for ever in tune with the loveli- news of the material world, Bad continually sought the companion-
■ ship of the purest and most beauti- ful mong human souls, But He never finched from the dust' and, grime and defamation that were the People would be more interested lot of so many of thong He had in Prison reform if they got time." come to suve: every day of His carthly life He was fouching pitch, plunging hands into all sorts of human lefilement, if only He might win back the least among the loab.
And much moro Hia example binde is in this very modern and highly specialised form of temptation There has been no breakdown in towards lovitim social aloofness Luton's gas supply for 90 years. from those who are truly our Those public meetings convinced us brethren in Faith but irk us un-
we can hold our own conscionably by their gaucheries, their little insensibilities, their want of an-voir-faire. Many an earnest
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Canton Strike picyhates.
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Some motorista' ure motorikika.
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Three bagpipes were spoilt boyound
Christian to-day-among the minis-repair by a rat which was found in a music store in Glasgow. After
TION.
broken; The bum-
drum old place is astir; Instead of the song of the cricket,
The clangour of things that do
whirr.
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The ring of the plek and the
ahovel;
The shouting and hoarse cries
of men
Have rudely invaded the hillside, And echo far down in the glen.
A tearing! a rushing! and grind-
ing
of fint-rock, and gravel, and
stone;
From morning till evening the
workers
Work on with a rumbie and
drone.
try as well as the laity is griOrous this who shall spook unkindly of Make way for the mixers and
ly failing his Master simply because rats? he is too fine gentlemon to tread the same miry road.
CHINA SEA HERO.
RELINQUISHES IMPORTANT
COMMAND.
"HONG MOH" EPIC,
Capt. E. R. G. R. Evans, whose Antarctic and China Sea exploits are recalled by the unveiling of the Scott Memorial at Devonport. has relinquished command
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Am has been ined for throw- ing his boots at a policeman. That was his sole offence.
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A min who lost his false teeth) while bathing, found them washed up on the bench four hours later. In the teeth of a gale probably.
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builders!
For thundering trucks with
their loads,
progress-
Make way for the heralds of
The sea is to give us new
roads!
Hongkong seem. CATCHWORDS. ingly.. has 110 such things. The Films are to be issued showing words concerning the things that to go American stars in private life. The song once urged us ail Cathedral Chaplain will be sorry brief and half-hearted sway, and down the Strand for, held but to hear of this.
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Taly Margaret Sackville Mays
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we lapsed into blessed somnolence. In London-from whence most of word these things come the last catch- Was said to be "Always Merry and Eright," Associated with the late doleful Lester. The first
was a slur on the earliest volun- teers. Then came "What a shocking bad hat" and "Does your mother know you're out."
"Not
rice round the player's body, Marie Lloyd claimed the deflant The Sonsyphone, which cirely for Joo" was the cheery negative of a London busman. Miss
This seems
of the Patrol, Minesweeping, and there are 6ilty vurielies of her.
A Pullum comcilkir says Fishery Protection Flotilla which he has held since July, 1923. Prior to that, he commanded the light cruiser "Carlisle" in China.
On March 3, 1921 the steamer hut the thing that happens is of one was said to be "There he goes "Hong Moh," of Singapore,
more importance than the person with his arm in a sling," alter- struck some rocks off Swatow, whom it happens. Unfortunate natively "with his eye out." That and broke in two. The "Carlisley we cannot get the opinion of the went to her assistance. Captain who was assassinated the der Evans with great heroism. swam day in Canton. to the "Hong Moh" and helped the people on board to reach the boats of the "Carlisle," which carried out the work of rescue weighs 18h, and has 20ft, of brake with great difficulty owing to the tubing in it. This is only another "Let 'em all come." Whether the very heavy sea which was run-inducement te some ftonghong phrase suggested the song, or the ning. Altogether the "Carlisle" people to blow their own trumpet. song suggested the phrase, de- rescued 221 persons.
poneth sayeth not, but serio-comic Captain Evans was second in command to
singers quarrelled in the hospit- Captain Scott in his ill-fated but A VARIATION. variation of the who originated "There's air."
able columns of The Era as to. glorious expedition to the South
Mrs. Asquith "Git your hair cut" was the in- Pole. In April 1917, he was in story. You remember that a junction of the gallery buys at with the "Swift attacked six was said he had introduced haired official of the house whose command of the "Broke," which novelist wrote a book in which it the Royal music hall to a long oil- German destroyers in the Straits Margot. Meeting the lady at a duly it was to change the pros- of Dover and sank two of them. reception one day he nervously cenium numbers. The modern assured her such was not the "Not 'arf" and "It's a rumour" case. "And have you written
# were. book!" was the icy comment. "Beaver"
colloquialisms. Here is the variation.
so much a It is on eatchword as it was an "epitaph" record that when the American hurled at presumably respectable Winston Churchill first began to gentlemen with adornments of write nuvels, he received an in- fungoid or dignant protest from the British Whenever it rears its silly name "natshed" growth. Winston Churchill about the un- in our own Theatre Royal, there warranted use of the latter's is always someone ready with a name. American Winston Chur- guffaw or an apology for a enig- chill replled:-
ger. Perhaps Hongkong has had Dear Sir,
its own peculiar catchwords. The How interesting! Is there old Police Reserve. had one-a really another Winston Chur- descriptive-attached to it. chill?
If 'the "oldest inhabitant" knows of any perhaps he will kindly drop a line to Shreds and Patches.
TOKIO BLAZE.
[upon her and it is tolerably clear who has or have thrown down the gauntlet.
Is there a way out-a middle way, roomy enough for a Middleman? Have we spoilt matters by antagonistic resolu- tions against servants, schoolboys and-Bolsheviks? Have these been misunderstood-and magni- fied True we said we sought the deliverance of the Cantonese from the Bolsheviks, but we said it in the atmosphere of Hong- kony. Canton's already poisoned atmosphere has not been con- sidered and wrong impressions have been added to, when perhaps a little increased patience. might have worked untold wonders. The suggestion. that became broadcast
Tokyo, Sept. 18, that direct action and interven-ings but is now checked.
The fire has spread to other build- tion were being seriously suggest- ed found no favour with many local Chinese: But the suggestion of what we have chosen to call the
FIRE SPREADS BUT NOW CHECKED.
BIET BUILDINGS CUTTER. (Reuter's Service,)
MARLIER CABLES.
Fire brak out in the Upper Flouse ist 1,50 p.m. to-day.
Tower
Houses of the Diet are fiercely
Both the Upper and Lansdowne stage, does. If a burning.
Yours truly,
Winston Churchill.
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BESIDE THE SEA.
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settlement is to be had by allow-House and spread very rapilly, fan- The fire broke out in the Upper ing certain people to save their ned by a strong wind. It seems that face, who is to say that such a there is no chance of saving the
Waves of butterflies seem to rise yellow and black birds. Little boys Have we got to the Lansdowne settlement, should not be made building Many other buildings in from the sands and to poor trema ay doing this as a pastime. Elder- stage? During the course of the consistent with the maintenance Time, and the Koksia le fonsly over the sandhills. It is im- men are doing it with more in- cluding the offices of the Japanese war, Lord Lansdowne wrote, of true principles? There is no Agency are threatened.
tensity as a pursuit. They let out powills to tell where they come the cord gingerly from the reel, and, urging that a gesture of peace sentiment in this business. This The Diet buildings have been com- from. They might be born of the if the kite does not so heaven- should be made by the allies. If is clearly shown by the reports of pletely gutted but the fire is not sand, or the sea, or the sun for all ward, they tug against it and re- memory serves, he wrote twice. the efforts of foreign business
spreading at present. His plea was ignored. Literally houses in Canton-other than
the eye can tell. Never before have one remains a moralist and notes store it to grace. Even on a holiday I seen white butterflies
in that neither kite nor man can rise he was howled down. Has the British seeking permission of
such numbers. They dow inwards high save by opposition. The little time come for an almost similar the Strike. Committee to re-l
like a tide. They stugger over, the boy's kite that is left to its own plea with regard to Hongkong and establish business - connections
bills like armed men. I do not devices on a loose string dives to Canton? We have rid ourselves and if necessary, to open offees in
know how long this goes on, for, the ground. It is the kite of ton minus after I have begun to strong man, engaged with him in a of our pent-up feelings. Some of the City. Shanghai business
notice it, lunch is ready at the hotel, papetual tug-of-war, that lungs in and I have not the courage to be the air half-way to the sun, an late for lunch. The sandhills, how afternoon's miruelo. The kite-flyer,
A THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY.
SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
SOUTHAMPTON PASSES. RESOLUTION.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Sept. 13.
us have cheered the militant note men, through their chamber of and others supported the letter-Commerce, have expressed their
A muss meeting of shipyard work-ever, are never free from butter however, in solitary in his pleasures, writer out for decided action sympathy with China's aims.. Iters at Southampton has passa a e Brown, white, and dappled He may have a companion, but his against striking servants, school has not set the Bund on fire, but work on all ships on which there is Usese barren heights and hollows, a fellow-player. Even if he flies his resolution in favour of cessation of red, they wander all day among companion is only a spectator, not boys, and the others responsible it has called for a courteous reply employment of blackleg labour in like creatures of the first world kite in competition with a rival, be for our woes and worries. Quite from the Chinese Chamber, and, place of the original crews either that rose and became dry above the has no need of a rival. He is per a number have consistently taken so to speak, oiled the wheels. The arranged or contemplated. It calls waters. Bees, too, are here, black feetly happy to be alone and lock- the oposite attitude. They see Hongkong Chamber might well on the executives of the respective and red, getting a living among the ing up at the sky and the bird that through a glass, not darkly. And think about this Lansdowne stage, such action as will secure the inter-rest drifts of sand are marked with sight and whose very wings quiver trade unions immediately to sanction flowers of the sea-holly, and the he has sent soaring almost out of they are convinced that peace.
vention of the Trade Union Con- the footprints of birds and rabbits like those of a hovering, hawk. overtures are likely to lead us to
gress general council as soon aand creatures ne small nemico. The more sociable mortule on the a normal haven. They base such
ponable with a view to securing an How grasses find a place in which strand are playing with balls of early and satisfactory settlement of to root themselves, or the yellow one size or another. They are play- an opinion on something more
the seamen's disputo. The chair-howkweed, or the dove's-foot geran- ing tennis without a tennis court, than a superficial knowledge of
did not mean an immediate strike of is a mystery; but there are croquet without a croquet lawn. man explained that the resolution ium, in so vast and parched a acil cricket without a cricket, grond, Inherent Chinese characteristics:
shipyant workers but the next step banks of rest harrow and of heart football without a football field, they base it on sound knowledge of them and that sense of forgive
reated with the executive committees sense and fields of evening prim golf without golf links, rounders In modem Christion life, se all of the shipyard unions who meet on roseen thousand lampe at a time every bull game that you have heard ness and forgetfulness the traits of us know wall, the hardest of Monday dan E RE towards twilight within a stone's of Almost any game with
hord things is not so much to obey of decent manhood. The difficulty Christ's command to love our The chairman of the oversee below on the plage hundreds of The round ball is the symbol of per- Melbourne, Sept. 18... throw of the Down almost any ball is a good game. is in not knowing to whom to enemies that most of us can, in strike committee announces that tents have descended on the wande fection, and mani ie never so care make peace overtures either some degree, sohieve after our own arrangements are being made for like a horde of atriped butterflies, free se when in pursuit of it. He directly, or through the favourite whom we are temperamentally out all Australian porte, numbering five among them like pretty Insante globe of waters, He strikes it, and fashion but to love those with the concentration of all strikers from Men; women and children move masters it as he would maater this character in most Chinese deal of comoond the worthy people who thousand in one campane They went red and green and chife le is playing with me. He can- ings the Middleman: Hong
gun Bydney, Sept. 19. and yellow, and, for male or more not play marbles without repeating kong is at with no-one." A
Fifty-four more atrikers have been they ate all exquisitely bore dolor in lille the pattern of this universa sentenced to a week's imprisonment nothing... The most war certi has been
viberata Robert Lynd, in ''Th for neglecting their duties,
We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren, Pang
teeth on
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