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A REBUFF.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The Shreds man be-

باه

A Sailor: "Sargasso.” AP.W.D. Man: Rust and yor- digris."

A Soldier: "Grass with blood on it.”:

A Lounge Lizard: "Wine and absinthe."

A Broker: A declining stock.

Late in the night.

COMOR crying

THE SEARCH. A wind

calling of the Locarno Conference may well he regarded as indicat ing France's pacific intentions, and if Früner and Germany agres on the details of the proposed arbitration treatles between Ger-

Jeweller: many and her neighbours, practi-CUSSING, lieven it is a Padre IMPRESSIONS OF A "ROBG cal and general agreement may

who

has suggested HONGKONG SUNSET. emerald"

A Lovesick well be in sight. It is sincerely that when a man swears he really Swain: "Blushes and flashing to be hoped that the goodwill does not mean what he says, and eyes." which has animated the delegates consequently there is no punish- in the preliminary discussions la ment for him. It sounds like a an augury of final success in this new theology, but contains a cer- amount of comfort. effort to unravel the tangle of tain

There should be a substitute for European affairs:

"cussing." The Ennglish lan guage is too good to be reduced to the lowest possible level. Has the custom gone of dropping a coin into a box each time a "Rud- The only consolation to be derived from the refusal of the digore"-if so they may be term- Chinese to take part in the judi-ed-passes the portals of the lips? cial enquiry into the shooting at Simple reflections of the possibili- Shanghai on May 30 is the evid-ties of a cuss-less world is con- ent sincerity, or determination of jured up by an extract from s the Peking Government.. They leader in an American paper. know their own mind and their contentions, in all the circum- stances, are reasonable..,: There has been an inexcusable delay; first in deciding on a judicial enquiry, and secondly in appoint- ing members to the judicial board. There may be reasons for the latter: the slowness in matters of modern diplomacy; the absence of Britain's representative at Pek-more ancient and sulphurous. diction peculiar to high motional outbursts we are im- proving, we are improving, dear brethren.

Ing with no one left in charge-in a superior position, adequately to represent the nation. This latter has been the cause of pointed strictures at Home, and no good will be done in blinking facts, and

ment.

It is but a small candle which the Canadian Union of Elec- tricians have lighted by their resolution pledging them against cussing on "contrary jobs." Still, it shines afar into the naughty world. When even 2,000 men pledge them- selves to find substitutes for the

A small candle added to makes

FINDING THE

All about the house As it doesn't in the day And mother saka "Huah ! It's the Big Wind trying To find all the little ones That have run away!"

I've seen the little winds Running in the clever; I've heard them laughing Brightly in the tree! I wonder what they do When the summer's over- Little lost winds

That wanted to be free!

With the shroff, it's a sare return for money.

D.T.'s

our

A sick Londoner committed suicide.because he was receiving his pay without working for it. No dead bodies have been re- moved from the P.W.D. so far.

How many of us study Hong- kong from the innside?

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NORTH COUNTRY.

It

in ignoring the harm done by for brighter illumination. If those facts. The conceding of this sound, scientific Shred-like these points does not for a fact is doubted, it can be tested. moment mean approving the Doubtless the excellent Lane action taken by the Chinese. The Crawfords keep stocks of candles.

There is no glass hatred in outbreak of what we may term But will not our local candle Kowloon. hostilities against the British, lighters be up and doing?. Now was due to the unfortunate fact then Ice House Street, bowls. The P.W.D. is thorough, that a British police officer at players, and those proud fathers leaves no stones unturned. Shanghai felt it necessary to give whose lot it is to hush-a-by baby the order to shoot which resulted in the early hours of the morning, Hongkong's cry to ita Criminal in the deaths of numbers of mosquitoes and cockroaches not-element should be: "Policed to. Chinese.. What has followed withstanding.

meet you." needs no repetition. Mob law, boycott, looting, and striking need. strong arguments to justify them. Nothing has arisen to justify what has taken place in that Germany has already a these respects. An enquiry

Is there any blue half so pare, scope leading down to it is divided trade agreement with the Soviets, has been held and evidence]

taken and recorded. "Most of and deep, and tender as that of the by the estuary of the Lune; and as and although it has proved of the requisite evidence has become age cranesbill, the Geranium you trace the course of a river up When through. the country that les gray little or no use to Germany, an unobtainable or has disappeared." pratense of the botanists? extension of its provisions might On this we must qualify our ad- Bell saw the beautiful, rich-coloured under the gray portion of the quite conceivably be considered by mission of "evident sincerity" on declared we were already in the seen in the distance, and a fortress. blossoms in the tall hedge-rows, she heavens; some fall buildings arq Germany as the lesser of two on the part of the Peking Govern North Country, and must needs upon a height resembling som evils in a choice between it and tial mind that one party, having

It suggests to the imparescend from the phaeton to gather smaller Edinburgh Castle. We some of the wild flowers; and to drive on through the gust day-the crippling undertakings with the made outrageous statements and all around there was such a pro- tall of a shower sometimes over- Allies.. The Treaty of Rapallo accusations, is now willing to let fusion that she stood bewildered be taking us from the south and caus between the Soviets and Germany, matters remain in a state of pas-fore them.. Everywhere about were ing a hurried clamour for water. sivity, so that on proper occasions the white stars of the stitchwart proofs, which have immediately to. the provisiona of which the innuendos and indletments of glimmering among the green of the he set aside as the fun bursts forth Chicherin so grandiloquently pro- the hot days of June and July can mises to extend to matters mili- be trotted out and used as "evid-some of the campion whone here and clean, bright, picturesque town, and The clear red blos-again, and then we drive. into a. goose gruas. ence" of foreign methods. tary in the event of the Locarno action of foreign Governments ragged robin glimmered a bright King's Arms at Lancaster.

The there and the viscid petals of the find ourselves in front of The Conference not concluding favour who have sent judicial represen-crimson as they straggled through "Now Bell," says Titu, sm ably for Germany, was concluded tatives will be awaited with some the thorny branches of the haw-going to ask you a serious ques during the Genoa Conference of interest. A rebuff and an insult thorn. Here, too was the beautiful tion." 1922 at a time when German busi- have been tendered. It is impos-harshell the real bluebell of

Yes, mama, sible to think that in spite of the Scotland" with its slender stem ditifully.

says the girl, ness men believed that economic Peking Government's Note, the and its pellucid colour; and here "Where is the North Country?" and political penetration of enquiry will not be held. It was its higger and coarser relative. Russia was possible. But several should be held, and it must be the great bedge campanula, with its weaat idly by the shores of This was a pretty topic to start German Arms are said to have held,

massive bells of azure, and its Auc- Derwentwater, and watched the burnt their fingers as a result of

calent stalk. There were yellow great white clonds move lazily over it. Whether the 'prospective ad-

masses of snapdragon: and an the mountain peaks. beyond.... abundance of white and pink roser Bell solved the difficulty in a novel vantages for Germany in a THEY SAY THAT-

sweetening the air; and all the fashion. She merely repeated, in a Bolshevised Asia in the event of

thousand wonders of a tuxuriant low and careless voice, some lines such an agreement as Chicherin than a wasp. and that in self- Bell in these wild dowers was ex-songe

I never killed anything larger vegetation.

The delight of" from, the chief favourite of all her" holds forth being accepted would defence.-Dean Inge.

travagant, and when the LentenantWhile sadly I roam, I regret my prove less mythical than the

I agree that most of the money had gathered for her every variety

dear home, trade "advantages" of the spent on what is erroneously called of bne that he could see she chose

Where lads and, young lasses are Treaty of Rapello is extremely education is worse than wasted a few of the blossom and twisted

making the hay Hongkong, Wednesday, October 7, 1925. problematical but the decision of

Mr. Bernard Shaw.

them, with a laugh of pleasure, into the breezy masses of her hair. Germany to risk it must be con-

I do not believe that you can If it was not really the North sidered as a distinct possibility if create a Socialist State out of a Country which Bell so longed to

revolution. Mr. Ramsay Mac-enter, it was on the confines of it,Of the hands of the more moderate Donald.

and already many premonitory. signa of the delegates at Locarno sre

Give a class of children its choice ers visible. These tuli hedge forced by the attitude of a section between hearing about the pithecon- rows, with their profusion of wild flowers, were a wonder: We cross- ed dark-brown streams, the pic turesque banks of which were smothered in every sort of bush and herb and plant. At last, a breath

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EUROPE'S TANGLES.

In his recent remarkable out- burat M. Chicherin, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs

does not seek to hide his chagrin

at the successful outcome of the

negotiations for the holding of a

conference to discuss the Euro-

to impose demands solely with anthropus and going out putting, and eye on the sanctions which may there will be no doubt as to the be enforced in the event of non- compliance. It would be jingois-

vote. Father Ronald Knox.

We must get back to the stage tie to predict an early division of the dignity and beauty of public the world into two camps fighting speech-Mr. Honry Ainley, on a European-Asiatic front if,

The

merry hella ring, and the birde

sweetly sing

And maidens, and meadows are the oak and the ash, and the

pleasant and guy bonny ivy tree They grow so greet in the North

Countree

"But where is it? saya Tita? You are always looking to the North and nevar-getting there. Down in Oxford, you were all anxiety to get up to Wales. Once

of goodwill which has marked the Germany should decide to throw/God, and my whole life: and work both Bell and Tita call out. Oh, know where you mean to stop.

of the morning air brings us in Wiles, you hurried, no on to strange, new scent, that is far more Westmoreland. Now you see in pean Security Pact. It was well

Every man is the instrument of flowers; and at the same moment ing. after the North, and I want to

grateful than Unt of any wreath of Westmoreland, you are still hanke for the maintenance of that spirit

have been directed by the will of there is the peat-smoke at last! Carlisle? Or Edinburgh? earlier conversations at Locarno her lot in with a Bolshevised Aala, God.The ex-Kaiser,

Peat-smoke it is, and presently John o Grons 6? that the publication, of Chicherin's but it is obviously the ruin

The curse of modern civilisation we come upon the cottages which The girl looked rather embar speech was followed by a prompt of Western civilisation that is that everything is measured by are sending abroad the fragrance mased, and so, of course, the and strong denial on the part of Chicherin and his myrmidons the gold standard Mr. Lloyd into the air. They are hidden down lieutenant always on the look

George

iua dell by the side of a small river for such a chance, must needs whip Herr Stresemann that Germany have set before themselves as an

and they are surrounded by low and up his heavy artillery and open fre A farmer's business is to produce thick elder-trees. Bell is driving on Bell's opponent. was seeking an Eastern orienta- ideal, and they are sparing Lion. Although German's chief neither themselves nor their own pig, and if he goes in for budon She will not even stop to look at No, madame, be delegate diasocistes himself country in their efforts to bring thing that he knows nothing about the picturesque litte nook its should you fix down; the

such a state of affairs, to pass.Major Davies, MP

about, bat an outpost, and the promised country to any place! (in the words

fland is nigh, wahesten to have the dream The actual decision as to whether It was impossible for as (Ger- The day, meanwhile, grey and fore son? You are.

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of

the suggestion, that Germany Berku

Male) from the one will throw in her lot with mans) to believe in the divine right showery, but sometimes a sudden 00' practicad.

using the poas

of a Ger

fo bring pressure to bear on the Europe against the forces of of langs when the king proved by burst of sunshine springs down on peranant, your Bolshevism rests, of course, with running away that he did not bo- the far fat landscape, and cansee Indy whosa y French and British delegates by.

Germany bat her attitude may

lieve in it himself.Dr. Moritz it to shine in the distances Bonn pase by many a stately hall and to the largely determined

noble park Bell, with the wild whare restriin of flowers her hair has been adopted it has until we reme

and find

mano-Boish lover by, which