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tion to broadcast them. People at Home should be as expert in Chinese affairs as we should be in Hongkong There has probably been more ignorance in Hongkong of the situation in China than

would help it to some to the per-

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925.

plexing Chinese question fully pre SHREDS AND PATCHES

pared to do it justice........The mattter is one for the local branch of the Chine Association

EUROPE'S NEW CHAPTER.

Sinclair Lewis Turn round sooner! HEALTH SONUS who invented the Or later:

Preposterow. And those who GIVE ADVICE Health Sexbatle, who went about Often need it singing health aloguns may be in MOST

Those who GIVE HELP day as the one on which wasly in practice, not in the Those who GIVE SYMPATHY

It was fitting that such a great berested to know that his iden is

rrave NEEDED IT once; signed a Treaty transforming the W, the home of slogans, Ulve MUCH; but those who give whole European situation should but in the County of Durham CUNFIDENCE give MORE.. have been made the occasion of England.

LOVE la the GREATEST GIFT

honouring a statesman whose In the Welfare Journal'a Ohild- Of all-it should *k nnd patience have contri-ren's Perver there ¿TO some Neither beg, borrow, nor steal- buted to no small measure to a examples which equal any of the It should be mutual- successful outcome of the negotia-joyous inventions in Arrowsmith." tiona. Mr. Austen Chamberlain's for instance:

A fubr exchange.

Little Mies Dracketi

Sat on a crackit,

Rating her salad so green.

A great Meusle spied har, And sidled beside her.

But SOME give LOVE And expect it BACK; Sometimes they GET IT Sooner then they expected. GIVE MONEY and say GOOD-BYE; give FLATTERY- And the returns are QUICK.

But the sulad i biffed him And if you GIVE YOURSELF

| Away--TAKE HEED 1

alt clean.

Garages some are all Some are kept open

Some of these are to be recited at. forthcoming school concert; the mense has a special part and GARAGES. right, vellow calico tunic, with fiery red, spota ofit!

by night,

Others are hardly worth while, These are kept open by guile. Your car may go in but it mustn't"

come out,

All the same here is an ides in all this. Perhaps the Head of the Sanitury Bout and the Director of Education with think it over,

reception when he returned to London from Locarno provided signal instance of the national gratitude felt to the Foreign Secretary-A.C.. as he is fami- Harly known for his triumph over difficulties and discourage- ment. In his own words, the treaties "threaten no one, are directed against no nation, secure the safety of many and ought to be welcomed by all." The most hopeful sign of the new spirit which is beginning to brood over Europe is the fact that the trans- formation was made possible by ] Deur, dens the act of Germany herself who indicated the way by which France and her eastern allie might obtain the guarantees they considered necessary for the creation of a spirit of security. General Von Hindenburg har thus falsified the predictions of those prophets who saw in his "THE FACT WHAT THEY election to the presidency an errIs of sabre rattling and displaying of the mailed Ast, for this gesture of Germany is entitled to be termed a generous one when is considered that Alsace and Lorraine are definitely renounced, abo whatever else the Peace Treaties gave to France and Belgium. In return, the other parties to the Treaty agree to an interpretation acceptable to Ger- many of the clause which had proved one of the greatest difficul- ties to her entry into the League

GIVE

A FEW people GET

WANT,

But MOST people

What they want--MOST. I MEAN. Those who GIVE PRAISE Generally GIVE to GET: Those who "pat! YOUR BACK"]

Mechanics and craftsmen will

knock is about Adjusting it here and adjusting

it there,

And though you are perfectly

ready to swear

The car was Al at the time of its

entry.

You're as wax in the hands of

these plausible gentry, They "have the pleasure" and they have your measure You may garage in haste and re- pent at your leisure..

R. W.

JAPANESE FLOWERS AND FETE.

The flower of the early summer bridge responsible for the fofe.

The Japanese take aThe bridge and the shore were

of Nations. This was concerned is the iris,

with the Article under which the large area of a public park and plant moving forest, with each lead a Powers agree to allow passage

Over these they person. Once in this jungle there

across their territory of the pools with iris.

troops of any other member of pisadi Le houses with broad was no leaving it, fee hundreds,. the League when these troops are balconies that bang within reach of nay, thousands, of policemen had on their way to attack a common the voluptuous beauties. They rise been provided by the municipality

foe who has violated the coven-

ant. The contention of Germany a mound in the centre of the pond to persuade the mass to keep mov- had been that as she is disarmed and breildin small pavilion thereoning according to a regular pro amongst armed neighbours she

has not a status of equality with hey curve wiry bridges across the gramme. And there were babies in the other Powers. The document arm of the irregular pool, they make that struggling crowd whose mothers which has now emerged' commits footpath through the enpurpled had not feared to bring them on all parties to peaceful settlementarch, so that you caur see with their backs, and they were an sufe of all possible disputes concerning

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the Eastern frontier of France or ease the gorgeous tapestry of dark us if in their own homes, for the of rupture in the relations be-paples, of all shades of blue, of pale baby in Jupat is each a King-or tween France and Germany, and violet and of-velvėty white. And at kust & Crown Prince, "e Belgium and Germany. There

We might have embarked on way

are also treaties of arbitration in one corner of the garden you between Germany and Poland and find a potter ensconced, fashioning Germany and Czecho-Slovakia

of the countless waft that slowly

and treaties of mutual guarantee cups and bowie and vases, on which moved along the river in a crush that threatened any moment to re between France and Poland and you may yourself paint your France and Germany's argument is thus met be will put it in his kiln and sent forth bursts of song and laugh- Czecho-Slovakia. favourite flower or write your game dure them to derelicts. Each bou! in this respect and guarantee

given against quch a contingency in a few minutes hand it to you--ter and snatches of sumisen music, as she had feared, of Germany souvent of the iris season and streaked the river with blazing being prohibited from invading the iris garden. France under any circumstances

ribbons of radiancy from ite.red and white lanterns. Or we might have

And during this

there has been elsewhere. It and France being permitted to season the cars are choked with guy hired a room in any of the famous

invade Germany whenever she people going ris viewing.' could claim that her ally, Poland,

should be the principal work of the local committee to publish, from was in danger. What is more,might be called the emblem of the with squatting figures so close that Next comes the lotns, which restaurate along the shore, filled dime to time, information which with her admission to the League, comes to its notice. One thing to labourer with her former enemies

Germany will become a fellow religion of the Orient.

their knees and elbows touched, It was four o'clock in the mern-and thiore viewed a scene as bright

be aimed at is the distribution in the work of removing dangersing one day in late July that we and spirited as anyone could wish.

to peace. It would really seem stood on a bridge spanning the most But we did not. We were is

of consular reporter where such

ARMED ROBBERY.

TWO CHINESE UNDER ARREST.

are available and of sufficient at last that the haunting menace value. In the early days of the other across the Rhine is in a fair eno Park. We were there at this beings, no agitated as it was kept of an advance one way or the famous Jotne pond in Tokyo-in part of that great sea of human trouble, Home papery of the more way to be dissolved and that a serious type, attempted seriously newer and brighter page has been to understand the situation and to opened in the history of Europe. throw light on the dark places thereof. Correspondents-those especially who had knowledge of China and the Chinese-perform- ed valuable service in contributing Hongkong, Wednesday, Dec" 2. 1925. facts from their own experience. More often than not there were re ferences to, and quotations from, Consular reports. Those given to used suggest that certain labour con- the 'ditions in China were part of a the British policy, were readily re-

futed. There is one particular Blue Book under the title of "Papers respecting Labour Condi tions in China," from which no less an authority than Mr. J. O Blund suggests it is possible to understand "Why Chinese mer

casty hour only that we might beer moving, directed by the lanterns the great blossoms open They bearing the double red stripes of burst forth in all their loveliness the police, now quist as it gazed with a gentle popping sound that upward toward the blazing sky and nd brought to the bridge a few of finding its voice in a prolonged Ali the most asthetic of the Japanese Ab¬A—A-as the ball of light mes. A pastime not for the rabble burst into a fountain of dancing is this listening to lotus opening, staus. And surely the art of pyro An armed robbery committed but it is for the cultured few whose technics could produce nothing more during the early part of the strike tastes have been cultivated to a spectacular than theas, which blazed was reculled at the Kowloon needle point of refinement. To the for an instant against the black sky. Magistracy yesterday when a Chinese was charged with being Occidental, the fascination of this A sharp detonation, a build fire concerned in the affair.

lotus opening is for the eye rather sprang into the sky and a dragon Outlining the case, Detective-thuar for the ear, as this flower of daehod across the heavens, or the and jewellery amounting to $187 surpassing loveliness slowly opens Bags of the nations unfurled in the Inspector Pincott said that money were stolen by a gang of men like a living hand, who entered No. 125,.Kwai Lam

sky, or a pescock spread his tail in

-A GREAT NEED,

The chief argument against Hongkong rejoining China Association was that China Association had done no- thing for Hongkong, The cor- rectness of the argument was disputed and it was pointed out that while Hongkong had done no thing for the China Association, the Association had not been idle

Street, on July 10 The day after hen comes the great summer fiery splendour, or a great crimson the robbery defendant gave a fête on the Sumida River in Tokyo. fish of paper released in a shower watch to a man who is in custody | on a charge of receiving stolen

If the weather is fine to-night of sparks leaped down into the boate property with the intention of there will be something worth see below. in giving publicity to the facts of chants are trustworthy and Chin- returned to the defendant, who the Sumida River," said my part the discomfort of the evening be pawning it. The pawn ticket was ing near the Ryogoku Bridge on The next day we quite forgot the China situation and valuable ese officials corrupt." It would do was also arrested on Novembercular Japanese friend, the first day of the prints which the old Japanese fore and went forth to buy copies information on such things as the many-including Chinese-a con- 16 on information laid by the treaty rights already in exist siderable amount of good to have

other man, MADRE

of the fourth woek in July. It is masters had made in commemoration ence. Hongkong fa now a member such knowledge knowledge based

The case was adjourned. of the parent body, and although on undeniable facts and as Con- the fact may not be patent, the sular reports doubtless give both future should show the wisdom of sides of a case, and are not one- the step taken to link up with the aided documentar we might expect fra roma igandelivered aller

At eight o'clock, that evening we often have taken parts parent body. The Association is to read of the better side of official jo-day

found ourselves breasting a

and I both used the Bubjects for their admirably served by its com effort In other words, the public Good Ived per a city of humanity that mittees in various parts of China. should get a bird's-eye view of the December all be subject to rest.

Durnate Himatning 1.2 foredriks on the bridge, { It is fed with facts and is in a post-Chinese Kituation, a view which | asota-Tao Eunit Line Ladi

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES,

to pat goat

of Tokyo, and it celebrates the open. ing of a bridge across the river over

the Kawabiraki, or Summer Festival of the event. Hiroshige has left a number of prints showing the fête as it was celebrated in Irig time; Utamaro, given to gaiety himself, painted the scene in which he invert

a century and a half ago.

the

|

Indeed, even

one and is nigne scene

wooden nabigts-Edith de Garia, in Jap