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CHRISTMAS DELICACIES.

How To Be Among The Chinese Elite.

Europeans may chaff each other at this time of the year about alakes with pink spots, but the Chinese, as we recorded last year, take the matter quite seriously. "

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CHRISTMAS

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YESTERDAY'S CELEBRATIONS.

Special Services In The Churches,

In spite of the depressed times Christmas was celebrated in Hongkong. yesterday in traditional manner.

THE STORY OF XMAS..."

England."

One after another those nobles tried and failed but Arthur advanced and pulled it out. *** right easily.

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Tokio, December 25. General Ku Singling Marshal Feng Yu belangs principal supporter cred, to surrender if his life"aud Not because it is the festive snake season, designated as the property were guarumford, he was season but because it is consider.

the captured by Mustal Chang Teo ed desirable to expunge the "cold "Dragon-Phoenix Union," wind of the winter from the snake being described, in a fightin's cavany white fleeing disguised system, local Cantonese are hav. of faney, as the dragon and a fas a codie.

A General Kuo's general staff ing a busy time at present with fowl as the phoenix. Decorated

appropriately, the shops will put surendered to Marshal Chung To Arakes, both great and little:

Let it be stated at once that the snakes, which are still alive. An unconfirmed report states these are not of the rainbow although minus a vital organ, irhat General Kyo was brought into Christmas is not true what is our None prevailed but Arthur.

cages for display. Great care Mukden and executed last night and must be exercised in removing all that this wife was also skot. the bones and those who like it. It is repouted that a section of say that there is no difference in Chang Hanch-liang's troops have the taste of chicken or snake.

The "strike" this year has had externe Hsinminfu,

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variety but are real reptiles from Kwangtung's wilds.

Reference to the Telephone Co.'s Chinese directory-which is not indexed but is divided according to professions and trades will show that the pur-. veying of live snakes as. delicacy is a business which com- mands a respectable turnover, annually and gives employment to hundreds of people in

the Colony, while the hunters, up- country earn enough in the season" to live comfortably for the whole year.

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That which is most prized in a snake is the spleen. In the aver- age snake the spleen, as we corded last year, is worth at least. over $2. The remainder of the live snake fetches something like dollar. A dead snake has no value at all.

It is not every specimen of snake that is marketable, or rather..considered edible. Mainly. there are three kinds, all poison- ous, which make up the famous" Chinese dish of "Three Snake Union." To be in the elite one, nust be able to speak of the money expended during the cold- weather on "Three Snake Spleen." A telephone order will bring the #rake man together with his

Usually the snakes, num bering about fifty, are carried in empty flour sacks, but a more progressive merchant has devised a tub for the snakes from which

wares,

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In view of General Feng's entry,

At the St. John's Cathedral taking *as his text: Mathew 1.23 They Parable of World Problems. yesterday, shall call his name Im- Again on Candlemas, at Easter manuel which is being inter-and Pentecost barons and knights Rev. C. R... Duppuy said:-If their strength upon that sword. preted "God with us," the Right came from far and near to try

hope? The story of Christmas those nobles knew by this sign seems almost too beautiful to be that Arthur was rightful King of possible. Yet if it be not true-England. The old story is a what then is our hope?

We come we know not whence. We depart we know not whither,

FAMOUS NAMES IN UNIQUE. LOCAL EVENT:

Photo by Lee Fong, 7, Wyndham St.

Names well known both in Hongkong and other parts of the world were to the fore on Wednesday when two steamers were launched at local shipyards. On the extreme right of the above photo taken at the Taikoo Dock, Quarry Bay, prior to the despatch of the China Navigation s.s. "Antung"-is Mr. J. Reid, manager of the dockyard. Next to: Mr. Reid is. Commodore A. J. B. Stirling, CB, RN, commanding H.M. Dockyard, Hongkong, and his daughter, Miss Stirling, who performed the christening ceremony in time-honoured fashion.

its effect on the snake tatering Tientsin the Japanese War business, the lack of shipping Office is considering the despatch facilities bringing about a dearth of two battalions thither, of supplies in the local market.

DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENT. Served on the table, the snake

Tokyo, Dec. 24. the spleens have been removed: meat is beyond recognition: Special correspondents at Muk, On a bargain being struck the whitish in colour and torn to den report that Hsinminfu was anake-man inserts his hand into shreds, it looks very much like destroyed by an aerial bombard bag and draws forth a snake by chicken meat and in the mazement.

of, condiments, mushroom and Simultaneously Chang Tso-lin bamboo shoots, appears perfectly launched a counter attack on the whole front and advanced within The two miles of Haizminfu. aerial attack continues.

The Japanese have warned Chang Tso-lin against, destroying Japanese Consulate at Hsinminfu,

S.S." ANTUNG."

Photo by Lec Fong.

The 8.a. Aatung" as she took to the water on Wednesday. (See other pictures on this page).

its tail. By touching it in a man-

innocuous.

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Tokyo, Dee. 24. Official advices from Mukden New York, December 25.

confirm Marshal Chang Tso-lin's The Standard Oil Company of victory, though Japanese military California and the Pacific Oil Com Leireles appear to be divided whe pay have amalgamated, subject to ther the success is temporary or the stockholders conmming the decisive. arrangement. The joint navels total $450,000,000 (gold),

Shanghai, Dec. 24.

So

parable of the world's problem this Christmas Day. Five hün- dred years and more before Christ- was born at Bethelehem it was pro- phesied "a virgin" (some people think the Hebrew word for virgin really means a woman) shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his hame Immanuel, which being interpret-- ed is "God with us."

Centuries passed and one and Fanother great man appeared but none could answer to that name Immanuel, it was too big for them, And then on a chilly winter night, in a cave in the obscure village of Bethlehem, among the beasts One was born to whom men said this name by right belonged,

Centuries have rolled on since. then but in all the world no one has arisen who can contest that name with Him.

The Mightiest Factor. Follow His course through the yists of two thousand years and you must aee that the Man of Nazareth has been the mightiest factor in the world's history. He has been this but 'He has been. more than this.

The records of human history. About us lies the universe with include Him but they cannot con- its immeasurable forces. Above tain Him. If you think of Him us, we cannot but feel, is some only as the Tairest flower of his- supreme intelligent power which tory you lose the significance of ever hides itself, so that when His Person..

man asks the why and the where In Christ there was the coming fore there comes no answer but of the World's Master, and apart the echo of his own cry. Such is from Christ Huxley's words are man's position-man's pathetic, true "the highest altar man can position-if the Christmas mes- sage is not, true.

The Steel Anvil. - Long years ago, so the story goes, men were doubtful as to who was rightful King of England. Utherpendragon, the King, was dead. He had left no heir men thought, for his only son Arthur had been smuggled away by Merlin and had grown up in obscurity. So the Archbishop of Canterbury summoned all the knights and barons to assemble on Christmas Eve. in London and on Christmas Day's service was held in London's greatest church. The service over all assembled in the

S.S. "SIANG WO."

Photo by Lee Fang.

The "Slang Wo" on entering

A wireless message from Tien-churchyard. There in the centre the water last Wednesday (Bee,

other pictures on this page) tain states that General Li Ching-was a stone and on the stone a lin's defence has completely steel anvil and in the anvil a sword The names of Ratham & Watt, broken down. His forces have was stuck and on it were written

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the same is rightwise King born of

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Ltd., and the Enterprise Navigation fled to the Chinese city, where the words, "who pulleth this raise is an altar to an unknown ner which resembles a tickle in Company, Ltd., have been stick there has been considerable loot sword out of this stone and anvil God." the ribs, the vendor can hold the of the Register. snake with one hand and, simuk. taneously keep its tail down with his foot. Struggle if it will, the snake cannot move its head back and an expert passing of the hand down the body at once reveals the position of the spleen. A prod with a small, but very sharp, ·| knife and out, the spleen squirts into a plate. As each snake is approved of by the customer, 50 its spleen is removed.

When an equal number has been dealt with from each bag, the sale has been completed. Those that are minus their spleens are put in the tub, for disposal wholesale, to the smaller class of restaurants, which cater ...for snake delicacies.

Each spleen is at once cleaned and a greenish, slimy liquid ex- tracted from it is poured into a receptacle, stirred up and then? emptied into a jar of special brew samshu "All that is wanted in the greenish liquid and when wafgine it is of munt to be more costly than opium, about half the price of 100 fine gold-leaf, or about 15 times as valuable

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The birth of Christ is the turn- ing point in human history, yet we do not know, perhaps we can never know, the precise date of His Nativity His coming was unmarked by clocks and calen-, dars. The course of human things went ou as usual: each man was taken up with his own little project, the inn filled and emptied, travellers came and went. Yet this unobserved. nativity has become a season as unchallengeable as the tides: the turning point in time.

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