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Hongkong, Monday, Dec. 28, 9

HONGKONG'S CHRISTM

UNIQUE CEREMONY.

BASMA CLUB PICTURE UNVEILED

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Do we read. The muutal ampend allowed the RUADING QUICKER. faster, „öllun we scholars has been increased from HÓN. SECRETARY HONOURED,

··speak or can | £800 to £400, Mr. Kerr announced (speak? Dard Birkenhead, the to allow for the higher cook of A portrait of the Hon. Secrs-Shreds man believes, is the despair living A building for activation of tary and first life-member-Mr.of some shorthand writers. Hehe trust will be established an T. N. MacReynolds, was unveiled goes on a uniform rate of 260 |Oxford, M.

....

as the Ex-Active-Service Men's to 300 worde a minute. The late "During the past 20 years," "suid- Association Club "premises on Robertson Nicoll said it took many Mr. Kerr, 1960 Rhodes scholars Saturday. Life membership was people a whole day to get through have come to Oxford, 576 from the conferred on Mr. MacReynolds at an ordinary book, and another day dominions nad colonies, 884 fra the last annual general meeting to make up their minds about it. the United States and 59 from In unveiling the picture, Mr. You ought to be able to read every Germany. (The scholarships were T. T. Laurenson, President of the word of an average 30,000-word discontinued during the war), The Club; saidi

Gentlemen-A member of our book in three hours, and write ni conseraus of informed opinion is Association, Mr. Stanley Hill, opinion of it in an hour." Three that this great experiment of mains has very kindly presented to us a into 80,000 gives us more than thing some 200 overseus, scholars fine drawing of your Honorary 20,000 words, whilst 800 words of in residence has been a success Secretary, Mr . N. Maca speaker give us 18,000 words an from the point of view of both the Reynolds, whose work on behalf hour. The Shreds man cousulted individual and of Oxford itself... of this Association has in itself an authority- lady.

She anys

"There have been a few misfits been a monument of excellence most decidedly that people read here and there, but in the great 'which will last as long as the more quickly than they speak. majority of cases, Rhodes scholars name of Easma is known and longLetters to the Editor on the subject have been feed and respected" at after you and I have left this will probably be inserted but what Oxford and have themselves come Hongkong is not Home. Condi- Colony. It is not my desire to is the use of disputing with anto look back upon their sur tions at Home-even to climate-embarrass our genial friend by

there with affectionate and grateful.... do not operate here. It seems to us making a long recital regarding authority !'.

remembrance. The scholarship. that there should be some combin-services rendered for us all in- our very sincere appreciation of

scheme, therefore, has passed out of Bo a recent case, de- ed effort made to show the men of dividually and collectively, to fur-

the experimental stage and it has THE scribed by counsel as "been thought desirable to create in the services that they belong."ther the interests of this Associa-

PERFECT vulgar". boarding-house Oxford a more permanent centre for It may be Tommy here when the tion in the best possible way. Possessed with that unalterable.

LADY. squabble, a lady of un-endtivities," band begins to play. It should Indomitable spirit of 1914 and the

certain temper Was 1301- also be Tommy and Jack here years that followed he is a realous fortunate enough to find herself

There would appear to be when Christmas Day sets in. champion of all of those who were locked in her room. The lady was A Pour a post on the staff of the

one with him in that Great Ad- apparently no relative of

Anglo-Austin Bank, for Everybody's business is, seem-venture, and as a mark of our captain of the Pinafore who never the last monthly review of that in- ingly, nebody's business. A pro- very high esteem I now have very (well, hardly ever) employed a bigitation, in dealing with the excel- posed Union Jack Club has not great pleasure in unveiling this big D: on the contrary, he seems lent harvest in Central Europe this survived the preliminary sugges- picture of our Honorary Secreto have boon more nearly allied to year, starts of as follows:

tary, Mr. T. N. MacReynolds, the the Shavian Galatea. Mr. Justice tion. Here is an opportunity that arst Honorary Life Member of Rowiatt, giving judgment on the should not be neglected. It may this Association. not fulfil a that some idealists will hope, but it should prove an outward sign of welcome and goodwill, and a place of warmth and comfort, as opposed to the austerity of barrack which boat.

should

do

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that

case, regretted that the plaintiff The members present. then joined in toasting Mr. Machild have permitted herself to m Reynolds and singing "For he's adulge in language which a gentle- jolly good fellow,"

man did not as a tulo nee, and a Mr. MacReynolds replied brief-lady never did tee. It was inaleed ly and stressed the need for main-unfortunate the she should have and taining the comradeship of 1914. minimised her damages by enqroach |

Since he had been in office a. large ing on the occasional prerogative. number of ex-Service men had of the other sex. A gentlemen waa been helped and the few cases once defined as one who was never that had been turned down were unintentionally rude A parallel unhelpables. He desired to asso-definition might now be added, and asciate the Committee with all that lady described as one who,

Association had had been done, for in them the capable and energetic body who had its best interests at heart..

much at such seasons- as Christmas to assure "the boys" they are not forgotten and that they are still just as important they were in the days which com- (menced with August, 1914.

Disarmament..

Further toasts and singing brought the ceremony to a close.

SEAMAN'S DEATH.

STRUCK BY FLYING FLOAT

I

The en-

Eprovocative circumstances, WI

more thars common calm.. And never used a single Damn!"

The settlement of the Ropes Rhodes Scholarship Trust SCHOLARS on y permanent basis in

consequence of the satis Theory rásults of its experimental stage in the fet, 30, years has been announed by the new secrdana"y"; Philip Kerr, Formerly secretary to Mr. Boyd George when he was Prime Minister of Englands..

DRUMS ON

thick will cut this year but The valleys have, indeed, stood

their laughing and singing is drowned by the tumultuous Co plications of an artificial age, in which the husbandman does not look

ford to to his own, know his year's sustenanÇƏ, but rubber to the newspaper to tell him of the condition of innumberable fields thousanda of miles away, of states of markets, of export taxes, of credits obtain able, of transport facilities, of in- ternational trade treaties and of all the cumbersome paraphernalia with which life in the 20th contury has estranged itself from direct dependence upon the soil. The writer is also not without bumour, for later on he says:

This year the believers will thank God, and the speculatore will thank their sagacity or their slark Because this year has been the richest harvest produced. for many years., Ice House: 5, should take the hint

THE CONGO.

America is practically certain judging from last week's cuble- grams, to be represented at the next international conference on Mrs. J. H. Oxberry and relatives disarmament, particularly in view beg to tender their best thanks to of President Coolidge's favourable the friends of the late Mr. J. H. study of the question. With Oxberry for their floral contribu-America distinctly opposed to the tions and sympathies on their rush to build. battleships and

SAD "HERMES, INCIDENT. recent bereavement.

create armies, the European Powers, like minded, will be en-

As a result of injuries sustain couraged to make a distinct suc-ed in an accident on board cess of the conference whenever H.M.S. "Hermes," Able Seaman and wherever it is held. It is in- Whitby died at the Naval Hos- teresting to recall that in his mes- pital on. Friday evening. sage to Congress as recently as The accident occurred about-a

The dram, indeed, plays a very | So highly has this means of com December 7, the American Pre- fortnight ago and injuries sus important part in the life of munication been developed it is The visitor to Hongkong-thesident expressed his belief that the tained at the time were not!

sid that certain of the African Central Africa for to the native bes, notably the Yorubae of lonely one, the one who has not eventual result of the Locarno thought to be serious. yet had time to make friend-pact should further the cause of gine of a large observation plane is a gramophones in orchestra, 4 Bouthern Nigeria, can actually talk

more limited armaments... must find the Colony a very dull Europe limits land armaments, when a spare float was affected one. Over a region as large as happens among the white popula- was being tested prior to flight mo, a telegraph, a telephone in their language on the drum und so universal is its us, that nothing place at the Christmas festival which President Coolidge, describ- by the slip stream from the pro-Europe it is us commonly used for tion which is not promptly dissemi- Once more is it proved that the fed as a peculiarly European propeller. The float was whirled

blem, America may more easily into the air and struck the sea- purposes of communication s season is an indoor one, common consider the further reduction and man who at the time was holding Alexander Graham Bell's invention nated among the natives. Time and only to the family circle and close limitation of naval armaments, down the wing of another in the United States On one again, in the course of our journey and immediate friends. Hong-The general policy of America [machine.

Injuries to the spine ocasion, while in a canoe on the down the Congo, we found that the kong, outwardly at any rate, had favours disarmament, said the were sustained.

Congo above Stanley Falls, we habillents of the wood-posts. at President in his Congress mes- The funeral took place on heard, from far in the distance, the had been apprised of our coming

which the steamer plopped for fuel- an unfriendly appearance on the

sage, and he added: "We should Saturday, mourning parties boom boom, boom of a drum, the and knew all about us (this I learn evening of the 25th. It seems not hesitate to adopt any practical from ships in the harbour follow drummer evidently employing, "ed from Amor) that I spent a time that some effort was made plan which might reasonably being the body to the graveside. code resembling our own More: to make such seasons as these the expected to succeed," whilst he The firing party was from H.M.S. My natives promptly ceased their portion of each day tapping out

carefully remarked that America | "Hermes. glad things they are meant to be: "would not care to attend a con- masted their flags.

Naval ships half paddling and listened intently; the strange characters, on prove of that the stranger within our gateference which, because of ite

one of them seized the drum lyingper by means of a mysterious in the bottom of the cance and with clickety-click machine; that Barton ahould be made to feel that there location or its constituency, would

FRENCH FINANCE. is a welcome for him if only inFinally, it is worth noting that

a few quick beats answered the arid a large black box in which in all probability prove futile.”

"he caught and imprisoned the mysterious message that was coming images of people; and that my wife the outward appearance of the President Coolidge reiterated his

GOVERNMENT AGAIN TOTTERING! place. The centre of the town antagonism to any policy of com- wore its wonted usual Sunday ap- this he got to the kernel of the petitive armaments.. In saying pearance-devoid of the warmth whole problem. Adequate mea- of light and the bustle that is itssures for defence are essential, as own during the day. Perhaps it every Briton knows; but it is one is too much to expect our shop. thing to fulfil that requirement

to us out of the unknown,

What are they anying?" asked "Amoni,

bud a shiny magic tube which, when she pressed a button, could turn

women in small communities

telephone.

keepers to blazon the fronts of and quite another thing to com-Cabinet is certainly not having a lambly fishing is ver good so he not home ara fond of gossiping over the

that part of its work should be to

aim at contentment or a warmth

DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS.

"It is one man from all smeight into day. Nothing escapes the notice of your African native, (Reuter's Service.)

village like these people," he ex-

who is as fond of disseminating plained. He long way off on ivial news by means of the drum Paris; December 27,

nother ribber, twenty-thirty mile From a political standpoint the way.

He my please tell him their premises with lights. The pete, for the sheer sake of com

coma home till tto-morrow. petition with other nations, in the happy Christma ́s. According to Government, having presumably needless construction of warships some of this morning's papers the It was precisely as though an The speed and accumey with no soul, does not worry, forgetting and the expansion of armies. Government is foffering on the American business man were to cal which these drum messages are sent,

brink of a financial precipice which up his wife by telephone and tell sometimes over long distances THEY SAY THAT

her not to keep dinner waiting for betonishing. For example, when has already engulfed its predeces him as he was spending the night we arrived at the point on the river Tdecline to have my life ruled for The trouble is apparently. of feeling leading to that desired by Mr. Cook, Sir Robert Horne, due to a divergence over M.

in town

where we were to leave the progue state. Certainly the lighting in the The most common fear in Doumer's proposals, the Left Every Congo village has ita town and follow a tangl through the bush centre of the town has improved normal life is that of going in Cartellists, headed by M. Painleve, drum, usually a great bollowed log to the trading-post, we were within recent years. A scheme of pane Sir. Maurice Craig, objecting particularly to a proposal sometimes three feat in diameter astounded to find the trader wit festiva illumination at this time Locarno was not an end, but a to double the existing tax on busi, and a dozen feet long, set on blocks ing us with a hammock and bearers of the year should be possible, to beginning. Mr. Austen Chamous turnovers. under a thatched but of its own for every member of the party

Le Journal" roundly declares These own drums are used for told us that he had known of our say nothing of the decorated and berlain, M.P.

that M. Brand will resign if the communiquling with neighbouring coming since early morning though Illuminated tram car which makes

In civilised community, everybody has to heif only to majority of the Cabinet turns down, villages, for wording out summons no cance has pred Its appearance at times of royal avoid urkiuda

WB MA Doumer's, proposals when to dunces, feasts, tribal councila the river and there was visits: The Chinese would doubt Maxwell. Idas welcome some outward show of rejoicing at the best glad time

ject to statutes

opulation as

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only a little civilised learn a lot from cap

ope and America. Leon

long

ular verdict, Intrined a very

Christmas Day's Cabinet ma

resurved on Monday.. According to the

the

nents

every

for broadciating news of of communication by

If the climatic condi- bad he learned that ptious, particularly at added to the number of

den hush falls guests?