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Fire Problems

Hongkong does not stand alone

5,

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 192

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

January, 1928, written by a travelling Persian CALENDAR. 4 Mon, Sir Isane official, or someone duly charged Pitman born, with his sentiments, said: "I took 1819.

on my way to India. Consider- a meal here in the year 311 A.D.,

ing the work involved in paying tributes in those days, that must have been really a very good meal.

Tues, First National Schools opened, 1817..

6, Wed, Joan of Arc born, 1410 7 Thurs. British lose Calais,

1412,

8, Fri... Alfred Russel Wallace

born, 1823.

...

Bruce Barton in his WELL, WHO review of the Bible.

9, Sat. Cape Colony captured, DID?

1808.

in Collier's apanks of a lady who in

In the prominence given to fire10, Sun. Penny Postage estab-conversation with a bishop ad-

problems Bangkok, according to

mitted that there were some One of the nine beautiful lines in the Bible and century quoted the French prover "God SCIENTIST. British natural tempers the wind to the shorn scientists who lamb," as one of them. Before,

lishad, 1840.

a contemporary to hand this week,

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Hongkong. Friday, January 9, 1926..

CHINA AND THE LOCARNO SPIRIT,

the fire brigades in that city:

*

where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise ? And when you've answered that, you might do well to recall that Shakespeare didn't write

In the lexicon of youth, which

fate reserves

For a bright manhood, there

is no such word

As “fall”

Under the present system, it says, has hardly got his due is Alfred you stop chuckling who wrote: "a good deal of totally unneces-Russel Wallace, whose ninety sary damage is done, much water years of life was packed full of wasted). while work, often work in all sorts of spheres thoroughly good work, is also Even in his old age it was new wasted through being, wrongly things that attracted him. greatest help to China in this dark applied. That sentence reads

almost like a paraphrase of what He formulated the "survival of hour, and if only the Locarno has been written since New Year's the fittest theory and of natural spirit could be brought to induce Day regarding the Hongkong selection as a whole, working the Chinese to accept our help to Hotel fire, although, of course, the quite independently of Darwin,

Of course, you know who did? the fullest extent, the troubles of causes for complaint are entirely but along the same lines. Such both nations in this part of the different. It is, however, gratify coincidence of discovery "is

The other day, in ing to find that some things are unique. Many people think that- world would be over China is done, better here than in the Wallace was rather unfairly over SAY IT WITH these columns, the

FLOWERS. struggling through, we hope and Siamese capital that is, the shadowed.

Shreds man was able to give an belieye, to a new era where peace drawing of a cordon round the

Wallace was a keen politician, example of poetic flow an applied and prosperity instead of war and scene to prevent the crowd inter-

fering with the work of the fire and kept near the centre of all to the writing of financial and pillage will be the watchwords fighters. Apparently this simple, progressive movements..

commercial notes. Previously he The way is rough, but if China yet necessary, precaution is not in his old age, he arrounced his gave soulful outpourings from a Nurseryman's catalogue. Here would only consent to accept our followed in Bangkok, the natural belief in Spiritualism, it was look-

are further samples-gems of friendly ald by meeting us half result being confusion worse con- ed on as a great triumph by the poetic beauty on the part of a

founded. However, in voicing a Spiritualists. But it was charac- Chicago Rorist way in settling the matters the plea for the cordon the "Bangkok teristic of Wallace to be among are at present estranging the two Daily Mail" suggests that official the challengers. peoples-especially as between badges should be issued to public officials and the Press to enable Hongkong, and Canton if she them to perform their respective CERTAINLY good host and an The meeting of a would only join hands with us in duties without undue and unneces-

eloquently respon- the spirit of the Locarno treaty, sary interference, This sugges-sive guest in ancient Persia la that happy future to which both tion might be followed with recorded laconically, but with

in patent sincerity, on an incised: [advantage at future fires nations are looking forward would Hongkong. Our contemporary aays marble tablet recently described be hastened as it can be hastened that the fire-fighting appliances in a lecture in London by the by no other means.

and forces of Bangkok are vastly eminent Babylonian authority, *** superior to those of a few years Prof. Ernst Herzfeld. The tablet,

N

P

:

IN THE COLD..

اذا

¡Cumorna,

Camoens.

When,

A GLIMPSE OF PARADISE The windows of the Master Florist now ablossom with the beauty of the earth, give each day to the passer-by a little liint of heaven.

SUMMER PARADISE Bathe now in their beauty. Bask in their brightness, for in

a few short weeks they go, and with them goes some of life's aunshine.

-

The Master Florist,

ago; but adds that " new and up-to-date system for their practi-

fect down firily on "The Lusias cal use is certainly badly wanted,

as on a solid. deck. Suddenly wel especially in a place where the use of extremely inflammable material

emerge from among the floating débris of legend and are in open How can they know, Hongkong for house construction is still Scarcely does one open a paper who only Hongkong know! Hun permitted and where, on that

water. In disgrace with the King, from England or America these dreds can speak of the roads account, the saving of time is the Persistent industry, of "research probably about one too impertinent ramatic petulance, Camoens. Ray days but one sees the words "The round the island: the ride in the greatest of all factors in the com- has not enabled Pertiguese scholar- New Territories; a lesser few of bating of fres." The Hongkong ship to 5x the exact date of the

exited to Africa in 1847, Locarno Spirit." used as a head-the sight from Lion Rock or Tai Hotel fire apart, there is much in birth of Prtugal's greatest national

Camoens now launched out into ing, not for the famous treaty,Mo Shan, and the walks that are Bangkok's position applicable to author, but there seems litle doubt;

such

activity in strange. but for some industrial problem or to be had for the asking: but few this Colony; and the sooner both but the var was 1624.

places as hardly any other poet has can speak of a phase of life in the public and the fire insurance No weiter has been, it appears,†

ever conceived possible. The other dispute. Everywhere in the Hongkong which appeals more companies insist on betterment the victim of more fairy-tales thun dreamers have enormously out- Homeland and in the United vividly when the cold wind finds the greater will be the relief from

numbered the doers among the The spirit of States the Locarno spirit the rents in the garments of those anxiety on the occasion of future the great navigators was in him; herds of the world. Thero hovy

whose wardrobe is of the scan,big fires here.. desire of both sides to reach an

tiest. Take a walk any evening

wanderol in Africa and Asia; he been Byron and Agrippa d' Aubigné and the Duk of Montonivoro agreement on the basis of give-along Queen's Road, Des Voeux

was a soldier und à lover and n

Gabriele d'Annunzion and-take-is making itself mani-Road and the water front and:

sailor on the grand scale. He lived (formerly abre of the heroic age of ad-martine is the eminent political He was still a youth when exception. In our own circle, the King Mael 7. asumed the title Post Laurente, greatly during, Lord of the Conquest, Navigation led away to Ann Arbor in unul Commerce of India, Ethiopia, Coens there was no bed of down.

his eightieth year. ·

A For Arabia, and Persin. Camoens be, longed to that epoch of empire; he Scarcely arrived at Goa, he started did not merely sim it up in on a punitive expedition to the immortal verse, but he fought and coast of Malabar presently he mufered in the pulse and flood of belped to scour the Ited Ses of 1 pimice then he hunted Turkiał It seems strange that we know merchant vesels in the Persian A message from Mukden states little that in positive about the Gulf, he visited Malacca, he ex- No wonder The British and the Chinese have been touched, and Whethut Marshal Chung Tso-lin is pre-career of a writer so famous and so plored the Moluccas peoples have so much in common make pilgrimages into the night paring to resign,

roprésentative aa Camoena.

Bir that Mr. Aubrey Bell, though no rigidly divesting himself of all The Japanese Foreign Office has Richard Fanshawe, who was -indeed no two races could haveteresting to learn that there is anot yet learned officially, but its mean writer of verse, put into the credulous enthusiasm, cannot help. more in common save only the Chinese society which collects spokesman thinks the report is poet's mouth this mammary':-/

exclaiming It a really extra-

works embrace the whole of ordinary that just as Camoens

count the bundles of humanity WILL CHANG RESIGN? which seek shelter in doorways and under verandahs. Notice the

PROBABLE SACORBSOR.

fest. in the affairs of men and nations. Reading these things, the thoughtful Hongkong person, ages of the "bundles"-mere boys OPPOSED TO HIS LEADERS' beset with troubles on every hand, to old men; and notice also the

ADVICE. is inclined to ask if the Locarno cunning ways that have been. apirit could not be brought to adopted to keep out searching winds. How many these: "bun- work its magic in this part of the dles" total, is not known: they world as well, Could it not, for must rim into hundreds. How instance, be applied to the breach many people give a second's con- that now separates the sister sideration to these men and boys," is, also, not known. But some there cities of Hongkong, and Canton? are whose heart and purse strings

with serviceable gifts,, It is in-

(Reuter's Service.)

Tokyo, January 7.

The spokesman thinks that if the report is true, Civil Governor Wang ung-chang will probably succeed

venture.

.it..

arts,

Lisbon high-pinced love and

courty parts Africa refuge when the Court did

British and the American--that it funds and, as a result, is able to is the tragedy of the age they hand out padded jackets. If the possibly true, as Chang's leaders Spain gave me noble birth; Coimbra American Wilson Foundation is are advising him to retire, though he 'should be so far apart as they are unable to decide on whom to be himself wishes to remain in office.

at present. When we say this we stow its gift for selfless service, speak of course of the beat in the we should like to nominate this, two races. The local tendency to to us, annamed society and its

honorary workers. This society's him judge the Chinese by the nearest existence and those who do good street loafer is as absurd as it by stealth in helping Hongkong's It is also stated that the Japanese

GIVE UP MILITARY RULE!

frown.

Travel experience, with no short

sight

Of India and the world..

The earliest editor of Cumcons"

Portugal's history, he should have visited in person almost without. exception every part of the Portuguese Empire. Meantime, he was incessantly writing verses, no doubt the best that were ever bore posed on the Indian Ocean...

In 1572 he; aceeded in publish would be for the Oriental to judge night birds' is a good augury Government has learned that Wu lyrics roundly doslared that he was ing his Lands, and the fame

It is the beginning of the awaken- the British by the first public ing of the public conscience which Pei-fu recently circularised all born in this our city of Coimbra of spread through Europe. The house lounger he met when land will surely lead to more tangible Chinese Civil and Military The visitor to that ancient and splendid "Aminta of Torquato ing at Tilbury. Undoubtedly and practical efforts. In 1921 Governors secretly. He la urging romantic university, the centre of Tao was printed in the same year, there are grades of Chinese-but there was included in the report movement to support constitu- Portuguese, learning, likes to think a compliments passed between so there are among our own memorandum by a Public Works up military rule.

of the Housing Commission a tontilism and democnicy by giving that the author of The Lusinds the Train and the Portuguese

w the light in one of these poote, the most eminent writers" people. The dishonest domestic, Department official of a proposal. It is understood that the Govern- terraced street which still rises of the day. Cumans does not seem if a trife more naive here, is by for the erection of a Common ment is hopeful that Chins is elegantly, over the curved waters of to have been known in England, no means peculiar to the Far East Lodging House. The accommodating, though it double the re- the Mandago. It is even more when Shakespeare was a child at There is no need to labour the was not to be a free Lodging Felfo e definitely burying the that Western Abheus where it. je puin, where some of hia poerne, were thetion was for 1,000 coolies. It that Chang Tsolo and Wa certain that he was educated in Sicutford, but he was famous in matter further, the points of com- House. A charge of five cents per hatchet. parison, both of the good and the night for each coolie was contem- bad in all walks of life in the two plated. That memorandum lies races, are so many as they are Report safely docketed and filed, addressed a circular telegram to with the Housing Commission's

between the British and the one had a thought for the un- tention of retiring from office on Good Friday, 1644, Campens first Although theLende

In Lisbon, and in a church on temporary. Chinese to-day pa is y

housed coolle. It may not be ad January 15 and handing over the visable for the Government to

highly likely that he attended the published in Castilian, Tuan a Decisions: Slootures of the shining and acid Vega, like Shakespeare, Wes

Peking, January 8.

Scottish oxile, George Buchanan infant, Tuap_Chi-jufat midnight It is believed that in 1543 the Camoeng by rememberi

We

obvious. The chief difference a witness to posterity that some the Provinces aunouncing his young post left Counbra for Inshon, Cervantes, was his younger on

that the

Chinese are passing through a build maintain and manage such #dministration to the Cabinet Caterini de Ataide, who was of the most famous poema

trying phase-just as the Bri

have often done before

institutions. The onus is on that larger class which directly and the abuses inseparable from public indirectly benefits from the There is

become

bours of these men

them n lady-in-waiting to the Queen, literature, it is not really This lady became to him, shot in tha

Bentrior hd been to Dante-

Latins to Petrarch.

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