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seems to be a little suspicion already. between those who should. endeavour to avoid giving it. American desires to separate naval from military disarmament, whilst France. Italy, and Japan

haa "Sayonara"

Alfred Dunhill's luxuri- will not agree to any separation of the two problems, and France (GOOD-BYE. often been said in the PIPES. ous "Pipe Book" arrives. : moat strongly, insists.

foreign communities.

at ↓ most opportuna examination of the potential war of the Far East, and it is not easy moment. Mr. Dunhill's book is.

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cerned. There may be grounds to think of the appropriate part-replete with Illustrations and for pessimism in all this, but we ing souvenir. In West Africa useful information concerning prefer to sea a ray of optimism, they present addresses, a form of the history of smoking and of Far beter that Nations should

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advance objections which, prob-parting gift which has much to re- pipes, Here is a charming sug ably are very reasonable, than commend it. It is inexpensive, it gession for those who make our divorce laws: "Mr. Roscoe, the that they should flatly refuse to gives great pleasure to the giver, anthropologist, relates of the discuss the question of disarma-and it makes the receiver feel like Bonjoro, a people of North-west ment in any circumstances. If sentiment cannot be introduced Royalty in its most exalted Uganda, that it is the duty of a wife to take charge of her hus into the question, then let it be a moments. Here is a copy of an band's pipe, and have it ready for matter of business. In 1924, address which the manager of him when he comes in. If a man onfirm in Nigeria received from his wants to make trouble with his Britain spend £40,000,000 education, and armaments staff when he departed in the wife, and yet can find no legitim £121,000,000. This surely is direction of Piccadilly Circus:-

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her, he puts his pipe where she is made into good business by a

likely to break it. However care- curtailment of the expenditure in It is with the feelings of the ful she may be, the desired a line which does not build up but greatest remorse that we the accident happens at last, when the undersigned constituting the aggrieved husband refuses the entire African Staff under your food she has prepared and goes The Managerial Auspices approach off to sleep in another hut. you through the medium of this wife turns in despair to her address to express our regrets mother for advice, and after a on the news of your Invalida- few days her parents provide her tion and also to place our with some beer, a goat, and a new humble tribute of encomiums pipe, which the husband gracious- on your administrations of the ly accepts, and so peace la Managerial duties.

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Hongkong, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1926..

"SPLENDID ISOLATION."

Flood Victims..

how often does this happen" Rarely indeed. Either we merely follow our usual round of work Heartfelt relief will be felt that and pleasure or simply sit and the phenomenal series of floods in Holland, Belgium, and other parts mope. We make no effort to learn of Europe seem to have spent more of the Chinese side of life themselves. The loss of life has in the Colony, now, it must be fortunately not been on such a added, is any real effort made to great scale as might have been anticipated, Tooking to the sudden- The individual hasness with which. particularly in no defence against not learning Holland, the dykes burst and the language, but he has some

rapidly inundated whole villages. Naturally, however, the material excuse for not acquiring a greater loss has been gigantic. Thousands knowledge of Chinese customs. have been rendered completely Books and lectures are not enough, homeless. Numerous houses have Hoods carrying collapsed the though both could do a great deal. everything of value away with What is required is a common them. Hundreds of workers haye meeting place for the European lost their employment. Without and the Chinese where they can scenes it is quite impossible to actual photographs of the flood mingle and share ideas on a foot- envisage the seriousness of the With B truly regal ing of equality and common disaster. respect. The plan is not.new: it spirit Queen Wilhelmina and the Prince Consors, Queen-Mother has been mooted many times Emma of Holland, and the King. But never before has the outlook and Queen of Belgium have donat. for some such club or institute as fed magnificently to the flood relict funds. The victims of the floods the plan implies been so promising in Holland will doubtless be cheer- as it is to-day. The reasons for led by the gracious message

that are obvious. The need for common meeting place is plain, Then to work!

DISARMAMENT..

world. It is a

Sir,

restored.'

Somebody has

The news of your Invalidn- tion meets us as a thunderbolt and places us in a predicament REPARTEM. written to ask what, likened to that of a man struck

in the Shreds man's on the head behind and quite opinion, is the best repartee ever unprepared.

made. Here are two that ap Your unique qualities of peal for their ripe maturity. One contemplativeness, generosity, is Douglas Jerrold's, who thus sympathy, dispassionateness, transfixed a club bore who had broad-mindness and general been beasting of his magnificent. philantropic turn of mind have acquaintances and remarking on married our affections to yow the absence of fish from the menu and have made us to look, on when he last dined at Devonshire you as a father.

House: "I expect," said Jerrold, Contemplativeness in a manager "they had eaten it all upstairs."-- will sympathize, even though this is a virtue with which humanity man's father seems to have been his father's son. Pass on to the peroration which is very neat

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The other is. older still, and suggests the broadsword rather than the rapier. When Wellington attended a reception at the court It is our fervent prayer that of Louis XVII, he was confront- the Goddess Hyglea may ad-ed with Marshall Soult, who rudely minister to you: from her turned his back on his old oppon-

ent. chalice of Panacea.

The King apologised for the | Marshal's gaucherie. "It is of no The Chalice winds up the pro- consequence," said the Duke. "It

"broadcasted" by Queen Wilhel ceedings on a festive note, as was is only a habit that he acquired in

appropriate.

the Peninsula."

SANITARY BOARD.

WATER USED BY WINE DISTILLERS.

QUESTIONS AT MEETING.

The jokes that people tell about this or that national "an Eng-the

mina praising the heroic rescue work, the unselfish welcome given to the homeless refugees," lishman, Scotsman and Irishman

and the indefatigable toil in stem-H. H. Scott, J. S. McIntosh (H.K. were once" etc.-mostly lack any

ming the foods, Her Majesty, con-and Whampoa Dock); W. Lang basis in fact, witness, for example

eluding by appealing to all to join (Lloyds) W. Russell (Harbour the absurd legend about the

in prayers for the victims and the Office): A. L. Shields, W. A. R. wardens of the dykes. The latter Douglas. Captain Hamilton, Cap- "meanness" of Scotsmen, who

The next step from the Locarno appeal should receive a ready re-tain Williams, A. Forsyth may be frugal but are as generous

aponse in Hongkong; but it may (Measra. Shewan, Tomes); A. as any race in the world. There pact would seem to be a confer perhaps pertinently be enquired Keating (Green Island Cement to discuss disarmament. it something in the way of prac Co.); S. T. Gillingham (Naval is, however, at least one story of ence

The peace of Europe should be atical succour cannot be attempted Yard); Commdr. Pott (H.M.S. Questions as to the source of this kind which appeals to 129

From time to Hawkins"); Commr. Coulthart the water, used by distillers to re- strongly as revealing a national preliminary to the peace of the in this Colony?

far stretch of time the numerous charitable (H.M.S. "Marazion"); Flightduce the alcoholic strength of

workers in our midst "earn merit" Commdr. ¡trait. An English couple are

Moulder-Barratt Chinese wine and the source of time from the occasion on which through their efforta in aid of (H.M.S. "Hermes"); Lieut.. water used in the manufacture of registering at a hotel in Buenos

a Czar of Russia urged dis-Home and local charitable institu- Commar. Harvey, Lieut. Shadwell, Chinese vinegar were asked by Aires. "Foreign?" asks the clerk.

armament, to

the Washington tions. That these efforts are Dr. Milward, Messrs. A. Denison, Dr. W. V. M. Koch at a meeting "Certainly not comes the curt Conference which curtailed the time and again by the sincerity of G. E. Ellams (H.K. and Macso

truly appreciated is evidenced J. Rocca (Far East Oxygen Co.),of the Sanitary Board yesterday.

The Chairman in reply said that reply, "English" This attitude, the naval programmes of a num-the acknowledgment of those in Steamboat Co.), A. W. Rowe in almost all cases the water was which in many ways is only ber of Governments." Since the charge of such organisations. The (Taxicab Co.), T. E. Jones (Lane obtained from shallow wells dug natural, looking to the fact that latter event there have been such sums sent Home are often com- Crawford's), J. F. Ormiston on the premises or from small hillside streams. The water, was we carry out national character happenings as the loss of the M.1 paratively insignificant, but they (Holyoak, Massey & Co.)

are none the less welcomed. A and traditioria with us every- and the appeal to discontinue the public fund for the relief of the

Mr. W. A. R. Douglas, acting never bolled before being used to where, can be found nowhere use of submarines. There have flood sufferers in Holland and as Superintendent for Messrs. dilute the wine, and except for Yuill & Co., of Sydney, Captain casual washing the wine jars stronger than in Hongkong. But also been demands by representa- Belgium may not, perhaps, re- Kennedy in charge of trials for were not subjected to any special ceive that response it really why not? it will be asked. Isn'ttive sections in many countries to

deserves; but it may be that a

H.K. and Whampoa Dock Co. and treatment.

The same conditions applled in Hongkong a British colony? We cut down the expenditure on private effort could be made to Taiping." Mr. J. Matthews, as the manufacture of vinegar, ex-

Captain Hamilton, master of s.8. may be "foreigners" in Shanghai arms and munitions to the mini-enlist the practical sympathies of designes, Mr. J. S. McIntosh, as cept that the water was warmed but we are, so to speak, on our mum. For years, branches of the the Colony in the form of an en-Engineer Draughtsman and Mr.but not boiled. own hearth here, and it is the Peace Society have carried on a tertainment or bazaar. The sug-H. H. Scott, Supt. Eng., attended In the discussion which followed others who are the "reigners "verbal warfare against war and gestion is tendered in the hope in their official capacities.

Dr. Koch said that some control Felicitous. speeches were made should be exercised to see that This, of course, is true in the the piling up of armaments. To ground, but result in even a small

be prepared for war in order to sum, comparatively speaking, at tiffin time when Mr. R. M.water from pure sources only was narrow sense. Hongkong belongs

remitted to the homeless Dyer (Dock Manager) proposed used as there was a danger from to the British people--ceded in avoid it, seems, as a reason, to baithe le victims of the mods. the prosperity of the "Taiping" the use of impure water.

have slipped into desuetude.

perpetuity, we think the phrase reads. Just so again. But Hong-Facts do not bear it out. There kong is not a suburb of London. is now a movement on foot, in England, which, if successful-it The British population here is a

is difficult to believe that it will be mere handful-almost as small,

will put an end to Britain par- we imagine, speaking compara,

An in- ticipating in any war. tively, as the Chinese population fluential Commoner is urging the people of the country to send to that in no circumstances will the Premier a signed declaration they take part in any war.

On

that it will not fall on stony

S.S. TAIPING.”

SUCCESSFUL TRIAL RUNS.

BUILDERS CONGRATULATED.

and her owners. Mr. Douglas re- It was stated that the Board's turned thanks and in turn propos-power was limited to pell water ed the health of the Dock Com-and they had no control over pleny

water from streams,. Mr. Lang, representing Lloyd's. Regarding the new by-laws gov- in a brief speech said that he had erning food preserving establish- had the honour of representing ments, it was stated that when his Society in many parts of the these were passed the Board world, but on arrival in Hongkong would have power to make pro- le in London. Yet how many

he was surprised to find that the vision for a satisfactory water people here know anything at all

Colony had advanced to such a supply. These had been referred". about the better elements among

point in shipbuilding practice. to the Government and it was felt The people at Home should know that the present was not a sult- the Chinese or of the culture that

more about Hongkong, especially able time for imposing any addi- is older than our own?. Few

The s.8. "Taiping," the second considering the poor quality of the tional restriction on trade and enough it is to be feared. In the top of this comes the news of the vessel to be built by the Hongkong vessels which had recently arrived that consideration, would be given possibility of it being deemed in- and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. to from there. The ships were not to them when conditions became first place the most of us make advisable to adhere to the pro- the of Sydney (Australian Hongkong, and both the people at be brought before the Board in the order of Messrs. G. S. Yuill go good as those produced by more normal. The matter was to no effort to learn the language posed dated in February for the Oriental Line), ran her trial runs Home and in Australia would soon February. This accomplishment is to be meeting of the preliminary Com- yesterday ou a measured track at realise that the Colony could The Chairman said that provi- found chiefly among Government mittee on Disarmament at Geneva Lama Channel Proceeding equal; If not better, the shipbuild-sion was made in that connection officials and young children, many In view of the considerable diver. against and with the tide, an ing products of the world. He in respect of dairies, aerated of the former learning only under gence of views among the govern- tained, the highest being 15.8 and builders, however, the need for Medical Officer of Health added average speed of 14.6. was main- would impress upon local ship water factories, etc., and the compulsion and the latter becausements in regard to the scope the lowest 18.8, the contract speed keeping in line with progressive that if the by-laws were passed in tender years one language is as thereof. This, at first sight, may being exceeded in both cases, methods, the demand was for the Board would have control good and as easy as another appear to be a matter for regret. Lieut Cole Coates, Major Smith he wished to see Hongkong main things for human consumption Those present on board were bigger and cheaper vessels, and over the manufacture of various Thug for most the Europeana in But the matter is an immense one (5/2 Punjabia) Mr. Staining her supremacy with except drugs. The Chairman the Colony, the Chinese aspect of and cannot be settled

in Williamson, Mr. RM Johnson equipment and docking facilities; thought that wascoTop life all here nater cönk beyand KHAYA inferaite R038, Geplaashurimavera BULA DE BETONEY TO: few words of pidgin Englian with and faith are not always allled: Captain. R. H. Douglas, Messrs. 28 years ahead of her neighbours Those prea the cook would that there he and reason dictates that whilst We Logan, H. C. Shrubsole, A

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