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Hongkong, Tuesday, January 19, 1926.

THE ITALIAN PROBLEM.

شرما

the lessons of history, and there is a suspicion that an internal Italian problem remains, to be solved. Europe, at the moment, is basking in the sunshine of the Locarno pact, and has earned the praise of the world. It would be a vast pity. if Italy became another problem instead of a factor in the peace of the world

Treaties More Necessary.

A STEEP CUT.."

KENNEDY ROAD COLLAPSE EVIDENCE

WORK EXAMINED REGULARLY,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The question of the

From repartee to puns is

THE BEST, best repartes dis-PUNS often a matter of no

cussed in this column

great distance. Is there' better one than Douglas

The jury would have to decide whether the slope which collapsed was cut at a reasonable angle and also whether the slope gave any signs of collapsing as should have given warning to the persons in charge of the work, said Mr. R. Esaid, "may my God forget me." Lindsell, as Coroner, in the course]"Forget you!" exclaimed Wilkes, of the enquiry into the circum-"He will see you damned first." KISSING TIME. London paper stances of the collapse in Kennedy.

the other day brings forward Ferrold's "Dogmatism is the claim for Wilkes. Thurlow was mature form of puppydom"? It ranting in the House of Commons, should be regarded as easily first when I forget my King," he until someone produces a better

one.

A reviewer in a

gives the follow-

novel by a lady

Road on December 80 as a result "The Life of John Wilkes" by the of which four coolies were killed way is rather an interesting booking excerpts from and two injured.

on an interesting man living in an The sub-contractor, giving interesting time.

evidence, said he had had con- siderable experience in the dig- ging of such cuts. He Inspected

Have the letters

the work daily and was on the E, & O. E.” “È & O. E.'

spot when the slide occurred. The height of the cut was about

(errors and omis-

28 feet and the slope was to be sions excepted), any legal value about six feet from the perpendi- when attached at the foot of in- cular at the highest point. Wit-

There

"

to the

ness, had previously done cuts as voices? A correspondent of the steep as that without collapses and "North-China Daily News, writ- he could swear that it was not ing from New Hamilton, Hanta, being cut at a greater angle than England, under date December 2, he had been instructed. had been practically no rain be 1925, directs attention fore the collapse. He could give following remärks by Mr. Justice- no reason why the cut collapsed. Rowlatt in the case of V. Berg Mr. E. F. R. Sample, architect, and Son and Landauer (King's gave technical evidence and said that the work of building a new Bench Division) reported in "The house there necessitated the cut Times of that date: being made. The plan showed that when the cut was finished it "The Treaties now sought to be should be at an angle of 45 amended or denicunced were degrees. When examined at in- negotiated to meet actual needs, tervals, the surface of the cut- and are more necessary under the appeared to be fairly solid. The conditions existing to-day than work was examined a few days. at any time since the establish before the accident and at that ment of extraterritorial rights."time there were no signs that any This is the opinion of China's thing was wrong. He could only demands expressed by the Bulletin suggest that the collapse was of the Chamber of Commerce of caused by a stone working hose the State of New York, one of the and falling, bringing the earth

with it. most powerful and influential bodies in America. It is very

spoken comment emanating from

At this stage, the Coroner ad- journed the enquiry until

HIS DESERTS.

SEQUEL TO A PIRATE'S.. CRUELTY.

MAXIMUM PENALTY.

Imprisonment for life and 20

.

Ц recent

"With a swift, irresistible movement he snatched her up into his arms and his mouth crushed down on hers."

"The next moment she felt herself swept up into his arms, crushed against his breast, while he rained kisses on her lips and eyes and throat--fierce, Imperious kisses........

The next moment his arma went round her, and she felt. once more the lips she loved crush down on hers in a kiss that held all the passionate love and longing which had never died, never weakened,

"

"A moment later he had bent his face to hers and she felt his kisses crushing "against her eyes and lips and throat-teri- ble, burning kisses......' "It was contended that in How many more of these "in- any event the fault was re-cidents" there are in the novel the medied by the letters E. & O. E. reviewer does not state. Presum- but in

they his view these letters ablly

ere repeated ad

could not make a document which provided inaccurate fa formation answer the descrip- tion of a document which pro-LIBRARIES. vided correct information.".

The first ghost story is Bible.Miss Clemence the "most perfect of all ghost stories, the shuddering dialogue Endor-

"Whom shall I bring thee?"

at

nauscam.

GERMAN

Br-

The German pub- Fishers have been running a great book exhibition in Berlin, and the. Teutonic passion for classification has had a splendid opening. Specimen libraries have Ing-Man's Bookshelf," a library for the "Modern Young Girl," another for the "Bachelor," other for the "Successful Man," and so on.

It is a typically Ger man process of thought that « to offers the "Modern Young Girl" a liberal dose of Schopenhauer ! Jack London and Upton Sinclair The "Working-Man" is allowed

as well as Bebel, Tolstoy, and Lenin.. But the "Bachelor" has the most astonishing choice of all Apart from Stevenson," "Sher- lock Holmes," and Stephen Leacock, there is suggested for his delight the Decameron, an elabor- memoirs ate "History of Morals," and the of Casanova! A stimulating list, indeed, It is interesting to observe, however, that of the works recommended more than half are translations. from the English.

"Bring me up Samuel?" "Why hast thou deceived me? Thou art Saul."

"Be not afraid! What sawest thou?" -

"I saw gods coming up out of the earth."

refreshing to find such an out-to-morrow afternoon and he and GHOSTS. probably that in the been exhibited here "The Work- an American journal, in view of the jury then left the Court to Dane, the writer, quotes the gr

mass of views to the inspect the scene of the collapse. contrar hat Alter through from the United States.. "It is the opinion of the Chamber of Com- Cable messages have made itmerce of the State of New York," we are further told in the form clear that the post-war Italian of a concrete resolution adopted problem is not yet solved. The by that body, "that Chinese war left Italy with her long-interests will be served best and cherished ambitions achieved. more quickly restored by the

maintenance Intact of all coven The Alps became, the barrier

ants now in force until the people between herself and her neigh of China have demonstrated their strokes of the "cat" was the sen- "What form is he of?" bours, and the Adriatic, to all ability to establish and sustain tence on the pirate found guilty

"An old man cometh up, and he peace in their country, justice in at the Criminal Sessions yester is covered with a mantle. intents and purposes, became an

their Courts, and to afford ade-day of complicity in the "Po On" And Saul perceived that it was Italian naval lake. But the war quate, protection to foreign resi-piracy and the subsequent eruelty Samuel, and he stooped with his only precipitated BA internal

dents. This is, of course, exactly to passengers who could not find face to the ground... .And

ransom. He was sentenced to Samuel said to Saul: struggle which seems to be in full the viewpoint of the British

The post-war govern-statesmen and the British Press the charge of robbery, seven years me?"

seven years with hard labour on swing.

"Why hast thou disquieted since China tabied her with hard labour and 20 strokes ments of Italy were singularty, ver incffective and weak. Communism demand for the abolition of extra-with the "cat" on the charge of territoriality. If the New York kidnapping, five years with hard became more and more aggressive, Chamber of Commerce can imbue labour for possession of arms and law and order were set at defiance, American publicists and politicians a sentence of life imprisonment industry was paralysed, and Italy generally with the practical senti- for being found guilty of an act seemed to be in a decline. Then ments to which it has given utter of piracy. The sentences run con-

far toward came Mussolini and Fascism to ance, it will go

unanimity among the Powers the rescue. There are people who interested in China, all of whom say that things were already on are equally anxious to help China the mend when Mussolini took the

APPLICATION FOR RE-HEAR-

ING REFUSED.

THE "FORGIVENESS" CASE.

currently.

A JUNGLE LEAF STUDY.

Fallen leaves have a wind song had been unseated and frightened. all their own which is to be heard by the movement of a living leaf! congratulating the witness who ly. When a fitful breeze is blow-the leaflets of the sensitive plant The jury added riders, first only when listening for conscioua- At the impact of its delicate feet, saw prisoner and had him-arresting, if the car is held close to the closed abruptly together and the if she will only help herself firsted, and secondly saying that more ground, a low intermittent clatter atem sank. So exquisite was the circumspection should have been and shuffing is audible, with reaction that the several leafleta INTIMIDATION.

shown in dealing with prisoner occasionally a rustle as a delicate- beyond the insect were unmoved. when he was charged. They had ly balanced leaf is blown over. A few seconds later while I was considerably discounted the evi- Stand up and the carpet of dead still watching, an adjoining dence of the identification parade leaves becomes silent, their gentie twiglet closed every one of its because of the delay in holding it: talk lost in the hubbub of living, leaflets and dropped 120 degrees

His Lordship added his own moving foliage......

upon its parent branch. Nothing congratulations to those of the

had touched it, no breath of air jury and complimented the wit- As I watched, three leaves fell, had moved it. I was puzzled. each with characteristic- motion. Lifting it very gently, it broke off The third leaf fluttered and and fell to the ground, green eddied, fighting with all its ex-fresh-as far as I could see quite panse of plane against the pull of without cause. I picked it up and gravitation, and at the very last examined the base and there I came to rest on a mattress of fern found the source of the trouble.. frond-a respite merely, for the A tiny beetle had cut it almost off, first real gust would send it to the and the slight full of the twig, ground. As it touched the fern a together with my touch had part- Butterfly rose, a black heliconia, Ted the few remaining fibres. The with a large red spot on each beetle was very small and must

An application was made before

law into his own hands. On the other hand the Fascisti bei ve that they, and they alone, saved Italy from dissolution. Musao- lini's actions and utterances have tended to confirm them in thrt belief. Certainly, they pulled things together. They drove Com-the Second Magistrate (Major C.ness in question. munism underground; theyWillson) yesterday for A re- restored order and discipline to the national services, they insisted on hard work and efficiency in the factories, they dismissed the superflous armies of functionaries who were overburdening the budget. The trouble was that

hey did so by methods which He mentioned that when he Two Chinese were brought wing Its flight was astonishing-have been labouring for a long

hearing of the case in which two to three months' hard labour for Chinese were recently sentenced intimidating a Hongkong Hotel pantry boy.

In making the application Mr. Owen said that witnesses who were not available at the previous hearing could now be brought.

applied for an adjournment last week he was informed that the case was closed.

ARMED ROBBERY.

THE TEMPLE STREET AFFAIR.

BOTH ACCUSED COMMITTED,

But &

wers nearly as revolutionary as

before the Kowloon Magistrately like that of the descending leaf; time, and it was a mystery why yesterday to answer charges of a tremulous fluttering just carry the featherdom tread of a butter those advocated by the Com-

attempted robbery at No. 14, ing it along, now rising, now desfy's feet had accomplished what. munists themselves; and this

Mr. H. J. Armstrong, who Temple Street, Taumati, ou cending-flight wholly deceive the hacking and sawing of the trouble exists right to this very prosecuted in the case, objected to Wednesday morning.

ing, for these butterflies can beetle's jaws had not. day. Suppression and repression. a re-hearing on the ground that

The case as outlined by Detec- thread the mazes of jungle vines There are silent and there are

boisterous leaves. seem to be the things by which the defendants had ample oppor- tive Inspector Pincott was that all day without tiring......

Some, with tunity of calling witnesses at the the two accused, one of whom was

finely pinnated foliage, have a Before the butterfly passed pact of silence with the elements, Italy being governed. Freedom first hearing. He also said that an ex-police constable, entered the from view, I was startled by a from which wind and rain, strive has degenerated to a practical the complainant would be put to house during the absence of the sudden rough rip of sound-and in vain to awaken them. Even dictatorship, and

the under additional trouble and expense male inmates of the house by pre-just overhead a macaw put all the when these filigree leaves are dead were the case to be re-opened tending to have come in search of harshness of its beak and the and cling long to the branches, currents to all this are to be seen The Magistrate intimated that one of the men. in attempts on life and the plots he would give his decision this was bound and gagged, but free- voice, and almost the leaves let the rain drip from their finger A servant girl blatancy of its colouring into its they give before the blasts, they which find birth behind closed morning. On inquiry it was ing herself she gave the alarm, around me seemed to rustle. Into tips without a sound. doors. The Aventine opposition gathered that he had decided to and the intruders bolted. They a clear space of sky four great single, half-loose cecropia frond in the Italian Chamber, which it refuse the application

were arrested by detectives after fame-winged birds passed, and can imitate a rainstorm, the roar has hitherto boycotted, attend the

chase in Shanghai Street when with flight direct as arrows, but on flushed covey of pheasants or a memorial sitting held in memory

money and stolen property were otherwise exactly like the falling passing troop of monkeys," all, by found on them,

leaf and the butterfly, they vibrat itself. More than this, it will be- of the late Queen Mother of Italy.

ed northward.

gin uncannily to quiver and shake The next day they are the subject

7. And now my faded and forlorn and rattle wildly, about, while of an attack by the Premier on

heliconia butterfly fluttered again every adjacent leaf dangles silent- lines which appear to be peculiarly

toward me, and almost alightedly as if painted. Thus, does its on this pagerbuk taeningens the sensitivschalance bad criakied his own. It is suggested that the

last moment, it rose a little, and shard betray the wandering litle prestige alike of Fascism and

TRY THIS FOR YOUR COUGH. cahie to rest at my elbow, on a windsponts which are born deep Mussolini is rapidly on the decline

A Darvoni backing dongh cannời ba stem lined with small leaflets. In the jungle, and, like their cured by a glass of water, but it will Hardly had the insect furled vita watery cousins, stretch in Italy elsewhere It Las not

disappear under the healing and sooth wings when it fluttered and took award in a tiny, clean yen per ton to ven 112 var hambarious to fight again. The cause de of air-Willem Bebed The

Remedy. Every rn from upward.

„Ughted me, beyond measure-it Adelphi,

grown. There is no that they are willing

JAPAN'S TARIFF.

BIG INCREASE IN PIG IRON,

(Reuter's Service.)

Tokyo, Jan. 18," It is authoritatively learned that the Cabinet will most likely ask the Diet's sanction to raise the Iron Karif from the present

After hearing evidence, both accused were committed for trial at the Criminal Sessiona.

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