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Hongkong, Monday, Feb. 1, 1926.

SHREDS AND PATCHES

The

FARY Society has STORY order for

the poem

`five times" last century.

1828, 1847, 1866, and 1885 also as recently as 1915.

* ber

seeming consciou done things or tried to do them. The China situation seems to have caught them unprepared, butit Burns. may be that they see the situation differently from those who are close at hand. An almost pack Bed Europe, should be laid to Its CRUEL credit It has not solved the un- employment, problem, although its Introduction of certain protective measures points to a desire to do so along lines to which Tree or I trust, Mrs. Campbell, sald Fair Traders may be said to be the author, taldag her aside, that antagonistic. To the wiles and you are well contented with the ways of Communists, little can be vines assigned to you, and that had no accommodation left. said. It is argued that the Bri- you will co-operate with the tish temperament is wholly others in the endeavour to make against revolutionary methods, the play a success.! and until they are dropped, no collection of ideas masquerading under any name it likes to assume,

Bir Hall Caine was rewas a full moon in R hearsing a drama at 1904 13 years after 1885 Drury Lane: Mrs. cause a Bap year was missed in Patrick Campbell had a part in it: 1900, of which she did not entirely, approve

Exactly, she remarked, as though with an effort to arouse attention. And by the by, tell

The landlord was HOLY OLDERS,, sorry very very sorry, but he resl-

Yes, his was the only inn in the Village He was sorry about that, top. It was the Highland gathering on tha morrow and every available bed was taken. The two Sassenachs who had in- truded upon the occasion took things as philoaphically as possi ble; had their dinner at the inn and wandered out into the sum- To-day is the feast mer evening, but, a touch of Achill FEAST or of St. Bridget, but in the air drove them back for ST. BRIDGET, in olden times it a renewed application,

chin was better known Donald rubbed his

is likely to be successful amount-me: Have you ever written any ing merely to a source of worry thing before?!" to Home Secretaries and a joy to those whose business it is to fill a paper with news,

"Tommy Atkins."

as Ol-mele, or ewe-milking, be thoughtfully, and finally decided cause it was the day on which the that In his capacity as kirk It is a great thing that the Germilking of the owes began. Ewes officer he might, lend himself the mans have been able pay a tribute are rarely milked to-day save in key of the church. There's to the British Tommy "Atkins" on

some remote parts of Holland, cushions on the seats," he said, the occasion of the final evacua but at one time it was a common and I'll send the boots over with tion of the Cologne zone last night practice in England and on some pillows if ye'll promise to

To Chinese merchants who went to by the occupation armies.

the Continent. Ewe-milking, in be fine and quiet about it of Canton to settle what are called paraphrase Kipling there were fact is mentioned in the Odyssey course, ye'll pay me the same as the economic terms of the pro-imaginary fears amongst the GerIt was said that five ewes would it ye stayed here."

mans the beginning, of the long-

The Englishmen happily posed settlement..

The Chinese period of occupation that it would. Sive as much milk as one cow, merchants are the heaviest be "Tommy this and Tommy that and cheese made from this milk agreed and the arrangements was in great demand because of went smoothly forward, but at a aquarter before midnight the sufferers through the strike, and for everything tending to upset its special flavour. Less than

the German equilibrium and try century ago considerable quanti village was aroused by the wild who else should visit Canton for the German nerves in the Cologne ties of ewe-mily cheese were sold clanging of the church bell..

at English fairs...

"Gui" sakes, Jamie cried the such a purpose when the Canton zone fears, perhaps, that were Every natural to a people whose Government has shown itself un- territory was to come under the

landlord, rousing up the boots. Then,

"Get awa yon and see whate willing or unable to suppress the control of foreign troops.

is wrang with thae Sassenache. illegal strike pickets? Mr. Wu of course, the war spirit had not himself admits that the Chinese died down, nor was it in any way FEBRUARY curious to know the They'll hae me ruint with the

MOONS. identity of the "as- meenister and a the elders." so long as likely to fade away

tronomers authoris In a little while Jamie came merchants in Hongkong and Can-there was a suspicion on both sides ton are suffering heavy losses. that the gospel of hate was being ing the statement that February back. "Nocht'a wrang ava," he Surely if the Canton Government preached or would be practised in 1866 was the only month without explained with a grin, It's juist season and out of season by the a full moon since the creation, and twa double whiskies and sodas had ciy real sympathy with these conquerors no less than the con- that such a phenomenon will not for péw 1947 losses it would, as the only partyquered. Whatever the individual || !

were

An astronomer

WHEN IT WAS RATHER DARK.

able to

do so, take immediate "Tommy Atkins" thought in his heart about the Germans and their steps to settle the trouble! That made of warfare, it cannot be placed in a is why, believing the Canton Gov-denied that he was. ernment is sincere in its wish for position of some difficulty in which

restraint and forbearance

It is no wanton paradox to sug by he eagerness to discredit the |peace—the dangers of the present called for during every day and

science, and we can, surely, all ap position are too great for it to weak and month and year of the seat that the darker the age the authoritarianism of modera He was easter it is to shed a little light on preciate Mr. Robertson's thrust at period of occupation. have any other desire--we yet placed on guard" over a people the subject. When a man is re- Mr. Shay's Insatiate zask for sign- assert the Canton Government lawhose fate it was to lose the war constructing an epoch from, aning minority reports. But when MR. C. C. WU'S SPEECH.

not fully sincare, in its efforts to people whose characteristics,

actualities of Joan's career the de- better to study the rare art of gains confidence by knowing that bate turns dull, however eloquent. The Canton Government claims reach an actual settlement. The had to be studied in order the inch or two of bone he at least comes down to there disputed. in avoiding the giving of unnecessary he is in possession of all the facts, the speaker. Intricate considera- to be sincere in its wish to see the only real token of sincerity

this respect in the eyes of the offench to those whose nerves were although the facts" about 10,000 tions of military tactics, the value boycott settled. We are ready to

world' would be for the Canton already highly strung. The tri believe that. But we are not

bute just paid by the Germans to years of human life may be limit of Jean as an artillery expert, the Government summarily to sup Tommy; Atkins" is, of course, justed to a few relics which could be strategy of Compiègne, and the ethics and politics of ecclesiastical ready to believe that it is fully sincere in its efforts to achieve the press the gangs who are terroris- what we who are British fully an- put into an attaché-case. Thus, if jurisdiction are points on which ing its own subjects and attack-ticipated: but looking to the man of letters: chose to write a we can find Just enough light to desired end, The statementing the trade of a

endly nation. curve whence it emanates, it chronicle play about the owner of stage a good quarrel, but not a

the best possible "unsolicited issued by the Canton Government

the Plltdown skull or the doings sufficient blaze to find the satisfac testimonial" to the conduct of in reply to the one issued by the

British trasps on foreign soil. It and wooings of the Neanderthal tion that is a cogent proef at cer Hongkong Government made no

demonstrates anew that the age men, the critics could no more tainty of knowledge. Su the hurly- of chivalry is far from dead in punish him for mishandling the buriy will continue. To be attempt to deal with the point

friends of Mrs. canomised is to be a theme and a facts than the the British Army? It is simply that the Canton Government by

Gamp could have blamed her for target for the centuries, and Saint fresh evidence of the fact that, no misrepresenting Mrs. Harris. On Joan's career is all the more likely Distance from the scene falling to suppress the illegal:

matter where duty calls, "Tommy the other hand, where there is a to be an eternal bone of contention activities of the strike pickats be- events does not entirely eradicate Atkins" can rise to the occasion. comes party to the boycott. an inborn interest in the Home and prove himself worthy of the positive blaze of light the critic because it happened to occur when Neither did Mr. C. C. Wu when he land's politics. Every infant born great trust and confidence placed must equally confine himself to it was rather dark.

into this world is now something in him not alone by his superior matters of tendency and judgment addressed the four Chambers of

officers but by the whole Empire. If a dramatist were now to write. more than Gilbert's Liberal or "Tommy Atkins" may have gone Gladstone he could have no pos a chronicle play about. Ma Commerce in Canton last Friday,

little Conservative," Political into the Cologne zone with some

HOME POLITICS.

:

of

Mr. Wu tried hard to clear the thought has. moved since thing of the air of a victor, but sible excuse for muddling up the

Canton Government "in the

eyes.

world" from Labour has raised its head and won for him the tribute of the The life is sufficiently well known

ting there. The country has had samples of Liberal, Labour and Conservative direction loving them each with the durable con sistency associated with the mind

HAPPY YEARS,

LADY STUBBS. THANKS HONGKONG.

"Iolanthe" first graced the boards, his innate soldierly bearing has actual events of his hero's career... of the..

vanquished and he emerges from to make it obvious that criticism

the writer's: of would descend upon any blame for the prolonging there are such "by-products" as Cologne in An atmosphere of the boycott, insisting that the Communists. These divergences fellowship and goodwill patterned valuation of Gladstone's work and position of the Canton Govern of thought, if it can be so regard after the Locarno Pact That is his estimate of motives, and not ment was one of a mediatored, should be bailed with a show the true way to heal war scars and upon the tarrative of the hero's bruises our achievement The real trouble of of reason. Like religious de bind up the

the historian occurs when his sub only, the principals according to nominations they are steering to erstwhile foss.

ject is neither radiant with the him being the strike pickets and the promised land, differing only

light of contemporary and con sentaneous evidence nor pleasant- the Hongkong Government. Any in the methods employed in get

ly sunk in the gloom of prehistoric such cinimas that is entirely

mists and fogs. From this point. wrong, as can be proved in half

of view the Middle Ages may be defined as the time when it was a dozen words. The great mass

rather dark which is the worst time of day for history. The story of Joan of Arc provides a first- rate example of a subject where the historian knows both too little

De Vere Gardens, so it is that one book (or play) don W-7,%! about "Saint Joan" goes on ureat, ing another. ME Shaw could hardly all to draw, fire: (observes the Manchester Guardian." myThere is published to-day by Mr. Cobden Sanderson a book by Mr. M Robertson called "Mr. Shaw and the

Mr. Robertson le versialist! the Protec

of the Chinese are opposed to the of the voter. We had a war coal- boycott and only take part in ittion Government with Mr. Lloyd

under fear of their lives. The George at its head. That was Mr. P. H. Holyoak has received movement is enforced solely by "wrecked" and Mr. Stanley Bald the following letter from Lady

win enjoyed a brief Innings. This Stubb

this threats of a small group of was followed by a short-lived mischief makera.. Obviously it is Labour regime, which in turn was not for the Hongkong Govern- followed by the

solidated Conservat ules They ment to negotiate with these Labour party is the main opp gangs. If the Hongkong Govern- tion with the Liberal ment negotiates with anybody, it shadow of must be with the Cantou Go

ment whose duty / An to

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