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Henghong, Friday, February 12, 1926.
CONCILIATION FIRST. ·
There is a decided change of; tone in the London Times" in commenting upon the statement by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs, in regard to affairs in China. Not. so long ago it adopted a more insistent attitude respecting Bri-
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
tain things which call for ques" tion. › Ere this we have pointed out that Goverment has, in the main housed its servants on the Island Its higher officiala are certainly catered for and the re- sult is there is no touch between the people of Kowloon and those, whose duty it is to serve the Superstitions. Moth people. A popular appointment to the Legislative Council-alther
The superstition of contains the original tales, of the Quaint the Death's Head Brahmin poeg Bedpak and these
were "translated at various times. with
into most languages. In the eighth- curious representa century one Abdullah bin Makala. transînted, them from Pohly into
its
by H.E the Governor, or by the ulon of a human skull and ero Arable for the Khalif-al-Mansur,
vote of residents would be halled bones on its back, has sometimos
and the manuscript happened to with delight and serve a most use-caused a panlo over wide districts fall into the hands of Christian full purpose At the moment owing to the belief that. Its ap-Father Jonnues Damascenus who body-of-public-spirited-gentlemen meet regularly to discuss problems pearance prosage pestilence was residing at that monarch's court. This reverend person sub- This moth and to make them known to Gov-famine.
can" also
sequently wrote a religious, navel ernment This suggests what is squeak, which adds greatly to the antitled "Barlaam and, Josaphat," an actual fact that a tremendous
amount of work falls on Com fear it. Inspires. Many country using several of the Indian fables. mittee men, honorary officials, and folk are firmaly convinced that for the foundation of his tale and taking his chief: hero Josaphat Government officials slike, part of surviga can creep into our ears directly from the life of Gautama which might be obviated if pro-and penetrating to the brain, Buddha. He passed him through. blems were stated and the Row-
adventures as prince, hermit and Preacher, and Invested him with such an excellent, moral character. that the Christian Church after wards canonized him.
non community represented by juuuse madness. It is difficult to one voice In such an event, the persuade them that this is impos- KR.A. need not go out of bustible that the earwig is harmless nesa. Such an organization reed and that Yeariwigs should really not, and should not, cease to be.be "earwings" from the beautiful It has done good work; it will do
There is some-
good work But there is a field shape of Its lower wings, resem which should tempt all bling the outline of a human-ear. More of Them. thing more than
who have civic pride, to explore it or to cultivate it. The need of the moment is one of sympathy;
méets the eye in this paradoxical error "Water How many dislike may be made hard by freezing
of batter understanding. Kow-Writing Trash. postry through and the hardness removed by boil having it dinneding " And could any of our
loon may not need this, but no harm will be done in the Associa into them in early days at school?greatest eclentine highbrows beat tion-free somewhat from having An excellent suggestion la con- this for lucidity of thought: "A to discuss some of the things retained in a letter "written to a circle, is a round straight Mae with ferred to-giving Its time to lec-Home Journal, which deserves con- a hole in the middle tures, entertainments, and the sideration:
One can see the association of The love of good literature Idens in things which make people" be of
-the statement that could be instilled into many "Chequers is a pubile-house near one mind in one house. The
child's mind if teachers would Wales"; George Graves might have Association has a common plat for in which politics or creeds
make the children write trash as told us that "Rhabarb is a kind. have no part. Its appeal is of the
a punishment task. At present of celery gone blond-shot," while punishment tasks take the form there is unconscious autfre in the widest for it appeals to all...
of writing over and over again remark the lad wrote that "Genius Still the first move should come
We plead or earning by rote, long pas-is an infinite enpacity for picking from the Government. for a Member for Kowloon
anges from the "masters." from brains Shakespeare especially. The re- sult is that the child hates and wrote loathe good literature,, and flies Gulnessis." to trash for consolation. "... Whereas, if the opposite course were followed, the child would na- turally seek the gold and avoid the dross,
CAFE INCIDENT.
IMPRISONMENT SENTENCE
REVISED.
Few are aware Buddha, a that Gautama Christian Saint! Buddha,
founded
who the
when it remarks that no one can govern and organise China but the Chinese themselves."
The wish is obviously the father of the thought. Were the Chinese to set to work and govern and organise China the entire picture would be altered Those ideals handed down by age-old sages would at long last be revivified. Those principles
that formed the common platform
the on creation
The of
Chinese
A FINE, IMPOSED. Republic would 'come! into
months The sentence of one active practice. China, in short,
hard labour imposed on a Chinese would gain that "place in the waiter of the Victoria Café by suri?" which has so far been denied Major C Willson at the Central her by her own mistaken leaders Magistracy yesterday morning for and by her subtle Bolshevik, ad-an assault on Mr. James Royston
Stuart was reconsidered in the Buddhist religion over 2,000 years afternoon on an application madoago, received though under an No greater encouragement to by Mr. M. K. Lo..
ethar name the highest honour govern and organise their own It was submitted by Mr. Lowhich the Christian Church can country has been given to the that there was conflicting evidence bestow by being raised to the rank in the cage, The complainant of a Saint, both in the Eastern and Chinese than by the British. Even alleged that the defendant attach-Western Churches. It came about in difficult and embarrassing timesed him with a knife and that in in the following manner: there has not been the slightest self defence, he tried to ward of "The Panenatantra," a deviation in the British spirit of the blow and then hit the de-rated collection of India fables, fendant. An Independent, witness, help and co-operation. Circum-a "Portuguese gentleman, who was stances have arisen from time to sitting at the adjoining table, said time to cloud that spirit, but the he saw the complainant strike the night of doubt has ever yielded place to the dawn of the "entente cordiale."" Viewed from this
rimes" is right in its endorse angle and this angle alone, the
ment of British policy at the
visers.
moment And, of course, it is ever so much easier to be an optimist
ten thousand miles away from the scene of conflicting and trying events.
tish policy, seemed aggrieved at more was not shown of what was being done to counteract the "sinister influences" at work, and was "quite outspoken in indicating the need for more vid to be in parted to the British attitude. Now, bur great London contem- porary is content to endorse Sir Austen Chamberlain's policy and opinions, which it sums up in the The issue of a precis of the phrase "Patience and Concilia-Residents Association calls for annual report of the Kowloon
comment. The activities of the
tion."
A KOWLOON MEMBER.
cale-
The first book in the Bible, one youngster,
"The Navy" wrote another, is sometimes called the Senile Service.
The boy who wrote: "Christians This are only allowed one wife.
a called monotony," made somo- thing more than a mistake, and there is gynicism in the remark. that "The Clapham sect lived in Clapham anction."
But of all the unconscious truths juveniles have ever handed down to posterityy the following, which might well have been writton after a visit to a jazz programme, takes pride of place:
Some instruments used in an orchestra are: Viles, cellars, trumpeta, hornets, babeons, ola boys and bubble bases.. Now we know
THE PASSING OF LUNCH.
defendant after ordering him to remove some, dirty knives. Having regard to the evidence that the
There comes from Paris the defendant had a knife in his hand, His Worship might find that com-strunge story that lunch is pass holding a knife. plainant was hart as a result of ing away. The Parisian working day, like all else in Continental
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have had a knife in his hand. -
Major Willson said he agreed to cortain extent with Mr. Lo's submissions, and, holding that there was no deliberate intention of atabbing,, imposed a fine of £25.
WELSHMEN GATHER.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR ANNUAL
DINNER...
and boiled eggs. He used to work right on from breakfast to dinner. Sixty years later. Mr. Gladstone complained that "life in a country.
much more luxurious had
He further said that the injury life, has ever been organised upon house meant three dinners a day, was superficial and was not de- the basis of a large and a long liberately inflicted. He agreed midday meal. Whatever else was breakfast and lunch become.In the that perhaps defendant should not reformed, this, call it déjeuner or days of Pickwick, middle-cines Mittagessen, seemed secure, and people dinod at, five or six, and nowhere else safer than in Paris."if a man habitually sat down to The" Parisian at least, we thought luncheon and ate it through, be says the "Daily Telegraph"), we was regarded as indifferent to tha could rely upon to place the com- claims of dinner, and, moreover, forts of life above the base was condemned as an idler The exactions of business, never for large midday meal came in again the sake of livelihood to sacrifice with the Prince Consort. "Prince. what makes life worth living The Albert," says the chronicler was plea le that both the senses of com- notoriously fond of luncheon, and fort and business unite in voting Queen Victorlu humoured him for the abolition of the déjeuner.
The example, communicated To go home to lunch was well from the highest quarters, was If it be possible to take a detach- Association during the past year kong held a social gathering yes Now that everybody has to
The St. David's Society of Hong enough while Parle was compact.Hoon followed in auciety-to live establish the system of three ed view of the position as it do not differ in any respect from
terday evening, a little over affects this Colony, it must be ad- In a district which has grown and a few members obliged with over lunch to nobody's satisfac-people at work the midday meal 30 miles away from shop and office dinners a day lamented by Mr. the activities of previous years.being present. Ten was served an unconscionable time is wasted Gladstone. But for English mitted, in all fairness both to Sir almost beyond recognition and be songs one in the national language tion. The mere thought of going dwindled long ago, and has been Austen Chamberlain and the come fairly well populated, pro- being particularly well received home to lunch strikes the Londoner reduced to the bare necessity of
blems. ΟΣ ferry "Times," that there is a great children's playgrounds, coolie mis-Hughes announced that the annual say, to the common Paris hours of to transpose its lunch and break- congestion, The vice-President, Mr. Owen as antediluvian. What he would austenance. Will Paris be content deal to be said in favour of the demeanours, hospital accommoda-dinner would be held at the Honga working day that begins at nine fast, and do as we do? A time argument pursued by the latter tion, and the like have taken a big kong Hotel on St. David's Day and and ends at seven, with some two may come when quick-lunch that "where so many conflicting place in public and private dia he hoped that there would be hours or more of a luncheon in-counters will suffice for all her factors are at work, where time, cussion. It is to the credit of pre-representative gathering.terval, is beyond imagination, but sustronomic needa. But we do not
sent and past officials--and parti- space, and numbers of incalculable cularly to those whose allegiance touring with the "Empress of Scot shop to all the flesh-pots of Faris. French mind has a better sense of Two Welsh ladies at present certainly he would prefer his tens expect to see it. We believe the wills play so large a part, no more to the Association has been con- land made their way to St. John's number of farge business houses relative values. explicit or detailed account of our sistent through the years that Cathedral Hall in which the social in Paris have lately been making policy in China would be desir- numberless reforms have been was held and were made welcome.
experiments with a working day able." Moreover the "Timea is made which otherwise would
on the London pattern, ending at merely recording a simple fact considered. But the thought is "never perhaps even have been
five, broken only, by a short Inter- when it reminds us that during predominant that the time has
Certain Kowloon Cricket Clubude for lunch. Everybody is said to be pleased, and business people the last very difficult and em come when the Association might members arranged in confunction consider that the knell of lunch barrassing year the Britian atti devote its time and attention to with the King Edward Hotal for a is sounded. We must suppose that other matters of community in cabaret dance there last evening, they intend to fortify Nature with tude has been consistently con- terest. Such a seemingly hapha the proceeds to augment the con amore substantial or English ciliatory to China...the legitim-zard statement is at first sight tributions already made by me breakfast. So time offers us, the ate demands of genuine Chinese likely to be misunderstood. The bers: In aid of the widow and four prospect of an interesting experi national sentiment have been resent labours until something Alison ence between Continental meals.
Association cannot cease, ita pre children of the late Mr. D. A Gment to prove whether the affer cognised to the full" a policy drastic and practical is done by an Mr. Dick Norton and his talented and ours is mera chance of the which the "Times" at least thinks outside, all-powerful agency. We band of Globe Trotters gave their expression of a natural incom is at last having an effect. We refer of course to Government services voluntarily and their envy the "Times" its possession of or to be more personal to HE the efforts contributed in no small pality of tamperament. It is to unadulterated optimism at this Governor. The Kowloon Rensure to the success of the even
... late date in comparison with thesidents Association was the out- rather contrary spirit evinced by curhat Kowloon should be Krew A Standard Remedy at all to back into the dark ages, claim it Bome months ago, particularly directly represented on the Legia Chamberlein/m): Cou In relation to the trend of events lative Council that Kowloon, reliable
South China;
should have a member of its own colds Whilst the Goyrenment may be The Times will find more en-ble to state a good case
On
come of an effort to establish the i
BENEFIT DANCE.
dard” family:
COTTON DISPUTE.
CRITICAL SITUATION IN:
LANCASHIRE
ARBITRATION REJECTED.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Feb. 113-- According to the Daily
critical situation has arisen in
he observed that there is nothing | the Lancashire i cotton Industry
permanent about the time of our owing to the refusal of the em- meals or even the distribution of ployers to accept the quantities between them. Not to suggestion of ach
Remedy which would afford overwhelming | tion for
Prompt,
for cought examples of variety, let us be tions, cough, cough content with the food of one poor The weavors whooping
congh century. When Macaulay wont basic wage D tickling, throat, to breakfast at Holland House, a loop coughs" and the
dorsement here in its comments charge that it had neglected Row Chald costs of plupcly people. For tripple of luxury, there was Meetings of the
on the Foreign Secretary's speech loon on the surface there are cer- sale everywhere.
nothing to eat but rolls and butter being held to discuss future sction.
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