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Hongkong, Wednesday, March 10, 1926.

Canton has laid herself open to the reproach of Bolshevist sym pathy she has only herself to blame."

NOW TO

THE HOW WHEN AND NOWCAWAWHERE

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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

March, 1926. soon evident that expression is not Calendar, 8, Monday William to be a secondary consideration.. Too long has Hongkong had to

Roscoe born, 17631 sacrificed on the altar of technique. wait for the opportunity that is 0, Tuesday, William Corbett Tachaikowsky's “Autumn" is a being presented on Friday, March

born 1788

simple piece but Ita simplefty Page 10, Wed., Joseph Mazzini died, falls and the picture in loat, unious it le given expression. As Emi 11, Thure., George Canning born, played it, we had the sadness of

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an autumn day pictured for ua, 12, Fri, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis Whether the future is to produce.

died, 1862.

for us a great executant, great. teacher or a great composer, re- mains to be seen. Emil gains the interest, and sympathy of Hongkong not merely by the possession of great gifts, but also by reason of the fact that with it all be is a

Without the slightest wish to 1872 crab the large and formal Balls that usually take place every year, they still leave a blink. Good as they are they suffer from the de fects of their good qualities, and 19, Sat., George Jacob Holyoake It takes too long to thaw out-from-born, 1817- the prevailing stiffness and 14, Sun, W. G. C. Gladstone died formality. By the time the thaw has set in, the dance is half over. Then again they suffer from their Mazzink come back again, one boy with the ordinary boy's love of

If Joseph Mazzini could

wonders what he would think of Mussolint and the Fascists. He was one of the three men whose work made it possible A Love Letter, remarkable women

popularity and the floor is too crowded for the really keen dancer's.

The whole idea at the back of this Masked Ball is that Masking in itself does away with the stl formality, consequently the time usually spent in thawing out can be devoted to the serious business of the evening which frankly, is

Pleasure.

That is the sole raison d'etre

and if any there be who say it is an ignoble thing to spend an even

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1915.

for Italy to be a nation The other two were Garibaldi and Cavour. And it is less than sixty years ago that Venice belonged to

Austrid.

Mazzini was a dreamer, but he dreamed a future for his country which was one of the dreams, that

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life.

One of the most

of her time, Mary

Elizabeth Ifaidana, mother of Lord Haldane, died last Max six weeks. acton she had celebrated her 100th birthday.

Her story of those hundred years, supplemented by her daughter and son, has now been published "Mary Elizabeth Baldane Hodder and Stoughton, 68.),

Among the many eminent men who enjoyed her friendship is Sir

is merely an instrument as such to the propaganda of an anomal ous faith." His phraseology is Inclined to be crude, but his mean ing can be guessed, particularly when he asserts, in effect, that ifing in the pursuit of such an came true, or partly true, for it ephemeral thing as Pleasure, it is was a Republican Italy of which only possible to reply on the Mazzini dreamed. For that he

James Barrie, and what, he des- analogy of the servant girl's reply spent ap many years in exiles"

eribes as "frankly a love letter," when rebuked on a certain occa- sion-but it is, only for one evan

In the short-lived Roman Rewritten to her by him when she was

99, is quoted:- ing.. If there are still stern public of 1894 he was one of the Unfortunately for the logic of moralists who continue to frown Triumvirs, and showed himself to

You have a "personality, if ever anyone Hadi his arguments, "Russian partici-on such dissipation in ultra be a good administrator, until the

I see you vividly knitting that shawl (to (pation" and "law and order" are respectable Hongkong, there is Republic collapsed under French

which my compliments) and look- not hand-maidens. They are as nothing further to do but to re-cannon. To the end of his days

ing the dearest person F. have quest them to attend the Ball, he was a conspirator, but he had a opposite as the poles.

seen for years and years. You On what enjoy themselves and for one lofty spirit and a heart of gold.. really do make the Intruder into possible basis, therefore, can he night forget their moralisings.

that serene room feel more hope- lay his eulogy of Canton for hav-

ful about, the world, Jing indulged in Buch a thorough house-cleaning that she is now having some semblance of peace and order" His logic is as weak as his effort to whitewash Canton is puerile.

A CHRISTIAN GENERAL

Nothing will be wanting at the Ball to cause everyone present to is the hope of the promoters that forget their cares, and woes, and it Danenberg,

The passing years are Emil adding to the obvious

inherent talent of young Emil Danenberg

it will provide an evening long toe is growing in physical stature be remembered by those lucky and he is growing in musical enough to be free that night to stature. There is no mistaking turn up.

this fact. His programme last night was an exacting as a pro- gramme can possibly be. A glance at the names of the естронета drawn on proves this, and it was

Some of the lovelfest lines: in English poetry are very like you. It would not be bad, to call you Of an ode to immortality. courge, I am using strong lan- guage, but this is frankly a lova.. letter:

I know a great deal more about your son now. I know, for in- stance, who is his "spirituall home

NEEDS OF A NEW WORLD.

Now about this double band about which something has already been said, "While it is common enough elsewhere, here it is a novelty. Nothing destroys. much as to have to wait for too the charm of a good dance se: long an interval when it is over. The glorious rhythm of the per- when one has descended from that Wher, David Livingstone, the fect dance cannot be recaptured.. world where Rhythm is king to great missionary, and explorer of the common places of "May I get. Africa, first penetrated into the

The joy of whisky and soda.“

"PEACE AND ORDER"!

If nothing succeeds like success, It is always interesting, if not the Salvation Army must be con- sometimes exactly refreshing, to sidered one of the successes of the obtain a fresh view of the position age. The time does not seem far in Canton. This is provided in distant when it was an object of the course of a pen picture of Gen-soorn and derision; when its meet eral Chiang Che-sak contributed ||ings were subject to hooligan in you a sandwich" or "Boy bring & unknown depths of the Dark as well as the best of the genera-

to a Shanghat contemporary by a terruption and, its members, to Chinese, who incidentally takes up personal violence. It was some of the perfect rhythm has to work. Continent, he saw that there Itself out gradually and not were two main causes of the In deal of space with an "essay" thing new in the religious world, abruptly, therefore at this Ball, to sufferings and poverty of the on the situation in Canton. He and sympathy was probably not avoid the pleasure-destroying native Inhabitants, the Arab

He would explain how fatally destructive and shortsighted wars were, how they lowered pro- ductive power and wasted wealth

in which fought the wea

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makes a rather forced effort to gained by the methods, the Army intervals, the moment, one Band slave. trade and the perpetual in- The would have got it in 1918, or

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conflicts inevitably involved.

this he would probably get gen- eral agreement to-day because the memories of the World War are still green, though as to whether warm up to his subject; he ap-adopted. And yet it was original up its worit. Some bright spirit ternecine warfare between vil would get it in 1950, history at pears to aim at reaching the very much so especially in its has suggested that with the two ages and tribes. He attempted least is not very clear. But in sunimit of eloquence but falls very songs or hymns. If it had no bands present the promoters to redress the one evil by invok any case he would have gone on fat at the first hillock. Thus, tunes of its own; it got them from should stage a Dance Marathon. Ing the intervention of the great to set forth how essential it was

It is not possible to know whether civilized powers, and the slave for the tribes and nations to for after reviewing Canton's military some source or another; and if it there are any in the Colony who trade before very long was to all get their selfish concentration on campaigns, he expresses the opin-had no poet to write its verse, it are addicted to this particular intents and purposes rooted out themselves, to mitigate their Hon that these "rapid-fire collected them in the same hap-form of madness, but when the He attempted to deal with the ancient grudges and their racial victories" have given Canton hazard way. In this why it proposal was made it was very second evil by preaching the prides and prejudices, and to land

promptly and severely dealt with gospel of Christian peace and by

how to live together in friendli- "such a thorough house cleaning shocked the conservative, the as being contrary to the whole trying to point out to the tribes ¡ness and peace. He would make that she is now having some sem-staidly respectable, and the spirit of the evening, which is the the fatal effect upon themselves, it plain that more ware and more the greatest which these endless feuds and destruction would certainly over blance of peace and order" supposedly puritan. Mr. Pett greatest good of

The reader of this sketch of the Ridge, in a recent book asks us

take them if they rejected his There are dark rumours abroad He explained how raiding readvice, and would try to make situation is constrained to pause. seriously to believe that he once nt the time of writing of the Fan-duced the supply of cattle and them see what prosperity and A "semblance of рейсе and heard an open-air Salvation Armying Hunt turning up in force, but food in the district, how fighting happiness and what new and un- order! If the position in Cantonating sing

the nature of the quarry and and burning villages destroyed suspected joys would dawn upon where the kill is to take place is both the habit of Industry and them if they followed it. to-day is worthy of being called

There may be flies on you and at present wropt in mystery." the most able-bodied workers, "a semblance of peace and order,"

To our Livingstone from Mars meko god genti"

It is unfortunate is it, by the how shortsighted and wasteful the truth of what he said would then all that can be said is Heaven

But there ain't no flies on way, on second thoughts!! that was the belief that the best way appear as obvious as the truth of azz Jesūsiu dem ge

the "Hermes" is no longer with to make a living was to steal or what the earthly Livingstone said help Canton. It is a curious type of "peace and order" that goes in this way it got at the 6. If the lamp shade smashing raid your neighbour's flocks or to the Africans. But, would the act, with all its subsequent com- fields. He explained no less how nations of to-day pay any more hand in hand with illegalities by people in the language the people plications which, rumour has it, much better it would be for practical attention to his advice strike and boycott pickets, that could understand. This policy has still continue could be worked everybody if they composed their than did the Africans of yester permite the Guilds to rule the been maintained all through the up as a Sketch it would safely be ancient quarrels, and forget their day? They would give lip- Government, that allows sacred direct method, and it may explain relied on to bring the House down different racial prides, and learned service, no doubt, for that is easy

or the management in,

how to live at peace with one but would they abandon their self- another so that every man and centredness, their fealousles, every village could sow and could their ambitions and their pride. reap what had been sown insufficiently to unite in neighbour security and peace. The arguy fashion to solve all their difficul ment seemed very convincing to ties by peaceful means and from us. But, though it had effect on the standpoint of the common sonie, it did not convince the good of humanity. tribes as a whole, who went on in their old ways until intertribal war was stopped by the annexa tion of their lands by various European powers, which set up therein administrations of vary ing degrees of efficiency and benevolence.

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Treaties to be literally torn to the success which has attended pleces, and that countenances the Army's efforts, and which has outrages against foreigners. sent its officers of both sexes to Surely the writer of the article all parts of the world. "Darkest postesses quaint ideas of what London" was coined by the first really constitutes "law, and order." General Booth, and it seems as if Or, was he speaking with his the second 18 to give us

London tongue in his chesk or simply play as "a heather city "That one ing to the gallery of the con- man's, birthday should cause the stituents of the particular news-King and his Indian Viceroy to paper to which he was contribut send tributes, is significant of ing? That he has got hopeless-much. Christianity has this to its. ly fogged in his ideas is discernible credit that it has not stopped at when he subsequently re-talk, but that expoaltion of the marks that there is "no Christian virtues has followed in doubt there has been great the work of amelioration of the unwisdom in some of Can unfortunate True religion and ton's policies, but she has been as undeßled, a great Samt remizded good as her word. In which his hearers, or readers, is to visit case it must be admitted that her the fatherless and poor, and to word has not been good at all: keep oneself unspotted from the Less hopelessly mixed is the world. If this be accepted, it will writer of the article in question be general agreed that the when he comes to the "Red" Salvation Armyjis peculiarly pure stigma, although he is rather mild in its religion, and that the pay-

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Yet that is without the para- mount naed of the nations to-day, ng it was of the Africans when. Livingstone frat went to them. For what he said to them applies equally to us. Unless we can overcome our International fearS and hates, our envy and our Suppose that at the beginning greed, and our indifference toward of this year 1926 another David other nations, we shall inevitably Livingstone, possessed of the sooner or later drift into another same tuaight and Christian spirit, and more destructive world war, were to land upon our earth from for such wars are the mascapable, the neighbouring planet Mara, outcome of precisely such quall- what would he see and what would ties of thought. And if wo do he feel impelled to my?. (asks the overcome them and find the "Christian". Science Monitor.") means of unity and practical He might not see anything quite brotherhood among all mankind, like the Arab slave trade, though we shall find not alone peace and he would see some other systems - prosperity, but a freedom and of exploitation of man" by man inspiration which will lift human- not very much less brutal and outty forward to a happine rageous in their effects. But he cannot now" understam would inly be impressed by way forward is the

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uld certainly endeavour to to destroy point out to its inhabitants how the doorwa fatat was the effect of these com the mainta stant feuds and conflicts upon bring about? The themselves

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