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THE CHINA MAIL

NO! NO! NANETTE

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ROSE MARIE

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PIANO SELECTIONS

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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1926.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

This individual act of gratitude seems to prove that the Chinese, for the most part, are exceeding-

Hongkong It is to be trusted that adequate arrangements will be made for their reception here. Mr. Alan Cobham is making. arrangements to add to his aerial

Mr. Justice McCar Aresident of Tientsin trained a feats by a fight this time to Two Kinds. die's claim that young Chinese, who eventually be Australia-a country which is

Judges are as syme came his head boy. After many making very great headway in the pathetic and soft-hearted as other years of service, during which the art of aviation. There is also talk people is a reminder of a debate boy acquired a perfect knowledge of a fight by Japanese" airmen in the House of Commons 50 years of cooking and catering, his

back. from Tokyo to the Dutch East

Mr. Attorney-General master died, and the boy was Coleridge was supporting: amada steward of the Tientsin Indies via Hongkong or Manila.

Woman's Suffrage Bill and, in- Club. On the eve of his first stancing the aptitudes of women banquet, the arrangements of In foreign politics the sensation for careers then closed to them, which had brought him in much of the week has been the attempt he remarked that many women "aqueeze," a visitor to the Eng- on the life of Signor Mussolini; had the graceful qualities of symish cemetery saw the Chinese the Dictator of Italy, by an eccen-pathy and so were well fitted to enter, and out of curiosity follow-

adorn the bench of judges. tric British lady connected with this impressed the House till old master's grave, produced from his All ed him. The boy found his the Peerage, who claims to have Serjeant Dowse got up to oppose, sleeve the menu of the forth accomplished a "lofty mission."His argument," said the Sercoming dinner, chin-chinned his The outrage has horrified the jeant, "seems to be this that lete master, and left the menu on whole world and instead of calling because some judges are old the headstone. attention to whatever undesirable Women, therefore old women features there may be in Fascism, ought to be judges. has only made of Mussolini a greater national here than ever. Both Welsh Nowadays "lofty missions are not accomplished by the revolver or the sword.. France has been stirred by a national appeal for voluntary subscriptions: to pay off all the debts of the nation, and General Joffre has been appoint- ed President of the National Shatin at this coincidence. When a dearth of bread but a big surplus Committee. M. Malvy, a stormy order was restored, another pas petrel in war tinie, who was recidence, both your names being senger said: "That's a coin- cently appointed Minister of the Welsh." to the good work of the new fire Interior, has resigned.

"Yes," said the quiet Even one,. "mine's Llewellyn" float, which came into active ser-nations may forgive and yet not vice for the first time. In educa- forget? The dove of peace has tional circles the usual interest appeared on the horizon in was manifested in the annual pre-Morocco, and Abd el Krim has sentation of prizes at the Wah sent an emissary to talk for him Yan School where the Vice-in regard to terms of settlement Chancellor of the University gave Greece reports a trifling and an inspiriting address to the short-lived mutiny of troops, pupils. In Club and the week whilst the ancient city of Bagdad has been noteworthy on account of is threatened by "unprecedented

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Hongkong, Saturday, April 19, 1920.

A SATURDAY CAUSERIE

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The expensive many grateful to the "foreigner" for in the train talked developing their industries and all the time; the opening up trade. quiet man answered in morosyl-

Efforte which are being labies. As he was leaving the expansive one, said: "Well, glad A Ration made by the authorities to have niet you; fine chat we had;

Memory, to keep our Army my name's Welsh." "So's mine,"

the best fed in the said the other. The talkative

world recall to a correspondent a mun was nearly carried past

| Macedoning "memory of the war. th a cartalna cavalry unit there was

of "bully," while with a Greek tions were exactly the reverse. battalion a few miles away,condi Hence there came about a system of barter, and at regular intervals a couple of the British soldiers. The following is would ride into the camp of their. A Grave Menu... contributed by a allies with two sacks filled with the correspondent to tinned beef. The rate of exchange u Home Literary Journal:-

waa öne large"round Greek loaf of At this time, when the nye bread to two time tins of pre- psychology of the Oriental mind is served meet, and the Greeks used to of paramount importance in its Hne up under a sergeant for the bearing on the political crisis in ceremony. Not until this was com China's history, the following in-plete, did the visit change from cident may be of interest:

very formal to most cordial

́SMUGGLERS' HOST OF TRICKS.

the decision of the Kowloon Bowling Green Club to form itself To alt outward appearances the into a limited liability company position in Canton remains with the object of aimplying the stalemate, Sun it is on the cards issue of debentures for the erec- that any day may produce im News of a brisk smuggling trade is Tenders reported that thore had tion of the new pavilion, opera-portant developments in regard to in rabber, due to the export re- been a heavy increase in the illicit. tions on which are expected to be the boycott. This being sc. the strictions imposed on the planters, traffic, against which the last is contained in dispatchee from Canadian Parliament enacted more commenced next month. When matter need not be further dis-Penang. Straits Settlements. Such stringent laws. Paris mannequins completed the new pavilion should cussed here. The civil war in the news smacks of a romantic past, are act needed on the Canndia's The work is done on a North proceeds greatly add to the amenities of

"normally through which flitted Malay pirates; | bordet. this part of Kowloon. At the fighting one day and rumours of with-for Western counterpart rough and ready basis, "like-the and trade in rum or that in Canadian peace pourparlers the next. Some picaroons anaual meeting of the Kowloon

guardacostas.

wheat, which Croskes. Into day or some year the Chinese may Golf Club It was decided not to

The old-time smuggler looms in Minnesota or North Dakota. by awaken to the realisation that the modern eye as a bronzed man night in rumbling farm wagons, raise the annual subscription, as militarism is the greatest curse of with a kerchief on his head, stand- The Canadian border has furnish- was at one time mooted.. Inter-that unhappy country. port aporting relations have been

Gentlemen:-

und

rapparees

ing in the red glow of a fire fured plenty of finesse, nevertheless. Ing on a high hill above a rocky One instance which "caused worry those who have surveyed the situa- dog with a collar inlet. The fact is, according to not long ago was that of a police It would be

tion. that the art and science of taken into Canada in a car, openly, smuggling, was never at a finer but never twice in succession along point no more eextensive than the same road. A night or · two to-day. The age of radio, swift later the dog would trot back into i sea-scout, guards and vigilant the United States with its collar The beast was

All and everything purely local of a Portuguese football team

improved by a visit to Hongkong TO HONGKONG'S ELECTORS. have been dwarfed during the

From Shanghai, an interesting past week by the sensational

series of matches being played in statements made at the meeting spite of inclement weather on one letter day in your history.

Monday next should be a red- For of shareholders of the China Pro- or two days. The Fanling Hunt the first time for years you are vident. Loan and Mortgage Club held Company. Further than publish steeplechase meeting on Monday, of you, perhaps, never imagined contrabandist of other days. But and it knew its way home.

another enjoyable being asked to record what some the golden age of smuggling. bruined to let no one: touch it, but,

Puncheons and bales. did for the its master and one confederate, ing a fair report of the proceed although the attendance of the you possessed a vote.

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aeroplane may in time be called full of opium.

sand where there been none gave

the new British silk duties. This favoured by the gem contrabandista

The ings of that meeting it is not.general public was not so good as public-spirited gentlemen seek haps sometimes shocked, at

The would be astounded, and per- only effective move against it would however, advisable at the presents anticipated. The celebrated your suffrages, and to serve you thousand refinements developed by dog on sight

thebe to shoot every, collared police juncture to volunteer anything Australian cueist, George Gray. on the Sanitary Board These modern underground traffic in silk.. This dog has a fellow-amuggler in the way of comment A Com-s in the Colony but his first match gentlemen if we know them cotton, wheat, diamonds, narcotics, on the Mexican border-a burro mittee of investigation has been at the Engineers' Institute proved aright-are not place-hunters, or coolles, aliens, liquor, arms; rubber with the homing instinct. It appointed into the alleged losses

und lesger items..

carried liquor worth £40 a trip. a fiasco, the champion being complimelight seekers. They are of nearly two million dollars, and

If the smuggler ever looked Hoofprints in members of an honourable profes-like a picture book pirate, now he should have pletely off form. until such time as it concludes its

sion, the first qualification for or she--may snunter past the the clue.' In England smugglera work and reports. to the share-

Home affairs have been rather membership of which is know-Customs men as spick and span as have gone farther in the use of holders again, the whole matter subdued during the week, no ledge. They seek to place that mannequin. She is, in fact, a animals, employing homing, pigeons may be regarded as sub indice in doubt due to the aftermath of the knowledge at the service of the amequin, running back and forth to bring in cocaine. That was a between France and England as triek discovered in Limehouse after fairness to all concerned. Another Easter holidays. The Coal Com-community in a sphere that is diligently as an endless belt, and Chang, the biggest power in topic much discussed has been the mission's report has again been

highly important sanitation.on ench trip wearing half a dozen London's Chinatown, had been de state of the matsheds at Repulse the most prominent theme of dis-Much has been said recently in suits of those sheer silk garments ported, says an exchange.

Less striking methods are Bay and the absolute lack of com- cussion,

criticism of the sanitary measures which were taxed so high ander which " alternated mon decencies on or around the between fears of another crisis in vogue in this Colony. We may sort of smuggler has driven the who use the Canadian route. The beach there. Dr. Koch led the and hopes of an amicable com- alas we are also a city of fragrant Folkestone fantle trying to catch diamond mines. who sneaks out a be a city of fragrant streams, but, Customs guard at Dover and native in the South African attack against these eyesores at promise between the miners and smells. The Sanitary Board may her, for a mere glance will not raw diamond uses the simplest the meeting of the Sanitary the coal owners. Board; and if the publié only act Wales has reached the

The Prince of be likened to a poor man striving show whether she has on a single methods, such as swallowing it if con-against adversity. Its powers are pair of stockings or eight and as need be. The traveller via Canada. on what they say sub rosu the valescent stage and has gone to limited, for ever in the shadow is for the other things-I

often manifests the subtlety of Government should be prodded Sandwich; whilst the latest re-that which has been described as Coast Guard recently said that, as profession according to the au- Rear Admiral F ̊C. Billard of the simplicity, One, of hote in his sooner or later into introducing ports of the condition of His a Benevolent Government, over-far as the United States was con-thorities, was caught in a sleeping much needed reforms. There has Majesty the King's sister, riding, cutting down, and literally cerned, smuggling at 'sca had ear in Vermont recently. His been too much drifting already. At Princess Victoria, who was rather throwing cold water on schemes practically disappeared and rum-compartment showed nothing but the same meeting the question of seriously ill, have been of a re- which aim at longevity. or a more running had been reduced. In one traveller's equipment such as collar rabies was thoroughly discussed, assuring nature.

healthy state of existence. The aspect or another, however, smug-box and talcum can, but in these tending to confirm the general

Sanitary Board is well served by such increased concern in recent diamonds were found. The trip, if gling has given the United States and their like 87 packages of uncut impression that the various. Coming to mutters in the Over-its co-opted and elected mem-years that it has been found neces- successful, would have saved authorities in their zeal have seas Possessions there have been bera. A vacancy occurs which sary to make ten new treaties with 19,000 in duties.

'must be filled. overlapped each other and con- religious feuds In Calcutta and a

The ways of the smuggler are Two candidates various nations.

Ram row off New York has its shrewder than ever, and his goods fused the whole issue-to put it strike of mill workers as the outcompliment you by asking you to counterpart in the East Indies, more varied. An alien crawls mildly. The launching of a new come of allegations of assault on consider their claims to serve you, where rubber running has sprung toward the American side along

They compliment you by the Im-into a thriving industry, Police launch may not be regarded a coolie by a European allega plied suggestion that you are in wealthy interests as higher-ups. bridge. A Turkish refuges sets up with the girders under a Niagara Falls as anything out of the common tions that have been denied. terested in the Colony's health Coolies do the actual work, landing housekeeping in a small Berlin fat in a Home shipbuilding yard; but Apparently it does not require and that you do really think about the cargoes in the Dutch East with 85 rugs. A sailing ship is this is not Home, and every fresh much these days to stir up the the Colony's needs. The least Indies for export and drawing big reported missing in the Baltic and local product from our local yards industrial malcontents in India. You can do is to return that com- money for doing it, with compensa is sighted later with a new coat of pliment by deciding between now tion if they are caught. There paint. A clerk in a Paris shop is to be welcomed in theas depress- thanks to the careful coaching of and Monday for whom you will are other parts of the world where tails something to an American ing times. Messrs. W. S. Bailey the extremists, assisted covertly, vote; and to take care that your smuggling to-day is a maritime official, and waits for his 25 per and Company have certainly no doubt, by the Communists.

vote, la cast.

affair, but some of the chief procent reward when the customer added to their laurels as launch

The "China Mail" takes no sides blems of the United States, aside has been caught forgetting to de- builders. Mention of shipping is Aviation has figured very much and does not recommend. It does from the coast Hiquor trade are clare hor purchase on her arrival

urge you to exercise that which created by inland smuggling.

here string of coolies filas past. a reminder of the disastrous fire in the week's news, the greatest seems to have been given you be The public hears a good deal of a cactus in Lower California and that occurred on the N. Y. Kenthusiasm being evinced in cause you are likely to be called to border rum-runners, but not much somewhere in the Near East the top "Anyo Maru" lying in dry dock at Madrid over the departure for serve upon a jury in its way a about the cotton and silk smugglers Cargo under a lateen sail is only

tribute that you are an intelligent along the Capadian line, When mask for guns. They are all Kowloon. Fortunately a serious Manila of three Spanish "aces." entity, capable of thinking and the Canadian cotton industry chapters in the same twent conflagration was averted owing As these are expected to touch at acting

summed up its last year, however, cantury story