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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1926.

CANTON VARSITY, CHEUNG CHAU NOTES

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"SIMPLE" MATHEMATICS.

Canton standards of education

NEW VISITORS' PRAISE FOR ISLAND.

To the Editor of the "Chlia Mall"}

THE SEASON OVER. Sir."Monitor" seems to have "got it bad." On Armistice Day

[From Our Own Correspondant. most people want to be left alone

Cheung Chau, Nov. 2. and not dragooned into artificial are not well known to the averago

Foreigner so that the following, "on The s... "Kung Yick," which has sorrow. I am sure the majority the subject of re-examination of undergone an overhaul, is now run of men who went into the Great undergraduates at Chunt Shaning again and looks spick and Beyond in the War and most of]

The s. "Cheung Chau la those man now in hospital would Dr. Sun Yat-sen) should prove on having a rost in the harbour.

University (named after the late span agree with this. Let "Monitor"

The end of the month was mark- Judge not that he be not judged; "ghtening... Says the "Cantoned by a further exodus of our visi

In the following courses tora: Somo, who had not pre-

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however, let me say that he sounds like a mournful young par- son or person who does not know examination must be taken by the viously been off the island, state students of different schools. that they are, charmed with the human nature and the way to lead it. Natures differ.

[special 'depártments and of normal place and hope to stay for "Moni-

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3. Foreign languages.

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We are glad to note from the Budget that there are prospects of

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tor may be able to keep his Armistice Day as he implies. The Church gives an opportunity for Remembrance and to my mind there is nothing incongruous in These courses are divided into 3. Dr. Wright, who has been away, remembering the dead and cele-standards, the higher, (for intend on a visit to Takhing (West River) brating a victory on the same ed students for the preparatory is expected to return to-morrow.. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.day Perhaps Monitor" could class of the college of the old There will be an informal "sing give me a time. table of how system or, graduates of higher song" at his house on that evening. should spend my Armistice Day middle school) and the lower (reThis event, to which the entire com from 6 a.m. to 10 pim. Life is one quiring students to at least under-munity has been invited, will mark battle. against ""getting the stand the meaning of national re-the close "of the social dumps." Some fight it by aim-volution in Chinese, to solve simple activities of the present season as ing at variety in life, eg., by Re-education in mathematics, and to many missionaries will be return- the fact that "the Chinese solyachting, friendship and enter-language),

ligion, games, dancing, sports, write simple sentences in a foreigning to their work in the near

future. diers' action was brigandage, and taining, etc.; but he who fights When Dismissal Comes.

Social and Personal. not due to the Chinese Govern-it By one thing alone generally The test questions for these Hallowe'er was celebrated by ment." That ought to have pro-tic in or out of any asylum is geng grades, viz., 1. higher 2. middle night.

goes mad; and the religious fana-courses are again divided into some. "enthusiasta on Saturday vided the Chinese Foreign Office

and 3. lower Students are r Dr. and Mrs. Clift have managed in Peking with an ample basis on'

quired to choose either one of these to get away from Hong Kong but.. which to maintain strictly correct

standard's in different subjecta. they experienced very rough wee relations with the British Govern

Students will qualify in the ther as a result of which, we re examination if they pass two sub-gres to learn, Mra. Clift was com ment. Instead, it has wasted a

jects in the 3rd standard and onepelled to spend some time in hos golden opportunity of dissociating

In the 2nd standards

pital' at Haiphong. Latest news to itself from brigand chiefs of the

Students who can not take any hand is more favourable. We also kidney of General Yang Sen;

one of these subjects may report learn that the transfer of the (To the Editor of the "Chinn: Mail" to the committee, to make up the orphans from Nanning to their new whose dastardly outrage on a defencelese:

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Yours, etc.,

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Hong Kong, Nov. 3.

WHAT'S IN A

.." NAME?

Miss Field, who is accompanied by some new workers, la on her way. out from England.

The Rev. and Mrs. Rossiter, who moon here, are leaving at the end have been spending their honey-, »

Sir,That irrepressible hum-deficiency In the future: but home in Lungehow has been safely British merchant orist and joker, Mr. D. B. students who cannot take all these accomplished: vessel it now condones by a sense-

Wyndham Lewis, wants to know courses will be dismissed. less endeavour to incriminate the the exact significance of the "M" in Ethel M. Dell Miss Dell British gunboats and Messrs.might well ask what is the exact self to be wanting in those assets Butterfield and Swire..

significance, if any, of "D.B." which are so fundamentally neces It is difficult to see what the; How many could give the sary to one who is called upon to Chinese Foreign Office hopes to in the cast of the following national affairs. May he carry on meaning of the initial straight off represent his country in inter- gain by the Gilbertian farce of names: William H. Ainsworth, his work for many years to come sending a. Note to the British Percy B. Shelley, Elizabeth B. Browning, Cecil J. Rhodes, Legation. If it imagines for one Samuel T. Coleridge, Richard H.

face." snub but a vigorous. "slap in the Those who advised the ginning to forget the Wanhsien and amazing Note may be playing sending of such an impertinent

some deep game of their own, the purport of which is hidden from

incident in so far only as it con- cerned the safety of foreigners

tion.

Yours, etc.,

READER, Hong Kong, Nov. 2, 1926.

TOO MUCH MR. A.

Yours, etc.,

Hong Kong, Nov. 8.

4.

4

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of the week.

17A, has changed hands and we Another of the cottages, No. welcome Mr. and Mrs. Boulton "and their family as new members of our little community.

The trees that were atripped of their leaves by the recent. typhoon are slowly recovering,"

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1926. moment that the British Govern Barham, Charlotte M. Yonge, ment will recede one inch from the Harriet B. Stowe, Edward B. attitude previously taken up in Charles H Spurgeon?

Lytton, Charles R. Darwin and To the Editor of the "China Mail,

Sir-Who is this amazing man the matter, it is merely courting It makes them all sound like who has, brought about the entire disappointment and discomfiture. Americans doesn't it? But here reconstruction of the Italian Con- It is inviting not only a distinct le a good after dinner competi-stitution? One periodically reads of attempts on the life of Signor Mussolini, but even, the shortest of blographical sketches are few and far between. Perhaps the following may prove of interest to WHILST UNDER DETENTION.""" your readers

Benito Mussolini was born, in! and the security of British mer-view at the moment: But they

To the Editor of the "China Mail.") 1884 and was educated at the was caught by a farmer in

The young tiger or cheetah which Six,--Sir Ernest Will does well Salesian College at Faenza and at Shatin, district, New Territories, chant vessels, old sores are opened have to be taught that there is to condemn the present-day ten- the University of Lausanne in and later sent to Hong Kong for up by a typical Note from the

dency to regard our courts of law Switzerland. When he began his exhibition purposes at the Lee only one game to play with the as amenable to falling in with the career he was a Marxian Socialist Gardens has succumbed to the in- Chinese Foreign Office functioning British Lion-and that is fair-private conveniences of those who and was expelled from Switzer-juries sustained to ita paw when in Peking,

It purports to give hess, justice, and honesty, and appear before them. There is, as land and also from Austria on ac caught in the trap laid by the the Chinese version, holds the anything short of that will assur-ley, "too much of this Mr. A. to his birthplace and there start-

he said recently at the Old Bai- count of his views. He returned farmer for deer. British gunboats and Messrs.edly lead to trouble for the business."

For the purpose of obtaining a Butterfield and Swire responsible,

The suppression of ed "Lotta di Classe" and later be-i and deprecates what it is pleased

fact he was asked to condone was came the editor of the "Avante "proper cage for the animal it was takan to the Yaumati Police Station certainly not major but the prin- He was also a director of the to term the "wanton disregard |

ciple involved is one which can-Italian Communist Party. At the and it was here that it succumbed. The owner of the animal inti- of life and property." Further-

not be too jealously guarded, and outbreak of the War in 1914, he mating that he had no wish to re- more, it rather belatedly protests

the Recorder was right to refuse took the side of the Allies, and tafn any of it as a trophy, Sub mitigate it in anyone's urged that Italy enter the con- Inspector Hutchins, of the Yaumati against the bombardment. It

fict against Germany. For this Police station, is now the proud reserves all rights of the Chinese Government as regards claims to

be presented later for full repara- tion for damage done to life and property in the city and other equitable measures of redress. It also enquires whether the Navy acted under specific instructions from the British Government, and

rence.

Chinese!

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LED ASTRAY.

BOYS AS "TOOLS" FOR A THIEF:

BEWICK GRIMES,

QUIET WEDDING LAST TUESDAY.

The wedding took place quietly Tuesday of Mr. Charles:

The bride wore a frock of pale

to. favour..

Justice is badly served by those he was expelled from the Socialist possessor of the skin. A quantity of white metal parts who would have it administered Party and, at once started a new of a ricaha wheel formed the sub. In secrecy or with such shifts and paper, the popular and famous ject of a larceny charge brought suppressions as those Sir Ernest "Popolo Italia." Fighting in the by Div. Inspector Blackman in the Wild complained of

War as a corporal in the Infantry, The open Central Magistracy this morning. Court is the sure guarantee of im he was wounded, decorated and Prisoners, a man and two boys, partial law. "Without fear or discharged. Later he returned to. were accused of stealing the favour the legal phrase runs. the editorial desk. In 1919, when metal from a shop in Haiphong The dictum may, operate harshly the wave of Communism swept Road,

at times, but it does help to keep over Italy and the Government at Inspector Blackman informed our courts. clean and the scales of Rome seemed unable to combat grotesquely "requests" that there the brains of the affair, using the suppression it would not be a long country, Mussolini raged against Wilkinson Bewick, youngest son of His Worship that the man was justice true. From an isolated the disorders prevalent in the be no repetition of a similar occur boys merely as tools. The elder step to a general suppression. the traitors who were ruining Mr. John H. Hewick, of Gateshead boy had a previous conviction justice administered behind closed Italy on March 28, 1919, heon Tyne," to Miss Lily May Grimes, It would appeat that the Chin- and was given twelve strokes doors is at once a justice suspect- founded the first "Fascio di Com-cidest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ese Foreign Office in Peking has

whilst the younger received eight. ed and mistrusted-wrongly, it batimento," which was later to be CA. Grimes, Only the immediate Lecturing the man on his may be, but none the less surely known collectively as the Faa friends of the parties were present. lost all sense of proportion. It offence in leading young boys Publicity has its perils certainly, cisti, from the Roman "faces," chooses to reject the version sent astray, Mr. Lindsell said that he but they are negligible compared Officers and soldiers rallied to his mauve Paris crepe with hat to to it at the very earliest moment did not feel justified in sending with the trust which it enables support, and by 1922, there were match and carried a bouquet of Miss R. G. Razavet after the incident by the British twelve months.

him to jail for a shorter term than the public to put in our courts of about four million Fasciate in pink roses.

law. Without such publicity, few Italy, Civil war waged in 1922 be-was bridesmaid. and Mrs. Webb Mr. R. Stott. authorities. It prefers, appar-

of us would be disposed to talk tween the Fascist and the Com-Matron of Honour.

was best, man. ently, to believe that the British

any more of even-handed justice. munista Mussolini'a legione re-

Yours, etc.,

The bride's travelling dress WAS opened factories, stopped strokes gunboats and Messrs. Butterfield

and broke up trade unions. By of blue Paris crepe trimmed with and Swire are on the same sordid

Hong Kong, Nov. 8.

August the power of Communism fawn and hat to match. was broken. In October 1922, The bridegroom'a gift to the level as pirates and banditti. And At the Cenotaph ceremony on It elects, by implication, to pin its has been asked to furnisian_con- Armistice Day, the British Legion

Mussolini declared that he would bride was a gold wristlet watch take the Government by force if and that of the bride to the bride- faith to General Yang Sen and his tingent. Mr. RH Cable, the hon.

To the Editor of the "China Mail" it were not given to him willingly, groom a sliver cigarette case.”

Among the presents received bloodthirsty ruffians as heroes and secretary in Hong Kong (c/o the Sir.As a great admirer of the On October 30, 1922, the King was one

made him Prime Minister. He

from Mr Bewick's martyrs who were wantonly at Government Civil Hospital) would Italian duce, permit me to en

like to hear from those willing to dorse the observations of your made drastic reforma during colleagues on the staff of Lane tacked merely to provide attend, nor later than by Monday correspondent who signe himself 1928, and at the general election

Roman holiday for the British morning.

Italiano.

in 1924, the Fascisti received sallora.

Signor Mussolint has obtained sixty-five per cent, of the votes virtual control of Italy. It cannot Mussolini's policy as regards be supposed for one moment that Africa may be open to some criti

Italy's colonies in Northern King Victor Emmanuel: would be willing to act contrary to the cism, but few will deny that this hes of the Dictator who is in amazing Italian had contributed

ling in no small measure, not only kamor the pace of his own country, but 141 B.BO towarda" the peace, 01:

The Chinese Foreign Office is in possession of all the facts bearing on the incident, There is no need to repeat these But it may be

recalled that all representations were made in the Fropel quarter)

ARMISTICE DAY.

LAST MONTH'S RAIN.

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FASCISM.

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