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1946

No. 25,692′ | HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927.

Sunday: Getting Well "Soaked" at Happy Valley. Monday:On which I attend a Princely Reception. Tuesday:--Miss Hong Kong in All Her Glory. Wednesday:-Digging Amongst the Winter Clothing. Thursday:A Moon Baby Tells Some Secrets. Friday: The Kind of "Pictures" That I Like. Saturday: About Rain--And More Races.

NO PEACE YET?

Peking Vision of a China Compromise.

CHANGE THE FLAG!

Shansi's Feelers For Peace.

HINGES ON THE NATIONALISTS.・ YEN HSI-SHAN DENOUNCED,

Looking Far Into Dim Political Future.

Snowfall Hampers Operations In The North.

By "Li Chung-yin.”].

Peking's opinion

was

As the first step towards

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

LAWN BOWLS.

Shanghai Lose Against Civil Service.

"JOSS” ENTIRELY ABSENT.

Probable Teams For Interport Match To-day.

[By "Short Head."]

N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician Established Over Forty Years Manager:-Ralph A. Cooper M.A.0.A.

Registered Optometrist (Canada),

IS THAT SO?

Thoughts Terse, Perverse-and Worse.

BY THE MAILMAN

"Sea smells are cheap this morning" according to a local book of English and Chinese

They

gen-

These Chinese warlords cave men with colds.

Now that we've got a change in dialogues the weather, all there's to grum-erally are hereabouts. |ble about is the weather.

Says Peter, there is more nip in The Fengtien politician who the air these days that what's in

told Reuter this week that his down the Nationalist flag (white was witnessed by a fairly large predicts a compromise embracing

Fengtien's representative who peace, Shansi is willing to haul A very fine display of lawn bowls Party anticipated a form of com- "sun". on blue jack with 'red promise embracing a trace if not ground). The inference is that crowd on the Civil Service Cricket the whole of China. must have peace for the whole of China, as the Peking flag (red, yellow, blue, Club green yesterday afternoon, taken a peep through the crystal the sequel to the anticipated de- white and black bars) will go up when the locals won easily after belonging to the gypsy in Gloria feat of General Yen Hsi-shan of again,

a neck-to-neck struggle in the Swanson's last picture. Shansi, has looked very far into The foregoing is reported from

earlier, stages. the dim future.

Tientsin. A Chinese cable from

The pound sterling, divided The Civil Service were the frat into 1,000 parts, is to be the offi- not Peking says that the provincial exactly in the words given but assembly of Shansi has denounc- to draw blood with a three, but cial coinage of Palestine such is the impression derived.

ed Ten Hsi-shan for losing the the visitors responded with a one An era of compromise, if union war with Fengtien. cannot be affected, is highly de- Fengtien scout 'planes have Next door his compatriot had the sirable, but the wish may have surveyed the southern front and five-bar insignia, also accompani-been father to the thought. confirm the capture of Shihchia. ed by the Union Jack. Between the two shops was one of those cigarette venders who display their wares in and on a soap box!

Yesterday, to the particularly on the Kowloon side. Sunday, races, and what a where there was a liberal number miserable turn-out, of Union Jacks. One Chinese thanks to the weather! Nothing shopkeeper in Nathan Road had seemed to go right. And most of the new Nationalist, flag flying the ponies we hacked had some-alongside the British emblem. thing happen to them. Those we didn't, won easily.

When the band played "God Save the King" to signalise "H.E.'s" departure, we thought we would go too, and went, being well "soaked." To

Result Not in Doubt. According to all precepts of modern warfare, Shansi's defeat

The attention

of Lady

trust them to get the most for their money

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and two. The Service got a couplé of ones, and by doing likewise the visitors tied at five all. At the bad change

The Shanghai bowlers haven't Nobody tenth head the local team led by told them to bring their bathing 107 and at the 15th by 15-12. suits and woollen undies. After this the Shanghai team fell

Talking of bowlers, Happy their "joss" deserted them and the dead. Civil Servants cante away with fine dash and monopolised every chwang by the Shantung infantry succeeding head. and the Fengtien cavalry.

bed early, with a bit of a chill. On the top of his "store." stuck is only a matter of time. Feng- Readers is directed to Page 9 of to pleses-or, to be mere correct, Valley, is just the place to lay 'em

HE. WON

EASILY,

Hot tea, rum, lemon and sugar, a reasonable amount of fussing, and to sleep, my last thoughts being thankful ones at not having to be abroad early in the morning.

To-day thickish about the head, so stayed at home until evening, the time passing easily, what with

little water and had an extra

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in a packet of "Capstan's", was a paper model of the tri-colour of France. Strictly neutral, you see. Most of the better class Chinese were in holiday attire, Miss Hong Kong looking particularly neat and dainty in her silken gown and bobbed and plastered hair.

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The sudden

-weather it is

Unless

tien has now gained the ascen- been halted and the advance is dancy. The original retreat has

progressing.

dissent breaks out in the Fengtien camp, "Christian general") can turn the or Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang (the tide of the war, the result cannot be in doubt.

this issue.

Result:

Back Where He Began. C.S.C.C. Shihchischwang was held by Oswick Shansi before the war started so Smith

Hsi-shan-who is Grimmitt

Shanghai. Brierley Aitkenhead Malcolm Borras

(skip) 29

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Heads.

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If Shansi is crushed, there will that Yen be no buffer state between Feng-stated to have returned to his! Pendered Wednesday, change in the tien's territory and the provinces capital, Taiyuan-is behind where!

of Honan and Shenai held by the he began. quite chilly to-day-has caught us Christian general"

Snow continues to fall in the all mapping, it seems. I know it

Very Capable Strategist. northern sector hampering opera- sent me scampering to the big wardrobe in which repose the ble strategist. More, he is recog-vances on both sectors.

Feng Yu-hsiang is a very capa- tions, but Ferigtien claims ad- heavy articles of wear. They do nised as a very shrewd politician.

[Note: Shihehiachwang is at not seem in bad fettle, thanks to In his present position, he will be the junction of the Peking-Han- regular wifely attention, and it at a disadvantage, in a military, kow Railway with the Shansi was quite a pleasant sensation to stroke a thickish tweed coat geographic and political sense, in Railway. From Shihchiachwang, which fairly exuded a scent of a campaign against his old-time the line runs west to Taiyuan, heather and conjured up visions in power in Feking with an organ- forms the provih boundary rivals of Fengtien, who are now crossing the Great Wall (which of a nippy morning in the great isation known as the Ankuochun. here, at Niautzekļ out-o'-doors. This time last year,

I think the Ankuochun spokes- Angaochun B

I remember, I was well north,

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Thursday. that full

MOON

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SOULS

Peking,day.

A NEW FRONT.

General."

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sent up second shot. Borras wee

the bottle.

General Li Fook-lum has been called "the Yen Hai-shan of Can ton," "the immovable patriarch,' and the lukong of Honam,"-Why not the brook," for short?

ised by women thirty years ago to The Rainy Day Club was organ- agitate for shorter skirts. Few movements have met with more marked success,

One of the compositors set "Nationalost by intelligent anti- the Kuomintang. cipation, but he still swears by

Don't ask a pessimist how he He may tell you.

The man from Skye who bor-feels rowed a cutter and was setting. sail for China when pulled up The man with the hard luck must have been feeling home sick. -story who told the Magistrate that he stole a blanket at Pokfu- lam because his wife was aggres sive must have misconstrued an episode of Jiggs sneaking out of the house.

Cure for Seasickness

Bolt your food down.

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She was only a poor Kowloon telephone girl, but she kept plug- ging along.

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Nobody wants the man gives himself away.

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The trouble with the cup that cheers is that the cheer is mis- who taken for an encore.

Says Feter, if she can't get him, she tries to forget him and can't.

According

to

Hong Kong Police have a D.C.I

¦a D.LC., & C.D.I and the C.ID.— No wonder our law-breakers drink to their confusion.

Wednesday's) Many a husband's favourite

"Telegraph, Miss Maclennan's fiction is mystery stories. Не record Channel swim for a lady of tells them to his wife constantly. 13 hours and 10 minutes surpris- ed even her mother.. wonderful what these baby foods do nowadays. 4-

Its

Lives that used to hang by a thread now hang by an aspirin tablet.

"impossible" port. Pendered drew unlucky in getting through an Says Peter, a girl may be bent

a third shot Three for Civil Ser-on matrimony and still be perfect-

ly straight. Second head.-Oswick got jack,

vice.

Film directors will shortly be offering attractive terms for the appearance of an English lady who hasn't swum the Channel.

Diamonds are so hard that they will scratch any known metal, and just simply ruin a bank account.

A two years old claim in re- spect of a Chinese dinner was

Waiting for the

effects to wear off?

༤.,.་

A woman will jilt a mañ and then find out she can't live with- out him as soon as she learns some other woman is about to get him.

If all the local vessels pirated this year were placed one on top of the other-the bottom one would look like a pancake.

and we were thinking of our furman is right in predicting that hats and fur lined coats, how the "Christian general" will give The Ankuochun Spotsman an amount of reading of Home much ice there was going to be on up Honan province once Shanai is states that the Shansi army of papers, washing the pup, mend the river and how the skating car-crushed. He may curl himself up 8,000 south of Paotingfu is likely ing a door handle, and so on. nivals would pan out. We don't in Shensi, biding his time, or he to be practically annihilated. On Wife to church by herself, which get anything like that here. I may even go further north-west the northern front the Shansi-ites did delay dinner and my stroll know; still a Hong Kong winter (and, incidentally, nearer Mongo are evacuating Kalgan. Mean-

Description of Play. around the houses, so that it was can be pleasantly cool and satis-lia and Russian help).

while, two Shansi divisions, de- First head-Brierley was wide raining again when I got out. Soon fying after a trying summer.

Resisted Temptation.

jack high and Oswick got a yard. tailed to raid communications,

A Hong Kong University publi- returned, feeling stuffy, and to

Fengtien's vision is that the have advanced within 20 miles off through. Brierley was a yard shy cation complains that there are bed. Took tea, rum, lemon, with

and Oswick was wide and steamy. I see we've missed civil war, will have been removed. forcements have been despatched but Smith was narrow, after, which to three hindred men...

"Christian general," as a factor in Peking. Strong Mukden rein- Aitkenhead was a yard through, only 20 or so lady undergraduates sugar; of quinine ten grains in a

moon again. It's pretty Without actual assistance from to deal with the menace, which Aitkenhead lay shot, Smith went A local bookie sends a sporting made at the Summary Court this blanket put on my bed. Did sleep fulsome now, but officially it at allies, of whom Yen Hsi-ahan was the spokesman declared was not right through. and Malcolm did offer of a hundred to one on the week. heavily though not refreshingly. tained sheer rotundity two morna potential one, he has resisted serious and would soon be liquid-likewise with a toucher. Grimmitt field.

ings ago at five o'clock. Perhaps the temptation of another fling at ated as Mukden had ample re-got a wick and rolled on to the This morning of Re-it is as well, for much harm may

Peking.

serves to suppress the raiders.-jack. Malcolm was narrow and Good Business

Mar- Monday. volutionary celebra-come to you if that big yellow have struck when Chiang Kai-

If he wanted to fight, he would Reuter.

struck timber. Grimmitt sent up rying a girl with curly hair to tion did attend a

one to lie almost second. Borras avoid the permanent cost of the conference which is a weekly duty

shek was literally knocking at the

just missed the jack, but Pendered wave. and pleasure, bringing myself and

doors of Peking. Feng Yu-hsiang others taken to have arrived at

has been accepted as a leading "White" Russians v. "Christian the period of discretion into in-

light in the Nationalist Party. timate contact with the ramifica-

He has openly acknowledged the tions of administrative activity

authority of Chiang Kai-shek as in this Colony of ours. Upon re-

commander-in-chief and profess ceiving official notification that

ed his willingness to serve under my presence would be welcome,

him. did opine, this being a holiday,

Political Psychology. that duty was to outweigh plea-

and Honan (the "Christian gen-of the kitty. Erierley went through Biting off more than you can That opportunity, a few months eral's") troops,

a yard, and Smith lay almost on chew is almost as big a mistake as sure, for after all a holiday is as

ago, was really good. Yet Feng General Chang Tsung-chang of the ditch. Aitkenhead got wooded, going hungry. holiday. Such, however, was not

Yu-hsiang preferred to remain in Shantung is ordering his arm-Aitkenhead got timber, but lay and Smith went up to lie third. the case, for fragrant weeds

Honar, south of the Yellow oured trains, manned by about third. Grimmitt drew the shot, but soothed weighty discussions and

In the absence of the acting River. The possibility of the Na- 2,000 "White" Russians, to pro-Malcolm was narrow and through. Governor, General Luard conduct- when it was all over Mr. Findlater

tionalist army marching at his ceed eastwards along the Lung-Grimmitt was very ably seconded by Messrs. Huntley

wide, and ed the Legislative Council meet- side now is remote. and Palmer imbued the parting

And Yen Hai Railway from Hauchow-fu to Malcolm had hard lock with a ing.

Case of "military Hsi-shan is in course of losing his Tangshang, where the offensive toucher that refused to carry the law." with a becoming touch of friendli-

position.

against the "Christian general" jack Pendered was over a yard ness and good humour in perfect

This brings me back to another will be launched Kung Sheung short upon which Borras took

The champion absent-minded keeping with the splendid sun-

point in the mystery of Chinese Yat Po."

the jack amid cheers and saved a men was an aviator who jumped shine and holiday spirit around

political psychology, Shansi

bunch. Pendered was a trifle us. Truly hath it been said that

soldiers who were taken prisoner

narrow and heavy-hard lines. out of his aeroplane and forgot there existeth more ways of kill-

to Peking are quoted as having The "Christian general's" most Shanghai,

Borras was shy-One shot for his parachute until he was half ing a

way down. eat than choking it with cheese, when in this condition, is complained bitterly that the able lieutenant, General Lu butter.

stared at over long. Especially if "Christian general" let them Chung-lin, has ordered an ad-

A Splendid Toucher.

Peter says it faxes his credulity you are a moon baby.

Third head-Brierley rested just I am a down very badly. Yesterday a holi-moon baby so, personally, have to

vance from the north of Honen behind the jack on a full head, but that all this delay should be neces Tuesday. day, the Chinese look at it sideways nowabouts. that the "Christian general" Lung-Hai Hailway, into territory Brierley had a splendid toucher, service,

The inference to be drawn was province eastwards, following the Oswick was narrow, jack high. sary in instituting a decent taxiing on A look at the shop win- celebrating, accord- Otherwise-if I allowed that wanted to get Yen Hsi-shan of held by the Fengtien Party. ing to their wont, the anniversary wonderful disc in all its glory to Shansi into trouble, inducing him

bût Oswick went in the ditch Aitkenhead was narrow and short, (Continued on Page 7).

The bald-headed man's favour- whilst Smith was likewise. Aitken-ite suit is mohair. head blocked the fore hand, and

of the Revolution. Was mightily impressed by the display of flags,

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catch me fully in the eyes-I"either by bribes or by persua would, alas, join those moon-sion" to launch an attack on Feng- struck souls who wander the tien, promising his own imme earth in complete despair seeking diate participation.

a way back to the perfectly peace Nothing to Gain, ful yellowdom of their babyhood. Feng Yu-hsiang has nothing to Then would goblins chase me, and gain by Shansi's defeat, which

Shanghai, Yesterday. Firing has been opened, on the high with a good 'un, but Brierley The recent cold snap caught provincial frontier, between the was short and narrow after which some of us underwears. Shantung (pro-Fengtien) troops Oswick played a fine second in front

Lu Chung-lin. Shanghai, Yesterday.

FINE LATER ON.

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Good complexions die young. "Ooze to blame," said tne ubiqi- tous youngster as he splashed his new shoes in the puddle.

"Man," declares an anti-femin ist, "should be master in his own house, or know the reason why." Many married men know the rea- son why..

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Other places may have had their reign of terror but Hong Kong has this week seen a reign of rain.

Family ties are just as strong in spite of the cold weather com-

dows reminds one also of socks, woollen vests and a muffler.

Apropos of the cold one is re- minded of the troops being snow- Smith was narrow. Malcolm was The intense evaporation of oured out at Kalgan. Snuffed out is also narrow, but Grimmitt got winter months mentioned by a more appropriate though. wooded-narrow. Malcolm drew on

the jack, and Grimmitt shifted the "China Mail" writer is nothing to The weather forecast and mete still lay a couple. Borras blocked our summer months.

Shanghai woods, but the visitors the concentrated absorption of

The aggressive fellow who's al- ways rising to the occasion never knows when to sit down,

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An abundance of flirting in the Colony this week can be attri buted to the unsettled whether:

Chiang Kai-shek is to give up his tour and re-enter politics

and

I would never be happy again. strengthens the hands of his orological information issued by the on the back hand, and Fendered got All through looking on the moon rivals, the Fengtien Party, all the Observatory this morning is as fol wooded, Borras again blocked, and when it is full. Never.

more. It is in his interest to pre-lows:

Fendered was wooded again-Two Berve the buffer state condition of The Northern portion of the an- for Shanghaid A week of busy even-Shamisi, ticyclone has moved eastward leas Fourth head-Brierley was two Friday.ings has kept me from

Three Brown(e)s in a Green consistent with the chops He may have desired to useing a separate anticyclone over yards through and Oswick was a my regular visit to Yen Hsi-shan as a catapaw, Still China. Strong to fresh monsoon Oswick was a foot off narrow,

foot short. Brierley got shot, and Tower was a feature of the Helena the cinema. I like to go to the there was no advantage to him may be expected along the B.E. Aftonhead was narrow and steamy, May concert the other night. "pictures" every now and then so except that the wastages of war cast of her and over the W. Aitkenhead was steamy T as to keep in touch with what is would put Fengtien back a certain China Sea. being shown these days,To-extent. night have promised to see Tom Moore in a piece called "The Song and Dance Man." These are the sort of pictures I like.

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No-

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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to day wo31/11 11/18)

When the painter fell from the side of the ship into the dock he went down with colours flying,

Women, as usual have shown the furst sign of coming cold-

in for shot. Aitkenhead had hard dizzy blonde is one of that Forecast, Formosa Channel-lines-no change. Smith was mar sort who usually refers to herself North East Winds, strong,

row, whilst Malcolma was close up as "light complected." Hong Kong and adjacent cousthard lines. Grimmitt lay sacondi ports Northeast winds, fresh, and Malcolm almost got shot. Lots of the girls who are look-ness, cloudy at first. Finer later.

Grimmitt put a good blocker in ing for careers on the stage would front of the Jack Borras was too accomplish more if they would

(Continued on Page 10.) es to the floor of the kitchen

It seems that all good things to eat are indigestible