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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927.

"AS OTHERS SEE US.” TRAM EX-EMPLOYEE.

A REFRESHING VOICE WITH SOME CANDOUR.

MA

WHO WILL DEFEND US?

JAILED FOR ASSAULTING AN INSPECTOR.

-FORCED TO PAY HIS FARE.

Last week I said good-bye to al

A Chinese who was stated to have friend who had been spending the been employed in the workshop of best part of a month under my the Hong Kong Tramway Company roof. A most entertaining man,

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

Snow and frost are predicted for Christmas at Home-Will Mr Claxton please note?

entered a cafe. After ordering tea An Englishrpan and a Scotsman

renowned at College as an athlete and wha ́dismissed on December 2, for two, the Englishman thought he and scholar, he has penetrated into was this morning charged before saying, "You be mother and pour would cause some amusement by many of the world's queer out-of-

the-way spots, made three fortunes Mr. R. E, Lindsell with attempting out." and lost two, awalys kept his eyes to avoid paying his fare when rid-

"Oh, certainly," replied the Scot, wide open, and as a result can ing in-tramear No. 57 on Saturday to leave. "Hey!" shouted his com- After the men! the Scotsman rose regalo llsteners with tales of Vienna, Rio, Dawson City, Congo afternoon, and with assaulting a panion, "where are you going?" land, the Veldt, the Bush, and the Chinese ticket inspector.

"That's all right," he replied, Southern Seas, I was the host but With regard to the first charge.

you be father and pay." The was the entertainer, Concern the accused said that at first he Summer pests must be killed ing Hong Kong and its life he had was not asked by the tram conduc-seientifically, not with the first some pungent as well as a few

tor to buy a ticket, but eventually domestic implement that comes to laudatory things to say, and some when he was asked he paid five hand, says

these I am penning. from

a health specialist.

of

斷

College Student: I want a good lead pencil, please.

memory, in the hope that they may rents. As to the assault on the For instance, a rolling-pin gathers prove interesting to Hong Kongites, ticket inspector, the accused said no mesquitoes.

"Life most towns East of Aden that the inspector struck him first, in which Europeans are

so he struck back. gated, Hong Kong has this no- The conductor said that he re- vantage one aoon gets to know cognised the accused as a Tramway College Studen: Hard,. It's for

Attendant: Hard or soft? folk. In a month or two after his Company employee, and, not know the stiffest examination of the

congre-

arrival a fellow, If he is at all

sociable.. gets to know a sufficienting that he had been dismissed, did year. number of his countrymen to en- not ask him to buy a ticket when

able him to get along nicely. But he boarded the car outside the Bay The most audacious man of the soon he geta to know too many. View Police Station, going in the week is the one who went round Yes! I say he gets to know too direction of Taikoo. Eventually the to the stage door after the per- many, because when a man is Inspector told him that the accus- formance and tried to get back the known to nearly every European ined had been dismissed by the Com- pennies he had thrown at the ac- the place it cramps bla style Hepany, and then he asked the accus-, becomes a slave to "good form" and ed to pay his fare, and the latter.Why can't women act as post- convention, and must everything paid him five cents..

"comme il faut." His motings are

fors!

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men again 7 asks a writer.

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Any- "is it done?", "go slowly." "what The Magistrate decided on the way, if the suggestion were adopt will the firm say?"; and he acts conductor's evidence, that the first ed, those of us who don't like re- as if he were under the lorgnettes charge against the accused could ceiving income tax forms would of a thousand Mrs. Grundys. And not be sustained, and he was dis- merely put a notice on the garden what are the consequences should charged.

gate, 'Beware of the Mice." he to otherwise? If he displays originality he is eccentric; if he is! With regard to the assault, the 'Talking about little burgs' said sure enough of himself to follow ticket inspector said that the ac-the travelling man, reminds me of own inclinations and show cused heard him tell the conductor the time I was in the smallest town imitiative he is dubbed "common" to make the accused buy a ticket, I know of. Why that own was body whom it could not influence feminine, his wife is ambitious: if the car, the accused followed and Again' on the back of the 'Welcome or selfish or, if the critics are no when he (witness) jumped off small that they painted 'Come to imbibe and practise Commun- he succeeds and wins by his very pushed him violently. When he re-

sign.* ist "principles." They backed own efforts a niche in a higher monstrated the accused the Intter social stratum, instead of recognis-picked up a piece of wood from the the Nationalist. horse to win in Ing his achievement his "Christian

an

his

NOT RED!

NORTHERN CHINESE AND A SWORD STICK.

STUCK FOR $100.

When Algy all unwilling.

SO

From hopes and fears released, Was cut off with a shilling

By his Aunt Jane (deceased), He didn't move a feature

He hardly seemed to care, But murmured, 'Poor old crea-

ture,

She merely bobbed her heir!"

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'I wish I was a little boy at school again, went on the principal speaker to the pupils in the assem- bly hall. Do you know why I wish that?"

This remark impressed the chil- dren for a moment, and then a childish voice from the rear of the hall was heard to say:

'Perhaps 'cos you've forgot what you learned,'

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easy canter, but when the friends" gain a morbid satisfaction road and struck him on the neck jockey changed his colours and was "nothing" when he first enmeness suggested that the accused as by reminding one another that he with it, knocking him down. Wit- went into the anti-Communist out, and they attribute his rise to saulted him because he had told the stable Moscow had to find another impudence or luck.

conductor to collect five cents from mount. It almost succeeded in

Dropping Cards.

the accused. "Your social system is a relic of) finding one in Canton last week-the Fendal Ages. You talk phari-cused of assault and sent him to The Magistrate, convicted the ac- end, only that the "King of Hosaically of the enste system nam" made the pace too hot forisation is redolent

India while your own social organ-

in jail for 14 days with hard labour. of the Brah- him, and, he had to beat a hasty minism of snobbery. Why should retreat after inflicting all the you distinguish between the whole- damage he could in the brief space the one as necessary

sale and the retail merchant? Isn't

to a eam-i at his disposal, But--had that munity, as the other? In Britain coup succeeded the vials of the to-day we hear of Lady X opening a hat shop, or of Lord Lord Y Soviet wrath would once again becoming a motor salesman, and have been poured out against the no one thinks the less of them for

Women are it, but in the Enst it simply can-1 Peking Government whom the not be done.

now wearing com- Here one's occupa-

A Northern Chinese who arrived plexions that match their clothes, Soviet virtually falls back upon in tion, not one's birth, breeding. from Canton yesterday, was this we read. However, it is not true, support of its claim that the Na-balance, determines one's place in Willson at the Central Magistracy their faces with dynamite.

education, character, or even bank- morning charged before Major Ccoloured stockings are powdering that the ones who wear gunmetal- tionalist Government of Nanking the scheme of things. The junior with the unlawful possession, with- has acted ultra vires in telling the clerk in a wholesale firm (provided out a. permit, of a sword stick. Soviet Consuls and commercial can pass through doors closed to he has been appointed from Home)

The accused admitted the offence, only street in London without a Sackville-street, Piccadilly, is the agents to quit Nationalist soil as princes in the retail line. Most and said that he was ignorant of lamp-post. Drunkards found in

of you agree as to the iniquity of local regulations. speedily as possible.

that street are usually summoned the system yet none has the gump- Détective Sub-Inspector Andrews for loitering with no visible means It is the old story since the tion to raise a protosting voice."

"Then take your ridiculous customed was arrested on board the s.s.

told the Magistrate that the accus-of support. Soviet became the enemy of the of dropping cards, and those ludi-Sai On," and the police were satin. Because the Nationalist author-whole world. The Soviet can do erous little boxes outside your fied that the accused was not "Red," ities have given the Soviet no wrong-till it is found out, houses telling the world that Mrs. but a messenger for the Hupeh au- Consulates and commercial and then it vainly tries to take And when your clerks get beyond thorities, and was on his way back

Bynks-Browne is out. Bathos!

Loudon Ofices-The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Southampton Street, Strand, W,C.2.

Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 19, 1927.

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SOVIET PEEVED.

it would not allow itself to be in- fluenced by the Communists then

in Canton. Now that the Nation- alists have kicked out the Soviet Consulates the Soviet Consul-

"TEA MONEY.”

PROVEN.

an oracle."

Fat and Liverish,

crass

UNOFFICIAL REPORT OF A FOURTH ARREST,

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CHINESE DETAINED BY POLICE.

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of this

It was a house of death. Betty's mother, a prey to grief, sat silently

Suddenly, with a violent jerk, the door opened, and Betty barst ex- citedly into the room, waving some- thing in her hand.

she

"Oh, what do you think?" said breathlessly, "Grandma's gone off to heaven an' forgotten to take her knitting with her!"

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"Do you think this medicine will do me any good?"

directions carefully. It says:- "I think se, if you follow the Keep bottle tightly corked," "

"Then

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look after my car while I go into 'Would you be good enough to the store?"

'Sir! I am the mayor agencies their marching orders shelter behind

prevarications, the Red Sea they call themselves to Shanghai.

town!" the Soviet is peeved. They are evasions, and downright lies. It denly become engineers. Oh Con- $100 and ordered the confiscation of to me to be an honest man!'

accountants and your plumbers aud-. The Magistrate imposed a fine of "That doesn't matter. You look more than that-they are decided-has gone astray in its calculations! vention! What absurdities are the weapon. ly chagrined and furious. When against Great Britain; it has gone committed in the name! Moscow ruled the roost in Canton astray in regard to Peking; and a too funny for words.

"And your interport rivalries are the Paking Government and all like result has followed its fer to your interport sporting con- GUNMEN'S OUTRAGE, in the drawing-room.

I do not re- its acts were virtually declared coquetry with the Nationalists. tione, but to the mutual jealousie tests, which are splendid institu- null and void because, according M. Chicherin and his kind may go beween the various European Set- to Moscow, Peking did not repre-on bleating till they are tired-timents out here, and the sent the "voice of the people. of they will leave China and the when indulging in their Philip- ignorance displayed by so many China"-and, of course, because world unmoved!

pics. In each place the extollers of their own midden-heap bore you with platitudes derogatory to some. rival town which very often they It was learned unofficially, as we have not even seen. Demur, and were going to press, that the police you are a sour individual; concur, have arrested and are detaining for and you are a man of taste and; perception; tell them their town is investigation, a Chinese who is be General in Shanghai, M. CHINESE ALLEGATION NOT the finest in the East, and you are lieved to be the fourth man of the Chicherin, plaintively turns to

gang of gunmen who fired on a police patrol in Wing Lok Street, Magistrate, "that you were rude to you deny," Baid the the Peking Government, and the

"Too many of your men and far resulting in Sergeant Thomas Mc- the policeman when he asked to see treaty made between Soviet

too many of your women under Mahon, amongst other police off your licence?"! Russia and China in 1984, in suping charged before Mr. R. E to do with that. How many

When a Chinese was this morn- forty are fat and liverish. I'm cers, being wounded.

afraid afternoon naps have a lot

"Certainly, sir," replied the Immediately after the firing on motorist. All I said was that, Fort of his very specious argu-Lindsell with obtaining 60. cents your Europeans between the ages the ploket, all foar gunmen bolted, from what I could see of him, I was

of ment that the Soviet Govern- from the driver of public motor of thirty-five and fifty could, this One was arrested a little distance jure his wife would be happier as ment "never recognised the so-car No. 393 by false pretences, he week, climb from the water front away, a second was shot dead, and a widow." called Nationalist Government of alleged that the Chinese

to the summit of the Peak in less third was wounded and taken to con-than two hours and not feel ex-the hospital, whilst the remaining their first honeymoon morning the Nanking." M. Chicherin con- stable who arrested him (No. hausted? How many of them ever man succeeded in making good his happy man was first down to break- veniently forgets that his Gov-C593) had asked him to collect do any physical work away from escape. In the subsequent chase of fast, and promptly propped up his ernment absolutely disavowed "tea money" from motor the tennis courts or golf links? the fugitives,

a searcher car Your doctors would suffer badly Yaumati ferry wharf was shot dead, pot and was soon immersed in the on the daily paper in front of the coffee- touts for him, and he did so, not if chairs and ricshas were to whilst a Chinese constable on boat newa. Feking and everything and every-knowing that the constable was be forbidden during the winter body pertaining to Peking after laying a trap for him. However, months to all healthy folk. Men- duty was fatally wounded, and sub- The young bride, on entering the the raid on the Soviet Legation the accused could not explain why tally, things are just as bad. How sequently died at the Government room, broke down, and in a falter- quarters in Peking some months the constable should seek to get many of you have a hobby? How Civil Hospital.

him into trouble, and failing to many of you ever do any serious ago. In fact, it went so far prove his allegation against the thinking (apart from Bridge) then-as it has now in regard to constable he was sent to jail by and your women here talk smugly much exaggeration are in his state-

any serious reading? Yet your men the Nationalists to utter dire Mr. Lindsell for six weeks' hard of Western civilisation and go-ments I leave for the reader to de- the streat, slipped heavily on the threats if the humiliation and in-

labour.

aheadness, of the bull-dog breed, cide. It may be a slight consola ault to Soviet Russia was not in-

and so on, as if they were repre- tion to some aggrieved ones to arose and commenced to rub his sentatives of such, instead of realie- learn that my friend had many good limbs vigorously. As he did so 2 stantly followed by, adequate

ing that their "cushy" circum-things to say about the place, for little boy standing by burst into a apologies and reparation. Mere

stances are the result of priva-example, the sensible way we spend fit of sobbing. empty threats, as are those now

tions borne by pioneers long ago. our Sundays in the open air, also The unfortunate victim was vehemently breathed against the navon Road, Kowloon, has reported they ove

Mra. Landy, living at No. 8, Car. They also seem to have forgotten that he had found what he calls touched by this apparent display of

knew it) that, con- the Brahminism of snobbery and Nationalists!

sympathy. to the Police that during her ab-traziness, continual striving, and mental sluggishness even more Moscow was only too glad to sence betwaan Friday afternoon and mental activity are, necessary to strongly entrenched in other places prevent stagnation and retardation, than in Hong Kong. You asks use the Nationalists as a pawn in room was forced open and $100 in se spake my "gentleman with the drill

yesterday morning, a trunk in her etc., etc, etc.

"Where?" No, names, no pack- the game against all and every bank notes stolen.

duster." How much truth and how nodomu“UR ANA THUR

A KOWLOON THEFT,

or

They were newly married and on

Ing tene axclaimed "Good heavens, I never realised till now that I had married a bookworm!"

An elderly man, walking along pavement, Somewhat ruefully, he

"Never mind, my little man, he said soothingly. I am so her much. You needn't cry...

"I wasn't crying for that,"

replied the boy, with a sob, "It was my banans you' trod on.”