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funeral on Friday, May 25th, and also to thank everybody who at tended the funeral and expressed condolence in their bereavement.

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.

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mado a horrible mess of it. They can understand it. He brings did not realise that the local mind perfectly fresh and detached girlles' stocklegs were hitched up to the job and has not, had deal above to a strong suspender or a with dozens of "Truthful James" ring of serviceable elastic. How regularly for six days in wook. do I know? Wasn't I there? course, there may be another rea- son why a fellow who looks on if he is bound for a month or two I see that an effort has behind the bars walks out of count That Stone, been made to put the unmolested. Perhaps the Magla-

Groat Pyramid in

trates have to study the question pride of place among the wonders

of jail-accommodation from day to of the world. A pamphlot-I didn't notice its name says

day. Suppose, for instance, there was room for only ten new birds stone since the middle of the last

in Mr, Franks Hotal, and suppose century, has been the victim of a

the two cadis had a very energetic startling theory-that it conati-

day and despatched, say, three tutes a startling prophecy, bullt dozen offenders where would under Divine direction to give

the

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MR. LEE HYSAN.

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL HELD

YESTERDAY..

TWO BRASS BANDS ATTEND.

Official, merchant and all classes were represented at the funeral yesterday of the late Mr. Lue Hy- was assassinated a few weeks ago san, the Chinese millionaire who in his club.

The impressive procession, con- of auch displays, was extraordin taining many of the best fentures arily long; and it passed through the entire length of the city.

The brass band of, tho Chang Sing Benevolent Society, of which deceased was a life member and a benefactor, was in attendance, played the March Funebre.

town, a halt was made inside the At "Yat Pit Ting," Kennedy- pavilion for friends, foreign and Chinese, to pay their last respects. The band of the 2nd Batt. King's Own Scottish Borderers was in at- tendance there.

indications in future years of the they put the other two dozen? course of world events" And so

As someone said in these on. According to an Interpreta-Nothing columns a few months tion the exact period of the great Doing. back we people who write war was shown by a length of

for our living cannot very low passage, leading into a help but stick up our wares for larger gallery, usually termed the any fool to shoot at. And the fool king's ante-chamber. What the generally shoots. One-there are

Mony Mourners, The principal mourners were stone might have told those inter- others worse-attempts to take the five sons (Messrs. Lee Wing- ested was that the period of the me to task for using what he dea-Lee Wing-kit and Lee Wing-hong) kan. Loe Wing-tam, Lee. Wing-tip, cribes

as a split infinitive. If he and the four daughters of deceas- will examine the sentence in ques-ed. The widow and concubine fol. tion again he will discover that the lowed the

coffin and the two uni-word "to" is an ordinary prepost. here bore my readers with a repetition tion governing a noun. I will not of the sentence and a copy of the correspondence thereanent. I think I have said enough to show my

де-

great war was paved with a very

heap pasango to the seat of Avilles, leading into a larger life usually known as the King's form. But that is neither nor there, is it?

Ten members of

the

Not So junior bar have, ob-finnicky friend where he gets off.

Bod,

serve, been admitted to

"Bil," and I also note

a tripon, but he must be a real, the years 1894 and 1912 which, on dyed-in-the-wool taipan. For 4the face of it, shows that it is not junior residence there is fatal. He so easy for a barrister to obtain gets, in the first place, a wrong the coveted KC. crown. idea of his

But it is own Importance, worth the waiting and the worry, and ho gets, invariably, lazy. May-1 would imagine. One of our local be the air on the heights ich lumlaries is credited with charg- that it atrophies the power of willing eight hundred dollars a day for of all except the strang-minded. appearance in the Supreme Court. .. Anyway, it is an interest-You can't call that bad pay, even ing study.

for a local K.C., can you?

I see that seven-a-

nephews, Mosura. Lee Wai-suerr funeral chair. and Lee Bak-hung, supported the

-Hundreds of scrolls, extolling the virtuos of Mr. Lea Hysan, were borne in the procession,

clation, of which Mr. Lee was Pre- The South China Athletic A380- sident at the time of his death, sent a mammoth wreath. Pupila turned out in force. of the Association's free schools: The 14th

that they were "called" between Seven-a-Side. side rugby has in-Troop of Boy Scouts (also of the

vaded the south England. This is a

of S.C.A.A.) were present, carrying a ture, though in Scotland, I am told, |

new depar-scroll of flowers with the Scout

motto picked out,

Wreath From Governer, they have been playing the game for nearly half a century. It is a erzor (Sir Cecil Clementi) was ne

A wreath from H.E. the Gov- whirlwind affair, too; something corded a place of honour in the after the style of six-a-side soccer,

procession. only speedier and needing every at Yat Pit Ting were the Hon. Sir Among those, who were present: bit of determination to get the ball Sheuson Chow, the Hon. Dr. R. H. where it is wanted. The fastest Kotowall, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Nr. man on the side is put at full-back, Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. Li Yau-taun, A. E. Wood, Dr. B. W. To, Mr: and the job of the other six is to Mr. D. E. Blake, Mr. J.-M. Wong. ply him with chances. All afforts Mr. Lo Cheung-shiu, Mr. Ho aro made to shoot the ball out to Kwong, Mr. Ho lu, Mr. C. G- Youngsters, thus" Training Ship, then races for the line; he must C. E. H: Beavis, Mr. Ma Chul-chiu, him as soon as it is heeled, and he College, Old Boys' Association), Mr. Anderson (hon. secretary, Queen's formerly the National Refugees, are circularising Britons Posiession, it is therefore seen, is B. S. Ford, Mr. A. P. Greaves, not cross kick or kick for touch. Mr. Ma Chi-lung, Mr. Lo Yuk-tong, in the Far East, and in

Mr. Ho Wing, Mr. J. F. Grose, Mr. of my readers have not received

everything In this abbreviated Mr. Fung Tsok-lum, Dr. E. Law, their notice, I propose to say some-

rugby game. thing about the concern.

The

Our

The Shaftesbury Homes and

"Are-

сабе апу

UNVEILED IN KOWLOON CEMETERY.

Professor Lai Chai-hai,, Mr. J. S. McKenzie, Mr. Wal Po-cheung, Mr. She Yu-man, Mr. Kwok Stu-lau, Mr. Ho H, Mr. Wong Tong. Hs. Mak Wing-u, Mr. Mok Kon-sang, Mr. Yung Taze-ming, Mr. Ho. Wing- chuen, Mr. Tang Chi-ngong, Mr. Tsang Foo..

The mention of Ceylon Ceylon will always stir sweet Memories, memories that linger in the minds of some of our august officiale, others have loved the Island so much that they have taken themselves back there with undisguised pleasure, One, you may remember, when he got beyond our grasp, said cather Society was founded in 1843 with INDIAN MEMORIAL. pointedly what he thought about the object of educating and train Hong Kong, and we will never fer- ing fatherless, bereaved and got him! However, in spite of the neglected children. Since then drawbacks here, officialdom has just on 26,000 youngsters have

At the Indian Cemetery, Kow- were Mr. Eldon Potter, Mr. F. C. Among those who sent wreatha not yet had to contend with situation such as now exists in the There are four Homes in and Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.G.)mittee and members of the Queen's,

a been given a good start in life. Joon, yesterday, H.E. the Officer Jenkin, Mr. L. G. St. Johnson, Mr.

Administering the Government (the Chau Ping-un, land of the Singalesc. There, it around London, and

The General Com-- the "Are unveiled a memorial to cight Indian College Old Boys' Association, Mr. appears, a gentleman called the thusa training ship buoyed one who

soldiers who died here during the A. E. Wood, Mr. A. H. Crook Hon. Mr. D. B. Jayatilaka has the Thames. These are for boys; brought an action for defamation girls are looked after at Ealing,

(Headmaster) and Mrs. Grook, the ' Addressing the assembly, in Staff of Queen's which the against a Ceylon newspaper, and Sudbury and Royston. The Mer-

military forces were Nemame,

College, Mr.. largely represented, His Excellency Messrs. Laf Cheong Loong, Lee

the Yue Kee Club, . in order to "establish the fact of cantile Marine and the Royal Navy Wo

Baid:- Hong Kong, Saturday, May 26, 1928. interference by Legislative Coun- take the majority of the boys, and to unveil a

Garden, Lee Theatre, Tai Wo res-- have assembled to-day taurant, South China

memorial of those Scouts, Mr. Leung Wing-choung, A.A. Boy cillors in regard to appointments, the girls go into domestic service Indian soldiers who died in Mr. Li Fuk-tsau, the "China Mail, transfers, and promotions of their after being trained In household service during the Great War. Itcheung,

Hong Kong while, H.C.His Column. candidates in the

on actiive Mr. G. W. C. Burnett; Mr. Wai Po- Government dutica Service" he has moved for evid

le, of course, known that these sol- diers did not lose their lives by ence to be given by no other than the Director of Medical and Sant- Some Out circular, are asking for to the Empire required somg

"The Society, in their battle, but in as much

direct enemy action on the field of as 'Bervice tary Services.

to Here, donations, and perhaps fight in the truncheon to

residents of the Colony guard the outpasts of our distant main at the base, and dome to What a curious state may find it possible to assist this possessions, the British Govern Hybrid Title of affairs, to be sure. really good cause. We have had ment decided that there should be

Fancy our own Dr. "Arethusa" lads in the ships out paid to the memory of those set- Mine Deparment, stated in Parlls- no differentiation in the honour Commodore King, Secretary, Moore being called into the wit here, and we have others. In differ-diers who lost their lives in loyalment that since January 1, 1927, 102 When I write my his-ess box for a purpose ent, walks of life amongst us; the service to the Empire in her hour pits in South Wales normally em

You cannot, of course, fancy any Customs have found occupation the wonderful response of the In-

of need. I need not remind you of ploying 80,000 wage earners had thing of the sort, for the occasion for more than one. All are thank- dlan Empire to the nation's call

closed and not reopened. is one of a kind which would never ful for the Society's training, and for help. From the highest to the, arise, I trust. in Hong Kong. A here, I think, we have a charity thers-in-arms flocked to the sup parusal of the report, however, has about which we cannot go wrong. port of the British cause, and

lowest in the land our Indian Bro-

I know now from whence our late of the Society, when speaking soldiers died, and to their memory. set my mind at rest on one point The Prince of Wales, the President in the course of duty were posted P.M.C.0.8 hybrid title was do-about the work said: "This is a this tablet which I have the honour to Hong Kong. Here eight Indian rived. Blessed are the fruits of cause about which nobody need be to unfell has been erected at the in any doubt, and it is because our joint expense of the Imperial War Society has for so many years de- Kong War Memorial Fund May Grave Commlasion and the Hong An item about the voted fall to this catise with such it ever be a reminder of India's From day to day series of half Order of Order of the Garter, the Garter.. announcing

conspicuous

that I feel honourable

felpation in the a dozen questions, not tremendously ite public sp

Wan and to these races, which difficult to answe enjoy, th

Britannica an, in so simply solved on may be thought," not always now" asks,"

The spiration to loyal service to the appear on this page, Answers are Prince generally, knows what he is Empire,,

CAM given on page 18:

I always gathered that Well I the Roman Church did Never! not like the Masons, but now we have the Fascisti, which does not like the Roman Church, condemning hand-shaking. What do you think of that?

That Peak tory of Hong Kong

Air. which I intend to do if

Ceylon!

I stay here long enough —I shall include a chatter on mate ters geographical, The location of the place in which a man lives, sleeps and spends his recreational hours has much to do, I think, with the manner in which he occupies his working period. All clae be ing equal, there is, it strikes.me, a distinct difference in the mental application and output between person living. Bay, at Happy Val- ley or in Bowen-road, or at How-

new toon Point and in the se Bay hond Hotel. Following: readers may perhaps conclusion

best out

bint so fir

the

Is an ideal homing-

pointment of three Knights to that ancient Interested me. It remind- Order of the

port

about.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received from Lloyds Bank, £200 as a contribution from one of

their customers, who desires to remain anonymous, towards the re- duction of the National Debt.

TEASERS.

Answer The "China Mail" Questions. TO-DAY'S POSERS. OU

1. Wha

Dr. Bones, the Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister, arrived in Lon Bo our respected Begia don "from Paris, where he has been

completing a holiday necessitated ruler

sges.

by overwork:

The Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith has

plact

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Hom

this: