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Egypt "with the conviction that he had rendered a great service to his country." "But," says Str Austen, "It was profoundly to be regretted that the same wisdom

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MERCHANT OFFICER WHO COULD NOT GET A HOME.

PRAPS-PRAPS NOT!

The other day a man offered to

was not shown there. The deci- HIS HONG KONG EXPERIENCE. Ision of the Wafd was unfavour

able, and the treaty was killed by

(To the Editor of the "China Mail? | sell a couple of dredgers. A woman them." There, indeed, was the

Sir-On July 16 I returned to standing by said "What we wish to real explanation, and the Egyp tinna were politely told that the Hong Kong.. I proceeded to the buy le a few reservolta not dred-- recent crisis arose not over the re- Sailors' Home. The Superinton- gera." jection of the treaty, but "out of dent refused to admit me although circumstances which had already offered cash down. The objec.There was a young lady of Ryde, too often produced crises before tion, I was told, was because I owed Who ate green apples and died. the treaty was thought of, and from $300 to $400 which had been The apples fermented, and so the which, unless more wisdom were incurred during the boycott. Pay- lamented

shown in the direction of Egyp-mont of the debt would have left me Had clder inside her inside. tian policy in future, would in- nothing to live on so I could not do evitably. produce Buch crises it.

again." No harsh words have I then tried the Seamen's Institute | Looking down the brand new wolf been used to the Egyptians so far, which was also shut to me. Why? |___ that the mason bulk her, but they have been admonished I owed them no money,

Poor old auntie slipped, and fett.... Since then we've used a filter

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What do the poor Chinese do when they cannot make two ends. meet (meat) -They make one end

rico.

Thompkins: "Have you heard about the great joke on Brown?"

Simpkine: "No, what was that?" " "He was going fishing, but broke his leg and couldn't go.”

to be careful and honest in their Now I have to pay hotel rates dealings with the British Govern-and ferry fares. I beg to draw ment, and above all to face the your attention to a state of affairs facts. One of those facts is the in this Colony which, I submit, calls position of the Suez Canal, and for censure. another is British power. If there is a true statesman in the the dimeult time undergone by Most of your readers will recall Wafd he will try to induce his officers of the Mercantile Marine party to believe that it will not when the boycott began in June, be wise to play fast and loose 1925. Many of us were reduced to with Britain.

dire straits. The Government in- tervened.

We had the privilege The Water Authority has opened of obtaining advances to tide us ten more street fountains In the over Is it fair, I ask again, to water restricted areas in Hong penalise me on account of circum

stances over which I had no control and which even the Government recall for." cognized as abnormal? By going to the Sailors', Home' again I showed Justice of the Peace H. W. Penny good faith. My intention has al-had a negro girl witness appearing ways been to wipe off the arrears in his court the other day. The as soon as possible.

maid sat down. She crossed her limbs.

Kong.

The Garrison 'School prize-giving has been postponed until Friday, August 3. The time and place re- main unaltered.

"But that's no joke."

"No; but the fishmonger heard of the accident, and delivered the atring of fish Brown said he would

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Judge.

"Pull down your dress," said the

"I can't. Jedke. I' dresses jes'. like white gals."

"You are fined five dollars for contempt of court," said the Judge. "Pay it to the clerk.”

The maid wont to the clerk and offered hin five dollars.

clerk.

"What's this for?" asked the

"For tempting the Jedge," said the maid.-"Miami Life."

Madeira (where I heard the raider was glancing at a newspaper. "I One of the two girls. In the ear “Wolf" firing), Newport News and Consulate in Hong Kong, Mr. S. shortly afterwards, she was lost octogenarian, is dead. Now what The Chancellor of the Peruvian Liverpool. I left the ship and, sec," she remarked presently, to her companion, "that Mr. Brown, the Barrios, together with his family, with all hands off Scotland. Then on earth is an octogenarian, any- will sail this afternoon for I served in Mesopotamia and went how?" "I'm sure I haven't the Barcelona, where he has been Home in 1010. ..

faintest idea," the other girl.re transferred by his Government. In 1920 I came out to Shanghai plled. "But they're an awfully and got a berth as 2nd Mate and sickly lot. You never hear of one Mrs. LI Chal-sum, accompanied then as 1st Mate, I came to Hong but he's dying." other Canton officials,, arrived by the seamen's strike in 1922-nnd by General Chan Chal-tong and Kong at the wrong time-during

Nervous Suitor (to little

sister."

the 8.3. "Lung Shan" last night waited nine months before I got an- brother)-"I've come to see your and, it is understood, will proceed other job. to Nanking to join her husband,

twaterm

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A Chinese lad, Tai Wong, aged In 1916 I left Bombay to join the 13, was sent to the Governments.s. "City of Paris" at Karachi to Civil Hospital, suffering from in-go Home, intending to join the Fly- jurles received from falling from ing Corps. On board. I was a tree in Happy Valley.

commanded to join a confiscated pations are equally interested,

The police raided No. 16, Tai Wo-German boat bound for Home with just as men of all grades of street, Wanchai, early yesterday

grain.

Through belug torpedoed I lost society find at least the re- morning and arrested five undeair- sults of such encounters absorbables. They also raided a house, £336 and when I got Home I receiv-

ed £110 compensation. noar-by and arrested two more. ingly satisfying. For years the

The age limit being 32, and I was nobility of England were the Unless cause is shown to the 35, I could not join the Royal Naval chief supporters and indeed, on contrary in three months, the names Reserve, much less the Flying of the Man Wing S.S. Co., Ltd., and Corps. I took a post as 1st Mate. many occasions, the promoters of the Chinese

Almanac Advertising After becoming Master, I went from pugilistic exhibitions. Nowadays Co., Ltd. will be struck off the Malta to Mudros, Cuba, Gibraltar, when publicity is so highly organ. register of companies. The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.ised and the means are more at the disposal of larger numbers of people to witness such encoun- ters, the interest is even greater, Stadiums that hold vast crowds are almost always crowded, and those unable to witness the fight are able to see its minutest details, in full motion and "as to the life," almost as clearly and perhaps more enjoyably by means

The boycott put me right out in

Little Brother-Sho's been of the "movies." There is an A Chinese was admitted to the 1 secured a Government passage to

1925 and in 1926 I ran out of cash. pecting you." other magnet, in the boxing bouts Government Civil Hospital yes-Australia where I obtained inter- smiling)"Ah! that's good. Here's Nervous Suttor (beaming and of to-day in the fact that never terday, suffering from injuries mittent ensual work which allowed a shilling for you. How do you

received as a result of falling Hong Kong. Saturday, July 28, 1928. before in the history of pugilism, through the top bunk while asleep me to save enough to go to Singa- know, my little man, she's been ex-

have the stakes been so enormous, at 102 Praya East. The man died pore in December 1927. There Ipecting me?" entirely of course because of the at 4.20 in the afternoon.

got a shore job but the rubber vast numbers of spectators who

slump set in. I hung on till I could An apprentice bricklayer, do no more and therefore came to The immense amount of inter-are willing to pay large and, in Chung Tin, was yesterday remov-try Hong Kong again as I have been est that has been aroused by the many instances "fancy," prices ed to the Government Civil Hos-informed that shipping was picking heavyweight championship fight to witness the contest. To-day nital suffering from injuries of up here.

the head sustained as a result of Having wearted you with my re- the sums involved in such a bout falling from scaffoldings at the cord I apologise. between Tunney and Heeney

But I ask for again brings into prominence the as that of the Tunney v. Heeney rear of No. 117, The Peak.

the last time, is it fair? fact that such fisticuff exhibi-are literally overwhelming. The

Yours etc., tions are among the most exciting redoubtable Tunney is known to Tuesday, July 31, the supply of

H. W. PARRY. of any kind of popular display, have received no less than a mil-water to all wharves in Victorin lion gold dollars when he accepted will be turned off, and will remain the present restric- ing innate in mankind (much the challenge of his even better cut off while

tions on the Colony's water sup- more especially of course in the known antagonist Dempsey, while ply continue in force

for meeting Heeney, a much less masculine portion of the human species) in interesting themselves popular exponent, he received no less than G.$800,000, while the a couple of human beings pummelling themselves for challenger on both occasions also supremacy. Of course, the extra received a very large aum. ordinary physical qualifications necessary, the rigorous, and vigor- ous training, the alertness, cour- age, skill and endurance are all of themselves, singly and collective- ly, admirable, qualities. If it were not so. boxing, Instead of being

BIG BOXING, BOUTS.

Indeed there seems to be some-

in

There is of course something extremely ludicrous about these "gentlemen of the ring" being compensated with sums that

It is notified that on and after

Hong Kong, July 27.

KOWLOON'S. NOISES.

To the Editor of the "China Mail") Dear Sir-Kindly allow me t

regarded, as it almost universally coolies. So long, however, as such street, Wanchal, and also a girl of and also by the police and the coh-

"She's gone out."

The teacher was examining the

class, to see how much they remem bered of a natural history lesson given the day before, and told the children each to give her the namo of an animal. Up went a hand.

"Well, Johnnie, which, animal do you remember?"

"The warmer."

"Nonsense! There's T:0 Buch animal. Sit down!"

Up went another hand, "Please, misa I know what 'e means. E means the otter."

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Binks sat down on the low walf

The "Gazetta" notifies that Mr. hold a amall. Debta Court in the to air a Kowloon grievance. These the end of the road, only to find he T. W. Ainsworth is authorised to few lines of your esteemed paper with a groan. He had walked to office of the District Officer (North) few lines probably contain the had taken the wrong turning.

Suddenly, in the distance, he and in the charge rooms of the fol-views of a large number of Kow- lowing New Territories police sta-loon Residents living within "ham- heard a motor horn, and leaving his tions:-Teunwan, Tal 0, Tung mer-shot" of the new building be- seat waved frantically at the pass- Chung, Cheungchau, Yung-shu-wan. ing. erected in Nathan-road, being motorist.

tween Victoria View and the Sta- It was in vain; and, with an- commenced to The police received a number of tion Hotel, who have been nightly other groan he reports yesterday of persons miss-deprived of their undoubtedly well-retrace his steps when, in the dis- make the salaries of Fresidents, Ing. A mui tsui le reported miss earned sleep and rest. (Parties tance, he saw another car approach- and Premiers, to say nothing of ing from a house in Stanley-street, larly so, during the present trying ng mere Cabinet Ministers look, by another girl, 18 years of age is weather), I need not dwell on the. This one was going much slower, comparison, like the wages of missing from No. 68, Hollywood-nature of the annoyance as it is and when it finally reached hims

road, A small girl from 36, Amoy- well understood by the sufferers nearly stopped.

Joyfully he clambered in, when,. is, as among the best of sports would have to be looked upon as large sums are involved in fist 12, from No. 70, Third-street, West tractor concerned. To my know- to his amazement, he found he was

ledge complaints have been made quite alone. one of the most brutal. From the cuff bouts, it surely is better that Point are also reported missing.

to the police during the last three Alarmed, he tried to get out, but time that boxing contests were the boxers rather than the pro-

According to a vernacular report or four days who because of some the car was going, quicker now, motors should have the lion's on Wednesday night, the Chung abnormality in our local laws until, with a jerk, it came to a sud- more or less seriously organised

share.

Wo, Chinese jewellery shop are unable to do anything more den halt. they have, for an overwhelming

Gingerly he stepped out to con-- at Macao was visited by than warn the contractor and take majority, exercised a wonderful

thieves, who stole a large quan- out a summons against him which front two perspiring Individuals. fascination. This is evident, as

tity of Jewellery, including a gold will take many days before any re- Where did you come from??" If the Egyptians want to know ring set with 16 diamonds worth suits are obtained. In the mean they asked in amazement stated, by the enormous amount

what Sir Austen Chamberlain $600, a bracelet set with 24 dias time we must suffer and in all pro- He pointed to the car, of interest taken in such fights as thinks of them they will find it monds valued at $250, another bability will continue to suffer until "Well, I'm blowed. And we'ye the Tunney versus Heeney bout, plainly set forth in the soft bracelet set with eight diamonds such a time as an arrangement can been pushing the bally thing for the the result of which was flashed words with which he described worth $250, a pair of ear-rings be brought about between the gufinat couple of miles.""

what happened before the recent also set with diamonds worth 3200 ferers and the contractor. "Why is all over the world shortly after crisis in Egypt, Sarwat Fashn and two gold wrist watches. it that the Police are powerless to In view of the warnings, th the fight was over, to the pro went to London and began to ex-

order the discontinuance of thế | found satisfaction of millions who plain the past. Sir Austen sald The many friends of Dr. Eva Ho misance until the case la disposed of persistence of the annoyance in my opinion constitutes a flagrant breachs could not possibly have been in that he was less interested in the Tung will be pleased to know that by the courts? It all soems most of the peace and I fail to understand

past than in the questions of what she was auccessful at the recent unfair Granted the contractor has why it cannot be instantly stopped. terested either in the technical the present and future relations examinations at the Rotunda Hos interests to be considered, but I Maybe a little publicity will merits or demerits of the contest of the two countries were to be pital, Dublin and that she obtained hardly think they come before the bring swifter results than the pro- whether Egypt would recognise the Diploma of Gynaecology and many who have to put up with the cess of law which appears to be ants.

facte Sarwat Pasha came back Obstetrics (D.G.0.) Miss Ho Tung alsance. The combined losses of exceedingly slow. And this interest is by no with the draft of a treaty a ser graduated, in December, 926, and the sufferers, in sleep, rest and con- Thanking you, Mr. Editor, and means confined to the masses, tous and friendly offer, which, in was the first lady graduate sequent inability to perform a pro- enclosing my card. it is well-known that all sorts in Austen's view required equal Medicine of this University. She per days work is far greater than

ly serious and friendly considere studied at London and was success hat of the contractor.

I am! and conditions of men, many of tion on the British side. The ful fa gaining the Diploma of them highly intellectual and en- Cabinet considered the proposal. Tropical Medicine, and Hyglene (Continued at foot of next Igayed in the most serious occu- and Sarwat Pasha went back to (D.TM&H.) same time, ago,

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Soft Words,

Yours, ste

A SURTE

Kowloon July 27.