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VATICAN CONTROVERSY
www.
impaired, the vicissitudes of for- CORFEST
WATER SUPPLY
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.
P'RAPS
PRAPS NOT!
St. Peter (to applicant at the "What's your
tune, the possession of a kingdom has been by no means an unmixed blessing. Like other kingdoms
(To the Editor of the "Chinh an the states of the Church have
Sir, I think that the services large oil tark "steamers been subject to revolutions and of two been contended for by warring should be procured at once, Con- emperors. History has a habit of cet up the discharge from their golden gates):
pumps to the main water supplyhamé repeating itself and, while the of the Colony. A sufficht pres "Tammas Gordon."
"Where do you còme from?”· material insignificance of the sure could be maintained to en-
able the water to find its way to "Aberdeen." newly established monarchy may
the filter beds for storage when save it, in some measure, from not being drawn off at lower All oil tankers have the waves of change which affect levels.
all mundane institutions, it is pumps, and flexible pipe sufficient-
11
"Did you ever do a charitable. deed on earth?"
"I amce gae a tramp, tuppence." St. Peter, "Here's your tuppence
Maisie: "How do you know that.
dictated to 2. steno-
by no means certain that compli-ly powerful to pump against a back, and go elsewhere!"
greater head than that required cations will not arise that may in the Colony. I should say that make the venerable Pontiff sigh two ships should be requisitioned one day for the vanished peace of and connected up one at or near Chaucer West Point and one at or near grapher his gilded prison If Italy were
Wanchal. again involved-in war what would
Water could be brought from be the position of this the new stream now being tapped "Auzitie," inquired. romantic
Jack:
"Look at the spelling!”
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imperium in imperio which was so at Kowloon, or from other souress, Annabel of her unmarried elderly recently established in Rome? and pumped into those storage relative, did you ever have a pro- The Pope would, of course, he ships, they in turn pumping it into pol
"Once, dear," reponded her aunt. the mains. neutral but would an enemy State The advantage of tankers lies in "A man asked me over the telephone recognise his neutrality? It is the fact that the water could be to marry him, but he had the wrong
treated in the tanks to destroy number!" devoutly to be hoped that the
any impurities. Two tankers controversy will not last long and might store up to 20,000 tons of that the friendly relations that water. The tanks could quickly again, and, called to the dining started so auspiciously three be steamed out and cement wash- room, and to submit, to the inquisi
tion of his mother. months ago will continue to exist This scheme may already be in "You bad boy!" she exclaimed.. between the Fascist Government hand; if so, so much the better."Now, where are all those tarts that. Yours, etc..
were left on the table?" and the Vatican.
ed.
Hong Kong, June 5.
URGENCY
Cre case of small-pox, one case of AFRAID OF POLICE
diphtheria, and one case of enteric fever were notified yesterday. The two former were Chinese and the last was British.
The St. Andrew's Church Branch of the Scripture Union will meet on Monday, at 6 p.m., in the Church Hall, when the speaker will be the Rev. C. B. Shann, MA.
Par plagd
CHINESE ACCUSED CHANGES HIS MIND!
AN UNLIKELY YARN
Pleading not guilty to a charge of theft of $10 from a Chinese described as a doctor, a Chinese this morning at the Kowloon Court changed his mind
when he heard that the case would be remanded for 24 hours.
The young heir was in trouble
"I-I don't know," returned the culprit. "They seem to have:: vanished into the empty heir!"
The conversation at the village- Inn was about the newcomer who had rented a cottage for the sum-
mer.
.:
"What be his business?" asked one of the company.
"An occulist," was the reply. "And what may that be ?" per- sisted the inquiring one.
"Oh well, an eye dentist."
or
He said if that were so he would rather plead guilty, because he was
Macwaldie: "They're telling me afraid he would get a beating from, the the Hoose o' Commons is just ar alleged he had been assaulted Police stationed at Shamahaipo. He ranged like a big public-hoose.
by a The members
can get drinks policeman with a truncheon.
An Inspector said that accused would anything they're wantin',"
Donaldson: "Wi' a difference,. eased, however, said that he had no Hoose a Commons a bill is brocht. if what he alleged was true. Ac- Mac-w/" 2 difference! In the.
marks at all.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith said that it in first, and the
But in a big public- was rather queer that he should thus cairrit. ed that he would not have to spend the an' then the waiter brings in the change his mind, and reassured nocus-house the measure is cairrit in first, night at Shamshulpo but at the Vic-
D'ye see ?"
bill.
•
measures
are
Beyond the fact that he had been shiro station and also having been forced to plead guilty, at the Sham The Mexican horse-stealer was assaulted, nothing more could be ex-looking very gloany as he sat tied tructed from "accused.
up in the log prison where the His Worship aid that he would be sheriff had caused him to be de sorry to send to jail a man who had acensed preferred to plead guilty he
posited. of e chance defending himself, but as coold not do otherwise than that.
Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.LE., M.A., colours of modern regiments have vice Chancellor of the University only a romantic significance yet, of Hong Kong, will be leaving the "skin for skin all that a man hath Colony on long leave to-morrow The duties of Vice-Chancellor will, will he give for his life" and during his absence, be carried on have rather severe marks on his body thousands have given their lives by His Honour, Sir Henry Gollan, for these symbols and fronted Kt., C.B.E. dangers in their behalf to which ~
A terrier dog belonging to Mr. they could not have been moved B. D. F. Reith, No. 117, The Peak, by any material reward. St. was yesterday removed to Kennedy Peter, so far as we know, never Town for observation after it had toria Gaol. owned anything more than a sail-bitten a Chinese bear the tram sta- tion on the Peak. The Chinese went ing boat and a fisherman's coat to the Government Civil Hospital His successor became a titular for treatment, monarch by the gift of lands in
Professor Vernon Nash, of the Northern Italy, won from the re- Department of Journalism of the bellious iconoclasts, by Pepin, University of Yenching, Feking, king of the Franks, in 754. On is paying a visit here. He is on his his foundation
away back to Peking by the P. and O. was built up
5.3. "Kashgar" He will meet the power before which the mightiest members of the Chinese Institute of monarchs in Christendom trem-Journalism at tea this afternoon, bled. The tiara worn by the Pope is the proudest insignia of Last night a small fire broke. cut rank the world holds or has ever No. 70, Queen's-road Central, but held. While its wearer was "a was extinguished after a shorf timé prisoner in the Vatican" its sanc by the Fire Brigade, assisted by tity was no way diminished and Boy Scouts and the St. John Am- bulance Corps Mary Chinese made the restoration of the tiny prin- good use of the opportunity to cipality granted by Mussolini will replenish their supply of water. not add a scintilla to its lustre.
in a Chinese fire-cracker shop at
Police records show that accused had previously been in jail for offences committed in 1924-25 for stealing.
Sentence of four months' imprison. ment was passed.
LEPER MISSION
CONCERT IN ST. STEPHEN'S
GIRLS' COLLEGE **
ADDRESS ON THE WORK
There was another prisoner with him, and they started a conversa- {tion.-
"You're sure lookin' blue!" said the other. "What you gonna get - long stretch"?"
"Wal," said the horse-stealer, slowly. "Em caught guessin-I didn't catch what the sheriff said, but it was either that the animal I stole was a 'mustang,' or else I was a must ‘ang'-an'' it makes a lot of difference!"""
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Ceramittee of the Chinese Mission to A concert, has been arranged by the
Two friends met, one day, and Lepers (Hong Kong Auxiliary) to take began to discuss the various events place to-morrow, Saturday, at 8.45 p.m.. which had taken place in their lives in the Hall of St. Stephen's Girls' since last they met a year ago. "A cat burglar" who paid a visit the occasion, in order to raise funds for
College which has been kindly lent for "I've not done anything much at.
It is more secure resting on the to the home of a coal merchant at the work at the Taikam Island Leper my job," said one... "I took a job
willing subservience of the faith-No. 45, Elgin-street on May 21, and Colony.
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at
FRAUD NOT PROVEN
MAGISTRATE'S DISBELIEF IN
49 groom, and I've not had a
on as a groom?”-
"I did." said the other, gloomily,
took on as a bridegroom!"*
"Is your daughter improving in her music ????
"No. But the next best thing is
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Inquirer (to Nerve Specialist): "And is your treatment completely successful?***
Nerve Specialist: "Quite. So much so that only last week one of my patients tried to borrow fifty pounds from me!”
If one may judge at the presentful, than if it were guarded by the was caught with the booty by a south west
Taikam Taland is about 40 miles minute's peace since!on the go,
of Hong Kong where # stage of the controversy which armed forces of an Empire. Chinese constable, was formally number of fine buildings have been re- day and night, and ordered about has arisen as the result of the Grand armies march across the The case was adjourned until, this chapel and administration building, and ed! broke in the other.
"That's just how I've been treat- charged at the Central Magistracy. contly erected comprising a hospital, a long letter sent by Pope Pius to pages of history and the thrones afternoon, when &n
"You" said the arst, surprised. additiotal, separate living quarters for men and
women. Activities are now in progress "How can you be putting up with Cardinal Gasparri, with reference they buttressed have crumbled charge of returning from banish for the further accommodation and to Signor Mussolini's comments into dust, while this spiritualent will be preferred against ac treatment of lepers from the mainland my sort of life ?--you never took. on the Roman Catholic Church in monarchy still dominates the cused.
of whom there are now ever i hundred in residence. its relation to the State, the high consciences of half the world.
A brief address on the 'work at Tail Fung Ho, manager of the Tung Lam will be given by the Bev. John hopes entertained regarding the A greater dictator than Sze Co., No. 643, Shanghai-street, Lake, of Canton, who is devoting his formation of a Vatican State are Mussolini once decreed that the Yaumati, reported to the Police yes-life to this case and is the founder
terday that on May 4, he hired a of the now established Leper Colony, very likely to remain unfulfilled Papacy should be abolished sewing machine worth $80 to a the Tsang Fook Piano Company, and Tickets at $1 may be obtained front The Pope, much mare than Napoleon, in the plenitude of his Chinese woman who gave the name at the entrance of. St. Stephen's Girls happening. She's getting tired of
It's " Mussolini, approaches the subject power, felt that he could brook of Li Lin, and her address as the College. with a mind untrammelled and, no rival and ordered that no suction-street. When he visited the ground floor of No. 599, Reclama- unlike Italy's dictator, is certain ceasor should be appointed to place yesterday, however, he found to remain adamant in his conclu-Pope Pius VI, who died in 1799. that it was uncupied.
CHINESE CUSTOM sions The Pope's letter expresses But the Congress of Vienna re- sorrow that the joy which greet-stored the status of the Church the Central Magistracy, a Chinese CUTTING OFF COCK'S HEAD ed the Lateran Treaties should and this lasted for thirty years was charged with the theft of four
Appearing on Temand a Chinese, who have been so profoundly and until 1848 that year of revolu-water tins from a fountain at the painfully disturbed" only three tions-when the Pope fled to Junction of Stamey and Pottinger-Chened to have defrauded $700 from The Teacher's thoughts were
Chinese woman from whom he had streets. The owner of the tina pravionely borrowed money, was this far away, but when he heard the Gaeta and Mazzini and Caribaldi displayed a hazy recollection of the morning discharged when Det. Tumper-boy read: "Here is a warm dough- Mussolini's gesture in restoring ruled Rome for a short six period of the theft, and this drew or Fallon intimated that he could nut: tread on it," he thought there
"evidence", against the was some mistake, and glancing at ⠀ the temporal sovereignty of the months. A French army restored from the Magistrate, the remark bring no other
that the man did not know night Pope wad generally regarded as a the Pope to his temporal sover from day. The case was adjourned that accused had any intention of de- do not tread on it."
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith did not think the books, he saw "Here is a wormi; wise move on the part of Italy, eignty and he was supported by for further inquiries.
frauding, as if he had he would not for it healed a festering scre in France until 1870 when the alien
have returned $200. It was 'not a case of defrauding Complainant herself the life of the nation and, at the garrison was withdrawn and In charging a shop employee, a had said that she could not read I don't think I showed it." price of a picturesque face-saving Victor Emmanuel entered Rome.coolie alleged at the Central Magis Even if it had been written by ac- time I yawned I hid it with my device and a substantial sum of Now, sixty years later, his grand vor, he was assaulted by accused point was that the letter did not appear Really, I don't see how so small
tracy that for no reason what used's father it was no use to her be band"
cause it was not stamped Another He (trying to be gallant): money in compensation for the son has sanctioned the agreemer and two other men as he passed a to be a promissory note. ds it has no lost revenues of the past fifty reached by his all-powerful Minis- shop near the Central Market. "chop" or signature; therefore it was hand could hideer, that is er, years, it secured for the present ter, Massolini, and the ecclestas. They struck him over the head with case in which defendant had not isn't it lovely weather
used his father's
His Worship/suggested that the only
студения сбор. Fascist regime the powerful sup- ties of the Vatican, by which the water tin Accused said that the
"I'm sure tennis hasn't made the coolle stole two eggs from a crate course complainant could pursue was a port of the Catholic Church. The Pope is again recoguised asa at the door of the shop His Wor- civil action, when she coult clair back slightest difference to my looks,"
the money loaned.
said she, defending the assertion of chief value of the transaction lies sovereign prince as well as the ship believed that the coolie had Complainant asked His Worship to someone who had said the game in its appeal to sentiment for spiritual leader of the church.been up
to
some mischief and order accused to go with her to a ten ruined a girl beauty. though this is a material age, This short glance at history therefore they beating was certainly ple and swear to tell the truth by He (knowing nothing whatso--
Presting, of a cock's head! merited. In dism
the case His Worship replied that he did not ever about any much assertion)! sentiment plays a large part in shows us that while the divine the Magistrates coolse that believe in such a procedure.
"Well, why not try some other the lives of the majority of man, authority of the head of the he was lucky not to be charged with Aceased, as aforementioned, was dis
charged. theft
game, dear." kind. The Roman Eagle and the Roman Church has withstood, un-
months later...
accused
She: "He bored me awfully, but Every
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