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a parly nor to show favour to who happened to be legally re presented. Nor was the Magis- trate setting a good precedent, because to stretch a point in fa- vour of one individual offender would mean similar requests from others convicted. News paper reports would then lose much of their real news value to the public.

Armistice Day

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1929.

Mr. E. R. Dovey, on returning from Home leave, has resumed duty

Government analyst, says the "Gazette."

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Mr. Frank Herbert Carruthers Gould trading as F. C. Gould, Hut- chinson & Co., has been declared a defaulter on the London Stock Exchange.

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PRAPS-

PRAPS NOT!

The buyer of an Aberdeen Store was once offered a box of cigars as a bribe.

"I'm no' allowed to ac- cept presents," he said, "but ye The Government's Pension minute can offer me

one at u nominal has been amended. This latest price." change,

announced In the "In that case," said the traveller, "Gazette," applies to Judges of the "I'll charge you threepence.” Supreme Court.

"Just say sixpence," replied the Aberdoillan, "an' I'll tak twa."

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It is notified in the "Gazette" that valuation of the tenements in the Colony for the assessment year commencing July 1, 1930 shall be made on or before April 30.

conditionally.

Small Boy Father, what де those things on the cow's head?

Father The horna.

At that moment the animal **moa-ed."

Small Boy-Father, which horn

"What is that new bulding you

have put up on the hill there?" asked a curious visitor of a farmer. "Well, replied the farmor, "if I find a tenant for it, it's a bunga- The forthcoming wedding, is an-low; if I don't, it's a barn!" nounced of Mr. Edward John Hankin, master mariner,

care of

"No noose is good news," anya Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Ltd., the pardoned murderer. Hong Kong, and Misa Florence Banks, school teacher, Raffles Girls' School, Singapore.

Sergeant "Hey! You can't go in there--that's the colonel's tent!"

The following forthcoming wed- Recruit Then what have they dings announced: Mr. Franz got 'Private' over the entrance Joseph Huber, engineer, No. 3. for?" Banco Building, Kowloon, to Miss Erma Linke, Allee 85, Siemensstadt, Janet-"Before we were married Berlin, who is coming to the Colony you swore you would never look at

another woman." by the a.s. "Saarbruecken.”

Jack-"That was only a campaign promise."

A Chinese woman named Chan Chat (45), living at 21, Tai Wong

"Dad, I did pretty well in the Street East, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital yeater- relay events.", day with a broken log. She re- "That's fine, son! We'll make ceived her injury through falling use of your talents. Your ma in Swatow Lane, will soon be ready to relay the into a manhole the cover of which had become dis- carpets." lodged.

Armistice Day is and Hong over, Kong can comfort- ably forget all about the Glorious Dead for an- other twelve months. Sometimes one, on passing the Cenotaph,

A list of all authorised architects may give a thought to the in the Colony revised to October 31, did the cow blow?

1920 appears in the "Gazette." Cenotaph and what it represents,

There are 77 hames, some of them but for the rest-it is feared being of officers in the Government that that there are cricket, ten-service. One name is set down nie, football, and dancing, with The the Cenotaph forgotten. world will wag as before for an- other twelve months. None the less one could wish that the un- returning heroes, after the oratory and the bands and the wreaths of Armistice Day, were not dropped so completely for twelve months, unless, it may be, by those who sincerely desire Time to be a healer of all sor- rows and who believe that re- membrance lies best in the heart. It was once suggested that Britons here, when passing the Cenotaph in their daily comings and goings, should raise their hats to the gallant heroes who are mourned on Armistice Day so publicly, but the idea came to nothing. and possibly never shall, even though we are told 'Fan Fook-yea was sued as a many do it in London. partner in the Tung Fack knitting Britons are, after all, an unide- factory for the recovery of $744,20 before the Pulsne Judge in the monstrative people, not given to Summary Court yesterday after- revealing their inward feelings, noon. Defendant claimed he was in my husband's pocket?" Last week at the and in any event the spectacle a salesman and not a partner in the Suppressing Central Magis of raising one's hat on passing factory, against which judgment These tickets are evidences of a lost

had already been given. His rice." The Press tracy a Chinese the Cenotaph might not be Lordship gave judgment against

employee of the understood but possibly mia- him. Hong Kong Electric Company construed by Orientals. Under was charged with committing an the circumstances it is something indecent assault on a woman. He to the good that, although the was convicted, and a request was | Armistice was signed in 1918, made by Mr. A. W. G. H. Britons here can still foregather Grantham to Pressmen present once a year and honour their to refrain from publishing the kith and kin who fell in the name of the offender. While the titanic struggle for Civilisation. Press are always willing to co- operate with the authorities in the cause of justice, it must bę pointed out that it savours of a lack of tact for a Magistrate to show favour to one delinquent and not to another, Such re- quests should not be encouraged, specially when they come from a Magistrate who is supposed to entertain no bias against anyone

very heavy.

The popularity of the "talkie" is apparent even at this early stage, and is a tribute to the foresight of the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., who

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"Mathilda's a girl that could have married anybody she pleased."

"Then why is she still single?** "She never pleased anybody."

"What are these tickets I found

"Your husband is an archeologist.

"You're so stupid I wouldn't wall you a ham"

In regard to the Copyright Act of 1011 and the Berne Copyright Convention of 1928, an Order by His Majesty in Council, appears in the local "Government Gazette" thought nothing of to-day to the effect that the prin- walk. cipal Order of June 24, 1912 is revoked, as from February 22, 1930, of it myself. in so far as it applies to works of which the country of origin is Liberia.

"Why not?" "A ham can be cured."

Father-When I was a boy I 1 ten-mile

Son-Well, I don't think so much

Wife-Look at that adorable hat in the window, John. Let's go buy

John Certainly, dear. Right

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An extraordinary letter alleged, The Royal Air Force will carry to have been written to a girl of by it. out bombing practices from aero- 18 years by an elderly clergyman planes on Gau Tau Island, in Mirs was read at Ryde police-court dur Bay, at the end of Tolo Harbouring the hearing of a charge against the horse we've backed, dear. What him of writing and publishing a wonderful horse he must be; (NE. of New Territories), between November 19 and 22, from 9.80 defamatory libel. Defendant, who they've made him give the others

a start!" a.m. to 1 p.m. The danger aren, it pleaded not guilty, was committed is notified, will be 700 yards from for trial, and was admitted to the centre of the Island.

bail.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

"The next person to interrupt the proceedings will be sent home," declared the irate judge.

"Hurrah!" shouted the prisoner.

"Is she the leading lady?" "Yes, she's leading the orchestra

Rugger in Japan: Bolsheviks, in Paris: Mock "War" Comedies: La unching an Attack: New Despotism by about four measured."

THE GAME of Rugby has spread

The performances Noisy of the thrilling Audiences crime talkie, Rogger In Japan

"Alibi," at the Queen's Theatre, discovered one

beyond the Dominions, and it defect that is likely to rub this is now extensively played in Japan, new form of entertainment of especially at the Tokyo and Kyoto much of its enjoyment. It is Universities. The Japanese prac not a fault of the film itself, but tlse the game every day, and de the inability of a certain section, everything to keep it. They are or even "type," of the audience to very fast runners, their passing is quick and exact and they concon. refrain from making as much trate on team work and not on in noise as possible, during the per- dividualism. Whilst speed is their formances. One night, especially strongest point, the Japanese sel during the occasions of pathos dom let an opponent pass without and emotion, people whispered bringing him down, and, if they and talked, fidgeted, coughed, tapped their feet on the floor, and rustled papers, so that it was im- possible at times to hear some of the lower tones of the perform ers. As many of the finest parts of the film are spoken softly; re- quiring a certain amount of con- centrating or at least normal at tention, fully to be heard, it may be imagined that the performance was robbed of some of its plea

Bure.

Western

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When training for Rugby foot. ball the Japanese student is apt to be too keen to push ahead and play mastered the fundamentals. as he thinks best, without having

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An Easy Capture

·will · miss the

park being hu very doors, for long walks be- fore breakfast seemed much to the liking of the Soviet Envoy when he was there.. kat

"How does your new cigarette lighter work?"

"Fine-

I can light it with one

BUT a still greater jest at their ex-match now.”.

pense relates to an incident which occurred under the massed eyes Too "What is a Scotsman?" of the "all mighty" who were sup-

Troo--"A person who eats salted posed to be conducting as well a peanuts on his way to a friend'a watching the exercise. För a batta- lion was launched to attack a hillhouse for a little drink." bristling with machine-guns, and to the surprise both of the defenders and

A recont college graduate applied 'humbler spectators, It was allowed to

But there will be no lack of Russian French Capital, should he have any restaurants for him to patronise in the time to himself while putting straight the embarrassing situation created by M Besedovsky's quarrel with the Choka.

Yet

is it

whether doubtful many of these restaurants will receive any Bolshevik amissary with open Pigalle and the Boulevard Clichy, and arms. Most of them are in the Rie

whatever the foundation for such pre- tensions, they one and all claim to bo owned and run by fallen aristocrats.

Révolutionary Rendervons THERE is one Russian restauránt,

near the Bourse, which has, how over, been the resort of some famous revolutionary Agures.

*The mild Kerensky had, his meals there regularly until guembers of the Extrema Left started to arrive. Some CONTINUOUS training and experi- of these considered even L'Ami do enced trainers keep this weak Peuple far too reactionary an organ. point of the youthful player in the Occasional fights occurred, then, the background, and criticism from their place was made into a day-restaurant own people helps to maintain the efl-only and anally closed altogether. ciency of Japanese teams at a high A few months ago, it re-opened and however unpleasant its politics may "Rugger match between level A two Japanese Universities, or between be, its food is certainly not.

Japanese team and a foreign club in Japan has always a large crowd of War Game Comedies spectators, Should the Japanese tazm not be distinguishing themselves and

THE RECENT WA

War Office exercises losing the number of spectators on Saillebury Plain, which took gradually decreases, as the Mpanese the place of Arm annosuvres, neem crowd lose interest in the game to have been distinguished more by is not closely contested and theft arliteially than by, instructive value. countrymen do pot obtain points.

compensation, they have pro- It would be later sting to have

sing, stories which are wer in Hous Japanese Rugby

the Army, Kong to play.

matches:

ploit of sight the Army Coun them for

fal audiences to ap* preciate Western lone, but it is at least to ba

they will

ercise a

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enemy

hotels

eavalca

that the litaks

capture the hill triumphantly, al- at the local butcher's shop for a job. though to cover its advance across the The butcher looked him over care. naked downs only one battery of ar- fully and then said, "We need an tillery had been provided.

As one officer rithily remarked, energetic young man to run the fail second Heutenants in promotion slicing machine. Have you ever

had any experience?". exams. for follies loss than that."

The real cream of the jest, however, is that this one battery, although sup- posedly present, had actually lost its way and never came into action!

New Despotism

TT is high time that abjection bo taken to the detestable practice of referring to countries engaged in diplomatic and political relations a London, Paris; Romo, Moscow, and the like.

"I used to play golf."

"Did you see anyone you knew at the dance?".

"Oh yes, I код

into all my friends."

TEN YEARS AGO

From the "China" Mail,”

November 16, 1919.]

To-day's dollar is worth 4/8

That Rome and Moscow in the per- Bon of Mussolini and Stalin renily do form the foreign policy for the whole nation may be a commonplace. But in countries that have escaped dictatordom, ourselver being fore: 11/16d. most in this blessing, it is little short of an insult to identify the nation with the capital, since it haters pre- The War Buglort was launched dominance of the capital.

from the building yard, of the Although London is a very great Taikoo Dock and Engineering Com- city, it does not stand in the same pany, the naming ceremony being relation to the British Empire, or lo the United Kingdom, ar did Rome to gracefully performed by Mrs. Reid the Roman Empire. If London sends as the vessel commenced to move out in Ambassador, so does Liverpool down the way.

end, his Excellency no less, and This vessel is the third of the Glasgow and Bath And Shipton 18,000 ton deadweight standard - under-Wychwoodley

The concentration of powers in the steamers being built by the Com- troop of capital, and even a form of speech pany to the order of the Ministry Monesties which infers such concentration of Shipping

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if their all of place, with the New: Despot *TK Ism of Lord Howart. The first stage

not of bureaucracy is to make » of the 3d capital aRoxie."

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w Another vessel, of the same type

is still on the stocks and will be launched shortly.