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Major E. D. Caddell, of the R.A.M.C., has taken over the post- tion of Hon. Secretary of the United Services Recreation Club from Major Charles, who is due to leave for Home early next year.

The Chinese house coolle of Mr. M. H. Large, 2 Torres Buildings, Kowloon, was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day remanded for 24 hours, ponding further en- quiries into the alleged theft of $30 from his employer's sate.

Charged with the unlawful pas session of some dead pine, a Hak- ka woman at the Kowloon Magis- tracy admitted that she had taken it from the hillside at Shatin and was fined $10, with the alternative of 14 days' hard labour.

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Arraigned on two charges of theft from Wong Tsau and Un Kok, house coolies at Kingsclere Hotel, an unemployed Chinese, 23 years of age, was at the Kowloor Magistracy to-day remanded for 24 hours in eustody.

An unemployed Chinese man was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning charged with Inde- cently assaulting a Chinese mar ried woman, Hving at 61, Portland

Stroet, Yaumati, The defendant was remanded in police.custody

for 24 hours,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

1929.

MEMORIES OF

GREAT PRINCE

BY HERR EMIL LUDWIG

(Continued from Yesterday.)

A Collector's Vanity

A

Once he related to me how angry

At the Villa Malta the Prince once the Emperor was with the Turks pointed out to me a picture by when first the news came of the fall Veronese over the doorway, and of the Sultan. Bulow, who believed said, "I have asked my excellent in real power, whether It came up- friend, Professor Pastor, to mention ward from below or down from In a note in his great history that heaven, could not auddenly alter his this picture has passed into the Balkan policy. "I said to the Kai- possession of Prince" "Bulow."

The remark annoyed me, for if a man has ruled the German Empire for ten years he does not need to ask at the end of that time for a footnote stating that he possesses a certain picture. In my impatience I was so far carried away as to reply:

"That is all very well, but at the best you always get evasion in his tory. Of Chateaubriand, for ex- ample, we know nothing more to-day than the trimmings."

answering,

At this unlooked-for reply Bulow showed Impatience. Instead of quoting Faust and "Don't you know, my friend, how clumsy you are," he passed over my irony, and supported by his wonder. ful

Chateaubriand? Ah, he is perhaps momory he said quickly, not so much forgotten as you think. Why, I remember the which he tells of the call of Mosea." Then followed thirty OF forty French verses, coming out as a cascade such as I could not deliver even from German poems.

verses in

aer.

among other things, that even Frederick the Great, his res peeted ancestor, had survived all kinds of changes in Turkish policy and yet had remained in alliance with Turks." his Master in the weakest spot that As he did not touch

historical recollection flattered him, and thus Bulow overcame the. Em- peror's anger. against the wicked revolutionaries.

underline important sentences in his His pedantry, which caused him to

book, was always to me more sym- pathetic than was his habit of con- tinually playing with a key-ring which he carried on his watch-chain, revolving it rhythmically in a circle, thereby disturbing his conversation. This soothing habits, instinctively been more nervous than one thought resorted to, shows that he must have from his fresh and healthy manner.

Written Memeirs He came at last to Hertling, the Chancellor, who was 73.

"And then there is my excellent friend Hertling, with whom for forty years I have been connected markable head, no doubt. by an intimate friendship. A re- and yet he is an old man."

But-

On another occasion we were

A Sale of Work will be held in St. Stephen's Girls' College, Kwok Siu Lau Hall, by the students of the College and Fairica School, in aid of the Ministering Children's League, to-morrow, Mrs. H. T. Creasy will perform the opening ceremony at 11 o'clock.

Slight damage to motor bus No. such rich gifts, as compared with It is not surprising that with 119 (Vulean) of the China Motor the incompetence of his successors, Bus Co., was done by fire last he wanted to return to power. was given that, on admission tonight, which broke out in the yard. Naturally, he denied that absolute speaking about Tardieux's book the Kowloon Hospital the Indian's

Two appliances were sent hurriedly. He affected to be satiated with about him. I made the remark that ly to the scene where, on arrival, pulse was normal and that there it was found that petrol, which ice, but he gave indirect indica- it was high time that 4 German tions. none the less, of what he should prepare a biography of the sign of internal had become ignited, had caused really wanted. Once when he was Prince. He was silent for a me haemorrhage.

It, therefore, did the fire.

in Berlin, probably at the end of ment, and then he said quickly, seem kinder to the patient to The Superioress and Sisters of 1917, when he himself was nearly "Isn't it too soen?"" transfer him to a hospital where the St. Francis Convent, Wanchal, the names of the men in power, 70 years of age, he went through there is "very adequate accom: St. Francis Street. in acknowledg-swinging his bunch of keys as he ing, through the "China Mail" yes- did so, and touching on all with an modation for Indians." But-

terday the generosity of their many obviously ironic respect. the point that does arise is: when patrons and friends in connection the authorities planned the Kow-with the Fair on Sunday, Inad-

At the same time, he was brilliant loon Hospital in the first instance vertently omitted the names of the

Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes and Mr. him in the course of a conversation the last time in March of this year, in evading problems. If you asked did it not occur to them to give g. C. Pank, both of whom con- at the Kowloon Hospital the tributed liberally to the funds. same adequate facilities for In- dian cases as obtain at the Gov- ernment - Civil Hospital on the Hong Kong side? Did it never occur to them that grave emer- gencies might arise at any mo-

COUNCIL MEETING

Five New Bills On Agenda

ment where it would be most the Legislative Council to-morrow The agenda for the meeting of

vital to human life to have ade-afternoon includes the follow- quate facilities in the Kowlooning:-

Hospital for Indian cases? It The Attorney General to move

the first reading of would be mere conjecture-and

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1829. | perhaps unwarranted at that

HOSPITAL FACILITIES

to conclude that after his admis- sion to the Kowloon Hospital there may have been a grave risk

"An Ordinance to amend further

the Public Health and Buildings Or

dihance, 1963.”

"An Ordinance to amend further the Companies Ordinance, 1911."

"An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900."

The Angry Emperor

betrayed himself; for a second the ball had involuntarily stopped roll-

Here the man of the world had

ing.

The Prince had completed three volumes of memoirs, which, as I know, are of great literary and bis- torical value. When I saw him for

in a train about some passing place, I asked him why they did not ap- he would shuffle his timetable to get pear. He said, "I will not hear the the answer until the place that you after my death." Then he turned clamour. You can have a copy had asked about had, disappeared.

Only by such means could he have to my wife and added with youth. borne the ten years with the Kaiser, take care that your husband does ful coquetry these words: "Please of whom he always spoke with res- pect.

not treat me top badly."

partation Ordinance, 1917."

The Attorney General to move the second reading of—

"An Ordinance to amend further the Stamp Ordinance, 1921."

"An Ordinance to amend the law

relating to intoxicating liquors.

TEN YEARS AGÓ

[From the "China Mall,” December 4, 1919.)

Today's dollar is worth 5/- 1 d.

The first professor for the Hong Kong University has arrived. His name is G. R. Byrne, and he is a B.Sc., Manchester. He had four years of

The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton to move the second reading of-

"An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Pro-teaching experience in Cairo and an- vince of the Jesuit Order."

other five years in Jamaica. We hope "An Ordinance to amend the Jasuit he will profer Hong Kong to these Order Incorporation Ordinance, 1927." places.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

This Marriage Business: Dame Rumour in China: "The Green Hat's" Author: The Ways of Mdme.

Diademata: Hotel Flattery

Legendary News AGAIN the wisdom of complete suppression of authentic news, is open to serious question. Not many weeks ago there was hardly an in- dividual of any intelligence in the wu-Han Citles that had not heard of Chang Fa-kuel's defection, and

Jewelled Sastes

IT is in these mellow days when

the sun rises and sots in a vell of mist that the garden spiders wax fat who spin their gossamer webs among the purple fruit of the bushes and ding them like miniature, pon- toons from ons grass stem to another in the orchard.

to the patient in thereafter trans-Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900," "An Ordinance to amend the Crown If Kowloon people, have been ferring him to the other side of "An Ordinance to amend the De under the Impression that they the harbour-a journey to the have been provided with an ap- Star Ferry another journey to-date hospital, adequate for across the harbour, and a third every kind of emergency, they Journey to the Government Civil must have suffered a rude shock Hospital. It is not for the lay on reading the evidence at the man to assert that if that triple trial of Mr. Henry, Marriott on'

journey could have been averted, the life of the Indian might have a charge of manslaughter, on

been saved. We must place im. which he was very properly ac

plicit trust in the decision of the The Luxury of Marriage quitted. When the Indian

doctors of the Kowloon Hospital THE oft discussed question of watchman was accidentally shot

to transfer hind. But, even when the additional cost of living in by Mr. Marriott at the Kowloon,

that is done, we are not still satis- the Far East to a married Euro Dock on November 10, there was

fied with the apparent. lack of pean depends on so many factors an interval of twenty minutes be fore the arrival of the ambulance adequate accommodation in the that nobody has ever been able Kowloon Hospital for Indian to give an exact answer. Either Mr. Marriott accompanied. the in

They are most beautiful in the jured man to the Kowloon Hoa-

cases. The disclosure is not the husband or wife may be un- were aware of the fact that some

early morning. Suspended by in- visible strands and bespangled with a pleasant on It seems to show duly extravagant, and the figure sort of a manifesto had been sent hundred dewdrops, they sparkle in pital, where the doctors (c) that the on Hopital one must vary considerably in rela- throughout, the country. Now DRAC the sunshine like exquisitely jewelled sidered an operation necessary of the finest intitutions of the tion to the number and age of tically every coolie is in possession, and as there is very adequate kind in the Far East in many children-if any. Leaving chil to it has been rigidly suppressed spider her full name, las in wait for of the knowledge, yet all reference Epeira Diademata, to give this traps they are. -Madanio

other respestis not one hundren out of the question and as- with the result that this revolt is her victims under Government Civil Hospital on the red per cent, perfect for all suming that neither husband normagalfied out of all proportion to its

a leaf with one foot resting on a strand of the snare. Hong Kong side, they transferre

real prosent significance, and the Let some haplesa bluebottle or daddy- an hour and a quar emergencies involving the deten wife is particularly extravagant, basur elements are encouraged in long-legs blunder into it. him there".

tion and treatment

their efforts thereby, tment of patients of the ratio of necessary, normal ex-

What part the vibration along the cable, and is ter after the accident. On his ad-

Wang Ching-wel is playing or will upon her victim in a trice.

Madame is an artist, and scorns to mission to the Government Civi every nationality. The matter penditure is probably somewhere play in the near future it is difficult

to foretell, but the hush policy adopt mend a web that has boon torn. is of very import and might about 8 to 4, provided there is no ed by pross consors and others in She would rather spin new one, Hospital after a journey across the harbour and another

well be confluered by the Kow-difference in the style of living. Hankow, has inspired legends and lent an exquisite work of art which she journey

a magic to his name, to which his can accomplish within one hour. in an ambulance to the hospital Joon: Residents Association Com-Thus If it cost a single man $600 achievements in no way ontlile him. the Medical Officer decided that mittee at the next monthly meet to live in a house by himself, the

Disillusionment an immediate operation was

TT in one of the behind-the-scones coming of a wife would mean an How Mr. Arlen Works expenditure of about $800 THE new play on which Mr. Michael necessary, A general anaestlistic

all the staff, from the maitre d'hotel to the cloak-room attendants, abould month. This is not to say that if Arlen will shortly be starting was given, but the Indian never

work in Paris lsynet likely to be know patrons by name after a fow recovered and died the following

costs married couple $800 a finished for some months,

visita Many people are human rumanth to live in Hong Kong. Although he is a rapid writer enough to be fattered at being greets day,

Pollock and Mr. J. M. 192

Anne finding no difficulty. In turning outed with a similar and a "How do Many live on loss; to the Colony, on

The figures six to seven thousand words in you do, Mr. are merely given to show how the day, Mr Arlon spends a great deal Similarly, to be informed by the

of time on subsequent revision, cloak-room man that a

ticket for proportion works out, provided He haa zover passed for publics one's hat or cloak is not necessary Hong there is no difference in the style tlon any book or article which has is another form of Army of living-But wh

Is often not been re-written: three times in. also good bust of flattery that has been the case, the uni man has manoscript, liberally corrected Coins But the other night there was an typescript, and further usively awkward explanation of auch feats had to

and a youth who in revised in proof WN FOR ebody else 21 Hebeleved

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The Yound

Indian accommodation at the

To the lay mind, une

Yersant with surgical practice, it must at once occur that war grave pity that the journey across the harbour to the Government CIVI Hos was deemed necessary. there are more

there

for

ing.

NEWS IN BRIEF

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