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A fine of $25 was imposed on a Chinese shop keeper, of Wuhu Street, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, for resisting search by an Indian Police Sergeant.

Mr. L. P. Quincey, Mr. C. En- carnacao and Mr. F. Noodt, Shang- hal jockeys, arrived on the Pre- sident Cleveland. Mr. Quincey is riding for Mr. Chan Tin-sion, Mr. Encarnacao for Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Noodt for Messrs. Hynes and Mackie.

A brown pointer dog, was found by the police straying outside the Kowloon side of the Star Ferry The dog is

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930.

THE STORY OF A

FAN

"

[BY BEVERLEY NICHOLS]

wish that these words might be fan-and as significant-for it was as delicate as the fluttter of a

a fan that inspired them.

In an old antique shop it lay, and the dim sunlight of the dying year fell on the little brilliants round ita bandle such a fragile handle and it them to a momentary sparkle of green and blue, like the flash that comes to the eyes of a woman who fs old and sad, when memories are around her.

no

ever, "bright" he may appear to his neighbours, has known himself, at aome tura of the clock, to be despised and rejected of men.

To admit this fact is not to align oneself with the characters of Tchekof, who howl if anybody offers scream with them a £ã note and horror if they see the sun It is simply to allow pity to enter for a brief space into your heart.

Pity is passe, with the new gen- eration. It has become a dia- reputable emotion with the young. Why? Because over bince they can remember it has been passing out of the minds of individuals into the hands of corporations.

Bees

A small fire which broke out on.

And then, as I lifted it, the sun- the front verandah of No. 91, light faded, and once more it seemed Parkes Street, Kowloon, last night, pale and a little drab-the figures resulted in a call being sent to the of rose and silver that danced Taimtentaui Station and three through its delicate Oligree seemed

The dole is an example of pity on engines were immediately dispatch-to droop disconsolate. "It was ed to the scene.

a colossal scale. As a result of it The outbreak was longer a fan. It was merely an small, and the engines were not re-antique," And the voice of the man

very few young people really pity behind me rasped, "Thirty guineas." the miserable creatures quired.

It la morbid, no doubt, and de- drifting like withered leaves along Rear-Admiral Mouguet, Com- cadent, and generally deplorable, the Embankment. Those creatures mander-in-Chief of the French that a mist should ever come over have ceased. In their imagination, to Squadron in Far Eastern Waters, the eyes of an adult male. But the be human beings, neighbours. They accompanied by his wife and staff mist arrived-from what distant,

are merely units on the debit alde of officers from the cruiser Waldeck drifting clouds of Pity I know not the National Balance Sheet.

But there are Rousseau, unofficially visited Can--and through it I saw candles,

the ton last week, arriving there on the shining: like stars on a November about whom French gunboat Argus. The party night, and heard the thin sweet worry. They are very quiet, and returned to Hong Kong during the lament of violins, and the swish of shabby, and they live behind drawn week-end.

silks long faded, and in the centre blinds and nobody cares twopence of it all, dipping and darting, fold-whether they live or die. They are ing and unfolding, the fan. And the women who sell their fans. behind the fan was a laughing faco in all the glittering flush and pride of youth.

At three o'clock yesterday morn- ing, three robbers ralded a fishing boat off Shamshuipo. They threw the master overboard, overpowered the crew and then ransacked the

vessel, they eventually rowed away in a small boat, taking with them $66 in cash and salt fish worth $10. After the robbers left, a foki rushed on deck to look for the master and

tent, presumably, as to justify inclusion in the King's Birthday or New Year Honours lists.

Subsequently, in the course of saw him swimming about in the water about 20 yards from the boat. the discussion, the word "Chin-He rescued him.

eae" was dropped by the official Mail.

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Hong Kong. Monday, Feb. 17, 1930.

"FOLLOW MY LEADER"

CHINA'S STRIFE

spokesman, and "non-European” substituted. It must be obvious that, whilst giving the Chinese community due credit for public War Preparations in the

North

"COERCION" OF CHIANG

Shanghai, Yesterday.

"Twenty-five guineas if you pay cash," rasped the voice. The viollis

discord-the

silks

censed-on flashed out of view. Only the face remained. And it seemed as though It were twisted with grief, shamed and humiliated, as though I had taken that fan and hurled it over the years that intervened, until it fell, broken, at its unknown owner's feet..

For I should explain that it was no common fan. In its day it had

some neighbours State does not

Through what agonies such wo- men are passing in these days, it would be hardly decent to inquire. When you are poor, and eld, and utterly alone, you live in the fow possesalons that you have gathered around you. Your last hours of wintry sunshine come to you as you are dusting a little ornament, or burnishing a silver bowl, or looking long and deep into a water colour, rather faded, "By a pupil of David Cox."

These things are life itself to you. They are all that you have left to keep your self-respect. As you open a book with a beautiful binding, and vell of dis- earl, spread a pretty

see the proud book-plate, with its tapped the wrist of many a noble cretion over many exquisite, half-scrolls and flourishes, you straighten services, there are others of other

finished epigrams. It had lain on yourself and your eyes light up. than Chinese nationality whose

fine tables, and then, as the years As long as you have these.... £3 public-spirited services from time

went by, on tables not so fine, till it long as you have these to time deserve equal recogni-

had ceased to be used, but was only It is semi-officially reported from a "possession," to be guarded tion. With the British Unofficial Nanking that Chiang Kai-shek has re-against a rainy day. And the rainy members, we cannot concur with plied to Yen Haishan's recent telegram day had come, and some street door Mr. Braga in his desire to to him to resign. While the content

are not divulged, it is understood "throw away that bible" on the Chiang Kai-shek points out that the ground that "the creation of such conditions of the country did not justify recognition would lead to indivi-Any Kuomintang leader retiring. dous distinctions erepping in."

Outside the Royal honours the only mark of the Government's pleasure at the moment lies in the appointment of unofficial Justices

According to Japanesa despatches, Ferg Yu-hsiang has returned to Shensi and taken over command of the Kuominchun. IIan Fu-chu and other pro-Kuominchan Generals in a circular telegram attack the Central Govern to be making war preparations. ment, against which they are reported

had opened, soma woman had hur ried out, clutching a little parcel in her hand, and the story of the fan was finished.

Now it is sometimes good for us, as we make our prosaic passage through this apparently prosaic world, to realise that we are not the only people whose hearts are wrung by anguish. Every house, at some time or another, is Heartbreak House. Every street, at some de-

Sinister Street. And every man, solate hour of night or day, is

however, shallow he may seem, how-

PACIFIC LABOURS

The latest brood of the bright young people will sneer at such obsolete figures, if they ever realise their existence. But I would pray them, if they happened to buy a fan, with little brilliants round its handle such a fragile handle to treat it tenderly.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "Chine Mail" February 17, 1920.)

To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 71⁄4%d.

Another big jewel robbery took place last night on the premises of Mesars. Mohideen & Co., of No. 38 Queen's Road Central, The total loss as far as can be estimated is

of the Peace which involves no A Nanking message' says that Hu duties such as at Home and Chung-hui, the presidents of the Legia

Han-min, Tan Yen-kai and Wang elsewhere in British Dominions, lative, Executive and Judicial yuana, nor does it involve any responsi-respectively, have cabled to Yen Hsi- shan deploring the latter's attempt to bilities. It is more of a "bauble," "coerce" Chiang Kai-shek to retire, and indeed, than the projected "Certi- accusing Yen Hal-shan of fomenting ficate of Honour" which might be carefully for the welfare of the party "ponder strife. They urge him to

The year 1920, was a record one as about $20,000, no portion of which made even to apply to British and the Government.”—Router. far as the League's pacific labours la covered by insurance. The citizens whose good public work is

of the Peace who do nothing in

were Certificates of Honour to be substituted there- for. However, that is for the moment a very different question.

Geneva, Saturday.

tared last year-Reuter.

robbers

A safe containing same valuable stores was left untouched.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

Golfing Feat Or Finke?: Princess To Visit South America: The Tories' Empire Policy:

Grenadiers As Politicians: The Boer War

When the supplementary Vote for $1,068 for Certificates of Honour first appeared in the official list of Votes circulated in

were concerned. The year saw 24 new Treaties registared at the Secre znethod. by which the the ordinary way before the last appreciated at its worth by the Federal State, it was revealed in the and only six in 1927. The United premises is at present u mystery. *. The establishment of a Black Sea tartat, as compared with, 15 in 1928 originally entered and left the meeting of the Finance Com- Government and by the whole Bettin Courts, formed part of the States signed 20 of the Treaties regis- mittee of the Legislative Council, Colony. The abolition of the ap-anti-Red fargery plot. it was imagined that the local pointment of Unofficial Justices Government had exercised some Initiative of a refreshing nature, that capacity would be mourned It was left to the actual debate by no one at the meeting to disabuse the public of that idea very speedily. It is now an accepted fact that it was one of the legacies left to the Colony by Sir Edward Stubbs when he was Governor here and, of it, the monetary value of aA Golfing Fluke? even then, the iden at first parchment, however well or ill MR. Alex Kidd, of the Jardine In her book on Africa, by the way, originated with Malaya. Appar designed, should not be permitted Engineering Corporation, the Princess, tella, in antusing fashion ently, so far as the Government to enter into the matter.

Eighteen months ago these Old The Shanghai, was playing a friendly how the arrived at the Gold Coast here is concerned, it has been Finance Committee, therefore, wan, with Mr. F. S. Widdup, of

round of golf recently, at Kinng Prince of Wales's departure.

within twenty-four hours of the Grenadiers held a private dinner at

"This the House, la tha organisation allowed to repose. on the are to be commended for their the Office AppHance Co. At the

gave rise to an embarrassing, though which Sir Godfrey took the lead, as- comic, situation," she wrote, "for I siated by Captain Crooksbank and files until something Oc-action in approving of the Vote. 17th hole (16 yards), which is was universally taken to be David's Lord Stanley.

wife, and at Acera, it was the sub- At that time the Grenadiers were curred to justify its inclusion its sponsors certainly made out a nominally an iron shot, Mr. Kidd Ject of much gossip why we did not able to master about a dozen strong as a special Vote. The design for good case in spite of the imitation light adverse wind. The ball lowed him

took a light baffle, as there was arrive together, and why I had al- not including one or two ex-warrant Hong Kong is not even original, of Malaya and the weakness of went, fairly high, landed on the without met

to contigue his journey and non-commissioned officers em having been

literally copied, so being supplied through the edge of the green, trickled up to far as the wording is concerned, Crown Agents in preference to the lip of the hole and then down "Empire and Employment.

for one. Interviewed at the re-

If honour is to be conferred on those non-British who are worthy

United States, but has never before been to South America.

contest Southport at the next Gen- eral Election will farther reduce the number of ex-Gronadier officers now sitting at Westminster,

of

ployed about the House and a Par liamentary journalist.

from Malaya. The order has been calling locally for a special de ception subsequent to the great. B. Baldwin intends to avail himservative Whip, Lieut. Colonel Wiltrid

placed through the Crown Agents sign appropriate to and manufac achievement, Mr. Kidd feelingly for the Colonies, whose price is tured in the Colony of Hong remarked that it was a moot point forced upon this Colony whether Kang. it likes it or not.

****Take away that bauble" has declaimed the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, in effect, in opposing the Certificates of Honour at the meeting of the Finance Com mittee. But his was the voice of

whether the compensations and {outgoings" balanced and he would have to take time to consider the advisability of repeating the per-

formance.

In addition to those already men iloned, Bir Victor Warrender, & Con- Ashley then Minister of Transport, present itself early in February to one of the easualties? at the last self of an opportunity that will and Captain Charles Rhys, who was make a full statement regarding the General Election, were among the

fiscal policy of the

present." party

This step is regarded as urgently r desirable in view of the several con- flicting policies which are being ad- The Boer War vocated in various quarters at the Bie Godfrey Dalrymple-White join. present times hed the Grenadier Guards in 1885, and, The oficial Conservative plan for having served for two years in the Empire development which is to be South African campaign, retfred unfolded in due course that

a political career. After fighting new being worked dat in detail unsuccessful election in East Wilts Research Depart in 1910, and, but for a short absence in 1906, he was elected for. Southport

News in Brief The annual meeting of the Kow- foon. Residents Association will, be Church Hall held on February 28 in St Andrew's A Royal Traveller

help to South America. Her High by the

first coush), is contemplating a one crying in the wilderness, for A report has been made by Mr. nam is exceedingly fond of travel, ord the Chinese Unofficial members John B. Mck

on and does not mind roughing it oc active part in the work and MP, suffered heavily in the Protection

Carlonallygg Allow years ago aba gave it thair blessing and

JAZZ DAİR ON PRINCESS' Marle Louise, the King's will be "Empire and Employee from soldiering in order to také UP

British Unofficial membe

board

the

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Lawyer by day taking an in19-3-24-hen Lancashire M.P

went to Africa, and lived part of the Neville Chamberlaid will also become Election has represented that divi- time andor canvas, this being her partment on his return from Kenys At the age of 50% durthe

prominently associated with the demon up to the present time.

in March,

Boris little time before", abe. „200, stayed on the Gold Coast, and wrote most interesting book, about her

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