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erous if it had not exacted a tragic price in human life. Porhaps by the time we have succeeded in get- ting rid of war altogether the Boldler will be clothed and equip- ped in a manner, enabling him to fight to the best advantage-Man- chester Guardian.

A Lutyens Pun.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931,

Princely Gift.

Sir Edwin Lutyens has perpe-A trated a pun, which is new to me. but which is so neat and simple that 1 feal it must have been mado wedding before.

PUREE DE POIS

By

BESOMORO,

bo

Sir Robert Ho Tung's golden

anniversary will remembered in Hong Kong for a At dinner the other night he was long time to come, and for more oric." But the one heavily engaged by his immediate reasons than

will sear it in the neighbours in a conversation about thing, which the Liverpool Cathedral. As their mind of the body public, is the interest in architecture was more useful and princely gift of $200,000 curious than academic, he became which he announced last evening. He was distinctly happy in the choice of purposes to which he The final straw camo when a

made it a condition that his gift woman asked him: "Tell me, Sir should be employed, and I hope Sir Edwin, exactly how would you Robert and Lady Ho Tung, will live describe the architectural style of long enough to see the first fruits, the new Cathedral?" Sir Edwin

bored.

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assumed a look of stern gravity, at any rate, of their philanthropy. "I'm afraid I cannot explain it to you by word of mouth," he said, Charlie Chaplin in the Witness Box, "hut if you will give me a pencil and a piece of paper I shall try to describe it."?

The pencil and paper

were brought, and then very solemnly he wrote down the word "Wrenaie sance."-Evening Standard,

.to

move.

Hoping that the tiger- would come

back, he

climbed a tree and waited. Much to his sur prise, half an hour or so later, three tigers appeared together. He opened fire and killed two of the beasts, the third managed to

oscope.

I have been told that, at times,

a kill together-but three, and one, tiger and his mato may approach not a cub?

"

A Boy's Clover Epigram.

This lo attributed to a London boy twelve years of age. Writing an essay on "Why I am Glad I am

Boy," the youth wrote: "The male race is so much more silent than made the female race. Man was from dust and woman from the rib of man. If you drop a bag of dust it will make no sound. If you drop a bag of bones they will rattle."

Out of the mouths of babes and suckdings.

This famous film star seems to have struck a patch of "bad weather" on his visit to the Old Country. He has been in trouble again. It is, perhaps, just us well for him that these little "incidents" did not accur before he had catab- | What Is A Right Arm Worth? lished himself in popular favour.

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A London tailor was recently

and 80 injured that it became necessary to amputate his right

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I don't know how similar incidents knocked down by an L.G.O.C. 'bus News in Brief.

would be taken in another country, but Britons resent Royalty being Yesterday the lowest open air cavallerly treated. The disclosures arm. He claimed damages from temperature was 68 degrees. The in Court seem to indicate that the Company, and, at first, was humidity at 10 am. was 67 and at Chaplin makes a practice, nowa-awarded £250. The case was taken 14 p.m. 68.

days, to so treat Royalty, Mombers before another jury, which award- of the Royal Family, and such per-ed £500. Against this latter award For stealing a tin of polish from sonages as Britain's Prime Minis- the L.G.O.C. has decided to appeal. his mistress, a house coolle waster. No doubt, he deserved the Aftoon minutes a banishment order this morning, fined $40 or in default "uncomfortable not issue

eentenced to 4 weeks' imprisonment. Judge Sir Alfred Tobin gave him against them and make the

in the witness box." authorities in China responsible

By the way, did you know that Hong Kong. Thursday, Dec. 3. 1931. for all costs incurred in repeated-for Hong Kong. has kindly con- there was another Charlie Chaplin'?. ly sending them back to Chinese serted again to take the chair at There is, and he figures in the bill the annual meeting of the Boy of the Moscow State Circus as a

believed he is the Beggars Bureau in charge of a 22.

same clever under- Police Official with an

acrobat who was seen at the Olym- pin Circus in London, a few years

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him

Beggars All!

H.E. the Governor, Chief Scout

Some Trudge.

Somebody in Sydney made a rash statement, the other day. He said, "Unemployed ex-Service men! Not one would walk ten yards to get a job." These may not have been his actual words, but they contain the

one?" interposed a listenor. "Bet me £50 to 18h., and I'll walk to Perth, and do it in seven months." "It's a bet," said the other, and it was immediately ratified.

territory? Why not establish a Scouts Association on December trapeze artist and aerobat. It is sense of what he meant. "Won't

ligo.

And now "Tommy" Atkins-his Thin, surely, is unusual. I have

name is actually Lewis Victoro never heard of a similar incident. Atkina-ia walking 2,600 miles to Are there any Hong Kong shikari win that bet. He has already pass- who have? The incident occurreded through Melbourne, and hopes to in Malaya very recently. The reach Perth with a month or two manager of a tin mine hearing the to spare.

tiger went out to investigate and squeals of a pig and the snarls of

saw a tiger carrying away the pig. Scott, R.M., H.M.S. A little later he followed the spoor Suffolk. An enjoyable evening and found the pig alive but unable was spent.

WAS

CORRESPONDENCE

SALES OF ROSES.

Bravo "Tommy"! I hope you'll,

get through without mishap, and may the £50 net you on your feet again-though that is not an ap- propriate simile.

CYPRIOTES COPY INDIANS.

Salt Gathering To Annoy.

If Hong Kong is not to earn standing heart and a wide ex- Great interest is being taken in the doubtful notoriety of a city perience of the profession of the the W.G. and M.C.L. dinner dance

beggars and

returned mendieant? Let a thorough in- in the Hong Kong Hotel on Satur Three Tigers Visit a Kill.

day-the same day as the opening banisheer, the authorities must quiry be made into the merits or of the new gri room. Booking be moved to take much

more demerits of every case, without thus far is quite satisfactory. drastic action than the present resort to the Magistracy; and, in legal machinery permits. Nor-instances of the really poverty The ship's company of HMS mally one cannot walk along the stricken having Hong Kong as Suffolk gave a dance at the Hotel

Musie Cecil fast evening. pavements in the centre of the their birthplace, look the other provided by the Suffolk Sonorous elty without running the gaunt way.". Leave aliens to the ten- Band. The attendance included let of beggars of all types and der mercies of their own authori- Captain with all manner of afflictions-ities. There are enough Hong feigned and otherwise. The Kong poor without aliens being same faces are seen times with- allowed to play on our sym- The air thriller-talkie ""Young out number, and woe be untopathies. Although technically Englen" featuring Charles Rogers, or her who is moved by outside the scope of the Society Jean Arthur and Paul Lukas, is compassion: he or she will be for the Protection of Children- shown at the Majestic Theatre. Kowloon, from lo-day to Saturday. importuned and pestered practic-|-save where juveniles are con- Rogers's successes include "Illu

[To the Editor of "China Mail."] ally daily. When big ocean linera cerned (particularly as dupes of sion," "Follow Through," "Safety

Sir-I have the pleasure to hand arrive in port the army of beg-adults) - this is a phase of so in Numbers," and "Along Came gars is mysteriously reinforced,cial service itself. The real Youth," whilst Miss Arthur has you herewith a list of the collections appeared In "The Lawyer's made to-day in conection with our leading the unwary stranger aim of any reform mut be to rid Secret" and "The Canary Murder annual Street Sale of Roses.

I shall feel obliged if in publish- within our gates to imagine that our streets of alien impostors. Case."

The police have been instructed ing this you will kindly express the the chief industry of the Colony That should not be difficult, given

Society's thanks to the ladies men- to repress any such attempt to is mendicancy. Occasionally, it the will on the part of the In connection with the armed tioned in the enclosed list, who took violate the British salt monopoly. Sharp criticizm is being heard is true, we do hear of a raid on authorities and co-operation on robbery at the Kwong Yuen Dye charge of the various districts and

Works, Sheung Sha Pe Village; to whose unremitting efforts credit here of the action of the British the beggar fraternity or see a the part of the Chinese philan- November 20, three men were

of Government in withdrawing the. must be given for the success charged yesterday afternoon be-

exequatur from the Royal Hellenic sad and bedraggled procession thropic societies!

this year's sale. fore Mr. J. A. Fraser.

The Press On the

on Cyprus. The Society desires to thank also Consul being escorted by officers of the

advice of his Worship, Inspector each one of the sellers who one and maintains there is not the slightest Smith put in an additional charge

Consul kept to his Instructions to ground for such a measure as the

the preserve strict neutrality in present conflict.

From Other Pens.

Lighter Infantry,

of alding and abetting against the all contributed so much to the very first accused. After some evi- gratifying result obtained.

Thanking you also for your dence was taken, the case was ad-

courtesy. journed,

A

of

talkie

Yours, etc.,

J. M. NORONIA, President. Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Hong Kong, December 2. The list is too long for publication.

The total is $5.105.44]

law to the Canton steamer. But, like flies, it is a case of shake off one batch and another speedily takes its place. Begging, is evid- ently a paying game in Hong

The rumoured intention to relieve Kong. Only a few days ago a

the soldier of the heavy and cum- special season beggar woman was able to find brous greatcoat which demands so favourites is being offered at the bail in the sum of five dollars, much "transport" either from him- Loe Theatre (Hong Kong), Port- twelve dollars being found in herself or on the "train" will carry land Theatre, Portland Street, and almost as far as possible at present the Koon Chung Theatre, Jordan possession. Genuine poverty the long and slow business of mak-Road, seats being at ten cents up- and genuine afflictions move the Ing infantry both mobile and com-ward. The season commences to hearts of all of us; but sheer im- fortable. The process began a long day, ending on Saturday. There at Lee Theatre position must in the long run time ago, but there have always will be screened

Vagabond King" with been "conservatives" to resist any "The defeat its own ends, besides undue speed in the matter. It is Dennis King and Jeanette. Mac November at the Botanic Gardens

at Portland Theatre, was ns under:- harming the interests of really Impossible to imagine anything less Donald;

Love Parade" starring suitable for fighting or marching "The deserving cases.

Jeanette It may be wrong to classify than the old kit of the Infantryman, Maurice Chevalier and

maintained by some commanders at MacDonald; and at Keon Chung begging as a crime. Human be least at full rigour in all conditions. Theatre, "Paramount on Parade" ings must live: if they are ban- When it is remembered that war with a host of stars. ned from begging, they wl yield

was carried on in the eighteenth

to the temptation, forced by the century chiefly in the Summer

months, and that soldiers in high

pangs of hunger, to steal. The stocks, and with tight and uncom present system of trying to fortable uniforms had to march

Personal Pars.

NOVEMBER RAIN.

The record of rainfall during

Athens, October 27.. The Cypriotes, copying Indian methods, have taken to sait gather- ing as a means of annoying the authorities.

ACROSS IN GALLEY,

A crew of four, with a cox, in a racing galley have rowed across the English Channel.

When they left Calais conditions were favourable, but during the morning a south-west wind 'in- creased, and when they reached English waters a rough sea

running.

Water cycle. Rowing boat.

WHA

November 8

,02

Channel

crossings have

now

9

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10

22

taken the following forms, among others;

11

.51

Water akis.

#

Swimming.

Total

0.78

Canoe.

22 ft. yacht.

Gilder.

OBITUARY.

eradicate the beggar' nuisance long distances, charge, and fight in The forthcoming marriages are

Mr. E. J., R. Mitchell, Branch. its which would now be thought announced of Eric Frank Buttress, having failed lamentably owing unsuitable even for a ceremonial engineer, P.W.D., 19, Macdonnell Manager of the Manufacturers Life to the easy facilities for return-parade, It la marvellous that battles Road, and Doris May Biddick, en Insurance Co., has been advised by the 8. cable of the death of Mr. A. G. were fought at all under hot suns, route from Home on Ing from Canton, why not.

And when the same uniforms were Chitral; and of Poon Sze-wal, Hearne, North China Manager in of an alternative plan? Why not

worn by troops marching, and fight-teacher, of the Chinese YMCA, Shanghai, which occurred early this Impostors with the punish wilful impostors

for appendioltís utmoat vigour of the law? Why whole thing would have been ludi-Street, West Point.

w think

Ing in the American forests the and Mak Yuk-ying, 05, Third moning is a result of an operation'

"Bubber cande

A Canadian diver has suggest- ed walking across on the sea bot

tom.

To-day's Thought.

"It is much" caster" to criticise than it is to correct.