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The China Mail" was a forthright and vigorous infant 100 years ago. In those days: the Jacal paper: brought assault and battery to bear upon each other as they used to do in contemporary England. Below is an example from the "Friend of China and Hong Kong Gazette of the way In which the "China Moll "* of those days had to take it in

turn:

Writ Sarcastic.

Every thorough-going news- paper reader will admit that the China Man," over since its establishment, has been conduc ted on model principles.

for the Unfledged writers

supposed, press, it would be desirous of attaining perfection, would imitate its Editor in his ways

public again, he is a bold mon..

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1960..

Confucius birthday passes without fanfare in HK

The 2,501st birthday anniversary of Confucius passed almost unnoticed here in the Colony yesterday..

I

There was apparently only one public celebration which took place at the Po Yick Association, 63 Jervois Street, where about 100 people gathered to pay homage to the Great Sage.

huld. In Jonely Quemcy Toland No flag was raised and no firecrackers exploded on the where the Nationelist army it

guarding the North Western ap occasion as in former years.

prasohtalo Formosa.

Quemgy was one of the bases

Formosa which Koxings used in his co-

from Dutch quest of colonists.

Firecrackers, however, did ex- plodo but they were not for Confucius. It was the occasion, of Yuo Lans Chit (Orchid Dish

Or Festival of th Festival) Ghosts which fell on the anne day:

Many residents were seen last night, offering fand to: the ghost. and much loss paper clothes and joss sticks were burned to pro- vide clothing, and money for the

hosts in the other

beflagged

at

PERSONALITY PARADE

Chairman, Exchange Brokers Association

Licutenant-Colonel H. B. L. Joined the Marcantile Bank of Dowbiggin, OBE, ED, Colonel India In 1001,

He Is a well-known clubman and has been paying dues, to at icant five clubs regularly: year

of the Hong Kong Regiment, He came out to Hong Kong for after year over since his arrival and chairman of the Ex-that Blank in May 1906, but wad in Hong Kong. At the Jockey then not stationed here per« Club, his non-appearance on "a change Brokers Association manently. He also served in race day is construed as a bad of Hong Kong, belongs to a Calcutta, Madras, Singapore; omeni, da var family which has been asso-Kunta Lumpur and Shanghal. ciated with the Far East from 1795-the time Britain took over Ceylon from the Dutch.

A pleasant spot

In addition to the strain of internment berne by all the Allis ied captives at Stanley. camp during the second world war Colonel Dowbiggin suffered from a worry peculiar to himself. He felt he had no right to be at

Shamshuipo. But he was not im

the Valunteer Corps were interned at prisone there because ime of the Colony's fall he was

Finding Hong Kong a pleasant| apat in which to live, he did not Before he came to Hong Kong care for the transfers here and In the autumn of 1901, two of his there which at that time featured Stanley, because mentbers of the great uncles, the Edwards, had the Mercantile Bank's disposal of already established connections with the Colony. They were both In the Army. Ond of them died here in 1844, and was buried in Happy Valles.

Colonel Dowbiggin himself has an association of 44 years with Hong Kong, and is consequently well-known to most sectioits of the community. Only two or thre other people besides himself, mill resident in the Colony, have beer, as long a member of the Hong Kong Club as he.

"Living the life of Christ”

its

Col. Dowbiggin

staff. He resigned in 19:01

at

neconded to be Chlef Distri- bution: Omeer for Food Control, and consequently was not in uniform.

The war stripped him of most of hia possessions and, in his own words, "made him a poor man." He suffered. an additional blow ruthlessly i when the Japanese

tore down his house on the Peak to provide inaterial for their Wax Memorial. His house was given the distinction of being the first to be thus destroyed.

Fully recovered

rc-

He left Stanley with his health In a poor

way, but recovered fully after a two-months cuperation spent at the, home of Van- one of his daughtera at couver, British Columbia. From

the

Revorad philosopher

Confuctur, sempat revered philosopher, was born in the aixth century 18, C., and his teachings on ethics and morals

Recently at a talk to the foláry form the epiritual doundation of

Club the Clonel surprised listen- Chinese society even up to today, adda: United Proth. His famous era with the scope and variety Angloots, biblical to the Chinese of his reminiscences. He recplled peoples and valued by all other the day when Peak dwellers had. downt, and when Formosa, was bonagged cater sountries, are said to be banned to use the nedon chair for jour-

by the Pakingtrbolme..> neys up and Roxing was the fanious Ch Government House was siluntár The Editor of the China day in honour of the 2501st anni Mail's forte is his very clever versary of the birth of the great hero general who drove out the at least two levels lower than tho

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Dutch Inim Formuza in 1601 and present site. sage Confucius, reports mode of picking an article to clated Press.

Dorn in Ceylon in 1884, his member of the pleces; and, if there is any per-

ever tho faland, which he planned mother was a Generalissimo Chiang Kairo-established Chingre sovereignly sonal 11-feeling towards its

family-well-known puthor, woe betide the luckkonsa | shejt president of a ceremony | tw^use as a base for a counter- | Layard wight if he comes before the commemorating the OFces Drosi-| mainland from the Marichurian) British

offensive for the recovery of the The Island from the time of the after a 15-year stretch with the Manila, which was one of

He was bank to join Stewart Brothers, a stops for the internees on their annexation.

Ilts way to Europe and America on This was. held at the denilal office in Talpab where

ronquerors. Ho died before ha educated at Christ Hospital and fem al exchange brokers. Chiang, in the presence of our could realise (to plan, --

Trent College, and after school, knowledge of finance gleaned repatriation leave, he made his from the Mercantile Bank days way to Canada on board the Canndinn cruiser Prince Robert, and top civillar

helped tim considerably.

and enjoyed Canadian hospitality vice chiefs

burned Incense ir

best. its memory of the revered sage oficiala,

During the first world war heat also helped out the Hong Kong He returned to Hong Kong in and long- The anniversary now known

Teacher's Day, is

is celebrated as

and Shanghai Banking Corpora- November 1946, and restarted his

under- lon, which was then

brokerage business n national holiday.

staffed. lie dłá odd jobs for them for later. His office hav- Yesterday also marked the-an-

for two years. All that time, low- ing gone the way of his house, over, he did not abandon his own he accepted an invitation from a niversary of the birth, 827 years

of

famous hors, Chene aro

business, which grew steadily. friend to altare office space. better known Chen-kung,

Two things have interested the retirement from activity. But Colonel Dowbiggin, at 80, merits Koxings,

Koxinge is celebrated in his

Colonel all his re-volunteering tory and legend for his loyalty whose two- to the Ming dynasty

overthraw consist of

by the Chings (Manchus) he tried vainly to pravént. He took refuge in Formosa where he died in 1862 nge of 39.

The celebrations opened yester- A handsome young man of went, Mr. Nanney said they had opportunity of visiting day with an incense burning core-28, his name is Forrest Elwood the

churches and temples. mony at the Confucius temple ar Nanney, otherwise known as

Big Fragen Cave at 0.30 am. Bob Wallace of Palm Springs, trying to learn the teachings of "Mounted Troop" in Hong Kong ring of the Colonel's daughters,

"We was in the Indian temples: cther religions."

Mr. Nanney, who received these was responsible for starting Press in his birthday sull" wild the Armoured Car and Motor- Joan, is now on a visit to her is desire forsaking the material Cycle Corps, which formed the father. She is an accomplished liertowomen who took inany

But we are fallible, and even model editors may err; and we think we but speak the feelings of the publle when we say that tu the squabbles, winded articles, with which we inve been continually favoured about things which are cared for but very little, and which, condensed, could be wrapped up in a nut-shell, the Editor of the

China Mall" has himself.

overdone

editorial tho Inst five years would prove, that thirds of the whole Inborious attempts to prove one Contemporary or other in the wrong.

An unlysis of the offusiony of

We have thus preambled for the sole purpose of telling our readers that we are going to Like a different course from that indicated by Our gifted Con- temporary.

on

the

our

as

20

us

at the

Without purse or script; travel companion pays

former United States Navy officer who said he is disgusted with sooing human beings slaughtering one another, is now travelling around the world forsaking material things "to live the life of Christ." He arrived in Hong Kong yesterday.

it was followed by six more California. celebrations meetings later in the

Mr. Nanney day, one of which was presideti arrived here from over by President Chiang Kai-Tangkak, his las sheis.

stopping place

gabardine trousera, a

and riding, and in both these pur-ho has no thought of this for the suits his interest has persisted all moment because he must con- these years. He has been identified tinue to work.

"Ho with the Hong Kong Volunteer daughter of Dr. Francis Clark, evos married in 1913 to the Corps since his arrival in the Colony, and his work to make it who was at one time Medical representative force was re- Officer of Health in Hong Kong, cognised in 1931 when he received Dean of the College of Medicine the OUE (military division) as a and later Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Hong Kong Uni- reward.

and versity. Three daughters

For a period he commanded the one non resulted from this mar-

world began some 10 years ago, mucleus of a mobile colume. Te believed that if Ue in

On varlig occasions ho. neted Prizes at Fanling and Macno be. lividuals in the world were tous commandant of the Defence fore the war,

administrativa be good, then the entire world Corps, and was

cominandant from 1934 to 1936. would be good too.

Commenting on the

present sold the

Colonel Dowbiggin

maintof good health, partly because all his life he has been an enthusing- sportsman-but mostly

cause for years he has kept ré- qular hours. A few weeks ago he underwent a major operation, but is now well on his fect again.

world situation, he

In the sport of kings his in-de nations in the world must learn terest has been equally intens to love one another,

In all the Far Eastern spots where "If we want a peaceful world." he was stationed he owned either

ponics. He was he went on, "we must co-operate | horses or

Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey with one another"

Club for a number of years, and has been Clerk of the Course since November 1940.

Willing disciples Like. What Christ did some 2.000 years ago, Mr. Nanney

Indomitable energy

Without pandering to any ope or more section or reelions of the community without allowing our own personal feelings of like or dislike to predominate but with a hearty desire no for us "A mass meeting sponsored by aboard a Pa In un Ben to bencilt our readers the National Defence Ministry in American World and the state, we are detor-

inerary of Kaxinga was held in Airways aircraft mined, as a general rule, to de- the evening, followed by a 50,000- accompanied by cline editorial contests, and in man lantern procession through Mrs. Dorothy

furnish matter the town. their stead to

who Farrier, from which something useful: The Central News Agency re once as the Mr. NANNEY shall be gleaned,

ported that celebrations in owner of the Confessing ourselves, in sin- memory of Koxinga were also world's largest chain of charm, cerity, admirers of his genius,

and model schools. and having received at his hands

Golf has been for two decaden without purse ar script," many marks of condescending proper remark, "That Senhor, Da

Juct

one of his delights. Recently as the Holy Boripture kindness, we were anxious in Cunha Had peculiar notions

Mr. proaches,

Nanney word

however he has succumbed to the anticipating the reception wo

water, about polsoned

which

lure of lawn bowls, and is cur- wavy blond hair and a sandy should meet with in

new were manifested in the regula-

rently identified with the team of beard measuring at least six character of publle Journalist. tions he laid down for supplying

caid he wants to look like Him!

the Hong Kong Football Club, inches in length. As he stepped

and to go into the world and

of which he is Vice-President, The reception, so anxiously it pure to the ships of war."

off the PAA altcraft with hip

_presch thus expressed-in-Now what does the Mail's travelling companion he wors

Godly gospels to the anticipated in

Isa-largo-man, well-pro- world. his

Ha claimed that al Intimates-describe Colonel, editorial prove, but that the Thursday. issue of

1. pale

Stater Dowbiggin as a man of indomit portioned in the military sense, Remarking

the United sudden Into Governer da Cunha, having

present in spring coat and a gabarding

about (30 men are willing to able energy, and a review of his He mixes well, and his unending death of Governor. Cunha (or the power of discriminating be-

well Beside what he

reminiscences is white jahirt.

become his disclotka,

many activities, year in year out, flow of Macau), he says. "We should tween poisoned and unpolsoned

has on his back, he carried, a

known. People like his lack of probably have added. Bitle to the waters, hazarded the opinion that

Together with his disciples, he attests to the truth of this...

enthusiasm and tiny, tallet kit, a pair of home-

will travel throughout the United of this that which he had drank was

affectation, his For many years he served in friendliness,... simple announcement

made sandals and a Bible. melancholy fact, but for the polsoned. meran

." Mail's ""

Receiving members of the Press States preaching God's doctrines the Court of the Hong Kong The report, to the report, originating with some gossiping people, and officiously own statement, evidently origin-h his Peninsula Hotel room, Mr. He said while he was travelling University, and the Educational circulated by a Contemporary, nied in the bedroom of the dying Nenney told reporters that his he never carried any money be Board: Since, 1018 he has been d been man: in circulation it received purpose of going round the world entice the Lord will take care Committee Member of the Dloce- that His Excellency

what we need "Ar-to hin

son Boys School, and is remem- general credence, and we have is to follow the life ant techfogo round-the-world trip, Mr. Nannes polsoned."

Following this brotherly re-been informed that the Editor of Our Lord and to impress on mid that his companion Mirs, bered by graduates of that in ANOTHER ONE OF OUR SHIPMENTH

stitution for his sincere regard 124 of the Mail," up to the time of human beings the Gedly teachings Farrier is furnishing the necessary for the local boy. ception, in the remark upon our

examination, of "love thy neighbour and thine funds. Mrs. Farrler, he said, in officiousness, runs some three, the post-mortem

enemics."

learning from him the ways of Nearly two years ago he was NOW HAVE A LARGE STOCK Tu score lines In the last dying concurred in belloving it.

of The letter, with intelligence

To write book. but which, being speech stylo

pursuing the spiritual life, written for a purpose, we do not the sudden death, also contained Mr. Nanney is also kathering Mrs. Farrier who gave up fame. Committee of the Nethersolo and PLEASE ALL CUSTOMERA, COME transpose. We prafer going at once to the proof (1) of the Mall's assertion that the report of the poisoning origina- ted with our Correspondent, "The Orders (says Mail was desired to set down the untarted tea, and to assist his master to a couch, who. t remarked that perhaps the water ho had been drinking had been polsoned." Then follows as the model Editor denominates it a

had

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a report of what His Excellency meterial for a book which he is wealth and comfort. for Gudly affiliated hospitals. He is also EARLY FOR YOUR SUITS. had said to his orderly.

planning to write after his returning, like Mr. Nenney had he Truston of St John's Cathedral United States. Before luggage while going around the He maintained a keen interest in

We did not publish that part of to the

the letter, having no desire to coming here he and his com-] world. Apart from what she the activiücs of the Hong Kong THE EVERGREEN

create extreme alarm......

A to our officiousness in penton were in Europe, the Near wears on her back, her sole lug- Horticultural Society, of which at East and India. Everywhere they gare- was a toilet kit contalang. various times he was honorary

making public that which we had need grounds for belloving to be true, it lles with those or 'our] readers, who have important in- terests at stake in Macao, to say whether they would have been better satisfied with our silence,

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Delegates from Hong Kong and

terday.

beside the necessary tollol arti- secretary and President. cles, also a juba of lipstick which provided the only make-up she ware as she stepped down from! the aircraft yesterday.

The pair who are sucking for spiritual life in the world, will continue their journey some time today. They xpect to return to the U.S. after three days' time.

ss. Empire Jamaica

in Harbour

ANOTHER SHOCK Macad lava, been invited to attend

Paying her yearly visit to the Kwangtung Provincial Ped- IN ASSAM this port for docking and

le's Representative Assembly to

change of crew, the British Bombay, August 27, bo hold in Canton on October 1.

ex- registered freighter Empire Fald the independent vernacular Dibrugarh, in Assam,

arrived yesterday "Sing Tao Jih Pao" in a report perienced a sharp earthquake Jamaica from the Portuguese Colony yes, shock at noon today, according from the South Scar

Tho. 4,300-ton vassel, owned, by to All-India Raulo. Further The report added that notifien damage was caused by today's Chang On Steamship Company, Limited, has been plyog Between tione had been received by in tremor was the scene of the Bangkok, Singapore and avancia dustrialists, merchants and com- munity leaders in Macno request devastating series of earthquakes bort under the charles to KPM Ing them to elbet 10 delegates to which struck the Brahmaputra a organisation under the Dutch

Government. V nga vit

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Two ships cleared for North China yesterday. They were the Eastern Venture of Metropolitan khipping Company, and the Hol Houy of Jebahun Thipping! Cóm-

The Chuiche Nationäils, Foreign: any. The destination pri bol

Minister, Dr. Geuro Yen, today Philps in sold to bu, Daire: Dat of Communut, espionage, agents described the Chinese communist confirmation by the respect the Philippines Government has noto to the United Nations con- owners to this excet was lovel divided to ban the issuance for damning American adtion on ablo The Eastern, Venituito ros inb voies of the turned to Hong Kong from: Du- entry, visas to poré

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