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THE HONGKONG DAILT PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 1922.

WORLD THEATRE

Hongkong's Most Modern Picture Palace.

Entirely Under British Management.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

8.15 p.m. performance

JEWEL CARMEN

5 p.m. sharp performance DOROTHY DALTON

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in

THE BRIDE OF FEAR

THE GREAT GARCIA TROUPE.

with.

QUICK SAND”

THE GREAT GABOLA TROUPE

with

MISSES. GLADYS GORDON & NINA MISSES. GLADYS GORDON & NINA

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GEOGRAPHY AND PEACE.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS' WORK.

At the annual meeting of the Geogra phical Association, held in the Birkbeck College or January 6th, the subjects dealt with varied from the geography of the peace and the problem of the Pacife to the geographical conditions which in fluenced the growth of the cities of Lou don and Westminster.

Lord Robert Cecil, president of the Association, mada "Geography and Peace" the theme of his presidential address. Dealing with Mr. H. G. Wells' recent criticims of the League of Na- tions, Lord Robert said no one thought the Longne was perfect, least of all those who had had most to do with it; but on

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17th Feb, D'ight.

17th Feb. 10 AM.

17th Feb 10 AM.

17th Feb., Noon,

7th Feb 3 P..

17th Feb., 3 PÁL 17th Feb, 5 FX.

Singapore returning from Oslontis steamers proceed via Birmane and Hongkong to Japan, ocolaionally calling at Shanghai All rionery bars excellent passenger accommodation, are a fully-qualifol

EDIMURGE, Dember 29th: scOTS FIBREZMER AND A REVITM, -·

Eyemouth; the principal ontre of the revival in the South of Scotland, is a town of intricate alloys and quaint old down haphazard Gable ends face house houses that seem to have been dropped fronts, and the architecture is distine- cively local in types. If one asks the CALCUTTA LINE-This Lame affords regular sailings to Calcutta Pment 454 reason of this extraordinary mam of lanes and wynds that run into and out of each other, one is told that it suited the con venience of the smugglers who haunted the place-mugglers who were the fore; knew all the twists and turns of the town, and were thus elten able to outwit the Preventive officers. A great contrahard trade was done in Berwickahit up to the MANILA beginning of the nineteenth century, and HAIPHONG Eyemouth, which had unique facilities for landing goods, was an important centre BORNR) of "free trade."

the whole is had worked better than most father of the present revivalists. They/SHANGHAI LINE:-85th Flectric Light and Pans and cary, a

was a

people expected, and where it had been least successful it had been where the spirit of the Covenant had been least faithfully followed. So far as Mr. Walls was right, in regarding the Washington Conference as a more efficient instrument of pance than the Council of the League, it was because the Council had never been constituted as it ought to be. The absence of Germany, Russia, and the United States

serious blemish. But those defects and others which might be pointed out were all carabin

Until we had experience of the Treaty of Versailles it was popularly supposed that the Treaty of Vients had reached the high-water mark of human ininstice and futility. According to this view the negotiators after the Napoleonic Wars were actuated by blind self-interest, in different to everything except securing another lease of

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for the tottering despotisms of Europe, and, above all, utterly regardess of the sacred principle of nationality. When, therefore, Pre-most that the Committer could do was to wident Wilson laid it down that self promise that the theme would receive determination was to be the keynote of Eurther consideration at the March meet- the new settlement is pronouncementing. was greeted with loud applause. fortunately the principle of self-deter- Un mination was easier to enunciate thau The races of Europe, with inx- plicable pervarsity water-tight compartments. They were, In fact, hopelessly intermingled. not, however, in the least follow that the It did political allegiance of a population would be determined entirely by racial consid erations. The Swiss people consisted of three races, different in origin, different in language, and not united in religion. It must be admitted that the expres sion" self-determination wes in some ways unfortunate

It seemed to imply kind of invitation to every population affected by the war, to consider whether or not it would like to change its politi. cal nationality. Our old British maxim that government should be by consent of the governed was sounder. If self-deter mmation as a guide to reconstruction required modification

histrical grounds, it was even more important those who relied on it abould give ..due

TRAINING CHINESE HIBBIÓN WORKERS:

At a recent mesting of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of which had been drawn up by Mr. Kearney. Scotland, a statement was considered TENTHIN one of the missionaries of the Church BANGECE It contained, it is stated, a well-thought- out scheme for training Chinese workers, whose assistance in the work of the Mis sion is admitted on alf hands to be absolutely necessary. pronounced to be altogether wise and The scheme was moderate. It could be enrried out for a comparatively small outlay. But in view of the lamentable state of its funds the

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that.

PUT AND TAKE

The Take All" spinners used in the gambling game of Pus and Take" which is now all the rage, are amply revival of the old-fashioned tee-totum.

tak' 37" T "tikanetak

Scotland this dwarf top had four sides lettered A. T. N. and D The A. meant bone and D. doon ane-that is, one fato the pool.

pay

Scotland, it was for very modest stakes.

When played in the country,

districts of

observance of Yule in the old days in- pins being in great favour. The standard cluded this game of pins, and it is re- ferred to in W. Beattie's descriptive poem...

The Yule Feast

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On dark December's five and twenty, Auld Style; when auld-world folk: has of roast, and boiled, an a'thing dainty

plenty

To feast their frecas; An' lads and Inssies dress fu' genty

To play at preeza.''

weight to economies: Of this Silesia was so popular was the game at that season ar example. A division of the district

BPERDA

were stocked

on racial lines could only be partially that special Yule

complished; and, beside it involved by the merchant in Aberdeenshire the arbitrary division of industrial pro-

all ones at a penny the sheet. perty, as for instance, by leaving the

I showed the above paragraph to an works in Germany and transferring their English acquaintance, and with an elo- mative power to Poland, or by separating Scar again-gambling for pins!".

quent rod he remarked,The frogn a town from its water supply.

had

JEROME BUONAPARTE'S SCOTTISH BLOOD.

The Council of the League of Nations, to whom the matter was relegated when the Supreme Council found it too di Buonaparte, who has been offered the An American citisun, Jerome Napoleon cult to settle, had proposed a novel dubious position of the Albanian throne, international device: The sovereignty of the territory was to be Through bis great grandmother, Betty. political has Seets blood running in his veins ruled as far as possible by the wishes of Patterson, of Baltimore, be is lineally the

voters in the plébiscite, but the descended from the Scottish worthy whom economic life was to go on as it was for Sir Walter Scott has made immortalas fifteen years. For all commercial par-Old Mortality." Robert Patterson, still the frontier sport transportation remembered under that strange nom de

was be intercourse was to continue as if to divi-of Closeburn, in Dumfriesshire, where ho and plume, was a masch by trade, a native sion bad taken place. which had been adopted by the Allies, especially devoted to the memory of the This proposi, was born in 1715. A religious enthusinat, and was now being worked out by a joint Covenanters, he made it his businées to committee of Poles and Germans, was wander through Setland, renewing the full of interest for the political geogranscriptions on the tombstones of the pher. If only some device of the kind martyrs and cutting new ones where there

ben adopted when Austria-Hungary was split ap, what a lot of misery might for his services except the hospitality were Ilone. He never accepted anything. hafe been spared to the peoples of Cap-which was freely offered him. And when tru Europe It might even turn cut that was that when nations found by actual experi- enough to provide for his humble, wants not preferred be had money meht how well they could get on without His son, John. Patterson, emigrated to all the Xenophobic barbed wire with which they at present guarded their fortune. It was his daughter Betty who the United States. where he made his frontiers, they might be converted to a married Jerome. Buonaparte. brother of more rationa system of. neighbours (Hear, hearting thor the great Napoleon.

He was still convinced that the fund. mental conceptious of the League, the Mr. Stephen Leacock has been telling fearless appen to the better side of the London Rotary Club that "there are buman nature, the universality of whisky in Scotland. One because whisky. membership the international forum, in

seventeen reasons why people drink. which all nations, great and ermall, could do thing when you come in ont of ment on

on equal terms, the definite. bad weather. Another is when you go out that mercy and pity, "reason and into bad weather. judgment, truth and candour should be ether reasons until the seventeenth, which I've forgotten the the governing factors in international is because, at everyone says ja Scotland, relations were splendid in themselves, it'i de you no harm. and that the general lines of the League organisation were not unit to carry them into effect (Cheers.)

siling onsor about 1st of Mar. sailing middle of Mar.

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THE REASON WEY":

FRITISH NAVY'S COAL SUPPLY.

·Welsh condowners have, bown invited by Bir H. Mackinder spoke at the after the Admiralty to tender for supplies for noon session on Everyone know, he said, that there were

Problems of Pacife 1922. Before the war the Admiralty re quired 15,000,000 tons per annum but many islands in the Pacific, but few had owing to the use of oil the quantity for any conception of their extraordinary the coming year is not likely to exceed potentialities: Java had a population of 500,000 tons. There are other contracte some 37.000.000 or 39.000.000.

It was practically as densely inhabited as Great ling 250,000 tons for India and 150,000 in the market to compensate," one total- Britain, and the whole of the population tons for Brazilian railways. was based on tropical agriculture.

the neighburing islands, were as thickly

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populated and there was no recent why KICK THAT SCORED AND BECER they should not be the region from Sinatra to New Guines would 400,000,000 people, which would exceed Carry the population of India, and wal quarter of the present total population of the world. Borneo was booty of the first order, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan were bases for naval action of the greatest signifience. In the range

occurred at Coalville during a Leicester An incident, probably unprecedented, shire Senior League match between Coal ville Swifts and Measham. Layton the Swifts inside- right; scored a goal with a kick which was so hard that the ball

of coast line of the Pacife there were broke the goal-post in two, although Lae great deposits of coal and metals and post was of regulation

every kind of vegetable product: Euman

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nature being what it was, they could visalies the competition for markes

Though so great a proportion of the Bri-easy way, and it was of enormous im tish possessions surrounded the Indian pertance that there should be an under- Ogan, it had not been necessary to main standing between the English-speaking tain a great Beet there, because no part races.

It was not the part of geogra

of the coast line was held against us by phors to be the propagandiste of particu a great Power or Powers We could far solutions of problems, but they ought not dominate the Pacific, in the game to present the facts relating to ch

(Continued at fout of next columns). Fl problems.

approximately every three days ontween Canton A Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow Through tiskais dun be obtained and through Bill of Lading are inined "to Northern and Fangbare Forts in Shanghala by reasols with good LINK-Balling prarimately weekly for passengers and caree JUNK :—a weekly servies is maintained with

passenger accommodation, sailings from both porta every Friday. calling at Bobow when inducement offers LINK-Fortightly salings to and from Sandals by two 5,000 tomme Tekmerman. “HINBANG" and a * MAUJANG" both steamers raving excellent passenger accommodation. Carge mann on rough Bills of Lading for Kadat, Feaston. Labuan Tawar and had Data LINEA regular service is run from March to November between

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