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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1974

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"TIMES” ON THE TANGO.

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Mandate states. Those who have seen a real Captain R. W. Johnson, lately that the Tutu of Kwangtung re-cake-walk danced by real negroes focmmanding the depot ship porta tho dievery of a Canton in its real home have foun I them-Vulcan, and the Seventh Sub- branch of the Tisamingtang or elves obliged to present the cake marine flotilla on the East Coast Heavenly Will S-ciety, says He and hurry away before the dance of Erotland, on: December 17 MEIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak, ON and after let February, ter's Peking correspondent. The was half over, says the Timeda-noad command of the cruiser leaders have bean captured and of those (and they are not mapy) Europa on her being detached heap Rental, from 1st Decerner/ wishes board and residence as many rebele killed.

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danced by 13al Argentines, the from the Third fleet at Poris majority will tell you that the mouth for service in conveying to Captain Larking, of the steamer dancera were not high in the the China Station a new crew for Seang Choon, on arrival at Pen-ecial scale, nor, perhaps, in the the oreiser Hampshire which is Bog from Hongkong via Sings. ele of virtue. Every tango now to be recomissioned for further pore, reported that on Christmas being danced on the London stage day about 10 miles due west of is, as each e sparate advertisement service. The present crew of the

Port Dickson be parsed a large is very careful to assure us, the Hampshire will return home in

quantity of oil tius apparently full of oil floating about,

'New Swiss President. Colonel Dr. Arthur Hofmann, of St. Gall, linen olected by the Federal Assembly President

"real" tango; yet behind them the Europs. all there apf sure to be a yet more real tango-shall we say the ideal ango, of which we cavodwellers

sea but the shadow? And the

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Lienteant E. K. Boddam Whe

ideal tango: ms to bo no more tham, from command of the a drawing-room dance than are destroyer Virago, tender to the those savage dances of which Tamar at Hongkong, baa ten of the Swiss Confederation for students like Mr. Havelock Filis appointed to the command of the the year 1914. Do was burn in bave collected detail-dances of destroyer Kennett. He has been 1857 and has been head of the which oven the "real" cake in the service since 1903, and was Federal Military Department for walk in but a shadow. After

the past two years. fle is a mem watching the tango as danced promoted lieutenant in 1909. ber of the Demetic Radical on the stage or in the ballroom, Lieuteant R. W. Wilkinson," party. Dr. Giuseppe Motta, of public or private, he would who exchanges the command of

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Airolo (Ticiao), was appointed to a bold or a very strict-minded the destroyer Fame for that of partof Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. Vice-President without oppo-man who could declare that it the Ribble, hasrorved afloat since sition. He is bead of the Depart was an immodest or an inder int ment of Finance and a member dance. As danced on the stage May, 1900, and got his promo-/Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram LET. Two room. Flats in of the Catholic Conservative party. it seems to lack swing, rhythm, tion in 1908.

Lieutenant W. G. C. Maxwell,│· Baidity. The dancers are rarely Interport Football.

in time with the music; they from the Usk, retains the com- Kobe, January 5-The Shang never appear, as good walizers mand of the "destroyer Usk on hai football team played Kobe appear, to have the muniors that abip recommissioning for to-day and won the third much intimately in the blood" that further servi with the China Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913 [211 of the tour by four goals to three the music, d not their will, is Flolla. Lieutenant Maxwell has In the first half Shanghai moving their Loliea. They are been in the senior service for scored two goala to ni. After thinking of their legs and feet; fifteen years, and was advanced the interval the visitors added and to think of one's legs and to lieutenant in 1904, two more goals and Kobe scored feet is to perform physical exer- three geale. There was tremen-cises, not to dance. In the ball- dous excitement during the last room, for one couple that seems five minutes of the game, when to be at oago, six couples are Kobs were pressing.

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Commander Lushington's Fatal Side-Slip. Flight-Commandor Capt, G. V. Wildman Lushington, of the J. Quayle, T. T. Wade and J. C. heads and stooping shoulders, Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Porter played a good game for they keep anxious eyes fixed" on Corps, was killed, and Capt. Shanghai, while T. Henbury, F.laborious toes. They are counting Fawcett was injured, as the result No. 1 DURBAR VILLAS " Allion, and Gutierres were the steps and reckoning figures. Ofta flying accident of Eastchurch Kowloon. Apply to:-8PAN- pick of the Koba players, the joy of dancing-of moving on the afternoon of December 2.

ISH DOMINICAN PROCURA rhythmically to music in perfect

TION. Copt. Wildman Lushington concord with a person of the ascended in a Manica Farman opposite sex, with the head in air biplane, taking with

him, as and the mind free of anght but passenger Capt. Fawcett, who was the disaster, which is supposed the pleasure of music and motion on a visit to the naval serodrome. to have been caused by a side-

the ball-room tango-dancer They went for a flight in the clip, patently fala nothing. So far from being indecent or immodest, the ball-room tango is ungainly, ridiculous, and dull.

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N. LAZARUS

According to the Japan Ad vertiser the following ohanges in the British Consular Service in Japan will take placs shortly:

direction of Sheerness, and were The deceased aviator, who was Mr. A. M. Chalmers, Consul

returaing when the biplane fell aa lieutenant in the Royal Marine General at Econl, will be trans

distance of 50 ft., and turned a Artillery, served at, the Easiney forred to Yokohama as Consul

Complete somersault after striking Barracks, Portsmouth, where the General in Buccassion to Mr. J. C.

Its hold upon modern society. the ground. Capt. Wildman news of his death caused a pro- Hall, who is retiring; Mr. A. H. however, is not hard to explain. Lushington was found beneath found sensation. He was a very Lay, acting Cont ul-General ut We have ronched again a moment the pot ol tank among the debris, popn'ar officer, and took a pro- Kobe, to Seoul as Consul General; at which the pursuit of pleasure and when extricated was dead. minent pars in all forms of ath- Mr. R. G. E. Forster, Consul at

The pursuit of His death was due to dielocation letice, gaining special distincti a is approved. Nagasaki, to Kobe as Consul pleasure is one of the most sen- of the neck, and his body was as a boxer in the Naval and General; Mr. E. L. S. Gordon,sible things to which the mind of conveyed to the mortuary to await Military Tournaments. Be dis- Vice Consul at Hakodate. 10 of man can give itself; for, though the inquest. Capt. Fawcett, who played great jatarest in the The trouble that to day is small and eusi Honolula as Consul; and Mr. G. the moralists dwell on the differ- was in a dazer condition when development of the science of remedied, if neglected may gat boyund B. Sansom, Assistant Japanee ene between pleasure and hap-recuad, sustained a fractured aviation, and was appointed to singls meusures. Be on the safe side and Secretary of the Embassy in Topiness, the normal man finds that collar-bone. Acanvas screen was the Royal Flying Sabool in April and have them examined. No charge for if your eyes are giving trouble call on us kyo, to flakodate as Vice-Consul. the greater part of his happiness placed over the biplane, which last with the temporary rank of sight testing.

arises from pleasure. Yet the was totally wrecked, and the local captain. On several occasions

N. LAZARUS, Rush for new Stamp. | rhythm of life never brings to the Accident Committee of the Royal he made surprise flights to Ports- Messrs. Whitfield King and surface the same thing twice in Aero Club met on the spot at mouth, and was looked upon as OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. Co., of Ipswich report that the same form. The pleasure of ones to inquire into the can of an officer possessing great nerve special postage stamp was issued the Regency, we should imagine,

in Crete on November 28 to com- must have been a grosser and

wüs moro

Gregory and Langmore, but was unable to attend, and Major Gerrard, thon alioutonaut, took his place,

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and skill. But for an illness Tol. 1292. 1A, D'Aguilar St. Capt. Lushington would have momorate the anion of Crete with more brutal pleasure than that of collect and restore them for us), we been one of the pioneers of Greece. The picture represents the Restoration; as the pleasure toil wearily round our ball-rooms aviation in the navy. He held a the hoisting of the Greek flag at of the Restoration Suda Bay. Of these stamps there partial and physical than the in lumpish imitations of modes of pilot'a certificate of the Royal self-expression that are not, and dero Club, and underwent a were 300,000 printed and by pleasure of Elizabeth's day never can be, our own. Whether course of aviation at the Central order of the Director General of About twenty years ago English we like it or not, we are English, Flying School. He was selected Posts of Crele, no orson was pleasure reached the summit of a allowed to buy more than 100 at peculiarly disagreeable phase. To bo English is not to be a clown for the fiat aviation course with or a kill-joy. European nations Commander Samson and Lieute. a time, but such was the demand Pleasure was admitted to be wrong have learned that, if we are quiet, for the stamps that after 100,000 and was cultivated with an affect-

we are not gloomy. We are were sold on the first day of isaue ation of bravery.. People wrote the maximum number supplied with a smirk of "ein," to which passionate lovers; and eager sa

ers for pleasure. But we are not to any one person was reduced to they gave a capital initial letter; hot-blooded Southerners,"" twenty stamps. Mere. Whitfield and the secret of pleasure was to King were themselves only able do something which you knew to "rgiastic negross, or volatile New Yorkers, or 'pagan" Greaks. to obtain one sheet of one hun- be wrong. To-day we have passed And when, instead of trusting dred stamps.

beyond that stage. We honestly be lieve that pleasure is not bid, quite simply to our own natores, bat good-a thing worth having we loss, its worth and its meaning we import nature from elsewhere, Lord Rosebery on the Bugenic

for its own sake, no less than a5 2 Baby.

source of vitality, and strength on the way and make, ourselves. Isborianely grotesque for nothing. Speaking in Glasgow at and as a sweetener of life. We dinner of electrical engineers, believe it to to natural, and he waltz has held its own for a hundred years. because, though of

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Lord Rosebery said they were sincerely hold that what is natural foreign origin, it suits the Eng told that there was a shortage of cannot be evil. And yet we seem ligh temperament-dreamy, ro- 500,000 bbies an announce to be no ne.rar than twenty years ment which struck cold, to bis ago to the understanding of what mantic, esotimental. We know heart. This was one of the worst is, for ourselves, natural. We and like its meaning. Doubtless, symptoms of modern civilisation. import our nature. We turn for in its native country, the tango hos a meaning; but it is not one He was, he supposed, expected to it to the negro, the South Amor- that can be expressed in on Eng- comfort himself on the birth of a can, the anoint Grenk, tish ball-room. Like our farces eugenic baby, but he had modern New Yorker. With a difficulty in knowing what a country densely populated by from the French, the ball-room eugenie baby might be. He had fairies and goblins and sprites tango hints at what it dare not once in dullness and pretence. no hope of living to see how it and elves, we make, plays and say, and involves its votaries at might develop, bat one eugenio balleta out of dryade and nymphs get baby left 499,999 short of the and Olympians. With a climaty number we ought to possess. He all our own, we adapt our confessed he would rather see women's dresses to lands of clear. I you have lost your appetite them produced ander less favour- air and sunshine. With a hung one of the big Variety o able circumstances than this dred dances that grew out of the dainty dishes at the ALEXANE engenio haby than rejoice in the English temperament and the Eog DRAL CATE is sure to tempt Advent of this miraculous' infeat, lub soil (ind a dozen sutiolara to you.

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