WAR HUMOUR.
A Reply to Some: Critics. Harold Begbie, writes in the Daly Chronicle as follows:-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1917.
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original article. No-one would say that comio papërs should deses to sppear, or that comic
First' in Rice. theatres should lose Their door, Borma is the world's largest or that bleerful ngladed "people producer of rice, and though.lem So may daw papers in the should cease to laugh. But early than a tenth of the crop in export country have published discus- it will be agreed that it would be ad, even then her exporta con
You will be aware that the sions of this matter, and so many intolerable so bare jebte made on stitate more than half that which demand for the simplification of letters on the subject continue to the horror of these night raids, come ante, international trade. our present system of coinage reach me, that perhse I may be with their suffering and bereave- The figures relating to this, the continans to make headway, and allowed to destroy a central mis-ment for our neighbours, an world's greatest cereal crop, are that many influential bodies ara H. K. & S. Banks a understanding which has made however small a,posis.
colossal. The Barms rice arop contemplating taking steps to for controversy.
...........MARINE INSURANCES. There is one other point I averages 28 million tons a year, stoure the pressge of the neces The complaint is not against should like to mention. Vistor, and upwards of 2 million tons sary legislation.-
Cantons bamour. There is a suggestion in the Chursh Times orticises are exported. The only other The morta of the Decimal North Chinas that soldiers behind the firing my phrase: "Men do not laugh great rice exporting countries are Association are now reinforced by Yangtazes line should be deprived of jest at the thing they truly bate, I French Indo Chins and Siam, the recommendations of the In- and jolly be that people at home
see the danger of this phrase, but which export alightly overstitute of Bankers and the Associa should go today in rekeloth add still think it expresses a pro-million tons a year each. British tion of Chambers of Coinmerce. China Fires ashes. "No suggestion of this found truth. Vistor finds the Indis, therefore, supplies more and all these three bodies are in H. K. Fires kind was made. Indeed, it was phrase "atterly false." He says than half the world's exported agreement that the decided change expressly stated in my article that that men do laugh at things surplus of rice. Exporters of rice can best be accomplished by re Douglases the officer who pleads for less which they truly hate," and on a much smaller scale: are Java, staining our present # sterling as Steamboats wer bamoor is himself a man of
the United States, Italy and Spain. the monetary unit sad by divid- the happiest nature with a dis explains :—
For you do not hate a thing.
ing it by 10, 100, and 1,000 in position towards frivolity of the,
Shanghai Sbare Market, lightest character.
unless you see it is evil, and all}
Mesars. A. L. Auderson and stead of by 20, 240, and 950 as at The complaint is against that that is evil is more or less beard: Co. in their weekly share circular present,
A step towards decimalisation .. form of humour which tends to This, I beg leave to consider, dated Shanghai, November 24, make the unnatural tragedy of in the very flippancy of religion state:It is a fortnight since we was given when the florin was Sugars warʼinto a pantomime, which goes Vistor; if he really mesne what last addressed yon, but of this per-coined (as it represents the exset Malabons grinning on to the battlefield, he says, must be irritated by the iod the former half was devoted by tenth part of the 4) and it will which laagha among the dying little humour of the New Tents clients to the antum racing fixture, be seen from soircalar (issued by Kailans and the dead, which chuckles at ment. The incident of the money so that there is actually only a the sociation) that most of our Langkats the heels of Bairoafather rather changers in the Temple mast week on which to report. The existing coins down tosad itclad- Raubs than strikes the devil sorose bis shook bia feelinge. The distress excellent figures shown by the ing the six-penny picos are avail-Tronohs month with Raemaekers. This is of Jeeas in the presence of the International Cotton Hill for its able and suitable for incorporation Urals called War Bamour. It has no adaltress women must perplex Fear's work, coupled with the io a decimal system of British Oriental Cons.
DOCKS, WHARVES, relation to comedy. It is a thing him. Christ certainly did not abortage of the cotton supply at comage without may alteration which tends to
GODOWNS, &C. home and the brisk business at whatever in their resprotive at evil. Evil makes obroure the laugh
H. K. Wharves ss. horrors of war, lo minimise the is impossible for the Divine Will the local mills generally, bus values...
Efforts to divide the florin into Kowloon Docks Д. tremendous ordeal which we call to be done in earth as it is in fired up cotton considerably!
b. and prices in nearly every care 100 parte and thus strive at a Shai Docks apon our soos to endure, which heaven. It is the supreme enemy
LANDS, HOTELS diminishes their heroism, which of man's happiness. It is the have advanced. Among the rab-complete decimal system of coin.
AND BUILDINGS. darkena their glory, and which cause of all misery and tragedy bere, the continuance of high age, notwithstanding its manifest
and despair. It is the
exchange, and to a greater ex-advantage (which every other Centrals blasphemes their sacrifice.
Let as admire car soldiers for frustration of God's love. Viator, eat the weakness ebowo at the nation in the world aiready H. K. Hotels going up to the trenches with a writing for the Church Times Singapore rubber auctions has enjoys), have hitherto been beset Land Invest. gay song on their lipe; let us may delicately woo the Comic Caused the cancellation of a nam with insurmountable dificulties
ber of taying orders, but on the largely because the change in appland them for returning to Muse for the delectation of young their billeta with a smile on their curates exhausted by Sunday's other hand there is no pressure to volved a slight reduction in the
penny, faces; bat in the name of all that ritual, but I am "perfectly sure he sell and market values continue face values of the ia holy and sacred and decent, would see nothing abeard in the to mark time. Geners! Securities penny, and farthing.
Whenever this step has been for heaven's sake let us forbear to murder of his dearest friend by are still easy and neglected while laugh at the carnage that comes a burglar, in a piece of ewindling Debentures have slightly im diecussed pathetic pictares bare Ewos between. Let us not look for at his own card-table, or in the proved their position and seem bee drawn to illustrate the dire Kung Yiks amazement in the shambles, grinding-down of a swester" if inclined to firm. To-day's open- reaulie which must follow (par. S'hai Cottons Yangtszepoos According to the officer who spoke it reduced his own family tong rats for T/T on London was ticularly to the working classes)
Orientals 4/14: the Dollar rate being spy attempt to tamper with the it is this form of hideous want. War Hamour which dieguste This matter deserves serious-Kochien
73 025. Company Meetings, eto, penny, which became invested
Borneos..- Transportation-with a quite fictitions sanctity. honourable and decent men who attention. The Church has largely The Liquidator anncuncas the The war has, however, charged China Light & P.b. bave suffered the immearorable lost its hold upon the world payment of s firat dividend of many thinge, and the value of
Providents agonies of actual fighting because evil is not real to Tla. 35 per share as for 27th the penny is simong them. It is
Dairy Farms b. They want and demand humoor because it does not feel the awful
Green Islands be Bot too much to say that the H.K. Electrics b. when they come up spain from consequences of Evil. A very produced
inet.; script should that indescribable bell; but not able Socialist olergyman, the International
endorsement. purchasing power of the peney H.K. Ice Co., Cottons: The has completely changed, and Ropes Fach humour as some of us send Rev. W. Blissard, in a remarkable balance at Profit and Losa shows that the inf-xibility of our Steel Foundries them from home which would book entitled "The Economica credit of Tis. 522,610.66 for the subsidiary coinage has been one Trams, Low Level s. make a shell something as comic Anti-Cbrist," to which I hope to year's working which compares of the Causes - accentesting | Trams, Peak, old s. Be a fool's bladder, and a bayonet refer a greater lengih on another very estisfactorily with the lose the high prices of daily necessities Trams, Peak, new s nothing more dreadful than a occasion, chargee the Church with shows a year ago of Tle. 25,250 which have been found to be the Laundries Aspper's hat pin.
complicity in the degradations and 35: it is proposed to pay a root of so much industrial unrest, U. Waterboats b That there is reason in this can destructions of our presens econ-dividend of 10 per cent. and a and the present proposed changes, be seen, ironically enough, frem omic agetem-bich he likens to boons of Tls. 5, write off to instead of being against the in recent events in Londos, War, Prussian militarism What is Depreciation TL, 75,977,50, place dustrial classes, will be of advant in an infinitely trivial relativity, implied," be seks, "in this has been brought bome to the attitude of benevolrat neutrality Equalisation of Dividend, Tis.
to Reserve Tla. 20,000 and to age to them.
One has only to recall the many metropolie. A very few German towards Economic Militariam on 98,000; leaving Tia. 45,833.18 to instances of the prices of balf- BENJAMIN & POTTS, seroplanes have dropped a very the part of modern Christianity? be carried forward. The meeting penny goods and services being Share and General Brokers. few bombs on a very few streets It is its identification with the will take place on 5th proximo.raised to a penny and of penny of London, killing and wounding evil which it entered the world to Anglo Javas:-A third interim of gooda being raised to three-half- an insignificant fraction of its overthrow." That is the purpose Tis. 0.25 is declared for 11th peace for lack of an intermediste inbabitats. But no bomories of Obristianity-to overthrow
proximo. has thought of extracting laughter evil, not to smile at it.
Boa Manggis coinage to realise the truth of from their moonlight visits of
second interim of Ti 0.25 is the statement. To know what evil does to the payable on 28th instant. Taneb These advances of 100 per cent. death and destruction. No Lon-Bouls and bodies of mankind is to Hersh. An interim of Tis. 0.05 and 50 per cent, respectively have rrr........ doner would smile to see jest hate it, and be who, bating it is advertised for payment on 7th been made when perhape 20 per Demand made of an auroofed house or of with all his heart and mind,
cent, would have reimbursed the 30 dis....... women and children
próximo. crashed strives to destroy its powers, does
Bellers for their increased coat; so dia........ together in the Tabe corridors. It not laugh at it. Evil-is not "more
Japan and Wool. is felt by all Londen that no local or less absurd." It is the enemy tare and Commerce is making sabeidiary coins, haring values T/T Shanghai....
The Department of Agrical- and the introduction of new Berts and Ole Bills should be of mankind and the bater of good. steady investigations into the intermediate between our present T/T Singapore allowed to express humorous feel. I can assure Viator that the possibility of Japan producing half penny and penaz, and be / Japan ings in this matter. It is top near. Lord's Prayer will never be her own wool instead of entirely sween It is too sotasi. It is too visible realised by laughter. The King depending upon the precarious halfpence, would accordingly be Demand, Franci
our penny and three IT India This, I think, conclusively dem of Beaves will not come with apply from foreign countries as a great boon to the consumer of
T/T San Francis- establiebes the point made in my emilse.
co & New York) et present. Several experts bave "pennyworthe" in say form, TIP JAVA been or will be despatched to It is certain that the pre-war T/T Marks. Taiwan, Manchuria, Mongolia and level of prices cannot be restored T/T Franca. other places in the East which for a long time to come (if ever), are within easy reach of the and that the provision of an en- empire for that end. The wool larged range of low denomination m/s. LO 3-14 Degotitions with Great Britain coins in closely graduated steps 4 m/s D/P...
31-36 are still at a asandatill, Since would accordingly afford much 6 m/s. L/C...
31-53 the consent to the sale of 50,000 relief to cor hard-pressed people, 30 dis. Sydney &}
3:-56 bales was obtained from the while enabling the seller to get a Melbourne...ired British Government fome time fair increase of price for hisarticle. 30 da. Ban Franc-
7034 If we on simultaneously pro
isco & New Yorkƒ _ ago for the use of the Army Woollen Cloth Manufactory, pot vide the desired relief and reap 4 m/s. Marks
Nom. a single sale bas been made by the benefits of decimal coinage that country to Japan. Privatee shall have done something to requirements are eccordingly not merit the gratitude of our country-Demand, New York. 695%. considered by Great Britain men both now and in the fature. T/T Bombay ......... favourably says the Tokio Ad.
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