1918-11-09 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1918,

LARGE

SHIPMENT

MATERIALS JUST

SHIPBUILDING

OF

ARRIVED:

Steel Ship Plates. Angles. Flat, Round and Square Bars, Copper and Brass Rods. Tubes. Sheets and ondenser Tubes. Galvanized & Black Iron Pipes, Plain

orrugated Sheets and Shipchandlery Articles.

PRICES ON

and

Established

1867

E.

APPLICATION TO

HING

&

CO. No. 25, Wing Wo Street, Hongkong

Telephone No. - 1116

LOUISE OF

A Tale of a Tea Shop.

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plays

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and Days; Hither and thither moves, and chicks,

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drain-pipes" had not farned

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Fri's commenced his retailati

boards to slide our always the Lille Road near the brewery, and Armentieres. same parapets to mend with the the "boss" of these "drain.

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FRENCH PREMIER AS POSTMAN.

Mall Carrier to Amerlean Sergeant.

Stationed there and somewhat

water onderfcct on the driest raperies and knick nacks,, and to the "roboar" the 0.0. THE STORY OF AH CHO know who who? Lote of names ARMENTIERES." day. Meals a la bour straigh Louies.

jare very much slike, and sa for from the tip, and A.S.C. bread,

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thair ugly "face", dozena, of them |with a chunk of "apple-tart"— Louise was nice to us all, The strafe started on time, and

might be pese out of the same | Cousin Mary's tart a trifl-except two; perhaps she loved Campbell joined må in the dash battered en routs and tasting of them both? I wonder who she across No man's land We nipped the maximam Mother Siegel'e Syrup. All the would have married had notic and inspected Fritz, Hace inocme ter has been reduced tows a conscientious man, sud he of one of the small towns in the

You are, of course, aware that pod. The firm won't give any abatement for The surveyor, as I remarked,

The other day on the outskirta fan in Bairne-father's cartoons Frits interfered'?

and Paul," basted ap a couple of $120 I merely mention this determined that something must northern part of France, at a rammed down your throat at Oae afternoon the two lovera dug-outs, gathered every meal; you might even feed came to the tea-shop to talk over

the painful subject in order to in.be done. So be decided that 46 small distence from the front, a blighty, and came back fall roddes the story of Ah Oh Oho, whowed the most tar, mas scar pet rat at midnight by the question concerning an ob- of beans. It was a toppine who, with about three hundred be interviewed sad firmly told small detachment of soldiers who Sergeant was commanding a glim of 8 tallow-dip.ervice erration-post to be used by them come. pattern Mark VIL, or, better still. | daring a “joint show" to be put adalone back in the Cleset use your shrapnel helmet to boil up on the following day for the in quick time, but the heavies on factory. Ah Cho, though and, if Lereesazy, made an "er weary of a long day's standing in fellow that he must parit. Failing that, were guarding a gross route.

be was to be told the const quenCLS 4 egg in or keep the rain from a benefit of Frits. It was to be a bad demolished Large Farm and be did not sarc enough to ample to the chars by a magist the hot sun, the Sergeant was tripping through the crack in first-class stunt daylight the machine guns caught the bay two grand pianos and a OMAR KHAYYAM.

raid backed up by a heavy artillery retiring garrison as they left the coat, received over forty pounde Who's to pay for so later to appear. the roof of the dug out."". 1.

Wading about at 3 ack emma, barrage, and a side-show with place. All was well, except the daring a certain quarter, and

esgerly looking out for the relay Some men are born brave, some become brave, and some have mildly atraffing & sentry to hear machine-gana.

fact that we were now getting it consequently became liable to preter?" demarred the aggrieved deserted route, with its long As he wae gezing over the CWD Toice break the bravery thraes upon them; oon. rear

In preparation for the "show" thick, is the eslient, They also income-tax. So did a number of collector. "There's nothing is versely with covarde. The led ap-ness of "cas hour before some-heavy artillery had been turned on some 59' and these the rest of his country men. The my offoial icstructions about shadows from the popless border- to perform gallant action—is the always the same muddy duck-mains of a battered house, on tte and switching salvoes on to from the firm a list which includ the surveyor. His blood was up. with long gray mustaches hanging event which impela come men stand-to." The rotten routine-canningly concealed in the re were doing counter battery work local surveyor of taxes received

ing it on both sides, he saw two Chinese interpreters."

"Engage one, anyhow.""said men in civilian clothes coming bia oever for others; the camouflage

way, One was an elderly man," veiling their cowardiness.

ed a choice assortment of Oriental Campbell went back into the names of workmen and wages.

So it befell that the surveyor, down at the corners of his month, The intense love of a man for brush wood hurdles and the same pipes" was the rival of Camp. [observation post to make sure of Being a conscientious official, he pleator," and an interpreter ich cheekbones, sltogether a won makes him fight for her, bags of sand. Always the same bell, 0.0. of the Motor Machine the fact that Large Farm was so assessed each man sccording to view A Cho and company. The face of man who had seen the makes him risk his life for her sand-bage to fill; sa-n-d-bags on Company sttached to bar longer on the map. Scarcely had his emolamente,

journeyed to the works to inter- woarity the meme intensity of would thisy over call a spade a division.

he climbed in then it was shelled, spide. sympathetic section CAUSED

The trouble began when the foreman made a comprehensive harder days of life; the other wa The "gas-tubes were allotted heavily, Sand, a-a-n-d... Ye Sainted the task of sansing the enemy aldier to desert bis regiment, or

collector tried to collect the taxes, sweep of the arm. "Take your in the prims of life

younger, well built, and sppeared shirk his duty, for the more ponunt! Peace to the "son!" of with lead se he fled out of Large

Neither Ab Cho nor any of bie

pick." he said grufl. No, hej later, when I had colleagues responded

didn't know where Tua Ling was closer, the Sergeant could see As they gradually came up the sand of the mud fists of the Farm when the genisl society of a women.

heavies" completed the ratten job of demand notes.

and didn't care. He the fore them talking together, and, To correctly determine, and friver Lys. The million tons of plumped the big-staff into it.

Possibly this bringing Campbell down the was because the sathorities had an-e huey. His only desire the responsibility, for thir it, the umpteen million bage of

Large Farm wee about 1,000 communion-ion-tranches paradox needs very critical it the slimy mad cursed by sarde beyond the enemy front handing him over for burial, I the corner (the enggestion inspended from lampposts.

and neglected to print "BS V.P." is to see Yan Ling and brethren taking them for some peasants evacuated from the near-by town. analysis of the two master in-every man in the first 100,000.

line trenches, and used by them was riding though Armentieres cffered quite gratuitously), bot

eddrawed them ficence-beredity and environ

The same daily Headquarter sa a billet for the reserve company and decided to stop and break more probably because the notices Several Obinese volunteered their perhaps going to Paria?"

The interpreter got to work. "Hello, there, friends ; you are ment; this a tale, e simple tale pase-Thin wire on your of the Battalion holding German the news to Louise. of ope woman and two men.. Company front." The esme House Balient, which we intended The remains of the little shop collector tried his lack at the cidence, zone

were printed in English. The ames, bat by a singular coin-

That is exactly where we are .IL

nightly wiring-party, the same to raid. It was a tricky business, were scattered about the pave of works, and was confronted with taxable. The man were constantly

of them were going," snswered the elder.` Louise, the woman, was the morning casualty state. Cause this combining the daylight raid the narrow street. I recognised bree hundred bland faces and a abifting about, and the interpreter wonder if you would have the Well then, if you are, I daughter of a French farmer and more barbed-wire, with the artillery part of the some of the dainty knick-necks. total lack of spoken English. He presently discovered be was kindness to take these few letters living in a village a few miles more dead men.

programme, and making it fit in More then one 59 had struck reported to the surveyor. from the town of Armentieres. Night ratrole in the long with the firing of machine-guns the buildings. near by, and the

interviewing the same man twice to Paris for me. You can throm "It's a difficulty," said the dia temper was cot improved by them into a box when you get When the German army swege, wearing out the knees of ai 2,000 yards range.

little tea-shop was a thing of the surveyor,Doubtless they don' this. At length, however, he an- there. With this blessed old. victoriously through Northern your brerobes looking for Frits:

Indirect fire, relying on compass, Fracce in 1814 Louise filed before bide and-week in No-man's-land. pase and map, requires's good

anderstand the notices or the tax counced he had found Ab Cho. Military Post Office letters some Lovise and two of the other them; they baried her father Esports by the yard, from short- observer, somewhere, if you want girls were killed in the celler, little English," said the collector.note,

"Some of 'em must speak "Show him this demand bow never get to their destin age of plum and apple to missing to switch on and off the target and their in his own field.

Montbe ister Louise drified "zami" and the return, in The man firing the machine gun carried away, The O.C." drain without,"

Bodies had been "The firm couldn't carry on about it," asid the surveyor.

him all tion, sad in this way they will

get there much quicker.” -- biok to Armentieres, where she riplicate, of the number of Baah Fess nothing of the target, and pipes" had just escaped by a few

The interpreter got to work "Hand them over, we'll gladly opened a ses-hop for British Baptists, chiropodists, and brass might be plastering a haystack minutes; he did not observa of them," said the surveyor, he meant to earn his money. He what is your name?r

"See if you can get hold of one again. He was a good man, and do what we can for you. Anda workers in your Company on the wide of the mark.

from the O.P. in the front-line"Ask him if he will kindly die dilated on earned income, and be The two men” who fre [day you embarked for France. To ensure the emocess of the trenches, but from the safer tribute a fresh lot of notices, and came eloquent about abatements;

"Sergt. Daraud.”*-* guented the pafe were fighting Inspections--morning. noon, show both 0.0.'s had agreed to security of the battery. OP... in Kitchener'a mab; the "tangh and night. Inspection of iron risk it and observe-for their

aleo ask him to be good enough he went into the history of income Prime Minister of Franos, and "Well I am · C ́enenɔssu, Frix spoiled his arrangements to explain to the others that it's tax, and finally descended to Ab this is Mr. Lachenr, my colle north-countrymen" holding the ratious, inspection of gas helicets, detachments from the estaminet for the day, and I declined to a national tax on their wages." Cho's particular cast. The man borstor." trenches straddling the Lille inspection of ammunition, in observation post in the front line give him a lift in the car-Br

The collector worked marvels, listened with an impassive oɔan-

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We went to pection of feet, socks, and boots. trenches of the Rue de Bois Capt. David H. James, M.C.

After this the French Prime Louise. Ten Shop" to drink tea Inspection of everything need in 8lient. The O.P. was danger-

and finally managed to interview tenance; at length he utterd e Minister and his friend went.on and eat French pastry, at least trench warfare; not a single ously exposed; it was in the

one Yan Ling, who could mangle guttural grant, the King's English with saper battered remains of a factory

The interpreter wiped his brow the trenches without the slightest Having come from that is at the beginning. Laster Ppection of Frits!"

Regenerating China. on most of us, when we were in Oh! for one good inspection of building that formed part of the

Istive politeness. Yes, Tan Ling and beamed triumphantly. "He escort, where they had been on s Le Journal de Peking, Chinese would distribute fresh notices and understands," he announced. rest billets, went there to bask in Fritz, Hase, and Psal; morning, trench system, an excellent target edition, is cffering a pris of explain the matter to the others her smiles and practice our noon, or night; Perbape they that Fri's shelled every time we $100 for the best essay in five if his own tax were remitted.

"Will be pay

tour of inspection, they were now" asked. the walking back to their quattere in / salleator. French;tes was the rare de guerre, were just as keen to inspect us, had a stans.

handred Chinese cherzatare on *44“All right,”sid the surveyor.

the little village at the end of the

•Louiss was the objective,

|or perhaps they were just as fed- And now I shall let you into a "What is your advies es to the "Tell bim I'll cancel his own Chinsman and spoke again. The

The interpreter turned to the route. Armentieres was frequently lap and longing for the care of secret. There was more than met best method of regenerating sacrement" under heavy shell-fire, so Lonise Lille and their anng retreats.

The collector latter beesme unexpectedly flaent the eye in the contempisted China? ” bad fitted up a cellar ander the Bat they sang to as sometimes; destruction of Large Farm.

stared, "I'll assess him double for a minute. The interpreter's we go by that. No diso, no pay." shop, and we often had car after Frits, Hans, and Paal. It was Louise had lived there when the

quarter," added the braw knitted; he uttered bad It is stated in the current issue surveyor, who was nothing if not language and dismissed the man. From a corner of the workshop The tria.wended its way home.. zoon tes in the comfortable shemasio of Herr Krupp that Germans cams through in 14 of the Labour Gazette that the ingenious, surroundings of her sang little they hawled at us; the music of It was her home. It was no coin-general level of retail prices of The collector appreciated this mattered gloomily.

"His name is Ab Chow," he Ah Cho watched them go without the whizzbang, the fiva point cidence that the Farm had been food on August 1 showed an se a master-stroke. After a fort She had the knack of holding ice, sad the woolly-bear."" wangled" as the target for the advance of about 4 per cent, as night he reported that Yar Ling the foreman. "Look here, said were there; had he not overheard moving a muscle of his face. Be. A depressed trio approached knew prefectly well why they all men in their place, the adroit. They sang their Hymns of Bate drain pipes," and the streets compared with a month earlier, had sworn by all the images of the surveyor persuasively, "you, them interviewing At Chow? tact which enabled men to remain Songe of Araby" pelted at leading from it as the special raising the inoreses since July, Baddhe that he had explained or somebody here, must be able The ghost of an Oriental, wink her friend after the rebuke. The you from the sky; the gentle target of Oampbell's machine 1914 from 100 to 118 per esot, the matter folly. By way of eath to identify these chaps. Otherwise drifted soross to Tan Ling, who few girls who helped her were brees of Osylon" wafted across guns. They bad "worked "the Since July 1 the control price he had solemnly broken s saucer you couldn't pay them properly" had mysteriously appeared from loyal to the traditions of the in lachrystory chanke," tears Brigade Staff very hard to keep of margarine baa ben zalaed Two month massed, however, Quite right, mister," said the nowhere in particular, plaor; they were pretty, at- and sighs" that tore boles in the those places for their own part of from 1 to 11 21. per lb., and and none of the tazee were paid foreman, bo was in a better tractively dressed, and never breast-works and left behind the the show.

that of Government cheese from The survoyor began to get humour.

Which I wish to remark, and jarend on our nerves or butted instink of trinitrotoluene, ammonal,

Louise knew nothing of the 1. 41. to 16. 81. per lb. Now annoyed.

We get into a fright my language is plain with a smile. I took the Padre and smouldering "mad bag,"

contemplated raid, or the me potatoes, which are generally on

ful mess at Aret, Wan Wee the surveyor. But what did it matteran-bon? fisted destruction of her old home, esle, averaged 1. per 71b, as addresses?" he asked.

"Dan" you get any there one day and introduced It was all mix up, from the bat they were both keen to make reompared with Tel for the old I go one or two, replied the Wes, or semokɔdy answering

private would come for bit money, and "Perhaps they're not really hia to Louise. The place was

Then we'd di ever that Wa ble,” said the collector sooth till of men, and he had to admit miler on Dis. Headquarter Staff jab of it and then break the crop ontle ago, an increase of collector, but they live in fifth its had

"Most of 'em have got tan that the aberm of the place, the to the five-thousand-s your cook cows of the ej olion of Friis, 17 per

stners and the cosiness, gripped of Na. 16 Pintoon,

officers.

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They were will

him very tight after the equalor To change it all to the chances to please her

more the

of the trenched scant mile tes shop in Armentieren, with she nenal chances of the game, Awards Whats life, & beast the soft cushions in the stay.

Jy life in breast, Work trenches, chairs, the pretty picture of pretty When I left Campbell

Loound of lees of mad and

women by Kirschner, the pretty observation port as hye m

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Food Prices.

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