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NOTES AND COMMENTE

OUR WONDERFUL AIR FORCE.

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

A FAULTLIUS PERSON. NEVER GOES

Some interesting facts and AROUND POINTING OUT THE FAULTS figures have just been published OF OTHERS. with regard to the Royal Air Force. Nothing could be more remark- than the growth of this branch of that a photograph of Hongkong's Telegraph readers are reminded the service, which five years ago new Governor will appear in to was only in its infancy, but which morrow's pictorial supplement. has now attained a magnitude and perfection which is almost inceredible. The RA.F. is one

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ROBBIE'S LETTER.

TO HIS NEPHEW IN AN

ENGLISH HOSPITAL

the "handwriting on the wall"TO-MORROW'S FOOTBALL. Well, that may be and may look

fine to them that can understand

that sort of talk but even if it is SOUTH CHINA v. THE CLUB,

she came, Pollock's appointment

There will be plenty of inter-

a Attorney General, in the abeance of Kemp, looks to me, 80 Hongkong, March 19th 1919, from the thermometer it should of handwriting on a different the United Services League Match far as Constitutional Raform is eating football at the Valley Dear Alick-Aye, judging concerned, like a different kind to-morrow, the chief itam being just be about our Chinese friends' kind of wall. Of course, mind)

Ching Che" time, the Feast of ye, I don't blame Follock; it between the lab and South the Excited Insecta. Man, I've should be a cushy job for him the Ohio, on the Olab ground. Yesterday two case of cerebro- often thought of this funny next twelve months of the greatest wonders of final meningitis were notified-sounding nams Isuppose, though, the ropes, but it'll be just as are always of a very interesting He knows Matches between these two Clubs the war. In 1914 Britain one Chinese and one Indian. that naturalists could give as a well for him if in the meantime nature and Saturday's should perfectly natural explanation why the Government doeana agree be no exception to the rule. The insects should get excited at this to season. When you think it out stitutional Reform, for mind clube have already met un four we all get excited at the forefront re, it'll do very awkward occasions this season and two, of the year.

if Pollock's asked to draft a new including the Shield final, bare "To the Spring a young man's ordinance affecting the situation. been won by the Club by the [important factor in bringing the on Monday, Tuesday and Friday fancies........." and then we have And at the same time, he'll hase) narrow margin of a goal while the war to an end has been the fight- and a dinner dance on Thursday, the Spring Cleaning, at least at to have his wits about him an no third was won by the Clab by →

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air force consisting

of two squadrons but to-day she One of the sufferers deid. maintains an sérial army of two hundred squadrons, and is in a By reason of the A.D.C. per position to increase it, if necesformances, Wiseman's are re sary, at the rate of four thousand aeroplanes a month. It is not arranging their dances for next too much to say that the most week. Tes dances will be held

ing in the air. It is an interest- ing stody to glance back

in the hands of both the Allies

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home. Out hare wi' our servants forget to put up his hand when there's no cleaning and certainly the Government dyes are being goals and the fourth resulted during the ast four and & Passengers booked from Lon- no spring in them, but that's no recorded..

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'drawn match. half years, and follow the gradual don to Hongkong by the & Aki to say but what they don't get growth of this new weapon of Maru include Mia M. Rooks, excited.

..........dyo, sa I was saying, Neither club, has any chance of war, which from a more or less Mim T. Moltenius, Miss Hgrandparent has been sacrificed out for yourseli.

many it's a funny world if ye think it winning the League, so that experimental branch of the Army, Lecky, Miss Balmer and Mr to make a Chinese holiday. But Hongkong have been going round removed the spectators should While we in with all anxiety of points. has developed in a few years into PetriD.

we have our moments of excite the shipping offices for months a great and smooth working organisation, which has proved

ment as well, mind ye. If it's past doing everything short of beasured of a fine open game of From to-morrow, the itself one of the greatest weapons!"iffin" ferry to Kowloon will sometimes more.

extra no one thing, it's two, and asking the booking alarks out to fast football.

The Pesce dinner just for the privilege o and the enemy. It is of course run at one o'clock on Saturdays Memorial and the wormen folks paying good money for a passage games in 2nd Division of the There are the manal three- with instead of at 12.50 as heretofore. going home serve office and home home, on the other hand the League, St. Joseph's meeting Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which which we are most concerned, On other days the tin ferry equally alike at the moment to Germans in Shanghai have been South China Reserves and this

fally justify the Chinese in their more than byordinar' retiring and should requires them to forward their names and addresses with communi. and nothing could be more will run at 12.50, as before.

glorious than the recard

further incresse choice of a name cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by of the Royal Air Force. Not

St. to one of it was only after a great deal of Joseph's League lead as on form their Springtime Feasts, and pressing that The Centaur, light cruiser, if any doubt as to the validity of of them could be prevailed upon The 83rd Coy. and Staffs, also being Mistress of the Seas, but which was for some time the this contention remains in your to accept a free passage to their Kowloon and

majority the former team is much better. the deeds of the air fighters dur-flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir R.mind, I can clinch the argument Fatherland. ing the war, and the greatness of Y. Tyrwhitt in the North Sea, by

Ye take it from me Reserves, should both provide Royal Navy heraerial army justiñes her taking has been allocate-l for service on the

reminding ye about that ye couldna' wish for a close games and good football, women folks and thair better sign that the Germans have and the struggle for the runners the China Station.

excited interest in prospective hot been licked good and proper up position between Navy Rex, weather clothes.....

when they even have to be forced Staffs and Kowloon is still fall of Man, I had a terrible job to take a holiday home. Things possibilities. The ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES,

was to have taken place as Mr. getting Janet off in the "Rusis", don't look too healthy in Ger-officials are as follow:- We have spoken above about G. P. Lammert's sale-room so- but we the R. A. F. having arrived at a morrow morning has been post-managed. It was only because I

managed, зуа we many and they know it......

United Services League. state of perfection, but that was poned. The furniture sale, how- pretended that she looked washed Hospital ides as a war memorial 4.15 p.m.; referee Hr. Emery

......I'm thinking that the Clob v. South Ching, kick-off only intended to convey a com-

out like that I ever get her is beginning to take rool parison between ita present state ever, will take place.

Of persuaded to take a holiday at course I'm no against the Har: Cop. v. Staffs and Depta, kick-off and that which it had 'before

2nd Division League.-83rd all, but you believe me

she bour bridge, but mind ye, wi 2.30 pm, Military ground, the go away and so did I be no excuse for Kowloon folks ph's v. South China Res., needed a change badly before such a structure there's going to referee Kr. Townsend; St.. Yon laat week's wrestle was getting a holiday once in a while kick-off 2.30 p.m., Navy ground, enough to make her a life member when the typhoon weather is on. referee Mr. Davis; Kowloon me Goodness only knows wi' some

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919.

LAW-BREAKEES AND THE LAW.

the title of Mistress of the Air.

The sale of allverware which

the WAL It is impossible An old Chinese was this morn- certainty the vast developments Lindsell for having in his posses to forecast with any amount of ing fined $10 by Mr. R. E which are due to take place, and sion 15 rounds of revolver am- are even now doing so. The

He said he bought imagination reels at the tremen-

the ammunition in Hongkong Įdous-possibilities which lie open

by the advance of the science of and proposed to take it to his flying.

The aeroplane is not country plaas to prosuna inimmanić

to become one of the greatest assets in our national and com-

munition.

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teams and

honours of the skippers on the coast-it's Royal Navy Res., kick-off 2.30 asylum. a bad enough job for them to P., Club ground, referee Mr.

Dewhurst "Not wanted on the voyage," I the whole harbour round

mercial life. Even before, the ont a licence cost a Chinese 338 yet, but the time we emptied for them to get tangled up in. HONGKONG UNIVERSITY,

Hawking theatre-tickets with an see them labels in my mind's them without building a bridge the possibilities of flying could be in fr. R. E. Lindsell's Court this her biggest box so that wee Jean's But I'm still strong on the perceived, but the war has given

to the science of aviation an morning. This man is a cute beg- Pink sunshade could be put on Hospital idea. One chap writing impetus which would have taken gar. He bought out all the front so as to be ready for the sun to the papers mys (in effect): ARTS ASSOCIATION many more years of peace. Just row tickets of a theatre and re-break down. I left her at it that have a Memorial for the fallen. in the Red Sea fairly made me never mind an Hospital, let's as Britain was in the front rank sold them for a big commission. during the war as far as firing by applying the wrew-pressure was concerned, so she is now, device. when it is necessary to take steps

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ANNUAL DINNER. night and went and saw Charlie Well, when we fall sick doesn't Chaplin sa a pick-me-up. But a "fellow feeling make us The 5th annual dinner of the like most stimulants even that wonderous kind?" The same Arts Association was held in the to put the aeroplane to civilian The following letter, signed H. wore off, specially when I dis- chap says (in efect again) let's Great Hall of the University on use. Colonel Seely stated theother

covered after that Janet had have a memorial whereby folks can Wednesday evening, March 19th. day that we are already far in W. S. Kindersley, anent the improved the shining hour by indulge in the things they like The hall was well filled with a advance of any other nation in servant difficulty, appears in the acquiring the tenancy of a new best and a whole paragraph of numerous company of members our preparations for civilian London Morning Post-Two of hat and the loan of several similar slash. The advice ye get and guests, the latter including flying. He gives some of the my sons were in the Federated patterns o' voile which, when for nothing is generally worth it. the Hon. Mr. Sharp, the Bon, Mr. most recent improvements in Malay States for over twenty removed from the mellowness of Ye may as well have a bronze Lau Chu Pak, Mr.A.E. Wood and flying, and points out that the years, one is there still. They artificial light, proved virulent in statuette of Pinkie cast and stack Liens T. L. Samson, in addition whole route from Africa to India have bad excellent has been surveyed, and that from servants all the time, no woman shuffle the next day. Janet is, I Site. Besides it's been my ex- Deans of the other Faculties and Chinese the extreme and necessitated a re-up in the middle of the Finest to the Bro-Vice-Chancellor, the the Cape to Cairo is in the process employed at all. A large fortune very nearly id of being surveyed. As far as can

was, very perience that we don't ever want members of other University A Bill was passed by the Legislative Council some months ago, be seen, huge airships travelling a waiting for a servants agency particular. 111 miss her, but my to perpafnate the memory of the Societies. which enabled the police to hold the tenant of a house responsible at hitherto undreamt of speed, that will supply Chiness of good loss will be your gain for the has things we like besta sore head for the dumping of refuse into the street by any of the occupants and carrying big cargoes, will be character to the long-suffering promised herself a good look-see in the morning's bad enough by the Hon. Mr. Sharp and the Excellent speeches were made Prior to the passing of this Bill, the work of the Sanitary inspectors, able without danger to cover in British employer in this country at your flannels and socks, so I'm once in a while without con- Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, both of In preventing the dumping of refuse from verandahs, was greatly hours distances which at present hampered, because the law, as it then applied, required definite take days or even weeks.

warning ye. But I'm all right, templating anything perpetual in whhm alluded to the high esteem By pressing his argument too for Mrs. Macpherson has promised that line. The road to yesterday in which Arts studies had been evidence of contravention by the actual person committing the indeed a wonderful outlook, far, & Chinese found himself in Janet to look after me which, would never have been so rocky held by the Chinese in the past offence, and in a large majority of cases it was found impossible to bring the charge home to the guilty parties. Indeed, the difficulty

Mr. B. E Lindsell's Court to-day everything being well, will be if it hadn't had to pass through and to the value which modern of proving a case was so obvious that the new Ordinance was RUSSIAN TROUBLE-MAKERS.

with the prospect of 10 days the Literal truth, for the times last night. And passed. But for some reason difficult to perceive, the new Ordin-

gaol if he failed to pay the $5 she'll see me most will be when more, Mr. Smarty, what could be of to-day.

what's Arts studies had for the Chinese ance remained simply a record of "business done on Hongkong's

fine demanded by the magistrate. I'm going away from her. I think more Code of Laws, and the powers given the authorities were not taken propaganda carried on by Russian wordy war with a coolie in Holly her to get another paying guest the alleviation (another one of Wong k Cho, the Hon. Secre The insidious nature of the This man was engaged in a it would be more satisfactory for word, mind) of real suffering than of the Association, and Mr.

synonymons (that's kis advantage of until two days ago, when 31 Chinese were fined, as extremists is well illustrated by wood Road, concerning the latter's if she will want to mother some his) of suffering.

The President replied on behalf tenants, for allowing the dumping of refuse outside their houses. the arrest in New York of two

This is a more in the right direction. Hitherto, there have hundred members of the Russian greediness in demanding more body...... been half-hearted and spasmodic attempts in certain directions to Peasant Works' Union, for a than the agreed fare for carrying

chap's suffering from is enlargery, proposed the toast of "Our

Guesta." enforce the law, particularly that portion which is intended to help quantity of literature was dis- some luggage. This argument Feast of the Excited Insects. Mind true that when we've good health Aye, as I was saying, Thement of the vocabulary. It's the sanitary authorities in keeping the Colony as free as possible covered in the premises where was reaching a height where ye, they're no always confined to we never think of soffering of presence of Arts graduates, to one A noticeable feature was the from disease-spreading uncleanliness. We have constantly had these individuals were housed, blows seemed imminent when a occasion to draw the attention of the officials to the brazen dis-advocating the overthrow of the constable stepped in and put the election since I last wrote you and new theatre or taking snapshots the members of the Association women folks. We've had another any kind, but sitting in a brand of whom, Mr. Lo Hin Shing, regard of regulations, and the growing idea that the laws of the American Government. In what lid on the whole business by Alabaster is now an Unofficial of a cantilever collapsible bridge extended their best wishes on the Colony may be flouted with impunity. There is a moral in the way it was intended to go about hauling the garrulous one to the Honourable till the other chap isn't going to excitusts our grey eve of his departure for England recent prosecutions. A far sterner hand is required in dealing with this business, there is nothing in Station. habitual law-breakers. They should have strict justice meted out, the message to indicate, but the and it should

comes back... A good chap, mind matter in the direction of our to continue his studies. The not be possible for them to find mere fact of such an organisation Banctuary behind technical defects in the British Code of Laws.in such a place baving this object

ye, and brains,weil he indexed fallen heroes any quicker, is it? Committee of the Association are Wrong deers must be made to understand that laws are enacted for in view is sufficient to show to held in St. Andrew's Church Hall mind right, and that's no sisay Aye, says he, "give us something of their arrangements.

A very enjoyable "Social" was the Hongkong Ordinances, if I Ha jests that never stubbed his toe. to be congratulated on the success a purpose and cannot be broken at will. To do this, officials must what be far more amphatic than hitherto. Sir William Rees Davies set & makers will go. Men of this a large number of people. Mrs. well though that he doesus' get and song so that we esu easily extent these mischief last evening and was attended by game, believe me. It's just awilight and colour, laughter good example by the summary manner in which he dealt with the type have caused no end of chaos Packham, who was in charge of paid time and half for overtime forget." Chinese who was convicted of taking part in the Gibb, Livingston in their own land, but, not content the arrangements, and

Well, all I hope is that War is best proved by the Int robbery, at the Criminal Sessions on Wednesday. He said he with that, they now turn their

her in his new job, for if he works if ever that chap gets cancer the that the War was a surgical intended to pass an exemplary sentence on those convicted of armed attention to foreign countries, assistants, are to be congratulated to his time table and gets through doctor will order him a mustard robbery; and that is as it should be, for the inflicting of hoary Call it Bolshevism or anything upon the adequate manner in wall ibist he promised to see to, plaster set in red flannel and operation to care Germany. She sentences on this class of parasite must, in the end, act as a else, it is a force which must, for which they carried out their in his election address, when his decorated wi' pale blue baby abcess on the brain. It was a was suffering from a military deterrent.

the sake of world peace and tasks. The Rev. G., W. Harring-time comes for a holiday he'll ribbon. It's true that patling. It is very gratifying to note that our new Captain Superintend happiness, be kept within bounds, ton, who is to set as Chaplain have to be carried aboard the up an Hospital' no's thing that painful operation but mi' the ent of Police is following this lead and apparently does not intend We have no fears to put up with a systomatic Bouting of the Ordinances but is pre movements of this kind will lead to was present and was given charge of a couple o lasty bine is a mesales ye've had. But folks

that until a new incubeut actives, steamer on a stretcher or in re can brag about, especially if exceptio pared to us the powers. vested in him to the full The Hon. Mr, the overthrow of Governments in hearty, welcome. Vocal and in- jackets for fear be makes a bold each to think that the chief e E. D. G. Weife has been doing some excellent work since he took any such country as the United strumental, music was provided in the sea on the way home, function of an Hospital is the Over the office of C.8. P., in a quiet, unostentatious way. He is a States or Britain, but, all the by Masdames Balsan, Clark and Excited insects, sye faith. When cultivation man who intends to see for himself sad has, on many occasions, same, they can do untold harm Plati, Miss Orees, Jack and Alabaster got into the Council An Hospital's no

case: his gets been seen at night, walking round on tours of inspection. He is by the encouragement of anarchy.

CAITY OD WE exactly the type of man we want in that position, and there is little When the leaders of such cam Peterson and Mr. Martin. Captain one of the papers in speakingof the phasize, but to make yo

War Memoria. doubt that the Colony will largely benefit by his work in a very psigns are captured, they deserve Duft recited some Kipling poems Constitution Reform Association forget it all the quicker. That enough, in all short time; indeed it is said that already Mr.. Wolfe has completed the enforcement of the full rigours and Lieut. Han also gave, a in this connection said that his there is a distinct-connection an amazing amount of useful reorganisation. We wish him well. of the law.

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