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ETIQUETTE IGNOREDI,

APRIL 29 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.

[BY "AJAX"]"

Yesterday, the Daily Press

TO-MORROW IS THE HAPPIEST printed in its calumus & letter DAY IN LIFE OF THE AVERAGE from an anonymous correspond KAN. ent who sought to pour ridicule

on some contributed musical The as Mylie, at present lying notes which appeared in the in the Harbour, has on board a Telegraph of Thursday, last. In number of Russian subjecta doing so, it appended an editorial proceeding from Vladivostook to observation in which were these Odessa. words "This letter should have | been addressed to the Telegraph.”

Of course, it should have, and, by

The two Chinese arrested in the same token, it should not connection with the robbery on a have been given publicity through cargo junk off Wanchai on Sun the medium of another journal. day were today formally charged If our ukra-respectable con by Inspector Kent and remanded temporary does 1:01 know by Mr. G. N. Orme until Friday. anything about journalistic etiquettee it MAY" be interested to know that when a

residents.

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LEAVE,

Onders, issued by Mr. J. It is difficult to write this week's | Franks, D.S.P. (R), sisie ---- diary without makingit ona in- cessant grumble. However, every- thing good has an end and last week ushered in the warm season and we are now settling down to the hum-drum life of the hot weather. This is the period af the year when energy flags, the ladies lose their colour and children droop. Social engage ments grow less and less and the materials for making a decent diary are so scanty that I am almost driven to despair,

The leave granted to AS.PR, and Adjutant Mr. T. F. Hough in hareby suspended until such time as he leaves the Colony.

DUTIES. Search Supervisors duties will be performed as follows-

1st to 9th May (inclusive), by No. 2 Platoon.

KEYS.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY

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tragedy of

It is understood that some of“ W. the material of the Garman

U-boats recently sold under stipulation that they are to be broken up may be used for the manufacture of souvenirs of the submarine war. And now, I sup-- pose, (says a writer in a Home paper) we shall witness a modern- ised version of the widow's cruse of oil: for, the amount

materials of

in 2.5 V. boars is limited; but I doubt if a 10th May to 1st Juno limit can be set to the 'public (inclusival, by No. 2 Company. desire for the acquisition of

souvenirs. Probably "we shallTM Inspectors and Sergeants hav-soon have news of a German fac-- ing keys of the Search Supervi-tory which is turning out these There is not much variety in|sion Office will return them to souvenirs in order to flood the" Amony the passengers who left the week's budget of news. The Headquarters. In future a key British market as soon as the.

be attached to the peace negotiations permit,' correspondent takes it upon him by the homeward-bound P. and cantrips of Indian policeman and will

S. Occurrence Book. self to use one paper as a medium steamer Nellore today were Mr. Holyoak's reference to the S

MEETING. for criticising something which Mrs. R. E. Lindsell, Mrs. T. F. Press at the St. George's dinner

An unrecorded A meeting will be held at Head- Claxton, Miss M. Ventris, Mrs. J. have provided comic relief to our has appeared in another news- S. WATSON & CO., LTD., paper, the custom is either to Caer Clark, Capt. and Mrs. R. A. sombre dramas Mr. Holyoak quarters on the 2nd lisy at 5.30 armistice night has come to light. return the communication to the Birss, Mr. and Birs, W. J. Hansen always takes 80 vocal a part in pm. All Staff Officers, Inspectors As may be remembered, the joy expressed writer. or, if the editor has (Canton) and several other local the proceedings of important and Sergeants who have not of some people was

meetings that his utterances are hitherto performed ss. Duties are with considerable exuberance in courtesy enough, to forward it jo

regarded as a local event of required to attend. Staff Inspec. places of amusement and in re- the journal whose comments are

some interest. and I have | tor Eldridge will attend.

staurants. At one of these there criticised. But not so when the

For the 48 hours ended rester always been diffident to treat! This order does not apply to the had been a good deal of light- Daily Press gets a letter of this day there were notified eleven them as such in my hebdomedal Band. Orchestra Buglers and heartedness and general ragging. kind. It calmly puts it into cases of plague (all fatal), two plut. print and with a characteristic non-fatal cases each of cerebro- sir of lofty superiority, adds a spinal meningitis and typhoid "many of our fever, and one fatal occurrence ourselves, may of small-pos. All were Chinese seen the article save one English sufferer from referred to." The Daily Press typhoid. man whose job it is to crib news from the Telegraph, must have been very sleepy on Thursday For the theft of 6 lbs. of copper night, or he could not possibly piping from the Naval Yard, have missed sooing the article sentence of six weeks hard under notice. He has a pretty labour was to-day passed by Mr. sharp ere for other items of local G. N. Orine on Chinese who interest, though, for scarcely a was employed at the Yard. An day goes by that he does not steal Indian Naval Yard constable an odd paragraph or two. In the searched the man at the gate, and case under notice, the cor-discovered the metal tied round The" Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addresses respondent reveals a poor spirit his legs. I accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies in not having the manliness to delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copitsend his criticism to us direct; sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. the Daily Press shows the utmost

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but at the appointed hours all were cleared out except complex metaphysics of Honged firmly seated behind a corner solitary Highlander, who remain- kong citizenship. His Excellency table. The waiters and even the will pardon me if in this conmanager having failed to per- nection I apply to him the words suade the warrior to depart, the of the Latin author, homo ad res services of the AP.M., were in- perspicacior Lyncro wt Argo, et oculens totus. Such perpicacity allowances for the

vited. This officer, making and vigilance put us all in good blandly asked the Highlander to heart, for in him we have had a ruler who has not only been will move off into the street, and very ing to learn from all sorts and considerately added. "If you are conditions of men, but one who not feeling very well," "I'll give has been able to get at the root an arm." "Arm! I don't of things by maided observation want an arm. Some blighter has and insight.

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Holyoak delivered a rhapsody on H. E the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn's work during the tenure of his office. He said: "I think you know me well enough to know that I am not gişen to flattery; therefore when I submit to you what I think is the unanimous opinion of the Colony, at His Excellency, since Sir Heary May had departed, has administered the Colony with tact and ability, I am sure everyone will agree that it is the truth, and I would like to take the public oportunity and occasion, on your behalf, to say we have appreciat- Mr. Holyoak, following the ed very sincerely the manner in present local fashion, had a dig has reached Oregon, where it is

The "personal efficiency teet At the Coronet Theatre" Mad. which His Excellency had enter at the Press "at any rate a part arousing the usual interest. It cap Madge" is drawing packed ed into the problems which had of it" when at the St. George's is, of course, excellent as far as houses. With an eye to whole and the ability with which he be deplored that the Press, needs to have a few questions Brisen during the past few months, dinner he said: "I think it is to it goes, but to be a real index It is somewhat to be regretted of the

someproduction, the management

Coronet have always tackled the large problems made any rate a part of it, has to some added to the original thirty. that the entries for the Lawn screened the

us feel we almost desired that he extent attempted to poison the Here they are. Paste them at best, "Madcap Tennis League this year do not Madge" is in this categors sentiments rang true, making a against the Governor-designate.

was going to carry on.” These minds of the people of the Colony the end of your efficiency blank: warrant the running of more than is a comedy of unusual interest

(31) Can you remember to buy one Division. Last season there that cannot fail to please and deep impression on the audience As British people, we believe in were three Divisions, but, as will amuse the most depressed and whose feelings were indexed by giving every man a chance, and your monthly commutation ticket be seen by our news columns, this critical. The bill of fare con-

the terse ejaculation "He'll do." we believe in accepting the new in time to save paying for the year only twelve teams in all have prises as well Fatty and dabel His Excellency has impressed Governor in the spirit in which first ride on the train?

(32) Do you know every morn- entered, and it has therefore been Adrift and the British Gazette. everyone as being determined, in he is to come to us-that it is to resolved to run one set of fixtures.

all questions with which he had carry on the efficient administra ing just what you will be doing This might at first sight appear to

to deal, to try and understandtion which has been shown for at seventeen minutes past three work rather hardly on those Clubs Quite a disturbance was creat facts, to look at questions not many years past and to grapple in the afternoon six months who had entered for the Bed in Ice House Street this mor- only from the point of view of the with the problems which may later? Division and whose members ning, at about eleven o'clock, ruler but also from the point of arise after due consultation with (33) Do you ever make a fool would be very chary about when' two coolies proceeded to view of the ruled, and above all those appointed to advise him" of yourself? Eufronia Maria de Souza aged 69. The funeral will leave her meeting "A" Class men. But settle a difference of opinion, things to act fairly according to This is delightfully eptertaining (34) What is the true answer to residence No. 1 Broadwood Road. Happy Valley, to-moITOW at there are only four "A" Division Chinese style, the implements of his lights. In this he has done "The efficient administration the preceding question? 6.30 am. to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception where a teams entering, so the proportion warfare being a broom, a bamboo his duty to the citizens of Hong- which

(35) Are you a man of few words Requiem Mass will be said at 7.30 a.m, thence to the Cemetery, is decidedly in favour of the carrying pole and "language."kong during the time he has acted for many years past," Does who is in the habit of talking passing the Monument at 8.30 a.m.

lower Division. It may, of course. The men proceeded to be labour Governor. More he could notda Mr. Holyoak mean what he easily upon every subject? Hongkong. 29th April. 1919.

be assumed that one or other of each other with considerable-more. I believe, we do not ask. says? How does he reconcile

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(36) Can you understand the "A" teams will win the energy until finally, a burly Sikh Championship, though in tennis embraced one of the combatants His Excellency made just the brought against the Hongkong musical comedy without a libret we get quite as many surprises as by the neck, bringing his right kind of speech we expected: Government at the Constitutional

(27) Do you push straight ahead in other spheres of sport, and it is hand emartly into contact with plain, modest and sincere. and he Reform mass meeting. for shirk notorious that rather indifferent the jaw, and, with a few well spoke with that undisguised ing their duties? Is this a colte regardless of obstacles, always players usually find their standard chosen words, persuaded the emotion which springs from the face? As an eminent doctor said, adapting your course to circum- of play much improved when aggressive one to retire from the full sense of a great responsibil- the reason of things lies in a stances? getting up against better men. In combat.

ity. The future is in the lap of the narrow compass, if the mind could (38) Have you found the kind of any event, the true ides in enter-

gods, and if a plebiscite were to at any time be so happy as to hat that is most conducive to ing a League is not one of burning

be taken as to which of the two light upon it. Most of the writ-your best thought ↑ anxiety to come out on top: that A Chinese was this morning we would like to have as ourings and discourses in the world (39) Do you get up when the THE RUSSO-GERMAN TREATY.

is the pot-hunting spirit, which arrested on the Wing Lok Wharf, Governor-Mr. Stubbs or Mr. are but illustration and rhetoric, alarm clock goes off and proceed is to be condemned as unsports and the 19 rounds of revolver Severn, I am certain that with which signifies as much as noth to wind it with affectionate little manlike. It is to be hoped, ammunition which were found in one echo the Colony would saying to a mind in pursuit after the pats of encouragement 7 One of the most arresting items of news that came over the therefore, that all the teams his possession were produced by Mr. Severn, not because we are philosophical truth of things. Let cables yesterday was that which stated. on the authority of the Daily who have entered the Lea- Inspector Boulger as evidence at prejudiced against Mr. Stubbs, Shakespeare speak- Telegraph's Warsaw correspondent, that a formal Treaty has been gue will go through the fix- the Police Court. The Inspector but because we know nothing To beguile the time, signed between Germany and the Russian Bel-hevist Government, lures in a sporting spirit. stated that the Chinese, who was about him, and are quite satisfied Look like the time; bear welcome under which the Germans are to reorganise the Russian railways have to taste

Though the B Clubs nay & cook on a U. S. cruiser, that Mr. Severn is the Man for

in your eye, and send a thousand military instructors to the Russian Army defeat a little oftener than they man,

respectable looking Galway.

Your hand. your tongue, look this and. for whilst the Russians, on their part, are to supply Germany with would hed there been two Divi- he hardly liked to press the case.

like the innocent flower. provisions, to assist Germany in case of need during the nart

Popularity, it has been said, is twenty years, and to refrain from entering into negotiations with sions, they will no doubt find that The Chinese probably intended to the subtlest temptation to which the Entente. If this piece of news really represents a joint resolve whilst any of them may have where it would command ready As a temptation, it is subtle Seventeen new ones have just ing German defeat as due to

better games, bring the ammunition into China human nature can be exposed. the by responsible authorities in both countries to enter into an alliance, then it is a serious business, for the possibilities of the joy of springing surprises on sale, as the bullets were of a only to those who are apt to been added as an additional Moltke's defective strategy and co-ordinated action are of such a kind as to be viewed with distine: fancied teams.

calibre which was in common regard it as a virtue. A person adornment to the list, and within Falkenhayn's incompetence. concern by those who are seeking to kill militarism and all that PLAY THE GAME.

use. A fine of $25 or 14 days would not be popular if there the next few years they bid to Thus we have two-thirds of the.. belongs to it. But we shall want to know a few more details about

hard labour in the alternative, were not something good about increase with rapidity as the truth about German col- this matter before being willing to attach to it-the importance which, question, the point should be

Whilst on this Tennis League was imposed by Mr. G. N. Orme.him. The most severe test that children of Israel multiplied in lapse. When Falkenhayn ou face values, it seems to bear.

can be applied to a man is that the land of the Pharoahs. In no some day writes bis book emphasised that it is up to the There is, of course, a so-called Bolshevist Government in Clubs taking part to expedite the

he should be most loved by those part of the British Empire does a about Ludendorf we shall Russia, but the Allies do not regard it as truly representative of the playing of their ties as much as being screened "A Little Sister who know him best. If we know J. P. enjoy such an honour as the have the remaining one-third. Bussian people any more than neutral nations do. In any possible. By the new arrange of Everybody," in which the man well, and still love him, it longkong J. P. To parody Obviously there is enough blame case, it has to face conditions of such seriousness in Russia itself ment, each lab will have eleven dainty

to ge round. Our brief summary star, Bessie that any assistance it could give to the Germans, either militarily matches to play, end if there are no Love, appears at her best. In the found him sincere; and if he bel The J. F. J. P., silly J.P.. of the Ludendorff interview does or by the supply of provisions, would be more imaginary than unreasonable postponements, the midst of the war pictures and the sincere it is almost equally

f's not a fhing to laugh to scorn. not state in what respect the real, we should think. The Bolsheviks would no doubt welcome whole list ought to be concluded problem picture and the sky certain that he will at times Lave

Moltke strategy was in error. the promise,of a thousand military instructors from Germany, if only by the end of July. The only rea-pictures, comes now the sweet/dared-for the sake of his prin-

The Hongkong J.-P.'s have a Not, unlikely, Ludendorf refers as a means of bolstering up their strength and enabling them sonable ground for postponing a and winsome Bessie Love in what popular. A great thinker of old from among their number to the attack through Belgium, with its ciples-to make himself un right to elect a representative to the cardinal blunder of the to indulge in their favourite occupation of terrorising their own Saturday fixture will be wet wea-they are calling the happy flesh and blood. And we can quite believe that there are even morether, and the hope is expressed by plas."

times said, "It is not hard to Legislative Council. This is a immediate - consequence ...of The story, clean and than a thousand German military "experts" who would be only too the Committee that no Club will wholesome, with sentiment woven praise Athenians to Athenians." privilege which J. P.s in no England in the war. Had the ready to take on the job of instructing the Russians in methods of call off a match merely because with deft hands and an eye to for none of us cares about the enjoy

It does even require eloquence, other part of the world German blow been delivered warfare, to say nothing of the unemployed German engineers who it cannot put out its best team, the lighter things of life, will

Of course, the Con- 'straight aginst the French for- would jump at the task of helping to reorganise Russia's railways. That would not be at all sport prove doubly attractive in these style in which our praises are stitutional Reform Association tress barrier of the easf it is That sort of thing in an unofficial way. might very well come about. ing.

that the heavy be troubled days when world sorrow uttered, we only care about the is silent on the absurdity of arguable But what the world will want to know is whether this grandiose materially helped if, in the event is, so thickly clouded above us praise. And in that respect, we having J. P.'s represented on the guns which laid low Liege scheme is the result of collaboration between the Governments of of bad weather making a post- all.

are not particular about the style Legislative Council. Afterall, the and Namur might have In "Little Sister of two countries concerned. If so, then the Entente will have to re- ponement necessary, Clubs make Everybody," Bessie Love is a in which praise of Mr. Severn's majority of the J. P.'s are mem- smashed their way through Ver- adjust its attitude both to the one and the other.

The German Government cannot on the one hand send its the match some day in the follow-up by her grandfather, an

it a definite arrangement to play little orphan, who is brought work was expressed, we are bers of the Hongkong Chamber dun and Toul, without a violated шоге .concerned with the of Commerce and the latter body Belgium and an exasperated Eng- delegates to Versailles for the purpose of signing the Peace Treaty, ing week. By that means there old philosopher who lives in the Praise It is quite in keeping in all conscience have seats on land. Utterly true are Luden-- whilst on the other it is,-at-the same moment, in league with a will be no undue protraction of foreign quarter

with things that we should put the Council out of all proportion dorff's remarks on the breakdown Russia which refuses to hate any negotiations with the Allies and the season, such as there was last American city. Seventeen year of the remarkably good work that at Home and in some of the vice. What he does not say in Fon record our high appreciation to their importance. J. P.'s at of the German intelligence sex- which aims at strengthening itself militarily through help proferred year. It is to everybody's in- "old, Celeste is a peculiar mixture might Germans. That kind of thing will not do, and although it terest to keep the League Extures of affection, shrewdness and His Excellency has rendered dur- British Dominions are thagis that he was himself the worst might commend itself to the Germs as a piece of sharp practice, going once they are started, and womanliness. There is a tense ing the short period he had trates. In Hongkong all that offender in this respect When we may depend upon it that, if there is anything of the sort serious: the best way to do that will be to dramatic element. in "A Little administered the gadi, ly contemplated, the Entente will let the Hana know that they work along the lines indicated. Sister of Everybody, a sweetly cannot proceed on those lines. Equally, Russians who are willing If each Club will do its part in pathetic picture of family loyalty to make case with the enemies of the Entente are not entitled to this spirit, the programme should be pro the behaviour has lived in the Colony long sayonsideration, such as food supplies, from those who have a be got through in a thoroughly and sacrifices of Celeste and a enough to obtain a clearsighted and the lunatics. Now make me

delightfully surprising finish.

real desire to assist the Russian people as a whole..

they will have

the bitters of was

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businesslike manner.

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(40) Can you let go of every- thing during the rush hour home- ward?

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The German armies fought the war under three successive Chiefs of the General Staff. Moltke, The Hongkong J. P.s are like Falkenhayn, and Ludendorf. leaves of Valambrossa. The last of these is now explain.

is almost certain that we have Shakespeare:

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the J. Pe are expected to do he started out last March to mop

is to visit the gaol and Innatie up the war, he did so in profound

The Hon. Mr. Chand Bevern asylum. Hence, the J. P. real misconception of the Allied mum-

constituents are the gaol birds

and nice discernment of the & J. P.A

bers, and recifically, of the potentialities of one of com

tante armies, namely, our own.