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THORNYCROFT AND KELVIN MARINE MOTORS.

RATIONS "AND FULL PARTICULARS, ON APPLICATION TO)

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT

Maltheid Reefing

BOLE AGENTS.---

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment;-

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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING ..

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

to 15"

CIRCUMFERINOR

CABLE LAID 4 STRAND

5" to 15"

3" to 10" CIRCUMFKAINGA. CIRCUMFERENCEL

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 8,000 feet in length Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers.

LIQUEUR

GRAND

MARNIER.

GORDON

ROUGE & JAUNE

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.

15, Queen's Road, Central Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA Mrs. A SUGA

Mrs. S. HONDA Mr.L BONDA

8 Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong..

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship" building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.

SINGON &

CO.,

(Established A. D. 1880.)

MING LUNG 37.

Phone 515

MEE CHEUNG ICE HOUSE STREET.

FOR

EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY DEVELOPING, PRINTING. BILARGING A SPECIALITY, STORE OPPOSITE CITY HAVI

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AND

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AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against] FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & ̈ CO. "Agents.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. not.

In Bags of 250 lbs, net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong. 16th August, 1916.

MASSAGE HALL

23. FLOWER STREET. MR. T. TAKAYE, MRS. MORTTA

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Domunicate direct with Engli

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

a each class of, gooda, Esides being a

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ROSS & CO.,

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WAR AND LANGUAGE.

GLO-FRENCH

EXCHANGES.

war

MAT

1919

Fintonations and qualitise of ex- pression, it has the virtue of soins of the classical Greet particles Fall of which the late Andrew Lang quce declared to be translatable Buy various inflections of a single English adjective much used in armies. -

Another thriving acquisition is tudsweet." It comes, of course, from "tout de suite," and has already been made famous in our comic papers. It was much vained, early in 1916, by English contractors foremen as a good where with to urge French and Belgian labourers engaged in building huts behind our lines. "Now then, sonnies cudsweet with them joists," or "Sitha, mon, get on wi't a bit tudsweeter” was a manifest improvement on the original plan of shouting an order in pure English, very fond and very slowly, as though on the assumption that foreignness. was a form a deafness. At any rate, it had the degree of efficacy which Voltaire allowed to in- cantations when he said that *combined with a proper quantity of arsenic, they will kill a

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Kodak Catalogus Free on application

A. TACK & GO 26, Des Faux Rd. Central,

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

whole flock of sheep. Com- The

bined with a proper amount of gesture, and with the will-to- believe, a few rudsweets and compries might be credited with power to wing the sense of the fexhortation into the heart of the

hearer.

'Souvenir" WAS English already, and it is chiefly in French mouths that the word has gained a special sub-meaning. It hap pened in this way. In the first year of the war the dissipation is now as deeply embedded in of tinned food by the French slang as in English. Each British armies in France language has given and has went to wonderful lengths. Man taker

would throw unopened tins of There are other cases of meet-bully beef from troop trains in ing halfway. At many French the exiguous hope of hitting In the Napoleonic Wars, writes inns in the British zone there sparrows. Full tins were given "I" in the Manchester Guardian, was sold during the

away to whoever seemed, as if he the stay of a few thousands of swarthy but frothless liquid might like them, and these goods French prisoners in England left affirmed to be stout. Though it were called by the givers, sous- some marks on the English always seemed to have had a bad irs," partly ba the analogy of gift language that have never been crossing and not got well yet, it shoulder-titles and capbadges, rubbed out. Some French words was cherished by many exiles, partly through native British dis and phrases, if only a few, took for the sake of its name, and, inclination to avow any motive root and lived, like the beech-with a delicate concession to the so presentable as dawaright cannot charity, The French poor near mast that came with the Romans railty of lips which

frame ·to pronounce and mixed with

English the seat of war perceived that right, they would order it as the British soldier was a kind of| Stoo, Madam, please," or a widow's cruse, or a perpetually second glass as "Anchor a stoo."fruitful vine, on legs, with its sight of some scarecrow of a It is on the cards either ther upper branches laden with corned-i village idiot in his place of

onp acoms. French

* Quel object!" a prisoner would

say

at

captivity. The villagers' ears

tryside-obscurely related per- haps to Jaggins the J," as a greenhorn or mag" has been called in, the Cockney tongue. If such things could be done in the green leaf, what will

that stoo" may become so com- beef and jam, for all to pluck who

word.

he

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AND

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HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTOR CYCLES

AGENTS FOR STERLING TYRES

...

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would be tickled, and Caleb mon nite the in England that would. They plucked and ate till TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL. 482. Jay" would become the stock the French partridge drove out lion under that Solomon's throne. it will drive the original out, as the Secretary for War, or some word for a guy or unpresentable body throughout a whole coun-the English, or that the conces- began to growl at what

siveness of cur troops may per- regarded as waste. The mira- petuate throughout Northern culous fall of manna and France the first, incorrect French quails, on the larger scale, came Pronunciation of the English to an end. But the hungriest of the little French boys and girls Of course the two best-known did not acquiesce. Girt with be done in the dry? When pieces of British homage to capacious bags they would make millions of men have lived for French models during the war, the round of our men's 'rest billets, and "Napoo." soliciting "Souvenir jame ' and several years in foreign countries, are "Compry"" as allies, invaders, or prisoners, The Expeditionary Force was Souvenir boulie," the word they are sure to leave something much tickled by the French use"souvenir having now lost all

of behind, and also to bring some-

Compris?" *t the end the special meaning that it had of of some thing back, in the way

French essay

in had, and gained instead the mean- language; and anything new and English or in the language of ing of gratuitous," or even of piquant in speech is now diffused signs, to inquire whether the "due," for some of these babes, through a country by papers and meaning of the symbols had gone on being refused, would frankly music-hall stars as fast as bad home to the mind. Faithful address you in the terms merited

to the genius of their own by a barren fig-tree language. the English shifted the account from

Dewe.

The lamented Pelissier used to sing, long before the war came, a song with the close

And we'll say "Sacre!

"Sapristi!" instead of "Go

to

*

The genius of slang never tires second to the first syllable of the One which may have a future in the of seeing novel forms of greeting. word and adapted "compry" to England is "Sammash." It comes all sorts of good uses. It gave from the interrogative French an edge to orders. Clear out "Ca marche?,' and is a fair

of

the straw from them billets," a specimen of sure phonetic mimi- And that will be the next result sergeant, would say. Sharp, cry, as distinct from phonetic of the Entente Cordielle. too Compry." It curled the tails mimicry qualified by attempted One might perhaps have expected of repartees. You might hear assimilation to existing words in as much of the war. But, in fact, two old Regulars engaged in one the assimilator's own language. there has been no international of their eternal arguments about It is the difference between the exchange of oaths, the native the relative, military value and conversion the French products in this line being perhaps salient.An 'ow long was you and

lethal energy of the old Ypres assiette into the Scottiehashet” too near to the heart. Outside

the conversion of the **Six month. at Wipers?" them. the wind bloweth

French "petits gateaur into: Well, I was eight, so wot right the English "petticoat tails," a where it listeth, and no man can tell why certain French Ave you to speak? Compry. Or name still applied to a sort of words and phrases have been it might be used simply in its confectionery. The British soldier adopted almost passionately by primary sense, in conversation always applied the English, and certain English with the French, all of whom method, if possible, to names of second ones by the French. For each were soon accustomed to the places; so Reninghelst became

little derangement of

tion.

as its imports. The word that,

velde became Gertio-wears-velvet, British soldier acquired in France "Napoo" le another triumphant and Ploegsteert became Flug was "bonn." It means good. A Gallic graft on the stock of Street, and Hallebast Hell-blast. stroke of luck is a bit of bonn." British popular speech Our Far the greater number of our Its opposite, he decided, must troops perceived without delay officers and men, finding they be no bonn, no good. When the admirable effect of finality could get on without knowing shopped in the shops with which Frenchmen can lose French, made no effort to learn

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of the Gaul his usual form transaction or indicate that a t "French is easy enough," of acquiescence in a price was game is up, or a commodity sold one man said to a friend; all "Bonn!" Only a few advanced out, by anying, through firmly you want to know is Bong linguists went so far as "Je conclusive lips. "Il n'y a plus

swore, mam'selle," and "Prom- prong." The established formula own cousin to the "arresting nade. avec, moy." Scotsmen of rejection was "No bona." "Rien De va plus" of the learnt more than English, and it was thought proper to add croupier at roulette. In the Canadians more than Scotemen. emphasis to this and to indicate trimmed and condensed form of Naturally, meas sergeants, and one's perception of excessive Napoo it enjoya "an enormous others who bad to do height in a price, "No boun" was fogue in our forces, and serves much business with the sometimes raised to a higher (for anything from a description natives behind the lines learnt power of itself in the form. No of a beaten army to a synonym more than the average combatant. blooming bonn," "No blighted for. "Pass" at nap, or a sudden At most every car and lorry ous rattle of chaff with Silesians; discuss the boon, No blinking bonn,” and fament at the nightly extinction, driver picked enough to cast back Poles," and other groups of any techn similac.exercises in alliteration of the electric light in a hospitals withering A droite, Hongleur, prisoners. I naked how be had with Gre These variants took the fancy of ward. As an expression of die. a droite in to say. French davor learnt it all, and he said it had Perhaps. Our the rural Franch, and I have guest or diemey et an unpleasant who had been slow. in, lett beard French village children surprise or the abrupt complète- pass. There were laughingly decline to be taken in ness of a

by some piece of Britis

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one wheel

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was foreman at a factory in East exten London, where every kind of alien

immigrant had been employe

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school