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MARRIAGE. BUNJE-SMITH.-At St. John's Cathedral on October 23rd, the Rev. Copley Moyle oficiating, Elenor Eleanor Smith of New York to Emil Bunje of Hongkong.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1919...

FOSTERING BRITISH TRADE.

the ye.

FIRM

the roads we already had, it would REMOVING LIQUOR. have done a lot more good and BY ROBT. MadWHIRTER.” Well, as I was saying, wi' my what's more forbye would have EUROPEAN Despite the fact that

cigar going fine and thinking helped

FINED. Aye, as I was saying, it was a along those lines, I was just question a bit quicker.. What say to solve the housing suggestions for drawing civilians

the and Service men closer together, torrible time. Like most awesome feeling fine when "Bang!

Police Court, this have been rather coldly received experiences, though, it started knock came to the door. I gave

arou, Inspector?

morning, Messrs. Bradley and by a couple of military corres-innocently enough. Ye see I had a start and set up on my elbow.

"Keep doon your heid," said he. Co. who were represented by Mr. pondents, we are not discouraged just got round the bend of our There came another blatter at Fraya and at the Stone Pier there before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, by By and by we got onto the E. J. R. Mitchell, were summoned in our hope that the future will road when, happening to look at the door. Then I got a bit annoy- witness a more pronounced spirit the house, I saw a light at the ed. "If ye turn the handle WAS fine brand new

boat the Import and Export Depart- Bounce Macpherson end, in their bed- says I, "ye'll find it no so sore all, without as much as changing warehouse, of comradeship

which we shot onto, motor-car and ment for removing from a licensed two elements, In the past it room to be precise, so wi' that on the knuckles, besides being

certain dutiable our seats, let alone our minds, liquors, contrary to Sections is no use making any bones about eased up against the garden dyke quieter like, no' to speak o' being We reversed the process at the 49 and 51 of the Import and fit-our soldiers and sailors have and held a General Headquarter's a less expensive way o' getting other side and off we went again. Export Ordinance.

been treated with scant courtesy best way o' getting into my end doon: "COME IN,ye gomerils" consultation wi' myself as to the is compared to breaking the door by many who were loudest in their

After running for about another of the Import and Export Depart- Mr. E." A. Taylor, praise of our fighting men when o' the building without either yells I. finally losing my temper, couple of miles or so, we began to ment, said that the liquor had Kipling has driven being seen or heard. Thinks I to and wi' that in walks Macpher-Blow up a bit, whereupon a been removed from the ware- home that point very forcibly myself, if that light's on because son as bold as brass and wi him opened a window and looked out.

of his characteristic iac's up getting a drink, then a big Inspector of Police. "Hallo," Man, the wind was cold enough house on the wrong date, and was bits of versification. For the type he's as lively as a badger and says I sarcastic-like a good to freeze the intestines of a brass not masked for export.

that means a long smoke and a New Year

Fe've monkey and nearly strong enoughman in charge of the exporting Mr. Mitchell stated that the ient to leave a seat on the ferry look at the Leanor Herald before started your first-footing bright to blow the money out of your d

hope, on the other hand, that it's the stood looking at me, like's he doses off again, I can only and early this year."

been ordered Both of pockets.

to dis- beside him we have nothing but Mrs. Mac suffering badly wi. I'd horns in my head but never a up that window, change the Shing on Saturday. The clerk

"Look here, Mac," says 1, "shuthai-wei,

patch the liquor to Wei- the atmost contempt. One thing

On the Cheong is sure such a person has not an earache both ears-for then any word said ther. So I tried an-needle and put on a new record, had, however, in order to save

poise I may make getting in other tack. "Marbe," said I to something with the rudiments of manners. He's

can afterward swear must have the Inspector, this is merely a balmy beaches and cooling drinks.time taken the liquor out of the a snob, and a pretty miserable been due to the strenge sounds in passing visit to enquire whether What say you, Inspector?" godowas on the Friday. There was specimen of that breed. too.

her head. On the other hand, I'll play in the forthcoming bowls He

"Keepdown your heid," said he, no excuse whatever as regards it is who makes it extremely difit might be a burglar after the match against England. If 80, By and by we crept through the failure to mark the word "for ficult for others to hold out the Macpherson silver mainly reye might have chosen a more between two halves of a gate and export" on the boxes. hand of goodfellowship to the presented by Mac's bowling seemly time,

Mr. Hutchison fined the defend- I'm no likely to then up an avenue till we came Service man, who is apt to judge Teen spoons, let me tell ye in run away from the Colony at my formenst a fine red brick building.ant firm $10. despicable decide is whether to raise an notion of that in your head I'm to be a hole in the wall.

which case the question now to time I life, but if there's any Then we drove into what I took alarm-no, that won't do; that sure Macpherson here'll stand

The Hon. Mr. Ho Fook and the "Keep your seats," said the In-Hoa. Mr. Chan Kai-ming have and knowing Mrs. Mac's ultra-re. I saw the big Inspector was on would mean more lies than ever, bail far me up to....... W that spector," this is only a lift.”

arrived in Peking, says the N.C. gard for the truth, I'm no sure the point o'speaking, so I stopped

"Motor and a'?' I enquired. and wi' that the blessed light short in my verbal tracks, so to say be.

"The whole shooting match." families. They expect to spend a Daily News, together with their went out, leaving me limp, men- speak.

few weeks in the north visiting tally that is, and just able, and no

and sight-seeing. more, to get the other boot off be-solemnly.. fore setting up the garden path. "I'll try my best," says I. "but General, Taking a rest for a bit, like a good permit me to remind ye that it's

elementary acquaintance

all civilians. by creatures of this kind.

use

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repay. can ever hope to

I

Keep doon yourheid," said he

about sunlit seas

And so it was, for by and by we were moving, but whether going or coming I couldna' tell, me no' being able to see through the other things I spoke of. If I told window on ray left and an In- her I was sick, did she rush for a Spector of Police on my right. hand basin! Did she-well. Both my She only trilled, showed her back supporters rose to get out.

Then we stopped. conned over the the very opposite kiad o' advice

I

"AJ".

Bays

still.

I sat teeth sad said: "How silly, of

Course you're sick of you "Come on," says Mac.

wouldn't be in hospital." She "Havna they

got

some couldn't understand the difference apparatus here to enable them to between sickness and illness and get me between the sheets with-yet the queerest thing about the plained, this is a Government one had only to feel "queer" out my having to move?" I com- whole business was that wi' her Hospital, isn't it? Such a state before she realised you were ill. that the papers get to hear about fine and dandy, of affairs is disgraceful I'll see Mind ye, an hospital might be have good this."

doctors and nurses on its pay roll "Come on out." repeated Mac, and yet suffer largely for want of and-

a good interpreter. "Keep doon your heid" intoned the pom pan.

| MORE “HOMELINESS ”.

That is precisely the trouble when we try to make things better for our soldiers and sailors-the latter are, we fear, a little bit apt to think that the effort is made in a patronising way. But for that feeling. the belief that really sincere friendliness will misunderstood-many a civilian would show himself far more dangers abead once more and withat Sandy Gordon gave his sociable toward Service Sociability, says

heartfelt thankfulness that daughter at her wedding tea last of our Janet was at the moment wrest-week." correspondents. cannot possibly ling wi' the mighty profiteer at have any beneficial effect on the Home and that I'd sye kept well-he "in the meantime ye'd better Let that be as it may," says soldiers social status. It isn't bred dogs ongbow, I set off. Man, get your clothes on 'social status “ that we are everything passed of fine, except- make a start.

and we'll bothering about. There is far tooing when I was groping for the much" social status" knocking latch-key. Ye see I had my boots "ye'd be better to come quietly

Macpherson, about in this Colony. It's about in my left hand and the key was Besides, the motor's at the door time we Britishers, whatever our na in my right hand trouser station in life, began to realise pocket, which meant an about says I. I thought it was too "That's what the noise is," that we are of the same stock. turn movement, so to speak, so I loud for Mrs. Macpherson. And And that's the spirit that did it carefully by numbers but where's the motor going?" I we want to see encouraged. must have mucked it somehow, asked. If civilians and soldiers can find a for one of the boots, I forget now There is perhaps nothing so interesting to British merchants in common ground in sport and in which one-it doesna matter ony-

"To Hospital," says Mao.

But the nigh: nurse was of a Hongkong in connection with politics at Home as that which deals war comradeship, surely they can how-slipped and

"Oh, says I, that's a relief

different stamp entirely. In ap with trade and commerce, for by the policy adopted by Imperial meet oftener and come into closer against the door. Man, my heart think it

ricochetted onyway. I was beginning to

So out I got. Just then there pearance she resembled a decay- Parliament and the various departments under its control is decided contact is the ordinary walks of nearly stopped on the up-stroke, serious. But let me tell ye-both dressed up like a cross between e else I know of. After a few good

forward an Was something more came

individualed landlady closer than anything their well-being or impoverishment. For years now, commercial life. After all, the Service men but I knew it was sil right, for of ye that ye're barking up the Director of Education and á looks at her from the waist mp, men in the trade outposts of the Empire have been agitating for in our mids: are far from Home could bear" Jock" inside hitting wrong tree; devil the foot I'm go- greater governmental assistance in their endeavour to secure for and their daily discipline must be the hall furniture i' his tail and ing to Hospital. I don't believe in

Sanitary Inspector.

I set the conversational ball British trade its rightful place in the markets of the world, and as an all too monotondus. They don't stretching himself wi' might and them. I'm a Christian Scientist, gentlemen," recited he in gramo face seemed familiar, to which "I regret to inform you, arolling by remarking that her "outcome of this there was established during the war a War Trade expect us to shower hundred-main. So I got slipped like a It's Intelligence Department and, more recently, an Overseas Trade dollar bills on them or to entertain

only folks wit diseased phone English, "that the Matron's she vouchsafed the information Department, both intended to foster British trade. The latest mails them at champagne luncheons.my own house and that was all Folks i error in their mortal see, we had some trouble about in London and that her first bus

common or garden burglar into imagination that go to Hospitals. room isn't quite ready yet. You that she'd once been three months from Home now show that the Committee which was recently Bt we believe that the best of right. appointed by the Government to examine the question of Govern- them would welcome a touch of

mind. Nothing doing. Get out the bed... nothing serious you band had been an ex-policeman. ment machinery for dealing with trade and commerce has issued a

I've said since that if it hadna and shut the door quietly behind know, but- homeliness now and then, and been for the darkness I'd never ye and mind the dog doesna' dis

I couldna make much of that, so report the recommendations of which are of vital interest to would like to know that there are ha' tackled the staircase and the arrange ye as ye go down the heartily, "ye needna go into making poultices. Yes, she'd "That's all right," said II asked her if she was good at British merchants the wide-world over. The questions to which the those who have a warm place in drawing Committee were instructed to give special attention related to a their hearts for them. At any fancy way o' speaking, of our

room that's Janet's stairs."

details. I'm a married man myself. made a good few in her day. proposed absorption by the Board of Trade of the Overseas Trade rate, whether anything comes of parlour-wi' their social impedi-spector.

WT that, Mac looked at the In My compliments to Matron and Well," says I, "go right ahead Department and whether some machinery, possibly of the nature our suggestions or not, some-mentia, but it's a true saying that trouble," says he.

I though; we'd have tell her I'll leave everything to and make an oatmeal one now; of a Standing Inter-Departmental Committee of the Foreign Office thing will have been accom. Providence looks kindly after

her."

be sure and put a pinch of selt in and Board of Trade, could not be established to control the Consular plished if, "to

"That's what I'm here for,"

Shash." sbsshed Mac into my it and bring it here in a plate. and commercial diplomatic services. But the Report goes a little of one of our correspondents, we are that's the word. Well, onyhow,

the words bairns, fools and dr-dreamers, said yon big lisab o the law. port ear.

along wi a jug o' milk." farther than a mere reference to these things and a short survey of all get into the habit of giving to make a long story short, I won round fiercely and glowering at other keeper. "This gentleman is instead. which she proceeded

Look here", says he, turning

You must be labouring under

Off she went but came it would undoubtedly be profitable.

Service mana smile or friendly the key of the castle my bed-me, "Ye've got to go and ye'd

a misapprehension," said

wit my back

1 mustard leaf The Report states that the Committee agrees that the Consular word "a little oftene. They are room but "Jock" was the dirty better come quietly or I'll have going to be your first patient." Service cannot be divorced from the Foreign Office. It is submitted good chaps. And we owe them rascal after a', for when I put on to carry ye, ye under-sized lump

to affix to

diaphram that the service has so many functions in addition to trade that it more than we

"Ab, so, you're No. 1, are by means of an abdominal would be wrong to put it under the Board of Trade, and this

the light didn't he say a cock o contrariness. I'm sent to get you?" said the educational expert bandage. At first I thought it view is shared by Sir Auckland Geddes, President of the Board. MORE MONEY. -

roach and start gulumphing about ye and no policeman's worth his

Never felt better in my life," was a feckless sort of thing, this At the same time, they are convinced that an enlargement of the

the waxed floor like a young salt if he doesna get his man. Bays Lord Leverhulae is a well-elephant would on a skating rink?

mustard leaf, but by and by I Consular staff and sa improvement in its training and status meaning mana man who pract- That's the worst of some dogs, the demanded I.

"Who sent ye here for ine?"

"Walk this way, then," said he began to understand why Cole- are urgently required. On this latter point all business, men will ices what he preachés, too.

setting the pace down the cor- man's and roast beef are ave agree, for past experience with British Consular officials has often we hardly think he is on good out at the most ungodly hour. But sporting instinct is apt to break

rider. "I'll try my best," says I, served together. In about fifteen left a very great deal to be desired and we have often com- ground when he argues that what I bad just got him quietened

but your kind of walk needs & minutes more I demanded to mented on that fact. If the report of this Committee achieves is needed to enable us to face down wi' the help of a biblick,

lot, of practise to imitate." He have all the windows reopened nothing more then the improvenient of our Consular Service it foreign competition is the pay which like most of my golf sticks

had a funny way o' walking now and an overhead fan ser full speed "What for?" says I. will more than have justified its publication. There is certainly ment of higher wages to our I had to take three good swipes:

I come to think of it. From his ahead. In another five minutes one advantage of having Consuls under the Foreign Office. From workers. The idea seems to con- wi

"Well, it's like this", says the gait I suspect that one of our my inside felt like the dull red the evidence of business men themselves it was established that flict with his admission that the target, when suddenly a voice Severn always promised himself starboard knee somewhere in bustion engine. The doctor came before I finally got to the faithful hound of the law." Mr. tanks must have strolled over his vaporiser of an internal com- they attach great importance to being able to interest directly in cheepening of cost is a factor to enquired from the other side of the privilege of seeing that the France during the Great War.. foreign commercial questions that department which has power to be taken account of. What he is the wall--the Macpherson bed men who did so much yammer-

along just then and said I must exercise diplomatic pressure in a foreign country. The advantage driving at, presumably, is his pet room-"Is that you, Robbie?"ing about the new Kowloon Hos-bed at last wi' & nice, fresh look- from a chill. I said nothing, but Well, anyhow I got tucked into be quiet: I was merely suffering: is obvious. With regard to the departmental machinery. the Report theme of co-partnership, based on recommends that the Department of Overseas Trade should con- the belief that if workers are I could hear Mac turn over on it.

But I neverdet on. After a bit pital, would be the first to occupying young lass in about the thought he was doing most of the tinue as at presen; and that the Foreign Office and the Board of allowed to share in profits they his side.

Now it's ready and we're twenty-first year of her adenoids lying. What I was suffering Trade should find a common meeting ground in it. To secure the will increase output

"Aye", thinks I to my-for

my son. So get to look after me. Age, she was most from was spontaneous com- closest of co-operation it is recommended that there be appointed an extent that the payment of friend ye are. I might ha' been

such self bitterly, "that's the kind o into your breeks and faite. a frig young thing, her only draw-bustion. Wi' that he left the a Standing Committee or Board consisting of the heads of the a higher standard of wage will in the process of being made into round the region of my liver.. "If been evidently, picked before it my chance," says I to myself. I "All right," says I, a cold fear backs being her shirt which had ward and the door open. "Now's Foreign Office, the Board of Trade, and the Department of Overseas easily be possible. Trade with power to call other officials if need be. The proposal would necessarily involve a eur-seeping my life away in my own I'm their meat.

But that has wi' choppers and lying here they want someone to practise on, was ripe and a knack of misinter- could see a lift just opposite the would seem to be satisfactory and the only thing that would be rendering of the Trade Union gore but beyond a perfunctory en- the way of science. Besides, Im!

I'll no stand in preting everything I said. - door. Wi' one despairing yell I required if the recommendations were carried out would be a strong practice

For instance, when I told her I out of bed, made three strider and enthusiastic personnel, inspired by a consistent and enlightened within certain fixed limits. We curiosity than anything else, I'll had malaria twice, no to speak of examine it carefully, feel it all the lift wire, got it, slid to the of conning output quiry, engendered more through used to that sort of thing, for I've had a sore head she'd come over, across the room and sprang foo policy. The report contains many other proposals dealing with the saw a case reported the other day swear, that's all the attention I getting a pair of perfectly good over and then declare me to be bottom and bang!--woke up. mere machinery to be set up and includes recommendations that in which the workers on a certain get from you, ye callous-hearted tonsils sheared off when I was a talking nonsense, for there was no missions for special trade purposes should be periodically sen: to mine ceased their labour in order brute." I sat still for a bit after boy."

I lay quiet on the floor for a.. -foreign countries and that British representatives abroad should to discuss the matter of two of that and worked up a fine case

sore to be seen. So, as patiently minute, clutching the bed post. keep in touch with the British Chambers of Commerce formed in the the miners loading more trucks against the Macpherson clan and short, I got my clothes on, and off sore head. I explained that the forward and sniffed suspiciously Well, to make a long story as it was possible for a man wi a In the meantime "Jock" came countries to which they are accredited.

If the whole of the recommendations are carried out, it will done under Trade Union regula- of course I've forgotten by now for about half-an-hour I asked Oh, you mean your head aches? pyjamas. By and by there was per day than they should have their shortcomings, most of which we set. After we'd been driving soreness was inside, so to speak, at about the third button of my constitute & very great advance on what has prevailed hitherto, tions. That is the kind of spirit I never could keep up spite for whereabouts we Before the war none could gainsay that traders had every reason to that we

were DOW. You silly, why didn't you say so?" a knock on the wall-the be dissatisfied with the scant support which they received from trouble is that Labour policy at

are un against. The long. That's me, all over.

"Ob," seys Mac, "on the new road,

Then she'd make a blind rush Macpherson's bedroom side. Then British representatives abroad. It was little use for traders to seek present is all in the direction of short, I got undressed and into "Funny," says I, looking out; "I atmosphere the utmost licence

Well, to make a long story just above the Cemetery. at all the windows and give the Mac says: consular assistance. With the era of intense competition that has bigher wages and less work, The bed and no feeling a bit sleepy thought they were to be building possible and then I'd have to

"Is that you, Robbie ?" undoubtedly set in, it has become urgent that the full weight of the "ca' canny

"Aye," says I. State should be ready to back our. legitimate trade with foreign firmly rooted to warrant us be to myself, I wonder if 1 should But Mac he only looked at the out of bed.

ilea is a little.toolit up a Londre cigar. Think's I sites opened up on this road," hold tight for fear I'd be blown

"There's an awfu smell o" countries. The principle has been very strikingly established by lieving that our industrial position have a read or.....Yo see I've Inspector and winked.

After being among burning,” says he. the important decision to extend Government guarantees for credits is likely to be battered by giving some fine bed

Wi' that the rigging for about five minutes "Go and elsap it off," says, I' gisan in European countries-to would-be customers who could not the workers more money.

books. Take I got mad. "Well, didn't they say I asked her if it was a North | severely. trade at all unless they received credit. If the Government can do

Holland's Middle Ages, for in- that when the road, war beingtwink. She really dida'i know Then I got up and changed my this it can surely help those business men in the more remote,

stance. Man as a soporific, tan made?" says I.

for sare," but I took a chance prismas, and rubbed some oil markets even to the extent of financial assistance. In Hongkong)

minutes of you book, has a 14: "That's true," says he, “but at and told her to batten down where the cigar hat burat me. we have had a pretty good demonstration of how merchants of other was built in 1399. The Man in like mother's milk alongside thing to justify the expense. It'sks up Siberia way hadne been them to our cook. Janet's are Paris.The Bastile of France grain shot o morphin looking the time they had to say some-hatches again for them Bolsher By and by I'll have to cumsha Countries have been enable to filch our markets by reason of govern- the Iron Mask" was interned it. Aye it's a terrible fine sleep- a fine road, onyway. Besides, it keeping the home fires burning particular about smoking in bed. ment backing. "All's fair in love and war" and to that axiom can there in 1679. The Bastile fell producer. I've been reading it has stimulated building a bit." now be added" and commerce too." In practically all matters the in 1789 and liberty came

for quite some time, past and After a bit, Mas he knocks British Government can be of incalculable service to trade pioneers France. Bastile Day, 1919, saw I've wondered why it has never notice it much. Garages mostly, in a burry. "I could see from her he asks

to for years and many's the time "Aye maybe but no that ye'd things werena' likely to improve again."Was it a goo 1 dinner?" and it is to be hoped that the report just issued will result in some the greatest festival of liberty been introduced into hospitals as on the Peak. Now, if the money expression that all this was as very definite steps being taken.

that France ever has known.

Bat I never let on. Some folks I'm sure it had been spent on transport on Greek veras to her, as was lots of era so damned inquisitiv

to

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an anaesthetic.

"Mr. Severn," says he. "Mr. Severn? "Aye," says he.

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