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LINES FROM LINKCUMDODDIE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

propriator, shopkeeper, football

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920.

It's difficult therefore to deter-THE 37th ANNUAL AL FRESCO FETE

gate keeper, charabane driver, mine which of these two men and whippet and pigeon sales were really martyrs. May be It takes nerve man, no to speak of the publican, both were.

will testify, if the truth is in him, and guts to starve oneself to

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that the miner la better off now death, and Gas than he ever was before.

Bogey Bogey-Two Bob v. Nationalisation Attacks-A Son of a Gun- Martyrs-Irish Eyes Deans Crying-The

Sybil-The Sawbath Day.

Dear S-

OF THE

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

the Playground of the OLD ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE

Of the Labour leaders, Mr. ounce Sinn Fein in Ireland to-day, will be held in the compound of the CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL and are Thomas, the Railwayman, seems It's the pity of it that gets one, and to be doing better than he did. They say the blood of the marty- For a time during the Council offers is the seed of the Church: Action farce, I thought he was a that is the only seed that many bit two-faced but his setion in re

Maybe the most remarkable feature of the great strike of British miners is the quiet way the public are facing the business,

tree as it was soon evident that they werena' able to carry all their own crowd out wi' them The dose they got last yeas though it only lasted a week, hasna been without its effect, mind I'm telling ye.

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fusing to countenance the Rail ay Strike seems to have brought him into favour again. It's Petty hard business this sitting on the fence. Wi' a politician or

Now one of the leaders that Labour could do very well without

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of them were allowed to leave. SUNDAY, 5th December, 1920

The only comforting thought left is that Ireland may one day be the better of all this bloodletting and hunger-striking..

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No' that folks in this country ares Trade Unionist" it's the devil's altogether shock roof mind own job nowadays. The Bercea flea on a blanket. Recrimination but the nerve-shaking apprentice publicity of the Press sees to that. in the matter is useless ship served during the war base may cozen a man in private hopeless. The first thing that is found them foli-tledged jurory but when ye read a recantation needed is personal safety.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform admitted free. men when it comes to the boger in the paper the next morning, it's cannot be got in a land where Each ticket of admission entitles the boller to a sauvenit. business handed out be any one apt to cause even the most addled one is liable at any moment to

In the afternoon from 2.30 to 6.30 pm. several Stalls will be Trade Union, no matter how big brain to go through the elementary get the eternal dayligh: blown The general view is that the

motions of thought I'll let Mr.into one vis the small of one's open, and amusements specially suitable for Children will be miners have acted wi great Thumss of this time, but mind ye, back and where serce anarchial provided. Tea and Refreshments will be obtainable. Admission unwisdom, and for any part Tile he'll need to watch his step. scenes are everyday incidents. free. The Band of the Wiltshire Regiment will play during the them hang as they grow for a bit, but already, since they've had week to think and sit on their is the secretary of the Transport power that can do it is a con- The Grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the Evening.. hunkers, there are signs that Workers Federation. 1 mean stituted Government. Irishmen The Bands of the WILTSHIRE REGIMENT and the different course is likely to be Mr. R. Williams. His craving for should set things right themselves "SOCIEDADA PHILARMONICA" will play between 8.30 and adopted. The railwaymen threats the limelight lives by what it but terrorism has paralysed the 11.30 p.m. ened to run ram stam into the feeds on.

As a crisis-monger wits of the race. It is simply

SOME business last week but within there's no ea canny about his nonsensical

FEATURES OF THE FETE : to recognise Sinn twenty four hours they found output. He's gotten the Fat Boy Fein as an administrative gove Grand Concert by Well-known Hongkong Amateurs, they were starting up the wronin "Pickwick" beaten to a stand ernment. It is mock government Tea Room, Refreshment Rooms, Chute. Fishing Pand, Lucky Wheel,

His I still.

latest effort is at the best and it is letter to be Aun: Sally, Electric Shooting Gallery, Lucky Dip, Staffing the jillustrative of his bent for plain about the business. We Bolshevik. (quoits, &c., &c.

notoriety. The London Boroughs have Dublin Castle at one ex. have been asked to lend Halls for trème in Ireland, Sinn Fein at the enrolment of volunteers for the other. The two sets of ex-1 food distribution. Mr. Williamsim-tremists have made an unholy mediately gets hot round the collar mess of things. But discipline at this audacious proposal and is will win out, and the quicker One thing has come out of good enough to indicate that he when it is firmly enforced arsong this miners strike. though. Hooks upon the enrolment of the military and police. Irishmen and that is that the nationabsa volunteers. especially from the will be the first to be relieved by tion of the mine is as farddle-class and the White the rounding up of the Sinn Fein | Messrs. W ́G. Humphreys & Co. off as ever it's likely to be. Smiflio Guard"element of the community | desperadoes. But this must be! at Glasgow last week wanted the as one that would be more pro-done without punishing guilty - No WORK OF CHARITY IS FOREIGN TO THE SOCIETY decontrol of coal as a means of voking than the use of troops. and innocent alike. In the ende greater output. The sooner the Now this White Guard" stufff of British Justic there Government let go, he says, the¦is thrown

out purposely be is

place fo: reprisal sooner the cosłowners will see to William son of William son of a Burning and shooting up it that better seams are worked gun. These words are meant la¦ Gressdn Street a few years ago There's maybe a lot in that mind conjure up a picture of vicious would only have undone the dis-Ford and the man who invented | HONGKONG WAR MEMORIAL ye, but its travelling a long royl reactionaries. Wi" the modernļeipline which is the mainspring Jazz wond' thought abou. The from nationalisation. Again Mtendency—to exaggerate "this¦ of public order in Hongkong be-butcher threw in a hit of suet or Begro's speech in Parliament was transporter of everything furious sides killing a lot of innocent (liver wi' your beef. Jules Verne

The Hongkong War Memorial a definite repudiation of direct means nothing specially new. It's women ant 'children That had the sole patented rights of Committee, invite Architects and action as a means to the same this fancy name for a "Beckles."¡illustration will mar being ina submarine and sentinianes Designers to submit designs in ent. That question (nationalisa (As good sounding stufi among home to you clearer than anything hados' started to be upsides wi'empention for a Memorial to be tion) he acknowledged. was one] the ignorant, it's fine though. It's else the situation as it exists in the

the erected on

aite adjoining didna' to be decided by the vates of the gat Pelmaniam looking like Ireland to-dag. And it won't do shoot

and Royal Square, opposite the Hong. whole people. So that goes a kindergarten. Ye see "White Things will mead in Ireland.leivilisation hedna' reached the kong Club. long way toward the lasing offtiuant" means nowadays some-for the simple reason that they stage of squirting liquid fire or Intending Competitors, who that bogey Mind ye. I think the thing Russian, Ah! that means cannot now worsen. As the im- barking meo's lungs wi' horrible | must be British Subjects resident miners would give in, and quirk Bolshevisni Red Flags Re-provement sets in then will come gases. Telephones--but why in the Colony, should apply to the at that, only thear position. Ivolution. Sadoth the crude mind the time the generous treatmen: continue? Most things have gone undersigned as the General Post whether through the revolt of of the Transpurter hope to lead on the part of the Government back or forward according to our Office, not later than the 31st of unskilled leadership or of an ill-his kind. It's transportation - Coercion has failed, let's see wha: ideas of the fitness of things. The December 1930 for full particulars advised use of their voting power, for life he needs, and balls too. ¦ a little more gives-and-take will do point remains that there has been | and conditiona. is now one in which their pride!

Les aww meat. But the Church- is atake. And lew of us like to

Last week dignitied Deans and but why rub it in ? admi: belas

wrong Cork Jail has laid aside the country curates at the Church | the

But whether it likes it or not, especially when we think we've revolver, rife and bomb for a hal Conference at Southend-on-Sea Sunday recreation has come. is been hit below the datum line. and a four-stringed harp. A he

and ought DO held our for 68 days on fresh airlaw and heard things never seen coming

encouraged. (or heard before at such gatherings. the appearance of an actress.

In Scotland, however, we still Miss Sbil Thorndike, in the heart les a long way behind in what is of an dovembly where men were generally described north of the wont to have all the speaking Tweed as the "desecration of to themselves was the secret of the the Sabbath bat by the Hoker THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL &

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Lots of folk within the last and nothing, he woulin's need to week or so had the idea that there ring the ball for Peter. He'd just was red revolution just waiting a naturally slip through the spara chance to get bone. That, off I don't say it's the best way but it course, is mainly fostered by the certainly saves a lot of argument strong suspicion that nowadagsi Fie gut a cool send off. Friends. excited interest of the members F15, the old conservative ideas many strikes are openly mauntan it is recorded were with him of that Congress. The fair one are certainly going. And what's tured. All the same I don't for asaging the Rosary when he died. Seems to have made the most more farbge, if it doesna' waken minute think that in this country On the same nigh: another excellent use of her opportunity.ap, the Church will go along w revolutionary Trade Unionism is Irishman. Peter O'Carroll,

It's not every day that one gets a them and there' no' be muckie so great as it seems. Where the general dealer of Dublin, was chance of preaching at the grief at the parting. agitator, wi' his array of half pulled out of bed and shot to preachers. She turned on the

Yours truly. truths, slanders and innuendes, pieces at the door of his shop. is scoring to-day is over the There was no Rosary, however abnormal condition of things. As for Peter and what his namesake

I read some where the other day.said or thought, as he admitted politics this

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cas have! On the one hand we have the s stomach full of at the old ratesjalf-chosen deach of As a rule it's generally the man Feiner, to the accompaniment of looking between your fingers

VESSELS ARRIVED. that bowle loudest that has the consolations of the faithful you're apt to get a bit cross-eyed. nothing worth saying, and the and with the certainty of being in a word. Sybil told the Church

The 6.8. ST. ALBIAN arrived to "forward" more out in the chap that said a Red" is one blessed by 2 section of his

On open in extended order: in other this morning from Melbourne that hasn't read enough, rang the countrymen 35 a martyr.

of Carko for words, to leave the blinkers at with 1,525 tons the other hand we have a peace- bell the very first time,

home once in a while. "Aye. Hongkong. She carried 35 rat Some of these days I'll writeable Irish citizen brutelly done

passengers.-Mooring A and tell some of ing exto death at a moment's notice to lecture on the attitude of the class periences withe leased minority and left outside on the cold of the Scottish Bolshies I halstones herause he wils a traitur a full-stared arqument within the eyes of--traitors, the other Dight-but That can keep. What I was going

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M. J. BREEN.

Hon. Scretary. Hongkong War Memorial Committee.

NOTICE.

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LESSON IN CHINESE.

HON PAN a Chinem mend ante, vreemd is literature, has been a desenes to Waligean sale sad merchants in this medany tur aver twenty yet

Rice to the extent of 2,167 sens was delivered here this morning by the HALDIS from Saigon.- Mooring C 40.

Coal (1.465 tons) was consigned sedarin and Hacks by this morning

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To-morrow. SATURDAY, 4th December Commencing at 245 p.m. J. N. R. ALLAN,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 1st December, 1920.

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NOTICE.

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Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 6th day of December, 1920, at 3 p.m. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency she Governor, of one Lot of Crown Land at the junction of Queen's Road Central and Pedder Street in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further term of 75 years.

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Commenting Monday,

6th December, at 9.15 p.m. THE WARWICK COMEDY COMPANY.

In a repertoire of recent London successes. Presented by a distinguished cast.

MONDAY, Dec. 6th.- Douglas Murray's Recent Success,

-- UNCLE NED,”

TUESDAY, Dec. 7th.- H. V. Eamona's Delightful Comedy,

• THE LAW DIVINE.” From Wyndham's Theatre.

WEDNESDAY, Bec. 8th-

Horace Annersler Vachell's powerful play, *THE CASE OF LADY CAMBER."

From the Strand Theatre.

THURSDAY. Dec. 9th. Hubert Henry Davies' Witty Satire, "DOORMATS."

From the Globe Theatre.

FRIDAY, Dec. 10th.- H. V. Esmond's Charming Comedy of Youth.

- WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONE."

From the Criterion Theatre.

SATURDAY. Dec. 11th.- The Roaring Farcial Comedy, "ELIZA COMES TO STAY." From the Criterion Theatre.

MONDAY, Dec. 13th.- Hubert Henry Davies' Successful tomedy,

"CAPTAIN DREW." From the Savor Theatre.

TUESDAY, Dec. 14th.- Oscar Wilde' Satirical Masterpiece.

"A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE."

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Church looking sidewigs ditheri From Mauritius the LINDSAY denotes nerve or nuts. And MOLLER brought this morning Sybil. I understand, is no dud 1.000 tons of general merchandise Now, draw closer brethren actress so ing money is each way for the Colony-Maoring B 11. to say

this. was

The and let us try to figure this thing on nerve, win or place. minure we get reasonably near onz After all Peter O'Carroll's : the normal the azitator's trade life was as valuable as Mike) And the Conference had a nice will become unprofitable. In the Fitzgerald's. Aye, the nable little chat on the question of course of things he'll no' be listen-army of martyrs wears no dis-Sonday games. Now though ed to and he'll collapse worse tinctive uniform. To the casual tha: subject's corn in Egypt for a than a kid's penny balloon when übserver they are indistinguish-Scotsman, yet I want to be fair. he gets his teeth in it. Now if able from the wild-ered cranks Time was, away among the dusty, abnormal conditions bit the and Blasphemers that surround middle ages, when the terms miners, they also hit millions of them. They are alike only in "holiday" and "holy day" meant

UNITED STATES NAVY. other folks. Lots and lots of being different--different enough the same thing. That the subject middle-class folks in this country to cause hatred, suspicion or should be discussed in the twen-

'An Ambitious Forecast. have had to lower their standard pain. They're all alike thoughtieth century is merely indicative of life have had to pinch and is having subered for a vision of of fierce speed with which the

The Congressional Committee struggle to make ends meet; and better things and a too serious Church keeps up wi' the mundane

which is at present inspecting the The TELEMACHUS departed suggested sites for a great Navy that without dreaming of resort effort to make it real. Mind ye, things of life. If religion ever ing to social warfare. Are the martyrs are no are savory or meant anything it entered into the this morning at 10 o'clock for Bise to be established somewhere on the Californian Coast has not miners making the case any polite in their ways of putting whole of life: if it is to mean Saigon with 900 tons.

The KAEQ SAMUD left for yet, come to any decision as better or easier for these people? things or at all easy to get along anything now it canna' be licensed Smillie says that the extra 2 awi. They were often a public for Sundays only. Religion ran-Bangkok via Swatow with 500 regards the place where it should

An Interim Dividend of 2/- per shift is sorely needed. In the nuisance and

be locatori. often mora

na keep for one day in the week; tons.

ordinary sbare free of Income The HAICHING departed for.

Congressman F. A. Briton, of Taz has been declared on account miners home to-day. Well that menace to the civilisation of like milk and most other things, it might very well be-it all depends their day. All that they got gets stale and sour if no used Foochow to-day at noon with Illinois, in the course of a speech of the year 1920. It is payable

1.400 tons.

at the Commercial Club, San in London on the 5th January, on how the miners' wage is spent, afterwards was A memorial during the other six.

The YUEN SANG left at 3 Francisco, declared that the I've been quite a lot in several of when it wasna' forgotten. It's a Time was when there were no

next. Coupon No. 36. the mining areas in Scotland this thankless job being a martyr, wi' pictura houses. The ladies wore p.m. to-day for Manils with 1,750 American Navy, two years from

now, will be the largest in the FOR THE ASIATIC past six months and I feel as cer-no Trade Union to back ye up bustles on their hips and rats in tons.

CHENAN leaves to-world, and will be 30 per cent. PETROLEUM CO., (3.0.) LÍÐ. tain as I'm sitting here wi' a pen and the struggle for existence their hair. Nobody had appen- in my hand and my pipe in my becoming more precarious every dicitis and operations were rare.morrow at 4 p.m. for Shanghai greater than the British Navy

(Signed) W. H. BELL. mouth, that every bookie, cinema day.

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THE Undersigned have received instructions to sall by Public Auction on

Saturday, the 4th. Dec. 1930. commencing at 11 am. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

20 Coils Electric Wire

3 Coils Flexible Wire 19 Pairs Jade Stone Bangles

9 Sheets Fibre 3 32′′ thick

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3 Radiator Boilers

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Also

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1 Steel Filing Cabinet

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

THE Undersignedhave received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Friday, the oth Dec., 1930, commencig at 10.30 p.m..

a: No. 18 Godown of the Hong. kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd, Kowfo on 152 coils Wire

1 case Copper Pipes

62 Galvanized Pipe

1 case Magnetos

5 casks Steel Springs 10 Iron Plates

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A Large Quantity of Flat. Round and Square Bar Iron, Oid Brass and copper sheets, Iron pipes, Bolts and nuts etc.

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A Large Quantity of Miscel- aneous Goods

Terms: Cash on delivery.

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From SAN FRANCISCO vía HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS & MANILA. From SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU & JAPAN PORTS.

The Co's Steamship

"KOREA MARU." The above named Steamer hav-

Friday. ing arrived, on

the 3rd Dec., 1920, consignees, of cargo are hereby notified to sent their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and take im- mediate delivery from alongside steamer or the Company's Go- down, where all cargo impeding immediate discharge will be land- ed at consignee's risk.

Storage will be assessed on cargo remaining undelivered after Friday the 10th December, 1920.

All broken, chafed and damagwi packages will be landed into the ompany's Godowns, where same will be examined on Monday the 13th December, 1920, at 11 a.m.

No Clains will be recognised after the goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertaimed If presented

three weeks after. later than arrival of steamer.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

Y. TSUTSUMI, Manager. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1920.