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NOTES & COMMENTS.

"Save the Beaches?"

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1920.

DAY BY DAY.

LINES FROM LINKCUMDODDIE.

How MacPherson said Good-bye.

By, and by I said I would havs to go out. But for that morning! Providence was being" run thý deputy, Janet was in charge. No would I please leave golf alone for another twenty four hours. I said I didna play in

in

EX-GERMAN LINERS.

Expected Here in Near Future.

MEN PERCHED ON THE DEZY We are heartily glad to see that PINNACLE OF FAME ARE CON- Mr. Pollock, is at Thursday's | STANTLY FALLING OFF, THAT 13

my sleep anyway. Janet, though. Hongkong may soon see some meeting of the Legislative Council. WHY THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM AT

wasna' so sure about that. Noi big ex-German linera passług -- Dear S--. proposing a resolution to the THE TOP-Patrick F. Murphy, ...

The start of the whole business ther was I, for that matter, and through on the way to Japan, to effect that it is the duty of the

There was a clean bill of health was MacPherson's letter, The 30 didos contradist her. My whom they have been allotted Government to provide the public

the meantime, under the Peaos Treaty. with adequate facilities for sea in the Colony yesterday. first post comes to our placa bejab

These vessels are being brought tween seven and eight o'clock, According to plana based on the bathing. To an outsider cadually

just about the time that the milk MacPherson offensive, was to out by the N.Y.K. for delivery to

sit in the house Bod picking up a paper containing the

wait the Japanese Government,though. text of Mr. Pollock's motion it From the B. A. T. Company and papers are due. Sometimes in för the laundryman.at the moment their final disposi-' . would probably appear passing we have received a most effective it's the milk that gots past the

There was the bundleton is not known. strange that such a resolution wall calender, issued to advertise post first and sometimes the

The first of these ex-German. tobacco and should be necessary. Our visitor Thres Castles"

pspers, wi' the lettera scratched and could I check the things and would naturally think of the bays cigarettes,

and a non-starter. Though, mind count the returned pieces did ships to come East will most ye, I've seen the letters roma think? I said I'd try but where tikels be the 9.3. Cap Finisterro, and beaches which this Colony possesses, reflect on the benefits

on home a ten to one chance, but in the meantime, on what part of which will reservoirs to be obtained during the hot December 1st contained 1987.93 that's no often. It's been on the the line, did she propose to be Captain Butler, a former N...

Hongkong's

be

in charge of

commander, an advice from

summer months from a dip in the million gallons as against 1.721.50 tip of my tongue more than once when this distributor of burst

collars arrived. Oh! she had Home dated early last month

bring, and most likely if he on the same date last year. The to cozen Janet into getting up a happened to live at Shanghai, for figures for Kowloon are 369.50 sweepstake wi the lot of them massages to go to the butcher's stating that she would be leaving but as she'd be almost sure to When a woman calls a grocer by time, with 300 first-class and 200 and the Italian warehouseman. Liverpool in about two months' example)ancy the people of Hons; and 329.41 respectively. kong in its possession

retart that it would be suiting 55 many spots suitable for bathing. The thought of the

of

A number of men of the Southme better if I were to get up-that fancy name it's a sure sign second-class passengers. She is out of bed, that is-and take of company coming and mental to be followed by the ax. Kleist, many beaches not being avail-Staffordshire Regiment and the there in, well up to now, I've abberation. Would she be gocdunder the command of Caplain A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD able to the general public would Wiltshire Regiment-whose for held my tongas. And may be the enough to stop in at the cobblers Dring: when made

af wisest thing too, for, mind ye and tell Wullie B--that I

Telephone 16.

Correspondents are repasted to observe the rule which requires them to forward their nines and allteses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

Birth.

never enter Yer in eign

them

service

another

point of fact there are only two stationed at Singapore and Hong-getting colder and calder thought the wind wasna in the German liner will be sent out. such beaches, within easy reach, kong respectively-have been every morning now and I canna right air for that match. after where the thousands of bathers asked to extend their service to think of anything more cheerless dinnertime? The answer was in unable to afford the comparative 12 years with the colours in some and depressing to start the day the negative. Wi' that I gave it The day afore MacPherson came luxury of a launch can enjoy a eases and to complete for pensioni, than an ice cold bowl in our up and settled down afore the fire to say good-bye is now a matter Arctic kitchen and yodeling along to The Scotsam and to the com- of history and ranks in memory dip; and it is the loss of these in others.

the passage to the back door to forting news that Lady Bonham wi' the day that I first went to with which the public is now threatened. Excepting for a vary

whose be met wit a blast of our Nor-Carter had been telling the woolly school, the day that I first wore Thomas McCarthy.

whiskered lads in the Isle of long trousers, the day I got mar- All communications intended for publication should be address-vague bint at the need for coping strong liking for liquors was the East wind ready and willing to Wight that her dear old Dad had ried and the day I took a 3 to bo with commercial expansion, noth-cause of his discovery in an in-play tig between your legs. AFC been misnamed a traitor by Bir an 8 on a Derby Sweep ticket and al to the Editor,

ing has been said as to the pur-sensible condition at Queen's it makes a cauld-rife start to a Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

pose of which these two stretches Road West yesterday, was called perfect day; besides, thinking Edward, Carson and a lunatic by thought I had won over $16,000.

Thomas was saying that the say, it was one day, and then" The rate of subscription to "Tha Hongkong Telegraph" is $35 of foreshore are needed, and our up before the Magistrate this about Nansen and the like, so fr. Lloyd George, that Mr.As my American buddies would

only hope is that matters have morning. Thomas, with the early in the morning, is too much per annum. Payable in Advance)

fight to a finish" without "a About two o'clock after I had The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- not developed so far that she return of reason, bad thought it like the stuff that heroes are industrial fight could be not be a sore.

bloody upheaval," that Mr. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a saving of the teaches for public wise to keep away, and because made of to fit in wi' my idea of

got my tithio I was hounded into use will be impossible. The of this, his Worship ordered that a holiday.

Smillie had been presented wi' a the back yard while my wife and full month.

bunch of flowers, that among another hired assassin set to The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee Government cannot shut its eyes the bail of $5 upon which he had

finished the is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies to the fact that these bathing-been allowed free last night after

Well, to get po wi' it. Mac other wise words Labour was and

wrecking delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies places meet a public need, and if his arrest, be confiscated for the

at going to govern whether fit to of our happy home. The lob- won that morning. it'has so far compromised itself beneft of the Government.

WAS chockful of things sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postag

[that nothing can be done to

least Mrs. MacPherson's letter govern or not," that the scheme by did. Janet got up and took it at present before the miners and as I sat on the step cleaning Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a retain them, then it will by

A report of a highway robbery in. Curiously enough I sleep appeared to meet the requiremy clube I could hear the dail deserving of strict censure for fixed period will be continued until countermanded,

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sala at, and will be ignoring popular desire. It is the considered by the Felice to be of heaviest in the morning. I think monts of a settlement which can roar of the offensive in the par- delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Lidduty of the Government to safe-a doubtful character. reached the it must be liver. Janet has be accepted by both sides without our at the front. By and by 1 guard public rights and privileges. West Point Folice Station yester- given it a different name more any fealing of defeat, that "Pussy-heard Janet say something about Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

not to disregard theat or take dag the complainant being the than once, though her diagnosis foot" had finished making blot-tea and shortly after tha: 1 sees trust foki of a Chinese shop, who states is no age to be depended on. Butting paper of Scotland, that in wi' the tail of my eye the form away. But we that

to that whilst walking in Beach let it pass. I was thoroughly large families the fifth child is of her assistant climbing over there still time

is

sandry furniture on her way tothe save these beaches, and that, as a Street be was attacked by fire wakened up, the MacPherson the pick of the banch, that it GLENDENNING-At Matilda Hospital on th December, result of the expressions of pomen and relieved of a sum of letter opened, read, commented took 19 rounds of wallop and gore kitchen. I was in the midst of pular opinion through the medium $120 carried in a bag. He also on. Then a wild rush got into to put the lid on forty year old pondering over woman's ability Was to administer tes in the midst of 1920, to Mr. and Mrs. P. Glendenning, a daughter.

of the Press, and of Mr. Pollock's stated that in the attack, one man stride right away and within Tancy Lee, that France

1 bit at the every crisis in life, when suddenly stand in the matter, the Govern-threw him on the ground, an-five minutes a one-man band was getting parked ment will do the only right and other gagged him and covered bis a case of mixed sleeping sicknessides of Britain having a bit of there was a crash, the windows third assumed and creeping paralysis compared her own mind left, that experi- rattled and a rash of air came eyea, whils! charge of the money bag. They to the activities of my wife. If ments with the thyroid gland on along the passage taking the the MacPherson's were to be a fifty-year-old actress had set breath from me and nearly blow. then ran away.

here by the 12.10 train the morn Nature thinking, that according ing fire pence half penny out of We made mention the other

there wasns a minute to be lost. to Reuter this year's olive crop my hip pocket. day of the gradual developmeat A Chinese from Shanghai was Suddenly a nice cosy, clean in the Holy Land, will be which is taking place in various to-day arraigned before Mr. G.N.itle house became & midden bumper one, that Flower Bed parts of China in the matter of Omme on the charge of being in and

Though she had further to go. perfect wilderness, was scratched from the Cam- the provision of better roads. possession of a small quantity of Cortains that looked white bridgeshire at 5 p.m. the day Janet won the obstacle race to At first I thought Glancing ever recent Customs opium which the searchers found enough to see the winter out before, and I was just about to the kitchen. reports we see further evidence on the person of his wife on their

warder whether was so thick. The girl was lean- of a healthy spirit of municipal arrival here yesterday. A fas of were filthy dirty in the twinkling read of Petlura's success and the place was on fire, the smoke

of an eye. In about the same beginning to

against the kitchen enterprise in several districts, $200 was inflicted, and against the time as it takes to say "knife" a Pellurs was the name of anothering up and we could only wish that sentence the prisoner raised a thousand and one things in our horse at one of Wrangel's wrang-dresser wi' a look of astonished Father O'Flanagan, acting President of Sinn Fein." has telegraphed to the Premier asking what first step towards peace in complete and lasting peace would protest, saying that without going house were mentally disarranged ling Generals when Janet blew distress and nearly & nound of be ushered in, so as to allow to Canton he was unable to obtain and rearranged. Whole platoons in looking # cross between alsoo on her face. By and by man when I saw there was no fame Ireland the latter proposes. The reverend President asserts that!

shout I chased them both out. Ireland is willing. After all the manifestoes of the Sinn Fein of a needed expansion of these the money to pay the fine. The of inconsequential nothings were Christmas Tree

Activities. For example, the Magistrate said that he was un-

Dear friend I will not repea: The girl was overcome and so irreconcilables, it is a great change to hear one of the organisation, Amoy Commissioner states that able to be of assistance to the mentally "sbunned," "number suffering from monkey bite.

ed," "formed fours" wi' and and be the acting President, announce that Ireland is now in a important works are in progress prisoner in the matter, and he dismissed by the time the what was said after the discovery was

one of my best Brussels' Barkis-like frame of mind. The average Britisher is not likely to Shima, undertaken by the advised him to raise the money morning papers came. I lay of the laundry bandle on the Sprouts where she sat on it. Says be over-sanguine; on the other hand, he will certainly hail any local Chamber of Commerce by subscription from his friends still, twiggling my toes in the front door step and the charred Janet, opan the windows quick overture that offers the slightest prospect of concord. In regard to Shima is the port of Changchow in the Colour.

soft blankets and cursed the remains of the steamed pudding, and let the smoke out. But, says the present approach so much depends upon what body of Sinn which with its surrounding dis-

MacPherson under my breath Where were my seoses and had, ye mind what ye said in the Fain opinion Father O'blannagan speaks for and upon what terma trict, has a population of at least he and his associates are disposed for peace. This is evidently the 21 millions. The foreshore is

A case of "ring the white for the reering Hielandman that I no noes? You be: I had and forenoon about the burnt pudding Premier's quandary. for in reply to a question in Parliament he being reclaimed and bunded. A pigeon was brought up by lo he was. How it was that he would she please place that smok- and the neighbours thinking the stated that before responding to the overture he wished to discover of 32 feet width orer spector Cargill before Mr. G. N. couldna go quietly back toling, stinking pot on the windowsill? house would be on fire. This is whether Father O'Flanagan is able to speak for "the Sinn Fein the band is to connect with Orme at the Magistracy today. Hongkong again without dis-Aye, and make every body diffareat, saya she. Age, that's party." That is just the question. From his title of "acting that now nearly completed to The "pigeon" in this instance is a turbing the peaceful calm of a think the house was on fire, she true, says I thank the Lord, I President of Sinn Fein "one would, ou ordinary reasoning, infer that Changchow and is

married woman who was promised virtuous bodsehold was beyond sneered. So I ran through the wasna' in the front line trenches

some folks that back passage to the coalshed, this time. Father O'Flannegan is entitled to speak for the whole body, but the electric trams. At Changchow & by her sister as a bride for a love-me. There's

After Martha had got her breath constitution and ramifications of Sian Feia are not a little perplexing. new city is reported to have sick Chinese man on the condition would say goodbye if they went incidentally near knocking my Mr. Arthur Griffith has lately been the "acting President of the arisen. The city walls have been that he paid over a marriage no further than the barbers or head off against the pantry door and her eyesight back, her tongue which had conveniently been left began to unlimber and it appeared Irish Republic vice Mr. Valera, abeant in America. Is Father demolished; broad and well-made dowry of $300. The transaction the bathroom.

open. I wonder what some folks that it wasos' half a stick of O'Flannagan taking over from Mr. Griffith, who generally spoken roads

laid Gat: waterworks, was accomplished to the satis- of as one of the moderate Sinn Feiner has just been arrested for telephones, and electric light faction of the women, but not so sedition? It is natural, then, that the Premier desired to assure established; a system of modern in the case of the man. He dis-

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920.

A SINN FEIN OVERTURE..

more

fair thing.

Improvement in China.

to carry

B

In the search after a gold

and

I must have fell asleep again think locks and handles are for dynamite among the coals as

the Sinn Fein Divisional Council in Dublin at once repudiated the good roads have been projected his promised bride bad bolted Wondering how a nice looking and the next door neighbour out have been the methylated spirits himself for her as to Father O'Flanagan's status, the more so as sanitation-is-contemplated; and covered, when it was too late that looking at the Daily Sketch and onway? My yell brought-ber Janet at first thought but, it must H'm, says I, let'a gö acting President.

29 bad paid ovör

thought of marrying a man who out, a message boy who bad in aging- Adopting

to link up with neighbouring from his home, and with her the woman like yon could ever have into the garden and we had it she put in the fireplace to set it the

that the hopeful view

acting towns. That shows what can be sum he

back gate, acting as And we did. Well it was a good President represents the majority of Sign Fein, and

umpire and volunteering to job it wasna' cracked and I said done where the will to advance "clinching" money. The Police, preferred starving himself to the meantime draped himself on and have a look at the rang overlooking. in the strange circumstances of Ireland, the unusual is in operation.

What is es on being apprised of the swindle, living the rest of a lifetime wi' spectacle of an ecclesiastic 19

How could & secular head, what sorpecially interesting, also, is the arrested a woman alleged to be her even if he did happen to be s

team pudding to turn nasty at the idea of of conditions are feasible as the outcome of negotiations? The fact fact that much of the labour the sister of the elusive bride, and Lord Mayor and thought în Irish send for the station ambulance. as much, whereupon Janet began of an approach indicates that the acting President starts from the employed on these undertakings produced her for trial before the by being asked to decide whether burn anyway! Easy enough you worrying about the range and

were the pan and the bowl steamed servanta standpoint that a Republic is out of the question, else he would not is military. Here's an example Magistrate to-day. The hearing ked as boiled twice or did I stupid once the water in between no the lassie. As I pointed out, scarce enough propose peace discussions. That is one step to the good. What, that might be followed through- was remanded.

prefer doing without. I recalledway. And did she think I was goodness only knows, but ranges then, would the acting President be likely to stipulate? Domin. out Chins if the soldiery cannot

the dead Lord Mayor though, water circulating system and were harder to get wi* moulders -ion Government in the fullest sense?to use Mr. Asquith's quickly be disbanded-put them

thought it too empty an honour

was I to know what was in the coalstrike on, to say nothing of the with the attitude of the Labour Party, have encouraged the idea of That would be far better than from Chinese woman in Bai and then. We get our breakfast pot anyway? No, the only pot I trouble of getting a new one io. phrase. The recent pronouncements of the ex-Premier, coupled on to works of public utility-necklace, said to have been stolen and decided to start the day there what's more forbys how the devil out of work nowadays and the concession to this point. But the acting President must know that letting them run wild, pillaging Street yesterday by a snatcher, in the kitchen of a morning. It's ever took any interest in was Bot what caused the explosion Mr. Lloyd George has declared emphatically that the Government peaceful villages, desecrating the Police were given considable nearer the base so to speak and when I was playing poker. What beat them altogether, so I will not concede this, and he must know that such a friend of churches and breaking up rail-trouble by a conjuring trick makes the lines of communics was I doing all the time in any proceeded to give them a lesson lä Ireland as Lord Grey is opposed to it, to say nothing of Viscount WAYS.

practised by the prisoner. After tion much shorter. Did ye ever case? Madam, I said wi' a' the my best lecturing-room manner Middleton, who preceded most of his Unionist colleagues in con-

a cross-examination in the charge est a boil-proof egg? When an dignity I could assume wi' son the internal combustion.. version to a large measure of autonomy for the Emerald Isle.

in which be denied egg is cooked to the knife and bruised forehead and in the engine. But all talk about hot Within the last few weeks the Premier has reiterated the

HUN MANIFESTO OF 1914. strenuously, that he was concern- fork degree I think it's a sheer presence of the aforementioned ranges, vapour, rise of temper strong objections to giving Ireland control of Army, Navy or fiscal

According to a Barlin telegramed in the theft, the Police took waste of sustained effort on the gathering, now augmented by a ature, subsequent explosion was policy, at the same time lettting it be known that the Government

unprecedented соотве of part of the hen not to speak of

mason's labourer and the Baptist) wasted on the acrid air for in the would gladly meet the wishes of a responsible and well-affected out of 93 Intellectual signatories the body of Irishman. For one thing generous financial treatment has to the famous Kultur manifesto divesting him of every article of the money paid for it. I said as Kirk minister. Madam, says i, at midst of it all Janet minded. been spoken of, and some arrangement in regard to fiscal policy of October, 1914, defending Ger clothing but still the ornament much to Janet. But I might as the time you speak of I was get about the Mac-Phersons and her may be practicable. Then the relations with Dublin Castle maymany's war airns and war conduct could not be found. A moment well have spoken to the calendar ting measured by a spook tailor soot faden kitchen and began to be modified-though the power of the Viceregal Lodge is 18 are dead. The others have later, on looking on the ground, on the wall Haley's Comet is for an aura of mystery. Ant greet. We swept up seven and perhaps over-estimated. Again, the position in regard to eventual been circularised on the subject. they found the chain lying there. like a Sim Feiner's funeral com because she didna know what I half shovelful of carbonised com!

mysterious pared to the speed my wife gets was talking about, that was the before we amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Parliaments might Forty-eight profess recantation having by undergo some readjustment in accord with Sinn Fein wishes. In on various grounds; several say means been thrown down by the up when she steps on the ac this latter respect the reasonable rights of Ulster would have to be they lent their names without prisoner during the search. The celerator. I put up the collar of end of that. maintained, without allowing the Northern province to foil a settle. Being the manifesto; other sentence passed at the Police my dressing gown. She said if 1

Ye mind of the old song. ment on just lines. This is about as far as & Government mainly declare their eyes have been Court to-day on this conjuring felt the draught to go and get the composed of Unionists can well go. Will Sica Fein come down to opened; sixteen have refused to man was stiff-bree woonthe rest of my clothes on. Some I never forget the day, I'll never can DEVOT take a forget the day, when mother concrete facts and discuss the matter in the spirit of practical recant; and seventeen have not hard labour with eight strokes women

backed the winner of the Derby! bint of well seasoned. replied to the circulaz......... politics?

TOOM,

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SAT the patterd of the kiteben linoleum again and it was twenty minutes past eleven o'clock bafora Martha got- away home that night, Some day!

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