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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921.

THE GERMAN WAY.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Mr. Bonar Law,

A certain amount of speculation has been indulged in as to how! far the political relationship between Mr. Lloyd George and

SATURDAY: MARCH 19, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

NEVER LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR MEN EXCEPT FROM THEMSELVES. A GOOD MANAGER NEEDS NO DETECTIVES, AND THE FELLOW WHO CAN'T READ HUMAN |

1896.

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.

ROBBIE'S RUMINATIONS,

this fine little book is written by A master.

After all, especially in this little two by four place, we're

Mr. Bonar Law would continuo. NATURE CAN'T MANAGE IT.-| (Compiled from the "Hongkong the Telegraph sent me a book, Hofondle

They have been colleagues for. H. Lorimer. over five years, for the bulk of

Telegraph" files for week- ending March 26th, 1896.)

THE DOLLAR. Mar. 20th. The rate of the Dollar. on demand, to-day is an anomalous position in normal Wharf are published in the

Bye-laws regarding Holts 28. 2-3/8d.

been Leader of the House while Home to-day by the s.s. Karmala, which period Mr. Bonar Law has Mr. M. S. Northcote left for

Mr. Lloyd George has been Premier. This would have been

times, but times were not normal, and, with many Conferences and other engagements to occupy the Premier's time, it was arranged that Mr. Bonar Law should be the recognised Lendor in the House. For a long while he practically had the hendship in Parliament

Vazette.

Tenders are invited for the creation of a maternity block at Victoria Hospital.

to himself, the Premier's appear has appointed Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe His Excelleney the Governor ancos being infrequent. Later, in response to representations to act as Captain Superintendent

soen

of Police.

whon not needed elsewhere, but and Portugal. Mr. Bonar Law still voiced Ministerial policy when the direct

His Excellency the Governor intervention of the Premier was has appointed Mr. William John not called for. Thus for a lengthy Gordon to act as Third Assistant period we have bad in the same Government Marine Surveyor. harness two politicians who in the days preceding the Coalition' had many tussles across the floor

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Being Extracts from Home very apt to think more of par

sonalities than of principles. It's Letters to his Nephew. no so much what a man bays The other day a reader of that seems to count but the man that says it. A man might a platitude until it didn't send it to me direct. Like purrs like an epigram but unless lots more in this Colony, he may-he counts in our little social be know positively to whom to scheme of things might as well be send it, but it was just

training nullahs in the middle of well the volume came in the way taken of him. On the other hand, Tibet for all the notice that's

it did, otherwise there was every another individual in the taipan. chance in the world of my little class very often needs only to Mar. 21st.-It is officially bookcase being eby of a very fine acquire an Honourable, a swollen announced that the Hon. J. W book indoed. I wouldne have manner and a platform noise to Carrington the Attorney General missed it for the world. In become famous enough to be of Demerara, has been appointed the first place the name of this attached for life to a pink ice- listened to or to have his name to the Chief Justiceship of Hong- little book is A Straight Deal or cream or a garage. I can under- kong and it is probable that he The Ancient Grudge and post in the month of January. will leave Berbados for his new writer is

Wister,

stand a man's man having a Owen

an drink called after him, but when American. Between you and me, it comes to having a pink junket if there are gentlemen in thie wished on to ye, truly merit falls Colony hailing from the U.S.A, Saturday who have any hazy ideas concern-

to its own squishy level.

A NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

A HAPPY GRANDPA.

Mar. 23rd.--Leat

A MASONIC FESTIVAL.

the first

NEW FACTORY.

the

I was

It

that the Premier should be in the Legislative Chamber more often, Mr. Lloyd The Very Rev. Father Nunes, evening that "terror toevil-doors, ing the British Nation or who The Virginian has another George has attended at St. Bishop-Elect of Macao, left by crack rifle shot and good all-round have an anti-English complex, peculiarity. It's the only book I Stephen's with fair regularity the Kazmals to-day for Rome mat al "p lice pigdin" Inspector they ought, faimoas to know of that has devoted a whole Quincey gave swell-dinner a la themselves, have a copy mailed chapter to the vagaries and chinoise, to scoros of friends in 4 out to them right away. If at idiosyncracies of a boa. Emily. restaurant, the occasion therofor this time of day there are still in the bird in question, was A being the fact of William having our midst Americans who think remarkable fowl and the devil become a real live grandpa. After that the doughboy and the gob and all for trying to mother dinner the grand-child was carri-won the Great War, aye, if even something or other that she didn't ed round for the guests to look by chance there should be among need to. Em'ly was for ever at. It is a fine little chap, roare us readers of the propagandists, being kicked off potatoes, round of the House, Mr. Lloyd George has appointed Police Sergeant H. mule, and is just

His Excellency the Governor like a bull, kicka like a Mexican the prompted puppets, the paid stones, aosp, onions and other like his parrots of a press whose cry it abnormal objects. She herself All communications intended for publication should be address-being the thon Liberal Chancellor E. Marks to be a Sanitary Pa. The happy, happy father, was and still is. "What did Eng-had never laid an egg. She didna'

of the Exchequer, while Mr. Inspector for Aberdeen,

and the jolly old grandpaps were land de in the War, anyhow," let know how to. In other words Bonor Law was Leader of the Inspector A. J. Davis.

of course very heartily con them for their soul's sake read she Was a hermaphrodite Opposition, The combination

gratulated, and the holath of son what one of their own country- though it appears she stood worked withfar more harmonious-

and heir, the pa and the grand-men has to say in the matter. straight and alert in the manner Notice is given that the last pa, was drunk with musical This book will do them good. ness than might have been ex-

of responsible people. Though pected; but, with rumours in the day for the submission of claims honours.

It was intended that it should she couldna' lay onything she air concerning a fresh political against German nationals under the Clearing Office Scheme is

benefit me but not in the same was for ever trying to batch some- orientation, there has been some

March 31st, 1921.

Mar. 23rd.--On the 17th of way. The sting of the beast was thing and went in for mothering The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee guessing as to how the two fore-

all round. How a real egg was February the various Masonic in the tail for what concerned mo fa accessible to messonger. Peak subscribers can have their copies most members of the Coalition

bodies of the Colony gave a grand most I found in the last chapter the chicken appeared is all part given her and what followed when delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies would stand towards each other. Kowloon Inland Lot 1409, com-ball in the City Hall to com- but one. That bit deals wi' Iro- of her life story. Em'ly and her sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The Premier's Emotion.

prising about 25,025 square feet,memorate the fiftieth year of the land and the reason Single Copies, Daily, ten conts,

In this situation a bombshell P.W.D. offices on April 4th. The kong and South China, this, from wrote the other day on "Irish himself said, "She is just one of is to be sold by auction at the foundation of a Lodge in Hong. requested to read it was of what latter end should be read by overyone, for, as the Virginiaa has been fired upon the political annual rent is $172 and the upset the history of the Society, being Eyes are--Glaring." My hook- world by the announcement of price $7,508.

them parables." closely connected with "Zetland", lending friend preferred to deal Mr. Bonar Law's resignation on

And so she is. Em'ly isn't dead. the ground of ill-health. Prosumn-|

Lodge opened in me that way rather than His Excellency the Governor Hongkong.

'stir up party feeling in the Sho's wi' us everywhere. She's able the indisposition came to a has appointed Lieut-Commander

papers. Well, that was pretty here in Hongkong. Every time hoad suddenly, since Router had Walter Conway Hake, R.N.R., to

A STRANGE BURDEN. decont of him to let me down so I read of friend Pollock I think of sent no word of it, and one's first be Assistant Superintendent of Mar. 24th.-Early this morn- lihtly and was maybe, when all Em'ly. Like her, he's for ever impression was that an ailment Water Police, in addition to his ing, a lukong drowsily "footing is said and done, the better trying to bring out something. of no great moment had perhaps other duties.

his beat was startled by being way to convince. When they First one thing and then another been utilised as a ground for

run into by two coolies carrying appear in print, no matter what is being kicked from under him, withdrawal from the Coalition,

There is added to the list of a large basket from which our convictions may be, hates but he keeps bobbing up again. the break-up of which had been medical practitioners the name protruded the legs of a human and panaceas are aye ready and sitting tight onto something that'll hinted at. Inter advices indicate of Dr. Phoon, Sock Weng, St. being. Upon examination these willing to divida into nays and never hatch out. Folitically ha’s that the Coalition Leador's health John's Hall, University of Hong- proved to be the pedal extremi-yons at the slightest jar. After a hermaphrodito. One moment has been an aerriously pejudiced kong, Bachelor of Medicine and tios of a young woman who had reading the Irish chapter iuwi tears in his eyes he's telling that medical advisers call for Bachelor of Surgery of the lately succumbed to the plague. question-but to argue Dow us of the iniquities of the Official long rest N Ossential to the University of Hongkong.

The coolies were run in and wouldna' be fair, so we'll let that Majority and a few months later avoidance of a complete break- A few days ago, the French Premier asserted that the down.

brought before Mr. T. Sercombe flea stick to the wa', in the moan- he's seated among the Cherubim Apparently the danger

One of the messsges in the and two months.

Smith, who gave them a lecture time. insufficiency of Germany's defeat in the war had been a mis-was

and Seraphim recording his vote imminent, as

the

Another, reason why I'm glad Unofficial Majority he's been wi' the Government. This fortune psychologically to the German people, whose leaders Leader was absent from the Japanese papers in connection

to have had this book is that had failed to recognise the generosity of the Allies in stopp being read by Mr. Lloyd George, of Japan to Hongkong mentione House, his letter of resignation with the visit of the Crown Prince

sitting on is like Em 'ly's it brings to mind the name of a onion. ing their armies on the eve of the complete collapse of the whoso perceptible emotion was

may make him some Korean rebels are

inan I thought dead long ago. weep but it'll never come to any- German Army. There is something in what he says. At shared by Mr. Asquith and the said to have gone to Hongkong

It'll be close on twenty years thing. He's got as much chance the time of the Armistice there were many who held that Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. from Shanghai," but it is added

since I read Owon Wister's The of giving birth to Constitutional Virginian and since then I have Reform as the dear old lady who the Allies had made a mistake in calling a truce before Clynes. It may not be generally that "the report is not

Big Hongkong Venture. a dim recollection of taking part solls me the Telegraph has of giving the Germans a taste of what they had given Belgium private relations with Labour

known that Mr. Bonar Law's firmed." and France. It was then argued, with some measure of members were most agreeable,

in a conversation in the course of making a fortune. Even if it An important extension in the which his name cropped up. An entertaining film, entitled business of the Nanyang Brothers were discussing The Virginian Farmers and Winston have so

We

were a real egg our Local Poultry reasonability, that if the enemy's armies had been completely much as they differed in debate. The Prince and Betty" is now Tobacco Company will shortly and someone said what a pity it severely mishandled broken and smashed and the war taken for awhile into his The Premier expressed a hope being screened at the Coronet. be undertaken with the com-was that the author should have preclude any chance of saything it as to country, the Germans, humbled and disgraced. would have colleague, to resumo duty, but and the facility with which its new large factory which the Com- and such a good one at that. At the When our olfactory organ gets a that a short rest might enable his The fortunes of a miniature State pletion and equipment of the died after writing only one book arising out of it but a smell. been tractable when it came to the settlement of the peace could not feel confident in the face destiny is guiled by the whims of pany have built at Morrison Hill time I mind of agreeing wi' the terms and the carrying into effect of the same.

of the medical report. Consider a dictator who is not always dis- Road. The new plant, the con- speaker, in order, I suppose, no

whiff of something nasty the One thing is certam, at any rate. It is, that all the ing the long and arduous turn of interested in its financial attrac-struction of which has been to show my ignorance. How often message to the legs to get away.

brain immediately sende way through the piece Germany has been raising obstacles Ministerial duty that the Coalition tions as a Monte Carlo" are por prompted by the

Leader has undergone at the most trayed round the personality of business of the Company, is thing? The result of thus taking but it's also commonsense. against the Allies since the war. Her leaders have set up critical epoch in the Empire's its American Prince and his pro situated on a piece of ground this statement for granted was

growing are we all very apt to do the same That's physi-something-or-other a continuous squeal as to the impossibility of carrying out history, the strain, physcial and spective millionaire father-in-law. originally occupied by the Law that all these years I've missed their Treaty obligations, and it has only been when force montal, must have been a heavy A Saub Comedy and a topical and Sun's shoe factory from the several books written by this No fear. Deprived of mothering But are our Em'lys deterred? has been threatened or applied that they have submitted. one; and Britishers will join sheafe of pictorial news complete whom, together with the So, after all, the German spirit has not really changed. in the hope that rest will & very attractive programme machinery, it was purchased for to find my latest addition to the From Reform to Rubbish isn't author. Imagine my surpise than one thing they rush to another.. That can be demonstrated by some recent remarks Bonar Law, a Canadian by birth and to-morrow.

bring complete recovery. Mr. which is being continued to-day the sum of $42,000, some five bookcase written by the man who, such a fearful jump onyhow when made by Field Marshal Hindenburg, who, when the and formerly Chairman if the

years ago. The new building, to my mind, has written, after e come to think of it. Lord how which has an area of 12,000 feet, Lorna Doone, perhaps the most the German delegates were invited to the London Conference, Glasgow Iron Trade Association,

mighty have fallen! If declared in an interview that the Allies were really afraid had made unobtrusive, but steady Paul's Girls' School are getting up and embodies the most modern only lets you see what fools we due, by the process of evolution, to The staff and pupile of St. is built of reinforced concrete unique love story of our day. That they're no careful the C.R.A. is of Germany and advised defiance to their terms. He added progressive B. & Unionist politic-a Chinese play in aid of the North ideas of sanitation and efficency: can be at times and shows ye how go down the pages of local history his hope that the Government would remain firm against an, when in 1911 Mr. Balfour China Faming Relief Fund. TheIt is four storeys in height and we shouldna pretend to know as the Cackler's Rubbish As- the Allied proposals, saying

resigned the leadership of the play is a melodrama in Chinese, when completed and equipped everything and agree wi' the first saciation. Aye, psychologically, Dignity alone demands it." party. Mr. Walter Long, Mr. entitled" Uncle Kin", and it has with the necessary machinery silly ass that opens his face in it was Another point that is worth noticing is that the German Austen Chamberlain (who is been specially written for the will give employment to over a

an unhappy subject to Press at that time were making much of the idea that the again spoken of as Leader), and occasion by Mr. R. H. Kotewall. thousand people.

company. It makes me clean tackle. mad to think of it. United States would make it difficult to impose their re-..now on the Woolsack. It will be produced under his The machines for the manu- paration demands on Germany, Hindenburg himself but at that time the enfant terrible supervision at the Theatre Royal facture of cigarettes which will It's fine. Thore's one bit there Did ye ever read The Virginian t indicating that be shared this illusion when he said he had spoken of as successors.

Umonist Party--were on Wednesday, the 30th, March, entail an outlay of about $100,000 about a minister that will be the impression that "in America there has come about a choice, however, fell upon the of Lady Stubbs, Lady Kirkpatrick and their installation to the num- of the misslonizing efforts

The under the distinguished patronage have been ordered from America enjoyed by all who do not approve complete change of opinion in our favour." Ferr Strese-Scoto-Canadian, It would be and Mrs. Bowden Smith. A pro- ber of about fifteen sets, will be

of The Catholic Cathedral was man, the Nationalist Party leader, in an election address, tragic indeed if Mr. Joseph gramme giving a synopsis of the effected in about two months those who belong to the fifteen crowded last evening, when, in said "Our greatest error in the war was that we did not take Mr. Bonar Law. He is but the Theatre on the night of the Company hopes to be able to saying of the Virginian sticks Mission, the Stations

Chamberlain's fate were to over-play in English will be on sale at time at the end of which the

religions and one God". One connection with the Lenten try to float our war Loans in America; now, however, we in his, fifty-ninth year, and his performance. In view of the de-start in on the execution of new "As for parsons" says he, "1 Bianchi officiated and Father

out like a pimple on your face. Cross will prove to America that our reconstruction is also in its wiry, if not robust, physique serving object of the entertain-orders.

were given. Father interests." This type of propaganda was tried with the should stand him in good stead.ment, it is hoped that the public

reckon some parsons have a Lynch preached, delivering a view to influencing the United States to exercise pressure Education of Democracy.

Company at will accord it their hearty sup-operates two factories in Hong- but I tell yu' this: a middlin' singing was

present right to tell yu' to be good.... ...sermonette at each station. The on the Allies to reduce the reparation demands. But it

Lord Haldane recently deliver-

at Caroline Row doctor is a pore thing and a service, the choir boys being from a feature of the has miserably failed. President Harding's inaugural od an address in Glasgow to the

(Causeway Bay) and the other in middlin' lawyer te a pore thing: Bishop Pozzani's seminary and message smashed Germany's hope of intervention on her members

Wanchai. Their aggregate daily but keep me from the middlin' Father Regantl being the leader. of the Workers' behalf, for he definitely declared that America intended to Education Assocration. His lord people" Lord Merley said he output amounts to ten million man of God".

cigarettes, and the number of

Father Valtorta gave the Ben- follow a policy of non-interference in the affairs of the Old ship stated that "adult education would like to see university operatives employed is 4,000. Another peculiarity of this ediction. World.

really began in the university, professors conducting evening

was a place where the classes for adults in country factory at Canton, and the character. As the

book is that never once does the which

It is planned to build another author give a name to his chief be held in honour of St. Joseph, To-night & special service will But Germany still goes on squealing. She has now spirit was set free, and that free-towns. Unless his lordship is

man from whilst to-morrow night will appealed to the League of Nations, arguing that the Allies' dom of spirit accompanied the referring to small, remote towns, necessary steps are being taken Virginia he starts and as such he witness the closing of the Mission, demands should be stopped because there has been com-student through life." This does such facilities are already pro in this connection to secure drops out and never once does when the Pope's blessing will be pliance with the reparations obligations. That latter not exactly agree with Carlyle's vided. Like the ex-Lord Chan-suitable site,

there appear to be any real given by Father Lynch. The views. hut sinoo "Sartor cellor, we desire to see more It will be recalled that last year reason why you should know altar will be anacially decorated statement would take some proving. We can only marvel Besartus" was written things opportunities for higher educa- the profits of the Company at his fapilamal-font-made name, and there will be a renewal of at the presumption which permits of its utterance. We have changed somewhat. In tion. But does the nation utilise tained the record sum of84,850,000, That's how you're made to foel baptismal vows, those renewing can only attribute it to German psychology, which passeth advocating that universities the facilities it possesses to any against the $15,000,000 capital onyhow, indiceting to those who same holding lighted candlow a all understanding,

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