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or
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MOSQUITOES, SANDFLIES
and other insects,
Will not stain or injure the most
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921.-
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back a little farther, for Mr. Gladstone's grandchildren provid- ed much pretty doniestic talk in an age now almost forgotten.
(By Meteorite.") THE PUBLIC PLEASURES OF
There is a pretty touch of Lady Bonham-Carter by her how deeply China's FAR THE finances are involved at the pre- MANKIND ARE COUNTERFEIT which will bring the Far East migration of Mise Ellen Terry Lloyd George by her daily The first lok in the chain sentiment associated with the clever speeches and Miss Megan sent time can be guaged from Johnson.
into aeroplane communication from her old Georgian house in appearance "in the photographs" the facts just mado public by the Finance, Peking Ministry of
Last evening in the Handicap with England will shortly be Chelsea to a flat in St. Martine are no doubt invaluable to their These reveal that the Chinese Singles of the H.K.C.C. tennis forged, according to information lane, which was decorated for respective parente, and it is Government was faced a little tournament, J. B. Penman heat received from the United States. the great actress as a birthdar doubtful whether we shall over The Air Ministry of Great Britain gift. For in the evening of her again have another case like while back with the immediate L. Forster by 6-3, 0-4.
bas secured, on the England-daye she takes her rest within that of Lord Kitchener, Do payment of $13,100,000 for the
Egypt Commercial route, a site easy hail of the scene of her small part of whose legendary repayment of principal and A Chinese, who arrived here by at Malta for a new aerodrome, greatest triumphs, the old Lyceum (as distinct from his real) fante. interest on different loans, more the Golden State, was this morn and steps have been taken to Theatre, and, as she opens her depended on his supposed im than $9,710,000 to troops and ing fined $50 for being in posses-onsure wireless communications window to the life and colour of munits from the assault of the $4,500,000 for political expensession of 401 rounds of ammunition along the line between England. Londor, she looks out upon the other sex.
Malta, Egypt, Mesopotamia and statue put up by an admiring newly-contracted loans ап
to Two men are being held by the India. Arrangements have been throng to the great actor with amount of $24,200,000 and the Police for stabbing and wounding made whereby the maintenance whom so many of her greatest revenue derived from national a Chinese in a gambling dispute of the aerodromes on the Cairo-successes
achioved-Sir) taxos handed in from various at Third Street yesterday morn-Cape Town route will be borne Henry Irving. provinces to an amount of more ing.
thus by local governments, than $4,000,000. There can to
relieving the British Government little wonder therefore that not
of financial responsibility of these matters in future.
out of the revenue from five
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD order. Recently, a petition was Singer.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921.
THE QUESTION OF YAP.
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Mr. and
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told, is so fond of pet rabbits that Princess Mary, who, we are
she is about to set up a rabbitry at Sandringham, is not the only celebrity Whose taste
namely; a simple yet sure method practice portance has been neglected; of St. Edmondsbury. That the disgusting
while he confesses youth he
Amongst the passengers who
Bishop Hodgson, whose death in pets has inclined in this only foreign representatives left by the ss. Venezuela to-day
at the age of 65 is announced, had direction. Wondsworth, accord- but many Chinese themselves were Lady Chater, Hon. Mr. P.H.
the rare distinction of changing ing to 0.W.E. Russell, was are urging the Central Govern- and Mrs. Holyoak, Mr. F. Gra- mont to
In studying the necessary dove-the name of an historic town. responsible for a whole menagerie their put
house ham, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hatt, in something resembling financial re. R. C. Morton, and Mr. E. Tlopment of safety devices in the When he was translated to the of pots, included among which was a white doe. The same construction of airplanes for the new See in March 1914, Bury St. last six years, it is conceded that Edmunds assumed ecclesiastical author assures us that while presented to the Government by
Cowper bad his the National Federation
one detall of greatest im-y ila more comprehensible form gentlo
hares," Mrs. C.L. Sandes Chinese Banking Corporations arrived this morning by the
himself of putting the place (Russell) arging that the best solution of Devanha. Mr. Sandes takes over for preventing fires in aircraft. before the saint, as in Chalfont, that in his the present financial trouble was charge again of the Mercantilo that a definite measure should be Bank of India, relieving Mr. N.C. The material used as well as the Holmbury, &c., was not universal had "trafficked in squirrels and construction of the planes has been is shown by the Crays, in Kont, guinea-pigs," and had "invested takon as soon as possible for the Wilson, who is going away such as to aid inflammability, and which follow the saints' names. my all in an Angoa rabbit." Our disbandment of troops of the shortly.
when a fire atarted it was certain The full title of the Soe is St own Royal Family's taste in pets different provinces, that domestic loans should be readjusted, and
to spread over the entire wing Edmundsbury and Ipswich, but seems to have been more or less and tail surfaces, burning away the former place was chosen for homely, as, for instance, the that the currency system of the shows two fatal cases of small- all support and leaving the aviator cathedral honours, St. James's example of Queen Victoria and country should be consolidated, pox, two non-fatal occurences of All these things have been urged cerebro spinal fever and ore non- Recently there hasbeen introduced now dignity.
no chance of saving himself. Church being selected to bear the before, but if China's leading fatal case each of enteric and a method which promises to prove financial and commercial men paratyphoid fever. take a strong hand in the game, Chinese. there is more cause for hope than there hitherto has been.
Chine
Yesterday's health return
All
were
amah, who has since absconded, is suspected.
on
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tame
Noble," her collie dog. But Louis Napoleon, when he lived in Carlton Gardens, set great storo eagle com- itself thoroughly practical and Lord Milner's abandonment ofpared with which the little pig, reliable for the prevention of fire bachelorhood strikes another said to be a pet of Sir Walter For several months intermittent announcements have
in aircraft, both in planes blow at the conception of the Scott, appears Wong Sam, a Chinese woman, and in dirigibles. Experiments strong man of Empire" as course, it must be remembered ludiorous. OF appeared concerning the little island of Yap. Probably
owes it to herself to got her own living at No. 11, Cochrane Street, not many people had heard of it before the war, and would financial maddle straightened out. has reported to the Police the to this and have been in neglectful of the domesticities, that it was the pig, we are told, not have heard of it since but for the fact of its being That is a necessary preliminary theft or 100 and $185 worth of operation for five years and it is though it is true that Lord Milnor that had taken a most genti- cable station. Yap is a little island by itself situate in the to many much-needed reforms.
jewellery from her house. An gratifying to know that at last waited until he had given up mental attachment" to Scott so Pacific to the north of New Guinea, and is on the line of Contradictions.
this problem is nearing its office before he married, remarks that the novelist suffered rather solution.
u writer in a Home journal. But, than encouraged the companion- the cable that runs from San Francisco to Guam (where] the United States Navy has a coaling station), and thence described as the head of the Mr. Justice Wang, who is
on the whole, the bachelor as a ship. There must have been On the arrival of the Shinyo According to "Aviation" for great pillar of the State is no something attractive in Scott, for to the Dutch East Indies. The trouble arises over the Supreme Court of China, has been Maru a Chinese passenger report- November 29, 1920, the Phoenix longer of much account. Mr. in addition to the somewhat em- cables formerly owned by Germany. At the Peace Con-talking in Vancouver on the ed to the Police the loss of a Fireproofing dopes are at this Balfour remaine, of course; but barrassing attentions of the little ference, Japan was given a mandate over all of the question of the international canvas bag containing 1,566 time receiving recognition as a Mr. Balfour is not amenable pig which insisted upon following any ordinary laws, and him he also "suffered from the ex-German islands north of the Equator, which include situation facing country American gold dollars which, he success. Some favourable mention to
In the course of his Yap. The grievance of the United States is that this
talk believes, were stolen from his is inade of the fact that whilethese domesticity is becoming almost
saine sort of pertinacity on the he slated that China has
celluloid base. essential to Prime Ministers part of a hon," which appeared nundate places Japan astride the cable, enabling the latter three enemies, but that Japan je
trousers pocket during the voy-dopes have a
the active materials which make with the increnso of press to hold him in very affectionate age to censor all messages between the United States and the not one of them. When we read
the fireproofing composition photography.
The thing goes esteem. Dutch East Indies.
a fire resistiug
his
the other two were the Anglo-
That
Alliance with Britian and the
clusion of his observations. Suchi
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the Colony, Mr. Graham has been: very prominently identified with Freemasonry.
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While last year the estimates:
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
Bo I'm trying another way. Failing individual visualisation, under aviation were, approximate- I've come to the conclusion that there's nothing like pictures to |ly, $11,500,000, M. Flandin is point the moral.
asking for 1921 over $16,000,000.
As American and Japanese interests that, we prepared ourselves for Two coolies, charged with are dissolved are in rivalry in that part of the globe, Washington feels the naming of other possible broaching cargo, wore this mornaud are not that Japan derives an excessive advantage. The feeling remarks did not run on these One inau, why stole a quantity of quality not only obviates weight adversaries, but Mr. Wang's ing convicted at the Police Court. pigment which settles. This is increased by strategie considerations, especially as Yap lines. The first enemy was said handkerchiefs from the Agapenor, but also makes it possible to use is comparatively near to the Philippines. At the Peace to be a specified Article of the was given six months and four the solution from the top as well Canference, President Wilson appears to have made reser-League of Nations Covenant, and hours' stocks. The other prisoner as from the bottom of the con- vations concerning the little island. The Japanese
received four months and & tainer with equally good effect. contention is that it is not sufficient merely to establish the sing-Ishii Notes. The first of these two rolls of silk from the Melville their non-inflammable properties Japanese Alliance and the Lun similar period in stocks for steal That these dopes may retain
Let me see, this is Wednesday isn't it? · And Ladies' Fashion fact that America made reservations-it must be shown two latter, said Mr. Wang, would Dollar.
to best and most certain effect, Page Day. H'm, quite so. that the Supreme Council accepted that attitude. It has lead to war in which China
they must be applied to new and For a man's wife to have clothes doesna' necessarily mean that been asserted on behalf of America that a "gentleman's would be engaged, whilst the The driver of ricksha No. 367 undeveloped material. The plan she's clothed. No, not by a thundering long chalk. A woman
established what he agreement had been arranged respecting Yap by which other
and a passenger who was in the which has given best results is to might have a coupla wardrobes festooned wi frocks and yet have regarded as a pernicious doctrine. América would have equal rights with Japan, but there is What strikes us about his view vehicle when it overturned in go- saturate new and undeveloped nothing to wear. If some of yon papers wi' the fashion pictures fabric with the fireproofing could only realise how very upsetting they are to a woman and her ne such provision in the mandate.
ing down an incline at Pokfulum is that although Mr. Wang goes out Road, were yesterday removed solution and after letting this goodman's peace of mind, they'd run a Poultry Section instead. The question, with others of like nature, has been of his way to say that Japan is to the Government Civil Hospital dry thoroughly then apply three "How do you think a dress like that would look our me?" Bays engaging the attention of the International Communications not an enemy of China, yet she is The accident is said to have been to six coats of dope. A vast the wife, pointing to a figure that looked liked a cross between Conference. In the autumn representatives of the big three alleged enemies.
directly associated with all the caused by an attempt on the part majority of the accidents in the three yards o' pump water and a sick setter pap.
"Fine, says I. "if your parente had, made ye run to length five" gathered at Washington. The American claim was must be so from the fact that
of the fare to jump oat when the air which have resulted in death that there should be international control at Yaj). France Japan is a part to the League speed of the ricksha became more have been caused by burning instead of latitude." And that's how the row generally starts.
The woman's no' living that doosna' think she's got a figure than ordinary..
planes. Even the all-metal planes supported Japan, while Britain's attitude was understood Convenant
and also to the
whose construction promised like what-ye-call-um, and her hubbie's pass book at the Bank's got to be open or inclining to the American side. After lengthy ideas contained in the Ishii-of the Hongkong Electric Co., need to provo a death trap for the length of setting aside a day for the collection of patterns, the protection against this menace to suffer every now and then as a result of the delusion. If some Mr. Frank Graham, manager have failed, and have sometimes of our women folks could only visualise themselves before they got discussions the parties were unable to arrive at a conclusion. Lansing Notes. So Mr. Wang's Ltd., left for Home on retire-ier. If applied fireproofing Colony would have less fashionable cross-breeds knocking about and the conference was postponed in order that the opinions, strictly construed, can ment to-day, carrying with him can be made a success, one of the its streets. It's no' every woman's good fortune to be slim and delegates might obtain further instructions. In March the mean nothing else than that! conference resumed, and France is apparently now disposed. Japan is a decided enemy of the good wishes of a very large hazards of Flying will be removed, gentoel looking-rickshas and good nature go a long way to effect in some degree at any rate, to adopt the American view-China. That is the logical such the Company in 1905, and was every type will be brought into to leave well alone and to clothe nature according to its proportions circle of friends. He joined the and airplanes and airships of the widening process-but you try in the ordinary way and insinuate point. Japan eventually offered some concession respecting faulty reasoning on the part of appointed manager five years more general use.
and ye run the risk of tears not to speak of threats of wanting a five supervision of the cable plant. There the matter appears Judgo is a trifle astounding.
later. During his residence in
diamond ring by way of solace. to rest..
A curious thing is that the claimants do not seem to
"Tickle Mary." know what occurred at the Peace Conference. There is a Next Sunday, when the Census question as to President Wilson's reservations at the Con-is to be taken in Hongkong, we ference, and also as to what was the decision of the shall all be trotting out our full
It is M. Flandin's ambition," Supreme Council. Japan contends that if the Council together with other details which
according to " Aerial Age "of Jan, 24, to see France in three years decided against her, it was "an act of absolutely bad faith," the law requires us to supply.
time at the head of the whole because, it is stated, Japan was not represented on the There's nothing very confusing in
world in aerial transportation; occasion. Surely these are matters of official record. the schedule which we shall be
developing lines all over the is an extraordinary state of things that nobody is sure of ladies will for once have to make of Parliament was held on the nationa in fast freight
required to fill up, though the Another extraordinary meeting country and linking up with other what happened when the world was re-mapped. As to the a bold effort to tell the truth 19th instant, when it was passenger services. Big grants censoring of messages, the United States would only be in regarding their age. The decided to insist on the are to be made to private ent- the same position as she was when Germany had control of Christian name, we see, is to be inauguration of Dr. Sun aserprise in the coming year. Thus the cable, though Washington's reply would probably be given first; then the surname. In President at an early date. It subsidies will be given to existing that even pre-war Germany was not such a formidable com-the reverse is the case, and in this who opposed the decisions reached Brussels, Toulouse and Monaco, sending out voting lists at Home, was further resolved that those lines between Paris and London, petitor in the Far East as Japan. Regarding fortifications, connection an amusing instance by Parliament should be consider with extensions to Amsterdam, it has lately been reported that, contrary to Japanese was cited in the newspapers the ed rebels and punished according Strasbourg and Warsaw. Large declarations, Dai Nippon has started to fortify some of her other day, when a Unionist Agent to law. It is stated that Dr. Sua hangars are to be constructed at new Pacific possessions. Only a few days ago, however, stated to the rovision court that, has decided that May 1st (Labour Marseilles, Algiers, Casablancu Tokyo issued an announcement stating that rumours of consequence of this practice, Day) shall be the date for his and Tunis, so that a service of
one lady had received her notice inauguration. strategic preparations at Yap "are groundless," and point-inscribed:
lighter-than-air dirigibles between "Tickle, Mary." ing out that Yap is only a third of the size of Guam, ceded Awkward, wasn't it?
Dr. Sun has ordered the Navy, France and North Africa may be But it Military and Police Departmente put into regular operation. to America by Spain in 1898. The point of surpassing couldn't very well be avoided in to furnish him with a list of all Regular seaplane services beteen importance, however, is the position of a Power, in this case spared that sort of thing in the highest, in order that he may and Tunis, Algiers, Oran and the circumstances. We shall be officials, from the lowest to the Antibes, Marseillos, Perpignan, a very great Power, which has not ratified the Peace Treaty taking of the Hongkong Ceneus. invite them to a grand entertain- Agadis are to be established. It and is not a member of the League of Nations. America's
is also proposed to spend a con-. attitude appears to be that she reserves her rights. The complications arising from her withdrawal from the coun- CLOSING OF THE R. N. C.,
A report from Wuchow states siderable amount of money in cils of the Powers have been exemplified in the case of
that Chan Ping-kawn, the Defence developing Constantinople as an Arrangements are being made Commissioner of Kwangai, bas Airport. Mesopotamia. If the mandate for Yap is at variance with to vacate the Royal Naval ordered mobilisation with a view the decision of the Powers, the protest of the United States College, Osborne, which has come to an attack on Kwangtung. He WEE FREE CANDIDATE FOR is comprehensible, though how such a mistake comes about to an end as a naval cadets' declares that the Presidential training establishment, the election in Canton has ruined all,
It
Christian names and surgantes,
OSBORNE.
CANTON AFFAIRS.
ment.
The President's Inauguration.
W. EDINBURGH.
and
Mr. Vivian Phillipps, private.
The tout-ensemble as seen
in the fashion plate.
The horrid sight as scen afterwards in Kowloon,
For fear the Editor should take any credit for the notion, all
is rather perplexing. If the contention of the United States remaining 125 cadets being chances of unity. Chan King-secretary to Mr. Asquith, has is that she is entitled to dispute the award of mandates, transferred to Dartmouth. The ming, after a military meeting, beso adopted as proepective Inde- while abstaining from the discussion of them, it is difficult future use of Osborne College has ordered defensivo precautions pendent Liberal candidate for cheques frim grateful husbands should be crossed and made out in `to see how finality can be reached.
buildings remains undovided, to be taken along the frontier. West Edinburgh.
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