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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.

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NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Colony's Visitor.

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Yesterday the Colony had an opportunity of welcoming thought-exercising lecturer Dr. H. T. Hodgkin, an account of whose opening address, “The

numerous

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1921.

DAY BY DAY,

IT IS FAR BETTER TO ACCUSTOM

OUR MINDS TO BEAR THE ILLS WE HAVE THAN TO SPECULATE ON THOSE WHICH MAY BEFALL US-Rochefoucauld.

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THE BOOKSHELF.

(By. **Librarian.”)

A FRENCH ARTIST.

artist.

the

fringe

проп

SHANGHAI TELEPHONES.

Chinese Operators Strike. From Our Osca Correspondent.J.

at a Chinese connected with the French Police Force. On the operator being arrested other operators refused to work unless he was released. An emergency foreign girls staff is handling the service excellently.

FOUND DRAD.

the fulfilment of his vision of now rasa composed of East andy West North and Seath, and having the best qualities of them all. There are some penetrating sentences in this article, which in its practicalness ohanges tha mood Before the war the French of the book rather abruptly. The

Shanghai, October 5. The Shanghai Chinese tale literary artist known to the world time has hardly come, perhaps, New World," appears in another The Health Retorn for the Piarre Loti was an avowed for the final valuation of Lafontio phone operators are on strike column. The visitor's short series past 24 hours reveals one case of Anglophobe. He has confessed thing as a final valuation. The of an operator for swearing over Hearn; if, indeed, there is such a following the arrest and dismissal of discourses, of which the main enterio favor (Chinese) and two that Albion's stand in the prose ja beautifal, if boxuty means the telephons

of Baratyphoid shema is "The Christian Ravola. | cases

fever conflict completely conquered his tion," covers a very large, or Japanese and Chinese). Other hears. Apart from this Parre the giving off of an essence that detective

charms and lulls; but it bands rather an enormous field, each wise a clean bill of health.

Loti cannot be ignored as an and breaks like a lily stalk under lecture comprising

let

AD interpreter the weights of its own sweetness. sub-beadings of

The Chief Justice, His Honour of

life found a penetrating

the south-eastern

of in the fairy stories, matter and tspe. Dr. Hodgkin's lectures, in Sir William Roo-Davies, EL, is brief, discuss the spiritual and expected back on Oct. 9th. Mr. Europe. that touches

manner agree more lightly, and Asia ethical solution of the problems Justice J. R. Wood finishes at the and of that seen in Northern The First Muersin" is probably that are agitating the world. In Summary Court on the 8th and Africa where European settle the best example of this kind of the course of a most interesting Mr. Justice Gompertz will take ments have been' planted, which prose. conversation prior to the address over the Summary Court

makes him a picturesque mirror on

of the contact between Wester the visitor concisely outlined the Tuesday; the 11th.

Good characterisation distin- work upon which he has been

civilisation and Islam. One day guishes Mrs. Eleanor "Acland's A Ruptured Spleen. engaged during his present tour A public meeting will be held in he conducts us through some of excellent novel." Dark Side Out"

On Monday last a quarrel arose of the Flowers Land. He has the Chamber of Commerce room, tinapie; anon be waits us to Alkinson, the dour mill-owner, Si gapore who were being ledged the secret places of Constan- (Sidgwick and Jackson). William between two deportees from lectured away up in War Lord in the City Hall, on Wednesday Algeria or farther into the Dark dreaded by all who come in con- [Chang Tao-lin's capital of Mukden, 19th Octobór at noon for the par-

at the Deportees' shed at Yaumati aud he has been out westward to pose of appointing a Committee to Continent, with French Legion-tact with him, except his old

pending the completion of A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Szechuan; he has discoursed at make arrangemensz for the visit naires or Zonaves, Senussi or servant Rebeces, is well par

about the trayed, and the old servantisevad portation back to their homes in arrangements for their trans Petine, at Shanghai and a: of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to Senegalese, dotted various other places, the mast the Colony in April next. His landscape.

more finely drawo. By his China, The point at issue was In The Sabara" (Werner tyranny, the mill-owner drives the privilege of using a clothes recent being Canton. Everywhere Excellency the Governor will ho found the Chinese not only preside.

Laurie 10s. 6d.) we start from his

Lancelot from bis ins outside the shed, in regard to willing but eager listeners. Dij

Marsailles-that link between home, and textorises bis which Chan Kwai, one of the de- Hodgkin speaks, and discourses The Commitee of the Hong. Europą and Africa-where, yonger son Joseph, a spiritless portees, claimed a preference. in Mandarin, botwhen delivering tong and Kowloon Chinese either in the town or by the docks, and money.grubbing creature. The argument developed into a a technical lecture ho utilises an Public Free School for Poor Boys or nearly always at the big rail- Eventually Lanceli's son comes fight until some of the other de interpreter, the native vocabulary inform us that the manager of way station, you can see great into the story and wins his grand-portses interfered. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires having expanded very largely in the Taikoo Dockyard and Es-Senegalese in their vivid uniform father's love, and gives a happier

On the afternoon of the same them to forward their names and addresses with communications this respect since the visitor was gineering Co., Ltd. of Hongkong a sudden vision of black and turn to events. It is a long book. day Lenng Trat, the other dis addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as about here some years ago. Record-has kindly permitted the use of red and white. They remind the but not long for the adequate putant, went to the latrine. Ho svidence of their bona fides.

was found there later in A All communications intended for publication should be addressing his experiences of Szechuan, the ground floor of No. 4. Forth forgetful traveller of the French development of a rather compli

Dr. Hodgkin said that he did not Street known as Tai Fa Stress in enterprise in Africa, and sot him cated story. The plot is well lifeless condition, death ap- see any opium-growing, but he did Sai Wan Ho as the fifth school of wondering as to what manner of managed, and the tragic march parently having been caused by see not a few tokens of it, from the Hongkong and Kowloon life is led by the French com- of events that finally overwhelms

some internal injury. At the which he concluded that it went Chinese Public Free School for panions of those dark stalwarts. poor weak Joseph is logically post-mortem examination made on away from the beaten track. Poor Boys, free of rent and that in this book, painted with the developed. One or two of the generals had the Committee of the said School richest colours on his palette and, paid the troops in opium, but tender their hearty thanks for he believed that the Governor | his kindness, was sincerely opposed to the cultivation of the poppy.

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921.

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

Dr.

Hodgkin did not parceive a ON THE WATERFRONT, parts, Jean Fegral, child of the

500

TYPHOON WARNING.

he would say, with many pages blistering with epithets descrip- tive of the desert and the desert sub, Pierre Loti tells us the tale: of one soldier of France in foreign distinct sigu of anti-foreign

The telegram quoted below was feeling in the interior; on the

mountains and the snow, reserved, receivad by the American Con- contrary, there were manifesta-

taciturn, trustworthy, is transport-sulate General, Hongkong, from Golden State Sails. tions of friendliness, if not of

ed to the strange city of St. Louis, the Mauila observatory. The steamer Golden State was to the strange world of dusky cordiality. Of Canton the visitor resterday moming dispatched heat, of savage and sinister joys,

9.30a.m. Oct. 6.. spoke with favour, remarking from Hongkong for San Francisco the life of the half-breed, the Long. E 17 deg. Lat. N. inclining Typhoon in about 135 deg. that a spirit of hopefulness and wayports by the Pacific Mail degraded, and the savage. He has westward. characterised the progressive Steamship Co. She took out little-learning, but just keeps in broad-minded total of 80 saloon and 578 steer-touch with his native Cevennes scholar and a widely-travelled age passengers and a large offer-by latters from his mother and maa, Dr. Hodgkin's series of ring of general cargo. lectures. the

his betrothed. They, however, nest of which Among the passengers are :— will be delivered to-morrow, is Mr. S.F. Siefert, general manager present are

seldom: while always come likely

the smells provide Iu

and an A-in the Far East for the Singer te sounds and the sights

movement. A

tellectual feast no: available every

to

Between

at the Mortuary, it was discover- ed that the deceased's spleen had been ruptured. The

other daportee, Chan Kwai, is now. being held by the police on the supposition that be caused the injury in his fight with the deceased.

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TENNIS COURT OF KINGS. Extensive repairs to the his. toric tennis court at Hampton completed this month, when it' Court Palace are expected to be

will be open for play.

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Sewing Machine Company, who of this implacable, incompar is going to Shanghai, and Mr. able, and arrogant East, the Chan Hair, manager of Sincere's, temptations of its animal in from well, poor body. There's police, they canna' be turned out Ay, Mrs. MacPherson's far themselves to the notice of the who is r-turning to Shangbai. habitants, or the worse allure-

for

the

After one bidaous disaster

built;

and

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cases

take

First

The unemployment problem at Home has not only attained the character of an urgent national question but. day. with the approach of the winter season, it bids fair to be- come accedicated. Yesterday's news was undoubtedly grave not so much because of "what "has already happened A Miner's Confession.

Schodack Gets Away, ment of its sophisticated mulat-none of us but have their weak And that's just as it should be, but because of the portents of the moment. The demon- At least one point in the address

After several days' delay in toes and Arabs. Jean has no spots. Mrs. Mac, she has now a she says, only har being at bome stration which took place in London, in which over 10.000 delivered by Mr. Herbert Smith. port owing to machinery trouble, chance: he is caught in the very bad cold in the bead. Mac last year she wasna back in

the acting President at unemployed took part, must have been eloquent of the annual meeting of the finers' deck sailed at noon to-day for his

the the Barber Line steamer Sho- snares of amulets and fetish. thought that he'd have to send time to take her share in this

pity roased

for the doctor last night but just beneficent legislation, to use a by worth noting Boston and New York by way of trustful childishness of the little bottle o' Dutch Drops in the been no abiding city ever since serious plight in which many thousands of families find Federation is

minded in time that he'd a Jacksonian phrase, and ber's has themselves to-day. When one reflects that there are over this refers tbe wreck Honolulu and the Panama Canal black girl who turns to bimbose, i the result that she's she landed last February. 130,000 unemployed in London alone it is fairly easy to ling of pits through the withdrawal

On the Yuensang. grasp the magni'nde of the industrial depression the "Old of the pumping staff. Mr. Smith deprecated the Federation's deci-

Mr. A. W. Taylor, mate of the be settles into a sort of quasi- much better this morning. Ay, one house and then another-or Country is pissing through. Trade Union benefits have sion as a mistake in tactics, and. Jardine Matheson steamer Yaen- married life with Fatou-gaye, his on stud's in the kill-or-core at least bits o' them, and it's very been uearly exhausted, the municipalities are finding them as he candidly acknowledged, it sang, to-day signed on the articles conscience only disturbed by the line medicine and speaking for wearing on womenfolks, mind selves unable to meet the growing demands on their purses, went far towards alienating pub master, relieving temporarily rare letters from those at home myself, I would as soon have I'm telling ye. Time was when

who are waiting for his returo. Mso doesna' believe in wasting ye

Benbow's Dog Mixture. But ye went to see a landlord's clerk and, according to Mr. Gosling, the atmosphere is becoming lic sympathy. It also contributed Capt. John Mcainsh.

Mr. Humphrey Rawstron bas There is no return for him. The

were treated wi civility. electrical and capable of almost anything. Something must to the breach in the Triple Alli-joined the vessel as acting-chief tale of his entanglement reaches ooything. Keep a thing for seven and asked to take sest

ance. Such a decision, however officer. be done.

France: his betrothed loses heart years, says be, and yo'li aye find and maybe a cigar into the was more than a mere error of

a use forit. That's the way lots of bargain. What is it the Government can do! Mr. Lloyd tactics. An ordinary coal dispute

Now he looks at ye and is engaged to a rival; and in folk in this Colony can hardly like'a ye had horns in your head Dunera From Bombay. is exceedingly disastrous in its First thing this morning the little" action Jean is killed, George stated that much more has been done in the past effects upon industry, but, as the Peninsular and Oriental service and Fatou-gaye seeks bis body scrape together their rent for but if he's in a good mood he'll two years than ever before in the history of any country Premier atted when a strike steamer Dunera arrived at Hong and on it kills their son

paying godown charges on the condescend to tear off a corner of or Government. The wind of the Government is now be occurred a year ago, the flooding kong from Bombay, Colombo and

herself.

junk they've got packed away his blotting pad and take your Pierre Loti does not attempt to Now ing applied to what more can be done and any compre of the mines is liable to signify Singapore with 21 cabin alleviate the terror of his tale. It

and camphor balls. name telling ye the while go" o that I tbink of build up hopes of getting a house hensive Government scheme would first have to be approved "their rain for ever more." sengers and a good cargo. The

Fit, Mac used vessel will discharge at this port ig sbus, be

yon until the autumn o' 1927 as bo's would by the Cabinet. The London County Council passed a re-

say: Dutch Drops for rheomstice a 1.780 tons of Indian and Straits empires are

now started his third book o' solution definitely calling upon the Government to provide Art Treasures.

that year syne and that just shows ye names o' prospective tenants. cargo, the larger part of which it is for the statesman,

Of what a guesswork kpd o' job the Ay, time was when you'd never work or, as an alternative, lo maintain the unemployed out Several years ago the Italian is cotton twist. There are 3.600 perhaps, for the common doctors have writing out prescrip- dream of taking a bouse till it

The last step would indeed be a Government passed an enactment bales of that commodity for to of Imperial revenues.

927 whether the

build-

tions, Mrs. MacPherson being able was white-washed outside and in serious one, seeing that the expenditure of the country is rendering the sale of art Hongkong and of 2,600 tons iggs sre worth the cost. His this morning to read the wanted and three coats o' white enamel

freight to foreigners illegal. of already on a burdensome scale. New expenditure must treasures

Shanghai picture is in a more aesthetic colamas in the Morning Po and on the doors. no to speak of mean new revenue and it is difficult to see how the Govern. This was by way of countering the most prominent tem on the cast than would be possible to later on to find out an entirely Duresco on the parlour walls and the acquisitions by American manifest is bales of cotton twist. any but a Latin, more so, indeed, new crack in one of the cups when they'd promised to do all ment could raise this without imposing either hardship on millionaires, like Mr. Pierpont Mails from England, India and that some English readers will belonging to the chins set her that and anything you'd forgotten certain classes or a distinct check on industry. And if the Morgen, which threatened to the Straits Settlements

find tolerable; and it is palated were Government decides to initiate big schemes of work it is to decode the country of its master. landed here, the total number of with a zest and a sense of words sister Jeanie give her when she for the moment, you then started was first married. As you in to baggie ten dollars off the be hoped that the nature of such work will be of undoubted pieces. Famous pictures still bags being 120. The letter mail which equals the best of the can imagine, a discovery like that rent. Ay, the dear dead 630 utility or proft to the nation. Government schemes have/Contrive now and then to find from Home brought by the author's previous work. Whether wasos' likely to improve her con- beyond recall. Nowadays when

dispatched

the reader likes it or not, he must dition, pour soul, ber being highly it's your turn to set into a house, a rather unhappy knack of being ill-conceived, though it from the country of Leonardo September 1.

admit Pierre Loti to be in that strung ever since she was a wee if ye as much as ask for a ten would be unfair not to recognise that the Government has and Raphael, but the exten- Mr. H. Percy Sraith returned great tradition of which Gautier girl and got nearly run over wi cent washer for a most difficult task ahead of it.

the kitchen sive traffic appears to have to the Colony by the Duners in France and Kipling among an icecream barrow. Ay, she's spiggott ge run a grave risk o There must be a clear realisation that Government been stopped. England is now from a trip to the Old Country ourselves are the first exponents, tell't me about it herself and how getting your name expunged from out by jhe M.M the tradition of those for whom the Baillie in court altered the the roll of honnur, no to speak o assistance is but of temporary duration. Mr. Lloyd this patronage, as a report in- stearner Andre Lebon from Marthe visible world

baving the questionable benefit of He cams

does most charge of furious driving to one being thought erary for playing George sounded the true keynote when he urged the forms us that the Duke of West- seilles and joined the Dunera at vividly exist. A word of praise of being a nuisance. Of course, wi chances like that in such a fast necessity of peace throughout the world, the necessity of minster has sold one of the most Singapore.

should be given to Miss Laurie, mind ye, I'll no go as far as to and loose fashion. I did hear the economy and the necessity of co-operation between all renowned of his pictures, Gains- Mr. J. A. Ridgeway, of the who has rendered the book into

that there wasn' some other day that the landlords here classes. When people begin to discuss all such things as boned American for £50,000, Corporation, is travelling to English.

borough's "Blue Boy" to Hongkong and Shanghai Banking admirable and idiomatic jiggery pokery, so to speak, Mrs. have something in the nature o armaments, reparations, the payment of war debts, and which will evoke wide regret Shanghai on the Duners from

Mac's mother, her being engaged a black list for over-particular at the Baillie's house redding up tenants and those among them peace treaties they ought to recognise that it is in the among British art-lovers. His Bombay.**

No one interested in the East every second week-end. Besides, that are given to air their views proper handling of such things as these "that the hope Grace, who after having been

can be indifferent to anything the Baillie, bim having the via the mouth. Still, I can hard of world-wide prosperity lies. We must get back to the divorced married an American

from the pen of Lafcadio Hearu. Italian Warehouse, was aye y credit that. But ye never free and natural interchange of goods between nations lady lately, is generally regarded

In "Karma, and Other Stories "getting chaffed about being a know. without tariffs or restrictions, we must forget (so far as is the country, and the sale will writes a New York correspond stories and articles collected in the icecream freezer, right reason house last week and a bad cold No incident of recent years, Harrap. 58.), we have a set of foreigner so he was out to fine Mrs. MacPherson got her half- possible) the fact that certain nations are late enemies, we probably arouse considerable ent, caused such a sensation in book form for the first time, and or none, just to let folks see that at the same time but that must try to stabilise the world's currency exchanges--in curiosity as to motiva, especially sporting circles as the default of they have that lack of unity he wasns in ony way the least wouldna' have been so bad if the short, we must wipe away as soon as is ever possible the as a considerable part of the ducal Mile. Lenglen, who was expect- which is inevitable in sach bit biased.

coolies badna' left the chiffonier traces of the late Great War. Until we do that we shall Mention of Gainsborough is plonship. I cannot express how story," Karma," dates from 1890, put out as a ruls but man, she's had kitchen things inside the aptarn

longest Mrs. MacPherson's not easily. wf the broken glass and the have abnormalities in the way of unemployment and sufficient to revise memories of distressed I am that it became and the longest article, "China & most awfu trying time lately, ed legs of the dining table on the distress still with us. The British Government might lide the sensationel theft of his world- necessary to leave the courts," and the Western World," from As she says herself, its all very side walk for the best part of a over the present anxious time by measures of alleviation, famous "Duchess of Devonshire" she said. I did my utmost to 1896. The latter is interesting, fiue for those folks that were in hour. Ay, it was a fair black but the statesmen of the world must apply themselves to by one, Raymond, and its re continue, but it was impossible, in view of developments that have houses previous to the end o last affront and no a thing to be light. direct causes if they are seeking a lasting removal of the covery in comparatively recent and I am sure the people who come about since Hearn wrote, Fear. They can sit tight like ly overlooked, her being, as I

years. (A late cable contradicts have been so generous will bear though only a prophet could say bags in a rug and so long as they said before, none present harassing conditions.

with me in my bour of trial.”. whether we are any nearer the pay their rent and diana' bring strongest,

their way across the Atlantic Dunera

as one of the wealthiest men ing

was

THE COLLAPSE OF MILE. LENOLEN.

estates was realised not long since. ed to win the lawn tennis obam. accumulations." _The

the sale of "Blue Boy.")

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