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W. & A. GILBEY'S

PORT-INVALID

A very fine vintage

Wine.

On sale by all compradores

and at

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD Wine and Spirit Merchants.

Phone 616.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

DECEMBER

SATURDAY.

DAY BY DAY

PASSIM PAPERS.

Chang Puts up Some Cash.. WHAT 13 LIBERTY WITH

Į been severely drained. Now we

Rambling Thoughts on Current Topics.

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1921.

SHANGHAI

evening. It is the reply of a Soot to a question: “I'm paying my devoire to the mamury of no Coppadocian Jew who was likely a ahare and exchange broker. If} Scotland can produce a Baiat o' (From Our Own Correspondient)

Chihli patting down hard cash. yesterday as having been stolen mean.. Patriotism," he said rent English literature".

•

Por, et from the capital, was alongside Holt's

yesterday.

two millions, while Tao Julio In the latest Government is credited with having disgorged Gazette the details of the new million. What is the meaning lights at Channel Rocks, Tathong of this new development Mr. Point (Lam Tong Island) and Gilbert's theory is that the War Tong Ku Island are given for the Lords feel that their fortunes are benefit of mariners.

I

it in 100

Some

nap.

Returned Students.

Shanghai Dec. 1.

who recently arrived from France A hundred Chinese students because the Chinese Government did not send funds, are nearly destitute hare.

Every day we hear of the Ta-OUT WISDOM AND WITHOUT ohuns' demands for funds; to bear VIRTUE! IT IS THE GREATEST of them handing over fands is OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS, FOR IT The editor this morning show-her in I'll revere his memory striking noralty. That the Peking FOLLY, VICE, AND MADNESS, edu a contribution from outside but I will nut do as much for Government has been tight at WITHOUT TUITION AB RESTRAINT. and pointed to the fact that the Scot for you if you like! I wonder foreigner," There's a renegade cash admits of no doubt; the Burke,

writer bad, in Kipling's phrase what he (and others) will do on truth in regard to the Bank of

"dredged the dictionary for [China and the Bank of..... Com-

adjectives." That is a common January 25 -There was a clean bill of health munications is more obscure in the Colony yesterday.

fault with Joung and in-The Augustine Age.” On the whole the latter appear

|experianced writers. They be

The Irish negotiations, have to have stood the strain fairly

lleve that a whirl of words maken reached a critical stage, we are well, but their coffers must have held at the City Hall to-night.

The annual Police ball is bring fine writing, whereas the purest told, but they seem to have been

THE AUTO SHOW. English is, most aften, the

at that stage for quite a time. 1 The Auto Show instead of clor- find Chang Tso-lin, Tsao Eun,

simplest Over three years ago wonder what Mr. Birrell thinks in to-day keeps open until and Tsao Julin coming to the A gold watch with appendages Mr. John Masefield, in an article of it all. Mr. Birrell, as we all Wednesday. There will be a rescue. It is difficult to figure valued at over $110 and a sum of published on St. George's Day: know, is the author of the Masquerade Ball to-night. The the War Lords of Fengtion and $100 were reported to the police showed what fine writing really choicest whipped cream in cut attendance records were broken last night when the shriners The former was reported a few from No. 5 Tung Shing Lane.

not a Įdays ago to be demanding more

a fine drawing of the sword be of his admirers go so far as to are a minstrel show. hind some winged and glittering Augustine Age." That may be, say that he has inaugurated the money by way of reimbursement The Chief Engineer of the victory. It is nothing at all of hat the man whose forte lies in (1) for the mythical Mongolian motorship Yangtze reports that all that it is a very sad thing, the concoction of literary ACCOUNTANT STABBED. expedition. However, Mr. Rodnestis cabin was entered and a sum and a very deep thing, and a very made a poor Secretary for a Gilbert, writing to the of $340 st len whilst the vessel stern thing St George did not

Wharf

country that has long required go out against the dragon like careful watching lest "The stout records the tidings, according to

that divine calm youth in Carpac shillelagh

A Strange Assault. which Chang has supplied three

Gio's picture, nos like that divine, stabulary baton, Poor Mr. Bir- Blatten the COD- million dollars and Tsao Kun

An unhappy experience befellan alma man in Donatello's status rell! He was rudely awakened accountant of a Bank in Winglok He went out. I think, after Borne the fra: Dublin affair.

Street yesterday evening While taste of defeat, knowing that it He had bean caught

returning home in his private was going to be bad, and that the

ping and had no

ឆឆឆ came dragon would breathe fire, and handy. Jahn Wesley's Journal" side

long- Birrellisms chair,

and stabbed him in that very likely his spear would had not taught him to be ready the cheek with a dagger. break, and that he wouldn't see for such a catastrophe. The Sing The rate of subscription to The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 involved in the Peking administra-

tion, which they could sea go Rev. J. Kirk Maconschis is to his children again, and that peo-Feiners were delightful people; incline between First and Second per annum. (Payable in Advance.)

The assault took place on the The rats per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-other way of bolstering up.

Bu give a Lantern Lecture on "The ple would call him a fool Hevoted to extending a knowledge Streets. The victim cried out in tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a how long, or how soon, is it going]Solar System" at the Helan went out. I think, as the bat-laf the Irish language; who could fhis pain, and the assallant bolted, full wonth.

to be before Peking needs more May Institute on Monday next.

talions of our man went out, a The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee bolstering up? Perbags Chang December 5th. at 5.30 p.m. This little trembling and a little sick. have expected that they would leaving the dagger in the wound.

and not knowing much about it, was as a statesman, no one could act like this? Yet futile as ba in accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies & Co., reckon to indemnify them- lecture is open to the public.

When the police were called except that it had to be done." delived at their residences without any extra charge. On copies selves out of the Customs surplus;

help liking Augustine Birrell they, assisted in taking the injur sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

there can't be much surplus to

A fine of 55 was indicted this agraphs with some care.

Notice the next three par- of the twinkling eyes. But as a man to the Government Civil Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

come from the Gabelle after alli

morning. in the case in which a.

politician he had deficiencies. He Hospital... In the Bible is the story or was a wit, a gentle ironist, and the advances Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for the

пров It' It fized period will be continued until countermanded.

would be interesting to know South African motor car driver King David, who was A very

true inwardness of the was charged with placing a generous and very bloody, yes understand wit. He bad a way When

House of Commons does not The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sala st, and will be the

lobstruction in the shape et avery noble man, delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd. militarist's unwonted liberality-discarded motorcar lamp battery sieging a city in the summer, was

And David, be of thinking aloud and think t Chang Da the tramlines in Arsenal faint from thirst, and he said, 'I ing caustically oven while Mr. Locker wrote to ask him wish I had some water from supporting a bill for which he was whether he would undertake that pool by the city gatesally he struck a deeper note, but Cobden Sanderson replied that be nominally responsible. Occasion-oms binding for him. Mr. A Chinese was this morning Acd three men heard him, he was the Thackeray of politics would do so, but he added fced $200 by Mr. J. R. Wood on a

they took bottles and

sad Thackeray left no such im-that he did not care to "undertake charge of being in possession of a broke through the enemy pistol. Defendant was yesterday pickets and filled their bottles Pression as did that frank senti-the binding of anything ephemer

al This of course, was a sly arrested as be was leaving the and brought the water to David,

dig at "Loadon Lyrics." Mi. Empress of Russia, and when But David would not drink water Gentle Irony.

Locker wildly replied that the searched the pistol was found brought to him at such risk. He

Mention of Mr. Birrell's gentle valame he had in mind was a concealed in a handbag be carried. said it would be like drinking irony reminds me of sa irstance first edition of Shakespeare's Son- blood, so he poured it out to his which Profesor Brander Matth-nets "if Mr. Cobden Sanderson God.

credits to Robert Locker. did not find that too sphemoral.” Their Gift.

Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

Birth.

a

Rumour has it that now designs to control the Bark of Chins note issue, which ren- dered that institution chary. We shall see.

ROSSER-At the Peak Hospital, on 2nd December, to Mr. and The "Bluebeard" Trial. Mrs. A. J. W. Rosser, a son.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1921.

ON CHARITY.

Street.

and

Some years ago we read an article in which it was declared that while the capital penalty is inflicted in both Britain and France for deliberately taking life, the conditions in the latter] country place a premium upon) A trafficker in arms, who was bomicide because the perpetrator arrested on information given to stands considerablachance of being the police, was this morning able to play upon the feelings of fined $500 or three months, hard the mad are bringing as water at "The men of those armies in an emotional jury. Examples in labour. Inspector Browne said the risk of their lives, the living support of this contention could the prisoner was endeavouring water of peace, that peace which be found, but upon the whole it sell an automatic pistol, bat

truck us as far-fetched. The fapparently could not find Jews that the jury unanimously parebaser. signed recɔmmendation to

marcy

in the Landra case

2

mentalist Charles Dickens.

Between

up

Mr. Cobden Sanderson bookbinder

A

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter,

think will be the peace *that passes all understanding,

peace to have our lives again. What I like best about him is that going through the mill right Joe, he's quite a nice lad. the head of it. The wee yin was and do our work again, and be

There will be an Evening Dance with our loves again. But if we he never tries to swank, and that enough and very nearly at the gives กรม colour 【ウ the at the Helena May Institute on go back to the world of before the especially when he's inveigled gresting stage when I got home. hypothesis. Here W19

Thursday the 29th. December war, that peace won't serve us into telling ye about his boyhood I appears she could sit and stuff miscreant whose enormities rank from 8.30 p.m. to 11.15 p.m. I will be a drinking of the blood experiences. Of course Joe, he's herself wit the mah's rice, with the worst crimes on record. Tis a trne saying that charity begins at home. The With such diabolical ingenuity Tickets will be $1.00 each, and of all those millions of young men so that very young but still chopsticks and a bathnie should be obtained from the I said some time ago that the there's quite enough disparity in came to a nice rice pudding-w were they carried out that public of Hongkong has earned for itself a reputation evidence could only be accumulat ladies who are members of the are courage and the love of your act small if he was inclined that up her nose, the limmer. I Matron. The dance is only for only things which matter in war ar ages to cause him to try and two eggs, mark you abe turned for generosity when it comes to subscribing for causes ed very gradually. That it was fastitute and for their outside the Colony. We all did our little bit during the war, accumulated to

But no ba aya keeps couldna' keep from laughing men comrades. When this war ands, way. and did it handsomely in a financial way. But we are some-degree must be assumed from the

we shall need all our courage natural and that's what I like and

50 by

doing turned and all our comrades in that re-best in him. I think I'll never the storm in my direction. You times inclined to overlook needs for assistance which exist fact of a very indulgent-minded

follow this destruction. And 1 told me of his first experience wi food is aye sweater than that

conclusive a

friends.

closet home in aid of those who are less favoured with this The recommendation to clemency the now A.P.C. Building on the

jury returning a verdict of guilty. Plans for the construction of making of the world which will forget the way in which be once know as well as I do that stolen

is

STRESS FOR UNDERGROUND

LIFTS.

ries ago."

Some of our

and our

world's goods than ourselves. Not so the Society of St. Vincent fo's Got, then, arise from in- former Bank Building sits have hope that when that time comes an evening dress sait. Not that which is set on our platter, Janet de Paul whose motto is No work of charity is foreign to sufficiency of proof, nor does it been somewhat delayed by the your will not think of us again as 't going to tell you about it of course couldas see it but the Society. The poor of this Colony owe more to the purport to be based upon the necessity of having the designs cold, or contempinous or opthough. Every man jack bas had there's a heap a truth in the Society mentioned than can be told here, but we should like familiar plea of insanity. It can drawn by a firm of architects at pressive, but as a race of men to go through the same mill bus statement for all that.

I mind fine when I was a boy to emphasise one or two facts in the hope that we shall Landen bas net by any means to arrive at any moment, and is friend in trouble, as St. George we haven' the courage to own at Linkcumdaddie, the old aunt

scarcely be put down to age: Home. The pians are expected who went down to death for a the trouble wi' most of us is that induce residents to spend a generous week-end patronising attained to the venerable in the meanwhile the hoardings did, on this day, so many cent-up to it

that had the bringing of me up the effort now being made to raise funds for next year's years, leaving aside chatac placed around the site will con-

young chaps med to craik eternally on the work. There was a street sale of roses yesterday which ter. Seemingly the only sort inue to give ample scope for undefled. The student of the pain. If he's no got some pet of a wee grocer's shop- Johny That pure English and nowadays nearly sye give me a same thing. Our village boasted of ground that

number of enterprising proved to be a fairly good success-it might have been the lengthy imprisonment and advertising firms. The new A.P.C. language sad the young writer education theory; some fanciful A'shing-and many's the sput better and there is to be a bazaar and al fresco fete in suspense that he has undergone building, we are informed by Mr. will note the simplicity of it, the and totally groundless notion and red herring we stole from bis the grounds of the Catholic Cathedral to-morrow. So if this be indeed the reason, N.L. Watson, manger of the local

sbaence of rhetorical effects that a certain school, wit a high door step and roasted afterwards They will notice that in the sounding name and a dozen or so in the Timmer Logr. Ay, and there is still plenty of time for all to assist, more especially there is a peculiar irony about it.A.P.C., will have eight storeys.

whole of the last three paragraphs dormitories that never existed more than that, we ate them too, seeing that the Committee will most gratefully acknowledge seeing that the protracted matare

only three adjectives are used, in except in the tortured imagination the potatoes black,, half-raw and" of the proceedings was due to the any subscriptions sent along.

the description of David and "the of his self-deluded brain; he covered wi' dirt and the herrings Over $17.000 has been spent during the past year in long list of victims in respect of cause mentioned above. To the

living water." And not one of prattles vapourishly about his wi' the salt sticking out on them assisting Hongkong's poor, including relief in money whom Landru was indicted has Experiments are being made these is buddled up against its pater" and "my old tutor" in a quarter of an inch thick, and provisions, the payment of rent, and the provision of to be added a French journalist, with a syren, giving & low, substantive, which shows that such a way that one would never Grand! And syne when we were education for poor children. Not only does the Society who was so overcome by the melodious note, in connection good English does not depend imagine that be could stoop so bounded home to our beds and

with the lifts on the London upon adjectives that be

and that low as to use the mattress as a ofered nice cold dumpling for maintain several schools but also the St. Joseph's Home atrocious revelations actually committed

economy of words is great part user press or borrow wi' un- our supper, did we appreciate Underground Railway, with aincide. for the Aged Poor at Kowloon Tong. Privately and in Many notapecially tender-hearted view to the regular dispatch of of

the art of good writing-cash. Ay, the change from "two nose

failing regularity from the patty it. We did not, the uuostentatious manner in which all true charity should are opposed to capital panist-lifts and saving the time of Will It Be Believed?

vory nearly took on toast" at an A. B. C. to even- permanent curve at the very idea. be carried out the Society assists and saves from destitu- ment-people must be either ver passengers.

My friend Mr. MacWhirter tellsing dinner and a boy to bawl at It was the same when we were tion an increasingly large number of poor folk who have callous or very stern of principle

me that no one will believe me most of the time, works sad havoc sent berrying. We'd far sooner a claim on the sympathy of their fellow residents and one not to welcome the reprieve of a only needs to consult the names of those who compose the fellow-being, at least where there surely have been no hesitation. when I state that the following many a young promising have filled our basket: ws the

is the slightest extenuating There is obvious petil

in came to band this morning.

crab apples we had to steal than Working Committee to get an assurance of funds well circumstance. What is difficult assembling crowds

I aye think then there's some the fruit that was there for the is perfectly Bach Nevertheless it administered and of assistance kindly dispensed. Many to understand is where the jury a time. An additional

genuine. All I have done is to hope left for a man when he's picking

no ashamed o' his antecedents or of the leading members of the Chinese community are found the extenuating circum-was that &

Ay, true, stolen sweets are special day delete a name.

bis upbringing. For one thing, sweetest. And I'm not sure bakin” 'FRIENDLY OBATITUDE." assisting and the Society rightly considers itself fortunate stance in the "Bluebeard" crimes. had been appointed, on which Chinese residents were invited to

generally speaking, they were There was

a great measure we remain young in securing their active co-operation. But it needs more Smallpox at Shanghai.

YOUD MAD circumstances over which he all our days in the sense that that mustar in full force. It would named than that, it needs the interest and assistance of all mem-

whose pockets had no control and for the life of which we have no right to is that A Shanghai cable announces give a most damaging impression were always giving. Nobody me I never could understand which we often covet most. bers of the community to meet the growing demands being that the automobileShow has been if these visitors contracted a misses and has always obliging, what there was to be ashamed could give you lots and lots of made upon it. The Society depends almost entirely on the attracting crowds daily. It also dangerous illness as the result of this splendid young man of st

instances but a little thought on two annual appeals it makes for the maintenance and ex-nounces that smallpox is still being brought to European Hongkong. It is said he is young

no fewer function while an exceedingly and frivolcs but we know he is back to my boyhood days. I had next few lines from the editorial Talking to Jos often takes me you own part will maybe says my raging There were than thirteen fatalities during the contagious disease is prevalent, very chivilous. He always gives a fairly hard time myself but I blue pencil and the rained eye- In the annual report for the present year it is shown the past month. The northern In this Colony public functions and never receives: Nobody think wi' kids, human nature's brow that the Society over-spent to the extent of nearly port has been making a feature have been postponed or even knows when he repose this just the same no matter what the It's the spirit of adventure, $2,000 and it has to provide for this deficit before it has a of its automobile exhibition, it is abandoned under such circum splendid

young, шад of environment. Our wes yin last rather than badness, that's ower: penny in hand for next year. This is where the "man in, and is unfor which when charity, among them wartime Hongkong. The untrammelled night brought to mind just the often our undoing all the ame the street comes to the rescue, or should. If you cannot trouble and expense have been known, the Automobile Show at of such peculiar talents should cussing at tiffin time a few hours the stuff ws forive best-on and an undertaking upon which much charity festival. So far as is muse indeed! But surely post very thing Joe and I were dis the wolld sold padding in life is go up to the Fete to-morrow send along to the Committee a expended has to have lle pro-Shanghai, which closes 10-day address himself to the Swastika, before. Jeanis it appears bad that which does us most good little subscription. It will all help. One is tempted to ramme upset. None the less, has gone off without mishap, and But talking of things nearly been getting her smacks for no" in the end. "Aye, at times it's add the Pauline injunction And now abideth faith, hope, when the choice is between auch its general success is a matter for unbelievable, what of this over-taking her rice pudding wino unromantic, but by the Higher

an alternative and the jeopardis- congratulation, which does not heard by your servant to the less than two eggs in it-and Fly,it's safe, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

|ing of public health, there should alter the principle of the case. Hongkong Hotel on Wednesday Janst, she was tearing mad ower Think it out for yourself,-

tension of its work.

A

reason

career.