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NOTES & COMMENTS.
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The. Chinese Mind.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER
ALL
~WORK BECAUSE HR WINTE FELNQUIL- An interesting correspondence has been proceeding under this UTE" OF" KODAKILI, HAVE LOST title in the columns of the North E HARIT WHEN THAKQUILLITY
WORK" UNDER China Daily Nece. Some shrewd CIRCUMSTANCES, ANY GIBOUM- blows have bean delivered on STANCES & R. Haydos, behalf of foreignises by more than and writer, among themCapt.D.W. [Cędu, who speaks from 'ar- [tensive experience of Chins. The
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
Glance at Our Files.
`(Jan. Buns, ÏSNY
adalifed three pres sonyindiana: n. the kind
Many different
dered to be fuperkammad) with hayel läheer, for four months, and to reaches trobes "strokes with the rattan on admission, and 13 more 14 days before discharge. |We expect to hear mare of thin The many patrons in the enterprising youth'anop.. colony of the Hangkong Butchery KOWLOON COLLEGE. will be sorry to see by the notice Things scholastic in Hangkong We beg to with all our readers published in this issue that the do not seem to be in such Flowery Land, however, has and advertisers a Happy and opposition of the Chinese has statisfactory condition as we could found as Coaldental champion in Prosperous New Year. Owing to last told on Mr. Tatam, and he wish. The Kowloon College, Mr. Gording Nielsen, who, jusg the holidays the next issue of the has had, reluctantly to throw manifestly necessary and most ing by the frequency with which Hongkong Telegraph will be on the sponge. He has been "worked" useful institution, has been closed cut by some butchers who have and the Gorament grant- we have noticed epistles from him Tuesday next
blocked him from renewing his in-aid withheld from is for lin the columns of our Shanghai
[contract for cattle af a reasonable
reasons · that have not yok! contemporary, aspires to the role
There was only one non-fatal price. Truly, for picks that are bean made public and which of the Algernon Ashton of the Far East (in case any reader's case of diphtheria reported yester mean and ways that are dark the are probably based on a short- recollections of the Home Press day. Otherwise, a clean bill of besthen Chinese is peculiar." have grown a little faint, it may be mentioned that Mr. Ashton long held the record as the most prolife
health.
HONEST!
Acts of honesty are always
notics, so we
sighted "penny-wise-and-pound. foolish policy. A meeting, ofj residenta of Kowloon was held at o'clock this evening to consider the question of re-open-
· There will be a Watch Night planning-wherever found and a fatter-writer.) Mr. Nielson declares, in effect,/Sarrice, with Hymns, at St. John's rather unusual ons has just 00min ing Kowloon College, and it is to: that when foreigners speak of the Cathedral on Saturday evening at under sur
11.30 p.m. disorder, in the republic, the
the account by a reference to the confusion in Europe, while as for
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lessness on land by the holding,
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires UP them to forward their names and addresses with communications ideas once addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fidea.
of entire trains." Such It is notified in the Gazelle that or twice crossed the name of the Tai O Electric our mind, bat a very littla Supply Company, Limited, has analysis shows their unsoundness. been struck off the Register.
result of the most colossal war of
Gavernment for whatever assis-
M. Philippe Berthelot, French Goverment on who has resigned from the
sapount of the Banque In duktrielle de China dia closures. While monerting that he had acted in good faith throughout, M. Berthelot admitted sending the New York cable without M. Briand's knowledge.
publish it with pleasure. A lady do hoped that for the sake of the while in a ticksba yesterday lost rapidly-increasing population of gold bracelet through it become the district it will be decided ultimately to continue the school ing nafastened. The article was not missed till long after, and all and an appeal be made to the hope of seeing it again was given up. This morning the husband tance may be poosssary to maks of the lady was hailed by anita "going concern until it THE FIGHTING LOVER becomes quite self-supporting. excited ricksha, coolie, who from
Five Beautiful Stars. It appears to us to be the his parse produced the missing
Rath Ashby is one of five trinket, explaining that he found duty of the Government to see it in his vehicle after missy go to it that there is an educa- beautiful women who plan.in away. The housst fellow was tional establishment in Kowloon portant roles in support of Frank quite proud of his act, and his well- available, at reasonable cost to Mayo in his newest Universal deserved cumshaw was receiv-parents, for the education of photodiama, "The Fighting ed with a great display of plea European childran. That is the Lover" which starts at the Hong-
kong Theatre to-day. aggression on record, as the At St Andrew's Church, sure. It is only fair to give his least Government can do.
The other four, actresses allied nations contend. If Mr. Kowloon, special New Year's Day number, which is 52, and we hope * SOME” ENGLISH.-
who sharm loading honours Nielsen means that this fact itself services will be held to-morrow, his example will be taken up by entitles China to point the finger The Vicar will preach both his fellows, the average rickshaEnglish she is wrote will are Jacqueline Logan, Jean
The following specimen of in "The Fighting: Laver Europe, be is illogical. The morning and evening.
man's honesty being at a discount war was mainly the work of ons
geçerally... Power, and the other cations.
UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE. gave a remarkable example of solidarity in a stupendous under the Helena-May Institute on There will be a Tes Dance at
The China Navigation Co's taking. It was Chica's good Thursday, January, 12th. 5.30 steamer Kanso, Captain' Som fortune, not due to say virtae on her part, that she was not, except/Pm. for members of the Institute merville, fell in with a digmasted would reader bim to loose their of feminine beauty, Ziegfald of in a minor way, involved in the only who may invite their men Chinese jusk, in a sinking, co prize by slowness. They are used “Follies" fame. Har success on
All communications intended for publication should to address-Conditions in Europe are the ed to the Editor.
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
Death.
BROWN-AI Malilda Hospital on 30th. December, 1921 Aileen Laing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Brown, Kowloon Dock, aged 12 days
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1921.
THE REAL NEED:
conflict. As to the aftermath of
friends.
L
dition, off Tongmi Island while
amuse soMS of our sporting Calhoun, Eliner Hancock, and readers: "In the western custom | Gertrude Olmsted. Miss Logan there is a operation of Horserace is a Colorado Springs society girl on Spring and Autumn of every who went to New York a year Your As this case, the quickest and a half ago and was induced. one being the winner and it to go on the stage by that jigs
goliating the surf in a success and over 5,000 acres of land and comedy and and the
OBITUARY,
Between Ourselves
on the voyage from Hongkong to the money, just the same as the screen has been squallý the war, there have doubtless!
Shanghai, which concluded with gambling, in such occurrence phenomenal. Joan Calhoun is Soustern -beauty who been blunders enough and to
A slight outbreak of fire took her arrival at the latter port on the most of them ruin their property a spare in tackling a situation of unprecedented intricacy; yet, place early this morning in an 28th. ultimo. At 4.30 m. on the by this habit Although this is has played leading feminine. with all the mistakes and short-on-monger's shop in Queen's 24th. a halt was made at Names the curious custom of the west roles with the foremost film stars, comings, there is a serious desire Road. It was put out by the Island, it being the intention of but to take this matter on band and who has an ounsual part in as a magnificent fair. During the the Frank Mayo pictura. Elnor Fire Brigade, very little damage Captain Sommerville to land the days of Horserace all public Hancock, who plays the aust. and a serious attempt to find a
six natives he had rescued, as being sustained. way out. Can any one say that,
they belonged to Swatow, but in offices are getting half holidays in the story, though of middle оде of the most except perhaps on the part of
attempting to do this and whilst and banks are said to be closed." age, is --Solabi
attractive woman on the „äcreen, few enthusiasts, this has been the
A Chinese, who attempted to passing through the surf their
being in constant demand. far case in China? In regard to train slight from a tramear at Des boat capsized fand was stove in.
grande daze and society, roles. bandits and the like, these have your Road West whilst it was ite occupants all being washed LORD CREWE SELLING. The quintette is completed by been a blut upon fuverica, Britain, still in motion, was yesterday ashore. This was not known on The Marquess of Crewe is Gertrade Olmsted, the seventeen and France in recent years, taken to the Government Civil board the Kansa till later, when, offering for sale by auction his year old Illinois girl, who was The passing of the old year and the heralding of a though bow anybody can contend Hospital. suffering from injuries the boat not returning, it was Madeley estate, situated in Che-declared the most beautiful girl suspected that something had shire, Staffordshire, and Shrop-in the Middle West and who has new naturally brings into prominence the spirit of retro- that they are rarer in China sustained in the fall.
is past understanding. Perhaps
gone wrong, and another was white. Included in the property proved in a number of Univemal spection and the spirit of hope we look over the old year such happenings have been fewer
despatched. With the assistance are Madeley Manor, his Stafford-pictures which has all too quickly passed and we look forward to in Britain than in the other The master of cargo boat No. of the natives and their surf-bosts shire seat, 34 of the best dairy talent as well as good looks.
that she possesses the new with promise. And the same thing has been done countries, but they have been 277B. has reported to the Police this second one succeeded in farms in Cheshire and Shropshize, A fine laughable Century for centuries, each succeeding generation carrying on the disagreeably frequent in all three. collision which occurred yester-
new Screen ful manner, and all finally re-sporting residences. The estate Magazine complete the pro- habit. Whether we gain anything from it is a matter for These expressions, however, are day in the harbour off Samsaipo
relative. Compared with the between his ressal
turned to the Kanen safely. is in the heart of a booting aros. gramms, as individually to settle: that we hope to gain is common daily brigandage and piracy in steamlaunch Peibs. Damage to to us all. It is all very well looking back and counting up China, the cases in the west are the extent of $160 was sustained what we have done or left undone, complimenting ourselves few. The proof is that they by the cargo borty
Deep and very general regret was expressed yesterday when here, blaming ourselves and others there, wishing sach-causa a sensation there; in Chins
news reached town of the death and-such a thing had turned out so-and-so instead of as it the occasion for surprise is when
A Chinese mason was yester at the Government Civil Hospital they don't occur. Nor do we did but such a retrospective view can avail us nothing bear in the West or but rarely-day taken to the Kwong Wah unless we are prepared to analyse the past for its lessons of collusion between bandits and Hospital suffering from inicires on the 2nd, instant of Mr. D. K. Griffith, the photographer. Mr. law, sustained when he fell through Griffith's connection with the and apply them in the future. History has been defined the guardians of the
Ay, the year's on it's last legs encourages the suspicion that i as being largely composed of a record of man's mistakes, Having said this, there is still opening in an upper floor of a Far East extended over a quarter and our own personal histories are very little else, if we plenty of room to agree, with a house under construction is of a century and during that time right enough. In a few hours few hundred years ago-ssy in Mr. Nielsen's protest against the Temple Street. He died at the he formed a very large circle of 1981 will be no more, another the time of the Stuarts-folk were have the honesty to confess it. True, we all continue to barrow kind of nationalism. Hospital some hours later.
friends. He was probably the most mile stone passed in the march no worse on the average than
To-morrow will not they are now, achieve something, what we call "progress" is always!
accomplished and painstaking of time.
I think that in its fundamentals, with us, but it is largely made up of life's drift instead of The New Fire Brigade.
member of his profession in the really be ony different from to- life's aim. We shall somehow get somewhere at sometime, This is the last day of the Frank Jones, of California, and East, and was associated with Mr. day (except that I'll maybe have human nature changes very little. or, as Bernard Shaw so ably puts it, we are much fonder European police-fireman system. Jesse Colp, native of Ontario, Saunders in Shanghai in his bit of a head and could do wi'a if at all. At this time of year charged this morning Afties. Later he was engaged to wee lie down in the afternoon) we're very apt to deceive our of the line of least resistance than we are of the line of which has been a subject of con- were
siderable criticism. As is stated before Mr. J.R. Wood greatest advantage. And at the end of one year and on in the order concerning re-stowing away by the Empress of accompany the yacht Marquess but somehow it aye brings back, selves into thinking that durin the eve of another such thoughts as these are particularly organisation, the new arrange. Asis from Macils. The Master on her trip through Micronesis at least to those near the edge of the past twelvemonths the world appropriate.
ments are entirety due to the At Arms of the Asia said and Polynesis, where he obtained life, regrete for the prodigality has moved to a slightly higher a rare collection of negatives, and of time-and-the-mis-spending of plane. I doubt it very mucht-but- defendants ware seen од the that
that tripover he set up in business many precious hours. Burns has in saying so, mind ye, I'm no If we study 1921 from the international standpoint increasing demands
steamer
in Hongkong, with Ah Fong, a bit in the same strain but I just trying to dissuade ye
think of it we have cause for little else than disappointment; there services of the Fire Brigade, which to walk about the
the getting on wi' the millenium. I make it difficult, if not impossible quite
without Thinking he would do better in Canna has been a general failure to adjust diferences and to for officers to combine fire duties an attempt to conceal themselves business for himself he left Ah moment.
merely remark in the passing But life to-day has it's com- that maybe it would be dishonest combine in a better endeavour. We are still the victims of effectively with their duties Defendants informed the Magis Fong and was in business on his
Bouergus leader to lay the flattering unction to & warring spirit, and helpful internationalism is but little police officers, and not to any rate that they went to Manile to own account up to the time of his pensations.
occasional writers tall us that we live in our souls that the world, has nearer in spite of the League of Nations and the wonderful falling-off in the manner in which secure a job, but were not success-death. He was an
I don't suppose, made ony real progress or that meetings held at Geneva. Russia still starves. And if such duties have been performed. ful, and they decided to board the contributor to the Graphic and great times.
an empt to get An experienced Superintendent is Aris in we look at the world of commerce we find the same lack battained Pericugnate a cheap passage Home Hhis pidgin English series of Xmas though, that there's anything the depravity of man is less. of cause for joy. The slump of 1921 has been world-wide, London Fire Brigade, walch will Worship observed that the oscards was a speciality that will now in the thought As the boy now than a year ago,
not soon be forgotten. He leaves fifty years ago listened wi' wide-
openly
with
By Robt. MacWhirter.
A
from
A better world is undoubtedly his elders' desirable and is`ás undoubtedly
mainly due to politicians who have been unable to repair relieve the Captain Superintend-ual practice in the Colony a piece and married sister, in the eyed surprise to
to sand stowaways to Eest to mourn his loss. The account of their little world when possible but a change of external
damage of their own making. International commercial ent of Police from responsibility was competition is being pursued with a keenness and subtlety in that department. The 28- Prildi po te present can be funeral, which was attended by they were young, so to-day the conditions do not produce this which we should do well to understand a little better. And organisation promises to give would impose & nominal penalty many friends, took place at same lad, grown bald or grey- result. It's the spirit that counts, general satisfaction. Naturally of one day's imprisonment, and Happy Valley this morning. headed cannot but marvel at the "The heart ay's the part ay, that
changes that have passed over makes us right or wrang.” if we study 1921 from a local, domestic and personal stand-the police are glad to be relieved of as they were virtually vagrants
DIDN'T KNOW.
this head during his short sojourn There's ower much self-indul- point, surely, we find much we would rather not find. Is extraneous duty, while the Chin without any means of enbsistence,
The Class in Queen's College, upon this planet.
gence abroad to day. It rules the 1922 going to be a duplicate? Is 1923? And so on. ese personnel, which, as a Ea-they would also be consigned to
ropean officer stated, has shown the House of Detention until "imple Simon, where is the But is the world now better as roost. Nobody should Hve for. Isn't it possible that something is wrong with the spirit decided capability and needs only such time as arrangments could North Pole "I dunno, sir?" whole than it was in former himself but that's just what the and purpose of it all? -
a little direction, are proud of the be made to send them back Home. What you don't know where years? That is a question diffi- majority of us are doing. When One is almost bound, in discussing a subject of such a increased confidence reposed in
the North Pole is? Are you not cult or almost impossible to the unit concentrates on its own sahamed of such ignorance?" answer because we cannot be sure well-being instead on that of the nature, to end on a note of interrogation, to leave the them, so that taken all round matter a query for individual thought and answer. But residents can add their approval. the match. Twice in the imings "Well, sir, Franklin, Nansen, and that we have adequate evidence community and the State, the he came near to emulating. Lt all the rest of em couldn't upon which to form an opinion. result is bound to be disquiet, it is patent that if this world of human beings into which A Rare Feat.
MoDonald's fast in performing | find it."⠀⠀
Iva" a weakness of the human unrest, chaos. Instead of pulling mind to linagine that in the moral together we pull at sizes, and we have come and from which we must go willy-milly is to Congratulations to the Army the hat-trick, the EG.A bowler's AN INCORRIGIBLE.
sphere, for instance, behaviour sevens. We're ower basy obating be a little nearer what we would wish it we must in- opon winning the triangular final over being a maiden with dividually and collectively be prepared to contribute more tournament, and in particular to three wickets. As Cho Davies The Celestial race develops: an tends to deteriorate. Some folks the rainbow when we're no trying in thought and deed than we do. It is no use lamenting common feat of capturing with the bat, the tourney has one of them in the person of Lau question take it for granted that Ay man; without
Capt. Davies upon his achieving has also been much tu evidence incorrigible now and then and there are who readily and without to grab the moon. wars, or cruelty, or hunger and piously hoping that things all ten wickets, and at the small been an all-round triumph for Tim, aged 14 Egured on the human sinfulness has become doubt the real pleasure5 will change one day. The need is for greater endeavour, cost of 36 runs. The fast bowler him. It is curious to note that charge sheet at Captain Hastings more widespread and more. If life are menial, inward; psycho the cultivation of thought, the application of known had a big share in the victory Home, where there is generally an lebee to-day. He was charged tense. But as Joe would say, the logical rather than physical and gold nesymption is at least open to external.. And it that I had in remedies Retrospection will lead us nowhere; introspect over the Club, and his remark- interval of some years before the with stealing a pair
kot mind when I started out to wish ion and action could achieve so much. The coming of able bowling completely disposed ten wickets feat is repeated, tear-rings from
77 Hewand Prosperous How of many ́... chanós-the-/ Hary, was accomplished by several 1922, gives ne all a chance to
- might have had of saving bowlers during the past season. Ho
begin
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