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NOTES & COMMENTS.
Peking's Muddle.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25.
DAY BY DAY.
THE PLEA OF IGNORANCE
Another fancy dress dance takes place at the V. R. C. on Saturday night.
ROUND THE TOWN,
The
DEATH OF INSPECTOR) – EUROPEAN I
GORDON.
MOLEST
Still maintains its high standard government and in non-fatal, of enteric fever reporting and supports Laths soon for several years had been in of being a coolie, came up from
of quality.
The same blend, same good old
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Forty years reputation.
One cannot review the recent
By “Gadabout.”
A May Road Incident. As has been foreshadowed for WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR
Although the Prince of Wales Well-known Police Officer some days past Liang Shih-yl,| RESPONSIBILITY.—Ruskin.
visit is yet some way ahead, not
Passes Away
Mrs. Copperinger, "roalding Ai the recently-appointed Premier
much time is being wasted. In| of China, has resigned. His period
getting ready for him.
We regral to have to record the No. 8f the Peak, has related to of office has probably been of the
special pavilion on the Colony's death of Inspector Alexander thep allow an exciting experienos shortest in the history of Republi-
best site" grows rapidly arer Gordon, of the Hongkong Police she had yesterday whilat walking, can China and it is eloquent that
complation every day. From Force, which took place at Home along May Road. the very man who was hailed a
few bara polss it was not long on Monday, telegraphio news of She was near Treguntar Maa- law short weeks ago in many
before the site was covered with which was received in the Colony, sions yesterday afternoon, when circles as being likely to reform
There were two cases, one an intricate network of scaffold-lastnight. Inspector Cordon, who a man, who had the appearance
bare a fair chance of success in od seaterday. Both patients appeared on the bare poles and in charge of the Water Police Station behind and made a determined bringing the north and the south | ware Chinese,
next to no time the roof was all at Trim Sha Tini, was among the attempt to snatch the handbag in unison has now been formed
fixed up. Now thą workman, are best-known and popular police she was carrying. • The attack by a combination of circum-
basy putting on the first coat of officers of the Colony and the was assudden as it was unexpect stances to tender his resignation. The Hon. Mr. H. Pollock, KC plaster and I notice also that news of bisdeath will be received ed, but, retaining her presence of happenings in Peking without will give a short address on "The the scaffolding in being erected with regret by a very wide circle mind. Mr. Copperinger seized to the for the triomphal arches round of friends and sequaintances both hold of the man, who broke away realising that Liang has himself Washington Quaference
A colleague in and out of the force.
from her grasp, and ran down the to blame very much for the posi. Reading Circle of Helena May Status Square.
Institute - to-morrow morning, suggested that it would have bee
The late Inspector Gordon, who roat. Mrs. Copperinger followed tion in which he has latterly January 25th. The address will far better to leave the Calong found himself. It is an opan secret that he has been in negotia begin for this time only at 11 am.best site? as it was before. Let was in bis 49eb. year, wens Home in pursuit and had overtaken the tion with Japanis financiera insinad of at the usual hour 10.30 the Prince see the Calony as it da leave just about a year ago, miscreant when be suddenly took really is, is his idea. One of He had just previously had the packet of pepper from his pookst for the purpose of raising another}am.-Advt.
the Colony's beauty spots has misfortune to lose his wife and and flung the contents in her face. buge loan, and this at a time!
been defiled, he thinks, and was in somewhat indifferent Whilst she was suffering from the our Royal visitor won't be health when he left. A native of effects of the pepper, the man
escaped, Japanese money is nostalgia to Dancers are promised an unable to see the Supreme Court, Banffshire, Scotland, he was
This is the second attempt tande the majority of Chinese. That he usual treat at the Kowloon (our best building) with the p vil forced to spend the majority of was under the thumb of Chan Theatre this evening when Keyes on in the way Maybe he is his leave in the south of England within a month on European Teo-lin was also openly rumour-Jazz Orchestra, a band famous right to some extent, but a place on account of suffering from ladies walking on the middle rd and his connection within America, will play the music had to be built som-where and spros. Apart from the fact that levels. It will be recalled that the Anfuites was plainly hint for a special dance. Sanford the present site of the pavilion he was known to have been un-Miss Holloway was lately the ed. But, perhaps the great. Richeson, known as the
is as handy as any. The work well, sue news of his death came victim of a similar experience est factor that has contribut-jazz king, will make his first men's efforts have certainly not as a surprise, for he was looking when walking down a path near ed to his downfall was his op appearance in Colony produced a thing of beauty so far, forward to returning to the Kennedy Road.
25 * fairly early HILLIARD,At Kangmoon on 24th. January, to Mr. and position to Wa Pul-foo, the big Ticket, $1.50 each, may be had bus Rome wasn't built in a day, Colony
and when the pavilion is' faished date. it will look a great deal different First pining the police force LS to what it does now. His High a constable in January 1897- ness' visit means a great deal of just 25 years ago-the deceased preparation, but Mr. Bird seems was appointed Lance Sergeant in to be getting & bustle on with the 1899 and full Sergeant in 1900. work and I think we've got the In 1911 he was appointed third right man in the right place. class Inspector," gaïving
second class in 1912 and first class in 1914. For the greater.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1972.
AN OLD PACIFIC PROBLEM.
the mere mention of
man of Central China. Wo has from Montriv'a certainly grown to be a power in bis own country and it is evident-
hope.
which have been urged by every Armstrong, friend of China for years, Io Company.
the
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£30,000 MORE FOR LONDON TEACHERS. Increased salaries totalling £30,000 a year were recently voted by the L. C. C. Education Committee to teachers.
*SCENTIST'S ESTATE -
Dr. A. M. Kellas, of Aberdeen,
Between Ourselves
got
By Robt. MacWhirter.
reporters
Bre
that
ly realised that if the sympathies Four men, one armed with of Wa were divorced from Peking kaife. made a forcible entry into and be were driven into an al-No. 6 Chinese Street early yes liance with General Chan of terday morning by breaking open Canton the chances of the north the door. They stole various | against such a combination would articles of clothing valued at $18. not be particularly rosy. And so and decamped. In the subsequent Premier Lisog bas chosen the pursuit by the police one man WAS When are we going to have part of the period during the war formerly of Regent's-park, Lon- self-evident course of throwing arrested. He was brought before larger and more up-to-date ferries he was in charge of the Water dan, who had conducted numer- in bis hand. Who will be his the Magistrate this morning from Hongkong to the mio Police and in that capacity perous experiments on the use of successor is difficult even to charged with committing an arm-land? Kowloon is growing every formed valuable duties. He was the oxygen in overcoming breathing hazard. There seems to be aed robbery, and was remanded. day and the passenger traffic possessor of several police decors- dificulties at high altitudes, and real paucity of "big men ID
across the harbour is always on tions and was generally respected who died whilst engaged on the the increase. northern China just now, apart
The rush is so as a thorough and conscientious present Mount Everest expedi from the militarista, and bow any
In our yesterday's Notes and great at certain hours that the police officer..
tion, left estate valued at £1,080. sometimes encom- Premier can hope to succeed Comments we mentioned that no ferries are without pleasing and obeying the eggs were to be purchased at the fortably filled and a pal told me dictates of the war lords" is bard Dairy Farm in Kowloon on that he came over in a ferry yes- Reuter evidently assumes that people in the Far East to conceive. It is beyond dispute Sunday and Monday mornings terday af tiffin time when the "feel some interest in the dispute between Chile and Peru, that the fate of any politician in and some orders for beef could passengers were packed so tight- a series of little messages having come along during the the northern Japital rests in the cot be executed. We remarked as to make things a little past few weeks. This matter has, in truth. reference to an bands of the military men who that this may have been due to worse than merely uncomfortable.
cause, apart They were packed like
Today is the anniversary of to his buman frailties old Pacific problem, seeing that the parties have extensive are the real power in the country, some temporary
and until such a state of affairs from the strike, and the Dairy proverbial herrings la a box, he stretches of littoral along that ocean, though on the opis remedied there would seem to Farm now inform us that this is said. The man at the gate saw the birthday of Robert Borns, generally listened to wi" disfavour as was the caso sovarai yoSID ago posite side of it from here. There is, consequently, a ba little hope for a well-governed the case. It was only a tempor. that there was no more room and Scotland's greatest poet.
I don't think any other single in Hongkong when Calons John certain fitness in this long-outstanding problem coming up country, especially when it is ary shortage such as might occur prevented any more people from for consideration at the time of the Washington Confer-remembered that these "big men at the branch of any business passing through the entrance, but nation ever took a poet to its Ward gave what was perhaps the are assured that the the closing of the entrance gate heart as Scotland has taken best "Immortal Memory" speech ence, which may have been the prompting cause, whether are not always in agreement and we
The newspaper the assembly so designed it or not. It appears that the g themselves. Chang Teo-lia Dairy Fatra are in a position to freed the exit and passengers in a Barns. He is the Scottish nation it has evez been my privilege
getting aboard by entering a great poet right enough, wi' a amiable wood af the moment, and meat for many months.
present contestants have agreed to refer the question of Tarna and Tso Kwan are not in versupply both eggs and all kinds of hurry, to get across succeeded in and character in epitome. Ay, to listen to.
through this passage. The vassal tremendous love for Scotland and occasion were appealed to to cut and Arica, the chief point of difference, to the arbitration the Chinese political tangle is not
was so full that it took a quarter there maybe you have in a nut lots of it out and blush even or at least the friendly connsel of the United States. So a whit nearer being unravelled.
Among those who returned to of an hour to reach the opposite shell the secret of Scotland's love yet to think that exigencies of far as can be judged at this distance, the services of a Militarists v. Politicians.
space got the blame for a lot of the Colony to-day by the side, my pal tells me. I use the for him,
Now I'm to wanting you to good matter that didns' appear in broad-minded third party are just what is needed to effect
And, therefore, the speech Gienste were Mr. A. Hicks, ferry fairly frequently and I've
Mr. LeoDox Simpson Editor an adjustment. The parties, it is reported, are to meet at which
proper print. As Maurice Hewlitz very ..of the Hongkong never seen any of the vessels as think, baying Washington, presumably in the near future.
("Putoam Wesle") delivered Telegraph, and Mrs. Hicks from fall as my friend described this excuse for once in a while, that well put it the other day in the Little light is thrown upon the dispute by the Shanghai sesterday amounts to Rome leave; Mrs. W. Logan, particular one, but I don't live in I'm going to throw my weight London Mercury" He (Baras) had messages, yet the encounter which arose out of it in the little but a pious expression of wife of Mr. W. Logan, the well- Kowloon and have never cross-about and willy silly stuff Baras character, individuality, a native hours.into ye whether yo like it or no. dignity, an insight into the bearts Oar correspondent known broker, with Miss D. ed during the nintli decade of last century has been described as "the cabled:"He urged the establish- Logan and Mr. K. Logso; Mrs. Perhaps an extra man on the But really I would like ye to read of men and things, an incom- bloodiest conflict on record. This may appear astonishing ment of a stable government and Kenzeit, wife of Mr. E. G. entrance during the rush hours his poems and if I might be municable gift of melodious and put a stop to this permitted to say so, this wish consummate utterance, a passion when it is cousidered that the total forces could have been the development of the national Kennels of the Naval Yard; and would
matters Mr.
of Messrs.kind of thing or maybe some-applies wi' equal force to Scots, which could lift him towering, as Trevelyao, put into a small corner of the theatre of war in Flanders consciousness, "-two
Whitworth and body can invent a gate which will man and Southron alike. You'd on strong wings all that in maybe no believe it but one nothing to the purpose when the give better control. and lost sight of. The meaning becomes sufficiently
of the two books I most often purpose is to ascertain how ha manifest when it is mentioned that, after four years of
drag out of my wee bookcase is stood in relation to the life of his ruthless warfare, the decisive encounter terminated in the
The Ex-Active Service Men's Barns; the other is the Bible, I'd fellow-men, and everything to the literal annihilation of the Peruvian force. By a great negotiation Mr. Simpson no
A Malay, named Ahmet Caseim, Asciation certainly know what like to see Burns' teaching no so purpose when the purpose is noch in the province of Arica, General Bologuesi and his doubt made's telling point, bu: was sent to prison this morning in wasted in the Colony and their neglected to-day. Burns teach poetry and genius." army were surrounded. We are the history of the encounter little will be achieved by address for three months of the charge smoker the other night bit fasting, and the Bible's teach- In other words it's no' Burns to the Chilean side: not one man among the Peruvian ing gatherings in Shanghaig of stealing za acetylene lamp, althe right note. There were no ing. Practical, literal Christianity the man that counts in the least force survived that day of carbage. Both countries arose first to be convinced of the error screw driver, &ariner to stiff fronts. It was a free sadower rare in this world but wee bit but his poetry, his songs, out of Spanish colonies, and their war goes to support the of their waye, for it is only when pair of pliers belonging to easy gathering. They were all the Bible remains and ever will his message. And that message Curtis, of Kowloon A detective appalling assertion that conflicts between people of the military power has been made stopped and searched the man in men who had seen service and remain the grastest of all books, is still "advanced"even in these man who entered the room with-shaping the lives of men and days of omnipotent democracy. Same race are the most remorseless of all, What, it may that Chic will top the corner as and took from him a parcel con- feel at home at once. If you expect it. And so wi Bums. -thinkers of to-day he was
subservient to the political power Natham Road yesterday morning out knowing a soul was made to nations, even when they least Yor unlike many of the advanced be asked, was all this bloodshod over? It concerned the regards the efficiency and use-
taining the articles.
A COD wanted to speak to a man you Though his philosophy of politics nationalist in whom there was districts of Tarapaca, Tacna, and Arica, which are on the fulness of her internal adminie fession was made by the prisoner spoke to him, whether you has not yet been translated into no trace of fanaticism or separ-" border of the two countries. These areas are rich in tration.
at the Police Station to the effect had been introduced to bim statutes of the realm, his love of atism. Indeed he combined. Mineral deposits, and the discovery of the commercial Government, ander. President that the lamp was stolen from a or not. Perhaps he was a Num-freedom, independence and equal wi bis nationallem a wholesome value of nitrate of soda led to a furious dispute concerning out to defeat militarism, and to Post Office. Subsequent enquiries somebody's junior glerk on aims it will always be wi as pression is the ardent and aft Sun Yat-sen, stated that it was bicycle left outside the Kowloon ber One or perhaps he was ity is as real to us as it was to internationalism that finds ex the boundary-line.
establish the supremacy of
because it is an essential part of quoted words:- By the Treaty of Ancon, signed in 1884. the victors the political machine, it earned proved that the owner of the couple of bundred bucks
month. You didn'toare. He was as and when Scotsmen cease to and good bicycle was Mr. Cortis. received the Tarapaca area definitely and the right to occupy everybody's respect
one of the crowd. You would Tacna and Arica for ten years, at the end of which a wishes, although active support
have gone up and chatted to him love Burns they will be Scotsmen
no longer. when he was in khaki, with two plebiscite was to be held, the successful nation to pay cash had to be withheld by some. Can-
Again and again I've heard ton's achievement in that respect DEAN INGE ON THE TYRANNY
ar three days, growth on his chip, it laid down that at this time compensation to the other. There were also sundry other has been nothing very great solar OF CLOTHES. clauses. The ten years expired as long ago as 1894, but but not a few bave recognised Clothes, according to Dean rent in his trousers and a couple day there is nothing new Peru, less progressive than her rival, was in a state of some that there still resides in Canton,, are a canse of unredeems' leaf pounds of Flanders mad on to be said o Burns. disorder, besides which the countries could not agree upon the spirit which could make China waste. He told members of the boots, and so you were just as free 1 fatly deny and so if I'm on the
conventionally attired and sliting short side to-day just you put been written disorder, be in which the referendum should be taken. The peaceful and well-governed Savage Club at the annual dinner in peace and safety in the City it down to the fact feat in reimer portals at Versailles, Geneva, country. The dainge up north of that the average man who lived Hall. And why not? We were leave is to others to enlogine Washington, and Cannes. I Chilean occupation has thus been prolonged from year to late have been little short of to old age wasted two years of all good pals over there, why our National Bard rather than can say that w the best year and from decade to decade. Negotiations for arbitra- ludicrous. China's represent-precious life in putting on and should we become stiff and formal keep on crawing about him grace in the world and no tion were fruitless, and in 1910 diplomatic relations were alives at Washington have been taking off clothes. Women wasts and can't speak without-an-intro-myself. Man, Buras-is over be thought guilty of conceit just vered. In 1912 Peru made a proposal respecting the striving for far more then her ed ten years. People were always duction-don't-you-know because big subject to be exhausted because Barns was country-
home politicians seem worthy of. glad to escape from the restraints referendum, but Chile did not accept. The latter country and we certainly cannot agree of civilisation by going into the we have changed pur-uniforms for la ths brief period of ́s ́man of mine," "Our beloved bard has now offered to agree to the referendum on the lines with Mr. David Yui, a returned country, by camping out and in-vies and are now Hongkong century and quarter. Benkies, belonge no to ourselves but to all Mr. Teasdale Mackintosh, who so long as fresh minds are forth mankind Gentus is interua- proposed by Peru, but that country in turn objects, on the delegate
Washington, dulging in field sports.
presided, bit the all right on the coming ac, will the Man, his Life, tional, no something to be claim- ground of changed conditions, declaring that there has when he stated at Shanghai
head when he referred to "that his Works, continue 10 strike ed and misered ower just beczan Been a systematic influx of Chileans the same objection as yesterday that China's delegation
spirit of splendid bolation" that that taken by France to a plebiscite over Alsace and Lorraine, had had to humble itself to the
If light of recent Paking political person rule in the Colony. them at new sugles and from it saw the light of day, fa our detriment of China's case
fresh points of view. It looked therefore as if there was to be a fresh deadlock. the present negotiations in con- bistory one can be forgiven for There is split of lonelines Perfervid Scots are apt to get Barns spoke in the true- This would seem to be just a case for the League of Nations. (nection with Shantung sad wondering whether Chins has amongst many young flows right annoyed at any public of the human heart, and share However, the mediation of Uncle Sam has been accepted, amicably as they should, Chins not been given more than she wrightout from Home and some
poor-living lewd, grimy, fras- revered, wheresonyer homanify and moral suasion from such a quarter cannot be negligible. will have little or no cause to can properly take care of, Will thing is wanted to show that we mention of the Burns of the a. languages understoo
feel disappointed because of what there ever be hopeful eyes turned haven't quite forgotten the lessons It is certainly time for this fratricidal dispute to closets been decided to Amaricato Canton 7 Peking is in sorry we learned a few years sga. Tspoken, ribald old Scots pensant to be found,
world" as Henley described him in 30. Gentlemen In circumstances so involved a division of territory appears she has much for which to plight: Cantou might be given a Arsceinion on the right track.
The best of luck to it, thank the Conference. In the chance to prove itself. to be the fairest method.
citing the Irish Battlement as showing what could be done by
is the military leaders who have
When the Canton
from
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Then let us pray that come it
may,
As come it will for a"that; That sense and worth, o'er a
the earth,
May bear the gres, and a*
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particular, corner of the Karsh.
his famous essay, Qoy-reference Memory,
pente
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