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NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Servant Question.

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1922.

DAY BY DAY.

WHEN MEN SPEAK ILL OF TREE, LIVE SO AS NOBODY MAY

BELIEVE THEM.

There is a deal of talk going on at the moment `regarding a possible boycott by servants guilds of houses from which It is notified in the Gazette that domosties have been dismissed a permit is not now required for since the strike. We have heard the export of silver bullion. of one or two spacific: cases in

ware acting purely on.

initiative. That is

own

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is

There are only three

at

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

how-

14

to 500

went to

fand public gardens will only provide more room when the shooting commenbas and fine pabile buildings a suitable back- ground for the firing and. Didn't I tell yồ to get rid oʻ1 this Ay, I're no' been feeling wall Our Finest Site.

Sun parson a year ago ? My, yes. Įthis wook. I've had spring fever, We're age setting up in the

and bad at that. I think it was Square of our mind obelisks and Wells and Marx.

me. pillars which anis hide the beauty I know that all this is váry dry Tuesday when it came on At first I thought was just that it of our spring-blooming trees. W' and uninteresting but I diana' was a bit stuffy. I pealed my our man-made erections we make want ye to take only my sayso cost and draped it round the our finest site like a monumental]about Karl the Marritė. Listen which housahakders who have dis- Rural Building Lot No. 184, chair-back. No, that wasna stone-masan's yard and push to what H. G. Walls says about charged boys have found didi-situate at Repulse Bay, is to be enough, so I opened the win tow. into the background the glorious him in one of his recent books culty in filling the vacancies, but sold by suction on April 3rd. It Theo, as the nice warm wind blossoms fresh from the hand of "Ruis in the Shadows" we do not know the extent to has an area of about 25,000 square blew in I began to served. I the Creator. We fix our eyes on "The Bolsheviks are Marxist which this has been experienced. feet and the upset price is $1,905, couldna' keep my eyes front, and the unkindly pavement or on the Socialists. Marx died in London Coincident with these tales of

just as often as I got another faces of passers-by, thinking the nearly forty years ago; the pro- boycotting are atories of a pend-

A Chinese woman yesterday whiff the more did the pile of while of our unworthy servants paganda of his views has been ing demand for bigher wages, coupled with the possibility of attempted to commit suicide by galley proofs and stale, stodgy and the non-existent egg in yes going on for over half a century. terday's rice pudding instead of ".... It will be best if I write servants' strike to secure the de- taking opium. She was removed reprint become distasteful.

watching the wonderful colours about Mars without any by- mands. It is naturally difficult to the Kwong Wah Hospital Springtime Madness.

I give you my word, I tried my wedged, as it were, in between the poorition! deference. 1 have at- to get the facts in a matter of Her condition is stated not to be

best but between reading and buildings opposite. That bit of ways regarded bim as a Bore of this sort, but the results of some serious.

His vast all the cabins ara furnished and deep blue distance, wi' the salmon the extremest sort. enquiries which wahave made will be found in another column. As Mme, Koo, the wife of the equipped in a style which leaves pink serrations in the hills in be- unfinished work, Das Kopilul, a to the point of a boycott, an Chinese Minister to Britain (who nothing to be desired" I saw on, is our own if we'd only cadence of wearisome volumes

rustling

take the trouble to see it; so also about such phantom unrealities official of the Cooks Guild states was one of the Chinese-delegates country-side silently that none of the Guild members at the Disarmament Conference), into new life. Masker. let's get are the birds whistling in the late as the bourgeoisie and the pro- are filling the positions of those gave birth to a son on Jan. 30 in on wi' it. Company meeting next afternoon, giving us something fetorict, a book for aver msunder- who have been dismissed, and Washington,

Ensues a wrestle wi' profits and which no concert hall

ing away into tedious secondary the mating of birds "Thank you ever select or costly, can do discussions, impresses tus as a considering the source of the information, it was only natural

for your attendance, gentlemen. And all these things are given us monument of pretentious ped- A Chinese employed at the Dividend warrants are now. ready Lew and wonderful sach morning|antry. But before I that he should give the impra-Tai Shui teashop at Samsupo and may be had on application." and again each evening. Ther Russia ca this last occasion. I sion that Guild members, in thus was yesterday removed to the giving certain houses the go-by. Kong Wah Hospital as the Suffering mother, this is the life are cur undisputed possession. had no active hostility to Marz.

their result

of being attacked by right enough. Now the stream No one can deny us the right to I avoided his works, and when that runs right through Linkenm- enjoy them. Can the 1sme be I encountered Marxists I dispos another Chinese with a chopper. doddie it'll be running full the now, sald of ons man-made thing wed of them by asking them to tell point that might be usefully His assailant is now in Police w melted stow off Criffel but it's cover? It's all so simple if we'd me exactly what people constitut investigated. The story of an

custody.

ed the proletarial. None of them sure sign that winter's past cease muddling ourselves.

The man-made things feed the know. No Marxist knows ... official of the composite guild clerks, embracing

and-where was 1? Oh ay. "This messenger

In Russia I must confess cases work is carefully compiled, is full body. Nature goes straight to boys, bonseboys, coolies, etc., is that there are some two hundred down for hearing at this month's of useful information (whatinell'a that starved thing we neglect so my passive objection to Mars has members out of work, that all Criminal Sessions, which com- the use of information if it doesna" consistently-our,ay-soul, that's changed to a very active hostility.

03 Monday.

Wherever we went we encounter. they want is their jobs back and ence

Praya happen to be useful, anyway?) as good a word as ony.

ed busts, portraits, and statues of that they are not seeking any in-murder trial will be taken before and is printed and bound in Our Little Systems.

which refects the And no Capton is going it for a Marx. About two-thirds of the crease of pay. If this is so, the sit-the Chief Justice and the Puisse manner uation is not so bad as some Judge will take two robbery greatest credit on the part of all little Marxism in parts. My. yes, face of Marx is beard, & Taxi concerned in its publicstion." that's terrible. Just what every-solemn woolly uneventful beard would have us believe, though cases."

Quite so. Next? What's this? body thought too. Praves jus:what that must have made all normal here agaip the statement

The Association of The Cham-

you said you time you remember exercise impossible. It is not the decidedly ex parte. la view of

SHIP WRECKED AT SEA. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addresses | popular apprehension

thebers of Commerce of Kwangtung |

when somebody else was just re-sort of beard that happens to a (By our oven Correspondent) Serves them right. Iools need marking that it would likely be man, it is a beard cultivated, is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies matter, we presume the authori- Province, of which Mr. Lan delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies ties are looking into the subject Woon, Director-General of the "The presents were both costly. Gb. 15, yes. Just shows ye cherished, and thrust patriarch

Is Chairman,

ally upon the word. It is Best by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. with a view to discovering what Mist

will be and romerous and the happy how a thing travels.

I never got the length of waar-Jexactly like Das Kapital in to-morrow opened Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

the situation exactly is. If there formally

couple left for Repulse Bay is either intimidation or boycor-(Sunday) Canton. This here to send me clean mading a sed tie myself but I got its inane abondance, and the ting going on, strong action Association sent delegates to the "Boy! Boy!! BOY!!! Talkee othery first dose o Marxism good face looks over it owlishly as if

looked andstrongonGlasgow Green when it settlement con-man makee looksee. I finish.“

bow the should be taken to nip the move- recent strike

I was a lad in my teens. I was ripe growth impressed mankind. I Lidment in the bud, in which coa-fersace in Hongkong.

Fat-Headed Fausts.

for it too, for I was worked found the omnipresent images of nection any residents affected

As I went along the street I met terrible bard, in those days. It that beard more and more irritat- owe it as a duty to the community As the terms demanded by the Mr. Ray. Oh! I would have to was corn in Egypt to me but afing. A gnawing desire grew upon to acquaiot the authorities of the junk people are difficult to comply look in at the Coronat and see the hard-headed uncle, coupled wi me to see Karl Marx shaved facts. There is far too general with, all the rice merchants in Devil. No, says I firmly. I've seen some thought of my own, soon

The Marxist is very an inclination in Hongkong to Canton intend closing their shops enough of him in the flesh the weaned me o' the crudities much the same sort of parson in keep the Government ignorant of when present stocks are cleared. past couple o' weeks to last me Karl. The fiawn of Marxism have all modern communities and I important facts in matters of this The juck people are andascouring for a long time. All my life in baon exposed again and will confess that by my tempera- kind sad then later to grumble establish a general rice 'market fact. That's the trouble wi again. Marxism is s thing amant and circumstances I have and complain at oficial inactivity of their own by buying dirme, the trouble wi' every one many meanings. Socialists and the very warmest sympathy for ectly from the merchants in of us. We get enough o' bim folk wi Bolshevis: leanings pick him. He adopts Mars as his Hongkong but unless big without sitting in the dark and and choose from them according propbet simply because be be A Word in Season.

capital .js available

there watching bis antics on a screen-to taste. Marx himself was an lieves that Marz wrote of the Daring the course of the past to is not much hope of this scheme If it hadna' been for bim I'd be on indifferent Marxist which maybe class war, an implacable war of two or three days, it has so hap coming to fruition, as it is impro- some hillside now herding sheep accounts for lots of his followers the employed against the em pened that the question of the bable that the Hongkong mer-listening to the song of the wood wandering from the trae faith as ployer, and that be prophesied a continuance of the Rents Restric, chants will grant credit cond-lands, listening to a music faiot expounded by the prophet

triumph for the employed person, tion Ordinance has been broached tions.

and faraway and passing sweet!

Our little systems bave their day a dictatorship of the world by the by several residents with whom?

and trying my best to reproduce and sooner or later they cease to leaders of these liberated employed we have bad an opportunity off

it on a wooden pipe. That's be, bat Marxism seems at present persons (dictatorship of the chatting. Of course, we have.

the trouble wi' us all. We've all be enjoying a boom which isos proletariat, and a Communist till three months to go before

sold our souls to the devil and his surprising when we consider the millennium arising out of that Some writers having advanced the contention that the this matter is due to receive the

works. We're a lot o' fat-headed general shaking up of ideas that dictatorship. Now this doctrine Washington Conference was a sham as far as China is consideration of the Legislative

Fausts. Who else on days like has taken place of late. Marxism and this prophecy have appealed concerned, it is refreshing to have the dictum of one of the Council, but there seems to be an Some Interesting Figures. these would to running to and covers & maltitude of sins. No in every Country wilb ex-

impression in some quarters-by| The Gurelle Contains the fore in this ant-besp of ours. As. Оле

would have been more traordinary power republic's leading delegates to the Conference, Dr. Wang no means ill-informed that the Chung hui. Dr. Wang, Chief Justice of the Supreme Government is contemplating the following financial statement for we've all sold ourselves uncen appalled than Marx by the deeds persons, and particularly to young Court of China. is probably the country's leading jurist lapsing of the Ordinance instead the month of November, 1921, sciously. - "Dividend

to-day. Marx was the Mad) who have found themselves at the Judas got his thirty pieces of Mullah of Socialista. How then outret of life imperfectly and one of Liang Shib-yis first acts when he recently of renewing its application for as issued by the Hongkong are now ready and may committed in his name in Russia men of energy, and imagination succeeded to the Premiership was to nominate Dr. Wang there is any solid ground for that

further twelve months. Whether Balance of Assets

silver: Faust had Marguerite.shall we describe the madness of educated, ill-equipped, and caught as Minister of Justice, doubtless with an eye to the visit of impression we cannot say, but it

What's your price? But you his Bolshevist disciples? Com-into hopeless wigs slavery in 31st. Oct. 1921. $6,989,521.34 keep me here at this corner tryingpared wi' lots of these, Mars was oor existing economic system. the international judicial commission. It is not certain at might not be

your dumnest best to clog up my mild and innocuous.

They realise in their own persona the moment whether Dr. Wang will accept, as, apparently, of season to point out that

30th. Nov. 1921, 1,650,605.94 mind wi' your stupid rumours Marxism is capable of many the social injustice, the stupid he is dissatisfied with the steps for reforraing China's the cred for the conting-

and silly lies and me just fair interpretations. That's how very negligence, the colossal incivility ance of the Ordinance legal system. It will be remembered that last year he went

8649,533.28 itching to get away and play often it is something terribly of our system; they realise exists every bit as much to-day

hookey from it all!

Insalted Bod vague and ill-defined. Marxism that they are to Geneva to represent China at the League of Nations as it did when the Ordinance was

1,921/389.97 God's Out-of-doors. Ist to Nov. 1931.

icdeed, in order to stand on its sacrificed

and by it;

they assembly. While in Canada, cu route to Europe. he was first introduced. It is quite true

Sitting on you seat on Kennedy own legs, has been supplied wi'a devote themselves to break it and reported to have criticised the Anglo-Japanese alliance that in the meantime there bas

Balance,

6,728143.31 Road, I couldna' but help wonder-superflaity of artificial limbe, emancipate themselves from it and the Lausing-Ishii agreement, but it transpired that been a great deal of building

ing on the effect our thoughts have which, however, never make its No insidious propaganda is need- the views attributed to him were those of that industrious activity; indeed, it would be in-

There is also contained in the over our bodies. Far ower much appearance more attractive or its ed to make such tabela; it is the teresting to know just how many

faults of a system this hall- publicist. Mr. Lennox Simpson. Subsequently Dr. Wang houses have been completed with. Gazette an interesting compar- effort is made, I often think, to foothold more secure.

Marx was a man of keep sodaducates and then enslaves them proceeded to Washington, where, with Mr. Alfred Sze and in the twelve months, but that expenditure for the period up to out of life and reduce all things massive brain, but as

ative statement of revenue and squeeze every shred of romance

his which bave created the Commun- Dr. Wellington Koo," he headed the Chinese delegation at there is still a greater demand for November 30th last year. This to what we are pleased to call devotees forget, he had like the ist movement wherever indus

his plain facts.rut shows total revenue of $15,877,659) commonsense or

of us.

limitations.trialism has developed. There man by the number of people who are and expenditure of $13,639,782. Again, the value we set on pos. The

who sits down would have been Marxists if Marz Dr. Wang has now returned to his own country, and, still searching in vain for suitable was estimated that the revenue session is rather & sad fact, and to evolve a system that shall be had never lived. interviewed at Shanghai, he stated that the Conference, accommodation. On the Peak

It is not that Marx would be $15,336,350. Worthy of I often wonder whether it is the last word on the considerations as a gathering of independent Powers, had done every-there has been a building boom nose is the fact that included in born wit as or if we are only that shall govern buman society, was profoundly wise, but that our thing it could to help China. in the treaty relating to this year; at Kowloon there has the

&eam of turned to think that way because is merely siming at the moon and economic system has been stupid, Shantung says Dr. Wang, China gets back practically all been greater building activity $1,443,583 from land sales, com- everybody else does the same very apt to fall in the midden. saliab, wasteful, and anarchistic the rights in the province bitherto claimed by Japan. The all this there is not enough room

than ever before, yet in spite of pared with an estimate of Admitting that we canna all It has been tried again and again The Communistic organisation concessions made to Japan he describes as comparatively for those who desire flats or res- $300,000.

live in Arcadia, that as things and basas' been better done by bas provided for this angry-re- unimportant, as the Japanese traffic manager and co-idences of their own.

The expenditure was estimated are we must all have the ne. Marx than by the rest. He may calcitrance certain shibboleths much enthusiasm and passwords; Workers of the to be $17,349,150, but sa resa cessary food and clothes and command accountant who are to officiate for a period of five years speaking only for European above, is was much lower than shelter to start wi, still it's a among men of single-facet of World unite, and so forth. It will be subject to the orders of a Chinese managing-director. bouses, and

one that figure. In this connection it terrible pity that we give so little single-track minds but among bas scgg and to them an iden to consider tae So much for the Shantung question that has agitated the

is interesting to natice that of own man-made, man-filled thinking folk who try to see si of great conspiracy against matter from the Chinese Far East for upwards of half a dozen years.

Public Works Extraordinary were time to the beautiful things that sides of a subject, and believe human happiness concocted by a, point of view there is even more estimated to involve su ontlay of surround us everywhere in God's that the greatest good of the mysterious bɔdy of "wicked men Regarding the Washington proceedings as a whole, convincing evidence that rents Dr Wang is stila bopeful. Viewing the Conference must still be restricted if this $4,967,400, but that the sam spent out-of-doors. If we would only greatest number isna to bs found called capitalists. For is this [was only $2,197,595; whilst on an once in a while try to raise our in a formula, he can never be mentally enfeebled world in from a positive standpoint (he. from the standpoint of Colony is going to be spared estimated expenditure of 6845,343 node off our particular grindstone, relied upon as trustworthy which we live to-day conspiracy

repetition of the rent-raising orgy

mania on one side finds its echa what it has accomplished) and not from a negative one which preceded the introducir only $526,647 was spent by the We groan because we have to guide (what it has not done), Dr. Wang considers that it was a of the Ordinance. Some land- Imports sad Exports Department. toil all day trying to make! Oh, my, yes, Marxism is pretty on the other, and it is hard to

money, which we either fall to far from home when it's got the persuade a Marzist that capita general success, and that China has greatly benefited. lords have openly stated that they

make, or else find it spent before length of the Canton delta.lists are in their totality no more He has the wisdom to see that it reate with his own are only waiting for the Ordin-

we bass time to realise its pos- Among the halfbaked and the than a scrambling disorder of country to reap the foll measure of these advantages. His ance to lapse before they raise

session. We must work toil for illiterate a little of Kari can go a mean-spirited and short-sighted their rents. In view of these message to his compatriots deserves to be reproduced: "It facts, we do hope that the ramour

what our Devil has promised- long way in the making of men. And the Communist pro- is for China and her, citizens, with this start, to become which we heard is entirely false in the south have learned that lives; if at least we wouldna be Government will see to it that the and disinherited spirits together Peking's secret service agents for the greater part of our debacle. I trust that the Canton paganda has knitted all the angry united and make China strong, develop her politically and and that residents of this Colony the Canton Government has given a drag on others, but wi' it all we Marxists within their gate are into world-wide organisation economically, for iu due course the rights which we have will continge to get the protecan order to an Americad firm for never realise the beauties and not allowed to exploit the ignor of revolt and hope-formless, not obtained at Washington will surely revert to us at tion of the Government. It will 12 aeroplanes, these to be deliver- luxuries that lie within our means ance of the peopls and that the though that hope proves to be

skin of their neck is not permitted examination. It has chosen some later date." Many Westerners have said this. Will decide when to remove the re-ed within six mouths. A protest if we could only see them. China give beed now that the words are spoken by one of striction, but the time has not is being entered by Peking with all the silver ses is ours,

the U. B. Legation. her eminent SODS?

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1922.

A CHINA DELEGATE ON THE CONFERENCE.

the Conference.

so very much

houses than the supply is proved

comes

when

That is

doubtless be a difficult matter to

come yet.

COLONY'S FINANCES.

Treasury:-

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Revenue from 1st. to

Expenditure

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CANTON'S ORDER FOR AEROPLANES.

warrants

And all the scented air,

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to

become too thick. Otherwise, for its prophet and red good night, for broad maloos, dolour,

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