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at heart. He was "endowed with courage, light-heartedness and energy, and fairness and frankness marked all his den)- ings. A truly great son of si
DAY BY DAY.
THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEBT,
The Garrison School swimming!
country with a great past; one sports are to be held at the V.R.C. who aimed to give her an even on Wednesday next at 2 pm. greatar future. The hope of all who wish Ching well will be that
The official rate of the dollar she may soon reap the harvest of for the month of July, 1922, on pesos and prosperity be worked the China Station, will be 28. 70. so assiduously to hasten.
Between Ourselves.
By Robt., MacWhirter.
from
Laat week-end I got to think- Jis a very surly savage invention ing about yon sad business at and was used to call the malea Stonecattars and bow Mr. of the tribe or community, to Koight jumped off the launch to council. Anyhow, whether I was try and save the poor chap. You's Greek or a naked aboriginal I was contage right anough. Man, associate in some terrible way I'd give anything to be able to do the sound of the diabola wi' some a thing like that. I think I by-gone summons it's different
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À number of small landslides come to that later on for I'm in rest. But it's terribly real to me. jent wrote us yesterday regarding!
Jos says this hig by following familiar lines the throwing of Brewerk bombs have been reported form the the mood to be terribly serious for all that.
picture at the Coronat touches of construction. It demand-in Kowtoon. The protest has Castle Peak district between this week.
on the same theme. Lat that be Thursday King Kau and Teing Nung Tao.
Courage.
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not the first time
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HONGKONG, 24th Júne, 1922.
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The explosions could be umed the duties of G.5.0.(II)ng Sir
Andrews University Rectorial Another thing I never did like He is a Royal Engineer.
Address on thinsame subject. Man, and that is being out in the And the Remington Port-before.
heard over a very wide ares in
The greeny-blue able is successful--because it the peninsula, and, as our cor-
son bit be read gave us about moonlight. The police have received re- Scott's last letter was terribly radiance always brings me in is different.
respondent remarked, they werai particularly startling to young ports of a number of minor gripping. And I see that Dean mind of a night centuries ago. It and other luge has published a lecture is bitterly cold and I am on children. There were really two robberies of cash spells-ona at about 18.30 and valuables, as well as one case of on "The Victorian Age" which is horseback. I canna' see my face another just on midnight, by highway robbery, Chinese being nothing more or less than an or the likeness of the half-dozen essay on critical'courage. I don't others that are wi' me. But my. which time most folk were in bed. the victims.
know rightly which of the two, it is cold, and I'm afraid. What We have reason to believe that the offenders were European
His Excellency the Officer Ad-the physical courage or mental off, I don't know. The borse is Some anxious too and keeps twitching young men, and we trust tha: ministering the Government has courage, is the greater. yesterday's letter and these observations will come to their appointed Ma Sai On to be folk when they think they are its ears and wanting to go back- Forest Officer for the control critically contageons are mazaly ward all the time. I have a notice. There are young people and superintendance of the forests impertinent. I'm given that way long kind o' cloak around me nod in Kowloon who have not even of the Colony.
myself at times. After all, it we often pass ander trees. On takes no great deal of nerve to sit the left of the picturs is the sea, elementary knowledge of common
back and criticise the Govern- calm and bright. Is it robbers mancers, and whose conception of enjoyment appears to be the Capt and B-Major R. Brent, or some poor devil at I am afraid of? I don't know CAD remember annoyance of other people. These Young, Sherwood Foresters, has Canton. If only half were said for 1 anver bomb-throwers are in that class. now ceased to perform the duties to the man next door we would onything else.
B nice, fat black eye Sounds like bit of George THE LATE DR. WU.
They are even worse than the folk of G.S.O. (II) and resumes the have
us Borrow's "Bible in Spalo." Maybe who make night bideous with duties of G.3.0. (III) in place of coming to us. And serve
right We often think that our it is or a bit of a waking dream. jamborees carried on until the Lieut. H. R. Dopovan, RGA. There is peculiar sadness in the early morcing. If they don't |
courage is the courage of our Who knową? I don't. You leuab? fact that a man like Dr. Wu Ting-know it, we can tell them that The Governor-in-Council has convictions. If some o' as bad Langh and barst yoursell. It's fang, whose whole life was spent they are liable to prosecution for appointed that the area, Inland the number of convictions we all true enough to me. That's their unruly behaviour. And we Lot No. 2384, between the two think we have, we'd spend most of why I never walk abroad of in the very highest service of his shouldn't be in the least degree hundred and thres hundred feet our worthless lives in gaol. No, our moonlight nights onyway. country, should have been saori-sorry if one of these nights the contours on the slopes of Mount courage must also be the courage Or Merely a Dream? ficed to the impossible schemes police were to rope some of them Caroline, be a site of a permanent of common ease. If that was
Another queer thing about my- In the interests of public cemetery for the unidentified vic-the only kind o' courage we could, of a visionary. Yet that is peace and quietude in the resid-tims of the 1918 Race Course show there would be fewer heroes 'self and I'm finished. Wheneve
going around, mind I'm telling ye. I'm ill never feel that I'm really what has happened. With some-ential areas of Kowloon, it's about disaster..
on the mend until I've had a thing like a childlike faith, the time some definite action were
A Serious Business.
great, big drink of cold, clear takeo late Dr. Wa believed that Suo
The Government proposes less Of course, a lot of what we call water. And it's got to be a big Yat-sen was destined to be the An Atrocious Crime. ing certain portions of the fore-courage is merely the con-drink and the larger the vessel I of the better I'm liberator of China from 15% Words cannot well express the shore and sea bed at Shaukiwan, comitant of physical well-being, drink out thralldom of militarism and cor- sense of calamity at the atrocious comprising about 9.300 square None of us have any time for the pleased. The last time I was in ruption and he so wished to be deed which ended the life of feet. The Crown rent is to be at large lamp that's eye putting out, bospital Sister simply shrieked Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. the rate of $250 per acre per a-his chest and socking the wee aloud laughing at the size of the identified with such a movement in the individual sense it has cutum and the lessee is to erect fallow one on the jaw. I mind empty glass jug at my bedside. that he was content to forego the short the life of a highly dis-buildings of a value of not less once in Liverpool seeing one of The reason for it? Well, I don't. peace and quiet of the retired tinguished Irish officer, and one than $10,000 on the lot within these big stiffs catching it from know. I see myself in an age life that should have been his, who had resigned leading oaths from the date of grant of bit shaver o a lad, nearly ten before clothes were fashionable hands high and weighing about and when most avery one painted appointment in the Army to
counting the their bodies and practised private Despite his age, he was mentally assist in the pacification of bis
ia his pocket. I'd murder wi' eath siasm and skill. alert and ever active in wha: he native country. In the political We have received from the watch
describe the I'm a very sick man. I don't thought was a good caust The sphere, there are fears that the British American Tobacco Combattle, for I had a personal io-know whether I'm wounded or
ibiquitoua act may lead to pany a very attractive calendar pity of it is that be ploned his reprisals in Ulster, and in any for 1922, entitled The Vanities."terest in the affair, me afterwards merely have the tummy-ache, but faith to a man who proved case it will introduce further and also an ingenious hand-fan being laid out cold with an empty for a long time I've lain in the beer boule. But this is a serious undergrowth. I can bear water CAB be propelled to be so shallow and unpractical, complications into a long-stand-which
article. No, mind ye, but what it running. For a while I never peculiarly dicalt between tbe fore-finger and
was serious enough getting seven heed, whether from waskness or so full of self-aggrandisement, so in and
just problem
KY signs thumb. It is extremely doomed to ride to a fall. Dr. Fu were becoming more hopeful. effective little contrivance and stitches in your head. forbye fear, I know not. By and by I wakening apin a police station. start crawling in the direction of saw, as few Chinese men have Assassination has always been takes but the minimum of energy.
As I was saying, I've often the gargling sound. I come to a seen, the necessity for China to held in special abhorrence in To purchasers of five tins of
England, and the circumstances Westminster Specisis" at the wondered what would happen if river and after a careful look adopt the best that the West of the present case render the B.A.T. office, the Company will were ever called upon to do round I bend over and drink and something that required real drink and drink till I'm at to could teach her. He grew im- crime as dastardly an act as present one of these fans gratis.
courage. That's the worst o' hav-fburst After which I withdraw patient with the corruptions of could be imagined. It must be
ing & cursed imagination. Ye live again into the bushes, content The B. I. steamer Arratoon the ordeal a hundred times before and feeling that it's only "ques- the old Manchu regime and help-supposed that the two assassins, who appear to be members
that Apcar, which for nearly thirty it has time to get your length. tion of time until I'm on my feet ed in its overthrow, he resisted of the the efforts of Yao Shib-kai to organisation says they were not years has been running between And yet hundreds of thousands of again and running about assume a dictatorship and he LR.A. "regulars"), belonged to the Japan and India, is to be sold our lads had to go through usual. No, I uaver see my face. atrove for honesty is adminstra irreconcilable republicans, whose The vessel was built in 1896, for this same thing. underneath I might be a red Indian for Lat
rabid partisanship degenerates the Chion Mutual Steamship Co-creaming lumps o' iron, before know. This scene might also be tion. He was reponsible for the into insensate ferocity against being christened the Hyson. She they passed the bar of their own a dream, a tiny splinter of onyway. ·IE I very first railway built in China, those working for the country's sold to the Apear firm in conscience, and acted the way delirium left behind. I'm no was, I hope I can tell a he strongly advocated trial by good upon different and saner 1899, when she was given her they did. I take off my hat to telling lies
lines. That nothing might be present name. The B. I. S. N. them, everyone of them.
better oue than that. And I jury even back in Mouarchical wanting to the atrocity, the Co., which is now associated with
don't need ony more water wi' days; he Ister encouraged the murderers perpetrated their foul the P. and O. purchased her in Is it Memory?
I dinna want to keep writing it either for I've been on the tack municipal improvements which crime just as the Field-Marshal 1911. The length of the Arrstoon
had retorned fron unveiling aApcar is 125 feet, her beam 48 about something I know nothing this fortnight back, in fact ever have been carried out in Canton.memorial to the Great Eastern feet and her grows tonnage is about but at times I can since the cook stole the remains
help thinking that a lot of our of our last bottle o' and, in a recunt talk to the Railway employees who fell in 4,510 tons.
mental attributes at least, spring whisky. writer, was particularly anxious the war. It is tragic indeed that
from previous existence from
Or Simply Sheer Nonsense? that foreign assistance should be a distinguisbed, soldier who bad
survived many perils in the field from my observations, I would say the times we were in the world
But seriously, what do you given to the building of wide mi had attained, bas of the that the recent military turmoil before. Like Jos, you laugh and motor roads throughout China. bighest military posts should and political upheaval have had maybe think me crazy. Mind make of it onyway? Is it all' He realised that China had to have his life thas terminated at little effect on the general mass, ye, I don't absolutely believe that sheer nonsense or do you think the comparatively early age of These millions of Dueducated've been in the world before, there might be something in it? shake off her drowsiness of the fifty-eight. The black crime was people continued about their daily I've only, because of certain Faycho-analysis is much talked got this idea about and practised nowadays. pset and he gave his life in a increased by the action of the toil during the civil strife as memories,
my bead. It may Lots of folk are supposed to be in firing at their though the entire country was at into cause which he was convinced assassina
what affects discovering something fresh about would lead to better conditions pursuers, through which, accord-peace. China is an enigma." Dr. just be that
ing to опе report. con Soll, it may be presumed, only me at times, are only the frag themselves all the time. Apart for the people as a whole. Astable's life also was lost. In all saw the Chinese at the Treaty mente of dreams, the result of from that which we do know about not Ports, and it is not surprising that reading or sheer superstitions ourselves, truly so awful aggrega- widely-read scholar, kindly and the circumstances, it is courteous, he was ever ready to astonishing to read that the he should have found them work- imagination. But there they aetion of conflicting motives, ten- crowd was with difficulty pre-ing there as usual, these places And because of them, I've ndencies, hereditary traits and the kive bis aid and counsel invented from inflicting summary being onleids the war anger Still, idea that I can never really be influences of environment, isn't critical times. His life would justice upon the miscreants. his remark agrees with what has conrageous, at least in a physical there room, don't you suppose. for powerful motives to prelomin been found to happen in Obine sense. indeed make a model for the rest China's Masses.
For instance, when I first heard ate at times caused by forces of generally. Perbaps oloser ío- of his countrymen, especially to
Dr. Solf "gives it up." The spection would show that the the buzzing, whining sound of a which we know nothing? Isn't those-alas, all too many-who
former German Colonial 8-masses are not so untouched by diabola my stomach threed right it possible that these silly imagin- seek position and power to cretary, who recently paid the military and political events, over and I felt like putting my inge of mine may just be a further their own vainglorious visit to Shanghai Hankow and though. In some respects the fingers in my ears and running glimpse of things through the annases have lately been found away. I'd read, I think it was backdoor of my individual history. Indeed, he ende. In spite of the forlorn hope Peking, has found Chins
enigms. "Chins is a colossus,very responsiva to new influences. something by Andrew Lang I'm no so, sure. with which he was identified politically and economically, with Do Westerners look for a trans-about the bail-roster, and the would be a fool nowadays who when he died, Dr. Wo's career untold sources of development," formation too quickly, consider wicked sound of the diabole just was sure of onything. May not "What the future of the lng Chins's size? The Unchang seems to fit what I imagine was our philanthropy, our misantro- stands out above all others in he says.
country will be--whether unity ing East" certainly is changing. the summons of the ball-rester,phy, our fears, our courage, be a modern China, for be spent his will come out of the present fac-But when will the new structure which, when it is whirled in the legacy handed down the ages 1
They tell me that this instrument (Continued on Page 7-) time and means without stint to tional strife only a prophet can assume, tangible abaps 7--that is st-produces a loud roaring doise. further the ideals he had so much tell; and I am no prophet. But, the enigma/
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