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HONGKONG, 23rd Dec., 1922,
PEACE ON EARTH-
ideal that ever was-peace on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922.
DAY BY DAY.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. Machhter.
chimes borne on the`sir to the window of familiar room. There will be memories, again, of THE GREATEST GREATNESS. the Yuletides of the War of AND THE ONLY TREE GREATNESS billets. of burried leave in IN THE WORLD IS THE UNSELFISH Blighty, or of the mud and blood LOVE AND SERVICE AND SELF. I'm just about through wi` Joe the oat when the Issi-named and DEVOTION TO ONE'S FELLOW-|for a while. Fact. This sort of mush overworked benatis waana" of Flanders.
thing has got to stop, I tell you leading the r-a-t an awfu*lifa. In But these are mostly sad
it's every man for himself and you course of time my first primar thoughts, and we do nɔt desira to
believe me, I'd a lot sooner he stated other curious facts. "The engender sadness in our readers'
reading other folk's stuff than Apple is Red" was one of them, I worrying about what you think o”, can mind, and “The Round Ball mine.
MAN.
The next issue of The Hongkong Telegraph will be on Boxing Day.
Cap: G. D. Meredith, M.C., is to be adjutant vice Major G. H.A Reproach Removed. Bagnall, DS.O.
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hearts. Let us all decide to makei the most of our opportunity of forgetting, for a while, if we can. the worries of life, and strive to impart to those around us some- Įthing of the Christmas feeling as well. Most of us have exper- ienced the exile's Christmas, and found in it much of that joyful.
One man fell overboard from the. J.CJ.L. vessel Tjimanoes ce3s which should attend
* during the voyage from Soorabais season of good cheer. So let it be again. To all our readers,} Several naval officers left be therefore, we extend our very the 1.9. Mentor yesterday, includ. best wishes for a happy Christing Lieup. W. St. A. Malleson, mastide, with no regrets and a merry
beart throughout.
Blood Red.
Can Roll." In short, this intrigu-- ing and uninspiring volume wis a Reader and it taught me to It's all very well for Joe, read. I'll admit that there as He's got it into his head that I'm nothing very thrilling abomu ha Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher C.M.G. a kind of writing machine, a slot exclamation "See the Man Run.“
resumed has
duty [in which a very small idea is in- All men run at some time or other, serted to come out four columns at times faster than others. A Clerk of Councils.
long at the other end. Oh ay, great deal depends who is chasing [saya be, the đầy before yesterday, them. Nevertheless, it was foe you'll have to be giving us some to be able to read it for oneself. Christmas stuff for this week-end, The Round Bali Can Roll" said ils thinks that all I've got my book. Well, the boy that time for is to sit down and ask doesna" know that at the age of you if you never thought that|four may as well be a dandelion the bells on Christmas Day for all the good he's ever likely to have a different sound somehow.ce, but all the same to read it was He has a motion, I think, that all something different to hearing a chap has to do is to have a good is bourit. Tishowed that books could Lieut C. R. A. Wallis, RG...ook at the cover of the Telegraph talk as well as my Aunt Mary. has been struck off the local com Christmas Annual and then pro- They were equasily as informative mand on posting to 2ad. Medium Ceed to go into ecstasies about wit the added advantage that how the pale light of the Star fell they didos' use the business end Brigade.
down in silver rays on the Wise of a brass timble to drive the Men carrying their gifts. He knowledge bome. forgets of the convenient festival
V.C.
week hence called New Year's Reading. Day and how, until quite recently. From that time on then, life" Christmas Day in Scotland was for me was a crowded affair. I treated wi' austerity, nay regard-spel: through everything that
Abous and For's
ed in the conventional form of the business centre of the town. She p.m. од December 25th benighted soul North of the mare what knowledge I now
"
me
Nowhere can we make a better
Such artistic tastes as we hap pen to possess have been sadly the World Theatre at 445 and
"The Storm" is being show outraged of late by the transfor-19.15 pm. to-day and again at the mation taking place on tbe
same hours to-morrow (Sunday). exterior of the old Bank of Canton
*** premises just across the way from MARRIAGE.
our office. The place is being Amongst the passengers whed but little removed from a came my way from the Stock repainted, prior to occupation by arrived by the Empress of Asia Pagan feast. Our friends further Breeders SCOTT-CORY.—At the Union bor tenants, but the colour were Mr. and Mrs, W. R. Buck South do differently and rejoice Martyrs to the Linkcundoddis Church, on December 2ad.. by selected is the most scarlet hue berrough and Mr. W. Anderson.
unashamed. Nowadays, it is Herald and the Free Kirk Mes- the Rev. J. K M. Douglas, S.we have ever yet encountered. It
true, we give ourselves a holiday, senger. In those days there were Scott, of Hongkong to Margaret this is the Entl tint, all we can
when no one else happens to be no comic papers and I believe it M. Cory, of Chicago.
The 8.s. Delta, with militars working, but, our rigorous up is badoa' been for the Mechanica' say is that it is sufficiently up-reliefs, is due bere on January bringing prevents ps in some de-Library, I'd have run off to sex setting either to cause us a violent 15:h. She is due to leave on the gree from entering into the spirit much sooner than I did. It was bilious attack or to inflame our following day with details for of the minds to the commission of some North China.
$3000. The ancient there then, that I ran through bloodthirsty deed. The building}
Obristmas customs which bave Scott and Burns and had the at the present moment has all the
made the season picturesque in most glorious End of my life. The King's Equatur em other lands have not always been That was a thick 800 pago book appearance of the beadquarters of the Red movement, and if we powering Mr. Seiichi Takahashi rs; we have always taken our called Sewards Narrative"
Mind ye, that kind of Treasure Island, Swiss suspected the presence of Como act as Consul General for gifts sadly! munists in this Colony we should Japan at Hongkong has receive: Christmas in Scotland is com. Family Robinson and Robinson instinctively tern to this spot asj
His Majesty's signature.
memorated in a way unknown Crusoe rolled in one. I got to their meeting-place. Is it nobody's i
Thirty or forty years ago, goes reading in bed by candlelight of Įbusiness to prevent eyesores ofthis
опе without saying. To this extent a night and on In connection with the A.D.Che observance removes us from occasion I nearly set the boure ill-fated kind? The Government is very production of "The Tempest" o We write this almost on the meticulous, absurdly so, regarding Boxing Night, we are asked to
be reproach that Scotland is the foo fire and my Aunt out o' her · eve of Christmas Day, which to the prohibition of flashing electric state that as the auditorium willy white man's country in wits at the same tire.
which Christmas is no recognised. o many millions in the world signe, sky signs and advertise be in complete darkness during
Shortly after that saw me si`. the engineering and far from symbalises the coming of thements on sampan sails, on the the progress of the storm which A Seasonable Gift.
score that they offend public immediately precedes the Ballet
home and I took to frequeating Prince of Peace. The quotation taste. Then what has it to say of the Waves, patrons are asked to It is to English literature the bookstalls. Το this day. that immediately flashes into about a scarles-coloured frontage be in their seats puactualis at 9.15 though, we owe mostly all that the Janet, ane has the greatest dită- S. MOUTRIE & CO, LTD. one's mine embodies the greatest in one of the Colony's main pm.
season means to us. It is between culty in getting me past, one, streets? Apart from giving an
covers that we get the hamaly All this is, of course, a wee bit impression of chespass to the
rbyme which holds the imagina-beyond the pain! but what "I'm- earth, and goodwill to all men city, making it resemble some receipt of telegraphic information wayside. It is Milton, Tennyson, books I'd maybe have been feed- The Pacific Mail S.S. Co. is intion in carola.sung by the wintry trying to stress is that without Happy those who can experience lowly continental quarter, this to the effect that the President Browning, and Dickens who have ing sheep to-day." Schooling to the fulfilment of the wish expressaltogether out of place right in 5
!new form of decoration is Lincola
is due here abou made Christmas what is to the ma was just one solid night-
will be greeting at this season of the It is hideous in the extreme. We for San Francisco via Manila, man.
despatched Tweed--if no' to the average possess we conveyed to year, and base a really happy or wish we could forge: all about it. Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohams an
through reading. And in this That's just what I say. Joe connection I might say the same merry Christmas. Most of the but, unhappily, the spectacle Honolula, on December 27th. at he tbioks
confronts us each and every time p.m.
Je can keep on about Christmas, for outside o' those who read these lines will we come from or go to the office
grinding and grinding, churning books the auld Queen's Birthday up the straw as Carlyle said. But was every bit as important. be, perhaps, in that fortunate and we are getting simcat un
Local cinema patrons will have it's got to stop. I want to enjoy In Poem and Prose. position: but to all of us at this perved by the experience. It's
like "seeing blood." Look out, their last opportunity of seeing myself wi' the next and as my time must come the thought of or one of these days, we may do Douglas Fairbank's film version idea of enjoyment is reading, and those tens of thousands whose something really rash!
of "The Three Musketeers” dur-then more reading, he'll just have fetart on the subject than wi” that ing the week-end. The Coronet's to turn Gadily and some o' bis Prince of Puritans, John Milton. circumstances will bring to thero Busy Bolshies.
Christmas week attraction--and | pals on to this page of a Saturday In the "Ode to the Nativity" he Do change for the better, no joy!
what more fitting choice could | and give me a chance to have shows us in bis foe, but kinda's. There was an interesting cable have been made-is to be a mental feed once every of any kind, no peace or feelings amongst yesterday's batch of screen version of Little Lord while. What'll be his loss will be Pagan mythology before the man
weebigh-faluting way, the flight of ot goodwill. To the starving, wires to the effect that a pro Fauntleroy." featuring
Marrother's gain and as this is the faith. The shepherds are chat harried refugees of Asia Minor,gramme for adapting Bolshevism Pickford.
season of giving. what better ting in a rustic row- to the sick and needs, and to the to Indian conditions, prepared by
could be do than give everyone Perhaps their loves or else a notorious Indian Communist! Jesperate unemployed, December living in Berlin, is to be submitted
allround a good rest? 45, I
their sheep It is notified that a competitive agree wi' your "hear, hear" but Was all that did their silly 25th. will menn only one more to the Indian National Congress examination for the Indian Civil what was a body to do?
thoughts so basy keep. Hay of agony, one more span in next week. We are not concern. Service, open to all qualified per
ed with the details of the scheme, sous, will be held in London in more interesting and then maybe their talk and heralds the coming
Now let's talk of something
The heavenly music breaks loon heir hopelers struggle against which are far too visionary for August, 1923, and that copies of finish up on a nice Christmas of the Baba. It was the same adversity. The threat of strife serious notice, but the matter bss the regulations, syllabus of ex-
As the most interesting teams on the horizon of many a some importance as showing the amination, and forms of applica-thing about ony man is himself so we were taught at school in
up by the and as I never was one that
the 37th Paraphrase: man's vision, and will chill the attempts that are being made to tion to be filled
introduce
While insidious and candidates may be seen
pretended to be out of the ordinar," hearth of many a home this dangerous cult into Asiatic application at the Colonial Secre- harena' the least objection to Christmastile. It is & Bad countries. it is not withouttary's office.
oblige. Next to myself, books are reflection that, at period interest, either. that this Indian
the most interesting things I agitator should be working from
know, excepting, of course those when
turn Germany, as was the emissary of Rugby, as a game, is not given I get to review. That's where Joe more closely to the doctrine Dr. Sun Yat-san whose commun nearly the prominence out bere aye shows a great deal of discern. It was minus, of course, the Mil- of the Apostle of Peace, ications to his chief we exposed it deserves. True, there is the ment; he takes all the new novels tonic, thundering story of bow the some little time back. Men of surual triangular tournament) and leaves me wi' the kind about old Dragon was vanquished. Such the very land where His disciples the stamp of these mischief- between the Club, the Navy and Mining.io China, Guide books is the tribute of Purita first sowed the seed thit tookmakera should not be given the Army for the Cap, but the and the like.
Leaving a century or two root and flourished, despite the asylum in any country unless attendance at these matches is
behind, we come to Tennyson, to greatest odde, should now be the they refrain from political pro- never large and there is some-
My First Book.
whom the season is also one of paganda aimed at undermining thing like & fever spot where Hatred
general apathy and the authority of other Govern- towards the game on the part my Uncle at Linkcumdoddie.1 after a better world. In one When I was a birboy living wit promise of great things, of striving jealousy hold sway.
ments, and we could only wish of the public.. It is a pity can mind fine o' my first reading memorable posm be pictures the To us in the Far East who find that the Germans would keep a that such an attitude should be lesson. It was on afsney colored quiet countryside wi' ila "single
birds of this maintained, for all who know the card, the A. B. C. on one church below the bil bat temporary home in this feather. But, unfortunately, there glories and excitements of the picture o clock folded in the mist." Then follow land, there come memories of are innumerable German Com rugger "game realise what it is handles on the other. It the now familiar yerses Ring past Yuletides, when we recked manists, both in their own country that the general public are considered the thing in those out wild bells: the bells which and in Russia, who would en- missing. The challenge which days no to send hair to there to ring out darkness and gigs. not of the future and lived for courage activities of this order Shanghai has sent down has been school before they could say their and to ring in bege and gradals the happiness of the moment rather than otherwise. However, accepted, and, as we said above, A. B. C. Now the children can tion. We may smile it the memories of family gatherings, with the lesson of Russia before we hope that & strong team will neatly read, before they know changes brought by the inter- them, we should be more than by got together and sent to the their letters which is the more vening years, the disappointments of reunions. of holly
and surprised were any considerable northern part, if possible to bring interesting way. Ay, kindergar- aud disenchantments, but hope la mistletoe and all the apporter, body of people in the Eist to be honoure back with them. We ten as a system wasna' invented left to us.siill and the new world ances to a fit celebration of the deceived by the vapourings of bear that. rogger" code is more when I was a boy, so I had first is not to be made in generation.
these hot-beaded fanatics. occasion. To mang there comej
popular in Shanghai than here to thumb my way through as
F Browning also wrote of the and that there is particular keen-innocent-looking book, wi' red chapel standing at the edge of the thoughts of dear ones thousands "Rugger."
nese in the northern port regard-covers, which started in to tell common on Christmas Eve, ļof miles away, of some well- We sincerely hope that the ing the forthcoming interport, me, after many attempts, that Bat Christmas lives for the remembered scene, maybe the efforts now being made to get a Perheps, the raising of the game cat spelt cat. After learning average men in the works of our ofd village church in its peaceful strong Rugby fifteen together to hers to the interport status will off by heart the names of most prose writers. Maybe the first of represent the Colony in Shanghai conducs to a little more interest three letter animals, it after these is Weblogton Irving whose setting on a misty Christmas in February will be successful being taken in it. We sincerely a bit got quite frisky to the extent delightful Sketch Book will morn, and the sound of the sweet for we have long since felt that hope so.
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