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FRIDAY, MAY 18,
to brigandags as a matter of course," so that the policy has bean to keep them mobilised as long as possible-until they `de-
DAY BY DAY.
TRAMPS AND HALTS,
LEEDS GOLF CONTEST,
HALF THE MISERY OF HUMAN Memories of a Wanderer
in Hongkong.
sert in a large body and do i
LIFE MIHT BE EXTINGUISHED, WOULD MEN ALLEVIATE THE little campaigning on their own, | GENERAL. CURRE THXY LIE
as at Linchong. Finally, thers UNDER, BY MUTUAL OFFICES OF is the grave question of China's COMPASSION, BENEVOLENCE AND
MANITY,--Addison. Enacces în general, including ber
the
Yesterday's health return shows five cases of small-pox and one of plague and enteric. The last named was Japanese; the reat Chinese.
(BY "FIRMSPEAR").
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Inability to meet faraigu loan Congratulations to Mr. A. A. time for me to call a halt. No obligations. One of the pro-Alves on his good fortune inger can I indulge in those Гроек made
China winning $18,000 in this month's tramping expeditions that led me Association meeting is that there IC.S. bonds draw.
wandering through Hongkong and the New Territories. Now be a funding loan under foreign
days it is the bathing costume control in order to place the
and towel, packed away in that country's fionaces on a sound
ubiquitous bamboo band-bankol, instead of the stout shoes, thick basin The American Associa
Malacca cane, and knapsack that tion of Shanghai is believed to
were my frequent companions be moving along similar lines, in
from November to April. (bringing these suggestions befora In four cases of pocket-picking
Lying back in an easy chair in the Central district yesterday, this sultry evening, and looking Powers are cure to fall in with ed three arrests, the sums in-like sentinels about Happy Valley the proposal for concerted action, volved ranging from one dollar to that aptly named spot where op The China Association is of opin. $55.
one band ring the shouts of joyous multitude at play and on MUSTARD & Co in that foreign intervention
the otherreigusthe sternal silence would be welcomed by the Chi--
Two highwaymen stopped of the dead-I look back, in regret shopkeeper living at No. 11 Upful contemplation, to the cooler nese officials and a large section par Station Road, yesterday days that bave passed: but the of the public. Certainly, any morning, on a pathway leading pleasure they brought me lives or sensible Chinese should realise to Conduit Road. When he was to span the sweltering months
released he was minus his long in prospect the advantages that foreigo action could bring to his country in place of the chaos which the present administration bas been proved incapable of remedying.
tion to
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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 18th May, 1923.
MORE CONTROL REQUIRED.
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Is there a yard of the hill roads I do not know, a foot of the bridle The Tai Mo Shan Association, wracks and forestry paths I have composed of Hongkong and not trod, an inviting bank I have Canton missionaries and business not rested on? Is there a copse man, has recently been forced I have not paused in to listen to to arrange for a summer camp at the wild birds' song, or a collab, Tai Mo Shan, and about eighty with its rocky bad and silvery people expect to spend their holi-tinkle of running water, that days there this summer.
have not gazed upon in peaceful reflection? If so, they wait to be
⚫ land many
Local Broadcasting,
With regard to last evening's meeting of the Radio Society, we much regret that the Government; Our picture Page to-morrow explored when once again the has refused the request for the will include "two photographs cool winds blow, the step grows granting of provisional broad-taken at the closing shoot of the brisk, and the call of the wild! casting licence to any company Taikoo Rifls. Club: « group of comes back to country-nurtured At the same time that certain illing to undertake the work. the P.W.D. staff taken
just blood. As has been pointed out, this pro- before Mr. Perkins' departure ; & Musing in retrospect, I recal}} sections of the Chinese have been cedure was adopted in England photo of F. Honds, the Japan- the climbs into the "unknown," agitating for the abolition of before the definite scheme was ese tennis player; A picture with their joy of discovery: the extraterritoriality, just as if there Pat on a working basis. We of one of the new Citroen taxis thrill that first followed the find- really cannot see the grounds which Hongkong is 6000 to ing of sundew, growing at were men in the country, and a upon which the applicanon is re-possess: and a group taken at the foot
of & damp Took, system of government, capable fused, because, in the first in the Y.M.C.A recep.ion to Dr. C. reminiscent of of taking over control without stance, non-interference with "I. Wang, ex-Premier of China. thousand miles away; the later any hitch, China has been drift-be definitely guaranteed by the existing wireless operations can
culling of a little yellow flower so like the primrose of the English ing into a condition that has use of a specife wave length.
Six matabede tenanted by
countryside; the old memories made it imparative for the Powers Then, secondis, even if it became colles working on the roads and that returned when I sat perched
Bitusted at Ab Kung Ngam, advisable for any reason whatever, to take a hand in setting her on the equipment could be asit Sagukiwao were destroyed by fire upon & tracken-covered height her feet again. She still needs dismantled and the provisionslate last night. The blaze started looked down across a fir-clad strewn with grey boulders, and aursing, ber sickness having licence cancelled, By its de-in & small but used as a kitchen slope to a ravine oter which become more aggravated instead cision, the Government, perhaps unark from a lighted charly. By the pale blue waters of a' quiet) and was probably caused by a hovered a pair of hawks, whilst f improving, and her quack the way of radio development in the time the brigade got to the bag, partly sailed in mist, lay a physicians having proved their this Colony by limiting the field six of the structures bad thousand feet below! That had inability to cure her many ills. available for amateurs and ex. been involved and there was no heen worth the climb, and only Foreign doctoring is called for, perimentors to the reception of course but to let the conflagra: rapidly falling darkness made me
tion burn itself out. The damage tear myself away, Alas! that| and careful foreign nursing; and see no just reason why Hongkong 15 assessed at $500. it may be that the potions it will should by deprived of privileges be necessary to administer will which other centres enjoy, 98. be bitter ones for China to swal- such privileges would cause no pecially since the granting of low. But who will be to blame annoyance to anyone. The Gov-1 for this but her own incapable ercment is certainly not consis- advisers, quarrelling among them. tent-it is quite prepared to grant "Too Much Wife," selves instead of uniting for the but will not concede ana for dis provisional licences for receiving,
Are you married, have you been common good of their country, tributing. However, we now trust married, or are you in that happy spending most of the available that as a result of advice which Lazy state of mind sancipatory the Radio Society will be able to of marriage? Whichever your funde on self-aggrandisement, offer on the subject, the Govern-case, there's something for you in and allowing matters to driftment will, whilst reserving to Too Much Wife," the Realart Much might be written of the from bad to worse; who bat they itself the fallest control, soon picture in which Wanda Hawley psychological effect of a bird's revise its decision in regard to is starred. It is being shown.ai familiar trilling on the soul of an are to blame?
broadcasting.
the World Theatre now.
exile in a strange land. It is like
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unintentionally, is standing in
mere dots and dashes. We can
Why?
WORLD THEATRE.
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memories such as these should.so often be tinged with sadness; but) after all we would not like them) halfeo much were they other-i wise!
And then that flash of thought| which recalled the quiet lane, the hawthorn, and the quest for bright with the song of his western blue eggs, when, almost identical brother, there came across the still morning air the notes of the
eastern thrush !.
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No familiar note was ringin'! So I mocked the feathered choir To my hungry beart's desire — Till a new note sounded, stillin' All the rest. A thrush was
trillin'!
Ab the thrush I left behind me in the fields about Athlone!
Where, upon the whitethorn
swayin'
Some of the Survivors,
George Duncan.
Gene? Sarazen.
Walter Hagen.
THEATRICALS,
The Lincheng outrage has
In this comedy of present-day | a voice speaking his own language life, thanks to the humorous to a wanderer amongst an alien brought things to a bead. Drastic action might yet be found neces-
insight of Lorna Moon, the author, and unfriendly race. I might be and Percy Heath, the scenarist, permitted to quote from a modern sary, but in the meantime there
"Instructions from Head Quar- many of the ins and outs, upe and Irish poet, who has caught the have been several excellent sug- Martials are not to be disclosed," are shown. Miss Hawley and T. experience:
ters are that the results of Court downs of the marriage relation very spirit and mood of the' gestions put forward for a solu was said to a Telegraph reporter Roy Barnes represent, at the "In the songs that they were tion of the more pressing pro-at the King's Regiment Orderly beginning, the "bill-and-coo" singin blems in Chinese administration. Room this morning, when he state of pre-marital bliss.
made enquiries regarding the find. This One of these proposals is for the inge in recent cases tried by by the honeymoon state. For con- quickly succeeded international control of the main District Court Martial. Why the trast to their sugary condition, trunk railways in China, with secrecy? In the past it has been Arthur Hoyt and Lillian Langdon an efficient native gendarmerie, patience and sometimes many union in which the busband is possible, with the aid of much play a long-married couple, a under foreign officers, to protect calls at the Orderly Room, to entirely under the thumb of his the lines and rolling-stock from learn the findings of the Court, shrewish wife, with only enough possible bandit taida.
Why the change? Is those spirit left to squirm occasionally.
Last Night's Play. troublesome times between Aug. Then there is Ward Louis, cast. end, this would benefit Chine ust, 1914. and November four as a cagey bird who has been
'There was much merriment at considerably, as her railway years later, some of as marvel- twice saared in the marital net,
the Theatre Royal last night system could be placed on led at the ways of the Powers only to escape each time through
He was minstrel of the layin,' when the Courtneidge-Holloway thoroughly efficient and, even ministrators sitting in high places. Lastly, but far from leastly; there
ibat-were-those khaki-clad ad- the open door of the divorce court. In my days of love an' laughter Company produced thescreaming- farcical better paying basis.by the foreigo Our reporter, whose civilian is Bear-ty" Johns, portraying
that the years have laid at ly funny three-sot rest;
comedy, Ambrose Applejohn's directors, as in the case of the duties still bring him into contact a bashful bachelor. Thore is
Here again his notes were Adventure." This playas Customs and the Salt Gabelle with the Military, continues to nothing cynical in Mr. Heath's
ringin'!
staged during the Company's" marvel to day. Is it not rather treatment of marriage, but a lay- Closely bound up with the ques-unfair on the unfortunate man ing bare of human foibles which
But I'd lost the beart for of the best in the Company's previous visit and was voted one tion of brigandage in China is accused? District Court Martials will give every spectator food for
'Bingia ——
extensive repertoire. Last night" that of disbanding the unnecesare open to the press. The charges reflection, as well as cause for
The song I could not answer it was immensely enjoyed." The sary, and often unpaid, soldiery-published. It is known to every
was the one I knew the part of Ambrose was in the very against the alleged delinquent are mirth.
best."
capable hands of Mr. Fred W. The Chairman at the meeting local newspaper-reading citizen
The sunset glow in the sky Permain, whilst others w bo shonë. of the Chins Association in that Private Bo and-so is in
behind the Peak darkens to grey, ware Miss Oberry Hardy, Miss - Shanghai, last Tuesday, in bring brought before a District Court they should issue statement hillside merge into purplish-black; Clercq and Mr. Fred Morgan,
trouble. The stigma of being ments imposed private, surely nem; the greens and blues of the Leslie Graham, Miss Florence Lp .. ing this matter" up, suggested Martial immediately attaches it whether the accused has been the stars come out one by out,
the necessary foreign financial self to his name. If the flad found guilty or not guilty," challenged by the twinkling lights The Man from Toronto." The To-night the attraction will be assistance." This would enable inge of the Court are not to If the trials are public the find- of the upper levels then the Company is playing for three
be made public that stigma willings should be given out. If the paying-off the soldiers, whose always remain. True, his defence decisions of the Courts are not to light, and I come suddenly back loon, beginning on Monday, the
boy" switches on the electrio nights at the Star Theatre, Kow disbandment has been prevented is published, but that is not good be divulged, then in common to the memory that it is approach plays to be produced being The for the most part by the lack of enough. If the accused clears fairness to the socused the pro- ing dinner time; a healthy indies Second Mrs Tasquerary." -Ab himself nobody outside the coedings of the Court and the tion, and a legacy of those rabam Lincion And The Bat funds. With their wages very authorities knows. Even if the charges should be kept within the delightful trudges along the high Popular prices (3,83 and $1) much in arrears, these men turni Military wish to keep the panish-barzack walls,
ways and byways of Hongkong, hayz been arranged.
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