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FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE.

By Robt. MacWhirter.

THE HONGKONG : TELEGRAPH: SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923.

Captain Cadegan may be thought nothing of it and longed to set a | straight easy course ashore wi'a stationary bed beneath him every night. Ay, yo neveroan tell.

What's that? Chow ? All right, boy,

THE POWERS AND CHINA.

Japan's Attitude Undefined.

Watching Janot reading the probably lies and, as I've already paper of a morning. I have many indicated, she doesna' care a curse quiet amilo to myself. More if a copper company in Colorado. than anything else she reminds combines wi' a furniture firm me of a hen between meal-times, in Franco. She says we men just a pick here and a pick there: fill up our heads wi' a lot of everywhere a pick. First the nonsense, I dare say what she local and general news, then the ways, when analysed, will be advertisements, a swift look at the found to be the exact and demon. hatches, matches and dispatches. strable truth, which is another

London, July 5.-Reuter learns and then a wild rush to see that I way of telling Fe to 'ware pro-that although the Japanese Govorn havena by ony chance put on paganda,

mant has not yet replied to the one of my Sanday shirts by mis-

The Point of View..

British proposals for the protection i take. The reporters(jurnalista if

of foreigners in China it generally yelikelmay wear their fingers sOTE After all, our newspaper stories,

approves the scheme. In the pounding out twenty columns of to be bencfecial, ought to be some mesatiune diplomatic enquiries are Legislative Council. Son can get thing more than mere knowledge, being made in various capitals in writer's cramp concocting mani-a conglomeration of names, dates order to clear up certain obsuure festoes, or there may be a new and figures. They ought to be points-Reuter. war in Asia Minor: these things of such a nature as make us and diana'intorest Janet a wee bit. I'm reach to human impulsa glad I'm no' a statesman for Janet motion. Continuous reading would never lend a hand like Wullie Gladstone's wife did.

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Waiting for Cat to Jump. Tokio, July 6-According to of scare head lines hardone our authoritative expression of opinion. hearts in much the same way as Japan is in no way opposed in Not that her reading is alto cat is never" affrighted twice by principle to the British proposal for. gether cursors, mark you, but she the same cause. Disaster becomes the protection of foreigners in THE DAIRY steadfastly refuses to get paipita-only relative after a white. A China which she is now considering tion at the sight of stark-staring submarine sinking bofore the war but she, it is understood, is unlikely black headlines. They dinne caused more consternation that a to give a definite expression of her interest her. I solemnly "believe hundred of the kind during it attitude until the master has been be continually shedding tears, formally discussed by the Diplomatic We of this generation have got to Corps in Peking-Reuter, such a pitch of indifference to suffering that the mere threat of another war in Europe doesn't excite as nearly so much as the knowledge that our favourite bowling team suffered defeat over the week-end.

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if it hadha' been that her nephew had been in France, I declare, bonest to goodness, she would have thought Germany was on our side during the Great War. Mind ye, it's a state of mind to be enried. A Titanic hitting an iceberg canna' make her lose a

Deadlock Reached. wink a' sloop; Brooklyn elevated

The knowledge Tokyo, July 5-On the sugges railroadcars can make matchwood of themselves, she doesna shed that a blinded ex-soldier bastion of both delegates, the Huseo- a tear; the Russians can eat the regained his sight makes Janet Japanese conversations Lave been tackets off their boots and her happier by far than information called off for to-day's session.. greatest worry at the moment be that new oil fields will be opened it is believed that the Nikolaievsk the high cost o soupment. If in Irak and that, as a consequence, and Sagbalien questions have worry kills more than work, my assured. You get me?

the Navy's future oil supply is created a deadlock.

Later. It is understood that wife's liable to live to be a great- grandmother, I hope she doee. Janet, she takes nothing for the conversations will be resumed

No,"

mind pe, that she's granted and, man, it's wonderful on Monday, when it is probable what you'd call hard-hearted the knack she has of secing a sub. that other questions will be dis. ject from an entirely different cussed. The Japanese decline aa angle from that of the average planation, but M. Joffe's desire persoa. You and I might to confer with Mr. Davtian is

the best given as the reason for the post ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. think water meters thing ever invented for inflictionnement by the Russian spokes- on wasteful Chinese, but to her man-Reuter.

or in ony way indifferent to the sufferings of atbers. There's no a dat nor a dog about the

place but what she'd nurse the night-long through if they thought they were sick enough; I've seen her shed close on an tho bare suggestion that God's Imperial pint o' tears at the demise of a canary: ehe even has a kind word to say about the man that's taking correspondence lessons on the cello over the way, and she never lets me away of morning without a clean bankie, Our cook boy swears by her and she at him. „At the Club of an

evening she's aye among the first to sign my book if it's a hot night you see if Janet's no interested in wide-world revolutions, disasters, calamities and visitations, heart's in the right place.

Human-Interest Stories.

at all. That's her all over. So

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ACTIVE.

Japanese.

rain should be sold to the

* Тванн, is KOREAN BANDITS poor by such intensely stupid when it's no absolutely criminal. they'll be next wanting to meter the fresh air we breathe. She'll Cross Border and Attack point out how in bygone days when they imposed a window tax,. folk just did without and lived and died in the poisonous dark She thinks this motering business their headquarters in Antukaien, will hit the poor very hard and crossed the Koreau border carly on will have the effect of causing the morning of the 3rd inst.,, and i-cressed sickness through folk attacked detached Japanese

A Typical Example. Ay, givon sympathy, and imagination these little para- graphe are not without virtue. Let's con one of them wit Janet in that quiet half hour between the first gin and dinner.

Peking, July 6-Chinese Korean bandits, who have been making

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cut the telegraph and telephone) lines. After many hours of fierce fighting, the bandits were driven back across the border. The Jap anese casualties were two palice-

men killed and 'two Rexler,

wounded.—

FR. MALOTTO STILL HELD.

Condition Reported to be Pitiable.

heratinting themselves and not pro- police station at Hsitung. They

perly washing either themselves for their homes. Janek's idea is that & Government which does not provide an abundant supply But to come back to the news.

of clean, fresh water is just paper. I hope I havena given ye lacking in its duty as if it did not the impression that five minutes does her. At a time, yes, but Provile roads to walk on or police right through the day at addio decorate our streets. Besides, moments sha pick it up to rest she says, look at the profits the Government is going to make from her four. I've seen her take up

meter rente! the Poal even after she's got her hair done at bedtime and wada it through again, maybe for the wixth time that day. Janet, she would as soon think o' going on a diet as lose her Port. She'd miss it worse than a young girl would two o her best front teeth. Exile among our womenfolk in Hongkong would be much more real if they hadn' the Post to rend in between things. No, that it is in onyway different from the rest in the way of big nows (that is in a relative sense) bút (t's when it comes to filling up, the inter etices that its editor excels. You know the kind I mean, the little paragraphs telling about the mean "Aberdoaian, the shortage of thrushes' ogga in Pernambuco, how many women farmers there are in Maine U.S.A., the popul- ation of Egypt to the square mile, the exact time light takes to Fancy 46 years on the sea." I travel in 365 days, how female wonder if he's married? No, it's elephants bear their young every no' likely. I'd like to bet the old three years, and how many man has been looking forward all suits King Alfonso buys in a these years to settling down and iwelve month. Then there are counting the egge of a night. A the little human-interest stories, nice name, Anthony Cadogan. It These are the kind in which Janet has a fine ring about it. A wonder- rovela most. You know, for in-ful career bis was. A. life to be #tanen the tale of the boy who at envied by all of us who are the railway station looked into a chained to a dull humdrum ex- milk tin and couldn't get his head istence. My, the number of man like that must -out without the assistance of the friends a

local blacksmith; the details of have. He has crossed the equator what the Duke of York had for 320 times. Mind the first time breakfast on his wedding morn; you crossed the equator? He or how the tenants at Bathnat must have scòn startling changes Graen refused to quit their houses in ships since bo put to san io even after the arrival of the baili 1877, and equally startling must be

Henkow disclose the fact that Peking, July 6-Reports from

Father Malotto is in 3 pitiable AGED CAPTAIN RETIRES. condition. Though he is not badly New York, May 30-After treated by the bandits, he is very having sailed 3,500,000 nautical sick. The efforts of the 'French and miles during his 46 years at Italian Consuls to secure his re- sea. Captain Anthony Cadogan, lease have been of no avail as the commodore of the Lamport & local authorities are powerless. Holt Line fleet, has retired On the 28th ult., the troops "sent from the main and settled in to engage the bandits were badly Flatbush. Captain (Cadogan, beaten by the brigands.-Reuter. who went to sex at the age of 17, crossed the oquator 320 times. He is 63 years old and was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland.

wi' two policemen and an ojoot- the changes in the different parts

A PUZZLE A DAY.

A room with seven corners had- cat in every corner, six cats in front of each cat, and a cat on every cat's tail. How many cats. were there in the room? Yesterday's answer:

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