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SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1925.
DAY BY DAY.
romain on, they will be handed over to the authorities. Theref are doubtless hundreds of "strik-[ ers" who have no intention of
THE RESOLUTE WILL OF SA STRONG MAN STNUGOLES · NOBLY leaving the Colony, but who are WITH HIS FOE TO ACHIEVE GREAT Bitting tight until such time as DEEDS.-Longfellow.
matters are finally adjusted. It
The Chief Justice has ordered that no Criminal Bossions shall be held for July.
is up to employers to make, apecial boon, appointed to act as Mag- ✅ Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith has The
efforts to rout, those Individuals istrato, Portable
out, and, having done so, to see' Typewriter that they return to work or aro with the handed over to the police. Action Standard of this sort is far more likely to keyboard. strengthen the hands of the Gov- ernment than fanciful proposals “Nothing
for wholesale deportation. More to learn.
over, It would no doubt prove a distinct factor in inducing many "Nothing
of the strikers to resume duty ra
A School
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Employers Intimidated.
In this connection, reports have the strike began up to 145. reached us concerning a form of
MIXED
ASHLEY STERNE·
A
GRILL
AVITIOR OF TWISTED TALES
Chiding a revoller for looking my own on the subject, “Hava on the wino when it was rod, a Oysters Hocis?" to which I asked remarks by reminding the dolin Their answers, received by wire, London magistrate concluded his my professors to contribute. quoat that water was the drink are most helpful and illuminating of lions. Not fooling quite though necessarily brief The local naval authorities in cortain in my own mind about Prof. Barmion Crumpott.Yos, form us that the situation in the this, I at once wrote off to my or rather nonpott. various Southern porta is less learned friend, Prof Barmion Bir Battes Innes Belfry-No, tanse, and things are generally Crumpett, F.Z.S., for his views on or rather yes.. quiet,
the matter.
"It depends upon the make of Yos, but only on Tuesdays
Prof. Linnaeus Leberwurst.- Since last week's orders of the llon (he writes). The Spitzbergen Dr. Bulkley to unlearn," ther than to risk being turned out Corps woro issued, a further 28 thirst by licking lacbergs or eat (There would appear to be some Hongkong Volunteer Dafence on, for example, quenches its shillings Mustard Pot each war. Stodger Ten, of the Colony
recruits have joined the Corps, ing snow-balle. The Tasmanian misunderstanding here). This with last week's figure of lion, on the other hand, drinks Dr. Piffinger Rottenbleiter- recruita joining the Corps since dian lion won't touch anything Dr. Faiga Crank,The answer
but red ink. The lions of British a very clearly a lemon Ipecacuanhaland Portuguese I see it is proposed to compile Contangolard, however, oblefly leniency shown by certain local in the hands of Chinese..
drink aerated water, usually out lish coinage. This should sup a standard history of our Eug- For all foreign business houses to ob-practical purposes, Hongkong is just averse to butter-milk and linseed ply a long-felt want, for hitherto
of syphons, though they are not durate members of their Chinese a bit of China; only it is better tea occasionally. Your London only the history of our sovereigns staffs which, if true, reflect a re- governed, and it is a safe home and been more correct to say that
magistrate would therefore have as been recorded. grettable state of affairs. We are trading sanctuary for Britishers lions were rigid teetotallers A literary critic has been told that in several big foreign and other foreigners as well as for rather than imply that they only asking why no novelist has yet firms the lift-boys and chit-coolies all Chinese who care to comewhere lions live water has not heroine a thoroughly plain and drank water; for in many places had the hardihood to make his decline to carry out their custom. There are no restrictions as to yet been laid on."
unpreposseseing female. ary duties, but that they are being entry or exit and everybody Is
Similarly, I would like to ask housed by their employers and per-free to come and go provided he
why no poet has yet been bold mitted to do odd jobs about the obeys the laws which operate equal.
thoroughly uncomely wench enough to rhapsodise over a offices, such as cleaning up the fly on all, Where is this hideous
Personally am rather fed up floors, etc. Efforts to get them thing named "Imperialism" against
with damsels whose necks are We suppose it is more or less to do their, proper work, followed which the Chinese are revolting?
like the swan and eyes brighter natural that at a time like the up by auggestions that they can Is it not all part of the nonsense
than the dewdrop on the rose, aad should welcome a posm present there should be plenty of be arrested for breach of the and untruthfulness being preached
about a girl with pimples and a people who feel what our Amer-law, have resulted in other mem- by these agents of Bolshevism and
squint. "Something after this ican friends would term an "urge" bers of the Chinese staffs threat-
fashion The latest thing in feminine to write to the newspapers. Even ening to walk out
Communism? Why cannot the wearing apparel, I see, is phos if those in ordinary conditions, Hongkong coolies, are
Hongkong worker, the man whose phorescent stockings which will interfered with. ia fairly prolific in contributors These threats, we are informed,
livelihood and home is here and glow in the dark. So the poet's allusions to light fantastic. toes to the correspondence columns of are listened to and several em- benefits that life in Hongkong substantiated by fact.
who knows by experience the and twinkling feet are at last the press; to-day, almost every ployers, possibly because they do brings to him, see through the guile second man one meets has ideas on the situation which he fairly
The Telegraph.
"SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1925.
Fanciful Suggestions."
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داریم
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON. A careless young butcher of
Belvoir
Once chopped off his hand with
a ololvoir.
When the doctor had come, He morely said "Hum? I'm afraid it's a case of hay
folvoir!"
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not like the job of cleaning up and chicanery of the agitator? weddings were recently postpon- No fewer than three London their own offices, have been quite For the Chinese of Hongkong toed, I raad, owing to (1) the bride
at themselves, but the pity of it and (3) both parties catching the groom developing mumps; is that they cannot see it. Perhaps chicken pox. This run on in- sorte day they will, but, meanwhile, fantile allments is altogether too they are truly foolish.
if only acted upon by the author and chit-coolies. to remain on ities. The trouble is that only their own terms. We have heard a very small proportion of the much of late regarding intimida letters sent to the newspapers tion of Chinese workers by agiti contain suggestions which are tors; in the cases under notice. It really sqund and practicable. For looks very much like intimidation that reason, we hope that those of Eurpaean employers by their who feel constrained to unburden Chinese staffs. What is
4
The Proper Spirit.
worse On every hand one observes the
success,
absurd, and if something isn't done to discourage it we shall next hear of weddings being postponed, because the bride's teething or the groom's down with rickets
Then, too, we shall have the themselves of opinions" in this stil, certain employers appear spirit of "give and take," the children retaliation, if wo persist way will make a point of bearing willing to stand for it. Such an decision to put up with inconvent-in encroaching on their pre- in mind the feasibility of any attitude is utterly indefensible. ences in a cheerful manner, the christenings being postponed rogatives, and we shall read of proposals which they may put for- It certainly does not ward To take a specific matter, the Government to take
encouragerealisation that times are somewhat owing to the babies having con- tracted gout, writer's cramp, there are those who want to see stand if responsible employers of essential for eventual
a "frm disjointed and that co-operation is
housemaid's knee, delirium tre the Government shipping away labour are willing to submit to Thus we have the gentle sex opernt peculiar privilege of adults.
mons, and other ills which have hitherto been regarded as the strikers by the thousand. They dictation of this kind by their ing lifts, acting as messengers, and demand wholesale deportation. Chinese staffs. quite overlooking the point that
in other ways doing unaccustomed duties. With many these strange such a procedure is utterly im- possible. On this particular
tasks include cooking and washing, The short-sightedness of the and sowing, lost arts for the most aspect of the strike problem, the
Chinese workers who are part, and now resurrected. The critics of the Government would be far more
now" out
is usefully employed
on strika
really weather is against such labour, yet if they endeavoured to assist the appalling, for one would have it is accomplished, and very success.
Foolish Workers..
L
*
BONEY ANNIE LAURIE.
Her eyes are like a turbot's; Hor neck is like a pole:: And on her obin a mole.. She's warta upon her forehead, Like a Nasmyth, hammer
thumping
Is the fall of her great flat-
solos;
And her voice when she is
talking,
Sounds just like shovelling.
coals.
Her smile is like an oarth
quake:
Her complexion'pale and wan That e'er the sun shone on. She's just about tue limit
In fact, she's so ungalaly I really can't think why I don't take Boney Annie And lay her out to die!
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STOP PRESS, NEWS." A.hea belonging to a Leighton" Buzzard lamplighter has laid a square egg.
For the tenth year in succes- sion Mr. Doeg Glump has been elected stroke of the Harrogate lifeboat.
The lesser lawn-mower has A fall of soot, was responsible been heard at Chipping Sodbury. for "smoking out" the customers Burglars have broken into in a City chop-house the other Wormwood Scrubbs and stolen day, and during the stampede the four pounds of oakum and two proprietor, was overheard to quote gallons of skilly. S with deep emotion the old pro- The wife of a Greenwich white- verb, "All is mist that comos bait-bleacher, who has been mis- from the grill."
sing for a week, was found yesterday head downwards in a Following on my remarks last disused butter-tub singing the:
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the
Hongkong Totograpli "*)· CHINESE SPORTSMEN.
THE SPECIAL POLICE.
APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED. His Excellency the Governor has approved the following appoint
ménta:
nathorities by co-operating in the imagined that they would have fully. Mere man is also learning week concerning the symposiumh Hallelujah Chorus backwards. work of weeding out know Idlers possessed enough native intel- how to do without small luxuries, to which Mr. Bernard Shaw and It is assumed that she is suffering rather than to plead for the im-ligence to realise that by imperilling and those who have "roughed it Mr. G. K. Chesterton contributed from nervous dementia. possible.
the prosperity and stability of before, whether in the army or clao-on the question, "Have Animals The new Carnegie Free Prison Soula?" I have in to meantime at Auchtermuchty will be open In a somewhat restricted way, Hongkong they are hitting them-where, are treating their tasks of boon holding alittle symposium of for business next week. it is possible for the police to selves and their fellow nationals boot-cleaning, perhaps washing round up batches of men and in-much more hardly than they are the their own clothes, and foraging for vestigate their cases, sending out foreigner. When these workanen plain and simple fare, as a mere of the Colony those who obviously are urged by Irresponsible Bolshe-nothing. Others there are who have no intention of working vists and agitators to cense work either are fortunate enough to have But from the purely practical (as they obviously have been) one things still done for them, or who, standpoint little else can be done would have thought that the failing the usual attention, grumble excepting with the assistance of workers would have had just enough and mope. We are glad to know employers. Many Chinese work-sagacity to see through the hollow-that there are but few of the latter. ers are housed by the foreign firmsness at the incentive and would After nearly three weeks of this for whom they are supposed to have told these agitators to try big community effort, nearly every work, and despite the fact that elsewhere. His Excellency the one has fallen into line and entered they remain idle they are permit Governor referred to the workers his or her special niche. Indeed,
their purpose, tionate and the South China Atli ted by their employers to remain in as being cowardly and foolish, and when this trouble comes to an end these, incidenta are no longer re-letic Association alone should be their quarters.
That is abso- those terms, are, not a bit too it will in many cases be dificult to ferred to it all. This being the able to enust a few hundred ultely wrong. In such instances, strong. In normal times well over go back immediately to the old Chinese to take is also clear, Volunteers or Special Constables. case, the path for the Hongkong amongst its members to serve ad it is the duty of employers, to ap- three-quarters of a million Chinese routine. We are all learning some. The peace of the Colony is threat. This possibility should be imme proach the men and if they will find a home and livelihood in Hong-thing-new, and useful, Those few ened and the sporting thing to do diately considered by Mesers," "LI not return to work, then the police kong under a rule that is admittedly who cannot, or will not, learn, are to help to preserves law and order energetic Chairmen of the two is to rally round the Government Yuk-tong and Ng Sze-kwong, the should be called in to arrest the beneficent and just There is to be pilled. The majority of those and thereby protecting their own mit Important Chinese sporting. idlers with a view to banishment. nothing oppressive on the Chinese who are carrying on have the addi- families. All the foreign sports- organizations of this Colony, Similarly, those employees who are in our law-there is nothing dis- tional consciousness by now that men are doing essential service Are Chinese sportsmen cowarda? still at work but who come for criminatory The great bulk of they have entirely mastered the Chinese sportmen to fall in line provide ample opportunity
in some form and it là up to the The next week or so should
Sir,It is now perfectly clear Mr. M. H. Tumer to be Adjutant cripple and, if possible, to destroy Mr. D. A Goodwin, Mr. A. F. B. that the agitators are out to of Special Police Reserve.. the business life of the Colony and Silve-Netto, Mr. A. C. Botelho and. that the incidents at Shanghai Mr. F. C. Mow Fung to be Chief and elsewhere were used as Inspectors
Д Having served cloak to conceal their intent.
Ltd. to LANE, CRAWFORD, Ltd.
The Store that always "CARRIES ON"
..
|about a thousand Chinese to volun-
ginary intimidation should be vast trading, banking and commer- sure knowledge that the victory is helpers have gathered together cit told that if they do not agree to cial Interests are overwhelmingly theirs. It is the proper spirit,
teer but this number is dispropor-
BROTHER SPORTSMAN, Hongkong, July 20, 1925,
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