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I WOULD HAVE EVERY MAN OF greatly exercised over their grow-

CLOSE OCCUPATION MAKE IT A ing hostility. At the same time SACRED DUTY TO KEEP UP, A it la idle to expect a spontaneous LIVING KNOWLEDGE OF, AND IN- TEREST IN, SOME PURSUIT, popular revolution to trlumph;

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with the tive operation by which the cancer

od upon him the other day, and Standard

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but against this advantage must

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and all; outside intervention is

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925.

THE CANTON WEATHER VANE."

Border Incidents.„

H.E. the General Officer Com-be set the disadvantage that the manding has coneonlod to present insect won't gather honey, only the cup and madale to the win-sawdust. Nor will it live in a bive, ning team at the conclusion of bat makes a nest for itself in the the Anal Garrison Cricket League permanent turn-ups of the Profes match.

sor's trousera. My learned friend, however, is not discouraged, and is hopeful of eventually perfecting The usual weekly Whist Drives,' held in the Sergeants Mesa, Muris bee along the lines at which he has been aiming to produce a ray Barracks, will re-commonce stingless insect which shall make on Tuesday next and will be run honey already put up in jars ready on every subsequent Tuesday for the market. commencing at 8.45 p.m.

"

The King's Exequatur em. powering Dr. Wilhelm Crull to act as German Consul at Hong- kong has received His Majesty's' signature, sa has also the King's Exequatur empowering Mr. Franz Winkler (Shanghai) to act as Aus- trian Consul for Hongkong..

These recurring border episodes show one of two things; either that it is the official policy of the Chi-, nese military authorities (acting under suggestions from Canton) to harass and annoy the British police force on the border, or that those military authorities, are un able to keep control over their own

The following addition to the When the first border

He also showed me some de- signe of shell-less oyster he episodes took place a little while Register of Medical Practitioners

entitled to practise Medicine in opas shortly to invent, which back it was simply a matter of this Colony, is published in the will exist in ite natural state Labour, pickets being over zealous Gazette:-Mr. Cheah Toon Lok, already red peppered and lemon- in their self-allotted task of keep-chelor of Medicina and Bachelor Ho bas promised me a dozen for of ugard Ball, Hongkong, Bajuiced a great saving of labour. ing would-be workers from return-of Surgery of the University of 1st September. ing to Hongkong. They interfered Hongkong.

men.

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An American professor of

sort...

proved

RHYMES WITHOUT REASON.XXIX.

A

poor unemployed'ün of Norwich Went out for some dinner tó

forwich-

with people and, in some cases, Something new in strike pro- proved to be armed. But the paganda has appeared on the psychology has just delivered a

wherein ho lecture Jatest outrages have been commil-Shangbai streets, Chinese fans.

bearing this inscription: "The Boientifically that women are im- ted by Chinese soldiers and have Ninth of May and the Thirtiethpervious to argument. There is, consisted of the deliberate firing in of May. Oh you people! What however, no foundation for the daylight upon British police-a are you doing to remove the dis-report that the meeting was grace?" The fans are being sold broken up by a squad of under- vastly different matter to what

by hawkera at ten coppers each graduettes loudly maintaining happened a few weeks ago. In but it is not stated whether the that they were nothing of the While one can sympathise with the latest case to be reported there proceeds go to the strike treasury. the late Mr. Ling Chung-hol's re- was a very cowardly exhibition on

Zinovii Dosser, the suspected latives ip their bereavement the part of the two Chinese soldiers Soviet agent who was detained at brought about. by his assassina- concerned, for they mixed with a Hongkong and sent to Shanghai. and was taken into custody by tion, one cannot refrain from number of women coolles nearby the Chinese authorities after ha pointing the moral of this event, and thus prevented the police on was expelled from the Settlement which has come at a time of the British side of the river from by the Mixed Court, is to bel

released on instructions from the grave portent for the province of firing back, These two men trad-Waichiaopu, according to reports Kwangtung! Political murdere ed upon the discipline and respect in the Chinese newspapers. These

A radish weighing over common enough phase of of the men upon whom they had instructions have followed re-

presentations made by the Soviet pound has boon grown by crime in China, and the continu-fired; and slunk back into Chinese authorities to the Chinese auth Lincolnshire market gardener. I ous plotting and counter-achem- territory. There is only one way orities. The Soviet Consul-Gene- can only hope he injected cocaine, ing in the 'South has led in the of stopping this kind of conductral wrote to the Commissioner of before he pulled it. past to a great deal of this prac-and that is for the border police tice of doing away with men who to be given permission to cross have the river when any further such in- are hated or feared. We had reason to protest in these clients occur and administer a ne- lesson on thesc law columns, on several occasiona cossary

One during the past two years, against breakers of the other side.

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Foreign Affairs protesting against.. Dosser's incarceration and tho result is that the City Court of Procuration will release him on bail of $1,000.

But in order to rhyme With this poem sublime Folks gave the man nothing

but porwich.

I see that a Hungarian gentle- man has started a seventy days' fast, during which nothing is to

GRILL

'AYTHOR OF-

·TWISTED TALES-

following Saven Eyesores will take a lot of boating-

A flapper with a monocle

Six pairs of Oxford trousers.......

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¿ THE LAST STRAW.

(Hatters say that the presont summer will see the final paceing "of the straw boster").

Farewell, old tile of best band-plaited straw i

I part from you with tears of bitter anguish,

You, too, muat para down Fashion's gaping maw,

And in unmerited oblivion languish.

You in your prime were such

a splendid sight!

My favourite summer bat among all others i

How proud I was of you, sợ ~ clean and white,

That day I bought you`at-I think-Hope Brothers!

Now, dear old boater, we must say good-bye

For ever; anyway, so sty the batters.

Yet sball I ne'er forget how you and Is

Onre featured at the prim- c'pal regattas.

Adien then, friend of many a summer day!

No more shall I the old Club coloure hem o

Your time worn oraws, nor. seek to clean Sway

Your cumulated dust with salts of lemon.

Yet it may be that once more you and I

Bhall mees ere memories grow cold and harden;

I somehow feel that Fashion won't apply

To scarecrows in my littlo

k teh n garden!

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I was readying the other day about a man in a Vienna mental pass his lips except water and asylum who talks backwards, and (I imagine) an occasional regret this caused me to jot down one or ful sigh when he sniffe the aroma two other cases of extraordinary of the Irish stew designed for the mental lesion I have heard about. (tem-nourishment of the rest of his In a certain Homo thore is a patient who spends all his time the extension of political assas-realises the difficulty of such a cause of an arrangement

Fasting must surely be one of sitting in a rice padding be sination to the British territory situation and how a small matter porarily forgotten) made by the family. of Hongkong. But we read in might, by indiscretion, be convert-late President Wilson during the the dullest forms of amusement thinks he's a stewed prune. In One doesn't even have another there is a man who walks ed into a very serious affair, but course of the Peace Treaty nego-known. the report of this latest crime a

Incidentally, none of the prospect of a good blow out at about with an orange on his head our Police Sergeants are trust-tiations.

the end of it to look forward to under the delusion that he ta deeper significance than ever at- tached to mere civil war in the worthy men and could be relied the Allies are as yet paying Bri-since the faster is usually so weak recurring decimal, while a third South. It is one of the concrete upon to keep their balance and tain anything although Britain's after his long abstinence that he occupies bimself with cutting the sense of proportion. We do feel, huge debt to America, upon which bas-to-have-his-jaws opened with hynbens out of the newspapers glove-atretchers and submit to with the intention of using them At the porches for parrots. Sad? unrest in Canten and opposition and there are many with us, that interest and amortisation charges artificial mastication.

some stern lesson is duc these war- are being paid, was incurred al-same time I am firmly of the api- Indeed, yes; almost as sad as the to the faction, now holding the

does ua all' good, and for years present outside an asylum, who", reins of office, and a sign of the riors on the border who interfere most solely on behalf of the Allies. rion that an occasional short fast caro of a young fallow I know, at bitter feeling against the "Reds" with civilians, who fire, upon Bri-Britain has suggested a wiping out past I have made it & bab! to is doing his best to disfigure bis tish police and then shelter be of all debts although she would be at practically nothing after face by growing a set of toreador's

a loser

meals, and nothing whatever whiskore. By comparison, the thereby, It has to be when I am asloep. Ths, I may man with the orange on his head hind defenceless women.

fairly recognised that it is a big add, is the secret of my "school seems almost distressingly aane. thing to expect the United States girl complexion.

proofs that there is considerable.

of the city, whether Russian or

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Chinese. The weather vane is pointing to a « gathering' storm.

War Debts Problem. and the first gusts are already

The question of war debts bus to make a present to Europe of

Londeners maka capital farm- boing registered.

again been brought into the fore- all the millions of dollars involved, workers," says a Canadian agri- In considering the

front of current international poll- and that there has been a lot of cultural paper, "but they take & munist element in Kwangtung, tics by the publication of the generosity in America's funding long time to settle down On the other band, London tailors however, we must not forget that terms upon which the United agreements. The most regret.

ars unanimously of the opinion take a long time to

they

anti-Com-

NOTABLE SAYINGS OF THE WEEK

After all, silk is only skin-deep."

-Mr. Windmill Churston. Walive in a different generation from Queen Ann."-The Bishop of Milk and Sodor.

"If you ask me what consitutes tho electron, I can unhesitat- ingly and wer "Yes"."-8ir Gulliver Stodga,

"The crisis is getting critical." President Tooledga, mis "Patients are a virtue."-Dr.

Cadley Veroyle, Cathe "Heteroaciam is huta hyperthotic endeixis of isogenous pantat- rophy-The Vice-Chancellor of Borstal.

are at the moment practical States of America is prepared, to table thing of all, to our mind, is that they t ly impotent against the men who agree to a funding arrangement the way certain of the late Alles settle hold the power of life or death in with Belgium. It would appear are failing to face their financial

Aftor a somewhat lengthy cor- the province, and have all the that America has been extremely obligations. Not one of these respondence on what should to fighting forces and revenue-col- lenient with Belgium, that Italy is countries is so heavily taxed as is day constitute the Seven Wonders of the Word, a prominant daily |lecting services under their com- now..drawing comparisons for her Britain, and there is not a coup is now discussing what constitute mand. Yet we can be permitted own benefit that" France is very try who has so purposely kept its the Seven Eyesores of the World. to wonder whether the general anxious that the U. S. should also currency near parity value oven It is some years now since I got a fortnight off from the office and public feeling, fanned to a mild glye her preferential treatment as though to do so means handicap did the world thoroughly, but I flame and, fed at first on false compared with the arrangement ping, exporters, who are competing nevertheless fancy that the promises and-specious tales of entered into a long time ago, be-in the great outside markets of foreign "aggression," has not at tween America and Britain, and the world. This question of war Latest Command Orders state]" Wider and loftier railway Pull length taken a definite set against that Belgium is not so very elated debts and the allied question of that Lieut. D. J. All ree, Eastman coaches of an entirely now the coterie at the head of affairs, after all, as the payment of the balancing budgets will never be Burrey Regiment, has been pro- typa that will not tole cope in a From conversations we have had sums suggested might "upset the solved until the people of all moted Captain, dated June, 10th. collision are now running from wal King's Cross to Edinburgh. The with men in close bouch with country's financial equilibrium." debtor countries realise that The silk which left here by the conobes reach the maximum pós- Chinese sentiment, it appears Now America comes along and ex- there is no easy road to solvency, P. & O. .s. Mantua on the 25th sible for British railroads; just July, was delivered in Marseilles permitting a very small mergin that the hollowness of the Soviet plans that she has given pre but only the one

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plan and the mala fides of the forential treatment to Belgium be adequate taxatiorny road of on the 21st, August, a transit of when passing through some tun-

27 days,

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