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CHINESE PATRIOTISM.

PEER'S DAUGHTER.

ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. DESERTED AND PENNILESS

Major-General Sir Courtenay Manifold writes to the Times

and It becomes ever more apparent that the majority of the Chinese affected are but the vic tims, in company with foreigners

IN NEW YORK.

The actress daughter of Lord of a political machination that

The fact that the underlying Montagu of Beauliou, the Hon. yoes much deeper down than any

main disturbing cause in China is Helen Cecil Douglas-Scott-Mon- of the ostensible reasons which so

the Bolshevist band is thoroughly tagu, or Clark-Kennedy, of St. recognized by most people. But James-square, London, told a far have been advanced for the

a further factor we also cannot pathetic story in the Divorco boycott. We here in South China

Mr. and Mrs. E., J. Manolo afford to overlook is that among Court at Edinburgh last month, are in the grip of "Red" plot Hughes loft for Home by the P. the more simple but truly when she petitioned for a divorce

population

of on the ground of the desertion of and, inasmuch as the carrying out and O. linor Macedonia on Satur-representative

day.

China and found more often her husband, Arthur John. Clark- away from than in the Treaty Kennedy, of Dumfries House, violate the letter and spirit of two "Rover."-Your lotter has ports, there exists a deep-seated, Mains, Cumnock, Ayrshire. She been handed to "Wanderer," who often purely patriotic spirit which told the court that her husband important Treaties between Bri-will incorporate it in his notes is easily misled and worked up left her penniless in New York, tain and China, we Britishers have to-morrow and reply thereto. into a state of active virulent whore she was engaged in the a right to take drastic action

antagonism against the foreignet. theatrical profession. The poti. against those plotters. No one H. M. S. Carlisle is the latest That such patriotic feeling is tion was undefended.

Mrs. Clark-Konnedy said that' seeks to declare war on

warship to arrive in port. She strongly implanted and is based China.

came in at 9 o'clock this morn-upon ideals far different from in August, 1916, she went to neither do we wish to war against | ing.

mere unreasoning anti-foreign America to fulfil a professional hate was brought home to the engagement and made the ac any, of those upon whose friendly

The Portuguese transport Gwriter of this during the years quaintance of the respondent, to intercourse our own welfare in the Eannes has come out to Macao. 1900 to 1905, in the greater part of whom she was married in the Far East dependa, but we have a She has two hundred troops on which it was his lot to spend in the same year. He told her he was double right to kick out the present board and is manned by naval interior of China upon Intelligence a widower, but she subsequently department work. This spirit learned that he had some years SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES controlling gang at Canton; firstly,

was particularly manifest among age been divorced for miscon because they have violated Treaties,

a quiet and reasonably educated, duct, Mr. Clark-Kennedy in June, and secondly, because the Chinese

though not a foreign educated 1918, went to England for busi- themselves are powerless to rid

class and it had been worked ness reasons, but said he could upon by the crudo propaganda tot afford to take her with themselves of the incubus even

of the Boxer societies who made him. After a time her: allow- the most of the integrity of ance from him ceased, and in. though they do so ardently desire

The Shanghai branch of the China being imperilled by foreignOctober, 1918, owing to an out- It."

China Association has cabled Mr. encroachments, and only the un-break of influenza in America, The Government at Home needs M. F. Key, the Hon. Secretary of doubtedly restraining hand of the which caused the closing of the telling of these things and needs the newly-formed" branch in Dowager Empress and also the theatres in New York, the wit- passively friendly attitude of the ness found herself penniless. She "Delighted with your, Hongkong urging Into activity against the

Vangtso-Viceroys of that day pre-wrote to her husband repeatedly decision; congratulations

vented a much greater national asking him to come back of to present violently anti-British Bol- this branch."

movement being aroused against send her money A letter from STUART-On Augurt 18, at shevik faction. The telegram to

Mrs. Clark-Kennedy to her father,. the foreigner. the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, be submitted to Tuesday's City disclosed from the fact that tho'

Lord Montagu, was road, in which Even though this cause no the following passages occurred: Cecil A. Stuart (Arthur)," agod 15

"Since about four weeks ago I years, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Hall meeting, in spite of its in Canton Gazette publishes adver- longer exists, there still is the J: L. Stuart.

brdinate length, does make it clear tisements of the sailings of vee- same spirit, and it underlies this am absolutely penniless. The to the Premier that Hongkong Bols of the Soviet Morcantile prosant frenzied ebullition of anti-landlady here is vory kind, and Fleet for Swatow, Shanghai and foreign hate. And behind the trusts me. She also gives me a ill-assimilated inapplicable the-little food when I can't get a problem is separate and distinct Vladivostok.

ories of dissatisfied and often meal otherwise. I have had to from the rest of Britain's problem

needy students, easily worked borrow right and left. Please It is seldom, if ever, that an in China and it does, quite logically, invader who loses his first fight upon by pernicious Bolshevist ma- cable some funds, as I am getting call for separate and distinct in Manila, makes more than a

turn me out of here." action We think there is little favourable impression upon the in the background an immature desperate for fear they should The respondent wrote her, ob need to urge a large attendance at Wally, the little wonder from ded feeling of latent patriotism casionally, evasive letters, and fight followers there, but Boy and half-begotten, though misgui- the meeting, because the British Malaya, son of a former Hong which reacts to the ferment of avoided the point of making t residents of the Colony have, of kong resident, although losing his Western education in strange, home for her.

fight to Tommy Palacio in the unexpected ways. After assuring she heard from him was in 1920, late, gained a very welcome access main event, won the admiration the security of our countrymen when he sent her a letter describ Although one questions the' ne-of articulation. Having learned of numerous fight fans who doubt and women and asserting the ing Lord Montagu's second mar cessity of sending quite so long to speak, let's keep up the habited, came and were convinced. treaty and all other rights of our riage. She had never seen him telegram to the Prime Minister and then somebody might listen Giving away four and a half nationals, we would do well to since he left her in America In

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chinations, there is in many cases

The last time

pounds, Wally carried the fight remember the existence of this 2018 to Palacio from the first to the spirit, and that it is in a period

The petitioner, replying to Lord twelfth round, took everything of active evolution, and that, if Ashmore, said she did not know that Palacio had and came back once successfully misdirected by how to describe her husband's Bolshevist anarchy to the latter's occupation. When he was in British Shipping Trouble.

for more. Wally finished up There is a very serious under-stronger than the local boy and own ends, it will ultimately be America he was supposed to be

in the last round, it looked as if come the most formidable menace, promoting gold mines in Colorado..

and that now, instead of regard- Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. ing it as negligible or non having given evidence in support. existent, we should recognize it of his daughter's story, the judge. and attach to it dus weight.

pronounced a decres of divorce.

win needs the little lesson in the tone in the news of strike trouble Palacio was due to hit the deck trade and shipping importance of in British shipping, reflected in at any minute. Hongkong or whether he needs athe United Kingdom from an Aus- reiteration of certain Articles from tralian beginning, but it is pleas

the Treaties of Nanking and. Tlent-ing to find the leaders of the men tempters into the unfamiliar, path sin, we are of the decided opinion in England opposed to what is an of republicanism, communism, that he and his colleagues in the absolutely unauthorised move and so-called political reform, the

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FATE OF WIRELESS STATIONS.

Demolitions at Clifden and

over.

Ballybunion.

NEW DANCE.

The "Charleston

reminder that Hongkong's problem affair, so far as Britain is con- picturesque beliefs and obser- vis-a-vis Canton is entirely separate cerned, is of slight importance at vances of its forefathers. For

The first faint rumours of a new ballroom dance, begin to and distinct from the problem of present, and is engineered by the several days there has been ob-

reach this country. Of course, it China vis-a-vis the foreign Powers. Communist element that is ever servable a certain liveliness in

seems to have begun with the The questions of the Customs, ex-awaiting a chance of stirring up the Chinese shops and

house.

Two great wiroloss, stations on negroes" down South, ".says the traterritoriality, revision of "un-trouble among the workers of holds. Many fancy paper

arti- the West of Ireland coast aro Maw hester Guardian. It is call- now being demolished. The led the Charleston," but from equal" treaties, and all those other the country. Apparently, having cles are on sale, and the young principal one is that of Clifden, ita description it does not sound matters which in the minds of the failed in the case of the conladies are especially agog with a Co. Galway, which was the first to be anything more drastic than Chinese of Peking should form the miners and transport men, these mild excitement. In some of the great Tranlantic station of the variation of the foxtrot rhythm. basis of another conference, have "Reds" are now seizing upon the shops, there are dainty cakes for Marconi Company. The other is of the foxtrot truly it may be at Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, which said that the more it changes, the nothing to do, at the moment, with opportunity which an Australian dainty purchasers--cakes of a was erected by a rival company, more it is the same thing. And Hongkong's position with Canton. Communist strike offers. The particular significance. They are but was never operated because it doesn't really matter very The adjustment of the Shanghal trouble down under" is nothing familiarly known as moon cakes, the Marcon people bought it much. Since the Charleston has begun to be danced in New York shooting affair of May. 30th., the new." For the past five years it and are sometimes of the shape The Clifdon site was chosen as be danced over hers; and, equal- it will certainly, sooner or later, Hankow affair, and even the Sha- has been quite common to have of the crescent moon. The signi- being the nearest land point to meen affair, also have nothing to "waterfront trouble" of some ficance is the well-known festival America in the days when wire certainly, its arrival will be loss was not so confident of itself deplored by those who have, no do with the economic war (for it kind or other, and the country has of the seventh day of the seventh, as it is now. The chief station is intention of dancing at all. If the Charleston"; prove to be is nothing less) which is being lost, and is losing, millions of moon, and is practically set apart now in the English Midlands more exuberant than the foxtrot waged between Canton and Hong-money over it. The last time, for the Chinese girls, who offer Clifden's doom was sealed when of the moment, then the non- during the Irish Civil War the dancers will cry loudly that it is When every enquiry, has the shipping of the Commonwealth what are more or less, incauta- Irregulars attacked and partially indecorous; if it should turn out kong

Since then it has been held, when the foreign Minis-Line was seriously affected, and tions on behalf of true lovers, dismantled it.

to be a thing of sublter rhythms ters in Poking have adjusted dif- it led to a Government threat that with special reference to the not been used for wireless put and deportmont, the same detach

1 poses A Sheffield firm has pur- ferences with the Central Govern-If the men struck again the ships Lady of the Moon, who on this chased the entire buildings, which ed critics will instantly donounce the-joylessness of modern ment and when China, officially, is would be sold to outsiders. The night long, long ago came down include rows of cottages and a

small railway, with locomotives. dancing and sigh like puffing at right with the world, Hongkong present trouble, involving as it to the earth on the bridge pro-The steel masts at Clifden were billies for the jolly old waltz and Cantor will still be at variance does what are termed overseas vided by the Milky Way, and be- 325 feet high and weighed 100 tons and poika, when dancing, really was dancing, you know. -For unless something is done to oust vessels, somewhat minimises that came the bride of a lonely cow-

this is the way the world, wage with non-dancers; whatever the the gang of Bolsheviks and anti-weapon.. The whole affair can be herd who sat out on the hillsido

dancers do they are always in Britishers who are now in power rightly described as minor revolt, in the moonlight. But the lady.

the wrong there and whose power threatens of Bolshevist origin, and is an- had to return, not being as or-

Pho to increase. The trade boycott other illustration not only of the dinary mortals. The gods, never

It is with the greatest regret. of Hongkong by Canton is not of effects of Labour predominance in theless, permit an annual rehealthy one, judging by the

rocords of them. Fred. Boying that we have to record the death Chinese origin or desire, because Australia, but also of the strong union on the anniversary of that ton, of Surrey, who takes a benefit of Mr. S. Fung, of the staff of the no one stands to suffer more than "Red" influence that unfortunate romantic meeting. A beautiful this season, has been scoring at South China Morning Post, who do the Chinese of the two porta 1y prevails there.

themselves. The Labour boycott

fe only being maintained by force,

for it is realised that if formal

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At, Ballybunion lattice masts 525 foot high were erected.

The occupation of scorer in county cricket is evidently a very

the Oval since 1883. and he passed away yesterday afternoon tale, as fine in theme us any of remarks, with a twinkle of the at bis home, No. 118 Queen's the stories of Grimm or Hans An- bye, that he has scored moré runs Road East, after a somewhat In The Midst Of Strifederson of our childhood, it pro- than Jack Hobbs for Gurrey protracted illaces, The deceased Harry Coxon was scoring for was a capable and conscientious In this land of paradoxes, one videa a aldelight on the menta Notte for, fifty-two year, while worker and will be much missed. were given there would is often reminded of the age-old lity of a people who, unlike W. H. Armour held a similar by his colleagues. Ho leaves a be a re-invasion of Hongkong by things of life in the midst of the Petor Fan, have grown up too position for Essex for forty-three mother three sisters and a years. George Burton has been brothor, with whom much sym- those workmen who for two months very new. Thus, while many rapidly and that within

playing cricket and scoring for pathy is felt, The funeral takes Middlesex since 1872.

ace at 5.30 p.m. to-do have been languishing up in Can Chinese have been led astray by more than a decade.

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