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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925.

DAY BY DAY.

be ungrateful to him for drawing attention to the need for a high state of efficiency in the latest national arm of defence. This CHIEF PURPOSE, DISAPPOINTS

PLEASURE, WHEN IT 18 A MAN'S

applies to the whole world, and ITSELF; AND THE CONSTANT AP- involves a subject which has been ALICATION TO IT PALLS THE FACULTY OF ENJOYING IT.—Steele. exercising the minds of many highly-placed persons in the British

**

The opening rate of the dollar

Was

MIXED

#50 -

ASHLEY 'STERNE ·

GRILL

AUTHOR DI TWISTED TALES-

Empire. There is talk of restric-on demand to-day was 20. 4.7/16d. tion of the "sulcical race in aerial} A District Court Martial is to I am delighted to read that at fatrons bahot To exarpate the armanents"; but for the present be held on Monday for the trial of the recent Dental Exhibition in Communistic viper, Or with your new and potent pipe to charm it into rest; And the wisest nations will not allow Pte. Frank Burns, of the East London, a

Surreys.

anaesthetic for dental operations we, with willing hand, will pay a desire for peace to obscure the

successful domonstrated, the "pipor" need for at least the minimum of] Amongst the passengers who Something, I hope, along the loft. for Manila by the Empress of lines of complete anaesthesia adequate preparedness.

Canada were Mrs. G. E. Costello, guaranteed, or your money. The last day of October wit- and Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Harrison, returned". For I am one of those nossed the opening of the Cheesp peculiarly constituted individuals Fair at Koswick. Suffor me, thers- upon whom the usual dental fore, a moment while in humble dopes produce no effect whatever. imitation of Mr. Easthope Mar- Dentiste have plied me with tin's popular song, I hymn its

The second batch of aludents for the Sun Wen University at Moscow left Canton on the 17th instant, by one of the Russian Soviet steamers.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1925.

Dirty Public Buildinge. Let anyone take a walk up the main handsome stairway of the Post Office building and look carefully around at the cun- dition of the interior from the cleanliness point of view and we think that, after a tour along the corridors of each floor, they will come to the same conclusion that we have namely, that it is about time someone did a little cleaning. The Government may

It is reported that the Chinese section of the Canton Kowloon railway will resume the express train service to Shum Chun a from the 20th inst.

The King's Exequatur en-

be short of money and might powering Mr. Roberto Vallarino be more or less justified in post-o act as Consul for Panama in II is poning the thorough spring clean-Hongkong has received ing and ro-decorating that the Majesty's signature. building needs, but there is no

excuse for dirt, and the inside of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Guldsmith our Post Office huilding is left by the Empress of Canada distinctly dirty. Finished A yesterday for Munila to spend a recently as 1911 at tremendous short holiday at Baguio. cost, the building is described in

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berland cheese.

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Heigh-ho! Come to the fair!) don your best kirtles, sweet maidens, I pray :

the illustrated papers procurable,O, what is the perfume that's and still have remained borne on the brooze? conscious. They have pumped (Helgh-hot Cemo to the fair) ughing-gas into me by the It emells like the odour of Cum- therm with no better result than if they had filled me up with ginger beer. They havo squirted cocaine into me by the bucket without producing anything more remarkable than a gumboil. They have even tried whacking on the skull with life- preservers and coke-hammers, but all to no avail.

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Hence I welcome the now

Anaesthetic with open jaws and exposed nervos,

As I warned you in these

conclusion that it is one of those dances wherein the participants It is announced in a London are more shinned against than papor that the marriago arranged shinning, so to speak. The steps between Mr. V. G. Stnyth and do not seem particularly hard to Miss Joyce Creagh-Osborne will acquire, and for the convenience take place at Hongkong early in of readers who may care to study March, 1926.

them at home I append a littló diagram, which I hope, will mako the whole thing clear.

a local handbook as being "one Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung columns last August, the sword of the finest buildings in the left London on November 14th for of Damocles has fallen, the die is Colony, the style being froe Mentone, where they proposed to cast, and the fat's fairly in the adaptations of the English stay about three weeks before re-fire. In other words, we dancing Renaissance. That may be so, turning to Hongkong.

men have just got to put our pose but surely the place can be kept,

to the grindstone, our shoulder to THE MITCHELL TRIAL. clean even though it is only The late Mr. Clive Kingcome, the wheel, and our hand to the public property. The majority of Greenway-gardens, Hamp-plough, and learn the French tan- of the windows, the interior stoud, N.W., formerly of Manila, go. Already they are dancing it! After some weeks of prepara-mouldings, the walls and the Philippine Islands, left ostate in at the Savoy, and from my ob- tion, lestimony, and trial, Colonel floor are filthy. No wonder those England valued at £23,304 (net servation of it I have come to the

who work inside have to keep 22,312). William Mitchell, an officer recent-their electric lights on all day, ly connected with the United States The way in which odd pipes and: electric wires have been put in, air services, has been found guilty and the way in which holes have on various charges of insubordinate boon knocked in the walls for conduct and sentenced by a court name-boards and then later left as bare scars is a thorough dis- maitial to five years' suspension of grace when judged by the usual his commission. This, for

an standard of careful Government In connection with the coming work. The whole building inside anti-Christiah demonstration to energetic man who presumably was and out needs thorough ronova- take place in Canton on the 24th) heart and soul for his chosention, but, first and formost, there December, it is reported that the vocation, means the virtual ending ought to be somebody put in Government takes the stand of

charge of a gang of cleaning freedom of religious belief, of his career, as it will rob him offenolies and told to get on with the any chances he might have had of job. A walk round the inside of a responsible promotion or confidence of his the building by

Government official would bring superiors. This has ended about action, we are certain. almost sensational episode in the history of the American military courts, as well as one of the most

interesting trials which have ever

The Spanish Language, Much has been said and written

The cheeses hold revel up Ulls-

water way;

1:

And the jazz-band from Blackpool.

has gone there to play-

Heigh-ho come to the fair!) O, what is it making young

Johnny so long

(Haigh-ho) down at the fair? He's tasting the cheeses so lusty

and strong!

Heigh-ho! Como to the fair!). There's Chedder, and Cheshire,

and Gloucestor, I know;

And Lactie St. Ival and Stilton,

I trowi

So pull up your socks and away

wa'll all go

Heigh-ho i straight to the fair! Then sharpon the choose-scoop,

and come along do!

(Heigh-ho! Come to the fair 11 cupboard is empty; the

The

mousetrap is, too!

Heigh-ho! Come to the fair!) Come with a whoop, lads, and

come with a call

Como with a bellow and come

with a bowl --

Come with old Uncle Tom Cob.

ley and all

(Right-o!·Off to the fair!)

SOCIETY GOSSIP.

Mr. and Mrs. Nonvo-Roosh were heard dining at the Ritz last night.

The many friends of Lady Paynter-Collick will regret to hear that, upon medical advico, she has decided to have ber ap- pendix bobbed.

*** His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr.

I am bitterly distrossed. That A. E. Wood to act as Director of estimable city, whose succulent Education and Mr.. R. A. C. sweet-meat is one of my earliest North to act as Chief Assistant and most sainted memories, has to the Secretary for Chinese recently been called to account for possessing an accent, and all Affairs.

good native Liverpudlians have

resented the vilo of it.

弥竭

Mrs. Mongerly Meizer gave a luncheon party at her Kensington house yesterday. The luncheon was very good-what thoro was

Sympathy will be freely accord-

A Chinese who was arrested naturally of late regarding the importance | been held. The great controversy, of Britishers becoming acquaint yesterday, following the armed imputation. As a lifelong patron robbery attempted in a floor at of the toffer of Everton, the pills However, that has aroused the od with foreign languages, especi-No. 92, Western Street, carac be- of St. Helens, and Liverpool ed to Mr. Honley Peck who sud- interest not only of the whole ally where young men go out

into the world and carry on their fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the virus, I, too, wish to put in my denly lost his wife while they

oar and lodge a

were on a visit to Wembley lust disclaimer, American people but also of the business careers in foreign lands and was remanded for a week.

Central Magistracy this morning though I propose to do so by Saturday. She was waiting on various nerial Powers of the world,In this regard it is, interesting' to'

paradox. Of course, Liverpool the mat for bim when he arrived has an accent, just as London home. is not by any means concluded, note that there are now hundreds

The Gazette notifies that the has an accent. It is known as the of young men in London alone Ratner has it only just begun. who are eagerly learning Spanish International Banking Corpora- English accent. The folks who Col. Mitchell was indicted for his most of them with the avowed tion of New York, United States fail to recognise it, I infer, are who of America, a foreign hanking those who wear throc top-hats aim of joining others exceulingly strong pablie criticisms have sought new openings in company carrying on business in and want to sell you, a watch, of his country's air services. and South America, where that lang-this for the purposes of the and those who sing our National

Colony, is recognised as a

Anthem with BC marked a the sentence passed on him pre-age is the premier commercial

tongue. Commenting this Evidence Ordinance, 1889.

Gorman inflection, sumably suggests that his remarks matter, Sir Woodman Borbidge,

Observatory returns show that were found to be unjustified, but he chairman of Harrods, says:

wonder how many magnates of the average mean temperature has drawn attention to the quee the next generation will be able during November was 21.9, the tion of aviation preparedness in a to trace their prosperity back to highest being 83.4 on the 1st and way which leaves no doubt that, if the evening when they nervously the lowest G1, on the 28th. The embarked upon their first lesson in rainfall totalled 1.09 inch, and that, tongue? We recall that there were 204 hours of sunshine before the war much of the trade The average humidity was 70. between Europe and South Ame rica bad passed into Gorman

on

His Excellency the Govenior

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POEMS ON PROMINENT PERSONAGES. MR. STANLEY BALDWIN.

Dear Premier, when you puff your faithful briar And formulate the laws which govern folk, Remember there is.one thing wo

require Of you, which simply

there be any defects existing, they will receive early attention.

Without any intimate knowledge of the whole farts of the case one hands, and a Government com has boon pleased to appoint must not end in smoke

into Lieutenant-Colonel S. B. Smith, therefore charge you cannot pretend to endorse the mittee which enquired

the position WALS informed D.S.O., O.B.E., R.A.M.C., to be a views of either side in the con-that this was so because the Momber of the Sanitary Board troversy, but it might be noted that Germans took pains to learn Spa- for

A term of three

years,

"

A official communique an-

We

with I

PRICE OF RUBBER.

The Bishop of Bath and Bunn ereated something of a sunsation yosterday when he entered the Athenaeum Club wearing Oxford galters.

Mr. Bensley Tosher, the well- known poet, is in a Nursing Homo suffering from a split ia- finitive.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

IN PRACTICAL USE IN

GERMANY.

e Mitchell "revelations" came at nish." The lesson is apparently vice Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. a time when the United States air being taken to heart, for in the Fitzgerald, D.S.O., R.A.M.C., who

AMERICAN PROTESTS growing relations between Britain has left the Colony.

AGAINST RESTRICTION. service had suffered two important and the Spanish-speaking coun- mishaps, one of which was the sad tries it is shown that there is a

widespread response to the nounces the appointment of

New, York, Dec. 18.

Berlin, Dec. 18. disaster to the Shenandoah and the demand for men and women who Messrs. Chau Wing-fook. Young

The effects of the Stevenson Recent experiments in wireless telephony from railway trains has other the failure of the trans- can speak and write the language.Yan-ping and Kan Kum-shek, as

There are, it is reported, big Councillors to the Canton Gov-rubber restriction scheme were been so successful that as from Pacific seaplane flight. There openings for steady Britishers ernmont, Mr. Tezo Hoi-yun as discussed in Congress, when Mr. January 1st. travellura in cx- were not wanting in number of who are acquainted with Spanish, Judge and Messrs. Cham Kwai- critics who blamed the authorities which still remains one of the fom, Yu Yao and Lop Man-lan as Tilson, the Republican Leader of press. trains between Hamburg greatest commercial languages of Associate Judges of the Special the House of Representabiyes, de. and Berlin will be able to telo- phone to their families and for these mishaps, and appeared to the world.

Criminal Court, which was remanded, the immediate Investiga- friends as easily as if they were connect them with a general back-

cently inaugurated.

tion of the whole altuation at home. The service will be ex- tended to other trains as soon as wardness in aerial administration.

House. The offices of the Supromo by a committee of the

possible.-Reuter." Col. Mitchell undoubtedly over-

Mr. John Bell-Irving, of Milk-Court are to be open daily from Mr. Tilson stated that the man. stepped the bounds of propriety in bank, Lockerie, Dumfries, sevonth 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the pulation of crude rubber prices his vehement attack on the adminis. Laird of Whitehill, late of Messrs. Christmas Vacation, except on

Jardine, Matheson & Co., formerly Public and General Holidays, by British Colonial Governments tration, and broke a long-establish of the Hongkong Logislative when the offices will be entirely was already costing the United ed service regulation as to public Council, who died on July 30th, closed, and on Saturdays, when Statas industry. soven hundred utlerances by an officer on the aged 79, left, in addition to con- they will be open from 10a.m. to milion dollars more than was siderable real estate and settled noon. The Christmas Vacation active list. Yet is motives might property, unsettled personal estate will commence on the 24th warranted, Mr. Tilson's demand

and terminates

for investigation, was followed by have been of the best, und Ameri-valued for probate at £209,932, of instant

which the personal estate in January 1st, 1926, (both days conference with Mr. Hoover from Paris, en route to Moscow cans as a whole will perhaps not Great Britain amounts to £98,250, inclusive.)

Router's American Service.

CHITCHERIN HOMEWARD BOUND,

Berlin, Dec. 18.

M. Chitcherin has arrived here ·

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