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ABSENCE OF CANTON

OFFICIALS..

MANY ACTING APPOINT: MENTS NOTIFIED.

TWO IN FOREIGN OFFICE. During the absence of Messrs. Hau Hain, Sun Fo, T. V. Soong and Eugene Chen from Canton on their tour to the Front, the following members have been selected to look after the work of their depart

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED GRILL by A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

I am folly glad to see that the old head on young shoulders, and dance-experts have invented a new I just want to say that nearly all Charleston step which may be your corcospondence are arguing performed without giving an un-the present question empirically enlighted onlooker the impression when I hold that it should be ap- that he is witnessing a Cup Final.proached synthetically, as should it hasn't come a moment too soon. every problem in metahnosticiem. took my best girl but soven to Youre affectiontely Lucy Tim- the Seldlitz the other night, and mins (aged 5), was trundling her peacefully round Sir,-I am desired by the Minis- Mr. Li Shing-yik, the Secretary the ballroom, doing no harm. toter of Agriculture and Fisherles to to Mr. T. V. Soong, will, act as anybody, when someone hacked me draw your attention to the fact substitute for. Mr. Soong in the on the knee-cap. I turned to see that any public reference to the Ministry and. Department of

who had done this monstrous habits of halibuts made within the Finance, co-operating with Depart-thing when another someone kick-Three-Mile Limit, as defined by in- montal Chiefs in both of the above organizations.

ments:

Mr. Wak Yuk, Director of the Canton Information Bureau, and Mr. Kaa Yuen, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. will act for Mr. Eugene Chen during his absence.

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Mr. Hau Chun-pah, Commis- sioner of Justice, has taken up the duties of Mr. Hsu Hein in the Ministry of Justice.

In the Ministry, of Communica“ tong, Mg. Lin Shing hai, the Chef Secretury, is acting as substituto. for Mr. Sun Fo.

The work in the Department of Reconstructions has been put in the charge of Mr. Ng Shang-ying, Secretary of the Department.

Mr. Chen, Kim-yu, Chief of the Gencial Affairs Department, and Mr. Lai Cho-kam, Secretary, have been made responsible for all affairs in the Municipality.

ed me on the other knee-cap, while a third someone behind me thrust a leg between mine and went off with the skin from both my ankles impaled on the heel of his shoe. When I demanded an explanation.

each merely said "Charleston;" (as if that explained everything) just as one might say "Season!" at a railway barrier.

ternational law, was expressly prohibited by the Halibut, Hake, Herring and Haddock Protection Act, of 1897, vide Clause 120, Sub- Clause 268, Section 489, Sub-sec- tion 165, Paragraph 324(g), Sub- Paragraph 499 (d). In the clres., the Minister, while fully recognia- ing the great value. to science of the correspondence you have started regrets that he is reluct-; antly compelled to declare the dis- cussion ended.Your very civil ser- vant, Abel Codder (Office Care- taker).

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926.

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A man yesterday'spent the en- tire morning, slowly walking round Hiding my partner under a scat, the Mint with his eyes fixed to the I went straight up to my first ag- ground. It is thought that he was' grossor and bit him savagely in the a tourist from Aberdeen.

"Charleston!"

I said. stomach. and passed on. The second I Mr. Li Chook-wing, the Director throttled, and threw the body into of the Yeet-han Railway, whethe piano. Charleston!" mur- accompanied Mr. Sun Fo, has leftmured; and then I approached the his duties in the charge of Mr. Ip third. Him I seized by both ears. Ka-huen, his Trame Manager.

Aung him to the ground, and danced a Highland ding on his silly face. "Charleston!" I said,

MR. WANG CHING WAL.and rejoined my partner.

TO RETURN TO SOUTHERN FOLD.

At the subsequent police-court proceeding against me for causing grievous bodily harm-

"What do you plead?" asked the clerk.. "Charleston," I replied. "Dismissed!" said the Magistrate..

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According to an official who has left Canton to join the other mem-

I am afraid you will all be very bers of the reorganised Nationalist cross with me, comrades, when 1 Government on,their Northern unfold to you the solution of my tour, it appears that Mr. Wang great "Mystery" story, a précis of Ching-wai has accepted, an ap- which I printed last week. For, pointment and will rejoin theof course, the explanation is so Southern service after an inter-awfully obvious when the villian val of almost a year. He is re- left the heroine in the steal-bound cuperating from his recent opera-strong-room he forgot to shut the tion, and as soon as he is com- door, and she just walked out.

will leave pletely recovered,

However, to compensate for any Shanghai where he is now staying, possible disappointment this solu- j to go directly to Wuchang."

tion may cause you, I shall slightly The information is of particular alter the conditions of the story interest in that it denotes at least in next week's "Mixed Grill," and I can confidently prophecy that the reconciliation and return of Mr. Wang to the southern fold, the startling Deunuqment will give satisfaction to everybody. I in- from which he was estranged by n party quarrel which also caused tend (if I can save up enough the departure from Canton of an-money) to offer a prize of a splen- did second-hand steam-roller "to ther prominent oficial in the per- son of the late Foreign Minister, the reader sending in the first cor-

rect solution. Mr. C. C. Wu,

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SILLY SEASON LOVE LYRICS.

Sweet Celia, pray forgive thuso

loving

tears,

Which burst from eyes unused to

Beauty's glare;

For in your face each subtle charm

appears,

Euch winsome wile of yours is

mirrored there,

How can I gaze upon you all un-

moved.

When you're the only girl I can

adore,

When you're the only girl I've ever

loved-

Unless you count the girls I've

loved before?

You are the shrine whereon my

Boul bas burned

All through the dismal days of

lorelinese,

You're the ideal for which my

heart has yearned Each hour since first I saw you

(more or less). Heart-whole, sweet Celia, at your

feet I lie; My life has

owned no love save

enly you Unless you count Cis, Boss, Rose,

Kate. Ruth, Vie,

John, Neli, Maud, May, Lii, Mog

Flo, Gert. and Suc.

Then Colin, take this pure, unsul-'

lied love,

Of mine, and hold it over in your

heart!

For by the blessed sun that shines"

...above,

Never from your side can I endure

to part.

Treasure it well through days of

joy and pain,

Guard it as you would guard your

very life;

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Ne'er such love as mine can come

again; The only thing is,-How' I tell

my wife?

fessor Westenhoefer, which he re- According to the theory of Pro- She tendered a florin, and the cently propounded before a con- gress of anthropologists at Salz-

Mr. Wang Ching-wai was in A lady entered a fancy goods active association in his youngershop." "I want," he said, "one days with the late Kuomintang of, those shilling photographs of Chief. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and this. Winston Churchill wearing a association endured closely up to Homburg hat, like those you have the time of the latter's death. in the window." when, occupying then the position

carried on with the presidential,

pennies.

of Chairman of the reorganised salesman handed her the requiredburg, man has not sprung from the National Government, Mr. Wang photograph, sixpence and four monkey, but the monkey from man. Some folks appear to be terribly work of the party, until the grow-" "But you have only given me shocked at the news, since it would ing power of General Chang Kaitenpence change," she protested. shek completely dominated South "That is quite right, madam," seem that the monkey therefore oc- ern politics, and led to the resigna said the salesmus, "Twopence of creation than we do. Well, 1 tion of many "moderates" of the

amusement-tax." Kuomintang Party from the active administration of the ment.

Govern-

CORRESPONDENCE.

Do Halibuts Make Good

Husbands?

Now that the Nationalist Gov- ernment has realised the aims of its Commander-in-Chief, through Sir-It much regrettables mo military succoses, it is believed that I unacquaint with your Eng- that a policy of reconciliation with lish apecchness which I am impios- its estranged members will besible something of your halibuts" entered into, and Mr. Wang's re-husbands' habits to any I make turn is regarded as the first step botanies better; hot piscatoriala. in this direttion.

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don't cure a tiny, hard, sour, green upple whether I'm descended from

make very false godmothers, hein? ja monkey or the monkey-from-man. Yet it was veracious, isn't it Whatever the answer is, it won't Hoping that this finde itself as end the Coal Strike or bring down you leaves me. Yours very nicely the Income-Tax. All the same, thanks,, Linnacus Leberwust whenever I observe that old fool, (Schonkelbrod).".

Professor Barmión Crumpett, rum-

Sir, Possibly you may remen bling around, I find it quite easy. bor me: I am the little girl, aged to believe that the human race five, who contributed to your pre- originally aprang from the max- vious discussion. "Should Plum-riage of Balaam's asa with the bers Perspire?" I am still only gooso that wanted to become a Ave, but, as Mum says, I have an swan.

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