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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927,

AN INEVITABLE DEMAND.

SATURDAY,

APRIL 2. 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

THE CHILD IS A. MOST PERCEPTIVE CREATURE, AND IF WE PUT BEFORE rr A LOW STANDARD, IT WILL IN LATER DAYS CARRY OUT THE SAME IDEA WITH RESPECT TO ITS OWN CHILDREN.-Dean of Norwich,

The P. and O. a.s. Kalyan, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 31st March at B. a.m.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Str. Sung Sheung wai to be a Public Vaccinator.

The E. and A. Company's 9.3. Arafura is due here with the Australian mails at daylight to

Mr. Henry Thomas Jackman has been appointed a Member of the Council of the University of Hongkong.

fight of the Nationalists against the North-a civil war of the kind that has torn. China ever since the days of the 1911 revolu- tion-has become inextricably mixed up with the spread of anti- British and anti-foreign ferment. The leaders of the Cantonese, many of whom' do no doubt genuinely believe that in some way or other they are fighting for theliberation--of-China---from- war-lords and all such harmful in fluences" have allowed them selves to be as a sponge for the soaking up

of "Red" effusions, and they have inevitably become saturated with wrong and dan-morrow. gerous ideas totally in conflict with their ostensible aim of purg- ing the country of oppression. The complaint against "unequal" treaties has been distortod out of its true proportions until it has become an obsession and hate leading up to anti-foreign out- rages.

Chinese generally The have worked themselves up into a mood in which they are not only shouting their real and imagined grievances at the top of their voices but are also drowning the good and well-intentioned advice of their beat friends, and also goading themselves into a state of utter unreasonableness. So chao- tic and interwoven and all mixed up have Chinese motives and ac- tions become of late that it is necessary to administer something rather drastic in order to bring

Tenders are being invited for the erection of a new garage and motor cycle shed at the Central Police Station.

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It is notified that J. R. G. Wyatt has been appointed as Assistant Examiner for Master's and Mates'

ON

NOTHING

The Silent Monologue..

She looked into my rooms this there is nothing and nothing. We afternoon and asked:

are not going to shrug our shoul- "Are you working?"

ders at Hamlet's soliloquy; but if "No,"

I said, "I'm doing wo had burst in upon Hamlet with nothing."

the question. "What are you "Nothing?" she asked, and then, doing?" and he had not replied, "I won't disturb you. I thought "Soliloquizing" but blankly, shyly, "Nothing," I hope we would have you were only working."

And she went away, leaving me had the tact to leave him and say, alone to nothing.

"I'll wait until you're busy."

There you have the word used in

No matter who is responsible for its subtlest, indeed in its Spanish, the mot, "A writer is a person who SETHO. Two Spaniards meet at does what he likes and gets paid their cafe in the evening. The ter for it," the fact remains that it is tulla is circled there. It is six a belief, very current nowadays, o'clock, the hour when Spanish that thinking is, in the baser sense tongues, like spoons, are stirring of our word, doing nothing. up all the gossip and rumour I remember a glowering ship- though Spain were a vast basin of paella, rice and oil. One man says,

Well, what'a the latest?"

And the other, from long habit, replies:

"Nothing." Though, for that matter, the very lid of the sky may be slipping off."

builder shouting at me, as we sat on the top of a Belfast tram, "Young man, you may take it from me, "Writing poetry don't drive no rivets,' as they would tell you over on the Ieland." His geniality and conviction were uncompromising. He was moreover a judge, and you not argue with the law. But The two men sit down and talk I can write now the sharp retort I about this "nothing." Chocolate, did not think of until it was too stiff with flour and cinnamon, is late:

"Driving rivets don't write no brought. The two men talk inces- santly. They interrupt each other poetry." His Excellency the Governor and butt in like themes in a fugue, Nothing is the silent monologue, has appointed Private Georgo each listening only to his own or the interior monologue, as road- ers of Proust and Joyce will call Duncan, M.B.E., to be Second-voice. There are two peram-

"The Cherry Orchard," Volunteer Defence Corps.

the Hongkong bulatory monologues; if there it. In

ten are

there will be when Gaev exclaims, "Cannon of ten monologues. In the whole the right into the pocket!" you of Spain there will be some know he inwardly looks on the world as a vast billiard table, just 22,000,000 monologues.

Examinations.

Lieutenant in

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men,

as Shakespeare thought it might be a stage. *

A relative of mine, when conver

The fugue of talk pours on and is not silenced until nine o'clock, when a woman brings the now- paper called-by an odd irony the Voice. The silent monologues eation, like sand in an hourglass, His Excellency the Governor of the newspaper, of the new voice empties and is heaped in stillness, both the lenders and people of a appointed Mr. F. A. Wells-they are called polemics in Spain, will suddenly amaze us by crying China to their senses, so that they to be a Member of the Advisory where journalism wins more res-out as though making a speech: all "Your majesties, my lords, ladies pect than literature-stills Committee of the Hongkong can, in a new calm, view things

the great and gentlemen but never gets afresh and aright. The Bolshe- Mr. Douglas Abbey, resigned.

Volunteer Defence Corps, vico tongues until dinner,

any further. This is evidence of leviler, sets them going again.

It was at one of these tertuliasa secret existence of his about vists have won the first fight, be-

I heard an exemplary story about which we know little. We can cause they have erented that men- A cool was sent to the Kwong an earnest young man. This young guess only that he imagines him- Wah Hospital suffering from in- man had entered" politics (as you self in a world that is a well- tal instability and disarray injuries to his head, caused by fall-or I might take up" art or "be packed platform of celebrities

come" bricklayers), and through and he is addressing them, his seriousness, his enthusiasm and

It is but the inevitable sequei of the recent tragic plunge which which revolution und strife are China has made, into animositybred, but the Powers must win the and anti-foreignism that the Powers should be formulating

next-the administration of a cor- rective and the defeat of wrong

joint action of a salutary charac-ideas. It is good to know that tar. Little by little it must have international action is being for-

mulated for that purpose.

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ing from a gang plank into the harbour whilst unloading cement at the Reclamation at Shumshuipo.

A lady's evening dress, valued at $79, was stolen from the shop of Madame Chiffon, of 39 Queen's Jioad, Central, between the hours: of 1.15 and 1.45 a.m. yesterday, according to a report received by

the Police.

There was an aeroplane mishap in Hongkong yesterday, as a result of which Flying Officer Gardner roo and Dale were also on the was slightly injured. Licuts. Mun-

machine, but escaped injury. No details are available beyond the plane was badly

But, as we say, it all boils down the influence of his uncle, who was to the same thing in the end. If I one of Spain's 780 generals, the were cruel enough to ask him what chances of his being a minister by he meant by that ejaculation, he the time he was thirty were very would blush to the roots of his hair

-and say, probably, "Nothing." favourable.

Let us not, however, run to the other extreme by becoming priggish about our day dreams and They may be only When

Ho was told that the system of local government was old-fashioned and corrupt. He was also told he

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been borne home to the lenders of the nations concerned that there

might reform it. So he drafted an meditations. is a distinct menace to world peace

enormous bill with acres of proam the sunlight of idleness, in the present-day attitude of the

The Guilty Parties.

blo. The rhetoric of Don Juan asked what we have been doing at Tenorio, was nothing-the word our desks, how many times have Chinese towards the nationals of Chinese Nationalists and their

recurs to the full diapason of we said, "Thinking"? Or even the other countries. At the outset, propaganda agents are attempting

that preamble! The Government cryptic "Nothing," when all the this animosity was more or less atrocities at Nanking, when several

how many hundred pages there to disclaim all responsibility for the

was greatly impressed. I forget time we have been fast asleep?

We Anglo-Saxons are always shy confined to Britain, but of late foreigners were murdered and the

were to the bill. Countless na they of these awkward facts: The La there has been a wholesale spread most revolting experience befel

were, the bill was made law by a thus, brutal realists, knowing the which must at all costs be stop-many other foreign rusidente. In fact that the

weakness is common, if not univer stroke of the King's pen. this connexion, the Canton smashed.

the sal, have almost solemnized. ped. The culmination of many Gazette's staff correspondent in

"And what was the opinion of siesth. Neither, I suppose, are our recent acta eume in connexion Shanghai delivers himself of a The Postmaster General notifies those qualified to judge?" asked thoughts-Idling in labyrinthine. with the taking of Nanking by the earthy message on the subject, in that the prohibition as regards the famous polemical writer who flights and thin corridors of fancy

the course of which he states:- the exchange of clubbed packages ruled the tertulia. He shrugged like themes in a fugue--always.. Nationalists, when incidents took "Investigation of the Nanking in-between Hongkong and the Re-his shoulders. He was a Basque, creating masterpieces, place which it is impossible to cidents seems to indicate clearly public of China,

It has been the mistake of Proust the Straits he had travelled all over the world.; overlook. A joint demand for re-

that the attacks against foreigners Settlements and the Federated He had written plays, poems, and Joyce and their disciples, I were made by Fengtien (Mukden- Malay States is postponed aine novels. He had even-for political think, to assume all thinking or parations is being formulated and Shantung) forces deliberately seek-dic, but that regarding the Nether-reasons-been in prison.

every ripple of the stream of it is plainly stated that if those ing to bring about incidents reflectlands Indies will be enforced as "Man!" he said. "It was--what? human consciousness is artistical-

ing the Nationalist 10rces. from 1st April, 1927.

interesting or significent, demands are not complied with People acquainted with the past

A

thesis-ly opus, magnum

Ieven wonder if it is a ecia there will be an immediate con-

nothing!" performances of the Nationalist

Beginning to-day, says the I thought, for a long time, this cidence that Joyce's central work Canton Gazette of Friday, a re- was a jealous and silly sneer, til is called "Ulysses." duction in passenger cares on the one day I discovered how small a It can hardly be a coincidence (who stir Canton-Kowloon Railway will be molchill in practice this mountain that the Spanish

overy I up "Nothing'

evening made. It was decided by the ous monologue had become. authorities of the Railway that learned, too, that the famous pole from six o'clock until the news first-class tickets from Canton tomical writer had begun his career paper ailences them) should have instead of $7; 2nd class will be shovel in the band is worth a mil-Vida Kowloon will be sold at $6 each, as a coal miner and knew that a produced Calderon, who wrote, "La

es Sueno""Life is sold at $2, and 3rd class tickets on abovels in the bush.

'Dream." And is a dream any at $1.50 hereafter.

This is only to say there are thing?

V. S. P monologues and monologues; that

sideration of concerted action "of

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The following regulations have been made under the Gunpowder and Fireworks Ordinance ;- --"“No

troops are convinced that none par- ticipated in the attacks which are no weak nature." Ая Lord

being grossly aggerated by the Birkenhead, who is one of the foreign press here." Unhappily most prominent members of the for the author of this message and British Cabinet, has stated "there others of his kidtcy, the facts have now been fully attested in sworn is a spirit of insult and reckless-statements by the British and ness abroad in China which will American Consult and numerous responsible residents, all of whom require for its correction the

agred that the outrages were the counsels of the civilised and anti-work of uniformed" Nationalist Bolshevist nttions of the world," troops. From these statements, and when the word "counsel" is Britishers out of the question, we explosive ingredient or mixture leaving the indignities aufered by uned in that context it can be read learn that Nationalist soldiers de- other than black powder, charcoal, as being synonymous with advice liberately fired at the United States

sulphur, salopetre, aluminium Consul, well knowing who he was, which it would not be wise to with

and potassium perchlorate shall the intention of killing be used or kept on the premises. ignore. There have been anti-him, whilst some 160 Nation- No single container in any fire- foreign murders and outrages that aliat troops looted the Japan work shall contain more than Consulate, fired at would, in the case of any other Consul, his staff and marines ture in which potassium perchlo- the 10 grains of any explosive mix- country but China, have led to and threatened Japanese civilians rate is an ingredlent". action before now, but the Powers, with bayonets. These are only a few of the numerous incidents fully aware

of the special and which might be cited, but they are peculiar conditions and trials more than sufficient to pin down the through which China is passing, the responsibility, without have been tolerant to a degree-Nationalist Army. Even the Man- slightest element of doubt, on the

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EXCHANGE RATES.

# tolerance which has, unfor-chester Guardian, the well-known Paris. tunately, been mis-interpreted and organ of liberal opinion, states that Brussels. from the ovidence there is every Amsterdam abused.

sign that the outrages and deliber- Borlin ate savagery were the carefully or- Copenhagen

It cannot be viewed as less than

a tragedy that China should, inganised work of fully licensed sol- dlery. This time, fortunately, the Nationalists cannot bluff the world

the period of her adolescence as

a modern nation, have fallen that they are the injured party.

victim to the wiles of Bolshevista

and Communista, for it is undeni-

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CORRESPONDENCE. view to enlisting its aid in throw-

PEAK TRAM FARES.

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

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ing light on the apparently nu- justified action taken by the Peak Tramway Company in increasing monthly ticket rates, any further comment or suggestions may ap pear superfluous. But while the iron is hot, the following sugges-- tion, which appears to afford a antisfactory solution of the pro- Sir, I feel that an apology is blem for all concerned, may not due to "H. E. Lo-N. Side," for the be entirely out of place:. reason that I did not make it clear,

Monthly tickets at $12 and $9. As was intended, in the concluding could be issued. The former be paragraph of my letter that my re-ing available for all trams and the mark "If he is not a member of latter for "Business Trams" be- the Association, his criticism in tween the hours of, say, 7.80 2, 3494 not only worthless but unjustified" to 9.30 .m., and 4.30 p.m. and 12.18 only referred to his criticism of 6.30 p.m. a charge of ten cents

20.48 the P.R.A.

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From the point of view of mere 2.17/32 right to his own opinions in mat Peak Tram frequenters, the sug

.770 tora of such public interest as gestion appears practicable, but 17% Peak Tram fares, but I think his undoubtedly the Company bas .2/0.1/16 views are ao fundamentally sound

some plausible explanation for .85.21/32 that I should be only too pleased extracting that 38. 1/8% super--

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E. B. C. HORNELL, Hongkong, April 2nd 1927.

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Sir-Now that the P.R.A. has approached the Government within

Habitues of the Peak trams cor tainly appreciate the stop taken by the PRA, and are, perhaps, optimistically awaiting develop monta-Youra, etc.

INTERESTED Hongkong, April 1st, 1927.