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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927.

EXIT

ANKOW.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

TO THINK AND BELIEVE ILL OF OUR BRETHEREN IS THE VERY WAY TO MAKE THEM WHAT WE' BELIEVE. THEM TO BE-Hare.

As in previous years, special services will be held in the two Cathedrals at 9 a.m. on Empire" Day, the 24th inst.

The local weather forecast for the period ending at noon to-mor- row : S.E. winds; moderate; generally overcast, some rain.

A Reuter message received to- day states that the House of Com- muns by 287 to 110 has passed the second rending of the Finance Bill.

THIS-ER BATHING.

AN UNDELIVERED SPEECH.

(With Apologica, to ""Monty.")

"It is not.....er....generally known, that the popularity of bathing in Hongkong is not nearly ne pronounced as it would be at present, if it had been better cater fed for in the past-er, because the present will be no better than the future will be if it's not better organised than it was in the past. I think that's clear!

The whole trouble is that à lot of people want to wear bathing costumes and things, and I think you must agres that a bathing costume without any sea is as und as an egg without any salt, al though, mind you, even an 88 sees the sea, because I've seen shells even at Repulsive....er... Repulse Bay, which reminds me that scrambling for eggxits of matsheds when the rightful owner comes along is awfully awkward

The Very Idea!

A doctor had been to see one of his patients, a widow. You are slightly morbid, my dear lady," he said. "You should look about you and marry again."

"Oh, doctor," she answered coyly is this a proposal?",

"Allow me to remind you, "that madame, came the reply,

doctor prescribes medicine, but he doesn't take it."

The new bride cooked a choco-

late cake

Her husband sure was game. And though he ate a piece and

lived

He'll never look the same.;

Heard at Hull Police Court- Don't you go to Spiritualist the meetings?"Yes," replied. questioner's mother-in-law.

tempts to justify the retention of a representative of the British Minister at Hankow, the British Government has at last boen forced to the conclusion that no useful purpose is to be served by his presence there and he has, rightly enough, been withdrawn. Of course, Hankow now stands discredited oven among the Chin- ese themselves. The split In the ranks of the Nationalist party has left but a small minority, of Com- munists at Hankowa party which is in no way able to speak in the name of Chinese National- ism. At Nanking there has been set up a rival Government to which the authorities at present in power in Canton and Shang- hat are loyal, and there are in- dications that the alter collapse of the Hankow party is imminent.

Don't you sit in the house and The withdrawal of the British

set the table waggling? Yes, Minister's representative

This morning's Harbour Office.one's liable to become all mix- Have you ever got anything from the spirits Yes, some very more or less inevitable, but, if

reports gave 13 arrivals and, 14ed up.

"As the Colonial' Secretary....good truths. We have got to the Hankow party had made - a

departures, of which four and six

when he......uptlyer-stated know when he (defendant) was bona fide attempt to live up to

respectively were British, leaving

Stipendiary That was a ter- the high principles and aspira-54 vessels in harbour, of which 13 "Hongkong is essentially a Colony going to kick up a row again.

of British....er....people. And what the Government intends to tainty. tions voiced by its leading spokes were British.

do in the matter of bathing, is something man, Mr. Eugéne Chen, there

nothing....er, if not would have been no need for so

more or less....because" bathing aterni a censure as has now bech

is the Colony's birthright, and al- administered. The truth of the

though birthrights are usually. maiter is that the Hankow party

sold for a spot of message, er.... mess of pattage, Government ser- has succeeded in discrediting" it-

vants intend to follow the words were self because its leaders

of the song, and go down to the son-in-er-sh..cars and things! That is, the only way to keep the beaches combed of, which reminds me honey is beastly stickey to take on a bathing picnic, and it's so tiresome picking the sand out of it.

was

Information has been received from the Naval authorities that a quantity of condemned cordita will be burned at Stonecutters Island during to-morrow forenoon.

The Tanga Maru, arriving from Australian ports, reports that be tween Thursday Island and Davao une Chinese deck passenger did of heart failure, the body being

buried at sea..

Among passengers proceding North by the President Lincoln for Shanghai, yesterday, was Lady Tyrwhitt, wife of the British Naval Commander in Chief, flying his flag in H.M.S. Hawkins,

never, at heart, sincere. They were players with words and ideas they had never really under- stoad and never really tried to realise. The best that is in Chin-. ese nationalism that which is worthy of the support of every friend of China-found but little room in the hearts of the. Han-periodicals from Mrs. Branch, Mrs. Hurry Woods, Mr. F. A. kow opportunists. They were

Wells and Mr. G. R. Edwards. more imbued with the tenets of

The

The Hospital. Comforts Com- mittee begs to acknowledge, with many thanks, receipt of books. and large parcels of

very

Didn't spirits tell you I should have been dead two years ago? No.

Policeman at Willesden: "He swore when I arrested him. Man: own I was shouting, sir, but not woring.

Ex-soldier. in Lancashire: I spent four years in a German war a fine. pelson, air, without the option of

East London wife: My hus- to spend the honeymoon at band is so mean, sir, that he took ma Canning Town.

do Nottinghamshire wife: I not mind my husband drinking, because he brings home the best joints of beef when he has had beer.

Willesden motorist: I was half an hour with my customer, but it seemed only ten minutes Magis trate: Time does fit when you are making money.

"And it's so-expaperating to see the shop windows full of bathing much costumes. They lock so more attractive full of....er.... that is, a bathing.costume looks much better on the beach when its properly filled, because these wax figures might melt, which re- minds me. Never buy a bathing By costume full of wax figure!

Woman at Greenwich: that is to say, you can take it to the time you get it to the sea... the water, but you can't make it narie, sir? Just plain Ellen. drink. People who grumble about Following Hamlet," Sir Barry

these Chinese.

bathing should remember

Shakespeare's Jackson staged figures. They have to wear bath-

seldom-performed play, "All's toil not Well that Ends Well" in modern The accountant of the Lee Konging costumes, yet they Hing Kee shop, of 160, Wellington not neither do they swim, although dress at the Birmingham Reperi Street, has reported to the Police Hongkong may be like Ostend, but tory Theatre.

an unostenta that some time yesterday a par- it's Mentonely in table gramophone and ten records tious way, which is very Nice and makes one revere-er-not as much were stolen from his shop.

as one would if only the Govern- ment would do something."

loss is valued at $85.

The

The compradore of Messrs. Mac- kenzie & Co., of No. 31, D'Aguilar Street, was robbed of money and jewellery valued at over $200 in the early hours of yesterday morn- ing. The money and jewellery was stolen from his room, and a re- port has been made to the Police.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

BATHING FACILITIES.

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, "Distracted Father" my sincere sympathies.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw Was present,

Miss Eileen Beldon as "Helena" arst appeared in a black knee- length dress and semi-Eton, crop, and later in a smart cape cont.

Mr. Martin Walver as: "Ber- tram" donned a lounge ault Coffee was served, but there was no smoking...

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Some schoolboy "howlers.". Gong is the masculine of bella vicar is the masculine of vixen.

An appendix is a portion of a book' which nobody has yet dis-, covered to be of any use.

The Minister of War is the has clergyman who preaches to the

soldiers in barracks.

Woman's suffrage is the state of suffering in which they were born.

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I think it is hopeless to trouble about those bathing facilities for dur families because, in my own Card in Florida paper-"Thurs experience, I have written times day I lost a gold watch which I without number to the press with-valued very highly. Immediately out anything coming of it."

Another link with the dim and distant past has been severed with the passing of Mrs. Mary Houston Allen, widow of the latc Dr. Young J. Allen, at the age of 88 years. Her death occurred last Saturday at 32, Lucerne Road, Shanghai. She had a wealth of reminiscences of the Shanghai of early days and of the China which, is now changing in many phases. If I were home in a Dominion, the name of which I will not dis-

No one cares--that is, no one who has any say-so we must just "carry on" and let the people who have the money enjoy the fun. There is nothing in Hongkong for the Britisher of moderate salary,

I inserted an ad. in your lost-and- found column, and waited, Yes- terday I went home and found. the watch in the pocket of another suit. God bless your paper."

The Hankow Government is not

There were two fresh cases of worthy of the recognition which Moscow and the truculence of ir- Britain has paid it. That is the responsibility. The Hankow in-small-pox and also two cases of health authorities yesterday. erdict contained in the final fluence has waned, and we think typhoid fever reported to the communication which has been-will be a throughly good thing There was one case of relapsing All the sufferers were made by Mr. Busil Newton, the for China, when it has vanished fever.

altogether. British Minister's representative at Hankow, to Mr. Eugene Chen on the eve of Mr. Newton's retura

Decline of Handicraft. to Peking, and it is a erdict

committee in Britain which will find favour with all observers. The British Covern-charged with the enquiry into ment, which has tried to meet the conditions of the old handicrafts of the country, such as the "cot- aspirations which Mr. Chen at tage industries has recently is. Hankow claimed to voice, has aed a further report that offers Called to find sincerity of statesno prospect of a definite revival, and presages the eventual exting manship or ability to govern fntion of some of the ancient crafts accordance with the standards of that developed in the middle ages and have in some cases been a responsible modern government. handed on from father to son for The British Government has been several centuries. It is the same. forced to the conclusion that the the world over, where machinery

It is reported that four Chinese has come in, to meet the demands retention in Hankow of a repre- for quick work, "enormous output, labour delegates, "who recently production, and, visited Slam from Canton, were sentative of the British Minister standardised

the is both useless and undesirable, often enough, a cheaper article, interviewed yesterday by because of the total incapacity of For the best material, the disting police authorities on their arrival tive workmanship the connois-Here on their way back to Canton. the regime there to discharge the sour still turns to the hand-made It is understood that the men

This is especially were not detained. responsibilities of a civilised Gov-product. ernment. That is plain language noticeable in the case of lace, an industry of the. English cottage of unmistakable meaning, and a homes that was dying out until statement which preserves the the Queen set a fashion that many dignity of the British Government ladies followed, and thus ravived: A decaying art of the countryside. a quality which was consider-But put here one can see even ably endangered by the continu-more sharply defined this depar- ed presence of a diplomatic reture from the old order of things. for the transition is rapid and the emphasised. presentative at the discredited contrasts strongly

Only a few years ago, it seems, Communist centre.

there was a world-famous art of The history of British diplo tapestry making, confined to the macy at Hankow is one unbroken Chinese ladies who, at that time, atory of genuine endeavour to were obliged to stay at home, and thus found employment in the meet the much-vaunted aspira- laborious embroideries that took

With to complete, tions and nationalism of the years Chinese lenders. Since the Bri- freedom for its women that re- form of social life in old Cathay tish Manifesto of Christmas last has entailed, that art is more and there has been nothing but will more becoming a matter for his- and later perhaps for ingness to co-operate with the tory,

Even in the humbler Chinese in every possible way. branches of the handicrafts, one

A Chinese woman living at No. The Agreements to surrender our finds the same changes. The lace

makers, the weavers of wonder-15, Po Tak Street, attempted to special rights over the Concesful art silks, the benters of fine commit suicide yesterday by jump- sions at Hankow and Kluklang metal-ware, the craftsmen who ing into the harbour at Connaught

Hongkong, May 19th, 1927. were negotiated in a sincere spirit put their whole soul into a plece Road West. She was rescued by

of lacquer they all face competi- her children. Questioned at the LEST WE FORGET. and in the hope that such a gestion from the new generation of Central Police Station, she said ture of friendliness and sympathy producers, whose one aim, if they that she had six children and no Sir, Before British optimists, would not only dispel the unfor- do not have machinery as an aid, means of support, and she had with short memories, In Great

of the decided to end it all by taking her Britain and the Far East, tumble Oslo tunate impression in Chinese is to meet the demand

casual collector or tourist, who life. The woman collapsed after over one another in praise of Dr. Prague minda that Britain was opposed does not mind a shoddy article if making the statement,, and was C. C. Wu's recent moderately Madrid Government Civil worded Nanking manifesto, it is Athens to their political development but it be sufficiently bizarre. So the taken to the

old handicrafts are gradually de-

advisible to recollect that this Rio Hospital. also evoke

and co-operation

Bare gentleman was Commis- Bombay caying, undermined by the new friendliness from their leaders. growth of outside

At 11.30 p.m. yesterday three sioner of Foreign Affairs in the Hongkong

Geneva Sea We all know how Britain's eur- And might not one draw some-

thing of a parallel with the poli-Chinese held up a woman in Aus- Canton Government, at the time New York render of her rights was met bytical and domestic life of the tin Road, and stole from her per- of the Shameen incident of the Berlin a complete failure on the part of country "and the outlook of its son money and jewellery to the 23rd June, 1925, and that he was Copenhagen the Hankow party to carry out the people? Extraneous ideas, badly value of $125. The woman was one of the first to spread abroad, Vienna obligations imposed upon them. assimilated schemes of progress, utterly terrified, although from the in connexion with that incident, Helsingfors

and a decline from ancient tradi-report she made to the police only the lying propaganda that the Bri-Lisbon In all the areas controlled by tion, are assuredly sapping the

one man threatened her, and he tish and French forces on Sha-Bucharest Shanghai Hankow there have been impos-old order, and, unfortunately, are possessed only a penknife, which icen had without any provocation Buenos Aires

Yokohama sible conditions prevailing and substituting counterfeit which he held in a menacing position fired upon a procession of peace-

Stiver (spot) cannot stand the test of time, while the others removed the ful Chinese Yours, etc.,

JUNIUS. British evacuation has beon ren-.

nor pass the clone scrutiny of the money and jewellery from the wo-

Hongkong, May 20th, 1927. dered imporative. After many at- expert. ⠀⠀

museums.

the

influences.

Free dances in a new and splendidly fitted concert hall and ballroom is the latest attraction to shoppers in Manchester.

Messrs. Lewis, who have re- A Chinese boy aged 14 was close, but a Dominion where the cently extended their huge storo taken to the Government Civil Hes. Average man has a chance, per- in the main thoroughfare, were city Licensing pital yesterday suffering from haps I would do some good with granted by the over-long immersion In the sen. this letter, but in this Colony I Bench a dancing license between The lad was swimming at the pub. fear that my efforts are useless. the hours of 10.30 and 6 o'clock. It was stated that dancing would lic bathing beach at Kennedy:

Poor Distracted Father," you take place mostly during business Town and went out of his depth. must suffer, because the "nowers hours, and would be open on But for the timely assistance of that be" haven't realized that certain days to the public free of some other youths who were also there are folks like us who want swimming there at the time, he to enjoy ourselves in the ocean would probably have lost his life that surrounds us, at a price we

can afford.Yours, etc.,

"VIMY:"

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A verbal agreement," said the infuriated solicitor, "is not worth the paper it is written on."

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