MIXED GRILL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
By Kenelm Collins Illustrated by Arthur Moreland
The feature will still appear under the original title of "Mixed
Yarlet from being put through mincing ma- ching before it had been properly cloaned.
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WIRELESS IN THE COLONIES.
HONGKONG GOVERNMENT'S
INVESTIGATION:
1
SATURDAY.
WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE FOR CHINA.
SOME PERTINENT REMINDERS.
The following article is by Sir Sidney Low, the well-known Journalist
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civiliantion and the
MAY 1 1927.
|SHANGHAT'S HOARD OF
WEALTH.
A RESULT OF CHINA'S CHAOS.
For
London, May 20,
Movements of both the money! The progress and development
and persons of Chinese from all of wireless telegraphy are Mr. Ashley Sterne, who has con-
parts of the country indicate thar; -tributed this feature for so long,
cognised as so rapid, that the Labour politicians, and various whatever political opinions may be Colonial Conferencent, to-day's other persons who suppose thom held by various claseca in various has been obliged, by his medical
meeting expressed the opinion selves to be large-minded and provinces, there are at the momont advisers, to discontinue regular literary work until his health im-
that the formulation of a definite liberal, are curiously indulgent to tivo places only that are thought stheme for the Colonica was pre-the pretensions of the donation- reasonably adfe, Shanghai and proves. Mr. Starne hos, for aome years, been one of the most prolific
mature..
alised, Chinese Nationalists.
Dairen, comments the N. G. Daily day, of the Humorous writers
"As otherwise. Intelligent wafter. It reported on the adoption of
Even moderates" like Mr. News. The preliminary negotia maintaining at the same time. in one of the fashionable restaur-short-wave services between Sin Ramsny MacDonald, who admit tions that were supposed to lead high standard of excellency. His ants here," says a Baked New gapore, Penang, and the neigh that we must protect our folks in up to the revision of the status of thousands of readers will, un Agency message "committed aui- bouring States, now contemplated the Concessions area, wish that we the Tientsin British Concession, doubtedly, appreciate the mental cide, to-day, in most tragic circum-by a Straits Settlements company could give them all free passages prompted an evacuation of Chia strain necessitated in contribut-stances. Whilst serving. a Salmi Internal wireless telegraphy was to Europe. Then China, released ese wealth to Datren that was no ing to periodicals and newspapers
regarded as essential as external. from the foreign incubus, would thing short of phenomenal, The
Broadcasting. woek after weck imaginative work
settle its own destinies in a peace official owners of some of the nost written, not merely to interest-a
There was a general desire for able and orderly fashion; and we magnificent "funk holes," men in amuso a simple matter-but to
the formulation of a policy of should have atoned for our and out of office, commenced, in sophisticated and critical public.
broadcasting for information and previous wrong-doing in forcing vesting in fund within the Keans Mr. Sterne hopes, when his health
entertainment, but it was recognis-the cowed Celestials to receive our tung Leaned Territory at once and his weekly improves, to resume
ed that prolonged experimenta nationals.
In a few instances that have compe Even Bir Austen Chamberlain to our attention-notably that ef contribution to this journal in col-.
would first be necessary. laboration with Mr. Arthur More-
It was reported that Ceylon had has occasionally spoken as if the Chang Tsung-chang--building land. In the interval, Mr. Konelm
introduced a broadcasting system mere existence of the European operations have already comment- Collins will write a weekly humor-
in 1924, which had greatly develop.settlements, were an injury fortd. The threat of Clinese control od, and the Hangitong and other which we should make reparation. ever any community now under, ous causerie, which Mr. Arthur
Governments were investigating
This attitude. is based on a com- foreign jurisdiction is sufficient t Moreland will continue to illus-
plete misconception of the facts, drive Chinese capital out of it and trate in his inimitable style.
the subject of its introduction.
We are, not called upon to stand into centres where control is not Exchange of Information. Another question discussed was in a white sheet because of our so likely to be abandoned. Grill," but Kenelm Collins will. The stopped to solve a cross-word how methods of exchange of in- f pust dealings with China, nor need this reason Shanghai, as well as: Dairen, has long been a store from time to time, introduce new puzzle. Reproved by the maitre formation of technical and selen- we apologise to the Chinese.
We hear a good deal about house for more ready allver than characters, and a new style, which, hotel, he walked slowly from the tific matters between the Colonial it is to be hoped, will be found room and before he could be pru-Governments could be improved Chinese
vented, swallowed a billiard cue, and developed. It was generally respect we owe to it. Much of could possibly be invested in pro- none the less entertaining.
and six bedroom keys. He is said felt that a system of group con- this talk is based on ill-informedfitable local undertakings, while now that the "Nationalists" and ferences among officers concerned sentiment and bad history. with such matters should be en-old Chinese civilisation has been Communists are making raids filling to pieces for centuries. upon capital throughout the in- C.E.D. Mrs. Wright Angle com-couraged.
The delegates are visiting Alder-When we came into political con- terior of central China on a scale never dreamed of by the Militar- plains that since her husband had a parallel stroke he has not been shot to-morrow to see the a dis- i tact with it just just 130 years ago lets. It is inevitable that Shang- play of mechanical transport.--China was misgoverned by a
gtupid
offete and
hai-unless some Government aèrl- Mancha Reuter
oligarchy who were almost nously discusses its "retrocession" much foreigners to the mass of is bound to be fairly glutted the people as ourselves. What with silver. The same operations Chinn needed was an opening to in the interior that ruin trade and" the light, with opportunities for cut Shanghai off from traffic with foreign trade, so us to utilise the country upon which the nor her vast resources; and emigra- mal prosperity of the port depends, tion abroad to relieve her congest-will also sond native capital scur- rying here for cover, 30 that, there ed population.
in a reasonable prospect of this What We Gave.
eity becoming at once the richest Great Britain, with some assist-and at the same time most debt ridden place in the Orient. The other Cotton Piece Goods. A fair unce from France and amount of enquiry for all classes Western Powers, gave the Chinese vaults of every bank will be cram- of Spring Fancies has been in what the more intelligent of them med with more unproductive sit- will be straining his dwindling evidence since our last report, but were anxious to obtain. We could ver, while every legitimate trader very little has been brought to not open a regular commerce un-credit to obtain more over-drafts, book. The advance in the cost of less our traders were protected the raw material still continues against the exactions of a corrupt seems to us that this prospee fascinating problem and with exchange keeping more officialdom too feeble to maintain tive situation ought to present an or less stationary, the margin order. So we made treaties under extremely
our expert economists. between local and replacing prices which our merchants and bankers for is gradually widening. Deliveries built up splendid Western cities When they wake up to the fact- that their tactics have driven be- of Seasonable cargo, have been beside the native towns,
There may have been a certain hind the barbed wire barriers all very good, approximately 80%
the nation's capital that is not having been cleared to date. The high-handedness about our latest quotations are those of the ceedings when vigorous statesmen buried, we are likely to have some 17th inst.:-Eg. Sakel. 16,10d, and like Palmerston had to deal with very frenzied oratorical assaults the ignorant and conceited re-made upon the wicked security in Mid. Amar. "Spot" 8.65d. **
the Manchu which we abide here.
期
mesanges
Introductions complete, Arthur and I will this week clear up a number of important and communications which have accumulated during the absence of the Minster,
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"She Would Wear Short Skiria"
HONGKONG TRADE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
REPORT.
Commercial Intelligence. or The Fasurance Man Bafled" a", commercial correspondent serial story by Plate Welles. Instal- wriles: A congidorable increusement an all-pervading silence in commercial "room conversation pervaded the precincts of the hum- and writing room silence suggests ble abode of Mr. and Mrs. William the immediate outbreak of the Parkison, 991, Clegg Alley, with
The following is from the fort- long-promised trade boom. There is stucco front, gables, Dorothy is an atmosphere of quiet serious-Perkins, diamond-paned oriel win- nightly Market Report published ness mingled with professional dows, and imposing portico. Ex-by the Hongkong General Cham- geniality evident in many places cept for the eerie sounds of the ber of Commerce:- where commercials sojourn. All never ceasing mangle away down this betokens heavy hookings. At in the dank collar there was High-tea tables the question "how nothing to disturb the monoton- do you find Jones", is responderous, sinister click of the hard to with "Increased his usual; or-round coins which Mr. Farki- dered extra six gross half-gents, son wan manipulating on the
board,
unless and ten gross ladies' plain." On the shove-ha'penny other hand there is a general tight it were the haunting measured ening up of writing-room behavi-music of Emma's lipsticks renovat
ready for Last week at one Commer-ing the cupid's bow
was Mr. eial, Temperance, a man of care-Bert's arrival. Emma "less appearance attempted to Parkison's fourteenth daughter, and the apple of her father's eye, Mespreially when with engaging modern familiarity she addressed him as "Pop." Mrs. Parkison had just returned the old family heir- looms
our.
room,
very
of
The
mro-
other
to the tea-caddy after Cotton Yarn The market presentatives searching foran hair-carler, when renmins lifeless and there is Court: but the general results
Quota were extremely beneficial to China. United States, Canada, Australia, a resounding staccato bang echoed nothing fresh to report.
was and Central America. There are through the lobby causing the tions are purely hominal:No. A great over-gens trade august head of the house to sweeps. $145/165. No. 12s. $150/160. developed in the safe and progres- more Chinese under the British No. 203. sive areas of the treaty ports. flag in Singapore' than there are the "doings" from the gaming No. 16. $160/165. board with a dexority worthy of $170/175, Arrivals Nil. Ship-
If our own manufacturers made English in the whole of China; a well-mannered croupier. As his ments Nil. Sales Nil. Unsold stocks money by sending cotton goods some rich, many prosperous, all hands slipped into his accustomed 14,000 bales. Bargains 10,000 and hardware to China, our ship- enjoying the same freedom, pro-
owners 'enabled the Chinese to get tection, and security as pockets, his face presented an bales. operate a portable typewriter, and shen appearance, movement left
Woollens.--Market quiet and their ten, silks, rice, cereals, and residents. True, they are subject was stared out of the room in his globular eyes, his cars pricked practically no business being other commodities all over the to British law, whereas the British world. That trade depends upon in China are not subject to three minutes. He was after-like those of a timid hare. Quick-transacted. wards said to be a journalist, wholy he recovered that sang-frol Raw Cottons-No business to the Concessions. If they go it will Chinese law.
decline, and probably disappear. But the British would willingly apparently dll not understand the which had carried him into the report.
Metals. Market quiet, serious business of the writing | shove-halfpenny final at the "Rase
Our opening of China led to the allow themselves to be placed in liffusion of the Chinese popula that position if they could rely on and Serounger," and the sibilant little doing. sound "Oo's that?" escaped his Flour Market Report-Stock: tion. They were able to push out an incorrupt judiciary and an lits. Unhooking the ancestral Amerienn 300,000 sacks; Canadian all round the Pacific and Indian efficient police; which things They Chinese "civilisation" has not pro- An Interlude).
jug from a hook over the ancient 100,000; Australian 40,000. Mär-Oceans and farther afield.
Strong and firin. Quota-bave settled, made a Hving, and vided for a long time past and Scratching peas. in the writing-drusser, another heirloom, Mrs.ket:
Pagkis handed it to Emma with ions: American Patent $4.40-sometimes
wealth in seems very unlikely to provide for Dim, grey silence, morgue-ja peremptory "Beller bring a pint, 1-15 per sark; American Straight Further India, Malaya, Ceylon, the a long time to come.
Emma" like gloom,
Tint of what?" thter- $3.35-3.60 per sack; American Cut Grey heads, bald heads report rogated Mr. Parkison more in hope of $2.45-3.70 per sack; Shanghai
trade boom,"
than in anguish. Milk, dearie," Flour $3.35 (nominal) Australian 1 ex No. 1 $3.46-3.70 per sack; Cana- Tons of nails and orders for responded Mrs. Parkison.
for the loom.
pcet that's the insurance man at dian Cut-off $3.25-3.32 per sack; the door and he'll stay to supper, Canadian Straight $3.25 per sack; chewing now Emma's here." "Mother, Canadian Mixture $3.15-3.35 ner can't, I can't, I can't, oh Bert" [pack; Canadian 2nd Clear $3.05 Drinking tea and nibbling Before she could continue Emma per sack.
cakes:
had slipped with a thud to the Words on business, talks of door. Pathetically, as it were, her
"makes"
shingled head touched her Russian boots standing sentinel like under the table--Another instalment
room,
Ätable travellers
steaks,
Hotels, trains and Blackburn
wakes,
Heroic Duke's Coolness,
Saltpetre-Stucks 18,000 bags. Slight improvement since last report.
next week. All characters fictiti- HOW MUCH DO YOU
ous; no references to living par
sons. Copyright by Sam Tsaacs,
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Answers to Correspondents:
The Duke of Featherhead, ne- companied by the Duchess visited Fullworth's Emporium'at Burslem, to-day, with the intention of in-
(Trixie:) The meat bill has On ar- specting the Bd. novelties. rival at the main entrance, the thing to do with it; use a sponge Duke politely opened the door and bag or a hair's claw.
(Pro Bono, etc.) The Railway bowed her Graco in. Later tho Duchess was agitated to discover Company make a special rate of that the Duke was not with her. 20, 11, fo.b; c.lf; pd.q. for Als Shopwalkers-and-attendants were, tians in bulk or in hates if plainly frantically despatched with in-marked "private effects; use no hooks," and provided always, of structions to search counters, shelves," crates and containers, course, the B.B.C. are notified. Eventually it was discovered that (Artes) The sketch 'you sent is the Duke was still bowing outside a rare example of Eliminationist the main entrance. Later, he ex-School. Ultimately, when plained to a representative of the lines and designs have been elimi- old Burslem Port Vale A.F.C. that uated from art, the world will be so many ladies had followed Her fit place for Eliminationists to Grace through the door, that it live in. was positively impossible for him to enter.
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all
(George) We can and no slips amongst the Master's papers. A Note: The Featherheads, as is liturgical expert informs us that well-known, are proud the Rubrical longth of hose, latest of their old family mot-shades, is 29% inchos. To show to: "Toujours la polimore or less than that is irregular, tesse" which was long and may invalidate all future. agu adopted by the ori stakes under clause IX sect IV of ginal Bolo Fitz-Feather-the proponed Betting Amendent head when he saved a Bill.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Exprcas.
Answers, for those who need
them, will he found on Page S of this issue.
1.-Who wrote the tung of "God
Save the King?"
2. What world-famous song camo
from the same composarí
3. What is the Kabbalah? 4.What was the English "Cabal,"
and why was it so called?.
.
3. Who were the parents of Henry
VA? 6.-How long may a frog live? 7-Who were tho Mamalukes? 8.Who was Tamerlane?
What is the Kaba?
10-Who wrote "Ts not in mortala to command succose, Eut we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve It?
11. Who has Strongbow?
12. What is the language of
Dalmatia?
13. What was Atlantis?
14. What was the real nario of George Ellot, the famous novelist?
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