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under conditions almost up- |bellovable. This is a mild and restrained category of the exist ing illa in interior China," It is

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this writer romarks, only human nature that the young men imbued with the Nationalist spirit should bring forth the things they have learned, or partly learned, abroad and try to put them into effect in China, but they forgat that they are trying to hustle China Into the tested and tried methods of other lands, oblivious of the fact that you cannot career along at afty miles an hour until you have at first learned to drive at twenty miles.

It is, as we say, quite right and proper that the Nationalists should

DAY BY DAY.

WOMEN HAVE MORE STRENGTH IN THEIR LOOKS THAN WE HAVE ÎN cum LAWE, AND MORE POWER BY

THEIR TEARS THAN ·WE ́BY OUR ARGUMENTS,Saville.

The health return for yesterday shows one Chinese case each of smallpox and typhoid fever.

It is notified that the name of the Cafe Regent Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

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LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.

17-A Day in the ountry.

makes

We are, parked by the roadside] Glorious Bttle coves with palo, overlooking some market gardens, shining, shell-strown

benches, Mary sitting uncomfortably side-framed in rotks and fringed with: ways in the car, her casol in palms and tall feathered grassos, sócurely propped on the camps where wo bathed in clear, still, stool, her sketching umbrella stuck blue-green water, fresh in tho through a slot in the windscreen early spring, but not with the

chill that and, twirled like a top by the shattering breeze of every passing car, but bathing in England such a hair- cach time coming miraculously to raising performance. It la notified that Mr. Tang Chi-reat facing the hot sun. She is ngong has been appointed by the painting some orange hills on the Court of the University, to be other side of a pool.

Shanghal baths S... All round

Thick Life Member of the Court. the pool in the pink earth is an sit in comfortably, with a small carthenware tabs, big enough to irregular pattern of pale green hole at the bottom that one closes lettuce, blue green cabbage, yel with a cork. When you pull out low flowers, and heaps of grey the cork, the water runs out o granite range rises on either alde

on

Quarantine restrictions imposed against arrivals from Pakhol

cholera have been removed,

tackle the Treaty problems, but account of bubonic plague and granite. In the distance a bare to the cement floor of the bath-

these are not nearly so urgent as the domestic issues. For con- turies now, Chinese Governments have been in the habit of issuing all manner of high-sounding 'de- crees, promising internal reforms. If a tithe of these had been put into effect, China would be a much happler and more pròsperaus Innd than it as at present. But the process still continues; even under Nationalist rule, and neither tho people to whom the reform de-

crees are addressed nor the off- cials Issuing them believe for a moment that they will get beyond the paper stage. It is time this governing censed,

Hongkong Telegraph. playing at

About Hong Kong,

Do you know that—-—-—--

Hongkong's first timber pier was erected In 18031

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This was at Spring Gar dens, Wanchai, for the go- downs of Messrs. McGregor and Company. All former plers In the Colony had been bullt of bamboo. This new pior jutted out into Wanchal 'Bay for a distance of 260

feet, and gave a low-water · depth of 25 feet.

It is interesting to note thint the Wharf and Godown Com- pany was formed in August, 1871. to utilise pier and go- down propertica at Wanchai.

Until It does, the Nationalist efforts to secure a better status for China in the comnity of nations as

SATURDAY. AUGUST 11, 1928. will be of small avail.

FIRST THINGS LAST.

It would appear

to be the opinion of the Chinese Nationalist leaders that the matter of primary importance to be, dealt with at present is the question of China's treaty relations with the Powers. Necessary and desirable as it is

Middle East Fenrs. The freakilown of the Jeddah negotiations between Sir Gilbert Clayton and Thn Saud, the ruler

situation.

of

of a pass, and its pule mauve room and escapes through a hole select boarding establishment heights look down on us over our the wall. This, is the vary nearer orange hills.

which for a short spall we looked Peasant women in black sateen upon as home. At present we live coats and trousers, and enormous in a fine new house with draina straw hats with brond. frills hang-and "flush,”' All the best' now' ing from thefr. circumference, are houses in Hongkong are advor- working hero and there in the tised as flush." But in thosG gardens. Their principal task is days our quarters conslated of a watering. They carry two large small room where we kept our wooden buckets slung from the clothes, and a large verandah ends of a pole carried over the where we lived. Our boxes were shoulder, The buckets have parked on the landing.

spouts and roses like watering

Through the wooden partition of cans and a hardlo-across the top

our verandah came very little by which they are depressed and conversation. Indeed the atmos-

steered, while the gardener trois along cach narrow strip of garden.

here in our next door neigh-

to have

Mary

The process supplies not only our fat would seem moisture but food, for after each been somewhat strained. bucket has been flied at the pool, was, one day an unwilling eaves- there is measured Into It, from dropper on what must be rather a another bucket, a proportion of peculiar conversation, even for the by-products of the village the East. Master was discussing his wife with a wholly respectable

sanitary system.

His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminally In Sessions shall be held on Monday, 20th August, at 10 o'clock in the | forensen.

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ence.

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It is always considered lady who had but recently arrived "What I say le," said he, "a wife China. dangerous to eat green salad in from England.

Behind us is an ever changing should stay with her husband and crowd of small boys, talking quiet-help him all she can... Why can't a language that sounds she entertain, here, samo na other extraordinarily like Welsh, and people do?" accompanied by a perpetual tiny "Well," said the lady, "I don't shriek from millions of crickets want to be disagreeable, but I In the grass around us. From the have noticed that when we have His Excellency the Offeer Ad- distance come musical hawkers been here to tea, you have sat In of Trak, is a development as un-ministering the Government has feries, and the notes of a Chinese your chair, glum, and have never

appointed Mr. Edward Loyd Jones pipe, juggling plaintively with a suld a word." expected as it is vexatious. to be an Assistant Government. queer unsymmetrical tune

"That's not the point. She's always going out. People ask British mandated territories, this Marine Surveyor. has always been one of the most:

Lying back on the burning her without me-tenais, ten,, troublesome, and we have resign- The silk forwarded from here upholstery of the car, surrounded dancing. I know what's going on. cd ourselves to the occasional by the Empress of Asia on the 18th

by loveliness and attractive And mind you, when I mean a I never forget incidence of new aspects of the July arrived in New York (St. noise, my mind plays back over thing. I mean it. Recent reports, how John's Park) on the 8th August, crowded weeks of new experi-is, it isn't right.

fleeting visions of these first and I never forgive.

What I sny that these relations should be

aver, have been sedative in effect, having been 21 days in transit

Why can't sho placed on a more satisfactory and a settlement of the frontier

own up she's in the wrong? Days amongst the crumbling Then we can start fair." footing, however, we cannot help question and other outstanding

This morning dines of two hills... Is this granite really) "But you differences had been awaited 'with

go out yourself. thinking that for # Government

confidence. We can only suppose dollars each wore Imposed by decomposing, or is it in process We've been round here in the which claims to represent. "The that the headstrong, ebullient Major C. Willson on two Chincae of formation, growing, normally evening, and she's been in and people" it would be inflitely Wahabi King of the Hedjaz finds who were arrested for gambling in at a great depth, under pressure you've been out, at the Club or better if, before embarking on manipulation of the olive branch Upper Lasear Row and in Stanley from the constituents around it wherever you go

a little wearisome, and feels the Street respectively. The police After a day's rain, I picked up a such a colossal tank, some effort urge to go on the rampage. The seized 84 cents at these two places, handful of the softer pink staff which the Holld granite were made to effect internal re-truculent old warrior is affected which the Magistrate consigned in forms which ery aloud for atten- British authorition have many

boulders are set. It could be 'this way periodically, The to the Poor Box.

moulded in the hand like putty

And how different the outlook tion. The great bulk of the hun-times had reason to commend his

though full of crumbled quartz. of L, as reinted above, to that of A complicated ease in which Is this the cement that eventually his neighbours on the further side, and dreds of millions who constituto | moderation

broad-minded-. afmost, have been set to wonder alleged to have nequired two dia-foreign clay?

is, I believe, known as Fudge. the slightest interest in these ing whether it is possible they are Lam Chung Ming, and converted slept ftfully, waking often with mond rings valued at $900 from My first night in the open I

Mrs. L, coming down the stafra Treaty issues. They want relief treating with the same personali- them to his own use was heard the impression that someone with Fudge one evening, accord. from oppressive taxation and ex-1. But, if we may make use of before Major C. Willson at the Cen-crawled in by the open door of the to her own relation to our

an expression hallowed by the

friend Mrs. N, gave him a kiss, ploitation, freedom

civil War, Ibu Sud has tried to "come/tral Magistracy yesterday after hut to investigate the nowcomer and he gave her a kiss-just a war, and the enjoyment of indivi- the old soldier" far too often and noon. After a lengthy hearing, the At three o'clock I sprang out of

bed on seeing that, though there quiet, well-bred, good night kles--- only unfortunately Mrs. Fudge dual berty which is the common the time is ripe for inducing him case was adjourned.

was no wind, the rolled up rush turned out to be looking over the in some form or other, to show

Was entranco lot of the masses in all civilised

Three sales of Crown land are blind

over the little more respect for the

Mrs. L, said it was

felt not to take place at the P, W. D. offices swinging slowly to and fro. Butanisters. countries. This great majority British Mandate. We

very awkward. Sho Also nothing was ture will be healed without dis Kowloon Inland L6; 2133, situnte ating world.

"Ah, that's not the point It so seldom Is.

"

the population of China, have notness, and in the next minute. Chinese named Lee Yul Tong is binds the granules, or just the male portion of which family

from

il

are

she

KAINIGUA as is unknown in most other order. On the other hand, there Mongkok, for which the upset price missing in the morning. On subsaid to Mrs. Fudge,. "I hope you

exist on the verge of poverty such beyond hope that the present rup-on the 27th instant. These are I looked upon a blank and sleep-ought to say something; so she

FOR

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warn

fands, and the Nationalist Gov is a possibility of the development is $3,961,50; and New Kowloon insequent nights 1 alept soundly, don't mind."-

"Oh, not at all," said Mrs. of a serious crisis, while a very land Lots 1161 and 1162, situnto at and still I lost nothing. A mill- urnment will never be able to say seal danger exists that there will Shamshulpo, for which the respectary friend told me of a young Furige. "I think it is a very good The more he goes about. that it has any realisation of its be a recurrence of the terrible live upset prices are $6,792.50 and ficer who had awoken in the thing.

same way, but had actually seen and takes ladies about and amuses elementary obligations until it Wabahi raids of February last $5,192.50.

a man crawling on hands and them, the better. It will improvn wantonly when properly Was has begun to make some effect to PRESENT

destroyed and hundreds of A romand of forty-eight hours knees qutside his door. He threw his manners."

These are true stories. They relieve the toiling masses of China. innocent desert tribesmen were was granted by Major C. Willson himself on the intruder and had

A Shanghai writer, commenting massacred. The necessary pre- this morning in a case in which nearly strangled him in the dark have, as you can see, small bear- ON the Military versus. WEAR. on this question, declares that the cautions are being taken by the an Indian named Rullah Shah is before deacrin that, it was urk hy

Royal Air Force establishment in charged with vagrancy. The unit commander, whose tent had Civilian problem; I have Indeed internal work of the Nationalist Irak and no doubt raiders will be police anid the defendant arrived collapsed and who was endeavour-no intention of telling you to which class the principals belong. Government Ja one long list of accorded T

reception. from Canton early this morning ing to make it stand up again. failures. No-one,

Here I also made the acquain-I quote them partly for your However, our chief concern at the and the remand would enable them he says, 18

moment is the failure of Ibn Saud to make further enquiries about tance of (a) a piece of grass about amusement, and partly because I misled by orders and proclama- to meet the British representa- the man. Moreover, added Sub-five inches long which, when I think they seem to show that there tions. ranging from the return of tive on the issues at stake. Inspector Elston, the defendant went to flick it off my coat, walked are, amongst some people in

Britain has shown her goodwill on badly needed a bath. foreign and Chinese property

occasions, and we wrougfully seized by military and apparently take no offence at Ibn civil officiala to regulations Saul's disdain for the Treaty of Jeddah. It should not be forgot- governing the length of skirts Len that Britain, in 1925, cancelled and the wearing of ornamenta, Irak's capital debt of £1,000,000 "The Internal affairs of the land," an account of roads, bridges and

Parla telegraphs, and furthermore, have adds this commentator; "are in an subsidised the King of the Hedjaz Brussels

Amsterdam appalling state, Trade is ham to the extent of over £500,000. A Berlin pored on all sides; communich- withdrawal of his pocket-money Copenhagen suggests itself as an excellent Vienna.... tions are in a dreadful state of method of education.

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The secretary of the Hongkong Shanghai ous provinces, and even In indivi- dual provinces, are at sixes and Male Voice Choir announces that

the Committee recently met and New York Bevens. So far as resulta tell us decided that it was heipless to at-Geneva

to

keep the choir Milan anything, little or nothing has tempt

going owing to the lack Stockholm been done to bring even a sem- of interest shown. The balance Oslo blance of order out of the ever- | in hand $31.50 hae beon Prague. increasing chaos. Travel and re- given to the Institution for the Madrid sidence in the interior are so us. Blind ut Kowloon and duly acknow- Athens

ledged by Miss Moritz, the Superin- Rio safe that many missionaries dare tendent. The music has been pro- Bombay not return, and the few who have sented to the Hon. Conductor, Mr. Hongkong dared, seeking only to carry on his services during the time the

F. White, as a small recognition of Silver (spot)

Silver (forward) their bumanitarian work, do sol choir was in being.

away on its own legs, (b) a snake Hongkong, laws of cricket, ethical:

of be five feet long that wisked past ma standards, conventions in the paddy fields, and (c) the havlour, or what you will, which water buffalo, a horrible grey differ in some respects from those creature with skin like a pig, a to which other folk are accustom- long snout, and artistically laid ed. I think these other folk may back herne, that sniffe ominously not be too rashly blamed if they London, Aug. 10.

travel display a certain hesitation before it Europeans and can .124.20

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Uplight-hearted whirlpool of wel- faster than a human being. 12.10%

hills by coming enjoyment, There are no the tangle of 20.88 in 18.186 Smuggler's Pass we found a tribe doubt similar strata to be found .84.426 of monkeys playing happily in the the many layers of society at. ..193 tops of the trees. Thoy say Home, but there is more room. ..24 tiger has been seen in those parts. We are not so jostled against one ..797% Mary Bays she would terribly like another, and the differences in 47.7/10 to nes just its tall, some way outlook arg not on that account

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The health bulletin of Eastern tam 4, Rangoon 1. (1), Port Dar- 18.135 ports for the week ending August A win 4 (4), Belawan Delf 5 (2), .18.105 is as follows, Agures In paren- Pontianak 8, Pnom Penh 1 (1)

108% thesia denoting the number of Shanghai (1), Dairen 1 (1), Port 29.10% deaths. Plague. Port Said 1, Arthur 1, (1), 17)

875 Aden 1, Bombay (2), Rangoon .5.29/32 (7). Cholera-Calcutta (8), Ma

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A roader writes to say that at

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(6), Port Darwin 2 (2), four consecutive whilst drives in 27 Manila 1, Bangkok 1, Shanghal 2. Hongkong this week, he had had ..27.5/16

Sinall-pox-Bombay 19 (9), Cal- three booby prizes and one sec- cutta 10 (9), Madras 9(2), Negapa ond. Is this a record?" he daks.

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