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HH

RETURNING HOME.

The Best Thing about Going Away,

"The best of going away is in never notice before, surge in upor getting home again." This was him. He finds that America has an com-once a paradox with a touch of jodor, or rather a whole gamut of ironic epigram, but it is also a fact adore, peculiar to herself, and that of experience discovered anew by is something that a thousand years thousands in every year. "If the of residence in America alone would love of home is growing and local [never have taught him. He finds patriotism Increasing among us in that she has a sky of immeasurable these days, as many signs indicate loftiness, sunlight like molten gold, that they are, one of the reasons dawna und sunsets vivid beyond may be the steady increase of travel comparison, horizons incredibly dis- far and wide. The excursions of a tant and clear.

It is noted that Mr. El R. Dovey resumed duty as ment Analyst on the 7th November,

Govern.

BE NOT DIVERTED FROM YOUR DUTY. for agitators in our midst. BY ANY ILD REFLECTIONS THE However that may be, there is, SILLY WORLD MAY MAKE UPON YOU, FOR THEIR CENSURES ARE NOT IN under existing conditions, no satisfactory machinery for deal- ing with such a case as the lad of fifteen who had spent most of The Gutte contains a the past three years in gaol, who plete list of authorised architects: was without parents and who, although given a free hawkers' licence, had no money with which to start in business. It is this type of young offender who pre- sents the real problem,

That the Colony is not devold of humanitarian instincts is proved by the existence of the Street Boys' Club, formed some three years ago under police control with a view to providing a home, honest employment and regular meals for homeless Chinese boys under the age of 18 years who otherwise would be

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sooner or later get into trouble for hawking without licences or committing potty thefts. Such lads are granted small sum from the Police Poor Box for the purpose of purchasing clothes, are given free hawkers' licences and are loaned a small amount with which to start business. They are, moreover, encouraged to save part of their earnings. Excellent as the work which this institution accomplishes, it does not touch the case of the young of fender, although boys who have been arrested and discharged in Court have been admitted members. Obviously what is needed is the establishment of a reformatory or an institution run on Boratal lines In times past, Hongkong has had more than

one Re- formatory, but, for reasons which JUVENILE OFFENDERS, are not clear, such institutions no longer exist in the Colony. There is certainly a. portunity for social work in taking up the case of these young offenders. IE the Government took the initiative, we feel sure that there would be no lack of

response.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY NOV. 16, 1929.

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It is ordered that a valuation of the tenements in the Colony for the year commencing 1st July, 1930, shall be made before the 30th day of April, 1930, or as soon thereafter as may be.

The forthcoming wedding is an- younced of Mr. Edward John Han- kin, master mariner, e/o. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Hongkong, to Miss Florence Banks, of the Rafles Girls' School, Singapore..

wise traveller into foreign lands, For the fist time, it may be, he so far from luring his affections astray, do but bind him closer to realizes that the summer night in the scenes that his infaney knew; America la musical with ten thou- and indeed he might even go away sand insect voices, and he can give from home with the deliberate and thanks for these when coming primary intent of winning and directly from a land where only "the He sees that the lands- bringing back the freshened vision moping owl does to the moon com- that makes old things new, familiar piain." things strange, and all things capes of America differ from those He has recently known by a breadth beautiful.

and vigor and freedom, by a sort of Discovery is often excitin but disorderly lounging strength. This it can seldom teach and reveal so that he has before him is a bluff. much as we learn in rediscovery. hearty, virile land, not yet sub- home after a long dued, untamed and perhaps untam-

One returns Lots absence with something like the able; yet there is something shy

The Observatory returns for October show that the average mean temperature was 76.5, the highest being 86.1 and the lowest 69.5. There were 288.6 hours of sunshine and 0.1-10-inch of rain, whilst the average humidity was 09.

Three lots of Crown land situate at Tai Kok Tsui ure to be sold by auction on December 2nd. They are Kowloon Inland 2275, 2276 and 2277, and the re- multiplied and quickened discern-and withdrawn about it at the same rereads a time, something not fully revealed, spective upset prices are $29,068,ment in which one

familiar book, gaining new im- essentially poetic. It is a country, $6,510, and $16,380,

pressions but chiefly enriching the he feels assured, in which many old. The eyes that see most deeply poets will yet sing many noble are those that have been bathed in songs, for there is mystery here strangeness and come back with the and an allurement that draws the advantages gained by distance to heart. And if he returns in the what they have always known. It autumn so as to see the wave of is said that a man once eet sall colour surge up from the crimson from London to explore the world, sumacs into the golden hickorles and that he saw many wonderful and on to the maples robed in things on his voyage through all scarlet splendour, then he knows the climes, but the only real dis-to the full the brave dreaming The following forthcoming wed-covery that he made was that of the heart of his own land. ding is announced: Mr. Franz wonder of London itself as he sailed Joseph Huber, engineer, No. 3, back up the Thames. Banoo Building, Kowloon, to Miss Erma Linke, Allee 85, Siemensstadt, Berlin, who is travelling to the

board the Colony on Saarbruecken.

that

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Such a man, during his years abroad, has been trying to fit him- Who sees the homeland best, most self into a picture already painted; accurately, with warmest affection? here he is given his chance to make Not the newcome stranger and not a picture of his own. Here he is no those who never leave it, but the longer a mere spectator but à As the result of a fall through traveller just home from overseas. participant. He may have stood a manhole in Swatow Lane yester-There is a brief period just follow- to gaze before a thousand celebrated day, a Chinese woman was removing his return, when his impres-landscapes of Europe, admiring ed to hospital with a broken legsions are worth more than those and even thrilled by ench in turn: It was stated that the cover of of any other observer."

but here the beloved country reaches out her maternal arms. and takes the manhole gave way when the

Odysseus after his twenty years him to herself. This is somewhat woman trode on it, and brought

of toil and wandering far from different from cold spectatorial ad- about the nasty accident.

home looked at his little rocky miration. This is the love of home. Ithaca, we may be sure, with de youring eyes. Marco Polo, slipping

Deeply thrilling and compelling into Saint Mark's Basin one morn ing after a long sojourn in Cathay is this sentiment of return, so that saw that vision of the Piazza and we can almost forgive Shakespeare's Duomo, fragile as a dewdrop and Richard II his theatrical gesture of coloured like the wreck of a rain-stooping to kiss the English soil on bow, as none of the stay-at-home his first landing after a campaign Venetians had, ever seen it. No in Ireland. The homecomer finds one who has had a similar ex-himself laying his hand for a perience can fall to thrill infmoment on this famillar tree and sympathy with Joachim du Bellay's that. The worn and homely faces famous sonnet, even when reading of the hills have an air of greeting. it in a crude translation: "Happy The brooks whose summer is the man who, like Ulysses or he spring-time voices he has so long that captured the golden fleece, has heard only in memory speak to him made a long voyage and has then now in their own tones, and he could returned, rich in memories and insit beside them day after day to thought, to dwell among his own listen. The blue-jay's cry in the for the rest of his days.

The Harbour Master notifies the Royal Air Force will Ane carry out bombing practices from aeroplanes between the 19th and Gau Tau 22nd November, on Island. The practices will take place daily from 9.30 am, to 1 p.m. The danger area will be seven hundred yards from the centre of the island..

In

a spirit" to which exception can be taken, and with a full realisation of the difficulties of the problem, an outport re- sident to-day raises, the question's of the treatment of juvenile offenders in Ilongkong. Concern

Interport Success, is expressed regarding the fature of lads committed to prison, and i Hongkong's hard-won victory there is some criticism of the over Malayn brings the closure to another brilliant chapter in the ordering of corporal punishment history of interport cricket: a For minor offences. The corres- chapter which reflects the highest possible credit on all concerned. pondent does not content himself Old stagers will wrack their merely with criticism: he goes on memories in vain to recull an earlier Festival which provided

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The health bulletin of Eastern Ports issued by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, shows the following cases of infec- tious disease for the week ending November Plague, Alexandria 2 cases, 1 death; Rangoon one death

case. one

and Cheribon Cholera, Calcutta 74 cases and 48 deaths: Tuticorin one one death; Prom Penh seven cases four deaths, and Swatow three deaths

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and

yellowing woods, the flicker of a kingfisher's wing, tarnished gold of the sycamore, bottomless blue of the Happy indeed is such a man, not gentian clusters and sun-bleached

to urge the accessity of "after three such equally thrilling strug Small-pox, Berbera five cases four only because the stress of travel is blue of the aster-masses like a treatment" for these young in

two greeting old friends but for the fur-forgotten, almost, how fair these offenders, in which connexion he spirit of the grand old game was deaths; Calcutta two cases.

Verily, the best thing about go- throws out the suggestion that more truly made manifest, and it deaths; Cochin 28 cases two deaths; her reason that he seems for a things are, how deeply rooted in the

goes without saying that the team Madras 21 cases four deaths time to be set above the lower heart, how dear. this matter could well be taken capable of a double success in such Moulmein one case

one death; stations from which ether men take in hand by some "voluntary As-an atmosphere is worthy of the Pondicherry two cases two deaths; their partial views. His "patrioting away is in getting home once

warmest congratulations. The Batavia six casca five deaths; ism, in every good sense of the more.. S. in the sociation, in eonjunction with the honour fell to Hongkong: yet it Belawan Doli one case; Pnom Penh word, is probably keener than ever Science Monitor.

Government. Something, he feels, could be done if residents of the Colony really cared about it.

The question raised is an old one, but it is none the less im-

even

URN:NB

Christian

BEOWULF?

Beowulf is the hero of our only Anglo-Saxon epic poem, which bears his name.

might very easily, have

gone to one case and Shanghai three cases before, yet he smiles down upon the petty prejudice with which some of the "Malayans, who were twice one death..

his compatriots seek, to justify their defeated. The acknowledgment,

love of country. They cannot love WHO WAS.. we are sure, will be no small com-

Tientsin, Nov. 15. fort to an eleven which disported

Seven arrests have been made their country too much or

enough to suit his wishes, and yet themselves as did Mr. Braddell's in connexion with the kidnapping he could ask that they might cense men, who found "joss," which can of Mr. Aaron Brenner, who re- to whet their affections. for their portant on that account. Indeed, be the all-important factor in a turned to his home on Wednesday, own land upon an ignorant dislike the very fact that the problem re-part of the time, and yet discover-

crisis, against them for the greater The woman who has been held of those other countries that he has Įmains unsolved is sufficient argued in this a stimulus to strive thein custody since Mr. Brenner's was feleased yes-- ment that it should be seriously harder. Malaya, gave us, much disappearance

good cricket, but they will be best terday, after being obliged to It is obvious from read-remembered for their wonderful furnish guarantees that she would is seen by him at first through a ing the reports of cases which

far away, so that it is as though he were seeing two countries at from time to time come Into of arrears of 155 runs on the first permission.

Braddell and innings. When

other. The reports of how much ran-

behind the Court that the question, of what Jansen went in yesterday morning, som was paid vary, some quoting on to do with these young offenders Malaya were only 19 rung on with half a Jaki of dollars. On the Speech, costume, architecture, man- causes very real concern to our three wickets to fall, a time for contrary, some suggest that the ners, rhythms of movement, the

restraint, seemingly.

Not for perpetrators were frightened by very look of the faces that he sees in the streets, are at once familiar magistrates, just as it does to Malaya! They attacked the police pressure and let Mr. Bren- and strange; and their strangeness the police. The mere sending of bowling with such vigour and her escape without ransom. The compels him to observe them sharp- enterprise that until Owen Hughes family is very reticent-leuter. ; came on and again did what we

faced.

a lad to gol does not touch the

root of the problem. All that accomplished by this means

is

barely dared to hope, visions of

reversal of

is another sensational

EXCHANGE RATES.

positions had begun to appear. punishment for the offence. Hongkong survived the critical There still remains the larger period, however, and went on to secure a fine win. We think it isaue of what is to become of the will be agreed that they deserved Puris younger offender when he leaves their зиссева. The recovery New York the prison. Incidentally, we against Shanghai was a brilliant Brussels

effort, while their 303 against Geneva should like to make it quite clear Malaya, the highest total of the Amsterdam

Milan that these youths are not thrown Festival, was obtained with ro

Berlin into gaol alongside the old lags: biggest figure was, undoubtedly Copenhagen

markably few blemishes.

The Stockholm... they are kept quite apart, and, Mr. Harry Owen-Hughes, who not Oslo what is more, they are even only scored a century, the first Vies

Vienna Prague given educational facilities whilst obtained for Hongkong for many &

long day, but twice broke Into Helsingfors

Madrid undergoing incarceration. That Malaya's second innings with re- disposes of one point raised by markable success, and also laid Lisbon the foundation for. Hongkong's Athens correspondent

The real

Bucharest Ane knock against Shanghai Rie problem, however, is, as we say, tops both the batting and the

Buenos Aires what the future of these lads is bowling averages for the three

Bombay teams, and is to be heartily con Shangha to be. It is quite conceivable that gratulated. The high standard of Hongkong,

our

a boy sentenced to a term of im- play attained throughout should Yokohama prisonment, and possibly caned Riva a distinct fillip to Hongkong Silver (spot)

cricket. It was a standard which|| Silver (forward) as well, will, in his resentment, I will not be easy to maintain

one

grown to love,

He was a mighty warrior something The familiar landscape of home

of a northern Greek equivalent of the Hercules. Hearing from a wandering minstrel that the realm of Hrothgar the Jute was belag devastated. by a faul monster, Grendel, Beowulf offered his services. So sure was "he of his strength that he dispensed with armour in his fight with Grendel, who escaped after losing an arm, and died in his lair. There was rejoicing. and feasting in Hrothgar's hall that evening, but in the morning there was dismay, for Grendel's mother burst in: upon the warriors and slew The. many, in their sleep. dauntless Beowulf thereupon sought her out in her home at the bottom of the lake beyond the marshlands, and after a long and fierce struggle, elew

ly. perhaps for the first time. He feels with delight that he is part and parcel of all that he sees about him, but at the same time he can preserve for a little while the im- partial attitude of the spectator.

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Then Beowulf returned to his own land, which he governed for the young king for a time, finally dying in battle with a flaming dragon, guardian of costly, treasure, who bit him with poisoned fangs.

His people buried their be- loved here on a high mound, the Hronesnas, placing by his side the golden treasure which

he had died to win.

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