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MUKDEN'S GAIN.

them in control

tween the Nationalists and Muk- den, however, remains to bo seen. Shantung Is, according to news messages, to be a sort of buffor State between Nanking and Muk- den. Were we not dealing with China, we might well ask why there should be a buffer State be

DAY BY DAY

THE CHEERFUL MAN IS A KING- Bickerstaff.

There were no cases of notf-

week-end.

Literature and Licensing.

tween the National Government fiable disease reported during the The inn is one of the oldest social. A short collection of hymns and

and a regime which Nanking pro- fesses to regard as owing it alle- giance. But in Chinese politics there is a great deal of make- bellef. It would seem to the obser ver that Nanking is, for the mo- ment at any rate, content with the disruption of the Northern rebels' regime, and is still willing to give Mukden a fairly free hand so long

The P. and O. 8.3. Khyber, from Singapore, is due here at 4 p.m. on Thursday.

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institutions in the world. It homilies relating to inns, garnared came before the church, the col-from our best authors, would as-

lege, the school, the hospital or the sist licensing authorities to a saner theatre--and it came to stay, outlook upon human affairs. writes his Honour Sir Edward Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," Parry in the London Morning Post, for instance, might check many n There were inns in the days of decree of desolation. Even magia- The P. and O. 5.8. Rajputana,Pharaoh, since Joseph's brethen trates must have been young and from Hongkong, arrived at opened their sacks at an inn. thirsty once, and there was a time London on 19th September at 5 Roman inns were famous for their when their hearts leaped up at the hospitality and good fare until the thoughts of "nut brown draughts," days of Nero, who, with the as they came in aight of "yonder. mentality of a licensing magistrate, thorn that lifts its head on high, The Empress of Canada, which decreed that inns should only serve where once the signpost caught the

passing eye." as the open enmity of Manchuria left Hongkong on the 4th Septem-boiled vegetables.

ber, arrived at Vancouver on the

St. Luke, who was a physician Personally I should like to put 20th.

and a traveller, speaks of inns on Plake's "The Little Vagabond" In two occasions.

There is the this anthology, for it contains a The Canadian Pacific luxury wonderful story of the arrival at point of view sometimes neglected liner Empress of Japan le due bere Bethlehem where The Child was by the bench. But the opening from Shanghai at 6 am, on Wednes. "laid in a manager; because there iines:

was no room for them in the inn." "Dear mother, dear mother, the

It is St. Luke, too, who narrates Church is cold;

But the Alehouse is bealthy, and the story of the Good Samaritan. Mr. H. R. Butters presided at that ever popular drama of Christ-pleasant and warm," the Kowloon Magistracy to-day in place of Mr. Whyte Smith, who inn charity. Who among us has might perhaps savour of impiety. Platone back to the Crown' Salici not a child's memory of this plea- To my mind they are devout, but sant parable, whereby we learned lay magistrates.might think other-

is staved off.

As events have turned out, Mukden's policy of wait-and-sce has justified itself by results, and it must be conceded that the Man-day. churian leaders have, in securing

a reversion to the 1927 conditions,

played their cards quite cleverly, They are now defnitely top-dogs

tor's office.

to link up the inn with thoughts off wise. oil and wine, the care and kind- anness of innkeepers and the duty of

charity to our fellow-men?

for

Ma-

Wordsworth's Waggoner.

So perhaps it would be well to It is from the English Bible, the fall back on the high minded Mr. very respectable cream of English literature, that Wordsworth's we learn in our earliest days to Waggoner. His. views of happi- think of the inn as an institution ness are so human and reasonable Mr. A, Strok, the well-known im-deserving our veneration and affec- that they ought to have weight

with the dowdiest bench. presario, is at present on a visit tion. to Hongkong in connexion with It is this fact probably that is "A steaming bowl, a blazing fire.

of responsible in some measure for What greater good. the forthcoming appearance

can heart Jovita Fuentes, the famous Fili-the joy and enthusiasm for inns desire

'Twere worth a wise man's while pine prima donna, and other dis- which beat in the hearts of English tinguished artises who are to ap. men of letters. In a well-regulated to try.

state no man should be allowed to The utmost anger of the sky; pear later.

sit on a licensing bench, unless he To seek for thoughts of a gloomy had a pious reverence for the inn, cast,

in the areas which they previous ly controlled and are in reality

Mr. E. H. Williams, lately the only faction to gain power and assistant at the Secretariat prestige from the latest develop- Chinese Affairs, officiated as. ments. We must continue to registrate, vice Mr. H R. Butters, at

the Central Magistracy to-day.. gard their allegiance to Nanking as nominal rather than otherwise, but we do not imagine that they will seek to abuse their position by undue presumption. For the time being, the arrangement is probably as good a one as we could expect, and temporarily at least it may suit both parties. But it is to be doubted whether there is any real finality in the situation.

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with

Mission to Far East,

bright amenda at

Now should you say I judge amiss

A Chinese with five previous and had studied the thoughts of If such the convictions for larceny appeared great men upon the charm and last. before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon social importance of this ancient Magistracy this morning on a institution. charge of larceny of a rattan clothing. He basket and admitted the charge, and was sen- tenced to six months imprison- ment.

same

***

Dr. Johnson's Dictum.

found The warmest welcome at an

inn."

The Cherry Tree shows proof of this."

Speaking judicially, if auch

Cock

an.

But the truth is that these' so-

called offences are all of recent in- vention and contrary to Idens of (Continued on Page 7)

In previous "comments .on the civil war situation, we suggested that the Manchurian leaders.

The Home Office might, as things, whilst nominally loyal to Nanking,

are,. publish a White Book antho argument were addressed to me. I were awaiting an opportunity

It is gratifying to observe the

logy of passages to be read aloud should feel it my duty to visit the which would once again place British effort to recapture some if

to magistrates before they proceed Cherry Tree. If I found the of Peking and not all of the trade with the Far Shaukivan this morning, when on sayings of Dr. Johnson, would in his statements I should renew A fatal accident occurred ated to the business of the day. The Waggoner was substantially correct Tientsin. The latest news shows East that has been lost within re-the main road, nt a point near its greatly assist the bench in their the licence.

"Will Waterproof's Lyrical Mono- that they have managed to attain cent years. There has particular-junction with Taining Street, a deliberations. "There is no private the desired end.. For a time, itly been a big falling-off in the de-Chinese woman was killed through house," he would tell them, inlogue" would certainly find a place

in the collection: being knocked down by a motor-which people can enjoy themselves

"O plump head waiter at the seemed possible that they might mand for British goods from lorry, No. 2305. The circumstances so well as at a capital tavern." come to an arrangement with the China, to the benefit of other of the mishaps are being investi- If the Chairman demurred to

To which I must resort Much gated by the Traffic Office.

this proposition he would be put Northern rebels, even though this manufacturing countries.

How goes the time?is five wise in stern tones. "No, sir, there meant a break with Nanking. of this is probably due to the more

pushful methods of other na- Possession of one seditious is nothing which has yet been con- o'clock. After months of sitting on the

This is historically interesting, tionals, of whom the Japanese are pamphlet was alleged against a trived by man by which so much Go fetch a pint of port."

as showing that when Lord Tenny. fence, however, they have decided

workman of the Taikos Sugar Re-happiness is produced as by a good notable example of modern inery on his appearance before Mr. tavern or inn to join hands with Nanking to the business enterprise. Again, the Lindsell at the Central Police Court

The Doctor always finished his son wrote this poem, in the golden extent of coming out definitely British manufacturer does not al- this morning, it being stated that allusions to the irn by repeating, age of good Queen Victoria, it was at five o'clock at an inn. Lord ngainst the Northern leaders. ways, even to-day after the lessons the defendant was arrested whilst "with great emotion." Shenstone's not a criminal offence to drink port This is the result of the confer of the past, make the necessary other workmen of the Refinery. The

reading the document aloud to four lines:

"Whoe'er has travelled life's dull Tennyson was a friend of Mr. Gladstone, and it is quite unthink- round, ences which have been proceeding effort to meet the exact wishes of police, in a raid of the man's house,

Where'er his stages may have able that he could have written a in Mukden, during which the the consumer. In conversation found papers similar to that on

poem conducive to crime. been, May sigh to think he still has whole position was explored by re- a local importer of piece which the seditions literature was presentatives of Chiang Kai-shek goods the other day, we learned written, it being, presumed that he

of instances where, orders were such pamphlets.

was responsible for the origin of and Chang Hsueh-liang. Money

booked on samples, "subject to seems once again to have played being unsold", and when they went an important part in the trans-home the goods were not available, actions, but, in any case, we having been sold elsewhere. It imagine that the Manchurian would appear that some 'effort leaders would have been quite might have been made to reserve content with the arrangement stocks for the China market, rather which will place them in control than have nothing to give when the enquiry arrived. This is only one in Peking and Tientsin.

British It had long been apparent that of the ways in which

manufacturers and wholesalers if Mukden decided against them,

can court better patronage from the Northerners could not hope to this part of the world. It is not, keep alive the newly-created Gov especially in this time of economic ernment. Thus, the declaration depression, the high-priced, last- sent out in the name of Changing-quality goods that find the Hsuch-liang demanding an im- readiest market. In this, a leaf mediate cessation of military may be taken out of the book of operations by the Yen-Feng com- the Japanese trader, who meets demand and bine, failing which, strong mea. the cheaper class aures would be taken, has been scores accordingly. It is interest- ing to observe that the British followed by a complete collapse of Mission is to study Japan's busi- the new Peking regime. Wang

ness acumen within the country Ching-wei, after being in the lime itself. It seems rather like beard-| light for a brief period, has now ing the lion in its den! However, seen fit to flee from the old there is much to be learned from capital, but not before sending Japan, and elsewhere in the Far. out a circular telegram outlining East, as to how to improve the suggestions for the future ad- demand for Britain's products. ministration of the country. His The mission is a formidable one, with a very representative per- proposals are quite in line with the attitude he has always taken sonnel, and should be productive of much good.so far as boosting

up. He wants the abolition of British trade goes. Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship. the institution of a democratic

Private E. J. Butler, of the ist Government, the convening of Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, People's Convention and the con- third son of Mr. and Mrs, J. Butler, vocation of a legal National Con-of Wells, Somerset, was married to Miss M. A. Breeze, only daughter of gress representative of all Parties. Mr. and Birs. G. Breeze, of Colwyn, So far as we can see, his wishes North Wales,.at the Supreme Court will remain mere plous hopes. Registry on Saturday afternoon. The Registrar of Marriages (Lieut. From the standpoint of the Nan Col. F. Eaves) officiated.. Mr.

king Government, the situation S. Quaintance gave away the has worked out very satisfac bride, while Mr. H. G. Pope was best man and Mr. A. Parcell, groomsman; After the ceremony simple reception was held at the St Francis Hotel.

torily, in the sense that the Nor thern revolt has .petered out. How matters will develop as be

aybe, grandad, it's something caught in your sarcophagus.