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The Very Idea!

CIVILISED KOWLOON

By Sheriff Bogg"

WHAT with a kidnapper's efforts to reproduce

hifting storming party of some would be utterly impossible to prove Subsequent generation,. in a desire have intended bringing their

phoned for confirmation of

his

name, occasionally changed this to booty in for disposal, Kow- the foreign looking D'Eath.

loon nowadays seems in danger of becoming really civilised.

Įname.

But there is a more interesting

In the near future we may ex- pect something like this to be broadcast back to America:

Chief Fang Tung of the Tung- chow outfit has to-day created a mild sensation by the intimation, conveyed through a pigeon stool, that he intende to honour this State with a visit,

On Saturday an excited gentle- man telephoned the office of the H.K. Telegraph asking for confirm- ation of the report from the race. track that a certain number had

IR John Simon, the Foreign name corresponding to the part 4 cortain sweepstako. We

Secretary, protested recently they played in the performance. were able to confirm the mesenge against the suggestion that his Thus we have Bishope, Dukes, and American conditions, Union that had reached him and ware thanked and promised a reward name was of Hebrew origin. In Kings whose ancestors were of "some day." For some daye, inte actual fact Sir John may well have quite lowly rank. In the same way men selecting it as the locale.

of the been perfectly correct; but unless those who portrayed the part ly, the grill-fronted offco

the family history could be traced Death In the miracle plays would for a roughing-up," and Jockey Club in the Gloucester back several hundred years it be given this name as a surname. Bias Bay pirates said to Building has been besieged by a

to avoid the somewhat sinister sur- hundreds of people; men and It ofther one way or the other. and women of every station in life, There are undoubtedly many Chinese and Europeans, were buy people bearing the surname Simon ing tickets in the Hongkong Darby to-day who owe nothing at all to Another less common name la Sweepstake. Some of that motley the Hebrew name, for the name that of D'Evillo. Here, again, the mul vind het dappy Some sweat Book, anal too simple fact that with the French town of Eyevlile, will be before the Simund appears in the Domesday name may have been associated pony will possibly bring one or Simons and Simmons were to be but it was frequently a corruption ore of them a little fortune. We found in great numbers in the coun-of the name Devil, given to one who shall be very glad to hear of it-ties along the British coast in-acted that particular part. The excited gentleman who tele-dicates the origin of the name in The Caesars and Cayzors were many cases. The great national suteres needed the money, so ho occupation which has given us the but rarely of Italian origin. For Bald. And we hope he has won surname Seaman, has also given us here again the play actors bore the If you are contemplating to

enough to tide him over.

There Simon. become a motorist owner-if you are many people whom are desirous of a change--if you in any form, offenda. S

Indeed, in one family living on are going on home leave a word are a sort of boges to the puritan the south coast of Britain the source of this popular surname.

mind. But wo ara from you to

inclined to change in the name has been traced Innkeepers are practically the only ones who retain their trade signs ACQUAINT US OF

YOUR agree with the general view that back over a period of years. REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL of all forme of speculation the the first record wo and it as Sea- this day, but at one time all work on account of his lust exploit sweepstake is probably the most mans, this became Semons, this in kinds of shopkeepers bare signs of to seek recuperation in the world-

one kind or another denoting their FURNISH YOU WITH FULL nocuous. A dollar ticket will not turn passed through Simons. Simtrade. Within the last century a renowned mildness of our winter,

rain anyone; and even n ten onds. Symonds, and was eventually dellar book bought on shares is not Simmons. Thin instance alone pro-large publishing house has borne it is understood that business CRN.. HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. heavy gamble. The chance of vides ample proof that we have a the name of the "Circero's Head," siderations also to a large exent Stubbs Rd. Success is remote, perhaps, but no British Simon as well as a Hebrew and there is very little doubt that have to do with the selection of

more so than some of the stock to one.

Virgils, and Homers used as trade Kowloon na a temporary domicile, which the public has subscribed

algne.. It was by no means an-

if not hide-out, until something from time to time, here and else where. There are all aorta of

The Simons are, however, not the "nual for the trader'a sign to be better can be arranged. arguments against the sweepstake: only families who bear a foreign-come his surname, and there are and probably the strongest is that looking name which has actually any curious names to be found the unearned increment accruing an English origin. It is almost modern directories which owe from it does more harm than good, invariably taken for granted, for their origin solely to this. But the same may be true of every instance, that the surname Leah in speculation. The sweepstake offers Hebrew. This is true quito fro- the man who has a dollar to gamble quently, but the name is often a ifttle adventure in imagination, a merely a form of one of the most little thrill, a little spice in the familiar and most numerous of nit/although this can sometimes bemretty problem of how to dispose routine of things, and if he wins everything! We should very much like to win a sweepstake. And to those who do, we wish continuing good luck and happiness.

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MONDAY. FEB. 18, 1935.

WAR TALK

of our English surnames,

In

there were at one time Cacoara.

Although compelled by over« [

It seems that the inst hold-up

has not accomplished the financial

results expected of it, and this dismal failure, already very dis- Even English local names oc-appointing in itself to Chief Fong casionally take on a foreign twist. Tung, has presented him with a accounted for by the fact that Eng-

Beveral hundred thousand lsh villages themselves frequently of bear foreign names. Boaumont, dollars' facial worth of unsigned for instance, is most certainly a banknotes, French name, but the name alone a certainly no proof of French an-

One who lived by a meadow was called John, or Jack "atte Lee." The "atto" was dropped after a

After dropping several hundred time, and we find the name Lee fre-

a parish of bundles of Lea, cestry. There was

this unconvertiblo quently being altered Leigh, Ley, or Legh, and Leah was Beaumont in Cumberland, and a wealth into his native Bina Bay- but another of these variations. Beaumont-with-Moze in Essex, and

Lo

uumbers of other are

own surnamo.

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It is surprising to note that Mr. Anthony Eden, the Lord Privy Seal, has recently been taken to task for saying that war is not imminent and for STERLING'S 'TRIAL deprecating so much talk about

It may be mentioned, however, that it is quite certain that many famla gesture which can only be con- the possibility of hostilities in- Reports of the heavy atrain upon Lee itself was a name not infre- les coming from these villages strued by malicious minds

пр acknowledgment of sterling, caused by unloading of quently adopted by those whose have retained the name. as their being The volving major Powers.

piratical impotence in the face of Continental holdings in London, true name was Levy. criticism appears to be based on are reminiscent of the dark days

There

Brummell is usually taken for a opposing clrcumstances the grunt the argument that, in the past, of 1931, when England went off deceptive names which would seets French name, chiefly perhaps be desperado has been persuaded by

the

gold standard. It was Lord great wars have broken out when

indicate Hebrew ancestry.cause of the natural association his chief Lieutenant to bold on to Rethermere, (was it not?) who to least expected and when states- cried in an agony of helpless wrath: Amos, for example, although cer fact the first Brummells were the remainder, as the latter has a men have declared that there England has been beaten in the tainly foreign, was actually, like was not a cloud in the sky. It greatest financial battle of all time. Ames and Amlos, taken from an usually those who lived at the brilliant iden of disposing of it.

3 old French name Amis. The an- "broom-hill," probably slope to their mutual profit, in the back- is, however, surely the height of She has been beaten by the very cestors of those who bear the name where the broom plant flourished. country of Kowloon. absurdity to regard an uncloud-nations whom, with her gold and

One of the longest surnames to ed sky as indicative of danger. her blood, she so valiantly helped Bacchus, surprising though it may

Consequently any day now we The foreigners have seem, had a good old English origin be found in English directories is war. dragged us into the street and they for their name. They were simply yet another example of a local name may expect Fong Tung to drop would strip the clothes from us! those who lived in the "back with a foreign appearance. Fea- his New Year card in, with a word Lord Rethermere had foreseen the

house" or the. "buke-house." theratortehaugh merely meant one of cordial greeting, to all the cracking of defences, and

While the surname Balaam origin- who dwelt by the "feather" stone had

In

What

with Beau Brummell. In actual:

county.

lis point of actual fact, most wars have been preceded by long periods of growing uneasiness, and if in some cases the coming of hostilities has not been fore-warned against pouring good goldated not in the Biblical character, situated on the river bank. For Police Chiefs and Sheriffe of this seen, this may be accounted for after bad in an effort to stem the but in the fact that the owner of "haigh" or "haugh" meant the innd by the fact that the men on the torrent which was sweeping the the name dwelt at the village of bordering a stream. In northern

Whilst several posses have been country into insolvency.

Baytham. look-out were not keen enough Lord Rothermere did not foresce,

counties the samo name is said to have been derived from an ancient sent out to welcome Fung Tong of vision, did not look in the at least on that momentous

chief named Frithestan. day

In, through any of the New Terri- fright place, or did not know the when the Prime Minister called the

One or two very foreign looking

Peculiarities of local dialect or tories passes, he may care to come, symptoms of war when they saw newspapers to No. 10 Downing Rames have been produced la an them. It may, of course, be plead- Street and begged them not to effort to avoid a rather more un-word forms have often produced feverish and elaborate prepara- Intersant name. The surname the foreign appearance. Porthere. tions are being made for his ac+ ed that circumstances in the panic the nation, was that the blow D'Eath, for instance, night well be for instance, might easily be taken commodation during the short present day are so different from struck at England would recoil mistaken for a Continental name. for a Continental surname. But stay he proposes to make here. former human experience that upon foreign interests who ha

In some instances it undoubtedly it actually came into existence as a the the ordinary rules of diagnosis word used at the time. England's in. the founders of the family hay result of the use of "Ap" and "Ab" do not apply. The world has relinquishment of the gold standarding come from the town of Aeth in Wales to denote "the

in the same way that cry wheThe biggest hotel which this God- been passing through an un-did not materially hurt her credit, or Ethe.

used in Scotland. The original exampled ordeal, and it is still and it helped her trade. And at suffering acutely. But, when this time when there seems to be the name in quite a different way, what clumsy form was soon shor- There are many families who got was Ap Roderick, but this some all is said and done, wars are movement afoot to bear down on The actors in medieval miracle toned and not created merely by talking sterling, it behooves British people plays were frequently given a sur- Prothero altered until it became about the possibility of hosti-crisis and to remember that the lities; there have been very real nation has weathered a worse storm underlying causes in all the than that which may be brewing major outbreaks of the past. at the moment. Certain policies, if followed to their logical. conclusion, inevit-

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whether they loom largely in speech and in writing or

not. From Paris comes the report that

If the issue were left to thoa French professor has succeeded, peoples of the world, thereafter, lengthy experimentation, in would, we imagine, never be any Just how the cabbage feels about it grafting garlic and cabbage plants. more wars; they have no illu- remains unchronicled. Perhaps the sions about either the glory or modern mania for mergers has the gain of armed conflict. something to do with it. The They know that there is none; origin of both vegetables is lost they know that war means ruin, in antiquity and they have dwelt to all, victor and vanquished apart so long that the assumption alike. But if there be any in-existences. A cabbage, of course, is they preferred, to lead separate dividuals, dictators or leaders of

is no годе but it is not any sort or degree, who dream entirely a stranger to romance, of war, they ought surely to be "Mon petit chou, la a familiar restrained by the thought appellation of endearment In unless they are madmen-that France. To the less sentimental failure to achieve early and Briton the cabbage vies in favour complete victory would, to put it with its smaller cousin, the Brussels no higher, spell doom to them-noticed--and remarked. Alice in sprout, as travellers have at times selves. These are some of the Wonderland's wairus even linked it reasons why we should be justi- with royalty when the creature fled in feeling that war is not pointed out that it was time to talk imminent. But if assurance is of other things, among them cab- to be made doubly sure, the ages and kings. The propriety of spirit of pacifism must be en-mingling it with garlic may still be couraged by

questioned. avory possible means. Happily, in spite of all the foolish talk which is to be a brake on bellicose individuals, encountered nowadays, there or nations' who may appear in- does seem to be a growing con- disposed to road the lessons of viction of the utter foolishness the past aright, Certainly, the of armed conflict as a means of longer the time that passes with- Buttling differences. This, in its out war, the less likely is war to. cumulative effects, should act as come.

"

"Rox, who was that celebrity wo met last night? I want to give

s' talk on him at the club to-day,”

of."

for

been

Only the best is good enough the distinguished visitor.

forsaken country can offer has transformed Into the

semblance of a home, in the hope that the great outlaw may be sufficiently attracted to take his residence, there, in an atmosphere redolent of his native small-town homestead.

With all this being done to on- sure that this State will not havo disgraced itself in the royal re- ception due to one of Fung Tong's position, it is to be regretted that a hitch has been threatened to the arrangements by a dispute that has now arlson between the authorities of the different New Territories counties.

It transpires that in the general desire for the exclusive honour of accommodating the visitor, the counties are onen again, at logger-. beads, as to the demarkation line between Federal And County control.

The Mayor of Talpo, in re- suscitating an old Constitutional law, is seeking to break down the barrier marking his limitation of county control at the 5-mile muzzled dogs' boundary stones Ho contemplates bringing habea corpus proceedings against the Governor of Lalchikok State Poni tientiary in claiming his own right to lodge the body of Fong Tung within his own territory.

:

Meanwhile Chief Fong Tung hus sent in this especially-worded wireless message: Your biggest gaol will not have enough room for me.