Cordiale is in strong. evidence to-day here. The Regimental Mess tables have had American legs under them; the Pa Ground is hung with lanterns and gleaming with Welcome" in big illuminated capitals; the corridors of the Hongkong Hotel are echoing the American Voice the Gymkhana ponies and riders, postponing their sports. from Saturday specially, are working to the accompauiment of American plaudits: the Club chef has essayed American dishes: the torch-light tattoo to-night is on an Amorican scale; and I fancy; indeed I am almost sure, that when I ordered my boy" to bring mean American cocktail just now, ho answered " Yep, sirree." Miss Alice Roosevelt, War-Secretary Taft, and party, are with us; and ing to show that: blood is thicker than water.
Two Chinese Editors, who thought it Hongkong readers wit toon, are now regretting their journal-fin-de-sidcloness. They were hu tied out of the Colony chop-chop, and ordered not to come back. The cartoon suggested that any Chinese chair coolies condescending to carry the President's The English "The Worlkd's Nows." An indignant American friend of. mine (from the West) says they should have been whirled in' a noose, Ignorance of the Law is no excuse, says the law; the law courts are open for all to learn the law, says the law; and whenever that ass the law has a moral tivinge, and is concerned for the purity of the Press and the community, it hears a case in camera, the reporters wore shut out of court when evidence of perjury: was given against a "private detective" whose depositions were to help to obtain a decree of divorce. Society is chagrined, and the reporters (presumably) crestfallen. Inthe Far East, where we ato all so: very good, a divorce case red to be too strong meat for our virginal stomachs.
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