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THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's dollar alo-same, 3s. 1 3/16d.
Canton opens its seventh athletic meeting on February 27.
The "Canton Times" says the U. S. S. Helena is back at Canton" from Manila.
A Canton soldier has been sentenced to be shot for robbery from a merchant.
*NEW
GOVERNOR, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.
NOT A MILITARY MAN,
CEYLON'S COLONIAL SECRETARY.
The successor of Sir Henry May is appointed,
It isn't Sir Julian Byng. It isn't anybody the quid nuncs guessed it would be.. It isn't even a military man. Here is the official notion tion as received by the W
China Mail" to-day.
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Macao is having a carnival on Sunday, March 2, with the usua? "battle of flowers."
Pokie P. Wong plays K. K. Leung to-night at the V.R.C., in the Cham pionship Billiards Competition.
To-day's return of communicable disease mentions only one care, a Chinese case of cerebrospinal fever. It ignores the epidemic of gambling. itis.
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Hongkong, Feb. 25, 1919," Sir.-1 um directed to inform you that His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has re- ceived a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that He Majesty the King has been pleased to appoint Mr. Reginald
Edward Stubba, 0.31.G., Colonial
BY ST. JOHN ERVINE,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919,
TENNIS
The draw for the Open Champion- ship Singles and Open Doubles respectively were as follow
EVENT NO. 1.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN EMERY RICE
Captain Emery Rice, commander of the steamship Mongolia, the first American steamship to eink a German submarize and to fire the first shot in the naval warfare bd- tween the United States and the Germans, died on January 4 at the 2.-T. Mashima ........................ekaan si New York Navy Yard hospital from
pneumonia, following influenza. Be had been ill dhly one week.
Bye:
When we first heard that the American soldiers were la France,.; there was a great deal of curiosity, mingled with some perturbation, abouttherpamong the British soldiers. We had the professional curiosity of OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. the soldier to see of what stuff this
1ST ROUND. new body of fighting men was made. 1-A, H. Rumjaha ........................ We were anxious, too, to see how they would bear themselves in the trenches, under shell fire, in attack, andindefence. They would come to the war very fresh and fit and with some thing of the romance and eagerness for adventure with which our men had entered the war; we wondered how! they would carry themselves when they had sustained the first shocks of reality.
3BW. Bradbury.................................... 4-G. Manley 5-A. H. Crook 6-Tan Toon Lay
7-R. Townsend. 8-V. Yvanovich.... 9-F. A. Redmond ........................
10-Weng Po Keung 11.-N. E. Kent .... I remember, after the 12-A. B. Raworth great retreat last March, waiting i13.-M. K. Lo Boulogne for a train to take me up 14.-M. P. Loutubro the line, and while I waited I saw 15.-S. E. Green.......... battalions of young soldiers from 16.-Chua Siu Kah............ Secretary, Ceylon, to be Goremos of gland moving from the transports 17-Yew Man Tsun.......... Hongkong.am, S your obedient to the rest camps outside the town 18-A. Morse....
Most of them were lads, new to 19-E. Crocker France, and they were very gay as they marched out of the town. When one heard them singing and shouting. and laughing, one imagined tha: time had turned back and that we were in
"They'll do damn little singin' when the brave days of 1914 again.
Major P. Navill, R.G.A. left for servant, Home on the "Mishima Maru after being stationed here for over seven years. Major Nevills accompanied by Mrs. Nevill.
The date of the Hongkong Poultry Association's meeting (dog and poultry) has been altered to Friday, 25th inst. See advt. in an other part of this paper.
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A. GAMFLETCHER,~- Colonial Secretary. Mr. Stubbe is 48 years of age. having been born on October 19,
1976. He is the youngest son of the late Rt. Rev. Willian Stubbs who as Doctor of Disinity and one in Bishop of Oxfor?.
His Excellency the New Governor
they get up the line." I heard an old soldier saying as he watched the boys so by.
EVENT NO. 2."
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Captain Rice, suge the New York Herald,"defled the Germans in thein submarine campaign, and although his vessel was marked for sinking because of the shot which sank that fist submarina be made forty-one Bye successful voyages and was still stoaming the seas. when fighting ceased.
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The famous ses fight occurred on April 19, 1917, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington and just after the United States had dechted war on Germany. In February of that year Captain Rice was notified by the OPEN DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP. oficials of the International Mercan- tile Marine, bis employers, that they would not expect him to go to sea until his ship had been armed. Ha“. laughed at their fears and declared
What's that? Let the..German
1ST ROUND. 1.-S.H.Dodwell & H. Hancok........?
in a carried man, having espoused in Somethlag of that old" soldier's ). 2-Tan Toon Lay & Chua Siu Kah. buffers keep me off the Atlantic?
"Vanity Fair" opens tomorrow ; the a“ daughter of F. Womack mood was in all of us in France when 3.-A. H. Rumjahn & G. Manley. Not if I know it. I intend to leava
night at the Theatre Royal. A good place to go for either winners or losers. The latter will be cheered up: the gaiety of the former augmented.
The Hongkong Tramway Com- pany's traffic receipts for the week were $13,602, or $581 more that in the corresponding week of last year. The aggregate for the eight weeks was $114,493, or $7,154 more than in the same portion of last year.
Snatching a gold mounted rattan bangle from the wrist of a Chinese baby, a thief was caught in Queer's Road East and brought before Mr. 1. R. Wood this morning. His plea was that destitution forced him to steal. He was sent to prison for four months and was also ordered to be birched.
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M.B., a lecturer on Physics at Bart's Hospital. He has two sons.
He was educated at Badley and Corpus Christ, took first class Mods. in 1807, 1st Litt. Hum. in 1899, and his B.A. in the same year.
We knew
4.-B. W. Bradbury & F. G.
Thompson,
5.-T. Mashima & H. Sakuma..... 6.-R. Townsend & E. Crocker... 1-Y. Yvanovich & J. M." J.
Lopes.
on schedule; guns or po guns."
And he made that trip and another before his ship was armed.
we heard that the Americans had landed and night at any moment appear in the line. How would they comport themselves? what the war was like, but they had only read about it, and we knew that the difference between the two know- 8.-F. A. Redmond & N. E. Kent. ledges was tremendous. We knew, 9.-S. E. Green & E. Abraham...sighted by the lookout Captain Rice tr that it is impossible to prophesy 10-A. B. Raworth & A. Morse.....turned his ship eruight for the enemy. The first torpedo missed its mark
breys
He began his official carrer in 1000, as a Second Class Clerk in the Colonial Office. By 100 he was Acting Fist Cluse Clerk, and re- how men will bear the shock of shel-11.-C. C. Hickling & A. D. Hump.
ling and fighting. I have, seen men eelval substantive appointment who seemed likely to be of the heroic 12-L Foster & W. Kay such in 1910. In 1011 ha was sent build behave uncommonly like 13-Yew Man Tsun & Y. C. Chow.) os to Malaya on a Apecial mission, cravens in time of danger, shrivel 14-A. H. Crock & A. A. Claxton. and visited Hongkong at the same from fine, stalwart, assertive men 15. M. K. Lo & M. H. Lobye time. He was a member of the into shuddering, reluctant, and very West African Lands Committee incautious men; and I have seen men 1012, and in the following year was who seemed to be timorous, scared appointed Colonial Secretary of things fight like heroes of romance. COMIC OPERA OCCUPATION Ceylon. From January to October Human nerve is a queer, contrary 1913 he was Officer Administering that Government. He was awarded the C.M.G. in 1914
He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and "Who's Who" credits him with the publication of Lucas' Historical Geography, vol. 1. 2nd édition, 1000.
RACING AND BETTING IN JAPAN.
thing that supports you or lets you down in very unexpected ways, and no one will venture, after war ex perience, to say who is likely to prove to be heroic and who is likely to prove to be afraid. The man who
OF THE TRENTINO.
The fight with the submarisa oc curred at a range of about one thou sand yards, and when she was first!
and the submarine sank. Rising ingain she was too close for safety, and the next shot from the "Mongo La" was seen to hit the periscope and in another second the U-boat went down for the last time.
Captain Rice. axperienced many narrow escapes with his ship and at che time a Zeppelis dropped bombe ull around her. On another trip the Mongolia was struck by light- ning, but made port safely?
Born in Boston, Captain Rice early longed for a career on the sea. Officers in the Trentino describe He tried for an appointment to ludicrous scenes which occurred dur-Annapolis, but failed at that time is afraid to-day may prove to be to-ing the advance of the Italian army because he was too old. He then morrow's hero.
of occupation.
entered the Massachusetts Statə Our perturbation was not concerned
According to the terms of the Neutical Training School and grud+ with, the question of the heroism of armistice the Austrians were to eva- uated in 1807. He received an ap→ the American troops it was con cuate certain sectors at a certain pointment as quartermaster on board. cerhed with their vanity. We had
home.
The British novelist whose article on English and American manners is reproduced elsewhere in this issue shows a characteristic British boast. fulness coupled with blindness to facts. He says we have that in- grained respect for the individual Reuter to-day lets us know at last,conscience which is at the bottom of
been brought up in the tradition that time, but many companies, had to be the steamship St. Lous, of the a free institutions." Anyone who to our satisfaction at least, which was can claim that after the treatment of
the American is a vainglorious manost pushed out of the towns and American line, and served on board
American War. MR. A. J. WALTERS begs to return the mediacious party. The Gor the conscientious objectors" during
Mr. Bert Goodman, has been who regards his country as the only ages, they were so reluctant to go her during part of the Spanish " doing
"the racecourse of the Far incessantly of his own achievements country in the world, and brags sincere thanks to his relations mans claimed that a number of their the war is not a competent witness
Everywhere Austrian, Hungarian,
He was transferred to the New and friends for the many expres-ships escaped our gunfire, whereas
to anything.
East, and in communicating his im- and of the achievements of his fellow and Bohemian soldiers, and even York, whose name was changed to sions of condolence' received on
pressions to "The Statesman, he countrymen. We had a fear that he officers insisted that they should be the Harvard, and when Admiral Cer- his recent bereavement, and also we now know that those very ships.
The staging of "Pinkcia to be remarks The meetings promoted by would bounce inte our trenches and taken prisoner. Some of them be vera lett Santiago in an endeavour for the beautiful fioral tributes were hit. We also know from the produced on March 21 will surpass the Nippon Race Club at Yokohama tell us that he was coming to win came ugly and menacing when this to escape from the waiting American wae Chief Quartermaster description of the damage done to anything ever done before by the are the queerest of the lot. The this damned war" for us because we request was refused, and threats of feet, it the enemy Beet, which was stronger been secured and over and Cup Day is the big day of the thought that he would be to con- get rid of them.
A.D.C. Some of the best musical faces are mostly for country breds, were unable to win it ourselves. We severe punishment had to be used to Emery Rice who signalled to Ad
miral Sampson, on his flagship :- than ours, that the Germans must fifty girls and children will be featur year, when a Cup presented by His ceited to take tips from us, that he The reason why Botzen, the chief ***Spaniards escaping. Return as have known they had suffered defeat, ed in the show. The music of Majesty the Emperor is run for would be loud voiced, bopstful, in town in South Tyrol, came to be once." and that in subsequently advertising
Pinkie and the Fairies" is by Mr. Goodman was present when this considerate, and offensive in his prematurely occupied by the Italians
At the close of the Spanish- Frederick Norton, composer of "Chu race, was decided on May 18 and said manner, and, from a military point is described by a correspondent of American War he decided to seek a victory they knew they were lying Chin Chow" and although the play it was really laughable to see the of view, imprudent and hasty. We the Corriere della Sera. It wasarranged other water for his travels and be The official account now published was first produced in London over pomp and circumstance which at imagined that he would wish to that the Italians were to reach Botzen went to the Pacific and entered the gives 'n detail that must have been ten years ago, it is still toured in the tended the presentation of the Cup, conduct the war in the man on the afternoon of November 9, employ of the "American-Hawaiiar kept very quiet at Kiel while it was Provinces and always enjoys pheno- which was worth at the outside 500 ner of a boy's story, with but on the evening of November 6 line.
He rose to be first officer of the menal popularity.
upees. The Crown Prince made the lots of dash and splutter and magni- the commander of the most advanced going on. The Koenig was no
Manchuria and in 1912 was pro presentation, surrounded by a glitter- ficent charges from which, of course, Italian group was called to the badly battered that her four forward
Mr. W. Glendinning's house ating army of officers. The second the Boche would stagger back, broken, telephone by some one who insisted moted to a captainoy and given com
that he was in Botzen, speaking over mand of the Mongolia. compartments flooded and she settled Morrison Hill Road was late last prize was roughly about £20. The confused, and defeated.
Well, our imaginations were vain an Austrian wire. The Corriere then the youngest captain in the by the bead. The crew of her for-night visited by two thieves who Cup was won by a horse named
Doiran and Mr. Goodman Was things. The American soldiers came, reports the conversation thus
American merchant marine. ward torpedo tube, it now turns out got into his fowl-house and stole among those who received a card say and we liked them. They were fine, Hello, who is it?"
During his command in the Pacific seven of the birds The poultry; were imprisoned and not extricated disturbed at their roost, raised suching: Doiran requests the pleasure healthy-looking, resolute men, with
"The commander of the 11th he was honoured by the Emperor of Japan for saving five Japanese fisher- The China Mail.until the 5th of June, when she was commotion that the cook boy was of your company at his stable after the self-confidence of men who know Army Corps."
To the stable was at-what they can do and are determined ." Italian ?" drydxked at Hamburg,
men in a typhoon. In the teeth of In the awakened, and he gave chase to the the race."
"No. Austrian. General von Schen an awful gale he sighted an over meantime they were kept alive by thieves. One of them succeeded in tached a little room where the de- to do it. They astonished us by their
making his escape. The pursuit of lighted owner entertained his horse's modesty, I do not mean to suggest kensthuel himself. Dear sir, in the turned sampan in the Yellow Sea food sent down a speaking tube.
the other thief was so closely guests. The pleasing little custom that there were not any American name of the citizens of Botzen I ask and, despite the great danger, he maintained that he was forced to is one of the novelties of racing in soldiers who bragged there pro-you kindly to send your troops to changed his course and made for her,
"The horses," said Mr.bably were, although I never met restore order in the city here."".
He got his vessel into a position so of the popularity of the war in Ger drop his bocty. He eventually ran Jupan
"But haven't you your own troop?" that the small boat was in her les into the arms of a constable at @codman, are easily two seconds any-but I do mean to suggest that
"Yes, I have, but that is the land then his crew made the rescue. mony, which was kept alive also by Bowrington Bridge, and was this furlong behind ours, and are most the very great majority of them
The medal given him by the mutter through a speaking tube-morning given six weeks jail by Mr.ly ridden by Japanese riders. I only were men of quiet demeanor who trouble. My men are mostly Hun the, said matter being a regular bag. J. R. Wood.
saw one Europea jockey there." made. few assertions, but who asked a garians difficult to manage. I pray Mikado was inscribed, "For szaman Speaking of the betting, he said the great many questions. I am not general, that your troops mayad ship and huraane efficiency." At his death ho held the rank of Lieutenante entrance fees two yen (three sure that their inquisitiveness. didvance at once
The result of this dialogue was Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve.
There was not an ocean or sea às MANILA "MARKET REPORT. rupees), and when the visitor pays not astonish us more than their
it he is given two tickets which can modesty. They were always making that the Italian Alpini entered Botzen be used to bet with. The tickets inquiries they even carried, note the next morning, and rioting in the had not sailed, and besides witness are put ja a box bearing the number books in which they jotted down our town stopped. of the horse it is desired to back, answers to their questions and they
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DORDON-On February 18, at Shanghai, the wife of E. H. Gordon, of a daughter.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, Feb. 26, 1919.
THE JUTLAND BATTLE.
La this they happened to be a parable
gis of lies. This was worse than denying the injury to ships, which
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The war had a lot of new wea pons, like gus, and flying machines, is a thing, after all, that our own and submarines. I also had one Government did, as we now know.
To suppress bad news may or may Warner Barnes
The most farcical situations then weapon which is anything but new,
not be a proper thing to do. It is fortnightly circular, to hand is but which was used more extensively
and the backer retains & counterfoil manifested a desire to know all that occurred in the Tyrolean hotels so open to angumeat for those who like dated Jan. 31.
Hemp.It says there have been no The paying ont system is arranged there was to know. There was no well known to British tourists. Out job; there was, on the contrary, a rummaged for their belongings dealers maintain a firm front on the ter being the shortest price."
among the piles of luggage belonging It became a common sight to see to both armies. Servants, not yet strength of the improvement in the means that the bacher get his yen great anxiety to be taught... New York spot market Receipts back, but even then he does not get American officers in our trenches dismissed by the vanquished, sought since Jan. 1 were 79,516 bales, and the cash-e gets a one yen chit
gathering information. In my situations with the conquerors, and clearances 31,062 bales. Experts on a store. When there are over 500 battalion we had two American one officer, whose boots were polished since Jan. 1 37,128 bales.
yen on a winner it pay and doctors in succession as M.O.'s, later by a German batman, said that Sugar This market still rules all the advantage the winner has and they were liked not only by the the result was highly creditable to strong, and prices of all classes of obtained is to exchange his my officers of the battalion but also by the Teutonic substitute." sugar are tending upwards. There for a store voucher to the same ue men. Rumors began to run are still buyers, but very few sellers, amourt. A man can bet as many about the trenches of the way in
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ag the departure of the British ex- peditionary force for the Transvaal during the Boer War, he was in the Japan conflict and the Buseo-Turkish War.
A thorough American, one of whose ancestors served on Boston's Committes of Safety during the Be volutionary War. Captain Rice was pora in Boston forty years ago,
on this than possibly any previous to waste time arguing about that sort important transactions in hemp, bet alphabetically from A to H; the lat attempt to teach us how to do the goirŢ Austrians and their servants transport service during the China- occasion. It was used more or less of thing.. To deny the loss of a by all parties to the conflict, but by particular ship, over and over again, none more lavishly than the Geras our people did, only to admit it mans. The allusion is to the wea- later on, puts them in very bad com pon of the lie. To the diplomat anpany, and more would have been ever present help in time of trouble aid about it by the Home papers, though his name for it would be no doubt, if the Censorship had been official domenti,' termino lifted. Was that, perhaps, dos of fogical inexactitude," or something their reasons for clinging co tanac at from £24 133 6d £15 13 yen as he likes, but to discourage which the Americans were testing ing in their behalf, and cur favourite
3d downwards to £13, 18 gambling he gets no money back, this and testing that, comparing our in that line of decent camouflage iously to this power of suppressing sa per ton fo.b. Total exports not even his original stake, what is gas respirator with the French one, texpression, was, "The Yanks 'll put
the lie was to the Hun the first in- stinctive weapon either for attack or .defence.
We knew that somebody had lied about that Jutland Battle. It was necessary that one or the other story must be false. An American hig. torian decided that neither side had been particularly truthful, and that the battle was a draw. How be
criticism?
BEWARE OF COLDS, HILDREN are much more likely to contract the contagious diseases when they have colds. Whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever and consump; tion are diseases that are often contracted when the child has a cold. That is why
He leaves a sister, Mrs. Herbert Keene, of No. 185. West Fifty-sixtie Street, with whom he made his home, and two brothers, living in the Wesi.
to date 6,072 tons.
due to him being paid By tickets on accepting this idea from us and that the wind up lerry when they get at
A SHANGHAI MEMORIAL. Copra Market weak. Large mills the stores. Thus a winner" may idea from the French, and perhaps
himi!" With swift unanimity we not buying. Oil prices in U.S.A. get for his afternoon's sporta suit of another idea from the captured decided that the Americans were
On the suggest co of the Shang declined, £26 188. Od, per ton is the clothes or a new hat, or a grand Boche. And training! In no place in taking the war seriously..
By this time a great many units of British Chamber of Commerce, thor for sun-dried. piano, or a motor car or at of the world are so many rumours born the American Army had been under Municipal Council, with the coucur export quotation Exports 1,000 tons.
Cigarettes, or the week's supply of and spread as in the treaches; and Coal-A declining tendency, in groceries.
after a while the stories of the way in fire for lengthy periods. They know rence of the French Council, have sympathy with freights. Fortnight's
which the Americans trained became now what the war is like, and do not agreed to reserve the site between. importa totalled 18,463 tons.
legendary in character. And a most need to come into our trenches for the Tranformer House and the A FORTY YEARS' TEST.
extraordinary change in our attitude tips and advice; they can afford to Meterological Station, at the junc HAMBERLAIN'S Conxlr Reperis towards them took place Imagining give advice to others; and we who tion of the Quai de France, Avenue
watched them as they learned their has been curing, coughs and colds that they would be full of boasts, we job are sure that they are applying for the past forty years and has gained had prepared to deprecate them;
Rice. Declined prices on a false all medical authorities say beware frumour of Government buying. colds. For the quick cure of colds you Further fall probable: Round about will find nothing better than Chamber pesos 12 per cavan. could be sure of this on the strength lain's Cough Remedy. It can always be
Flour. Surplus stocks abundant. of two untrustworthy witnesses did derended spon and is pleasant and cafe Pesos 20 per barrel, landed.
to take For sale by All Chomists and
Freights Weak and inactive. not appear. The long telegram from Storskeepers.
in popularity every year, What better finding that they were modest and the knowledge they picked up with recommendation is required) For sale determined, we actually took to boast great effect and to great purpose... by all Chemists and Storekeepers.
award VII and the Bund for the use of raising a Memorial to the Shanghai Volunteers who laid down
to lives in the great wur