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The China Mail.
TRUZE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1919.
THE CHINA MAIL.NE
We have already hinted that a too corner. They whizz long Albert SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
anthropomorphic view of symbiosis Road: They him downhill. It i is taken by some people, especially sometimes quite exciting. You see by this London journalist. There nothing, expect nothing. You are may be interdependence without thinking only of catching your tram, sympathy. Is it love that attaches the or of the good story that the other pilot fish to the shark, or is it merely man is telling. Then suddenly there one more development of the struggle is a honkhonk, a wail, a shriek, a for existence? A school child could blare, a so-called "siren" sound, and see that such romantic rubbish does your heart tries to climb over your not shake Darwinism. Without necktie. The panhard passes, and going so far as to say that the war you don't much care whether you showed civilization to be only skin- catch the tram or not. The relief at deep, we may say that there is to being still alive and whole as to
MALATA'S RICH FAMINE,
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1919,
THE HOUSING QUESTION.
KOWLOON BAYS MODERN CITY.
RACING RICSHAS.
PASSENGER INJURED."
date no evidence whatever of this, limbs is so great. Will the P.w.the Straits Settlements, and Mr. Hose, area of land available on the Hong- } wrong side and ran into Mr. Frost's
INTELLECTUALITY.
PLANS FOR RELIEF.
Yesterday evening when going The most important question exist home from the Kowloon Ferry wharf (China Mail' SPECIAL]
ing in the Colony to-day is the housing at Kowloon, Mr. B. L. Frost took a question. The steady growth of the ricsha, and was well on his way Colony's population, a growth which home when the driver of a another SINGAPORE, April 10. Mr. James, the Food Controller for the British occupation and the limited others and thus get a fare took the has gone on since the early days of richsa trying to gec in front of all the the Director of Food Production for kong side, have rendered the housing whicle the Federated Malay States, have question one of the most serious pro- he was thrown out and received the result that addressed meetings in Johore, Penang.blems to be faced by the local ad- injuries to his hands, knees and and Singapore on the acuteness of ministration There is a scarcity of shoulder. the rice problem. The country is level land in the Colony and this driver was immediately arrested The offending ricsha facing not merely high prices but the scarcity has made it necessity for a and was this morning fined $3 or in possibility that it will be unable to large amount of reclamation to be default 7 days by Mr. Orme. an-obtain Imported rice. The remedy
tendency in man to something kindly regard this note as anurge?. higher and better." Mankind and human nature are still aptly described in the French saying, the more it changes the more it is the same thing. Man was, is, and ever will be (so far as we can judge) greedy apd quarrelsome and unselfish and peace- ful and stupid and sensible Self preservation is the law of his
ut nature; but it is also natural to him to be helpful and compassionate when his own needs are satisñed. Getting, begetting, forgetting, so long as clathes do not make the man (and recent aries in The New age, By a singular coincidence, our less Ritz Hotels and Chopin harmonies urging the Bolsheviks not to forget are only clothing) man will for ever that it's a long hire that has no have his place among the other turning." is, we are glad to believe animals in the struggle for existeace:kely to have an equally remarkable which is not “dismal' unless we choose to think it, so... Man will keep that place for the sufficient reason that he cannot get out of it He is, as the Buddhists vividly put it, bound within the Wheel of things.
AN UNDOUBTED NAVAL GRIEVANCE.
labour forces consume.
Hoiutio Bottomley nounces: "Chur reaut artide in proposed is the substitution of locally done. This necessity was realised as workers not kill the goose which Indian and Australian wheat. The 81 acres were reclaimed, between the Sunday Pictorial urging the grown foods and the importation of early as 1851, that is only ten years after the Colony's occupation. Then as the golden eggs has, we are planters are to be obliged to cultivate Wilmer Street and Bonham Strand happy to learn, had a splendid three per cent. of the food their West. The East Prayn was reclaimed
Fot
in 1873 and in the year 1884, 23 acres were added at Causeway Bay. In 1886 22 acres were reclaimed at Kennedy Town. Since that time the largest of the Colony's reclamations-the Praya has been completed, thus adding another 65 acres to meet the Colony fin its land requirements. The need
Hert.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
with
HOCKEY.
BIRD CO. R.G.A. V. SITE CO.
R.G.L.
These teams engaged in à United Service League match at Happy
We are considering the adiability (B COURTESY "KONGEONG DAILY PRESS." for space can be easily seen when it Vally yesterday. At the start thei
of reluving the incidence of unwise pecution by repeating our welly his money are asily divorced." known observation that a fool and
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Today's dollar is worth 3s. 15-16d The upward tendency seems to be steady.
3
One of those inane remarks that! used to annoy us as schoolboys ran ! something like this: “An axiom is a theorem, the truth of which is so apparent as to be instantly admitted." There is certainly something off The Bishop of Hongkong is the sort about the grievance now going to Canada in the hope of cur-
of the Hongkong Naval Yard. These May 5. men," chargemen of trades, draught-i
being ventilated by certain employees ing incipient sprue. He leaves on
RESIGNATION OF CHINESE MINISTER TO JAPAN.
PEKING, April 9. Chang Chung baiang is about resign as Minister at Tokyo.
Chiang Yung, at present supervisor of Chinese students Japan, will succeed him..
SHANGHAI CONFERENCE
PROSPECTS.
to
the
in
PEKING, April 9. The Government has received a
is remembered that every part of building ground on this large area exchanges were in favour of the was covered with houses almost as
Lyemun team Nicholl scored the first,
soon as it was completed. Yet in Green the second and Winterton the spite of all these reclamations, and third goal for the 83rd Company the rapid development of the Kow. In the second half matters assumed loon Peninsula as a residential area a different aspect. The 88th Co the great problem remains unsolved had the best of it and Amy soOTZ These reclamations have added con- scored a goal. After several missed. siderably to the area of level ground Opportunities the 88th Company in the Colony but yet in some scored again. Rollett being the artist. districts, the overcrowding exceeds Despite big efforts by Talfourd, the that in some of the slum parts of 88th Company were unable to score
the equaliser. Resalt:- some of the world's great cities.
Across the harbour at Kowloon Bay there is now in progress the greatest
telegram from Shanghai announcing work of reclamation ever yet at-
assurance
83rd Co. RGA 3; 98th Co. R.G:A., 2.
Referee, Sergt. Sykes.
"the resumption of the Conference tempted in the history of the Colony THE LEAGUE TABLE!
the under .happiest auspices, of Hongkong. This work is being done
This result make the league cham an riving
that the by the Kai Tack Land. Investment pionship absolutely safe for the Staff deliberations will be successfully Company. It was first conceived by and Departments whose record of 10 completed within thirty days.
Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the famous Chinese points for 5 matches cannot be diplomat and was fostered by the approached by any of the other late Sir Kai Ho Kai, C.M.G.. It is teams. The positions of the teams undoubtedly the largest reclamation in the league follow undertaking ever initiated in this UNITED SERVICES HOCKEY
There were a large number of coolies charged this morning at the Magistracy with hawking without a licence. Fines ranging from $2 to $5 were imposed.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WANTS SUBSTITUTE CHAMPIONS.
Colony by private enterprise.
A few days ago, by the kindness
of Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood,
Engineers, a China_Mail' man was
LEAGUE,
Goals,
P. W. L. D. F. A.
tato 5 Points.
taken over the whole district to see Staff & Depts 5 5 0 0 12 4 10
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL."]the progress which has been made, HK.DC3 12 077 and to see something of the great 83Co.,R.G.A. 4 1 0 0 6 10
be 50 feet wide."
trees
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gardens.
smen, electric station supervisors, To-day's return of communicable and tug-masters, hereinafter referred disease shows three cases of plague, to as Agreement Employees (a term one of enteric, and three of cerebro self-explanatory) have been petition-spinal meningitis. ing the Admiralty for a long time, and after digesting the facts as pre- sented, we can only suppose that their petitions got hung up some where. Because their grievance looks very genuine, and it is hard to see how any reasonable authority would turn a deaf ear to it. The War Bonus The Blue Fannel Liner 5.3. did not come their way. The Two. Agabenor, Messrs. Butterfield and Shilling Dollar is not for them. The Swire agents, leaves this port for one and only thing they have been Europe with Malls on Sunday, the permitted to share with the other 13th inst, and is due to arrive at lier i Dear Sir, understand that the work which has yet to be done. This 88Co.R.G.A. 2 0 2 0 2 7 naval workers has been the Higher destination May 28.
Hongkong Poultry Association is reclamation extends across the whole Cost of Living. Consider these
arranging a Poultry show and the head of Kowloon Bay, from Old Kow- 6gures. In 1913-14 these Agree The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice birds of one fancier who has admitted loon City to the Taiwan Glass Works, the second faithful exposition, and meat Employees gut $54-357 Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals ly the best stock in the Colony are to and covers an area of 230 actes.
An important thing to note about publicity. But here also, sad to say, net per week, while the lowest acknowledges with thanks the follow be excluded from the Championship will give some idea of the extent of an exclusively Chinese enterprise The following list of particulars the whole undertaking is that it is BURN-MACLEAN-On April and as the article under review rate sterling paid employee had ing donation to the funds of the Class
betrays, journalism can be a deadly $48-$51 net
per week. Note Hospitals:--Pupils at Belilios Public This though an unusual depar- this great scheme; the work of which The primary object is to create a epiphytit hanger-on, choking truth, that they were rated six dollars better School. Special contribution $35.00. ture from the usual practice is is proceeding with great rapidity.
Fresidential suburb where wealthy and taking impertinent liberties with than the others. In 1918-19 they
well worthy of consideration as it 1. The contract for the first por Chinese will be able to live in peace the sacrosanct name of Darwin, get $48-51 while the others get $68 The NYK. 3.s. Manila Mani undoubtedly preventa too many prizes tion of the scheme amounted to one and comfort. With such an object it is certain to be popular, for the which, no matter what some priests $70. The Agreement Employees. leaves here with malls for Europe mia falling to one individual or the same and three quarter million dollars. may say, still counts among the really instead of being $6 better, are 420 America to-morrow and is expected individual winning prizes in too
2. The reclamation will consider. Chinese, no matter where on the scientific workers.
worse than the others. They get six to do the trip in about 45 days. She many successive years and I thinkably exceed in area the whole of that earth's surface they may wander to.. a little more fully,
little quote this particular parasite dollars lees than they did at the begin will call at North China ports, Japan, this idea, might, with advantage, le portion of the Kowloon Peninsula always come back, if it is at alt
Throughout nature," he says, $20 more. But that isn't all. As and South America.
ning of the war, while the others get Canada, the United States and Central introduced into some of the Sporting south of Austin Road (including the possible, to their own land. With
Championships in Hongkong.
the wealthy Chinese this modern city | Railway Reclamation)," there is no progressive movement the others have the two shilling
The Golf Championship has for
3. The Praya will be equal in of the future will be a goal for except in the case of mankind Bears are dollar, and the Agreement Employees
A coolie was sentenced this instance on too many occasions fallen length to the Hongkong Praya from otin cum dignitate. So that at always bears. The crow still builds his haven't (the Lord of Red Tape knows morning to four weeks hard labour to the best players, and I venture to the General Post Office to Whitty present in the reclamation of Kow- nest like the first crow. You can't why) they suffer a heavier deduction for stealing a quantity of pickled suggest that in the nex: Golf Cham- Street.
loon Bay we have the making of the get a dog to read a book; you can't for income-tax than the others do. vegetables from one of the stalls in pionship of the Colony all players 4. Along this water frontage of foundation of a new township, one persuade a cat to sow mustard and Taking the case of two men nomin the public market. That is the pickle with a handicap of less than eighteen over one and a half miles there will to which the Chinese are sisre to Cress: You can't induce a cow to do aly of level pay, the one whose pay into which an inordinate love of should be excluded, while I think the steamers can be berthed at low tide.
be piers at which ocean-going flock. DARWINISM AND DUFFERISM anything but eat. But in the human is reckoned in sterling pays £34 135. pickles plunged htt
There will be plenty of room. for race this mysterious force which we as income tax, while the one who is
late billiard Championship unfortuna tely happened to be won by one of aid out as a recreation, ground."
5. Ad area of four acres is being marked off on the plan are forty- call Efe is for ever moving towards paid in dollars has £71 10s deducted.
seven sites, each of these occupying“. It is certainly in no merely jocular something higher and better. The Because this anomaly affects no more pared opium in his possession a Hongkong and to obviate any such and the main central thoroughfare feet: So it will be seen there is roome
For having 39 taels of unpre the best exponents of this game in
6. The Praya is to be 175 feet wide an area of from 179,999 to 200,000 sq. spirit that we say there ought to be difference between a wigwam and than half a hundred men, it may be Chinese was this morning fined $350 occurrence and, to ensure that the a Society for the Propagation of the Ritz Hotel is enormous. Mr. that it has seemed too unimportant or in default three months' imprison. Championship will fall into the hands/400. feet in width. All the other for residences of quite palatial Darwinism. The duffers and the Arthur Balfour playing Chopin at for the Powers That Are to worry ment. Mr. Orme was the Magistrate, of one of the mediocre players who roads intersecting the Settlement will dimensions with the necessary humbugs are having things too much three o'clock in the morning is not over: but the China Mail thinks The defendant put up the usual are really the mainstays of the game
7. The Praya and the main central Another point which will count for their own way, aided by a lamentably to be compared with an Esquimaux Public Opinion will say it is one that excuse stating that, he had been confined the those players who have thoroughfare are to be lined, with "much with the Chinese is that the
the Championship in future might be ignorant Press.
(sic) looking for blubber," It is, mirabile dicts, the London
ought to be adjusted even if it injured given it by another man, He says that Darwin's "dismal" only one man. It is very unfair.
|fung: shui," of ‹ the place is good never made a twenty break. A Press of which we speak. A London doctrine turned natural morality
This principle of excluding all
8. A service of well-appointed ferry On the one side are the sacred rocks journalist seems to have read a upside down," and "converted
The keeper of a Chinese drinking pamphlet on symbiosis, and to have happy religion into troubled the
shop was fined $50,or three months likely winners from our Champion-boats is to run to and from Hong with the historic and famous Sung decided that it was a new discoveryology. These phrases suggest that
for selling drinks to Europeans after ships would set an example which kong. This ferry service will run to stone among them and in the rear is of science because it happened to be if the life force is making mankind
hours. The defendant stated that might in time to come be followed by three points namely, West Point, the Lion's Head on the hills.
Quarry Bay and Shaukiwan
At the rear of Settlement the new to him. The result was a long advance it is somehow missing at writing our editorial notes to-day they refused to go. The evidence, altimate result that the World's
We have taken the liberty of he had tried to turn them out but the rest of the world with the The site is undoubtedly the most promoters have reservations on lands.. article headed "Science thinks again." | least one journalist, for he is getting without first finding out they are however, did not point that way, Championships' in future would a suitable for such a Settlemen: out of which may at some future time be In the course of it we were shocked back to the happy superstitions and acceptable to the Government. His with the result that he was mulcted to the log of those best able to situated at the head of a great she! Crown lease allows the use of land. the island of Hongkong. Is is used for industrial works, as the discover (seeing that it was a popular notions of the fighting days Excellency at the Legislative Council in the above fine. journalist, and not a priest, that was of Huxley. The world has been roll was careful to direct the greatez
engineer the exclusion of their comtered bay, which at present is the for factories or godowns for storing talking) that the Darwinian theory ing of since then, and there's been a volume of his criticism at our morn
petitors. a consummation which refuge for all the shipping in coal. according to the principles of the the harbour when typhoons are of a "struggle for existence" was war on. Before we argue: let us
Another advantage of the schame A Chinese was remanded in Hongkong, Poultry Association is now abandoned by scientific thinkers. quote just a little more. To prove they will take it to heart. They Orme, for being in possession of some
ing contemporaries, and we trust custody this morning before Mr. Cevoutly to be desired.
our unwelcome visitors.. Behind is that a larger area of level · land is Instead we were invited to coatem that all nature is interdepen
the Settlement are high hills the all available to the north of the Yours Faithfully, plate a "caner and therefore much dent and exists by sympathy, sometimes say things that are not 3,000 lottery tickets. Mr. P. W.
bearing familiar, landmarks such reclamation and of the Custom's OBSERVER. happier view
so, and set up dummies of straw to Goldring appeared for the defendant of nature" than he says, inter clin, that
as the Lion's Head. Because of Pass, or "Saikong Road, over thei Darwin's. The discovery of symbiosis the lamb multiplies and the thrush shoot at. This is wrong, especially and asked for the remand. The case
these high hills the place will be in ground now embracing the villages showed that natural phenomena sings as if it were thoroughly enjoyworks, and as they have the Bail was fixed at $3,000, but was THE HONGKONG THEATRE. open to all the cool breezes which of Sha Ti Un, Uo Ling, Nga lu Taur
Las they know where the Government will be heard to-morrow at 11a.m.
winter sheltered from all the cold of Pak Uk Tsai and Ngau Chi Wan indicated co-operation, and not strife, ing itself. How sweetly pretty, if privilege of going up to see the Gov- not forthcoming.
winds while in the summer it will be around Hammer Hill, and the villagers it were not for the improper precocity ernment and of getting the correct Perhaps we had better explain here of his lamb. What is sauce for ram data if the Government wishes them
blow, across the harbour. As a Po Kong, Pak Hang and Nga Tsin that symbiosis is merely a word and for ewe is too saucy for lamb, to have it. There is really no excuse When a coolie was charged this. There is a fine programme show residential district the site will be Wan to Kowloon City, most of which coined, to denote relationships oc- the farmers tell us. casionally observed which are
Unless analysed and ridiculed for them. The Cnr fail would morning with taking away some ing at the Hongkong, the kind the ideal Mr. F. R. J. Adams of the is now occupied for cultivation. A gladly submit its entire contents for azaleas from the Wong Nei Chong cinema-goers like. After a Gazette firm of civil engineers and architects regular army of Chinese workmen is apparently mutually beneficial to promptly, that sort of ignorant com-Government approval each day, were Gap, he stated that it was not his number there is a comic "Maud and already mentioned, under whose at present engaged on the work of well known to Darwin as the Rule dess masses, and so the advance of part of its readers. These people gone there to gather herbs for The principal film is a 5-art being done, says that the drainage will be needed 'ere the work is finish- the related organisms. It was as ment seems plausible to the thought not for a singular prejudice on the intention to take them. He had the Bachelors." This is very amusing. personal supervision the work is reclamation but a still greater, army of Three, and has always been well popular science is retarded. Think have somehow, goodness know or medicines to make people well, but Paramount Photo play entitled. A on the "eclaimed land will be an ed. Near the Taiwan Glass Factory known to all persons, however un- over the comparison between the got the impression that the Ching he saw the flowers and was tempted. Girl like That This is an extremely important feature. He pointed out is a quarry from which splendid trained in biology, who take an cultured pianist, and the Eskimo. Mail is an independent paper, and He was informed by the Magistrate well staged play with a good story. the splendid nullahs which have been granite, used in the foundations is intelligent, interest in the things Where is the real advance?-Both are they might jump to the conclusion that he must withstand auch temd. It portrays a girl whose father designed and are being made for obtained. The sea wall is also maden. still men, just as bears are still bears that if we were seen too, often conations and in order to teach him that is one of a gang of thieves. She the purpose of thoroughly draining) from the same, at ma italicized" because not all is sober (when he, is dying for his country) were being "nobbled," or that we not belong to him he would be fined intention of helping the gang to rob reclamation and the hills to the reclaimed part and small railway lines truth that men like Henri Fabre does not find it essential after all. were after aai, O. BE. or something $3 or in default 10 days hard the safe. In the bank the falls in north. There are four wide nullaha ve bu all directions Small engines write, and because it helps to establish There were highly cultured men in. You see how it is? We daren't risk labour
love with the cashier. Although she each having a width of 66 feet and are busy pulling Leavy truck loads, the analczy with ordinary human some of the funk holes of the it. Our independence has to be like
secures the combination" to the these run through the Settlement, the trucks, it is interesting to marriage by way of popular illustra trenches. There is
39 much Caesar's wife.
Bate she does not seild it to the gang These nullans have roads 40 feet note, having been made by Chinee tion. Not all marriages, alas, are difference, surely, between the Ritz
as arranged but tears it up. There wide on either side thus giving a labour there. The East section o mutually beneficial, when studied Hotel and a dug-out" as between
is a lot more in the story. It shows total width of 116 feet. The nullahs the area is almost reclaimed and w from the inside. A wife is a parasite it and a wigwam, In the case of the
for the last time to rights
are to be spanned by thirty or forty be ready for building on this year or she is a helpmeet. In the latter Eskimo's igloo, (which isn't a wigwam
reinforced concrete bridges. The The whole scheme is to be completed case she and her partner live together that's American Indian) necessity
D'dron are subject to diaciders of
URING the summer months th
nullaha will be the biggest in the in five years. W es comfortably as do the algold, and is the mother of his poor, invention.
A much populated section of
THE FRUIT SEASON.
Colony. The main front road or The work is a great undertaking fungoid Clements in the lichens. In the case of the Ritz Hotel, inven thoroughfare is that between the warehouseion, scelte the set BOWBL complaint is sure to to pre Bund will be 175 feet in width and developments ample scope for suc Ampdier analogy offers itself, namely, tion is the mother of necessity. It Cathedral close and the Peak Tram natural looseness of the bowels is rare to keep bottle of Chamberlain's feet wide. There will be other roads and we cannot doubt that further attention. "As soon as any un Talent during the fruit seines Be the main central road will be 100 developments in the New Territory, that science and journalism should isn't evidence of a movement to Station. It has no sidewalks. Au zotlend Chamberlain's Colic and Diaz Cats and Dirhams Remedy at hand. It share a symbiotic union, the first higher and better life, but only totomobiles but up the incline an chtes Remedy should be given. For may bagolt For Bale By All intersecting the Settlement, 50 feet development in this direction is as Contributing facts and conclusions, greater provision of physical comfort, their way round the Sergeants' Club ale By All Chemists and Storekeepers. Chemists and Storekeepers.
as Nature's law,
about them.
The word".apparently'
TAKING A LIBERTY.
NO SIDEWALKS.
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BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDEEN,
· Hongkong, April 10, 1919.
wide.
sured.