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detain us. But every term should motive in a people. It may be pro- detain us in an argument of this voking, but it is also true, that in nature. Leain may be a mistaken our contemporary's sense of the man. That's for decision. Let it be word we British were selish in desir believed that he is a moralist, ing to beat the Germans. Our ma good man; or it will be impossible terial need was self preservation; to discuss the meanings of things. our ideal (antithetical to the German Of the word tyranny", our contem-ideal was the ideal belonging to us, porary takes this view:
to ourselves. We fear that no academinor repairs. mic light upon Bolshevism can be looked for in talk of selfishness. Lenin,
We may take it for our présent purpose to mean a form of govern ment in which the people governed have little or no voice in the settlement of the system under which they are ruled, and in which their true interests are but little or at all considered.
It overlocks that Lenin himself has explained that Bolshevism, starting as it must, is obliged to travel to true democracy by the route of tyranny 1 overlooks, in that reference to
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MONDAY JUNE 2-1919.
CHINESE STUDENTS AND THE DRAGON FESTIVAL,
WORLD' POLITCS.
TO-MORROW'S RACING.
1.
Returned Students Representa tives culled on the British, Ausricin, French and Italian Consuls at been well contested Chinese Boat For some evenings past there has Cantes, and wanted the reso racing along the Praya. Tomorrow tions transmitted through the latternoon there will be a big race, the final, opposite the Ming Yuan Gardens at North Point,
obtained.
Commulator, it happens, is a most altruistic offices will be closed for the transac-of the Returned Students Associa man. The most provoking thing of tion of public business to-morrow,
Mers. Ching Togee, president all that we have to say is this, that f
There will be seven boats racing. if the basis and roots and motives of
tion, and Mr. H. Y. Loo, Jr. and these come from three districts, our opposition to the Bolsheviks be Lebar. Singapore, is now open concan French, and Italian Censuites each from Shankiwan and Aberdeen. The wireless station at Fayas the Offices of the British, Amerire entered from Aberdeen, and two Barrister-at-Law, and others called ensuring keen rivalry. Three boats dug up and scrutinized, they will be dauously day and night. Sundays nemt at Shameed on Saturday Mok Ling the starter. found really selfish. In other words, included. the Allies and it expedient to side
Mr. Ah King is the judge and against Bothevism. Beginning dis-
morning to request the Constar considerable interest in the race There is passionately
hepresentatives to transmet to their Diaboli, zeat has been born as output for the first half of May king assistance from the four Gardens, where a good view of the Advocatus The manager of Taipinx Tin respective Governments the resoluamong the Chinese and there will be
Dredging Co., Ltd, advises that the signs which the students had adopted their true interests," that President the
a big crowd at the Ming Yuen argument progressed, and 185 piculs. Wilson has already examined that the temptation is now strong to go phrase and found it meaninglesson and explain why it is expedient.
Powers to have Kinochow returned race can be had and refreshments There is no standard from which the But that would be too provocative made by the F.M.S Government for
Provision of $3,600 has been the text of their petition:—
to China direct. The following is "true interests" of any people can We have carried the thing far the purchase of a motor ambulance be judged. Who is to decide, if not enough. Let us hope Sir Everard for Influenza patients
RETURNED STUDENTS" the people.themselves? The China Fraser the phraser will not take too
PETITION. Mait may consider it in the true in-seriously our contemporary's prakse
Your Honour, terests of the public to believe that of his phrase, as one for which the the world is flat; it is certainly world (and presumably Shangbal) has Glenfalloch, Lienshing, Panama Meru, China in Cantor and ourselves, we was told a little story about the
On behalf of all the European wo Skinten Mare No. 5, Suiyang, American Returned" Students entitled to try so to persuade them: waited. Because in two more words Chofu Maru, Thiliwong, Tomashine crave Your Honour's indulgence to Japanese baiting af Canton on Fri- 20 nese gentleman this morning and but it may not dictate. There is a it is easy to demonstrate that it isn't Maru, Taiyuen, and Loksang areolicis Tour Honour's consideration day. petitio principi in true interests", and a good phrase at all. Alter just one there is another in the phrase "least word of it. Say "the tyranny of the fit" In the fatter case we get most at", and you see the nonsense. a conspicuous application of this of it. No-one is ever fit to tyransize error to Darwin's word from Ever. Anywhere. Anywhen. the Galtonian school, which has founded a modern association that Ltd declaring what manner of men are takes upon itself the prerogative of
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Those who have heard of the Advocatus Diaboli will not find, too devilishly provoking the following apology i tar Bolshevism. Be sure the China Mail does not expect the jury raj elect Lenin to sainthood as a result! of it. nor does it care much for the Russian type; but Sir Everard Fraser is reported to have made a remark
תכקני.
We have been at a less to know how to classify the Bolshevik and
his methods. They have at times been despotic enough a satisfy a Cesar. Under other aspets they
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Today's dollar is worth 3s. 6 ou board of the transport Spiridione, The bursting of a naphtha tank which was leaving with troops and civilians for Pola (Gulf of Venice), were killed and 40 were injured. blew up the vessel. Thirty persons
Messrs. Wm. Powell, Ltd., will be The annual general meeting of held on Tuesday, June 17, at noon.
fittest to survive. The reference is to the Eugenical Society, which may be well-mearing, but is a quite mis- taken meddler with social evolution. The Germans considered themselves the "superman" race, the fittest to survive; but we and our Allies demurred. Even if they are more cultured and orderly and wise, and advanced than we, we are not going Dun, late of the Madras Army, who Major General Charles William to let them walk over us. they only claim to be, without stone, Dorset, in his ninetyfourth year, But as has died at his residence, at Park proving fr, our objection is all the stronger. As Mr. A. J. Balfour Chinese riots at Singapore in 1854.
was engaged in suppressing the Avenue.” would say (there's a subtle and cinse intellect for you we have provel
THE TROUBLE AT CANTON.
:
A China Mail reporter met a Chi-
and good offices in u matter of
the usual practices in the rebition when he was attacked by a dozen emergency which, we trust, will Friday by the afternoon train. He A Japanese arrived in Canton on justity or not spering to hadn't been on shore many minutes ubesting between the citizens of Chinese. He found a protector in a one free state and the diplomatic Chinese who haranged the crowd Impresentatives of another free state.while the Japanese-made his escape. and we are orpelled to take thisThe crowd then attacked the man step analer unfortunate circumstances who had befriended the Japanese fully sympathize. with which we hope Your flour wit and he took refuge in the hotel where our informant was having War the principles for which the angry dozen followed. The manager Ever since the beginning of the dinner. He fled upstairs and the Allies fought hue long been known feared the consequences if the fefugee turoughout the work and it was in was caught and put out the lights in aceonlince with these principles that the hotel. Meanwhile the Chinese After nearly five years' delay laying out the site of the old railway tein, France, Italy and the United street again and resorted to throwing the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board is one, led by the democracies of Bri- door. The crowd went into the any patious, of which it was who was sought escaped by a back
as a wide avenue to be called "Fock the Central Powers of Eumpe. Since up the signboard... As showing that which used to run through the town States, joined in the struggle against stones at the windows and smashing the signature of the Armistice and the crowd were not out exclusively The Daily Chronicle says it
the sittings of the Peace Conference for Japanese baiting, it is interesting Our fitness by the fact of The British Red Cross Order of probable that the Government will that the fral Teac Treaty shall be took a look round he found the till Paris there has cherished hope to state that when the hotel keeper our survival. The Germans were cont. John, during the four years provide members of the House of tuned to us to give to the work, had been rified and about $30 stolen. vinced this is amazing to you, but the sum of £15,877,190, and expended between
1915-18 (inclusive), was in receipt of Commons with free railway passes of us is humanly possible, a just it's quite true that it was in the the sum of £14,422,200. The income London.
their constituencies and settlement of its caures and equit. true interests" of the world that it should be dominated by them, be,425,399, and
of the Order for 1917
juble adjustment of conflicting clains. cause they had learned at their during that year amounted to Grozni is being repaired in H.M. means Behind other untions in Jesir HANDICAPS FOR SATURDAY.
the expenditure The Russian torpedo boat tion of principles of right, is by no
Chiau, entered the War for vindic numerous Gobineau Societies. that they were the mest fit." You see,
£7.243,281.
Dockyard.. A Russian crew from ing such a settlement. don't you, where such presumption
Vladivostock is coming to Hongkong brought them? Let us beware of
Luang Suvanakitch, a jeweller of to take back the Grozni which is dueference in Paris with respect to As the award of the Peace Con-j similar careless use of such phrases Bangkok, had a parcel of diamonds to leave about the middle of this shattung has alarmed us, who, with day's Gymkhana:
valued at Tes. 23,000 consigned to month. cel arrived in Bangkok recently. The him by an American firm. The par
a
But that isn't the
WAS
which lies at the bottom of the Russian tyranny. The Russian error (if it be one,
of the commission will be sent to the many taken. The recommendations Governor at an early date.
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Our Shanghai contemporary, with whom we are having this friendly
the welfare of their country at heart. disagreement, refers to the German consignee went to take delivery and H.M.S. Hydrangea, paid off on Friday teen the people of their own coun- The crew of the ex-minesweeper, a desiring to serve us a link be delusion much as we have done, but somehow manages, in opened the parcel before the post and the ship went out of commission.try and those of foreign countries, Alexander way at present incomprehensible office officials when it was found that She is in the Naval Basin and will cannot help approaching Your Hon- Gentle Cat by us, to identify the German the package contained only a silver probably remain there until re-com our at this juncture. delusion with the delusion (?) of the spoon and no trace of the diamonds. missioned as a sloop as a unit of the
Burning Daylight Your Honour will well remember Maymoon. are purely democratic. Comminism highly educated, by the way, and as shipping commission are aearing the uneducated Bolshevik." Lenin is
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the history of the circunstances Wedding Beils.. The labours of the Singapore linges every portion of the system, and though there is no sin ile he is responsible for the doings of end so far as the taking of oral ever been built in Malaya, consisting untung were obtained, and the Eaton Boy nader which the specil privileges Beador.... The largest bridge which has enjoyed by Germany in the Provide Dún Duke dictator whose ipse dixit gi- cs lar his uneducated myrmidons, we may evidence is concerned. Representa of five spans, each of 250 feet, and fortunes of war which led to to everybody, there is an olig. re 17| agree that
kultur" is a factor in tives from the Straits Merchants Ser- five spans each of 150 feet, making temporary possession of those prvi Lovejoy both cases. dominated by two men responsible identity our contemporary sees, for vice Guild, the Association of En- a total length of 2,000 feet, is about leges by Japan. That prosession and Hector.... apparently, to nobody but them- selves. Here then we have a form it speaks of
gineers and the owners have been to be but over the Kelantan River!njoyinent we take it, were but a of government partaking
the results of the lack of education called as well as independent testi- on the East Coast Railway.. in principle of
trust placed la the hands of Juga ONCE ROUND communism, mocracy, oligarchy and despotism.
hr the Allied Powers. Moreover in f It wanted a name, and Sir Everard which is not yet settled academically)
The s.s. Hack Lee, a Singapore her Ultimatum to Germany in 108! ship which has been on minesweeping Japan definitely declared that Tsing. Burning Daylight Fraser, looking beyond theories to we have shown to lie in education
duties around the Straits, has been twould laimately be returned Gentle Cat.... results, has provided us with it at the top, not in ignorance at the Worcester, where Lord Beauchamp going a rent to pat het in her pre- the fiduciary character of i werpa Morning Star
Exciting scenes tock place in in the Naval Dockyard kere under- Chim. That Jupun sought to modify Bolshevism is "the tyranny of the bottom. We feel sure the Allies will is selling by auction portions of his requisitioned state.
Tytam Chief least fit." The so-called "results" of Bolshe-catch Professor Lenin.
act on our view of it, if ever they estate. The farmers protested at have been effected and the Hock Lee what in our humble opinion was va
These repairs tion and enjoyment and to enter upon Cornhill vism, so far as they have developed, Perhaps the reader wonders why manded to be allowed six months
the conditions of the sale, and de- is about to return to Singapore. at Shanghai about "the tyranny of are not pleasant or easy things to we forewarned him that this was aotice to
tually a direct proprietorship, sund Dalesman... the least fit", consideration of which defend; the "theories" of Bolshevism to be a provocative article? Very
quit. They
attempted to achieve this end by
Judex ...... may help us to clarify our thinking. offer a simpler brief. Lenin himself temperate, says he, very reasonable uproar, preventing the sale from for emigration to the Federaled treaty disposing of those sprcial
'John Peel"
A Poonamallee, Madras, message competing the Chinese Govtrument;
Bendor The reader who gets
an of April 27 says: The authorities to sign under threat of an ulthustun 50 "hot" has explained that the current so about things that he says, methods (it is not quite fair to des We are only just coming to the telephoned conceding their demands. for providing sheds with concrete Gur's knowledge. The very fact that
far, it #
trifle heavy proceeding until Lord Beauchamp Malay States have sanctioned R30,000 privileges is a within Your Honeyhoon Impatiently, irritably. Oh, it won't cribe them as "results") of Bolshe really provocative part. We submit bear thinking of" is not the vism are repulsive but necessary that our contemporary is not ration R.A.M.C., who returned recently to as a temporary measure, until such Gomment's interests in the Pro.. kind of reader we can please to-day. Female suffrage was a
flooring for 800 Telugu coolies at a the Peace Confesince discussed the We are addressing those who take destroying letters in pillar-boxes and as a philosophy and an ideal, but Shanghai from the Front, after three time as a permanent structure is viage of Shantung is proo that the Malcolm .......
Major A. C. Bryson, M.C., spot half way between this and Avadi ultimate disposal of the late German, ONCE ROUND "A" CLASS HANDICAP, theory" ally judging Bolshevism on its merits, up their China Mail in the same damaging golf links werenct"results" emotionally, as the origin of what and a half years' service in France, is built at Coconadsa. Mr. Bathurst, of Conference did not take for granted Red Ensign. frame of mind as a man entering of the theory, rightly regarded, so it calls "results," but which we have one of the four scos of the Rev. 7. the Colonial Civil Service, and Dr. that the special position acquired by Greymouse
.lbs. an academic discussion much as they were methods of obtain fairly shown of some proposition against which ing results. Now that the
to be "incidents." grand (There is a vast importance in words active service with the British Ex visited the place and have approved That being so, Your Honour's peti- Lord Lotne.......
Bryson, of Tientsin, all of whom saw Colin. Campbeli Ford he is prejudiced, but about which he result is happily secured, the unpleas and terms, you see. Our contem peditionary Force. One son Captain of the site selected.
personally Japan in Shantung is beyond evil. Rochester...... is unconcerned enough to listen foring methods are gladly abandoned porary eloquently says: the pleasure of the argument. The and forgotten. Our theory" in
Bryson died in Singapore as the
tioners do not understand why the Paper Money Debating Club, if you please, is open. the war was the defeat of a bad
result of a bathing accident. Dr.
Conference would not see its way to Alexander Addressing troops on parade at enemy. It was holy and defensible,
remains. atrocity Bryson received his Military Cross whether it is perpetrated by a semi-from H. M. King George at an open
take what would appear to be in the Smokebox Shanghai on Empire Day, Sir Everard Our methods, some of them, especially savage fanatic resentful of past air investiture held at Buckingham Fraser spoke of the union against those we had to copy and improve
light of historical facts the logical step Viola iftreatment and bent
of handing back the pression and Dusky the Teutonic menace, and went on: upon, were not pleasing to
satisfaction of his primal instincts, joined the firm of Drs. Jackson,
the Palace in July, 1918. He has now MR. PONSONBY FANE'S XII. juny abatement of Chinese rights indissolubiy cemented with such notion of warfare. and we
adinin 'strition of Shantung without Vivat only
or by a highly trained and discip-Jackson, and Neid. union is self denial, which, in your adopted them because it seemed
N.0.0.'S AND MEN OF THE lined, automaton wound up
whaterer to the Chinese Govern- case, is embodied in discipline. ( clear that otherwise we must fail.
to
GARRISON. carry out the behests of an The turmoil of such a world up. Now that victory is ours, we want
ment. It might be that in the nul- I heaval as the war may tempt some to forget our use of gassier gas than
tiplicity of problems with which the Pink Eye... Lo regard restraints long accepted that with which the Huns gassed us,
Peace Conference is faced, there was Malcolm .... as essential for order and progress and our blockade, which hurt non
ful only of its own selfish desires. effect that the sailing of the ambeled on the Hongkong Cricket Club
This match (12 aside) will be play, grave dunger that the just plains of Red Ensign.... as irksome shackles on individual combatants just as the submarines be sorry to believe it, since our own ance of civilians to England has
ance transport steamer Malieno ground, to-morrow at 10 am. The ference in China is, with all the pre-Lord Lorne
a country so far away from the Con Paper Money To that we reply that we would, which was ailotted for the convey-teams will be as follow:- freedom. But though every man did, though less spectacularly. The brave defenders were forced by circum. Been cancelled. as good as his fellow sourds departures from our own ideas of stances to be atrocious to the enemy. made in respect of the Maheno will, Yew Man Tsun, G. E. Marley, A. H. for full knowledge, Your Honour Smokebox scut disadvantages of difheulty of Rochester Mr. Ponsonby Fane's XII.-C. communication, might be not fully Greymouse splendidly democratic, hasty approper warfare (excluding the block Remember all that was said about the unless information is given to the Rumjahn, D. R. Wahl, A.B. Raworth, petitioners, "therefore,
Bookings already Severn, U. Omar, Lieut. Col. Coles, realised through lack of opportunity Alexander plication of this dogma has proved ace, which was no departure) were German use of gas, when we were contrary, hold good in the event of A. A. Claxton, C. Stapleton, C. G. olisit the communication to Your Dusky apt to disintegrate society into the not. "results" of our legitimate and first shocked by it tyranny of the least it..
highly moral desire to suppress anit, and we agree with it. It was an place of the Mahano. As it is not
We remember any other ship being despatched in Robinson, and R. Ponsonby Fane, The tyranny of the least fit" is a enemy of civilization". but methods atrocity. But then we had to fight known whether another ship will be R.Q.M.S. Allan, C.Q.M.S. Talfourd,ment of Your Honar's petitioner's Tytam Chief phrase which almost excuses a forced upon us against our principles. atrociousness with atrociousness. We sent, no further applications for GS.M. Goodman, Sergeant Athorne, satisfy our people:-
Honour's Goverment of the follow-Vivat Garrison XII.-R. S. M. Keenan, Fing clubres such as.would in the judge Burning Daylight frivolous reference to Sir Everard Just so does Lenin explain the passed those human devils, and we passages by such a vessel will be Corp. Horrocks, C.S.M. Turley, Sergt. (1.) That the special privileges Eaton Boy. Phraser. Yet it is this phrase which Caught the fancy of our highly is to be abandoned when his prin people more sorry about the gas
tyranny of his myrmidons, which gassed 'em worse, and there was no entertained for the present. esteemed contemporary the North ciples are established. Incidentally, business than the Germans were,
Morning Star China Daily News, Approaching it it is fair to remember (a) that the before our lads had done with them. named Ho Don, who was crossing
Strange, Lce Cpl. Lawrence, Gar. Baines, Pte. Conner and Corpl. Mana. from a different angle to ours, the tyranny has been exaggerated, and Does our contemporary still think Hungerford Bridge, Charing Cross, On the night of April 6, a Chinese
hitherto enjoyed by Japan in Lovejoy... the-Province of Shantung be Rheostat Shanghai paper hails it as a defini-16) that its more savage manifesta that "atrocity remains atrocity, whe- London, was attacked by three men
nullified.
Excelsior tion to be thankful for, instead of tions are not due (not "results") of ther etc"? We hope not. We find in khaki. One man held him, an a phrase to be critically examined Bolshevism, so much as they are that we can approve such reprisals in other rendered him partially un- and analysed. "It is," says our con- due to the fact that the agents are the circumstances: and this moral conscious by striking him on the temporary, in a manner that ought Russians, a race which has arrived lapse (if it be one) doubtless accounts back of the neck with a blunt instru
ginning of the War be abro of this country that encourages the to have greatly gratified Sir Everard, at a very much lower stage of for the fact that we find it possible to ment, whilst the third rifted his
guted.
hope that ut this critical juncture a phrase for which the world has humanitarianism than we claim to apologise for initiated atrocities like pockets, taking a gold keyless watch, Montreal court, in which the Do- mente berein contained to the Goy ourselves to have faithfully repre- In bus addressing Your Honour that Government will be moved to waited." It is also, the Shanghai writer occupy.
and soliciting Your Honour's good act in accordance with the desires of An action has come before the offices in communicating the senti- this country, which desires we bellera. understands, a phrase meant to fit the Our Shanghai contemporary makes Bolsheviks. Our contemporary ob- English sovereign attached as a pend- official custodian appointed in con- represents Your Honour's petitioners
those of the Suffragettes and the 18ct gold double curb albert, with an minion Government seeks to have an ernment Your Honour so admirably sented. ing meanings, but not to our satis and Bolshevik alike is "selfishness." assailants escaped. Their victim. was £4,400,000 in the Canadian Pacific our's Government has, since the a show of defining terms and examin, serves that the fault of German ant, and other gold, pieces. The nection with shares to the value of are not unconscious that Your Hon-serYANIA, faction. It says that in tyranny Selfishness is a name for a social sin taken to the Charing Cross Hospital Railway Company, which are alleged beginning of China's intercourse, dis
We are, Your Honour's obedien we have a term which need not in an individual, not for a political for treatment.
to be enemy owned.
played a 'regard for the best interests
cult called Bolshevism, in which case
we are going to argue that the world
can afford to wait for a better one.
Our contemporary says:
Our
Atrocity
21
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organized banditti devoid of all The Government at Singapore humanitarian instincts and thought-
is in receipt of information to the
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