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To-day's dollar is worth 39. 6 11/16d.
We wonder if the Lord loves t cheerful giver as well as the cheerful giver loves himself.
SATURDAY' JULY 12. 1919.
EASTERN CABLE CO.
WASN'T DISINGENUOUS
AFTER ALL.
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'ENGLISH DEVILS'
A PRAYA INCIDENT THAT - REQUIRES INVESTIGATION.
The other day we printed a state- ment by a man who sent a "deferred"
A well-attired Chinese was charged cable message and who was disgusted on learning later that it had been before Magistrate Lindsell this morn- posted from Marseilles. He thoughting with refusing to move from the the local telegraph people should Statue Wharf when told to do so have told him that this might happen. by an Indian constable. It was and taxed them with lack of candour.alleged that the constable "acting on We have been shown expresses orders received" (by whom, and since in which the public was warned why?) told the defendant to move on (March 11) that cable messages from the wharf three times before the hence would be posted from Gibraltar, latter complied. Defendant was said There are signs of recrudescence and (March 14) that owing to unto have then gone up to the Hon. of influenza in Rangoon Eighteen avoidable circumstances messages Mr. Mcl. Messer, who was in the with 2 friend, and cases were sent to hospital on June mus: be sent between Alexandria and vicinity 11, and five deaths cases reported. It London by other means of compuffed cigarette smoke into his face. had been intended to close the emer-munication.
When told by Mr. Messer to go gency hospital at the end of Jure.
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Travis accused Porson for defending he could give the address but must. Gibbon, whom, as an infidel, he rated n't. We have not the same scruples. their common enemy. For that We do not mind putting our Bolshe very reason I would defend him," vist brethren on his trail. They will said Porson. May we conclude that find his resuscitated Majesty in good Porson had the Kingdom of Heaven company. He is staying with Hector within him? If not, as Clutton Macdonald, Lord Kitchener, and all: Brock's book would ask us, what is the other eminent men who have it? If Christian life be not a fellow-died to rise again. As George him ship of brotherhood, what is it? Aself admits, that place is one where auperficial culture of "fighting the Bolsheviks cannot reach him,
The directors of the Burma Rail animals"? Never. But do you act, and it is one from which there is think, argue, vote accordingly? You. certainly no chance of escape," for ways were to pay on July 1, in ad- yourself, now-what is that you have Dame Rumour is the most vigilant anddition to the guaranteed interest of just muttered about this secular, conscientions jailer that ever was. £1 5s, an interim dividend of £258. Saturday sermon: 2
We fully believe the story, because per share in respect of the surplus By that comment you are weished what everybody says must be true. profits.
We entirely disbelieve it, because all in the balances.
men are liars. We believe that it may he partly true and partly not, because the truth les between two extremes, The strongest evidence in support of the claim that the Czar is still alive is That Swedish sailor who for a joke the fact that he was so frequently and described himself on the return senso circumstantially reported dead. by hia Hotel to the Palice as the "King of Sweden" is probably what we would call a bit of an ass. We are not overflowing with sympathy for him. He was not a resident of the Hotel. He took a bed for one night only. When Mr. Germaine noticed the “joke", be went or sent to the man's room and had the joke. crossed out, and the real name writ ten in. There it might well have end ed. As we understand it, the police
The body of a Chinese was took action on the crossed out" entry, still visible under the overwashed ashore near Kentely Town scoring. Thus we conclude that his pier at a' at 6.30 1st night, real offense to start with was "con-!
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Herridge are tempt of police" Our conscientia uneasy, for we too have a great Roing Home on a year's holiday contempt for this requirement that is shortly. Mr. Herridge has just recover- being kept up after excuse for it has fed from a serious illness." ceased. One of our staff has Elled: up two of these forms, happily with- but being tempted to joke as the Swede did. Another of our staff, a resident of the Colony for years, who left another employment to join us, had to for they said he had to) through the same formality. We deny its necessity. We resent it as un-British. It is more characteristic of German or Japanese requirements than of ours.
Thus the accusation of lack of away the man stood his ground, and candour is disproved, unless our the former summoned the above A Times of Ceylon London cable, contributor insists that the company mentioned constable. to drive the dated the 11th June, states that the should employ a speciał man to tell man away. Accused then „ was. imiports of plantation rubber for May every customer what he might have said to have told the constable amounted to 8,627 tons and the de-read for himself. An advertisement that He had as much" right to liveries to 4,577 tons. The stock of in the China Mail would, by the way, stay there 99 the, English more candid than these devils! According to defendant the "expresses," .but perhaps the constable
and icst his temper company is too poor?
swote, and, when he answered in Anyway, it is our duty to remove kind he was promptly nabbed and any aspersion on the commercial brought up to the station. candour of our friends at the "local Hearing was adjourned. cable office, which the contribution referred to may have cast.
Today's report of communicable para and plantation rubber is 23,305
rons as against 15,570. disease is blank.
..
The Madras. Government have A Chipese was fined $200 for just issued orders requesting Collec- having two taels of opium.
tors of discricts to arrange for the posting of notices to the affect that the care of those Indian soldiers who have served in the war and of the dependents of those who have fallen
The Jan. 3.8. Kenkon Marı" from Batavi yesterday, brought 3,840 tons of raw sugar for the Taikco Sugar Refinery.
staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Mr. H. R. Northey of the local Bank, is going Home on an overdue leave shortly. Mr. Northey will be away for a year.
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The ss. Derwent" (Captain A Jenkyns) arrived from Saigon this morning with 2,000 tons of rice and general cargo. She has 740 Chinese steerage passengers.
How long are we to suffer it? How long do they propose to keep it up? Isn't there any real work for the Police to do, like catching armed robbers for instance? According to one reporter, the Swede "coolly" told the Magis
During the trip of the 3.3. trate that his "tone of voice '
"Kongning from: Canton to Hong (described by the same reporter as a
sharp reprimand") was uncalled kong yesterday, a Chinese either fel for. One gathers that he took our or jumped overboard. Nothing more serious view of the Pass requirements was seen of him and it is presumed as an unnecessary annoyance, and he was drowned.
that he was still supposing his "joke"
if
The Pacific Mail s.s. "Ecuador" (Captain H. Thompson) arrived from
did not matter. None of the reports contains any suggestion so far as we can see that he was in any other San Francisco this morning, which way a suspicious character. Of port she left, on May 31. She as Mr. A. Clutton-Brock does. There
course, if his behaviour in Court was brought a large number of passengers is more than a superficial resemblance disorderly, the Magistrate was quite and 51 bage of mail.
right to panish him for it, especially between the prophet Amos and Clutton-Brock, whose
he hadn't the sense to new book,
Last evening on the Civil Service aerious warning. "What is the Kingdom of Heaven? heed a
We greens in the Club handicap, Mr. S. E. (Methuen, 5s) suggests the modern claim,
however, that there Alderman beat Mr. A. Forbes by 26 was no need for the initial prosecuto 25. At the last head Forbes led need for a change of thental outlock (or, as Amos would have said, a tion. We claim that the attitude of 25-24 bat his opponent scored two change of heart). He quotes a
was understandable, ex and just won the game. Roman Catholic peer as saying that cusable, forgiveable. Every white because man is a fighting animal man in Japan has grumbled about it,
Lieut.Colonel R. M. Crosse,
The China Mail. is vatn to talk of a league of peace
A SATURDAY SERMON,
"within
the man
and some have perpetrated similar R.G.A. has taken over the duties of jokes" there, without such results. General Staff officer, 2nd grade, at We assert that an inferior Court Military Headquarters here, vice has no power to commit for contempt. Major L Cassel. The latter now has William Feilden Crates, barrister, and lecturer on criminal law at the single job of D.A.A. and Q.M.G. King's College, humorously observes that it is not infrequently the duty Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar: previously of the privy council to restrain too head of Messrs. Gibb, Liv exuberant a vindication of the ingston
Co. in Hongkong offended dignity of a colocial court."has
from Shanghai
&
.come
will be the special duty of Govern. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ment and of their officers..
The fortnightly report on July 11
Mr. L. D. Cooper, of John Cooper and Co., 4 Ezra Road,has these items: Shanghai, died on July 2 at the General Hospital after au illness of some months. Mr. Cooper was 62 rears cid and had come to Shanghai from New York four months ago. He is survived by a widow and also son
Johr. C. Cooper. and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Cotton piece goods and fancy cotton goods. We have to record another active period. The big Cot on strike in Lancashire has put an end to further operations at present, Cotton Yarn:-The scarcity of supplies restricted operations, hence a limited business was done. Values continue soaring upwards and ad vances of $5/10 per bale have to be recorded.
bales.
THE LAMMA ISLAND "PIRACY."
FIVE MEN ARRESTED.
Five Chinese who were recently arrested in connection with the recent piracy of a boat in Lamma Island were produced before Mr. G. N. Orme Defendants were this morning.
indicted on four counts, "(1) with robbery to the extent of $200 at Luk Chau, Lamma Island, (2) The shortage of rice in Colombo
with attempted murder, (3) wound- is creating an anxious situation. The
Quotations are-No.
109 ating and (4) kidnapping five persons supplies available are strictly con trolled and none can be purchased $220 250, No. 12s at $232 255, with the intention of selling them.
Defendants pleaded not guilty to without a permit. The authorities No. 165 $270 285. No. 20s. at are endeavouring to oper. depots to $285/320. Arrival Nil. Sales 1,500 the charges with the exception of mee: the situation but employers are bales. Shipments 300 bales. Unsold one of the accused who admitted inundated by complaints from their stock 2,000 bales. Bargains 20,000 shooting some of the victims.
Inspector Gordon, prosecuting, employes who cannot obtain rice and in many instances employers are few sales are reported from stocks. go on with the case at once, as Woollens. Market firming up. A stated that he would not be able to themselves endeavouring to buy rice Clearances of army cloth etc. have some of the witnesses were still in and serve it out to their employes,
been made and shipped to Shangtung.hospital, and applied for a week's Raw Cottons: No arrivals and noth remand. A woman and her child ing doing. Quotations are nominal, who were both kidnapped were Indian descriptions. $44.50.56. Chin-shot through the leg by the men ese staple $46/58...
who committed the outrage. The Metal: No business.
accused were arrested in Shak Ho Sugar: Market strong and rapidly by the No. 1 Police launch, which advancing.
was called out of Yaumati at the time.
Hearing was adjourned.
FUNERAL OF MISS GUTIERREZ,
The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, at the Roman Catholic Cemetery of Miss Angelina Gutierrez, age 14, daughter of Mr. F. M. Gutierrez of Mesars. Shewan Tomes.
The deceased contracted influenza over a couple of months ago and had almost recuperated when she was taken up with slight fever or Thure day and died unexpectedly at about midnight the same day.
The funeral was largely attended,
THE KING OF SWEDEN.'
OUR FRENCH FRIENDS..
MONDAY'S REUFPTION,,,
There is a Committee in charge of the celebration of the French Na- tional holiday on Monday after- noon. For the At Home" there will be no personal invitations, only
SOLDIERS PROMPT ACTION.
AVERTED BIG FIRE,
by friends and relatives of the deceas the general invitation, which is ed incuding a small concourse of extended to all friends. The usual
While a party of soldiers of the deceased's classmates at the Italian official reception at the French Con- Convent. The Rev. Father Bianchi salate is not to take place and will Manchester Regiment were cycling officiated at the graveside. The pop-be replaced by this "at home" along Middle Road, Kowloon yester ularity and esteem in which deceas of the whole French community day evening, their attention was ed's father is held amongst the in the more informal form of a arrested
by a
sheet of, flame from the Government Portuguese community was also ex reception and "The Dansant" with bursting pressed by the large number of floral the help of the Hongkong Hotel's Asphalt Store. Hastening to the tributes received.
orchestra. The French Community, spot, they found that a barrel of tar on this 14th July (the official "Peace was afire. It threatened a stacic of day" in France) regards this as a other barrels in a corner of the store. nice opportunity to express its Some Chinese employed in the store appreciation of the hospitality re were trying to extinguish the flames ceived in this colony as well as of by throwing water on them. This the sympathy showed to its Country process made matters worse. Acting and remit those extra four weeks that Mr. Joseph Bailie, Chief of the dish Marine officer who was fined. Toujours la politesse. The Ching Mail mer Stiggins, an ex-member of Mr. Kible, an unemployed Swe-by Hongkong during the war, promptly, the soldiers, led by Drum Department of Forestry in the Nank by Magistrate Lindsell yesterday for for the rest may say that locally the the London Fire Brigade, seized vires and may make using University, engaged in important look ridiculous if the poin: afforestation schemes in Kirin, has entering his name on the hotel slip Entente is in no danger of weaken some spades and proceeded to throws
As regards this been attacked by disbanded soldiers sent to the police as the King of ing. We have learned to like them sand on the flames. After a quarter and robbed, beaten.and injured. The Sweden and for "contempt of court," personally, for their own sakes, as of an hour's work they suppressed and notifying all our movements (a his return to Kirin as quickly as at the Magistracy to-day and meeting will be a perfect success. pestiferous business of registering cable states that Mr. Bailie is making carried the joke still further by well as on account of our political the danger. By the time the firemen strolling up to the shroff affiliations. We trust Monday's arrived, all danger of the fire spread-
ing had been averted. war measure) we beg to call the
demanding a receipt for his money. Governor's attention to the fact possible, in his injured condition. that the approaching Peace celebrat
hard labour, which are ultra
should be taken up, say at one.
That's for that.
A telegram from Omphsien says
It seems he paid both fines. The
for fines paid and whether the joker A DISHONEST HOUSE-BOY. got his or not we do not know. He ought to have one for the "coatempt" fine, which he could probably recover.
Quite a common argument that, as you THUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE." know. Mr. Clutton-Brock points out, however, that such a belief about the nature of man is utterly inconsistent Hovokong, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1919. with the faith of a Catholic pear, of, in fact, a Christian. If men are by nature fighting animals then they are not children of the Father. If the Heavenly Father idea does not coo. vince Christians, how can it be ex- Amos. IV. 10. "The stink of your pected to convince others? He saysThat applies to judges' courts. It to take charge of the firm's interests
top. cit.):
probably never occurred to him that during Mr. A. O. Lang's absence on camps."
"Men will cease more and more
the thing could arise in a mere holiday at Home. About the year 750 B.C., that is to say about 2700 years ago, what we to believe in the God of the Christian magistracy. We recommend the call Prussianism and what we call dogmas if they find that these dog-authorities to consider this point, Bolshevism were abroad in the land, mas do not preserve them from and the minds of the Hebrews were action and from thought which make moved concerning their danger. intolerable nonsense of man's life and They were a little nation, intensely of the universe." patriotic, and had as good an opinion He points out also that whereas purs. On the one side, in the north the Kingdom of Heaven, "from be of their own deserts as we have of Jesus was so much concerned about east, were the Assyrians, aiming at ginning to end the Creeds do not world supremacy. To the south say one word about it." The Book west were the Egyptians. Between of Common Frayer ignores it! The the upper and the nether millstones, catechism leaves it untouched! The the Hebrews had reason to be xxxix articles have no word of it! unhappy. None leaving his home to And the preachers are strangely work or travel could reckon on silent about it. What is the King- returning. They looked at Nineveh dom of Heaven, that is as a little while ago the Belgians you"? looked at Berlin. As in the case of Mr. Clutton-Brock is quite oddlyed. The passport nuisance is bad a bullet wound in the chest. A Belgium, too, Judab was merely the unfair to the materialists." Refer- incidental victim of murderous Ting to the Roman Catholic peer rush upon the real enemy. The again, he says: "In theory he is a Assyrians were for Egypt as the Christian; in practice, in politics, he have occasion to clip them? Huns were for France. They mur does not differ from an atheist or a dered and looted as they went. As materialist." But our "materialist ** Jeremiah sang of a later invasion, friends say that he does. They say Evil cometh from the north, and that the Kingdom of Heaven is with- terrible destruction... to desolate in them, because it is they who the earth. Ruin runs on ruin. declare that rational man is not a Wasted is all the land. Suddenly are fighting atimal: that it is rational my tents destroyed," and so on, man who alone seems able to see and so on. He was referring how war makes intolerable the Scythians or Tartara.nopsetise of life; and that it is was not only a singer of the "materialsts" chiefly, who have
tried woe: be
to persuade been protesting. They may have his people to take comfort in their protested in the name of compion. strong cities set upon the hills, which sense. What's in a name? Knowingly the invaders had no time to invest or not, they protested against the with purpose, We had Jeremiahs fighting animal" theory, on behalf during the bad stages of the last war, of the Kingdom of Heaven, It is He was possibly more popular than easy to see why. The man for whom he is not a la mere Journalist his predecessor Amos, who so vividly this life is all has all the more induce The fact that he heard it from only. The Special Tribunal, which has members of the French Community describes for us the atrocities of the ment to make the best of it. It makes two different sources is against it been engaged at Ahmedabad in hear will be At Home to their friends. Assyrians Amos took a different him a meliorist. Instead of desiring He should have heard It, from a ing casas arising out of the distur. at the Hongkong Hotel from 5 to? line in addressing, the people during atonement for past wrong, he seeks dozen. If you start a story in a bar.ces in that area, has sentenced P.. on Monday the 14th July, to that national crisis. War seems to to make it right. Instead of speculatgroup of four men at Hongkong, the principal accused in the Fraser celebrate the French National Day. have been very similar in results in ing in futures, he would deal, og a you will hear it from. fifty sources murder charge, a Mahomedan youth, those days to what it was lately, and spot cash basis. It is his only if human nature has not changed chatce.post more than that, Amos must have had So they argue, these rationaliste, his contemporary critics, though and argue, and argue, as if that ever posterity has done him justice. He did any good. Perhaps Mr. Clutton advised and pleaded in the manner Brock will fare no better than Amos of President Wilson, and he argued did, or Noah, or John the Baptist.
ion is deluding people into the belief Capt. Gordon Moir, 14th 94th Government seldom gives a receipt that the war is over. Can His Russell's Infantry, who had recently Excellency not put his foot down? been discharged from hospital and It would suit us, and seem to us a had been staying in the Hotel Ma- very appropriate mode of celebrating jestic, Bombay, was found dead in peace, if that mummery were dropp his bed in the hotel on June 14 with enough, but surely once they let us Service envelope.. was found in the into the Colony they don't need to room on which was written "Good- count our toe-nails every time webye mother, Gordon" The coroner's Jury retdrned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind,ela.
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THE CZÁR ÁGAIN.
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STREET GAMBLERS.
Three Chluese were charged with playing Pai Kau in Queen's Street. A police sergeant informed Me. At the annual general meeting Orme that a great ruisance was of Fraser and Neave, Limited, Singa: created in Queen's Street by outside Elsewhere we print another report pore, Mr. Macgregor, presiding, said coolies gambling there. Complaints of the Czar's safety, obligingly clip, the profit was $157,250. A dividend were also received from the shop ped and sent in by a China Mail of 124 per cent, and a bonus of 5 owners of the place to the effect that reader. Other readers will desire to per cent, making 30 for the year, they were causing obstruction outside know our opinion of it, as ought were recommended. The Seremban the shops. they to believe it or not? We will factory had done well.
Fined $4 each or ten days" jail. 'Aerated "sum up as closely as we can. On waters were again a record. There the one band this story is not new were indications that this year would It is not new about the Czar, and it be good. The new issue of shares is not new about many other lus had enabled them to provide new trious dead. Consequently it is quite storage and for the rebuilding of the believable that George Renwick did
Bangkok factory. hear what he says he did, and that
next day, with variations. The to death. Another has been sentenced lack of particulars is due to what to fourteen years' transportation and George Renwick calla. obvious a third to fourteen years rigorous reasons." They are even more obvious imprisonment. Another accused has than George supposed. In the been acquitted. Other cases in con matter of the actual place of the nection with the riots are being Czar's residence," George hints that heard.
VIVE LIBERTE.
The Consul for France and the
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MR. WOLTE VICTIMISED.
TRIUMPHAL ARCHES.
The names of the following not
Mr. P. R. Wolff, assistant manager able Generals and Admirals who of the Kowloon Wharf and Godown fought in the Great War will appear Co., recently took into his employ, in shields on the 28 triumphal arah- at his residence No. 11 Chatham ways to be erected in the streets of Road, Kowloon, a house boy. Later, Hongkong in connection with the r
The names seeing the industrious way in which Peace Celebrations. the youth did his work, Mr. Wolfe were furnished to the Committee by. promoted him to the job of No. 2 the Military, and Naval authorities boy. From that time things started respectively to get themselves lost.
Mr. Wolff framed a charge of
GENERALS.
British Kitchener, Haig, Frecob,
larceny against the culprit this morne Allenby, Marshall, Botha, Plumer, ing and informed the Magistrate that Maude, Currie, Smith-Dorrian, and the defendant had married lately, Smuts and could not have done things in French-Fool, Joffre, such a grand style unless he came Petain, Manouri, and Galbeni. by the money dishonestly. Marked
Italian-Diaz and Gadoma. money was found on him. One
American ---Pershing and Bhas. month's hard labour was the
Japanese-Karino. sentence.
Serbi:Powtaik and Misbitel. Greece: Dangkis. Portuguese-Danagnini. Belgium-Leman and Tombor.
ADSKALBIA
ROYAL 'ITALIAN CIRCUS.
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