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evening.
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that it is possible and that they have a right to it and a need for it. If all the profits of all the mines were divided amongst the miners, the put- put would not be increased, much as the political economists wish it. These men are out for an easier life.. It is not for people whose "work" is clean and safe to blame them. It e for everybody talking or writing about this subject to realize that no amount of igures, or arguments, or meralizing, will alter that fact that the workers are going to take things easier. All must do their figuring with that factor realized, or they
waste their time.
Uxes for
the
many.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOGAL AND GENERALA.
1,680 tons of coal from Keelung yes- Thess. "Daitoku Maru" brought terday.
Ash coolies in Kremer street
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919.
FOR BRITISH AND FRENCH
BLIND SOLDIERS... THE PREVOH EXHIBITION OF ANTISTS OF THE WAR.
MATRICULATION EXAM DELAYED
may even conscript him. The stop,male rat is the adventurous one. page of the royalty squeeze, and of "Not having family cares to attend Proteering, will pay for all Bat to he travels about more than the listen to Geddes, who is absolutely females: do, and is thus more able to Innocent, raind you, of political concapture. The excess of females causes siderations. "This is no time for polygamy, which mens more prolific
CRIBBING SUSPECTED. any section of the community to females, and an excess of females think its interests are separate from the litters, and thus the evil and the interests of the whole." (Loud Lits cause is continued. By releasing
Next Thursday 24th inst. in the Examination papers went up to the When the Senior Matriculation cheers.) Of course there were loud all captured male rats, and killing quarrelled. One is in hospital City Hall (St. Andrew's Hall at cheers, for he was talking at the all females, polyandry will be substi-stabbed. The other is in custody. 5 p.m. will be inaugurated the French examiners for correction, candidates iover-worked mirers and not at the tuted for polygamy, and polyandrous.
Exhibition of the Artists of the War of certain schools were found to have Dukes. He was talking at those animals are less prolific and produce three rerolvers, and 103 cartridges. Administering the Government, HE,
A Japanese had three pistols, with the presence of H.E. the Officer surpassed themselves, especially in Mathematics.Foulplay was suspected, hose only sure estate is joy of more males than females. When Rather than see the old system the females and step them from jail. living, and not at vested interests. this is done the males will persecute He was find $1,000, or nine months the General in Command of the and then there was a hubbub. The Troops in South China, and the matriculation examinations are held maintained, rather than see the breeding. They will also kill the
French Consul, who have given their yearly at the Hongkong University Hew "enjoying luxury
The s. "Hokushin Maru" ar-official patronage to this demonstra-under a vigilant staff of supervisors, the young that are born. When all the
and cheating should be out of the expense of over-work and drab females are gone, the race must die rived yesterday with 1.300 tons of tion of Art and Charity.
How The exhibition will remain open 5 question.
then did the people would see the trade of the proved this in the case of the Austra cargo for here.
many out. Mr. Rodier claims to have coal and 1.628 packages of general
days.only: Thursday 24th from 5 to candidates produce such a lot of country go west," the State in lian rabbit. His method is to cut off:
8 p.m. and thereafter until the 28th immaculate copies in reply to ques bankruptcy, and a new startmade. the tails of male rats caught, and
Through the blowing out of the included from 10 to 12 ara. and tions considered a bit stift? The
professors got suspicious These we call Bolsheviks. It is to be then release them. He is quite the breechblock of a 12-inch gun on the from 4 to 8 p.m.. feared they are numerous They will literary man, and closes his argu-Japanese battleship "Kashima," dur-The admission fee will be one instituted a strict inquiry, but inct become dangerous. if by Labour
ing manoeuvre I zet practice in the dollar, on the opening day as well as apparently without result. The and the bourgeoisie the Gang can be
Bar of Saégi, o une 18, four of the on the following days..
students in question must have had a jouted and vested interests made to
gun crew were, riously burt.
This Exhibition, which has visited knowledge of the papers before they play the game
almost all the world and has obtainedsat for the exam, was the generally Conductor A.W.E. Davidson, everywhere very great success, expressed opinion. But then where did they get the information from? the rat (under present Supply and Transport Corps, Indian includes 500 pictures, oil paintings! The exams, we understand, should methods of destruction) Army, was awarded the Meritorious drawings, sketches, water colours and Roes on for ever,
Service medal in the Birthday Gazet- cartoons; originals and reproductions,have been concluded by Saturday, With apologies to Tennyson.te, for valuable services rendered in by the greatest French Artists, who but in view of the Peace Celebrations while serving at the Front have tried were held over till yesterday. The The apologies were not uncalled corection with the war.
to depict to the world their Impres candidates will now sit till Wednes Last week's communkable dissions of the great war. Here we have day for a re-examination. This will case was five cases of plague, three all the history of the great tragedy also include the girl candidates who of cholera, one of diphtheria, two of written and described through those have not come under any suspicion. Hard lines on them. The junior erteric, one of paratyphoid, and three drawings. of CS. fever. One more case, of
candidates' exams will go on as usual. cerebrospinal fever has been notified
LATER. since.
We observe in another telegrant that W. C. Bridgeman told the House of Commons that the average pit- head price of coal in England is 29s. 4d and in the United States 11s 23. This may be true. If it is, we would like to know the reason for it, because it isn't that the English iminer gets better pay. So far as conditions. hours. safery, comfort, etc., go, the American miner is much i better off.
ment with this little poem:
för.
For boards of health and councils
rany come, And boards of health and councils.
may Ru..
But
BRUSSELS.
So far as nationalization goes, we
One by one the war time lies are do not quarrel with the old argument exposed, but who remembers them that free competition is better for now? Who remembers the stories the consumer. It is true. But it is of Brussels undermined and damaged also true that there isn't competition and sad? A brother of a member now. They are all in a gang of the Chick Mail staff who was in together, a gigantic, undocumented the Ade of August 8 was combination against worker and con- but Flanders after the
And that's how you are
armistice. He got eventually to Brussels and found it much more gay than places like Rouen, Havre, Amines, etc. He hints pretty plainly that it is too gay, and adds certainly shows no outward signs f its recent occupation by the Huns."
sumer. diddled.
ONE MAN RULE..
-Sir Reginald Stubbs, unless he has altered, is not the sort of man to give way on a point like that now i raised, about the Executive Council usurping the legislative function. Local newspaper articles will not help, !
A PROTEST.
We protest at the habit these
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A Chinese, a chair coolie of No. 131 The Peak, was leaning over the verandah to light a lantern when he fell to the ground and received a double fracture. He was removed to the G.C.H., and is considered out of danger.
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names are
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and
It has been found that a syndicate
All the artists of the most well-known to any art, lover and they will surely attract a big crowd We remem ber among them: Steinlen, Jonas, was formed by students of certain Forain, Pontbot, Renouard, Panphin, local schools to buy the papers on, Broquet, Bome, Bellecourt, Hansi, the examination from the printers Gsell, and many more. "That Steinten, Noronha and Co., who have been the there, he is terrible. His work is printers for the Institution since its strong.
Inauguration. The printing contract guarantees integrity..
And beside them the whole collec. tion of the works by the great Dutch- A collision took place between man. Raemaekers, whose cartoons the O.SK. s.s. "Tencho Maru" 2,922 made Maximilien Harden, the great tons, from Dairer to Moji and the ss. German polemist, say that his draw
Kirishima Maru, 945 tons, in theings had done more harm to the Inland Sea on June 24in a dense fog.
Central Powers than ten defeats. Each steamer sustained but slight damage.
There is no doubt that the syndi cate purchased the proofs of the papers for the examination. Mr. Macintosh the Registrar of the University said that the examination papers have been in the possession of some of the candidates before the sitting,
Speeches in Council will not soften raughty Pulice Reserve officers are carrying Admiral Tudor, who arrived hibition; to go there is at the same were given to a master of Queen
Pharaoh's heart. Mr. Alabast ust getting, of running away to Japan do something drastic.. A lar when we scold them. Now they tell letter addressed to every mu of us that Mr. Franks went off just the House of Commons migue start before our article appeared. We something. The position is quite will save a copy for him for when simple, the principle at stake plain. he gets back, The local practice is to pass an clastic ordinance the full effect of which is Rever realized until the Executive Council (which with a "strong" governor means His Ex) starts to stretch it. The regula ions ar bye-laws made "by virtue
LOCAL AND GENERAL
m
To-day's dollar is worth 3s; 6
of an ordinance" can sometimes surprise the parents of that ordin-15.168. ance, and under the system which
we now want to alter, they are Fifty-one per cent. of the two arbitrary and secretly decided. We million American soldiers tent to have no warning and no voice, ex-France were conveyed in British ships, cept the complaining voice that their passage costing £14,000,000. comes too late. Objects and rea- sons" can be wonderfully vague explanations that don't explain. St. Mary's School, Kowloon, have Some of the girls attending the There's one in the last Govern- subscribed for six mosquito nets to be ment Gazette which gives sent to Siberia for the use of British the Governor power to prevent troops. people" residing
in
а
certain area. We wondered why,
H.M.S. "Cadmus left Tientsin for Weihalwet on the night of July 2.
in the evening from Peking, and goes for the summer to the northern head- quarters at Weihaiwei, where other ships have already arrived.
We may remember that only that collection when exhibited in London attracted in one week more than
This was not discovered by the 300 000 visitors.
answers, as at first supposed, as they We hope that the Hongkong people were not so very brilliant. will visit in great number this Ex- It appears that certain questions time a tribute to the men who College to work out the answers." have fought 25 soldiers and The next day he found to his surprise as artists: #t Means to that the same questions were set pay a tribute to the most. unfor. f in the University papers. The T.K.K. s.s."Siberia Maru" tunale victims of the war: the left San Francisca on June 19, and blind! of whom France has 55,000. arrived here this morning.
On a day so near to the Peace She brought nearly 1,000 tons of provi.celebrations we must not neglect to signs, oil, beer, matches, tin, gold help all we can those who gave more than their life to make us free from coin, etc. for Hongkong. Her pas sengers were 47 cabin and 193 deck.
German danger.
Sergt.Major W. J. Heath, RG.A.. Staff Sergt. H. J. Loder, R.A.M.C., Staff Sergt. A. Lyth, RAS.C., and
M. Sergt. Ovenden, R.E., of the local garrison were awarded Meri- torious Service medals in the Birth day Honours Gazette for services in the Colony during the war.
the matter of men and money, is The war record of Ceylon, both
ja proud one. As near as can be ascertained Ceylon men who went on
All the works on exhibition are for sale, for their benefit, with prices fixed by the artists theraselves."
CHINESE TELEGRAMS
{Translated from the "Wah Tsz Yat Po.l
He then communicated with the University, and it was discovered that a syndicate of candidates had put $500 to buy the printer's up proof. There is no meeting of the University senate until tomorrow when they will approve or disapprove the registrar's action in the matter.
Pending the meeting be has re-set the examination papers and it wil be typed in the University half an hour before the exam.
TREASON TRIAL IN EGYPT.
An important trial began recently at Minich (Upper Egypt) of members of what was a kind of local Savier, attempted to assume charge of the self-constituted council which administration. The accused, six in
a
The Kwongwui Photographers and turned to "objects and reasons." Association at 60 Queen's he central contrtake of waggons, There we learned that the object Central and Mee Cheung Road system would have remedied that. power to prevent people residing in Celebrations. one central control of our railway and reason was to give the Governor have many photographs of the Peace approximately 1,575; wounded, ap- Precaution Bureau, appointing Tuan- number, are charged with high It was proposed, and the vested in-
ja certain area, which is even less in- terests, the parliamentary Gang informative than the famous definition
320.
PEKING; July 21. The President has issued a man service, excluding Sanitary Corps and date abolishing the War Participation others recruited for service in Mesopotamia and East Africa, were Bureau and creating the Frontier proximately 355; killed, died of Kisui as Chief.
treason and 19 other offences against wounds or on service, approximately question of forming a New Cabinet are defended by British counsel.
Owing to strong opposition the martial law. Four of the accused
Y TROTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE." | cluded, rallied to oppose it as they of an archdeacon, that he is one who pany's traffic receipts for the week The Hongkong Tramway Com
is held up. The present Premier The evidence shows that one are now fighting against nationaliza performs archidiaconal funtions. Inwere $20,205, or $4,301 more than Nursing Home, Shanghai, on July 8 The death occurred, at the
Kung Sam Chum will act indefinitely. prisoner, Hetatah, preached in a
SHANGHAI, July 21. the days of Hercules Robinson the With regard to the figures, the Executive Council was set up as for 29 weeks were $424,839, or engineer of the Indo China s..the post of Chief delegate to the pronounced, the death penalty, but mosque that there could never be last year. The aggregate receipts of Mr. G. B. Crament, late chief estimates, the ifs and ans
Wong Yap Tang will not accept
any independence without bloodshed. of above criticism, and the functions of
In seven cases military courts have. the coal trade, with which the the Legislative Council
$30,666 more than last year. confined
Esang." A native of Sunderland,iaternal peace conference. The Peking this was confirmed in four cases Gang-so glibly plays, we are not
"strictly to legislation." When was
he was 51 years of age and joined government now intends to appoint only, those of three murderers and going to bother considering them.
the new change made? Let the legis
From August 1914 till the end the Company in February, 1892, Kung Sum Chum as Chief delegate That sort of kindergarten logic has
of 1918, the Japanese shipping receipts being promoted chief engineer in and Kan Wan Pang the Minister of military train. lost its power to hypnotize the public, as the Gang will find out.
from abroad were Y.1,084,057,000 in August 7899. He served in Mesopo-War as acting Premier. all, which consisted of Y.243,629,000 tamia in the s.s. "Kwongsang," but Y.644,400,000 in had to be invalided back to China cirarterage, freightage, and Y.196,028,000 from from Rangoon.
HONGKONG, TuRsDaY, JELY 22 1019.
1HE COAL BLUFF.
So the House of Commons was crowded for the coal debate. If was sure to be. The vested interests are alarmed at the signs of the times. They will soon be asking the traitor Carson for the loan of his Ulster Volunteer, and Navy at Scapa Flow. Volunteers, and going down gallantly
Sir Auckland Geddes rejected the
who does or can believe it.
rion of mines.
We are rather surprised that Geddes had the cheek to include the actor of American competition in of fuel, for that draws attention to a matter about which we have a short
been
a native who attempted to wreck
sentences.
A great Cairo bully known as "Black Ali" has been sentenced to
HOUSING FOR MEN AND
BEAST
lators legislate and the executives execute that is all we are now asking, and we are told it would be
In many instances the condemned The Cabinet telegraphed to Shum were notorious evil-doers. One of an entirely new principle." No one
Chun Hsun on the 18th inst that those executed was a brigand chief. dare submit, surely, that regulations
according to a relegram. received Four of his followers received life and byelaws under an ordinance are ship's sales..
from Luk Ching Chang, America not an integral part of legislation, of
Several influential Chinese pro-assisted by Great Britain and France It is reported that the N. Y. K. pose to establish a cotton factory at is doing her best to arrange a com- article on page 5 1See "Whose oil? "tended, the issue is easy, and the coded with a star, and sanktons. Each prowich a capital of $1,000,000. promise regarding the Shantung 7 years for extorting money from
law making? If that be plainly con Lord Cowdray or his firm should verdict in no doubt. Our Legislators with a steamer and sank out- promoter has agreed to invest question. The Peking government shopkeepers by threats of death. suggestion" that the announced Certainly be paid something for their have given us a law requiring decency side New York Harbour on June 26. $25,000 and a sum of $600,000 proposes to sign the Austrian peace
already services in the oil prospecting job at in public. The Governor in Council, She had left. New York for Japan, has
Another Cairene received a similar increase of six shillings a ton was Home; for which the Gang put up
collected treaty бrst and then submit its case sentence for demanding money for on the present alleged status, could via Colon, on June 25, fully laden Mills on the forty mow of land to the League of Nations for decision, the Black Hand." "based on political considerations." Presumably this means that he said the money: but why propose a fatmake a regulation by virtue there with iron materials and general cargo. at Pootung which has been bought Shangtung residents in Shanghai it wasn't. It is possible that he royalty in perpetuity for people who of that brown. boats are indecent.
by them are now under have done nothing? The reason is If these lawyer chaps are going
con.telegraphed Peking stating that 29 Mr. Lloyd George refused many struction. The company will be the Shangtung question is to be believes it wasn't, so we mustn't
Let us refer that the ruling class regards the to cite the Hongkong Charter, offers of presentation pen. The one called the Hang Tai Cotton fought out before the League of refer to Anan as-, instead to Robinson Crusoe. If Sir Country purely as its own milk cow,
we are lost, for that makes the be used for signing the Treaty of Manufacturing Company."
Nations, China must send a competent Auckland Geddes believes there and is loyal always to its breed, even
legislative council an interloper on Peace was a gift from Mr. R. Morris,
delegate for which Wong Ching wasn't a political trick behind that when of different Parties. The point sufferance. In a Crown Colony it is MP for North Battersea, and a per
The Carranza Government will Ting is the right man because the announcement, he's as lonesome as about gold or silver being reserved by
doubtful if we have any rights worth sonal friend of the Prime Minister. subsidize a Japanese steamship I ne, whole world admired him for the Near Melton Mowbray there is a the State is worth remembering. In mentioning, legally, but in practice Mr. Morris was at considerable pains providing trans-Pacific and coastwise strong fight he made at the peace landed estate on which the housing Crusce. He's about the only man England coal is, and oil probably they will and it difficult to resist the to match the pen which the Premier travel daily, a daily newspaper in conference. Besides he has gained problem is pretty tough. Servants At best he is not well informed. It will be more precious than all progressive movement. We belong has ordinarily used-one broad, firm, Mexico City announces. The com the confidence of President Wilson. are lodged in stables of a prehistoric you read the telegraphic condensation its gold. Oil royalties should not be to a free country and if we make yet moderately resilient. He sucpany will place four ships on each
type, converted (but still heathen) of his speech, you'll see that be tried started. Coal royalties should stop, noise enough, we will get such things ceeded, and the pen, with capacious ran within a period of eight months,
into a four-roomed cottage, The without compensation, because the put right in time. The Government's ink reservoir in pure gold, was sent and the ships will fly the Mexican to score politically against one set of
pantry is a coal-cellar without light werkers. He attributes the decreased owners have had far more than their legal rights are incontestabic. The to Versailles. It was engraved with flag, enroll and train officers and
or air. The lavatory arrangeme.its due long ago.
public's moral rights are unques- an inscription in Welsh. Mr. Lloyd seamen for a Mexican merchant output at some mines to a shortage
are disgusting. The bricks of the Half of the Gang, "representing tionable. A policeman at Home can George informed Mr. Morris with marine, carry all mails of the of waggons," due to slower unload-
flooring Yest in the mud, and mud ing owing to shorter railway hours." all parties," says Reuter, as if in such make himself a nuisance by virtue of that pen he would affix his signature Mexican Government free and will
pozes into the front room every time You see? No political consideration a matter there was ever more than some Act of Carolus Rex, but by to the Treaty.
make a discount of 75 per cent.
crumbling fireplace cone the rats. the bricks are cleaned. Through the virtue of. Twentieth Century public
all Mexican immigrants.
of deaths due to the eruption of Wails rotten and distempered over railway workers. Ile could have have memorialized Lloyd George
Kloet in Java was greatly exaggerat the paper. But there are beauti tibelled two birds with one speech if against the nationalization of the
the British India S. N. Company with board the as. Rotorua while lying be about ten per cent. of the first nicely-constructed fow-houses. Only he had added, which is quite true, mines. Before 1930, it is a fairly
fully concreted stables empty--and regard to shipments from the Far at Kiukiang discharging salt, the that the miners have been working safe prophecy, mines, railways, and
East to the East coast of Africa. The crew of the ship and the salt coolies The Rev. Dowding, late of Kowloon, nationalized. If
RATS!
figures," less hard than they were, and taking land will be
the humans are badly housed. nationalization necessarily meant
ahipment from Japan ports to Bombay coming to blows more leisure,
will be undertaken by the Osaka thrown overboard and drowned dur Hongkong and the China Mail be A sailor was has turned up in Java, Asked about What the Gang, the Ruling Class, administration by the Gang Las the
There is a gentleman called Rodier Shosen Kaisha, while the shipmenting the melee and the vessel hoisted didn't seem to remember much about have not discovered is that in messed-up Shipping Control was) we
in Melbourne, who is willing to bet from Bombay to the East coast of the signal "Am attacked, want armed
Antorio Moreno with But it doesn't. demanding higher pay the workers would be against it.
£500 that his method of exterminating Africa will be attended to by the assistance." H.MS.
it. His Woodcock,"
urgent" departure for favourite Edub Sogy are appearing were not actuated by greed for They will (in 1930 or before) take
rate is the best possible. He has sent British India 'S. N. Company. The which was lying at the port, sent an
Home due to domestic affairs (there on the screen at Hægkong "Theatre interests cannot the experts, the men who savvy the money. Vested.
us some literature which we have freight rates agreed upon between armed boat's crew to the vessel and understand that, because profit istheir job, and pay them wages. If a Duke, read carefully because the rat the two companies regarding the order was restored, but owing to the
was no row of any sort, they said) on Wednesday (tenonow) night in seems to have lost its urgency. one dominating idea. Few realize an owner of mines, is such as aart
auisance is serious here. Mr. Rodier shipment from Bombay to how hard the manual labourers fellow as some of the Gang's papers contends that
Mr. P.S. Chan, formerly of "the East ugly mood of the salt coolies, it was worked during the war. Now they have been saying he is, they will increased the pest-by indiscriminate and Zanzibar, and 62.5. rupees to guard on board until her cargo was joining, the, staff of the Chinese acquired for their show. Bew comics
man himself has Africa are 45 rupees to Mombassa found necessary to keep an armed Wantsai Government School, is are keen on leisure, and have learned employ him to carry on." They killing. He reasons this way. The Mozambique.
discharged.
English school at Semarang.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has
JAVA,
[China Mail Correspondence] It now turn out that the estimate
there only a slap at the "lazy" one Party, the vested interest party opinion he can get the sack it he entered into a special agreement with On July 5, a fracas occurred on ed. The correct number is said to
does. That's the position.
a powerful story of five parts. This
is an exclusive V ta "aph film, which the management of th Theatre has
will be screened at intervals.)