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TRUTH, JUSTICE, PORLIC BELVICE,
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1919.
OUR CONSTITUTION.
greater
THE
CHINA MAIL.
But by forbidding further exports they can bring the prices down. That is better.
Then let them hustle in that matter of importing rice. Rush it. Get it here. Maskee exchange. Smash the profiteers,
Urgency. That's the matter. Stop going round in a dream.. Stop all this debating and minuting and moving as if you were full of twilight dope. Wake up. Liven up.
THE STRIKERS.
LOCAL AND GENBRIL
Today's dollar is worth 3s. 6 15-162.
The popular Banyard show opens. here for a season on August 7
Eng. Commander J. L. Sands, R.N. has been appointed to H.M.S. "Tamar" additional for duty at Wel
hai-wei.
Mr. J.. Oram Sheppard, manager of the local branch of the Pacific Mall S/S Co., returned from Shang: hal by the B. I s.. "Dilwara yesterday..
MONDAY JULY 28. 1919.
A LOCAL MILITARY MATTER.
THE FLAIN CLOTHES QUESTION.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
TER “PRIZE PACKETS."
Despite the bad weather, Saturday right saw a full house at the Victoria, When Mr. Charles The military authorities here have clever combination of juvenile artists ideas their very own.
entertained the audience for two On Thursday last the China Mail solid hours with their bright little wrote on the question of the GOC ditties. The girls who looked mere permitting Officers to wear plain children off the "boards."" surprised clothes when off duty, at the same their audience when behind the foot- time making no announcement lights, proving quite at home and regards restoring this boon to the showed not the least sign of stage
other ranks."
fright. As one who had seen these artists two years ago, the writer is satisfied that they have made a decid- ed improvement in every branch of their business.
We are informed that a paragraph in King's Regulations reads: "Officers, Warrant Officers and N. C. O's not below the rank of Colour Sergeant, may be permitted " etc., etc. So it will be seen that the authorities who devised the regula. tion lumped these ranks all together on the plain clothes question.
Programme
Saturday' lengthy with the exception of two films Pathe's British Gazette and a Harold Lloyd comedy entitled a Sammy in Siberia."was entirely supplied It has come to our notice that the by the three girls, assisted by Mr. concession has since been extended Weatherley at the piano. It proved to Warrant Officers, Class 1! Now very popular. every item bew isn't that the very best possible waying enthusiastically encored. La of keeping the troope contented? Petite Zilla the eldest girl was heard Warrant Officers, Class II, and all to advantage in her rendering of N. CO's are again left out of it.. "M-O-T·H-E-R" and the "Eye Ques
The China Mail has been asked to tion." Miss Xaida Stella, who is
tugal, and some of us will be grin-damn the impudence of the China ning as the wrong side of the herbage | Mail before that happens. Always provid- Fixing prices is good. It helpa. ed, of course, that the Reform As It stops. them going higher. sociation does not take such steps as w startle the folk at Home into learning that Hongkong is something more than a little red dot on the map of Asia. By "nagging" Parliament; and Взна using the Home
The only communicable disease Fress, the business. could.
mentioned in today's return is one be expedited.. Publicity will do it.
If they Are afraid of being English case of enteric fever, Just now the Gang at Home is pre-
2: possible deficit, pared to pay more attention to the blamed for
for undue extravagance, voices of the Dominions and the big for
The inclemency of the weather them caused the postponement of the Colonies. Why shouldn't the little haste, we will guarantee Colonies creep in with them, ask immunity. No unofficial member of V.R.C. night fete on Saturday. them to take us by the hand when the Legislative Council dare carp, in they approach the Imperial Panjan-this detail. He might be tarred and drum? We now have quite a popu-feathered. He would certainly be
of good lation
democrats, of shown up for a windy nulsance in workers" (as they would say else- the China Mail. where). Does it care? If it cares, it can do. The local Panjandrums are gambling on the chance that it doesn't care enough. Public meet Ings like that of the Reform Associa- tion alarm them a little, just a little, not much. One feather doesn't make a feather bed. You've got to show them, to convince them. Fel- low citizens of Kowloon and Vic-!! toria, it is up to you." Some-
The tangle at Home is a rotten You came and told: China Mail: Good! The colony one. It now amounts to civil war
It passes our comprehension why great in the role of mere man, and a handsome one she makes too, took the pre-war conditions were not the audience by stort, her con- needs a really indeperdent, honestly Unfortunately, very few people seem democratic paper. Go ahead. Carry able to see the position clearly. Most
The P. and O. 3.s. "Nagoya restored thus preventing complaints.tributions being well received. Her We believe that when the G.O.C.rendering of "The Land where there on." You bought the China Mail in journalistic comments are stupid. steadily increasing number (a prac-Rester's references coining through cleared for the North to-day, with tical way enabling as to carry on) have the journalistic tone and touch. 23 cabin and 97 deck passengers gives the matter individual considera-are ro Girls" and "follow the trem
brought back into force. The ex-artiste but you were still lazy. A few of That sort of thing does not help. We from Hongkong. There were also tion, the old conditions will be lines, were two winners. The same was eat ber best irr perience the General must have gain the duo with La Petite Zilla, you made a point of giving us "tips" do not have to be Labourites. We 53 through passengers on board.
do not have to side with the Govern and hints. A few of you even sent
But we do have to keep Lieut. Colonel L. L. Hepper, R. Jed during his lengthy service and the number being entitied us items. of news and opinion. But meat.
We our heads and see plain facts. G.A., who commanded the 24th particularly during the past five pression of Betty Barclay and a if you care, it is still up to you. can at best be your mouthpiece, and The journalistic tone is taken from Hazara Mountain Battery, here in years, must have taught him that Baritone." The youngest girl of the trio, Miss Queenie Lloyd, was just as sisters, the only if you keep your mouths shut, if you the public. That must be admitted. pre-war days, received his D.S.O. these invidious comparisons are leave it all to our staff and the few
from the King at Buckingham Palacebo. They are cdious and wher good as ber
the regulations admit it, it is unfair difference being that she specialized to withhold a concession from cer-
in comic songs, "Snoozledo," loyal outside helpers, the Panjandrums
en May 22.
"F-A-T-H-E-R," and "That's the will win. We want more and more
Many Hongkong Police are retain ranks that is granted to the rest.
stuff to give 'em," are the most public opinion, more letters, more
turning by the Blue Funnel s.s. direct advice from you. As they had
popular of her many contributions. "Antilochus" due on August 8. There
which The style in
she to hold up the tired arm of
per. are also a number of European re- Moses, so you must support ours,
forms is quite original and causes the audience it the China Mail is to help you to
cruits for the Force coming out on
much merriment. the same ship. the gratification of your desires and
The concerted numbers too were the fruition of your will.
very good. In these all three girls "The British soldier in France
appeared in Ragtime. The step- evolved a peculiar humour. One
dancing in the Finale was really good of his pet jokes, according to a
and the audience sat pat and refused friend of ours who was a Militory
cf
the
Sear
The feels inconvenience, and its outlook is coloured thereby. It is exactly on a ley with the liverish man en a hot day swearing at the punkah coolie?
Got that?
Now the punkah coolie may have his side. Suppose rice has risen and his wage hasn't.
(Think of the parallel case of the miner).
Suppose his job is a rotten one anyway. (The miner's is a worse.) Suppose the punkah coolie wakes up. (We wish he would.) Suppose
Censor, was to put on one page of his letter I send you ten shillings", he strikes.
You'd be angry. You would feel and on the next page, "But not this week." You remind us rather of the inconvenience. You wouldn't be Tommy. You want Reform, "butable to see the position as he sees it.
You wouldn't try. Why? not this week." That it will come, must
Lister.. come..is as certain and as sure to us as
For one thing you would be bam that to-morrow the dawn will colour the eastern sky. But it is not like boozled by a mere word. "Strike" is an active verb. It implies an the dawn that is punctual. It is already overdue, and you can hasten action you resent. But its real its advent if you care enough. Why meaning in a labour strike, is only sneak about whispering? It was a that the striker has ceased to art.
Your Inconvenience is due to his shout that brought down the walls
then, Jericho. Shout
shout impassivity. "reform" till the Panjandrums shiver
The hero slaps of carnage. and scratches and swears; the lice sit
tight. It is not a pretty image, but
it is a just one.
ני.
Alterations and repairs to the building formerly occupied, by the Dragon Motor Car Co. have com menced. Messrs. Alex Ross and Cofreturn to the subject. are removing there later.
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At about 2.30 a.m. this morning. nearly a hundred coolies paraded at the Fraya along West Point. They were standing about aimlessly. Some Chinese residents were afraid, but
the coolies did not meddle with any one.
So far this month 29 newspapers in different parts of Japan have had issues confiscated by the authorities on the ground of having published articles or reports concerning the rice question and the rise in prices, says the Jui
NAVAL AND MILITARY
GOING BY THE "ATREUS."
no
There will be a big crowd of Naval and Military people leaving fer Home by the Blue Funnel &.. Atreus" during August. The crew of the H.M.S." Kent" will be among the naval ratings, while the military include the 1914 and 1915, men that Winston Churchill promised should be sent. Home.
With so many men talting passage on this ship, it might help to make the men's passage a trifle more con- genial if the responsible officers will give the ship a little better inspection than usual.
After all
to
an im-
move until an encore had been granted..
A visit to the "Vic." is really to be recommended these days.
MANCHESTER WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
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Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co., The King received in private, on
Ltd., Manchester, report on June 18: The washing arrangements and The Manchester market reopened on June 14, at Buckingham Palace, Mr. Reginald Edward Stubbs, Governor the canteen charges and articles Monday after the usual Whitsuntide In considering the present crisis at Designate of Hongkong, whom HM. might be giver, special attention to Holidays and as was only to be expected there was an unusually in their shoes and learn to contemp-Home, we don't ask you to be pro- knighted and invested with the the benefit of the men.
We think the Gang has insignia of a Knight Commander of the best care is their due. They large accumulation of letters and late the possibility of being less Labour. stiffnecked. Shout so that the folks made a mess of things but we don't the Order of St. Michael and St. will have a rotten trip anyhow, 1,000 are The telegrams tools the best odd men packed in that ira cargo part of Monday to decide and take boat going that distance. at Home hear and know you are ask you to agree with us. All we George. men that mean business. Shout ask is that in your comments on the situation you should not let yourself or shut up.
RICE.
Why do Crown Colory oficials always so stubbornly, so pigheadedly, resist reform? They must have some motive. What difference does it make to them? Is it Nietzsche's Will to Power? It looks like An ubofficial majority might What is our local Constitution?it. Not one per cent. know. It is not a reduce a Governor to the rank Constitution that one can buy in a of a mere Chairman, might put him
on some occasion into a position: Rice is the staff of life for the ma printed pamphlet, and digest in an hour. It is not one that has slowly where his flat would seem ridiculousjority of our population. They must grown, from precedent to precedent, and his pomp a pretence. How care- have it. based on a people's shaping will, or fully at present is that power con- even on the opinions of men who had served! How cunningly is Cerberus rights. The men who made the place fed with sops. Here come the raven-
For rice they work. For rice they
To get a man to Do Something you must make it Worth His While.
Would you go down a dirty, wil forsake their faith for a foreign dangerous, mine because some tool one. For rice, as we have just seen, journalist said it was your Duty?
while? and fight.
The funeral of the late Mr.
did not make its Constitution. Hading wolves of democracy. Throw they will defy the terrors of the law, Or because it was made worth your day. Many of his friends attended incessantly, the fall for the 24 hours taken five or six weeks ago bo had
they done so, had they been given them a Legislative Council, on which any real influence to do so, it had some, but not too many, representa- been better made. It has been made tive men may be elected. Let them by people who never saw Hongkong, play at making laws, but see to it and by parasites they sent out. It that their laws are so drafted that has been made by people who did the Executive can introduce the real not care, by chess players whose and necessary mischief. Let them business it is to sacrifice pawns for write and sign blank cheques to position, by wilful men dressed in a bearer, so long as the Executive may
Ell in the amount. little brief authority,
Iz is true"
unofficial the It is the 'Constitution of a Crown
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nuisance Colony, which is the same as to say minority will it is the virtue of a harlot. If ever in from time to time. It will pester the snowy waste of arctic Russia they the Panjandrum, (so called because find a living mammoth, we must instead of a head he often has "a adopt tha: beast as the totem of the little button on top.") But what of Crown Colonies. In the Twentieth that? It will be easy to tell them Century, with wireless communica that there either is or is not a pre- tions and aerial transportation, cedent. They.can always be silenced Or, if non of outworn with possumuş. dozens with shibboleths and fetiches scrapped possumus should seem too strong, as by a world war, and the peoples in the case of the Reform Association everywhere agog for a system adapt and its resolutions by public meeting, ed to their up-to-date requirements, the Government (c'est moi can play possum. The Colonial Secretary we look upon the Crown Colony and its constitution as a queer anomaly, can inform the agitators that the
They must have rice.
For the others it is a garnish. It is a background for curry (which we are better without). It comes on as a sweet. It is toyed with and wasted as breid is. This is not right.
If you drop the word "strike," and use the phrase "ceased work," you'll be surprised to find that the naughty connotation has diminished in your mind..
Confess now. You never thought of this before? That's what the China Mail is for, to encourage you to think.
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2.53 inches.
We recall the miserable time the out the details, the nett result being Having been relieved by Engi. be led away by the ignorant neer Commander Sampson, R.N., men had on the Antilochus, with lack an enormous amount of enquiry from journalists, nor by your resentment who arrived by the P. & O. 3.5. of conveniences and extortionate all the Eastern markets. Quite a fair percentage of the telegrams of inconvenience.
"Nagoya," Engineer Commander charges in the Canteen.
were acceptances of offers wired The miners are Doing Nothing. W. W. Reed, RN.. will relinquish
three weeks ago, and although You cannot punish a man who is the appointment of Engineer Coms
prices have not gone ahead during Doing Nothing. He has Done mander II. M. Dockyard and proceed
the past ten days at the same rate THE TYPHOON Nothing to be bated for.
Home.
as the previous few weeks, very few of the confirmat 9 were workable. ugh here and there The harbour has been almost. To get a line t
was all that " possible, while the re as a rule at figures Custome Quarters, Honam, 00 William Barbour who died at the devold of small craft during the
which p ably could have been Wednesday, was held the following week-end due to the strong gusts of new offers
has fallen wind. Rain
almost the funeral. the burial taking place
business has been done for China, which
to market seems
have at the foreign cemetery near Macao ending at 10 a.m. yesterday being no chance at to-day's values fore
The typhoon at 6 a.m., yesterday, was situated to the east of Hainan, given Merchants here more latitude The Forts-Canton Times.
Major Tom Graham, Royal Welsh moving slowly W.N.W. Another as regards price than India. Fusiliers-a veteran of the Boxer typhoon formed to the cast of Luzon. Chinese buyers have evidently re- War--and well-known in the North, It appeared to be moving W.N.W.,cognised that they must have the stuff and have left it to their Man- is returning to Tientsin. He was at 8,to 12 miles an hour.
the 8th given a commission in
No accidents due to the typhoon,are chester friends to get in at the best a
Dilwara" possible limits, whereas the Indian Battalior of his old regiment, and reported. The B. I. 8.3. with it went through the Gallipol on arrival went into Kowloon Bay, dealers do not seem to have the necessary confidence and have suffer- Expedition, never receiving a scratch, being unable to make the wharf.
ed in consequence. The outlook is though constantly in action, and later
distinctly promising as the enquiry he was in the Mesopotamian Ex-
covers almost every kind and edition.
class of cloth, and the general feeling all round is one of greater confidence. India, China, the Straits Settlements, Egypt, the Levant, and the African markets
seem. miscellaneous markets all now to have decided that Manches ter goods are a necessity, and with a steady market there is every pro-
Caution we are pleased to see is being observed, as where at normal prices business was done in fifty or hundred package lines enquiries are now from ten to twenty-five packages of a quality and it is obviously not
Rice is scarce. The scarcity has been artificially brought about. Shiploads of it are allowed to leave
There are too many parrots, and the Colony while our people are the parrot Fress encourages them. clamouring for it. What is left is Come out from amongst them. held for prices beyond their means. Look at your punkah coolie. Ask The Government is acting, has the price of rice. Ask the amount acted. Compared with the custo of his wage. And then think of the mary dilly dallying of the Governminers at Home mant, it has acted promptly. But it should make more haste.
It was the same with houses. Our increased population must have shelter. The Government is mov It was and is ing, has moved.
It should get a move on.
BUNKUM.
Culture occasionally invades even
Seventy deported German sub- jects from the Marshall Islands have arrived at Yokohama by the N.Y.K. chartered steamer Kahei Maru, and are to stay for one or two months
on the Bluff, awaiting a steamer to
prises 36 women and 11 children. The bulk of the party are German missionaries. Of the 23 women, 10
TYPHOON WARNING..
too deliberate. The need is for now. the places where they carouse. Cut at the former German naval hospital and 17° Lat. N. moving West.
It has published proclamations ture, or what passes for it. This was
The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila Observatory at 4.30 p.m. July 27, 1919.
Typhoon in about 113 long E. Cyclone cr typhoon E. of northern
moving W.N.W.
Cyclone or typhoon S. of Guam, direction unknow
the
a startling anachronism, a survival Secretary of State for the Colonies Exing the price of rice since the the proposition the other night, that take them home. The party com- Luzon, less than 300 miles distant, bability of a nice business resulting.
perates.
Dilly-dally
are puns.
JUROR FINED.
riots reported in Saturday's Ching a straight line into space must return ultimately to its starting point. Man' of the unfit, a live dudo sitting on has actually deigned to listen to unfertile eggs. a living mammoth their plea, and that be has instructed Mail
Will it fix rents, and stop pro said it. could be demonstrated by mathematics, Talked about fourth A Crown Colony (mark the sugges the new satrap, somewhen in the
On arrival in England from tion of the name of it) le a relic of sweet by-and-by, when he has had fiteering in house property, after the
ideas, names, not concepts. Travel- monarchic days and ways. France, time to learn the local ropes (which he desperate White Men have followed dimension. All bunkum. Words, not
the coolie example?
ling in a straight direction, true to Eastern waters, the light cruiser
Mr. D. Tollen, one of the jurors desirious to buy too heavily of "Astrea," "Captain F.M.Austen, which Germany, America, Russia, these and will of course learn from Us), to
Impossible? Don't be silly. What compass, on this sphere, another mas others have scrapped monarchy. think about it. We asked one of the Britain has so clipped and tied hers leading men of the Reform Associa the peaceful folk at Hone did at pointed out, the traveller must return in August, 1914, took part in opera-summoned in connection with the any one line with prices where that it is a mere name Canada tion how be regarded the officia Luton-what the fed-up troops did to starting point. But straight directions at Dar-es-Salaam, German East murder case before the Chief Justice they are to-day. This word of cau renounces even monarchic trimmings, response to those public resolutions. at southern camps at Home is not tion not a straight line. First one Africa, resulting in the destruction in the Supreme Court this morning, tion is not given with any immediate Australia despises them. Japan, the In a measure," said he, "as a means impossible even here, given sufficient defined a straight line as the shortest of the gunboat "Moewe" andafloating failed to "answer to his name and anticipation of easier prices, as prices exas distance between two points. Only dock, is to be placed on the disposal save his fine," and when he turned will probably yet go still higher, but Benjamin of the monarchic family, of further delaying the issue." That exasperation.
true of two points on a straight list. The "Astra" was built under the up ten minutes later, he was made it must be remembered that there there will, we hope, not be the same has still time to grow up. China, is not as frenzied a comment as we
On Friday, people were emiling at line. Not true of two points on a Naval Defence Act, being launched to pay for his absence at the rate of will be an ease sometime, although panic such as was experienced at the the eldest of them all, is for ever look for from a true lover of our
to imagine at Devonport on March 17, 1892, a dollar a minute.
signing of the Armistice and caused done with it. Britain, even now in lady Democracy. Her father (if we the China Mail hint that we might sphere. Impossible the throes of a fresh movement, may twist the metaphor somewhat) have rice riots. On Saturday they were straight line between two points Older residents and Naval men will
Captain E.S. Lucy, Lieut. R.M.S. in the main be the markets having without imagining a straight con- remember the "Astra" onthis station. however groping and tentative, in the has kicked the wooer out of the reading of the event. Absit amen.
Let every hotel catering for Euro tinuance beyond the second point,
Thomas, J. J. A. Halpin, L. B. Tyler, previously persuaded themselves that direction of asserting democratic house, and he considers that "in a
Shanghai being declared a cho- all RG.A. Hongkong Captain Evans, a return of pre-war conditions would measure" the kicking tends to delay peans at once cease serving rice. into space. Further it continues, control allows the Gang to send out to manage this outhouse, this depen the issue. It does that in vulgar, That will help. Let the Government further from first point it must go. lera 'infected part by the Japanese Black Watch from. Vladivostock, came as soon as the war was over,
Nella retrorsum. Impossible to con- Government, no vessel is permitted Sergt. Majors Keenan and Good dent branch establishment, med who Bolshevistic talk, it shelves the ask this at once.
Let the Government probibit ceive space is a thing shut in, as in to enter any Japanese port within man, Manchesters and a few other have been wrapped in cotton wool, business completely until further
pressure of a pronounced and further exports. That will fetch a hollow sphere. More space outside five days after its departure from military detaile, are leaving for Home BLAZON TYPE NOT NECESSARY. (some of which has got into and
sphere. Space merely another name Shanghai. The "Empress of Russia," stuck in their ears), men whose determined character is applied by prices down."
a glosing hend- There are two practicable sugges for nothing. End of space. must which arrived on July 14 from Hong-by the B. L. as. "Dilwara." training has been in dead languages the public. In short, we may safely
liner to attmet the public eye. The WHEN ZOU BAT TOO MUCH. and dead ways, ten-cent Bourbors reckon, on this, that the bureaucratic tions. Will the authorities accept imply beginning of something. And kong pis Shanghai was submitted to so on. All bunkum. Better carry this restriction, being released at 9,
wimple statement that all chemlats well They will not.
ISTRESS in the stomach after eating it is dont 8 every family knows its a heated, and they never define their ted to take in bunker coal whilst in refered by theng one of Cham Vilse. It has been avd for forty years properly" approached, with humble petition," they will promise terms or agree on a premies detentier, and proceeded to Kobe Beriain's Tablets. Try it the next time and is jo't what its name implies.
by All Chemists and Storekeepers. to give them "every consideration Queer chaps, men. Very. Think without entering the harbour before you eat more than you should For sale For sale By All Chemists and Store-
the period of five days elapsed. Then they will dilly-dally. And they think. Pooh!
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who can neither learn nor forget, limpets will not budge until they are them? KAN VE they are on carousals. They argue, and get p.m. on the 17th. She was permit
pichbec Neros who fiddle, and fiddle badly, even while Rome is burning. They are like unto cooties on
pried off, and they probably will not
be pried off until the revolution has
taken place at Home...In plain terms,
the bodies of soldiers, contributing Hongkong will follow the example their petty bit of bloodshed to the of Macao when Britain coples Por
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