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more affable, though (to an ambitious young business: man) not any more instructive. The only way in which 3160. Sir John Brunner's boast could have
CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
To-day's dollar is worth 4-
been explained would have been The sa. "Kaifong " (Capt. Pau- for him to watch the passengersmer) cleared for Haiphong at 7 a.m. getting in, to choose a compart with 180 tons of general cargo.. ment containing two men important
in the line of business in which he The as. "Kwaisang" (Capt. was interested. Then by pretending Gran:) cleared for Kobe at 7a to read his paper he might eavesdrop with 1,000 tons of general cargo. and pick up a wrinkle or two. But as that would have been dishonour-
able, he would not be likely to boast
of it afterwards..
of
A
vain
self-consciousness.
6
The ss. Shiano Mar" (Capt. Taniyana) cleared for telung at a.m. with general cargo.
is at the bottom of most Thess. "Mogami Maru" (Capt.
this line of
talk. They Yoto) cleared for Takto at 6 par imagine that everybody is observing them, whereas they don't exist until yesterday with 300 tons of general they shove themselves forward. In Hongkong, where we have enough snobs to make the thing worth
cargo.
The s.3. "Diva (Capt. Tobia-
I bag of mails.
-
will ask him where he is stepping The ss. "Kwongse" (Captain and that seems to make a difference McDonald) which arrived from Can- to say he was residing in a flat at tons of general cargo, in their regard sometimes. If he were ton at 6.30 this morning brought 150 Wanchai, over a samshu shop, it might interfere with his success in business; though we think a smart.
The s.9.
STEALING A BICYLCE.
A TANGLED WIB.
THURSDAY
AN IMPROVED STORY.
AUGUST 28. 1919.
A TYPHOON, WORKER.
H
He is a little story about thick
DEMANDING MONEY BY MENICES typhicon which owing to the modesty!
of the person concerned was sucELES Mr. Leo d'Almada, Júnior, left his
fully kept out of the "papers. This bicycle in the front garden of his An interesting case was betad atstory gains point when it is owTY house and went inside for tiffin. A the Magistrer, yesterday afternoon. that the hero of it would not swinu. Chinese saw the cycle and took when a district watch, attrabed It appears that when the typhoon it to the China Light and Indian watchman, being suspicious with laniously sending of uttering being dashed to pieves gainst the Power Company's, offices. An to a local Polics Pree was charged on Thursday night, the 21st Just, and junky and spans 'wera. asked him to whom the cycle belong-drecdy or indirectly, and knowing Hangkong Canton Stumers' wharf, ed. The man replied: "It Is your manager's". A: 5 pm, the same after its contents, à letter on August 1. W. H. Edley, a whorfager em noon another boy, a messenger in the demanding of Woo
payed by the Hongkong. Canton Fun, with
and Muono Steamboat Co., together works took the bicycle away. On the menaces and without reasonable with Detective Sergeants Fallon and way he met Mr. Almada and a case, a sum of $00.
Stimsor, who were already mention- policeman searching for the cycle.
The boy was questioned and he said
Mr.
Mr. Leo, d'Almada prosecuted and ed in our typhoon feports, saved a chair coolie asked him to take the Mr. M. K. Lo defended,
many lives by jumping from Oca cycle. The Police were up against
waterlugged junk to cocher, passing Another man, who was also im-life lines. The crews of those craft mystery, but this did not bamper plicated, was lowed out dis bail of which were near the what were studying, we have never observed isen) arrived from Bangkok yesterday their investigations. Oh, No, they 3900 and has diarypeared from the picked up bedils and thrown on to any curiosity as to the style in which with 1,200 tons of general cargo and arrested the boy, who pointed out
another man. This man said that a Colony, A warmat sued for his the wharf and thus raved from a griffin may choose to arrive. They
fourth man told him to take the rest cannot be executed.
| drowning. These three men kept up cycle and sell it and divide the Mr. d'Afradu, opening the case, their good work fèm. 9.15 p.m., to proceeds. He pointed out the fourth rated thus defendant was charged about 20.15 when Sergeants. Fallon man. The Police were flabergasted under pection 32 of the Lazeny and Stenson were called away to sea and took the four before Mr Ordinance and was able to im. to some urgent work in actio R. E Lindsell. The messenger prisonment for life. Complainant with the typhoon csewhere.
told his tale..
the Woo Chan, and defen."Edley carried on, and between 10.30 He belonged *Taikoo Wan Y" boy (Captain Ainsile) arrived from Blyth was acting under orders to take a dant to the Li Clan. See time ago and midnight, he saved some 40 man would still win through by via Java at noon yesterday with dog to his manager's house and the there was a fight between the two lives. Mr. Edly tied u rope round | 3,970 tons of sugar for Hongkong. cycle to the manager's chair coolie's clans, as a result of which the parties his waist, fixing the free end to the house. The man who originally took sought redress in Court, and the wharf so that he could be dragged the cycle, blamed the man who in-Chief Ork of the Court directed one shore in case of energency. He The ss. "Liangchow" (Captainvited him to take it. The man who party to pay ton cents as compensa was up to his shatters in water Hooker) which arrived from Bangkok invited him to take it blamed the ten to the other party. Whether or during the best part of the time be at 1230 p.m. yesterday brought 1,495 coolie. Mr. Lindsell discharged then the chief clerk had authority to worked We bear that it has been tuns of general cargo and 12 bags of messenger boy. He was an innocent the the matter he mat sekal to wwand Me. Elley the mails.
axent. After further consideration A few days" Inter intamplainant res Bylilies Life Sasing Medib Mr. first defendant was given six weeks velvet the foloway letter:--
Edley himself is indinal to protest and the other two discharged..
Tuguinst what fire villach * arbet of fung From the members of the long whout nothing." Interviewed by a Life-Society.
thing Mail reporte gesterday. Mr. On receipt of this etter please Edley, when taxed on the quest'en bring to us S00. If your do not do sof having to wear a hat and go with three days there will certainly
| letting the samshu alone.
"A LOCAL STORY..
The marriage took place on July 17 at St. James', Spanish Place, of Major Dashwood to Edmee de la Pasture Sir Hugh Clifford gave the i bride away.
A very rich Hongkong Chinese had a son who hath so far shown more Ltd skin prding money than in amassing it. His father tried to check his prodigality by cutting off supplies. This awakened the busi ness intelligence of the youth. He went to a decent pirate of obliging disposition, and made a suggestion which that worthy applauded. The
The s.s. "Namkarn” (Capt. Thirl- youth would embark for a short voyage. The birate would capture well which arrived from Pakhoi at him and hold him for ransom of 5 a.m. to-day brought 400 tons of $20,000. The father would pay.cement 380 pigs and 100 tons of That would be $10,000 apiece. general cargo. She also brought 3 It worked. Sa far there isi bags of mails, nothing in the story which litts the young man's intellect above the
MILLINERY
Felt, Velvet
AND
Straw Hats.
INSPECTION INVITED,
BIRTH.
HOLLANDS.-Ab No.
moonlight but that B (car hirer) may not, strikes us as particularly Bolshe- Queen'vistic, Gilbertianly Bolshevistic. But we are now collecting public opinion about that, and will speak of it later, under the headline of "Curfew in Hongkong."
Garden, ca the 27th Inst.,, to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hollands,
a sen.
The China Mail.
EUZE, JUSTICE, POBLIC SERVICE.
ESOTERIC BOLSHEVISM..
This, roughly, is what Bolshevism tries to do, namely, to make everybody look, think, and behave alike. It will
and so on.
ALLEGED MURDERERS
ARRESTED
ROW OVER A GATE
لوا
something pleasant to show the up to recive e methi, said ther pros and cons. Don't complain that patiently in't want a medal. I did not tell you beforehand. This Hang it all what is the use of money is merely compensation for making such a fuse about nothing. Whne I did would have been done" the expenses incurred for medicine by any can under the circum- Inspector Grant of the local Police It is not too great a demani on you. arrested three men in Hollywood the swiaty cortary wit be hostire The first oranges to arrive in road last week who were wanted by to you. This is especially written for instrumental in the saving of Union average astuteness. The sequel does. England from South Africa since the the Canton authorities for com-wir information, so that you пS Waterbeut No. 4 fran sinking after that. Having squandered his share Government embargo on fruit space i mitting a murder in Siu Ting Village,make no mistake and then it will be it had been deserted by the whole
A
Ti
stunas
Fesides We saving, Mr. Edley waer
all right. Our brethren are loding of the ransom, and his father being in 1916 went on the Kenilworth San Wui district, Canton. A row, it
Castle.
crew except the coxswain. Seeing There was little freight appears, arose between the villagers discussion the less generous than ever, the young
the ut in difheity, Mr. Edivy letter, continued Mr. man was once more up against it.available, but half a million oranges over the construction of a new gate He met the pirate, who greeted him and grape fruit, as well as a few and one man was killed.
The three men are at present in of the doarge, and if the agistrate the host and thus enaMed it to be "Ahmad, was the wject matter miped should and tied a rope to as a friend. The young gentleman Pineapples and tangarines, were Victoria Jail awaiting instructions was sutidied that there was a the drugged alongside the wharf by soma
demanded $5,000, otherwise he carried.
from the Canton Authorities.
WHOSE SINGLETS?
without proper me the defendant coolies and saved. For this valuable must be found guty, subject to the service rendered by him, the Union Waterbout Co., presented Mr. Edley fact that, directly or indirectly, with a handsome cheque which be identified himself with the ending jokingly referred to as **a timely
of the letter.
lonation of rice money."
NOT WANTED SO SOON.
When three German stownways,
would denounce him to the Hong- kong Police as the pirate who had
The Vice-Chancellor of Cam- held him to ransom. He got the bridge, in a newly published diary of money, The pirate, as soon as he an American tour in 1918, tells of a was safely out of the jurisdiction, negro soldier in a Southern camp wrote to the old man revealing the who had no pass out, and who was
A man has been arrested by the An interpreter attached to the complete history of the affair. Did threatened with death by the sentry Police for being in unlawful posses- Secretariat for Chinese Affairs stated this mean Nemesis for the youngf be persisted. See hyah, boss,"sion of eight dozen singlets. The that the books (produced) found in schemer? Not at all. It is said that he said. "Et ain't no yuse fer yer Police are now waiting for the owner defendant a preusses were unlike the it gave the old man a great respect 8gwine ter try ter hold me I hev a to claim them. The owner's name usual money kain qsociation books. Į
is Legion. We've all lost these The signature on the letter and the Frunz dhambi, Frederick Schell, for his ability, and that afterwards ma in Hebben, an' a pa in Hell, an' a he entrusted the son with the mana-
sister in Memphis, and I be done garments, which are the one article brly of the better boked as it, they and Allis Marqunit were produced gement of the parental estate.
sure gwine ter see one of them ter- of European costume most favoured had been written by the same per-before Mr. Monk, third magistrate, night."
by the gentle coolie,
Singapore, on August 13, 3. V. G. Mr. Lo asked the interpreter to Suvi, Director of Chiminal Investiga- compare the writing on the letter tion, charged ahem under the Pawer- with defendant's hand-writing and gen' Restriction Ordinance with infotro the Cours whether it was the landing in the Colony without pro. shreing a valid passport. Prosecutor
H.K.R.C.
It was sugar that helped Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen to overcome the ex- haustion of the last set that won the
THE DOLLAR.
With our dollar to day worth four
Not.
'say when," presently, and limit our into the company of members of the.had two or three lumps of sugar It is impossible to avoid getting championship for her recently. She doses of whisky or beer; it will tell Reserve Corps. When this happens, thrown to her by her anxious parents, shillings and three sixteenths of a The interpreter declined to do this went on to say that the men got off us what time to go home and put the one is sure to hear tales of war time. and they helped to turn the scales in penny in Londan-a remarkable, rise and Mr. Lindsell promised to have the MM. steamer Nera, which HONGKONG, THURSDAY, ADT 28, 1919. what colour our bootlaces must be, ing of record fo print. Many of the at the fervid embrace of congratula-worth only 84 cents in New York, uext heuring
lights out, how to spend our Sundays, Some of these are distinctly deserves favour. Everyone was amused in the last few days we find it& hand-writing expert present at the arrived at Sinerupore on July 30, but their names were not to be found on Bolshevism, in short, is Mrs. Charley" Bond, to whose untiring acting as a linesman, gave
Inspector Watt wil he visited the the Mist of passengers supplied to bir best of them refer to Colour Sergt. tion which E. Decugis, who had been instead of the 96 one would expect
Bisit to be. It is worth $1.70 of fint floor of No. 18 Tu On Termice by the Captain of the steamer when Grundy given a bureaucratic status. work they all agree the efficiency victorious, compatrict after And that is all that Bolshevism is, of the, Corps was
the Singapore money.
and was handed a chop and two the boarded her for examining the due. Get only that and nothing more. What your Reservist slightly mellow, and did you think it was? It is rather the stories he will tell of that hero
books by defendant's wife. He passengers. The next day they went found other books in Lower Rutter to the polier to provare passports for comical, really, the way you defcunce are amazing. Sample:
Street. There was another cubicle Sumatra' and from the account they › Bolshevism abroad and tolerate it at
A Judge who was
on the sume floor, adjacent to defen- gave of themselves, it appeared that dant's, in which strangers lived.
The defendant case to the dice-released by the Bolsheviste, escaped It they were captured by the Russians
chop over to the defridant's cubicle. 1915, imprisoned it Omsk, recently
E.tation himmelf. There was a fight to Shanghai whence they embarked
Jon August 9, a Chinese festival day, on the Xeru."
it is time you learned what Bolshevism really is. It isn't a special brand of bloodlust. That's Russianism, not Bolshevism. shevism is a form of social organiza
tion. It is a crazy (because un- natural) scheme to secure good order. You've heard of the curfew, that nightly signal for all good citizens to ro to bed? That was Bolshevism.
Bolshevism (the first hint of it) makes
our blood to boil
FIRST CLASS.
a
Reservist
The Sergt. Major (in private life connected with a whisky business) I open cases every day, and I've got to do my duty. You'll (particularly) well do yours.
match.
between the two dunia. It originatex | The men pleaded guilty in Ger- over the picking up of some money man, with which language his Wor- between two boys. He did not be- whip Imppened to be acquainted and lieve any compensation had been conversed with then in their own puid.
tongue.
TYPHOON WARNING. The new hotel to be erected opposite the Race Course by The Bol home. For us, regard you well, asked the Sergt. Major for leave be of ten storeys. The plans call for received at the U, S. Consulate from was possible for thear to throw during the military operations of
Shanghai Hotels Company, Ltd. will during a day he was slated for duty. 500 rooms, a gymnasium, ball room, the Manila observatory at 1 p.m. The telegram quoted below was
He explained that he was "opening dining and grill rooms, theatre, tur- August 28. a case" that day.
kish baths and other conveniences of American hotels and are so drafted and 10" Lat. N. moving W.N.W.
Typhoon in about 120 Long. that accommodations may be doubled. Taels 1,500,000 has been appropriated for the building. The The lighter side of history apart,enced hotel man from New York is site cost Taels 385,000. An experi- the great value of the Sergt. Major's to be manager. The directors have He began his commercial career services to the State is seriously and gone so far with the arrangements in an
The Honorary Treasurer begs to office at Liverpool, and universally acknowledged. How is as to announce that the new hotel afterwards went to Widnes. He it that in the distribution of honours will be conducted under both Ameri: used to say that he had made it the name of Bond was overlooked?
can and European plans. a habit when he was a very Someone has blundered. We respect- poor man, married on a young fally suggest to H. E. that he would clerk's salary, to travel regularly please the people by making repre- first-class, with the result that he sentations to the proper quarter in mixed with the leaders of business this matter.
You may have heard, of the sumptuary laws-laws intended to limit the personal expenditure of the citizens of a community. The Greeks tried 'em, the Romans had 'em, and in the middle ages the Europeans had them thrust upon them. In our own now rather wiser (but still .wobbling) land, the Second, Third and Fourth Edwards were allowed to stipulate how men should not spend their own money, especially on. clothes. The Scots were the last to try it on, in 1621. That was Bolshevism.
You've heard of Prohibition in America? That's Bolshevism.
You've heard of persecutions in the name of religion. Ibey were all Bolshevistic.
You've heard of the intolerable police regulations in Germany, and of all their verboten." methods of making life fit one partern. That was Bolshevism.
You've heard of D.D.R.A. She was largely (but not altogether) a Bolshevistic lady.
You've heard of our Pass Office a war department kept on in peace in order to save us from the presence of too many Leac.combers. It is an absolutely Bolshevistic institution, as far as we understand the spirit of Bolshevism, as a device to make us and keep us good and pure by acto. Administration.
The attempt a little while ago
(in the intereats of vehicular traffic)
to drive all pedestrians off our high ways was Bolshevism.
¦
From an obituary reference to the late Sir John Brunner, published in a Home paper, we extract the follow- ing curious remark.
and learnt their views and ideas.
It reminds us of a remark made to us years ago by a Shanghai man who, over forty years in the Far East, has had his ups and downs. He declared that no matter how hard up he was, he made a point)" of arriving "first class" at any port he was bound for. He said it made
a difference, and helped profession.
SERGEANT LÄNNAN'S ASSAILANT ARRESTED."
Here is a scusational story of a German submarine which did not get into the papers -Somewhere in the
boat."
•
ALICE MEMORIAL AND AFFILIATED HOSPITALS.
The complainant stated he was the On the suggestion of Mr. Sevi, La master of the Treang Shing grocery Worship thought the best plan to acknowledge, with thanks, the follow-up at No. 1. Upper Butter Street deal with them would be to make He did not know that recently there an order whing on the Mesageries ing donation to the funds of the
was a fight between the two clana Maritimes to find accommodation on Hospitals:
Kwok Siu Lau ..............
until he was informed. He had been one of their steurnens going to Europe $100
o frendly terms with the Li Clan and and then in their place of birth. until after the fight. He received a Pending these arrangements to be letter, and being uriable to read or made which will take some time, the unite, a soki read it for him. He accused were provisionally remanded. had no idea why he was ordered to for a week. give 360 on demand. He knew de- A Govt. Gazette Extra. proclaims fendant, but had never heard of the Weihaiwei as infected with cholera.Society,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
North Sea a U boat suddenly bobbed up under the bows of a cruiser, and signified that it desired to surrender. We know that game," said the cruiser; "we're going to blow you to bits in a minute," Don't do that,"
Mr. Lo said the defendant was signalled the submarine, "it's quite To-day's return of communicable away in Kowloon when the dght | square. We want badly to surrender." disease shows one case of cholera, took place, and had no knowledge of FOUND HIDING IN TAIPO.
Send off your officers then in a one of puerperal fever, and nine of the letter, which had a signature
We can't." "Why not?" gastric enteritis.
similar to his name. The armed robber who shot "Corre and see." After much parley
Mr Lindsolk at this juniture, ally. If he were going from London Sergeant Lannan recently after as the cruiser sent off a boat. In the to Shanghai and couldn't afford sisting in a robbery at the Kowloon cabin of the submarine they found first class all the way, he would Dairy Farm was arrested by the the officers laid out neatly in a row tranship at Hongkong and thence Police in Taipo, where he was in with their throats cut. The crew had proceed by first class. There may be hiding. The man, who was identi mutinied. something in it, but we doubt it. fed by the injured Sergeant was There are men who might arrive on produced before Mr. R. E. Lindsell their own yachts whom we would not
this morning. employ, while one of our best men has frequently travelled steerage. So
The case was remanded for a week, far as Sir John Brunner's claim goes, with regard to travel in English rail. way trains, we are emphatically CANTON HARBOUR
against the theory that he gained by
it. If a stranger speaks to you at all
in a first-class compartment at Home,
ACTRESS IN DIVORCE SUIT.
T
MAUDE FÁNE AS RESPONDENT,
A divorce case in which the partier are well-known theatrical people was Treasure hunters at Tobermory pointed out that the chops 03 tenentioned before Mr. Justice Flood who are searching for one of the better and the one on the books were bourne Age of June 19. The pet
in the Practice Cout, say the Mel- galleons belonging to the Spanish different from each other. He dtion in the case his been Indged by armada, have reported that they discharge defendant on the ground Edgar Warwick Goodchild, 35, then- have located part of a wrecked vessel, that the dapp found in his hover we tal manager. of The Waldorf, and brought up a small section of not the one used in the letter. its deck and some copper plates.
ADVISING A CHINESE.
The black and white riots at
Fitzroy-street, St. Kilda, asking for Chicago and elsewhere remind one
divorce from May Goodchild, 27, The famous picture of Mrs. Sid
known on the stage us Maude Fane, that the negro problem is the most difficult problem in the world. It dons as "The Tragic Muse," by Rey.
formerly of Spring street, Melbourne started when "Uncle Tom's Cabin "nolds, came up for sale at Christie's
on the ground that she has been went to press, and nobody has dared at the instance of the Duke of West.
guilty of conduct with Robert face it since. More than twenty minster. For many years it has been
Peel of Sydney, who joined a NOTIFICATION. years ago the inimitable Mr. Dooley at Grosvenor House, having been
First Chinese Be very good co-respondent. The papers wer laid bare its difficulties in conversa- purchased in 1823 by Earl Grosvenor broker Every day I go ask him served upon the respondent in Oct tion with Mr. Hennessy. What's for E1837, a sun which would now what thing good. He talisee myber last while she was in Melbourn which he is always visibly reluctant The former Call Flag (F) flown by goin' to happen to the naygur?" purchase very little in the art market. I make money.
und the corespondent was thei Any administrative order or re to do (unless a colonial or American) vessels with mail for the Chinese asked the latter. "Well," said Mr. Bidding started at 5,000 guineas, and
Second Chinese: What thing last 3ocated for service at St. George gulation which infringes the time he certainly will not say anything Post Office has been changed for the Dooley, he'll ayther have to go to then went on by increasing thousands time he talkos ? honoured personal liberties and rights from which you could derive Special mall flag of the following the North an" be a subjick race, or to 37,000 guineas. Then there was
First Chineos: He indice but Queer and, about 880 miles and buy Brisbane. The petitioner in know of a free-born Briton, made in the advantage. You may learn that the description: A rectangular white stay in the South and be an objick a momentary lull before further offers Thinguinys. Lid
professionally as Edgar WarwickÁ. spirit of an order to children by a weather is rotten, that the country flag having the Chinese ensign in the lesson. Tis a hard time he'll were made, and the building again Second Chinese But they drop. Mr HJ L Cohen, for petitione tyrannical nursery governess, is looks well, and that it is high time upper corner nearest to the mast, have anyhow K If I was a proceeded by 1,000-guines additions First Chinese 2 True. That's why asked that the bearzg of the s Bolshevism. They are
Parliament did more work and less with the character and the word black man I'd choose the cotton belt until 52,000 guineas was reached. At say his good friend, always win on which had been induded in Jums An- order which says that A (car-talking, but you will learn nothing to "Postes" underneath; in the field a in prifrince to the belt on the neck this figure the bidding ceased, the his advice. I bey 50 Thingunys, list, should go over lintit July, owner) may drive out to enjoy the help you in your business. In third Wild Goose la fight.
from the polisman's club, I wud so." purchaser being Mr. Marshall, but I sell 600,
The application was granted.
A