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**KROTA, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE,
BONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPI 5, 1919.
HEAR SMUTS
Some of us remember the low way in which the Press and the public used to refer to the Boers during the Transval War. In war it is always like that Passion usurps the sent
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chanical apparatus of victory which the world had ever seen. But the neglected moral factors, the public opinion of mankind, the outraged conscience of the nations in the end avenged themselves and inflicted the most signal defeat on the forces of scientific materialism..
Spirit has triumphed, the apparent. ly weak moral elements" which con- stitute the motive forces of human
progress have been vindicated in a way which will make this war one of the most significant landmarks in human history. The victory has been not to the strong, but to the finer, more gaserous elements in human nature. The great ideals of progress have won through; that is the real and abiding significance of
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Today's dollar is worth 4- 11/164.
r
The 3.5.
"Talszema" (Capt.
The
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919.
LOCKL AND GENERAL.
Mr. S. Kondoh is now the man- ager of the Bank of Taiwan Ltd., in place of Mr. N. Yanagita.
Up to August 19, the coali deliveries to France from the Ruhr region have exceeded a million
tops.
5.5. "Chiksang" (Capt. Fung) which cleared for Haiphong
The output of Honan anthracite. yesterday, took 150 tons of general coal by the Fu Chung Corporation for the month of July was $7,038
..(Capt.
The 9.8 "Facting" Ritchie sailed for Canton at mid- night yesterday with 1,800 tons of Wuhu rice.
Watanabe) cleared for Daire at The 5.5. "Tainglee" (Capt.
6 p.m. yesterday with 1,100 tons of general cargo."
tons.
The s.3. "Yuetshang" (Capt. Ross) arrived from Swatow at 8 a.m. ro-day with 300 tous of general cargo, :
Mrs. and Miss Boanas are the only two passengers who sailed for Tientsin by the s.s. "Kueichow" at, 6 a.. to day.
Leave Russia alone, remove the the Englishman devoted to nation- blockade. adopt a policy of friendly alism as against internationalism neutrality and Gallio like impartiality fooka askance at the Irishman who to all factions..
is the most fatensely national of the It may well be that the only ulti-family. If nationalism. (as against mate hope for Russia is a sobered.internationalism or cosmopolitanism) purified, Soviet system, and that may is. a good thing, the Irish ambition be far better than the Tsarism to should be deemed praiseworthy and Lemos) cleared for Pakhoi yesterday which our present policy seems inevit-encouraged. Nay, more. Should we with 70 tons of general cargo. ably tending. If we have to appear not be logical, and work for a restor- on the Russian scene at all, let it be ation of the Heptarchy ? There is as impartial, benevolent friends and still a strangeness between the Man helpers and not as military or politi of Kent and the East Anglan, the car partisans. Be patient with sick West Countryman and the Yorkshire cargo. Russia, give her time and sympathy. man. If nationalism is a spirit to be and await the results of her coa conserved and promoted, the present valescence."
writer may yet be privileged to lead With like restraint and like wisdom the happy life of his Border ancestors this great and good man (happily not who on wet Sundays used to say yet dead dealt with other problems"Let's go out and kill a Scotsman." before us, and went on
If, on the other hand, internationalism "What matters is the spirit in which gave us the United Kingdom which we approach the situation and eventually the Empire-spellspro facing us. And the spirit I am gress, its logical extension must be pleading for is that of openness of encouraged, masker Mr. Seddoa MP, mind and willingness to learn and who is a Lancashire lecturer and to try new methods a spirit of Labour M.P. who began his career as humility in face of unexampled a grocer's assistant and probably difficulties and a spirit of humanity hasn't had time, even though "read and generosity in all relations of ing and gardening" are his hobbies, life, and a spirit of human fellowship to digest the philosophy of the and comradeship in the service of subject.
The as. "Toyen Maru" (Capt the great saving ideals of humanity. Seeing that nationalism is Shimazaki) which cleared for Yako
In a word, I see salvation for us identical with a barbaric hams at 4 p.m. yesterday took 60Rev. FG. B. Hastings R.N.) would and the world only in a more human instinct (xenophobia-fear-hate of the 'spirit and outlook all round. What stranger) and that Internationalism is the Rood of all the wealth and (increasing aggregations and unities. comfort and glamour of the Victorian and miscegenation) has been the key Age when the next two decades note of civilization, the problem is bring us to the graves of ten million not very abstruse. Nationalism tends young men slain because of the base to produce wars: internationalism is a passions of greed and domination | movement towards peace. A man who
The G.S.. "Kaifong" (Capt. which lurked below the smiling is fond of "reading and gardening,"
cleared for Haiphong surface of that age? The game is fand a proletarian M.P. at that, no Mitchell) not worth the candle, and we should matter what his interest in the yesterday with 300 tons of general rather welcome the new and difficult kinema business may be, must surely cargo and six European passengers. times оп which we are now reconsider his position in this matter. entering
The League of Nations is only a The ss. "Taishung" (Capt. step towards the coming League of Westerlund) cleared for Shanghai Humanity. If foreign kinema pictures yesterday with 1,200 tons of general are going to have the effect suggested, cargo and one European passenger, we say God bless them.
For, doubt it not that we are at the beginning of a new century. The old world is dying around us let it also die in us. Once more in the history of the human race we hear the great creative spirit utter those tremendous words; "Behold, I make all things new." Old ideas! of wealth, of property, of class and social relations, of international rela tions, of moral and spiritual values are rapidly changing. The old political formulas, sound hollow, the old land marks by which we used to steer are disappearing beneath a great flood. The fumace through which we have passed has melted the hard crust of our life, and the old fixities and certainties are fluid once more.
P. W. D. BRIBERY CASE.
Major M. W. Buck, and Mr. K' Brayshay, of Hongkong University, returned to the Colony yesterday on the 98. "China"
tons of general cargo.
Today's return of communi cable disease shows two cases of enteric and 13 of gastro-enteritis. Five of the latter died.
The death was announced, an July 21, of William Shearer Barclay, chief marine engineer. 54 Gibson Street. Hill head, Glasgow, late of Hongkong.
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Gentlemen of the jury. The China Mail asks you not to laugh at the "cheek" which may seem to lie The ss. "Haihong" (Capt. behind its disagreement with the Full Evans) arrived from Swatow yester. Court in this case. The P. W. D. day with 800 tons of general cargo charges a bribe. It is admitted that the man class passengers."
man with accepting aand mails. She had an board 48 first is in such a subordinate position that he has no powers that are worth
A meeting of the Hongkong bribing. A highly intelligent Cricket League is to be held on the 17th Magistrate takes the view that there ins: at the Hongkong Cricket Club was 10 offence against the pavilion to make arrangements for Bribery Ordinance, and discharges the coming season, and in faith and let us not, fall back him. Thinking of the possible effect upon the subsequent conduct of
"Kanchow" (Capt. into the hopeless enmities, the sterile PW.D. servants, the Government Cowan) arrived from Bangkok at and blasting bitternesses of the past. protests. Acting for the Governtnerit 2.33 p.m. yesterday with 2,000 tons Among the nations of the world this great country has in the past enjoyed (as an employer) and not for the of general cargo, 2 European pas
To sengers and 5 bags of mails. the most, splendid reputation for Law, the police detain the man.
regularize the detention, another political wisdom, generosity, and charge is made, that of obtaining magnanimity. Let this mighty Empire in this great hour of victory money by false pretences. Gentle
Let us work for a better, happier world to arise from this fluid mass.. Let us move forward with courage
was
that
The $.9.
Owing to the illness of Miss O'Sullivan the wedding recently men of the jury. What were those false pretences? His advertised to take place on Sunday he next (Sept. 7) will be postponed until false pretence was worth bribing. If guilty of that the following Sunday, (Sept. 14) at false pretence, then he wasn't guilty the same time and place. of bribery; and having been acquitted, on certain facts, of the charge of bribery, he should not have been charged again, on the same facts, of
and at the zenith of its power win a great moral victory, so that the ideals which have shaped the destiny of our great commonwealth of nations may become the common heritage of the League of Nations and of Europe."
If those words could but have been solemnly read aloud by the Governor at a recent Legislative Council, one wonders what effect they might have had. Try the effect yourself in your family circle, reading slowly, letting the thoughts shine through the fully r phrases.
some
otter offence.
Magistrate
TheBangkokGovernment Gazette of August 25 states that H.M. the King of Siam has conferred the 2nd Class of the Order of the Crown of Siam on Sir C. P. Chater, Consti- General for Siam at Hongkong.
Consequent upon the weak tone of the London market, Japanese copper dropped from Y.50 to Y.59 per picul on August 14.
The Chaplain of the Dockyard be glad of some gramophone records for the Royal Naval Hospital.
Owing to slackness in the bean trade it is said there are over a quarter of a million tons lying on the Dalny wharves, awaiting ship ment..
The Chuka Cotton Spinning Company has been floated, with a capital of Y5,000,000. The company establish its first mill at
will
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SPECIAL CABLE.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
THE HONGWAN" IN 'A COLLISION,
SINGAPORE, Sept. 4. The s.s."Hongwan," from Hong-
Kons leaving the Harbour to-day. collided with the "Kuala" which was alongside the, wharf.. The Kaala was damaged above the water-line.
BIG HAUL OF AMMUNITION.
REVOLUTION STUFF.
Sergt. Appleton charged an old Chinese yesterday. before Mr. N. L. Smith, with unlawful possession of
· 1939 rounds of ammunition.
The defendant. was arrested on
board thes.s. "China" which arrived in Hongkong cn Thursday. The cleverly honey- ammunition was combed into the sides of two boxes; and the Police only suspected.some- thing contraband because of the great weight of the boxes. fendant, said that his defence was that the defendant had been away from the Colony for 39 years and he knew nothing of the regulations. The defendant had purchased 500 rounds of ammunition and could not understand how the rest had got among his possessions.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, for the de-
Sergt. Appleton produced a pull-
An engineer of the British through; and said that it was also steamer Milner at ancher near the found among the defendant's posses Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s wharf, New.sicas. The arms which he had no doubt the defendant was also carry- chwang, was drowned there on
ing bad somehow escaped the Police. Augast 15.
The ammunition was sufficient to start a shop.
Upwards of 25,000 bags of Shanghai four destined to Manila, was shipped on the P.M.S. Co.'s as "Venezuela," which sailed for Manila on August 23.
River
The historic transport Clyde" has been saved from the beach at Gallipoli, and, it is stated, is to be taken to England and shown on the Thames.
In the Taraken oil field. Batavia, a new well has been discovered with a production of 600 tons daily by which the total production of the field becomes 2,100 tons.
T
The NYK. 5.s. "Fushimi Maru"
that she was returning to Victoria, BC, with a cylinder head cracked and steering gear disabled.
reported by wireless on August 8
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The N.Y.K., the OSK., and the T.K.K. which raised their American steamer freight conjointly to G.813 per ton recently, propose to lift the freight further to G.$15.
Mr. Smith asked what the defen- cant wanted so much ammunition for.
Mr. d'Almada said his client was taking it into the country.. No doubt the presence of such a quantity of ammunition would help to quell a revolution in the country.
Mr. Smith.-O: start a revolution. · Mr. d'Almada said he thought not. The defendant was fined $250. The ammonition was confiscated.
AN INDIAN BULLY.
Complainant was a little Chinese boy, standing three feet high
Defendant was a great big Indian, employed as watchman in the Chinese Y. M. C. A.
a
Sergt. Appleton said that there was
cinematograph. show at the. Y. M. CA on Thursday night. Many street urchins were watching at the win- dows, and the defendant drove them
The Nippon Steel Works at away with his stick. The complain. Muroran declared a dividend of 15 ant said that he was standing in the per cent. per annum for the past centre of the road and the watchman six months at a semi-annual meeting gave him a heavy blow with his stick. He (Sergt. Appleton) saw the of shareholders which was held on mark which the stick left on the 'August 14.
boy's buttocks.
Mr. Smith suggested that it was
The German destroyer, U.Z. 21,
South America.
the defendant's business to drive the
boys away.
Sergt. Appleton said he had no
him serious injury.
The defendant densed striking the
Smith was sound up to that point, where he granted bail On
that could not law a charge
A recent London Gazette announ- made. Now, gentlemen
fces that Lieut-Colonel H. M. Пles, of the jury, look at it this way. The old world is dying around (as the Full Court has decided) the D.S.O., R.G.A, recently commanding after secretly leaving Kiel, arrived at us; let it also die in us." this war and its tremendous conclu have to say about French and Haig, then he was certainly not guilty of and also for a time, General Staff | said that he and his crew intended right to use violence. The boy was Strange, how much the papers man was guilty of taking a bribe. the Royal Artillery in this Command, Gothenburg recently. The captain If that is so, then this war should and how little of this living warrior of the false pretence, and that second Officer, retired on retired pay on May to work their passage across tottle and the blow might have done
prophet, this inspired servant of God charge was an impertinence. We 31, 1910.
submit, gentlemen of the jury, that
A concern called the. Nobi and of man.
this is a case where the P.W.D has The public meeting to discuBS- had regard more to Expediency than Kowloon's needs cannot be held in Hydro-Electric Company is in the boy, who, he said, fell down and to the Law, and we think that the St. Andrew's Church ball. The ves-course of formation. It is to be hurt his knee. Ful Court has erred and that the un-try decided last night, not to grant capitalised at Y5,000,000 and will fortunate effect of its error is to sub-the application for the use of the hall. produce current, utilizing the water port a Government Department's It was felt that in the absence of the of the Ibigawa "expedient" pressure on a Court Chaplain it was pot a good precedent charged with the administration of pure to establish. Other arrangements justice. As on this view it is not so will probably be made. much a point cf law as a matter of keeping Justice clean (which is more important even than a clean P.W.D.
leave no lasting bitterness behind it in the minds of the peoples. The baser elements of human nature have been defeated in the enemy; they should not re-establish them- Kelves in the victors. The tremendous spiritual elan, the explanation of the ideal which carried us through the great struggle, should not now make way for barren batreds, abject fears, base greeds.
of reason, and truth is crowned at the bottom of her own well. The Boers were said to be "dirty""they were said to" abuse the white flag" in a treacherous way, they were called cowardly," and they ston were even accused of mutilating and otherwise illtreating prisoners. In fact, the only limit to what was said of them was the power of imagina tion available. War always seems to produce such phenomena.
The other day all the papers were saying splendid things about Botha, after he died, and the praise could not reach him. occurs to us that such things should be said of living men who deserve them. At the graveside of Botha, his life-long friend General Smuts made a eulogistic oration. This reminds us that the Press has been very silent a whole about General Smuts. who is an even greater man than
Smuts Botha was.
finer is a character, a
statesman, greater than any other in the Empire. The things that, can fairly be urged against Woodrow Wilson of America, that he is too academic, etc., cannot be used against Smuts, When Smuts dies, the papers will praise him as they did Botha. Real appreciation would not be content to wait for that. Let us dwell a little while on a farewell address he wrote when leaving England last July. Let us ponder what he said in view of the appreciation we intend to pay him when he can address us no more,
"as
and with an eye to his achievements. My own case," he said, "is a Letriking instance of how the enemy of to-day may be the friend and comrade of to-morrow, and must in these difficult days make all of us realise how important it is to practice moderation and restraint in the ex- pression of our feelings towards those who were yesterday dur bitter Enemies.**
Now more than ever should the banner of the spirit be borne aloft by all of us, as at once the symbol and secret of victory. In hoc signo vinces. The ethical human factors have in a way vindicated themselves which is little short of miraculous. It is, therefore, most right and pro per that we should practise the great Christian qualities of mercy, pity, and forgiveness, which constitute the very essence and differentia of our religion."
The
COSMOPOLITANISM.
The s.. "Monteagle," "Ear-
The urchin pulled down his
plaster on his buttocks. trousers and exhibited a patch of Sergt. Appleton suggested that - it. Mr. J. A Seddon, M.P. fears that
would meet the case if the defendant · the spread of the American kinema
press of Japan," "Empress of Russia" was warned. If he was punished, all picture in Britain will promote cosrao politanism. Here are his words:
and the Empress of Asia" will not the street boys watching the case The peaceful penetration into
A fire-engine, while out for a call at Shanghai on their way from in Court would be encouraged." In the British film industry by people
practice run yesterday evening at a Hongkong so Vancouver until the previous cases of this sort, he had of other countries, would be more staff) you are competent to give your speed estimated at between 20 and quarantine regulations have been settled it by making the assaulter-
effective for the destruction of our national life and ideals than was generally imagined, and to allow this great agency for public educa- tion to fall into the hands of an- other country with other ideals would tend to make the people forget they were, Englishmen and women, and they would become international.
Would that be such a bad thing?
verdict. What say you?
51
THIS DOG HAS TWO.
LICENCES.
30 miles an hour along Queen's Road lifted. Central, ran into and badly damaged
give the boy 50 cents, but, in this instance, the defendant refused to
a ricsha placed at the edge of the At Washington on August 19, compensate the boy at first, only
charged. the Shipping Board announced the agreeing to do so when he was The defendant was warned not to delivery to it of 30 vessels in-the week ending August 9, thus giving strike little boys again.
road near the Astor House Hotel. The ricsha was stationary, the last of a long queue.
a total production since the war of 1,227 vessels of a gross tonnage of 6,542,270.
“CÓAL, CHICKENS OR LILIES."
A. Chinese, somewhat the worse
A letter from Mr. de Reus, for liquor, went up to a constable in Queen's Road Central, held the Consul General for the Netherlands, bobby by the collar, and said "This Council that during his absence from auction in Calcutta, recently, for Rs. inforins the Shanghai, Municipal
HMS.. "Sphinx, was sold by "baser elements" of the enemy have been defeated; they Is nationalism an ingredient of pro- dog bas two licences."
The "dog" did not understand. Shanghai, Mr. J. Schuurman, Consul, 1,100,000, The vessel is of 1,230 should not re-establish themselves in gress? Is it not rather a reactionary He wanted to know if his country will be in charge of the Consulate tone and had been in Eastern waters ourselves. Should this not make us influence?
General. On account of the illness squirm, and blush, those of us who Kipling is very scornful about the man was drunk or only mad
man, and The Chinese resisted arrest and of Mr. Schuurman, Her Netherland for more than a quarter of a century,
Scent. Police Court. have persisted in the hymn of hate internationally minded and want to keep on with it for calls him a "cosmopolouse." Burns tried to drag the constable into a Majesty's Minister at Peking has especially for prevention of gun run-
ordered Jonkheer J.W.CA Quarles vanning in the Persian Gulf.
Time.-10.20 a.. years yet? From any sanctimonious, whhed to see "man to man the wide meter car close by.
This morning being in his right Ufford, a Secretary of Legation, to
The Ford Motor Company is What Happened-Bleary eyed old obscure person we could not, would world over" as brothers, yet the not, bear such a reproof; but this is Scots are intensely national Shakes mind, be denied being concerned in proceed to Shanghai and take charge now turning out 3,000 cara a day woman charged with hawking, or and yet, on April 24, it had unfilled stealing, or eating it does not matter from General Smuts, a man who did peare, the most internationally the incident. He said the constable temporarily of the Netherlands Con
is asked him for money; and because sulate General.
order for 69,994 care for immediate which some lily-root, supposed to be inore than his bit, a hero we look up (minded poet of them all,
English sometimes, he did not give it to him, he was
shipment. Similar conditions exist a delicacy among certain classes of to and must respect, a practical i tensely
Extensive akerations are being in many of the other large factories Chinese. Mr. Lindsell wanted to warrior and statesman.
ad fragments of his writing are arrested.
Mr. N. L. Smith fined him $5: carried out at the Hongkong Hotel in the U. S.
know the quantity, and thus addressed. used as mottoes by insular" "mind-
It has become increasingly evident
P.S..A 128. "What was the quantity ed patriots. Is nationalism a good
SUICIDE:
during that past few months that the
The 6.8.
China" (Captain. Sergeant." thing? President Wilson seems to think it is, with his sympathy for
accommodation in the lounge is being Dunning), arrived from San Fran P. S. A. 128 was not sure, "I am seriously doubtful about the small nations, and his devotion to Last night, shortly after 8 p.m., severely taxed, and therefore Mr. cisco via Shanghai at 12.59 pm. it coal, your Worship?" Mr. Lindsell No"! sort of policy which we seem to be 'self-determination." Englishmen young Chinese girl, fourteen years Taggart has decided to increase the yesterday with 1459 tons of general pursuing. there. Husata can only be are usually sure of it, and scornful of age, jumped down from the second accommodation by taking down the cargo and 200 baga of mails. She saved Internally by Russians them of the dead-souled man who never to story of a Chinese dwelling house walls on two sides of the present had on board 105 first class pas-been chickens selves, working on Russian methods himself hath said This is my own into the street. She was dead ten smoking room, and converting that
portion of the building into an meng and ideas. She is a case of national my native land. Yet, the United seconds later
P. S. A. 128, consulting his charge pathology, of a people with a sick Kingdom contains at least four The story goes that she was a attractive extension of the present Amongst those who arrived soul, and only Russian Ideas could nations, not counting the Cornish servant girl who had fallen in love lounge. The smoking room is being from Yokohama on the 9.8. Kamo sheet" Then it was lily-ront, your work a cure. Our military forces, men to whom all the rest are with a young Chinese who frequented moved to where, until recently, the Maruthis morning are: Mr. R. Worship. I don't know the quantity. spirit, of the moral over our lavish contributions of tanks and foreigners," and not counting the her mistress's house. Yesterday she public bar was placed. The entrance J. Birbeck, Headmaster English I did not see the load."
other war material may temporarily Jerseymen, who are jealously nation tried to ran away and join her lover to the public bar from Des Voeux School for Indians, Mr. D. V. Bleary eyed old lady was fined, Germany had entered upon a vast boster up the one side, but the real al, and still regard themselves as the but her mistress caught her and Road is being closed, and the entrance Edwards and Mra E. J. Edwards but here the chickens began to venture in materialism, and had con magnitude of the problem is quite conquerors of England and the either thrashed her or was about to to the new smoking room will be wife of the Headmaster of the make a noise, and our reporter could
beyond such expedients.
Kowloon British School
not hear how. much. structed the most tremendous me
successful foes of France. Moreover, do so. Hence she took her own life, from the main corridor.
It is Smuts, remember, not the China Mail, who is talking. After that modest preamble for he was as vallan for as he was against us
She went, on:
The fundamental significance of
the war has been the victory of the
the material factors, of life.
With regard to Russia, these were his words, the words of General Smuts-whom one day you will praise as your praised Botha.
a
sengers.
F. S. A 128. Then it must have
Mr. Lindsell No it was not even thickens by