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to publish in the China Maila great many foolish' opinions, with- out being miserable and without being misled.. They will thus be presented to John Kestrel and all the others to deal with, adopting or discarding as they, not we, decide.
RESERVE.
DISBANDING FROM TO-DAY.
FAREWELL PARADE.
TO WAR.
WABE'T - STRICTLY TRUTHFUL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919.
MACAO EXTRADITION
CASE.
A. D. SOIRES CHARGED,
CORRESPONDENCÉ.
NOW LET'S PROGHED TO. BOOTS.
To the Editor of the China Mail.]
SIR.I have had a first and last
pair given me for Police duties twelve
At the previous hearing Kassim / begun in the case in which Augusto month ago Boots got worn out and said that he was sent to France from Domingo Soares, an employes of the I applied in writing and in person patriated to Penang he was brought is charged with being concerned with (Equipment Oncer) for another pair. Penang and instead of being reHongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., several times to Inspector Tape against his will to Hongkong:
This gentleman informed me that no boots was to be issued me. (1 would not like to tell more) and as the force failed to recognise a claim I sent for travelling expenses, and as I have paid fines for not attending duty whilst sick, Pray Mr. Kestrel I can't afford black boots (?).
others already tried and convicted in Hongkong in the recent theft from the Dock of 50 sheets of steel plate valued at $5,000.
Here was a suggestion that John
Mohamed Kassim the English.
[From Our Reporter at Macao) Kestrel decided to discard.... Ha
Last evening, materfamilias and with stealing a bicycle, was sentenced day, the preliminary enquiry was
speaking Malay, who was charged decided that Jejo Gutz was a person
In the Macao High Court on Thurs
not entitled to sympathy. Couldn't her little brood, sweethearts and to four weeks' hard labour. he do that without also assuming temale friends congregated, in tha: such ព. person had
no large numbers in the quadrangle of right to publicity? Why, there have been people who have urged the Central Police Station to watch us not to print John Kestrel's the "bays" do, what is expected to letters. Cannot they disagree with be, their last farewell parade. The
This morning Inspector Kent stated his views without instantly desiringboys" in this instance were the that Kassim had given a different to suppress him?"
members of the Hongkong Police version to the C. S. P. He said he The newspaper must make itself Reserve, who after four years of was taken back to Penang. but pre a motley to the view" because it strenuous work in policing the Colonyferred to come to Hongkong in search and releasing the men of the regular of a job. The man had been sent to the Another of our critics complains Police Force to go on active service, Harbour Master and the latter had to-day that our occasional use asked for their disbandment. This suggested that. Kassim-could be sent of slang fars him. He is polite quasi-military-quasi-police force has back as an assisted emigrant. The enough to say that he reads the assisted materially in the maintenance Police wanted Mr. Lindsell to assist Ching Mail because he likes to read of law and order in the City and have the man out of the poor box, the decent English, and that we interrupt Fearmed the encomiuins showered Police being willing to meet the his enjoyment too often with an on them, not only by Governor expenses half way. The cost of a intrusive colloquialism. He objects May, but also by H. E. Mr. Claudpassage would be $35. even to contractions like don't and Severn, and the appreciation of the Mr.Lindsel: You apparently could can't. As for that, this.
Colony as a whole. Such sentiments have landed in Singapore had you were uttered by the Officer Admin-wanted to. You came here of your stering the Government. yesterday, own free will. Is that not so? at the farewell parade.
Kassim: Yes
has all sorts of readers.
A man's way is the wind's way. Pedantically that should be written ́a man his way is the wind his way.” There is a sometimes a good reason
By 5.30 p.m. the different units of Mr. Lindsell: Why did you tell me for saying don't instead of do not. the Police Reserve had assembled in you had been dumped here against In the imperative mood, for instance, the quadrangle and had formed your will. I send you to prison for the abbreviated form would be themselves into their different com.four weeks with hard labour. tion pleading in it, while the full Jojo Gutz", with his brown boots will be made to send you back to form would too much suggest the on. He wore 'em and as in the Penang. Inspector Kent. Will you
famous case of the curse at Rheims, bring him up before me again? nobody sermed one penny the worse.
Ltd addressed to an equal with a suspanies. A noticeable personage was Acthe end of that time arrangements
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command to a servant.
Colloquialisms suit certain bjects. Classic English suits a classic sub- |ject; it “might seem too stiff for
homelier use.
As for slang, there is good and bad. Those interested may refer to pages 27-39 of Professor Walter Raleigh's well-known work "Style" also to the Enc. Britt. Vol. £25, p. 207.
on:
By one of those mysterious in- ternal lapses that sometimes follow a really pleasant evening, we find that the subject has suddenly ceased to interest us. Besides, there are other things to do.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
WHAT HAPPENED.. Company commander: PC. 745 Gutierrez. You are wearing brown bears.
Jojo (ut: Yes, sir. I have no bl: ck ones.
Co. Cammdr. Sergt. Britto. Take note and put this man on report.
Bergt: Britto: Yes, Sir.
Aasistent
LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
ATTITUDE OF ST. JOSIPHT COLLEGE.
Dr. Carlos Augusto Carlos Afonso Marques. Conservador, Servindo de Juiz de direito (Chief Justice of Macao) conducted the proceedings. The other officials of the Court were Senhor Jose Maria de Souza Espirito Santo, (clerk of the Court) and Seahor Francisco Hermenegildo Fernandes (court Interpreter.)
Court.
JOJO GUTT, ALIAS J. A. GUTIERREZ,
PAPAS OPINION.
Deacon, Looker, Deacon and Harston,
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton of Messrs. To the Editor of the China Ma7.]| Hongkong. watched the proceedings
Dear Sir,-John Kestrel is known' in the interest of the Deck Co.
The accused was not present identity, as a philosopher; but his
by fame, if I am not mistaken of his" W. Nicholls, Chief Storekeeper correspondence in your issue of last of the Hongkong and Whampoa evening sadly fails to maintain his
credit. and in reply to Senhor de Andrade Dock Co, was the irst witness called
The in-ty or rather unwilling- said he was not an eye witness of less of a police reservist to provide the theft. As a result of certain himself black boots especially for information received, he checked patrol or parade cannot be construed the stock in the storeroom and found as insubordination; and, if a pair has 50 sheets of steel pla es missing been provided him.ircannot, certainly. Soares (the accused) was employed be expected that it will last for years as a copy clerk by the Contipany. The nor that he should cherish it for long system employed by the Company was and faithful service in his often to issue white order slips whenever crossings and recrossings of dirty goods are to be removed from the 100ks and corners in the Chinatow storeroom. These forma in which infested with various contagious. are stipulated the nature and diseases prevalent in the Colony. A correspondent writes: There is quantity of stores to be delivered are The whole cause of the dissatisfac- So the worst is yet to come. We much fealing in football circles in filled up in the office and sent downtion in the Force is not bolsheviser
curtainly, protest if they shoot regard to the attitude of St. Joseph's to the storeroom. The accused's ) but to put it short "excessive red." h's buy. He is too young to die in College in the matter of League foot day was to make a duplicate of tape:"I am of the opinion that all his boats.
ball. This College won the Second that order on a green delivery slip would have run on smoothly had ir A few minutes later H. E. the Division of the League last season and hand that duplicate to the per been wisely deemed that kindness OdicerAdministering the Government, and according to precedent, they aon taking delivery, who must pro- rules better that harshness where attended by Lt. McConnell, A.D.C.. were invited, as the Chinese were duce it at the storeroom before the the Force is constituted, of free..
volunteered the Surgeon Superintendent Jordan and last season, to go up into the Senior goods are allowed to leave the score citizens who
Surgeon-Superintenden: Division. This, however, they blunt room. He, (accused) had no business services only to do their little bit for Lindsay Woods, arrived and wasly refused to do, putting up as an in the storeroom and it was not his the King and the country. Today's dollar is worth 41 greeted with the strains of the excuse that they were losing two of duty to supervise, the removal of
Yours faithfully, 15:16d.
National Anthem, H. E. was met by their best.
the goods. Witness first discovered i
PAPA, Hon Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.P, Mr. This unsportsmanlike action on the the steel plates missing on Aug.
23. at about 13000,
Hongkong, Sept. 20 1919. Witness C. G. Perdue, acting D.S.P., and Mr. part of the College will go far to
was convinced 'that the 50 J. W. Frinks, D.S.P.R., the Police alienate the sympathy of those who
of steel so proudly watched the College sheets
were removed Reserve being drawn in close forma- tion, and standing at attention.
career last season, Those who from the storeroom without the green the steel was removed from the store- Standing on a table to be better know anything about the large field delivery slip, as he had made a room by some coalies. They were seen and heard by all. H. E: said
of selection which this team has aver thorough search amongst the number taken by trucks to the wharf and Reserve. It had been my intention, places of the two players who in the file, he could not find the 9p.m., on July 25. Soares arrived at Members of the Hongkong Police that is very easy indeed to fit the ed slips and although every slip was deposited in the lighter. This was at
to use the occasion for presenting to have it on the best authority that places. Witness said the white order the steel had been izden into The Hongkong University is every member of the Police Reserve, the College team will be as strong circumstances, the plates were only did not know where the steel was slip was made out. Under the the lighter, it pushed off. Witness a certificate headed "The Great War this season as last; and that therefore discipline He overlooks that there Professor of Chemistry at a salary of 1 for which the Police Reserve was again defeating all those teams which the assistance of some of the Chinese
of advertising in a Home paper for a 1914-1918," setting forth the objects they will find no difficulty in once removable from the storeroom with transported to. was effective discipline in the Boer 2000 a year with quarters."
By Mr. Shenton: Witness did army, which yet would have been
formed, the period during which the they beat in winning the Shield on store clerks who took an active part not see Soares go in the lighter. condemned by these peculiar mar
particular recipient of the certificate the last occasion.
in the planning of the theft. Exhibit So Clue, electric motorman ent- - tinets of the Police Reserves. He arrived from Calcutta yesterday with ment
The s.s. "Japan" 3837 tons, had served and a short state- Itisto be hoped that Bro. Alphonsus,
1" (produced) was the white slip ployed by the Dock Co., said that on overlooks the peculiar discipline of 2900 tons of general cargo. She re-certificate will be signed by me, use his influence with his team of ger (Mr. R. M. Dyer) in witness's and soon afterwards a man näod. his services. Each who is nothing if not sporting, will which Soares admitted to the mana. July 25 he went on duty at 6, p.m. the Australian soldiers, who were ported one death from dysentery. · good fighters. He overlooks many
by the Captain Superintendent of old boys for the St. Joseph's College Presence, was in his (Scares's) baad- Ah Chung came into the storeroom. things like that.
Police and, I hope, on his return to team is not a College team at all, else writing. Wines was the only per. He disappeared at 7 pm. At about Somewhere in Coke on Littleton water mains the Taipo Road will be instrumental in orgasing and for pave occurred to induce the team
Owing to alterations to the the Colony, by Mr. Jenkin, who was this unfortunate situation would never on who could order the removal of 8 p.m. a Portuguese came to the the plates from the storeroom. He storeroom accompanied by somer it says that if the Heir to the throne closed to all except pedestrian so long a period commanded, the to go up into the First Division. It witness) did not order the issue of coolics. They entered the store- be attained of treason, yet the traffic at a point south of the old Police Reserve. The reason why the will redound to the credit of the Cosmopolitan Docks on July 25 last. Crown faling to him (by the King's boundary line.
50 steel plates for delivery to the room and proceeded to remove decease the attainder is thereupon
certificates are not being given away College if a team wholly composed
some steel plates. Witness saw the more convenient to let Mr. Jenkin football, and put up a good game, know where the steel plates were as it was very noisy in the storeroom to-day is that we felt it would be of its past students enters senior
Replying to a question by Senhor Portuguese giving instructions bat Andrade, witness said he did not could not hear what was being said sign them before they were present as no doubt they will.
taken to, but he had reliable informa with the cranes working. The steel tion that they have been taken by was placed on trucks and wheeled fuck out of the harbour of Hongkong. away. This was all witness knew Immediately after the larceny was about the case. He could not say discovered, Soares was summoned to where the steel plates were removed Mr. Dyer's office and questioned but to. denied all knowledge of it. The accused By Mr. Shenton: Witness had disappeared on the following day seen the Portuguese be ore the night however and has not returned to the in question. He (the Portuguese) was a clerk employed by the Dock Co. Witness did not know his name.
Job Kestrel overlooks that we
have held, and that others, officials
Mr. J. W. White will give an organ recital which will be held in St. John's Cathedral on Tuesday next at
6.15 p.m.
The N.Y.K. s.s. "Kaga Maru which arrived from London yeater Shanghai.
HALL. At thê Gowment Geil | included, have agreed with us; that day, Cleared at 11 a.m. for Kobe yia when asking for this parade to-day, are not turning out this season, I order for this particular lot of steel the storeroom with the coolles. After
Hospital on September 201, 1911, to Mr and Mrs. Melkorta fl, a
KOD.
The China Mail.
“A YHOTM, JUSTICE PUBLIC SERVICE,'”
HONGKONG SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1919.
POLICE RESERVES, DISCIPLINE, JOHN KESTREL NEWSPAPERS, NATHE PUBLIC, AND OTHER
GERMANE MATTERS.
We Hce homely folk and homely ways. We prefer them to great beroes and great villains, as objects of study. There are many books about Napoleon and very few about Jean Dubois. It ought to be the other way about. We who are not Napoleons can learn little from the life of the great man, but an intimate knowledge of the common man is as a lamp to our feet. John Kestrel wrote us a letter yesterday.
That is an announcement which
brings up the old rhyme, O, don't the days seem sad and long, when all goes right and nothing wrong, and isn't life exceeding flat when wwe've nothing whatever to grumble at? And there will be critics to say, as they have said before, why waste the heavy artillery of the China Mail on Kestrel? That's not wise. That's not the right point of view John Kestrel may be an unimportant per- son, looked at in one way, the snobbish way. But in fact he is a tremendously important person, be- cause he is a type, and what he says. is Ulustrative of typical sayings. He is, as it were, an index to a consider: able body of public opinion.
Opinion is not judgment. Opinion against opinion is the nature of Vthinking, and constitutes doubt or suspense. Judgment is considered opinions, and the type does not con- Faider. Even judgment is not neces
sarily knowledge. Absolute know-
the Police Reserves have outlived their usefulness. He overlooks that the primecause of this was excessive discipline, or wrong notions
brown"
boots
of
void.. John Kestrel (who regards The s.s. "Tean" (5 and S.) would argue that that being the law, hai yesterday with 200 tons of ed. They will therefore eventually
as insubordination) (Captain Scott) arrived from Shang the Prince may kill the King without general cargo for Hongkong, and is be presented in quite an informal doing murier, and that for a subject leaving at 1 p.m. for Canton.
to protest would be disloyal,
In our discourse of judgment we
SE
not
CORRESPONDENTS.
way and you must take this Occasion equivalent to the ANSWERS TO should haw remembered to say that water supply to the whole of Kowsay again at any length how grateful
Owing to alterations the formal presentation. I need there are moral judgments, legalloon will be shut of from 12 o'clock the Government of the Colony is to judgments, and the judgment of midnight on Tuesday 23rd inst. the members of the Police Reserve commonsense. By which did John until 4 a.m. the following morning, Kestrel judge Jojo Gutz?
Has he ever thought what uniforms
&
Dock since.
for all they have done during the Fed up. B.E.F., and others.-We years they have been enrolled. We can think of no better answer to you, that help and, as I have said before, the dramatist who thus commended was time-keeper of the Dock Co. On really could not have got on without gentlemen, than the famous line of Mr. W. Murray Johnstone said he and as the late Governor has told his play:
Yeung Kun, a sailor on board the you, your work enabled a large you like't, you may."
‘By Gad, 'tis good, and if July 25, fourteen coolies passed Dock Co's lighter said that a Portu-
number of the regular Police Force
through the time office.
guese ordered the lighter on July 25- Scholis We rather, agree with
Here Mr. Shenton interposed and for the purpose of loading some steel to be released for active service, Now you that some of the lines were weak. explained that when ever transporta plates. He ordered them to be taken your work under the Ordinance has They were Shakespeare's own, lifted tion coolies were required, Mr. Harris to "Saiwan," the landing stage op- been completed and from to-morrow and embodied unaltered.
of the Dock Co., issued a blue slip for posite the Sincere Co. There they GOVERNMENT GAZEITE: there will be a proclamation can- T.P. So far as we know it has the requisition of the colles and were transferred to a junk and taken celling the proclamation of 3rd not yet happened, and for his sake after the work had been carried out, out of Hongkong harbour. The steel- September 1915, under which awe hope it won't.
the blue slip is tendered at the time plates were removed from the Police Reserve was created, and the
office and the witness paid the coolies storeroom soon after 8 p.m. The off. proclamation of the September 14
Portuguese supervised the trans 1917, under which the members of
Continuing his evidence, Mr. John-portation, and appeared to be very stone said he received the blue slip anxious that the work should be
are for? Soldiers wore uniforma Mining Administration's mines for The total output of the Kailan originally that in a melee they might the week ending September 6, know friend from foe. Should war amounted to 61,055 toge and the fare develop as it promises, and sales during the period," to 71,846 there be no more melees, but only tons. chemical homicide at a distance, the uniform wil be no longer necessary. Critics of the type will tell us we must have unifomes, that an army without uniforms is unthinkable, and that we who moot the possibility of doing without them are enemies of the state.
Uniforms, brown, boots, even whiskers, neither help nor hinder in catching criminals or in warfare. Detectives get on better in plain clothes, and in a bayonet charge the colour of your boots would not
matter.
THE GIST OF IT.
Hongkong can now export copper lead, spelter, etc. if it wants to Lord Milner cables to that effect.
the Police Reserve were called up LONDON BUYS U.S. SHIPS. (preduced) which was dated July 25, carried out as speedily as possible as
for active service. I need say no ILOTE now than! to what
meding
The Governor proclaims that pre vious proclamations touching the practically on behalf of the Govern Police Reserves are both cancelled.ment, say farewell to the Police God save the King.
Reserve, and it will be always Travellers may now take as much a great help to the Government as $3 worth of amall change out of to the Colony,
think that if the necessity should arise, there is in Hong-
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TWENTY OF 3.508 TONE COMING; WITH OPTION
- OF 100 MOREJ
The United States Shipping Board
type.
on the morning of the 26th and he he kept saying fail to the coolles. paid the coolies off. The coolles Witness could not identify the Portu- were requisitioned to transport the guese as it was too dark at the time 50 steel plates which were missing and witness could not see his face." from the storeroom.
He (witness) was told that the man
In reply to Mr. Shenton the wit was a Portuguese and an employes of ness said he could not say it the the Dock Co.
There should be reasonableness in what men fight for. Half the things they quarrel over do not matter. Col. Lawrence Humphry is ap kong a large body of men trained in has authorised the sale to a London Harris would say in his evidence witness said he was sure the mas blue slip was forged or not, but Mr. In reply to Senhor Andrade the We have already, in a footnote to pointed to the Sanitary Board and police duties uporr whom the Govern buyer of 20 wooden steamers, each that he did not issue that slip on July was a European. Pressed further, Aledge is scarce. We must make shift his letter, peinted out to John Kestrel Medical Bard' during Col. Crisp's ment hopes it will not have to call of 3,500 dead-weight tons; at 300,000 25. Witness said he had no doubt he said the man might not have
with judgment. Truth is only a that we were not misled, and certainly absence.
in vain in an emergency. Members dollars each. The purchaser (un-whatever, that the signature on the been a Portuguese.M Mr. James Francis Brumby is proof the Police Reserve, on behalf of named) has been given an option on word for sincere statement of know- Kestrel, do the crowds who think visionally registered as a pharmacist. the Government I wish you farewell, 100 additional vessels of the same
not miserably misled." Does John ledge, and is conditioned by memory, like him, know what misery is? It experience, and capacity...
Long vacation begins Sept. 20. and and that the years of work you have When John Kestrel says we must is in no way related to trifles like ends Oct. 17.
dane will always be a pleasant. have discipline in the Police Reserves boots. Theretically we should be to be a washout.
newspaper paragraphs about brown The Lear Stearnship Company is memory to each one of you. be offers, an opinion as if it were an downhearted, dismayed, agitated, Yaxiom.
First there are these questions to
about this assertion that we have been kanswer:
miserably misled." We What is discipline?
should, that is to eay, be feeling Must, we have the Police Reserve? miserable. We are, on the contrary, as cheerful over it as are the people
If the answer to the second be no who every week sing out that they Zas.some think it should be, then it
were merely silly to say we must are miserable sinners." have a quality in a thing for which we have no need. It would be like Saying "I want no tea, and there
must be sugar in it.""
His idea seems to be that a news paper should refuse to publish any opinion which it does not share, or any starement for the truth of which
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
The Reserve then formed up
AFTER THS. PARADE
slip was Mr. Harris's."
The enquiry was adjourned at this Asked to explain how the slip was stage in order that the witness might not genuine if the signature was, the go to the jail at 4 pm, to attend an witness said that he supposed Soares Identification parade, and pick out had obtained an old slip signed by the accused.. and marched down town to Statue their acting chief and the parade was pencil marks, refilled the slip to suit Mr. Harris and after rubbing off the
LÄTER, Square, a big crowd watching "then dismissed.
It appears that the defending them pass. Assembling the staff the
his purpose. Mr. Harris's signature Counsel objected to the procedure, acting D.S.P.R. said to them: Officer,
was, of course, left untouched. just before I dismiss you I should like
and that the Judge agreed to take Chan Sau, storeroom coolie em the foregoing evidence all over again, is to be formally opened on Jan. 1st. to say that this is probably our last mind last night after the parade. Heployed by the Dock Co, said he in Chambers, on Friday morning
The Hotel people have just signed parade and I am very pleased to see said: Say, Inspector, frora to-morrow, knew. Soares who was an employee
Our reporter was not allowed in. a contract for another wing of re- that it is one of the best; a very fine if I ace you in uniform, and I kick
of the Docks."': On July 25, witness
There were two other Europeam a separate bathroom with modern body on it. I am very pleased indeed me to C. B. Get that. Put it in your storeroom. He (Soares) ordered the is to have these first enquiries: in sidential quarters, each room to have parade indeed. I congratulate every you behind, you'll not be able to send
satz Soares superintending the re- witnesses to be heard sanitary fitting. This wing is ex to see so many..
moval some steel plates, from the It appears the Portuguese custom rected to be ready for occupation
pipe and smoke it tonight.
The Inspector told him he was a witness to load the steel into the private, and a public trial later (in discourteous brute.
lighter.. Witness was present when November in this case).
The new hotel at Repulse Bay
next summer.
At the invitation of Surgeon Super intendent Jordan, the officers saluted
A Chinese police reservist eased his