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the war, and gave us books like The Red Horizon." It has suited employers to keep" a vast reserve of casual labourers, to be used when wanted, and turned adrift when sot. Fair is fair, and we should be as tolerant of the man who earns en Tough for his simple needs, and then downs. tools and betakes him back to the life he loves. He has as great a right to make a convenience of his labour as they have to make a con- venience of him,
shell is like looking for a snake in a pottle of hay, and if the boot business was not as black as John Kestrel painted it, no wonder Joja Guts is left in a brown study. Our curiosity is all worked up now to know who got the snake, and what they did with it..
Love is the true word for it, and the life requires no gushing sent-7/16d. mentalists to defend it. Who sees England more properly, more com-
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919.
LOGIL AND GENERAL.
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The s.a.Loksang,” (Captain » Arrangements are Simpson) sailed for Hongay at 8 a.m.,pleted for the tour through India and the Far East of the well-known today. She took no cargo..
English actress, Maria. Tempest in Her itinerary includes Hongkong. ber repertoire of Tempest comedies.
The .. "Foochow." (Capt Mecham) sailed for Swatow at 6 a.m.. today. She took no cargo.
-
Among the passengers on the will act as naval architect for Messrs. Asia are. Mr. W. R. Elliston, who John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. in
SPECIAL CABLE.
HONGKONG'S NEW GOVERNOR.
ENTERTAINED AT SINGAPORE.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SINGAPORE, September 24.
· The 3.5" Tamon Maru, (Capt Itoh) called for Hongay at 8 am. Today's dollar is worth 4/2 to-day. She took no cargo.
the East and Mr. S. Howard, who is Sir Reginald Stubbs arrived this
The s.5.
"Yuetshang." (Capt. an expert motor engineer from the morning accompanied by Messre Ross) arrived from Swa:ow yester- same firm.
McGrath (A.D.C) and Lee Warner (private secretary). He is the guest day with 100 tons of general cargo.
It is reported that two more to-day of Mr. Marriott, the deputy The se. "Kunghong," (Capt Bar and the Scarab, are due in China ment. He goes aboard after dinner monitors of the insect class, like the officer administering the Govern- Chunchai) sailed for Sammi at 6 a.m., shortly. They are called the Afeth to-night, and leaves to-morrow. We are informed by the Colonial today with 50 tons of general cargo. and the Mantis, and it is expected
Shanghai has been declared to pletely, than the man who wante not infected and quarantine has ders afoot throughout the land. been withdrawn by the Hongkong choosing his own pace, and ignoring Government. Time the slave-driver? No wonder that tramps went to war to fight for
It. It is the beloved possession of Secretariat that Shanghai has with such a man in a far completer sense drawn quarantine against Hongkong than it belongs to those who stay from 27th August." always in some corner of it. Tram-
Mr. A. W. Bliss, of the Hong-
kong, Whampoa Dock Co., and Mrs.
The 9.3.
Mason) sailed for Rangoon at 2 pm
"Hongmoh," (Capt.
to-day with 2,100 tons of general
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Ross) sailed for Swatow at 5 pm The s.s: Yuetshang." (Capt. to-day with 300 tons of general
cargo.
The 5.9. "Cornelia," (Capt.
Bliss and their child returned to the Guerreiro) sailed for Swatow at 6 Colony on the s.5. "Tenyo Maru" to-a.m., to-day with 200 tons of general
day.
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cargo..
ping. England, if you think a moment, Sir Charles Eliot K.CM.G.cargo. is a kind of patriotic uxoribusness. arrived to-day by the " Tenyo Maru " Luckily there is no danger of such and has no intention at present of reflections "corrupting" the nation proceeding to Londos. and making too many rush, like pigs. possessed, heading into vagrancy. Because there are very real hardships and discomforts and deprivations in the tramping life, and sentimental experimenters, even with boats un burnt behind them, and avoiding the sordid side of it, soon discover them. They curse George Borrow and go home again, to their picture palaces and promenade concerts. They miss the great secret of genuine vagrancy, the secret that. Arctic explorers and jungle trackers and Alpine climbers know. Happiness is a fruit of intense preoccupation, and tramping provides that and compels it. The ramp does not worry about to-morrow because he has so much to think of to-day.
Mr. C. C. Hickling, of Butterfield The $.5. "Kaiping." (Captain and Swire and Dr. (Mrs.) Hickling Nagaina) sailed for R.C. an at (MOH) returned to the Colony after am, to-day with 80 tons of general a holiday in Japan, on the "Tenyo cargo. Maru."
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will be withdrawn. that after their arrival the warships of the Foodcock and Woodiark type:
A Chinese crew which was eng-
KINEMA NOTICES.
the wages of the boatswain, carpen aged for a steamer in America and THE VICTORIA THEATRE. signed fresh articles in England had ter, steward and No. 1 fireman on the articles at £19 per month while that of the third officer, who held a first mate's certificate, was £17.
Three men were killed and 33 overcome with fumes and smoke. when, a fire broke out aboard the super-dreadnought "New Mexico," the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, on September 8, while she lay at anchor at San Francisco. The cause of the fire has not officially announced.
We understand that the "Prize Packets," who are appearing at the Victoria Theatre for a few nights commending from to-day have a programme which for diversity and attractiveness should enhance their reputation as a versatile English, vaudeville company. They drew crowded houses, at Shanghai and another successful season in Hong- kong is assured judging by their popularity. Besides the "Prise Packets" the 'programme at the Victoria to-night will include a bear- With yesterday's arrivals by tiful picture entitled "The Voice of Destiny" in which Baby Marie members of the Hongkong con- Osborne takes the title role. We are "Taiszema" (Capt. tingent-Messrs J. Rodger, A. H. advised to state that there will be no Lemos) anived from Pakhoi this Crew and W. C Labrum-have increase in admission prices..
returned to the Colony. Mr. Rodger morning with 300 tons of general is due here on the s.s. Khiva," cargo and 4 bags of mails.
whilst Messrs. Crew and Labrum are taking a holiday at Rome.
The ss. "Kunghong" Captain Amongst the local residents who } Chunchai) arrived from Finghoi yes- returned to the Colony by the "Tenyo terday with 35 tons of general cargos.s. "Thongwa," all except three Maru" to-day is Mr. R. H. Kotawell and I bag of mails. Manager of the Hongkong Mercantile Co, Lid.
The 9.3. "Cornelia," (Capt. Guerreiro) arrived from Swatow yesterday with 70 tons of general cargo and one bag of mails for Hongkong.
Across the years we hail them, companions of many a well spent day, colleagues, of many a ahift and stratagem,sharers of the quest for what was till then the secret of that which passeth understanding. Solvi te ambulando. They taught this
The s.s. "Tatoutse," (Capt. Le deponent and helped him, and it is Nillant) arrived from Saigon rester. but common gratitude to wish them day with 1,000 tons of general cargo well and a fair deliverance from the and 5 bags of mails. She also brought slanders and persecutions of them1 European passenger. that would now meddle with, such few as are left
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The 5.5. "Alaska Maru," (Capt. Moera) arrived from Yokohama yes- terday with 6,500 tons of genera cargo and 36 bags of mails..
The Peking Daily News says that, as a preliminary step towards the unification of the national language,
The S.5 "Sunning," (Capt. the Vice Minister of Education has Benson) sailed for Shanghai at noon organized a Commission in the Mink to-day with 500 tons of general cargo,stry of Education to study the dif
ferent dialects in the provinces as She takes 6 European passengers.
well as the measures to be devised to The s.s. "Tjiliboer," Captain
The story of the wholesale reduce them into a uniform tongue. Bouman arrived from New York arrest of students at Canton on Tues- this morning with 6,030 tons of oil,day night for boycott activities was
The German is as artful as ever. 150,000 casks of kerosene oil and exaggerated. Only eleven were According to the Aberdeen. Daily 18,000 barrels of grease.
detained.
The Canton Zimes begins its second year to-day. An unfortunate technical implication of the word prevents us from wishing it many happy returns," but we wish it
success.
ECHO OF THE RECENT EXTRADITION TRIAL.
A THREAT TO KILL
A Chinese, was, before Mr. N. L. Stith the noming charged with threatening Chan Woon's Ele.
Inspector Wutt said that only re cently he was in charge of the Ex- indeed in which Chan Hing was trudition Case before Mr. R. E.
A
As a con-
Journal, Germany renounced Shan-charged, on behalf of the Canton tung in order that it might prove as authorities with having kidnapped a apple of discord among the Allies. girl in Lantao. Chen Hing is now. After this warning Japan will, notin jail waiting for extradition doubt, ask Germany to take Shan brother of the gi gave evidence of tung back again. From Aberdeen the own of his sister. Far Eastern questions evidently fall sequence of this, defendant went on into perspective. This obvious ex Tuesday to No. 216 Des Your Boad planation of tow the Shantung Centrul (where the gal's bruthors clauses came to be perpetrated had were employed)," "saw the master of man
the shop and told him that he Ench not been noticed here.
arzunged to him,
the
Our correspondent "Papa" to-day has given us a happy phrase
Amongst those who arrived in tempest in a nutshell," for which we the Colony by the s.s." Tenyo Maru" are grateful. We like it. He has is Mr. E. L. Braga, one of the first also thrown great light on a thing batch of Hongkong men who volun- that puzzled us, namely, why John teered for war service in 1915..
a cryptic re- our philosophy, Stoic or Epicurean, Kestrel introduced
The ss. "Halyang," (Capt. utilitarian or mystically moral, we ference to poisonous reptiles in a
It is now about a week since, the are all in the hunt for happiness, letter supposed to be about brown Passmore) arrived from Singapore
It is now at 2:30 p.m. yesterday with 1,400 Canton Times promised to furnish and our tramp is one with the boots and discipline. temperament that takes the cash, apparent that the parties to this tons of general cargo and mails.detailed reasons for objecting to the Canton streetcar concession. We
A Survey of the waters in which Chan Woou, the master, givings BONOLONG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 35, 1919, and lets the credit go." To Eim fascinating controversy know each She carried 9 European passengers.
have searched it regularly but in the German ficet lies has established evidence said that in the recent end freedom in the hand is worth more other's identities and histories. Con-
The 9.s. "Kueichow," (Capt. vain for these.
the probability that seven of the tradition case, he was not concerned. than leisure in the bush; and in his sequently we arrive at something i
large battleships can be salved. Only two of his folią (the brothers makeup is that divine curiosity which more than a suspicion that John Jones) arrived from Tientsin at 7.30
The ss. "Tenyo Maru," (Capt. Accordingly the Admiralty has of the girl) went up to the Counts to is forever questing, always feeling Kestrel, in his first letter, showing a a.m., yesterday with 600 tons of that just round the next corner the laudable concern for our having been general cargo and 4 bags of malls. Maki) arrived from San Francisco placed contracts with a well-known give evidence. On Tuesday at 10- So already, so soon after the great chronic expectancy of the romantic
"miserably misled"" was not averse She brought one European passenger this morning with 555 tons of merch Liverpool salvage association. The in the morning defendant went to his
by
andise and gold coins for Hongkong, project will certainly involve the shop and asked. "Who is Chant war, the Home newspapers are be
concealing ginning to talk of the return of the spirit is to be gratified. He is rarely from further misleading
Witneen replied that be articulate enought to explain it, but
The s.s." Chenan," (Capt. Laver) She also brought 225 packages of expenditure of a large amount of the Woon?" had tramp, and to bewail it. For finders of to know him is to know it. At an
Defendant übert British public's money, and therefore was and arrived from Shanghai yesterday with mails and 91 European passengers.,
It is right that they should know who asked Have you any enemies ?""" mare's nests, foretellers of unimagin early stage of the war, (so writes the consequently personal motives. We 5,868 packages, and 443 tons of able evils, and habitual grabbers of Manchester Guardian seer) a tramp are not complaining. No harm has general cargo for Canton. She also The ss. "Kwangtah," (Captain is going to get the ships another Witness replied he had none
bags of mails for Stewart) arrived from Shanghai this nation or Britain.
Defendant continuing said. "Didn' the wrong ends of sticks, see these who had been befriended regularly been done. On the contrary, we brought 22
morning with 1,100 tons of general pestilential journalists. They have by a woman on his road of travel now have the advantage of an in- Hongkong.
cargo of which 450 tons were for no peers in the realm of making told her one day that he was joining teresting sidelight on the way in which local controversies may take
Hongkong. She also brought 43 adders out of mere blind-worms, and and added: What do you intend
For us we criminals of tramps.
to do when the war's over?" Do, have no mind to highways that lack lay?" he asked. Come back to the pedestrians who are eternally the road." It was the movement, going elsewhere.
The tramping the chance of travel, with perhaps a fraternity of the English roads, take spice of patriotism, which had at them by and large, and certes this tracted him to the army; but it was deponent knows them well, are men an interruption of his chosen career, maligned. At add times there's a and, as such he saw it. fool amongst them, as amongst all other phratries, a fool that frightens lonely women, intimidating to serve selfish ends. Sometimes, as in other communities, a thief appears; bu the vagrant who pilfers is resented by the rest, for he makes their hon. .est ways to be infested with
undeserved annoyances.
mole-hills into mountains, stinging the army. She expressed approval shapes perfectly well understood by Hongkong man who volunteered for bags of mails and European passen.
It is these exceptions to the rule,
Eo doubt, who are responsible for
the fear and mistrust of tramps,
and for the libels we now review,
for the mob is always ready to condemn a
the sake of one sinner in it, reversing
the generous order of the good God who for the sake of one righteous man will save a sinful city.
Clearly visible is
Mr. R. A. Carvalho another all the parties but not by the editor war service soon after the commen. of the paper who gives them cement of hostilities, returned to the
gers.
SHIPS IN HARBOUR.
you go up to the Police Court to give evidence against Chan Hing? I am offered $200 to kill you. Witness replied that he did not give aridence, only his two folair
publicity. We also have an object Colony to day by the "Tenyo Maru." The Parliamentary Secretary to List of vessels in port this bad. Witness then led out to
lesson of the way in which personal! He is accompanied by Mrs. Carvalho prejudices can obscure principles. If (a war bride) and their two children. a man asserts that the earth is flat, the proper thing is to look at the proposition and not at the man. But
the Ministry of Shipping recently morning. gave out figures showing that while British.— the total tonnage owried by Great Britain before the war lacked Kueichow According to returns published 1,500,000 of being half of the world's Haiyang if you happen to knew that the by the Shipping Control Bureau of tonpage, and the British war loss Halhong the truth author of the proposition once threw the Department of Communications, totalled 7,500,000 tons, the present Thongwa that it would not do for everybody a stone at the parrot of your maiden the total number of Japanese ships of tonnage of British ownership totals Sunning to take to tramping; but that's no aunt, or put a live frog in the bed over 1,000 tons each on official re- only 3,500,000 less than that of the Pasting argument against those who do. To room slipper of your wife's youngest cord at the end of June last, was 734, whole world, begin with, not everybody wants to. sister, or that he has a red Lose and aggregating 2,263,225 tons. Japan's Those that do not often envy those a repellant squint, it is very hard for mercantile fleet is now fourth in the that do, and to envy we may attri-you to avoid being prejudiced against world. bute much of the persecutions, the the flat-earth theory. This confirms savage laws, the stocks and pillories our favourite theory that the con
them off the roads. 1
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Loksang Hong Moh Re the freight rate on Indian Yuensang raw cotton to be imported into Japan Circe Shell between November, 1919, and Tean Two men asked him to carry a October, 1920, two meetings were Glenfalloch and prisons and policemen, that in ductor of a newspaper should himself parcel. When inquisitive police held in the latter part of August at Brisbane all these years have failed to drive possess no local acquaintances, but appeared, his employers ran away. Osaka between the cotton spinning Jason
preserve his impartiality by being an There was 20 taeld weight of opium mills' union and the leading steamship Laisang Be not misled, moreover, by eremite, unknowing and unknown of in the parcel. He didn't know what companies concerned. As the result, congregation for writers like Bart Kennedy, a wordy, the men whose arguments he may be he was carrying. Evidently Mr. Y.36 per ton was quoted for 800,000 Norwegian :
windy fellow at his test, who makes called upon to review. It was john Lindsell did not believe this story tons of raw cotton, and at Y5 less a very little knowledge cover a vast Kestrel, and not this paper, who was this morning, for he fined the burden per ton or Y.35 in case of there being Hero amount of printed paper. His exper-misted. In setting up to judge the bearer $2,000, with the alternative any excess quantity. iences were mainly with the American Great Brown Boots Question (and of eight months' imprisonment with “hobo,” and America is a compara- returning a verdict of unmitigated hard labour. tively new and lawless country, insubordination) he may have fluked where pistols are handy, and crime on the correct judgment. That is
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alle conspicuous, and (to the American still to be settled. But he must cer Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals tramp, who does not walk but steals tainly have reached it by a wrong acknowledges with thanks the follow. railway rides) work objectionable. route. It seems he disapproved of ing donations to the funds of the There are habitual tramps in England this young man's perverted sense of Hospitals: who do work, and work well. Perhaps humour, in sending a poisonous the most interesting road and doss snake to somebody unnamed, and housemate this deponent ever therefore decided that as Jojo Gutz bad a journeyman printer, was wrong in that instance he must worked at the case just also be wrong in the business of the long enough in any one place to pro- brown boots. That is possible, of vide funds for a further period of course, but it does not follow, any tramping. Where or what is the more than It follows because the moral difference between that and snake was harmless that the brown
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During the quarter ended in American--- March 1919, the total number and tonage of vessels which entered and Brooklyn cleared at Dairen was 1,246 vessels Tancerville of 1032,944 tons, showing, when compared with the same quarter in Russian 1918, an increase of 286 vessels and 121,453 tons. The percentages of Olaf the various flags were: 91.0 per cent. Japanese; 6.1 per cent. Chinese; 1.3 per cent British and 1.6 per cent. Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Russian
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More than half of the mines on the es "Delta
Mr. E. L. Braga left here with
Japanese Tango Maru Alaska Maru Tamon Marti Ujo Maru Seshu Maru Kairiu Maru Nippon Maru Amakusa Maru" Hoten Maru Masayoshu Maru
Chinese
Talszema
Yuetshang Kwangtah
Tsenglee
Yangtzekiang
Chikshang
Shunshing
Namkam
Fech-
Hanoi Songma
Dutch
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BACK FROM THE WAR..
Amongst the passengers who the original Hongkong contingent arrived in the Colony "yesterday by
the street where there were fourteen men gathered. Two jokia followed witness, and one saw defendant hold up his hand as a signal, and be im mediately caught hold of him, and the shopkeepers blow whistles so defendant was arrested, while the fourteen men ran away,
Defendant said flat a rumour went round the country" that Chan Woon gave evidence uguinst Chan Hing in Hongkong." He came down, went to the shop and told Chan Woon, the news. He did threaten him.
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His Worship: What about the fourteen men?
Defendant: I don't know who they wore..
His Worship: You did mention the $2007. What was it for?
Defendant: I know nothing about
it
His Worship: Three months".
EXPORTING SUBSIDIARY.
COINS.
ANOTHER PROSECUTION.
The new proclamation increasing the amount of small change tha inay be taken out of the Colony to $8 hea not stopped breaches of the
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The morning young Chine
There is also the scornful attitude which dubs them all lazy, idle rascals, and though it do no more itself than count partridges in coveys and sit once a week at Petty Sessions, sees in work per se a panacea for the pre sumed wickedness of all eccentrics. Robert Louis Stevenson played at the tramping game himself and got in sight into the life and psychology of ft. In one of two pleasant little books, either "Travels with a donkey" or the one about his boating trip on the Rhone, he tells of an adventure with authority that was due to his tramp-like appearance, and he cried, reality" meaning one that has no slave who "saves up" for a summer hope we make ourselves quite clear. resources other than his two hands holiday or a motor tour through the If a policeman wears brown boots North Sea in a field 250 miles long 5 months in the early part in 1917, returned from the war: Messrs. charged. and his wits. And in another place, country? One of our best minor on parade when black, boots are and thirty miles wide from the Dog during which time he was training Spiers, Rapley, Jack, Johnston, He pleaded ignomnce of the law... touching this matter of work, he says poets is a tramp. We blush for our stipulated for in the regulation, he gerbank off the Dutch Coast to the for his commiasion, was in active Brown and Morley, who were called He was a visitor from the country, it is not by any means certain that. treacherous memory, that falls to rehas no right whatever to send even Scandinavian waters, have been service in France, from February up, under the Military Service Act, and had earned this money while in A man's business is the most im call his name. Bernard Shaw, we a harmless snake to anybody, friend destroyed by an American mine 1915 until the early part of 1918 or Hickling and Captain Oliver, Hongkong. portant thing he has to do. He did believe, stood godfather to one of his or foe. On the other hand, it would sweeping fleet. Seventy five ships when he was badly wounded. Het the RG.A.. Mr. C. Railton, and A Police, sexgeard and that much. not know, with all his nutable insight books. Patri-k McGill, the author, be patently absurd to wear the snake are cleaning off the mine fields, des was released from hospital just prior Mr. Mycock, of Queen's College, people were not Ekely to see the and sympathy, that in truth the Was one of those hard-working on parade and to send John Kestrel troying all the mines which it cost to the signing of the armistice. Mr. M Weston, another Hongkong zotices posted up. Perhaps his Woc- Suxiness of a tramp is tramping. tramps who help to construct great--the boots, especially as we are yet more than G.4800 each to lay, the Braga was a very keen sportsman man called up for service, went ship would give the man the op- amping as a ware contributor public works, and then move on. without any, evidence whatever as total cost of laying the American and figured prominently in cricket, ashore at Singapore, whence he pro-portunity of changing he earnings to the Manchester Guardian has Literary friends established him to the colour of the snake, whether mine field being nearly G.$50,000,000, teants and football In Hongkongceeds to Kuala Lumpur to take up into notes, as he was genuinely
"respectably in London, but he it was brown or black. To find the The British mine field in the North He left the Pattic Mail here to join the management of the Robinson ignorant of the In? recently told the people, is as much a career as anything else,, Whatever I could not stand it. He too went to real issue in this tempest in a aut Sea contains 40,000 mines.
Fiano Co., there.
Mr. Smith Money confiscated.
on December 2 the B.L. LB. Thongwa," were the found with $15 worth of ten-cent
what it must be to be a tramp in the conduct of the diligent city boots were in order on parade. We laid by the American Navy in the 1914, and with the exception of 4 or following Hongkong men who have soins on the Loung Wing wharf was.
the Colours