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superior understanding, or he is condemned as unworthy; and this is called judging him fairly. The most painstaking, saving, indus trious man is not free from the desire of leisure; there are times when he is unable to bring him. self to the conclusion that he must continue working. I know not how
For that's the moral of your
"reasoned" sODE.
Unless your yesterday's edition's
#Tong.
We thought we had scored rather neatly over that
petty jealousy." His poem was a sarcastic poers. He must really concede us that. In an editorial note in the same paper that
LOGAL, AND "GENERAL.
To-day's dollar is worth 4/2 11/16d.
To-day's return of communicable disease is blank.
A branch office of the Asia
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1919.
A CHARGE OF ADULTERY.
SUMMARY JUSTICE.
THE SHOOTING IN QUEEN'S ROAD.
INDIAN WATOHMAN FINER.
At the Magistracy this morning, a Chinese employed at the Nanyang At the Magistracy yesterday after Brothers Tobacco Company, was noon Ameer Aslam, and Indian
to describe the sickening aversion printed it we found it sententiously Banking Corporation was opened at | charged with committing adultery watchman was charged before Mr.
cent petty jealousy," and so we said: {
On rhymed sarcasm much time The 5.3.
has spent
To learn 'tis jealousy, 99 per
cent."
Olen," (Capt. Darling) sailed for Mania this morning with 300 tons of general cargo.
which at times steals over the work-remarked that 'sarcasm is 99 per Canton on the 8th inst. ing man and utterly disables him, for a longer or shorter period, from: following his usual occupation, andu compels him to indulge in idleness. I have felt it, resisted it to the utmost of my power, but have been so completely subdued by it that, spite of very pressing circum- stances, I have been obliged to submit and run away from my work. This is the case with every
you
stake.
At least his leader-writer makes
that point
And puts his master's nose quite
out of joint
The ss. "Yuetshang. (Capt Ross) sailed for Swatow this morning with 600 tona of general cargo.
The 9.5. "Haitan." (Captain Stewart) sailed for Foochow at 1 p.m. to-day with 2,000 cons of general
cargo.
The s.s."Yuensang," (Captain Kennedy) sailed for Manila at 3 pm. ro-day with 1.150 tons of general
cargo.
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The 3.8. "Kwonglee," (Captain. Sangster) sailed for Shanghai this morning with 700 tons (of general
cargo.
The 3.5.
In his reproaches for our "cruelly foul abuse." he manages to make it workman I have ever known; and appear that we had accused him of in proportion as a man's case is stooping, to petty jealousy. We hopeless will such fits more fre- didn't. We accused him of sarcasm. quently occur and be of longer It was his own servant who did the daration. The best informed rest. And there's always the odd among the workmen will, occasion-one per cent of sarcasm that is not ally, solace themselves at such petty jealousy, anyway. Seriously cargo. times with liquor; the uninformed of course, the thing's quite silly.. will almost always recur to the Whe'd suspect this poet of jealousy? The 9.9. "Akita Maru," (Capt." same means to procure the excite. He is known to be a clever, learned Nagai) aalled for Shanghai this ment which must be procured."
man, with no need to be jealous of morning with 900 tons of general Work is a pleasure when you any one. enjoy it, but even congenial occupa
The "moral" or "song" was tion, unduly prolonged, will make merely that we understood Mr. Scott recent Harston to be a director of our junior Experience, experience, has shown that by contemporary, and hence could guess reducing the time atretches of hard the motive with which he devoted or monotonous labour, the output his undoubted talents to printing in was improved, and the workers that contemporary jibes at a success. happier. Assume that the existence fut competitor for public favour Ltd of Hongkong denendest upon some Because answered back, it Wouldn't we all rhythm and rhyme which perhaps be very careful to make obscured our high good humour, he cruelly foul him
comfortable
we now accuses us of 13 could, so that he should not fail us. abuse Here are his words: Why, we would be, fussing round
1, for my own part, doubt if ever him, asking him if he didn't feel tired, couldn't he do with a spell off, and so on. Our highest and richest would take turns to fan our support. ing Atlas in hot weather, and carry bim nourishment. Now isn't it
that Society, which quee: supported in that very way hy the Atlas of Labour, and cannot continue to exist for long without it (because the volunteer peeresses soon tire) should regard it You see, he gives himself away differently. "Ah! Yes!" it says,
"fairly in. that claim to have
The Chine Mail languidly. "Atlas! To be sure. A hit, at him."
him: 2
it'a It The low fellow, who'd get into mischief isn't
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCT. 1; 1919, -
THE MODERN ATLAS.
to our
coolie Atlas.
83
is
Pope,
we
Een in his harshest vein e'er lent
his scope
"Changchow" (Capt. Partridge) sailed for Singapore this morning with 600 tons of general
cargo.
To-day is the Chinese Republic national day. There will be na issue of the vernacular papers in the
Colony.
The s.s. "Nissin Maru," (Capt. To pour abuse in terms so cruellys. Shioshita) arrived from Kesiung
foul
(Though as a Critic he'd a little
scul)
On one who'd ventured, 'void' of
anonym,
This Muse to fairly hit at
him.
if we didn't keep him busy. What?writers it employs do not exist as He proposes to let us drop. to individuals. If this poet has a quar. strike" The traitor! The Bolshe-rel with anonymous journalism. let him abolish it in the two journals in vik! The subversive scoundrel!"
This does not prove that all which he has financial interest. One "strikes" have been just, though it of the best writers on our staff also Roes some way toward showing they objects to anonymous journalism, were natural. But it does provide a and would prefer to have all articles. point of view which will rectify your signed, but it is a tradition of British judgment on such occasions, pre-journalism that anonymity has its serve your balance, and save you uses, and the adverse views of a from violent and prejudiced verdicts. mere employe here and there don't perfect. The whole is greater than its The workers are prone to those, count. They are, in fact, in respect- parts, and a moment's thought shows now that they are being educated able offices held to be Bolshevistic that the third equality embraces History, with its long record of ex- and subversive. the other two. The men who could ploitation and oppression of their be happy without liberty are to class, angers them, arouses suspi seck.
The pursuit of liberty is cion and mistrust in them, and makes one form of the pursuit of them less just than they should be, happiness, and to men of our race But between provoker and provoked, of who should first keep his temper? It is a fact that Atlas has been much
POETRY, POLEMICS, AND
ROTTEN FRENCH.
liberty is the sine qua non happiness.
if in pursuit of number one, as in provoked. The Singapore Free Press, referring laborious forms of breadwinning, local opposition to the too much of a man's time is occupied, usurping of the legislative function it is clear that he has less liberty by the Executive Council, could not than the man of leisure, yet his right do so without à preamble in which to both is equal. This covers the it showed its chronic ignorance question of shorter hours of labour. of the principles of sociology. If it is argued that it is to the interest
After this, if you please, we pro- Here is the part we object to. of suciety at large that Production be
All mea may be born equal increased (as we have been repeatedly pose to leave poetry and French alone, and stick to English prose. It which we doitht: all men ought to told lately) it will probably be added is not yet settled whether our French have equal opportunities-which that production can only be increased is worse than our poetry, or t'other is a counsel of perfection: but all by the producers working longer or way about, but both have served to Granting this we show how closely the China Mail is men are not equal ten minutes harder or both. after they are born, and the in- grant a social and wholesale restric read and scrutinized. That's good equality increases every year they tion of the majority's second equility for our advertisers. live. Prima facie, therefore, all their equal right to liberty. During men are not entitled to have the recent strike Reuter gave us a an equal share in the Govern- little picture of peers trundling trucks ment under which they live. and peéresses unloading them. What All men are born with equal needs law is it, human or divine, that gives untrue. and again reproachful. our southern contemporary will peers and peeresses more liberty They are headed Physician, heal scarcely doubt that. All men ought than the regular truckmen and thyself," which is a quotation with to have equal opportunities to secure cargadores? If they have not in fact an implication the poet, cannot have those needs which is not a counsel nor liberty, why should that incid-intended. The words
Our local poet Scott Harston addresses to us about 30 lines of rhymed verse, which are in turn sarcastic, reproachful, pathetic,
were first
Do you, in honour, really think
that I'm
of perfection but a proposition of ent (or alleged incident) appear so uttered by a bad man to a good one. justice: Prima facie (and after remarkable to Reuter? Whence is
He asks:- that as often as you like to look at derived the moral sanction that per it) all men are entitled to such share mits us to call a resting toller an in the government under which theyidler, a lazy man, and to call an oc live as will ensure to them those casional worker (like those lime-light vital needs which they have in com pecr3) a hero? Search us. We don't mon and to which their equality of know
..That which you call me in your
"biting" rhyme?
Do you believe that I am what
you say,
Let this poet remember in his 'fair hitting" in future to hit at an institution (the China Mail) and not at some individual he postulates behind it. Let him also remember that a poet who publishes his verses with his own full name in capital letters attached invites replies and criticism as to an individual.
It is true that he could reply ra this that our ansivering verses were attributed to "Pope and Co.," and that that might hide an individual. But that was ajape that could have deceived no intelligent person. Some
yesterday with 1,100 tons of coal for Hongkong
with a married woman. The
defendant pleaded not guilty. He N. L. Smith with the larceny of a | said that while he was in the piece of leather belonging to the factory, he was told by the woman, Kwon Wah Lung firm of No, 214 who was also employed there, that
she was an unmarried woman. He Queen's Road Central and with shoot- had been invited to visit her, and ing one of the employees there, found out that she was a married. Mr. C. F. Mason was for the pro- woman when he was arrested. secution and Mr. J.-H. Gardiner re-
Both parties were employed in the presented defendant. tobacco company. The woman's Wang Ching, a managing partner husband, a coal coalie, on returning of the firm deposed that at about 5 home last night, found the defendant pm, on September 26 while the and his wife in a cubicle. He at meal hour was going on, defendant once reported to the Police and the was seen coming into the shop, and defendant was arrested.
take up a plece of leather and put it The husband was called.
into his pocket. One of the jokis shouted at him, when defendant threw down the piece of leather and".. abused the foki by striking him with the rifle he was carrying. Witness blew his whistle, and defendant, at the doorway fired two shots with the rifle at the fold whom he had assaulted, but they missed. Witness believed that the only reason the defendant shot at the foki was because the latter had raised the alarm first, and accused the defen- dant of stealing the leather when he first entered the shop:
His Worship-Are you married? Witness Yes.
Is she your first wife, kiz fat ? Yes.. How long have you been married? About six years,
Do you know this man?- No, I have never seen him before. Not a friend of yours? No.:
The wife was then called.. Is the last witness your husband? Yes.
What do you know about this man (defendant)?
He has work in the Cigarette factory?
•
And you are working there too? Yes.
Did he know you were married? Yes.
Did you tell him so? Yes.
Kam Tso, in charge of the Shi Hing Steamship Company, of No. 20 Bonhand Strand West, said that on the 26th, while he was walking in Queen's Rozd Central, he saw defer- dant entering the shop, and he was carrying a rifle with him. He was surprised at what he saw, and The stayed on the road when a Did you often ask him to stay with short time after he heard shots fired, and the defendant was running out No.
defendant Bat did you ask him on this of the shop. He saw
being arrested. by a Sanitary .occasion?
Inspector. No. He came that night to; my
my house any more.
He had never been to your house before?
you?
The 5.5. "Muroto." (Captain Takano) arrived from Hongay yester place but I told him not to step into day with a through cargo of coal for Hongkong.
*
The 3.5. "Childer," (Capt. Matthiason) arrived from Sebathk
Hongkong. yesterday with 2,200 tons of coal for
... .
The s.s."Ariake Maru," (Capt. Sasanuki) arrived fros. Moji yester day with 3,325 tons of coal for Hongkong.
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The s.s."Tenkin Maru" (Capt. Horiuchi) arrived from Miike this morning with 3,000 tons of coal for Hongkong.
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The ss. 'Hupeh," (Capt. Jones arrived from Bangkok yesterday with 2,000 tons of general cargo and
bag of mails.
No. He only visited me the last few nights.
What would you yourself expect to receive if you were in Canten? Have you any children?
Wong Nin, the foki of the shop, said he saw defendant come in to the
shop, and take up a piece of leather and put it in his pocket. He shouted out to him to stop and when he asked for the leather, defendant pulled it out from his pocket and dropped it on the ground. Immediately witness was. struck by defendant on the left side and he blew his whistle. Defendant
No, I have no children. Does your husband treat you well? ran out of the stop, first firing two
shots at him with his rifle. Giving you rice?
He treats me very good.. His Worship fined defendant $100 or three months'
His Worship:-1f you have the is to be given to the woman's money to pay, compensation of $50
husband.
SHIPS IN HARBOUR.
List of vessels in The Netherlands Indian Govern. ment has rescinded the decree morning. declaring Hongkong an infected part British- on accourt of plague.
Tean The 9.3. Chusan," [Cap'ain War Sepoy
Bangkok Chusan Davies) arrived from yesterday with 1,500 tons of general Hupeh cargo and 4 bags of mails.
The annual meeting of share holders of Messrs A. S. Watson and of the lines were Pope's, and the Co. will be held-at the Hongkong paraphrases and additions would be Hotel at noon on October 20, understood by the aforesaid "in- telligent person) as emanating from the China Mait redactional staff.
O touchy Poet! Who dost take
so hard
Our repartee and merely playful
chaff,
Why not, O Harston, drop the
serious hard?
Try lighter lyrics, and go learn
to laugh?
FALSE RUMOUR ABOUT BUSINESS FIRMS.
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Yesterday there was a "run On the savings association of the Sincere and Sun Companies and rumour had it that it was due to the boycott of
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mails.
Circeshell Pheumpenh Kwangse Haitan Yuensang
Bessie Dollar Taikoo Wan Yi
The $5. "Namwan," Capt. Lieushing Costa) arrived from. Hoihow yester- Chaksang day with 200 tons of general cargo Yatshing and 4 bags and 1 basket
Changchow Haimun Mr Charles Bernard Brown of Kolya Hongkong was elected a non-resident Jason Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute Laisang at the last meeting of the Council.
Japanese
Indian constable B192 stated that while he was on duty at about 5 p.m. on that day in Queen's Road Central he heard the firing of two shota. He given into his charge. The defend- ran forward, and the defendant was ant's hand was bleeding when be was being brought to the Station, The defendant called to the box by Mr Gardiner, said that he had been a watchman for only a few months. On September 26, he was on" duty port this from 2 to 6 p.m., between the Fire Station and 250 yards west, He did not enter the shop, and had no know- ledge of the piece of leather. It was at about 5 p., when he saw & hawker carrying two baskets of fruit on the footpath. Witness told him to go on the road. This place was op- posite the complainant's shop, and one of the fois told to another that be (witness) was insolent and instructed.. the coolie to strike him. The coolie then dropped the baskets on the ground, picked up a bamboo pole, and witness was struck. One of the foris of the shop ran out and snatched his rifle. During the struggle, the foki was accidentally struck by the rifle. He fired two shots only for the purpose of threatening the people as there was then a crowd.
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Katori Maru Bujun Maru
Sashu Mare Amakusa Maru Katsura Maru
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The 5.8. Hoiping." (Captain Nogueira) sailed for K. C. Wan this Batavia morning with 80 tons of general cargo and 2,000 cases of kerosene American ***
oil.
Olen
"The s.s. "Satsaki Maru," (Capt. Tancerville Yabuta) arrived from Chingwantao this morning with 1,200 tons of coal Norwegian — for Hongkong and 1.300 tons for
Childar
Canton.
Dutch-
Limburg Ajax Tjiliboet
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INDECENT ASSAULT.
Mr. Gardiner said that as far as the prosecution went, the evidence of larceny against his client was weak. The only evidence given required support. The piece of leather defen dant was alleged to have picked up, was useless to anyone but the owner. The shop people had a grievance against him, and no doubt their feelings towards him were--more or less, hostile. The cause of his firing the rife was only to frighten the people around, as he was afraid that in the event. of an attack he would soon be overpowered. The defendant bad not the slightest intention of doing anybody harm. A dance will be held at the
His Worship remarked that it was right and title is everywhere admitted. It is invariably people of pleasant,
A worthless money grabber any these firms in Canton. There was
not likely that defendant attempted who call the
day, Let us take the American formula light avocations
some sort of scare. Enquiries made Palace Hotel, Kowloon, to-morrow
to steal the leather. He had no for these, "Life, liberty, and the working classes lazy. They know
That's the worst of prosody. The this morning, elicit the explanation night. The band of the s.s. "Nile."
intention of injuring anybody by pursuit of happiness," one, two, nothing of strenuous, monotonous need of rhythm and of rhyme leads that the rush yesterday was not will be in attendance and will play
at dinner time.
firing with his rifle, but he was three essentials 'any labour, and it is like trying to a man astray so far from fact. If due to the boycott but to
of
given the privilege to use firearms well ordered a ciety. Of the first, explain red and green to a congenit the China Mail had called Mr. anniversary of the Republic and
The as. War Sepoy," (Capt.
only in case of emergency, and this life, there is less need to speak. There ally blind man to get them to see Scott Harston that, he would surely naturally people wanted money
was not one. He would diamiss the Harrison) arrived from Vladivostock is hardly a society, down to the most thatthere is something to be said from not have been content to address to celebrare this great .day. barbarous that does not concede the the point of view of the indispensable more verses us. His communica- We are glad to be able to say that yesterday with 4,848 tons of oil. fuel before Mr. R. E Lindsell this morn-charge of 1rceny, and fine defendant right to live to very man. Our erfs whose occasional reactions tion would have been, quite properly, despite the rumour which must have 10 European passengers and 6 bags ing, with committing an indecent $100 or three month on the second
assault on a girl aged 13.
charge of shooting coroners and their juries are evidence inconvenience and annoy them. For in legal prose.
In the last two lines been maliciously spread by certain of mails from Field Post Office 201.
Inspector Macdonald said that the in our case of the jealousy with their pursuit of happiness it is of that bit quoted he says we said enemies of the firms, that both the
Ah King has sold his fine boat defendant and the girl's mother lived which we guard this righ, and there
what we never said, and what's more,
King I" to Mr Waldegrave, the price, on the same flat of a house in Wui are some people who go so far as to
we never thought it
we understand, being $10,000 At On Lane in Salyingpun. On the doubt society's right to kill mur
auction the other day Mr E. Banje, night of the 7th inst, while the .derers.
bought the motor launch "Mascotte" girl's mother was absent from for $1,900.
the house, her daughter (complain. want) was alone, in het cubicle. THE DEAN ?? The cheap seling of rice by the She went to sleep at 10 p.m. Tung Wah Hospital to the poor stop Shortly after, the defendant living in ped yesterday. The stork has been the next cubicle, went laro the girl's sold out. There are a few bags of cubicle, and committed the offence. rice left for Samshuipo Dia rich but The defendant was that is only sufficient to last for 2 or arrested. 3 daya.
and
Of liberty much more requires to be said. That in the social state no man can claim more than a cun ditional liberty restricted to such freedom as does not trespass on the rights of his fellow men, is a com monplace. That Iruism makes plain the conclusion that in respect of liberty all men are and must be equal, and that only in the name of and for the sake of, society at large. can any man's liberty be restricted. The application of this to Labour Questions will be made apparent by discussing the third equality-the pursuit of happiness.
No formula of this kind can be perfect. It is obvious that even the gracious words of the American Declaration are incomplete and im-
necessary that the majority should carry on by, the sweat of its brows. The pursuit of happiness by the toilers is resented. The Japan Chronicle quotes a writer of 1829 whose words are apt. He says:
"Relaxation becomes absolutely necessary, and this is sought in change in his pursuits and in change of-place by every one * whose means enable him to indulge in what is, in relation to the work- ing man, called idleness-the word being used in respect to him in ita worst and most opprobrious sense. The working man must have no relaxation; he who drudges con- samly against his will must have no such propensities as are allowed and cherished in, his superior; the unintellectual man must exert greater powers of mind than the intellectuai man; must show by his conduct that his is the
Here's another churk, still pur porting to show what we said:
One who would simply never lend
a hand,
Save in return for coinage of the
land, Paid in hard cash by men who
work as slaves, And by their toil's own sweat dig
their own graves,
One who, bereft of every Instinct
kind.
Would stoop to petty jealousy, and
blind
the
Sincere and Sun Companies are as sound financially, as ever they were.
The s.s. "Manila Maru" (Capt. Kobayashi) arrived from Tacoma via Manila yesterday with 350 tons of steel bars, matches, machinery and general cargo for Hongkong. She also brought 103 bags of malls.
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AN OLD MAS CHARGED.
A man of 65 years' was charged
afterwards
His Worship remanded the case.
MURDER SUSPECTED.
*N, POLICE-
SI (P
mate was dis- Police * believed
Wan Seng, alice as It pheared
Carey changer
A dead birds covered by the Sipway At You that the mau sak who was repe There has been a rapid fall in
missing no she The Dockyard Recreation Club the price of the shares of the big
that a few dent. atores in Canton. This is due to the held a whist drive in the Naval Yard
TYPHOON WARNING. Ballwing
Bhno sent nam boycott movement by the students. on Wednesday night.
Phose with Sor The stores are estimated to have were the prize winners: Ladies —
The telegram aunted below was Japanese ro several million dollars worth of the 1st, Mrs. Harrison, 2nd, Miss Taylor; · To help to fill his pocket, un-low grade goods. The situation 3rd, Mrs. Holiidge; Booby prize. Mra. received at the U.S. Consulate from return and a wo
The dend concerned,
grew so serious that they issued a Collins. Gentlemen.-1, Mr Irvine: the Manila Observatory at 9:30 a.m. Police manifesto promising to buy or sell no 2nd, Mr. Matthews; 3rd, Mr. Fox: October 10, Low pressurearea over found was dead and hardly
North China Sea.
recognisable. Murder is suspected.. Booby prize, Master Burden.
Himself to all the nobler ends of
life,
Merely to foster "limping, verse"
and strife,
So long as he got money, how
t'was earned?
more.
a cortait +ons and And not-
-
de to the
which was
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