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THER CITINA MAIL.
Sight of Defence HONGKONG Corps orders yester VOLUNTEER day reminded us that
DEFENCE
we made a suggesti CORFS,
a very respectfully submitted suggestion: that the members to whom thè ¡naming of the caros has been left should call it the Hongkong Volunteer
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. | Defence Corps, or Voluntary Defence
A firecracker skop situated behind Corps. When we were very young the Town Hall was ablaze on Wed we held a shell to our ear to hear thenesday evening. It soon developed surge of ocean. Now that we are into a three cornered blaze, at one old we have to get a microphone to time threatening an extensive area hear the response of Hongkong The Brigade was handicapped by people co good advice. What about frozen hydrants. The severe cold this? It does matter, you know.
caused the water on the ground to freeze, and the firemen were slipping. There were several narrow escapes from electrocution by falling wires.
MASONIC WAR MEMORIAL.
Mr. Edward S. Little is a SHANGHAI Shanghai resident whose AGAIN. opinions will carry more weight than ours can on the subject of Chinese representation on the Municipal Council. He says that to repress the movement and
[China Mail SPECIAL.] compel the payment of taxes would have a disastrous result. He refers Incidentally to the unrise taxation
SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. serion of the last Ratepayers' meet The district grand master of thi ing. He maintains that the request district grand Lodge of northern masonic war to be allowed representation is a China will unveil a most reasonable one. "It is a claim memorial in honour of local mason we cannot resist and still be true to fallen in the war: This on January our own political ideal" He says 22, at a regular meeting of the the man who says "this is a Foreign Lodge. Settlement and if the Chinese da not
THURSDAY. JANUARY 15, 1920.
MUSICAL NOTES.
· UNIVERSITY OF HONG-
KONG
TBy COUNTERPOINT", }
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FOURTH CONGREGATION.
UNLAWFULLY THROW-
ING A CONSTABLE."
When a Chinese was this morning charged before Mr. N. L. Smith with Obstructing a Chinese constable in
was on
duty in
the
A reader of this column has asked me when am I going to "reply "to the Adversarialist in the matter of On the occasion of the Congrega.the performance of his duty, and the comments on music generally tion at the University on Friday- unlawfully throwing the said const January 16, 1920, Tea will be able into the harbour, he pleaded not and opera in particular,
served in the Old Unien Common guilty and said he knew nothing As a matter of fact, it was my inRoom of the University Building about the affair. tention to refrain from comment be from 4.00 5.00 p.m. At 5.00 The constable, C229, gaye evidence cause really, there can be no con p.m. a procession Including the and said he clusive argument and any amount of honorary graduate, the members of the Prays at about 945 EL.III. controverty would only leave matters the court, council and senate of the yesterday, when, passing precisely where they stood in the frat University will enter the Great Hall Bank Wharf opposite Pottinger Members in this procession will as Street, he saw a crowd of about ten place.
semble and robe in the Pro-Vicemen gambling on, the wharf. He Since, however, it appears I am Chancellor's room at 4.45 p.m. went up to them and grabbed the After His Excellency The Chan- man with the cards. The other men expected to make some sort of 1 statement from the music lover's cellor has taken his seat and declared then set upon him, and after the point of view, I can only reiterate the Congregation open, the Univer defendant had succeeded in taking what has been stated time and again alty anthem will be played by the witness's prisoner from him, he by authorities far more competent to band of the 2nd Battalion of the shoved witness from behind and precipitated him into the water. deal, with the matter than myself. Wiltshirts.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor will then Witness said they all then ran present for honorary degrees: Sirkway. The water was very It is quite obvious that the Adver Henry May, KCMG, (In Absentia) deep at the spot where sarialist is one the vast majority Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, CM.G. winese fell in. It was lucky he knew whose castitutional make-up does The Dean of the Faculty of how to swim, or he would have not include the necessary faculties Medicine will then present for the drowned, as the small craft in the for the appreciation of good music, vocal or orchestral, therefore no degree of M. D., Mr. G. H. Thomas, vicinity all pushed off as witness fell amount of argument would convince him that, for some people. gesture or
emphasised and enhanced when com bined with song, provided the former is always subservient to the latter. That of course, is opera.
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like it the can go elewhart is a TALENTS WASTED BY BOOZI. action, in certain circumstances is
shall thinker." "By exactly" the some line of reasoning we have no rights or tates in China."
FOWER.
There are various way3
in which one human be
ing can impose his or her will upon another. There is
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. Horace Wood, a former American army officer and college graduate,
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The reason of the unassailable
M.B., B.S.
to the water. Witness, despite the The graduates in medicine und fact that he could swim well, had engineering will then be presented much difficulty in fighting his way by the Deans of their Faculties. back to the wharf. When he got The Dean of the Faculty of ashore, he went straight to the Engineering will then present Mr. Central Police station where J. M. Jack for the degree of B. Sc. he reported the matter and (War).
after changing his clothing. went The honorary graduate will make out with several plain clothes men a speech after which the Chancellorto search for the bad men. When simpl bulking, and what is called was sentenced to nine months intitude of the Adversarialist is the will declare the Congregation closed. they got to the wharf, he pointed the The procession will return to the defendant out to the other men as the arbitrament of war. There is Bilibid prison at Manila by Judge same as that which prevents me
from regarding Shakespeare (read) Pro-Vice-Chancellor's rooth..
the person who threw witness into hribing. There is coaving and wheed Lobingier at the American court in
in any other light than that of ant Visitors are requested to remain in the water. The defendant tried to ling and deceiving. There is threa Shanghai. The charge was vagrancyunutterable boor, and makes me their places until the procession has
run away, but witness and his Weed will undergo treatment for tening-which is really a 'department
colleagues closed in on him and of the bullying. All of them are alcoholism while in prison. He is a believe that if a man to-day wrole left the Great Hall.
Fick- a book on the same lines as
arrested him. Wimess was sure the wrong. There is no right way of man of extraordinary talents, and wick Papers" he would have a very
defendant was the man who shoved doing it. because it should not be was recently holding a good position difficult ask in getting a firm to
him into the harbour. done. To secure conformity of ac.in an American firm, tion, when such is desired, argument; and reason should be used. If it fails, the desire should be relinquished.
If it succeeds. There is no question of ore will over-riding nother, for the secord will has become like the first. Yet sotne men love power and desire it. Why? As well ask why some men get barb r's itch or dyspepsia.
At one time it was PREPAREDNESS, considered the
acme of wisdom
CHINA'S BIGGEST BANE.
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NEW SHANGEAI QUARTERS FOR H. & S. BANK.
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ICHINA MAIL SPECIAL.]]
publish it
It is impossible to make an indivi- duat like a thing if his natural in- stinct rejects it, and there should be no dictation. Some people are roused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm by things which leave others unmoved As an instance take my own case. have wandered through the art galleries in London for hours and hours and have been entranced by a whistler nocturne in blue and gold but
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HONGKONG UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL CLUB.
The Hongkong University Basket ball Clue has the honour to announce that an inaugural match will be play on the Football Ground in the University between May Hall and Eliot Hall on Friday, January 16, 1920, at 3 p.m.
Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, C.MG.,
and gentlemen, who intend to be consented to throw off.
The public and specially those ladies
The defendant said he knew no- thing about the affair. He was not present when the lukong was thrown into the water. He was on his way to the market when he was arrested. His Worship: Are you aware of the seriousness of your act? The lakong would have drowned if he bad not known how to swim did not shove him.
His Worship: Do you know that if the lukong bad not known bow to
could have been charged with mur swim, he could receive assistance" der?-If he did not know how to
SHANGHAI, January 15. A palatial new building for the Hongkong Bank will be started in and pure mtriotism ta preach prefour months, and take two years for a moonlight walk through the Hima- Vice-President of the Club has kindly swim and had been drowned, you paredness ur war, and though that completion. It will be the largest has left me cold (in more senses than layas from Kurseong to Darjeeling might be stund, a reason frequently structure in the Far East. The .robl one) and uncdavinced that the sight givenfor it was not. They said that alone will be as high as the Customs of the moon shining on the snow present at the Degree Ceremony to from the people about.". peace was best assured by readiness Tower. The estimated cost is two clad peaks of Kinchinjunga and the be held in the University that same !
for war. A despatch from the million taels. The building will Austrine Ambassador at Berlin to his
Minister in Vienna, dated 1914, and recently disclosed, has a passage with an intended bearing on this. "Russia," he said," was in no way ready for war and would think seriously before appealing to force." From that we get two useful reflec tions. Ore is that unreadiness
HONGKONG, TUURSDAY, JAN 15, 193 prompts serious thinking. prior to
ADVERSARIA. -
WIFY SILVER
IS DEAR.
occupy land valued at nearly three carried out in fire resisting materials. millions The whole work will to
chieflyreinforced concrete, the weightier portions consisting of stee frame construction. The architects
are Palmer and Turner.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Today's dollar is worths. 18.
aggression (and that it good.) The other is that preparedness prevents serious thinking (and that is bad) Recent history shows that the fully prepared were d feated by the unprepared, and are only now, in ex defear, doing their serious thinking.
As we expected, fever. our adversaria about opera has Several residents are of opinion OTHER THINGS.drawn" qur musi- that they felt a slight earthquake at Mr. about one o'clock this morning. It cal critic,
The simplest planation of why silver is dear comes from America. Says the New York Evening Post:
ABOUT
OPERA AND
To-day's return of communicable disease shows one care of puerperal
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BARNES IRELAND.-Op: January
"One of the notable commercial 7, at Shanghai, Horace John
phenomena of the war has been the Barnes, Wandsworth. London, to Margaret Ann Ireland, Elie. Breat increase in imports of mer. Counterpoint. He starts off shyly, was of very short duration.
chandise by the belligeren: nations but warms up nicely when he gets Fifeshire.
The date of the Marathon Race from the Orient, and the great going. We are delighted at the way MORTON-BASSETT.--Mr. Henry decrease in their exports to the East he has prove our case for us. He has been changed to February 21 as
British Both were a perfectly logical resule says it is
quite obvious that we the Garden Party at Government Edwin Morton of the Cigarette Co. Ltd. Shanghai, of the fact that Europe was at war capno enjoy music because of our House to returned service men has and Miss Estelle Bassett, Hep and the Orient, except for Japan's be a conclu-ive lesson, that nothing
constitutional make up." Let this been fixed for February 7. kinsville, Kentucky, were mar brief campaign of 1914, at peace.
It is understood that Mr. S. ried on January 8, s: Yokohama. Before the war, Europe was accusi adversaria can make the Adver
hai
is that he (the Advers riaEst gets left Trieste on the 10th inst., and
lesser "aws" is worth a six hours afternoon, are cordially invited to be
thousand feet above sex level. midnight rudge in the rarified present at this match. atmospheres of from four to seven
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Again, I would pawn my Sunday suit (I have actually done it) to gat the price of a seat at a Paderewski recital but I would not accept, with a pound of tea, a fauteuil at a lecture on English literature even if delivered by the greatest living authority.
I have sat on a camp stool outside the gallery entrance to Covent Gar den opera house the night long and half the next day to get a seat at the opening performance of the Ring" but I would not give ared cent to see Aston Villa play Sunderland United.
HONGKONG FUND FOR WAR DEVASTATED VILLAGES IN FRANCE.
PANSY DAY FUND.
The following Donations are grate. fully acknowledged Per the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak. Canton Nanyang
Tobacco Co..............................” Mr. Yang Tsze Ming..... Mr. Mok Kon Sangee Mr. Wong Kum Ying................ Mr. M. K. La
Mr. Tong Yat Chuen.................. I would play rounds of probably Mr. Shun Pak Ming very indifferent golf until the cows | Mr. Ip Láu Chun *... came home, but ten minutes at a Amount collected per
Madame Lily cricket match gives me the pip. I
through the Rocky Anonymous.. have been Mountains on the GP.R. in mid Sgt. Harry Kirkby........ winter and slept or read novels the whole time, to prevent being bored stiff by the rapturous eulogies of the Already, acknowledged
wonderful scenery."/
to
The Palice said that when" taken the station yesterday and charged, he denied that he was the man, but said he could point out the man who shoved the con- stable into the water. When asked to go cut and find the man however," he refused.
His Worship sald that there was no doubt, that the defendant knew more about the affair than he alleged he did, and sentenced him to a fine of $250; or, in default, six months" hard labour.
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
200.00
50.00
60.00
25.00
10.00
1000
The Puise Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, sar in Bankruptcy Court
this morning.
10.00
-- 10.00
34.00
H. I. Xavier made application for his discharge.
The Official Receiver (Mr. Lloyd) 16.00 said the application was adjourned
5.00 from last bankruptcy day in order that.
the applicant might appear in person. 420.00 He had paid regular instalments and 10,956.26 had paid off 53 per cent. of his liabili- ties. His tartkruptcy was mainly due $ 11,376.26 to his guaranteeing loans for his rela-
Gens.
His Lordship said he had much pleasure in granting Mr. Xavier his discharge.
BALLANTINE-LAW.-On Ceféberi tomed to sellle through export of sa inltst "quire cbvious." The fact Komor, of Messrs Komor and Kom have been told that a Northern |
The Pansy Dy Fund is now 11. Ealing Captain Richard gold any balance against it in its drunk on good music. That is why will be back in the Colony early next contemporary adversely criticised Waverley Ballantine, LA.. to trade with China, Japan, and India.
Europe's operations he objects to it, adversarially. He month, bringing with him his family. We people of Shanghai for not closed and a complete statement of giving the Russian Opera Company accounts of the War Devastated Olive Norma. angest daughter Belligerent of the late Robert Law, of Shane bargo on its export of gold to the professor McNaught. He (the Adver Captain Superintendent of Police,
with its currencies have put ar em himself is a pianist, a violinist, and a
vocalist. He studied under the late The Hon. Mr. E D C. Wore, what the writer was pleased to term Villages of France Fund will be
due support" during the latter published later. East since July, 1914. But Asia has
part of the Company's season. OROSS-TALESNIK-Or Novem from
sarialist has played in an orchestra, has kindly consented to kick off at Possibly the same may be said or time immemorial accepted ber 28, at Shanghai, George silver in payment of rich bilances and he is a competent musical critic. the Benefit Match between South written in Hongkong later on. But
He is in a small way a composer, China Athletic-and Hingkong. Foot- Edwin Cross, to Ganier Talesnik. and the result in the present case and has had two slight songs pub- ball Club in aid of the Widow of the why should the people of Shanghai GILLMORE - D'ALMEIDA. -"On was, to create in Europe an ab
January 7, at Shanghai, Ray. normally great demand for silverished in London. So much for the Late Warder Speed on Saturday.
quite obvious." mond Earle Gilmore, of Chi-Purchases of silver, for such purpees
to Ignez and for shipment to Asia from our' 111 U.S.A... cago.
own west coast, were naturally made Maria d'Almeida, of Shanghai.
"DEATHS.
HOME-On January 6, at Shanghai, Noel Charles Minchem Home, aged 47 years. WESTERLUND.-On January 7, at Tokyo, Captain Carl August Westerlund, late master of the China Merchants' S.N.
MUSICAL
That was the cea-
or
On
H. MATHESON.
Han Treasurer:
LORD LEVERHULME ON PREMIUM BONDS.
Hongkong spend their dollars.
opera
don't ..if they Plans for the opening of a direct want to listen to it. If they prefer What are to scme, the bawdy barali fral idea of the shipping line between Chile and Japan ties of Bandmann and Banvard-well in large amount by. Europe on our
INTOXICATION. Provocative notes, are being promoted among the lead-it is their own money they are spend markets; as a result of which our
that music is a business me. of the two nations. ing and their own desires they ate his year of office as mayor of Bolton, own total export of silver, which was mere druv, and the Adversarialist With this object in view a shipping only $51,000 000 in 1914. had risen towards opera was playing the part firm is to be formed, with a capital saling and who has the right to in 1918 to no less than $252.000,000 of a Pussyfoot. When fighting the of two or three million yen.
Drink, it is usual to point to the
The rise in the price of silver, then, is not at all mystericus."
Mr. C. E. Mason appeared for the peritioning creditor in the matter of Chan Yick Lun, trading at Ying Ma. The assets were about $6,700 and the liabilities $24,000.
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The Official Receiver said he thought the petitioning creditor should produce the promissory note on which he said money was due....
a receiving
·His Lordship made order subject to the affidavit. being amended to this effect.
In the matter of the Po Hang Bank and Tam Hang and Tam Kuk, two partners therein, the Official Receiver applied for the removal of Chu Tik His Lordship granted the applica- tion.
Lard Leverhuime, on completing attended the evening service a dictate? Some like one thing, some St. George's RoadCongregational: like another, and some like nothing Church, Bolton, recently and on the invitation of the Rev R. W. Thomp Drunkard as an awful example. The case against the Chinese at all, and I leave it 'that.
son spoke on the subject of premium Behold friend Cointerpoint, and what who was charged with kidnapplog The almighty dollar music (for he, is a musician who an eighteen-yearold thinere sul and With regard to the statement that bents. He condemned the propisal ful the more power bonzes on music) has done for him, taking her Barr the costumes worn by the Russians from the standpoint of the citiza BEMARKS. ful than that by now. He writes for the China Mail and he immoral purpose, was concluded in "Traviata" were out of date, here the State, and the Exchequer. The ordin
The pre-ent pound has no use for Shakespeare.
He before Mr. N. L. Smith to-day when again it would be unfair to expect proposal to issue premium bonds Co.'s foolishness makes us pency wiec. Ich spise the ever-glorious Pickwick the defendant was sentenced to six an individual who has no Jiking for pandered to the erroneous idea of
The German has made his mark Papers He likes paint, but has a months' hard labour.
opera to take the trouble to make something for nothing, which was as almost as valuable as his iron cruss disgust for scenery. He loves a
himself or herself acquainted with great a fallacy in the economic world CV Carlos appeared for his The Italian lire is not pronounced Paderewski recital, but would not
the details of its production to-day as was the idea of perpetual motion public examination and replying to the
steamer Taishun," aged
6
years.
HART BUCK-Formerly of John
20. (By cable.)
WHEELOCK.--On January 5 at Shanghai, Thornas Reed Wheel. ock, aged 79 years. AZEVEDO. — On January 7,
A FEY
some common cents in it.
DONE.
The four Chinese-free men
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to the value of commodities by work
He considered that is was "arrant" lenders. The cause of his bankruptcy"
D. Humphreys & Son, Trung that way, and the French franc is ten to a lecture on English Ikera and a woman who were charged As a matter of fact, "Traviata" is in the mechanical world. The only Official Receiver, said he put in a were $800 mainly due to money kong, in England on December less so than it sound. This is therure. hy the greatest living authority with conspiring to defraud a Chinese applicable to any priod and it is sound method.of business was to add petition in 1916, when his liabilities.
way to write a financial article, with It is is he himself would say) girl of $1,000 worth of jewellery, also the fact that in France, England "quite obvious" which he most were again before Mr. 1. R. Wood and swhere the play is being staged
The Official Receiver asked he A Shanghai paper which needs, which would be better for this morning when after the com- on modern lines with modern dresses humbug to issue lottery bonds while was personal sickness,
the existing laws against gambling" HOW IT'S has taken siles at him. The drunkard needs new boots plainant had given evidence of identity B
We would all like to see better remained unaltered. With regard to had ever given any other cause for his the financial position of the country, bankruptcy and, on debtor saying he the Chinese desire for his clothes are indecent his hatfication of the def adants, the cise
scenery and better "props" generally representation has dis obscene; but he craves for booze, was further adjourned for a week.
but as has been stated, the lack of he was no pessimist and believed I could not remember, asked "Did you
ever go to Macao?", - covered a new and important truth and chooses it. Gentlemen of the
•Debtor: Yes, I went there and tried ft.writes, a letter to itself asking if Jury, we are done with this witne European was arrested by the them is no the fault of the Russian was sound, but he would despair if t
finance were to be reintrod ced. Police in Pottinger Street for bring Opera Company. It is the fault of went furth that methods of trick
to make some money but lost, the leaders of the agitation are rate Take him.
drunk and incapable. He was taken Hongkong In Shanghai there are
Answering further questions debtor to the Central Station where a charge stock rope sufficiently adequate.
said he was now paying the Omdal was, made out against him" and be to stage any plece operatic pr
Receiver instalments of $10 a month.
Shanghai, Lucio Goldent d'Azevedo, aged 51 years. »
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
payers, and answers itself in a foot; note that they are not. That is not
the point The point is whether
Mr. and Mrs. F. X. P. da Silva these organizers are recognized and
2 CHAMBERLAIN'S TABLETS. was allowed out on personal bail of otherwise, and Mr. Armstrong is the acoustics of which is exceptionally and family beg to render their thanks approved as such by the Chinese SF Fallets are intended expecially $5 He failed to answer to his name stipendiary official of the Lyceum bad, nothing in the way of scenery The examination was closed. to friends and relations for their kind ratepayers. A barrister who acts in and on. It sou, are troubled with J. R. Woot this morning, and he these things up to date What have of cramp; in fact, conditions hart for disorders of the stomach liver when his case was called before. Mr. Theatre whose duty it is to keep seats that give one very known kind expression of sympathy in their recent a newspaper case need not be an heartnra indigestion, or constipation And bereavement and for the beauti-editor, nor (as we see) need an editor they will do you Renal Worship ordered the ball to be we got in Hongkong dirty, breaking for people on both sides ofend your Evenings in
draughty barn for a theatre, the the proscenulum, fal Boral tributes.
who preaches wisdom te wise.
Chemists cod Sterckenporn,
estreated.
WALLATM. Launch.