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HOYOKONG, MONDAY, JAN 19 1990.
OUR ECONOMIC RESOURCES.
Ltc
Of course there is no INCOME chance of an income tax. TAX. here. It cannot be work-
ed without hitting
-un
fairly those who have the power to
prevent c. It is understood that
-the
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOOIL AND GENERAL
·CABLES.
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920.
UNHAPPY MARRIAGES,
SPECIAL
To-day's dollar is worth 5s. 1fd, No communicable disease in to
GEORGE LANNING DEAD.
A COURT FOR BOLVING DOMISTIO PROBLEMS.
[CHINA MAIL SPÈCIAL]}
the Government did have an expert day's return. to give Hongkong what Americans call "the once over," and
Thirty minutes with Shakespeare" As lecture for children entitled torbe given by Mr. N. Teesdale Mackintosh on Wednesday at 5,30 p.m.
one look was sufficient. He is said the Engineers Ball will be held at The second practica dance for to have decided that the conditions the City Hall on Friday, 23rd inst.. here make it impracticable
Our at 5 pain, situation-is quite unlike that in the Straits Settlements.. The fool who wrote today's leading article for us doesn't know what he is talking about. Who is the utterly AN
hopeless person re- INCONSIDERATE ponsible for causing TRICK. the posts and rails to be erected at rdy for the long straight for next Race Meeting? The
The annual prize distribution of the Ralian Convent takes place this afternoon at 4.30 pm in the recep- tion hall of the school building, Calne Road.
Among the passengers of the "Porthos" for Shanghai is MUBALARMING B^M8 EXPLOSION
AT SHANGHAI,
A.
The University of Hongkong
Pas do not take place until the
•middle of February, and no training is ever done on the extra length of corte so provided. Yet in the miss. dle of January this part of Happy Reau who goes there to releve:[ Valley is thus monopolized, There M. Wilden, the French Consul was a cricket match on the Craigen-General Rower pitch on Saturday, and the rasts quite spoiled the game. Apart from any actual inconvenience, the calendar for 19891920 has reached thing is so reasonless, so stupid, so the China Maik It gives an histori. provocatively insulting. It leads to cal sketch of the institution and unkind remarks about privilege, and ¦ general the cheek, of the rich, and so ea faculties.
information as 20 the some of which may be undeserved. Why were these post and rals, cur- ting off so much of the sports grounds, put in so unnecessarily soon?
HOUSING
"Every little bit, added to what you've got. makes a little bit more." The Government has invited tenders for a dozen houses it proposes to put unia the Happy Valley. That's good. We do need more horsing accom modation, so badly that we hardly care how it comes,
FILTER'S POLITICS.
Sanitary Board to morrow afternoon There will be a meeting of the at 4.15 p.m. An item on the agenda is the appointment of Sanitary Inspectors for Kowloon City and Sam Shui Po.
Mr. Lou Tentsiang and Dr. C T. Wang of the Chinese Pence Delegation arrived by the "Porthos" on Saturday and are proceeding, to Shanghai.
They are accompanied by Mrs. Lou, Miss Lou and Mra.. Wark
Reuter has now definite ly taken sides in the Rus sian Civil war. In one
Kowloon residents will meet at the City Hall, to-morrow at 5:15 p.m. of yesterday's messages, for the purpose of inaugurating the mant oning the all the American Kowicon Residents Association, the trongs in Siberia -start to home principal object of which is the next month Reuter says they leave betterment of conditions of residence the protection of eastern Seria to in Kowloon and the adjacent ter-
the loyal Russians."
Loval to ritories. whom, or what? Tsardim? Ke: ensky? The banks? Search us. The "ph gmatic"
For the theft of some medicine CHEYTAN British
from a Chinse medicine shop at No. re-electer Lloyd Cruze as
72 Koshing Strect, a well-dressed this man who won the
Cairese who said he had no money wir. The excitable French have bft their to buy a passage to return to the ard strle the medicize to raise money political war her in the cold.
THE WAR OFFICE
The most rent re quirement at Home is seme political change
country, was awarded six wecks", hard labour by Mr. Wood.
[CHINA MALL SPECIAL]
A DEFAULTING BANK.
A BAD CASE..
Before Mc. N.L. Smith this mom ning, a coolie was charged with the "It would be a very good thing property of a passenger from Shang- theft of a gauntity of clothing, the if we could have all over England hai and pleaded not guilty. voluntary, courts to which husbands Evidence was given to the effect
to carry witness
his
had about
A STREET CAR THIEF.
here by the sudden death on Sunday The police court is by no means an frem Shanghai yesterday, landed in
SHANGHAI, Jan. 19. A. profound shock was created and wives could bring their disputes. that the camplainant who arrived. evening, from heart faitre, of Mr.ideal place for dealing with such Connaught Road from a sampan, He was a man of scholarly tastes, a Shanghai for nearly half a century. what they call Car and Dog Courts him and offered George Lanning, a resident of matters. In America they have and the defendant came up to reginer contributor to
and Press.
in London at Plaistow wej luggage, the local have a court rua on similar lines engaged
Atter At the time of his death he and doing very good work." Mr. ten other coolies came up and offered
the defendant, · was engaged in writing a history of Clarke Hall the magistrate, who is to carry the complainant's taggage. Shanghai for the Municipal Council, perhaps best known to Londoners A confusion ensued, in the course Shanghai Public School, and was Court at Old Street, went on to clothing disappeared. The com Mr. Lanning was Principal at they his connection with the Children's of which a baske containing the born in 1852. He went to Shanghar explain to a London representative plainant reported the matter to the in 1875. He was a Freemasan.of the Manchester Guardian what Police who hater in the day arrested Ea. C. M.]
the difficulties were in taking matri the monial disputes in the ordinary Street. He was then wearing one of defendant in Po Leung Tsun course of court work,
"The magistrate," he said, "has
the stolen Jackets. neither time nor facilities for making | labour was passed..
Sentence of three months' hard the Investigations -cessary for a proper decision. Husband and wife come into court and talk or shou: gainst each other. If is very difficult ploded on the roof garden of the importance that the truth should be fing, a Chinese who was charged with
SHANGHAL Jan 19.
to decide which is telling the truth, On Sunday evening, a bomb ex-of the children. it is of the utmost! Before Mr. R. Wood this morn and where it is the case of the custo y Wing On building. A large crowd known. I may as: the court missionary picking the pocket of a compact was present but no the work of the blackmailing gang ask the representative of the Society months hard labour.
one suffered to make further inquiries, ut he sain a tram car and stealing two five- injury. It is believed to have been very busy man; or I may on occas on dollar bills, was sentenced to three who write threatening letters and for "the Pravention of Cruelty to The story for the prosecution was practise intimidation.. hope to locate their headquarters.
The police Children to do so. Otherwi e Thaw to the effect that the defendant was to depend on what I elicit in court.seen by another passenger in the and the result often leaves me witam carto put his hand in the cuin- an uneasy feel g “
The Plaistow Court to which the the banknotes. An alarm was at once plainant's breast pocket and extract magistrate referred has been set up raised and the defendant was warch- by the Givens-Wilson Institute.ed by the conductor but the notes vay progressive and unconventional were not found on him, Then one social settlement in far-east London of the passengers thought about It is held every Saturday from 2.30 looking on the floor of the ear, and till 430 in a small vestry at the back on shifting one of the defe dast's of the Givens-Wison. Institute build feet, the notes were found under it. ing. Pelly Road Two people are He was handed to the Police. present, the barrier. Mr. Well Thatcher, who comes down from the ed the car near the Naval Yard The defendant said that he enter Temple to helpanhappy couples with and as it was full be had to perience of marimanial difficulties standing on his legal knowledge and his wide ex stand. He did not know he was in every stage from the preliminary the conductor saw
"the notes until to the acute and insoluble, und the paper money sticking from under
part of th husband or wife who seeks his his foot and called out "who ald. He dors not see them has dropped bank notes." He then together, but having heard one bent and picked them up and handed side cf the story he will arrange them to the complainant who claimech for the other party to the dispate to that he had lost two five dollar bills. visit him on the following Saturday and talk things over.
His Wership did not believe the SHANGHAI, Jan. 17.
No group of defendant's story, and, as already ilers tags about watching the stated, sentenced him to three months* Germans are gradually returning people, who enter by a side door hard labour." during the war by repeated appear. occasions, some solitary privileged George Sinnecker, who gained fame de room unless ib, on rare to Shanghai in a desultory manner. No one else is allowed inside the
miraculously to register as an enemy subject, has to the establishment of a similar she was awaiting the birth of the ances at the Mixed Court for failure person whose observation may leading with another man; but, although peace is corcluded. He evaded applicant is further safeguarded by Others are emerging from their obtaining legal advice. on much less only advise that this was a case for
reappeared directly court elsewhere. The nervous
other man's child her husband
important matters. She may be coming, with some story of unkind. diyorce. So far, the husband has ness or infidelity, or she may simply
refused to take that extreme step.. be asking for advice about her rent or health insurance.
(China Mail SPECIAL.]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 19. The creditore of the Territorial Development Bank are holding a meeting shortly for the purpose of drafting a petition for sebmission, to the Consular Body ict eventual dis. patch to action.
Peking for diplomatic ment support for all its branches
The bank enjoys govern except Shanghai. Payment has been suspended here since May 1916.
GERMANS AT SHANGHAI.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
•
stitutional Reform movement, by hanting over the normal cuties of ..the Government to a commission of have teen maaniy treated by the commentes at 3 30 pm, sharp, and į deportation by vanishing from sight, the fact that this is also a place for I wanted to take hes, back."She refus
this
When the Hongkong Government announced the appointment of a committer to investigate and report upon our economic resources, the China Mail remarked that suggested the coming shadow of an income tax. The suggestion, althouch subsequently unofficially pudiated, was not so very far fetched
that
enquiry? It would seem, that area and population take care of them selves, and rhar 5:3 development
velu itary Can be talked of in
connection: seems equally sure that no Govern ment and no Gay rnment committee can develop the commerce of the place.
Cible of
Our merchants, and their own Chamber of Commerce, are very
ficiently attending to that.
Any economic resources' Profitable development that have been overlooked by our local capitalists are unlikely to deserve the expendi ure of the time and intellect of the gentlemen appointed.
The moral
which will sweep, pary announces in an advertisement The Russian Grand Opera Com- the present War Office. is to sack the lot. Gear Pal Town day, when "The Berber of Seville" thing, as Admiral Fisher would say issue, a special matinee on Wednes The only appearing in another part of this shead, the hern of Kut, seems to will be staged. The performance War Gffic gang, and al nost every intending patrons are advised to nur ber a Traih accuses them of book their seats early. incondicly mean and spiteful tricks.. in
is the most disgraceful piblic them, we might do Hongkong a goo1 department we have. In replacing turn, for it would make it easier to reclaim the central city sires the War Department at present hogs
hima:
decoration, Mr. A Demee, a Hong Guerre and another French military The possessor of the Croix de
kong boy, re urned by the after a long period of war service. Purthes," He was in the battles of Mons, Verdun and Somme and was wounded four times mon hs à prisoxer in the hands cf
He was also for eighth the Germans..
Memo. of Cargo Shipped per
Mackinnon. Mackenzie & Co. agents
hiding places.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(By arrangement with Wah Ts Yat Po.)
----
SHANGHAI Jaruary 18, The Jpanese Minister at Peking
ed to return and the Coat couli
marter ver,
Ha
There has been a happier ending to a story which was. simply one of SOME OF THE STORIES.
bad temper. The young couple had Already, however, people are com- not beca inarried for much more By the way, in the letter BY THE quoted above "Muddled"
ing in increasing numbers and from than a year, and they had a baby. WAY picks not a few words
great distances with stories that After a quarrel the husband went off. would otherwise remain untold or and when he had been away for that helped to middle The ignorance of the nader
that would be carried in desperation some weeks the wife went in t surely no fault of the wriler?
to the publicity of a mag's rate's distress to Mr. Wells Thatcher. court. Here is one typical case. ter all. The neighbouring Govern development of Hongkong really who doesn't know the meaning of 318 Sailed 15/1 1920. Fur London, Affairs réplies that negotiations may another man. The husband forgave have been partly in the wrong.
She told her side of the story. "Sensory stimuli" is simple and plain
date to discuss the restoration of discover that his wife had been un- said he was very fond of this has asked the Walchanpu to fix a came home at the end of the war to who talked the hr of the Straits Settlements has does need a strong committee, but heliotropic" at sight should be 75 Bales Waste Sk, 40 Bales Raw be opened immediately on the arrival his wife but he could not endure the would go back to his wife and mate The husband was a soldier who Then he sent for the husband, erengh; so is "awareness"
A manP & 0. S. N. Co..s's Dunera" VTsingtao. .The Minister of Foreign faithful to him. She had a child by wife, and admitted that he might Such a tax has been innoted before ended. As must already have allusions were perhaps unfair; but Silk; for Gibraltar, 12 Cases Silk P. of Luk Ching Cheung at Peking. now. Moreover, the official terms
a few educated goods, 2 Cases Silk Shawls and Pongee readers who appreciate them: As Silk, 2 Cases Silk and ivory goods, of
sight of the baby-a most beautful, a fresh start, and they have now The petition for the cancellation charming little creature,and was so settled down contentedly together. for rampallians and fustilarians, those amelied Ware: for St. Biemme reached Peking from Urga. The Pre- last he threatened tothrow tout of the of surf one of the
1 Case bone fans, 1 Case, en-
Mongolian Independence has exasperated by its presence that át In-single-inindedness and greata 53 Are Shakespeare's, and every English 10 Bales Raw Silk, för Lyons sident will reply with a mandate window. It was a case for intervention, brought Her story was word y man should know his Shakespeare 348 Bales Raw Silk; for Marseilles 300 returning to Peking from Shanghai | misery in a court, nor was it'clear husband and their Matter addressed or hang himself. ADVERSARIA's to the miserable farher of music. "Pyrrhonism" is 1375.rolls mais for Part Said 277 roll further concessions first the date for remedy. The woman came to M-plete happiness and confidence until
Palestrina was the
One of the Northern delegates on but they did not want to flaunt their rank with Tess. Rales Waste Silk, 160 Bales Raw Silk, reports that unless the North offers that a magistrate could suggest any Adversarialist derived from the name of the founder Frows more and of a school of aceptical philosophy,ating.
Unfortunately, it" Nokomis" appears in "Hiawatha." stuff-ia "not for phrase, which should have needed no Some of it-and Procreant urge" was a Whitman Some of it is quite translation. If "Muddled considers
otiated this, fence, and each examples are occasionally infectious
we cannot suppose that to be seriously i
been noted, these observations are
instructive; they are inquiring.
silent in company.
we do have
ADVERSARIÄ. "
of reference are quite capable of not such a cinstruction.
The economic resources," of a Colony may mean its available assets,
lready
MAIL BAG.
The Greek
A CH ERY ONE,
.
women wh
a nonben
The memory of the
or its potential wealth awaiting. develoment. bur in both cases the ultimate capacity for tax- tion is indicated. Even the rewer
She and hur two young and pleasantere sounding phrase of more
children bad lived together in con- economic devel pment" dogs not isn't all quotable
copious. escape the implication. Apart from | thar the nice
the opening of the prace Conference Wells Thatcher, and he had a private a few months ago, when a family will be very remate. a natural and proper desire for ascer publication,"
talk with the husband. He expressed matter took the man to tain more accurately, and surely the abusive.
General Chu Sha Tsang reports his sympathy with the man, told him town and into a house where revenue possibilities it may
If the writers of these snch words come into the category
that the Urga frups under his com- that he had done fine thing in foranidier's wife was staying. Thus count upon lespecially in view of the out of writing them as 'e does nut
now vituperative efforts get as much fun of "jargon," he must be muddled.
mandare insuficient. Reinforcement giving his wife and taking her back. I woman was an enchantress who t fact that the pum, revenue is of reading them, the Adversarialis.
of 6,000 men of all ranks is required. and premised to do all in his power the other woman's husband fairly When charged before Mr. J. R, The Peking Government in view of to find a suitable bome for the child. her toils. More than once he had dwindling an dagined) it is not easy is satisfied. Here is one that con
While admiring Wood this morning, with assaulting ahe establishment of the Republic It may be said here that the Institute broken away and had returned tu to imagine, in the absence of definite tains both a jeer and a compliment: the etymningy of this word indicares pleaded
"ADVERSARIA" his ingenuity in foreman of the Tong Seng firm off Poland intends to appoint a is raising funds to open a home for his wife, who becays she loved him instruction, the real intention of the
discovering
that contractors at West Point, a coelie Mi-kter for Poland in order to ist such unwanted children. Man and could never forget that he had new committee." Nor is it possible My dear Adversarialist,
Kowloon, 17 January, from the copious writings
aversion from dryness-(we should went to the shop to ask for work
net guilty and said he make a commercial treaty with h-time te asked the man to le: the pen a good husband and a god published, by persons why do seem cautiously let you off the chain, and gond English, and got into
hope so we may mention that the land saw people fighting. I fear that the Editor has in word Adversaria long ago became the fact that he did not take part in during the 8th year of the Republic without a hope that in te end the proved vain.
The collection of the stamp tax child remain at home till another father took him back and lived to know what it all means, to learn that by now he is heartily sorry for English dictionaries
Despite including the sale of postal stamps home could be found. He is no w th him again. Each time her trist the nature of the duties of the com- himself, and for his readers; for defined as (1) a collection of varicus having assaulted him and handed South West be included in the
our the fight, he was grabbed by the is estimated at over $8,000,000. If baby's winsomeness may solve the other woman prevalle Land he went mittee. We are told that the com after St. Andrews and St. Georges notes, remarks, etc. (2) a commer him to the Police
It there complainant who accused him of the foreign settlement and the problem, position of the committee has been Balls and the Russian Opera when place book (5) marginal nores, com
back to her. The wife, who mean- adversely criticized, but that it is all we are trying to get our heads clear-mentaries Those who have observed the effect that he used to take his
In the next cas, too, was the time was living as the help of her collecting area right. We are not told just what its for the Kowienn Grumbies Meeting the contents of this column will men to a coolie eating house for their Military pact is to be cancelled as with her husband, who is a man of husband compelled to contribute to
The complainant gave evidence to $20,000,000 is expected.
total amount if woman who appealed for help. She friends, fully understood that the task is. We are told that before you launch at our deened heads admit it was the most apt and com- mid-day meal. The defendant had the German peace treaty has been conspicuously attractive appearance the support of his family....But she is the comely mo he of a laigeid a legal remedy, that the law their work can possibly be completed nearly half a page of bad words prehensive title we could have chosen. zore to the eating house with them ratified.
It is reported that the Sin Japanese family, and had Ived sery happily could be put in motion" and r some of them will be Kuink like:- away. We are not nata e of the work
The Japanese however He was in the army, and during his did not wish to use compulsion or to on several occasions and begged for want the pact to be still in force in absence she discovered a series of injure him in any way. She only completed. There is a hint that they are to
food from the coolies. As the de order to co-operate against consider schemes of
fendant was not employed by his Bolshevists.
the love-letters written to him by several wanted him back, and asahe spoke development on well-ordered and
young firm, and did not have a ration The Peking Government does not photographs he had also kept. As something protecting in her love for progressive lines, but no suggestion
and pretty girls whose of him one underate that there wis of what is to be developed. The pert
card with him, witness turned agree to the demand of the south for far as the girls were concerned, the him. It might well be that friendly answer that it is Hongkong which
him out on Saturday, About an the appolotment of an Inspecto letters were innocent enough, and all intervention with a hint of au- needs development would not materi-
hour later, whilst witness was out General fer & Provinces, as such an were written under the impression thority behind it might provide just "Nepenthe,
Have you heard about poor Ry, side the Tong Seng shop, the defen appointment will most likely affect that the handsome soldier was single. the stimulus that was needed to ally assist us.
Ray of the Coronet Picture House? dant and about ten other men came the central control of all Provinces This was not a cise for recap help the man to break free and We could stall on one page of one issue, in the prepared a new stunt, running a can witness's fuis could come to his
Palestrina, Nokomis, Pyrrhonism, For Wednesday of this week he has up and assaulted witness. Before by the Peking Government. require to be told how-witether middle of which you rail at thuous performance from mid-after-aid, his assailants ran away. He it is the size, the population, the charlatans la esotericism mouthing noon until eleven at night, allowing was successful only in arresting the
cillation, but for a ttlement. There return to the wife he undoubtedly commerce, the mineral and agrica a strange jargon.”- '.
could be no happiness if the man still cared for. The birrister would ture resources, cr the morals of
the audience to choose its own defendant to whom he held on until
r. turned, for the wife's confidence was at least see what after and pr Hongkong that
I am sure you feel sorry for your pictures, giving them tea and Lis fakis'came. are particularly self, so ask the good, kind Editor to cakes
hopelessly destroyed; but she was haps an interview could do. recommended to the attention of put you on the chain again, and leave their seats, and charging $1 fie, or, in de fault, three weeks dreadful diverse attacks your little as perfectly frank and very sorry about Not one une cessary question or not in a position in support her thing could have been clearer, more 50 that they reed not thesd-gentlemen. If we are then when you feel like your nice old self only the usual prices. Isn't he a hard 1 hour.
His Worship passed sentence of EVERY young child is starrptible to Thatcher sent for the man, who was the statement made by the wife. family without his help. Mr. Welly intelligent, or more concise than informed that it is all these things again will you please explain if the marvel?: As Trotski said, when told, and more that are entrusted etymology of." Adversária." is to. them, then Our
before son prepare for it. It comes in the whole matter and the latest comment had been made by the asthitshmeht
about it, if the people don't pack the must
the niubt who enoist shoply aro report is that while he is still out of barrister, but the salient, facts of the. be still as considerable
theatre on Wednesday afternoon on
asually orada thilons abould be employment he is sending practically story were there, and the woman such terms as those, it will be a dis.
WALLA VALLA" bouts are new Cough Remedy a hrad It never fails tion to the wife,
warning fet and keep hamberlain's the whole of his unemployment dona went away feeling that his position And fast.” Get "them at. Blake For sale by all Chuniista and Store sets quickly and isabetly harmless,
was thoroughly understood and that Tier,
Another soldier came to him with the matte was in wise hans.-E. 1. keep
miserable story. His wife was in the Manchester Guardian,
fala .the to be
as our mystification was before.
Sensory
Boeotians,
Pantagruelisms,
stimuli, Rampallians, Fustilarians,
Heraclitus, Scintilla stellaris, Heliotropic,
Awareness,
Procreart urge, Esotericism,
.."
L. adversus, against, contrary, L. arere, to be dry,
MUDDLED.
DISGRACE AND SHAME.
A LOCAL SCANDAL.
Is for the benefit of one who is somewhat grace and a shame and a local
a countermine to sap the 'Con-
scandal.
CRQUE
Don't wait until this
No