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happy homes we saw the light" glow in window after window as the politicians got back to their slippers and China Mails; and for us it was a symbol of hope. A new era had dawned..
Do not jump to the con- A GOOD clusion that we are mak
START. ing garpe of Kawloon, of Kowton fols, or of their politics. We take them quite serious ly, and consider that a very useful innovation has got a good start The report gives only the names of a few people in front; we understand that there was really a large and thorough ly representative attendance, facking only the Government officials whore on the peninsula. A very sensible and intelligent scheme was sensibly and intelligently outlined. Whether or not this Association will turn out to have been the nucleus of a system of representation by warda, does not at the moment matter. In the mean time it is going to keep the Govern ment and the unofficial members better informed. That is gain..
We are entitled to forgiveness noting with com placence the us
CHINA MAIL ** ARGUMENTS.
TRYING TO BE FAIR.
KOWLOON IS BIG AND GROWING.
го
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920.
BHANGHAI LAWYER
capacity for physical stress, and can only express talpas, is the same as the man who
***cowardice **
under would rather be a big, beautiful SPECIAL CABLES. the pious hope that in the pinch we scorns a coward for being a coward, would have risen superior to our unaware weakness
the coward and proved ourselves would prefer to be a bero. They are) courageous cowards.
fools bath, and their name is Legion. The man we know APPEARANCES best of all has the ARE DECEITFUL. reputation of being daredevil whɔ
WHEN EYES ARE ON US.
The knowledge that eyes are on him makes many a "coward" brave." Instances
UNDER CONSCRIPTION
This,
law. Let us as- sume that there is no foolish con.
נו
THE JAIL
a
THE JAIL MURDER.
PRISONER'S CLOSING
STATEMENT.
REINSTATED.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 21.
DESTITUTE RUSSIANS IN
SHANGHAI.
[China Mail SPECIAL)
SHANGHAI OPIUM CASE,
UNUSUAL INCIDENTS.
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 21.
of
them was less and less every year.
·LOCAL AND GENEKIL, ›
To-day's dollar is worth 5.1.
To-day's return of communicable disease says there was none.
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Bt.Col. W. St. C. Bland, RA,, who saw active service in China, bas been promoted substantive colonel.
Mr. Chow Show sum has been
appointed to fill the vacancy on the Sanitary Board caused by the death of Mr. Chan Kai-ming.
1
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Benevolent Society. will be held in the City Hall on January 30, at 12.30 p.m.
The many friends of Chief Writer T. H. Smith, of HM.S. "Tamar," will be glad to learn that be was successful at the examination held last Jely in professional subjects. for the promotion of chief writers to warrant rank...
The Rev. H.S. Crole-Rees, RN has, on the paying off of the training ship "Impregnable," at Plymouth been appointed to succeed the Rev. F. G. B. Hastings, R.Nas Chaplin of the Hongkong Dockyard, and is ex- pected in the Colony shortly to take over duties.
are frequently and as a matter of fears nobody and nothing. He will common knowledge referred to in cheek a Judre, slap a pugilist, jeer the casual conversations of officers at a Kaiser, and Insult a mob. Mr. Linebarger. the American who emerged from the late inferno.smiling cheerfully the while. Fools lawyer recently suspended by the Such bravery, the philosopher and admire him, and consider him brave, British Assessor, at the Mixed Court logician is obliged to point out, is whereas the truth is he is merely for hasty remarks in connection with only another form of cowardice tired of life, and would as soon be the municipal prosecution of recal superimposed on the first. The out of it as not, but is too timid to citrant shopkeepers has suitably subject of it is more afraid of his hurt himself. He goes round asking apologised in open court and was comrades censure than he is of for trouble, and nobody hurts him thereupon reinstated. physical hurt. Another form of When they wouldn't let him enlist bravery talked about is that of the fer the Great War he announced man who "knows not what fear is." himself a pro-German to a crowd Again the philosopher and logician of patriots, who all laughed but tramples on our susceptibilities in his one. That one, half boozed, stepped callous way, and points out that this forward to kill him and was arrested bruts courage is the natural result by a meddlesome policeman. Luck of a brutal constitution, lacking in is the queerest thing in life, and even imagination and other qualities of luck is only a word.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 21. the finer fibred human-being..
Heaven forbid that
The Refugee Relief Committee is Let us leave this
we should take at gamely tackling the problem IT CANNOT distinctly displeasing
ALLEGATIONS the foot of the let Russian destitutes in Shanghai. Jobsplayed the Hongkong. Singapore of some of our own arguments by
The 2nd Wiltshire Regiment BE HELPED. field of psychology,
ter every allegation have been found for many as ships Mountain Battery, R.G.A. at hockey the Chairman. They were good
and admit that whe- that a desperate criminal makes from crews, with the co-operation of the yesterday on the U.S.R.C. ground. arguments, and he was very welcome. then the wavering balance incline to the dock. The public, however, is shipping companies. Humes for the workers, the medium courage or cowardice the subject quite convinced now
There are salary folk, are more important and himself is largely helpless in the have been going on in the jail that One man with a family sought relief All the scoring was done in the first that things many hard cases among the refugees.resulting in a score of one goal all The game was very evenly contested, pressing than expensive new Peak matter. His make up and his up should not have been permited, and only after his resources had dwindled half. reads, and any Government that bringing decide what he will be that the supervision must have been to twenty odd cents. was well informed would feel when tested. No man can will him-ceffective. Admissions were made that way and act ace ringly. We self to be a hero, though he may will at the inquest that substantiated at Ltd invite attention to the urgent to behave like one. Despite the least that much. With regard to
Ineeds of Kowicon
set quite reasonable proposition that the the allegation that the prisoners have forth in the Chairman's speech; and finest type of bravery is that of the not actually received the amount of in doing so we suggest two things constitutional coward who overcomes feed provided for them, we are as urgently necessary as a step to his natural cowardice, no man by a obliged point out that the general wards getting them. One is cosmere effort of will can eliminate the denial of the jail authorities is value. stitutional reform. The other is the coward streak... What we so glibly less. They only know what they retirement of Mr. Chatham, the call cowardice is instinctive and were told. The present writer recalls veteran Director of Public Works natural, embedded in the very basis that is the old days when he was a of the soul before its victim was prisoner in Hongkong, and wearing Because we do not born..
A meeting of the Sanitary Boar Reason
During the trial at the Mixed was held yesterday afternoon. Dr.. happen to admire the instinct in any real test, unless it is Hygeia bulk defrauded him of a con- with constable Jack Alien in the Laspectors Thomson and Coombes rarely overcomes the broad arrow, subordinates on the Court of the seven Chinese implicated A. Gibson was in the chair. Sanitary. Governor's "A.D.C. is assisted as by the overmastering siderable part of his rations. These recent oplum raid, the evidence of were appointed for Kowloon City and
reason why we fear of public opinion, by the greater things are done where they can be the accused Chinese conflicted in shouldn't be fair to him. Twice it fear of conscience. by personal done, and it is up to the government material particulars with previous mainder of the business of the meet- prins we have seen the suggestion conceit, (which impels a man to live to devise a system under which they accounts implicating Allen
Samshuipo, respectively. The re- that he should not have asked those up to his own valuation of himself) cannot. eligible to apply for invitations to
Theng was of a purely formal nature. the Government House Garden Party, then, brings us to the argument
or some other such factor.
Court prohibited publication of the on the ground that a complete which it seems to us is unanswerable.
testimony lest. it prejudice Allen in The Directors of the Canton his forthcoming trial. register was kept of all men who
Municipal Council ropose to erect a left, Hongkong to join up. There,
A war is oa, and
race course in Canton. Delegates are many soldiers from the Front
AN INJUSTICE conscription is the
have been appointed to look for a now in Hongkong who never left;
suitable site and to obtain the rules Hongkong to join up. They have
The mentbers of the Canton in Hongkong and Shanghai, in order and regulations of the race courses joined our ranks since, and we sup
Parliament held a special meeting on to draw up their own rules accord- pose it is these who are desired to science clause to offer a tempt-
January 20, to welcome Dr: Wongingly. make themselves known Judging ing loophole to the miserable Wong Kwong, who was found Ching-ting and to receive his report by the wording of the advertisement, wretch who 13 bath physi- guilty of the murder of Warder of the proceedings of the Peace not all who left Hongkong to join cally and mentally cowardly. Let Speed at the Criminal Sessions yester.
Conference.
The Russian Grand Opera Comis up are eligible, but only those who us further assume that a highbrow day made a long statement when
pany will extend its season for three actually reached one of the various who has lived among books for forty asked whether he had anything to
nights, owing to the late arrival of Froats,
years is called up. Beaming bene say why sentence should not be
the ss."Madras" for Calcutta. On thle to show that there was an an
How long is it per the that they are wasting their
i volently upon the Tribunal. he sells passed on him.
Thursday, 22nd inst. "Mignon" will wer just as clinching and as strong
be played: on Friday, 23rd, "La missible for the tail as the protest. From their point of TROTA, JUSTICE, PALIC SERVICE.
I took the jury but ten minutes He was not telling lies. He had led Jewess;" and on Saturday, 24th, at time in trying to make him a soldier to come to the unamirnous verdict a bad life but he wished to be good the matince: "Madame Butterfly."" view they were the only people. as
to go on wagging He has sufficient imagination to of guilty and the usual question was in the next life. He was sentenced and at night "Barber of Seville." the dog? That is BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, 1999 the saying is, with a leg to stand
on. By the conditions of the Tarifairly be said of our present method cides that under it. he must fail. By things to say to your Lordship. every much. The Chief Warder and between the Ching Hok Wui mem
realize what the test will be, and then put. roughly what may quite coldly and impartially he de-
to death but he asked his Lordship Prisoner said: I have a Int of to investigate. The keymen suffered they were entitled to silver payments. of administration. The Peak is the
It is stated that the conflict Yet some of them had waived that dicky" on our body politic, while bringing and experience he is unThere is proof to show that there the Assistant Warder treated them right, and had accepted demand drafts Kowloon and our as lower levels to know the penalty for cowardice the jail, also proof to show there cats. Prisoners who were going amicably settled. The session now fitted for a hero's part. He happens was unnatural crime committed in badly and generally fined them 50 Convention at Canton has been in order to accommodate shippers, are certainly the whole shirt. Which Luss ot nerve) in the field," and he were short provisions supplied to
bers and other cliques in the Peace When the report of the Hongkong
It had been quite frequently and the more important: if precedence observes that as it is inevitable he to the prisoners. The convicts cigarettes delegates to the Shanghai Conference considerably done, so that when has to be conceded? Another respect will lose his nerve, and be shot for of long sentence
to be hanged asked of Chambers of Conference in China exchange moved as it did, they got which the tail wags the dog is it, it is unreasonable to compel him 15 ozs. of provisions, and 8 ors. of brought into jail Three-Castles"
for will have the usual quorum, as the and food but comes to be presented, our local little if any silver payment.
are entitled to were never given them. The Indians decided to
Ching Hok Wui members have "Such presented by the military establish merchants will be put in possession payment necessitates shipping commen.
return and the other of still one more perfect example of panies drawing on their head offices and most central residential site on in astonishment at the scorn with Those who are serving short sen the jail then pistols could also be taken Army mules occupy the best in advance he must fail. He blinks salt fish and 1 oz. of fresh fish. and tobacco could be brought into
to undergo a test in which he knows vegetables at every meal, 1 oz. of cigarettes and tobacco. If cigarettes/Parties have also shown a spirit of a controversy in which the point of in order to pay their expenses here the peninsula.
compromise. view is all important it is in the in silver, in addition to which there is stores occupy the bulk of the most is received. He cannot understand visions, 4 ozs. of vegetables 2 oz. of! to investigate the inatter thoroughly to the Peace Conference in Paris,
which this courageously frank avowal tences are entitled to 11 czs. of pro-in. He earnestly asked his Lordship very nature of business that men
Dr. Wong Ching-ting, the envoy should exercise. a certain unreason avoided if shipping companies could side of the stand. The first at Why he should he despised for some fish. Other prisoners are suppucu will smile even when I am hanged: 19th inst., when a representative
loss of interest which would be suitable business sites on the city
rtionments our expenditure are than he can
rning he cannot help, any
If your Lordship will investigate was welcomed back to Canton on the more with sugar bur Chinese prisoners are average can is on the average by telegraphic transfer instead of always for the benefit of a minority" | reasonable person punishing another not. It is not an extraordinary thing I committed the murder and should Kroup of members of the Canton -occasion. Is it. not, for instance, a demand drafts received from the Class and vested interests are care for having a fever, or a misshapendeath are allowed to have three should hang too. Lam very pleased him at the Canton-Kowloon Railway Bound maxim of commerce that a shippers."
that prisoners who are sentenced to hang, but those who cheated us Parliament, officials, and citizens met This offers a problem fully catered for, and, in any demo- man shall "sell dear and buy cheap'? much harder to decide than the cratic and properly British sense of nose, or a lame leg. Presumably, week's food but they are only given I have no fear. I saw an Indian station. The Bands of the 1st Divi How can he sell dearly unless famous judgment of Solomon. The government, there is no health in us.
when he is hustled into the army, one week. some other person buy dearly? How shipper and his produce are not Until now people do not seem to
he is philosopher enough to shrug
commit an unnatural crime on the sion of the Canton Army, and of the can he possibly hope to buy worth so much without the ships. have cared much. The new Associa
The Chief Justice here remarked Chinese. his shoulders over cheaply
They are still in the Higher-Normal School were in at such human that he was not going to stop pri jail but I do not like to give unless he,
find the ships are worth next to nothing tion is a proof of awakening civic himself to whatever may come not affect the sentence upon him. He like to know their names I can give
stupidity, and
tendar.ce. to reconcile somebody able and willing to without the produce they are built interest.
soner in his statement but it could their names. If your Lordship would sell cheaply? In theory commerce to carry. In the nature of things care.
It deserves well of all who Theoretically, he should welcome the had already made complaints about them. The Indian gave a cigarette Ward of the Royal Naval Yard We are informed that Sergt. should be impossible, and almost a the parties are not in a position to
opportunity to demonstrate the worse deadlock than when two polite pool their respective profits and
The Parliamentary accuracy of his own hypothesis, and
the prison treatment.
in return. They treat the Chinese Police, popularly known in boxing Frenchimen want to go through the divide fifty-Flty. No doubt there COWARDICE Committee appointed face the fring squad joyously pro- warder said that what he (prisoner) of helping ourselves. The windows cepted the challenge of
Prisoner continue that the Chief badly knowing that we have no way circles as "Young Ward, has ac same doorway, each determined that are men in Hongkong" who could and procedure of courts-martial has thumphant science:
to inquire into the law chiming in the true spirit of
Young" the other shall go first. Such give a fair derision; but so far, they issued its reports, a majority and a told you so! I told you I'd be sure soners were given two cigarettes a escape. We succeeded in escaping.pionship of the Colony, of which he said was false. He said there was of the jail cannot be broken open. Maher, of Hongkong, to fight him speculations, however, are merely have not been heard from.
"There! I proof to show it was true. The pri- It is very hard for prisoners to for the Amateur Lightweight Cham- amosing. A more practical and
minority report, both now available to lose my nerve." as a White Paper. Horrible cases
day he could ask the Chief Warder How able we are! Colonel Lugard, whom and he would tell bis Lordship. They
(Maher) claims to be the holder. The published during the war suggested IT IS ALL we used to have as a cheated the prisoners of food and repeating yourself, you know.
The Chief Justice: You are only fight is arranged to take place at the need for amendments. but the ma- RELATIVE. Governor here, was a compelled them to break out of Prisoner: I wish your Lordship
forthcoming tournament fixed for jority of the Committee, consisting of
February 14. pukka hero. We have jail. A prisoner hanged himself in to investigate thoroughly and to give military Brass Hats, have reported thrilled over the story of how he was the jail. His Lordship could ask more food to the prisoners, then if I against any concession of real rights the first to scramble over a stockade the Superintendent. A prisoner who am banged I shall be very pleased. tion of the Chingchow shores by the to accept demand drafts tendered in
to the subordinate soldier. The matin Uganda, carrying his sword in his was serving a short sentence died by I also wish you to give the prisoners Macao authorities, the Canton au- In connection with the reclama- kong for a longters of allowing appeal in the case of teeth, while scrap iron was shot at hanging himself. There were over more clothes. They are only allowed thorities, as well as the Puking Gov- payment of freight, insisting on pay- ment in silver at "officially quoted covering Kontoon, except, as the adequate defence and fair trial, are have seen that very hero quite nervous in want of food. It complaints were would rather be hanged than die of the Portuguese to stop work, as it is
time without dis "shot at dawn" prisoners, and of him by the devils aside. Yet, we 1700 prisoners in the jail and all were two coats and they are not sufficient. rates, the shippers got the Chamber. chairman of the new Residents' As in good hands; and we do not sup at the prospect of a public speech in laid before the chief warder or the starvation or be badly treated. That alleged to be a violation of the line to point out their grievance. It was sociation hinted, as a panoramic view pose they will be allowed to rest unfamiliar surroundings. There's the chief Chinese Justice of the Peace nois ail, my Lord. I am not saying of demarcation. The requests have ernment, have repeatedly requested pointed out that officially quoted defom the Peak. Many have done it where this bunch of old fashioned secret of it, in unfamiliarity. Any notice was mand rates and rates actually obtain-There must he quite a number who martinets would leave them. Our man can get used to almost any prisoners were badly treated. able were at this time very consider have not yet discovered Kowloon immediate interest is in the incidental place, if he survive long enough. Sir begged his Lordship to make en-
taken of them. The what I have not seen. I am telling been ignored, and in view of that. ably different Where a shipper had Kowloon could be classed as a subject of cowardice. We have an Frederick Lugard, faced with a quiries and to punish those who if he was in order but in view of to Chinshan with a body of troops to to pay freight at a quoted slip rate, common object of the seashore, it argument that clamours for ventila debate with our hypothetical high cheated the prisoners. "I committed
you what I have seen.
fact, the Canton authorities, have he was obliged to sell his bills to the would be included in our forthcoming
Mr. Bellios said he did not know been obliged to send La Sim-shan Bank at the current market rate, of disregarded things, but it cannot. Work on the tremendous significance' which at this particular time happen-Kowloon has its points, its character,
brow, might be a coward. If we the murder" prisoner continued and these wild statements he thought occupy strategic points and force the Modern warfare with may say so respectfully (for we are I deserve to be hanged but those was ed to be at a premium of at least eight.
justified in asking Portuguese to withdraw from Chi- pence. His demand draft in sterling its special merits and demerus. It
its high explosives, one of his greatest admirers) we people who cheat the prisoners his Lordship to postpone the passing nese territory, COURAGEOUS poison gases, and lack think he probably would be. not being acceprable in payment of now has its Residents' Association,
Yet he should be hanged too. There is of sentence until an enquiry had sterling freight charges, he could not and is presumably happy.
ofpportunity for went over that Uganda stockade as proof that unnatural crimes were been made into the state of the approach. reasonable accuracy in
warming up and "see simply and 13 naturally ing red" offers an unusually severe we order a pint of beer. Our high-must investigate the matter thorough
as committed in the fall. Your Lordshipman's mind..
THE SS. CHINA”. estimate of silver cost, and therefore
Kowloon is very sub test. A man who could charge a brow at the same stockade would ly or there will be more deaths. The there was nothing in the statement The Chief Justice replied that could not fix an amount at which to
VERY
urban. It is remark crowd of enemies barehanded is liable probably have shown the most dis-Chief Warder and the Assistant to excuse the crime. How the state-
ASHORE. SUBURBAN ably suburban.
We to lose his nerve in a damp and tressing and unpleasant symptoms of Warder are bad men; they beg the ment he had made might affect a left him minus the necessary know suburban Kowloon ia, until we noticed shell fire of an invisible enemy. For for it. In the debating school he the prisoners." Prisoner again polated but so far as this Court was concern. day, by the Pacific, Mail Steamship
never knew before how muddy trench. under the concentrated tright, and been scornfully shot keymen to make complaints against higher power he had nothing to say, ledge o the exact. c.ff. cost of his produce a malcrial factor in all his ands of Kowloon residents re'urning summarily by his own comrades. unblenchingly, with a calm courage were good men. The prisoners were ment that in any way excused the Calculations while freights are up. to their homes alter the Meeting. Many of us middle-aged men who that One could scarcely blame a shipper Seated on for being dogmatic in such circum- the
would have lived soft lives and lacked op hero
make the war starved and were compelled to hang crime. stances. The handicap on commerce Road, and looking down the diminish still speculating how we would have The man who resumes to judge the jail.
envy him. Courage and themselves. "I have proof to show, enter Modyportunity to prove our courage are cowardice art words. Just words. unnatural crimes are committed in black cap and addressing the pri- His Lordship then assumed the was visible to
the veriest tyro. ing perspective of that clean and behaved in such unfamiliar and un- another man commits the most mon truth, to your Lonship." The injury to the development respectable thoroughfare, we realized comfortable situations. as the froststrous impertinence. Yet, misled by never
1 am telling the Boner said: You have been convicted of British trade could be em vividly that Kowloon is as far away tine trenches must have afforded wdids, we all do it. This world will to get food. They were not treated alleged to exist by you in the prison, graphed for but up to time of going
Chinese practically on your own confession phasised.
The opinion that the from Hongkong and the Orient as Some of us, being highbrows, familiar be a wiser, Baner place when the last fairly every prisoner said so. He even if true, cannot excuse your to press, no reply has come to
surrendered their bodies of murder. The state of affairs as unanswerable" are Penge and Sydenham. It is true with philosophy, and shirking po mar in it dies. The type of man asked His Lordship was even quite likely. Yet the China you see an occasional Chinese in the proposition however unflattering to who scorns & caolie for being a much food the Government was Homeward Freight Conference was
tell them how wicked crime. : btreet, out so you do in Penge..." In ourselves it may be, recognize our coolie, not recognizing that the coolieallowing them. The food given passed.
The death sentence was then band. It is presumed that the vessel went ashore on her outward voyage.
HOMEWARD FREIGHTS.
und be at least as inconsistent as the remit the balance of their freight
can
ADVERSARIA.
businesslike illustration of
the
came thing is provided by the Shanghai Chamber's letter to
Con- Certain
the
DISCOVERY OF
KOWLOON
China Homeward Freight ference, and its sequelae. shipping companies having refused
sell his bills. This uncertainty also
(arguments ́ ́ were
left
It is possible to reside in Hong-
the first doorstep on
AS
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THE
COWARD.
Soldiers and their
conceive of а
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"China" A telegram was received yester-
at the entrance to Nagasaki Harbour. Are endeavouring to lighten by dia get off at high tide to-night, charging cargo. Hope to be able to
Enquiry at the local office of the Company this morning, showed that no further information had been received. Details have been teles