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***CHARLTON.-On 20th Februar, at the Sangapore General Hospital, after a short illness A Chariton late of Hong Kong."
an American, but there are peoples who are not the racial equals of the Japanese.
The Ching Mail. grandisement. The same writer
"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC
SERVICE
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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another point of view, and so im- big bust up is coming we can. pressed her with his argument that feerits vibrations now-in the dear, such **
progress as she thought little over-crowded land at Home. desirable would take the rice out We shall regret it and deplore it of the mouths of poor Chinese that as much as you will; but don't say she called upon the Adversarian to we did not forewarn you. give his opinion.
AN OLD STORY.
It is a very old story well known to English Folk since the Chartist
The
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LOGLE AND GREBEL.
Today's dollar is worth Bs. 74d.
Tai O police station was coo- nected up on the telephone yester-
Dr.. **explorer CHINA Geil we never heard day. LEADS. of the geat, before: but The Danes, attracted by high no doubt he is some ex-prices and favourable exchange, are agitation that was born plorer-has been interviewed by sending cargoes ef batter to New of the frightful. sufferings following Reuter. He reports strong York. the Napoleonic war. We had new movement by all classes of Bolshevism then, ander diferentChinese in favour of Christianity.
One party thought votes Floorus Would to Gred we could would improve the miserable lot of have a similar movement as Home, the people. Another thought the
It would cure everything. authorities thought them all
names.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920
MUSINGS AMUSING AND
SAGE.
[By "Bella Spree" for the China Mail.)
CHERCHEZ LA PEMME.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this morning. Those | present, were ban
4
His Excellency the Governor (Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G.) The General Officer Commanding
talic that Rev.N. Temdale Mackintosh Ventris, CB)
It was a plain sensible, practical | the Troops (Major-General Francis
The Hon. Colonial Secretary (Dr. Claud Severn, C.M.G.)
gave at the Helena May Institute Charged with stealing 12 lbs. of yesterday afternoon. The subject of potatoes from a cargo which was it was well appropriate to the Lent being unloaded at Taikoo yesterday season: "How, can women roll off
evil lay in the tax on corn. The especially, among our ruling classes- a Chinese was given 6 weeks the stone of moral obstacles?".
CRAZE.
*** seditious** and used troops. against them. The poor were so wretched that nothing else matter- ed. Eventually political reforms came-half-hearted compromises, juveniles. and those begrudged but the seed sellers
for the
labour.
There seems to be
It is always very satisfactory and LITERARY craze in London Institution of Engineers and Shipwomen) to hear the so-called strong The annual meeting of the flattering, aye, even inspiring (for just now
builders will be held in the Institute sex acknowledge the fact that we literary output of Rooms, King's Buildings on Friday, are a power in the home as well as One of the best
March 25, at 5.45 p.m.
in society: "Women make and was childish novel was planted for the spirit of the (wrongly suspected at first as a
For the theft of an iren pln undo the household.** day. Meanwhile, all parties re- Barrie joke) and now a publisher from the s.s. Lysang" yesterday, cognized that machinery had not is braying about securing the a Chinese was this morning awarded proved an unmixed blessing. It rights to a volume of poems by 6 weeks jail by Mr. Irving. He was Perhaps she seen by a watchman tucking the pin meant progress, but progress to chit of fourteen. what
learned in suffering what she in his waist band and arrested. It meant a stupend. taught in song. They do still
Two Chinese who are wanted WHY LIVE ons growth of Bri- spank em, don't they? Or are
tish trade, and a nursery spankings out of fashion? by the Canton authorities for kidnap British proletariat in many ways
The Adversarion,ping and robbery in the Sun Tak district on Aug, 25, were brought worse of than these Chinese coolies
PROHIBITION. Out of pure love before Mr. Smith this morning and whore Bella Spree was senti-
HERE.. for his fellow men, formally remanded for a week. mentally commiserating. There is'
is inaugurating
***ESOTERIC BUDDHISM.
now-
#
not
The Hon. Attorney-General (Mr. H. Kemp, KC, CBB
The Hon. Colonial Treasurer (Mr. |R. O. Hutchison.)
The Hon. Director of Public Works
Affairs (Mr. E. R. Halifax, O.BE) (Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.C.)
The Hon. Secretary for Chinese
The Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police (Mr. E.D. C. Wolfe.)
The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock,. X. Gi How Mr. E. V.D. Parr. Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone. The Hon. Mr. Ho Fook. Mr. A.G. M. Fletcher, O.B.E. (Clerk
You may argue that we know. too well about it and should like to hear newer, truths. You are alightly | of Councils). mistaken kind Sir: Does not a self- The Jury Lists for 1920 were faid conscious beauty, like, both men and on the table by the Colonial Secretary. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock minors tell her for ever of her
asked: Will the Government appoint Do
'sweethearts, charms.?
a Committee for the purpose of. of though sure of each other's love, reporting on the desirability like to hear from the beloved one the amending the Public Health and sweet confirmation? (at least so I Building Ordinance 1903, by reducing the Eeight of storeys required in am told). Do not children like to domestic buildings and thereby les repeat the things they know best, sening the cost of such buildings? and to lister over and over to their favourite stories?
Since they alone give the tone to Hongkong Society, the women of our, colony can give to this city
for anobbishness #r good name
H. E the Governor `re; li, di I have no objection to appointing such a Committee if there is a general desire to that effect,but I suggest that it would be equally satisfactory if the Public Works Committee would consider the matter with the assist-
NON-FERROUS METALS.
ance of the Medical Officer of Health.
hard, bat at the end of their strenu àhismo," which made such a liter, to know if the seven were condo, women like to dress, is an Ordinance to amend the Non-
STOP NEW EXPENSES.
ING SHOULDN'T EVEN
BE CONSIDERED NOW.
spicuous in the recent strike.
wwwty
The Colonial Secretary seconded and the Bill was read, later passing In all stages.
BANKING
The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill intituted an Ordinance to amend the Banking Business (Prohibited Control) Ordin-
In He said this was also to correct, an
stages.
days and 9.30 a.m. Mass on Sundays, too much outside the family circle. Otsecond reading of the Bill'intituled
no curse in hard physical labour or prohibition campaign in Hongkong. A special congregation takes in the sweat of honest toil. That The Curse of Drink is nowhere place at the University on Sunday, Ltd is the biggest lie in the Bible, and more apparent. Speakers are want the degree ceremony commencing at must have originated from some of ed for a mass meeting in Statue 4 p.m. The congregation was those bone-lazy beggars in Pales Square, on the 1st of next month. originally called for Monday but tine Muscular expenditore is a
A. P. Sinnett is shipping movements have necessitat joy to a healthy man, and rich men
50ed the alteration of the date. turned o in for it as a sport and a pastime.
years of age. He The difference between work and
Murders, and other crimes of was editor of the l sport need be very little. It is drudgery which spoils lives, and Hongkong Daily Press from 1665-violence, have grown so common in hospitality according to their own 1868, and subsequently joined the London that the police there have sweet will. The poor man has only
The Attorney General moved the the so-called **labour saving
Fioneer in India. He has the dis-. been warned to smarten up, and to follow in the trail.
Somebody asked me: "Why second reading of the Bill fatituled machinery has made workmen
tinction of being the world's cham.even long-timers were dismissed into drudges. Our coolias work
for neglect. It would be interesting. pion leg-puller "Esoteric Bud-
Ferrous Metal Industry Ordinance, for themselves, for their lady-1919, saying the object was to correct ous journey they relax and chatter
friends or to be admired by men?" a drafting error, and laugh. At the end of a day ary sensation in 1883, was mostly
A boxing tournament under the Think of asking a woman such a in a Lancashire factory laughter evolved from his inner conscious-
ness and has as much Buddhism auspices of the Hongkong Boxing does not come so easily. Machin in it, esoteric or exoteric, as would Association is to be held to-morrow
straight-forward question!
Methinks there is in a woman's ery is used, not to save labour, but to save the wages of labour. Its cover a five cent piece. But it is a night at "the Theatre Royal com
fascinating book, all the same.
mencing at 9.15. The welterweight vanity (what foreigners call coquel effect is an exaggerated output,,
Sir Frank. Swet-championship of the Colony will be ferie) a harmonious, may be uncou which means forced markets, ex- cessive cheapness, long hours, and A SWETTENHAM tenham, the most contested by Sky Kerrison (holder)scious mixture of the three feelings: Woman likes beauty in her surround- APOTHEOMT We work in a vicious
famous governor and Iron Bu low wages.
ings and naturally on herself. "Well of Malaya, says circle, from which there seems no
We are informed by Bishop Poz. understood, charity begins with ance, 1919. escape. As to retnedies, we are as the worst and the truest accusation much mixed and divided as they that can be brought against Eng-oni that the Mission to be conducted oneself," as the French say. were in the thirties and forties. lishmen is that so many of them by the Redemptorist Fathers in the South America, society ladies confess error of drafting.
Catholic Cathedral wil.commence on that they spend a great deal of The Colonial Secretary seconded The Bolshies and the Radicals and are moral cowards. It may help Sunday, the 7th inst, and finish on money on dress because they see and the Bill was then passed in all the seven-and-twenty different to clarify his intention if we point
"It is not proper for us," an
THE LICENSING BOARD. - brands of Socialist are all alike, out that the major symptom of Sunday, the 14th. There will be a their women relatives too often.
Sermon every evening at 6 pm. and quacks. The top-dogs, of course, moral cowardice is hypocrisy.
The Attorney General moved the during the 7.30 am, Mass on week Argentine lady said to me, "too visit are what they always were. They
course, nothing is more critical
an Ordinance to amend the Liquors Why should they?
than our own people of our own don't care.
Consolidation Ordinance, 1911. He The following are declared suc Don't worry about the Chinese coolie. He is infinitely happier
said the Bill proposes to make certain cessful for Eastern Cadetships, sub sex so from time to time we sail for Bordeaux and choose
amendments relating to the con- ject to their being found qualified in
OUT dresses purselves in Paris. There is a denial of aggressive, and better off than our European ness toward China. supported by coolies. His desires are fewer, his UN VERSAL MILITARY TRAIN respect of health. The names are Variety in dress is the standard of stitution and other points of the
given in order of merit, with their
Licensing Board. It proposes to“
na nominations are provide that the remark (page 4) about the needs simpler, and at the last he
rank with the Forces in parentheses: eleganse in South America:"
Notice the display of pretty dresses received for
the ANY VACANCY accomplishment by America and goes as all men go."
-S. Hoare (Lt). D. F. Jerrold (Lt,
"hen Great Britain, with scientific pre-
shall have We are rather,
Governor
power to R.N.V.R.), A. Dibdin, (Capt.), R. C. to be admired in the so-called cision, of the most skilfully per AMERICAN amused by the die-
Leader of the House Mondell is G. Dartford (Capt, M.C.). D. B. parties." They bear witness to the appoint a member. It also provides, fected designs for territorial "ng-
LEGAL tion of some legal
that the justices elected to the Board LANGUAGE. documents in a San emphatically right when he says that Woodburn (Lt.). W. C. Hankinson fact that man does not enter into in accordance with existing practice
(Capt, MC), G. G. Dixon (Lt), T. consideration at all Francisco president of the Kekuryu-kai) says
divorce universal military training, to cost a Hutson (Capt.), A. Rowlands (Lt., |
On the other hand, we overbeard shall be elected by the Unofficial this dialogue in the Paris Metro (under- Justices of the Peace, It also makes the aftermath of the war cast case. English legal jargon can be billion dollars the first year and six M.BE), and J. E. Duff (L.-Cpl).. shadow or the moral prestige of quaint enough, as we all know; to eight hundred millions a year
ground railway) in the first days of clear that when a member is absent from the Colony as soon as he is BONGZORO, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920 the European nations. Doeg, but for a soul-satisfying collocation thereafter, should not even be con
Why, my dear, what is the matter absent there is power to fill his not England cover half the world of vituperative expressions against
It with her colonies and dominions?" the party of the other port, we gidered at this time; Nobody, not Dunera," was this morning charged with you this morning? Your hair place by an acting member.
Members of the Japanese Parlia-recommend the following as a even the league of nations, is likely ment, Peers, foreign Ministers, the model. It is from the affidavit of to make war on us in the near future,
an unnecessarily latge quorum for Premier, bankers, viscounts," ad- the aggrieved husband. The co. In fact, as an entirely peaceable out We have just received the first mirals, marquises, newspapermen, respondent is a minister of the
protection of the league, so long as yesterday, the defendant was seen All the young men have left for the merabers.
front"
The Colonial Secretary seconded number of the first volume of a etc., contribute short letters con- gospel. Until the parson butted sider, the covenant promises us the when the search party went on board use of wasting time on dressing up?
It is in the same line of thought and the Bill passed in all stages. new monthly entitled The Asian taining their blessings on the enter in declares the husband, be had we behave ourselves, which we shall sitting on bis bunk. As soon as he saw the Police, he took a parcel from
The following votes recommended Revier, published in English in prise, so that with such sponsors his wife's love, respect, and good try to do. Japan.
There are two reasons, both con- the bunk and threw it on, the floor. that Chantecleer or the peacock spread We have often thought are are not lightly to cavil at any wilt The withdrawal of these that much of anti-Japanese cota thing it says. Possibly it may even made him sick in mind and clusive, why we should refuse to When the parcel was opened, it was their feathers before their cackling by H. E. the Governor came before ment has been unjust and unfound.be good tactics to prove the white body." He would not have suffer; take up the subject of military train found to contain the opium. His companions, that the nightingale the Finance Committee, and
The first is Worship imposed a fine of $900 or sings its sweetest melodies on the approved.
highest branch of the grave, and $3,750 in aid of the vote Public ed, much of it mere prejudice, and ness of the pot by directing atten- ed so" but for the wrongful, deceit ing at this time:
who could blame them for their effort Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, we have said so plainly in this tion to the blackness of the kettle. ful, trencherous, malicious, lying, financial. We must raise by taxa six weeks hard labeur.
and their success?
Buildings, Victoria Peak Signal column, although we have not re. It is certainly a shrewd thrust to malevolent, vicious, base, evil, tion an immense sum to make good
Sir Charles Eliot, the newly-
Station, Reinstating Buildings. frained from pointing out what we point out that the chief opponents insidious, artful, unrighteous, dis the deficit from operation of the
The Colonial Secretary said that it believal to be Japanese faults.of militarisu-America and loyal, traitorous, falsehearted, sly, railroads. We shall doubtless, for appointed British Ambassador to
had been asked that the signal station This new and outwardly attractive Great Britain, page 29-are the conniving, sinister, skulking, hypo-humanity's sake, authorize the Grain Japan, who, was to leave London on
on the top of the Peak should be publication has made us gasp, and first to break the very backbone critical and sneaking acts prompted Corporation to sell $160,000,000 Feb. 7 for Tokyo to take up his an diplomatic duties, was entertained by
continued as it was useful to the taught us that the era of pre-of the League of Nations" by by the lustful, lecherous and pro-worth of grain to Austria
The Suez Canal Co. publishes the public and to shipping. The result paganda is, after all we have obnavalism," by "embarking on rient carnal desires of the pastor. time, with little prospect of getting the Chinese Minister and Mme. Sze paid,We are still borrowing money to a farewell dinner at the Legation One of our re- served, marvelled at, and deplored, an ominons programme for aug
There are in Portland Place on Jan. 16. Among receipts of the canal transit regularly; was that it was decided to put the to pay off war claimants. still in its infancy. We fear The menting their navies."
THE NEWSPAPER porters has dis billions of dollars due our citizens on the guests, present to meet Sir, these receipts are given in francs station in order, to get instruments. Asian Review will defeat its own acts belie their professions." The
covered that the trade balances which they way or Charles Eliot were the Japanese like all the accounts of the Company, rather more developed than hitherto object, by "protesting too much." China Mail regrets it, but this is
Viscountess Chinda, since It is supposed to be a French and to erect buildings fit to live in.. local police moved may not be able to collect. European Ambassador,
The boats that transit The original estimate was $3,500 and Perhaps it was right to dis- a complaint common to publicist against a Chinese editor and his governments owe us nearly ten bilion Sir Maurice and Lady de Bunsen, concern.
and politicians. "Sack the lot.
$653 in aid of the rote Police and Hưng 'ep.
Put your faith in staff in consequence of representa dollars, upon which they cannot even Lord and Lady Inchcape, Lord through the canal belong to all the the cost was $3,750 tions from Canton. The Canton pay the interest, so that taxes to the Chalmers, ex-Governor of Ceylon, nationalities and it would be interest- But why did you kick me Providence, but keep your powder authorities allege that this Hong-amount of about $500,000,000, a Sir James and Lady Cantlle, Siring to know-th what money the Prison Departments (A)-Police, The Asian Review breathes the dis, says the new editor, akong paper published articles "cal year are to be added to pay interest Charles and Lady Addis, Sir John passage dues are paid. If the faxes Special Expenditure, New Hail for
blasphemous doctrine," So it is.
culated to cause mutiny amongst on money borrowed by other nations. and Lady Tilley, Mr. M, T. Liang, are paid in francs, the Company is Steam-Launch "Hapag There are over a bundred pages the Canton troops." They have Every adjunct to our Federal Govern- formerly Chinese Minister for Foreign losing at present through the rate of ness, and kicks its friends who of this beautifully printed pro- martial law in Canton at present, ment put on as a war emergency" Affairs. Sir John MacLeavy Brown, exchange, especially as its local staff happen to have fallen downstairs.
measure is insisting not only on Mr. Barton, and Mr. Wickham is probably paid in Egyptian cur Japan's ambition, according to the paganda of Peace and. Light, of and but we had better be careful,
reacy. If, on the contrary" the Repose- and Idealism," 10. We
How remaining but expanding, and while Steed.
charges are payable in national editorial foreword, is to help
Messrs. Stanley Paula Co. will currency varying according to the European culture to survive itself cannot go on quoting indefinitely they'll be after us, too.
It may be sufficiently indicative queer all this is to the English we are struggling to pry them loose,
"Bolshevist ships nationality, the Company is by giving it a new hope through to add that there are several ind. Just as if the Germans had all the chances are against us, Rod
able methods of taxation are about Russia" by Etienne Antonelli M. probably making a serious profit on the infusion of the spirit of repose columns describing the British WCA and we were living under all reasonable and many unreason publish immediately
Prussic law. and idealism" for
frightfulness Et Amritsar in
exhausted. Decent regard for pru-Antonelli, who was ditary attache exchange, for its receipts are express- We accept the respon India, a story about which the
The old principles ence demands that we positively at the French Emby in Russia ed by keeping the. frane to its stands."
DECADENCE of political free- mibility of our destiny with humi- Hongkong papers have been re
refuse to take on the cost of aniversal during 1917 and 1918, witnessed the nominal value fa comparison with EVERYWELEE. dom and free lity."Wow! What is it that markably discreet. As the China
speech are getting training until all our war business is events which marked the downfall of foreign currencies. The question Dr. Watts says?
Mail is one of them, we may as it in the solar plexus likewise in finally, settled and paid off and we the Kerensky regime, the rise to arises: Where do the benefits go? How doth the humble Japan-well add that, we had to be. The America, the land that fought to
It is an interesting point to solve. Orleans by the Cuban Consul to power of the Bolshevists and their know where we financially stand.
The other reason is equally con- consolidation. This book is an im Until now, the Company has refused China, while en route to his home i Asian Reviews has more freedom make the world sale for demo-usive and even more important, partial survey of the movement to give any detail or explanation on Cuba. This service will play a large Improve each shining bour?
cracy Deportations (in many Like the prohibition amendment, The author gives a lucid account of the matter. Perhaps some Hong part in the development of the China cases for mere "hot air.") are military training intrudes into the the Liberal, Socialist and Populist kong shareholder could find out for rice trade in Cuba and the West. common there, now, in the home life of every family in the country, movements which led up to the us the key to the riddle. of the free and the asylum of the and makes radical changes in family seizure of governing power by the oppressed. How for the old spirit habita: No such thing should be Bolshevist leaders. He explains their
MORE PROPAGANDA.
semble your love,
downstairs?"
spirit of love and sweet reasonable.
Све
The Asian Review; for a paltry 80 sen, tells you the answer. In aularity is not to bind Japan's thought heart to heart under- standing, that is their aim.
Their guiding principles are Humanity, and Justice. Could anything,“ as. Sam Weller: asked, be fairer
than we have, not
ADVERSARIA.
CORESS
Their
CASE.
A lascar on board the s.s. the war: before Mr. N. D. Smith with the un- lawful possession of 88 taels of raw is so carelessly dressed: is it grief oplum. He said the drug did not for some departed sweetheart?"
Non ma chere, but what is the belong to him. The Police said that
THE SUEZ CANAL
DESPONDENCY DUE TO
be three instead of five as it seemed
also provides that the quorum shall
a
board consisting of only seven
The Council adjourned sine die.
NEW LINE FROM HONGKONG TO HAVANA:
were
The establishment of a line of
to Havana "was announced at New
steamers for a service from Hongkong
Indies where Chinese rice, according to this authority, is one of the staple foods of the islands. China in return Is a vast market for, Cuban tobaccos One of our lady has gone may be estimated by the attempted until the entire people doctrine. He describes their atitude
and cigars, and the new line will DE CONSTIPATION...
make possible an increased reciprocal tributors has following apology, which we dig have had oportunity to consider it towards the proletariat and the PHÁT been. discussing from an American paperDe- in all its aspects, including, the addi political parties, the doctrine of
IT7OMEN ofwn become nervous and trade at a reduced cost because of with Chinese portation may be tyranny, but a tional taxation, and ford a deliberate Nationalities, and their Foreign Policy W dependent Whor this is das Its directness. The Southern United There is talk of Racial Equality friend the point whether coolie stitch of tyranny in time aves opinion: The Federal Government He considers the social aspects of to constipati in it is easily corrected by States will also be given an outlet to We know all about that. Things labour ought not to be replaced hima Nine what ? Dollars? has already made more secret enemies Bolshevism, its attitude towards taking en consimal dowuf Chamber which are equal to the same thing more largely locally by machinery, In God we trust. Luckily the than enough by drastic changes in Individual rights, property, and the lain's Tablala. These Ables are mer to foreign trade in China, as New of call for vessels on the return tripu: are no longer equal to each other especially by motor trucks. He States are, big, and bave room for domestic habits. Let us have a rest. Industrial system. It is a brok to be and pleasant la effect For sale by Orleans has been selected as a port
-S. F. Chronicle
read by all thinking men and women all Chemists and Korekcepeneke A Japanese is the racial equal of regarded the proposition from quite Improvenient and recovery. The
than that?!!