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that he wipte rol. V of the Times
Some ass in Canton, history of the South African war”
Daware of our plën. and. that he volunteered in 1914
sant little comedy of and served with the R.N.A.S..
Bolshevism, or af gaining the rank of lieut.-com-how the epithet was originally mamler. That's "good enough by attached to the Adversarian, has way of credentials, isn't it? That been telling his friends and neigh. doesn't look like the career of a beurs lately that the China Mail is Sinn Feiner? Well, because he is a Bolshevik organ. We fear we a writing man, a publicist, and must pain our highly respectable dared to criticise some of the high- Editor by lending colour to the bartled methods of Dublin Castle libel, for we have exclusive news ta bandy phrase used to import sur froin Russia, per planchette and general system of tyranny in Tre Conan Doyle. It is this:- land his house was ** raided **
Another revolution. more than once, and he himself Brusiloff forms a new govern- subjected to the Russian-Prussian rent,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
CORRESPONDENCE.
OUR ROUGH AND READY WAYS.
:
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920.
A VERY BEASTLY TRADE.
:
An American law forbids the im port of "bits of birds". That little Saxon phrase is to my ears and sense condemnation enough of what
recommence.
RICE?
What is rice going to do? It is stared that inquiries are coming in again from Cuba, indicating the re To the Editor of the China Mail,
opening of that heavy buying marker. is much less happily called mur and local holders of old stocks Tre Sir-Hongkong is to be congratu- derous millinery" will doubtless be taking action to sell out to make room lated for having in its midst so master-so called in the debate on the for new crops, if the rice buying should
Plumage Bill to-day. fai a man as the European sergeant It is peculiarly hateful to think of who figured as the hero in the case English men and women, specialty to rise, and further, there is a very The price, it is claimed, is bound described in yesterday's issue of the women, clamouring for bits of China Mn, under the heading "A birds" and backing a trade which strong rumour that an embargo on the Interesting Story," proved himself to exists by destruction of birds in the export of Saigon rice will become | be.
close season, the season when a effective in July or August. The evidence as published shows "truce of God" is recognised all that the sergeant did not for an instant over the world towards animals with permit his reverence for the law that young. he is paid to uphold, deter him when dealing with a recalcitrant Chinese for his profound knowledge of the Chinese character told him that the only argument that it understands is the argumentom bacclinum.
"boy.
!
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We are a race of field naturalists. Even a German historian wrote years ago that no one could hope to know the English who had not read and understood Gilbert White's
Selborne."
excess
*
FIRST NIGHT FIASCO.
DISORDERS IN A THEATRE.
"
methods of humiliation and in-Lenin bas fed. timidation that we call "restoring Trotski, was murdered. onder** JIL Ireland. Indignant In a week or two, when Beuter questions have been asked about breaks this news to you gently, in Parliament, but just at present, don't forget that we told you first. no one will listen-all being sal Incidentally, our private spook
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. possessed by the idea that all the adds another bit, namely, that this Sinn Feiners are murderous will mean no benefit to rouble
We know more about the habits. criminals who must be suppressed. holders. The rouble is to drop Nor did the fact that he is paid to
London, Aprü 308 That there are murderers in both again before the end of June. preserve law and order, prevent him and ways of our living birds than sides of his unhappy war counts:
The latest Truth to from going farther, for when an amah any people in the world. 1 suppose scenes occurred file, Gac for nothing with our own mob. ONE MORE hand tells how the standing by remonstrated with him for our percentage of field naturalists is Theatre, where interruption (to Let the Irish fight it out amongst DETECTION. Norwegian Society striking an alleged sick man, this gal-larger by at least 10 in a hundred occupants of the gallery compelled themselves. That make them
for Psychical Relant sergeant, promptly gave her her than any other people's. Human-sbandonment on the first night of "One Night in Rome." in which Miss happy. Then give the winners search exposed the Rev." Susan- quietus by assaulting her also. Such itarians are in about the same Mr. I. Hartley Manners's play. what they want. That make na Harris, an American "medium" women are not entitled to respect.
The fash of silver wings, the Laurette Taylor (M. Hartley Man- them loyal." or, what' is just as who gets through a trumpet direct He should have used his truncheon rippling fountain of song, the penners), famous in "Peg e' My Heart," good, friendly to us." But this messages from Sir William Crook, on such people-but he might have cilled messages on eggs, mean su was appearing. There was a brilliant Dublin Castle method of dragoon-M. Stear Bismarck, and others. knocked out an eye and that would preme things to country dwellers: We audience, including the American ing them won't work. Where's. She declared that she could not cost him a dollar.Yours, etc..
build horses for birds when we are | Ambassador, (Dr. John W. Davis), ADMIRER. the sense in keeping it up? speak German, yet she gave a long
short of homes ourselves. Our litera- whose boxwas draped with American When the nuners or (and correct) message from a dead Hongkong, June 12, 1920.
ture, our newspapers, our daily talk, flags. Some people say that the are coloured throughout by our affec- demonstrations were due to the TRADE the railwaynen pm- German rittimeister. The grandson UNIONISM. PE
tion for the living bird, the "mounted scenery rot allowing to the galleryites To use the of this rittmeister revealed that in
thrush," the lark "at heaven's gate," a proper view of the stage, bet of Strength trade 1013 or 1914 Mrs. Harris discussed nnionism there is a bowl of in- with him, in excellent German, his CHAMBER OF COMMERCE"true to the kindred points of heaven possibly they were connected with and home," the "infinite passion" of Miss Laurette Taylor's attitude dur- dignation at their tendency to family history, studied the family
IMPORT FIGURES..
the nightingale, the robin that "bobsing the war. Paper pellets, snuff, bully. When the trade union of records in the Paris Church, "stayed
upon a stone," the curlew calling and red pepper were discovered in doctors, physicians, surgeons for with a relative for several days,
Cotton piece goods and fancy across the moorland. the black the gallery, proving that the demon that is what it is, in effect) per-and left a photograph of herself
Rev. cotton goods-The market remains republic of the trees" one could go strations had been crganised. Miss seentes II. A. Barker the famous bearing the signature
inactive. There are no immediate on quoting for a page and mixing Laurette Taylor in a sneech, attempt: hansetter, and strikes off for Susanna Harris, She is now in
infatter comine? his licensed England, wher- Coma Doyle will signs of a revival and with the poets of all dates, as I have mixed ed to, placate the disturbers, pro sudden decline in exchange the Shakespeare and Wordsworth with-mising them stalls on another night. anesthetist, it is left papers like presumably. discover her and
difference between sellers and buyers out meaning it.
but the failed. Mr. Charles B.: Truth and ourselves to protest. recommend her.
prices is farcical The Manchester. Supposing that lovely heron which Cochran (the lessee and manager of Barker's manipulative surgery has
market though quiet remains firm they call the egret homed with us in the Garrick Theatre) then stopped I made post for 25 yours, and
Cotton yarn-Market continues on this England in this swan's nest the play and promised to hold an- fame has cured soures!
the easy side. Dealers have purchased in an ocean" (you see even the other "first night." whom the gallied and Keensed!
limited quantities of favourite chops Elizabethans must fetch their simile London, May 1st. The second quarks Ingel. His work on war!
of lower counts for their immediats for England from the kingdom of "first night" of Mr. Manner's play Įgietīns is aäiversally acknowledged The Extra Gymkhana Meeting requirements only. These transac birds)! We should beyond question will take place on Monday, when except he the medical profession. is postponed to Saturday, 19th June. tions show a further decline of about regard even the death of a male in there will be a big demonstration of
$5 per bale. The higher Indian winter as a crime.
public sympathy with Miss Laurette They call themselves scientists, yet at 400 p..
counts have been neglected owing to For nothing in natural history is Taylor. The reason for the disorders instad
investigating Mis of
Japanese To-day's dollar is worth 3s. 94d. competition fromn metheis. and adopting them if
and more moving than the fond fidelity remains undisclosed, but the general Shanghai Mils, whose productions of these herons. They pair probably opinion is that they can be traced to: found good they persecute and revile him because he is not a meus- Dr. H. H. Scott is appointed are being sold at rates vastly cheaper for life (personally I believe the certain remarks which Miss Laurettee ber of their trade union.
than comparative replacing values rooks do, and indeed most of the Taylor made in New York after her The
Govt. Bacteriologist.
ruling in India....
bigger birds). They perch side by last visit to England. latest proposal adds insult to in-
Quotations are:-No. 10s $190/230. side, intertwining their long necks in i The disturbances in the Garrick jury, though it comes from well-
No. 12s $205/230. No. 16s $240 270. love knots; and when the young Theatre recall the "old prices" riots meaning people. They urge, these
come they nurse them with a grace in the Covent Garden Theatre in Members of Parliament, that Mr.
No. 20s $255/305.
Miss Laurette. Taylor, Mr. Arrivals 5,700 bales. Sales 1,500 fulness of affection which inevitably 1809. Baiker be given an honorary medi-
bales. Shipments cl
suggests at every turn the best of Cochran, and Mr. Hartley Winners cal degree, by tof all persons the
Unsold Stock 9,000 bales. Barwhat we mean by motherhood in our profess to be at a loss to divine the Archbishop of Canterbury!
cause of the demonstration, though gains 12,000 bales.
Woollens--Market-marking time. This is the moment chosen for it is certain that they were planned, A lady at Home seus this juss-panjandrumn has retained some ancient power to
Mr. E. R. Huneeus is recog Raw Cottons Quotation are no killing the birds. It is no good as stick bombs were dropped into "GOLDEN worked very hard
consul
minally unaltered at $37:40 for In denying it. Friends of many of us the stalls and scores of copper fung organizing a golden confer such a degree. If the Pared" as honorary
liament men are in earnest, the Chile.
dian and $40/45 for Chinese grades. have seen it, and others have taken on the stage. Souff pellets from the bullot fancy.name
Metals. Very little business to photographs of the parentless young gallery affected many people in th for a lottery in aid of the settle-will rush through a short Act that
Fluctuations in exchange dying of starvation. Yet egret stalls. Letters from Home now co treport. of disabled soldiers and will draw the teeth of the Harley
Mr. Justice Horridge (of the King': the little plumes are still popular with English Street packs. sailors. Before any move was
It
will be in twopence an ounce-every additional have interfered with
ounce or part of an ounce one penny. business doing.. Wire Nails have women, and will be. People are Bench Division of the High Court of made against her she had raised
SPIRITUALISM. Teresting to see
been sold Spot lots at $13.00 to thoughtless and ignorant, and the Justice), who was present at the per 268.550, paid 492.580 in ex-
how those of the
- Mr. Dick Melbourne takes on $13.75 for 1-3 inch. Tinplates tenderest in conscience and emotionformance suggested a Sinn Fein plot. The "old prices" riots began on penses, presented the prizes to the It is true that a short winners, and handed over the bal-clergy, at present hankering after the work of Official Receiver and are lower at $12 to $12.30, this are capable of endowing cruelty,
below replacing cost. Steel Plate We must therefore as a community of the new Covent Garden Theatre JAPAN'S (He-age some of the ance to the fufid. Then the officials the limelight of spiritualistn, as in Registrar of Trade Marks, in addition figure being several dollars a box merely because they know no better. September 18th, 1909, on the opening Cuttings have arrived in fair quanti-stop the traffic. Arguments of this by I. P. Kemble with increased prices Tapers in Japan were moved. prosecuted and get her | Some sort a bolster for their own to his other duties.
fined £, with 6 s. cuis-urder trade formula, will skate over ther
We are requested by the Com-ties, but the market remains steady for or that against or the other of admission, and they lasted tut Laws advocating that "the the anti-gaubling act of pro-Vic-where. forbidding recourse to themumittee of the Club de Recreio, Kow- at $5.00 to $6.50 a picut, Glasgow neither for nor against may all be December 16th of that year, when brushed aside as beside the issue, for in the old charges were restored. "Of Japanese land laws be torian times. Our national hypo- that have familiar spirits, to loon, to state that the concert by the Horseshoes are lower at $4.00.
Macbeth," not FLOUR MARKET REPORT. such a case our humanity, our national the play produced, altered so that foreigners might crisy over gambling is sickening.
Stock-About 250,000...sacks.character, not to say reputation, are one word was heard, and great injury own land there; but no notice was We all love it, and most of us do Wizards, to diviners, to cbservers Italian artists has been postponed till
of times ung shui to enchanters Tuesday. - Even
Quotations American Patent $4.25 vitally affected. To encourage such was done to the theatre.] taken of it, officially. When the it one way or another.
On Monday at Ne. 203 Praya per sack, American Cut off $3.40 per traffic is a "lie in the soul." We love Parliamentary Under-secretary for church bazaars cannot get on with hypnotists to conjurers (niediums) the Colonies said the other day out it. Here in Hongkong the to charpers Lodges and Doyles)
cash steeps are a pare lottery or to him that inquireth of the East, Messrs. Lammert Bros. will sack, Americas Straight $3.40 per living birds; we hate bits of birds. bat the question of the revision
dead." According to the Bible. at offer for sale 1,072 bags of Tonkin sack, Japanese 2nd Patent (old stock), of the land laws of Japan had ap-much business is a gamble, and our that is wicked and impious, and white rice. The auction commences Japanese 3rd Patent (old stock), Japanese Straight (old stock), Shang. parently been under consideration magistrates and officials play steep involves fa disobedience of s at 11 am.
bai Flour 2nd $3.10 per sack, Shang- Kely, there was just-sufficient | Poker at a ball or in their homes. aivine coletnard..
With regard to the Volunteer appointments gazettedhai Flour 3rd, Australian No. 1 $350 truth in the announcement to pre. Yet for pussession of a few scraps vent it being a parliamentary lie. of paper, lottery tickets, our police
"enterprising pro are G. E. Stewart, captain, J. S per sack, Australian No. 2 $3.00 per are instructed to run in and make
SERVICES: posił CF the Star McCann, A. E. Wright, A.Murdoch, sack, Australian No. 3. Of official consideration it got none.
F. C. Hall, I. H. Gordon and G. M. Ferry people to pro We were quite in sympathy with criminals of poor Chinese.
BRITISH WAR MEMORIAL Lord Curzon's proposal that Japan-
"He ought to be vide bigger farries, cynics are point- ese purchases of land and real
self.. He says opening out that their franchise is close
WHAT TIENTSIN IS DOING.. estate in the Crown Colonies (al-
it renewed, not on the score of past ready so extensive here as to agy that he is a Sian Feiner. It to expiration, and that they want
DAINTY MUSLIN PICNIC HATS.
A CALL WILL BE APPRECIATED.
The China Mail.
"TRUTH, JUSTICE PUBLIC SERVICE"
BONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920.
LAND
ADVERSARIA.
BALLOT,”
ment
SHIN FASE. ashamed of him-
express laws in Leviticus and else-
PUBLIC
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Mr. Thomas Dallin acts as auditor during. Mr. Phelips' absence.
A large jük has foundered just opposite No. 2 Police Station, Wan- chai.
Dodwell, lieutenants.
for
Can anyone tell us the cost to the taxpayer of our submarines "escorting" so far the foreign prince
Before Mr. RO Hutchison, at
nem.com.:
human sense.
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS.
BOUGHT BY CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.
of industrial groups.
of
LADY ASTOR.
ATTACK" BY. JOHN BULL.”.
INCIDENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONSt
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(USA)
women in the United States obtained
London, May 5th-Mr. Horatio Bottomley (Independent MP for South Hackney, and editor and pre Berlin, May 7th-Herr Hugo prietor of John Bull) has published in Stimes, the iron and coal king of that paper some sersational revela- Germany, has purchased the Govern- tions and has exhibited throughout gravate our housing problem), he was an English speaking performance (qui est pour rire) but that was here this week? "The sum At a meeting of the British Comment's Berlin journalistic organ, the London posters reading Lady Astor's
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The divorce. Mr. Bottomley's article... restricted until the Japanese them-of our dear, typical, loyal, unthink-
Herredares that the divorce proceedings relves showed less-exclusiveness. ing, wooden Englishmen. talking promise. They urge (and in of £1,000 has been mentioned. It munity of Tientsin on May 31 to
vite the China Mail to urge) that seems a lot.
receive and discuss the report of the Eterary staff has "resigned. Tientsin British War Memorial Com Stinnes, in conjunction with Hat were taken in. February, 1903, in Any proposal merely vexatious, of about an Irishnen in this Colony-bis. monopoly be put up to public |
be pinprick order, would have pro- Had he been told that he, too, was auction, to go to the best bidder. Bona fide travellers may now mittee, Mr. W. P. Ker, CM.G. Hungenholtz a director of Krupps the State of Virginia roked our prompt opposition, but a Sinn Feiner, he would have flush With regard to the street cars, take an ay with them up to $30 worth H. B. M's Consul General presided. (in Essen), bas bought the Augsburg and were carried through with great
Abend Zeitung. These purchases
secrecy. The first ground alleyed is was reasonable. It did not, for ed angrily. He would have said. very large number of workers re- of Hongkong subsidiary coins. This Captain P-H. B. Kent, M.C., Pre have created disquietude owing to Robert Gould Shaw's desertion. Sub-
That's not funny. That's insultsiding in Wanchai and eastwards is a reasonable amendment, which sented the Committee's report, and example, propose to prevent Japan-
sequently the statutory grounds in ese purchases of real estate in Eng.ing."
Yet if Sinn Fein" docs thereof have- repeatedly urged us will stop the "official robbery" of after a lengthy discussion, and the the increasing syndication" land, though, a policy of strict mean ourselves alone." nost of to call attention to the inadequate poor Chinese leaving the Colony with rejection of one amendment, the German newspapers in the interests cluded a petition. Mr. Bottomley pointed out that in view of this following resolutions were adopted, [The Essen Allgemeine Zeitung is reciprocity should do so. Judges Englishmen are Sinn Feiners,
"secret divorca" Lady Astor showed therefore of our irritation on see- and glory in it. Why. Some of us ccommodation provided in the smaller amounts.
mornings and at tiffin time. Be-
1-This meeting of members of published specially for the workers inconsistency in her recent speech ing Kokusai, the Japanese news yearn for a settlement of the Irish een eight and nine a... on the agency, referring to Curzon's in- problem only for our own sakes, cityward run it is certainly hard the Magistracy, this morning, Mr. C. the British Community at Tientsin in the Krupps factories. Some time in the House of Commons on the
Evo the firm, of Krupps purchased nocent suggestion (inspired frus because it wastes so much of the to get a seat, and sometimes stand-F.. Mason appeared to defend a being eainestly desirous of giving wolff's Telegraphic Agency to Berlin, English Divorce Bill, when the de Hongkong) as an anti-Japan time of our Parliament, and is such ing room. If the management can- Chinese charged with the unlawful further expression to its grateful
3 tiresome, costly nuisance. An
also started two new companies to divorces. She added: "I think Land Bill" proposal. That was
umes in these districts, what about non-Government opium. The case self-sacrificing services of those who control the foreign news service and that the world is too loose altogether. impudent. These people apparent Irishman who is a Sinn Feiner has manage extra cars at those possession of four tatis of prepared appreciation and admiration of the coxtrolling German official news. It precated the easier ground by which
was remanded until Monday morning. fel and were disabled in the Great advertising business in the foreign we need tightening op. ly want everything their own way. Do need to be ashared of it, any a few trailers? The Timer corre- ore than we English have to feel
If the Supreme Coun- Bail was fixed in the sum of $250. War, bereby determined the Press, and to acquire foreign adverti Bottomley's article described Lady- STPREME cil (of Allied Pre- spondent at Teher-asbarned of being (say) Radicals,
COUNCIL. niers) is to carry on We are informed by Bishop lines recommended by the Tientsin sing business in German newspapers. Astor as a hypocrite of the fist an does not give or than a woman had for being a
that the Rev.
L. British War Memorial Committee, nis much credit for Suffragette. The time is coming
as a permanent inter- Pozzoni
Superfor of the and expresses the earnest hope that) intelligence. A little while ago he when the children will say what national governing body, as the Versiglia,
Salesian Fathers of Macao, the wives, children and other depen- eld us of a withdrawal for pare was you after doing in the great Temps forecasts, there is all the has been elected, Bishop of the new dent relations of those from Tientsin ly precautionery reasons," which rebellion, Daddy?, and Daddy will more need to change our Premiers, Vicariate Apostolic: of Shiu Chow he fell and also those from Tienesin has pharest, of course, fits the very make answer unblushingly sond But the proposal seems to have Prefecture Le capital of which is who have been disabled, will accord same reasone that mode Fritz ery long reconciled Englishwen will ap come from within the Supremes Shiu Kwan situated at the junction of to the supporters of the Trast-the kamerad Now the Teheran terplaud him for it, just as they ap(doesn't it sound like All-Highest ?) hated and co sui privilege of conveying by this the of the organ recital to be given in Commons cheered Lady Astor loudly minologist has gone one better, and plauded Both the-Ber) was and may get turned down with that Monseigneur. Veglia is very well only means in their power, a sincere St. John's Cathedral on Monday when she entered the Chamber to assured us that a British force be the surue token a thin Faner, dull, sickening thud that awaits known in Hongkong About nine expression of respectful sympathy next at 6p.m. by Mr. Denman Fuller, day. Mr. Bottomley was sitting a
lete walio we few seats distant from her. withdrew to a piece called Resht avick. I shinfaned for and the wor vaulting ambition. Europe is years ago be was the guest of Bishop 2.This meeting of members of FR.CO. LRAM
in order to avoid contact with ruld like a man and a patriot, and about tired of it.
Pozzoni for several months during the British Community at Tientsin 1 Toccata and Fague In D. minor Viscountess Astor (Coalition Un Bachionist: MP, for the Sulton: Division the Reds." One can understand I was the man that stood Yed Car-
Why do crowds rush which time he 1728 occupied in adopts the Repot presented by the their reluctance to meet such hairy, son on his head in the inidden."
has been elected to the British GETTING to gape at princes; preaching and in the administration British War Memorial Committee, 2-fels of the Waters... Eric Coates of Flymouth) is the first woman who
stand in the rain to of the sacraments. He is a very and appoints the proposed ex-Offico 3, Rhapsody (No. 3).
Herbert Howells. Parliament. She is a daughter of Tschaikowsky. see them? It must be learned scholar and has gaired & Trustees with power to take steps to DEBLIX
Mr. C. D. Langhorne, Greenwood, CASTER'S His balty to our the collecting spirit, such as pays large circle of friends by his cheer raise the proposed Fund, and to pre-Arabia
HYMN 193
Virginia (USA), and was married Ride may be guessed big prices for anything, book pic. fnl and sympathetic disposition. His pare a Trust Deed for approval, and
Batiste. in 1906. to the present Lord Astor.
and from those facts, that tore, et pot, that happens to be numerous friends in the Colony will it thought desirable, amendment, by 5.Andante be wrote an anti-German novel rare: Princes are comparatively be glad to learn, of the promotion he a Meeting of Subscribers to be held 6-Scherzo (Symphony in G minor) There are four
Lemare daughter.]:
STRATEGIC BETIREMENT.
unbathed creatures; but why make a chant about it? Perhaps another
reason for getting out of the way
gut those people was the feet that
BE(with the solitary exception of
Winston Churchill) do not happen to be at war with them.
Erskine Childers is not Sinn Feiner.
RARER.
called “The Riddle of the Sands,
rare.
bas received.
establishment of a Trust Fund on the
hereafter. P. and T. Tunes?"!:
ORGAN RECITAL.
water."
Mr.
The article also said: "Although · Lady Astor is described as Robert Gould Shaw's widow-in Burke's Peerage and Who's Who," her first husband is still alive in New York." The following is the programme The members of the House of