MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1920.
·SPECIAL CABLES.
SIAM'S HEIR APPARENT
DEAD.
[Ching Mail SPECIAL.]
SINGAPORE, June 13.
Prince Pitsanuloke, heir apparent of Siam, died here to-day pneumonia following influenza.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
of
SINGAPORE. June 13. A private wire from Japan says Brussiloff has overthrown the Bol Trotsky has shevik Government. been, killed, Lenin bas escaped.
MAURITIUS SUGAR CROPS.
SOLD TO ENGLAND.
[China Mail SPECIAL].......
SINGAPORE, June 13. Mauritius has sold to England the sugar crops for 1920 and 1921 at ninety shillings f.o.b. British India must obtain supplies from Java Market prices are rising.
A WEIRD STORY.
CORPSE THAT MOVED ITS ARMS.
THE NEW FLOTILLA
The following additional, details regarding the Botilla of sloops and gunboats which arrived on Saturday as reported by the China Mail may
be found of interest.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MR. W. C." COLLINS MEETS WITH FATAL ACCIDENT,
4.
Mr. William C. Collins, an elec rical engineer employed by the China Light and Power Company, Ltd., met tragic accident. Saturday with" a afternoon, Mongkok. resulting in his death. He was engaged in super intending the repair of a cable broken during the storm on Satudray morn
FEWER WIVES.
CAUSES OF DECLINE IN POLYGAMY.
Polygamy, we are told, is dying out in Persta, owing partly to the expense of keeping more wives than one and partly to the increasing in- fluence of Western ideas and
The gunboats, Moth, Mantis Cricket, Cockchafer and Cicala are all war productions being specially built for light work. They are powerfully engined and carry six inch guns. The Cockchafer, which and when he met with the un-standards. may be taken as a fair example fortunate accident was standing on à
A similar decline in the practice is 250 feet long with a 36 feet beam. ladder endeavouring to pull a fcxible The displacement is 640 tons and coil from the ceiling. Unknown to has been for some time noticeable in she draws only 4 feet. Her engines Mr. Collins the wire was charged are of 2,000 h.p. and can do up to 14 with current "The sudden shock of koots on small coal consumption. electricity caused him to fall from the Either coal or oil fuel can be used. ladder, striking on his head, he sus Coal bunkers can take 35 tons and taining a severe wound. His death, the fuel tanks provide for 54 tons from concussion of the brain, took She is armed with two 6 inch. guns, place immediately after, despite medi- two 12 pounders and half a dozen cal assistance promptly rendered. machine-guns. The Moth and Mantis did service in Mesopotamian waters, and took a prominent part in the advance pa Bagdad. They were in the river flotilla under Capt. Wilfrid Nunn, D. S..O. They were engaged in many bombardments both being The sloops are part of the "her baceous border" which consists of some 120 ships named after flowers. They are 255 feet in length, 354 feet beam, displacement of 1,250 tons and draught of 10 feet. Their engines į of 2,400 b.p. give a speed of 17 knots, The armament generally consists of four 7 inch xuns, and two 8 pounders. They have a good steaming radius bunkering 260 tons of coal.
The officers are:-
badly bit.
H.M.S. "COLOMBO," Capt. Percy Withers (in com- mand).
Lieut.Comdrs. Wharton S. Gray and Francis W. Crowther, D.S.C
Lieutenants Bryan Wingfield, John E. Caffin, Francis R. B. Studdy, and John E. Hackett.
Engr.-Comdr. Geo. H. S. Sanders,
D.S.O.
Engr.-Lieut. Frederick W. Farlow. Capt. R. M. Edward G. M. Roe. Surgeon-Comdr. Arthur I. Sheldon Paymaster-Lieut.-Comdr. Richard
F. Durman.
Phillips.
H.M.S.
E.
ment!
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
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THE Management of the Ca MAIL.” desires to inform the public that |its tarifi für advertisements received on and after this date will be increased by 20 per cent
by the constantly growing ost of pro- This increase in rendared impamtive
duction, the price of paper alone having advanced by 700 per cent during the past five years.
the
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS..
In order to meet these conditions tian Church insists on ronogamy, other countries. Broadly the Chris- newspapers and magazines all over the Me Frank Lenwood, one of the subscription and advertising rates in "world have been obliged, to raise their foreign secretaries of the London some cases by as much as 100 per cent Missionary Society, said toand, at the same time, to curtail the la representative of The Observer, size and number of
but in its dealing with uncivilised present, however, it has been decided,
Fages. For
races it will sometimes allow a man
in the interests of the public generally to come into the Church who has and of advertisers in particular, to leave The decessed was a young man of two wires.
the price of the "CEI MAIL" 24 years who came to Hongkong as it is one of the disputed points. On The practice differs;
changed. a member of the Lancashire Regi- the other hand, if a man once in the Hongkong. May 17, 1990. from the Army he joined the Hong-would not be allowed to remain.
After obtaining his discharge Church were to marry two wives be ons Police Force. Being an elec
"I know India and China, and rical Engineer he received a favour, quite distinctly the same sort of able offer of employment with the movement as that reported in Persia Chins Light and Power Company, is going on there. In India there are notices of forthcoming meetings, about nine months ago, of which he two factors in the practice of poly. took advantage. It is understood that Samy: you have it more amongst he was engaged to be married.
the Mohammedans than the Hindus, Little or nothing is known by the and more among the rich than
'the pocr. company officials as to his relatives whom monogamy is the rule and the Among Hindus, with and friends a; Home, and endeavour is being made by them to discover tradition, polygamy is disappearing. who his next of kin are, so that they They are a backward people as a I know less about the Mohammedans. may be apprised of the fact and cirrule, and any new movement touches cumstances of the regrenable death of them last. this active and promising young man. The funeral took place Sunday evening at Happy Valley and was largely attended. A large number of Horal offerings were placed over the grave.
THE "LAURENTIC'S " GOLD.
SEARCH FOR LOST MILLIONS.
.
Inspector Kent this morning charged a Chinese, before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, with assaulting a Chinese' woman on Saturday. The defendant denied the charge. The Inspector said that the woman came to No. 2 Police Station on Saturday evening, and complained that she had been assaulted by a man. He did not think the matter serious at the time, and sent her away. "On the Sunday morning, her husband came to the station in a state of great excitement and announced that his wife was dead. A Sergeant was
It is hoped that during the next Surgeon-Lieut. F. G. Hunt, M.B. sent to the house with a coffin
Paymaster-Lieut. Reginald C. F. six months several million pounds to remove her to the mortuary.
worth of gold ingots will be recover Sub-Lients. F. T. Boswell, A. Med from the "Laurentic" which was Arrived at the house, the Sergeant's suspicion was aroused that she was Hutchinson and R. C. D. Grimes. sunk by a German submarine in
Gunners F. W. Ritter, J. C. Acker | Lough Swilly in 1917. shamming, and as a test, he moved one of her arms from ber chest and man and H. W. Groves.
The Admiralty salvage steamer placed it by her "side. The dead"
Warrant Shipwright A. E. Burns." Racer" has arrived, operations will, woman herself replaced the arm on
Artificer Engineer W. M. Oldrieve. begin as soon as the weather per- Warrant Mechanician Further examintation her chest.
M. raits: They have been held up dur. revealed the fact that the woman Ephgrave, D.C.M.
ing the winter. was in a semi-conscious condition, and the coffin was substituted by the ambulance, and she was removed to the hospital where she was examined. by the doctor who certised that she bad several bruises
her body. The Inspector said that the
was before his Worship some months ago charged with, "fying the white pigeon" on a Sanitary coolie, and he thought the present trouble was the result of a squabble between her present husband and the defendant who was | mand. a former lover. The woman was not detained in hospital, and was presentin Court, very much- alive."
The defendant said the woman had swindled him out of some money. When he met her on Saturday he asked her for its return, and without any warning, she and another person "Bew at him like wild cats" and scratched his face and body. He retaliated with a push, and the woman fell. Inspector Kent said he thought this was some society affair. He would not have taken a serious view of the matter but for the fact that the woman was in a certain condition. His Worship called the woman's husband, and bound the parties over to keep the peace. for six months, the defendant in the sura of. $100 and the woman and her husband $50 each.
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STRAITS DEFENCE BILL
MR. DARBISHI” INVITES A PROTEST.
"Mr. C. W. Darbishire writes from London to the Straits Times-I see that in one of your recent leading articles you expressed the hope that an appeal to the Imperial Authorities would be made against the allowance of this Bill I may say that when I received the Bill at once handed
it to Sir Donald Maclean, in the bope
that he would bring it to the notice
"CRICKET."
"No statement can be made as to the exact amount of treasure on the Lieut. Comdr. J. Merrett in com- ship, as the Treasury is anxious that mande
we should not disclose the £gure," Lieutenant G. E. P. Howe
said an Admiralty official to a Press Acting-Lieut. H. C. Guernsey.
It is understood, representative. however, that when the ship was Lieut-Comdr, A. C. Thursfield, in torpedoed there was between six and eight millions' worth of bullion command.
aboard. Ingots valued at £2,000,000 have been recovered during previous operation.
H.M.A. "COCKCHJVER”
Lieut. W. W. T. Beckett, D.S.C. Acting-Sub-Lieut. R.H.S. Peter.
B.M.S., FOXCLOVE." Lieut. C. D. Milbourne, in com
Acting-Lieut. G. Buchanan, Surgeon-Lieut. N. A. H. Barlow. Acting Sub-Lieut. A. E B. Rose.
HMS. BLUEBELL.”
"Commander A.E. B. Stanley, in! command.
"Lieut. A. D. Nicholl,
Surgeon-Lieut. J. C. Sinclair. Acting-Sub-Lieut
Moleyns.
J. A. E.
TIME BY WIRELESS,
"SIGNAL" ROUND THE WORLD. |
M. Bigourdan, member of the Academy of Science, has been appointed a director of the Inter- national Science Bureau at Brussels, de which is to send the time all over the world by wireless telegraphy. In an interview M. Bigourdan said experiments were now being made to perfect wireless signals by means of musical uninterrupted waves of 125 mies wave length. The Bureau will send out the time at 10.30 am, and
H.M.S. "CICALA.” Lieut.Coindr. R. G. M. Hunt, D.S.O., in command.
Surgeon-Lient. D. J. M. Kerrigan. Acting Sub-Liert. A. J. S. Fastley
H.M.S. "MOTH." Commander E. Johnston, D.S.O., in command...
Lieut. C. Appleton. Acting Sub-Lieut. T. L. Aikia.
F.M.S. "MANTIS. "-
Lieut.Comdr. G. E. H. Lawson, in command.
Lieut. R.F. Jolly.
HMS. HOLLYHOCK."
Commander K. Boyes, C.M.G., in command.
Lients. W. G. White (First Lieut.) and H. H. Hancox
Sub-Lieut K. N. Mack-Macrae, Lieut. Sargeon G. F. Heath.
H.M.S. "MAGNOLIA."'" Liest. R. J. Richards.'
of the House of Commons. After LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
due consideration, however, he in-
formed me that he was not prepared
to take any action unless there was
.
Some strong public expression of local
ARRIVAL
The ss. "Lowther Castle," Capt.
opinion forthcoming against it. It T. H. Hughes, 2,740 tons, arrived this
therefore rests with those on your
side who are opposed to the measure to make a move and I trust that they will do so. I read the report of the
morning at 7 am.. from Shanghai | with 900 tons of general cargo.
11 p.m.
KINEMA NOTES.
HONGKONG THEATRE.
"The general feeling in India approximates more and more to that of the West, and the movement to- "wards monogamy is quite a marked one, especially among men who have been educated in the West. Occasion- ally, however, one hears of some exceptional case.
"A Pathan officer whom I met in France and who had a wife in India, became engaged to a French girl, with the consent both of his own
and the French family. He intended to marry the girl and take her back with him to India, but I am sure she had not- the faintest conception of what she was going out to, for a union of that kind is perfectly fatal The warning, in fact, may be usefully given that any girl who is inclined to marry a non-Christian Indian, whe ther a Mohammedan or Hindu, wouldį. do well to make sure in the most careful way that she is not likely to have another wife brought into the household. It would be very much better if inter-marriage between the races occurred only where both side are Christian, that is the great guarantee
"In China, where some wealthy mer have many wives, there is the same movement towards the abolition of polygamy. It is largely due, I think, to the higher place that women are taking in general affairs, coupled with the spreading infuence of Christianity.
"When there are many wives there is often a great deal of jealousy. Indeed, a man in Hong- kong put the whole position very clearly to one of our women doctors.
One piecee wife,' he said
every- thing all lite; two piecee wife, too much plenty bobbery.
"The expense of keeping many wives is no doubt a factor, but not. I think, a very considerable one in the decline of polygamy: Among un- civilised peoples, particularly in parts of Africa, where the field work is done by the women, the economic factor works in the reverse direction, for there the possession of many wives is a definite source of pros perity."
"WA
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
A seven part picture entitled "The Common Law" is the attraction at: WANTED:--A Firat Class EURO-,
PEAN or EURASIAN NURSE. the Hongkong Theatre: The story is by Robert W. Chambers and features Apply to No. 137. The Peak.
Clara Kimball Young. The picture
has proved a great draw during its run at the Theatre and will be shown
WANTED.
AS from today, all preliminary lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the
CHINA MAL," will be charged for at the rate of 1 each, providing they do this space is exceeded they will be not occupy more than four lines. If placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates.
Hongkong, May 17, 1920.
THE CATHOLIC MEN'S CLUB, Garden Road,
11
will be opened by. E LORDSHIP Bisnor D. PozZONT
On
WEDNESDAY, 16th June, at 9 P..
TT is hoped that all Members, and British Catholics intending to be- come Members, will endeavour to be present.
Members may bring their lady friends on WEDNESDAY evening
The General Committee specially hope that there will be a large attendance of Catholic members of the Naval and Military forces, for whom the Club is primarily being opened.
A musical programme is being arranged.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Ane- tiot.
́(FOR AMOUNT OF THE CONCED),
од
TUESDAY,
June 15, 1920, at 2.30 pm,
at their Sales Rooms,
No. 8, Des Faur Road, Corner of Ice House Street, One Victrola with cabinet and records.
- Terme :--Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Åsetioners.
Hongkong, June 14, 1920.
(YOE LOCOUNT OF THE CONCIAMED),
Q3
TUESDAY,
June 15, 1920, at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. F. Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
One Piano by Weber-London, (very good condition) Two large Screens
ash---
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,
Hongkong, June 14, 1920.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE Steamship
LOWTHER CASTLETM
the
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for the last time to-morrow night.TENOGRAPHER WANTED-For The Canter Case" is being co- Swator Export and Import House. tinued at the 7.15 performances.
Good opportunities to the right party who is willing and efficient. Fere paid and living quarters included. Call mom 455, HONGKONG HOTEL, by TUES: before. DAY, 300s, for interview.
THE DOLLAR.
Today's closing rate 3/7 To-day's opening rate 3/72 On June 14, 1919 3/6. 15/16
of your friends.
Tonight's the night-for the The s.s." Shinryu Maru," Capt. S. Pharies' performance in the Theatre debate in Council on Second Reading. Mori, 1958.29 tons, arrived this Royal at 9.15 p.m. punctually. If with much interest, and the thought morning at 9 a.m., from Singapore you cannot come yourself, send some of the pleasure which it would have with 401 tons of general cargo. given me to have allied myself with Messrs. Goodrich, Cleaver and Upcott in their stand against such an un- sound and iniquitous piece of legisla tion almost made me wish, that I were back in Singapore again. If can be of any service in the matter, you have only to call upon me..
DEPARTURES.
The ss."Hoihow," Capt. Caver, sailed for Iloilo at 4 p.m. today with 1,700 tons of general cargo.
· The s.s. * Foolee," Capt. Miyoaka,
A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME. sailed for Chefoo via Dairen at 3
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