10
WEATHER REPORT.
June 942 122 Ola-No returns from Japan and Vladivostock.
Pressure remains lowest over Tong- king; changes are everywhere slight.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours, anding, at 10 now today, 647 inch Total since January in 43.03 inches, ́against an average of 35.79 Inches.
Forecast for the 24 hours eading at
noon on Jute 25th.
1.-Honstans to Gap Rock. -winds, fresh: cloudy, occasional raiz. 3-Formosa Channel. The same No. 1.
J-South coast of China between Hongkong and Lacock The same... as Ko. 1.
CORRESPONDENCE.
JUVENILE HAWKERS.
| [To the Editor of the " China Mall."]
tical man.
Sir,-Alter reading yesterday's 'Ad- vergania. 'I am rather inclined to agree, with "Policeman" that he asked for bread and was handed a lump of soft tough. "Policeman "being a pre- has asked for practical arguments and practical suggestions. bar in reply gor some religion, a litle Ssentiment and a half-hearted lessor on drawing and perspective. Why not meet him with practical arguments and| then suggest some practical cures for the evilt"Policeman" in his first. letter denies that poverty is consider- ed a crime by the Police. It may not be so considered by a few isolated Policemen, but it is so considered by the majority. Can *Policeman deny the fact that fukorgs and Indians and some Europeans treat the coole class, with more harshness than they treat those dressed in silk, whether in the Station while undergoing yan examination or outside in the street? The perists in saying that poverty is not considered by the Magistrates and Folice as a crime, "then richness by them must be considered a virtue.
4-South coat of China between Hongkong and Hämme. The same as
ROYAL OBSERVATORY,
HONGKONG, DAILY WELTHER
KRPORT.
Station.
"
JUNE 24, 1920.—1.
Hour.
Barometer
& Bi
Vidivostook 68.
Temuco
dakodate
folio....
Sochi
Singsaki
Kagoshima
Jobs
Sonin Taland "Welhaiwei. 6 a
Hankow Ichang
Kinking.... Changsha .. Shangha
Ontzlaf
Sharp I'"
Amoy 6 5.
Swaton....
Taiboku
Trichu......
Tainan now Kosher.
-
Wind
at Sea Levol,
Temperaturo,
Humidity.
Direction
Force.
29.7
29.74
09.71
Pescadores. Canton... 22.67 Hongkong 19.65 29.65 Chap Rock
+ 22.63
Maco
Fachow. 9A.
Parboi
Hodow
Fhidien
C.
Touane ...
St. James
Aparri .... Dagupan Manila
Lesapi ....
Tacloban
Nozo
Surigao....
Casa 20
Labuan
#
50 78
T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
Wenthor.
Hongkong-Observats Jose 24, 1980:
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 22 degress Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in oches, tenths and hundredtha, a
<rees Fahrenbeit
2. HUMIDITY, in percentage of satura
Kim, the Eumidity of air saturated with
caisture being 100.
⚫ DIRECTION OF WISD, to two points. 5. FORCE OF WIE, socording Handford Beste.
3. STATE OF FRATERE, b bine sky, Jetached cloud, & drizzling rain, f fog. gloomy, h hail, I lightning, o overcast a pacing showers, a squali,r rain, 1820
thunder ▾ visibility w dpw, wet
7. BATS in inches tertbs, and her drudis.
Policeman.. asks whether we
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5,000 FRANCS IN OLD DRESS.
"At the sale of the furniture and wearing apparel of the celebrated dan! cer Rigolboche," who died recendy at the age of 80, an old silk dress belonging to the dead artist was knock- ed down to an old clothes dealer for a mere song. On examining the gar- ment the purchaser felt something hid- den in the lining. He at once cut this open-end found a bundle of French bank-notes to the value of
212. Now the old clothes dealer | claims to retain the money, which. Ne says, he bought with the garment in which it was hidden. But the police have impounded the bank-nores pend- ing a decision of the Law Courts as to whether they are legally the property of the dead dancer's hefts or of the purchaser of her silk dress.
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Owing to the tables existing ju the
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kong are the poor of China, etc. This pointed question seems to suggest that he with the majority of scobs wishes Hongkong o he peopled by the rich only. Flood. famine, rebellion and robbery have not contributed to Hong- kong the poor only but also the rich.. Most of those who can afford to pay a passage to Hongkong are workers and able-bodied people: they come! here and work for their Bing. No. doubt that some also come wha can- not, work, and must be dealt with somehow. It is not difficult to deal with this No matter how poor, a Chinese in common with foreigners, values his liberry. If there is a house -a matshed will de-o detention for beggars. Policeman" will at once see the result. Now we come to the question of the children of the candle class and hawking licences. Policeman says that licences cannot The issued because of restricted Fie. Mr. Policeman : street pace." Do the Police "limit the number of motor-cars, which are used only by exceptions, of course.
GENERAL MANAGERS
TRIALS SOLICITED
JAMES STEER
BY.
THE CHRONOMETER AND WATCH MAKER (Contractor to H. M. Naval Yard,}
9, IC HOUSE STREET, HONGKONG,
Police punish-
rich pleasure-hunters? How long was ments only affect their children and that the Police even attempted to, do not touch their skins, and the child- drive pedestrians. net hawkers. on toren come home again.
COLTS.
the pavements in order not to inter As this correspondence has taken! fere with the traffic-motor traffic of, too much, of your valuable space, 1
There is no street space for will reserve the arguments about sly f the poor to obtain a living. hut plenity brothels and opium divars for another of it for the rich to ride pleasure! occasion it Mr. Policeman should like hunting: If the experienced Police to come forward again with Iris 25 officers who made calculations as to years' experience.-Yours, etc., how many hawkers' licences may be issued, have studied Political Economy in its relation to the Laws of Diminish- ing and Increasing Returns, they will talk less trash about their calculations, i
JOHN KESTREL.
"A MAN CONVINCED.”.
In speaking of the juvenile hawkers. [To the Editor of the Ching Mail.) **Policeman" says: "Some, again,
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Jaty 27.-8. F.
Acg.
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Deucalion. Dilwara
Eept.
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A correspondeat in China writes as follows to the Financial Times- Owing to the lack of hard money in the markets which has caused con- siderable trouble and anxiety among
Jone 26.-B. F. 2 pm commercial and other interests,
Java and Port Moresby via Sourabaya July BB P. General Yen Hsi-shen, Military
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SHING, & p.m. are compelled by their parents to core:
SATURDAY, June 25. S-That portion of yesterday's an interesting proclamation with. tribute so much per diem to the family Adversaria," on the subject of the object of persuading. the Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. exchequer the while pater families hawkers, might have been written by wealthy people of Taiyuanfu and
Marques. South Africa, India loafs in some "opium divan and the Shaw or Chesterton because of the other cities not to hoard large
vis Dhanushkodi, Egypt, and mother runs a sly brothel. Yet, when fire sophistry and obscure philosophy quantities of silver in their gardens
EUROPE via MARSEILLES- Per INABA MARU. Registra questioned by the police, sympathe-indulged in by "Adversarian."
tion 8.15 s.m. Letters 10-10 am. Shanghai and North China-Per TEAN, SUNDAY, June 27. Swatow, Amoy and Frmosa
Keelung-Per KAIJU MARU, 3 S. III. Weihaiwei (befoo and Tientsin-Per
HUICHOW, 9 s..
MONDAY, June 28
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vie
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TUESDAY, June 29.
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13.-B. F. 20-B F.
Danera. Prometheus Alcinous.
Danfa. Protesilaus. Rhesus. Achilles Mentor.
FROM JAPAN.
Jane 25. T.
97.-P. & 1. 97.-N. T.K. July 2-P. & 0.
5.-P. & O. b.-B. F. 12.-B. F. 72.-B. F. 16.-P. & O. 16.-R. F. 17.-P. & O. 20.-P. & 0. 27.-P. & O. Aug. 6.-B. F.
7.-P. & O 9.-P. & 0. 2.-P. & 0. 10-P. & 0. 23.-B. F
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Malacca Maca. Madres Gregory Apar Helena
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Kalyan. Eastern.
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Bombay, Aden, Egypt and EUROPE MARSEILLES-Per KARMA- LA. Registration 8.45 3.1. Letters 10.30 am...
tically or otherwise, these boys stoariy I am sorry I cannot reply to him and fields, but to put confidence in deny having any parents or else tell in like manner but mental gymana their officials by using the white some patheuc lies arout having a stics are not my forte. I have been metal för trading purposes. It is home." This, Mr. Policeman. too long accustomed to look at things estimated by experts who know the does not only happen in China. It squarely and discuss them logically, real condition of the natives of this also happens in England and other Logic is the reasoning of pure province that thousands of silver 1. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in de parts of the world. Dickens devoted thought whilst philosophy is often shoes and bars, cach of which
his whole energy and the power of but mere distorted argument. weighs about fifty taels, and also: his pen to combat this evil.
As a pen-artist "Adversarian" is, various kinds of silver dollars, However, can Policeman" con- for me, too much of a futurist. To are deposited in under-ground scientiously tell me that the Police use the bis picture is but a grotesque cells, especially in the Chi Hsien, the most encouraging ways in examin- daub of cubes and arabesques with Meng Hsian and Taiku districts.. ing these children? I have wimessed some features too much accentuated These generally are regarded as the hundreds of these examinations and and others lost for lack of perspective, wealthiest districts at Shansi, found them always wanting. A bluff And all this because he has attempted chiefly because most of the famous question is put by the Police to the to show in one picture what might and well-known proprietors of Shan Saigon, Frightened child and as soon as he easily call for a Hogarthian series si banks are natives of these dis
As for "Onlooker" he is butation of the foreign banking institu- blubbers our an answer in the mega- entitled "The Hawkers' Progress." tive, he is taken hold of by the should broken-winded counterpart of his tions into China the Shansi banks We must mentor, the "Adversarian. They are were the only means used by the er and given a few shakes. never forget that the child is between both of the same type that preach the Chinese people to transmit money the devil and the dark-bice sea. He liberty of the subject forgetting the from one province to another. Even has the fear of his parents, who on his while that real liberty exists only at the present time these Sharsi return is sure to punish ham for being where thereis reasonable restraintkept banks are being utilised by the Gov. as stupid as to get himself arrested. upon the individual.. Otherwise would ernments of frontier provinces, such If he says that he has parents, who liberty be the death of liberty.as Kansu, Hsinkiang and Heilung. before he is sear our must have al-And so, for many reasons, must the kiang, where foreign banks could ready" threatened him with death and Police restrain hawkers from over-not be found for transmission of what not if he should let the police running our streets and public their monetary contributions to know who they are, he is afraid of places.
Peking and other important political | what to come. He knows that the "Onlooker" makes the ridiculous centres of China. Police and the law may treat him and untrue statement that these In view of the absence of strong harshly and even punish him corpor- hawker gamies are ignorant of the banks and the lack of confidence on ally, but that is in preference to what offence for which they are arrested; the part of the natives in their own may happen if he should tell the truth. a statement which merely shows Government authorities, especially
Policeman" asks for some practical the ignorance
person in matters concerning finance, it is The zero of the table responds with
it. Why, la some doubtful whether this proclamation the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty suggestions. Well, I will give him making Chart, which has been found to be fees two first, and if he wants more I localities these boys, (and girls) are of Governor Yea will be obeyed by the will be "only too pleased to let him properly organised and have their Shansi people, who are not inclined Enches below sesa men-førel
own watchers to spy on the Police! to excavate their silver boardings have them.
However, to save further argument from underground cellars and put people who after working for three this point I invite "On looker" to them on the money markets for com- years amongst the Chinese, should neighbourhood of markets, see the silver situation not only in China bat spend some of his spare time in the mercial purposes. It is said that the acquire a perfecr knowledge of the
ignorant” hawkers there and watch also in other countries, will be made Chinese language and be thoroughly the advent of a uniformed policeman. easier if the Chinese, especially acquainted with the social habits of I can assure him that Roderick Dha's wealthy merchants and farmers who the poor, this knowledge to be ac-"disappearing band" never disap are living in interior districts of the quired first-hand not through the peared more quickly than will these various provinces, can be induced to medium of the Chinese detectives and boys.
bring out their silver "shoes" in interpreters, and who can sympathize But all this is beside the real iasse future by friendly persuasion. Bou with the hardships of the poor child: | which is the problem of how to con- trol these boys before they get to
HONGKONG TIDES.
The tide table_kiran below has been smplied at the National Almanac Office Lordon from the result of the analyst of observations taken bin in the sztomatic tide-recording machine in the Water Folice Basin at Tsim Sha Tsui during the years 1905-8.
To obtain the depth of water in the de gange at the Victoria Naval Yarı dfest 4 inches, and on the gas Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 foe acber to the beleht given in the table
June to to July 1, 1990.
Dial Ratin
Hongkong
Falzhe
LOW, WATER
11 kẹ a
140 a
1st-We want
ren.
Sout
RS
J
as Policemen
of the.
2nd-An Institute like Borstall's the law-breaking stage and become kong begins earlier than the Court It need not be, as large as the Grand potential criminals. Lamaseric at Lhassa. Whatever the To deal with the latter stage of stage. It is a problem born of cruel Chinese parents may do to their child the problem I have, so far, seen but circumstance and reared in sordid ren,' let Policeman" be sure that one sensible suggestion made-vironment, and the answer to it is they want them in their company. As leading article in the S.C.M.P. advo-contained neither in fine sophistry or
| ambiguity,—Yours etc... soon as they know that the children cating a Children's Court. That, no doubt, is an excellent suggestion,
POLICEMAN.
will be detained, they will not be so eager in sending them out There are but the juvenile problem of Hong- Hongkong, June 24, 1920,
i
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June 24. C.P.0.8. Matiawa
FROM GILGUTTI.
June 30.-P. & 0. Torila.
30.-N. Y. K. Nagano Maru. July 17.-P. & O.: Tarada
THOM BOMBAY.
Dil wars
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