FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1920,
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
[Renter's Service to the China Mail)
FIGHTING TYPHUS.
A WORLD WIDE APPEAL
LONDON, June 24.
CORRESPONDENCE.
-REPLY TO "JOHN KESTREL."
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THE CHINA MAIL.-
"CANTON TIMES.”
THE AMERICAN DEAD.
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·RESUMES PUBLICATION.
NONE TO LIE IN GERMANY,
More than 2,500 ́American soldiers
tion.
[To the Editor of ike” China Maii,”]
The Canton Times, which was tion Service estimates that two years The United States Graves Registra. Sir.-Were it not for the fact that closed on May 30, by the police, will be required in order to carry John Kestrel makes some unjust on instructions from the Military out the complete exhumation of the remarks and unfair comparisons, [Governor, who charged the paper should scarcely take the trouble to with having made comments detric American soldiers dead in Europe. comment on his yesterday's lener, mental to public peace and order, in German soil, and it has been
He writes nothing that is illuminat-resumed publication yesterday mern- ing and suggests less that would be of ing, the police having advised it that decided that all of these will be removed without the wishes of re- practical value. His first suggestion it was free to resume publication. The League of Nations has appealed to the Governments of all count is more or less absurd. There is no The Canton Times, in reappearing latives being taken into considera
to greet and serve the public" states tries for funds to combat the typhus epidemic and other diseases in Poland European living who could acquire a
One of the principal objections and the surrounding countries and to prevent its spread to other countries Perfect knowledge of the Chinese that it has no apology to offer but which the French Government put language in three years, or indeed in
forward to the removal of the bodies thirty.
was the additional burden which i For a giving such help. A minimum of £2,000,000 is required. The British understand the language and customs the day with malice towards one Service has accordingly arranged to European to thoroughly fairly and fearlessly on questions of would place on the already congested railways. The Graves Registration Government has agreed to provide immediately £50,000 without prejudice of China would necessite his being hat good will for all, irrespective of to the final amount of its subscription, provided that four other countrieshore and reared amid its people: and persons and subject to no particular use canal boats and motor-lorries to the greatest possible extent in order advance a similar amount. The League has also asked the League of Red he would then cease to have the influence."
to relieve the French lines. Cross Societies at Geneva to issue a general appeal for funds to the peonies mental, outlook and balance of his own)
The appeal says every country the world either from geographical post tion, commercial interests, or humanitarian motives, is concerned with
of all countries of the world.
NAURU ISLAND.
LONDON, June 23.
Replying to Colonel Wedgewood Benn, Mr. Leslie Wilson stated that the Nauru agreement had not been submitted to a recent meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. The Government was of the opinion that the agreement did not require to be submitted to the Council of the League.
THE TURKISH TREATY.
FARIS, June 24, The Allies have refused to allow Turkey a further extension of time in which to sign. the treaty.
GERMAN AIRCRAFT.
ALLIES IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS.
PARIS, June 24..
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The Allies have sent a note to Germany forbidding the construction of civil and military aircraft until three months after the destruction delivery of existing material:
STORY OF THE SPEEDONIA.
SINGAPORE BOY'S ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLOSION.
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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS.
Orders for Cadet Company by Lient. A. 0: Brawu
PARADE BATHING.
Launch will leave Blake Pier on Wednesday, the 30th fustant, at 5.15 p.m. and call at Kowloon ten minutes
LEAVE.
Cadet J. W. Polley is granted six months' leave of absence from the Colony with effect from the 1st July, 1920.
In the Straits Times appeared an account of the explosion of the British barque "Speedonia" on March 19 whil on a voyage with a cargo of benzine, from Singapore to South Africa, the disaster occurring about 250 miles from the near point of later. Madagascar, and about 1,000 miles from the Natal coast. Soon after the explosioni Captain R. J. Decks, master of the vessel, second officer D. H. Bolman, third officer T. Carlson, storekeeper T. Edwards and the marconi operator P. Mattock took to the boats while chief officer Henderson and Apprentice Struys eldest son of Mr. G. W. Struys, acting Trafic Superintendent, Singapore Harbour Board, along with about 26 Chinese were left on board, and took the vessel 1,000 miles to South Africa.
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G. F. E. Rapson, Bt. Major, Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer
•Defence Corps. Hongkong, June 25, 1920.
NOTICE
UNIFORM,
The undermentioned members boots are in Store, and can be had on personal application:-"
L. Jack.
Sergeant L. S. Greenhill, Gunner
THEATRE ROYAL.
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a statement that it will continue to prefer public to private interest and that it will continue to comment
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Director, has telegraphed to Tuchum Tsen Chun-hsugn, Administrative
Tan Yen Kai of Hunan to take care that foreigners may not be molested
there.
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Before the building of a tramway
The liberty of the press, according race. Furthermore, and leaving the to legal authorities, adds the Times, language question aside, it requires at consists in the right to publish least three years of practical experi-literary matter with impunity, truth, ence before a police officer can trust with good motives, for justifiable his own knowledge of the local laws; ends, even though 'reflecting on the and even then his education, in that government, the magistracy, or on respect, is far from complete. Also, individuals... his whole career is one long associs "For freedom of speech and in reaches his Inspectorship knows as republicanism, the Times bas fought in Canton, the Kwangtung Tramway. tion with the Chinese and before he opposing maladministration and un- much about Chinese habits and a good fight so far," the statement Company will run an auto bus ser- idiosyncrasies as it is possible for concludes.. Any persecution will 2 foreigner, similiarly situated. to not discourage but arouse greater vice. The cars are now on their way
enthusiasm in the struggle for publico Canton from America. It is true, of course, that some welfare and the preservation of law officers assimilate more than others, and order in the country against and it is also quite certain that they tyranny and injustice are not all alike in patience or dis- cretion, but one doesn't condemn a basket of fruit because three oranges in it are bad.
As for the Chinese and Indian police one must remember that they are Asiatics dealing with Asiatics. Their alleged harsh treatment of pri- soners is loving kindness compared to what these same prisoners would ex- perience from their own countrymen In their manive cities. Though it may change its environment the leopard does not change its spots.
John Kestrel's second suggestion -a Borstall Institute--might or might not be practicable. It would certainly
FISHING CONTROL TO CEASE.
BUT OFFICIALS STILL ON PAY LIST.
Supplies of fish having long ago returned to the normal, the Ministry of Food has decided at last to remove its control. But it is very typical of this department in all its relation ships that it is still to maintain its
» For 1920, the Canton Provincial Government will grant $31,532 in aid | of private schools, mostly for girls; Last year the government only gave $18.252.
The boycot movement against Japanese goods is again active in Can- ton.
This time the labourers, the merchants, and the teachers' 'union have joined the agitation.
The Euro-American Returned i Students' Association of Canton, at a recem meeting, resolved to ask the authorities concerned is establish the
Canton instead of in Shanghai, as at proposed South-Western University in
first decided by the University Conr mission.-Canton Times.
The Canton-Sanshui and the Canton-Hankow Railroads in Kwang-
The Canton-Han-
| require a very large building and staff | professions of vigilance. So far from and would prove an additional and disbanding the ample staff that has unfair tax on the local ratepayers.
been concerted with the fish trade, I say unfair because at least fifty it has arranged that they shall retaini per cent of these street gamins were the tenancy of their office seats, and are still being embarrassed by upon the Colony. That is what day to see that cod and kippers are help to meer military expenses, states not born here and have no real claim apparently scan the returns day by the Military authorities who demand meant in my first letter when I said coming into the nets in satisfactory the Canton Times. that the poor of Hongkong are the quantities. Should the catches be- kow he has to supply $1,000 daily poor of China; and why J.K. should come smaller, there may be reasons to the Military Government, while class me a snob for saying so is some for suspecting that the trawler owners the Carson-Samshui line must give thing beyond my comprehension.
and merchants are limiting supplies $25,000 monthly to the Military in order to force up their prices, and Governor. Snobbery is no part of my outfit, conceivably that would justify these neither are poverty and I strangers. limpets promptly coming forward and I have had to work and fend for my re-imposing the ald control regime. self since my tenth birthday and what Some of us may be tempted to envy I don't know about hard, grinding them their comfortable jobe and in- poverty, could be ramled in the thigh cidentally to marvel at the ingenuity bone of a bee. Can "John Kestrel of bureaucracy in keeping itself alive.
Journal of Commerce.
šay as much? He writes cheap sneers about joy-riding motorists, and about pedestrians being compelled to
ARRIVATA.
Because of these special items, the roads themselves have not been able to pay off their employees and their regular bills according to schedule for the last few months.
THE
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
1.
HE Management of the "Cara Man." of public that its tariff for advertisements received on and after this date will be incressed by
walk on the pavement. What does he LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. imagine pavements and wide streets were made together for? Surely the answer is obvious. If "John Kes trel were at the present moment living in any of the busy cities of Europe he would find himself com-
The ss: Kashing." Capt. Black-20 per cent. man, 1,143 tons, arrived this morning pelled to walk on the pavement; and at 7 am. from Wuhu with 2,240 tons police would have no part in the com-ef rice.. pulsion which would arise from dire necessity. The," John Krestrels" in these cities who refuse to see that Nicholls, 1,199 tors, arrived this necessity merely go to, swell the local
cemeteries.
And that is where he ought to bury his foolish argument.-Yours, etc...
POLICEMAN.
The s.s "Chipshing." Captain morning at 7 a.m. from Wei Hai Wei with 3,250 tons of salt and general cargo.
The sis
In view of the above, the following letter-received-by- Me Struys from his son, and written from a nursing home at Delagoa Bay will be read with interest. He says: On March 19 it was blowing rather hard and there were heavy seas. I'relieved L. Corph M. L. Railton, Gunner W. B. (Edwards), at 8 am. At 8.30 we Bradbury. sat down to breakfast and finished
Bombr. J. M. Jack, Gunser F.A at about 8.55 am. The third mate Britton. asked me to go to his room, and you Gunner G. Gipson, Gunner K. K won't believe me, it was filled with Staple. gas, and I had, to leave the room as soon as I entered it. It was L's watch below and mine on deck. Before I go on deck I usually have a smoke;
Haldis," Capt Bull, but that morning we had not taken
Hongkong. June 25, 1920..
1.105, tons, arrived this morning at "a puff of our cigarettes when the
Another excellent and effective let-6 am. from Hougay with 2,400 tons first explosion took place. A little
ter. with one slip. In saying that the of coal. after that the second went off, and
handling of prisoners here is loving flames issued. When I felt the fire
kindness, compared with what they The s.s. "Mo Hon." Capt. get hold of me I yelled like a kid |
would experience from their own Thiriwell, 761 tons, arrived this while I did the same. We shouted A very encouraging' reception, countrymen in Chins, he seems to set morning at 8 am from Haiphong and, to tell you the truth, did not inspired by the general excellence, of the Chinese treatment up as a stan with 700 tons of cement, 150 tons of know what to do. At last I said "L, the entertainment, was accorded the dard for ourselves, suggesting that if general cargo and 16 bags of mail. for Christ's sake, do it," and we ran Humphrey Bishop Comedy and we better it, we are good e augh. out. When we reached the deck Operatic Company, which presented We should. judge British conduct by
first performance everyone was in a deuce of a fix and its
in the British standards.--Ed. C.M.] the Rames gained on us all the time. Theatre. Royal last night with The Captain, with his thigh broken every promise for a most success- and his leg fractured, gave the order ful season in Hongkong. As "a to take to the boats. Three boats vaudeville show it possesses all the
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CLEARINGES.
The s.s." Chekiang," (Chi.) cleared to-day and will sail for Keelung via Swatow and, Foochow at 8 a.m. to
were lowered, and all got away but attributes which make for success. To the Editor of the China Mal.]morrow... the chief mate, myself, and 26 Chinese.
Every member is good, whether ap
pearing in concerted or individual
"L and myself, were burnt about numbers. A feature of the concerted
Dear Sir,Can any of your
City?
: Yours etc.,
LOYALIST.
June, 24th 1920.
/ DEPARTURES.
This increase is rendered imperative by the constantly growing cost of pro- daction, the price of paper alone having advanced by 700 per cent during the past five years.
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In order to meet these conditions newspapers and magazines all over the world have been obliged to raise their subscription and advertising rates—in some cases by as much as 100 per cent ---and, at the same time, to curtail the size and number of pages. For the present, however, it has been decided, in the interests of the public generally and of advertisers in particular, to leave the price of the "Casa Man" 10- changed.
Hongkong, May 17, 1920.
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
"S from today, all preliminary
lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the sets columns of the the rate of $1. each, providing they do *CHA MAD." will be charged for at
not occupy more than four lines. It this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising cola mas at the prevailing rates
Hongkong, May 17, 1920
A notices of scrubiconing meetings,
TO LET
TO LET-OFFICES and "SHOW
The 3.5. Helenus Captain Band, Carton. Occupation from July Milheach, salled for London via Let 1920, apply to Ber No. 1210, co Singapore at 12 noon to-day with The CISA MAIL" 2,000 tons of general cargo,
the same places but poor L scored items is the swing with which they readers say who is the Mayor one more than I for he had his chest are rendered and in this connection Mckay of Devry whose son is re-
The 5.5. Hailoong." Captain burnt and I didn't I got badly the orchestra must not be forgotten. having been so brutally murdered? Thomson, sailed for Foochow via
ported in this evening's telegrams as burnt and suffered agony for a Last night selections from "Les mooth. I tried to remedy my burns Cloches de Corneville" were given in is not the present Mayor of Dewry Amoy at 2 p.m. to-day with 600 with engine oil, which did very well such a manner as to reflect the great, H. C. O'Doherty, one of the tons of general cargo. My left arm, back, neck and part of est credit on the Company, and parti leaders of Sinn Fen in the Maiden my face, both ears and left thigh cularly on Miss Louise Meadows who got badly burnt. The tips of my sang the well known "Legend of eara, and left hand are the only the Beils" in charming style. The " places that are not quite healed. lighter portions of the programme I am at present in the nursing home were also given with akil. There and shall be out soon.
were many humorous songs, and
The sa. "Loongsang." Captain Before Mr. N. L. Smith, at the The pantry boy was burnt from witty sayings that kept the audience Magistracy this morning, a Chinese Simpson, sailed for Manila at 3 p.m. the tipa of his toes to the hairs of his smiling Throughout the perfor was charged with snatching a gold today with 1,500 tons of general head, while poor Carlson had his face mance the most noticeable thing is mounted rattan bargle from the carg blown in and jumped overboard its liveliness and general excellence. wrist of an infant which was being. During our distress we sighted many The company is one that should find carried on its mother's back. He The ss... Taikoo Wan Yi," Captain ships, but our figs were gone as well ready patronage in Hongkong.
as our sails. All the after part was
damaged. The steering gear was of
no use, and we drifted for 21 days
living on water, milk and hard to hear what became of those who biscuits. On Sunday morning we sight put off in the boats, so perhaps it is ed a Portuguese vessel which came just as well I did not go with them. to our assistance, but got cast off It is interesting to mention that after being towed for two days owing the Speedonia" Is undergoing to heavy seas Three days later repairs, and it is expected that she triges came from Delagon Bay, and will be ready shortly to undertake the brought us in. We hays not been able return voyaga to Singapore.
denied the charge. The woman Martin, sailed for Sourabaya,” via said that she did not know anything | Samarang at 6pm. to-day with 1,700 about the theft until she was inform-tons of general carto, ed by a passer-by that the child's
bangle had been cut off by the de The s. Napata Meru Captain fendant with a penknife. She chased Takahashi, saded for Foochow at and caught the defendant and handed 2.pm today, with 450 tons of oll. him over to a constable. The Police proved a presions consiction for a The sa Yashing,” Captain Kel- similar offence, and the Magistrate, man, sails for Kobe via Mot, at 5 passed sentence of six months hard p.. to-day, with 100 tons of general labour and K strokes with the birch. cargo.
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