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LOCAL AND GENERİL.
The CPOS RMS. "Mon teagle," which, left Hongkong on June 8, is reported to have arrived at Vancouver, on the 3rd of this month,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Chatham of Hongkong, reached Kobe on the Fushimi Maru" on June 30 on a pleasure trip in Japan. After spend- ing a few days in Kobe they will go to Tokyo by way of Kyoto and Nara.
Six silver for foxes worth Y1,000 each are on their way to Japan from Vancouver. It is said these foxes
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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920
SPECIAL CABLES.
RUSSIAN CONSUL FLOUTED.
CREWS AT ONCE EVICTED.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SHANGHAI, July 9.
OUR "HELL FOR THE POOR."
OLD WOMAN MUST PAY- LICENCE TO MAKE CAKES
AND SELL 'EM.
Before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, at the Magistracy this morning, an aged Chinese woman was charged at the instance of Inspector Willis with The Russian Consul and the having unlawfully sold some cakes municipal police on Thursday board-in West Point yesterday, without a ed three Russian volunteer feet licence. steamers, the "Penza," the "Georgi,” When questioned, by the inter- and the Simferopol," and evicted preter as to her name and address. the crews owing to their refusal to the woman burst into tears and recognize the authority of the Russian before the charge could be explained
to her told a woeful story... With Consulate
| some difficulty the interpreter quieted her and succeeded in explaining the charge without interruption.
SHANGHAI RICE DROP3 $1.
SITUATION NOW EASIER.
SALUTARY EFFECT OF MEASURES.
When the old woman was asked to plead, the tears once more trickled down her cheeks.. She told the Magistrate between sobs that she was dependent on her daughter for the necessities of life. Fate had been cruel to her and took her daugh- ter away. Being old and unable to work, when left to shift for herself after her daughter's death, she make cakes and for a living. She
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SILANGHAI, July 9. Rice has fallen $12 per picul from the $16 ruling natil recently. The was forced to anti-profiteering measures have had sell them a salutary effect. The situation has had applied for a licence to ply her trade but it was refused her. She been eased and famine averted.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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had to sell cakes or starve, and that was why she trangressed the law.
Replying to the Magistrate, In- spector Willis said he could not say if it was a fact that the defendant licence, but he thought the rest of her story was had applied for. true.
His Worship: Why was a licence refused her ?--I don't know. But I will recommend her for a licence if your Worship thinks she should have one.
His Worship: I think so. To the defendant: Have you the money to get a licence? No, but I can borrow it.
Inspector Willis said a licence cost $4. On June 27. there was a huge His Worship: All right, I will pay exodas. from Peking of the "Funk half of the fee from the poor-box Hole Brigade" who crowded the if she can raise the other $2 morning mail-train from the capital herself. But, of course, Inspector, in their feverish haste to reach Tien you must first make sure that she is tsin and the blessings of foreign pronot a fraud.
The Inspector: I don't think she tection..
is a fraud, your Worship.
When the woman was told the
capacity for making At the Wiltshire commemoration
Mr. Julean Arnold, US. Com much money, and not to care for yesterday, the Governor spoke.mercial Attache, is expected to re- VOLUNTEER FLEET INCIDENT, it: to have Savoy means and Row-Only a reporter knows what that turn to China this month. ton House tastes: to bave position means,--but let it be understood
Mrs. John Watson, wife of an and power offered, and to prefer that His Excellency speaks fast on the life of the contemplative out-occasion and is not easy to take. English missionary who has been in cast. This is your true Bohemian. Our reporter and another drifted China for more than 30 years, has
So far so left Kobe for Seattle. to whom persoal freedom is the up close to hear him. only appreciable wealth. He makes good. Now for the reporter's no definite and irrevocable appoint-story: Unconsciously and unhap- ents, because fixed hours are to pily we wretched fellows dared to hin an irk and a tie. To be duelinger in the shade of the "Staff there or then, what an unpleasante Gods! Stood in the same sun constraint it is, like bridle and bit Breathed the same air. Looked on on newly caught wild horse. Polite the sauce view as four highly arna- And lived to society, that seems to insist on mental brass hats. convenances, on prattle when he tell, the tale, But solone ap would bmal, on ceremonial when proaches. Plaintively, shrilly.. he he would beat and loll, how it bores squeals, "You can't stand near the hita and in the end frightens him staff Dear, useless, almighty away. Spiritually an anarch, this insulted staff! The holy precincts Bohemian tæver proclains Bohen- desecrated by the pagan feet of two anism, for those who do are reporters! Oh the pain of it poseurs whom he humps with those Then, fiercely, "Get back ten others, the disciplined, the be-like paces! Come on, ten paces further are destined for a certain Japanese
Such a man back." other-fols hriade
We just stared. We felt fox farm, and are intended for the "How are purpose of breeding this variety of lives de double life, inhabiting aliup, and looked it. separate work of the mind coin-we going to hear back there?" we foxes. cidentally with the one the others mutiered, dazedly, as though it
You'll bear all right." Two million dollars worth of Yet he, the only natural, mattered. normal uan among them, they dob he said, in a.tone that disclaimed gold, being shipped by the Canadian- eccentric. He is the jungle tree. That it was any of his business. Government to the Orient, arrived at They are examples of topiary. He and then His Excellency began to Vancouver on June 22. This gold is hinselk They are as nearly spak, we yanked our offensive was taken by the "Empress of Japan, what iley think others expect them frames away from the Presence a which sailed from that port for the to be as they can be. He (they say) matter of two paces and for a few Orient on the 23rd. has eaten the lastros. They have minutes the mystery of God's need
Ex-Servicemen who have lost a eaten the leek. But, on the other for all sorts of quaint creatures was Ltd. hand, they will have eminently regaten. Pondering it since we leg in the war will be permitted to Staw" had travel free of charge on the tramways spectable carers, while he will feel offended. come to a bad en. It is better to presumably forgatten there is no ham, Southport, and Warrington. disease records two cases of plague,
of Northampton, Nottingham, Old.
To-day's return of notifiable 14 a mildly rancholy church-war on. We ofered to leave the warden than a passionately happy grounds if he wished, and for the This concession has been gained for one of which was fatal, and one case pirate. Or is it not? So one can meat felt like going: but in them by the Comrades of the Great of puerperal fever. All three cases tell you, or that is for you to say, great contrast to the over officious To each his loney and tempera-Ljoutenant-Colonel, Lieut. Cal. Miss Elsie Ferguson, well known
Before the building of a tram- uratel prodilection; and to all Wyndham of the Wilts.. had motion picture actress, who is making alike, seildindulgent or selfdenying, treated us very courteously, the a tour of the Orient, will arrive in way, the Kwangtung Tramway Co. their deed of disappointment. celebration deserved dne notice, and Shanghai for a visit early this month. will run an autobus service. The The poet who aban-after all it seemed unjust that the Miss Ferguson passed through cars are now on their way to Canton Kare res, doned hope of ever cord of the occasion should suffer Shanghai en route to Manila and will from America.
seving a purple eye for the ill-mannered conduct of an return for a prolonged stay. Miss Callerian, and hot used to asüler. an irresponsible almost, Ferguson is enjoying a much needed om in us. Brown Cowa, dun, whose presence was merely as a rest. cows, and speated rows we know, privileged looker for hanger) on. and are ready to believe that in
According to the Daily The Shanghai Coast Inspectors Press, 3 middle-aged Office reports that they could not find some reuna village of the Home! land a Purpie Cow awaits us. For
officer stationed here is any trace of the wreck reported seen have we not on our rambles en-willing to treat a young lady to at the southern approaches to Bonham entertainments-inners, motor Strait, by the ss. Deucalion." The countered a Blue Pig? When one drinks English ale more for sentir tours, bathing picnics, etc., only thing that was seen was some ment than for thirst, lazily enyote" if she will teach him dane-fishing stakes which were large volcanic slopes no white woman's Magistrate's decision, she shed more Nothing is said about a enough to be mistaken for masts of foot has ever been set, the Mafum- tears, this time of joy, and called ing the sunshine on the bleacheding.
The advertiser asks a wreck under certain circumstances. biro, or "Mountains of the Moon," upon the tai yen all the blessings bench outside, our has leisure to try chaperone.
captured the imagination of Mrs. heaven could give... to get inside the soul of the sign-for photographs. The Adversarian
House-boys and cooks on receiv- Ellen Blount, FRGS, who has painter, the original, the first His could do with the diseards. Happy succesents, of merge, had no words. thought. Let's have an advt. ofing their pay for June, according to started on a tour of discovery în Bri-
reports from various districts of the tish East Africa. They merely found a faded Line our own:
Elderly Adversarian desires to settlements, sounded the tempers of pig and repainted it sequaciously.
British Museum official (to a But why a blue pig in the first in-ect beautiful young lady who in their employers by hinting that more stance? Not, you will observe, why return for an occasional ice-cream, money would be acceptable in view rustic father with his son): "No, a pig: but why a blue one? Pis afternoon tes, seat at the Coronet. of the cost of rice and things. This you can't get into the Mummy are presuably never blas in life and tram srip to Shaukiwan, wil might be taken as an intimation of a Gallery. The Government officials What! Ain't they sorted 'em out We need not try to prove a nega. teach him try to hold hands and domestic servant strike to be, remarks are still there. Rustic Father:
the N. C. Daily News.
Yet?"-Punch. tive. One can imagine that the first goo-go.
Ran. Roderick one landlord who commissioned the first
The application of the Rev. A. THEATRICAL dom"..chooses the JOKE ON WAR va nowsu had a pig of which he was
moath in which we C. Nelson, a member of the Board of At a recent auction sale in Hutchison, with the unlawful posses VISITORS. OFFICE. firmly establish-prol, perhaps a prize pig of these
have no less than Directors of Mei-Hua School, for a London, four medals, including a sion, on board the team launch ed that the War gran prontime. One can in- Office is manned by intellectually agine, further, that the painter four theatrical companies giving as piece of public land near the old V.C. awarded Private William Nor "Faytin Yut," of 22 taels of prepared inadequate individuals, There is choice of pigments was linated, that a show to explain that they fase Viceroy college at Saae Chuen, has man for capturing Russian pickets non-Government, opium, she denied by John that it was not found among her be- some truth in it, though it would he preferred some colours to others. money by coming here. Luks like beta refused by the Government in the Crimean war, were cold for all knowledge of the drug and said
The Civil Governor observes that the £100. The V.C. won THINKING, Emerson, "when the ho absand to claim that not one of and that idee in particular pleased it, not jarf.
Government cannot grant aid to a Taylor, RN, with other medals, longings. Kowloon Bay and the
fetched £140.
The Police said that was true. institution and, purely religious great God sets lost the distinguished officers there hashin, Ilence the Bing Pig. It is
They had no evidence of possession. stretch of water lead- thinker on this planet. Then all any brains. There is a story going! certainly so in letters. The writing
moreover, the lot in question is not Fisuzas. ing toward Lyemun wholly public land.-C. T.
The Malay Mail has joined the The, drug which was done up in things are at risk. It is as, when a about at a.éertain port which has man has not always something
Pase has presented a
ranks of those papers in Malaya two parcels, was found by a couple ronflagration has broken out in a the merit of being quite probably particular to say every time he
who have been forced-like most of searchers, lying on the deck of gest city and no man knows what true, because it really is in charac-writes. That culd not be expect remarkable sight the last few
The Government announces that papers at home-to raise their prices the launch, one parcel on either side Fate of where it will end." Thatter with other achievements of the ed. He must get sometimes auights. Fifty or more fishing, satn- s an exaggerates and very Emergentry who manage unlitary commission involving the homely pans, all with bright flares, bave is ready to aid French aircraft con Production costs in regard to news of the defendant, who was sitting way of expressing the business for us. "It says that a pir, and being a true craftsman. been fishing there; and after dark actors in China by selling them papers have increased so enormously with some other women, talking. material now in China and originally that sooner or later all papers will They arrested her because she bap tight that ideas have emotive troopship carrying a large number he years to produce the super-pig, it looked as if Hongkong had grown intended for Russia. Two French have to fall in live.
pened to be the person nearest to companies, the Economic Organisa force. History scurly bears out of women and children was about a pig that shall transcend all other another pulous suburb. "How do
the parcels. the conflagration analogy, how-to sail for the East when two cows plus.
How blame him, if some. they fish on these occasions with It shows that ideas have were driven down to the embarkatince he thinks, with Verlaine or spear or net? Someone kindly tell haved more like seedlings than tion officer's establishment and Baudelaire, that the colour is more is. Two readers have enquire flames, and have had to struggle to handed over to linu wth a letter than the subject, the apt right and we couldn't answer. survive among the tares of the This letter contained all sorts of words better worth than the theme? thoughtless rabble, which, seems to veterinary and hygienic instruc. The strings of vocables that make prefer instruction
to education. tions, and concluded as follows: music, though they may seem poor The parable of the over establishesBoth cows are to return when in sense, are the seribbler's Blue pedestals in a square. We have this firmly. The seed of a thought, is makes her homeward voy. Pig. If only they summoned his statues of relatively unimportant is expected to follow the loss of two of a political idea fruiting in con- age, and if no women and children fellow men to good ale, as the other people. We have no memorial of tubes of radium, valued at P 13,330 sequences of general action, must are then on board under no circum artist's "blue pig did, and perhaps any kind to that gellant officer and which it is said were thrown down strike at the New Engineering Works, fall on soil already rich with fertilis stances are the cows to be milked may still do, what happiness: But sorely tried man, Captain Charles a closet at the Philippine General Shanghai at 7 a.m. on June 30 but at ing passions; and it may be greatly
it is not so. He drives his blue Elliot, who did all the spade work Hospital on June 12. It is believed 10.30 am, they were happy and at With commendably helped by a top-dressing of adver
We have it from the pigs to marker. They are penned. leading to the foundation of Hong- that the radium was carried out into work again.
Sergeant Shaftain this morning tisement. Some early pruning is
HIRELING Police, not only in
Let us, the bay in a sewer pipe and lost little parley the management had charged a Chinese before Mr. R. O. kong. This is wrong. And there's an end of thein. Court but privately also good for it. as witness hat-
It will be noted that while waiting for the proper mem- forever. In some way it got into a | agreed to pay the workers five cents Hutchison, at the Magistracy, with reference to persecution which says
and in greater detail,
in the following little oral that is overdoe, call the new slop bucket and was thrown down increase per day. The N. C. Daily being a rogue and a vagabond.. the blood of the martyrs is the seed that Hongkong just now is cursed
the closet by a nurse. The radium News believes this to be the local re was part of a quantity brought from cord strike settling. the United States by Dr. Fernandez about a year ago.
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ARREST THE NEAREST!
· EXTRAORDINARY POLICE METHODS.
When a Chinese woman was this morning charged before Mr. R. O.
tion Bureau and the Compagnie. Viscountess Astor, M. P. has The Magistrate discharged the Franco Colombienne, are studying the achieved yet another distinction. She defendant and ordered the drug to possibility of sending representatives has been given a niche in Madame be confiscated. to China. Two other firms are con- Tussaud's. and the large holiday We
have statues templating the sale of machines to crowd which at Whitsun visited the STATUES. meant to adorn niches] Chinese enterprises.
Museum found among its “many on a staircase, not
attractions a fine portrait model of the first woman to sit in Parliament.
Coolies numbering 600 went on
"The
motor road to the Peak the Charles Elliot road:
HARBIN TRAGEDY.
With splenic glee the pedante writes his daily diatribe: With wordy foil he parties and
he passes:
AŃ ELECTRICAL ATMOSPHERE.
ON THE DOORSTEP.
* An administrative investigation
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COOLIES SUSPICIOUS
ACTIONS.
The defendant pleaded not guilty. The Sergeant said that the defen- dant was found on the staircase of Sir Oliver Lodge, who has arrived No. 11 Heard Street Wanchai, at at Liverpool after his four months' midnight, in the act of climbing on There is going to be trouble lecturing tour in America, said that to a ledge leading to the first over the decision to put the Army there was a great future for spiritual floor of the house. When arrested, into new uniforms, says a Londonism when properly organised. The be said, that he climbed on zo-the evening paper... It will be costly, people they had to fear to-day wert ledge to look for some hidden and it will send up still further the not the sceptics so much as the over treasure. He alleged that he had A Harbin message dated June 30 price of clothing, which is already credulous. The superstition which kept a few cents there sometime ago. states that the preliminary unofficial high enough in all conscience. But circled round the subject must be The defendant said he worked as investigation of the killing of Cher beyond this, most pepple have learned stemmed.
coolie. He was able to make "suf- nlavsky; son of the editor of the to love khaki, which the war in
Ecient money to buy food, but could Novosti jint by Colonel Meyer at a vested with a glory that neither The number of young women not afford to rent a house. He there- Requiem Mass in honour of 103, of scarlet nor gold can equal. The with grey bair is so remarkable that fore slept outside No. 11 Heard To wound with words and phrases Simionov's officers killed by the Bel: proposal must be dropped, if only a West End coffieur was asked if it Street. He awoke at midnight feel- that are passing strange and sheviks, discloses the fact that the for economy's sake, and the House of is a fashion. "By no means, he saiding hungry, and went to the ledge to glib.
first shot was fired not by Cherniay Commons ought to see that it is "On the contrary, women golar into get a few cents to buy some food. And lightly coins a new one-sky, as at first reported, but by a cer- dropped. -
business find that grey hair is a draw- His Worship: How did the money White Skinned Asses.
back Grey hair is due to nervous get there?-I put it there myself. in Leibovitch who was accompany-} Bag
The Commissioner of Police at strain owing to the war. One of my
His Worship: Why ?-I put it ing Cherriavsky. The tragedy, his given rise to a furious press cam- Calcutta received an extraordinary clients is only 27 and her hair is there for safe keeping, I was afraid to keep it on my person as my pocket paign and the political atmosphere is letter on June 11, signed by a man quite white."
might be picked while I was asleep," On the night of giving the name of Patrie, stating
Professor and Mrs. Frank L. His Worship: You do not live in highly charged. June 29 two bombs were thrown in that, while insane, the writer had it a window of the house of a rich killed three of his children and asking Martin, of the School of Journalism merchant named Katznelson who that the prison van should be sent of the University of Missouri, on the staircase at that time of the
to a house in Waterloo Street to take | Columbíz, USA, with their son and night-Three weeks. was slightly wounded. A section of the press declares that Katzelson Tory acted as financial agent for the Vlad Congratulations to ONE BRASS the Morning Post
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POETRY. poc. entitled of the Church. The metaphor of with far too many Chinese roughs
Plant (pedant~~” a that is wrong.
The eved is the of the sort who are hired to offer thought, the idea. Persecution cor physical violence to persons who scholar who makes needless and responds more to the pruning pro-have incurred the enmity of their inopportune display of his learn- Cess. Crowd emotions. emulsed employers. The records of the ing the poet does not quite already, are the manure. The seed, last year or so include a surging grasp the point of Hood's remark the idea, does not usually"produce number of otherwise inexplicable that the end of poetry is not rhyme. the emotions; but at a later stage assaults. In these circumstances, His lines are mther cumbersome sometimes gets credit for it. Thus which we believe to be faithfully and difficult, but we like the phrasE the idea of liberty, equality, and represented, we think it is a great" splenic glee." fraternity did not take the French pity that opportunity was not taken revolution. That was a seed that of the clear case reported resterday Aprouted and flourished in a soil to impose such a deterrent penalty tilled by resentment of injustice. as would be well advertized among If we take a smaller example, the criminal fraternity. The men from recent history at Home, "we who assaulted the Electe Light find that the great Tarif Reform works foretan had absolutely no controversy started by Chainberlain quarrel with bim. and they hurt did not spread from an idea as a hun badly. There is something conflagration spreads from a "spark. particularly borrid and objectionable There was very little ides in it at about this growing practice of hir- alf, and hardly any thinking. The ing bravoes in private quarrels, and ground, the mob, was ready, dis we hope it will be put down with contented with the small measure a ruthless hard. A little violent of comfort that drudgery procured handling of such gentry by the Alinost any seed would grow in such police who arrest them will have ground especially with the top to be winked at, if re cannot get ressing of advertisement, of item other adequate penalties. Along tion that the pseudo-idea got Tt with our nuates and armed rub- Have somebody to keep on telling be they stuld really be out- The rabble that Shoreham's pills are lowest the sales of strict justice worth & guides a box. Whom dogs are Wised on them, Crimes of it pay to keep on telling them that filed against the person seem the Ides of the League of National cheaper here than crimes against
beyond price? So this great ides property. This is wrong.
With scientists and Governments
consigned to other regions, As well as Bishops-aprons, gar
ters, cadies; ... And having rid the world of all
its systems and its legions, He confidently turns to settle
Hades!
vostock Government.
him into custody. On the Inspector daughter, were visitors in Canton on going there he found Patrie lying Joly B. They were with the Ameri with his throat cats. He said that he can Express Company tourist party
the house, and have so business to be
wad cut it with a piece of broken of which Professor Marlin is the The Portuguese Cruiser. "Patria a glass. He was removed to the head. Eight persons were in the arrived this morning from: Maca hospital. The man was formerly party all returning this morning at about noon. The Commodore's
HAT for its note on the Two new Launches are being bull employed at the Budge Jute Mills They found Canton a more interest salute was fired. The vessel
reporters adventure,
at the Wiltshire's celebration yes.
WALLA WALLA
No. 3510.
and had lost his employment.”
ing city than they first expected. chored off the Naval Yard.