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When a burly coolie employed at : the Kowloon Godowns was this morning charged before Mr. R. O. Hutchison with the theft of two packets of matches, part of a cargo which was being discharged from a ship, he burst into tears, and said that he did not steal the matches. He saw the packets produced lying on the ground neglected, and thinking that they were not wanted, picked, them up.
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this morning charged before Mr. When a small Chinese boy was R. O. Hutchison, at the instance of Inspector Caygill, with selling some peanuts in Yaumati without a licence, be pleaded guilty.
The Magistrate enquired why the defendant did not take out a licence. Defendant replied that he was not a regular hawker. He worked with his mother as an earth carrier, but the last few days, owing to the typhoon," they had had no work to do. In order to raise some money to buy food, he borrowed 20 cents from a friend and bought some peanuts to sell.
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Five hundred thousand catties of rice have arrived, and a general slump in the price of the various grades of local rice will soon be announced.
Additional shipments of Hongkong Saigon rice will arrive in Shanghai continuously until local rice prices; return to normal.
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TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observa- tory at 5.30 p.m. on July 21.
(1) Typhoon 108 Long E. and 20 Lat. N. moving W
(2) Typhoon 121 Losg E. and 20 Lat. N. almost stationary.
(3) Typhoon 137 Long E. and 13 Lat. N. moving W.N.W.
Lat. N. Direction unknown.
(4) Typhoon 145 Long E and 19
11.25 am. July 22, 1920. Typhoon in about 118 Long. E. and 21 Lat. N. moving W.N.W. and 14 Lat. N. moving W.N.W.
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a good many people outside that the minion must raise its voice a Hitle
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londer if it is to express not only the GOT TWELVE MONTHS" JAIL. views of the cultured few, but of (HE ! great mass of the people sick of war—as well. He showed me leaflets Before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, at the I was invited the other day by the which sounded a new note. It's ap Magistracy, this morning, Sergeant League of Nations Union to visit se merely feeling amiable, cried McFall of No. 2 Police Station, their London headquarters (writes one, you've got to join us to do any charged a Chinese banishee with ume the Pilgrim in the Daily News), good." He felt what I suppose no lawfully returning to the Colony be Apparently it was felt that I might would dispute that unless the fore the term for which he had been find cheering evidence of the New anion gets a million members within banished had expired. World there.
12 months there is little chance of the League of Nations being anything but the symbol of a dead ideal.
One voice! I read, is nothing. He was sent away on January 23, Even a thousand voices don't carry 1919, after serving a term of impri far. But a million voices raised tope sonment for larceny. The Magis her ring out through the whole trate passed the usual sentence of 12 country. It is to form a million months' imprisonment with hard voices into one vast choir of indigna- labour.. tion that the little band of enthusiasts
It happened that before going to Buckingham Gate I had spent an hour with an exsoldier, gassed in France and now in an advanced stage of consumption, who is living in extreme poverty and squalor. He had just run away from hospital, because he had seen all the men in his ward die, one after the other, and
He preferred not to wait
he felt that it would be his turn next I discovered him and his wife in one dismal back room, it by window about two feet square, în a London slum. They had found it impossible to live on his small pen sion, and had pawned nearly every thing. I noticed that his wife's hair was short like a boy's and she told me that she had just cut it off and
sold it for 155.
The defendant admitted the charge, and when asked what he came back for, replied "Nothing"
INVITED TO REMAIN.
in Buckingham-gate are now working Inspector. Willis of No. 7 Police
to war.
twelve hours a day. They realise Station next charged a Chinese that they are fighting against time, woman with returning from banish- against the habit of forgetfulness ment. which would allow the spirit of the
The defendant admitted the charge, They know that it is difficult to through, and did not intend to stay old battlefields to escape into the past. but said that she was only passing make the call to attractive as the call
peace as more than a couple of days.
Inspector Wallis said that defen- They have learnt that men who dant was sent away for ten years will rush to arms to back up on July 10, 1919 as an undesirable their comrades after a retreat from character. She had served terms I mention this ex-soldier and his Mons will look on indifferently when of imprisonment for fying the wife because it happened, as I said, it is a question of arresting the retreat white pigeon" and kidnapping. that I listened to their views on war which Mons stood. It was easy for labour was passed.
of politicians from the ideals for
Sentence of six months hard before calling at the headquarters of were not views that can be printed, men for war, but Lord Robert Cecil the League of Nations Union. The Lord Kitchener to raise three million chiefly because they were expressed raise only one million men for peace. hai that the U. S. transport "Great is Ending it extremely difficult to in language from which society
Word has been received in Shang- claims to be protected. I have heard SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH.
I found, however, that Mr. Williams Northern" sailed from San Francisco discussed, but it gave me something clined to believe that the world would and Japan ports, with the party of men swear in France when war was refused to be discouraged. He des on July 5 for Shanghai, via. Honolulu of a shock to hear this man cursing willingly return to the old disastrous American congressmen who are to from his squalid bed, with his close-outlook or that the ideal of the make a tour of China and who will later cropped wife sitting at the foot. It League would ever die. He was in go to Manila. In the party are three was not only war but the whole of clined to agree, I gathered, that the senators and 31 congressmen; who, humanity that he cursed.
Union suffered somewhat from with their wives and families, bring respectability," and that some of the total of the party to more than It will be 'realised therefore that I its branches were is danger 150. Prominent members of the party was a no very serene or detached of being crushed by the are Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, former U. state when I called at the head dead weight of local notabilities who S. Minister to China: Dr. Julean quarters of the body that has set out become associated with the League Arnold, Commercial Attache and Mr. to persuade the people of this country of Nations with the same eagerness Alexander Home Ford, of Honolulu, that it would be as well to abolish with which they accept the presidency who is promoting the formation of war. I had just left the real things, of the local flower show. The in the Pan-Pacific Union. the real naked spirit of revolt against pression I got was that the new war, stripped of all compromise or policy of the Union will be based on pleasant phrases. As I walked into recognition of the fact that the 22, Buckingham-gate, I could still League stands, after all, for revolt hear the curses of the ex-soldier for revolt against the old disastrous dying protestingly. I could still hear order and that for the future local the shriller curses of his wife. I hardly fel adjusted to the suave courtesy of the official-Captain Berkeley-who received me.
THE REAL AND THE IDEAL
He took me into several rooms where I saw a number of people doing admirable work. There was
SOOTHING "ATMOSPHERE.
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on the same scale on the Continent, There is a small movement in Italy and a smaller one in France. But that doesn't matter. There isn't the least doubt that it we make it per fectly clear that we are determined. the League shall be a living thing the whole of Europe will fall into line Burm confident that
mayors with abellicose past will not be pressed by secretaries of the Union to divert their energies from the opening of deserving bazaars,
Mr. Williams surprised me on one with us. point. He said that a special effort would shortly be made to enlist the
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if we care to do so we can lead The people would not Europe tolerate any Government that refused to follow us on that point. There is no ground whatever for the fear that in supporting the League of Nations we shall be left alone."
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a woman clever and cultured- support of the Church. sitting at table and reading Is the support of a Church that dozens of foreign newspapers. Her stands for war worth having?” scissors hovered in the air
... I asked. asked her if she thought she got the
"We hope it will stand for peace," truth in newspapers
As he replied.
What is needed,” added Lard spoke the scissors swooped down on
Mr. Pilkington came in. He is in Robert "is to make public opinion in something, and another cutting was charge of the educational side of the this country so strong in support of added to her little pile. I found my Union, and believes that education the League that no Government will self thinking of the scissors that had with bring the New World to life. be able to ignore what I believe to been used for another purpose by He told me something that certainly be the wish of the great majority of the wife of the ex-soldier. It was was cheering. He said that the the people." clear that both women had the same History-written in the light of the the attitude of the Church. "It has Union were arranging to produce e I asked if he were satisfied with idea. One searched newspapers for evidence of revolt abroad. The other new ideals which he hoped would profoundly disappointed me" he sold her hair for fifteen shillings-be accepted in all the schools of the replied, especially the attitude of and cursed. I wondered which of country. It will not, of course, be my own Church. They don't seem Today will be the last opportunity the two women was the more valu- the conventional history. It will not to realise that the question of the that kinema patrons will have of view-able, and I found myself wishing glorify war and Imperialism, or put a success or failure of the League The Paris Press on May 16 repro-and laughs at the Coroner Theatre.
ing the excellent programme of thrills that the Lady of the Cuttings would halo round the heads of bellicose Kings should be one of vital interest for ¿uces large photographs of the execu-
betray a little of the other's impa ior Ministers.. It will examine the them." tion at Vincennes on the previous day in a laughable Capitol comedy" Bily's again.
In addition to Smiling Bill Parsons ence. The scissors swooped down causes of some of the needless wars ATTITUDE OF WOMEN.
of the past, and it will not omit to Then Lord Robert somewhat sur- of four of the traitors who were coa- Predicament" there is a splendid
point out that it is not always Prime prised me. He confessed that he demmed for their connection with that Paramount Artcraft 5-part picture,
Ministers who win wars, but oc-had been equally disappointed by the infamous German sheet, the Gazene The Man From Painted Post," Mr. Hugh Williams, general manager memorial is an inexpensive cross in the upper classes," he declared, "are I went into another room, and saw casionally private soldiers whose only attitude of women. The women of des Ardennes. For the first time which Douglas Fairbanks takes the of the union, late of the Machine some foreign country. Mr. Pikking almost invariably militarist. Others since the war the Press was admitted leading role.
Gun Corps. It was a very nice room. ton rather doubted it the big public are more promising, but compara to this grim spectacle, and there was quite a respectable number of civil thrills of a story dealing with the cattle soft carpet, left a letter on the desk, but he had hopes of the elementary ed the vital necessity of supporting Replete with the swift action and A typist tripped quietly across the schools would accept the new History, tively few seem yet to have discover ians, in addition to the bodies of rustling days of the West, together and tripped noiselessly out again. A schools. troops, at the execution ground. The with the most beautiful of natural man opened the door, tesitated a
the League. I am, in fact, profound- four traitors Touqué, Lemoine, Her-scenic displays offered in the pictures moment,
As I climbed the stairs to Lordly disappointed by the attitude to bert. and the woman Aubert arrived que Wyomin, The Man From Paint and
murmured an apology. Robert Cecil's room I found myself this great question, both of the in the usual military motor-cars and ed Post" presents the popular ex-whole atmosphere was soothing anything that might be expected to
.quietly withdrew. The wondering whether he would say Church and of women." were led by priests, in the case of the ponent of the smile in a role quite orderly, and refined. My chair was satisfy the gassed consumptive soldier is at least a million members of 'What we want," he concluded, men, to the stake where they were different from any of his previous comfortable. attached, and a Sister of Charity ac screen efforts.
The cigarette Mr cursing humanity from his squalid our Union in the next few months. As Fancy fim Williams handed to me was excellent. deathbed, with his haggard wife sit- Only by organising public opinion can companied the woman. Herbert was Sherwood, a supposed "readerfoot," There was really no excuse for reting at the foot. alone in allowing himself to be blind- Douglas cleans up a famous gang ofmembering the ex-soldier.
we compel the Government to keep folded. The other two men gesticurustlers after many exciting experi But I did remember him; and I but by no means in despair. He
I found Lord Robert discouraged, faith on this vital issue.” lated to the lest, and, raising their
Lord Robert Cecil is, in fact, the hands to Heaven, shouted to their
regret to say that when Mr. Wiliams thought that a great opportunity had Kitchener of Peace. He is appealing This photoplay is based on Jackson was telling me in a low, quiet voice been lost when Europe failed to refer for recruits, not only for the protec executioners that they were innocent, Gregory's recent magazine story, of the work of the union I somewhat the Ruhr dispute and the Polish tion of this country, but to safeguard and they died with the words "Vive Silver Slippers." and was adapted brusquely interrupted and told him Russian quarrel to the League but the future of the world. Probably La France" on their lips. The women was shot with her hands clasped in himself.
to the screen by the versatile Douglas of the man I had just left and I asked against these two disappointments it is no exaggeration to say that Staged at the Riverside if there were by any chance a man he put some definite achievements nearly everything depends on whe prayer. One of the unhappy wretches Ranch, near Laramie, Wyo., where the premises who ever swore, or For example:
ther he gets them or not. "In any { 160,000 acres of land and 30,000 head of canle were placed at the dis both smiled. It seemed to be as have been initiated.
Preparations for the establishment case, I shall do my best to persuade Mr. Wiliams smiled. In fact, we of the Court of International Justice my friend the ex-soldier that the re- posed of the photoplayers, tins film polite a thing as I could do. Then
craits will roll up as in the early days presents the true Western atmosphere Mr. Williams said: "I'm sorry if we to be established.
An International Health Bureau is of the war, and that he did not fight in vain. It is just possible, perhaps, strike you as too academic. I agres An International Financial Con- that he may consent to die without that we have been in the past,...
ference is to meet in the near future, a curse on his lips. Shall I send for the doorkeeper?" An International Commission of
"Is be a member of the union?” Investigation is to be sent to Russia... "I'm afraid not."
I-put to him the stock criticism of the man who says: What's the good of thinking internationally in this country if they're thinking nationally in other countries?"
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