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THE CHINA MAIL
TAUMATI "BIRD "SNARED. THE VANCOUVER MAILS
„CONVICTED.
A GROWING EVIL. IN HONGKONG."
WHY THEY DIG NOT COME:-
WHEN WILL THEY ARRIVE?
The recent arival of the C.P.OS
fine, the Empress of Asia, at Yoko hama without thousands of sacks of badly needed mail was explained by a cable from Canada to the CP.O.S.] offices in Yokohama.
"Greufer's" Rubber News is dead; |--"PLAUSIBLE PICKPOCKET. practically all the Malayan DOWN- papers have increased their rates for subscriptions and advertisements; the Malay Mail points out that its paper alone costs more than the sub- scription; the Literary-Supplernent of the Times, which used to be 1d.. At the Magistracy this morning, now 64 Recently, an trate adverMr. N. L. Smith had before him a tiser, confronted with our new tariff. Chinese charged with picking the called the Straits Echo a "profiters" pocket of a compatriot and stealing a Would that it were true! Meantime purse containing $30 and some letters
The complainant sald that when
According to the cable the Can- there is every prospect of our ex penses rising still higher and come walking in Chinatown yesterday the adian mail contract has been can- A celled and mail in the future will bè what may means will be devised of defendant bumped - Into him.
That is a fair moment later he found that his purse charged for not according to the passing it on.” warning,
Even a return of the and some letters were missing from number of sacks but rather according his pocket. The defendant in the to the number of cable feet it occupies price of rice to pre-war TELĖS
in the boat. would help us very little, for our meantime had quietly strolled away raw material is newsprint, the blank Witness followed, but when sheets on which we conduct every approached the defendant, the latter day a sale of stolen goods. We are broke into a nin and wimess grabbed at the mercy of the paper manu- him. Witness found his purse and facturers and we tremble whenever letters under the defendant's fan. we open a cable from our agents in London, Yokohama, Calcutta and Christiana, for quotations advance not by mere leaps and bounds but by giant strides of 100 per cent, at a time.. Fervently, we re-Echo that Still, small voice of the rubber boom was and ask is there no mercy To steal we are unafraid, to beg we are unashamed, but zeither availeth us aught. What we want is an expert
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he
"It stated that the mail Yokohama merchants' expected on the Empress of Asia was loaded the boat in good time.
houses
The five thousand sacks contained The defendant said that he was American, Canadian and English fanning himself as be passed the mall among which were many bills: complainant, and his fan must have of lading for freight brought from ertangled in the com- | America on other steamers. become
These bills of lading, together with plainant's purse and letters, thus pulling them out of his pocket. He important letters, were needed by unaware of what had foreign merchants in Yokohama and happened until the complainant the news that the Asia had brought. called his attention to the purse no mail whatever, cansed much in- and letters hanging to his fan convenience to numerous business Surely, said the defendant, had h meant to steal the complainant's pre- perty, he would have run away in mediately after doing so, and not have given the complainant every
The cable gave no words as to the chance to catch him.
Inspector Wills who prosecuted arrangement for getting the mail said that the defendant was a well across the oceanț known "Yaumati bird," who bad It is possible that the "Monteagle," had a previous conviction recorded which sailed July 10 to arrive July against him. A lot of this sort of 29, is carrying the 5,000 sacks of thing was taking place in various mail. Merchants in Yokohama are parts of the Colony lately, and must more inclined to believe however that it will come on the."Siberia be stopped.
Sentence of three months' hard Maru," due in Yokohama July 25.- labour was passed.
Shanghai Gazelle
WAR DECORATIONS.
ARHY COUNCIL INSTRUC
TIONS.
WHERE APPLICATION SHOULD
BE MADE
The Army Council is anxious that
With this end in view those coa.
cerned should claim the decorations at once and should make application in the first place to the D.A.A. and QM G., Headquarters, China Com- mand, Victoria Barracks.
All applications should stare (1) Name in full of claimant, (2) Postal address, (3) Fu'l Reginental particu. lars by which he or she can be identified. (4) The name of the de- coration, (5) Date of award.
It was taken off the boat by an order issued at the Canadian Postal office, as the result of the contract change.
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"SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE.”
LONDON TO-DAY,
THE NIAGARA OF PLEASURE.
WHAT A CITY FOR MONEY!
"What a city! There is nothing
British fears that the financial leadership of the world, as the result of the war, would pass from Great Britain to America have been laid to like it on earth. Babylon and Rome, rest by the publication of figures in their hey-day, never vied with its and facts concerning British trade, according to a special correspondent prodigal huxury and frantic extravag- of The Sunday Times. The writer, ance. It is a story nation, choked whose article is printed in a cob with wealth, and irrigated by a
The financial centre of the world Thames in the Sunday Express spicuous position, says:
"The whole world has come to does not necessarily have to be the trade centre of the world. That is, London to scatter its gains and it need not be the place where the squander its boards Hotels, res most goods are manufactured or taurants and theatres are glutted sold to other countries. To be the with the flung surplus of the financial centre London or New Cosmopolitan Croesus. The very York must have the best facilities menials are surfeited, with tips. The for bandling the business transec. shops are gorged with custom. The tions necessary in order that, goods, streets are clogged with costly traffic. may be exchanged between one You may pretend not to be dazzled country and another. There must and deafened by the raring torrent be smooth working banking machi- of luxury. You may try to take for nery first of all; insurance is another granted the Niagara of Pleasure. But fine;"important factor; ships are another; ever in our time has money been tariff laws are another. Then, in poured out so recklessly and so ruth- addition, there is one more condition lessly. The royal Curzon wedding that perhaps has more to do with a was feudally grandiose, a splendid nation's international financial supre defiance of democracy-but it is macy than any other one thing. That only a foambell in the gale of ex- is the inherent spirit of restless ad pense. It is a poor heart that never venture on the part of capital, seek rejoices, and it is true to say that ing to push out further into new and London scarcely noticed the mediaval unexplored fields in search of trea- magulloquence of our greatest noble.
She took it in her stride. |sures yet undiscovered.
Shanghai is a funny place,
It is neither new nor old. In summer it is damp and hor. In winter damp and cold. And yet we linger year by year. "Because "Life' here's so And when it isn't raining,
The sun somehow does shine.
Tientsin is a country town, *Not far from old Pekin. Where all the inhabitants
Are lean and lank and thin,
Because they're always thirsting
The weather there's so dry; And every mother's blessed son
Seeks transfer to Shanghai. Hankow is a horrid place, It simply is the limit; Why, even a Tientsin man
Would stay there not a mintite Longer than to change his clothes.
And heave & soulful sigh,
And bless the men who operate
LONDON'S GEOGRAPHICAL-
ADVANTAGE.
The most amazing thing of all is the riotous spendthriftiness of our golden youth. Where do they all "One thing which America lacks, come from, these beardless boys of according to The Sunday Times con nineteen and twenty who hurt their tributor, and has lacked, is adven-riches about like confetti? They are turesome capital. In one sense the sons of our war profiteers. Their.. capital in America is just as adven motto is the old Irish slogan : turesome as capital in England, but Come easy, go easy, God send when America needs cotton sheSunday.
From what passed at question-time in the Commons on Tuesday it is not clear whether Mr. Churchill has It is an old subject, says the Shang- yet cleared his mind of its craving to hai Mercury. The censor was called dress up our soldiers again in the cat of his retirement a fagy years ago highly unmilitary old toilette of red to study a picture which boasted who will solve the problem of turn coat and pipe clay. We say "unmi of a wealth of women at one of the ing lallang into paper and will sell tary" because, whatever other argu-local theatres.
Since these days it locally at anything under $500 ments may be discovered for the red his patience has not been taxed, ton. The task does not, sound very coat and its accompaniments, all the but to prove that censorship does difficult and there is a handsome purely, military arguments are dead exist in this Settlement we have fortune awaiting the against it. To begin with, it only to record the fact that the manages to accomplish it. tends to prevent us from getting famous film underwent considerable From all this our readers wil as many recruits as we want, or pruning. As to the qualifications perhaps have gathered that there is recruits, of as good a kind. We of the censorate we are not con- an effective shortage in the paper are quite aware that the smoking cerned at the moment, by we were trade. The raw material from which rooms of some military clubs are highly interested in contriburious paper is made pulp has increased still haunted by the illusion that which have appeared in our Hankawin price, during the last six years, young men love long days of brass contemporary. "Pictorial"ealightens six-fold. Even during the last six and leather polishing, and that when his readers when he says-A censor months, wood pulp imported from they go out for a walk they like to ship for kinematograph pictures has Scandinavia, has increased in price wear a coat which takes a stain from already existed in Shanghai for the three fold. But there is much almost any outdoor object that it last five years, where a committee of confusion as to the cause of these touches in a smoky modern town, local residents including a mimber increases, and it is not quite clear and which may then have to be of ladies, and the Superintendent of whether there is a real shortage or replaced out of the wearer's moderate Police censor all pictures before they whether the increased price is due to pay. Such illusions illustrate the are shown to the native and. foreign the effects of monopoly control. extraordinary distance at which the audiences. The same censorship ex-Now, it is a little strange that the minds of many old Regular officereists in Peking and Hongkong, where price should have gone up so much lived from any understanding of the the Government appoints the Chief since the end of the war. During the thoughts of their men: They never of Police as Chief Censor. As these war the export of pulp from Germany deceived such masters of soldiership pictures are also censored in Europe and Austria was cut off. And during as Sir Frederick Maurice. The and America from wherever they are the war, the prevailing shortage of absurdity is now known by personal produced, I don't think it is neces- transport, which is one factor in the experience to some millions of English sary for the pictures to be censored increase of price. was immensely civilians. To almost every soldier again in Hankow. As regards the exaggerated by the needs of well those awarded decorations (as the endless labour and the equally kind and quality of pictures required, transport. Yet it is since the war distinct from ordinary War Medals) endless mental worry of keeping an. I think the public is the best judge, that the price of paper has come to who have not yet received them archaic fancy dress in fantastically as all theatres depend on the public such an inflated figure; and we rust should have them presented as early immaculate condition is detestable, for their support and it is the aim of put this down to a greatly extended possible, we are informed by the and it tends to make him feel that a the management always to suppis use of paper, Ard, further, we must local military authorities. salder's life is contemptible. It makes the public with pictures that will admit that in the ordinary sources of enlisted men sorry that they erlisted, appeal to them. A show cannot be supply there is a real shortage. This and it makes unenlisted men slow to run to please one man only, and is largely due to the immense inroads certain pictures may appeal to one which were made into the forests at The red coat and pipe-clay, again, person and yet not please another.
the world for the needs of the war. are unmilitary because they are rot
Admitting, then, that there is merely useless for war but are a
ja the ordinary fantastic burlesque of anything that obvious, so overwhelming, that to real shortage could be useful in war. When a repeat it again would be like break- sources of supply, the position is visiting naval officer came within ing in an open door. For the moonly to be improved by effecting two miles of our French front during ment we are concerned to show that new economies, and by discover the war, wearing a cap partly white, for all the money which it is proposed ing new sources of supply either be had to have a khaki bandkerchief to waste the army would get a good by a more extensive cutting in- Is it said that this deal less than nothing. How is it, then, forests which have as yet been little tied over it. is granted, but that the case for that anyone can be found-even at touched er by, using hitherto unused the red coat does not rest on any the War Office, where so many strange fibre for the manufacture of paper. theory of its utility in war? If so, things are found to support this Let us take these in order. There is it is said, without knowledge. The employment of public money in doing first the question of new economies. red crat was chosen for use in harm to the army? There is a type By this we do not mean war. All the Peninsular battles, of mind, not yet scoured out of the economical use of made paper or of as well as Ramilies, Oudenaïde, and high places of the army, which may sources so much as the utilisation of A certain Waterloo, were fought by British be indicated by an illustrative detail. I used paper, rags, etc.
The Fausang inquiry has been soldiers in red coats, though they Early in the crisis of our struggle amount of rag-paper making has dealt with in the leading article in were certainly dirty ones. In its with Germany, when every public always been in use. The best paper Shipping & Engineering this week. It time, the age before air observation spirited Englishman was optimistical is made from rags: but there does is pointed out that the two recent and even the rife, red was quite a 17, supposed to be "straining every not seem to be much chance of shipping cases and the judgments good colour to fight in. And that nerve" for the good cause, and when further exploitation in that direction. given have caused a good deal of
The theatrical world at Rome has change territory the financial centre yet it is easy to prove that each during the war, fact, of its use in many famous one of the direst needs of the But,
there comment amongst mariners and in been recently convulsed over a serio of the world would in all likelihood prodigal son is a weary patriot who campaigns, is the sole cause of its moment was for good new material was considerable amount of the latter case it is felt that the comic incident between the principals remain in London. It is the geogra: unknowingly strives to deliver the survival up to 1914. It had the for subaltern officers, the com organised collection of waste judgment was too severe.
of two, important companies. The phical location that makes England body politic from the peril of inequit." prestige of the uniform in which the manding officer of 2 certain paper, and the United Kingdom.
After saying that Captain Gill did matter began with a discussion great, and until some shift in the ably distributed wealth. hardest, the most costly, and the New Army battalion had, like it is said, should yield about 200.000 not zive evidence in a manner calcu- as to the rights of a new and succes in the methods of distribution and Fall, and I unearth this passage with-
world's population or a radical change "I turn to Gibbon's Decline and most glorious of British battles up to others, the duty of selecting from tons, worth over £1,000,000. This lated to make the most of his case, ful play. Glauco,which were then, had been fought. That record the men in his command those who is a low estimate, since there must various points are brought forward claimed by both parties. As matters development occurs England will proa sigt of ironical reliel ****
"Agriculture is the foundation of ounty, and most glorious of recorded leaders in battle. Of such fitness he and papers in every office. To the dealt with which go to prove that the Talli Company, the leading lady her comfortable position fir many of nature are the foundations of act. of its is now gone. The hardest, most were most likely to make good be hundreds of tons of old books and the manner in which they were were not going very well legally for bably continue in her present place.
England is likely to continue in manufactures, since the productions British battles-the most glorious, at had a test, which he applied. He extension of this system the paper the Court was extremely harsh and of this company, who is the first any rate, for the regimental troops asked each candidate for a com- manufacturers object that the pro- that those sitting in the Court were serious actress in Italy to-day, went years yet. Her emergence from the Under the Roman Empire, the labour difficult, not familiar with the scene of the with some friends of hers to one of with a more solid foundation than ple was variously, but necessarily, reconstruction period will find her of an industrious and ingenious peo- baffles, but khaki battles. The un- go to the expense of buying himself dirty, and dear. But to this as to disaster and were not, therefore, able the opening performances of the rivas ever. To speak of her as bankrupt | employed in the service of the rich. breakable lines that will come first in a mess uniform not required by the every other suggestion of charge to give the fairest bearing. N.C.D.N. company, and by means of lux pre-worse than nonsense. She will the imaginations of future readers of regulations, nor provided for in a the only real and final objection is
***Such refinements, under the odi sence and exaggerated and sarcastic military history will not be the thin new officer's kit allowance, but im conservatism. It is certain that
laughter succeeded in irritating the never be bankrupt unless some catas ous name of luxury have been severe- red line at Waterloo, but the thin posed on the officers of the batta- repulping of paper collected on an
trophe should overwhelm Continentally arraigned by the muralists of every position to the point of desperation. Europe. She is not much worse off age and it might perhaps be more brown lines that held at the first lion, apparently, for no other reason organised system would pay. If it
The result of the evening was 2 Battle of Ypres in 1914 and at the than to keep poor men out of paid during the war, it would pay.
formal challenge to a duel between financially as the result of the war. conducive to the virtue as well as German attack on Givenchy in 1918 commissions. That state of mind, much more now.
the directors of the Talli and the showing how Great Britain's loans the necessaries and none the super The article continues with a table happiness. of mankind if all possessed Ail the claim that the red unconsciously unpatriotic, unsoldierly The second chance of improvement
Ninchi companies. Signor Ninchí coat had upon national sentiment and vulgar, has always in mordern lies in the utilisation of forests a
sent his seconds to Signor Talli attir. to other nations compare with Am faities of life. has passed from it bodily to the times haunted an unworthy part of our yet little touched. Pine and spruce
erica's The British loans to Russia, ed like knights of the Middle Ages,
But in the present imperfect khaki tunic. Until six years ago the Regular army, like a poisonous fog are the chief woods used, and through- Again the cry arises that London carrying in their hands an elaborate France, Italy, Belgium, Serbia and condition of society, luxury, though red coat could be called military in hanging over badly drained ground. out the Empire there are vast forests full, From big hotels comes the parchment document of about three other Allies amount to £1,687,200,000. it may proceed from vice or folly, the sense that it had richer military. It is the force at the back of the which have not suffered much at pre- now familiar story of beds in bath feet in length containing the formal America's loans to the same nations seems to be the only means that can associations than any other. In that intrigue for bringing back the pipe sent. The mere mechanical pulp rooms and the manager's office. Yet challenge. Talli and seconds were are given as £1,069,000,000. In correct the unequal distribution of respect it is now second rate and a clay epoch for the men and the which is produced by the grinding of not nearly all the 200,000 people furious at the insult offered to the addition, the United States loaned to property certain callousness or indifference to epoch of costly full-dress uniforms for of the wood under water can be expected from the two Americas code of chivalry;"and refused to have grand totals are loans by England, young war-wastrel is a public bene..
England £854,000,000, so that the As in Rome so in London! The „right soldierly feeling is shown in the officers. The special aim of the made wherever sufficient waterpower and Canada have arrived, though anything to do with "such buffoonery £1,687,200,000; loans by the United factor. Haggardly and hercically he
suggestion that the uniform in which agitation is that an officer's ungvoid is available. No elaborate plant or the liners are bringing them over in The matter has been referred to a the greatest of all British wars was able expenditure on uniform should housing is required, and Canada has thousands. Nor has Britain welcomed competent maitre d'armes for his ver fought should be banished from every be so great that no son of a poor enormous supplies of the best sort of many of the 20,000 or so due from dict. full-dress military ceremonial. It is man and no soldier promoted from Wood...
Australia and the Far East. If the
engaged are
DOW
a
not red-coat mission whether he could and would cesses of repulping, are
FAUSANG INQUIRY.
a more WAS THE DECISION HARSH7
=
LONDON FULL
BEOS IN BATHROONS,
as if the nation had shown its appre- the ranks could stand it. Wherever "The third way of increasing the hotels are full now, how much more clation of the conduct of our red this object is achieved, as it has long supplies of paper is by discovering time! That sentence is not so stupid full will they be in a few weeks clad infantry at Waterloo by dressing been in certain regiments the stan-new sources. The fundamental raw
as it sounds, Hotel accommodation medieval: jerkins or in full-dress for officers, is lower
· them, after the peace, in brown dard of the original material obtained material.is to be. found everywhere. has a way of emulating elastic. The
than in Coarse tropical grasses, and luxurious secret lies in the coming and going.
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The steamers to Shanghai.
Hongkong is a verdant.rock,
In verity a nest, Where people live in blissful case
Eternally at rest;
Toey have their Happy Valley,
Their Peak so bleak and high, And long ago they gave up hope
Of moving to Shanghai.
-N.C. Daily News.
A DUELLING COMEDY.
finances it in the Southeastern States. At the steering-wheel of their England has to go there or to Egypt. gorgeous cars they sit like demi- America's oil, tin, iron ore, cereals, gods, tossing their treasure into timber, tobacco and other products | the gutter. At the restaurants can be financed within her own they pay three pounds a bottle borders. England must go to the for the champagne they disdain ends of the earth. If her capital is to drink. They dance half the to be employed at all, it must seek night while their cars wait in luxuri- far away fields
ous patience till the dawn stifles the "The very position of the two yawns of their charioteers. The nations." he says, "makes it plain bejewelled raiment of their painted that Great Britain, almost of necessity; odalisques baffles the 'avarice of the must be the financial centre of the tradesman and the cupidity of the world. If the population of the merchant.
United States and the population of "Never was there such luxury! Great Britain were suddenly to ex Never was there such waste! And
States, £1,913,400,000.
The Sunday Times, contributer
is mitigating the purse-pride of his CANCEL WAR DEHTS.
progenitor.
Cynics may wrangle over the concludes: At le
riddle of riches. They may contend ***"Deducting the £854,000,000 fent that the pleasure of amassing a great by the United States to Great Britain fortune is not greater than the we find that England lent to her allies pleasure of melting it-in all the on her own account well over furnaces of luxury. They may large harsh and habit forming £800,500,000. Now that the war is declare that the joy of saving is lese
DON'T THROW MONEY
· AWAY
C: Hörm in which, no doubt, manyard, of ⠀ efficiency and ́ strictly | in, tropical countries. In fact there there may be beds to spare next pargatives; when you can obtain laxa-cellation of the debts of her allies spendthrift is the antidote, to the sbits of woad-obsolete types of un-other regiments and the stand-vegetation afford an abundant supply If the bathroom" is occupied to C8Y: | cathartic pilla, or ou disagreeable: saline i øyer, she is contemplating the can. I than the joy of spending. But the in their time. The French, who That is, the interests of the army and for those who have the enterprise to week,
creditable actions had been fought professional devotion is less exacting. must be thousands of new sources
dom strike false notes in matters the country are, so far, defeated. I deal with them. A little initiative,,
of military given us the is not exactly an on which
right lead by discarding the old dark Mr. Churchill will find it safe to that are required to put an end to Line and red lafantry uniform, with waste the money of a country which the shortage for ever. Where is the During the four months ending ità reminiscences of Napoleonic at the same time has a good deal local man who is going to solve the June, 333 trading companies in the Canguage, and retaining, fer good, less money to waste flan it had six problem for the local presse city of Tokyo:zed Tokyo Prefecture,
hordon blue in which almost years ago and knows a good deal incidentally make a fortune by tur failed. The capital of these com the troops Cought the late war, more about what is good and bad in ing all that endeiating lalang of panies reaches the enormous figure of financial economy the army than it then did the rubber prospectuses into pulp :145,336,703 of which Y6,818,500 nemiched. It is so Manchester, Gstarillant
| for newkprint?—Saudis Echo, 2-1 is paid tap.
tives, Pinkerton, at every drog store. That of Russia has practically can millionaire, and waste' is the safe- Strong, purgatives bert and harm the celled itself.
guard against swollen wealiha temporary relief they give being myAt any rate, reither England nor
If rich men were misers, followed by worse-cuffstion than
before Finkettes on the contrary, America will be able to collect these civilsation would perish in wild in- leave no after ill-effects. They dispel debts for many years. The burden surrection. The Prodigal Son is the constipation, are, an lead remedy for of these loans will bear alle on both saviour of society! Long live the bilioness risk headaches, formid laver countries. They will be no more Prodigal Son
doomplexion From ebeast or a handicap to England than to the costati tangos, for breath, pimples and
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