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DEATH.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The Father. I'll be walking to fight to maintain the position în Asia which she has created for ber- self. Equally surely, America, will
along to the station. You can catch me up in the chair.
Little Amy: Papa will be walk- ing. I will walk.
Fat Amah: No, no, Baybay, Too muchee fog, all-same dark Baybay no can.
The Father: Hurry up. Follow quickly. ioes out. Noire-with-
our,}
The Father, Who left that flower-pot on the | steps?
LOGIN AND GENERAL
FRIDAY AUGUST 27, 1920.
LØGIE AND KEKERAL
The Military Government paid
be the nation she will have to decided to give a helmet as over $50,000, on Wednesday for the
The French Government has fight.
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great war.
salary of the members of Parliament. It is reported that each member was
paid $150.
been revised. A fall General receives North to fill the vacancy in the Japanese military salaries have Captain Hooper, is proceeding yen 7,500 per annum, as heretofore, Wiltshire Regiment
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detachment
"It is certain that he wants them souvenir to every soldier of the to fight, if only that his prophecy French army who fought in the may be justified. Such writers are like that,
We do not have to appeal to self interest in the case of the decent Japanese and the decent Americans. who deprecate such war talk. But eat-Generals Yen 6,500, while Sub-caused by the selection of Captain Beaver for service with the Egyptian there are others on both sides, to Lieutenants receive Yen $50.
Army... Little Amy: Para is enes. whom it may be useful to do so.
The Fat Amah tells the child To thear we point out that what-] The ss. "Brandenburg” 7,532 formerly a Norddeutscher of dragons, many dragons. one. ever the issue of such a war, both tons two, three, four, five, six. seven would lose heavily, and other Lloyd liner, arrived at Nagasaki on dragons. Seven is a mystical num-peoples would gain by their losses August 14. She is going to Vlad ber, and dragon is a mystical name. They would both be fighting for the She fies the Allies flag and is being vostok to take "Czechs" to Europe. The fog is everywhere, the mystical immediate benefit of outsiders. In fog. The Mother looks at her hack fighting for the shadow, they would operated by a British company. in the glass, over her right should-certainly lose the mbstänge. er, then over her left shoulder, goes We point this out in the hope | The China Merchants SS Co., out, and in a sail, sweet, voice of that the hotheads of either side, has quite a number of new vessels on pathetic timbre calls the chairmen, possibly moved by the Pooleys of order. One of the these is being The chairmen do not answer. The chairmen are not there. The fog is turning into a drizzle of raig.]
The Mother:
Little Amy: Manıma, is cross. Fat Amah: Come byby.. Tissia Azny: Noi
Life even on the Peak can be
this world, should think twice be fore they atter the awful word war. After the experience of the last six years, we should have thought that men everywhere would immediate 1 turn upon and rend every mad-. man of the Pooley type, in the in terests of human sanity, as we act
안
very sal. The song of the mos-against mad dogs. quito is heard, and the tramping Jof a four-elie chair trom Mount
Kellett. The main falls faster.]
Curloin.
- TEMPORA MUTANTUR,
4TON AIR "TRAMP."
CARGO-CARRYING WING.
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NEW STAGE IN AIR TRANSPORT.
built by the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., and is intended for use on the Yangize whilst several vessels are being built by firms in England.
One of the first steps to be taken by the management of the new Bristol Hotel, Colombo, is to reduce the price of all liquors, whisky now being sold at a reduced price of ten cents a glass. The other establish- ments there are likely to follow suit. What about Hongkong.
...
SPECIAL CABLE,
SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
SING SONG GIRL MURDER.
TWO MEN CONVICTED.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SHANGHAI, Aug, 27. Njien Zai Song and an accomplice in the murder of a sing song girl have
For the theft of, a quantity of been found guilty and sent to the copper cable and lead, the property arsenal. The court room was packed. of the Hongkong Electric Company. A lengthy confession is published. by Magistrate Smith to three weeks a Chinese was this morning sentenced
bard labour.
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A delicate nature may well itself beneath a Rabelaisian humor, and :
Toss one behind supulous parity of speech. Gorki describes Tolstoi as laughing heartily over a "broad" story.-The Nation
Motor cars going in and out of of the Military Government grounds at Cantos_are_required_to_obey the signals given. A red flag means that the car must stop and a green flag means that the car must run slowly.
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The Canton Military Administra- tion has instructed the Commander of the Government Troops and the Commissioner of Police to keep astrict watch on Hongkong steamers. Here after all passengers from that colony will be carefully searched.
Now that so many of the new com
There is a big demand for junks in Canton because many of them are being requisitioned by the govern ment there for the transportation of soldiers to Swatow. According to press reports the government is again roads in Canton have been looking for an additional number of pleted, the Tram Company expects junks for the same purpose.
to run auto buses there within the rext few days. Each of the auto The F.MS. Railway Administra-buses is. said to possess a seating tion has definitely committed itself capacity for 20 passengers. to a hotel policy. To the existing hotels in Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh are to be added the Crag Hotel on Penang Hill, recently purchased, and new hotels shortly to be erected in Singapore and Penang and possibly elsewhere.
journalism.
The case in which Mr. AW.
According to information given
of Lee Ying. the famously beautiful [This message refers to the murder
Shanghai sing song girl, who was strangled a couple of months ago and robbed of some $4,000 worth of jewellery-1
HUGE RUBBER LOSSES.
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
SINGAPORE PROSECUTION
COMMENCED.
An echo of the big rubber case, in which rubber to the value pi no less than ss0,000 belonging to the Fire. stone Rubber Co., disappeared from the harbour, was heard before M:. Langham Carter in the Singapore Dis- trict Court on August 18, when" Sin Thye, a Chinese, and Sunth bin Pagi, the Malay laünchman of the W. D. launch "Moonstone." were ar A. J. Shelley Thompson appeared for rainged in connection with it. Mr. the prosecution, and the defence was represented by Mr. L. Gaunt.
Liberals must look at-each niher in embarrassment, blush and writhe a little. as they think of the days
A big flying "tramp," an exclusively not so very long ago though the goods carrying aircraft built like a great war has made them seem an- ship-the equivalent of the tramp cient when Lloyd George was a steamer, inasmuch as it will not dy heroic champion and the House of along any fixed route, but picks up Lords was the people's enemy.cargoes at air-ports all over Europ
In opening the case for the prosecu Only at month the House and takes them to any destination
rion Mr. Shelley-Thompson said that Lords, by 95 votes to 29, passed a where its pilet er skipper" finds
A Rangoon message states that made with one Sow Boot Hup, wa
on May 20 last arrangements were motion which mad Lloyd George the practical inducements are suffi-
the RIMS. "Mayo," which went to owner, to convey 200 tons of use language inappropriate to the cientdor him to fly. That is the stage
aground in May last as the result of rubber by lighters to Tari Paga: chapels he sometimes speaks in. reached in air transport.
acollision with the B.L. "Arankola" in The Lord Chancellor, made by the Such a scheme is brought im
the Rangoon river, broke her back a to be shipped on the "Helenus." He. Giang, and loyal to his salt, tried to mediately within practical reality by
day or two ago and is fast breaking Put six twakows on the job of which prevent it. but Lord Midleton per- the announcement at the Aero Show
up. Salvage operations have accord- No. 800 was one. On May 23, twa sisted, and the Lords resolved to 97 the Blackburn Company-the
kow No. 800 with 473 cases of rub- Journalism tends to run to the ingly been abandoned. ask the Government to appoint
designers and constructors of naval"bright" and the "suappy," but
ber was seen alongside the "Helenus," Commission to retire some of the torpedoplanes of the completion The Times report of the Lord, Fisher
but early next morning it broke away War Wasters and to cut down the of tesis of a new cargo carrying service at the Abbey contained a out by a merchant who has just and drifted as far as the island op. perquisites of others. Had the wing. Evolved as a result of 9 years' sentence of 281 words. It was a returned to Canton from Swatow, posite. A black painted launch with a Commons passed a similar resolu-study, the wing has a 35 per cent, perfectly clear and finely balanced great damage was done to property black funnel, said to be the War De- tion, the Government would have with of ordinary design, such as is surely mark a record in recent about ten days ago. The streets in her in "but instead of taking her greater lift than any weight-carrying sentence, but for length it must when earthquakes occurred there partment's launch Moonstone," took been expected to resign. But the at present in regular use. | Commons are now well disciplined.
Swatow are also reported to have to Tanjong Pagar cok her to the The Gang refused the Commission, which the new wing is first to be The great cargo-monoplane in
been badly flooded recently.
Dutch island of Pulau Tekong, where of course but the country now used, will simply have one wide Cooper, acting sewerage engineer of
it was eventually found dumped in the knows where it stands. The fright spread sustaining plane, built of the Singapore Municipality, is charged yesterday admitted to the Govern
A Chinese aged 64 years was mud by Inspector Alexander and his ful and unproductive expenditure mahogany planking, thick in the with causing the death of Mr. F. G. ment Civil Hospital suffering from of cases of rubber were seen drifting For some days after numbers ture, a service for humanity, and civil service enoluments in centre and tapering gracefully to Stapp by rash and negligent driving injuries caused through a fall while towards the harbour and were recover- all that is noblest in them rises le military charges there and on Win-wing is a roomy ship built hull, con August 7, was mentioned in the third Des Voeux Road Central. He died by the police at Pulau Tekong ac
Macedonia, to say nothing of the wards the wing-tips. Below this HANCOCK-At Falmouth, England, the appeal."
of car 2720 in the small hours of alighting from a moving tram car in ed.
These and the subsequem fini on August 23, 1920, Harriot To make this world a better placeston Churchill's private gambles in raining an engine-room in which Elizabeth Rider Hancock, wife to live in is the real work of rea Russia, will soon bring the time there are two motors in the care of a court, Singapore, on August 18 and soon after admittance from fracture counted for the greater part of the of the late Alfred Hancock, religion and it means making motion will be brought back to
rubber, but some $30,000 worth was to September 6. formerly of Hongkong.
missing and it is alleged was sold in changes. It means what is called mind, and the country will perhaps the machine in flight. revolution. It means doing things settle the case of Codlin v. Short.
The ability of the officials and the Durch islands by those implicated The front of the machine swings
It is reported that a large the militarists to openly violate laws in the case. In 2 case of the magni- to annoy those who want the pre-
open ingeniously to admit a huge American firm is being organized to is due to the tolerance of the people tude of the present one and under the sul system to stay as it is. These
"cartridge," or container, in which put a fleet of tugs and cargo boats who are ignorant of the law and attendant peculiar circumstances, add- as much as 4 tons of goods will be on the changes, who dread alteration, alm
Shanghai harbour to indifferent to public affairs, says the ed counsel. it was very difficult for loaded. Goods will be packed in operate in conjunction with the Canton Times. While we proclaim the police to apprehend all those con- advance, so that all that is required | American shipping firms. It is the crimes of our officials and cerned in the affair, but he had evi- are really very Respetable people, Because we didn't ourselves until is to slip the container into position. rumoured that the head of this soldiers, let us search our own dence to prove that the two accused strong on Loyalty and Law. They lately, we suppose that not many Thus it will be possible to avoid load concern is leaving shortly for San hearts before we cast stones at were implicated in taking away the fight for those worn out theories people know all about sending wireing delay.
Francisco to arrange for the purchase them.
twakow from Singapore and towing the missionary memions, for those less messages from here. You can
These big "cartridges" will be of tugs,
her to the Durch islands. dogmas that they know have help do it from the Post Office. They will be shipped while fuel tanks are distributed at European air-ports, and ed and would still help to preserve send
After Mr. Lepper of the Firestone Rubber Co. had given evidence. me your message to the conditions that they do not d'Aguilar, which sparks it int: "trap," built solely for carrying
Cap being refilled.
This first flying
bearing was adjourned. In contrast to the Wall Street want altered. There has to be a the
that atmosphere sermon mentioned yesterday, in a sorting of the sheep from the goats. reaches
it the ship.
goods in bulk, will "cruise" at 72 You pay.miles an hour. fragment headed "Interpreta-We have to judge men now, not for a start. three dollars for the tions, it is encouraging to read by what they believe, or by what message, or for their kindness in not only lifts big loads but offers By the use of the new wing, which some remarks by a London Misthey say they believe, but by what deigning to accept it, and then you surprisingly little resistance to the sionary Society on who was allow- Į they do, Are they for change? pay twenty cents a word on top of air, it will be possible to carry urgent, thousand dollars. ed to address the men at an Army Are they for making the world athat. As your message is ithport-cargoes over Europe, with all the Base for some time during the war. better place to live in? There is ont and urgent, or meant to please time-saving this will imply, at rates Narrating his experiences with no other test. There is no other a departing friend, you don't mind as low as only a few pence a pound. these fighting audiences, he says: certificate of true religion than that. But once in a while it seems It was painfully evident dur-action in the direction of promint that the message doesn't get ing our many discussions that whening betterment.
There may be through. Cape d'Aguilar's spark
The China Mail.pede, who do not want say
*TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE" call themselves Christians, and
BONGEONG, FRIDay, Aru. 27, 1990.
RECONSTRUCTION.
gines fail the other is, ample to keep | Dearer when Lord, Midleton's mechanic. Should one of these e-postponed for preliminary enquiry of the base of the skull.
WIRELESS CHARGES.
LOCAL AND GENERÁLL
the avenge man did orasionally mistaken actions. Such are cors-sputters out, or gets lost at sea think about Christianity be thought on to man. But there is no mis somehow, and Cape d'Aguilar re- about it in terms of the theology take about that inaction, that iner- ports its inability to get your mes of fifty or more years ago. When tia, that conservatism which stands sage through. The Post Office spinal fever is recorded in to-day's One case (British) of cerebro- he thought that he was denying for the inaintenance of things as notifies you of this, at the same return of notifiable disease. Christianity he was really only they have been and are.
denying worn-out theories of ver-
hal inspiration of theological dog-
mas considered vital in the past,
hat discarded by most of us to-day.
He was at first frankly puzzled to
PLAYLET-NOT BY DUNSANY.
find us as sceptical as himself on
so many of the points he raised, and he would begin to wonder what
14 house on the Peak.
The
The Father: Do be quick and finish dressing Ive been ready for an hour. I hate going in late.
Little Amy Papa is cross. Fat Amal: Hush. Come by.by. Little Amy: I will not shush. I will not come by-by. I want to go with Manimal
:
A Chinese yesterday attempted Mr. George Butts, manager of to commit suicide by jumping into on the the Manila Hotels, arrived in Shanghai the harbour. He was brought "Ecuador" en route to ashore by some boatpeople who sent Manila. Mr. Burts has spent several for the police. Artificial respiration weeks in America on a business and was applied and the man was after- chased new equipment for the Manila Civil Hospital. pleasure trip. While there he pur-wards removed to the Government Hotels which amount to several recover.
He is expected to
MISSING DINGHY.
HORROWED NOT STOLEN.
OLD MAN'S EXCUSË FAILS.
Befere Magistrate Hutchison at the
A Chinese woman was yesterday hare been badly damaged on August Hospital suffering from injuries to Mr. Ricou's hydroplane might removed to the. Government Civil 20 but for the foresight of a her bead, alleged to have been caused European sergeant of the River by a man named Yip Ying with Police, writes an eyewitness. Seeing whom she had quarrelled. The Magistracy this morning, Inspector the plane being driven by the fresh alleged assailant has been arrested Gordon, of the Water Police, charged breeze on to the launch towing it, the and is now in police custody. The an elderly Chinese with the theft of fast astern of the hydroplane and serious. sergeant promptly made his launch woman's condition is not considered a dinghy from the foreshore at
Lyemun. with stopped engines made effective break for her.
Ап
The defendant said that he did
not mean to steal the dinghy. He' merely borrowed it.
The Inspector said that the com-
time returning to you the 20 cents
A whist drive was held on Wed- per word that you paid. The initial The Canton vernacular press fee of three dollars? No, it does repons that General Chen Chiung-
Desday evening at the Naval Dock The regulation under D.O.R.A. (Yard Recreation Club. The fortunate plainant, the mistress of a fishing not return that. Say your message ming has recently ordered new silver which prevented any shipmaster of Bartford (169): 2. Mre. White (165); boat, west ashore with the dinghy,
players were:-Ladies.-1; Mrs. was ten words. You paid $6. Your coins to the value of $1,000,000, to alien birth or parentage from com- 3, Mrs. Burden (157); 4. Mrs. Harri- and left it fast on the foreshore at message was not despatched. You be minted in Changchow. get S2 back. You then complain to the China Mail, pointing out
see.
manding a British vessel, has been
Aliens
Restriction (Amendment) Act of last year to
effective enough for all purposes.
revoked by an Order in Council on (157); booby, Mrs. Hill (125), Lyemun while she went to the market In order to obtain some money. This action, however, is not Gents.-1. Mr. Seaton (162); 2, Sgt. to get the day's provisions. On her Christianity really stood for, and he windows are shut. Fog is every all, they owe you the lot. That authorities have instructed the it, for the would-be alien who aspires 4: Mr. Bugge (158); booby, Mir
that if they owe you anything at for, military expenses; the Canton serious as a appears to the late Holdman (159); 3, Mr. Stainer (158); return, she found the dinghy was missing. Sighting the defendant than all our Churches and of the Little Amy, and the Fat Amah, China Mail publishes your story. within a week for the pay of the has still the aught the vision of a Christ bigger } where. The Father, the Mother, is the way it looks to you. The Financial Bureau to raise £500,000 to the command on a British vessel Morley (116). Mr. Spenton was some distance away rowing the dinghy towards the other side of the Divine Spirit that moves through are discovered as the curtain rises What happens then? Wait and soldiers.
M.C.
harbour, she raised an alarm, and " the world and among men of all to slow, syncopated, sad music.]
It is interesting to record that several boatpeople in the vicinity nations and creeds and who is so
reckon with and its provisions are at Kobe, recently, the Water Police gave chase.
Police launch No. 7, The inhabitants of Hon Tong transcendently bigger then all our
village, Shamshui, áre reported to
made several arrests of the crew which was passing at the time, was theclogies. He had thought of re
WAR BETWEEN JAPAN AND have been robbed of everything of
an the Nippon Yusen Kaisha za attracted by the shouts of the ligion as mainly concerned, about
value on August 23. The loss is
Mr. Wells "seems bent on "Yawata Maru" for smuggling arma Pursuers and the defendant was the saving of his soul, and he war
arrested. AMERICA.
estimated at more than $10,000. The challenging all our most cherished to Shanghai. Opium was also dis- The defendant stated that he had very little interested in that soul and
bandits also carried off three villagers historical views and prejudices. He covered together with American quite ready to risk his chance with
Withoor mischievous writers in and eight cows.
admits that. Nero murdered his pistols and ammunition. A large and borrowed the dinghy to get some pressing business at Tokawan the rest of his pals. The terrors of
the Press, wars would be less easily,
devoted but troublesome mother and amount of smuggling undoubtedly bell have lost their force, a faci The Father: Fightpe Anal, brought about. These people pre-
Prófessor H. B. Graybill, his wife, the latter as a mark of proceeds in Japanese vessels trading there. He had intended to return it. Inspector Gordon remarked that which I do not think is altogether Take her away.
pare the people's minds for war, principal of the Middle School of the affection to Poppea. But Before to Shanghai, particularly from The Mother I won't be a provoking them to desire for it, by Canton Christian College, after a a man conderans Nero as a différent Tsingtao and Hongkong. It is to be okawan was five miles distant from Lyemun, and the defendant could good because he is frightened is tninute." I'd have Been ready now lies, by-suggestions, by all sorts of year of absence on furlough in species of being from himself be noted that large consignments. of without difficulty have disposed of
tricks-designed to inflame and re- Coming bach time this time, are carefully." What, in fact, are mere invariably finds its way indirectly to die what he di
America has returned to Canton should examine his secret thoughts opium sent from Calcutta to Tsingtas lease atent passions,
Asked what he did for a living, the with most of us become instantly relied upon. The opium appears to written a book called Japan's
A night fete is being held by the translated into deeds by the impetu be carried in large bulk consignments board a fishing boat, but was at pre-
sent unemployed. Foreign Policies," which is review- V.R.C. on Tuesday next commencing ous, Nero, because there was nobody by the P. and O. vessels to Tsingtao Fat Anal Baybay come byby,ed by The Times. Quotations at 9 p.m. Many interesting events to control him. Mr. Wells thinks, and from there it is distributed in four weeks hard labour.
- The Magistrate passed sentence of Little Amy Not
given in the review show that it is have which entries moreover, that Nero's unpopularity several directions. Despite all denials
bad book. Our Lezision contems have been arranged for backvitchell in Rome was not due to hit hobby of Taingtao is undoubtedly a large dis porary reviews it unfavourably to-morrow. It should be particularly ardering his intimate relations, but tributing centre for drags of all
Japan, says this Pooley person noted that there are no post entries, because the Roman forces suffered, a descriptions into China; this has Four New Lanches are under con The Mother: I was speaking to is the Prussia of the Far East Reserved seals may be booked at the great defeat at the hands of a certain been amply proved time and time struction for, the “WALLA Amy.
and like Prussia, will surely bave Club. A band well be in attendance. Queen Boadicea in Britain:
again, declares the Shanghai Gazzite.
WALLA "Fleet.
to be regretted, for a man who is
not very good after all. But though men are not very concerned about their souls they are more concern. ed about the world than ever they have been. In spite of all the elas selfishness and class hatred there. is among men a big desire to maké this world a better place for men to it in, and it is right there, where they are at their best, that nur story gets hold of thein. It puts before thein a great adven
if I hadn't had to hunt for your purple socks.
The Father (regarding her atten- tively):
Little Amy Papa is cross,
The Mother: You should not talk like that.
The Father Well
A person called A. N. Pooley has several new teachers for the schood, passing thoughts and angry impulses Shanghai, if all reports are to be defendant said he used to work on
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