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SEZIQUS SHANGHAI FIKE,
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HEAVY DAMAGE AT GODOWN,
[Chine Hail SPECIAL]
The
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swaying to hang aswoon. “” So the bours march by till the sentinel of evening lowers a drawbridge of shadow for night to come in. The sleepers awake, and there are the noises that betoken energy asti. An interesting arrival in Hongkong A little while, and the glowing waters is the 3.5. “Kanowna," the globe goes west, while in a dome recently acquired addition of the of purple the first wan stars appear Eastern and Australian Steamship Now noises bush, and in silence Company of which Messrs. Mackin-
Before Magistrate Smilk yesterday approaches the empress of the rica Mackenzie & Co., are the local
afternoon, the bearing was begun of surer of the Hongkong Aero Club, night, bearing ahead her banner of
the case in which a Chinese school is in receipt of the following further radiant silver. The gibbous moon]
agents. The s. "Kanowna," which
master is charged on remand, with subscriptions to the Royal Air Force is up, and trees are ghosts, and Pincher, R.N.R., was used during the is in command of Commander E T
SHANGHAI, September 3.
uttering two forged letters of charse Memorial Fand sharply lined masses silbonettes-ar as a hospital ship and for seven China Merchants' godown
ter, purporting to have been signed Capt. Robert Douglas A serious fire broke out in the by Mr. E. G. White and the late Mr. Mr. G. M. Dodwell ... There is a velvet feeling, and the months has been refitting, the work French and British brigades co- Ales Ross and Co. The documents heart aches with longings unde being carried out in excellent style operated but burning molten tallow were dated December, 31 1914, äfid
J. Le Breton, sub-manager of Messrs. | Mr. G. A. Harriman........................ fined. In the dreaming valley The visitor to the Katowns" can rendered the work perilous. The August 31, 1914 respectively. where lie our dead comes beanty swift and stark and silent-to en help but be impressed with the damage is heavy. snare the soul; aspiring blindly as nothing cramped Down the whole spaciousness of everything There is the moth to flame. -Front the miracle of dawn to the magic of length of the part of the vessel set midnight it has been that kind of a dream from which the dreamer dreads awaking, Thirty dreams hath September. May ng typhoons come to disturb our lady as she changes from the bridal robes of summer to the going-away dress of, our short honeymoon of winter.
THE PRATA.
A moon or two past the China Mail had an incidental reference to our fine Praya. The remark seems to have rankled in the noddle of a Morning Post writer, who, after a preliminary jeer. weighs in this Ltd. morning with the remark that the other day someone blessed with a vivid imagination wrote in adora tion of Hongkong's praya." For the second time he picks out the bit of the prava between Pedder's Wharf and the V.R.C..to " admit "' that it is the most attractive. We regard that "admission "
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPT. & 1923.
WHISKERS AVENGED.
26 a
aside for accommodation runs a wide after end in a fire open space, emin- promenade deck, culminating at the ently suited for dancing and concerts,
is on record that a bicycle race has been held round this deck which has also been used for a roller-skating
2 rink.
SHANGHAI OBITUARY.
HEADMASTER DEAD,
FORMERLY OF HONGKONG.
[China Mail Special.]{
In the first class accommodation is
SHANGHAI, September 3, provided for 187 passengers, consist-
The death has occured of Mr. ing mainly of two berth cabins, which Clare, Headmaster of the Shanghai for size and firings compare very Jewish School Mr. Clare was for favourably with those of some of the merly resident in Hongkong. largest boats which call at Hongkong. The dining saloon is well furnished and its ventilation is assured by añ ample number of port holes. "Élec tric fans are also instilled. Adjoining the saloon is a well equipped bar. The bathroom and sanitary arrangements are also deserving of commendation. The first clast passengers have also
daintily furnished music, room, in which is a white piano, described by the Captain as a "wedding cake."
Less pretentious, but not lacking in comfort is.. the-second class accom-
-AZKOPLANE CRASH.
AUSTRALIAN ACCIDENT.
AVIATORS UNHURT BUT MACHINE SMASHED,
(China Mail SPECIAL]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. Lieut. Parer crashed between Syd-
The
Mr. E. L. Agassiz, acting Assistant Crown Solicitor prosecuted. defendant was represented by Mr. C F. Mason.
Mr. Mason submitted that he had no case to answer, as in common law forgery was no offence.
Mr. Smith asked if the signature Mr. B. J. Breton on one of the letters was meant to be the late Mr. Le Breton's autograph
SOME OLD CUSTOMS.
HALF MIST FLAGS,
WHY FRIDAY IS UNLUCKY.
Flags are lowered to half-mast when an illustrious person dies, space above being left the depth of a filag Mr. Agassiz said that that was his for the fiag of the angel of death. presumption. Mr. Agassiz then read. Again, a ship is invariably spoken defendant's application to Mr. J. KE of as of the feminine gender. This Bullock, chief clerk in the Colonial is generally traced to the ancient Secretary's Office, for clerical employ Greeks, who called all ships feminine. ment, and also the alleged forged testi- names out of respect to Athene, merials. Mr. Bullock's suspicions, Goddess of the Sea. continued Mr. Agassiz, were natural- Friday is believed to be an unlucky ly aroused when he read the day by those who are superstitious. letters. On the 23rd of August Mr.It is derived from the fact that it Bullock gave certain instructions to was the day of Our Lord's Crucifixion, one of his clerks which resulted in de as well as the one on which, accord- fendant's attendance at Mr. Bullock'sing to one tradition, Adam and Eve office three days later. Mr. Bullock ate the forbidden fruit. asked defendant for his original | "Uncle" adopts his familiar sign testimonials, and the latter handed of three balls over his shop, because over two documents which were the the balls form part of the old Arms subject of the charge. Mr. Bellock of Lombardy, the people there being sent defendant away, saying that he the first pawnbrokers in existence. wished to enquire into the reference, It is a common belief that peacock's which, he retained. Mr. Bullock feathers are unlucky. This is due to
tto
claim disputable. We admire the modation, where provision is made for Dey, and Melbourne. The aviators made enquiries and ascertained that the tradition that the bird opened the Praya as a whole, and have never 90 passengers. The majority of the Were unhurt but the machine was the testimonials were forged. An Gate of Paradise to the serpent hitherto thought of selecting any cabins are fitted up with four berths. in a military plane and landed at defendant at Mr. Bullock's office of a coat has been a puzzler to many,
smashed. They continued their flight appointment was arranged with part of it as superior to the rest.
but there are a few specially large Flemington on August 31. The
The nick in the lapel and the back Were we to do so, though we are rooms in which six berths have been Federal Government is granting each but
at 11 a.M unlikely to be so silly, it would not placed. An airy dining saloon and $500. be that bit which we would choose. comfortable smoke room are at the It is not true, of course, that we disposal of travellers. represented our praya as a sort of fairy frontage to 2 dreain island.' The fairy frontage is on the south side of our dream island.
where there are bits as sweet as
..
The third class quarters are situated in the fore part of the ship where 180 people can be accommodated.
4:
The "Kanona" is 415 feet long.
which give a speed of about 15 knots."
It may be safely predicted that the sis. KanowTLA will become a very popular ship on the Australian run.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WHAT, KOMIN?
LOGEL AND GENERAL.
A free Night School
dle, even to their buttocks, and ture would be nowhere if the Kow-To the Edlior of the "Chine Mail."1 month. sent them away." David made loon shores could be built op as
2.
for
2
the 27th. It is said to date back to the time of defendant failed to fura Napoleon. A general named Moreau up. Defendant was arrested by a had many followers, but they were warrant on the same afternoon. afraid to openly express sympathy When arrested, defendant said the with him. It was therefore agreed letters were not forged. At the to put a nick on their coats as a secret chargeroom he, however, admitted sign. The letter M. can be seen in their falsity, Mr. Agassiz concluded the lapel representing the initial letter highly advisable, especially in view that the present proceedings were of the general's name.
of the fact that Hongkong had a
the
CATHOLIC MEN'S CLUB.
The results were as follows----- Ladies:-1st prize, Mrs. Sellwood; 2nd prize, Mrs. Burden; 3rd prize. Mrs. Beard; 4th prize, Mrs. Reynolds; Booby prize, Mrs. Blackford.
Gentlemen: 1st prize, Mr. Sell- wood; 2nd prize, Mr. Spicer; 3rd prize, Mr. Lanigan: 4th prize, Mr. Cummings: Booby prize, Mr. Beechey,
Considerable amusement was creat».
ed by the opening of the Gentlemen's Booby prize. The duties of M.C were successfully carried out by Mr. Spattigue.
A PUBLIC BAND.
with a bear of 52 feet and depth of labourers will be opened in Canton the switt smile of a trimester baby 31. 4in. She is driven by triple on September 15. with blue eyes and brown hair expansions developing 5,300 i.h.p. having a bronze sheen. The fairies
very large mercantile community are sensible folk with a sense of She left Brisbane on August 20, com cost of repairing the damage done to Chinese clerical labour. The pro- It is reported in Canton that the employing a considerable, amount of propriety, and they know that on pleting the voyage to Hongkong in the gunboat the busy side they would be out of 13 days, with 16 days from Sydney amount to $31,850..
Kong Goo" will ceedings should serve as an example place. We know a many prayas The ship's officers are: Command-
that people should not go about sexk- SUCCESSFUL WHIST DRIVE. and bunds and esplanades and. E. T. Felcher, 'R.N.R., Chief Offi
ing employment with forged test- plages, and when we say that the ber. S. L. Diamond, 2nd Officer, report, an employee of the M.-Y. San
According to a Canton press monials two miles or so of solid stone wharf. R. V. Bundred, 3rd Officer, J. G. Company was captured by bandits statement in evidence
Mr. Bullock bore out Mr. Agassiz'ı
HAPPY AUGURY FOR THE POTURE. on scraping themselves, if they age here stands out with distinction Boggs, 4 Officer N. V. Grimsditch, at Namsha recently. It is reported carry on after this warning, if ther we speak not as the scribes but as Surgeon, J. McVitie, Purser, B.that they are holding him for
Mr. J. L. McPherson, General A very successful whist drive was ARCULLI Died, at 16. Kennedy continue with anthraxy bristles in one having authority. It is a splen Foggan, Wireless Operator, W. ransom of $8,000.
Secretary of the YMCA, deposed held at the Catholic Men's Club, that Mr. FG. White was Secretary Garden Road, last evening. This Road, Hongkong, this (Friday)stead of their own natural chin did bit of work, and it can only be Washbourne. Chief Engineer, C. F.
for the European branch of the was the first of a series of fortnightly morning, Abdoola Fuckedra spikes. A brush in the hand is
a clod who is not blessed with Naider. 2nd Engineer, A. Robertson. It is understood that Humphreys YMCA in 1914; but left Hongkong drives, and the success of the open- Arculli, J.P. aged 62. Funeral worse than a brush on the jaw. imagination who can contemplate 3rd Engineer, N. Deck. Additional Avenue comprising eight houses, and in June that year. After Mr. White's ing night augurs well for the future. at 5. No flowers by request. That is plainly brought home. it without admiration, from West engineers carried are R. J. Smith. A. two villas in Carnarvon Road, are departure, the YMCA. Headquarters The large Club Hall was comfortably And after all. a hairy counten Point to Wanchai, a noble sweep J. Derrig. J. Moriarty, C. O. Milne.being purchased by Fortuguese as were changed from the top floor of crowded, a total number, of 124 ance is a thing of honour, a badge of masonry There are two values The Steward in charge is Mr. J. A. part of a house-ownership scheme. Alexandra Buildings to No. 4 Des players participating. of manhood, Boys and eunuchs to the word imagination"; may O'Hagen.
The price for the Avenue houses is Veux Road Central. Witness could and women are smooth faced, but we recommend our young friend to
said to be $9,000 each, and for the not say whether the signature, on ruan from Adam and Noah down- consider them?
villas $17,000 each,
the letter produced Was wards has always flown his whis-! For instance, the makers of our
signature of Mr. White. Wit- kers as the banner of virility." grand praya had imagination, an
There is great demand for ivoryness had been employed at the The children of Ammon were a imagination bat worked and help
articles for export in Canton because YMCA, for 15 years and knew Mr. suspicious folk, who could not re-ed to create. Just suppose that the
foreigners prefer the nice workman- White's writing. He produced a cognise friends with beards, so they moderns had it, and applied it to
ship of Chinese ivory cutters to that minate book of the YMCA, sup took their guests and shared of the Kowloon peninsula.
of their own ivory artists, says the posed to have been kept by Mr. Every- the one half of their beards, and body has heard of Sydney's cir
Canton Times. There are about White. Be did not remember if de cut off their garments in the mid- cular quay."
three hundred ivory cutters in Canton, fendant had been employed at the Well, that fine struc-
each of whom receives about $15 a European YMCA, which was closed
at the end of 1917.. war because of that, but first heours are, and rounded off by the
Mr. J.-M. P. Tavares, an employee saved the faces of his ambassadors, reclamations now proceeding at bidding them tarry at Jericho till various points, and by others. you will kindly allow me to ask, the San Francisco Chronicle. When late Mr. Le Breton for 15 years and Sir,I shall esteem it a favour. in Mexico gets on one's nerves, gay, that he had been working with the This uncariny peace and quietat Alex. Ross and Company, stated
their beards were grown. Even so That's imagination. It is possible. through your readable paper, why you have lived next door to a boiler knew his handwriting. The signa- bare modern bearded victims of The work now undertaking carries there was no L.C.'s meeting, for such factory for nine years, a cessation of ture on the letter produced was not bare-faced humour bidden their it some way. Imagination may long time, and when ali members the turmoil is as distressing as was that of Mr. Le Breton. He had never tormentors to tarry at Jericho or carry it farther. Enterprise with of L.C. will, as a duty, to decide the the first onset of the noise. A sus seen Mr. Le Breton sign himself as HONGKONG'S MUSICAL BOUL. elsewhere, for until now the little out imagination anthrax germ had not stood for work. With it, comes the great.
means patchy case of increasing Government's poor picion grows that all factions in sub-Manager of the Company. There
clerical staff's wages?. ward to be their champion.
Mexico are holding off until bath was never a man called B. J. Breton Does this question not deserve a parties in the United States have in the employ of Alex Roes and little attention? Yours,
finished their platform building.
Company. The paper containing the letter was not of the same kind es "Prō-CLERICAL. ?!**
that used by witness's company. The From the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Hongkong. Sept. 3, 1920. (South Chins) Ltd., we have received office paper was ordered from Engmanity is much exercised over the A section of the Hongkong cam- a copy of a neat little booklet, Inland with headlines complete since need of a public band. It is a little Miles and Sterling," giving details of 1917 rigorous tests in the United Kingdom ridiculous to say that his client had
M. Mason Interposed that it was ment of such an organisation, with Late in the year to urge the establish- that serve to illustrate the high To the Edbor of the China Moll."1 qualities of "Shell" motor spirit, gone to the extent of printing they hope of the islanders having the
abundantly establishing the supre-
headlines on the letter.
slightest chance of hearing selec Mr. Agassiz said that defendant observes the Shanghai Mercury. The
tions during the summer season Coonoor, contracted the disease its course, and saved their steel for its well-known business men. Mr A.
Sir.In view of the huge success macy of "Shell" and showing not fand died of it owing to using one use upon their country's foes. FArealli, 1.P., member of the Ecard their swimming fetes, may I suggest knock, cocler running, and the
power on hills, the absence of engine trouble over the letter, of a lot of shaving brushes, sup- Clean shaving as a general fashion of Education, head of the firm of that they encourage more youngsters necessity of retarding the spark" to his knowledge and belief defendant excellent militar chay an Continuing, Mr. Tavares said that discussed again and again. There posed to be of Japanese manu-came in with Queen Anne, and Arculli Brothers, import and export facture, which he had purchased it ought now to be as dead as merchants, and of A. F. Arcolli & ship race for boss and one for girls, trated with many charming views of Mr. Mason asked Mr. Agassiz mess, at the Hongkong Hotel, or la to enter for the various: events. The booklet, printed on excellent had never been employed by Alez well as Kowloon, and the public per... band in Victoria a's" from London and imported into that famous lady.
It occurs to me that a champion-paper and neatly bound, is us
Ross and Company. A stage actor Sons, government contractors, Irge India. A number of brushes (46) must share, in order to imperson tured his skull in a fall and died im ay under 12 years of age, and a English countryside.
At the conclusion of the evidence whether in front of the military formances were greatly appreciated. forming part of this particular ate various characters: ftis held mediately. He had been confined to
team race from pupils of the various
make any comments be desired, the Public Gardens. The splendid consignment were traced to the that clean, shaven men are there the house for about two weeks with chos, ought to appeal to the youngs Kolar Gold Fields. The brushes imitations of play actors. Now heat trouble, but just lately seemed lers-Yours, etc.,
he was entitled to hear the last word reception given to the Manila com ere taken possession of-by the that the anthrax bag has definitely a line better, and got out of bed. He
of the prosecution before he made his bination when it appeared on the health department and a bac adopted the sharing brush as its got up from the sofa this morning and
SPECTATOR
submissions, Pa teriological examination revealed home, they are likely to become started to walk across the room when
Mr. Agassiz said he had nothing Hongkong has music in its soul, but Cricket Ground lives in one's memory, Hongkong, Sept. 3, 1820.
answer any legal points Mr. Mason what it regards as luxuries. It is a more to say, but he was entitled to the Government is loth to pay for excellent imitations of that vasta heart seizure caused him to fall, We wish them no har, of army of men who never share, When the doctor caine, it was found
might raise. ome. We want to save them namely, the dead ones.
that the deceased gentleman's skull
Mr. Smith said that the Supreme of ratepayers in this little outpost of great pity, for there are thousands Court would be the best place to Empire who do not share the delights had been fractured.
Mr. Mason submitted that the fore, occasionally appreciate such a argue legal points of the Peak and who could, there- charge had not been proved, the feast of soul" as we often feel is that defendant knew the letters were of the lack of control of squallish, prosecution having failed to prove wasted in our Public Gardens because forged He, however, reserved his yelling youths and children of all defence, and asked for a reduction of
For long the scraped faces have neen pleased to make merry about the infrequent beard. They have taken the line that beards call for explanation and apology, as if their own pudding faces were normal, instead of the effect of painstaking care and calculation. So thought less, so inconsistent is man. They, Lue artificial, the affected, have pre- sumed to jeer at the natural. Now their time has come. Now is their esh to creep. Now shall we freeze their marrow, confound them, i they're got any. Here, in a sim ple clipping, is their fortune told :- A Bangalore report says: In connection with a death from anthrax that occurred in Coonoor investigations conducted by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, It is often said that the spacious days of good Queen Bess saw Eng.
-Southern Range. Madras. show
Peter the Great shaved his chin and pit a tax on the beards of his subjects, and where is he now? Dead. Where is his Russia?! Bearded and Bolshevistic,
and given to cutting off heads sooner. than beards.
ed that the deceased, Mr. Don-lishmen at their best, and most
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. ARCULLI.
DISEASE CAUSES FATAL
FALL
HEART
A WELL-KNOWN },P.
SWIMMING FETES.
GOVERNMENT LOTH TO PAY FOR.
A LUXURY.
rison, a general merchant of Elizabethan men let nature bave This morning Hongkong lost one which the V.R.C. are making with only higher mileage, but greater Appeared to have gone to considerable theme to no new one. It has been.
anabrax bacilli.
from it, by advising them to give
their facial gardens a chance, and
o throw away the deadly tools of
their vanity We forgive them
their past incivilities, and in a
SEPTEMBER'S HERE.
MAN OVERBOARD.
TATE
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegrams quoted below were received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observa- Fory
315 pm, yesterday. Mr. Arcalli was born in Hongkong SEARCH PROVES FRUITLESS. Channel moving West or WNW.
Cyclone or Typhoon West of Bashi on October 14, 1858, so that he had nearly completed his 62nd year. His
49 am, to-day, A
Cyclone or Typhoon E of Southern
friendly spirit bid them cultivate Smiling is the face of Hongkong recognized during the war, and he was chin moss and be saved from an- in September, and the daylong is one of those chosen to form the re forar, barbers itch, and unpune mixed sweetness. Blac is the shycently made Board of Education. He reports that while on a Toyage from
The master of the asHoisang nality. We offer them longer life, in the morning, the air has hop was appointed J.P. in 1904, Canton to Cocok gereed The by saving them ten minutes a day. piness and to be alive is conscious He is survived by his wife, three near the Secont Bar Island Hght Observe, they are not safe by avoid-joy. The ses croons drowsily, and daughters, and five sons Four of house, Chinese deck passenger fell barbers and shaving themselves. the colours of brightness cover all the sons are here one is a medical overboard. The ship was immediate here were new brushes that slew Little breezer apologies for tanpractioner in Liverpool
unfortunate lamper of Coonoor. climbing of the sun, and anon it? The funeral has been fixed for s without avall. It is not known whe Ty-stopped-and-at-earch made, but will not be heroism, but fool is afternoon, when the slenderest this eveningad from the resid
that allows them to of branches ceases is Ignguorous 16 Kennet
ther the tragedy was an accident or case of deliberate salcide
good services to the Government were WAS IT DELIBERATE OR ACCIDENTAL? Formosa moving W or WNW
Mr. Agasals said be
TATE you ever teled Chamberlain' defendant had some wealthy friend
RHEUMATISM.
bis client's ball viz, $1,000 ages, f
Pain Balm for the patient having been a pupil in Queen's College Mr. Agassiz said he believed
not, you are wasting time, as the longer for sit year Moreover, the star objection if, bia Worship- this one on the hardest dance of defendant's solicitor in ball to a "sum" safficier and you will be surprised and delighed Mr. Manon objected to the sum cure. Get a bottle to-dayappy it with dicated that he was a well-to-do man, defendant's attendance
the rellet obtained. For sale by all tion that schiettors after
M4M+ Smith pock Ohemists and Storekeepe
the Sanions for trial- fixing bril at $500
24 VÍRETOUR ZALORge to the siisted parts
ensure)
dant to