It is generally admitted that most Whiskies have now a "Post-War Weakness:"
It is claimed that
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WHISKY
still maintains ita high standard of quality. The same blend, same good old age-mellow- ness, character and fine favour-Forty years' reputation.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
What are we to make of that denial? We leave it to our readers to form their own judgment; and we pass on to where he seems to get excited about it:
weaknesses
LOGIL-END GENERAL
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1920.
LOCAL AND ORMERAL
Hotel accommodation in Singa-
That's enough. We have proof! Says Dr. Orchard The truth is, behind the European man, not of one case.
But we never said he bad. We to mention the European woman, said we had heard that he had given there is a savage (Cf. "W. H. Mr. John Mason, Master Mariner pore is taxed to its utmost capacity
of human has been granted a licence to act as notice that be as going to do so— D.'s".
The Canton authorities refused and his own notice lying before us nature, and if we are going to Pilot in the pilotage district of
to admit that Walchow is now being indicates that he did it.
prepare for wars and wage wars Penang..
besieged, when inquiry was made yea- from whatever motive, then we
The free postage facilities grant-terday upon a high official regarding shall want that savage kept alive. With characteristic frankness and ed to members of H. M. Forces in a Hongkong report. * brutality this has been recognized Hongkong, will be withdrawn with in Germany. It has eren become effect from September 11. a philosophy."
Germany in short, was the At Buckingham Palace on July greatest and most conspicuous ex-22 the King gave an audience to Pre-Rear-Admiral James Ley, upon re- ponent of para bellum.", That from a man who writes:paredness means (what else?) the inquishing his appointment as his With so many married couples mailed fist," the strong right Majesty's Naval Attache at Tokyo. wanting homes it pays us better to arm," the "keeping your powder let our large front rooms.
So far [from any of his reats having been raised this course has not even been contemplated by our
client."
etc.
dry,"
..
The King Yuen Sta a labourguild of compositors in the Hongkong and Canton printing offices, is making s campaign to enlarge its membership The guild has a weekly newspaper."
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RAGPICKER'S THEFT.
STOLEN TROUSERS.
HAPPY VALLEY CHASE.
Sergeant McFall, of No. 2 Police, Station, this morning charged a Chinese before Magistrate Hutchison with the larceny of a pair of trousers from a matshed at Happy Valley.
When asked to plead, the defend- ant said: I did not steal. I am a tag
picker. Yesterday I passed the wat
shed, and noticed the trousers hang- Several merchants in Namming ing above me. I pulled them down. The complainant saw me, and ac were recently fined as large a sum as cused me of theft.
During the
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The death. took place suddenly at Pusing, Perak, on August 29 of Mr. Alfred Gee, Resident Manager of the Tim Section of the Pasing Rubber and Tie Co., Ltd. Mr. Gee was in his fifth-fifth year and death was due to
In all probability if anyone ever succeeds in reaching the summit of At the P.W.D. land sales on Mount Everest all he will find there Tuesday, Dr. Aubrey purchased will be aching muscles, a frozen nosë, Rural Lot No. 151, in Barker Road, scanty breath and a bit of rock no But still there are $1,400. There was no competition cobblestones. measuring 2,000 square feet, for different from any one of a million
Road measuring 33,400 square feet. for Inland Lot No. 2303 in Pokfulam persons who want to go there. Bidding commenced at $4,100, at which price it was knocked down to English Dr. Ma Luk.
The Magistrate: What do you
did not steal the trousers. They touched my head, and I pushed them call it if you say that is not theft I side in order to pass. They came dowp.
The Magistrate: Ther, what did
Thecomplainant in the witness box, you do with them?(No reply). said that he was mowing grass in the Valley yesterday afternoon, when he
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The defendant: I pushed the trousers aside, and they came down, so I put them in my basket.
The Magistrate: Anything known about the defendant?
Sergeant McFall: Nothing, your Worship.
A Batavia message dated August three thousand dollars each for keep- No doubt either client or lawyer And, W. H. D.'s" "weak 28 states that Douwes Dekker, well-ing opium, in stock. draws an ingenious distinction benesses of human nature being ad-known from the famous Finda con search, some foreign firms were also tween the inclusive charge for roommitted, the conscious possession of spiracy was sentenced to a year's involved, it is said. and bird, and for rent alone.the mailed fist is the strongest in- Imprisonment, over an article stir That's a quibbls.
ducement to strike. They dry pow ring up the people. The rent of some of his non-der cries out to be used.
The tract philosophy, which we The marriage took place at St. boarding roopers cannot be raised. because they have leases. If he commend to W. H. is: "If Mary Abbot's, Kensington, on July 17, says there are some who rent be you do not wish for war, wish for of Mr. Alan McLean, eldest son of Mr
saw the defendant enter his matshed Goodwill is the first pre-David McLean, for many years Lon-heart failure. could raise, and that he has not peace."
and steal the trousers which witness done so, we readily accept his word jaration for peace, and a man who don manager of the Hongkong and
Tuchun Wang Chen-yuan of had hung on a piece of string inside for it and congratulat him, on can write such a letter as that Shanghai Bank, to Miss Elizabeth
Blodwen Jones.
Hupeh reports that the sum of to dry. When the defendant came being satishal with a fair rent from quite patently lacks it.
$45,000 shall be paid to the family out, witress called cat to him, That he should denounce oar decht tenants.
We really do think that it is not of the American missionary who was Defendant put the trousers in a Personally, we think $150-a great religious and moral effort for
peace as tomfoolery is a colossal now unreasonable to ask that notice killed recently during the fighting at basket which he was carrying, and
Accordingly the Cabinet month for one room with board is! quite a fair charge for such a r
impertinence; because his own let of the mail steamer's departure from Human.
caught him.
The Magistrate Have you any; spectable neighbourhood, but $200 ter is tomfoolery. Those citations Negapatam be cabled to Malaya, and has ordered the Ministry of Finance away Witness gave chase and
thing more to say? is to much. The chow question from a private speech by Arthur that the glad tidings be distributed to pay the sum
throughout the land, says the Malay does not come into it. Any of the Balfour have no bearing whatever it What of Hongkong? Ltd. restaurants will do three good mess on si vis pacem para bellum." day for 850 or S8ú a month, and Where's the relevaned? We cannot if Mr. Hicki guarantees to give a swank (even if we wished to) about good chow as they do, we don't being privileged to attend confabs mind making a deal with him of the great from which the Press But he is getting on those chow was rigorously excluded: but we can refer the reader to public utter- figures) 500 a month for one rootu. and he has given notics retaining ances by Mr. Balfour, who has not the same figure for chow that he enggested that the L.O.N. idea is wants $10 for the same room next, time-wasting tomfoolery, but has on the other hand countenanced month.
We have published his disclaim- and supported it. er. twie, but not together with. We have been rede? Yes. It
Commander J R. Harvey, who has an apology." We rays it to any is necessary. We feel so strongly fair nuded man i, in such eit- about the idle mischief of such con
navigating lieutenant of the light cumstances, for such a paragraph, tributions to public thought, which
just been advanced to that rank, was cruiser "Kent," China Station, shortly this deumed for an apology was not, make no pretence of doing good, impulut.
and can do great harm, that we are
There is said to be no danger to after the late war opened, and in that ready to use dug lawful means to
anyone in the present "wa" be capacity was with the "Kent" when discourage and repress them.
tween North and South China, except she fought the German cruiser "Nur- ̈ After all, if W. H. D." objects
what accrues to commanders, who emberg" at the battle of the Falk to our rudeness, he can alwars
The P. and O." Nankin" took to let the pay of their troops fall into land Islands and sant her, and again attribute it to one of those "weak- Seconds out of the ring. Time, nesses of human nature," to which Penang eleven more survivors of the arrears. The Peking correspondent at the pursuit and the sinking of her
Stephan "wreck, seven being mem of the London Times declares the sister cruiser "Dresden **W.. E. "D." in this morning's he is apparently reconciled, and Pest says that the League of with which he is ready to put up bers of the crew and four passengers. whole business to be nothing more land of Juan Fernandez. Subsequent- for ever and ever. He does not They had been picked up by the than a game of personal politically he was navigating officer of the on Aug.12 after checkers, observes the San Francisco destroyer "Sandhurst" and command- Shanghai Mara
ing officer of the survey shing "Daisy" Nations campaign is tonicolery.
and Kellet He was given the le has an old Latin tag on the yearn for improvement; it
pother." He does not desire being twenty hours in the water. Chronicle.. lead, and yanks it in, saying: The
OBE. last year for his services.
Sub-tentenant V. N. Startees bas, id Roman maxima si eis picem para moral advancement: it is tom. They were found clinging to lifebelts, He sees nothing to be planks and other wreckage in different places none being in view of the bellum is as apposite in the present foolery." state of the world as it has ever gained by the organization of good-others. They were quite exhausted will on earth, because long, long been in the past."
"KELTIC" BROGUE
IN
BLACK AND TAN
MARRIAGE.
ants are poor people, or timid, or cowardly, or for any other reason STEWART MCCUBBINA! the unwilling to stand to what they
TOMFOOLERY YOURSELF.
:
If any one bit of tomfoolery way finally squelched by the Great War. Chlon Church Hongkong on said. we are willing to be the we thought it was that hoary bit.. Germany, by common consent 7th September, 1920, b. the goat." We recognize that it is un-
is
Dr. G. Duncan Whyte of the Mission, * Presbyterian Swiatow, passed through Singapore recently on the "Polyphermus" on The oldest European resident in leave home. He first came out in Kuala Lumpur-Mrs. Reyne of Weld 1903. Dr. Alex. Lyall, whose term of Road was 79 last Friday and has service began in 1879, is returning entered her 90th year with a vitality for another spell in the wellknown and interest in life which many hospital, people of 60 would be glad to possess, says the Malay Mail. She gets up very early, goes to bed late and is busy all day.
ago an Italian settled it all for him when rescued and were taken on to
If he thinks so highly of his old With si vis pacem, para bellum." Romans that he is prepared to take pax vel injusta aces he make of
The Magistrate: Three weeks.
THE CHINA STATION.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
off the is-
Rev. G. J. Williams, james, reasonable tu expect martyrdom in (which may err) did not want their journalese for gospel, what to Niagara Falis for an outlet for their amount of business will obviously be lieutenant A Freeman is to join second son of Mr. James Stewart, these days, even for principle. This peace. She did prepare. She got utilior est quam justissimum bel. I spectacular, asks an American paper.ing of the P. and D. Company's own R. T. Hamilton the light cruiser
Glasgow, to Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McCubbin, Gas Works, Hongkong.
The China Mail:
FRUTE, JUSTICE, PUZLIC
allows the regrettable impression to get abroad that we have cold feet. that we can be bluffed by a law- Mer's letter.
SERVICE"ary.
what she got, but she didn't get lum poses.
3.9
-Governor
OBITUARY.
The new P. and O. Bank has already commenced business, and, as the necessary staf's can be organised, been posted to the "Hawking," flagship Bombay, Madras, and Karachi. The Chita Station. He was appointed a Colombo.
paid-up capital of the Bank is two middy in 1918, and reached his pre- branches will be opened in Calcutta, of the Commander-in-Chief of the Why don't all the cranks turn and a half millions sterling. A large sent rank recently. Acting Sab the "Alacrity." Acting Scb-lieutenant
"Carlisle," Acting Sub-lieutenant R. irrepressible desire of the bizarre and secured in connection with the financ-
A. Aldridge the gunboat "Bee," We feel sure that an appeal for requirements abroad. funds to provide barrels would meet The Canton Military Govern-Acting Lieutenant F H. Jefferson the "Sesrah," Acting Sub- Needless to say, we accept nei-with a hearty response from all parts
General Chen lieutenant C. B. Tidd the gunboat The most conspinous lesson of ther as the last word. We do our of the country, it is not unlikely ment has formally announced the gunboat
Guat, Acting Sub-lieutenant L. A. Commander-in- Chiung-ming history is that if you want to be own thinking, even in the hot that plenty of subscribers could be dismissal of
weather.
found ready to pay the railroad fares
and Mate A. T. Woods the light This time, we are ready to go eure of war, prepare for it.
Fakien 2nd Civil Men, having prepared, argue that in Court, if required. armed with
And as regards the thing be ad-of cranks whe could be induced to Chief of the Cantonese troops in Humphrey the gunboat "Tarantula," of Fukien and of Liu Chi-lu as Com-cruiser "Cairo," on the China Station, evidence, personal and document-it is a pity to waste it." France mits as a desideratum, peace, we go to Niagara to try their luck with
and Germany have always dwelt have thought it over and have de- the falls.
missioner of Defence at Swatow, with the outgoing naval draft. para belcided that rather than a peace of We have before us a note signed under the shadow of
and we know how much everlasting preparation
During the year 1919, 22 new Liu has been ordered to remain at Isi vis SŁONGKONG, WZDEZABAY, SEPT. & 1990. D. Hickie, which saya, inter lum alia:
peace they have had
pacem. para bellum) we would companies were registered in the his post to regain the lost territory, The late war was described (persooner have continual war.
We FMS. under the British and Foreign Swatow, while all ranks and decor- With so many married couples
war agains should at least know where we are. Enactment, 1912. as against 17 inations have been taken away from nuilitaris. Preparation-03 Even wanting homes. it pays us better as falsely as a
DEATH AT HOME. without a League of 1918: 17 companies registered under to let our large front rooras at
The death has occurred at a Nations. it is now realized by the same enactment were wound up $200 per month, so that the rate any useful scale-is militarism.
The late Mr. A. Melver, whose If we are going to accept the thoughtful men that bellum itself or ceased to carry on business in the nursing home at Harrogate of F.M.S.; 27 local companies with & Admiral Charles Lister Oxler, of The you are now paying, $150, is the
is changing. total capital of $7,102,000 were in- On Thursday the 2nd instant we value of a smaller back room, so principle of preparation and ther has changed and
man he was specially mentioned for place at Auchiltibule, Scotland, en printed this modest little nows we must ask you to pay a propor- are arguments in its favour, other Future wars are to be economic, corporated and registered as against Hall, Ripon, aged 78. As a midship- death, as announced yesterday, took si vis pacem." which is with more of boycott than bayonet 14 with a total of $4,225,100 in services at the attack on the Feihe August 4, was a brother of Mr. M. tionate price which will be $200 than
But with a League 1918; and six F.M.S. companies Forts in June, 1859, during the China Mclver of the Harbour Office. He Talking about raising rents, per month. this to be as from 1st hypocrisy as well as tomfoolery) win them.
fur Your present must also accent militarismo as Peace, with a cutivation and weat into liquidation.
war, for which he received the China was a Sergeant of the Hongkong we hear wails from some of the October, next
logical and reasonable corollary. ganization of international good.
medal. He reached Bag rank on Police Force, and retired in 1896 ca tenants at Queen's Gardens, room.**
If we are to go on behering and ill (which involves the protopt an
a clerk at January 1, 1895. On May 7; 1596, well earned pension, after many where a gentleman called flickie It should be mentioned that Mr.rusting in war (as W. H. D. rigorous suppression of mischief Stringer, described as has just given notier that he will Hickie lets rooms with board and plainly does, he declaring it a acces-talkers like "W. H. D.") the whole the Munitions Beard, Calcutta, was he was appointed second-in-command years of valuable and faithful service want $50 more per month from rooms without. The foregoing one-room tenants, and $70 more note, dated May 29, is addressed a sequel of the weaknesses of idea of war will wane, as a trans-placed before the Chief Presidency on the China Station, and hoisted bis with the Force. He went to live in human nature") we must cut out parent tomfoolery that never dul Magistrate, Calcutta, on August 2 on flag in the cruise Grafton. This com- Auchiltibuie, where until recently, he You will observe. cant, go for it, whole-heartedly, and any good. to a boarder.
charges of cheating, forgery and con-mand be heli until November, 1897, enjoyed the best of health. He died He became a The deceased had a unique record before passing, that it harps more be frankly militaristic.
active employment. If you wish for a happy world, spiracy to cheat. Particulars of the and it proved to be the limit of his suddenly. ing letter from a local law firm : on the room than on the chow, so Because we have lately seen that talk neither of peace nor of war. case bave not transpired, but it is
Dear Sir, Mr. S. D. Hickie, that on its terms alone we are cha war military necessity" over Talk of goodwill. Talk of human understood that Stringer was arrested vice-admiral in January, 1901, and of service in Hongkong, which was
MK. HICKIE, HIS TENANTS, HIS LAWYER, AND US.
..item:
.
from two-roomers.
Yesterday we printed the follow
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the proprietor of the Montpellier titled to relate it to rent raising rides principles. Military necessity sorrow Talk of God. Private Hotel. Queen's Garden. But suppose not. Calculate chow made the State religion take a back has seen us with reference to ast $60 a month, which we under-seat. As Dr. W. E. Orchard, in paragraph with reference to him stund Mr. Hickie's wife used to do that noble book, The Outlook for which appears in your issue of Deducting $40 from $150, this
Religion," pointed out, no one was the 2nd inst.
tenant is paying $90 in rent. As it stands this paragraph is duct $60 from the $200 he is asked granted an exemption that he might very misleading and our client to pay, and that, leaves $140 for spend his time praying for his enemies, or even praying for vie
De-
bas instructed us to write to you rent. In plain wonds, his rent,
TORTURE OF KOREANS.
-QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.
...
"A European named H. L
him.
by the GID. while he was shopping as admiral in June, 1901, finally at Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co.'s. retiring in October, 1906, after 513 The Magistrate directed bis release years on the active list. on furnishing two sureties in the sum of Rs. 30,000 each.
MR, A MeIVER.
recognised by the then Governor of
dated July, 22, 1898, in which special the Colony in an autographed letter mention was made of the valuable The edge of the typhorn which work he did in enforcing the Lodging. struck Kabe was rendered all the House Byelaws among the Chinese Dr. T. Murray Robertson, the more objectionable by the absence of at the time of the strike. He was the Singapore coroner and police surgeon, rain, which did not begin to fall till proud possessor of a first class Goid.. who ja shortly retiring, received the evening. The consequence was Medal for distinguished service."
informing you that he has in no regardless of chow, is raised $50 fory, which would surely have been JAPANESE GIVE ASSURANCES presentation from the inspectors of that Kobe for the day was wrapped and held besides, the fourth class.
one-room tenants.' How was it
misleading"?.
**work of national importance."
Military necessity definitely put
British.
the Singapore police. The gifts were in a cloud of dust. There must have Bronze Medal for work during the case recently raised the rent of per month. Our paragraph said he
In the House of Commons on July a silver mounted tantalus and desk been several tons of this commodity plague epidemic. Among the many Infor which Kobe is famous removed duties assigned to him during his any of his tenants but that in had "just given notice that he will conscience in the discard, and con-22, replying to Dr. Murray, Mr. clock, beth suitably inscribed. many cases the rents charged by want $50 more per month from seience had been an idol of the Cecil Hansworth said that reports returning thanks Dr. Murray Robert-from one part of the city to another connection with the Police Force was. had been received from various son said that during the thirty-one mach to the discomfort of pedestrians work with the Sanitary Department Military necessity put a ban on About the $70 increase from all intellectual freedom, including sources during 1919 of the torture of years he had been in Singapore his Viewed from above, Kobe was wrap in the crusade against impure wells,
and work bad always been made much ped in a yellow haze, which made political offenders, two-room tenant we are not at the freedom of speech.";
others, in Korea, and urgent repre-asier by the land and ungrudging it a matter of wonder that life could ́exist in such an atmosphere.. Small We know what we lost by war; moment prepared to argue, because
wonder that sine out of ten people that tenant happens to be away.
we have yet to discover our win sentations had been more than once assistance of the police.
made to the Japanese Government" on '
An exhibition of foreign textiles,in Kobe have catarrh or asthma In any case, we published our nings. If it wasn't a war to end
the subject. Assurances had been re- statement as a wad "from the war," we have gained nothing. tenants, and had it been wrong, we "W. H.. D. clearly thinks that served in reply which testified to the held in the Manchester Chamber of remarks the Japan Chronicle. A good sincere intention of the Japanese Commerce Board Room in June las deal might be done to alleviate the
bim are now the same as in 1914 and 1915 and that so far [from] any of his rents having been raised this course has not even been contemplated by our client We shall be glad if you will pub lish this disclaimer together with an apology in your next issue. Yours faithfully,
"
Christian
It is lamentably true that the-
it was believed, had had the desired effect.
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it mostly accumulates. But scaveng foreign competitors. The Boad of from the main thoroughfares where Trade Journal asys that while re ognising the merits of some of the ing of the streets is yet beyond the powers of the Municipality, which Productions on exhibition, such as Japanese greys, suitings, and sheet cannot even deal, with the problem
of sewerage.
MAN OVERBOARD,
A FARRY ANCIDENT.
B
PASSENGER JUMPS OVERBOARD TO RENDER ASSISTANCE.
A smart rescue was effected about 6.45 p.m. yesterday when a mas travelling on the ferry from Yaudati fell overboard about the midue of the harbour. He was not noticed at
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & Co. should have been glad to correct it, it wasn't that. He very definitely Government, and orders had beer seems to have satisfied Manchester trouble if the mud were scraped up To-day, il you search our bright if the lawyers had not gone too far, does not wish it to be that. God issued by them on the subject which, hat it had nothing to fear from its and removed in the wet weather paper from end to end for that and asked for an apology. An knows why. apology, you will search in vain. apology for what?: If Mr. Hickie expects the apology What has happened? Did Mr. League of Nations, through no. his lawyers have asked for, his ex- Hickie so instruct his lawyers? fault of its parents, is an abortion,{
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA. pectation will be the parent of a Did he mislead them? Or did they or at least very anemic. But, as little disappointment for him. We try to bluff us?.
a friend of ours recently said in a BE you ajeed to at ka of dierch hate to be disobliging. But we can-
As it stands," The lawyers private letter, it does least prove! A man har ely quiet for not spare my apologies to-day. letter says, "this paragraph is very that its parents are not infertile, for daya rm, in bd if pesable,
and It is notorious that we have misleading." It isn't, as we have It can easily be followed by a Insty careful of rias die suid ke Chamese Japanese price was considerably TRY Chamberlaing Tobita bet to the man who kept aratontil apologised more than once for shown.
little brother, if mischievous remedicine has cond cases of chroni less, so why this stubbornness?
Their client, they asy, said that actionaries like W. H. D., par diarrhoea that pby id tahve failed o This, dear readers, is between our-be had in no case recently raised rating age-old errors, can be in- and it will core: nu. For sale by a
Chernista and Storekoopers.. selves. Lieten. When our inform the rent of any of his tenshte."- duced to shut up.
ngs, it was not considered that there was anything to cause alarm. In heap Japanese prits sold in India A GOOD SUGGESTION.
billons or constipat d. You are Iwer than that quoted by Manches-
er, but the quality was very fare tain to be much pleased with them They are easy to take and pleasant in elow the lowest turned out by home effect. For ssie 7 all Chemists sad producers.
Storekeepers
first but the alarm was raised when the two ferries were about to pass each other. Life belts were thrown
assisted aboard again by passenger who jumped overboard in order to render aid. The man was in the water about ten minutes.