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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, -120..
LOCAL AND GENEREZ,
Hongkong had a clean bill of
structing him to put these eggs sadmission as to quite another fact, the Daily Press, in its own old under the hen that won the prize, as if that were inconsistency. To journalistic way, also after little The Chinese replied: That hen a shallow mind I suppose it is, like hits of silver? Let us bare no bom- b'long cock," Just so Roderick. the action of boxers in shaking bug about it. The China Vail is
The Daily Press hands before and after fighting quite frankly and honestly after health on Friday. writer makes saving fought one round with the those little bits of silver. It is get-
Registrar, and won, we showed ting them, getting them, getting The Sanitary Board-, meets-to- very clear that that he was a bad fighter. Does thenut Perhaps that is what an-marrow afternoon. be disapproves of
THE NEW
JOURNALISM
new
FOOTBALL IN THE RAIN.
A SPORTING MATCHL
ATELISTICS BEAT THE SERVICES."
One case of enteric fever, British,
Saturday..
A friendly football match arranged between the South China Athletics and a team chosen from HMS.
was played on the Athletics' ground at Sookampoo Valley, Causeway
as true as it is funny that all the stand consistency if the, answer be more free from cant than the old. was reported in the Colony on "Carlisle" and the Wiltshire Regiment
what he calls the New Journal-hat debar us from saying that be noys? Is that it? The
"It is is a good Registrar? I don't under journalism is honest and bold and ism (Hongkong brand).". unkind true things he says about I am firmly of opinion, for Does that make it less gentleman another example, that Roderickly? It certainly does not make it it are just as applicable to all Random is an incapable controver-less successful. I personally think,
The Philippines Herald Publish journalista. His acquaintance withi The Old Journalism thay be list, who jokes with difficulty, all-newspapers objectionable, and
writes laboriously and ungram- their trade ungentlemanly; but song Co. has acquired the building, measured by the fact that hematically, really loses his temper far as they are capable of doing plant, business, and goodwill of the
Cablenews American Inc. credits it with gentlemanly instead of pretending to, and whose good as well as of making ones. argument." It would not be right thinking powers have been insuf back the China Vait as the most
According to a northern report, to say that no journalist was ever ficiently developed. But if I find likely locally. I am privileged to a gentleman: but it may be said ont, on further acquaintance, that help it with my pen. And that's the Chinese Government has decided ta collect income-tax throughout the that every gentleman who ever took he has beautiful eyes, and can play that. Maskee! Cheerid to journalism must have ceased to the mouth organ better than any
So far as I've noticed, country, beginning from next year. be a gentlenian as soon as he be other man in the Colony, may I SETESILE my colleagues bare
In a hard-fought polo match on came a journalist. If he remained not say so without being accused of HAWKERS. not proposed anything a gentleman he was no journalist.inconsistency?
let-up of Friday evening at the VRC baths, The only pos the prosecution of child hawkers. the RG.A. suffered defeat at the
controversy.
statements,
since
**
except a
TIENTSIX JOYOLOGY.**
tame
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swimmers.
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Bay, on Saturday afternoon, in spite
of the rain.
The Atbledes turned out fa- tull
men short. Nevertheless, they refused to call the match off, and the game was played in two inches of water. There was a large number of specta tars, mostly Chinese.
farce, while the Services were two
The ground was very slippery, and the players, experienced great difi- culty in keeping their feet. Tumbles were numerous, and before the game. was ten minutes old, there was not a man on the field (the referee not ex- cepted) who was not covered, from head to foot with mod and water. In
If he was a journalist he was 'n' gentleman. The two things are
> GENTLEMANLY "sible implication That's good enough to be going on hands of H.M.S. "Ambrose," by three incompatible. Journalism is not a
ARGUMENT. when Roderick with. We all agree that these goals to one. gentleinaniy igh. Junius was no
Random dragged prosecutions do no good, and that
As a result of the refusal of the spite of these handicaps, the players gentleman, although he was, a enn- splenous exponent of the Old in this phrase was that the China they do do harm. But not all these
Mail arguments were not gentle child hawkers are little innocents. masters to grant their demand for stuck to their guns with keen deter
increase of wages from $1 to $1.10mination. Journalism.
The best part of the first half was manly. That is very likely. But Some of them are decoys, or Roderick Rar is it gentlemanly of a gentleman to watchers, or signallers, for older a day, over 5,000 Cantonese car
point of view, as the ball was mostly CONSISTENCY. dom" complains call another ungentlemanly? Does criminals. Jail is not for them.penters have gone on strike in pot interesting from the spectator's
that the New!
kept in midfield. Towards the close. it not recall the Pot and the Kettle? We want a Reformatory for boys, Shanghai,
of the half, however; the Athletics Journalism is not consistent. His Roderick was presumably defend- badly. "Now you practical-minded
The final night fete of the VR began to get accustomed to the. qnotations of alleged inconsistency Ling the Daily Press as I am defend People can get busy. are unfortunate, and hatray bowing the Ching-Mail. When certain
very soon they Everybody that takes place en Wednesday even Hittle fitted he is for recognising China Mail
were invading, enemy territory in is anybody knows itg. Many interesting events have conditions, and
been arranged including a challenge their usual dashing style. A goal consistency when he sees it. Un proved to be true, were contradict-
Bessie's Bar," race between well-known iccal and would admit
càme· just before the whistle was the Ltd.||less, it mity wil be he delibered as baseless rumours,
sounded. ately refused to see it, in order to Daily Press, without troubling to that though a really good corpse
At the resumption, the Services pursue the recognized journalistic enquire, gave prominence to the reviver" can be had there the Im
Professor F. P. Purvis, who has went out to wipe out their opponents' bat ungentlemanly methods of contradiction. It never did be-pertal at Tientsin has a
held the chair of Marine Architecture lead. They attacked with great That is very likely.feve there was anything in them." mixologist who achieves greater in the Imperial University at Tokyo purpose, and gave the cafenders a for re ignores entirely the main and it is now wriggling uncomfort- variety, If you ask him for
for the past 19 years, has resigned hot time, but every time they shot at points scori against the syuhan-ably because all the Colony sees, something that will explode in his post and has been granted a life the net, the Athletics' goalie was in
depth tic, Pross in the University en-and it itself can no longer shut its the interior" or for a
the right spot to clear. "After a while the Athletics again got going troversy, and devotes his energis eyes to the fact, that there was a bomb be will size you up and pension of Y.2,000 per annum. to a fehle pastiche of our paper's
A Canton paper states that some and they stored their second goal great deil in them. If it had come hand you, after due ritual. a "Pink admittedly effective --style.
to the China Mail: before printing Lady, or a Korean Widow's When, for example, he he ever that curt and rade contradiction, Dream or a Tientsin Twister 4,600 copies of Hongkong Chinese from a well placed long pass by the caught as using gamer like use would have told it what founda-that will revive your interest in newspapers have been seized within right winger. When there were only the last few days by the Customs ten more minutes to go, the Athletics **moist joyology Mention Ad own" water, him "? As to contion there was for the statements.
Service upon instruction of the again attacked and when given a sistency. how eazy to isolate frag-and saved it from error," because. versarius next time you are in Military Governor who has prohibited penalty for hands, their centre for ments of his own effusion, and by as Roderick satirically save, we Tientsin, and order a No. 13.
the entry of these dailies!
ward converted without difficulty. Sir Henry May
Just before the final whistle, the using Bis own methods to prove are the people who know things, him inconsistent. He prefers the When we wrote that the Commit-
UNIVERSITY. once claimed that
Damage estimated at approxi-Athletics scored their fourth goal Oki Journalíšiu to the New, and tee's recommendations, “as pre
the Hongkong mately half a million pesos was from a corner, and retired winners yet he makes reference to the sented. buked like pins plati-papers do not represent public caused by a typhoon which hit by four goals to nil.
Weather permitting, the Athletics genuine old Eatonsville (siet style
ndes. we already knew, and had opinion. His remark would prob Manila unexpectedly on the night of
Ambrose" team sch a way as to show that he known for some time, what they ably be just it applied to-day to the August 31. A number of lighters will meet the full disapproves of summe at least of the really were. We knew that they rejoicings over the Government's were sunk in the bay with the loss on Tuesday afternoon, when a very Old. Some people might consider contained far more than the pious decision to finance the University of two lives. Mary houses and trees interesting match is anticipated. this a score. I don't. I don't platitudes which the
interim because public opinion is not keen were blown down.. advance it seriously, because the bridgement gave us and though it on it. Public opinion cannot
In spite of the strength of the illustration is not conclusive of his was advisable that we should keep see why so much of our money inconsistency, though it does fins our end up as controversialists should be spent in educating typhoon winds prevailing in Shang trate his methods.
Listen to the gup hai during the week end, no damage proving the gentlemanly pet Chinese." Everybody know, that we told you so our minds yourselves, and you'll find that it of serious nature has been reported. since the China Mail were at ease as to the future of is so. Fully eight out of ten don't The visitor brought with it nothing GOLF BALL ́ revealed what was the University. Hence, eren be care whether the institution suc-more startling than the ordinary the past will in the future have
INCIDENT. hushed up that afore the articles he burlesqued had reeds or not, but they have waked amount of inconvenience accompany. to be placed on Colonies to main-
golf ball destroyed a appeared. we were writing to south-up at the news that the Colony is ing unusually rough weather. ASGER.-On September 11, attain their local forces at the maxi-sailor's eye. Roderick Random en schoolmasters to say it was all to shoulder such a heavy burden.
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., mum strengths practicable, so as revels, with a triumphantly crush right now-thongh we
were not The political advantage to the to make it possible to reduce to ang air,that the paragraph which allowed to say so in print, as that future of British trade is seen by minimum the Imperial expenditure the China Mail printed on the sub-would have been to betray inform-only a far-sighted few. on garrisons and warships nain-ject was lifted from the Daily tion imparted in confidence. But
The investigating
that the engineer- ing department is This
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of phraseology originally intended first to paragraph. In view of this
MASKEE,
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JAPAN AND JURY SYSTEM.
-LAWYERS' AGITATION.
نصر
PROBABLE ADOPTION AT
EARLY DATE.
A sad occurrence took place early on September 1 when Mr. J. Bellock was killed near Shioys
The adoption of a jury system in apparently by the Tokyo Shimonoseki the Japanese Law Courts, for which ENGINEERING comitee deciâvăl¤xpress Mr. Blellock has only been an agitation has been carried on by a resident of Kobe for two or three the lawyers for several years, is like months and was a member of the ly to become an accomplished fact staff of Lloyd's Registry of Shipping before long, writes Japan Ad-
certiser. The Government has com The Blue Fannel Company is pleted the draft jury system law one of its well-known which it proposes to introduce in the
LOST SPIRIT.
tained oversea. The plain suggesPress." Tut-tut! Who was talk we had already taken steps, as FACULTY. tion of that is that as they cannoting about paragraphs? What bet-stated in the paragraph pilleried. adequately defend us we are to ter form of bushing up" is there to say that the China Mail was defend ourselves and if that were than a colourless paragraph in the satisfied. Our influence in the not adequately equipped. true, we are sure that Hongkong Daily Press? The China Mail was fields from which students are ex-makes practical engineers laugh. would do its full bit. But it isn't obviously thinking of its revealing pected is perhaps greater than The equipment may not be well sending ber 4, 1920, at Shanghai, Arthur true. They mention specifically comments. Did the Daily Press Roderick is aware of, but the laid out-I am told it isn't-but Australian passenger liners to the next session of the Diet. A most There is a wealth of equipment that East in the early part of next year important point on which no de Kirkhill, son of the late Capt. our naval defences, so there is no comment? Probably it had a little University people know. and Mrs, A. V. Brown, of indiscretion in mentioning that asparagraph about an accident in
Thus far in the best of is never used. For practical pur and it is possible she may be followed cision has yet been made is the de- Shanghai, to Jean Elizabeth, a naval base Hongkong is to be Happy Valley, and probably a DIRTY. good temper; but now Poses they require no more, al-by others. The news will be especially termining of the qualifications of
greatly expanded. So far from China Mail reporter may have clip.
1 come to a bit that though the committee was per- welcome to those who are conten-those who are to serve as jurors. It is studed they do. They could ant plating a homeward trip in the spring advocated by some that all the men reducing it to a minimum" the ped it to save the trouble of writ-really does incense me. I have no build & marine engine, of course. The Anchises" is a vessel of 10,046 who have graduated from the middle Admiralty is increasing its expendi-ing it. All the papers do that, in need to simulate indignation, as but who expects that in" univer. tons and she leaves for London schools be qualified to serve on a ture on Hongkong. Even Aber-cluding Roderick's. The incident one must sometimes in controversy.
jury. Others, however, contend that Geen, on the other side of the was talked of, and the China Mail There's a lot of play-acting re-sity? It is suficient if they handle sometime in February
the number of those who have typical parts, models, etc., so that island, may be gathered in as a sub-was the only paper to point out its quired in running a readable paper. they can apply what they learn to
According to a despatch from graduated from the middle schools significance, its implications. The dull papers play-act too, but marine base.
This talk of reducing to a reveal the causes of the effect that Lord! who cares to sit outt bigger jobs. It is suggested that Tsuruga, a large hemp bag was does not exceed but little than rofaimum must be an overflow the Daily Press may have been the performances 2) Roderick Random thing should be added .without fished out of Vladivostok harbour by 200,000 throughout the country and says, as if quoting from the China tor. Personally, I know nothing overboard from one of the steamers become too small and may prove in- consulting a practical demonstra the authorities who had received when officials and lawyers are word, that a bag had been thrown deducted from the number it will to soothe the taxpayer at Home.plain and obvious meaning of the fail,Cleud Must Go. There about it. There is no sign of it so far as China Mail's just claim, there is a has never appeared a single line of
in the harbour, and ordered an inadequate for the requirements. In vestigation. Hongkong is concerned.
When the big was all the Chiko Saihansho will be kept And if suggestio fulsi in Roderick's crusher phrase in the China Mail, to my there were, it would be an imper-which belongs rather to the Old knowledge, capable of being twist-
opened, it was found to contain the lists of jurors within their respective tinence. Our military contribution than to the New Journalism.
bodies of seven Russian women who jurisdiction and the head of the law ed into the suggestion that Dr. is not reduced to a minimum, but
had evidently been murdered.
courts will sammen 12 to form a Does he disapprove Severy should be got rid of-as grows bigger as our revenue does.
jury to pronounce their opinion as of this excellent mot those others should. Dr. Severn is
The Yomiuri learns that the to the guilt or otherwise of the ach Why should we be expected to
CHEERIO. 10? It doesn't hap-friend to a great many people, but YOUTHS STRANGE SEARCH.
premises occupied by the German | cused in a criminal case. No appeal "keep a dog and do our own bark-
pen to be the China it happens that he is a particularly
Embassy in Tokyo before the war, is allowed on sentences passed with DER GARRISON AND OUR We use the popular saw Mail's motto, which is Fruth. old friend of mine, and the China
and which were confiscated by the the concurrence of a jury. Accused for the idea it expresses, and notustice. Public Service," but it is Wail also has a high regard for him. UNUSUAL SCENE IN CROWDED STREET Japanese Government with other may object to the nomination of a because of the disrespectful epithet the motto of one of the China Mail When we said he was not coming
German property under the Enemy juror or jurors. Those whose names, that happens to be in it. Our
The Weihaiwei correspondent of Control Act, will as an act of inter-are in the jury list cannot refuse the Seeing that the Defence Corps of sailors and soldiers are not to be writers, and so far as I can see it back, we gave it, (as a matter of
national etiquette, be returned to summoning of the Courts without a 1916-19 no kinger exists, having referred to as dogs." They will isn't a bad one, as mottoes go. fact I gave it, under ** Adversaria:'') been replaced by the Volunteer know what we mean well enough efforts to write up to it. There is est. I gut it from what you would the main road at a time when the on the authority of Mr. Kamakura,
Some days ago in passing along Germany. The statement is made proper reason. Quite a lot of people enjoy his as an item of news of public inter.the N. C. Daily News writes Delence Corps, we saw no parti-So long as the War Department cular advantage in reprinting from holds so many of our scarce and great deal of maskee" in the here call a Very High Quarter, and road was crowded, a youth was seen Director of the Police Affairs Bureau, the Gazette the observations of the precious centrai city sites, sc longd Journalisto, but not much beliesed it, and, regretted it. I proceeding along its edge, chanting who is one of the German Property
cheerio-although the example have heard nothing since to make a mournful dirge and not taking the Adjustment Commissioners. Overtes Defence Committee on the as it goes on getting one fifth of our official report for that period of a income, we shall expect it to do of the China Mail is bucking them me believe otherwise, until Rode slightest notice of passers-by nor
him. It was then seen that In view of the steady upward up wonderfully. Everybody has rick's announcement that he'll be they body that has ceased to be. For its job, and we shall be less ready noticed it. Consider, for example, here in December." I hope that's he was dragging a broom and rake tendency of silver quotations, the those who might wish to know how to relieve it as volunteers. We
this particular lot of Random Re-rue, for it is well to have a friend tied together and half way up the Japanese Government has decided to many men were in the defunct shall note any reduction of our gar-fections. It is net often Roderick in a position of -authority; and it handie of the broom a child's small suspend the latue of it, will ****- PERSONAL - GRUDGE TO BLAME ? corps, and how well they did their rison to a minimum" with con-
is certain that the great majority of red jacket was tied, with arms out coins for the time being, and job, there are always available the siderable astonishment and disap- writes so cheerfully, files of the Gazette. But the fourth provať, as an obvious injustice. ^
On Monday, he people here want him back. Most stretched, kept in place by bamboos cast instead nickel.. 10 sen coins with
small round hole in the centre. A murder was committed in Kow- of them desired him to be Gover- in the sleeves. and £ith paragraphs of the remarks
Bays, the China
-The man was very solemn and The authorities have also decided to foon on Saturday afternoon when a PLATITUDES, Mail described the nor permanently." But December
curtailed report of
is not here yet. Let us wait, and sincere and took no notice of anyone suspend the issue of the 10 sen and number of Chinese attacked another the Committee's recommendations see. Meanwhile, Roderick's sug dragging tit apparatus backward 20 sen paper notes, since the recent and stabbed him to death. When the re the University as pions plati. gestion that the Chine Mail ever and forward, seeking to lay hold of depression has resulted in the in- Police arrived on the scene the When I realized the tudes.""
enquiries were made but no trace of So it did, and so they put Claud Severn in its Must something or other. Upon inquiry froduction of plenty of small change assailants had decamped. Exhaustive the murderer has been found. It is” service, the efficiency of the Corps THE BEST full import of Rode- were. But they did include that Go list is false, and looks we found that he had a sick child at into the money market. will not be allowed to deteriorate.
There has been no shipment of alleged that the murder was the a few days, and he surmised that the rick Handom's jeu for which we fought, namely, the mean. This may be objected home who had been unconscious for They also hoped the maximum
d'esprit on Saturday retention of all three Faculties.to a New Journalism last time he had taken the child out coal abroad since the latter part of result of a personal grudge. strength might be maintained, I was reminded of Mr. Dyer's Has Roderick never called an apple it only as good old plain English, they had lost its spirit upon the road. July, says the Nagasaki Press. Only which was rather too much to ex- prize hen. Many of you know the rotten, and yet found one little and so I use it. I am not a gentle-By going over the same ground he 3,300 tons were forwarded to home pect, in view of all the eircum- story, but it is worth telling over. sound-piece in it? It would not, man, if e gentleman mustn't say hoped to sweep up the spirit into the ports up to the early part of last stances. The filth paragraph fol- He had a fowl that took first prize as he seems to think, be inconsist what be means lows on with special reasons for as the best hen in one of our local eut later on to mention that sound their hope, and it is those reasons shows. During the war, when piece, nor would it be necessary to JUST A WORD does Roderick recover its spirit and the sickness the middle ten days of the monthAVE you ever tried: Chatuberlain's
VOLUNTEERS.
of the Overses Defence Committee
require, notice. They hope that
now the war is over, and that there
is not the same inducement for men-
to interest themselves in military
ADVERSARLA.
PIOUS
J
MORE
KOWLOON MURDER.
'A DASTARDLY ATTACK.
· RHEUMATISM.-
red jacket, and by placing the red month. Bunker coal, taken by What on earth jacket on the child again, it would Japanese and foreign vessels during
Pain Balm for rheumation?. IE amounted to 6,030 tons and 7,500 not, you are wasting time as the longer. Random mean would fler away. (©)
tons, respectively, a decrease of 3,024 this disease runs on the harder it is to when he 8378
tons and 3,900 tons on the figures for cure. Get a bottle to-day, apply it with the preceding period. This is said vigorous manage to the niloted pacis. and you will be surprised and delightek. to be the dullest trade season ever at the rallel obtained, For sale by all experimced at the port.
that call for comment. In this things were being auctioned at withdraw the adjective rotten. connection, they say they heard prices for the cause." The man positively-has a nose for would point out that, in view of Mr. Dyer, generously bid up to inconsistency 26 an old maid that the China Mail "attracts at the mcreased obligations of the several hundred dollars for dozen for scandal. He harps on our quar tention and incidentally little bits Imperial Government due to the eggs. It is said that he telephoned rel with the University registrar as of silver? That may be gentle dr, even greater reliance than in his Chinose poultry keeper; to one fact, and on our generous manly; it is certainly silly. Is not
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