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CORRESPONDENCE,
THE WAR MEMORIAL.
To the Editor of the TM China Ma}}
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1920*
HOUSE COLLAPSES.
COOLIES BURIED ALIVE.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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TRAGEDY IN WANGHAI, THIS MORNING,
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EXCELLENT LIST OF WRITERS.
A number of coolies were buried
An attractive magazint, Outward | Bound, has just made its appearance alive in Wanchai soon after 8.30 this in England, and a copy has been morning when the retaining wall of
been the most fagrant water of the lot. Every issue of Truth tells¦ the story. Running shows at less,
Mr. T. A Bersey, Acting I shan cost, and paying subsidies on pector of Shipwrights, Devonport, particular, commodities and seri has been appointed Inspector of Ship- vices, must be abolished before wrights, Hongkong. credit and finance can be put-on a safe baris Naval and military
Sir,--When first the writer learned outlays must be stringently
that a Memorial worthy of Der stricted, whereas they have been
Hondured Dead was to be erected on lavish on extra side shows since the
the finest site in the Colony" he received by the China Mail What the ground floor of house No. 114, big war finishest. Ordinary cur-
said to himself that this was far-and-t seeks, it says, is a real under- Queen's Road East, suddenly cof- rens requirements are being met
Among the goods carried on away too good to be true. That all standing of other races and nations," lapsed, bringing down with it the walls out of loans. This has to be stop- October 20 by the Handley Page air these dollars were to be squandered and what it endeavours to do is to of the other floors, and part of the ped Artificially low bankrates, mail to Amsterdam were packages by the Hongkong Public: merely to help discover a way through the inof. out of conformity with the actual containing 200 lb. of women's perpetuate an idea was unthinkable. great international and inter racial On receiving the alarm, the police scarcity of real momy, are main- transformations," or human hair, Now the same Public running again problems with which the men and and Sanitary Board cookies hastened tained by the creation of new cut-imported from China. The net value true to form-have in meeting assem women who live in this twentieth to the scene and were soon hard as rency-which is merely another of the consignment was £1,350, bled turned down the Memorial century are faced. This central aim work removing the debris in order to
Floating
those way of signing chits.
buried underneath. debts should all be funded or soôn The Tea House Guild, reorganize to have some kind of a Nursery-of God will be steadfastly followed in Akter "stremnous labour, three badly
as a Memorial: and we are now of realizing a world wide Kingdom rescue
as practicable.
injured men were dug out and rushed The exchange ed, one of the largest and most Club-Pub, which will perpetuate the pages of Cutward Bound
Its crew of writers, It adds of to the hospital. As the work pro- of the activities rates correspond fairly accurately influential trade unions in Canton, nothing with the relative internal values of has been formally registered by the the YMCA and the cleverness of gallant and gas John Buchan, de ceeded, anlated limbs and badly the several connaries, pad thus we Government. The tea house is a very their management in embracing an Vere Staepoole. Rabindranath Tagar, crushed bodies of more unfortunate discover that our own is low. The popular institution in Canton and exceptional opportunity to exploit the Mary Johnston, Alfred Noyes, Beatrice | men who were killed in the accident
Harraden, John Drinkwater, Jerome
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bat
utilitarianism of the age.
fanding of floating debts held in patronized by many persons, vid
It would be interesting to know K. Jerome, Mukul & Day, C. were brought to light. These groe-. note forms ahmad, and the restoring work for more than 30,000 men.
some remains were bundled op in what local intellect first evolved the Brock, Ernest Frater and their like.” tion of normal trade intercourse.
President Elect Harding has fine idea of a simple Memorial, and The present number has an interest-marting and removed in Sanitary dead would tend to correct the exchange cabled a vernacular paper is Manila how the Government was induced to ing list of contents:" "The Fath certs the public mortuary for rates. Sir George Paish does not as follows. I shall send a cou give the finest site" away without of a King by John Buchan; identification, should such be pos- altogether go rap on the quantita- mission from the United States Con-return for an ideal. Why, somebody Our Lane," by Rabindranathsible. By noon to-day three injured tive theory of money, that which
gress to study insular conditions in must have done some thinking. They Tagoro *Why pot end men and five dead bodies had been says a free paper issue forces "P 1921. I regret I cannot come per- must have said to themselves--what the World? by Mary Johnston; and dug out, while a sixth was just visible prices. The Bank does not iden-sonally. I wish the Filipinos to trust then is a memorial? Let us all ask of articles on Red Indians at Home" as the debris was shovelled away. tify itself with all his opinions. America. Your interests are bound ourselves that question. Sit down to "Fighting Disease on a World Scale": Some months ago this house was although it publishes them, and up with ours."
it. Take your head in your hands. The Tiger' of Blacktown"; Musical condemned by the P.W.D., and was presumably his opinion on this,
Give your brains a chance, and you' Echoes from. Old Japan": Annot supposed to be occupied. It was, get the only possible answer.
Indian Travelling Theatre Party"; therefore, impossible to ascertain how
Boilding Roads to Bagdad"; and many people were on the ground Boor" es the time of the collapse, as a gang other subjects.
We shall travel round the World of coolies, unknown to the owner of the house or to the P.W.D., has seemingly been in the habit of taking refuge from the calf of the streets be stealing into the ground floss of the house and sleeping there. The dis- covery of Chinese playing cards » among the debris, would suggest that some of the unfortunate men were awake and inhulging in a little gam- ble when the accident occurred.
point is one i waiki not endorse, The death is announced, with For though the relation of supply great regret, of Mr. W. Turner Ltd and demand affects prices regard Stevens, chief accountant of the less of the nature of the currency Kalan Mining Administration, which in which they are expressed, it is occurred (on November 25 from impossible to deny the visible effect small pex. By his death the K.MA of an unlimited issue of paper. has lost a most valuable and efficient Freights went down when there servant who had been identified with was a supply of bottoms to more its interests for nearly twenty years. than rover the demand. although
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A Memorial is just a Memorial; that and nothing more. If it is anything else, or attached, enclosed, surrounded, encumbered, associated to catch living pictures of the wonder with anything else it is not a and drama of the real life of people Memorial. If it is a Hospital, or a to-day," says the Editor, and judging Hall, or a Club, or a Pub, or a Home by the cordial welcome accorded the for Lest Hogs, Dogs, or Sailors (God first number, this intention has been bless 'em) then it is not a Memorial, well carried out and the success of but merely a Clab, Pub, or the others the new publication is assured. as case may be
The first and foremost attribute of
heroes: not heroes such as ours, et any rate.
“THE EMPIRE MAIL?
SPECIAL ARTICLES OF INTEREST.
contain
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passed away a few days later. His body was created, and the remains have been brought to Hongkong.
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we still had our deluge of Brad- The United States gunboat burys, but that des not disprove" Helena," which left Nagasaki a the quantitative theory. With a fortnight ago for Vladivostok, was gold currency, they would probably caught in a storm when about 450 a Memorial is that it must be of no have fallen lower. It may be that miles from Nagasaki and lost one of use whats_ver. It must be merely continental countries have enor- her propellers. She had to put back something for remembrance, some
The October number of "The mously inflated their currencies, to Nagasaki consequently, and man-thing In Memoriam, something without suffering a much higher aged to reach port. A propeller will "Lest We Forget". It must be tain- Empire Mail," just received by the LATE MR. A. G. GORDON. cost of living than we do; but that be sent from Manila to replace the ted with no least tincture of charity, China Mail, contains timely articles it must be caused by no atmosphere on subjects of importance to all in- does not entitle us to overlook the one kust.
FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON. of conviviality, it must be soiled by terested in the trade of the world—- fact that we d the way in initiat-
There is a large' and growing no sordid utilitarianism whatsoever.especially the trade of the Empire. ing and carrying on and expand-
HIS LIFE IN HONGKONG. ing what we may call the chit sys- demand for perfumery and toilet It must be of the spirit spiritual, a A leading article on "The Revival of tein of currency Artificial devices requisites in China. The value of thing apart. It must be of inspired German Industry" shows ra adjust mite balances (such as the imports last year amounted to design, but at least in the case of this German competition is again mena
£776,182 The wealthy Chinese community--not cheap. This comcing British trade, auf - points out
The funeral of Mr. Alexander Grant_______ had between England and women, use perfumery and toilet munity can't take a million delar that reports from special corze Gordon one of the oldest European America) effect only a remporary articles lavishly, and the demand is site and erect a ten thousand dollarspondents
serious residents of Hongkong, who during and unreliable siamlity of ex-growing among those Chinese, men stone on it and preserve its self-message of warning for the British his long residence in the Colony was change, as it is obvious they must and women, who are brought into respect
people," American Trade Competi-iderified at one time or another with db. Deflation of an inflated cur-contact with foreigners.
Why, every little hawalet and parishtion" is the subject of a vigorous most of its institutions, takes place rency will do it much more surely,
in the old country has its simple article by Mr F. A. McKenzie, the this afternoon. He will be buried although (so susceptible are the
A small clasp pin of platinum stone graved with the names of its well-known author and traveller, who in Happy Valley, the Rev. G. J. Wil- markets to every interference) this
The funeral will might mesa a temporary agar and diamonds, shaped somewhat like bees. And distinct from its Village predicts the flooding of the world's lans officiating. tion of the guisance of inflated a two-leafed clover, was lost in the stitute or Pub, believe me. Clube markets with American surplus pro- pass the Monument at 4.45, putt.
Mr. Gordon died in Bombay on prices, and sore suffering to the City Hall on Tuesday night, Novem and heroes don't mix: not dead ducts. There is also an editorial on
America's Bid for Empire Trade," | June 21. He had been ill-for many ber 30. The following articles were poor. But here we have to ask if found(1) A black lace veil; (2) A
which points to the alarm felt by weeks, and having recovered suffi the deflation of an inflated eur white silk crepe shawl embroidered
Take all the famous Memorials in business men in many parts of the dently, left the Colony on the *Novara,” bound for Home to take rency involves a decrease of domes with white silk; and (3) A small the world, and just name me one Empire at the inroads made by tic buying power, and consequent round silver powder box with puff. Tomb in Paris why you can't get
that is of any use. Napoleon's American trade.
a course of treatment at one of the Iv of international baying power? These articles may be recovered from, even a lemonade or a
Other features of. Special interest English watering places. He was It should not, anymore than the and any information regarding the the precincts. The Statue of Liberty, Industry"; an article on The Tea Miss 1. Gordos. Approaching Bom
gasper" in are an editorial on Research In
accompanied by Mrs. Gordon and buying power of a Hongkong man lost article sent to, Mr. T. W. Hill, New York-might have been a horse Industry":"Fugoslavia," by Mr bay he took a turn for the worse and arriving in London is decreased Hon. Secretary, St. Andrew's Society, trough in Hongkong, What! Jan B. Forster Bevill, revealing the cot was removed to a hospital, where he because he finds himself with one Care of Bradley and Co., Ltd. sovereign instead of four or five
van Coen's statue in Batavia-the | mercial needs and possibilities of this finest bronze the old Dutch founders new State; Trade with Chile," by dollars. The golden pound wanid
Among the passengers who ever turned out. What does the Mr David W. Caddick; and the undoubtedly buy more than the arrived in Hongkong by the F. & C. Colonial Dutchman get out of it reports from special correspondents paper Bradbury." at Home or Sicilia" yesterday were Mr. C. Mcl. except uplift? abroad. once it was realized that Messer, O.B.E, Colonial Treasurer: we were indeed back into sterling. Mr. Claxton, Director of the Royal naying in cash instead of in chits. Observatory, with Mrs. Claxton; Mrs. Thus defation of inflated curren- Kemp, wife of the Attorney-General cies is really an essential first step, with children; Mr. and Mrs. Diss soberly proud. compled for course) with the prin and family; Mr. Stephens, of the soldiers cot being of heroic size have ars need of greater production of Hongkong and Shanghat Bank; Mr.no artistic right to be in the open necessities. For that is the long and Mrs. Raven and family; Mr. J. anyway. A niche in the staircase of and short of the world's economic Tully of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., the new YMCA is their proper
He joined, as superintendent, the DOWLER. On November 30, 1920, distress at bottom. For four years, with Mrs. Tally and family; and Mr. abiding place.)
new defunct China and Manila Steam- at Shanghai. Charles Edgar Ian, production diminished (by the en- Dr Harvey, of the United Asbestos. There is at least one man-për-
As announced in Saturday's Ching ship Company, and in this capacity. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H.gagement of the producers in war)
haps two-in the Colony who could Mail and by expresses" delivered had to do with such well known Dowler, aged five weeks.
or war work and a positive Waste A successful confidence trick was be trusted to give us a design to fill at all the clubs and offices and passenger carriers of the day as the SOUZA. On November 29, 1920, of products went on for a like yesterday practised on a Chinese the bill, but when you think of who distributed
various Diamante" and "Perla." About at No. 5 Dent Road, Shanghai, period. We have to restore the married woman living at No. 9, are the likely ones to sit in judg.churches yesterday, the Committee twenty-three years later he went Desmond Paul Souza, the be-wastage, and catch up again. Jardine's Bazaar. While the woman ment, help!
of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Home to superintend the building of loved son of Mr. and Mrs. A.{Mennwbile, until we get an écon- was crossing the Bowrington Canal
What we want is something that decided on Saturday morning to the company's vessels "Zafiro" and the Fete owing to Rabi, both of which became well JR. Souza, aged three years. omical government, instead of one bridge, she was accosted by a man will be a graceful, grey shadow by postpone
urisettled. state of the that prints mones like the Bol who produced a roll which he said day, and a pale flame of victory un- the
Even if the weather He was connected with the Brick known. *** sheviks, and sperids it as if there contained notes, and told her der our tropic stars. Something you weather. were no end to it. we are unlikely that
stranger tan salute as you go by. You can't had improved on Saturday evening. to get back to solvency. America he did not know where to get salute a pub-not even a teetotal it was considered that the grounds and Tile Works at Deep Water Bay as consulting engineer. In addition. wasted much money in wartime, the money changed. While she was one run by the YMCA Much more would not be in a satisfactory con but unlike our own country, she giving the necessary directions an likely to go in and salute the bar dition in view of the large crowds he held other appointments, among which congregate each year at this them that of surveyor of the Marine had the sense to stop when the war other man approached and suggested boy.
that she should buy the notes from And all you plutocrats, aristocrats, fete. The Committee has since been Board of Underwriters of Philadel was over. Her wasters were ad the stranges, a proposal to which she Peaksites, Lower Levellers, Kowloon generally congratulated on its wise phist and San Francisco. He was a monished: ours Professor Cassel of Switzerland greed. She then handed them $2,10 atics,--Sailors, Soldiers, Europeans, decision. The postponement will, of member of the Institute of Navy entail expense, but the Architects and the Institute of Mazine in money and jewellery to the value Asiatics, Dwellers in this favoured course, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE. tells as that in any case the world of $22.50 and took the bundle of Isle, and you and me let us remem-success of next Sunday's fete will Engineers.
will never get back to the pre-war notes. After the men had departed, ber that if it had not been for those countless more than justify the Goverment he was surveyor of boil- parities (of exchange) and that we she examined the bundle and found dear dead boys we would all be now so postponement.
ers of private steamships under sixty The war, as everybody knows, shall have to accustom ourselves to that it contained the usual worthless blamed busy learning German we
tons. He was also a Justice of the upeet international finance. The look upon the new purchasing paper. conditions have grown worse in power parities yet to be establish-
would have no time to call our souls
Peace. At the time of his death he stead of better since the Peace ed as the true parities. Those who
OUT OWN, 4 Treaty.
E. MOW FUNG,
F. W. D. Automotive Service Department,
60, Des Vœux Road Central.
BITES.
TOCHER.-On November 22, 1920,
at Chang, to Rev. F. and Mrs. Tocher, a daughter (still-born).
LESTER. On November 30, 1920, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lester, a daughter.
HUTCHISON.-On November 1920,
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A propos of the recent campaign
No, do the right thing and scrap all these little brass nonentities that sanat in Statue Square, and erect a War Memorial of which we could be (The present tin
By all means let the Services, the
POSTPONED BAZAAR.
-SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
ANNUAL FETE NEXT SURDAT.
outside
the
In the death of Mr. Gordon, the Colony lost one of its best known. members, and one who by reasons of his long residence here was a link with the early history of the island. He was born in 1852, educated at Glasgow, and trained on the Clyde as an engineer. He came to Hong- kong, 43 years ago.
Under the Hongkong
Twenty-one days' hard labour was the head of Messrs. Gordion &
REEVES MURRAY-KIDD. - On -November 27, 1920, ar Shang- hal, William Meddar Reeves son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Reeves. Acton, London, to Lucy E. Murray-Kidd, second daugh:
Directly and indirectly, have gambled on currencies getang over "Chinese dema" in the East Civilians, and everybody, and you and was the sentence passed by Magis Co., of St, George's Building, which ser of Mr. G.. Murray-Kidd, saye Sir George Paish, in a report back to pre-war exchange values End of London, a Chinese corres me have all the Clubs and social trz'e Orme this morning on two he had founded, and was general man- Dundee, Scotland, and late of Lloyds Bank, the failure to fix bave backed a loser.
the amount of reparation at a figure Shanghai." SWEETING TUTHILL-On Nov- which Germany can and will pay, a
pondent points out, in the course of
amenities possible, but
Don't Knock The War Memorial,
Yours faithfully,
JAMES DALZEIL Hongkong, Dec. 4th 1920.
a letter to a London contemporary, is one of the chief causes of the fact
that, had the campaign been confined ember 29, 1920, Shanghai, that the economic situation has
to the suppression of gambling and Henry Sexsun, youngest son of
Sepoy Gulam Mahi Uddin, of the opium dens, it would have won the grown worse than it was before 22nd. Punjabis, recently charged thanks of all law-abiding Chinese, He the Isle Eugene Charles Sweet- the war ended. If that be so, we before a court martial at Kowloon adds that those who are offended with ing of Ceylon, and Mrs. Sweet need not look for much help from with attempted murder, has been mixed marriages in Britain should [To the Editor of the" China Mall" ing Guernsey, to Muriel Mary the Financial Conference at Brus sentenced to three years' vigorous know that there are far more half- Fitzgerald, eldest daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. Fitzgerald Tutsels, from whose discussions the imprisonment and dismissed the castes in China than in Great Britain
bill of Moyglare House, May Five experts have studied the sitra-
question of reparation was barred.service
ynooth, Ireland.
DEATHS.
tion at the request of the Secre-
tariat of the League of Nations.
WHOOPING COUGH.
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Chinese who admitted stealing several ager of the Hongkong Steel-Foundry pieces of wood from the reclamation Co., LM. st Kowloon. Both men declared Socially, Mr. Gordon was equally that they were unaware that the active, and "Tor Crest," his home. wood was Government property.
on the Peak, was the scene of much entertaining. He was one of the exrly presidents of St. Andrew's Society. which the reporters did not catch, Red Cross and other Funds, being one During the war he did much for the
he
was that he revised his opinion of of the conveners of the Heather Day the Y.M.C.A. on seeing its work in and St. Andrew's Fair, the most stc- as a result of mixed unions, legal Sir-A good many people know Ceylon and finding that most of its cessful of the St. Andrew's Society's or otherwise. As for the opium nothing about the Young Men's
members were Mohammedan
War efforts. Just before he felt an dens, he states that the imaginary Christian Association except its name,
The fact is that, whatever the word extension of these dens to the West and from this they judge that it in Christian in the title may have the journey which ended in his death, In the main they were agreed.
"was promoting the Croules End and Hampstead, where a few an organization for the furtherance meant originally, it now refers not Club." He was also a member and They all desiderate the earliest pos
students are staying, is as fictitious of the Christian religion. This idea to religious dogma, but to morality SOS-On November 29, 1920, sible stoppage of the inflation of WHEN your child has whooping as the tale of the beadquarters gangs would prevent some of them and behaviour: and no one (whether en supporter of the Institute of
Shanghai, Manuel Delfino dos credit and currency, in which, we cough loose and expectoration clay by directing operations from Peking or from subscribing towards the Jew, Mohammedan, Parsee. Con Engineers and Shipbuilders. may point ont our own country iving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as Hongkong. Futhermore, the plan erection of a YMCA. building, and facian, Hindu, or Atheist) need CRIGHION On November 30, has been a conspicuous offender. may be required This remedy will als sibility of a published picture, which it is a pity, therefore, that H.E the itate on religious grounds to sup
1920, at Shanghai, May Crigh Our note issue has increased. 335 lignify the tough mucus and make 1 purports to represent the interor of Governor (as he so often does)
easier expectorate. It has been teed
Yours faithfully daughter of the late A. CGovernment spending siroply must contains a surcotic or other in orices that the Chinese are represented with of a certain sentence in his speech at
JR. YOUNG obecot down Here train frubatatea it is perfectly form-forated pigtails Grhich they share not wore the recent meeting in the City Hall. The vist of His Excellency #KURORTZ, George's Government has perhaps by all Chemists and Storekeepers for years,
enigh, be careful to keep the
song the only and dearly beloved millionsstetling in six years. auccessfully in many epidemics and as it an opium denganfers by the fact dropped his voice at the pithy end part. it.
BILIOUS HEADACHE.
LL that is needed is to erect the billinescens and the headache dis- appears.
Take Chamberlain's Tablets