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January, ltd. 11h. 53m-Communica: tion between the Observatny and the Calle Umpany is interrupted.
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ngkong Rainfall for the 14 hours ending at 10 am today, 009 ieb. Total since January 1st, 11 inches,
gvinst an ardesge of 0.37 inches.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921.
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At 23, 5.15, 7.15-and 9,15, "GOLDWYN PRESENTS PAULINE FREDERICK
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DEATH.
· HIGGINBOTHAM-At Sourabaya, on the 12th irst., Charles J. Higginbotham (of John D. Hot-! chison & Co.).
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 14. The American destroyer "Elliott "'!
SPIES AND THEIR WATCHERS.
WAK MYSTERIES.
STORIES OF THE BRITISH SECRET,
SERVICE
Mysteries that gave piquancy to our warnews are slowly getting themselves unravelled, and in the process their thrill is recaptured. The latest addition to our war mystery literature is a book of reminiscences of the Secret Service by Mr Nicholas Everitt (Hutchinson, 16s. net.)
From professional journalism Mr Everitt turned to espionage and invention. In this volume he claims to have invented and carried out the with Admiral Gleaves on board, boundarming of trawlers with concealed from Manila to Shanghai, tumed back guns, whereby numbers of sub- in mid ocean after leaving Manila 10 marines were fured to destruction. return to the Philippines. Admiral Twice between Christmas 1914 Gleaves is expected to arrive at and Midsummer 1915 (he writes) I Shanghai on Thursday right en rome entered German territory from Dea- for Vladivostock to investigate the mark and from the sea. After my boting of Lieutenant Langdon by a second visit I was warted that a Japanese sentry. The reason to the head-hunter was looking diligently turning back of the "Elliott" has not for me in the hope of a secret reward. been ascertained. The atmosphere is This individual I sought out, and for rife with summises and rumours of a day and a half helped him and an-
other to hunt for myself.. disturbing nature.
UNIVERSITY FOR AMOY.
GENEROUS DONATION,
CHINESE ROCKEFELLER'S" GIFT.
"
A SCENE OF JEALOUST,
*
I was one evening sitting in the best restaurant in a certain German
in town, absorbed
German newspaper. When my eye shifted from my paper to my plate
a
I noticed a young naval lieutenant, accompanied by a charming woman. 1 {China Mail SPECIAL]
The champagne of sunny France had loosened their tongues...ever and SHANGHAI, Jan. 14. Tan Kah Kee, the Amoy Chinese anon the lieutenant would refer to who amassed a fortune in rubber bis sea trips... he informed bis en- during the war and earned the sobri-chantress that that very afternoon quer of the Chinese Rockefeller German cruiser had been sighted owing to his philanthropic acts, has Roing full steam north and close in shore. I dispatched the following aside $4,000,000 representing Telegram: Received letter from four-fifths of his fortune for the Bon Monday about you from a dowment of a large modern university chic lady, although I do not believe at Amoy on Western lines. He has what she says-Christian." Which, "Onc appointed Messrs. Murphy and Dana being decoded, would sung of New York architects to execute the enemy battleship is stated to be hang, plans.
ing around B-going north. Is- formation obtained through female source and doubtful"
set
FRENCH CONCESSION.
ALLEGED SCANDALOUS
NEGLECT.
PUBLIC OPINION TO BE INFORMED.
(China Mail SPECIAL.]
Alas, this innocent message led to a big domestic rumpus, fer," to the absence from home of the official who should have received-it, the telegram was opened by his wife, who furiously jealous of the
chic lady." made such a scene that the code had to be altered to save her feelings in future.
•
Code comedy is well illustrated by the 20thor from another person's ex- perience thas:
IS FATHER REALLY DEAD?
A certain message was handed in
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 14. Dr. Tartois, who was among the successiul candidates for the Freach Municipal elections, proceeds to France 03 the M.M. s.s. "André Lebon" to enlighten French public opinion relative to the scandalous at a certain telegraph office in Hol-its and Bagkok neglect of public utilities in the land to cable to a certain address in French concession owing to the apathy the US.A. which ran as follows: [ of the French Tramway Company "Father dead." The operator altered which enjoys a monopoly. Dr. Ter- the word to "Father deceased" and tois is endeavouring to bring up the then dispatched the message. Im matter in Parliament.
PIECE GOODS PANIC.
WORRIED COMPRADORE.
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[China Mel SPECIAL.}
SHANGHAI, Jan. 14.
mediately came back the reply: "I father dead or only deceased?" The following up of that simple message cost a considerable sum, but it was well worth the outlay.
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C. W JERTEILS, Director. Hongkong Observatory, Jan. 14, 1921, 1. BAROMETER, redared to 39 destes Fahrenheit, on the level of the ses in inches, tenths and hundredths.
2. TEXPE ATTRE, in the shade in de- grees Fahrenheit.
2 Hemory, in percentage of satura tion the lumidity of air saturated with moisture being 100.
Dracction or Wist, to two point 3. FORCE Beadford Seale.
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MODERN IDEAS,
CHANGES AT OXFORD.
THE NEW UNDERGRAD.
:
Oxford is no longer the Oxford of
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Nichol, President of the Oxford Union CHINA AGENCY & TRADING 00. OF Society, writing in the London Even-į ing News.
·
· HONGKONG. Iron, Steel & Piece Goods.
Things must have been very plea Tel. 2143. :10, Queen's Rd. Central, sant them, whether one was an exblete,
or an esthete, whether life was one
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(1919), LTD. Importers and Exporters.
or WIND, according to everything she had, and she had Tel 1104. 16, Queen's Rd. Central..
&ETATE OF WEATHER, b blue sky, everything to give.
P passing showers, q equal?, z taÏD, SCOW
thunder v visibility w few, wet.
Not that file is not pleasant now,
but it is absolutely different. To be!
gin with very few people have much
7. Rasches tenths and hez-money to spend, and Oxford, which! dredths.
HONGKONG TIDES.
The tide-table_xiven below has been ompiled at the National Almanac Office in London from the result of the aÜRİYSİS of obervations taken by means of an antoms He tide-recording machine in the Water Police Badia at Talm Sha Tau faring the years 1505-2
The zero of the table corresponds with the sero of the sounding In the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to be feet
inches below mean sea-level
was never a place in which to coon-Tel. omise, is more expensive than ever,
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If you are out of college the cost of rooms is about the same as at a good Tel. London hotel. For an ordinary sitting room with a charming view, a tiny bedroom and no bath, one pays about £3 105. a week. If you have break- last which is, after all, not an in-Tel. 2170. 60, Queen's Rd, Central, reasonable supposition, you pay ball
crown for the privilege. That makes 12s. 6d. a day, before you even think of college fees.
.
Of course there are cheaper rooms, To obtain the depth of water on the but they are extraordinarily unplea tide gauge at the Victoria Naval Yard
dd feet 4 inches, and on the guage sant, and anything under £2 a week
Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet
4 taches to the height given in the tabir.
January 15 to 21°1821.
Kiam Waka
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is hardly fit for human habitation.
Moreover, everything in college bas gone up. It is always going up. Tuï- tion, master's, fees, all the bundred and one items by which they try M Tel. make us wise, all these continue to soer, and show no signs of coming
Hours. down.
* 333
Predicts On date at date at
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And then Oxford makes one spead lieve is Christ Church, for two men money, whether one wants to or not..
to share a room.
The undergraduate enters a tailor's Think of Tom Brown drinking his shop and chooses some clothes. port in an army it, or the exclusive "Payment? Oh, dear no! Not to and aristocratic Michael Fane hobnob- be dreamt of. Who ever heard of bing with an uncongenial Philistine, such a thing? Just á matter, sir, off and you may to some extent be able giving your name and college and to gauge how Oxford has changed. that will be all"
Offord is really working harder. Never was she more crowded. The than she has ever worked before..: lecture rooms are packed, every col- There is a new spirit about the lege is fall to overflowing. There are place. Everything has changed. We all the men whose education was have cast off the slough of compulsory interrupted by the war, there are the Greek. We have eduitted, women to men who have received Government degrees, and even to innermost cOUD- grants and the Americans who have cils of the University Executive. We come over, via-France, to spend have admitted the principle, at any year or so at the oldest of the rate of State aid.
Oxford, is naming with new Ele, universities.-
Rooms are not to be had for love, new ideals. And from ber trail-let and often not even for money. Out-us hope there, will yet come, as there side Koble undergraduates have acts has so often come in the past, a true ally been living in Army hats, and it inspiration for the guidance of the is exceedingly common, even, I be world that is to be.
Printed and Published for THE CONCEIVED II the Editor, Gzokan WILLIAM CADE BURNETT, t. No..5, Wyndham Street, Hongkong
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 16.
watow, Amoy and Kesing **Swatow, "Amoy, and Jakso
Amatusa Mare....... So bo Maruz
MONDAY, JANUARY 17. Philippine Islands, Sandakan, Australis and-
New Zaliud, via THURSDAY ISLAND. 'Swstow. "Shanghai and North Chins...
Registration &15. Letters 830 Ewah Ping
Yosang
TUESDAY, JANJARY 18. Saiyang Hydrancesscomanad Wingsang
A coup which cost Mr Everitt much time and many brain waves Amoy, #Shangha”, & "North China resulted in the tracking down of a gato
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, Holhow and Raiphonza a man Weibaie. Chcfoo sad Dairen
big minefield laid in Irish Shanghai and North Chica, waters by the "Berlin," which dodged our patrols and crept into a Norwegian fjord, where Woo Yce Dan, the compradore of she Was interned. It was in Messes. Fearoa, Daniel and Co., this field that the "Audacious went tow, Shanghai, & North China shot himself in the head. His con- down, before the mines could be dition is precarious. His act is said located and swept up. to have been due to financial worry' resulting from the piece goods panic.
LET US EAT HIM."
FALLEN CHINESE MINISTER.
SEQUEL TO STUDENT CLAMOUR.
* 44.
[China Mal SPECIAL"}
SHANGHAI, Jan. 14.
Tsao Ya Lin, former Minister of
Communications, whose downfall was
tard g
93.01.
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2.30 pa
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. Shanghai and North China ....... All through the book run racy Sandakan stories of marvellous escapes, hunting Swat, Amoy and Foochow and bupted muring in strange con. Straits, Bangkok, Caicatto and ADEN. Inisog MONDAY, JANUARY 11. fasion in a maze of intrigue and
Kwaissog SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, I Marques Fouth Africa, India Dhanushkodi, Bombay, Aden, Egypt & EUROPE MARSEILLES. He gistration 5 a.m. Letters stb'p.m. - The Parcel Mail be closed Saturday, 1200 Jan. at Noon,
suspicion. Once, only a briar pipe Shanghai & North Chioa......... that looked in the dark rather pistol. like saved the raconteur; again, it' was bluff and luck. But he won through, and his story-telling betrays the fact that genius had something to do with his pulling through.
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Plansy
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28.
Hailoong
*Correspondence bearing vessel's name only
98.22.
effected by the student clamour, is Amsterd and Hambory vis Hongkong, Batow, Amoy and Foochor reported to be clandestinely domiciled The vessel is dus bere on Jan. 11, nd
in Shanghai and to have purchased
will sail, as above, on 15th idem at noon.
The N.I.K. "Kumano Maru*
Tran 13 孵
Wed 12
zhar. 20 m
Tri 21
extensive tracts of land in the lessEuropean Laney left Bingapore for this field and Sicerwei districts. A ver port on Jan. 11, and is expected here on
it was substantial. Mr. Woo In connection with the theft of a 27
at $1200, stated his client could not raise more riscular paper says: “Let us go and Jan. 17. ||
than $500. The Magistrate remarked ear him up."
Thy Mentor" (Blaa Funnel Tine) diamond ring valued le Bi zapore on Jan 12, for Hongkong reported yesterday, the police have that bail of $500 was too small for a and is due hero en 17th inst. Në 7 a.m. The O.P.O., R.M., Monterale"
arrested the fugitive Chan Kalman, case in which $1,200 was involved. arrived at Moji On-Jan 13, (am) left- The Navigazione Generale Daliana sa.
accused would abscond. Inspector Pain there on Jan. 14 (a.m.) and is due at Mataniello from Hamburg, Genoa, This morning before Magistrate The question was whether or not the Kabe on Jan. 15 (1.m.).
Bombay, Rangoon, and the Strafta, is Lindsell, Mr. M. K. Lo, for the owner Grant said that he did not think be due to arrive here on Jan. 18. Agente The T.K.K. x. "Siberis Haru
of the ring, asked for a remand. Mr. would. The Magistrate If the rivel at Tokohama on Jan. 11 and kleuren. Dodwell & Co, Lt1,"
-
-on Tall 34-for-Honolulu and Esa-The UE.0.8, sa “Mattawa," arrived H. K. Wow, who sppeared for the accused will surrender to his ball and Franisco.
at Bhanchal on Jan. 11 (s.m.): leaves defence said that he had no objection meet the charge, I have no objection there on Jan. 14 pm), and is due at to a short remand. Mr. Lo said that to granting ball of $500. The care Manila on Jan. 19 (p.m.)
he had no objection to bail as long is remanded until Wednesday..
The "Bhes" (Blue Fanel Line left Shanghai on Jan. 1: for London,
at z p
Wiod.....
Barometer Temperature Hamid ty... Direction of y
30.15
20.31
.30.20
85
46
88
45
31
-20
Weather.....
b
0.00
0.00
0.00
Highest open air Temperatues on the 13th Dewan open air Zampenters on the 17th - 46
***T. F. CLAXTON, Directre Hongkong, Observatory Jan. 14. 1981.
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