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BOLSHEVIK AGITATORS.
EXPULSION FROM DUTCH INDIES.
[Chica Moit SPECIAL.]
Our Canton contemporary has coin- pelled us to think to scheme, to! plan We are too much in the dark, and learn of things that matter far too late. - Cannot this be remedied?
SINGAPORE, May 19. Our officials pretend "they have!
An rugineer named Baars who was nothing up their sheeves. Could we expelled from the Dutch East Indies not have a regular Fress Bureau (not for openly advocating Bolshevism, is the whinistes of an A.D.C. prattling due in Singapore to-morrow where of dinner parties) but a proper and he will meet Seeerliet who was ex recognized office to which the re-pelled for the same reason years ago porters would have a right to go, and They are proceeding to Siberia front which they could get information Baars has just married a native of es a right? With an official in it not seventeen who accompanies him. so high and mighty and inflated.as re rather, despise those newspaper fellows 1-
“AMOY UNIVERSITY.”
STRAITS CHINESE PRESIDENT. Frota such an office, we could have learned in time that the SCA. was) [Chind Mail SPECIAL] publishing certain proclamations. We could have got official translations of
SINGAPORE, May 19. those prelamations. We couldhave- Dr. Lim Boon Keng, who represents pointed out promptly their dangers, the Chinese on the Straits Legislative Land (perhaps) have got 'em amended. Council, has accepted the president We could at say rate have got an ship of Amoy Gaiversity. Mr. Lim. official avowal of the official motives Boon Kep is a well-known education and purposes-as it, were objects al expert. and reasons and been able to explain that though they looked nasty, they were innocent and landable in intention
ELIXIR OF LIFE.
TORK AND OLD AGE"
PROFENSOR'S NEW THEORY.
STRIDAY:
HONGKONG AFFAIRS.
REFORM WANTED.”
A SHANGHAI VIEW.
FORGERY CHARGE.
RELUCTANT WITNESSES.
SUBPOENAS SOUGHT.
At the Magistracy yesterday
We used to be taught that those Hongkong and its administration afternoon. Magistrate Lindsell heard who die young are the beloved of the has come in for a good deal of eriti further evidence in the case in which gods. Nothing, not even a quotation, cism lately. It has been asserted a Chinese named Fan Yik Cho, alias is sacred to an American professor and denied that slavery exists there. Fan Siu Chuen, alias Pan Kin, is One of this disturbing class has now Questions have been asked in the charged with fergery. in 1907, of obtaining $4,000 by means of it. In devised the drastic emendation that House of Commons on the subject, second deed of mortgage, and it is the disciples of indolence" who and harassed Under-Secretaries have the tharge, the amount is entered za die in their youth. Subtle cynics had to take shelter in evasive replies 45,000, it being explained that the may try to harmonise the old saying Now a distinguished Indy who had prosecution is claiming compound and the new, urging that those the beed of an important mission to the interest on the money for 14 years gods love and disciples of indolence" East. declares that she was ashamed at 18 per cent per annum.
After the defendant's brother, are one and the same. But our of being an Englishwoman when she
been sub- American sage does not wish to be arrived at Hongkong and found that Pan He, who had taken thus frivolously. He contends the registered infant death rate was possaed by the prosecution to with all the weight of medical expert 800 higher than the birth rate fper give evidence, tad testified that ence, that the elixir of life is hard annam, presumably). If this state the signature on the document work under high pressure. Men who ment is correct, it requires some ex-was not his, a witness, who was standing surety for the defendant's take this medicine. he assures the planation, says the Shanghai Mercury appearance, and who spoke English world, not merely live to a ripe old It may be that Mrs. Neville Rolfe's well, told the Court that he did not Age, but their usefulness at thres-score figures refer to a year in which there know the nature of the charge and ten is vastly greater than at 30, was exceptions!" infant mortality against the defendant; he had nev for their mental powers become more Presuming that the charges made discussed the case with the defendant, And more vigorous as the result of against Hongkong are not altogether though he had known him for over. constant activity. Unless we happen founded it would seem that the 20 years; and he had never beard to be waiting for promotion to the agitation for reformn in the administra- the word "mortgage mentioned in posts occupied by too tenacioustion and of the direction of the ad-connection with the maller seniors, we must all wish to support ministration is by no means anwar The case was further remanded" this doctrine. A regimen of hard work ranted. Hongkong has a Legislative namara's clerk applied for a sub for others is destined to be a popular Council composed of official and no poena requiring Mr, F. X. d'aimada, prescription. But if we are to take official members in which the official solicitor, to give evidence. Besides, by greater intimacy with The Shanghai light-weight cop-it seriously, further elucidation seems hold the majorite. It is said that Magistrate said that be would not that the issue a subpoena unless he received the Pros oficialion might learn not per coin scandal seems to have necessary. Few men or note retain this practically means to publish things one would have reached an acute stage. At a meet- to three-score and ten the physical Governor rules the Council. for the a letter from Mr.Macnamara certify- expressed differently." It isn't soling of tailors held the anther day the energy and endurance of the thirties.official members are all under his ing that Mr. d'Almada had refused muck what they do, as the nasty Chinese knights of the needle decided Dr. Goldwater himself does not pro-control, and probably this would to give evidence. He remarked that Ltd. way they do it.
not to accept thera.
mise that the most strenuous labour prove to be the case in vital matters, other people had been subpoenaed to will preserve this department of although in minor affairs both official those and unofficial members no doubt vote as things are. The Chinese recognize On Wednesday evening a fare human capacity. So that our honesty, bat (say they) the well dinner was given to a large whose occupation requires much freely. Nevertheless, it is a fact Chin Mail isn't in the confidence number of athletes by the South bodily effort are left to grow old as that the official majority and the of the Government. It doesn't know China Athletic Association in the now they do. This leaves a very official minority have often been what they are up to. It apologises special dining room of the On Lok large part of the human race without found ranged on different sides on Yuen Restaurant on the occasion of any benefit from the new prescription. important questions, and it consequ for them it explains away their their leaving for Shanghai to take Still, we commend to all whom it ente the views of the representatives indiscretion, it declares them in part in the Far Eastern Olympic may concem the warning that ease of the inhabitants of Hongkong have partial and ww mixed up in political Games, beginning on May 30. or commercial intrigues: bot we cannot take its word for that. It does not know,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.“
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This morning Mr. N. C, Mac
The
give evidence in the case, but when they came to Court, it was found d
the case Thus their time as well as that their, evidence was of no use in that of the Court had been wasted,
SHIP'S MATE DEAD:
SUPPOSED HEART FAILURE
*
DEATH AT SAILOR'S HOME.
J
The remains of a European named
and quiet are the means not to longe been set aside in favour of the official vity but to an untimely death. Those view. Hongkong residents want that As the result of a quarrel in who retire early from business must state of affairs altered, and a constita- Saiyingpun market yesterday, the What can we posibly make answer
store coolie is now in the Government expect to retire also from life. Such tional Reform Association which has are the highly moral principles of been formed has now formulated its to that Nothing in particular.
Civil Hospital suffering from stab At this the eleventh hour we advise, wounds on the left arm and breast existence deduced by Dr. Goldwater wishes. which are that all non-Charles Price were yesterday removed we urge, the Government, if it can, alleged to have been inflicted with a from his study of his compatriots Chinese members of the Legislative to the pubße mortuary from the The pace that kills is the crawl" is Council should be elected, that there Sailors Home, West Point, where he to assure the Kwangenne people that butcher's knife by a market coolie nam- the object of the Governor's triped Woog Kas, who has absconded. his golden rule. Yet again the critical should be a larger electoral body, was found lying dead in bed in bis north was nothing they would object The patient's injuries are not con- instinct of the Old World seeks to be and that there should be an unofficial room about 9am. The deceased who heard. We will admit all Dr. Gold- majority, with safeguards, on the was a ship's mate, had been ill for to. If at all possible, it would be sidered serious.
water's facts, and the more readily Council. The proposals of the Re-some time, and up to a couple of days better still to state simple what his! errard was. What could there be An able seaman from the U. S. since we do not know what they form Association seem reasonable. ago was an inmate of the Government that requires secrecy and conceal Shipping Board sir." Abercos," lying are. But his theory is not wholly Official Government has evidently Civil Hospital. He had found work meat? He is not a diplomat, or, at the Dollar Wharf, had been ashore convincing. Suppose that in America been far from successful, or so much immediately after leaving hospital awaiting the arrival of his ship, when if he is, unbeknownst be has noon leave on Wednesday night last men who retire early and live easily dissatisfaction and criticism would be and was living at the Sailors' Home week and was returning to his ship and crawl" are apt to die young, is impossible and the British inhabitants death claimed him. Capt. Baylis, on the Alice Dollar" ferry, steamer it not possible that their death and ofHongkong should get an opportunity superintendent of the Home, states Hongkong och must not. and with a friend. The two were said to their sloth are are due to an original of showing that they can manage mat that about $30 the deceased was we believe date pot, interfere in any have been skylarking on board when lack of rigmar3 Laziness itself is ters better. It is to be hoped that apparently quite well when his room way with China's domestic politics. the seaman referred to fell overboard often a physical infirmity. Yet we Hongkong will soon have a Govern-boy brought in his breakfast. Death The SC.A. proclamations (or rather and was drowned. This is the will readily agree that Dz. Goldwater ment at least as popular as Ceylon is thought to be due to heart failure. the published translations of them; second drowning occurrence within which are not certified) are capable a few days. On Saturday week last is good for our friends. Most of them The British residents in Hongkong The deceased was 40 years of age. of assuming the appearance of anthe storekeeper of the US. "Imlay would surely be healthier and wiser if are surely as competent to manage and leaves relatives a Home, for
was returning to bis ship by sampan their standards of industry were their own affairs as the residents of whom much sympathy will be felt. indiscreet interference: bar as we when he also fell overboard and was raised. We fear, however, that they Ceylon. said before, we feel sure that was not drowned. No bodies have yet been intended. We have rouched for the
recovered. impartiality, as regards Chinese poli- tic, of our Goremment. We warn it not to "let us down "over that.
We promise, if any justification of these Kwangtung spiciens should appear, that if the activities of the Haslewoods at Home have chastized it with whips." ours will "chastize it with scorpions.*
and is
Mr. Frederick R. Walsin, who has been sent to China by the Har-: ward Museum of Comparative Zoology for the purpose of collecting speci mens, arrived in Shanghai by the Admiral str. "Wenatchee" staying at the Astor House, Mrs. Wakin accompanies him and is only wanting to learn more about condi The "square deal" is a genetictions in China to decide whether she expression. It covers "nothing in will also accompany him into the particular". But we stand for it, and interior where Mr. Walsin's work by it.
will take him. While specimens are not so abundant in China as they are
A JEALOUS SPIRIT.
SECOND WIFE HAUNTED.
4!
HUSBAND DIVORCES DECEASED
WIFE.
wil remind the doctor of the entirely orthodox doctrine of Charles Lamb.: Who first invented work and bound
the free
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To that dry drudgery at the desk's
dull wood?
Who but the Being ablest, alien
from good, Sabbathless Satan+
ROME THUNDERBOLT.
DIOCESAN SCHOOL.
TRANSFERENCE TO YAUMATT.
AFTEX FOR FUNDS.
A proposal for transferring the Diocesan School from its present site
WHY?
ARE SOME WINDS HOT AND OTHERS COLD?
Like man, mature can "blow hot or cold" with the same breath.. though it is sometimes amazing to note the difference in temperature between winds of equal velocity but widely varying degrees of heat. But. when we think of a cold, piercing
to a roomier one near the Tammati gale, the words "North wind" im mediately come into our minds, and, railway Station was outlined at a well similarly, a hot dry movement of the
in many laces on account of the FAMOUS OBELISK DAMAGED. attended meeting of the Diocesan air causes us to think of a "South
country being so thickly popelated, still those which are în existence are quite unusual. Mr. Walsin especta that his work will keep him in China perhaps a year.
4
HISTORIC MONUMENT.
School Appeal Committee held in wind" and in the names themselves Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co.'s Hes the explanation of much of the board room last night under the variation in temperature. - presidency of the Right Rev. Bishop of Victoria.
If it were possible to have a wind- which had not passed over ány por-- Nothing in particular is an elastic
A thunderbolt fell in the Piazza di MORGAN--COOMBS,-On May 12, phrase, capable of covering ever
San Pietro close to the Obelisk, At the request of the Bishop, the tin of the earth, or had not been 1921, at Shanghai, George more than charity can. All sorts of
the altitude or other contributing Joseph William, eldest son of things may be happening in the
A Chinese who arrived from the base of which was slightly damag-Rev. W. I. Featherstone, Head changed in temperature by reason of Master, briefly outlined the scheme cause, we would find that it was the late Joseph Morgan and of world-even as to-day-but the feel-
America by the Empress of Asia," | ed." Mrs. Morgan, of Shanghai, toing is, for both writer and reader,
was this morning charged before The great Obelisk, which is in the for transferring the School from its nothing more than a movement of Sarah Maude, eldest daughter of that none of them is particularly
Magistrate Lindsell with the unlawful centre of the Piazza, the imposing present cramped quarters, which re the air which, of itself, sad by itself, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Coombs of interesting. Not one appeals to the
How a Chinese merchant divorced possession of one pistol and 14 space in front of St. Peter's, was, like tard its growth and usefulness by differs not at all from the surround- Southampton.
mood of the moment. Yes. That his wife after she had been dead rounds of ammunition. The defen Oleopatra's Needle on the Thames compelling it to refuse many applica- ing atmosphere. The wind would be must be it. The poet has voiced the fu: several years, is the gist of dant who said that he had lived many Embankment, brought from Helio tions from those desirous of being neither hot nor cold, though its effect difficulty for us, and partly lifted the story which appeared in the Shang of local regulations, told the Magis polis, Egypt. From the time of the Emboarders, to a site of some 17 acres at would be cooling on account of the psychological veil, in singing never the time and the place and the loved hai Chinese press..
DEATH.
*TROTH, JUSTICE, PUBLISERTICE
Rosesce, Friday, May 20, 1921.
*
a
years in America, and was ignorant
fature-
trate that he was taking the weapon peror Caligula (A.D. 37-41) until 1686 Koloon adjoining Yaumati Railway way in which it stimulated evapora FORBES.-U May 2, 1921, at
Forres, Scotland, Margaret, care altogether.". Moreover, there is A Soochow tea merchant, the with him to the country-for self it stood in the Circus of Nero, which station and bounded on one side by tion. But the moment air starts to beat or coldness, carrying at least a dearly beloved wife of James relevance in the Imes about "the narrative says, by the name of Lyub, protection. The Magistrate fuposed is of historic importance on account the road from Lai Chi Kok to Kowloon move across a hot or cold surface, it McGregor Forbes. (By telegram). little more, and how much it is, the had taken a second wife some time a fine of $50; and ordered the pro of the martyrdoms of Christians City and, on the other, by the road immediately absorbs some of the "both of which thoroughfares motor The north wind," of course, has little less, and what leagues away" after the death of his first. As a re-visional confiscation of the pistol and which took place there, under the from Yaumati to Kowloon City, along portion of this with it on its journey It is still a burning issue, and still sult, of the second imion a daughter amtpunition for three months, at the direction of Nero. St. Peter was uses are expected to run in the near swept over some portion of the earth which is almost certainly colder than them on production of a permiț The China Mail, of the greatest possible interest to was bom. Several days after giving end of which time the defendant could crucified at the foot of the Obelisk.
In 1586 Pope Sixtus V. ordered the know just what the Governor went birth, the young mother was taken from the Cantón authorities to take
The cost of the essential buildings the section toward which it blows, removal of the Obeliska monolith north for, and we ought to be able to land grew worse and worse the weapon the
of red granite weighing about 320 tons, and equipment is estimated at and, similarly, the south wind" write, as the public would certainly as time went by.
to its present site in this operation $450,000 Towards this sum it is brings with it some of the warmth. svidly read, columns about it. But All sorts of healing methods were
orizin in the inequalities of temper after spending days and days in tried without avail and it was feared No fewer that eight lawyers are 800 men, 140 Eorses, and 46 Cranes anticipated that the Government will of the earth heared by the more publishing guesses at what it was, that the young wife would die. At engaged in trying case of alleged were used. It is relsted that the grant at least $285,000 (mainly for direct rays of the san.. Wind has its fraud and misappropriation, now architect, Domenico Fontana, in the the surrender of the present site) ature, which, in turn, lead to more or and more days in assuring the suspi- last a nun was called in and gave before the Shanghai Mixed Court construction of his appeistus had not besides giving the new site without less rapid, alterations of the air, the cons Cantonese what it was not (and the opinion that the spint of the involving the tons of Tis. 170,000
premium, thus leaving $165,000 to be beated portion of the atmosphere. Newspapermen are sometimes an- as we said couldn't be) we have man's former wife was cansing the and $63,000. Counsel appearing in allowed for the tension of the rope raised by subscription. It is also tending to rise upward, and the caused by the enormous strain, and considered necessary to provide an colder portion dropping toward the noyed by the superciliousness of the reached the stage of the little more illness Prayer were then offered the case are Messrs, Hadley Rödges that at a critical moment, althong endowment fund of $100,000 in order earth. Nature strives always for an
to the dead wife, but still there wets Holborow, Newman, Tiog, Härtigan, Gature who, after scanning the and too minch it m kedines, observes that, as usual, The Governor is back again, and no signs of the living wife's recovery, Fischer, and Lemiere. There are five silence was imposed on the bystanders there is nothing in the paper. They there is nothing in particular, to dis- The nun then suggested that the defendants, four Eccountants and, an under pain of death; one of the 300 to cover the cost of maintaining equality, and the warm breezes and shouldn't be, because, in the first ca
bushand draw up a deed direncing optician, and they are charged with workmen, a sailor named Bresca, of orphans and meeting the increased cold-blasts, are one of the ways in
to be made, therefore, to the public place, no reasonable man allows his The Canton Times describes as as the dead wife, just as if she were having misappropriated the funds San Remo, shouted Acqua alle cost of everything. An appeal is which she tends to equalize matters. tcamper to be touched by so mean an voice crying in the wilderness alive. This the husband, for a time, mentioned, Belonging to the Zung (Juni"(Throw water on the ropes!"},
A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME imeccs as a cockroach; and, in the and by wildemess plainly hints at refused to do but was later prevailed Ching Bank. Application was made this solving the difficulty for $265,000
For the purpose of considering second, it is very often true, and they our vast ignorance of the content and upon to do so in order to save his that the ratter be adjourned for six In return for this service Sixtas themselves have experienced it, in purpose of the official mind. We becond wife's life. The deed was then weeks, in view of a possible settle V. granted to the Brescs tumly the ways and means of raining this sun MAKE it a rule of your home to those too frequently recurring seasons cannot deny it. Must we apologies taken to a temple and based on the both civil and criminal pavilege of supplying St. Peter's with an Executive Committee was appoint Chamboel and Colin, and Diarrhoea Be-
NOTHING IN PARTICULAR.
when there nothing to write
sbơm ly both cases-1
man and critical cockroach, the state-
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How can we overcome the altar
the mysterios
Immediatel
If we send the
seife showed sigor
the monatam, was soon her normal self
cases, and this courte gras agreed to..
Two of the defendants were released Palm leaves, which are brought frued by the meeting, with the Hon. Mr. medy the living on their own security, and the others the neighbourhood, of Bordighera AG. Stephen as Hon. Treasurer
every year for detribution on Palm the Best Mr. Featherstor and were ordered to give shop security to
the amount of $30,000 each,
Secretary
"always keep og hunda huttle aff [usa mafojtuard against bowel
It always cures promptly