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REVIEW.
Six Chinese cases of plagan The Swastiks, Quarterly. 30 ÷ XIV (three fatal) and one British case of " enteric fever were reported on Friday.
A twin cylinder motor cycle will be put up for public auction by Messrs. Hughes and Hough at noon
tomorrow".
The number of motor cars im- ported into Shanghai during 1920 was 1,050 as compared with 837 and 453 la 1919 and 1918, respectively.
pp. Hongkong: E. W. Hamilton, editor $1.
THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER.
THE LOSS OF MONEY.
MONDAY, JULY 4, · 1921:
SPECIAL CABLES
SHANGHAI RICE.
DEALERS STILL PASSIVELY RESISTING.
[China Meil SPECIAL.]
WUCHOW'S ESCAPE,
TRIBUTE TO BRITISH VICE- CONSUL'S FINE WORK.
A CITY OF THE DEAD.
(From
Correspondent.
Wuchow. July 1.
SHANGHAI, July 2 The rice dealers are still passively. On all sides people are praising the resisting. Practically al premises work of Mr. Sly, the British Vice- have been closed. The Chinese Consul whose untiring labours saved Chamber of Commerce suggests that Wuchow from the horrors of confict. rice shops close three days only and The Kwangsi General Kwai had offers to mediate. The consensus of resolutely determined to bold the opinion is that the protest will fall town against the inevitable attack of dat. These has been no rioting or the Cantonese gunboats when Mr. disturbance of any kind.
COTTON GODDS,
The rainfall in twenty-four A new quarterly magizine - of Interest is so often self-interest for hours to 10 am.. yesterday, as reliterary work by Hongkong amateurs, unless something concerns us more gistered at the Observatory was 496] chiefy verse. First number. De or less closely, we cannot awaken inches.
gustibus, &c. The cover design is [aur great enthusiasm for it. less attractive, to our taste, than the Thirty million people can starve in! interior. It is too heavy, and the Shantung end we do not care, but if "lamp of truth" looks lopsided. | suddenly the cock goes home to the "The manner of introducing the con- country and we find ourselves break; tents to the reader is, however, fastless, strong feelings are aroused а very clever and attractive within us. In is announced that the 8.35 | one. The "Symposium," as they Similarly when the news reached a.m. train from Kowloon on Sundays | call their first article, is good reading, Hongkang through Reuter of the and public holidays will be discon and in fatúre numbers should be failure of Farrow's bank, most people tinued until further notice.
better, when the contributors find scarcely troubled even to read the some subject of greater interest to cables, bu: when the few dollars we wrangle over. A very promising had scraped together in the French feature indeed, which we advise the bank go west, one realises what a editor to develop.
true calamity is the loss of mooty. The pastiche and interpretation A message regarding Farrow's of Walt Whitman can
scarcely bank, spoke of the harrowing be classed with amateur
the work, scenės
of trowd Its author is an old literary axed depositors clustered around the free-lance, and well-known locally as entrance. When a bank fails these working journalist. In fact, frank harrowing scenes nearly always
SHANGHAI, July 2. ly, he is the present reviewer, and take place. They occurred in Hong-
A Chinese Cotton Goods Exchange may therefore be excused further kong on Saturday morning but on a comment on these fire pages.
very small scale, partly because of was formally, if enthusiastically, the suddenness of the news, which opened in Shanghai. took most people by surprise, and partly because in Hongkong every one lays claim to means which often are mythical, and to show grief over the loss of one's savings would be equivalent to an admission of com- parative poverty.
Messrs. Lokumal D. Karainer. general importers and exporters have opened an office bere with a branch at Canton, Mr. L. D. Karainey has taken over the management.
A heavy snow enveloped Mount Fuji on the morning of June 18. It is said that this is the first incident of a snow stert on the mountain at this season for about 20 years.
The Imperial Aviation Associa tion, reports a Tokyo telegram, pro poses to carry out a comperitive long Ltd. distance flight of 600 nautical miles between Tokyo and Shanghai in November next. The aviator, who wins the race, will receive Y50,000.
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but it must not be overlooked that the essential virtue of this Ordinance
is the publicity it gives. All esses must be developed openly in the Summary Court, and good faith" must be established. Hitherto the cnus of getting protective or deter- rent on the
that means.
This
to
Mr. Hamilton's 'Tales of the Peart River" open well, with a story that, incidentally torrid, appears to be a truthful picture of things Chinese. It is well told.
NEW SHANGHAI EXCHANGE,
(China Mail SPECIAL]
CORRESPONDENCE.
Sly used his good offices to effect a compromise under which the town was evacuated by the Kwangsi troops and occupied by the Kwangtung forces without fight ing. This happy result was not achieved without much anxious labour and great personal risk. General Lau Chan, who succeeded- General Wal in the command of Wuchow, having expressed willing. ness to treat with the Cantonese for the capitulation of the town, Mr. Siy approached General Ngai Bong-ping who agreed to accept the terms and revoke his orders to the gunboats to bombard Wuchow. Mr. Sly was tireless. For three days and nights be had scarcely any rest—a strain that must have been terrible in the present beat. Twice during the period of
side the tank on Saturday, while
there was the ever present danger of more than usually serious in manner, Sir,-As I do not feel inclined to aerial bombs. The greatest admir- were perfectly restrained and sensible.eave my defence to the possibly ination has been expressed for his No desire was expressed to batter adequate wrath of the Editor of the courage, tact, and promptitude, high down the door, strangle the atten- Swastiko, who got off so lightly at qualities which saved Wuchow from dants and raid the coffers, although the hands of Adversaris that he will the almost certain horrors of war. similar feelings must have been lur hardly be sufficiently roused, I must ing within their breasts. Good bard beg of you space wherein to slay the earned money gone. Had we only known! Better to have squandered serpent. it on riotous living!
EVEN A CRITICISED POET WILL TURN.
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The verse is so varied, from grave to gay, from lively to severe, that we need not mention the contributions The little groups of investors out To the Editor of the " China Mall,"|| negotiations he was shot at, while
individually. Practically all are worthy of a place, many could have been sold to publications in the world ourside. By the way, should Mr. A At the Sanitary Board meeting Alban Parker be counted as a to-morrow Dr. W. V. M. Koch, amateur? He is a professional joura pursuant rotice, will move:alist, but high class verse such as his re-is not included in journalistic duties respectfully Board commends that the Government Prize competitions should increase provide lavatory accommodation for interest in the next number, and we children in the two play-grounds at look forward to the poems on the Peak."
Trowsers," and the Chinese "Old Grouse in the Gunroom" anecdotes, Mr. E. Suzuki. Consul-General Competitors for the second, we take for Japan at Hongkong, left on the it, need not necessarily be sinologues. "Korea Maru," for Japan where he The editor, we notice threatens to will take a holiday before proceeding "fade away " if sufficient support be to take up his new appointment insot forthcoming. That would be a
Consul General at pity. Australia, as Sydney. Mr. Tsubogami who suc ceeds Mr. Suzuki in Hongkong. is expected from London in August.
One individual exchanged ex
LATER. Following the surender of Wachox, the separation of the city from Kwangsi has been declared. The Cantonese troops are advancing in the direction of Nasring. It is commonly believed that an aeroplane
Adversarius talks of poet's claim to glory. No poet claims it he periences and compared lasses with canaille that poetry is not hard. it
hopes for it. And if we
tell the another. Total strangers became close friends in an instant, united by but that we would appear the brighter will be sent to drop bombs on Nan- the bands of a common misfortune. in their self-discovered gloom of in-ning in order to intimidate
populace.
ability.
WUCHOW TO-DAY.
·CONSCRIPTEN LABOUR.
P
the
When a bank fails it is hard for
I need hardly point out that your each depositor to realise the hopeless-
contributor confuses Thyme and ness of his or her case. Nothing Incidentally, this morning's Daily can be done. Ordinarily how easy metre. Give him a dictionery. Teil: Press has a column review. We do to take cut money. A few words on him to look up these two words. 17 not know who wrote it; our acquain-a piece of paper and across the also "liquid" and "fluid." It was
Another correspondent writes that tance, professional or lay, does not counter the dollars come, but after G.B.S. in the preface to the Admin-wachow is like a city of the dead. able Bashville ( speak booklessly) As a result of the martial law order include anyore who could have the crash bow impossible. written it. Because, if it was not When one deposits money in any who said that he wrote that play prohibiting all mevement afloat and written by someone with a knife," bank, one always has a feeling that blank verse as he had only a week in ashore after dark the customary and no conscience, it must have been the money is really there, somewhere which to do it. This bears on roise of a Chinese city has given written by somebody with the literary judgement of a dead doakes. When ever be praises or blames rightly. ance.
The
difficult to comprehend its disappeal busy man.
inside the doors. It is therefore Shakespeare's output. He was place to an uncanny quiet. Stops- are closed, the streets are deserted. Lastly, in the poem from which and the usually busy water front is
Hargrond, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1981,
the property gambling continued, deformed arm, and was incapable of any definite aim in the magazine Hongkong.
"the first consideration in a **My husband wished to gamble on
KEITH WEST.
A PAINFUL BUSINESS,
quiet,
Trade is at a standstill and it is
impossible to buy even the cheapest articles, not even a box of matches, as the shop people still refuse to open their premises for business, Practic- ally all the street hawkers and many shop people have been conscripted/ by the Kwangtung authorities for transport work, the carrying of food supplies, munitions etc.
strong
to
efforts of the -
gradually gaining the confidence of the populace. Trade should be in full swing to another ten-days time. Food supplies in Wuchow, while not over abundant, appear to be adequate.
After having drawn most of the funds to his credit in the Yokohama banks. Mr. Robert Sherower, who for five years has been engaged in the export and import business in Yokohama, departed quietly for America on the steamer Colombia, leaving behind him what his em he gives the wrong reason for it. It. Matter, scientists say, is indestruc. Adversarius quotes, on 2.27. of the ployees estimate at bets een Yen is none of our business to justify Mirtible but money somehow can vanish Swastika. "liquid" is an adjective. 200,000 and Yen 250,000 in obliga Bowen's epithets, but the stuff this overnight.
In his emendation he replaces it by tions and but an inconsiderable sum reviewer writes about the "argent"
Theres and two soldiers with be-rib- | a noun. This is cheap. Tell him in assets, says the Japan Advertiser. For ardent" west is hether and boned breasts. They have read the not to do it,
balderdash. He thinks sunset skies notice that payment is suspended,
Yours, The Shanghai Journal of Com are always red. They always would and in the British way pretend to merce reports that the str. "Ogawa be, in poems written by and for his care not. Who knows of the hopes Maru" has arrived at Shanghai with class of bourgeois mentality. He that were built on that little balance $750,000 and 1,200,000 rounds of says wild moods" and estrange and now so rudely dashed to the amrousition for delivery to the ment " offer little scope for poetic ground?
[To the Editor of the "China Mall." Kwangsi troops, together with a fervour." He must be mad.
Here a sailor an officer, whose wife
All communication with Nanning further consignment of ammunition "Comedy of Errors" verses were has been ordered home by the doctor
Sir.-Thro" the medium in your has been severed and trade with. to be supplied in Shanghai. The jolly good satire; all this ass could at once. Her life is in danger. Her issue, I beg to say a few words re Hongkong is still practically at a money is stated to be part of a see in them was "the charm of passage money and expenses were in the failure of the Banque Industrielle standstill. Vessels leaving Wachow Japanese loan amounting to simplicity. His comments on the the bank... Y.1,000,000.
Symposium would be conteraptible, There a husband and wife who de Chine, in which many Hongkong for Canton and Hongkong take very were it not that their stupendous have hearded for years so that their folks are involved. As reported in poor cargo and not much more Navigation The proposal to license Shanghai, sillyness deserves notice. What "con small fazily now growing up can be the local press, its failure has been on the return trip. shops at which morphia, cocaine, clusive information" could be expect sent to school at home, realisere to over-financing certain French of the river row is quite sale, and
trade should slowly revive. heroin and opium are sold continues in such a case? He admits it is "sug together the inevitable and sickering business-in fact, the object of the with the resteration of confidence to be the subject of agitation to some gestive"-isn't that enough? Absence postponement of their desire. Bank is to develop industries in
An-
While Wuchow was saved from extent, though one newspaper com- of "conclusive information". is, be other five or ten years toiling and Chis. Then, it is with pity but fighting and plander, thanks first to with sorrow on the part of those core the efforts of Mr. Sly and next to the plains that the Municipal Council says with a sapience more ostenta scraping locm darkly ahead, should have adopted this course tious than actual, "a fult com An aged couple stand behind with cerned, to learn through the Reuter's
measures taken by the some time ago. A curious argument mon to such treatment of no attempt to mask the sorrow on cables that support from other finan- Kwangtung authorities to suppress in favour of con-licensing is that controversial topics." Boeotian! their faces. He will soon be too old cial institutions in Paris to the Bank pillage, some of the villages further some of the shops concerned are do Blockhead! How deplorable it is to work and both were looking for was refused, and its appeal to the up the river are reported to have ing good by selling anti-opium pills! that clay should be sticky!. "Obriously ward to retirement next year. What Baak de France has been ignored. been less fortunate and to have been
it is impossible to convince any in- does it mean to them? How can leaving the credit of the Bank smash looted by the retreating Kwangsi' "Starving. I was compelled to telligent reader by generalities!" For they start afresh? What does the ed, despite the notice issued by the forces. Peştect order prevails The China Mail. Publicity has rete out what hawk Starving, 1 was bells the sheer footle that would be bad to be future hold for them? Their savings French Consul, Hongkong, in con- in Wuchow itself, thanks
to the the determined They grumble, but reply given Magistrate Orme this beat. What can the perpetrator of were inspired by the natural wish to nection with the rumours SKÚTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE."
they pay rather then fight. This morning, by a Chinese youth charged it know about "intelligent readers spend the remaining years of their finarsial difficulties of the Bank, Kwangtung authorities who are
ia November encouraged squeeze. There was no with hawking without a licence. He was never one himself. Lacks life in the Homeland, but now they which prevailed here reasonable security of tenure while The defendant added that he had a the apparatus. And he cannot find seem fated to end their days in tast.
Yours faithfully,
ONLOOKER. The Swastika, shares and exchange" and while refugees from Canton con- doing heavy work, Inspector Black-
said tinued to aggravate the demand, and give the defendant a recommendation be cofaplains, has no definite policy: woman to another, 'but I advised no protection. This Ordinance gives for a licence, but the latter did not "it is difñhcult to find what particular him to put his money in the bank in The British. having got together a it. The mere passage of such an trouble to come to the station for it. cause it advocates." That was good English sterling. I thought Large Empire. have now decided Ordinance, apart from the excellence The Magistrate imposed a fine of $3 careless of its editor. He forgot to that was the best investment, but mention the cause he was advocating now! Strange that tragedy gainst land-grabbing, and to regard imperfections of its text, must or seven days.
ST. PETER'S, WEST POINT. The Swastika is the official organ of and comedy are so often intermingled. The status quo as the standard for de good. The tenant is no longer a
mere lemon. he is buruan, and en- The Sinwanpao states that word the New Society for Providing The sight of investors hurrying to rid boundaries. The Ordinance titled to human consideration. has been received from Peking by the competent and nutterably Foolish the doors of the bank only to find
The services held yesterday in con- to amend the law relating to the re. By the way, the public has not local officials to the elect that Reviewers with Subjects to Bray at them closed could readily provoke nection with the patronal festival at
Everyone who has sat for an hour or Before leaving this incredibly amusement.
St. Peter's Church, West Point, were more in a room which is packed with Bolsheviks, British la Russian we anticipated, to point. covery of possession in certain cases rushed, as
which is review, Chinese labourers, bourers,
How unsympathetic, nay, how largely attended. Holy Communion people -a small theatre or a court- and to restrict the rests of certain out the fallacies of the Land In-students" have joined hands and disgrace to the hitherto respectable callous, are those whose savings are at 8 am. was followed at 21 ant by rooms, for example knows by experi Somestic teneruents is something like vestment Company's long and to established beadquarters at Peking, paper in which it has been permitted st. secure in other banks.
Procession, Sung Eucharist and ence the throbblag congested feeling plausible letter to the papers. The Shanghai and Soochow for a 'nal to appear, we must mention its But of what avall is sympathy in Sermon. There was special choral of the head which follows confinement that. The Hongkong landlords have other three papers have also followed government" scheme, and are dis mendacity. For the reviewer is a case like this? When an individual singing which included "Missa of this kind, and is apt to blame it on been adventurous and brave, and a policy of discreet inactivity. Yet tributing literature. Investigations parenthetic liar as well as an idiot. fails to make good his commitments, Solennelle" (Merbecke) and Sullivan's the fact that a large number of other have reached property values and it had more tempting openings than have been ordered--The report fails He says, in a parenthesis, that "there rraceedings can be taken against Ob Gladsome Light the latter people are present, while the real scoom reason Hes in a totally different ouse rents on which the sun never those pointed out by the China Mail. to state what prizes will be given to are more misprints in this monikly (!) him but a bank is such an impersonal being rendered without
, and this Ordinance may be When his Excellency the Governor the investigator first discovering a periodical than are found ordinarily thing. Trie, some of the directors paniment. The Rev. W. J. Feather direction. One can easily acquire a cited as the Canute Ordinazee, its/comes to take notice of it in Council, British labourer in either of the ia a single issue of a daily paper of Farrow's bank got a year's stone acted as celebrant and the Rev: headache by remaining in a smalt in Hongkong." "That's a lie, and imprisonment or something of that E. de T. Pyner was the preacher. | room, alone, providing the doors and he is sure to point out the impertin- places mentioned. Message being "Thus far and no ence of the "red herring" which the
be can take say dally, paper sort but to how many years of The singing of "Eternal Father, windows are closed and there are no New of the death of Mrs. Shaw, he likes. Does he know E mis penury, and suffering were the Strong to Save" concluded the ser-cracks large enough for the admis further." The rente collected at Company drew across the trail of The end of December are establish his reference to certain properties. widow of the late Archdeacon Shaw ready what he sees one? As thousands of unfortunate crediton vice
is contained in a letter received in already mentioned, we haven't the condemned. as the standard rent. So long as So far as that Company and that Tokyo from England. She leaves a slightest idea who wrote this review, In quite a number of Hongkong HONGKONG BOOK CLUB. u behare yourself, and pay the rent property was concerned, His Excell-daughter, Mist Dorothea Shaw, who and we don't care. Whoever he is homes to-day new adjustments are ency was complaining of unreasonable accompanied her from Japan to Eng- he should never be trusted to write being made. Economies have to be paid last December, the Gover-increases of zents as a result of" ferm-land in April of last year and two anything more: his talents and know effected which were never dreamt
Notices are out for the inaugural eat says your tenancy must be ing out." The Company's letter con- sons. Norman, the Chinese Mari-ledge are nearly good enough for a of before. Pians have been upset, meeting of the Hongkong Book Club siksturbed "and peaceful You Aued itself to showing (and even then time Customs, and Rozaid, a member Sanitary Coolie's job; but for any arrangements postponed indefinitely, on Wednesday evening at 5.15 p.m. In England the New Poor found in the Sanitary Department's Board not worry about your friends disingenuously) the return obtained of the clergy staff in Japan of the thing like literary criticism. he is
themselves forced to economise. Room, by kind permission. Since ng to your landlord and offering from said property by the Company. Society for the Propagation of the demonstrably a Wash-Out.
Smaller houses were taken, servants the notice was circulated, the initial more than you are paying, for That was the Governor's point, Gospel, and now in England on fur-
dispensed with and life continued on membership fins risen to twenty, and cannot put you out, unless he is not what the owning Compery got, laugh. The eldest son, Alexander,
Tkower scale,” was killed in the war. Archdescon
"there are still others coming in, red to live in it himself, and but what the tenant paid, in con- Shaw was the first missionary of the
But when money is lost in Hong- d then he must find you a suitable sequence of the Company's farming Church of England to open work in
kong it is harder to retrench In this at about the same rent. There out policy. The company might get Tokyo in 1873. He was appointed DISTE
ISTRESS in the stomach after eat way. Where are the smaller hoses efforts to accumulate, cut down their
ing is relieved by taking ons of leopholes that smart lawyer of less than four or five per cent. On first chaplain to the British Legation Chamberlin's Tab eis. Try it the next for example? The saddest fact is Clients will doubtless try to their own showing their farmer" in 1873, and died in Tokyo, March tin-e you eat more than you Ab-uki: For that soshy of those whose sayings mie of, as in 4 (1) (d), and (e), was getting much more.
13, 1902
sale by all Obomists and Esorokoopsen. are now gone had already," in their
HOUSE RENTS.
man stated that he once offered to literary journal."
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and crazy
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WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH.
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Hongkong, 3rd July, 1921.
PATRONAL FESTIVAL,
expenses, to a minimum and further economy will mesg rest hardship,
RD.
WHY
DOES A CROWDED ROOM INDUCE HEADACHES?
sion of a fair amount of fresh air. In other words, it is the lack of sufficient oxygen which causes the headache in this case, rather than the presence of a large number of people-though the larger the assemblage, the quicker the available oxygen is consumed.
In addition, the beat and moisture given off by the bodies of those pre- seat interfere with the proper function: of the pores of the skin, and the body makes an effort to throw off its water by increasing the How, of "bingdin short time the brain begins to throb, and this sentation 5000 changes, to - a steady: prolonger headache, which may result in a fainting spell if fresh air is not supplied.