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The agitators at Home have gone as far as they can, and we hope it will be a lesson to our officials never
· LOGAL AND UNKERAL.
One case of plague, Chinese, was reported on Saturday.
The body of an unknown Chinese
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1921,
STABBED TO THE HEANT. “EARLY MORNING FIRE. `
SEQUEL TO A QUARREL.
--BODY FOUND IN KOWLOON DRAIN.
Stabbed to the heart, the body of
BLAZE IN QUEEN'S ROAD WEST.
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LEAGUE BOWLS.
TAKOO HEAT KCC.
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TAIKOO
BRIGADE'S STRENUOUS FIGHT. again to attempt to suppress was found yesterday-on' a' plot of opinions as they tried to suppress waste ground in Dundas Street, near
About 2.25 this morning, the Fire he Hazlewoods.
the steam laundry,
a Chinese was yesterday found lying Brigads received a call to attend a Saturday between, Taikoo Bowling A League match was played ori The Chinese, in spite of some belittling
In a blood stained drain at the outbreak of fire in Queen's Road Club and the KCC which resulted An advertisement to this legae junction of Shanghai Street reports of and comments on their
and West: The first floor of No. 210, in a win for the former. Appended. that the Tabaqueira Waterloo Road in Kowicon. publie meeting have sucessfully ounces
Reoccupied by the U. Chân firm of tex hown that the case against them Filipina have made a reduction of 15 moved to the mortuary, the body dealers was well ablaze, when they are the scores
was afterwards Identified as that of arrived and it was a long and was exaggerated. and as a quite per cent on all ameking requisites.
a man living on the first floor of No. strenuous fight before they succeed. seful concession they have formed
In St. John's Church, Yunnan 171, Shanghai Street. His relatives ed in extinguishing the dames The T. Grimshaw. or are forming a society to discourge Fu, South China, by the Bishop of believe that he was done to death by first floor was completely gutted, the D. Morrison. the slave notion and cruelty to Victoria, on Jaly 17. The Rev. E. S. a gang of ruffians headed by a man second floor used as a dwelling partly N. Drummand. children generally. One of their Yu, B.A., L.Th. was ordained a with whom he had a quarrel over an gutted and goods stored on the J. Ferguson erities, anxious to discount the effect priest, and The Rev. R. F. Lankester, opium deal some time ago. People ground foer damaged by water. of their meeting, said it was not] MA,, a preacher.
living in the vicinity allege that they
The ground floor is insured with really representative of the mui taai!.
saw the deceased speaking heatedly the Heung On Insurance Co., for keeping class. That, obviously,
with several men outside a tea house. $5,000; the first floor with the Royal W. Weir. strengthened its value, if people not
atar the spot where he was found Insurance Co., for $8,000; and the G. Morrison. concerned to defend their own con
dead.
second floor with the Sincere Insur-R. Wallace. ance Co., for $1,000, and the Heung On A. Hamilton. duct turned out impartially to defend
Insurance Co., for $500. The cause of the outbreak is unknown, while the extent of damage has not yet been ascertained.
a custom.
The memorial stone at Fanling erected in memory of the member of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club who fell in the great war will be
navelled by H. E. the Governor on Sunday, August 14 at 5 p.m.
A MIDNIGHT PROWLER.
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A Chinese was this morning charged before Magistrate Lindsecil with having trespassed into the ser vants" quarters of the residence of Mr. T. Hamilton, No. 14, Conduit Road. The accused said that he went H.M.5. "MalayaTM i. again to the house to look for a friend. coming to Eastern waters. When Inspector Pain said that accused was the Prince of Wales leaves for India found loitering in the basement of towards the end of October he will Mr. Hamilton's house at 1.45 am. anniversary of England's entry into It was the evening of the seventh travel in HMS. Renown and in the corner of a room in the rer the Great War, and we sat a hundred The more experienced Police Bowls
4TH AUGUST 1921.
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The contributor of the article before us is less unfair than some
A Chinese widow living in First of their other critics. He dwells too Street West Point, yesterday entrust- much on the form of the questions ed a man with $30 in notes to change debated, as they appeared in English | into Chinese 20-cent pieces. The man translation. He ought to know that promptly disappeared with the money a Chinese proposition, quite logical and a warrant has now been issued ia its original farm, may easily look for his arrest. illogical or tricky when translated. His own argument (though true enough in intention) is none too logical. No Pei means male and Ltd
female slaves. No are really slaves in perpetuity, pei are not, becoming | the "Malaya" will be in company to vant's quarters, an electric torch was free on marriage. Therefore pei are no accommodate a number of military found. In an alleyway, a little dist members of the British Legion who players had the best of the Craigen- gower players in their league match is the effect of his conchision that officers who are included in the large ance from the back door of the house, had each seen service in the campaigon Saturday, winning in all three.
pei are not the same as slaves suite.
the police picked up three keys and aat dinner in the Hongkong Hotel rinks. though they are of the same class."
knife. The accused denied all know to celebrate that epoch-making de-
The results were All this is threadbare, the facts well] Lieutenant G. A. B. Hawking ledge of the torch, keys or knife, claration of war. Each and ̧ all of known and admitted. We meet jolaste “Magnolia,"China Squadron, which the police allege he must have us had come with the intention of that at an early date. This officer joined dropped when attempting to escape passing an evening that in its spirit again the horrid argument
the Navy twelve years ago, and after he had been found. Asked to of happy comradeship should be Kalght. because the servant is so exceptionally served with much distinction in the explain why he should be about worthy of the days when we fought Kelly. subject to the master (her only safe late war, in the course of which be late at night, the accused said that together. Lights there were that Cooper. guard the wife's jealousy) seduction won a mention in despatches and the he had just returned from a Chinese blazed in plenty, flowers decorated the J. Clark must follow. It would be just as Distinguished Service Cross by arract theatre in town. Sentence of small, homely-looking tables, and the fair to say that the undoubted sub-of great gallantry.
weeks" hard labour was passed. jection of child to parent causes a
Band of the Wiltshire Regiment risk of incest that must be removed.
endeavoured to augment, if that were Handerson. Again. The admission that there
possible, the re-awakened esprit de Davitt. is a strong prima facie appearance
corps, the spirit of brotherhood in Robertson. of slavery in the mui tsai custom
arms that now revived in the full Gerrard. leads these people to say that the
Returning to the Colony yesterday warmth of the trench-digging, pin after a brief absence on business S. squeaking, principle should count before ex-
good
day's. pediency. Yet this one (8
Nazano, a Japanese merchant, living Every man had become five, six. Reid, sionary) is willing to study expediency
at No. 19, Praya East, found that his seven years younger, as the pop-pop Nicoll. and temporarily sacrifice principle.
godown at No. 4, Anton Street, had of corks punctuated the telling of old Mair. The problem of the fate of the 15,000
been broken into and 32 coils of yams and the hearty exchange of A. Clark insulated rubber wire worth $150, war-time reminiscences.-"Do you mi tsai we have is to him simple.
and 200 100, candle power electric remember Susanne in the little esta Leave them as they are, but make
buibs, valued at $100, stolen. legislation to prevent others coming in!
DER A. WING & CO.
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The China Mail. #MOTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
Hosaxons, Monday, Augusz'8, 1991.
TURKS, GREEKS, &c.
LOCAL AND GENERAL:
mis-
One case of paratyphoid fever and another of cerebro spinal fever, both Chinese, Friday.
were reported on
H
Engineer-Commander A. has been appointed to the cruiser "Curlew." Commander Hill was lately serving in home waters.
The engagement is announced
of D. E. A. Wilson, elder son of Dr. D. Wilson of Bushey Heath, and
Mabel, eldest daughter of E. A Measor, of Bushey, formerly of Shanghai.
An elderly Chinese woman was yesterday removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from a wound in her head, alleged to have been received through a blow from a bottle in the course of a fight with another woman on the first floor of No. 23, arrested on a charge of having camed grievous bodily harm. The patient will be fit to attend Court in the course of the rext couple of days
New Street. The assailant has been
:
GODOWN ROBBERY.
·LOCEL AND GENERAL.
old
minet just off the Square in Bethune The light cruiser "Hawk Effing. ham"-sister of the "Hawkins,”
and the crowd she used to get when flagship of the China Station--
the London motor buses runed up recently launched, has some points
with a thirsty cargo?"; "Well, I which the "Hawkins does not
should just say I do. That girl had possess. The." Elrighan" and the
the finest collection of regimental "Frobisher" and "Raleigh" are all
Found wandering in Connaught badges it's ever been my luck to meet, Stted for both of fuel and coal- Eutasian lad ramed Henry de Cruz, had become engaged to a Canadian 03-burners, the "Hawkins" being Road West apparently insane, a The last I heard of her was that she burning. The Admiralty decided in 19 years of age, was yesterday recaptain."-" What's best 1917 in favour of oil only, and the moved to the Government
Hawkins"
then too WZ3
far Hospital. advanced to make a change. There are some improvements, too, in the
Civil
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BASEBALL.
HONGKONG TEAM BEATS JAPANESE, -
Another interesting baseball game- on the between the local American players joly old programme? Oh, roast and a Japanese team was witnessed beef sad horseradish: I say, you at Happy Valley on Saturday after- fellows that's rather a change from noon when the Hongkong team beat
woman suffering from 'a compterre,
| 24 to 6. Notwithstanding the mark-- what Just listen toed superiority of the American play Leg short-shanks ovet there! pound fracture of the left
Aayers, the play was well worth watch- alleged to have been received through
fall while attempting to evade attempt check his boisterous joviality and the game was not without ex
is as effective as the proverbial water citement. arrest for hawking without a licence, poured onto the proverbial back Following is the box score:
labour saving- appliances, but speed Now in hospital is a Chinese fried slices of baily and pommes de the Chidori sing by final score of
(30 knots,) and the armament (seven 7.5 in. guns) are practically identical
The wooden box containing a
of the proverbial dick."
HONGKONG.
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single note that White, es
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Bassister has informed the Archbishop of Canterbury of his desire to retire at the end of this year. Bishop Bannister has been a missionary in Chica for kinema machine and films stolen" sounded, & 41 years. He worked under the from Mr. Williams, a passenger by CMS. in Füllen from 1880 to 1897, the "Japan," while the ship stilled the calls for " Boy," the langh. Daugherty, if .......... the chief activities being in the was lying alongside the Kowloon ter and the chatter, and a solemn Lake, Ib district of Kutien and to the Divinity wharf last week, has been recovered hush fell upon all the room at the Koch, c School at Feochow. It was largely in Singapore.
signal for the silent toast. As we Lasher, 2b
Potter, rf... stood on our feet, every man to
Church, 3b ...*** chow was able to bring to justice the Mr. S. Hamer of the P.WD, was my comrades at our table and I Mount Parish, the residence of attention, I looked at the faces of
Pace. P... Kucheng murderers. Is 1897 Mr. entered by an open verandah window saw them set and grim and a serious Bannister became Secretary of the during Saturday night, and $18 in look betokening recollection in their CMS. in Hongkong, and in 1902 notes stolen from the pocket of a eyes. No mockery this, the one Archdeacon. La 1907 the new pair of trousers hanging on the wall still minute of silence for thought of Diocese was consecrated on S& Andrew's Day.
dear friends who had fallen, leaving Hachiuma, 35 ............ us safe with two arms, two legs, and, Ono, If
owing to his exertions and valuable assistance that HM. Consulat Foo
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Messrs Hughes and Hough's continue dominating Arabs and auctions to-morrow include the sales Syrians and Armenians and Greeks. of a consignment of white goods, The Allies set up in accordance with a quantity of furniture and about the peace terms a government in sixty lots of packing cases, wooden Constantinople and the French casks, firewood, etc. fostered the Kemalist revolt against it. The late Mr. Alfred Woolley, of only to be disappointed when Kemal the city of Ripoo, Yorks, and of turned Bolshevik. They are also Kobe, Japan, agent of the Peninsular accused of helping the Turkish Nation- and Oriental Co., who died on "The Devil was sick, the Devil a alists against the Greeks, not merely December 23rd last, left. gross saint would be. The Devil got well, diplomatically, but with anns and- estate of the value of £14,868. the devil a saint was he." After all, ammunition. It is an open secret that the Entente was recently sub- it is an old story, and group man
Lient-Cal. Loring, C.M.G., D.SO.
Dr. Gilbert Reid, who, it will be and Mrs. Loring sailed for London behaves very like individual man.jected to severe strains though, pru-
A Chinese fitter employed by the above all, thank God! two eyes. Ohtsuka, e The war to end war"-"never dently, the full extent of these was
by the sa. "Kalyan," today. Col. remembered, was deported from Kowloon Dock was removed to the So many thoughts.crowded into that Ishida, cumin again and all the rest of the heart-7 not published The Greeks also, al Loring who had been for severa! China during the war for instigating Government Civil Hospital on Satur short-long minute, yet time enough Torada, 3b
- 400 2 fat and bona fide cries of that sick though we may admit real grievances, Artillery here, was closely identified of returning to that country. The bead received through a hammer battle ground before Loos in the early Torada, M., 2011/0 2 years in command of the Royal edition has announced his latention day suffering from Injuries to his for me to picture the body-strewn Mano, 15...... 5 0 0 6 time are forgotten as soon as the the Allies giving them too much, and with amateur theatricals in aid of International Institute, of which he accidentally falling on him while at morning of the 25th September of Ishimatsu, p world fancies itself getting well again, then taking too much away from them, charity, and an enthusiastic member was the director, apparently no work on board a ship in the course 1915. Sitting on the shell-broken Nishida, rf Very devilish is the attitude we observe have been awkward allies, insufficient of the Sketch Club, at whose monthly longer exists, but he is going to of construction. His condition is not ground ten yards or so from me when we come to look at the situation ly aggressive when they might have exhibitions his pictures always devote himself to what he describes considered serious. in what at Home they call the Near Eelped, and far too bellicose now. secured a prominent place.
as "the more educațional and ethical
(I, too, being wounded and lying and Middle East, the Turks, Greeks, They cannot defeat the Turks quickly,
task of developing a Journal of in-
helpless so early in the fight), with Members of the Royal Hongkong his back propped up against a remnant Arabs, Churchillians, and other and they haven't the means to main- Captain Harold B. Sullivan,n.so.ternationalism, of universalism, and xifiraff. The Allies did not play tain a long fight They were warned who has assumed the command of bruman brotherhood. Presumably Golf Club are notified by an advertise of a barbed wire post just in front of the game by each other from the first to expect no material assistance, and the light cruiser "Curlew," China this means that Dr. Reid finds there rent in this issue that the Main the German second line trench, was
Course at Fanling will be reopened in this quarter, they were at cross advised not to attack. They did Station, in succession to Captain W. is more money to be made in China for play on Sunday, August 14. TOR face torn by a shell, his lower jaw of Commerce admitting that the com a riflemen of my battalion, his poor written to the Manchester Chamber M. James, ca.. appointed Flag Cap than in Utica, US.A,, from which purposes, they suspected each other attack, and are now probably calling tain to Vice Admiral Sir, Alexander L. this report comes, cominen's the by: ce testricting ladies from playing almost gone. "I was powerless to pisints of delay in the cable service of selfish plans, and in almost every British neutrality a treacherous
Duff. ECE instance the auspicion was well betrayal That it cannot be unlese earned his decoration at the Battle of
Commander-in-Chiet, Japan Chronicle..
August 15 until further notice. The remove my gaze from him and just with India and the Far East are well founded. Magnetic storms practical- founded. They are not co-operat- the small British party now desirous Julland, where he was second in
Relief Course at Fanling will be as powerless to help in bis extremity ly stopped the operation of the cables Migistrate Lindsell heard further closed for topdressing on Monday, ing now, except as circus clowns of "conciliating" the Tarks get their command of the 11th Flotilla, and evidence on Saturday in the case in August 15 until further notice.
. And as I watched, I saw him, between Suer and Aden from May 14, fumbling in his tunic pocket, and to 16, causing a large accumulation elim to co-operate, when they tag way. We should at least adhere to handled his half- command with which a Chinese la charged with at apparatos being shifted by more the Treaty of Sevres, abrogation much daring and ability in the thirty- | having attempted to ültér a forged
presently he withdrew a cigarette of trafic on the Eastern Company's purposeful men, and get in the of which the Turks are demanding. six hours fighting, including the $500 note alleged to have bɛen Colonel Robert Loraine, actor oh, so slowly he was dazed and cables. Throughout May the Com ay, and inpede real work. There There seems to be a sad mess night attack on the German line, ingeniously manufactured Fruin a $10 xirman, soldier, traveller, has re- dying.
And again he fumbl~| mercial Facific Company's cable be has been, and is, far too much tender-all round. So far are we from "ban.
note of the Chartered Bank at turned to London after ten month ed in that tanic pocket, and found tween Manila and Guam was inter- mess for the Turk. In this matter ishing the Turks from Europe," a
An application was made to Shanghai, Saturday's evidence trip, embracing the United States, a matchbox. Gently, almost it rupted, thus necessitating the diver s greatness of our Empire hand-pious resolution of war time, the Turks Magistrate Orme by the police on was that the accused and another Japan, China and India. His visit seemed unconsciously, he put the sion to the Eastern Company's cables, caps some of our statesmen. They are successfully banishing our peace, the as. Silicia." to be kept at the House Afty-fifty"
Saturday for an Italian seaman from | man were partnera on to Japan reminded him that when cigarette into his poor, broken month of the whole of the traffic between have to regard what should be the destroying our plans, and setting us of Detention until his departure, for optum in Wachow. In connection was a discussion on the propriety of only a common gasper," but the The Guam cables the United States basis, trading in be lett England last summer there lit it, and smoked a while. It was the United States and the Far East.. levant religious sympathies or all by the ears again as in pre-war Italy by the sa, Trieste, on August with a deal in Canton the partner bathing dresses. The ultra-Puritans, soldier's ever ready and trusty friend eine with the Far East; and the
stored and is taking judices of other peoples in the times,
18. The scctised who denied that had been swindled with the faked be remarks, would be deeply, shocked Empire. Presumably the Indian
he was a deserter, said he was ashore note. He attempted to pass it on to if they saw the bathing customs of
Eastern Company is diverting the Mahometan adjudges the Tark in the
seeing the sights when the vessel the accused but the latter declined to Japan, where ́iz was held the fewer Light always, merely because he too
left earlier than scheduled. When told accept it and chared his for has the clothes the greater the modesty, relaxed from the attention and all Zealand traffic to the Imperial and that he would be kept in the House Ing been taken in by such an obvious The Japanese bathe in a scate of sat down again. The lights Pacific cables, in order to afford from this weakness, it is a pleasure After we had gone to Press on of Detention until his departure the fake. The partnere quarrelled, and nature, and morality is not outraged; which had been abdued for the rellel to the service to India and the be able to say that in the premises Saturday we received a "comman accused sald that he would rather the accused was examining the note, the evil, is in the clothes. The silent toast, now shone brilliant Far East. The company sasures the own British statemen are far less icated article on this subject, good stay in hotel and the shipping when he was chased out of the house. Chinese fald Col. Loraine, in dis ly once more, conversation restarted, Postmaster-General, that it is doing worthy than the French, who in itself, but the case for and company ought to pay the expenses, into the arms of a constabic. The cussing his visit to China, - are the boys busily answered the calls of its utmost to overcome the difficulties are been encouraging the Tark with against the practice has been to order and the accosed was dny bably tria and giving, the accused West hiken been taught to lock upon played
The Magistrate could not Tacy his Magistrate thought the story, pro-entlemen of the world. We of the insistent dinastit. The Band of the abnormal situation, and he Krusta that "beg the work now la Trusou France is supporting exhaustively put that we propose to committed to the House of Deres the benefit of the doubt, dachtiged the Chinese as something armage
band in the Red Sea is completed the preposterous Turkish claim to make this the last reference to the tion.
hlig. The note will be destroyed. and aktsiater, but we are wrong.
present exceptional delays will cease
desses. Mahometanism. Apart
MUI TSAI.
on certain days is cancelled, from
The "Last Post" sounded, we whole of Its Australian and New