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Mr. Nores some years ago, and it is! We have an pet remedy of our own, SPECIAL CABLE. [ome of his traits that he never forgets, and no prejudice or passion in the What I told you in 1899," he matter, uuless, perhaps, a very strong nationalistic remarks, when appealed to, or even conviction that any when not. I repeat now. Take it movement is a sin against scientific from me. Most of us de, for such civilization. and sin against One pontifications are such a comfortable | Christianity, be a 'prejudice.
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MAJOR-GENERAL WOOD 3
TOUR.
AMERICAN MISSION ENTER ' TAINED AT SHANGHAL.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
arrived
SHANGHAI, Sept. 19.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER^.9, 1921.
SHAPO ROBBERY,
FOUR CHINESE CHARGED.
A quartette of Chinese was called upon at the Criminal Court to-day before the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. | |H. H. J. Gompertz) to answer charges
accusing them of armed robbery,
THEATRE ROYAL,
SATURDAY'S FINE CONCERT.
ANOTHER ON WEDNESDAY.
| bypath, such an rusy short cut round plain rerpart of the teaching of Jesus the lill of Thinkingitover: and have vess that nationality should no longer
However courageous, three artists We mentioned this before --we | count. The trend of true religion, of|
Mr. G. H. Wakeman, prosecut- who would essay to give a successful have every confidence in Mr. Noves, scient t statesmanship. and of
ing for the Crown, outlined his performance here unaided must needs Be inspires confidence. There is civilization.. is toward international-
case Und then evidence war possess outstanding ability, the more hypnotic forre in his Take it from ism, so that the Irish or any other
given disclosing that nat long especially as any tolerance engendered mfomaul. If only Hongkong had nationalistic ambitions are
Major-General Wood. Governor of before midnight on August 7, three by a long period barren of good prof I been blessed with a Boswell, how rich tionary.
would he the collections of the say But let us be quite clen in out the Philippine Islands, Mr. W. Camer-wonen living at Shapo were dis- fessional entertainment would soon ings of Oliver Noyes, who, by the way, minds about it. Lloyd George's way on Forbes the former Governor, and turbed by the entry of five men desert a Hongkong audience faced has never been nominated for our offers no solution. His strung "line party
at Shanghai or brandishing torches. Bangles were with the discomfort of a humid in our Dove too cool El- Legislative Council. This would be as the petty journalists are calling it) Saturday. They received a hearty snatched from the arms of two of the evening matter for regret and repentance, dil in cancelling the conference" was welcome from Americau and Chinese women and the house was ransacked Theatre Royal. Miss Anna we not happen to know that our hero really weak, and petulant, and useless, officials and residents. They were money, jewellery and other articles Tour. Miss Vera Mirora. and Mr. Leo. Podolsky, three Russian Bad no desite for the honour. He has We must either conquer the Irish crentertained at afternoon tea and a being stolen.
After the men had gone the women artists .who presented their said so many times. As for the yield to them. An irasional victory reception by the Chinese Chamber of O.B.E.. it is really tragic that we in guerilla warfare cannot be consider Commerce and other Chinese organisa-reported the robbery to the Kowloon first joint concert here on Saturday cannot meil any of his brightested as conquering a cantankerous peo- tions also at dinner at the Carlton Ciy Police Station and a search was night: soon showed that they possessed honse opposite the bath the courage and the ability to comments on that. There was one ple like that. We must either pnt Cafe by the American Association made. Ja a very witty one- las actual words were the best lace on giving them all they and the American Chamber of Com- cement works the police found the four succeed, and to succeed triumphantly. unfortunately not preserved--but the ask, and trusting to their generosity, merce. Mr. Cunningham. the consul- prisoners. One man had in his posses- Their several nurabers -vocal. dane- effect of it was that . B. Es were or we must absolutely beat them, General presided. Major-General sion a dagger made out of one halfing, and pianoforte--were submitted becerung as common as dirt. Take which means driving the last hostile Wood's speech was solely on the of a pair of scissors and a paper with an unfailing artistry that evoked
A similar weapon
was loud applause and frequent demands it from me." He selects all the inter-Trish individual out of the country. Philippine Islands and the conditions sheath.
picked up near one of the other men. for encor s. port teans twice. once before the and resettling it with a different he found there. official selection, and once after it. populatias. Cromwellian measures Major General Wood and party left Charged at the police station one of Miss Anna El-Tour. whose pret- the prisoners said he would plead tidy spoken prefaces to her songs His second selection is generally ad-will not do: they were only half early yesterday for Peking by rail.
guilty but the others denied the were both instructive and enter- mitted to be about as perfect as such measures. The worst that Cromwell
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improvised dagger Wax found temperament. Clear, fresh, and re- Mr Noyes, it is hopeless to try to had enough if you really risan
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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he did not commit the robberr but Possibly her Lippiest contributions that the police beat him to make him were a dainty old Spanish song. a confess that he did it. He went to the pretty XVII century French pastoral house where he was arrested to shelter one, and a romantic Persian love from the rain. The other three men sorg, all of which she sang with a denied taking part in the robbery and charm and delicacy that wan the More than 100 buildings were stated that they were caught in the hearts of the audience. Laughter damaged by fire in Wachow carain. Two of the men were picked mingled with the applause which September 12. Two persons were out by witnesses at an identification greeted her intriguing version of a parade as having been amongst the Russian parsery rhyme repre- killed and over ten injured.
Tobbers.
senting a raven blowing a trumpet Each of the accused gave evidence from a tree. Warm encomiums were denying the charge. The jury, after also evoked by her fine rendition of a short retirement, returned a verdict the noble Moscow Chimes,” and her of guilty against three of them and distinctive treatment of beautiful acquitted the fourth. The guilty three were sentenced to five years imprison. ment with ten strokes of the cat.
Baron Vorez de Vaux was a
print full tithe of his excellences, The common wonder is that he should be content to retain in a merely But whatever you do, don't be
A greater Canton scheme money-making line of business, for it parrots, and rep.at the Lloyd is fully realized that he could have teangan arguments as Reutered as if extend city boundaries is now being shone in note dignified avocations, thy were Holy Writ and r al con-carried out. Banking. for example. No one intributions to a practical discussion, Hongkong knows more about ex-So far the logie is all on D: Valera's change than he does. You may take side, and his reply as Reutered this that from him. On points of law he morning, to Lloyd Georg ““season never besitates, whereas some fairly for breaking of negotiations, will able lawyers do. And what a doctor have the endorsement of every logical! he would have made: There isn't a mind in the world that gives it half a G.P. ia Hongkong who could rival minute's thought Well might Dail passenger from Hongkong to Singa- the popularity he might have bad. Eir ann be surprised that Llord pore by the P.&O. 8.s. "Khyber" You should hear his health Lints. No George could not see the need of each which sailed this morning. doubt you have. He is the only reals de defiring its position before authority we know on bow to keep coming to debate. For that is the fit here.
Take it from me. oli elementary and essential preliminary man," he says, in his impressive way. to all controversies. Lloyd George what you need is a regular drop of defined his as loyalty to the monarchy. good Scotch, and cut out the beer." De Valera defined his as nou-recogni His pronouncements on art we cannot tion of the monarchy. Lloyd George appreciate, owing to our own igno- asked De Valera, before he would rance. but we have no doubt that confer with him, to abandon this his they are as sound az Any major position. De Valera, us he other of his obiter dicta. now points out, did not ask Lloyd
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Four men were killed and more than twenty seriously injured when four buildings under repair in Canton collapsed early on Sunday morning.
Hongkong Jockey Club members wishing to subscribe for horse bazaar 1921 subscription griffins for the official meeting will find lists at the Hongkong Club, Jockey Club Stables,
An attempt by the Mayor of Canton to settle the all mill workers strike. which has now lasted two
INDIANS GIVE A LOT OF TROUBLE.
Irish, Scottish, and English folk songs. Notable among her other contributions were enchanting interpretations of The Lass with the Delicate Air" and Shatspere's exquisite It was s Lover and his Lass."
The
Miss Vera Mirova, whose previous performances here are still a pleasant memory, displayed the same grace ONE THAT SPAT.
and skill that Erst won her local fame. He: fine appreciation of An Indian patient of the Govem. the poetry and rhythm of Boccherini's It is as we have said once already. George to abandon saything. II," and at the Race Courae.
ment Civil Hospital was this morning dainty Menust,” Grieg's well-known hopeless to do his character justice in he says, "the positions were not
article, we propose a definitely
charged before magistrate Orme with Anitra's Dance and Moszkowsky's opposed. there would
wonderfai Valse." won her Idud de- biography. Readers who recall any be no problem to be discussed.
having assaulted a Chinese dresser. "bon met or wise saying of bis will | That.
The defendant said that the dresses mands for encores, which obviously men could ap- oblige us greatly if they send it in, prove Lloyd George's message months, ended in failure, the em-assaulted him first because he had could not be gratified after a display
s exacting on a hot night. giving date where possible. There (apart from the other faults we show ployers refusing to concede more spat on the floor and he retaliated.
Dr. Moore said he doubted that the artiste fully deserved the tribute. be, in
oral tradition ied in it) and overlook that funda- than a 30 per cent. increase in wages
dresser would assault patients. Howhere else, a wealth of material mental fact to which it was an absurd and the employees to accept less than Indians generally gave a lot of trouble to local music lovers, acquitted him
Mr. Leo Podolsky, also no stranger about this truly eminent Hongkongite. afrott. convinces us that there is far 40 per cent.
at the hospital and were bard to self with customary credit at the Let us collect it. before any of it gets less thinking done by newspaper forgotten. Mr. Noyes has resided hete readers, and by some
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Rummel have please. It was against the rules to piano, his fire talent revealing itself for more years than any individual can writers. than even the amount we established their office at Ching Hai spit on the door of the ward. Spitto advantage in Rameau's expres recall. He was probably bere from the ( wem willing to believe in.
MaoloCanton. Dr. Rummel is a noted toons were provided on the side of sive beginning. He will probably be here for Ir. George is not the man to settle German physician and surgeon, and each bed and on the verandal.
A fine of $5 was imposed. ever, for the Hongkong oracle is im- the irish question; that is now clearly Mrs., Rummel is a well know mortal. Take it from us. The news demonstrated. There has been a child and women specialist. Buth papermen, who amaze everybody by great deal of talk of loyalty to the graduated at the L'uiversity of
Germany with the cocksure way they bandle any topic King dragged in; why not invite His Freiburg,
high under the sun, are well enough in their Majesty to act, and leave it to him? honours. way. but they are, after all. merely It would be his Majesty's feeble echoes of Oliver Noyes. As a normal duty, but for that paradoxical journal very popular with the loyal disloyalty that insists on limit- Institution of Engineer and Ship
As the result of being knocked semiliterates at Home has the habiting his powers. Lloyd George, at builders, on "Refrigeration and Ice- of saying, we take off our hat to present regarded as the loyalist Making, was a thoroughly prepared down by motor car No. 452 in Bon- him.
opposed to a disloyalis, would pro-and exhaustive study of the subject. ham Road on Saturday afternoon, bably object, on the lines of his Mr. J. Reid, the President, "intro a 5-year old Chinese boy is now in the attitude toward De Valera, that to duced the lecturer, who hardly hospital in a critical condition. He allow the King to do so would be to needed that, being a member of the was badly injured about the head and imply his ight to abrogate the prin- Institution Prol. Smith of the body.. ciple of limitation of monarchy, and University joined in the debate. "undermine the fabric" of Cabinet
A FEW PROPOSITIONS RE IRELAND.
governmen, driving the State back to autocracy.
Mr. T. G. Stokes' lecture to the
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Gavotte Varice," Rameau- Godovsky's characteristic Tambou- riu." Liadoff's happy "Barcarolle," and Liszt's fascinating "Polonaise."
Another concert will be given on Wednesday under the patronage of H.E. the Governor and Lady Stubbs.
DEATH IN ASYLUM.
INQUIRY INTO ALLEGED SUICIDE.
In the big court at the Magistracy this afternoon, an enquiry was held into the circumstances attending the
In order to prevent military FALL INTO SHIP'S HOLD.death of the Indian watchman em-
even if we with-held it, "That's Mr. Oliver Noyes, of the firm of Byam and Sein. That's just how he talks. Such is true fame. When the name of many a governor and colonial secretary has long been forgotten, and has to be looked up is the records to settle the argument, the of Oliver Noves Esquire
still Hongkong will
стар There will thus be à up in talk.
The Irish problem is not a new one, peculiar appropriateness about his not even in acuteness.
As English fame, for Mr. Noyes was never men we are weary of it, because it has
is # talker. a writer. He
As been for years wasting English lives, Oliver Noyes used to say. There is English money, and English, time- no problem that cannot be settled in preventing our Parliament from gett- five minutes talk. Take it from me." ing on with our own effairs." That is The sincerity with which he utters a fair English point of view, which is The coastal road from Kowloon this formula is so patent as to need not obliged to dwell on the corollari to Castle Peak is again open to traffic. no affidavit. Mr Noyes does ask you ous wastage of Irish Lives, money, and to take it front him," on every con- time.
Mr. Stevens, the representative ceivable subject, whether it figures BROCK-GORDON-On September in Renter's telegrama or in the local.
As Englishmen, we presumably of the Consortium, accompanied by want to get rid of it. To be quit of Mrs. Stevens, has returned to China. Kaling. Mande. news. The quickness of his mental the problem, to have it settled some-
Taipinga, a stronghold between youngest daughter of the late powers is one of the most remarkable how, is our objective.
A quantity of furniture, about 40 Nanning and Lungchow is now in the the Cantonese troops, John Garrion Auckland. New things about this truly remarkable
How many ways are there of sett!-lots of ent glass, and tes lots of hands of man. Is there a murder trial? He ing it? We now see that bargaining Italian marble statuettes will be put according to a report received by the is ready with his verdict long before is useless, and that a continuance of up for auction by Messra, Hughes and Canton military headquarters. The the jury are, and with his summing our punitive and repressive occups-Hough to-morrow afternoon.
601.
HARRIAGE.
6, 1921.
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Zealand to Rev. John Brock, China Inland Mission. Chow
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DEATH.
at
up long before the Judge has finished tion mesas no change for years. That hearing the evidence. It is no part game izn't worth the candle. of Mr. Noyes' methods to put on
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
authorities from interfering in civil afsirs, the Canton Government has decided to divide the Kwangtung, province into nine military zones, in each of which will be stationed a
LABOURER SEVERELY
.
INJURED.
ployed by the Canton branch of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., who Was alleged to have committed suicide by cutting his throat in the bathroom of While at work on board a ship in the Lunatic Asylum where he was certain number of tacops for the sole the course of construction at the under observation as a mental patient. purpose of defending their respective Hanghom Dock, & Isbourer accident-It will be remembered hat the man areas. The number of troops to be ally fell into the hold from a plank on was alleged to have smashed a mirror stationed in each zone will be about which he was standing. He was and used a piece of the broken glass
severely injured and was unconscious to cut his throat. when taken to the Kwong sh one brigade.
Hospital.
FALL FROM TRUCK.
WOMAN'S LEGS BADLY CRUSHED.
KINEMA NOTES.
KOWLOON THEATRE.
Cantonese troops under Generals Wang Tai-wai, Chen Chiung-kwang Fassing the monument at 5.15, and Chung Chien-tang made a com-
In "A Broadway Cowboy" the the funeral will take place this even bined attack on the city on the morn- While assisting in driving a truck Jesse D. Hampton-Pathe feature at BOURBOULON.-On September 11, forensic frills, or to be tedious. Other- The proposition is that there are ing of Mrs. S. E. Long, a very old and ing of September 12. After fighting down the incline of Morrison 1l the Kowloon Theatre to-day, William 1921. at Shenbarwan, after a wise--though to mention the word in only two practical solutions, namely respected resident of Hongkong who for a whole day the besieged troops Road yesterday afternoon, coolie Desmond portrays a young tenderfoot
(1) Te withdraw from Ireland, died in Shanghai on September 11. brief illness, Hime. Bourboulen, connection with the name of Oliver
surrendered the city.
woman slipped and fell. Before the actor who suddenly finds himself the wife of the Manager of the Credit Noyes is almost blasphemous he leaving the Irish to govem them
others could apply the brake, one of central figure in a lot of hair-raising, Foncier d'Extreme Orient would be a bore, instead of an oracle. selves, and settle their own quarrels.
Friday's preliminary trial trip of
the wheels of the heavily laden truck uncomfortable and highly amusing. Shanghai.
(2) To evict, deport, or even ex- the new China Navigation steamer No. He is ever terse, ever emphatic.
An Indian was this morning ran over her feet badly crushing adventures in Montana and all for Always there is a simple dignity in terminate the Irish root sud branch, Kwangchow" was highly satisfac charged before Magistrate Lindsell them. The woman was removed to
the love of a gid. his prose that gives it something of adults and children, by using cur tory. The maximum speed reached with having behaved in a disorderly the hospital in an unconscious con poetic quality. The man should fullest war methods intensively, was 12.5 luots. Coal was used but manner in Bunghom yesterday. Ing. The China Mail.hang," says he, and we all nod our If there is another way, what is it? another trial will be made with oil pector Aris said that the defendantand dition. It is feared her injuries will
heads solemnly, like a Roman gallery If not, which of the two do you vote fuel this week. ** CHUTE, JUSTIÇAK, FUBLIC SERVICE. watching the Emperor," thumbs up for!
or" thumbs down." Not infrequently Suppose the British Government Mr. W. E. Frazer, second officer he puts on the garment of prophecy, were to proclaim to the world that it of the str. "Persian Prince," who was and says simply, The man will proposed to give the ungovernable prosecuted in connection with the and thus obstruct traffic. They were lang." He said this of the last trial Irish complete autonomy for tea death of Japanese on the vessel in very noisy when taken we had, and all his friends, although years, as an experiment, during which November last, and whose appeal station where the defendant attempt by returning to the Colony after he part Graphic Film Co. drama written. thing my nothing being mad to let the slightest evidence of meddling with against a sentence-of-two-years-isod again to suit the wardes The had been banished for life a Chiness and directed by Ivan Abramson is. Trobably you have all met him, so Mr. Oliver Noyes do the talking, feel Ireland to our detriment by any pending in the Tokyo Appeal Court, warder, said the Inspector, was being was sentenced to two years' imprison- now screening at the Hongkong. we may as well risk ali action for that in a sense the acquitted in that Tower would be taken as a casus belli has, says the Japan Gazete, been dealt with departmentally, and hement with hard labour by the Paisie Theatre. John Mason, famous on the and give his name. If we case, was not quite fair to him, Te against that Power and promptly missing from Yokohama since July Baked the Court to deal with the Judge (Kir. 3. R. Wood) at the American stage for many years, caland him right you would say, Irish situation was finally settled by acted upon, how would that do t
defendant. A fine of $5 was imposed Criminal Court this morning.
Sonokoke, Monday, Sept. 19, 1971.
"ITÉ HONGKONG OBACLE,
be permanent. an assistant warder of the Victoria Jail, who were both the worse for drink, fought outside a watchmaker's shop, causing a large crowd to gather
BANISHEE SENTENCED.
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to the having disobeyed a deportation order
It's a fast action comedy drama,
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Fort.
HONGKONG THEATRE.
"The Moral Suicide," a fine 7--
starred in this sensatiqval