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1921,
et Shanghai, Augstus this habit of minding their own Victor, son of Mr. and Mrs. business has left the formation of William Augusts White. uenciety in the bands of wilful grafters, Shanghai, to Katherine Elizabeth who have helped themselves first and Godsil, daughter of Mr. Bere always; but does not reflection lead feed Jones of Hongheng
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DEATHS,
MCLEOD. At the Officers' Quarter
Victoris Jail, Arbuthai Road,
THE CJHNA MAIL.
That paste-coloured face of his, with its mean little watery eyes, its twitching eyebrows, its acidulated lips, and its bilious nose-does it not witness to the mind of a spitfire, to a character and nature the very opposite of England's ?
Our list of contrasts must stop there, at Shaw the accused and Begbie the accuser. Almost any other we are likely to think of would be anti. cliruar.
SPECIAL CABLES.
IRANGHAI PORT DEVELOP. MENT
INITIAL ACTIVITIES.
[Chine Mail SPECIAL.]
Shanghai, Oct., 18.
Yesterday we quoted a French bour engineer experts who last Satur- writer's ideas of a coming English day started a six weeks inquiry into revolution, and Renter told us of the the Shanghai ports development appalling magnitude of our unem scheme, were banquetted at the Astor played problem at Home. With re- House last night. There is to be a gard to the massacre of 10,000 meeting of the leading residents to Spaniseds out of an army of 18,000, day. The committee have laft for the the re-Yangtze estuary and Hangchow Bay and the capture of 6,000 mainder, in Morocco, we read that to study the question on the symit. recruiting of Englishmen in London for the Spanish campaiga in Mor occo has been stopped. Ia men-
tioning this, the Manchester Guardian
说
There is one point to be noted. If in the middle of a fine August thousands of fit men who know war too well to have any love of it are scrambling hungrily in London for a chance to do poorly-paid soldiering for a foreign Power in a losing can paiga under an African sun, what will it be like in London in mid- winter unless a miracle of which there is no present sign comes to make employment plentiful? When we redact that the Spaniards bave ΤΟ business
our
SOCIAL NOTES.
[Bs a Lady Really in the Swim]
Cland Severn, etc., etc.
TUISHNAY, OCTOBER 18 192
LAND SALES.
1
KEEN BIDDING: YESTERDAY,
There was some spirited bidding at the auction of several lots of Crown and held at the P.WD. yesterday. afternoon. Mr. Parker Rees was in
WORLD DISSENSION.
P
NEED. FOR INTERNATIONAL
CO-OPERATION.
- BONGKONG'S GREAT CHANCE.
Man is essentially a social animal:
Я civilisation
Recently one of our contemporaries announced that Hongkong had again awakened from her long summer sleep, and was again beginning to sit upand charge and there was a big attendance take notice. She certainly has been which, as usual, included a few his very survival in the face of strong The consulting committee of har-moving daring the last ten days. We bidders and a great many spectators. disruptive forces and powerful in-
began with the Gymkhana on Sarn:-
Lot 2,354, consisting of 251,650 dividual instincts proves this. Once day the 8th. Not having had any square feet of land on the new rond racing for three and a half months it from Gap Road to Wanchai Gap, the nomadic hunter in the early was good to be on the course again, furnished a keen contest between Mr. dawn of history, forced by the pres and see so many old friends, His Ho Leung, Mr. U Pan Nam and sing need of protection or lured by Excellency was present, also the G.O. another Chinese gentleman.
the temptation of favourable regions, C. and Lady Kirkpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. Altogether there were 246 bids tong- has already been described in these price of $30,198 was steadily improvements, came the Neolithic age with The racing ing from $100 to $1000 and the upset formed the first real common settle- columns. Suffice it to add that pon until $70 500 had been reached the beginnings of though fields were small there were Then Mr. U Pun Nam, to the astonish-
that was sant to make sepa some good finishes, particularly Mment of everyone in the zoom, Paddy Doyle's win on his own pouy, effectively squashed all competition rate existence impossible. Rebel· bra neck from Mr. Bell Irving, and we by offering $30,000 and at that price lious individual izatincts bad were all of us glad to see Mr. Harold it was knocked down to him and his to be sternly repressed when they Seth romp home in the last rare of co-purchasers, Messrs Chan Pia Chuen
attacked the community spirit so vital the day on his own pony, The Ho Wah Tong and Tang Koo Sang. Ameer.
Mr. Chan Pin Chaen stated sub-to this new and indispensable civilisa Monday was the great match sequently that the land would be used tion, else the race revert to barbarism. against the Shanghai polo team. for the construction of dwelling-Therefore na individual whose conduct Quite a crowd had assembled to see the conditions provide that 25 houses was a menace to the community spirit it, including His Excellency and Lady may be built of the lot, Stabbe, who gave the cup to the Keen competition was also excited spredly found himsel removed cr winners, and who in turn was presby the sale of inland lots 2355 and his activities severely curtailed. sented with a bouquet. General 2356 en Shauliwan Road with a total Occasionally the individual instinct Sir George and Lady Kirkpatrick, area of 24,150 square feet. The upset gained
ascendancy Commodore and Mrs. Bowden Smith, price for the two lots was $19,133 | but
instinct
SHANGHAI TELEPHONE CO.
INCREASES CAPITAL.
(China Mail SPECIAL.1
SHANGHAI, Oct., 19. The Shanghai Telephone Company yesterday bnanimously resolved to! increase its capital to two million taels necessitating the creation of 25,000 new shares of fifty taels rach.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
REPENTANT CLERK BOUND OVER.
momentary
the social YOUTH'S DIFFERENCES WITH Mrs. Berners Colonel and Mrs. and the combined annual rental gradually triumphed. Growing ever
Wyndham. Colonel Orpen Saunders $250. After some spirited bidding more elaborate and complex. civil FIANCEE.
were knocked and many others were present. A the lots
downisation slowly found that it must curb good game, well fought out. and wou to Mr. H. W. Bird, on behalf of not only the individual person but by the best team on the day was the Mr. Chan Harr, for $56,300, verdict of the man who gave me tea. Other sales were:-- To the humble feminine mind it seem- ed as though our team got rattled" in the first chukkers and with the exception of Captain Neville, who played well throughout, played much below their form. In the evening
in Morocco anyway, nor we in Mesopotamis, (fa. less, at least. than the Japanese in Manchuria) we recall and regard with a sigh of envy cur Laughing arsh,
chafing Francisco Maria France was this mechanics, our strolling Tommies. and moming charged before Magistrate all the rest of that great humat. com- One with baving attempted to com- pany which contentedly minds its mit suicide on October 4.. own business. O. that we could all go The defendant who was still suffer and do likewise Troubles, no doubting from. his injuries and was very our world would still have: but surely weak, pleaded guilty." lewer and smaller and with less wide- Inspector Spear, of the Water I spread effect.
Police, said that on October 4, the defendant cut his throat and left wrist with a razor. He was forcd later and rushed off to hospital just in time to save his life. He made
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
most of our men folk went to the
also the individual state whose con- dact attacked the greater community Raral building lot No. 199 at spitit engendered by the clover ccm- Craigmin Road, The Peak, was sold mercial and intellectual intercourse to the Asiatic Petroleum Company for made possible by the progress of $5,504, the upset price. It consists knowledge and invention. Hence the of 44,200 square feet. The annual creation of a league of nations and the # disarmament confer- calling of rental is 8254.
both outcomes of ence,
this inevitable force still only dimly realised by the politicans who hold the fate of the world in their hands.
Rural building lot No. 190, at Severn Road, The Feak, was sold at the upset price ($1,370) to Messrs R. 0. Blaker and Allan Keith. This lot comprises 10,580 square feet. annual rental is $60.
Polo dinner at the Hongkong Hotel. hear there were coine seventy or eighty people present. Speeches were made by His Excellency, the General,
War and famine are the greatest and the Captains of the two teams.
enemies of the community. The latter, Stories were told by Mr. Severe, Mr.
191. the appalling plight of Russia despite, Sutherland and others. With a at Seven Road, which has an can be avoided or relieved a world
Bural building lot No.
The
Particulars are advertised in this rapid recovery, thanks to his strong number of songs, a most enjoyable area of 11.000 square feet, was sold wide shortage of food is happily ex-
issue of a new French loan.
Water traffic between Lungchow and Nanning has been resumed.
A severe shock of earthquake is reported to have occurred in Tokyo en Oct. 2 at midnight.
المحلية
The Canton publie werks depart. men: has invited tenders for the cen- struction of a race course near the
San Kau Hill.
The new building of the Kuo Min Hospital has been completed. According to the Canton Times it cost about $1,000,000.
The Canton municipality states that the report translated from the yernacular papers that Mayor Sun Fo has planned a city bank is without foundation.
The Rev. G. F. Saywell, lecturer and chaplain of Christ's College, Ca- bridge, has taken over the superin- tendence of the Far East Group of C. M. S. Missions.
Canton silk hosiery factcries are enjoying good business, owing to the improved qualities of manufactures
to the conclusion that no matter what and growing preference for native
be done or left undone such people goods. There are over fifty hosiery must always be top dogs! Prestige factories in the city. and power and perquisites are lasted
after by no one social class, but by
evening was spent, and many people regretted the necessity of catching that confounded last Peak tram. General MacNaughten, as President of the Club, was in the chair.
to Mr. Adams, of Messrs. Adams, and Wood, architects, for Little $1,120, the upset price. The abonnal rent is $64.
tremely improbable. War can ecrceiv- ably become a horrid memory when the further progress of civilisation has made the nations so interdepend- Mr. F. C. Jenkin was the purchaser ent that resort to arms will mean of rural building lot No. 192, also at economie ruin. Even France, still Severn Road, which has an ares of braised and bitter from the war, finds
constitution, and was discharged on Sunday. The offence was cor- mitted in his parents house on Green Island where his father is the officer in charge of the gunpowder depot.
The Magistrate: Is he employed
On Tuesday, Mr. Ross gaye ber there too?-No.
What was the trouble about-Hedance at the Peak Cab. The ball had some differences with his fiancee. room had been decorated with the 10,980 square feet. The annual rent is that she must enter into commercial
He has employment?-Yes. He is colours of the
a clerk in an office in town.
two
teams. The $61. The price realized was $1,418, the relations with hated Germany-as hostess assisted by Mr. and Mrs. {upset price.
POET'S CORNER.
VAIN REGRETS.
The Inspector said that the father Sutherland and Mr. Shenton were was willing to guarantee his son's responsible for the decorations. It future good behaviour. The defendall went with a swing and every one ant had very good prospects in life. enjoyed themselves." Mr. Dowbiggin from a fit when he did it?-Ne. It His Excellency was present.
The Magistrate: Was he suffering gave a dance the same night at which was a sudden passion. He w realises the seriousness of the act and is repentant. I suggest that be a fon chakker game against the Though I'm still not out, and my should be bound over.
Shanghai Light Horse, consisting of score is good,
On Wednesday we had a Gymkhana When he says to himself "I've had on the Polo ground. It opened with my day
The Magistrate (to defendant): the Shanghai Polo team, less Mr. The best of my years have passed Franco, you are anxious now, I hope. Brebaan, and including Mr. Percy away:
to make the best of life, instead of to Cox., Hongkong won this time. The I'd like to go on- would if take it away. I will bind you over local team was composed of Major could:"
in the sum of $100 to be of good Timis, Captain Neville, Captain Then a man creeps into his shell.
and Mr. Beil Irving behaviour for 12 months, at the end Johnson.
of which time I hope you will have (Atry Past and Present). Shang-"I've played the game with the rest got over your troubles.
HONGKONG'S LURE.
hai
section
tent
of the Boys;
the wou pegging by two points. Mrs. I've had my fling and my share of Bowden-Smith won two of the ladies' the fun :
events, the other going to Miss I've tasted of life-its Sorrows and
joys,
Delacombe. We hear a lady had a
begun."
lucky escape of the way back to the And I only wish now that I'd just tram station. On getting into a crowded motor, some one accidentally Then a man creeps into his shell. dropped a cigarette end. This caught
life:
witness Inst week's reparations agree- ment-if victor and vanquished are both to be saved from disaster. Time shortened by trade will prove the healer.
The war, a vast conflict between the individual and community instinct with nations not individuals the protagonists, was terrible evidence
of the urgent necessity for closer €0 operation among peoples, co-operation that must now be fostered if another
hidéous disaster is not to overtake
humanity. No opportunity should therefore be lost for improving inter national relations, either by com- mercial or intellectual intercourse.
Here in the Far East there are exceptional opportunities for promet- ing the spirit of good friendship which must ultimately make war impossible. Representatives of all nations, their minds broadened by travel and their prejudices softened by intercourse, meet and form opinions which are accepted by many who never leave their homeland shores. Furthermore,
AN EXILE WHO CAN'T STAY AWAY.
in the lady a dress and when she got
When a man talks thus he is lost
to
An embarrassing attachment for Hongkong as a place of residence was
a cosmopolitan place like Hongkong forms a common meeting ground for
of the delinquent
out, she almost burst into flames! He has toiled with a will, yet toiled
any case, it had burned quite s big
in vain:
Americana, French, Portuguese, and
many other nationals, but above all
Attacked by a man with a knife confessed to by a Chinese called Chan hole in her dress and in the troase He's fed up with all the worry and for British and Chinese, those two
a cinas of then found in all the classes, in the course of a street fight yester Fuk who pleaded guilty before the en the 17th inst., William. the men who have more will power than day, a street coolie was severely hurt, Chief Justice (Sir William Rees
conscience,
beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. James McLeod, aged 19 years and
6 months. The Puver! will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. HU-On October 10, 1921, at Shang-
hsi, E. F. Hu.
The China Mail.
* TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIU SERVICE
Sumazone, Tormay, Op. 18, 1921.
MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS,
Thursday saw the first Rugger strife;
strain.
match of the season when H. M. S. He thinks he no longer can stand their desires than scruples aboni prin- Civil Hospital with an ugly cat in the to a charge alleging disobedience of a "Cairo" easily defeated an Amy ciples altruistic or other. For each one temple. His as aitant has absconded. deportation order.
sach, who must climb to eminence somehow or other, if only to relative eminence, there are dozens of men
template a few contrasts. The heart- racking problem of the Irish, and the tonnage of 28,115.
There
the
more
people who are so strangely akin and yet so strangely dissimilar in many things. As Hongkong is team. I am told there were not Then a man creeps into his shell,
essentially a trade centre it seems a pity that there should be so little of Banished for ten years in 1916 and many spectators, and that the com-
WILLIAM HILL. that internationally helpful com for life on three occasions since mination of the Chiro" three quarters Fenang harbour presented a busy then Chan Fuk has returned to the was very good. In the evening there Hongkong, Oct., 18 1921.
mercial co-operation never needed than now. Here where who prefer to mind their own appearance on October 7.
the Chinese, and British night business, and who in so doing find were no fewer than five big ships in Colour each time and he was arrested were many private dinner parties. On here again at the end of September. Thursday morning, the Shanghai happiness, or at least, escape the the harbour, sad a host of small craft. According to the Crown Solicitor (Mr. team left by the "Empress of Russia,"
acquire invaluable knowledge of unhappiness that lies in wait for all of the five big steamers, four belong: G. H. Wakeman) he explained to the and a lot of people went on board to On Saturday those of us who were each other's character and ideals trade who would accelerate the machine, ed to the Blue Funnel Line, and all police that he was a sick man and see them off.
still alive went off to dance at the in the close band of divertite course, or "mould it nearer were well loaded. They were: came to Hongkong for treatment.
The Keswick Cup was duly produc- Peak Club. There was a small at intercourse it seems passing sad that Glaucus," "Elpenor," "Memnon” to their heart's desire." Just con: and "Machaon," representing a gros said: "It is quite clear that you champagne, and passed round es enjoyed themselves. The Wiltshire either exclusively Chinese or ex- Addressing Chan Fakt, His Lordshiped in the Captain's cabin, filled with tendance, but those who were there business enterprise should remair clusively European, the More have made up your mind to remain in loving cup. By the way, I hear they band played. laughing amab. The betrayal of the
this Colony and it is equally clear that insured the cup for the return juumey. Congratulations to Lieut. Mog- especially as both races would profit League of Nations (by those who The many friends of Mr. J. R. the police authorities are not going to However, as this cost no more than gridge, R.G.A whose wife presented immensely by a fusion of interests, favour yeret diplomacy) and the McFarlane, who was one of the oldest allow you to do to. The only excuse
for the single journey, their him with a child on the same day the Chinese supplying intelligent, if chaffing workmen. The massacre of residents of Penang, a high Mason, you offer is that you were sick and action did not really imply that he defeated the examiners in untrained labour, and good marketing facilities; the European sound busi The two amalis walked along, chat- Spaniards in Morocco, and the and formerly a keen race horse owner you have come down here for treat confidence in retaining the cup. ng. One threw her chin up and strolling Tommies in Hongkong. Dr. will be sorry to hear of his death at meat. Unfortunately Hongkong is
On Friday Mr. Bowden Smith gave I am sorry to hear Major Cassel has ness experience and tireless energy. Angled heartily. Rows of workmen Hodgkin the lecturer, hinting, so far Teluk Anson whilst staying with his not the only place where people can the first of her dances on board the beer admitted to the Peak Hospital. Would the two races bat display a qating on the kerb during the last as courtesy to his chairmen would con at Changkat Jorg Estate. The be treated for sickness. I am bound "Tamar", Ley Stubbs was in saxe Every one wishes him a speedy greater tezdency to closer" industrial co-operation sharing capital, manage on minutes of the tiff hour were allow him, at urgently necessary social late Mr. McFarlane was in his 71st to pass upon you such a sentence as blue and gold, our hostess in cream recovery
faint soupcon of bviously exchanging merry words, reforms, and his sleek auditors, yeat, and was the stepfather of Mrs. will prevent you being at large and satin with a
Yes, Hongkong is waking up, and ment and labour, the community troups of soldiers walking in the road rambling back to their golf and their A. C. J. Towers, of Ipoh.
returning to the Colony, being an turquoise blue showing. Mrs. Berners with the pleasant nip in the air, we are spirit would receive a great stimulus ooked happy. The observer, whose broking after what was to them all,
undesirable person. The sentence of looked charming in pale mauve. Lady beginning to forget the beat, and the and the noble work of fostering inter
national friendship a powerfulimpetus. and was full of the world's troubles, semi-social interlude, like daty visit The death took place on the Court is three years' imprison-Kirkpatrick in black and gold, Mrs. rain, and the fog of the summer.
the trifling reason that his job was to church between a twosome and a September 30, at his residence behind ment.
The invitations are put for the wed Ross in pink veiled with mauve, Mrs. write about them, was in the mood foursome. Bernard Shaw, a boman Kinder's old store in New Road,
Wakeman in a very striking dress of ding of Colonel Clementi Smith on the marvel at these signs of general being on the Cro64 and ago Bangkok, of Mr. William Friend
black panne velvet and silver, Mrs. 26th lost. He is to be married at teatment. A case of ignorance nized by the thorns of a too Kemp, at the ripe age of 87. He was
Wyndham in fame colour, M. Kowloon, and Mrs. Johnson is giving SUNSHINE AND COMMON SENSE.. För bliss? Perhaps. But was it not mente intellect, and that Bootien born on November 5, 1835, some three The Hon. Traster of the Hong. Compertz in tomato colour, etc. a reception alterwards at the Kess of DONT doctor one blood for thems Use an external appdicat- e more reasonably explained by manikin Harold Begbie vituperating years and a half before Queen Victoris kong Women's Guild and Ministering There were a large number of naval the 22nd Punjalis..
| fon "of Chamberlain's Païs Balm. In a fact quite well known but constat (for blackening the character of came to the throne. Mr. Kemp had Children's League acknowledges the officers present, and the dance went What Hongkong wants to know? few days it will get roump and out into ignored, namely, that the great England") in the Sunday Chronicle, resided in Siam continuously since receipt of donations of $150 and $100 with a go from start to finish The Did she really think he was her hus, the sunshine, then Nature will restore jority of the world's inhabitants This journalistic Stiggins writes rather 1867. In point of years as well as from Bir Paul Chater, $100 from Kr music was mupplied by Mr. and Mrs. band or-That will do, this is a re- the rich red blood to yg terra
willing to wind their own business like a vessel of wisth," as you may residence Mr. Kump was Bangkok Montague Fade, and $50 from Mr. Miles Jazz Band, which every one estable paper.
Tarne lowed to, and do it beautifully I see in this his description of Bhaw ldest inhabitant.
A Stephen.
speed takes a lot of beating.
Hindustani exxin,
vid the system of this troublesome disanat: -For “mie-by-áll Chendabe-sad- Storekeepers.