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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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MOLLER CHARGES
SHANGHAI, PAPER'S
COMMENT.
- MONDAY - JUNE 18, 1918)
WEEK END SOLILOQUY.
LIDLE THOUGHTS ABOUT MANY THINGS.
(Specially Contributed.)
Meshach
men
have
Yory
been
MURDER ALLEGED.'
TRIED TO DROWN; WITH HIS SON
MOTHER RECOGNISES BABY'S VOICE.
Before the Chief Justice in the
I am sure the Government will meet side of the tmdo as pupily of thepi more than half way Howant Government engineers, but even out and has not returned,"
And that scheme brities with obstacles,
In-aur, opinion, however; & very again Mr. Fletcher scoms surprised. easy solution can be found by cor How many people did this wollmarking a portion of the Boxer known residens, consult? How indemnity, which in to be remitted The fact of a company going many did he let into the now that by the British Government. The into volu..try liquidation is tm- the Government was willing to University was founded in the hope
of affording to Chinese youths an fortunately, too common, now to
has boon grant a reservation? How many opportunity of completing their excite niuch comment in ordinary good to me. His habiten knew timt now's before last week's education in their own environment; circumstances. But the case of Saturdays, is to stroll take a Criminal Court this morning Lo
seat, and in a calm leisurely fashion- Council debate? Simply because where they can be visited from Moller & Co., reported by us last proceed to dlacuas any particular Kam-shan was charged with mure
time to time by their parents and ona reservation scheme falle cop in touch with their kindred. Friday, calls for searching in-matter from the claims of Dos der. Inspector Lanigan was in through when applied to district With the funds available, qualified vestigation says the N. G. Daily toevsky to be our greatest litterature, charge of the case. Already settled and a well-known British Engineers could be employ. News. At the meeting Mr. Eric to the ethical effect of Jazz on the
Chinese mind.He brought with him The Judge, after hearing a rambl- informed the share- resident" cannot find five good men ed to conduct classes in practical Meller
a number of copies of "The Nation ing statement from the prisoner, engineering. Students whose par holders that in March 1918, the and Athanaeum" which included advised him to plead not guilty. the Government must not wash its enta could not afford to support
The following jury was em hands of this matter which it admits thom could receive an alimentary Hongkong Government comman the Jale number of that outstand
ing fournal-the last number that itself goes to the very root of the allowance until they obtained on deered their skips at Govern is of the paper under the editorial panelled: Messrs. C. A. Peel, A. problem.
Let the Government ployment. When once order is ment rates of charter and then control of H. J. Massingham. Maher, Ai F. Xavier, J. P. Bridger, paper has passed into J. V. dos Remedios, JR. Way and boldly announce that it has marked restored in China, the country will sublet them to China-coast char- The
reap the benefit of trainst cngi terers with enormous profit to the control of a school of A. R. Davies, out this area or that for a reserva noers of her own people to develop itself. This, one might think, was Manchester liberals led by M. J. tion-good sites abound across the her railways and mines, and thus bad enough. But far worse, the Keynes who is a writer and Mr A. Dyer Ball, Assistant harbour and let it see what add clamously to the well-being shareholders were told, was to economist of no little standing. The Attorney-General, appeared for the Assume that all the and prosperity of her teaming come. In December, 1919, Moller & last issue of any paper must always Crown, prisoner being defended by фаррова.
millions.
Co. prepared to take action against have an aura of romance about it, Mr., N. 1. Brewer, Instructed by the Hongkong Government in and when Colony's Europeans are like the small
which recently
order to force it to disgorge. associated under one head for 16 Messrs, Lee and Russ. 'gronp
Therent, the chairman said, they years in a journalistic enterprise. Mr. Dyer Ball, in outlining the approached Mr. Fletcher-they are
were requested by the Hongkong that has stood for everything that willing to rent in a reservation but
Government to stay proceedings is good there is an air of romantic case, said that on the night of May they are not willing to build, for the
Entries for the extra gymkhana in order to enable it to write Home tragedy in laying down the pen 25. prisoner was seen by a boats reason that when leaving the Colony of the season close on June 13, the and arrange to get the matter and handing over control to others. woman to jump into the harbour open meeting having been fixed for July settlement. This was agreed There is peculiarly poignant one with his son, Loh Chang-fa, in his to, whereupon the Hongkong Gov- essay which is worth reproduction, arms. This woman pulled the they will not have an
ernment immediately passed an but an extract will for the time market. Assume that not one-four
Indemnity Ordinance which effec- being suffice. Speaking of the prisoner out of the water, but he less than Mr. Fletcher's figure-not
writer says tried to jump in again. He was one moves into the reservation.
tively protected it against any such late proceedings as those contemplat So long as the European war arrested by a watchman. The How soon will it be before that
ed and, for the crown of its was avoidable, we endeavoured offence, fung back the ships on to avoid it. From the hour when child was taken out of the water economic pressure which Mr. Flet
The Water Authority notifies Moller & Co. at a time of great it had become an outrage on and hurried to the Kwong-Wa cher saw forcing Europeats out of
that from today a constant supply shipping depression, for which humanity, we strove to end it Hospital, where it recovered con- their present districts,--how 5000 of water will be turned on in the the Company had had no oppor by a peace of negotiation. And sciousness. As it happened, the tunity to build up any, reserves, when it died of defeat and exhaus mother of the child was a patient in will it be before this rising tide has public mains in Kowloon.
Moller & Co. were thus ruined tion, we pleaded for a settlement the hospital. On hearing a child made then glad to find a
Two cases of plague, and and left without any hope of re-in harmony with the professions of crying, the woman recognized the refuge? Settled reservation areas one of small pox, Chinese, were dress anywhere. These statements all its combatants, and reconcilable voice and claimed the child. The sro not created with a wave. They notified during the week-end, also were fully confirmed by Mr. with their religion and their ideas child was placed in bed with its
Burkill, and the only point on of the civilized order...... of the mother, but died later. must be occupied gradually by the one of enteric fever, British
which further light seems neces-words we addressed to the readers The accused, continued Mr. Ball, people who want to live there. One Accidentally knocked down sary is whether Hongkong acted of The Nation from 1907 to 1919 had made a statement to the effect might even grant Mr. Fletcher that by motor car no. 553 at Des Voeux on its own" or under instruc- we wish only those unsaid which that he had decided it was better hever does the Colony at one time Road Central on Saturday, ations from Home. Either way, faltered in their plea for peace, or for himself and his child to die Chinese male suffered injuries and it is one of the most iniquitous left the pith and manner of their since this mother had "gone wrong" possess enough people ready to was removed to hospital.
pieces of sharp practice, not to message undelivered." That is a Mc Ball said evidence would be use a plainer term, that we remem-dignified farewell message. Of produced to prove that prisoner's start a reservation. Some have not
Last week, while a Malay ber, and, unless redress is given, perhaps greater interest is the statement was not borne out by yet been squeezed out by that
woman was washing a long cloth will leave a lasting stain on the fair account given by Mr. C. F. G the facts and that on the morning inexorable economic pressure;
on the riverbank at Pompong, in name of Hongkong. We advise Masterman of the "Nation" lunches of May 25 he had visited his wife others are not the pioneer kind, Kedah, an old crocodile, eight feet Moller and Co., to send the full which took place each week for 16 in hospital and had asked her to go But once the lead is given, once the in length, seized the cloth and facts to Truth," which is an adept years and were attended by mem home with him.
bers of the staff and friends and. reservation is provided, see what began to drag it into deeper water. at getting nasty questions pressed outside contributors whom they Kwong-wa Hospital, was the first
Unwilling to lose her good cloth, in the House of Commons. If then!, Mr. Fletcher would reply the woman clung tenaciously to it Hongkong has merely acted as an that the old objection would still and a tug-of-war ensued. At the agent, let the fact be made plain, hold-people would keep aloof for end of ten minutes, age told and But in any case someone ought to the open market. Doubtless iman the saurian was forced to give up smart for it and Moller and Co., be sound rule that everyone should missión of the child to the hospital
the unequal struggle, leaving two indemnified. would. But there are others who of its front teeth sticking in the want, not a good spec.," but cloth. These were immediately.
retained for medicinal purposes. simply a good bome. These reserved*******
secure
The silk which left here by the "P. & O." s.s. "Kashgar" on delivereed in May 16, was. Marseilles on June 16.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
war, the
introduced. There is an eloquent tribute to H. J. Massingham, who generally presided. They had speak the truth in him, and that rule often provoked the fiercest of quarrels when every Tran hurled cheerful insults or bitter epigrams at his opponent But I do not remember any lunch ending with any permanent illfeel ing between one man and another, This he attributes largely to Mas
who knew that while smgham men had diverse and almost relig ious political differences, they were expressing only their own honest minds
Dr. Ip Kam-wa, surgeon at
witness called. He bore out the statement of the Assistant Attorney the Gederal with regard to the ad- at 8.30 p.m. and certified as to the cause of death at II p.m. on May 25
that
odds for a home, This Mr. Fletcher/course, make any real headway Reynolds. Both made good their ber of the committee of the Singa- ceived things tend to become per- amination, whether death had been,
could not be better. But how has
post.
parting just as the "Nation's "stati did, without bitterness, but with probably a higher estimation of
The child, the doctor informed the Court, had died two and a half hours after admission.
The case is proceeding,
In reply to Mr. Brewer, witness, said he expected the child would recover, otherwise he would not have allowed it to be handed over we have said before, one cannot houses, moreover, would always A buffalo inet its death on the
to its mother. "I thought it best to quarrel. Landlords are entitled to command their ront, even when Murray Parade Ground on Satur
Mr. J., W. Campbell has beca
let the child see its mother go that day morning. The animal was in- RITTER -On April 19, 1923, at fake the first tenant who comes. the housing probleur had become tended for sinughter but managed appointed an unofficial member of
it would stop crying and relieve. Hamburg, to Mr. and Mrs. F. But the matter cannot rest there. much less acute, for they would to escape and run amok,
the strain on its lungs." After the Straits Legislative Council fora
Witness acknowledged motor-car in Caine further period of three years.
if the respiration had been IRONSIDE. On June 11, 1923, at Something must be done for the always have a very strong appeal for charging
interfered with after the child had Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotluckless European. And the only those seeking to live among their Road, it made its way shed land, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. thing that can be done for him is
Seymour Road, and again dashed
Mr. P. L. Williams has been ap
been placed in its mother's bed, it own pooplo. Assuredly reservations into the car. It then chased an pointed a member of the Singapore Ironside, a son.
would have been impossible to to reserve anime area where he will succeed. But they cannot, of Indian Sergeant and Inspector Harbour Board, an unofficial mein- It is peculiar how little unprecon- detect, without a post mortem ex- not have to compete with heavy
escape. Obtaining a service rifle. until exorbitant building costs have and ammunition, the latter went in pore Sailors' Institute, and a mem- mancies in our lives. I am thinking due to immersion or suffocation.
·FULSTOW-BUTLER.-On June adinita. He agrees also that re-
Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego, by Mr. Dyer Ball, it appeared, no 9. 1923, at Shanghai, Williamservations do not involve any racini come down. Many people who search of the animal, which he ber of the Pilot Board, Singapore, of the three; whom I shall designate From a question put to witness
Ground,
Mr. Shum Tak kwong, the Com- who foregather eachSaturday after post mortem had been held C. mus, sort of Mr. and Mrs questions. Reservations are urged, would build for themselves cannot fally despatched on the Parade
missioner of Foreign Affairs for noon in a local hostelry and much In reply to the Court, witness G. Fulstow, to Doris, younger
face the abnormally beayy expense. daughter of Mrs. M. and the we repeat, not only because differ-
Consequently & reservation just now
A European went out at Serem Kwangsi, specially appointed by Dp the lines of the Nation's said that in cases of immersion danger that late Ambrose Butler of Clee-ent national customs make incom-offers them little hope. Perhaps ban after wild pigeon. He got his the Peking Government, is staying lunch, proceed to discuss the there was always
things which are uppermost in their the patient, after recovering tem thorpes, Lincolnshire, Eng-patible neighbours, but also because
they promise less costly homes, for that is why Mr. Fletcher's well: birds, and the police got him, says in the Colony at present, awaiting divergent minds freely, honestlyporarily, might die several hours
known resident has not come back the Malay Mail, this being the an opportunity to proceed 10 hisand often-times vigorously, de after the immersion.
close season" for shooting. When the European anyway. They are neant for all nationalities, each yet. Wait until the Housing Com- the police came to make inquiries,
Dame Rumouris, of course, ever OLSEN-On June 1, 1923, at forming its own congenial little mission's report has been made they discovered that he had no public and we see how building licence for a gun to be owned. Ichang, Capt. Rolf T. Olsen, community. Mr. Fletcher said the costs can be reduced-perhaps he Then they found out that he had a lying fade, but people will take each others character.!
no permit to shoot game, Making and others will listen, says a of the China Navigation Com.
Government was prepared to reserve may come back thon. We hope so. further enquiries they discovered Malayan paper. The very latest I had my first view of the pany.
that he had an unlicensed motor rumour is that Mr. Maxwell (the Cenotaph on Saturday Men are KLINGÉNBERG-On June 9, areas for any community wishing to
cycle, and carrying their investi-Chief Secretary, F.M.S.) is to re still chipping away bringing this me the other afternoon, I saw the 1923, at Shanghai, Emil Kling-live, among its own kith and kin.
gations a little further, they found ceive a high appointment in Hong thing to its ultimate state of per women drinking cocktails at five enberg, Chief Officer, China
that he had no licence to drive or kong and Sir Frederick James will fection. Already it attracts the o'clock. The climate, has nothing Merchants Steam Navigation Again we say bravo. This attitude Engineer Students.
Last week Mr. S. W. To sug ride a motor cycle. Nothing like go to Nigeria, the land he is said to attention of thousands and one to do with it; it is habit. This love; in an equally high capacity wonders what the feelings are of climate for the moment is rather those who come to look see." It like New York: brilliant, bracing, SOPHER-On June 9, 1923, on the Government put these noble gentcu, in an interview granted to being thorough.
board ss. "President Pierce,"
tho China Mail, that a scheme could
The June number of the ma The Hon. Anne Kinnaird, eldest is a soul-stirring thing, this stimulating, Everywhere I go I Mrs. Luna Sopher, widow of sentiments into practice? Accord be devised whereby a certain num. the late Marcus Aaron Sophering to Mr. Fletcher, it tried, over aber of graduates from the Course of gazine of the Hongkong University daughter of Lord Kinnaird, who Cenotaph of ours. It humbles am offered cocktails and "whisky- SENShanghai, José Maria de Beat year ago, to make the large area Engineering at the Hongkong Union is quite in keeping with the recently reached debutante age, you. The very chasteners of the soda (or stingahs," as they say
the cover!"
tion Army and has already reached of beauty. You instinctively feel champagne are in evidence every (Jéje), aged 6 years, son of Mr. round the lower part of Peak Roud University night, with benefit to all quotation from Jacques printed on has chosen a career in the Salva simple design has its own message in the East). The worst brands of
concemed be employed by the
"I must have liberty
the rank of" captain." Captain" that it is a very fitting tribute to thewhere. and Mrs. J. M. de Senna. s European reservation. And it Public Works Department on trial Withal, as large a charter as the Anne Kinnaird, a pretty golden- men who are no more; that self In another place he refers
noisy,ricshaing, failed. This seems to have eur-for two or three years with the proe wind.
baired girl of eighteen, is at the sacrifice is a noble thing, hustling,
and stingak-drinking To blow on whom I please?" Salvation Army Women's Train- Doubtless "official" instructions cocktail prised, to have pained it. But then poct of belag offered permanent
duffed when passing the monui- Personally, I can see no points doing housemaid's work.
ment and that flowers (not too whatever in tropical Hfe, but, of chance when the area chosen was While the Colonial Government is written a very bright Editorial,
many of them one may be allowed course, I am much too old to already studded with houses? Was prepared to examine every avenue which serves to know the numerous
Another pretty June wedding to hope) will be regularly placed change. The only people I find with a view, to loseening the hard-activities of the Union. Humour was celebrated in Shanghai last at the foot of the Cenotaph. There who like it are (1) Scotsman, who it likely that the owners could be got ships which those student engineers is a prominent feature of the week with a full choral service at should be, no need for any will go anywhere in the world, to agree to reserve their houses for face on leaving the University, magazine, whilst the sports notes Holy Trinity Cathedral, where the such instructions venture make money, and settle down as their own kind when they all had owing to the disturbed state of are well written.
Very Reverend Dean C. J.-F. the belief that have good citizens without grumbling. selected their sites without any China, little can be done at present. News has been received in Symons officiated at the marriage nothing finer in the Colony that is (2) People who at home would
There are already a few Chinese Strangely inconsistent were the thought of a possible reservation engine or student in Government Shanghai of the recent advertures daughter of the late Mr. Amber going to lend so much to a bigh occupy humble official positions, and Mrs. Butler, of Cleethorpes, share the opinion expressed Under Secretaries, Members of the Colonial Secretary's remarks about later and some of them had even engler, but the most the F.W.D. of the yacht "Shanghai," which sail- daughter of the late Mr. Ambrose uplift of character and resolve but re able to figure serious, reservations during last week's doubtless been inspired largely (if could absorb annually, under pro-ed from here last F Copenhagen Lincolnshire, and Mr. William Trecently in the China Mail columns Council, and the rest of it. (The 16,000-mile-cruise to Copenhagen. Fulstow, ex-Captain of the KS.LL, that as a phrase the finest site" 'social status" in these little com- housing debato Mr. Fletcher not solely) by the desire for a good sent conditions, would not wore The vacht arrived in Batavia on son of Mr and Mrs. George Faletow, should now be relegated to the suusties is steam-rollered down to frankly admitted that, so far as speculation? Naturally the scheme there sufficient vacancies to employ the six navigators left the boat to twenty, we understand. Even were May 15, where apparently two of
of Shrewsbury.
limbo of unforgotten things, but I exact accuracy.) (3) People includ- see no reason why, without in the ing missionaries, who come with a Europeans no concerned, reserva- failed. The Government, however, any considerable number of ongi finish the remainder of the journey tion form the very root of the is still ready to grant reservations, neers in the PW.D., Chinese sti by Steamship. This was done Our Hainan Correspondent least desiring to be punny, we sense of duty to hold up the flag: matter. Economic pressure; he What did the Colonial Secretary say dents like thair Western prototypes because of the Impossibility of writes that the Rey, P. C. Melrose should not call the Cenotaph pur(4) Suburban folks, who, instead of having one little household drudge, would find themselves handicapped carrying water for so many. The and family returned on June 8, to finest sight. said, is gradually driving Europeans recently in conversation with a unless they bad had practical ex- two men who decided to leave Kiungchowafter a short holiday, in
bloom into petty magnificence ent of districts where they have well-known resident? Hear him, perience. Their Western brothers were, Captain H. Kjaer and Mr. Hongkong. Mrs. M. R. Doolittle Lord Northcliffe's diary of his hegotten of the obsequiousness of lived for many years. Anyone, who "I reminded him of a story of Abm after graduating from a school of F. N. Jensen. According to the and Miss M. H. Taylor are leaving world trip has now been published four or five Orientals On the has searched Hongkong for a home bun when the Angel announced Engineering, serve stem of op message received, the journey Hainan, on June 17 by these, and it will be noted what he has to whole, we are perhaps the best I have come to the will bear that out. Europeans are to him the intended destruction of prenticeship to gain practical ex from Manila was very good, but so "Mangsang Miss Taylor is on say of the Far East. Here la his people at this game
perionca. Ad apprentions they have little wind that the whole journey her way to America for furlough observation about women and their Nevertheless,
conclusion that tha: adventurous always coming and going. When Bodom: I will not destroy the city to go through the mill with a ven had to made by motor powers. The after five years in Hainan, and drinking habits
aldislike the drinking in the Far Forias come from the old country to they come they are rarely able to tan persons can be found. I geance course in most cases remaining, men Messrs. H. F. Mrs. Doolittle is
Fam told that it is mentre qucdecl other Europeans. When said, Find me ten, Or, I will re-practisble for Hongkong Univer Durban, A. Ingwersen, E. Hauge protracted four of the
sity student Obvious ressons. It land and V. Bentson, were expect expects to meet her brother, the common thing for a woman to have they go their places are mostly duce il Find me five who will
that a limited numbered to sail from Batavia on May 211 Rev. Daniel Ridoll, D. D. of New three or four cocktails Before Uffin No coramen
York, on her way to Peking, (lunch). At a reception given, to obvious triti taken by Chinese. With that, as build houses in this reservation and
sibly leen the practical for Durban
Senna
-
The China-Mait. could the scheme ever baye had any posts. We have now canvassed the The Editor-has gathered a series ing Centre at Clapton where she is will be given that, hats are to be Singapore." He says
official attitude on the subject. of articles and comment, and has
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