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WEATHER CALENDAR.
JUNE 11.
1800. William cut down the win- ter cherry tree. It was extremely cold. The reads and bullrushes or bullpipes. of a tender soft green, making a plain whose sur face moved with the wind. -Dorothy Wordsworth.
In
costs from the public funds dent of the Republic. M. Who shall inquire of the season, atrives to undermine the judicial Deschanel was compelled to resign Or question the wind where it
through the ridicule he suffered blows? independence which is the very from being found walking along We blossom and ask no reason. foundation of justice itself. Would the railway line in his pyjamas The Lord of the Garden knows.. Mr. Das have brought forward his after falling from his train.
-Bliss Carman. proposal had the libel suit been Asked by a porter who he was he heard in India, where his censure replied, "I am the President of the Republic." This was too much for would have meant the most his countrymen and all France glaring interference with the laughed him out of office into an independence of the
Bench, early grave. M. Millerand owes serving at once as a snub to the his downfall entirely to politics. judge who had tried the case and
Mr. Eugene Chen, whom the as a threat to others who might Canton Government has appointed find themselves called upon to a special delegate to deal with the deliver similar verdicts? Stupid Canton Arsenal matter, has issued a statement in reference to the in the extreme, Mr. Das's sugges explanation of the American tion might have been dismissed Legation at Peking on the subject. with contempt were it not that After dealing with various points Mr. Das belongs to a type which not published in this paper, Mr. Chen says that Dr. Sun Yat-sen iafrapidly gaining the ascendancy wishes to have the matter settled among the Indian masses. What on fair and just terms. Negotia- falls to see is that these tions on this basis, are now pro- senseless acts, so far from helpingceeding with the vendors.' a cause, only do it the utmost harm, estranging even those who might otherwise feel disposed to concede their sympathy. Some one has said that destiny depends upon trifles. Mr.. Das should have a care, that his Assembly outburst, trifling in itself, does not have results disastrous for him and for the cause he espouses.
this type
Piracy Nerves Again.
11
From
France, ONCE AGAIN. whose. Govern- ment has been
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 1924.
STEAMER
LI
FOUNDERS.
ONLY TWO OF THE CREW SAVED.
Latest Hainan Straits Disaster.
The treacherous Hainan Straits have claimed another victim. Last Friday the small Japanese coasting vessel "Yahiko Maru” went ashore in this tricky area and news reaches the Hongkong Harbour Office to-day that the vessel has now foundered, having becoming leaky in the heavy weather of Saturday.
Wore
The steamer bad no wireless.
SURVIVOR'S STORY,
It is believed that only two of the crew have been saved.
and there were 15 on bourd-off ders ANOTHER SURVIVOR. Upon enquiry at the local offices and crew. Tittle hope is hold out for
lica of the Yamashita Kisen Koggo the safety of the others as a Kaisha, to which service the sea was running at the time. fated steamer belonged wo informed that they first hened that the bat had gone down through the captain of the "Taikoo Maru who wirelessed to say that the only Modern man has created for two survivors had been landed at himself an environment to which Hoihow as they were nearing the his own mind is inadequate. and point of exhaustion. Later news He must either reform himself had been received to the effect that from within or be destroyed from the a.. "Aspan" had also picked without.Esme Wingfield-Strat- "pa soumari ford in "The Reconstruction of Life.".
OUR CHOICE.
SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
June "Flaming Youth ***
11.-Caronet
Theatre;
largely responsible for the ineffec- tiveness of the Lengue of Nations, tion of a new world-wide League comes a proposal for the forma
which would compose all out- standing differences hetween the nations. This magic result would be obtained by an organisation about which there would be nothing new except the name. June 11-The Star Theatre: And even the idea of securing" The Crossroads of New York," salvation 'by a change of name is
June. II. World Theatre; not new. Whenever a politician" Milestones." finds himself out of sympathy with his party he proposes the forma tion of new one which will re-unite all sections." Of course
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June 11. Queen's Theatre; "Unseen Forces.".
...SOCIAL.
SPORT.
32. MISSING. "The "Yahiko Maru" was a cargo steamer commanded by Captain Ito
ROBBER DRAWS HOOK.
CAUGHT AFTER ENTERING LEYS LODGE.
CLIMBS UP WATERSPOUT
One of the survivors has reported that the steamer went ashore at D o'clock and the bonts were not launched owing to the heavy sea and to it being thought that the ship could weather it. The leaking got beyond control and the bonts were then hunched, only to be swamped by the heavy sous. All had left the ship but the survivor states that all the bouts were swamped and he thinks they are the only survivors.
VISITING SANDAKAN,
STRAITS GOVERNOR'S PROGRAMME.
(From Our Own Correspondent:),
Sandakan, June 6.
A daylight robber, who climbed up a waterspout at the back of
It has been officially notified Nathan Ley's Lodge,
Road, that His Excellency Sir Laurance Kowloon gained entrance to the Guillemard, KC.B., K.C.G.M., the servant's quarters and was arrested British Agent for North Borneo while making off with thirteen and Sarawak, will pay a short visit pieces of clothing, appeared at the to Sandakan, arriving at 5 p.m. on His Excellency will of Kowloon Magistracy this morning. June 13.
The evidence showed that the probably travel in his Yacht the burglar alarmed the servants be-Sea-Bell" escorted by H.MS. fore he escaped, but when they "Hollybock," which was in Bornco crowded round him, he drew a water not very long ago. His iron hook and kept them at bay. Excellency will leave in the " One of the servants, however, afternoon of 14th June 1924. managed to escape to the telephone to summon the Police and the man was arrested. ·
billiards in Engineers' and Ship-
June 12-Exhibition game builders' Institute, 6 p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
at
One lesson learned from the non-return of the Macao steamer "Chuen Chow" on Sunday night was that in these times of "piracy
June 14-Mr. William Heughan, nerves" it would be just as well it would do so if only the ninety well known Basso-Baritone, will for a notice to be exhibited at the and nine of the old party who are aing at the Peak Club; 9.30 p.m. wharf should a vessel not sail for out of step would adjust them- (uny reason, Relatives and friends, selves to the time of the one who the usual bevy of luggage, chair is in step. But owing to the and ricsha coolies, had assembled obstinacy of the majority the on Sunday night to wait for the bright idea fails to work out in arrival of the excursion steamer. Į practice. Its usual hour of arrival js' between half past nine and ten. When no ship was forthcoming at half past ten somebody jocularly hinted that something may have been amiss. An Indian watchmany wants," he continued, "are a Norwich meeting of Labour men. began to regale the crowd with theories that the "Chuen Chow" could not have met with a fate similar to that of the "Sui An" in 1922 while one of those who waited was optimistic enough to point out that Sunday was not the end of the holiday and the Multi-millionaires describe 'me as smaller number of excursionists poor, but I get along very com would not provide sufficient fortably,"
inducement for
pirates to
seize the vessel. Be that
AND SO SAY ALL OF US.
1%
am an old Communist," de clared George Berhard Shaw at
very few nice little fiat in the West End of London, a pleasant country house not too far from London, a couple of motor cars, £2000 or £3000 pocket money, and there is no more contented man in England than Bernard Shaw
June 12-Lammert Bros., Sales Room, Duddell Street, miscellaneous goods, It a.m.
June 19.-Laminert Bros., at 3
Villas, Observatory
Kowloon, household furniture, 2.30 p.m.
June 13-Lammert Bros., one Motor Cycle with Side Car, noon.
June 18.-Lammert Bros., at Sales Room, Duddeil St., ono "Studebaker" 5-seater motor_car, nupa.
June 13.-Lainmert Bros., nt Sales Room, Duddell St., one motor boat "Delta," noon.
Jane 13-Lammert Bros.," at Sales Room, Duddell Street, raincoats etc., noon.
NEETINGS,
Jane--Lecture on Ideal & Idealists" at the Hongkong Lodge Theosophical Society, 16
There are few EMPHATICALLY, novel's as it may, a few still lingered on
which the after the crowd had dispersed and roader may not discover some slip there were more than one who had of the author, if he search diligently
If the Hongkong enough. misgivings.
And not many writers The agents had been. advised by tele-are capable of disarming the critic Queen's Road, 5.45 p.m.
June Second annual meet- graph in the first instance and a 28 charmingly as Mr. Victor Bridges notice had been posted at the did recently. To a correspondenting of the Peak Residents Asscn. wharf all this could have been who pointed out that in his latest at Peak Club, 6.15 p.m.
June 13 General Meeting of obviated. Not only would there novel he described the hero's eyes have been no scare but over sas brown in the first chapter and members of the Marine Engineers' Guild of China, at Sailors' Home,
hundred, people would have been black in the last he wrote:-1-am-West Point, 5. 3.0.
saved a miserable vigil in the rain. It is seriously suggested that should a vessel not leave a neigh bouring place because of typhoon weather or any other renson, ample notice be given the public at least till pirates have become a memory of Hongkong's "ancient history,
French President Resigna.
obliged to you for your letter, but you evidently do not study my works with the attention they deserve. If you will turn to page 61 you will see that the hero throws his eyes round the room.. On page be 172 he drops them on the ground. Eyes that are treated in this fashion invariably turn black." **
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Amoy has declared Cantón to plague infected."
According to a Daily Bulletin cable from Tokyo, 3.000 Japanese emigrants are proceeding to Brazil this year, according to the Social Affairs Bureau In the Home Office.
He was sent to jail for six. weeks with hard labour.
-MORE-STRIKES.
FISH SELLERS RESENT LEVIES."
LATEST KONGMOON ITEMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
J
The following is an extract from the proposed programme of his visit to Sandakan -
13th June 1924,-Leave Kukuban Island 6 30 am, through the Reefs. Arrive Sandakan 5.30 p.m. Dinner“ at Government House
13th June 1924-Mofor along the -new-road-(9-miles)-and-back-again
before breakfast. Morning visit Saw-mills. At Home Government House 4-30-630 pm. Dinner in
Sea-Bell” and “Hollyhock."-
14th June 1924.-Leave Sandakan by faunch 7.30 am. visit Betotan logging camp, return Sandakan and proceed by Sea-Bell" to Taganac Island. Sloop at anchor
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MORE CIVIL WAR..
WHY FOOD PRICES ARE
HIGH.
PAKKAL Kongmoon, June 10. Another strike is in progress. This time the fish sellers have come out as a protest against a heavy tax levied by the local mili. tarists. A similar strike has been declared at San Wui city.
Eating houses and restaurants have reopened.
Rumours have reached Hong- Owing to the strong current | kong that fighting has broken out running a dragon boat collided in territory above Wuchow bet- with a ferry boat towed by a ween Shen Hung Ying and Lu launch. The former sank but the Yung Ting. One result has been water police rescued the whole to bring into the open several bandit gangs who are taking advantage of the disorders to create trouble.
crew.
Heavy rains have brought about the collapse of a house here when several were killed.
H. M. S. "Robin" is here.
THREE MEN NOT IN A BOAT.
This moming's arrivals from Wuchow brought practically no noultry. Capons and fowls are being quoted in the wholesale depots at $1,20 per cafty or 90 cents Ib.
Those who have LONDON'S Seen the various AQUARIUM. aquariums of the world agree that London has surpassed all its rivals A Daily Bulletin cable from
Lu is a former Governor of To-day's cables announce the
in the beauty of the interior, and Tokyo reports that the Social
Canton. He was ousted by Sna resignation of Alexandre Mil- the arrangement and diversity of Afairs Bureau in the Home Office
Yat-sen and Chan Kwing-ming. FRENCH SAILORS' SWİM lerand, President of the French the tanks, in the new establishment announce that every effort is being IN THE HARBOUR. Shen has been pro-Sun Yat-sen Republic" since 1920. He was just opened at the Zoological made by means of a publicity
and anti-Sun Yat-sen at different born in Paris in 1859, and Gardens. It is true that the campaign to encourage emigration An impromptu dive into the cool-times. He is now reported to be was educated there. He studied octopus at first showed consider to the Hokkaido and Forniosa, ing waters of the Harbour was leaning towards Sun Yat-sen again. law, and since 1881 has been an able "shyness and caused some
forced upon three French sailors advocate at the Paris Court of disappointment to those who ex According to a Rester cable this morning when a frail skiff in Appeal. For some years he pected to see a huge monster, but from Peking, a Consular report which they were rowing caught the Mail.could yet have engineered the edited "La Petite Republique," it is announced that, as warm received from Changsha on June 9 wind and the tide the wrong way
́N. LAZARUS,
Hongkong's Only European Optician.
EXTREMIST FOLLY --- A TYPICAL EXAMPLE.
Paris, taking his seat as a member
Was
wetting.
JAPAN'S MINISTRY. PERSONNEL OF THE CABINET.
KOWLOON'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW'S, NOTABLE
Chr. China
miscarriage of justice suggested and "La Lanterne," having in the weather comes around, it may be says that during factional fighting and capsized.
Chow Fu, Western The sailors who were from the
ATTRACTION, by the motion the Assembly was latter MM. Briand and Viviani as possible to obtain a large specimen at Shen BoxoxonG, WEDEMDAR, June 11, 1954 asked to adopt. One can hardly collaborators. In 1885 he entered Taken all in all, however, the Hunan, two American mission- French river gunboat had taken out
Keeping up its reputation for believe that Mr. Das could really the Chamber as a deputy for people have shown by the en- aries named George Snyder and the skiff for a little pleasure trip
thusiastic way in which they have Carl Beck were both wounded by and were rowing away merrily variety the Star Theatre to-morrow when there was a jerk and a offers another notable attraction, hold either of these views, because of the extreme Left, and was for flocked to see the many features a bullet entering their left arm.
of this addition to the gardens, that both argue a conspiracy involving some years leader of the Socialist they heartily appreciate the effort" At the Central Magistracy A River Police boat and another This is the special engagement of the whole Judiciary and Press of Left. Eventually he broke away which the authorities have made to yesterday Mr. J. Mason of the launch fished out the saturated Holt and Sawyer, clever performers from the unified Socialist group, provide them with exceptional Naval Yard was fined $5 for reck- sailors from the Harbour and took from Dick Norton's well-known Never was the sage's remark Britain, a conspiracy to leave whose leader was M. Jaures, and opportunities to observe many of lessly riding his motor cycle them back to their ship. None was Globe Trotters. Coming direct that blindness is the firstborn. of Mr. Das is in the right, could only In the Chamber he
unchallenged a verdict which, if became an independent Socialist. the wonderful creatures of the sea in Queen's Road on May 2 and a the worse for his experience. extremes better proved than by be palpably unfair.
amore or less in their natural further $5 for driving in Holly- Are we to recognised authority on social surroundings.
wood Road, a prohibited area. It the action of Mr. Dus, the Indian suppose that it would have been reform, and his appointment to
was alleged defendant was extremist, in proposing that the left to Mr. Das to protest if gave him a wide field for dealing To-day's Poem,
the Ministry of Commerce (1899)
driving at 20 miles an hour. Mr. Mason's defence was that he had Assembly should express its dis- Mr. Justice McCardle had really with such questions as women's
no speedometer on his machine appointment and indignation at tampered with justice? Are we work; old age pensions, etc. In We are the roadside flowers, (Roadside Flowers.)
and that he did not know that Mr. Justice McCardle's judgment to suppose that the judgment 1900 he became Minister of Public Straying from garden grounds,
Hollywood Road was a prohibited exonerating Bir Michael O'Dwyer would not have been greeted with Works, and in 1912 Minister of Lovers of idle hours, and General Dyer for their supa storm of criticism and protest War, an office he resumed on the Breakers of ordered bounds. " posed complicity in the Amritsar in a country. famed alike for its held till the resignation of the If only the earth will feed us, shooting incident. Surely Mr. Das judicial integrity and its passion Viviani Ministry (November, If only the wind be kind, does not believe that one of the for fair play? The very thought 1915). During the later period of We blossom for those who need us, highest judges in the land would is absurd-nay it is the grossest his tenure of this office his army The stragglers left behind. have culpably allowed politics to slander. But Mr. Das is wilfully criticized.
medical service was vehemently
Subsequently he And lo, the Lord of the Garden, Surely ho blind. kway his decisions,
What can be said of a devoted himself to relief work He makes his sun to rise, does not believe that even if Mr man who is always crying for until the Armistice, when he was And his cain-to-fall-with-pardon Justice McCardio was totally out reform, for freedom and for appointed Commissioner-General On our dusty paradise.
of the Ropublic at Strasbourg and
outbreak of the Great War, and
of sympathy with the defendant, justice when he himself, by Administrator of Alsace-Lorraine. On us He has laid the duty, Sir Sankaran Nair whose book suggesting that a government In January, 1920 he succeeded M. The task of the wandering "Gandhi and Anarchy" impeached interfere with the course of Clemenceau as Prime Minister, the honour to Sir Michael Justice that is the effect of his and in September of the same year O'Dwyer and General Dyer, he motion to pay the defendants succeeded M. Deschanel as Presl
breed, To better the world with beauty, Wherever the way may lead
area.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
TOKYO, June 10. The personnel of the Cabinet is as follows:--
Premier-Baron Kato, the leader "The Monthly Medal Golf Com- of the Keenseikai Party.
Was
from the Carlton, Shanghai, whera for three solid months they have played with unbroken success, Holt and Sawyer bring with them s diversity of turns which is sure to
Kowloon delight
audiences. Among their brightest items is the latest comedy creation, "The Mid- night Revue," which presents some excellent singing, dancing and humour. Other entertaining inter- ludes are the very happy burlesque Shide-sketches "Camille" and "He's a Bho." As if this performance was Waka-not enough in itself, the Manage- ment of the Star are also presenting Finance Takauki Hamaguchi. an interesting crook" photoplay War--St.Gen. Ugaki -
entitled “My Lady's Latchkoy.** in Navy Adminal Takarabe.
which the screen's most beautiful "Justice Judge Yokon."
actress, Katherine MacDonald plays. Agriculture-Viscourt Takahashi,
the leading role. This fine double leader of the Selyukal, leader of the Kaku-Shin Clut
Communications KI Inuka, bill will be shown at both perform- ancas, matinee and evering, for the. Railways-Metsugu Sengoku. next three days, and intending Education Doctor Okada-patrons would be well advised to Reutar's Pacific Service.
book their sosta oerly.
petition, played at Fanling on Foreign Affairs-Baron June 29 won by - R. A.|hara. Camidge with a score of 82-577. Home Affairs-Reijiro The winner of the Pool (out of 8 | tsuki. entries) was F.. G. Walker with ́a score of 39-10-79.
Colonel Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson has been appointed Gover- nor of Jamaica in succession to Sir 1873, has served in the Boer and Lasite Probyn. He was born In
European Wars and, was appointed Governor of Trinidad and Tobago in 1921