AERATED WATERS.
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Established 1841
Hongkong 25th July 1924.
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the disastrous floods mentioned as Mr. James Elliman, of Slough; stated to have risen 34 feet at Elliman, Sons, & Co, embrocation. the River Cauvery for one, is and Hove, Sussex, of Messrs. Erode, which is across the border manufacturers, left £5,000 to Wi- in Madras Presidency. Where the ham Westmacott, manager of his river flows through Mysore State businessr £500 to Annie Cozens, It is also rising rapidly; so that, in formerly in his wife's service; a country in which the rainfall is £300 to Nellie Marriot his house described as scanty," further keeper; £250 each to three other damage may be expected before servants; and bequests ranging the waters abate.
from £1,000 to £5 to various em
sum
/ TUESDAY, JOLY" 20" 1921.
Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be geeking? -Wordsworth.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
JULY 29,
1801.
Municipal Police, therefore, have The latter, it is evident from to his sister, Miss Annie Barlow, Think you, amid all this mighty to accept the existence of armed yesterday's cables, have caused £389,683 desperadoes in the immediate vicinity of their jurisdiction ne a ready-made and unpreventable condition of affairs." This is bad enough but there is still worse
"That so foreigners engage in it-[the urms traffic-is chiefly owing, no doubt, to the insignificant penalties involved in case of detec- tion. In one Congular Court the maximum penalty is three months' imprisonment. In another it appears to be 29 days. In another, an arms runner recently caught in the net of selling arms to a Chinese was let off scot free on purely domestic grounds."Obviously, as the Acting Commissioner adds, in face of sentences of this kind it is not surprising that so many foreigners engage in a trade from which large profits are obtainable. But. "Until (among other things) the punishments inflicted оп foreign arma smugglers are made
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hai's Acting Commissioner of Police: "Lawless men are turned out in large quantities at the public expense ne so-called soldiers all over the country. Disbanded in this neighbourhood (as some thousands recently have "been)
A message from Madras, receiv-ployees of big business, £174.347. ed overnight, states that a teacher Mr. Louis Joel Duveen (of whose and sixty-four scholars were killed will probate has been granted. and many other persons injured in four years after his death), of 51, consequence of the collapse of a Berkeley-square, W. a member of the famous family of art dealers, boy's school in the flooded area.
left £200 dó his children's governern, Miss Rovde Smith; £2,000 to his friend, John, Crocker; £2,000 to his mother-in-law, Mra Salamon, £94.380.
BAND
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There was a capital altendance at the BUGABOOS, concert given by
the Band of the Ist Batt. East Surrey Regiment, on the Kowloon Football Club ground last night:
comers bad
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Mr. Frank Whitmash Mayo, yeil, Somersetshire. £52.938.
Mr. Joseph Alexander Tomkins, of Church End, Finchley, N £51,460.
Owing to the "elephant at the Col. Christian Frederick George "Annamite Cirbus having mono, William de Falbe, of Bylands, polised 600 chairs," as one pro- Redbourne, Herts, son of M. de minent Kowloonite remarked, lateFalbe, for many years Danish
stand. The crowd Minister in London, £34,789. must have numbered over 500, Judge Francis Reynolds Yonge eloquent testimony to the love of Radcliffe, K,C., of The Rise Kowloon for good music.
Headington Hill, Oxford, County Court Judge for the Oxfordshire Circuit, £3,333
The Band, under Corporal T. Earl, played an excellent selection which included, such favourites as "Carmen" selections. "Songe D'Automne.""Der Engel Lied" and
Chu Chin Chow," and those
present showed their appreciation in no mistaken manner.
The teacher was giving a so! Scriptural lesson to his boys, when he asked the questions
"Why did not Cain spare his brother's, life?"
"Because he wasn't Abel," answered a facetious scholar.
"My boy," said the teacher, solemnly, this is neither the time out here. Now do you know why or place to be funny. So come am going to cane you?"
bitter experience and Shanghai can never hope to cope properly
The Kowloon Residents' As- with its armed robber peril until sociation had made.. excellent it follows our example in providing arrangements, in which they were heavy sentences for people con-assisted by the China Light and Power Co., Star" Ferry. Com- victed of trading in arms. There pany, Kai Tack Motor Bus Co., is at the moment no other way. South China Morning Post, Ltd., The lawless man must be made to 100tage of the kind offer of Kowloon Football Club, to take understand that although he can Lieut.Col. F.S. Montague-Bates, I still secure a pistol It will certainly C.B., C.M.G. DS.O. and the "No, sir." answered the boy, In not pay him to keep it in his Officers of the East Surrey Regi-an airily defiant one.
Wel! I am going to cane you possession, much less to use it for ment, and their efforts were well
rewarded crime. In other words he must be taught that the game is no longer worth the candle.
Summer Sales.
The only discordant notes struck during the night were due, to owners of bellicose dogs, whisper-
because I am able."
ing women and cackling children. Current Comment.
Out of courtesy to those who
A LETTER OF
LUTHER'S.
One
(Noise
of.. Dur contemporaries
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Messrs. Holyoak Massey and Co., Ltd., sro, giving u domonista- tion at 11 am, to-morrow, at their offices. of the Kelvinator" electria automatic refrigerator.
"The Search for Happiness."" will be the subject of this week's Public Lecture of The Hongkong
Storms now prevail, spoiling 'the raspberries. This morn, ing, after heavy early rain, a warm sun began at 8.30 and the teeming earth sends up an immense and univer-ning to grumble at the heat, snove While people bere are begin- sal perfume,
-M. S., Holland..
has been falling in London. Reuter message reada: Drenching rain intermingled with an unro sonable snowfall was responsible for the cancellation of to-day's per- formance of the Empire Pageant.
Lodge The Theosophical Society, Wednesday July 30th, at 5.45 p.. 16, Queen's Road Central, on
All are welcome-Advt.
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POINTS OF VIEW,
nap
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Man is a house builder, but Woman is a home builder. Mrs, The case in which David Belk- Alien.**
Wickersham, an American, Socialism is contempt of the was charged with publishing a false people, qualified by flattery. Sir statement in connection with the American Afiatic Commercial Alfred Mond. better than the present or future. yesterday until August 6, at 10 Of course, the past is always Company, was formally remanded
a.m., when a date will be fixed for
Dr. T. R. Glover. *
I believe overcrowding has a hearing. great deal to do with many of the inquests I hold.--Dr. Waldo.
I do not believe aircraft will ever supersede the older arms. Mr. L. S. Amery, M.P.
י,
The Colombo.branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Grporation, on July 14, entered into occupation of their new premises in Prince Street. On the ocension The soldier of to-day is just as of the opening a reception was hold good as the men who fought in the by Mr. L. N. Murphy, the Agent, Mutiny and in the Crimea.many of the bank'a clientele nasem General Miles.
bling to wish the Corporation good. luck in their new premises.
Public opinion should condemn scientists who desecrate" their powers to cause misery among the nations. Mrs. Annie Berant.
„Before Mr. R.. E. Lindsell dt theCentral Magistracy, yesterday America under Prohibtion is afternoon, the trial of Wong Mart, now the most corrupt, the most formerly claffer to Mr. M. A.
nation in the Western world. The trial is in connection with the criminal, and the most drunken Razack, for the munstughter of Sze Tung-ling, was continued. Rev. Wyndham Heathcote
fatal accident on June 23 of the It is not, to my mind, inconcelv-road between Aberdeen and Re- able that this present League of pulse Bay. After bearing of fur Nations may be a step towards the ther evidence for the prosecution, United States of World.---Dr. J. C. the case was adjourned until this. Maxwell Garnëtt.
afternoon.
The changes on the map of the world are produced, not only by
Private advices from Australia the sacrifices of those in the war, state that Sir Henry Barwell, but also by the work of the pro- ex-Premier of South Australia, fessor or schoolmaster forty or who advocated the importation of before. Professor Indentured Asfatics into Northern fifty years
| Australia and was subsequently. CK Webster..
defeated in an election in which this issue was prominent, is coming to China and Japan... His purpose, according to the Far Eastern | Times" (Peking) is to study the question of exclusioolam from the Asiatic end.
SHADOWS. BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mal,
ENTERTAINMENTS.
have gone to so much trouble and expense to arrange these concerts, -if for no other reason-it is to be hoped that last night's-guilty-bewails-the-fact-that-Bangkok-is- This is the time of the year parties will mend their manners getting noisier and noisier, notes when the convalescent from that on future occasions. The pleasure the "Pinang Gazette." Noise is a terrible disease *spenderitis" of the majority must not be spoilt characteristic, but unpleasant fea- would be well advised to spend his by the mannerless behaviour of a ture of all great cities, especially leisure moments at his home or minority.
Oriental cities, and Bangkok can club and to get a friend to hold him
scarcely be blamed for thinking Lon_n atout lead during his journey.......
An event unique that it gets more than is share. to the office; if he cannot with-
in German auc-Most of us Dink similarly of dar. stand the lure of the shops in the
tion-rooms has own localities at one time or other. been the sale Several eminent medical authorities. ordinary way it would be simply
July une of Martin Luther's have established to their satisfac of asking for a relapse to get too near
dated 1523, tion that excessive and continudus them in their present summer sale important letters,
half falio sheets, noise is the reverse of beneficial in two, and B attire, particularly when yet more and addressed to the Elector its relation to the human nervous sharea are placed in his path by Frederick of Saxony, Written in aystem. Not illogically, they also neat little bills and ticketa German, the letter shows clearly remind us that it one of the announcing that there are real that Luther urged his deter penalties which Nature asks us to good bargains to be made. For mined and energetic Sovereign pay for. The incessant clamour, of | the benefit of any who have not to adopt a conciliatory attitude à city undoubtedly drives people to July 20. Lammert Bros., at The death took place at Berlin, been in the Colony long (it is towards the Pope.. Taking the the suburbs and country for tem- their Sples Room, postage stamps, entirely unnecessary in any other standpoint that peace is more porary pesce 'nnd quiet."
This is 5.15 p.m..
disease in in its incipient stages; but if it prompts you to nothing
It
"Judith of Bethulia."
29. Coronet Theatre;
Kindred of the Dust." July 20.-The Star Theatre;
July
Theatre';
The Dangerous Blonde."
29. - World.
July 29.-Queen's "Don't Write Letters."
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The Argentine aviator, Senhor Zanni, reached
from Lyons Amsterdam and Paris on Sunday. Theatre; world.
He is engaged on a flight round the
yesterday, of Signor Busoni, the composer. Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni was born near Florence in 1866. Both his father and mother were musiciana. He composed much chamber music and orchestral and pianoforte scores.
cases) we will indicate a few of beneficial to humanity than justice, good in so far as health generally July 31.-Lamunert Bros. at the symptoms. If a desire to Luther maintained that a war must is concerned. The desire to escape Sales Rooms, Gents' and Ladies' Fossess comes over you no matter follow if the Elector protested fur: the hubbub of industry, even if Rain Coats, 11 a.m. what shop it is that you stand in ther against the Papal Coronation only temporarily is natural. front of you may be sure that the of the recently elected Charles as might accurately be construed as
September 16-Extraordinary Emperor. The lener was knocked | an "indication that man is still suf down for 9,000 gold marks-at ficiently primitive to crave for the general meeting of The China. present rates not much under £500. quiet and freedom of the Open Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the At the annual reunion of the Fesung, and for that Registered Office of the Company. Victoria, Hongkong and South matter, any city or town in the Pedder Street, noon.
China Diocesan Association, held F.M.S. and S.8., has much in October 3.--Second meeting of in the Mansion House, on June 17, common with Bangkok. on the the China Sugar Refining Co, the Rev. R. W. Howard handed to subject of noise. We have houses Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Peddler Street, the Bishop of Victoria a cheque which, for health's. make are built noon,
for £50" from Aksociation towards
more
further it is in its least dangerous form. If your hand instinctively
With the present reaches for your chit signing POPULATION, rates of births. pencil, it has reached a
deaths, and emi advanced form; and if the pencil is gration, the population of Great produced and applied to paper it Britain will increase to 45 or 46 is at its height and the best thing millions about 1941, and then to do is to send for the friends and diminish.
relatives at once. Few of us can claim to be entirely free from
it, but as we watch the effect it has
spaces.
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our cool and airy lines, extremely October 18. Extraordinary defraying travelling expenses dur- suitable for the climatic conditions. General Meeting of Douglas S.S. Ing his well deserved boliday. but useless as non-conductors, of Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office It is recorded sound. That of course is a post of the Company, 20 Des Voeux NOT LIKE THAT of Olive tion which we cannot satisfactorily Road, Central, noon.
Among candidates in the Schreiner in remedy. Another of the nuisances
Trinity Examination of students October 20. Third meeting of of the Ians of Court held on May on those whose previous experi- the new Life written by her complained of in the Siamese ences have not inoculated them husband that she read the Sermon capital is the reckless use of the The China Sugar Refining Co. 29, 30 and 31, and June 2 and 3, we breathe a silent prayer of on the Mount at the age of six with motor born. In this respect Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, by the Council of Legal Educa thankfulness that its most great amazement, and rushing to Penang is more fortunate, as the moon.
tion, Motokichi Hasegawa, Inner advanced stages are not catching her mother cried, "Look what I've unnecessary use of the horn is n November 5.-Further extra. Temple, received a third class. found! It's what I've known all punishable offence, while use of the ordinary meeting of Douglas 3.3. pass in Roman Law, and Wee along. Now we can live like raucous mechanical type hom is Co., Ltd., at 28 Des Voeux Road Tin Shan, Middle Temple, that" It was difficult to check prohibited within Municipal limits. Central, noon.
similar pass in the final examina- tion. her excitement, but we are told There are other noises which our
OTHER MEETING, that she was silenced eventually, contemporary deems essentially
July 30,-Lecture Dispatches from all parts of the and that all her life she could not unnecessary. These are the cries Search for Happiness at the world, during recent weeks, have get over the fact that people did of the multitudes of hawkers who H.K. Lodge Theosophical Society, brought news of disastrous floods, not want to live like that."
pursue their callings until long 16 Queen's Road Contral, 5.45 p.m. with consequent loss of life and
after midnight. We suffer from With the advent of the same thing in Penang. Whe A CLEAN · M.. Herriot asther it would be possible to pro- PARIS. Premier, a great hibit the hawkers from crying movement has their wares in prescribed areas
Floods In India.
"An armed robber is a combina- they naturally drift to Shanghai. damage to property. The fail of tion of a lawless man and a pistol." No authority can prevent them rain has been abnormal in many Pistola reach parts of the world. Cables yester- That is the way Shanghai's Acting from doing so. Commissioner of Police puts it in Shanghai, also in large quantities, day brought fuller details of the started in the direction of after certain hours, is a point which a special report he has just issued in foreign ships from foreign disasters in Southern India. The cleaning up Paris," says the could be discussed-although we do mention of the floods "over-Central News." Immediately he not say with advantage. It would; dealing with the armed robber countries. Under the complex topping" the famous Krisharaja assumed power, M. Herriot in-we suspect, be difficult to arrive at menace in the Northern Settle-scheme of local administration Segara dam in the native state of timated that he wanted to see two conclusion which would give ali ment. Obviously if you take the these weapons can be landed and Mysore is especially significant. laws; one dated 1895 and the round satisfaction on the subject of pistol away the lawless man ceases distributed without much diffi-The region generally may be other 1921, which had been street noises. In London, legials- described as that of "the head- sleeping in the arclifves,' tion is in force for the prevention to be an armed robber. But how culty." The Acting Commissioner waters of the rivers of Southern revived. The first covers all sorts of unnecessary noise, and evan to take the pistol away? Shang-adda that considerable seizures of India," but the rainfall is com- of outrages against public morale, music, at unseemly hours, but to hai's Acting Commissioner of arms and ammunition are often paratively "scanty." The main apch as selling or exposing objec-enforce similar enactments in the Police sees only one really effective made on board ships in harbour West to East across the middle of books or other objects. The more an entirely different matter.
water-parting stretches
from tionable postcards, lithographs, East with prospects of success in method. That is to check the by the Customs authorities and the State, at the height of about recent law makea vagabondage and supply at the source. This of smaller captures are not infre 8,000 feet, the ground sloping agreed to the revival of these mendicity Illegal. The Cabinet course is so much easier said than quently made in the Settlement by thence gently northwards and measures, and they are now before To-day's Poem. done that after all it is hardly the Municipal Police, but as the southwards, but rising again in Parliament. worth while at the moment hoping Municipal Police do not function the Eastern and Western Ghats
the South towards the junction of disappearken relief in that direction, and either on the river of on any of (range of mountains) Most of for any relief in the only course is to seek the the private wharyes they can the rivera in the North belong to remedy as far as possible locally. actually themselves do very little the basins of the Kistnia and the Hongkong can congratulate in this to atop the entry of weapons into respect that it is so much better the Settlement from the direction off than Shanghai. Hear Shang-whence most of them come "The
(Qulet Wisdom.)
on
SERIOUSLY ILL
The
H.E. Llang Shib-yl, ex-Premier
of China, has arrived in Geneva on
a visit to the League of Nations. Mr. Liang was received on June 17 by Sir Erle Drummond, the Secretary-General of the League, and afterwards invited to lunch by Professor Attolico, the Undër- | Secretary-General, and other
| high officials of the Secretariat.
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With the death of Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller to Queen Alexandra, the name of one who. was prominent in the China War in 1860, has passed away, After the Apal, capture of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny Captain Probyn V.C., succeeded to the command of the 1st Sikh Irregular Cavalry, which regiment came to be known subsequently as "Probyn's Horse,” It was specially selected to serve under Sir Hope Grant during the China War in 1860, and was conspicuous for its services during that mütering campaign—Under- Probyn she regiment did good service not only in the field, bor A message from Cambride, also in patrol, escort and Massachusetts, states that Senator reconnaissance duty. General
Mr Juhu Robert Nor less deem that there are LATEST Barlow, of Edworth,
powers WILLS Bolton, cotton spin
Which of themselves our minds not and maga, Northern Penner, and flow north facturer, a former mayor of Bolton,
Impress wards. Those in the South, belong brother of Sir Thomas Barlow, the That we can feed this mind of Lodge is seriously ill On Sunday Probyn's acthin service closed to the basin of the Cauvery, some physician, all of only
Mr. Lodge underwent, an urgent, with the Umbeyla campaign on flowing North and some South. 74 words left all his property
operation
the Northwest Frontier in 1863.
ours
¦ In à wise passiveness. A bura