MONDAY, MAY | 25, 1925.
LOCAL PIRATE MENACEA SEAFARER'S
TRENCHANT VIEWS.
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(To the Buiter of the Chino Mail). Sir-Since my return to port I have been shown your issues of the 14th and 15th of the current month wherein you give the text of the Home
Government's "Inter-Departmental Report" on our ever-present Piracy Menace and an article entitled "That Piracy Report."
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| signal had been received a few minutes previously. To explain to them the correct way to pass on the signal the instant of Ita. reception only made them grin, they thinking, no doubt, that navigators unlike themselves were a pack of arrant fools.
maily dollars. This does not seem right but it is in accord ance with the terms of their agreement and it is surely not such an agreement that Mr. Alabaster would advocate in op position to one which on the whole seems most fair and advan- tageous from the point of view of the public..
NASTY SMASH.
MOTOR CYCLISTS IN. HOSPITAL
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS:
"Very comfortable" was the medical report on the condition of After all, it is not likely that Mr. M. F. Key, Secretary of the the Company will fail to make 8 Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, per cent. for its shareholders (if and Mr. P. Brown of Messrs. it does not, it is not too much to Loxley and Co., who are in hos- expect a slight increase to guar-pital as a result of a motor cycle antee it) and if they are able to collision on Saturday. Mr. Key. make such huge profits as the however, is not quite strong Companies are which Mr. Alabas-enough yet to receive visitors.
The scene of the collision was ter instanced, then they will not
awkward turn at Chin be able, as these companies do, to the pocket the lot but have to devote Wan, Castle Peak Road, a considerable portion of it to Mr,
approaching reducing the subscription rates. from Kowloon side and Mr. Of the two schemes there is surely Brown from the opposite dires- The two machines strack sono doubt as to which most benefits tion.
each other, not quite head on, but the community.
Yours, etc.,
so sharply in a glancing manner FAIRPLAY TO NEGOTIATORS,
as to throw both riders from their seats. Hongkong, May 28.
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Pity The Golfers.
Key
it
of one of the many factions in Canton: he, when his time comes, will send out one of his lieuten- ants to take charge of a large
Outside of discipline what sort district, who in turn will send a of "obligation" could they be aubordinate to so-call adminis- made to take as regards secrecy ? ter a smaller district; this last Secrecy is impossible to a Chinese will in turn send a lesser-sub- employee, his forte being eaves- ordinate of his to look after a dropping and spreading far and city and so on down the scale wide what he has heard or learn we get to a humlet. Each sub ed. Years ago when China's I may at once remark that the ordinate at once entrenches him-G.O.M., Li Hung-chang, con- former would, I am sure, tickle a self within his sphere, with his cluded in. Port Arthur a secret tapeworm anfficiently to make it following of soldiers and begins treaty with the Russians, the text Jaugh. Further, I notice it-the recruiting more under false pre- of that "secret" was published in report now the worm-is signed tences-most likely-squeezes the a Shanghai journal (foreign) One of the weck. by the Colony's own extra-special inhabitants of the surrounding within a representative along with a country except the bandits and G.O.M.'s relatives for a solatium Captain and a Commander, R.N.. pirates of whom he gets afraid.had given the show away, neither of whom, so far as my Bach knowing how No. 1 became I have digressed a little, memory surves me, were ever wealthy, sees no reason why he will return to my wireless. Wire with H.M.'s Fleet out this way should hot imitate his now. erst- less messages sent out or received at any rate since piracy became while master and so on up the are supposed to be known to only. While so doing each be the operator and Captain, on the platime of many of the scale.
Mr. Key was flung violently to Canton Delta's unwilling to work comes the other's enemy in the board ship, and the latter can power and wealth. make them public if he thinks it
the road, and found himself hang- population. Not having a "Who's racs for Who bandy, I cannot know who Knowing nothing of such proceed-except passengers' private cor-
ing half over the precipice at the the other are, but it is suficient ings our 12,000-mile distant S.C. respondence, of course not the To the Editor of the Chine Mail), grasp the white railing with one side. Luckily he was able to + Well knowing, the to say there was not a Joynson-recommend co-operation with the operator.
hand and so prevent himself slip- Flicks amongst the whole bunch. so-called Chinese authorities- Chinese weakness for illicit trad
Sir-Now that the Hotels Comping headlong down the bank. To begin at the end of this Chinese authorities working per- ing, and contraband-running our
From this perilous position Mr. momentous report-which treats hups hand-in-glove with bandits operator Avould be in his glory.pany have nine buses at their
"Insurance"let take or taking "shut-eye" cumshaws Commission for the private wires disposal, surely it is not too much Key was rescued by some passing paragraph 31 where we fin- from them....`·
for the trading-crews-all native to expect them to spare one to motorists, who fortunately arriv- In the first instance, there- On the Pearland West Rivers crews are traders merchant maintain some sort of service ed shortly after the accident and the forts we consider that the with their tributaries, there are shippers" cargo and trading between the City und Deep Water did their utmost to ease
everyone hundred-more or less-arm-secrets flashed" to interested Bay. It would only have to be agony be' was suffering from his Guilds should make
d and unarmed stenm-launches, parties on commission and, lastly, for a time, for soon it will be too extremely severe injuries..
Mr. Brown, who had also been commandeered from merchants for a great big cumshaw-per-hot to play gelf, there except in
badly hurt, was lifted and sometimes from British firms haps-to the pirates' Inirs when the early morning, but the sight very
the car along with A nice easy way for a Select flying all kinds of military they shall have got wireless in-of people toiling from the Club into
and both gentle- Commitee to get out of a bother. flags, engaged in towing junks up stailed. This may come sooner House to the foot of the new road Mr. Key,
taken with all Disbanded or or vice versa. (some ladies even some situation in fact, such and down as may be required. for than we "expect. seems to in their one idea the benefit of what our S.C. term deserting soldiers are known to had their Clubs with them) all care and speed to the Kwong Wah throughout the whole of their Chinese authorities. Then there have taken machine guns--and limp and perspiring even so early Hospital in Kowloon, where their
injuries were dressed. sleliberations. To me it appears are some small gunboats engaged larger with them to pirates as 9.30 in the morning was a sight
From the Kwong Wah Hospital to move the stoniest heart to pity. 25 a veiled insinuation to the in opium running from Wuchowairs.
Not one of - the
After all, it is not entirely the they were taken across the Ear- My reason for writing thusly extremists of if not the whole downwards.
the Government Civit body the Guilds to go on strike whole lot pay Customs dues, is that I know not only the Chingolfers who would be conveni-bour to
Here it was found Hospital. Can the S.C. tell us how one proese wireless operator on board enced. There are quite a number As to force the owners equiesce with them-the S.C vince of a bankrupt country can ship but his wire" confrère on of people en route who would be that Mr.Key, among other in- Going further back one cimes run so many armed vessels while shore. When in Chinese Govern- glad of an occasional bús via furies, was suffering from a to. "wireless." starting at para. their own is only able to on their ment employment it was quite a Aberdeen and it would be better broken ankle, broken wrist and He was and following, where we find advice spare four gunboats and common thing for me to be in-thus than that the whole service a badly crushed knee: the S. sympathetic-very in- four armed launches to protect its formed that a private wire was should be devoted to the new road. also very weak from the loss of deed becuase they are 12.000 immense property and valuable awaiting me at home"-20 miles I believe I am right when I say
Mr. Brown, whose injuries giles by water from the "Danger Ives? No, the S.C. just recom-away. My informant, perhaps a that a number of the 'buses on
mends those few muval mosquitoes worker or an office attendant.Saturday and Sunday were only found to be suffering from almost Zone, having no watch with the encumbrance of a big-tmcu-operate with small gangs of would tell me the contents of the partly full
message quite unconcernedly, as shooter with 25 rounds of am- despots. " munition, but after their brain-
On asking how he knew So much for the S.C. und now it were. racking deliberations, bed, or a for your shipping-man holding a he would say that Mr. Su & So, night club. The remaining para-high position. agree with him the operator, had told him before graphs are a dissectation on the in nearly all he says, especially his he left my place. Needless to say different
of types
wireless words:-
I knew everybody else's business machines for the supposed benefit "It is the duty of the Navy lo secret or otherwise-through of the whole Mercantile. Murine,
protect the ships and their the same source. while the lasi (24) gives owners ollicers from such attacks and and employees a gentle remain- der to shelve the distasteful sub- jert.
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endeavour to induce the Com- pands to institute a system of insurance voluntarily."
to
men were
blood..
were also very gevere.. to keep
So much for Insurance and
if they fail the onus of respon.Wireless and now comes the re- sibility surely rests on the presentative of the local Piracy Government."
ernment has the onus on it.
The
very
Yours sincerely,
Hongkong, May 24.
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GOLFER.
COTTON AND SILK.
(Reuter's Service.)
Committee who'avers that
London, May 23. "The report "might have served as the basis of
Various meetings of "cotton in- fruitful discussion, if the repre-terests were held in Manchester sentatives of the shipowners yesterday dealing with the modi- and officers had not withdrawn fication of the silk duties and before opportunity was given to other questions." discuss the problem."
CHINA MAIL'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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Start out by filling in the words of which, you feel reasonably. sure. These will give you a chus to ather words crossing thera, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both..
HORIZONTAL
1-Convulsad breath
That is hara present 10-Hobgoblin 11-Unwell 15-Afirmative 15-Lack of caution 10 Domestic animal " 20-Pronoun 23-Container. 22-Parpetual 24-spawn of oyster 26-Tubere 28-Belshavlat 29-To place wrongly 31-Immovabla 32-To forbid 33-inesct
35-Unit of work 36To drop back 37-Exiatad
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identical injuries,
in except degree. His broken ankle and Wounded knee were not consider, ed to be so bad as Mr. Key's, Mr. Brown's broken wrist, however, was the more serious of the two. What makes the accident more distressing is that both gentlemen' have received their injuries to the -right-wrist,and-it-is-of-course- still too soon to say whether there will be any permanent effects, though Mr. Key is not thought to be in any serious danger in this respect.
Mr. Key, who was the weaker of the two, having lost more. blood, went under an opera-
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68-Ejaculation "BO—A"Tod
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Individual
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43--A color 40-Total
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(The solution of the above, cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's "China Mail" along with a new
cross-word puzzle.)
PRINCE OF WALES.
the effect of the Prince of Wales' visit on British and Dutch rela-1 tions was provided by a crowd of sixty thousand, mostly the staunchest Nationalists, cheering the Prince to the echo on arrival here, the last place in Cape Pro- vince to be visited. Local clergy- man invoked the Divine blessing on Anglo-Dutch unity.
LLOYDS NEW HOME.
(Reuter's Service.)
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SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised In The Mail
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Further back again "comes
Quite so: should a gunboat, in "Discipline" beginning with para assisting a merchant vessel in 19, while the end of para, 20 gives repelling a piratical attack, get we quotations from the state any member of its crew killed, ment of the Naval Intelligence then the dependant of that mem-1 Affair at the Court of Inquiry onber would get a pension from the] the Taile" piracy, the first of Home Government, therefore, also
A meeting representing the As-tion, and stood it very well. which says
should the same happen to
The "representative" is evid-sociations of Affiliated Cotton The doctors expected him to make "Unless pay conditions and member of a Hongkong-owned ently
a good recovery. one of the "official Spinners and the Manufacturing
(Reuter's Service.) Mr. Brown went also under compensation are made attrac-merchant vessel governed by the majority." How he can make out Association passed a resolution
operation and he, too, is
London, May 24. tive, good officers cannot be Piracy Regulations of the Hong what he calls "the basis of very strongly protesting against even expected to stay in River kong Government then that Gov-fruitful discussion" I fail to see, modifications, and expressing the making good progress with every
Reuter's correspondent with steamers."
for when ...the "non-official opinion that in view of the sacri- prospect of soon regaining his the Prince of Wales at Burgers
strength. Then in para. 21 comes a quota- It must not be forgotten, how minority arrived at the confer-fices of revenue resulting there-
Neither gentleman dorp says the happiest proofs of tion from a letter from the ever, that in framing their Re-ence-room they found-if my from that there was less justifica- is in any danger. Governor wherein he goes on to Kulations the Government fore-memory serves me aright that tion from a financial viewpoint in say, after commenting on the
Saw their responsibility and slyly there was to be no discussion at imposing restrictions, difficulties, "liner" companies “but to inseried a proviso which runs all, but simply that the Piracy delays and additional burdens."
FRENCH FINANCES. Chinese-owned vessels which
The Manchester Chamber of "Provided the Piracy Re-Regulations were to be read out curry British officers merely in
Mer. gulations have been observed." to them, after which they could Commerce Shipping and
(Reuter's Service.). order to comply with conditions Therein lies their avenue of give their. assent or get out.chants' Committee, after con- requisite to obtain registration in escape and in a Court of Inquiry They got out and later formulated sidering Mr. Churchill's reply to
París, May 22. Hongkong" ad confession their counsel, instructed by the what is now known to all those Lancashire's arguments against indeed. Para. 22, a sort of sum- Attorney-General, would come out interested in the Piracy problem the duties and the rebate, in a As regards M. Caillaux's new ming up of the above: our S.C. on top.
as the "Minority Report" A statement say they are convinced financial schemes, the newspapers The Prince, in a speech, seized "considers" and gets out of the Talking about insurance, it very sensible report it is, devoid that no method could be devised state that the further revenues re- the occasion to return thanks for dilemma, after furious thought reminds me that in Parliament of any semblance of "red tape" resulting in anything but serious quired will be obtained by an the cordial welcome to all parts of simply another or rather the first whenever an addition, or two is
and strictly business-like.
and most damaging obstruction increase of postal and telegraphic the province, even the wayside hint to the Guilds to go on strike. "billed" the "billers" have but
Further on the "representa- to trade. The Committee charges on increase of tobacco re-stations, where the train stopped No recommendation whatever one slogan which is "The Navy is tive talks of the 24 hour clause in authorised their representative to venue, the establishment of an for only one or two minutes. from them to Hongkong's Gov- our national insurance."
apprenticeship tax, and an in- the "Articles," saying that it also again meet Mr. Churchill. ernment, such has to fall in line "Navy League" also have it em- far as I know, no discussion on it Master Cotton Spinners' General unified system of game permits "could have been discussed." So A meeting of the Federation of crease of all schedule taxes on a with Singapore's Government blazoned on their banner, so to would have been necessary, as all Committee unanimously passed a and an increase in their cost, which governs officers' wages, no speak,
May 25. -Coronet Theatre recommendation to the powers-
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Funny now, when I come to shipping men know that although resolution that the Federation which will replace the sugar tax,
May 25. World Theatre, that-be regarding officers' status,think of it, the local N. L. have it is inserted in the six months' should immediately cable the It is estimated that these will at produce in 1926 the four thou-
London; May 23, The Sixth Commandment." accommodation or, again, pay, to never thought fit to come to the articles the present Harbour-Secretary of Agriculture
master does not acknowledge it Washington cancelling the notice sand million franes required to H.M. the King, accompanied by uphold, better or increase as the owners' and Guilds' assistance.
May 25. Queen's Theatre ease may be, nor nothing but that Regarding "wireless" I main as binding in ships in the Danger given to withdraw from the balance the Budget. Supplemen- the Queen and Prince Henry, "Bell, Boy 13."
May 26-Star Theatre, "Moly Rentle, gentle hint to the Guilds. Lain that unless European opera- Zone-except for one sin. It original cotton standards agree-tary measures include stricter drove in semi-State to the City
and laid the foundation stone. of or Coming to "Indian Guards" at tors are engaged or the semi-must be remembered that it is an ment and authorising the signing supervision of income tax. paras, 17 and 18 the less said on
amended supplemental The newspapers say that the Lloyds new building, which will May 28.-James McGrath, Ltd., automatic system when perfected usertion and binding only by of an that hend the better. I for one is
acre of ground in presents "Our Cabaret," at the installed
mutual consent so far as I know. agreement for the cotton trade. inland letter rate may be increas-cover an whereby ships' do not think a good Indian comes officers after a few lessons can
Theatre Royal Youra, etc.,
The Provisional Emergency Com-ed to thirty centimes from June 1. Leadenhall Street. to the "Furthest East" looking be taught its management-it
mittee discussed the adverse con-An increase of the telegraphic The King, in a speech, dwelt on
June 6 and 20. ---- for a job. Court cases in Shang" will be useless.
ditions affecting trade, and urged rate is described as under, con- the romantic history of Lloyda hai, here, and elsewhere shows Granted that Chinese can be
Hongkong, May 22.
stronger measures' should be sideration. Apparently there is and the traditional honour and dances at the Peak Club, 9.15 that On board ship, when there trained as easily as any other
adopted, including the formula no question of increasing the integrity of the corporation, p.m.. are no pirates to kill they "keep national, yet it must be remem.
tion of a scheme of control. It postal and telegraphic charges for whose history was embodied in their hand in" by killing one bered. that on board ship, where
was recommended that compul- abroad.
the highest qualities of British May 27 and 28-Visit of commerce. He recalled Lloyds Japanese Tennis players, H.K. another. Some, on the other hand, discipline is strictly necessary. (To the Editor of the China Mail), sory powers should be sought for
re big babies, continually com- the Chinese is a dead failure
inestimable services in wartime, C.C. Ground, 4.15 p.m., each day. plaining of one having been the more so the higher hie social
Bombay, May 23-Shaß Ahmed, and hoped for still greater things May 30-June 1-Fifth Extra duction, consumption and also of the Indore Mounted Rolice and from the expansion and develop Race Meeting of the "Hongkong. Sir, Mr. Alabaster is to be stocks in view of regulating pro- Sham Rao Digbe, an officer in the ment being inaugurated to-day. struck by another, yet taking status. Witness the "Hwa Jah" congratulated on his stand for duction according to the demand. Maharajah of Indore's household.
Jockey Club, 3 p.m. them all-in-all they make not bad cadet frasco. They joined, so the rights of the public in regard The silk section of the London were sentenced to death in connec
June 6-Half-yearly meeting salt or other contraband smug they said, to learn how to be to possible increases in the rates Chamber of Commerce denies that don with the murder of Ua mer
of members of the Hongkong glers; are not adverse to taking a Captains-no such common term charged by the new Telephone it concurs in the decisions of the Bawls. bribe to jet smuggled stuff pass as Master for them there, was Company, but he is not strength recent contextheed of fille Interchait Bayla Anan Drao Phase been received from Fukuoka that
Osaka, May 24-A report has Jockey Club, H.K. Club^ Annex, while on watch at the gangway in no intermediate rankening his case, surely, when he rests with Mr. Churchill.:
PAM COMPANY, MEETINGS. port-that is, of course, if they I have been on a ship under the quotes, the position of Companies
to transportation for life, and Syed an unknown assassin fired from are not asleep. I think the best Chinese flag carrying two native such as the lower and higher
Mahomed, sub-inspector of the the street at General Fukuda Who May 29-Yearly meetings of guards are those in vessels under operaters. At all times, resplen-Tramway Companies. They were
Indore police, and Karamat Khan was dining with friends last night shareholders of Union Incurance the Portuguese flag-ex-Portident in uniform the one thing certainly not guaranteed a minis
were acquitted. Reuter. The at an fan hers. The bullets missed Society of Canton, Ltd., British guese soldiers or Russians (now all Chinese love so dearly. They mum dividend but on the other
sslington, May 23-In addi- trial took place in March in the their mark and Fukuda was unin-Traders Insurance Co. and China Bolsheviks.) The pay of guards strutted about the decks when hand maximum rates were laid
steps to collect war debts court of the Chief Magliate of Jured Later: The alteropted Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., Union is poor so what sort of man can not asleeplike jackdaws in pea- down which of course human Gov
countries the Bombay Presidency: Nine men assassination is believed to be a Building, at noon, 12:15 pm and be expected for it2.
tfoodsak feathers vitit
is paying attention towers accused of continya tetallion for the killing of the 12.20 p.m. respectively tande
From paras. 4 to 17. I consider the air, untoucha
nothing but pime--we have heard
and read of it again and again one
way or another
their own opinion.
On occasions like it
Talking about co-operating with local Chinese authorities is sheer nonsense. Take a General the wat
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last June:
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