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HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. CINEMATOGRAPH OPERATOR
CHARGED.
Jose Mintez, an operator employed at the Palisade, Kowlonm, was charged with stealing two postal orders, of Ws, ench, the property of sne C. Lase Paole, of
TRE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY JULY 27m 1916.
TENNIS LEAGUE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR SATURDAY'S
FINALS.
CHINESE A VALUABLE
THE RAILWAY IN
DEVELOPMENT.
[ J. SELWIN TAIT. Į On the Hongkong Cricket Club ground Railways and banks are the twin haud
rafronds bring maids of Commerce: Saturday the winners of the Stat business to the market, and banks pro- division of the Hongkong Tennis League,vide the Rancial mannery, to handle the Hongkong C.C., will oppose pairs
JAPANESE
INVENTION.
TO RECOVER METALS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE ŠEA.
Mr. Nakabar who had bein endeav
it. Of the two the railroad is more im-oring to build a machine which will
Without the orlans the the bank. the Palisade, and also with receiving the lected from the Rest of the first divi- latter, it is possible for business to go fish up metals from the bottom of the
same. Mr. Prestrum defended, and plenit- ed not guilty, The defendant remanded on bail until Friday.
HOUSE BÖY ́S-THEFT.
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A hourly employed by Miss Massy, was charged with Brighton floase, stealing articles to the value of $133, He was further charged with stealing $30.71 as bike. The boy pleached guilty with regard to the second charge, and as
sion.
The championship of the second division has not yet been decided, the Analists being Kowloon and the Van garri Club.
the
INTIMATIONS
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on, even if limpingly, but without rail, specially shells fired from warships ways and with the consequent lack of during target practice, has completed his accessibility to market, business dies still invotion and it was recently given a The machine is Travit.
A emantry's business grows in trial on the Sara istrz. proportion to
development of its provided with a powerful electro-magne- railrond mileage. Without railways itic stone, which is let down to the bed years to develop of the sea, and has an arrangement like For the gume against the Rest, the Look kundreds of
But Europe's wealth; with the introduction automatic telephone receiver Hongkong Club, will be represented by of railways soon after its birth as a an- gives a signal when the stone comes in the following pairs-Mesars. H. A.tion the United States developed great touch with the objects searched for. The Yishet and N. E, Kunt; R. and H. Han-wealth with astonishing rapidity--and trial was successful, the unchiur locat
the colossal individua! fortunes realized ing and bringing to the surface nine constitutes one of rig sock, and F. W. Cary and L. N. Murphy.
The unsealing of China, that is such and bn inch projectiles which had
Been thrown into the river. It is entist acceptable Pre They will be opposed by Ng Sae-kwong 10 the first charge he said his friend" and Wong Po-kata (Chinese Recreation opening up by railways, wift revolutionied by goome neva men that something sents to those at Home.
ize the commerce of the world. If Chinlik 600,000 sells ir sentired at the Chuk; Cooper Hunt and Hammond possessed ailroad mileage in proportion bottom of Ise and Hiroshima Bays, the to its land area, and on the same scale)
These shells, nț The first charge was withdrawn, bui (United Services), and Green and Lind-
as in the United States, it would own naval target grounds. car the second Mr. Oenar seatered, thesay Woods (Kowloon).
320,000 miles of railroad. If, however, the print price of serup iron alone its mileage was pro-rated according to slwnld be worth a ritter of sis million ́defendant · In www numils with hard
its population, or the same basis as in yen A plan is now on foot to recover Jahemer
the United States, then it would have them by the use of Mr. Nakalsira's_ma“ over one million miles of railroad. Inchine. round numbers, the United States has to
nud have taken the things.
MISSING RUBBER.
A codie "uployed by the Kowkom Wharf and Gledown Company was charged with stealing three, pounds of rubber valued at $3.50, Tlas evidende showed that the moalie, when about in be sesvlied at the gateway of the wharf, ran away. The watchinan chased, him and the roodie, when der was running, throw The rubber away. Eventually the man was caught by a landinu venustable pad the watchman.
Mr. Urine sentenced the coolic to onej month's hard labour and four-hours' stacks,
COOK'S COUNTERFEIT COINS,
The Rest to oppose the eventual win- ers of the second division will be as follow: Wood and Dyer Ball (Civil Servier); Malthy and. Muriel (Hong kong), and Sewell (Wigwam) and Manley (Vanguard) or Cooper (Kowloon).
Play will commence at 5 p.m. Mrs. Nishet will present the shields, and the money asrally spent in the purchase of medals will be handed over
to the Tobacco Fand.
THE PREVALENCE OF SUICIDE IN JAPAN.
SOME ASTONISHING FIGURES.
were the wonder of the world.
TATTOOING IN CHINA.
Int
day a quarter of a million miles of railroad white China bas 600 miles and should have a million. It seems a far cry from 0.000 to a million, but the latter will come in time, and, in the
A very interesting letter dealing with process of coming, it seems to me, wealth
boat which will make American the above subject apprñes is due vorej affluence look like, poverty, so ripe is the spondence, colanins (says the 3,00, Dyilg opportunity.
If China's population consisted of an-News) from Mr. Ivan Chên, formerly of trained, inlf-savage peoples any great Chinese Legation in London and railront extension would have to be post- Taoyin at Shanghai. He points out that poned until the people were educated the practies of fattooing has existel since. up to a certain degree of productiveness very early days in Chian, but that for For efficiency a matter of generations. various reasons it has never become popu- In such circumstances, any attempt to lur. Mr. Chen tells us so much that Crie forecast the rate at which Chinese rai) wishes he could tell is more, particularly road development wouhl proceed, or its in regard to the origin of the practice. effect when developed, wild be futile in That. He says, is untjaceable and one has the extrem. Such, however, is very far to fall back on the theory that in China, Whether the saying that suicide kreos indeed from being the case in Calma. Its as elsewhere, tattooing springs from the. pace with the advance of civilization witpeople--ews in the remotest provinces-primitive man's desire to make his hous are trained are capable workers-skilled terrifying to all who may have designs A cook employed in the ss. Charles hold for ever no one seems to be prepared bandieratismen and agriculturists with it it is the result in other words,
the inherited lore of three thousand
of the instinct of self-preservation, Hardouin, was charged with being into say, but it does seem to be the case years of civilization, and the skill in China this instinct, owing to the coun- possession of 36 counterfeit Hongkong in Japan as in Europe at least for the handloom, in metals and agriculture try's long centuries of isolation, has
Bubroken line
spent itself most freely in the arts of coins and eight counterfeit Chinese sius, present. An official of the Bureau of handed down ja
through hoodred generations--more,
pace, in agriculture, is the elaboration When car duty in the vicinity of the Statistics in the Cabinet says the fact that indeed, for we know that in the time
of an intensely complicated systein of there are more suicides in cities than in of Confacius, 25 centuries ago, China wa social relationships, an intensely com Wing Lok wharf a constable heard a
a highly civilized country, and there aspirited language. Daly in a few areas. man having an altercation, with defend-
rural parts testifies to the rulo' just been us bak in her civilization.
It is, perkups, in far-fetched did it follow the lines found in ather ant, shouting that he (defendant) had stated. The more complicated life. bas hased bad coins, The coiistable followed comes the greater becomes the number of parallel to compare China's opportuni lands, and, accordingly, painted ra
were, to the majority of Chinese, non- defendant and asked to be allowed to suicides, and there are more self-destroyes with a lepothetical bone condition.
ers among men who have to bear the Suppose, therefore, our North and South strosities, phenomena outside their peace look at the coins, Defendant refused, brunt of struggle for existence than Atlantic States had always been cut off ful ken, something to be used, if t
from North Central and South Cen-Jall by way of hideous example. and threw some of the coing on the
tral and Western States by insurmount Patane which Mr. Chen ground. These were collected and found
This official says the seasons of year, able barriers, and suppose that they were tettoing being used as a mark of favone as shown by statistics, have a great bear for the first time opted ng to interstate's only superficially in contradiction with to be bad, and the cook was arrested i ing on suicides, the month of July being and international commierte, would. Et Jabin (kloje, for, obviously, a number of
Mr. Orme sentenced the man to two
most conducive to it. Supposing there not be reasonable to prophesy a vast turns absent from tattooing as usually are on an average 1,000 suicides a mouth, traffic for the new railroads from the ptised enter into it in this particular outles' imprisonment on the first change, the figures for July will be 1,300 for commerce singing full fledged from cases o pect for the written character, and fined him 825, with the alternative of May and August 1,200, for April and anch a connection That would not be for example; the desire to symboliza par
Moreover, there is a June 1,160, and for December and Jan-linking up civilization with savagery, butquity so on. cine amouflés imprisonment, for being in
warý 700 or 800. Life is hardest toward with equal civilization. Bo will it be int in the use of personal adornmenta possession of the Chinese-counterfeit the close of the year but the number of with China, and even more so. - China's which barbarity and culture jayreuth coins.
suicides is the smallest in December. hgures am indeed Loo large for, our com- That shows the important part the wa-
prehension. For instance: Conjointly author very closely, the wearing of sous play in the mania of self-destrue with other countries, United States capi-dry for instance.
tais interested in the Tankow-Szerhuen Railway. The building of that railway
KIDNAPPING,
CHINESE DISAPPEARANCE.
Among women.
Lion.
From the point of view of age, he says. those over 60 or 70 years produce the greatest number, followed by young people on either side of twenty, while
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FRIDAY, 28TH JULY, 1916.
S. HEUNGSBAN. 10 p.m. KINSHAN.
glass fixed, and was promptly asked: Is
8.8, TAISHAN, Tonə 2,006,
has stopped for lack of capital the 10 SOME KITCHENER STORIES. the European war. When that railroad enters the vast plains of Szechuen it will
There acc
A man and a woman were chargeil be-hose in the thirties are the least temptedap a population of 78 millions of frugal,
many ausing, anecdotes for Mr. Wood at the Hongkong Police to take their own lives. The nuraber of industrial, law-abiding people--n number told of the late Lord Kitchener. -Court ( yesterday with kidnapping a
suicides per 1,000 people of over seventy exceeding sur entire pupulation at the years of age is four times as great as beginning of this century, and greater aversion of his was effrminaly. His said Chinese buy. Thy evidence showed that that per 1,000 persens of 30 to 35 years-day than the entire population of any this an offer came to him with his eye- a Chinese of the coolie closs went to a
of age.
This phenomenon hardly re other cantry in the world, excepting quires any explanation. Next to old3ndia, Russia and the United States- shop in Shanghai Street, Yaamati, in
people, young persons, with more heart the population of one single Chinese it essary for you to wear than 377 "Absolutely, sir" was the reply. "That's June, saw a small boy in the shop and craving and less thought, are most liable provider.
to self-destruction.
The natives of what must be termed a pity_plied_K_of_R1 was going "Divided into sexest Ana's hinterland work for a mere frac- to offer you a place on my Staff. As it asked him to go. for a walk and also to
this holds true of young men between
They have been is, you must go down to the hase. Short- wages. tak: ten with him. The boy agreed, and twenty and twenty-five, whereas it is tion of tar Xhe and the colie left together, but they between fifteen and twenty among girls,raised through: long generations to live sighted men are not wanted here.".
A singular fact is that while as
To an officer who kept on reporting simply and almost entirely from, the pro- | general 'never came back. Subsequently, as a re- rule there are more suicides among men duets of the soil, raised at their doors, that, as a result of his various brushes sult of information, the man and the than women, in the rase of girls of 15 by process of intensive agriculture such with the eyeveral Boers were seen- to 20 years of age the crime is more as neither Europe nor America has ever to fall from their saddles," Lord Kit woman now charged were arrested, and
This ex-
These people are inured to lives chener sent the polite inquiry, 1 hope numerous thau among men. the parents of this boy went in search plains, according to the officials, that. Adding to these conditions the when he fell they did not hurt then of him. They went to Sanning, and after than mer
women are subject to love troubles earlier high quality of their skill, it is not far selves?"
fetched to say that the wise introduction: Sorry to report loss of five hen travelling about the interior for eleven
of such a potentially into the channels through explosion of dynamite," was the As to the manner of self-destruction, of modern commerce and the coupling gist of a telegram from the front put into days they found their boy at a village the statistician says the most popular is it up to mutiera conditions will work at his hands one day. Do you want any called Wing Sing, where he had been re-hanging and drowning, this former revolution in which a huge international more dynamite ? was the immediate sold. The parents gave a inan 270 for Poison-swallowing is also coming into copies our wares heenuse she likes them.
among men and the latter among women commerce may be built up-for, China auswer.
What is your taste in hairpins? " is the boy and then brought him to Hong-vague. Self-shooting is almost absolutely and will one day be a purchaser of said to have been the query with which he
copfined to men. Another
annihilated a dandified officer. kong.
way in colossal dimensions. much favour is throwing oneself before & running train Japon Daily Mail,
The bearing was adjourned.
MR. CHOW TZU-CHI'S NEW BILLET.
www.
Considerable comment (says, the Pek iny Gazette) has been caused in Chinese circles by the report that Mr. Chow Tzu-chi-sometinie Minister of Agricul- ture and Commerce and lately wling Minister of Finance, who is among the monarchists who arrest is ordered by the Government for conspiracy against the Republic-is to accompany a Head servans of the late Yuzu Shih-kai to the United States for the purpose of selling
CHINESE LABOUR FOR RUSSIA
sen.
American Wealth has grown
more
A favourite captain of Lord Kit The question to-day is--are we going to take a commanding share in this the chener's was once entrusted with an in- greatest basiness opportunity the world purtant commission There was a delay has ever so-bar none, or shall we leave in executing it, through his horse casting it to be explained to
"Very sorry," was Kitchener's an indignant a shoe. posterity bow it was that our eyes were comment, but I cannot rest my plan of so holden that we failed to see it when campaign on, a horse's shoe or an officer's
carelessness. it was presented to us? Reoruiting for Chinese labour for work
*Keep the gun," he is said to have in Siberia in the aumerous lumber yards rapidly than Europe's buss her wired to the War Office authoritien, who and agricultural places seems to be in pormity came concurrently with the were pressing
certain weapon upon fall swing in Fengtien and other neigh introduction bouring provinces.
of railways.
China's hin-I can throw stones myself." It is stated that wealth will be greater than either because
The late Lord Kitchener had an extra- about 500,000 coolies are needed to take it has been dammed up so long, and when ordinarily adventurous career. Before the place of the men who have gone to the the stuite-gates are opened with every the South African war ho had fought in front. A large number of coolies have modern appliance to aid, it will be eight engagements, been twice shot at by already left for Siberia. As- precarresistible Far Eastern Berru
Bedouins, all but murdered in Palestine, tionary measure, Chang Tso-lia, Tu Chún
narrowly escaped being hanged as a spy, and been badly wounded in the fans by a bullet.
of Fengtien, has drawn up & set of re gulations, requiring that permission CHINA BUYS JAPANESE COTTON must be secured from the proper author-
YARN.
the earios and valuable objets d'artities before coolies are recruited for which the Yuan-family took from the labour abroad.
The record shipment of cotter vir to Palace before their departure for Chang-
Chine was made in March despite the jefu. The report states that Mr. Chow
nternal trouble in the Republic. In the is to act as a sort of "Special Inter
last ten days of March alone there were preter" to the end-servant and is to
The President still continues unwilling shipments of 24,000 bales and the total receive a commission on the proceeds of
to move into the Palace. The latest re- for Marth amounted to 61,242 bales, the the sale. The fact that Mr. Chow is a persona gratissima with Americans has port on the subject states that, if otherggest shipments in the anuals of Arrangements cannot be made, the Pre-Japan's cotton yarn trade with China. been regarded as specially qualifying him sident will probably throw open the Pei The yarn trade has made remarkable- for the mission to America.
We are hoping that the foreign friends hai to the public, and use the Chung-hai progress in recent years, and monthly and admirers, of the ex- Minister of and Nanhai as a Presidential Yares, shipments to China averaged 47.500 Angie diure, and Commerce will be able but not as a residence. He will con bules. The record in the past was 60,200 to dissuade him from further associating tinue to reside with his family in his bales in December last year. Therefore himself with highly discreditable busi-present quarters and drive every day the intemal trouble in China is no more ness. And it is also to be hoped that without escort to his Yamen for the cause for worry. It is expreted that if the Authorities will at once instruct the transaction of State business. This pro- tranquillity is restored in Ching there Customs to prevent the export of the posal is the subject of favourable com- will be greater prosperity in this busi historic articles.
ment in Chinese circles,
Tess.
men
A Komatipoort the gans had stuck in the mud. Neither horses: nor could move them. Kitchener dismounted, got his tunic off, was at a spare place against the limber, and was pushing like grim death. The gun creaked, moved, a moment more was out of the mud. It was not Kitchener's strength that moved it, but the climbing down of this man to their level put fresh heart into the "troopers,
A journalist relates that, when asked for an interview, Jord Kitchener briefly replied that he had never given an inter view in his life, and had no intention of doing so now. The interviewer, by way of relieving the situation, asked him for his autograph, saving that it would be worth having. "You'd better go away and make your own notograph worth having," said Lord Kitchener.
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