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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 1911.
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THE BRITISH LEGION,
TO THE EDITOR, ON:** THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESK"],
Sta.While it is gratifying to note the support that has been given to my pro test as to the ali-embracing nature of the local Legion. I should be sorry if my action srece construed as an attempt to start campaign of recrimination against all those in the Colony who are not qualified to wear service ribbons. It is as absurd to class every volunteer as dud and washout" as it is fatuous to maintain that every man who went to France was a hero,
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The only point at issue is that the Legion is intended to perpetuate & com. radeship that existed on the battlefields,. and unless its membership is confined to those who saw active service it completely fails in its object. The fact that the committeo are not composed entirely of pukka ex-service men naturally make it. difficult, if not impossible, for them to deny membership to all and sundry.
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gress, than to render the world less depan. dont upon the wasteful combustion of hydrocarbons for its source of power, and to obtain deliverance from the grimy regine of what has just been briefly indicated can be found sufficient incon tien from the channels that lead to war. tive to deflect human interest and ambi-
few
Contrary to the assertions of a bell cose clerics, warfare can have no place in Christian ethics. If it were Otherwise, Christ would bara bien a rene, like leader of men, and He would then desired revolt of the Jews against their have accepted the leadership of the long-
have gained material fame and political Roman conquerors, and thereby might power. He chose rather persecution and the Cross-Yours, etc,
November 13th, 1991. HOUSING
DYNAMIS.
OF GOVERNMENT SERVANTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."']
My sole point is that it is bad finance, in view of several other compating claims on our revenue and the falling revenue. on Opium, to spend several hundred thou sand dollars a year in the provision al an expensive and unnecessarily large type of house for Government Servants.
One or two correspondents have recom SIR-As I had no right of reply in the mended resigning from the Legion as & Debate yesterday, I should like to explain protest, but I wish to point out that there that I did not intend to suggest that is a simpler remedy than that.Accord-Government Servanta were overpaid. ing to the Rules and Regulations, the annual meeting takes place in December of each year when the Committee come up for re-election" and an opportunity is given us for bringing forward, resolu tions. It is clear from the feeling ex- pressed in the press that there unanimity among ex-service men nsto the need for more restricted membership being enforced. Let us then turn up at the meeting in strength and let those who have been holding alsof join now to support us in securing it. Then, maybe, those who have not seen active service will gracefully retire and form a social club of their own.-Yours, etc.............
November 14th, 1921.
"YPRES."
(TO THE EDITOR OF "THE BONGKONG DAILY FREES."]
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As an instance of extravagance, I may point out that the original proposal of the Government for housing Government Servants on the "Homestead" worked out, including Architects com mission, at an average of 83,000 dollars per house or flat, and even included the scrapping of the present Government Pavilions, which have at least 20 years' of useful
wear in them yet. Yours faithfully,..
H. E. POLLOCK:
GAMBLERS IN COURT. POLICE CHARGE FAILS.
Two Chinese, Lam Kwa Yken and Tong Kui Sang, were brought before Mr. G. N.
SIR. Of course, it would be an imper- tinence to ask the identity” of “ Non- Legionaire," but we may ask where be gets sufficicat." brass" from to append the verses he does to his letter. (The # brass must have been recently acquir-Orme, at the Magistracy, on Monday ed as one would think that the nerve shown now if employed at the proper time, could have been sufficient to take Non-Legionaire out of the category of Stonecutter Sentries.")
His communication is entirely pointless in the first place, as most of the actual fight ng men in Hongkong know the causes that made others "Stonecutter Sentries" add his verses are an insult to us who were over there," coming as they obvi Qualy do from one of the unfortunately situated and much maligned afore-men- tioned Stonecutter Sentries."
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I am in the service of a very large British firm which has a very small Euro- pean staff in Hongkong and we are un- lucky enough to number only two ex fighting meu in our ranks. Neither of us has joined the British Legion or has any intention of doing so, as it exists at present, but for what it is worth we raise a combined vaco to add our mite to the general feeling of Hongkong
ex-service men.
Hoping it will not unduly mise the ire of "Non Legionaire," I enclose my card with that of my confrere-Yours faithfully,
SOMME & ABRAS. Hongkong. November 14th. 1921.
THE ABOLITION OF WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Sie,-I write as one who does not believe in the inevitability of war, but who regards it as a transient evil which utimately, will be overcome not by political means, but rather by the devo tion of the energy of mankind to all that pertains to the growth of civilization Not merely by the limitation of arma- ments will strife be eradicated for if two countries have provoked each ether to the degree that would bring them to a State of war it is certain that the condition of their armament, controlled by agreement, will not deter them from fighting.
iternoon, and charged with conspiring and combining together fraudulently to acquire by demands and threats the sum of $350 from Chan Ng."
Lam, the first defendant, came from hospitat to the Court and was allowed to sit during the lengthy hearing. He was employed by the Imports and Exports Department as a shroff. It was alleged "go-between " to that he noted as a obtain for several others from the com plainant the payment of a gambling debt amounting to $350. Both he and the
second defendant requested Chan Ng on various occasions to pay the money, threatening him, in the event of failure, with banishment, or, in the alternative, with being shot.
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From the evidence it appeared that a dinner party was arranged for the 14th and 15th of last month at the Kam Ling Hotel, the host on the being a Chiness named Pung, who hailed from Canton. The party gambled on both occasions, and on the second night the complainant lost heavily. Ho accused the others of cheating. A row ensued and severa of the party were injured in the fracas. The visitor from Canton and the complainant reported the matter! to the palice, and in due course a police trap was laid and the defendants were: charged as above:
At a subsequent meeting at the Foo Loong Tea House, 330 were paid over, the police supplying for this purpose notes bearing the stamp of the Central Police Station, They also sent out Chinese detectives disguised who waited in the basement of the tea house whilst The complainant banded over the money, the transaction was taking place upstairs." which was to cover his face," to the first defendant in the presence of the second defondant, Both men were arrest- ed on the spot.
Mr.G. NOrme, after listening to the evi- defice of the two defendants, decided that the charge could not stand, stating that such a transaction was not an offence against the law. The two defendants were discharged.
“ BETRAYED.".
Before war can be abolished some objective must be created which, by ab- sorbing the interest and passion of man- kind, will cause all inclination for war to perish. A greater incentive for the thought and toil that armaments and war Fair senoritas and feres bandie-Gll- preparation now claim must be provided.
every foot of William Fox's newest R. A. I submit that such exists, but that it
Walsh's photo-play; "Betrayed," which requires "more complete recognition.
was screened yesterday at 6.15 and 9.15 Underlying all the social unrest of to-
at the World Theatre. Miriam day, there is the aspiration to organiss P., and co-ordinate the resources of the world. Cooper, well-known for her sterling work It is necessary that each component unit in Hocor System," "The Silent Lie," and "The Woman and The Law," cop- of the human race shall adequately parti cipate in, the grand scheme of human pro- tinues in this hur successful acting. "Be gress; and that civilisation should be trayed is provocative of good whole.
a function of man's made
sorie laughter. Miss Cooper plays the knowledge and abilities. Can it be doubted that with part of a charming, firtatious girl whose civilization so expressed human talents fickle heart doesn't know whether to love would no longer be applied to the per- a handsome peon, & brave, or a youthful For a time it fecting of methods of slaughter, and that American army officer. strifo would become intolerable?
seems that matters aro about to go wrong with her and the man she loves; but, finally, she wakes up to the fact that her heart has been with the handsome Mexi. can lad all the time, and she becomes happy with him.
To-day the united efforts of all nations are required on the mighty tanks whose accomplishment only enduring peace can permit. Only, during such a bonificent period can the thorough eradication of diseases be effectively undertaken, and surely to free mankind from the menace of disease is a nobler and more absorbing work than to seck means of human des- truction.
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