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A SOCIAL REVOLUTION?
A large number of military has been. drafted into
internal disorder.
there is a re-shuffling of the
An interesting sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie on "The Sanless Season is held over until to-morrow.
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AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
[BY "AJAX."]
NEW-BRITISH WAR BONDS.
COMPANY MEETING.
KOWLOON LAND &
We are informed by the Hong-
BUILDING CO., LTD. The holidays are over, and we kong and Shanghai Banking are ones again in the thick of
The thirtieth onlinary meeting Corporation that they have business, some of us turning hard received a wire from their London of shareholders of the above Com- wheels for a bare subsistence: Office to the effect that on and pay was held this morning at others, more fortunate, merrily after 1st February new issues of eleven o'clock at the offices of the illustrating the truth of the old National War Bonds are being Company in Victoria Buildings, axiom that money bagets m. ^* Among the latter mua!
made. The Bonds are issued at Mr. T. E. Pearce presided and counted the shareholders of the par and are reparable in five and there were present Messrs. A. better managed industrial con-respectively. These new issues do Directors), 1. S. Northwote. JH, ten years at 102% and 105 Shelton Hooper and J. Rodger
not carry the right of conversion
Seth, R. Tatam and W. into any past or future War Leans.
Cerny.
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J., Wilkinson (shareholders).
We hear that when Mr. E, A. find raised, for example, Irving goes on furlough, Mr..G.
Hongkong, like many other
The Chairruan said Gentle- places in China, was during the
men, As the report and state- the question of their hawer: X. Urms will probably act as ship of territories which have not Diretor of Eineation.
wack-and in the throes of the
ment of accounts have been in come within any of the war
Chinese New Year festivities.
your hands for some days, I theatres. The general ides ap-
China-town freed itself from all There is a pretty quarrel in propose to take them as resd. pears to be to secure such a re- Our readers are reminded of restraint and indulged in the the Press as to who are really The net profits for the year under adjustment of possessions as will the Sklarevski-Sykora concert useal demonstrations. The ousting the Britishers from their review, including $1,908.58 prove most convenient to the which takes place at the Theatre Chiness threw themselves into homes-the Japanese or several nations represented at the
the brought forward from last account, Conferences, and it appears that Royal to-night, when a splendid the turmoil with all the energy Chiness.
In these journalistic amount to $17,500.82 88 against there is a general willingness to programme will be presented. they possessed, and many foreign-dog days" when there is noth-$17,458.56 for the previous year. ers, who had had enough of it,ing to break the tedium and no The Rent Account has increased spheres for corresponding conces-
Constitutional The total output of the Kailan left the streets early and went more
Reform from 21,302,20 to $22,926.50 sions in others. In other words. Mining Administration's nines home to a quieter atmosphere meetings, the correspondence" but against this slight increase cards going on. What the eventual for the week onding January 18 to express their joy, gratifi ation columns of our newspapers can we have to expend about $1,000 the depository for much more for repairs. The whole of upshot will be, it would be hard amounted to 71,551 tons and the and thankfulness at having es be so say, but a glance at the Italian sales during the period to 51,-caped all the rowlyism. We trash. The Rev. J. Kirk Macon- the property is now let and are glad that it is all over now schie wrote to protest against the has been kept in good re- claims, as a case in point, will 398 tons.
and that the streets are no longer inroads that are being made into pair. The amount expended furnish some idea of the great
disfigured with foot-deep drifts European residential areas, in in repairs varies very much and changes which are possible. It
The annual tennis tournament of crackers, rabbish, etc. will be interesting to see whether in connection with the Hongkong ring of crackers which pierced Japanese interests were contem- often in which case superficial The connection with the report that depends whether tenants change America will be affected by this Cricket Club is to commence on the air is happily over. movement, especially in view of
To the plating the purchase of the R. A. repairs such as painting and reports which have occasionally March 1st. There are six events mind of the casual observer in less promises in Bowen Road and colour washing take away a good gained currency that she might and the entries close on the 15th Queen's Road the task of chaning the private hotel known as Lauris part of the profit. A suggestion at some future time exchange instant,
the streets must have proved on. This elicited some heated has been made that by re-develop
job for the Sanitary discussion as to the rights of ing the property the Company Britaio. Whether or During the twenty-four hours Department. They must b3 these amiable fellows to oust us. would reap a greater benefit, but not advantage will be taken ended January 31-one non-fatal congratulated on having effected The contribution of "Fairplay" as that course of the present opportunity case of cerebro-spinal meningitis the metamorphosis so quickly.no doubt a Japanese) to the discus adopted for an Anglo-American readjust was notified. The returns since Palestrians on Monday expecting sion is interesting. The acquire leases are running the Directors ment, it is certain that by the
that date disclose no cases of to find China-town wearing the ment of property in the Colony, will consider the matter and if time peace is finally signed we
dishevelled ait of a city recover. we are toll by him, is "to prevent found feasible, will by same shall need new maps of the world, communicable disease.
ing from "the night before" the total eclipse" of the Japanese before you for approval or other
"Besides, we are reminded, wise. Last year we paid a
certain oversea
with
NORTH AND SOUTH.
possessions
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some
"
could not be whilsz the present
Hongkong was minus a Puisne were met by cleanliness so come Germans and Austrians dividend of $2.50 per share, but
Judge this morning. A case was down for hearing in the Sam- Owing to the New Year boli. days, when, unlike their Western mary Court, at ten o'clock, but confreras, Chinese journalists Mr. Justice Gompertz's leave would never think of working, commenced yesterday, and Mr.. there is news of the developments Melbourne bad not been formally between North and South. How sworn in, so the case had to be ever. last week there were nu-settled by arbitration. mistakable evidences that the
Fire broke out on the s.a. San
ย
plete as to surprise them.
Customer (in music seller's): "I want a copy of the
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occupied more houses in the past as you see by the accounts we than the Japanese now possess."
now propose to pay a dividend Now, we understand. The aim of $2.85 per share, and carry of the Japanese is to possess 1: forward $4,000.82 to new Profit least as many houses us the Ger- and Loss Account which I am
sure you will deem satisfactory.
Assistant: "I am afraid don't know of such a song."
Customer: "Why, it goes tum-maus and Austrians did. Verbum
sapienta sat est.
tam-tum-tumpty-tum.
"Assistant: "Oh, you mean the 'Lost Chord.””
Customer: Ah, that's it! Also known as Constitutional Reform."
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The Chairman proposed, Mr. J. H. Seth seconded, the adoption of the report and accounts, and the motion was carried.
| much-discussed Conference would soon meet, and the probability is that the respective delegates have Nam Hoi at about ten o'clock on
ed most vehemently against the
It is high time that we protest already make each others ac- Friday evening last. Fortunately
Mr. J. H. Seth proposed, and Government's policy of laissez Mr. M. S. Yorthcote seconded, quaintance in Shanghai. The it is the habit of the Captain and
faire, which has reduced for the re-election of Messrs. T. E acceleration of the meeting of the Chief Officer to sleep on boardi delegates was in some measure and they were able to suppress virtue in anything that is rare. accommodation, to a condition of Board of Directors, and the It is said that a collector finds eigners, in the matter of housing Pearce and J. Rodger to the dce to the bint conveyed by the the outbreak which might other-In the same way in the very abject chaos, destructive of the motion was carried. Associated Governments that the wise have been of a serious Conference might deliberate upon
popular game of constitution-trade and industrial development character. the proposed expenditures for
making we find schemes of all of the Colony. Our cries and the Chairman seconded, the re- Mr. T. E. Pearce proposed, and which the release of twelve million
Cominerce protests do not seem to come in election of Mr. H. Percy Smith dollars Customs surplus was re-
of 1.
Government
tlement must be found, and the
kinds advocated.
The Chairman then snnounced
TRAMWAY RETURNS.'
traffic
Azgaga! Iceipts for week for 3 weeks.
Pecarpts..
61,108
9,786
BILLIARDS.
TOURNAMENT.
A Chinese gambler, who had wants two more representativeson for any serious notice on the part as auditor for the eneming year, quired, and that if the Conference four cents on his person at the the Legislative Council (exclad-of the Government. It is time and the motion was carried did not do so by January 25th the time of his arrest, will have the ing the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, that we declined to mince matters money would be liberated as re- satisfaction that his wealth has the lion. Mr. David Landale, the and to be put off with taradidd es. quested in order to meet Govern- gone to support the poor of the Hon Mr. R.G. Shewan, the Hon. There must be a declaration of that dividend warrants would be ment requirements. This had all land rather than being fristered Mr. Ho Fook, the Hon. Mr. Lau future policy involving a practical ready to-morrow, and the meeting the effect of a second aide memoire. away in gambling, for Mr. R. E-Chi Pak), the Portuguese quite assurance that the remissness of terminated. It indicated to the Administrative Lindsell has ordered the four ruodestly think that one Council that, in the opinion of
seat the past will be compensated by and sentries with steel helmets and fixed bayonets are sta.loned at South was not making proper Box. May the day be not distant stitutional Reform Association future of a most obvious duty. city, friendly disposed foreigners, the seats to be paid into the Poor would sufice(although if the Con- the thorough performance in the principal points.... Thirty four civilians and nineteen police responses to the peace when gamblers together with had their way they would have Something must
over- were injured in yesterday's fighting." The above paragraph is not tures of the North, and so it their paraphernalia and their offered the community three protect us foreigners from being be done to an account of internal strife in Russia or Germany, but one of the is that the Southern delegates cash, all go into the Poor Box. many startling items of news which are daily coming in from the have already left for Shanghai.
seats); the Chinese are not going driven to take shelter in the mate statement of the Hongkong The following is the approxi- big industrial centres at Home, and which demonstrate how very in accordance with approved
to be lost in the race of Council streets Things in all conscience Tramway Company's serious the situation is. Every day sees the beginning of another face-saving, the
There was sa outbreak of fire seat-grabbing and a sort of an are chronic at present, but we receipts for the week ending big strife, and if the present state of things continues, disorder and yielded to the Conference taking on Sunday morning at 6.15 in understanding has been arrived shndder to think what they will 1st February, 1919 chaos will be the inevitable result. A few weeks ago we were place in the foreign settlement of Queen's Road Central near the at between them and the wire he a year hence. The Japanesa reading graphic and stirring accounts of the Armistice celebrations Shanghai provided that the pre-Civility Hairdressing Saloon. pullers regarding the distribm-and other aliens by their peaceful at Home. The whole country was filled with joy and thankfulness. liminary and informal conversa- The Fire Brigade was on the tion of the booty. Then there penetration will drive us away The war was finished; nothing remained but to take up the old tions should be held at Nanking. scene immediately, the alarm beare the "British threads of pre-war national life and build up a future which seemed This is being done.
born." from our homesteads and no other This Year: $17,349 $70,894 full of promise and great possibilities. But the present industrial paper reports regarding the house over the Phone. The con-protected as well. One section take shelter in the House of Increase:....
Newsing given by the inmates of the Their interests have to be alternative will remain but to Last Year:... 12,906 troubles have shattered all those pleasant dreams, and we are face prospects
-4,443 to face with a greater danger than even the German hordes, for are naturally
settlement flagration was soon put out, the asks for representation because Detention. As a matter of fact, Decrease:... nothing is more to be dreaded than this ever-growing spectre of it is safe to assert that a set-fire broke out yesterday at 1 an cause it is small. This aaks for rent; what when the Japanese conflicting, but damage being slight. Another it is large and the other, bewe pay a third of our salary for We do not think for a moment that the present danger will not deeper this fact impresses itself in Pokfulam Road, a kitchen it because it is politically import-rule the roost?
We may have to be overcome, but it is useless shutting our eyes to the fact that such on all concerned the greater rea-
catching fire.
The damage was aut, that because it has so far had pay a whole month's wages for a a situation as now exists, if permitted to continue, spells rain to the sonableness will distinguish the slight.
no political importance. One little cottage. We trust that country. There can never of course be re-enacted in Britain the discursions. Admittedly, the pro-
puts its faith in its industrial all this emphatic expression GARRISON tragedy of Russia, but in the present crisis in the history of nations, blems awaiting solution are ex-
Passporta are very precious and economic progress, another of opinion and unequivocal testi- it is vitally necessary that we concentrate all our energies in the tremely difficult, but they are by even to-day, when in spite of the fin its backwardness in the same mony of the keen discontent of great task that lies before us, and it is here that the danger lies.no means beyond the wit of man. Armistice, the restrictions have points. The owner In all probability a way out of the present situation will be found Compromise there
of land the Britishers in this Colony will.The games played in this in time, but the longer it lasts, the greater will be the loss to the and in considerable measure, Hongkong is determined that the chamber also, because he has got camistry, but be accepted in a up to Friday night, resulted in must be not been removed. As long as claims a portion of the Council not be met with subtle Olympian tournament at the Soldiers Club, nation, which cannot afford to lose anything at present. If it were while du's regard Labour troubles pure and simple there would be nothing much to had to existing conditions and too long will the Passport Depart and the shout-to-be ejected by authorities. If nothing can be cheater Regiment, leading by be Han shall act cross our shores, wide interests. The houseless true spirit of repentance by the the 1st Garrison Battalion, Man be feared. The different parties would soon come to an agreement, faits accompli. One explanation as they have done hundreds of times before. But there offered by the South for the delay ment remain in, exist the rapacious Japanese land done in the matter of providing 545 points over the Royal Gar seems to be a deeper significance in the
Mrs. present in the despatch of its delegates pce. A troubles. In former strikes, the workers were acting under the was that it had no money with went
Morgan grabbers thinks he should get a more boosing accommodation, rison Artillery, seven games to a friend and seat in that chamber at least, if the Government could at least having been played. Yesterday orders of the Trade Union Executives, but in most cases now the which to pay the expenses of the was returning home yesterday he has one nowhere else. strikers refuse to obey their Executives. It is more than probable, delegation. Since that, it is a Spring Garden Lane. While
reserve a good portion of the evening the Manchesters secured therefore, as the Government seems to think, that the present announced that the Government walking
middle levels for Britishers. The the match, Bergeant Bird beat- situation has arisen from the efforts of certain med unconnected will
down this place, And, pray, what of the rick-Constitutional Reform Associa-ing Gunner Ditmore by 110, the advance $50,000 for the in with Trade Unions, who are aiming at a social revolution."
Chinese came from als and chair coolies, the tion has represented the Govern-final total being-Manchesters, It will be agreed that the charged conditions arising from the tion. Could generosity be carried handkerchief, which contained the brokers and the lunatics who Let it not be a rase of
expenses of the Southern delega- behind and snatched her hawkers and the stallholders and ment to us as a great sinner. 1,500; R.G.A., 954. war have made imperative some sort of social reconstruction, but further? there has been overwhelming proof that the only way in which this
the following stock-in-trade of form a large section of our com- cannot be brought about is for the proletariat to take the law into
hers:-1 pasaport, £1.10 in notes,munity? It is persistently its own hands. In a short time better conditions were bound to
snall coins, and a gold chain, the reported that these denizens are come, but if the present movement is really one towards a social
whole thing assessed at the value of determined not to be left out in revolution, it must be nipped in the bad. Look at what has happened to Russia. A revolution was to bring progress and better conditions to that in future waiters are not to but before he was seized he threw now being sigued for seats ou The Berlin Soviet has decided $40. He was chased, and arrested, the cold, and representations are all, but the only thing it has given to Russia is anarchy and murder accept tips in order that the the kerchief over a wooden fence, the chamber. If such demande and utter misery The most unfortunata fact of all is that, as the claim for hised wages may be He made Mr. Wood's acquaint are granted, then the Council, play the devil with our matter stands at present, the hands of the Government are tind They have made proposals to the workers Executives but the enforced, Tipping, it is declared, ince the morning, kimitted room will have to be enlarged stati bat also drive us strikers refuse to obey the fastractions of their own chosen leaders is unworthy of free German taking the "kerchief which be ŠĪBU, TIMÉrument for the in-förink If the Government intervened, it is thought that the authority of preletariana The Soviet has contained papers, but about the tensification of sound in ordering for these sins Trade Unions, which hitherto have controlled Labour, would be further fixed the following rest he had not
nction. A six
must
་་ THE GERMAN WAITER:
drdon of the a 2100 Care for a solution of the problem. The present question is a national £7 10s, ordinary waiter 2 the House that one, and the issue will be awaited with "Imost the same expectation 104. and hotel i as that with whiólt wa waited for the end of the war.
servants, 53 15 |
bring back the redfile
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The devil was sick,
Lieutenant-Colonel Erald The devil a monk would be; Barnardiston, Royal Enginee The devil was well,
has been gazetted The devil a monk was he
Engineer with the
feral Such perversity wou
In the words of Horac
regen, plectitur
the people are punished,