**THE NEW SUR POR THE WHOLE WORLD"
ANDERSEN, MEYER
a co. LTG
No. & Queen's Road, Central
HONGKONG,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
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SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
By courtesy of the South China Morning Posd “J
CUSTOMS DEMANDS GRANTED.
Shanghai, March 25.
Bir F. Aglen has granted practically all the demands of the outdoor Customs staff, including raised remuneration and better leave conditions.
ROUNDING UP THE GERMANS
Shanghai, March 25, All the local Germans are reporting at Nantan camp without resistance.
SHANGHAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Shanghai, March 25.
The Geners! Chamber of Commerce is meeting for the first
time since the war.
DAY BY DAY.
The Pacific Mail Company's 6. Venezuela is expected to arrived to-morrow afternoon, between two- and three o'block.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26. 1919.
HONGKONG'S HOUSING QUESTION.
1.-Present Problems and Future Prospects.
Special to the Telegraph.")
ance arrives..
and
SINGLE COPY: 10 CTS, #6 PER ANNUM.
ANDERSEN MEYER
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HAVE REMOVED THEIR OFFICES. FROM HONGKONG HOTEL MANSIONS TO NO. 2 QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL.
|FIRE AT KOWLOON CITY. THE CHINA SQUADRON
Serious damage was cuusal by a fire at Kowloon City this morning,
a large matshed used for storing various goods in connection with
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To-Day's Exchange. The closing rate of the dallar on demand to-day was 3s. 1.15-168. The Weather. Forecast-aloudy. Barometer:
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
CHARGE OF FORGERY.
last,
the reclamation of land in that The composition and strength 30.01. Temperature 2 p.m. ----66. locality being entirely razed to of the reconstructed China | Humidity 2 p.m.—79. the ground. Though there are Squadron is still wrapped! some doubts as to the origin of in thin veil of the outbreak, it is surmised itrery. From all appearances, "And one couple were glad to gressively-normal. Or perhuus was due to a park from the the London papers appear to accept a shakedown on a ver- it would be more correct to say engine used on the temporary know more regarding it than the andah," recorded your contempor- that in August 1914 that always railway. Apparently this ignited Naval authorities here. ary, the South China Morning mysterious thing normality, and the dry matshed, anf in 15 min other day we mentioned, on the the whole WIS barat authority of a Home newspaper, Past, the other day, in re "Crowd-its more mysterious foil abnor-ntea ed Hongkong." The word mality, became obsolete. In the out, despite all efforts made to that HMS. Centaur would likely glad was accurately applied. present year of grace and social save it. A strong wind did much join the Chins Squadron.. There
The March Criminal Sessions The couple referred to were upheaval, 1919 A.D., nothing is
to help the fire..
have been other reporta in ! more than than grateful to normal, and nothing is abnormal.
A rough estimate places the connection with the reconstruc-were resumed this morning be What the "obvious retort" is proprietress kind-hearted
damage suffered at $1,500. tion of the Cbins Squadron, but so fore Sir William Rees. Davies,
K.C., Chief Justice. fr the Admiralty has of the hotel for the resource intended to convey is that the which she displayed in accom-present enormous demand for
Teang Tit-cho was charged modating them in an already hotel and house accommodation cheaper commodities, whether vouchsafed much information to fall-up establishment. That same in Hongkong will die away within food, clothing or general; the day Vice Admiral Sir F. C. T. Tudor, with forgery,
Accused pleaded not guilty. a period (unspecified), that thereill yet come when there will be the Commander-in-Chief in night, in that same hotel, seven
The Attorney-General, the Han men slept in one room. They will be a bewildering choice of official control of the prices of Hongkong The Squadron has alsa were glad of the privilege.villas and terrace-houses and flats hats and tennisrackets, to prevent ot
completely. H. E. Pollock, EU, insurget
ed by the Crown Solicitor, Mr. At evening time there were still for the home-bunter, and that the the doubling and trebling of cast reurginised.
G. H. Wakeman, appeared for the meet freight and many people wearily doing the hotels and boarding houses will
prices "to
The ships of the pre-war But There are that is an aside.
squadron were sent to different Prosecation and Sir. 0,0 Alabaster, RE, instructed by boarding-houses seeking shelter petition for guests. holes round of the hotels and be driven to advertising and com establishment charges
To wind up the review of the parts of the world, as they were Mr. E. L. Agassiz, lefended the for the night. How they finally many apparently sane people wcho
спеке Say know.seriously
things possibilities relating does not fared, one
accused. to the required. H. M. S. Suffolk and are seized with What one does know is that such They
The jurymen wère: →→→Messrs. 0. resident population, a little relief Kent, which are cruisare; are on a thing ought not to be. Yet it very grave delusion. It is happens many times a month in as clear as can be that the futuris afforded at present by the the Station, while H. M. S. Tar, Kim, C. B. Brown, Wong Sik-
fact of so many people going sutulla, Tamar, Robin, Cadmus, Hongkong; in fact, every time a will see a largely enhanced and on leave-nearly everyone is Sandpiper and three or four kat, A, R. Kinross, A da Costs V. A. Yvanovich and K--Ising. due passenger steamer of any import-not. diminished strain on hotel
for leave, and as many others are also on the Station. and housing accommodation
Opening the case for the pro- at can by any possibility get These are small ships and are not secution, the Attorney General Colony. the
There are
away are going-nor "standing important. Few people come here just now in
said the prisoner was charged for the fun of the thing Those pressingly required three on four on the order of it. It is almost good-sized hotels
a stampede. That again reduces, FL M. S. Tarantalla is on her under the Forgery Ordinance, Peking, March 23. who do come have a right to expect more
by howsoever small an amount, way down here, and H. M. S. with uttering, first of all, a forged a bed and their meals in reason- hundreds of new houses..
Let the matter be subjected to the numbers now actually had Fame has gone to Canton: note on the Ohartered Bank for Members of the "Foreign Rela- able comfort and at less than The French Ambassador at
Either analysis. Considering first thedling under Hongkong roofs.
II. M. S. Carlisle, which is a $100, well knowing the note to are The garrision may be called
The second Tokyo and Madame Regnault,after tions Society" and Chamber of profiteering charges. two days in Canton, left the city Commerce yesterday telegraph they are here on their lawful resident population, what yesterday. A party of distinguish to the ParisConference stating that occasions as businessmen, or they the prospects? Tae native and part of the permanent or of the cruiser coming out to join the be a forged one,
an Boating population of the Colony. China Squadron, has been delay- was that of feloniously having in certained in Egypt, and will be here in his possession a forgel-note, knowing it to be a forgery. The ed Frenchmen has just visited China does not want "Japanese are compelled to stay over" for labouring communities are
belonging to The Prussiania" in Shantang, de a few days awaiting steamers annually increasing mass, and It is no secret that
the about three weeks.. Canton from Hongkong.
arc bow tenanted- H. M. S. Hawkins, a battle facts were very simple. Evidence party consisted of Mons, and manding the abrogation of the (and leaving useful sums of not even a Government can deny quarters
sufferance-by. civilians, cruiser, will also join the would be called by the prosecu local retail houses.) .In either sanitary housing should keep pace on Madame R. E. J. E. Rezusuli, Kiao-chow and Tsinan Railway money in the hands of the various that the provision of cheap and military
the accused went French Ambassador at Tokyo, Agreement, and also telegraph case, they are entitled to a wel-with the increase, which, equally These civilians will necessarily Squadron, coming out from tion to show that on January 26
come and a measure of civic undeniably, it does not, Result: have to find other homes within a Eugland. She is expected in
to the Wing Chan-pawn and their three daughters, aadling the Chinese delegates not to staff, Doctor Candean and Cap-return to Chins if they fail hospitality, in the general sense Serious overcrowding of existing year or so; and not only that, but Hongkong in June.
shop, in Queen's Road East,! secure the above conditions. of the adjective civic, yet they houses, and all that that entails rumour is busy with statements
and attempted to resep some Tuan Ki-sui, chief of the War arrive, mostly strangers, know-high death rates, the indecencies as to the size of the future here. For a bigger
articles of clothing which had Participation Bureau, las bening that they have grievous and discomforts of such canges- garrison
Then there are garrison, of course, more barracks
been pawned some time ago. Mr. M. K. Lo this morning ap-given an additional appointment difficulties to face. They land to tion, etc. etc.) pared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell as commander of troops and their fears realised, and that the educated and business classes. would be provided. But apart
Eight seamed of the Royal Accused was told that the pro their only hope is the caprice of including Europeans. They are at from the mere military personnel Kansu, in the remanded case of a Chinese Harlangkiang, Kiria.
chance or an individual act of theebb-tide of their numbers at the a garrison makes a certain direct Navy ware court-martialla re- cipal and interest to be paid to $55.10, where- who was charged with being in Hsinkiang and i.
kindness-the managements of moment. During the war hundreds as well as an appreciably indirect, coatly at Davonport on a charge amounted
the $100 possession of a rifle and pistol
of mating whils serving on board upon he tendered Information has been received
Now
The accountant examiz- a destroyer at Milford Haven on note. camping on their verandahs and join the colours, and fight for
said to with ammunition. The Chinese aging a new Mongolian State hotels have no wish to have people of men have left the Colony to demand on civil resources. was arrested on the Hau Tak has been formed with the in their corridors, even for the Hongkong (amongst other things.) passage which are, or should. 13. The accusal plealed ed the not and
the chief concern wharf, and Mr. Le, defending, "Living Buddha" as President financial return scerning there Many of them will shortly return be. said the arms which were found and M. Semenof as War Minister, from. Nor is the Sailors Home to find that the Colony for which of the hotels. These, beyond all "Not guilty." It was allege that the accused :-"This is a $5 note by the Polica in a box, belonged with power to negotiate For or any like institution keen on a they have fought can scarcely shadow of doubt, will be an the men matinied base the altered into $100." When the fastor. commanding officer refusal to accused heard that he immediate to a friend who travelled from recognition at the Paris Con- general boarding house business. contrive to afford them a roof. enormously increasing
It is all too up setting and incon-Some, alas, will not raturo. But It should not be forgotten that allow them to work in thras lyran away, bat was subsequently Australia by the same ship with ference
the legitimate watches instead of two. In coa-arrested. There was no question. veniencing. And yet people can- their places will be taken by tourist traffic, the acensed but who died in
Shanghai, March 25. not be left to walk the streets all others. A business boom" is not article, has been non-existent for sequence of the refusing duty the as to the jury having to deter anila. A far of $300 was
mistake 33 to the imposed.
The Northern delegates called night, nor to seek the fresh-air only inevitable-the world needs several years, and has not yet vessel had to be brought back toquine whether there had been:
and must have it, in its gigantic been revived. But already the
part by the engine room stal, na
of the aodused on Tang Stao-yýee yesterday to
Now who are they that crowd effort to shake off the burden of allocation of many
midshipman taking the wheel. identity "An elderly Chinese and a boy arrange the re-opening of the
our visitors to the Colony from its four years folly or misfor-steamers who had been to America were Conference, but Tang refused on
the big. firms have there is talk of the restoration and report the matter, ani in his accountsat of the pawnshop and the Police yesterday arrested in the Colony the ground that there had been the hotels, which are the proper tune. One has heard it said run has been announced, and Tas commander went ashore to because he was identified by the,
asylum for visitors? Well, partly that for having ammunition. The no armistice confirmation from other visitors, and partly re-discovered, owing to the war, that great development of the "via absence the accused hauled down in addition to that, he mid
lines. The war has given the fig from the mathat when charged at former, who was arrested on the Shensi.
sidents. And why residents? they can work their men harder Suer"
of the without killing them, and thus the "wanderlust to thousands and hoisted a red flag. The Station, that the note was lent to haal him by a friend and that he did a Sui Tai, was this morning Fifty-three bodies have con- There fined $10 by the Magistrate. Insidered the delegates' reply un-whole matter. It all leads back manage with smaller staffs and of men who would otherwise commander's order
The likelihood never have seriously thought of down the latter was immediately not know that it was forged. In the case of the boy, who made a satisfactory and decided to issue to the purely domestic question of salary accounts. remarkable statement to the manifests in Chinese, English housing or the lack of it? It is rather is that the firms will leaving their Home country. obeyed. One of the accused made other words, he said that he was effect that is, long stay in and Japanese to demand immedia question that has consumed joyfully augment their staff well Having seen something of other the remark that half the British used by his friend to redeem, reservoirs of ink and parched in-beyond pre-war dimensions to lands as fighting men, they will Nasy ate on strike and the other the clothes and his friend gave America had led to his forgetting ate peace. The manifesto say numerable thoats, get all the cope with the flood of business wish to see more as honest, out-half soon will be: They refused him the note and it was taken i
Counsel said he There is another important less of a great adventure than be pay they were receiving. Com-submitted that the jurymen were R. N. R., entitled to draw their own in- We will therefore stop an ever-growing problem. All factor. A greater proportion than fore, "Round the world" trips will minder Patterson,
the past of the men become a vogue, with keen com- thought that the trouble was not ference from the facts and they A Chinese gentleman wa
ог coming freshly petition in the cheap ticket spontaneous, but prearranged. had, in this case, an inference that
Colony
be direction. Then the well-to-do, of Leading Sesmaa Forsa, ons of was very damaging to the prisoner, a Commission of Inquiry. Not to the second floor of No. 2 Western request the friendly nations not
proud a record
in married. That is already appar the pre-war tourist type, have a the accused, said discontent exist-that was, directly the accountant! Street, yesterday, when he heard to help either side with money or too, somebody tip-toeing past his dcor ammunition; otherwise we shall such a vital matter, the Govern-ent, and it is a very guttifying lot of lost time to make up, and ed on the ship on account of the of the pawnshop intimated that ment will agree, in its wakeful thing, for it will help to make the will not be found wanting in officers passing disparaging there was something wrong with in the direction of the kitches. sever commercial relations."
moments (if any.)
life of the Colony more wholesome enthusiasm.
Generally, the world has become remarks about the men, whom the note, the prisoner started to Of course, there is an "obvious than in some aspects it has been.
was consistent with, with a battered cooking pan in advice to be given to China. It
and have the house which would suffice will want to see more of it. That men of the merchant service, decide whether the accused's
seven defendants conduct Or conjecture seems to have only a The other one hand and is cover in the will probably be despatched to-courage and public spirit to give for four men as a
Evidence was then taken. other. When the thief was going day.
utterance forceful or persuasive," snuggery" will accommodate distant relation with the mat declined to give evidence, bat innocence.
of villas up ori the in a joint statement, said if the according to temperament to only one married couple. Butters that which commonsense O the bachelors can afford higher Peak and flats at Kowloon, commanding officer had allowed The case is proceeding. plainly urges.
rents, and will get the houses, but the relation is really surpris-them to state their grievances,
intimate.
has It become to Circum- What
of ingly 'Patience!
they would have carried on. Able married folk? Hotels calculable bearing on the Hong Seaman Ellis, another accused, Iatrina locution, alias Procrastination, the
No Wanchoo Bother. are not only very expensive; kong Housing Problem. Stay! in a written statement, said he acrose alias came
problem the right word? the Magistrate who sent him to the chisel which was lying in the "These conditions are absolutely they are not the proper places for Is
street. He declared himself to abnormal A little while and all residents. It is highly desirable, a problem is something the was a survivor of HM.B. Seagull prison for one month.
be an honest man. To ascertain will be well Things will right for the general good of the Colony, solution of which is difficult to when she was rammed, and on the truth of his statement that be themselves automatically. Please to develop home life as much as find. That cannot be said of the day of the mutiny he had had The Court passed the following A disreputable-looking Chinese got his living by doing manual leave me in peace. "Mondays I possible, and home life is not housing for. Hongkong, as I hope more than his fair share of rum. (The foregoing is the first of a sentences: Able Seaman Ellis, was in the early hours of this work, the Magistrate instituted am still, week-ending and tired. possible in a botel, nor in a board to prove in future articies.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays I am ing-house, which is cheaper than morning found by a constables novel method.
series of four articles on the hous 2 years' hard labour, and dis He ordered feluctant. Thursdays I simply a hotel
The cost of living here, as at ing question, written specially missed from the service; Able wardering with several other Sergeant, Lanigan to feel the can't. Fridays I am tired again. Home, has risen to a greater for the Hongkong Telegraph Seamen Talbot, Pardy, and China Sugar,
picous-looking characters. The man's fingers, and when it was Saturdays-well, I ask you! onstable searched him, and in discovered that they were soft and One must endeavour, with extent than have salaries since The remaining articles will deal Nangla, 1 year's hard labour Shareholders me his pocket a chisel, evidently not homy, as would be the case whatever non-success, to demon- 1914. Consequently the married with facts and causes of the pre- Able Seamen Forbes, Davies, and intended for use in a burglarious with a man doing rough work,
Serivaner, 90 days detention; Spa malined
enterprise, was found. Brought sentenced the man to
Weeks the foregoing aliases that the times to work upon. This demand is measures, and conclusions. The
sequitted. are not a little bit abnormal for good but cheap houses in second article will power on Leading Seaman - Foren was before the Magistrate this morn-hard labour.
They are aggressively and pro plenty along, let it be said, with Friday.]
cure on Blake Pier.
the is
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mora big
to the Pacific
to
his own language, a fine of $15"We pay taxes for protection. excitement has availed nothing. which, with very good reason. and-out pleasure-seekers. The work in two watches for the good faith.
"holiday abroad" will become
was inflicted. "
not to supply the Government No practical step has yet been they anticipate. with the means to destroy our taken in Hongkong to cope with progress.
sitting in his parlour on the paying all taxes and suspend the that the Government has done in
transport of goods. We farther has been to refuse to appoint returning
He kept a watch and later saw a The Foreign Ministers met
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man emerging from the kitchen again yesterday to discuss the retort to all who use their Yet it must be remembered that a smaller place, and more people they compared unfavourably with run away. The jury had to
down the stairs, the watcher
sprang his surprise he jumped
from his hiding place and seized
hold of the thief. The latter's shocking, the Chinese said he was
hia was great, and this morning, the on coup-de-grace was deals him by when
way he
to
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