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positions a distinct style and atmosphere which were grateful to the executant without being point of view. The Indian Love too" difcult from the technical
Lyrics, "--probably ~ the ✨ most popular song cycle ever written. are an excellent instance of her Powers in this direction. But the some of Mrs. Woodforde-Finden's silver lining has its dead, and
still; the occasion of much faith socompanimenta were, and are
Nothing very much, has taken - A new arrival in the Harbour place, during last week, in this shortly will be the Archer, a to the supply of ammunition to During last week there were Island of Fagrant Streams. The gister ship of the Eclipse, Operat
ed by the Pacific Mail: 880,world. The amateur China under existing or future 36 cases of plague notified in exodus Home is now in full swing. The Archer is a newly-built ship, agreements until the political / Hongkong, of which 30 were | boatloads of our bitizens leaving having been constructed during the imported into her many com-
us for Blighty by every Home the war in the Bethlehem ship ing other Powers are also to be Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson is Ward-bound boat. Hundreds are building yards to the order of the requested to support the decision, returning to Hongkong from expecting to go Home, but Cunard Co. She was requisitioned and if they really have the wel-Kirkee in the as. Dilwars, which not until substitutes can be by the U. S. Shipping Board who will use her to transport troops fare of China at heart they is expected on the 9th. instant. secured. Competent labour, # between Vladivostock and San sánnot but fall in line on the
will be found. (although Francisco matter. This suggestion or
the war is practically over) will iginally came from the United States, at the time of the
not be an easy thing to secure, delivery of friendly advice by
There is a phletora of jabe going the Powers in December of last
at present in the Mother Country, year, but at that time Japan was
and the chances are not inclined to fall in with the
very few job-searchers will the idea. Now, however, she has
be attracted joined hands with the others, and until such time as a Government throughout the country has been established. the Powers are pledged effectively to restrain their nationals from importing arms and ammunition into the country, whilst the Governments concerned have further agreed to prohibit the importation of arms contracted for but not delivered during the period.
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For the forty-eight hours ended yesterday, there were notified 11 cases of plague (six fatal) and one non-fatal occurrence each enteric and cerebro-spinal men- ingitis. All the sufferers were Chinese.
The idea, of course, at the bot- tom of this resolve is to prevent, About ten days ago a Chinese if possible, further military hostil-was banished for 10 years by the ities in China. The free importa-Police. He returned yesterday The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is tion of ammunition and weapons and, was sentenced to 3 years
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to China is in the neighbourhood of 7,883fulness on suburban pianos.
tans, and her net, 5,056 tons. The especially Hongtong, which has following are her dimensions It is a dull task to dispel the acquired an unenviable reputation Length, 140 ft width, 56 ft. She rayer flights of romantic fancy. in distant lands as being an horis installed with turbine en save the Daily News, and the ribly expensive place to live in.gines, and her greed is 10 knots vision of squadrons of aerial Probably, when the Government per hour.
policemen chasing an aerial - smuggler through the emprean scheme to develop, the Colony by
it seems the correct term in this 6pening up new building sites, and
setting) has its attractions. It constructing tramway lines in is the employment of British should draw very well as Kowloon become practical politics, officers which has contributed so cinema play, if the authorities largely to the improvement in will only allow the rehears- then would it be safe to advertise the Police Force.
on an adequate...mozle... Hongkong as a land flowing with
But this js infortunately, milk and honey.
The Police Service is one of the photographer is ever likely to be rather doubtful, and no happy security services of the Govern-blessed with a sight of such ment and on it the peace, and pursuit in real life, so to speak. Any new-comer to this Colony welfare of the Colony directly it is fairly clear, to descend to at depend. It is the agency which facts that the policing of the air but be shocked the high transportation charges is directly responsible for the will be done in the main on the Each trip to the Peak and back maintenance of law and order, ground. Even an air amuggler Costa a passenger 60 cents, a trip without which there cannnot be must land somewhere; indeed. to Kowloon on a Star ferry 30 either prosperity or advancement he must be very careful where and cents and 10 cents for a ride on a Law and order is not the sole how he lands if he wishes to re- train and this in a populous criterion of good government but man alive. If he has wishes to se place like Hongkong. in all no Government is a good Govern-
proper signals by day, as shown conscience it cannot be claimed ment that fails in this respect, the proper lights by night, the air this direction, for the nationals of many countries have found in Hence your letter does not that either of these services, by and no one can deny that the police, warned by wireless, will
charges, is Hongkong
has have kept their eye on him and it a very profitable business to
Fun solely for the public adequately performed, with be waiting for him. If he has. supply various Chinese factions
benefit. This state of affairs depleted force, this duty. When he will have to show his registra- with the means to carry on arm- A game of jantan held in the cannot. continue indefinitely the men who
went West in tionscard and answer all sorts of“. Laded warfare. There are scamps street at West Point ended in one However, this is true: the Hong answer to the clarion call for the questions, very inconvenient to
amongst all nationalities, whose of the players being arrested by kong Government has grasped safety of the world, return to the smuggler Romance, in sort conscience is not greatly bothered the Police. This pastime, so the the large facts of the use and Colony, the Hon. Mr. E.D.Cmisconceives the problem. It is if their actions do create unrest arrested man put it, cost. him $3 misuse of public utilities. Today Wolfe should be able to work not to make, smuggling impos in another country so long as in Mr. G. N. Orme's Court this Hongkong is trying to grapple wonders." It must not be forgotten sible. That cannot be done. It they are well in" on the propo-morning,
with her share of worries and that a poorly paid police is the is to make it too troublesome. sition. Hongkong knows some-
from all present indications she worst form of economy. It is too costly and too risky to be thing of this type of individual.. Over ten men have been ar-is likely to make fair progress essential, not only in the lower worth while. whose wily methods give the Police
end of trouble rested in connection with the towards an ultimate settlement. grades but also in the higher Now that the Powers have come recent armed robberies in the Comparitively speaking, the in- ones, that the members of the to agreement on the subject, it is
identified they will be produced the Colony are small, but to which they can live decently and picked out of 8,000 competitors to to be hoped that there will be no
people they assume, and quite which will place them above any evasion of the conditions of the
naturally so, very large propor- possible danger of temptation. understanding. po matter how
tions. The true duty of utility big and influential the interests
companies of this Colony is to see concerned may be. It is dificult Acting upon strong medical that both the public and the Cato once said: "I would says a writer in a Home paper. always to kill the military spirit advice the Bishop of Victoria corporations get z square deal much rather that posterity should of course, she will have to display and until that is done there Hongkong (Dr. Lander) sailed The function of Government, as erected to me than why they the experts are agreed that it is enquire phy no statues were other qualifications, but I belleve cannot be any peace in China yesterday by the Suwa Maru for its name implies, should be to were." Sir Henry May's long and the smile which does it. They all but the task will be rendered all Canada. He hopes to return to govern and properly regulate honourable career in the public have it even the the easier if the traffic inars the Colony at the beginning of the and ammunition is rigidly put a October. During his absence the which are licensed by State be marked by a public memorial, of it; so does Mr. Charles Chaplin
activities of enterprises service of the Colony is about to Douglas Fairbanks makes a point... stop to.
Ven Archdeacon Barnett will authority to use the public high-which is to take the form of a (quite apart from is low comedy Out of all the telegrams received regarding the attitude
at as his commissary. The Rev.ways ór property. Public taken by Italy in connection with President Wilson's manifesto, HONGKONG HYDRA **
A. D. Stewart, of St. Paul's ownership
statue in some prominent position gain); so does Mr. Hart, though that containing the most important information would appear to be
The idea has been suggested to College, will attend to all the socialistic propaganda. The world in the Colony. This would be an his speciality is stern, stong the message giving news of King Emmanuel's message to Signor us that Hongkong needs some. Bishop's correspondence. to-day is having an example of one who has spent most of his critics are enthusiastic about the appropriate tribute to the memory pathos; and I am told that the Orlando, commending the latter's action and insisting that there thing in the nature of a Nursing
of its operation in Russia under life in this distant outpost of the smile of a new comedian, Mr. must be no recession from the position taken up. Judging from Home, or hydro, as distinct from Commendatore Volpicelli, who
the name of Bolsevism. I admit Empire. A public memorial like Taylor Holmes. I hear that Mr. this, and also from the popular demonstrations in various parts of the ordinary type of hospital of has been Italian Consul-General that private capital and personal a statue is a reflection of virtue. Chaplin, by the by, has a new Italy, the principal hope entertained by France, Great Britain and which there are several in the for Hongkong, South China, and Benious, which have built up in this respect Sir Henry May is make up," in which the baggy America of a settlement of the difficulty is at present of rather Colony The person making the Macao during the last twenty great risk of failure and loss of of his predecessors. Sir Mathew moustache play no part; but I'
successful business, often with more fortunate than forlorn character. And in that hope, so far as can be seen at the suggestion says that residents years, was recently transferred moment, lies the only possible solution-that Italy will retract and -be generous and hearken to President Wilson's appeal. The telegram especially in the summer months. He is succeeded by Cavaliere The return would be just as fair by the erection of a statue to him.
themselves, to the Foreign Office in Rome. fair returns for the enterprise. tion of the Colony was not marked doesn't.
money invested, are entitled to Nathan's excellent administra shall be surprised if the smile mentioned above is not of a reassuring natura in this respect and run down." but still not ill. Eles, LL. D. who has already if, for instance, five cents per trip It may be that the community of unless something unforeseen happens we can only assume that enough to go to hospital, an assumed charge of the Consulate-
Macaulay was a hard bitter," Italy intends to remain firm. President Wilson, judging from his institution which, in The best of General and will reside in Heng were charged, thus enabling 4,000 Hongkong of Sir Mathew Nathan's but there is life in our literary declarations, is not likely to give way, and we are thus faced with a circumstances, has not mmch kong. The office of the Royal persons.per day to travel on the deadlock the consequences of which it is impossible to anticipate attraction for most of us. But if Italian Consulate-General is at than
not imbued with critice yet. Read this. tramways or the ferry, that sense of duty to an efficient "As a pointed illustration of It is unfortunate also that the precedent is likely to bolster up the there were a well-appointed Rest the Hotel Mansions (opposite
departed Governor as we are unadulterated idiocy it deserves Japanese claims to Tsingtan, whereby further complications are. Establishment, something on the Post Office), Pedder street, 1 levied and 1,000 persons travelled. today. But this remark is only a high place.
lines of a modified hydro, situste floor.
As Public Service Commissions in passing. Whatever gite is
Many have suffered incarcéra- We have reassuring telegrams to the effect that the breach.is
say at Dumbell Island or perhaps
can require that the revenue of
eventually decided on for the tion. there lin Bedlam for far less not likely to hinder the singing of peace, but that, we think, is
utilities shall be limited to a small matter as compared with the hinderance to the negotiations who feel a trifle washed "out" At the Police Court this morn- figure which will give only a location of the statue, I hope offences than in the writing and
that the statue of Bir illustrating of this book. for the prevention of future wars, for whilst this matter of Fiume might be attracted to it for a few ing, a Chinese was charged with certain fixed return on invest- Henry May will be a fine only merit it has, is, that it has remains unsettled, there can be little hope of the successful forma-weeks and find it a real pick-me- harbouring & 17-year-old girl ment, every user would benefit specimen of the sculptor's art. given employment in the printing tion of the League of Nations which is of paramount importance. up. Well, there is no doubt some- without permission from her from efficient and economic The setting as well must be such and paper trades that will have for, after all, it was for the principles embodied in a League of thing to be said for the sugges-parents. It appears that the girl management in the lowering of that it will display the beauty of benefited someone." Nations that the war was fought and won. It is difficult to believe tion, and as the Colony develops one night went out from the rates. A faller appreciation of the the work. It should be erected The journal in which these that President Wilson issued his manifesto without previous con- it might well be found worth house where she lived with her duties of public utility companies in a suitable place with due gems find a place is the Brewer's sultation with, and the knowledge of, France and Great Britain, while. Hongkong's hospitals are parents, and met the defendant to the general public will ensure regard to the surroundings. The Gazette. From the same inspiring despite the fact that we are told that the manifesto fell upon Paris by no manner of means alluring; who took her to a houso "in a better and cheaper service to vicinity of a tall public building source is unearthed a surprising like a thunderbolt. If otherwise, the circumstance would appear to generally they are made use of Shanghai Street, where she had the public and serve as a solution should not be one of these places piece of wax news, which bear out the Italian Premier's charge of President Wilson's departure as a last resort. At Home, how been living with him until yes of the vared question of public
few could have even suspected: from diplomatic custom. America and Italy, of course, view the
"The publican has been the questions involved from s totally different standpoints and the ever, the Nursing Home and the terdey, when the Police located utility administration.
hydro fil a very necessary want her and arrested the defendant.
It cannot certainly be said salvation of the country during situation is perhaps somewhat complicated by the fact that America why not in Hongkong? Here's The defendant pleaded guilty and
that Sir Henry May was an the war," said Mr. W. H. Parry, is not technically an Ally. She takes the position rather of an
a chance for private enterprise.
was remanded till Saturday on
ideal Governor, and I am Llandudno, at a metting of Caz Associated Government and the whole of her past international
the application of Mr. D. J.
"The daylight shooting of a sure he does not lay claim to such narvonshire and Anglesey dealings have been based on an avoidance of becoming involved in
Lewis.
Chinese Iukong on Sunday by an an honour, but although he was Licensed Victualler's Association European politics. Her first venture into those complicated realms
armed robber has brought home not extremely popular in Hongat Benger Were it not for has not had particularly happy résulte and the very fears expressed
to us that a policeman's life is kong no by some Americans in this connection would seem to be in a fair
one who studied his the sportsmanlike manner-in The steamer, Nam Hoi was an unenviable one. There ap actious could fail to have been which the publican tolerated way to being realised. No-one can question the genuineness of
last night searched by the Police pear to be many revolvers knock-struck by his singleness of pure all that he was si Great Britain's and. France's defence that conditions have vastly
previous to her departure. A ing about the Colony in the pose, a high sense of civic duty, ajected to during the past twelve, altered since the Pact of London was signed. That Treaty was FURTHER ARRESTS.
rattling noise in what appeared to hands of the Chinese, and dauntless spirit, a consciousness months the unrest in the cou consummated at a time when it was thought that Austria-Hungary
be the false bottom of a box be the task of tracking these gun- of his dignity, his determination to would have become morê general would still remain a nation, if a beaten one, and under those con-
We learn that two Chinese longing to a Chinese passenger runners is colossal. On the always maintain his dignity in Licensed victuallers had ditions Italy's demands as regards Fiume would be justified. But believed to have been con- aroused their suspicions and when Police Force falla a responsibility public and in his intercourse with aged the win-the-war spirit. since Austria-Hungary is no more a nation, the whole complexion cerned in the armed robbery the false bottom was prised open, which is different, in kind from the citizens of this Isle, and an at least the Government, can of the position is changed. On the other hand, Italy's contention at No. 34 Western Street on 100 rounds of ammunition were that of any other service, and sointe disregard for the feelings of under the circumstances that the Fact of London must not be treated as another scrap of Sunday last, which resulted in discovered. The passenger was from the superior and junior others. With Horace, Sir Henry make them all O.R.E paper is, at least, a clever answer.
the fatal shooting of a lukong by arrested, and a thorough search officers of the Police qualities and May can say: "I have completed Under President Wilson's claims, Fiume is to become a free one of the robbers now under of the box made later at the actions are demanded of a monument more lasting than port, but Italy holds that it will become a Jugo-Slay port. It is arrest have been arrested. The Police Station produced: character different from any other brass and mors sublime than the impossible to say, on the information to hand, exactly what the arrest has alan been affected of revolves. The weapon was found position would really be, but it is on this point that a glimmer of the woman who went to the pre- in an airtight square in which light may be discorned for a settlement, for Italy might retract if mises, ander the pretext of purported to contain salt fish. Mr. the freedom of Fiume were made patently and irrevocably clear engaging rooms.
Lindsell to-day imposed a fine, of The main point is, of course, that until the matter is settled there. The men were charged this $300 on the Chinese, and ordered can be no question of the organisation of a League of Nations which morning, before Mr. G. N. Orme the revolver and ammunition to would effectually secure the objects for which purpose its establish- and formally remanded.
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