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Residents who have frequent occasion to use the Hongkong- Kowloon ferry-boats may some- times be pardoned for wondering
Yesterday's whether every possible precaution
health return is taken against overcrowding of shows four fatal cases of plague, these
night after the victims all being Chinese. craft. At theatrical shows, and at times also when, on the other side, the train
board passengers
to
JOTTINGS
(BY "KNHARMONICA).
THE JUB
FIGH
÷FOUR MEN CHARGED,
TO-DA
In a letter on day
a writer to the New York BaENERS Post: skys→All - patural: Hfe The death occurred, in London
bestirs itself earlier recently, of Mr. Theo. Bonheur, As a sequel to the fracas in earlier rising sun. Onlyman, by by which the musical profession Jubilee Street, four Chinese were lying abed till the middle of the gerally, loses one of its most charged with riotous behaviour, solar fersnoon of the summer esteemed members. For the first before Mr. R. E Lindsell, this day, has been out of tone with fifteen or twenty years of his morning.
nature. This country has tested, musical career, Bonheur "was
Sergeant Willa, prosecuting, and the overwhelming majority probably the most prolific com- said that on Tuesday night over of our peopledas realised, the pro- poser living, but this fact was a hundred men, Ningpo, Shangportionate increase in efficiency, somewhat disguised by his writing hai and. Fakien Chinese, in health, and opportunity for frequently under the nom de plume engaged in A fight recreation and cultura which the of Oscar Verne and Maurice in Jubilee Street, using ironworker needs. This law saved Telma, the general public not bars, sticks etc. Six men were us 1,500,000 tons of coal · last being aware of the composer's severely wounded and were season and cut our lighting bills identity under these signatures. removed to hospital by the police. 25 per cent. Labouris overwhelm- One of the combatants received a jingly for it, including the Ameri- stabinthe back, and another on the can Federation of Labour, with With the departure for Tien-head, while the others had their more than 2,000,000 members, tain. to-morrow, of Mr. E
The fight would ann the Central Federated Union
to be of Labour, including all classes of“. band of the 18th Infantry, the
the labour.. More than 100 public Colony loseR one of the These ferry-boats are, ww On Tuesday night & dinner most efficient adjuncts to its intervention of the police, who bodies, Chambers of Commerce, know, very seaworthy, but that and dance was given at the social life. The band, under the fired revolvers over the heads of Merchants' Assolations, etc, alf a means of. over the country and in all large is not the point. If a collision or Hongkong Hotel to celebrate the able baton of Mr. Vassalo, has instilling fear into them. One of cities have endorsed it.
the fighters, a5 other untoward incident occurred, birthday of Mr. Carroll Dancing provided music for our various
Intimations have been sent out by the Craigəngower » . Cricket the boats, there appears
At Home on the be very little checking Club for an
24th instant. Good sport is of the number of people who go over the gangway. The other expected. night," for instance, after the
Damaged Goods" performance, Among the Hongkong "boys" the ferry was literally crowded, who are expected shartly from there being insufficient seating Kirkee is Private Wattle, of accommodation on the upper Messrs. Alex Ross and Co. A deck, with the result that num-direct intimation from him has bera
had of
to been received. people be content with standing room.
vassals and the members of the heads broken. out
bave turned very serious
but for
there would not be nearly enough was kept ap till one in the marn-functions during the past two the men charged was Dr. Black's chauffeur. The fight was over
life-belts to go round, if the boat were as crowded as it was on the occasion under notice. There is a legal limit to the number of passengers that can be carried. But are adequate means always taken to check the number going aboard ?. That is the point about which the public is most con- cerned.
COMMERCIAL CO-OPERATION.
The recent gathering of mem- bers of the Hongkong Chinese
&
ing and a large number of or three years in "
The transaction.
police ladies enjoyed the occasion.
manner that cannot essily
Iron coins, which have just were called upon to quell be forgotten and our thanks are similar fracas three months's been introduced into Italy through due to him. also
to
the
a
“The Stunts" are arranging to
The men revived for modern Europe by produce the well-known musical Officers of the 18th infantry, by ago which kept them on duty the scarcity of copper, were first
whose kind permission the band throughout the night. comedy "Le Cloches de Corne- has been put at the disposal of the all lived in night boarding houses, Austria soon after the Great War ville" by Plunket. They have Colony. Mr Vassalo possesses definite information about the a kind of Darwinian reversion and the police could not get began. They are no novelty, but so far not succeeded in getting the happy knack of compiling affair, as all of them kept silence. to type in the evolution of nu- suitable person to fill the part of the miser, which is the principal
role.
The Water Return shows that The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is Chamber of Commerce, at which on May 1st reservoirs in the City $36 per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
Mr. Brett, the new British Com-and Hill District Waterworks The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional Subscrip-mercial Intelligence Officer was Level contained 1,244.48 million tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a present, should result in a distinct gallons, compared with 546.16 full month.
furtherance of Anglo-Chinese million gallons on the correspond- The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee trade if the spirit of co-operation ing day last year. The figures is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies revealed in the speeches is carried for Kowloon were respectively delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies into commercial life. Mr. Brett 231.38 and 142,04 million gallons. sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
made a good point when he de- Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
clared that by friendly association
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
a
de SOUZA. The family of the late. Mrs. Eufronis Maria de Souza beg to thank their numerous friends for their expressions of sympathy and floral tributes in their sad bereavement.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919.
ARMY REGULATIONS AND THE PRESS.
at the disposal of the business community. It is to be hoped. therefore, that commercial men in general and the Chinese in particular, will work in close relationship with him.
CHINA'S LAST CHANCE.
Mr. C. J. Lewis, of Messrs.
the
programmes
most
that are appropriate to the
particular oircumstances in which his band is called on to officiate and I am sure all will join in wishing him the best of good luck in his new sphere of activites.
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The case was remanded bail mismatics. Cumbrous iron and being allowed in the sum of $100 bronze ingots formed a medium of exchange long before Pheidon. for each defendant.
King of Argos, struck first silver coins
the temple of the Love- goddess at Aegins which was the Earliest European mint. Coins of
FALSIFICATION CHARGE.
CHINESE ACCOUNTANT IN
TROUBLE.
in
iron circulated for centuries among the Chinese, but finally fell to a third of their value owing
to the dishonesty of the Govern- ment. Few would guess, how- Before Mr. R. E Lindsell, ater, that iron rings, made in Bir the Magistracy this morning, a popular currency among certain mingham, still furnish the most Chinese accountant of the Wa salle fellow subjects of the British Cheung Loong firm, Jervois
defended.
!!
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The fate of Frau Cosima Wagner, the German composer's second wife, and who was, by the way, a daughter of the Abbe Liszt, has been a mystery since the end of last year. A neutral paper recently announced her Advertisements and Subscriptions which are pot ordered for and mutual assistance between Johnstone, Stokes and Master: death but this was never con fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
the merchants and manufacturers will act as Hon. Treasurer to Sir armed in the German Press. A mous latent resources The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be of Britain and China the enor-F. H. May's Memorial Fund Home paper, however, states Street, was charged with falsify./ on the West Coast of Africa.
of the during Mr. Gedge's temporary that she is alive and in
ing the firm's ledger to the extent latter country would best be de-absence from the Colony. Intend-
good heath and visited of $8,000 and with defrauding a veloped. These new Trade Com-ing subscribers to the Fund are
Chinese woman of $200.
In the unlikely event of English missioners, of which Mr. Brett is asked to send in their subscrip Bayreuth in February last.
being Mr. F. X d'Almada appeared barristers and solcitors one, have been appointed with the tions as soon as possible in order special object of securing reliable that the statue may be ordered There was a great slump in for the firm and Mr. D. J. Lewis amalgamated--as proposed in a resolution tabled for the next information concerning foreign from England.
Wagner just before the war" in
Mr. d'Almada, in outlining meeting of the Law Society- markets, and for the purpose of
Germany. Even Bayreuth itself
In bringing merchants and manu-
It is a trial of strength for an could not be depended upon and the facts of the case, said that will Scotland follow suit? facturers together to their mutual actor who is taken ill. at the the legal rights of Frau Wagner the firm dealt in silk goods. The Scotland there are three branches defendant one day made an entry of the legal professioni, namely the advantage. Individual concerns eleventh hour to be compelled to to the famous Wagner opers in the books of the firm that he advocate or barrister, the Writer
course means for fulfil his part.
Mr. Leonard house did not save her from the have, of
had purchased silk from a to the Signet a kind of high- ascertaining such conditions, Stephens, in spite of the fact commandeering of that edifice by
to the grade solicitor with special but officials of the type of Mr. that he was very ill, appeared in the Bavarians. This slump is merchant in Canton.
value *of $800. When privileges and the law agent, who Brest, with inside knowledge on his role of Second Lieutenant remarkable, remembering the some points that might not be Cornelius Keyes in "Seven Days' fierce competition by impresarios the firm was about to be wound corresponds to our solicitor and the complainant looked whose designation varies in available to traders, can do a Leave" and Dr. Strahan was throughout Germany' to be the "P great deal in supplementing the especially in attendance behind first to produce Parsival when through the books and discovered different parts of Scotland. In formers' efforts, and, as our Com the screen. Mr. Stephens is still the Bayreuth monopoly expired that the defendant had made a the counties he is a procurator. false entry in them. The defend- and belongs to the country mercial Intelligence Officer puts ill, and on Tuesday night, in on the last day of 1913.
ant, Mr. d'Almada said, had also society of procurators. In it, in widening their knowledge spite of the fact that he was
defrauded a woman of $200. It Glasgow and on the Clyde he of the more important centres of extremely weak, played his A Home critic writes appeared that he had also forged is a writer not to be confused trade. Mr. Brett is here as an part with the usual success, have heard Rachmininoff's Pre- certain signatures in. the with a Writer to the Signet, intermediary, and his services are
Jude suffer many things but I receipts books though no evidence who is a very superior person. This morning an Indian cous-imagine its roughest time just could be brought forward to that domiciled only at Edinburgh.-- table arrested a Chinese on the now is on the music hall stage effect. The woman's husband, In Aberdeen he is an advocate. Praya East. The man
was when it is being played as a banjo who was in America, had sent This last name confuses the carrying 20 lbs of coal which was solo." That critic has no right to her through the agency of the Southerner, who finds it hard to believed to have been pilfered complain. He surely does not go firm a sum of $2,000. For this remember that an Aberdeen from coel junks at Wanchai. to a music hall to hear competent amount the defendant gave her a advocate is a solicitor whilst an The Chinese stated that a friend renderings of that class of music.pass-book, and entered in it Edinburgh advocate is a barrister. who hired bim -to carry If he does, he deserves all be certain moneys she drew
to luggage The most unfortunate occur- bis
Macaol gets.
and also 2 sale of clothing rence that could have happened boat, had presented him with the
to the value of $289 which
About one of the many societies lady had. Journalistic etiquette requires among other things that the and one most calculated to injure coal its lieu of payment. Every
purchased of Scottish law agents an unchari- was given the One does, however, occasionally the name of a correspondent should not under any circumstances be China's position with regard to opportunity revealed. In the Army it is constituted an offence for any soldier to the Kiauchau question, has, we Chinese by the Police to find the come across a good musical turn from the firm. The defendant in table story is told. On purchasing at the music balls. I remember this connection omitted to enter for its headquarters an old bar, write to the Press, and the authority relied upon is the King's, regret to learn, taken place in friend, but be failed, and was to- Regulations and Orders for the Army. This is an admirable ruling, Peking and Tientsin, rioting and day fined $18, or 14 days im-on one occasion hearing a man the transaction in the firm's onisl mansion in Edinburgh the named Percy Hoarei play the books. Apparently he misappro-society annexed the former but it is more honoured in the breach than the observance. Aviolence having been indulged in prisonment..
three Henry VIII dances of priated the money.
owner's armorial bearings," and Evidence was then called and left over its gateway his motto, peculiar incident recently arose in India in connection with a letter by students as a protest against which was published by the newspaper, the Pioneer, from a military the Japanese control
A Chinese was yesterday seen Edward German on an English
"Olim marta, nunc arte," which correspondent, who criticised a high military authority. This much discussed territory. Whilst by a watchman coming out from concertina, at the London Pavill
literally translated means "Once eventually led to the institution by His Excellency the Commander- we sympathise with the Chinese the direction of the Kowloon ion, the instrument used, being
by war, now by skill," When in-Chief of the Forces in India of an enquiry into the authorship of in their views on the question, we godowns with a coil of rope on about double the usual size of the "to and fro" beloved of 'Arry
Walter Scott was showing George the letter. All that it appears this military correspondent suggest- cannot but fael that their his shoulder. The watchman,
IV. round Edinburgh, the King ed was that when demobilisation was ordered there might be less case has been greatly harmed by who suspected that the rope had at Ampstead. The effect was
saw this motto and inquired its keenness displayed by the higher authority for inspections. There the action taken, the more so that been stolen arrested the Chinese. wonderful and the expression
meaning, Scott replied, "It was nothing outrageous, to our mind, in this suggestion to excite the rioters are members of the Sergeant Davis, who believed that Honrei was able to get out of
means sire. Once robbers, now thieves." the wrath of the military authorities and have the writer of the higher educated classes. No the rope had been stolen from his instrument had to be heard screed brought to book. It is more than ridiculous; it is almost good ever came of such a line of the Empress of Russie, informed to be believed. The man's abilities 0. Butchison this were noised abroad after his despotic. The Press is a power for good, and although, in the action and it would appear that Mr. R.
A wireless girdle round the interests of the State certain military information must be taboo in the students have played directly morning, that for some reason or firet performance and the leading
Was the original home of the the Press, there are others innocent suggestions which can be into the hands of Japan. The other, most probably the trouble London musical critics were un-world is becoming a possibility of
animous in their praise of the near future.
Bolsheviki the Marqueses expressed through the meduim of a newspaper. Although rules higher educated members of the that would be entailed on them
Experimental messages, the
Islands? A book about the are made to be observed, care must be taken to see that these rules Chinese nation appear to be in coming to Court; the officers of Hoare's playing on what is the are framed with an eye to elasticity. Are the Army's doings to be getting further and further into the ship did not see it fit to claim most difficult musical instrument | Daily Chronicle learns, have beenSouth Sea Islands tells of the
the play, extant.
sent to Australia, a' distance of
feeling of absolute equality which entirely hidden from the public gaze? And why should this be so, the mire of disorganisation and the rope. It transpired that the
12,000 miles, without relaying. seelps that the public contribute to a standing Army? Most of the every month since the the death Chinese had recently come out serious scandals that are exposed from time to time in the Press of Yuan Shi-k'ai has witnessed from prison after serving a three There was, at that time, another This achievement was celebrated the original inhabitants of the Marquesas manifested toward and the exponent of the English concert-by the sending of messages from the white men who discovered" Tare done through the instrumentality of the heads of Departments) some action which has gradually months' and Services. A good number of anonymous articles bringing worn away the hopes of those Magistrate inflicted a fine of ina on the London music hall Australian statesmen in London them. A missionary asked one stage in the person of Dutch Daly.to their own country. The open- of these fine upstanding natives scandals to light are written by high officials, including Generals as who have China's welfare at three months' hard labour. His favourite solo, which always ing of a commercial wireless who was their king You are well, sometimes, as Cabinet Ministers. And yet enquiries into the heart, that her leaders would authorship of anonymous criticism of military administration are unite and place the government At 7.45 on Tuesday night, brought down the house, was service between England and king was the dignified reply, seldom instituted at Home. Then why should it be out of the country on a stable and whilst the Yaumeti ferry launch "Violets. Dutch Daly lived in Australia is only a matter of time I am king, we are all kings. in the East? There should be a more human element sound footing This last act of Taiying was going over to Yau- Mostyn road, Brixton, as did and the permission of the two This sentiment, uttered in 18. in Army mattere generally. The pointing out of an obvious evil the students, the fire of which, we mati, a Chinese woman who was many other leading music hall Governments concerned. is not so heinous as to obscure the need of removing that evil.[fear, has been fed by those who's
on the launch, artists in those days, and The advice which the Pioneer offered to the Military Authorities, should, have rigorously opposed attempted to commit suicide by had the pleasure of hearing England and Canada and Eng-day doctrine, who left no stone unturned to trace the culprit in question, was appro- the outbreak, is indicative of the jumping into the harbour. The him play, in his home, classic land and the West Indies have priate. We quote it "Is there any wonder that the officers anxious dominating spirit of the ruling launch was stopped and works, including a Bach fugae, in just been opened again to the
The women of the Marg for the good name of the Army in which they have a record of long classes, which. if persisted one of the crew immediately a manner which made me wonder public. These services, it will be
her and in why the instrument was not remembered. were closed down Islands also exhibited some of the the hope that their well-meant generalisations may have the effect humiliating position of A& few minutes. brought more popular, I suppose the in August, 1917, owing to the dis freedom of opinion whic of drawing the higher authority's attention to evils that ought nation totally unable to her back to the launch. The reason was, as Daly said himself, covery that they were being used tributed to the Bolsh to be remedied?: His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief wont govern itself, the inevitable result wonian was in en unconscious that the English concertins pre-by German agents for the ought to have more probably be the first to admit that he was never meant for the desk. of which is dismemberment. condition, and, when the launch sented such tremendous technical transmission of messages of husband, one was difficulties to the student it took direction to enemy submarines, women is quoted Let him then leave it and turn from the contemplation of files to It is not too late now, if China reached Yaumati, she the men he commands. Army Headquarters' work may get into will pull herself together and brought on to the wharf, and the Daly 20 years to attain anything The method of communication one of my husb arrears, but the Army itself will gain, for a few hours of heart-to-present a united and dignified police communicated with like proficiency) that it was heart talk with men acquainted with the Army's needs will be worth front in demanding what are Sergeant Saunon, on his arrival, thought not worth while when all the adom diluted over countless pages of Army Orders and undoubtedly her sovereign applied artificial respiration and there were other instrumenta
ructions and modifications thereof Is there really, anything rights. It is her last noe the womát soon recovered, and more to popular taste far
Imtionary in this little bit of advice z
Will abe grasp in
to learn to pisy
of that
and faithful service should be tempted to resort to the Press in the in," will force. China into the dived
sentance,
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