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TUESDAY. JUNE 10, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
IF SOME PEOPLE WERE TO THINK, TWICE BEFORE SPEAKING
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AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.THE BARRACK
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To hold a place On the Licensing Board which WAS once esteemed an honour,
And a reward for virtue, hath
quite lost
FLOATING GAMBLING
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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It seems that the camera trade is indeed brisk on the Rhine. A leaflet reaches me which is being distributed in the street of Cologne. On the outside page is printed in big type:
STABBING AFFRAY.
THE LATEST BURGLARY,
A correspondent asks how The burglary which took place THEY WOULD NEVER SAY ANY-
STEVENS GETS 18 MONTHS. General Foch prononces his
NAME The low standard of civic`spîrît.
"I find several people some time during the week-end in the Hongkong Hotel Mansions
and public duty obraining in
pronouncing it as 'Fok, and John Stevens, of the Manchest- others as Fosh. Which is provides further proof, if such
The Treasurer of the Society of vacancy that arose on the Licenser Regiment, who stabbed Kelly, frights
Hongkong is regrettable.
General Foch himself were needed, that we have in Hongkong a gang of housebreak-St. Vincent de Paul begs most ing Board for a representative of of the same regiment, with his found it necessary some time ago
bayonet last month in ers who go to work on the most thankfully to acknowledge the the Justices of the Peace has
the to say that the correct pronuncia- carefully thought out and scien- reciept of the sum of $20, soward drawn no J. P. into the fold. To Wellington Barracks, has now fion is "Fosh."
been sentenced by Court Martial tific principles. Burglars, in the funds of the Society, from an parody Shakespeare this part of the
to undergo 18 months" hard labour anonymous "donor. * rule.. make their chief
in the civil gaol, consideration a big haul to which The K.CC. "Tombstone "Com-" all other features take a second-petition" played yesterday at ary place, which fact eventually King's Park was won by Mr. J. leads to detection. It does not Jack, Mr. E Avenall being require very highly specialised second and big, G. H. May win-
Lustre and reputation.” methods to deal with that class of ning the "Hidden Number" prize.
Make some more J. Ps. Of criminal and the resources" we
course, there is no earthly use have at band in the Colony are A Home paper of May I says: being on the Licensing Board if The promoters of a certain
And inside I find "Don't lose quite sufficient to meet the case. --There are openings at the pre-one is not on the Legislative gambling enterprise who knew any time! Go straight to the
Service It would appear evident, however,sent time at the University of Council.
the the danger of carrying on their Colner Photo- and Kino-Centrale, that we require some Hongkong for Professorships of Licensing Board is not feed. business ashore, rigged up a Neumarkt 32-34, largest photo. thing more than the ordinary Physics Pathology, Chemistry neither. is B seat at
pre-junk as a gambling saloon which graphic stores at Cologne Ica- plain clothes policeman to and Education: There are also sent on the Legislative they anchored in Shankiwan Zeiss-Goerz- Ernemann... "In several lectureships to be filled. Council with Members' questions harbour at what they imagined the biggest type of all is "English
answered through the medium of was a safe distance from the spoken.“ the Government Gazette and.shore. Every night & lamp where impertinent queries are would be hoisted to the masthead, The death of the Press Bureau addressed, the transferring of the which served as an intimation
on April 30 removed a source of seeker after knowledge-or shall that the gambling was in full comedy from public life. It was I say after a cheap temporary swing and as an. invitation responsible for one of the best fame-to the proper department to all those in the
jokes of the war. It is an old to come aboard and have a fine joke now, but some may have
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., tackle the gang which we have
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919.
A WORD FOR HOLLAND.
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The marriage took place at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, on April 27, of Mr. R. L. Atkinson, formerly of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., and Miss Alice Mary Peach Mr. Atkinson has been on active service with the Chinese Labour Corps in France.
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Now's your chance. You will. never get a good German camera as cheap again.
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depart.
dealt with by the Press Bureau - When the message had been
the quotation read:
Although nothing public has time. Last night, in accordance forgotten it. A Daily Neur been vouchsafed to us regarding with the usual custom, the lamp correspondent quoted Kipling's what progress is being made to was again hoisted, and it attract- well-know lines: The Hou. Treasurer of the Alice perpetuate the memory of Sired a goodly crowd of gamblers. Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Henry May by the erection of a Later in the evening, it attracted
Ba Chinese detective begs to acknowledge with thanks starus, some of my friends suggest who clambered on board and the following donations to the that a
proper site for the fands of the Hospitals: Central memorial would be at the corner funk having a nice little game of found twenty persons inside the Agency, Ltd, $25; W. Ducbar of the hill at Yaumati, where the $25; Worcester, Lammert and new road to Castle Peak starts. fantan. Twenty persons were, of Silva, £25; Linstead and Davis. It would be the first course, too much of a handful for
The tumult and the shouting $25; J. S. Nicolson. $10: Palmer statue
in Kowloon, and let one detective to hold. He held
dies. and Turner, $25; Wilkinson and us hope that a second statue will only six of the gaming birds, The captains.. depart Grist, $25; N.J. Stabb, $25.
be erected at the end of Nathan the others having taken flight.
Subsequently the matter was Road. When this road is fuish Fines to the extent of $101 were raised in the House of Commons, Workmen of the Taikoo Sugared with its straight line, it will meted out to the captives this where Sir John Simon gravely Refinery, to the number of two be one of the finest avenues in the corresponding terms of im- it would be wrong to say, as no morning by the Magistrate, with explained that it was felt that hundred, indulged in a free fight the East. In the matter of the this morning, stones, bamboos and fine motor roads in the New prisonment in the event of failure kings were present, that any of other convenient weapons being Territories, tourists
them had departed." called into play. Two of the that Japan is nowhere in it. ringleaders were arrested and When the road from Castle Peak their martial ardour was douched to Yaumati 18 finished we when they were ordered to sign shall be able to motor
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have gained by a German victory, when we see how the Huns, all that took place in Germany both scored such a triumphant success Bay is a revelation of the hidden days' strenuous work. Sunday is brought to Balliol might never go
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in our midst and, so far as we. can see, none of its members will be run to earth until the matter. is put into the bands of a very highly trained criminologist. It is caly necessary to examine the scene of the latest attempt to be convinced of the thoroughness of the preparations which are made before the final coup is attempted. As an illustration of this, the Manager of Messrs. Falconer and Company actually had the party wall of his own shop to as- certain for certain whether the piercing of the party wall at the spot where the attempt was made would actually lead into his shop. The burglars were already in possession of this information; indeed, they were in possession of the most minute details. Such are not the methods of the ignorant coolie; they are the methods
who have specialised in this class of crime and have reached a point where it would appear they have get well ahead of the capabilities of
"Sir Auckland Geddes is the our local authorities to deal with. Consequently we cannot help but
The daylight-saving craze in second of his name to become express the opinion, with all due a personal bond of $100 each in all round the peninsula.
China is fizzling out. This is principal of a university. The respect and full acknowledgment Mr. R. O. Hutchison's Court this essentially Was. Sir
hardly surprising, as it had not first was Sir W. D. Geddes, who of the good work done by the morning.
May's idea. Sir Henry made a been universally adopted in the was Principal of the University C. S. P., that it is high time
Far East. I have often wondered of Aberdeen from 1885 to 1901 study of beautifying Hongkong, why Saturday should not be made Several other bearers of the name we had 2 fully trained Sergt. John McBean Tulloch, knowing that tourists meant an specialist at the head of of the Hongkong Police Force. income to the Colony. There a public holiday. The basic idea are mentioned in the annals of our Criminal • Investigation charged with committing a is the case of Japan and underlying the daylight saving learning. One Michael Geddes, Department. It has got beyond serious assault on a 13-year-old Switzerland, which have been proposition is to give workers who flourished from about 1650 the point where an ex-Magistrate girl and with maltreating her, jattracting visitors from abroad
recreation. to 1713, was one of the first four or an ex-Colonial Treasurer can
Was the principal patives of Scotland who benefited "The war and the incidents arising out of it have produced many
has been committed by the by developing their means, of popular fallacies, and not the least of these is the idea. widespread wave of crime in the Colony, and for trial at the Supreme Court. into these two countries millions, daylight-saving, Shanghai and Bishop Warner anticipated John
cope with the
ever-increasing Magistrate (Mr. R. E Lindsell) communication.
reason for advancing the clock, by Bishop Warner's Exhibitions. Tourists bring bat. if instead of adopting intended for Balliol College. in many quarters, that the Dutch people and Government have been pro-German and would really like to have seen the Entente defeated. the post of C. S. P. should be Mr. Leo Longinctio. Assistant and one of Sir Henry's ideas other places introduced the policy Snell in founding exhibitions at There may be there no doubt are Dutchmen who felt this way made a life-long study of crim-W, E. L. Shenton, of Messrs. hunting ground for tourists from it would have conferred the bene-there might never be wanting in occupied by an expert who has Crown Solicitor, prosecuted. Mr. was to make the Colony & of declaring Saturday as a holidayBalliol for Scotsmen. BO that just as there are "pros" and "antis" in every country in regard to all international questions. But these in no wise represent the
inology.
Deacon, Looker, Deacon and other countries. Every visitor fits that were being sought. After Scotland some who should sup feelings of Holland as a whole, and certainly their views have never
Harston, appeared for the defence, coming to Hongkong will ceil you all, business on Saturday is ex-port the ecclesiastical establish been shared by the Government. If the Dutch people really sided
While Mr. A. E. Hall, of Messrs. that there is nothing more
It, is one of! with the Germans, what was there to prevent them coming into the GERMAN BRUTALITY.
Lo and Lo, watched the proceed- beautiful in the East than this tremely slack and consists of three men of England." war after Belging had been over-run and any danger to their
Apart from painting a very
ings on behalf of the complainant. Colony, but the pity of it is that to four hours' work, which is light the curiosities of history that territory thus removed? Moreover, what could the Dutch hope to vivid picture of the happenings
its pieruresqueness is not widely and animportant. By Saturday neither Warner nor Snell foresaw Seldom has an individual artist known. A motor trip to Repulse all toilers are fagged out after five that the Scotsmen whom they the way through, sought to subjugate all small States that stood in before and during the war, the in Hongkong as Miss Phyllis beauty of the Colony. the way of their world-domination scheme? Obviously, a German Gerard film, "My Four Years in Faye, the well-know Australian
not a holiday to many, as they back to Scotland. have to attend church services.) victory would have meant for Holland. sooner or later, a complete Germany" is rather calculated danseuse. Last night the Victoria. But opinions regarding the term not a holiday.. Would it commands the threatened Allied It is in the real sense of the General W. E. Ironside, who loss of independence, and that fact has from the start been patent to make one wonder why there Theatre was absolutely packed. most suitable site for a statue for not have been more practicable, forces at Archangel, has the dis to all Dutchmen who have given a moment's thought to the matter. should be any delay in the signing It way be remarked in passing Sir Henry May are divided. The instead of launching intodaylight-tinction, not at all prized now, of We raise this question of Holland's war attitude because we of peace. We refer particularly that bumper houses have been best place for the statue, if it is saving, to make Saturday a public having the Iron Cross of Ger- believe there is even yet a great deal of misconception, based onto that portion of the film which secured ever since Miss Faye erected, some think, is the Statue holiday? I am certain that basi-many. He won it in Africa. ignorance, prevailing on the subject. During the course of the war shows us the kind of treatment made her appearance at we have referred more than once to the extremely difficult and to which our men were subject Victoris.
the Square. Others submit that Sirness houses not only in Hongkong where, as an ox-wagon driver, he delicate position in which the Dutch were placed position worse in the German prison camps. dance held the audience, spell-Public Gardens should be moved endorse this suggestion whole-paign against the Herreros. This Last night her fire Arthur Kennedy's statue in the but all over the East would helped the Germans in the can in many respects than that of any other neutral. Recently an ** article, giving the case for Holland. appeared in the Onze e correct-- and we do not doubt been witnessed in the Colony. the statues of two Governors
the pictorial descriptions bound. Nothing like it had ever down to the Statue Square so that heartedly. Zelfstandigheid, and we want to extract a few points from it in it-all the fiends in and out of Her songs scored a great hit and could flank both sides.
giant of 6ft, 4in. has picked up an fairness to the Dutch people who have been unjustly maligned Hades could not have perpetrated rounds and rounds of applanse question of moving Sir Arthur office on Saturday and he will sell
extraordinary number of lang-
during the war. the cause, of the Allies, and, as the joint editors say, they man or beast than the Germans string band added to the great cussed previously. There are If a plebiscite were taken on this which
Ask a merchant why he attends ages in his world-wide roam- This journal has for years openly espoused more unthinkable brutalitics on greeted each item. The Manile Kennedy's statue has been dis-
ings.
He lectured on оде have done so at the risk of their lives, for if Holland had been invad-inflicted on those whose lot it attraction. To-night, by special few persons who advocate erect-
you because his competitor goes. occasion on machine-gunnery, on he is an expert, to ed by the Germans they would have been amongst the first to have was to be captured. As we sat request, Miss Faye will again ing Sir Henry May's statue on a question I am certain that the representatives of all the Allied been shot. Against the allegation that the Dutch nation is pro and watched scene after scene appear in the Fire Dance and plot facing the German at heart, the writer of the article under notice depicting the vilest, atrocities
Banks and merchants would nations, and spoke to each party Colonial Se- saya the very large majority are anti-Germany adding the practiced on human beings, it those who have not seen this cretariat, but such a site would we are living in very strenuous Serbian! A story is told of a feat unanimously approve of the idea. in their own language including sensational dance indignation caused by the invasion of Belgium, by the cruel Ger- made the blood boil to think that would be advised to "roll up, hence naturally not be widely times, working at high pressure he performed in the South
performed not be very conspicuous and
and by the deportation off French and Belgian civilians was as ation as 10 peace terms with the string band will also be in we are anxious to know how ciples applied to every place l'of a night action he found him- any negoti-New songs are also promised and approved of.
African War, In the confusion for a livelihood. Welfare prin- universal as it was intense; the heroic perseverance with which Germany at all and, the Allied Powers resisted the invasion was regarded throughout the far
so attendance. A matinee is much money has so far been rais-will remove unnumbered evils, escape capture he whipped hus. wherein workers earn their wages self among the Boers, and to war with admiration and sympathy." Then the point is cited that the which can breed the beasts we
from allowing a nation announced for Wednesday. ed for the purpose. ruthless way in which the German Navy preyed on Dutch trading saw represented, last evening to
will sweeten toil for thousands arm round the man riding next vessels, fishing boats and trawlers affordes ample evidence that the enter into a League of Nations, collie quite an aristocrat in the E. conferred on Mr. Fletcher, our stands for. State recognition of
"Lady" was a thoroughbred.
and enable still more to enjoy to him and squeezed him to German Governmen: did not consider itself favoured either by the the doors of decent society should doggie world. Her master was Colonial Secretary, is well merit- the essential needs and just
The Birthday Honour of C. B. some idea of what life truly death. Dutch people or Government. As to the question why Holland, if be closed for ever against it. Mr. Leo D'Almada, and he had ed. Each time that he has acted claims of the worker is a long to receive commendation from sympathisinz with the Allies aims, did not join hands with the Those who might have entertain-had her for over five years. Three
Among the various institutions Entente, the writer shows that the taking of such a course would ed any doubts as to whether the or four days ago she was taken as Colonial Secretary he has ac step in the right direction, and the French Government for their have exposed the country to the same fate as other small nations peace conditions are too hard on ill and passed away peacefully in /quitted himself with distinction. the sooner the State wakens to and there was nothing to counterbalance the risk of annihilation Germany, after seeing this film. in case of defeat. There thus only remained one line of conduct-cannot but arrive at the conclu-We give this little obituary noticeer and very thorough. He has that so many are forced to live, owing pawnshops will take the rank and He is known as a very hard work- the vile conditions under which piste, Henceforth all French her sleep yesterday afternoon. neutrality. On the sand and gravel question, the writer says that sion that, as compared with her for Lady" because she was so the Dutch Government gave an interpretation of international law deserts, the punishment of Cer-well-known in Kowloon and such very useful for the labours of which prevailed before the war, power to lend money on the conditions dignity of banks, and will have which was not shared by the Allies, but that throughout the many is infinitesimal. official controversy its good faith was never questioned and that to
a general favourite not only with Colonial Secretary when mis- the sooner may hope security of stocks and shares: attribute the difference of opinion to partiality is a gross injustice.|
cellaneous and multifarious to 800 changes that grown-ups but with the children
will. Infature the monts-de-piete As to the attitude of Dutch diplomats, a fact worth mentioning is
also, who could always count on questions come before him for when carried out, enable us to will be known as "Les Caisses that Mr. van Vollenhoven, who remained in charge of the Nether-
here a reliable and amiable decision and recommendation to regard ourselves, without undue Municipales de Credit Public. lands Legation at Brussels during the German occupation, has been
the Government. He generally flattery, as playmate. She was never known
a civilised people This is their reward for five offered the Freedom of that city and of Antwerp for his untiring.
to atter any protests even when brings to bear on these matters a with a proper regard for human years'
heroic war service energy on behalf of the Belgian people, whilst the present Dutch
very sound common-sense. He life as the prime asset of the State. On the outbreak of War her shaggy hair was pulled harder has been very courteous to the When Andrew Carnegie was ask-the pawnshops set out to relieve Minister in Peking, who was Charge d'Affaires in Petrograd, bas We learn that the Asig Banking fort been honoured by the British Government for his services in pre-Corporation, which has its head doggie world was reaching a ripe it with such good grace that no labour?" he replied, Which is were lowered on articles pledged than was conducive to her com- public and although he has often ed, "Which is most important in the hardships that were bound to Poor old "Lady" in the had to say "No," yet he has said any enterprise, brains, money or affect certain classes. Interests tecting British lives and property.
We will end with a quotation from the article which speaks of office in Shanghai, under the old age. At the time of her demise the opposition that has always existed between national feeling in management of Mr. R. Dawson, she was 13 or 14 years of age and one took umbrage at it. No doubt, the most important leg on a three higher loans were given, and the the Netherlands and the German Government methods In the Hongkong, under the manage- dashing young collies, had not Colony. He is, of course, not the know that s farm lad can do very better than this in
branch in her figure, once the envy of other he is one of the very best Civil legged stool * If Mr. Carnegie rules of confiscation were waiv Dutch nation the love of liberty is developed almost to exaggeration
Servants who ever came to this had ever milked a cow he would The brokers öven went one and the possibility of submission to the German ferule system has formerly of the Amercan Express came quite corpulent. Thir/Senior-man to act as Colonial | nicely with a one-legged stool if a great percenti
ment of Mr. D. M.. Biggar grown more slim, indeed abe be adwas been looked upon as a most terrible prospect. When Holland mobilised, the only possible adversary was held to be Germany. Company who will come to the together with her abundant hair, Bocretary, but his appointment two sturdy, human legs are there fits to the If our army had been attacked there and then, it would have made Colony in about three weeks were rather too much for the bot has been most happy, and fully to replace the two missing the same determined attempt at resistance of the Belgian If he time bringing with him four summer months, the past died justified by the work that he had of wood. In fact t now kept watch for four years on our eastern and southern American assistants. The new There is many a sore little human jopa pend
done Apar, from his services to mian lega #frontiers; superfinous to say it was not looking out there for the branch will be situated in Actor, boart 2 Kaloon today at the bat
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