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During Saturday four cases of plague (all Chinese) were notified. Three were fatal.
Yesterday the Hongkong time ball fall about ten seconds too late, on
sccount of electrical defects...
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To-day is the 5th birthday of H. R. E. the Prince of Wales The men-of-war in part dressed their ships in honour of the
cession.
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shipments to be ma countries, basing the amount of shipment supplies supposed to | available. For instance, the
E Anderson) Hongkong Government is not American commun allowing shipments of rice and social circļas to Europe or Australia except Hongkong Hotel from
nder very stringent regulations pm on Independence Day Shipments are permitted to be the occasion will be entirely made to America, China, Vlad informal and social. No pro- rostock and the Philippines ramme has as yet been out because the proportion of shiplined. The celebration will ments this year is not what is the first since the war. The was last year.
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German, shows: the which the Buns were descend. In their sche securing world domination. war has opened our eyes to these things and has shown us what a danger to the Empire these 80- calle ministers of God were.
in the Militarily, the Huus have been Among the passagers who left
sing held rout beaten, but, as Mr. Alabaster Shanghai for Japan by the R. M.
parties at Lambeth Palace pointed out in his outspoken utter S. Empress of Asia was Mrs.
would not delay giving you ance at Saturday's meeting of the John Johnstone.
notification of the great concern. Legislative Council, they will be
with which my breast was aflict- only all the keener to carry on
ed at receiving authentic în- formation that routs have made their propaganda through the me dium of their Missions, if they get
observance of the Day was given their way into your Palace. At the the chance. So it has become
up during the war, for many same time I must signify to you necessary to forestall them 'in
The plain truth is if Hong reasons, political and otherwise my sentiments on the subject their designs, and that is why
kong is not liberal with her rice
Matters are in the hands of the which hold these levities legislation is being framed it all
policy, rice will not come here committee the reception will take rain dissipations as nearly parts of the Empire to make this
The bearing of the charge It will go elsewhere. Rice in place in the large dining room of pedient, if not unlawful, to pass kind of thing impossible. Hong-gainst Sergeant Tulloch at the Hongkong is transhipment barge.
the Hongkong Hotel and a in a residence for many centuries kong has rightly come into line Criminal Sessions which was We cannot control it. If Saigon special forchestra will be engaged. devoted to Divine studies and with this movement, and the fixed for Wednesday, has been and Bangkok will not let us have
BATU CANTOR PLANS
so forth. Perhaps the King's Bill passed on Saturday will postponed until Monday next rice, we shall have to do with-
A celebration of the American grand-daughter was a little less. give us the means of prevent-
out this cereal. If we say, for Independence Day will be held if only a little, firm of this ground, ing a recurrence of past mis- In the Junior Tennis League instance, we will not allow rice to by the American community of for there is a record of Sam Wit interfering with the beneficent tween Taikoo and K. C. C. on the United States of America, College compound on July 4 chief. There is no intention of played on Saturday afternoon be be shipped from Hongkong to Canton at the Noyes Memorial berforce playing chess at Windsor act.vities of those Missions which K.-C. C. ground, Taikoo secured Bangkok will step in and
Castle on a Sunday evening, The features of the day include "which, I regret, not that my own have been doing a splendid work the match.
ship her rice direct
a baseball game, Civilian-Nine v. conscience is offended at it one in is Colony of a purely reli- All communications intended for publication should be, address-gious and educational kind; the
the U. 3. A. Hence, whatever.S.S. Helena team, in the lot, but that it is, capable of mis- ed to the Editor.
policy the Hongkong Government morning, field sports in the after construction, and not unlikely to Bill is directly aimed
at the of
The engagement is announced adopts in trade, the fact must poon from 5 to 7 pmL, and speeches receive it from Lady Gainsbo German and
Assistant possibly neutral Bennett Webb, formerly of H. M. konk is principally
Paymaster R Missions which have stooped to 8. Tamar. and Miss Summer, of
not be lost sight of that Hong- and singing in the evening. rough. Perhaps s humbler Dr. A. A. Fulton has been re-person was somewhat of the same the lowest depths by abusing the Montreal.
quested to speak on the subject mind when an amateur company hospitality of those who have
The wedding takes shipping port.
Reminiscences of Fourth of July was going to act in a parish been foolish enough to credit Place in the autumn at Montreal. them with the very best of inten-
A year ago, last summer to be Culebration." Dr. R.F. Chambers schoolroom and the parson asked precise, the question of pro-has been invited to speak on the the caretaker to provide towels. RETURN OF THE HUNS.
As a result of the pantomime hibiting shipments came up. It subject "The Spirit of the Yes,wais," she said doubtfully. "Aladdin" the sum of $1,176.05
was with regard to tin. A lot of Modern Fourth of July." Sing-"That is, if you'll be security for of this new Ordinance, we also the
has been handed over to the People suggested that tin should, 128 led by an orchestra and a them." Whilst welcoming the passage Naval and Dockyard Branch of
be exported by оде firm chorus, participated in by all Ministering
only and at Children's
# fixed hail with deep satisfaction-the League. Severn on the question of the re-
price, Fresent, will form the remainder and only to countries with an of the evening programme which remarks by His Excellency, Mr.
International agreement. That will be concluded at 9, 30 p.m..
upon it would have meant the would have been alright if it was tin. Hongkong tin, but it was China
loss of trade in Yunnan tin, for
THE BOYCOTT. Were that policy insisted
JAPANESE VIEWPOINT. that stuff would have gone down through Haiphong. Granted that the French Government adopted still have been diverted from a similar policy, the tin could Hongkong.and taken overland.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1919.
THE CUSTOMS SURPLUS.
tions.
Colony. Hitherto, it has not been from the s.s. "China" advising Tum of the Germans to this receipt of a wireless message The China Mail S.8. Co. is in thought advisable for the Govern- that she will arrive in Hongkong ment here to express its views on to morrow afternoon. June 24th the subject, on the ground, pre- at 4 p.m. sumably, that the matter was one for decision by the Imperial authorities. His Excellency has now said that there is no sort of doubt as to the feeling of this Colony with regard to the return of the Germans, that
the
His Majesty has conferred the A Reuter's telegram states that Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George on Sir Reginald Stabbe, Governor-
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to
tran-
Secretary of State is in full designate of Hongkong. This is stood Hongkong in good stead Chinese love for the dollar makes is officially supposed to be
the highest class of the Order.
From Sheffield comes a striking comment on the view expressed. in Home paper that the Children's Unemployment Cen- tres should be kept ppen as long as possible. I gave the 18 A Japanese Secretary of the correspondent, the paragraph boys in my class, writes a Taingtão Japanese Y.M.C.A. came from up to Tsinan yesterday, May 28th,
Under the Clock in the Tsinan.and in an interview made judge how correct your inforation to look over the situation here in Daily News, as dictation. I send you the results, so that you may the following assertions which he is with regard to these schools. said were the feelings of the The following, written, it should This liberal policy in trade has Japanese:~
That their knowledge of the left school some time ago, and be remembered, by a boy who during the war. We cannot go down "close"
the explanation of the source of educated, may be on any
thing, Nine months. hard
because trade is bound to slip the funds used in this campaign typical: twelve strokes and four hours' deal of trade that used to go foreign money. stocks represented the Police through Hongkong has been lost University is giving to each good-bye. to a boy. He knows away. Even at present a good impossible except that they get
"It is always dificult for z contribution to the education of a for good and will never
That the Shantung Christian conciencious schoolmaster to say? Chinese boy
who yesterday back. snatched a gold mounted rattan
. For instance, the student $8.00 per month to pro-boy might know and his sorry to their his'so much more that, the bangle from a baby whilst it was coast of the United States used to University students were leaders
gunny trade for the
mote this propaganda. west being carried on the shoulders of come here as transhipment cargo.
That the Shantung Christian is parent.
A good part of this trade is now
in the organisation of the Shant-
was a time when more common- by the students had the approval done direct. In its stead we shall ung movement. get other trades. There never
That the printed matter put out sense, canny broad-mindedness, of, and probably aid from the and vision were needed than they are to-day.
labour.
as big houses are anticipated.
come
school authorities.
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That the Japanese expect and think it quite right that American
should not he engaged in it. and British merchants promote the boycott, but that missionaries
taken as
strugls tha: must follow. have to let him go eliquit for the
Only two boys spelt con
consientous, conscious. con- scientious" correctly, the various versions including consientious, clensious. *Ill equipped" be came illeclipt, eliquiped, fl equipted. Whom
was spelt, whome" in most cases.
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posession of the opinion of the Colony, and that the question of allowing German missionaries to return is now under discussion. Mr. Severn's remark that we all hope the result, from our point of view, will be entirely satisfact- ory," makes it easy to conjecture the standpoin: taken by the Hongkong Government on the We see that the Canton Times, which is given to championing that the Government has given a subject. We are thus led to hope the cause of the Military Government, is taking up, the question of strong backing to the demands of the Maritime Customs surplus and urging that a proportion of it the community in this connection. special attraction offering in its should, as a right, be handed over to the Canton Governinent.
The Coronet Theatre has a very points out that the surplus for 1918 amounted to twelve million point of the Colony will be entire
It and can only trust that the view-new programme, which will be dollars and that the whole of this sum was passed over to the Pekingly met. We may have to put up put on at both the matinee and Government. The allegation is made that the Diplomatic Corps in with the Germans sometime is the fine film, "Mickey ", which Peking used this surples as a bait, intimating that unless the the future, but we want. them will feature Mabel Normand, and night performances to-day. This "Southern delegates arrived in Shanghai on or before a certain date, excluded the surplus would be released to Peking. The Military Government years, and if they ever do come No one should miss seeing it. that South China will be able to it is said, while protesting against this arbitrary action, pointed out back, we want to keep them under Booking at Robinson's is advised, produce wolfram much cheaper That Japan paid for her rights story of his experience in America
When Exchange becomes norm at any rate for some which is a superb art production. al there is every reason to believe that it was physically impossible for the delegates to reach Shanghai the closest scrutiny. at the appointed time; nevertheless, they endeavoured to comply] WHAT IS A CRIMINOLOGIST?
Mr. Rudyard Kipling relates a with the suggestion of the Diplomatic Corps, and although the
than any country in the world. in Shantung with the lives of over which he says beats even Scot- Southern delegates arrived before the representatives of the North,
Most of the wolfram from South 1,000 of her cien and with a mill-land for canniness, After & jour- the Diplomatic Corps released the entire surplus. to the Peking our contributor, who writes under here by the s.s. Nanking from is somewhat of a mushroom type. lives of two German missionaries. New York, one of his trunks. had What regard to the remarks of A Chinese recently arrived The wolfram business at present many paid for it with only the carelessness of his holer porter at China passes through Hongkong.ion and more yen, and that Ger-ney he found that, through the Government-a proceeding which the journal named describes csthe nom de plume of Robert America, hoping to win distinc The merchants in the United "a colossal hoax perpetrated for the purpose of hastening the peace McWhirter. in connection with tion as a sportsman in the States are getting rid of their holdings to China but it must be china broken to pieces. So he negotiations in the interests of Peking." The chief point made by our use of the term "crimino-interior of China, banging with stocks. In the matter of tin prices for a consideration..
That Japan will return her been dropped and some valuable the writer of the article under notice is that the Diplomatic Corps logist" in a recent comment, it him a repeating shot gun and Hongkong is at a disadvantage. has no right to assume supervision of the surplus, and that their would appear that our critic has 196 Winchester rifle cartridges: In the Straits Settlements they hardship on both Chinese and he wrote again, mare forcibly- doing so is nothing less than a presumptuous infringement upon narrowed down the application He was however arrested by the have a fixed exchange, so that as Japanese for Chinese merchants Still no answer. When he retum- That the boycott is working a damages. Receiving no answer. wrote to the hotel claiming the rights of China.
Now, we do not intend to go to the trouble of disputing all the argument.
of the term to suit his own Police. Mr. J. H. Gardiner, de-far as American prices are con are making Japanese allegations made in the course of this article, which is plainly the term criminologist tbus: Lindsell's Court this morning, dollars than Hongkong does. interference.
Webster describes fending the Chinese in MT, RE comed, the Straits get more goods at night to escape student with the manager-"Well, was a prejudiced statement of the case, but we want to point out the N.--The
delivered to New York he remonstrated absurdity of the claim of the Military Government to a share of and investigation of crime and companies should put up notices Yunnan and the cost is in local University have
scientific study said he thought that the shipping Most of our tin the surplus. The "Constitutionalists," as the Canton officials are
comes from That the Shantung Christian till I heard from you again.
the reply, I guess I was waiting wont to call themselves, know as well as anybody that the Powers in its wider sense and in addition warning the Chinese passengers fetches for the Straits more in assembly hall...
criminala." We used the term in Chinese in their steamers currency. Tim, if sold in America, Japanese meetings in their graph collector for 25 dollars and only recognise one Government in China, and that is the Peking to Webster's justification of our not to bring arms to Hongkong dollars than we get in Hongkong. That they had to close the continued writing long enough I anti-sold your first letter to an auto- "Government. Obviously, that being the case, it is to the recognised use of the term in the comment In view of his client's ignorance Government, and not the illegal Government at Canton, that the under notice we would point out of the regulations, he asked the
the second for 50. If you'd only Custom surplus must go. Is there anything in the Customs other instances which go to show Magistrate to deal Agreement which provides for the handing over to an unrecognised that a
American. Presbyterian Mission could have paid full valne for Government of these surpluses? Of course, there is not. What either an investigator or a student $100 was inflicted,
ericainologist may be with the defendant. A fine of the week figmed up. There is no
In spite of heavy settlement school in Tsingtao because its your chine. As it is, I guess you leniently for June, the share market during
students placarded the town with have to be satisfied with 75 would the Cantonese say to a claim put forward for part of the of crime and criminals Mr.
anti-Japanese literature. surplus by an unrecognised Government say in Shanghai, if one G. R. Sims, novelist, anthor and
doubt that financial facilities at been a steadily growing distrust
That the past year there has more to be said
dollars,” And there was nothing? were formed there? It would be "a presumptuous infringement journalist, is described as one of
present are very good. Money of America and among the com- other than the Government with which the Powers have diplomatic yet he has never interested are putting on "Cupid by Proxy," and Indo-Chinss, Docks having dealings. If the Canton standpoint were upheld, we might easily himself in the investigation of a picture, which has an in- gone up to $158, or a rise of 18 have a dozen different so called Constitutionalist Governments crime. On the other hand, stantaneous appeal to all lovers points compared with the rate demanding a right to part of the Customs revenge. And whilst we M. Bertillon, the great French of little folks, The principal ruling the previous week are talking of "rights," on what grounds do the Canton Government man who discovered the value of characters is this photoplay ara Wharves have gone up to $96 and -claim to be able to divert the Customs revenue, as they did some fingerprints in time back? That, assuredly was a most improper procedure,
detecting children, with the world famous Indo-Chinas to $158. we suppose that the legality of any step is not to be questioned so criminologist and he spent the role. The acting is surprisingly A good deal of interest at pre-treatment
But criminals, is also described as a little Marie. Osborne in the title long as the Military Government benefits.
detecting and running criminals at the matinee on Wednesday the Siamese Government In pro- suppor greater portion of his life in excellent. The piece de resistance sent centres round the action of She to earth. There are many terms will be a remarkable execution of bibiting exports of rice from the urgin in the English dictionary that the Eastern Dance by Miss country except under licence. I may be narrowed down to suit Phylis Faye. The Eastern would have thought that the ser-
particular point of view, but Dance is a novelty in Hongkong,iousness of the situation that does not prevent such terms and on Wednesday Miss Faye is have prompted the Siamese from being used in their wider expected to considerably enhance ernment to baya lakan sense.
her reputation as a professional months AgoBY dansease: The, robatic dance, been the only counts which Tauriday
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upen the rights of Chine were these surplus, funds given to any England's greatest criminologists, the Victoris Theatre management a smart rise in Docks, Wharves mon folk of Japan there is much
On Wednesday, at the matinee, is very easy now. There has been
The article under notice.concludes with the statement that the Military Government has made no extraordinary demand, that it is responsible for the payment of troops, etc, and that without funds it cannot adequately discharge its duties. Here we no doubt have the explanation of the demand for a proportion of the surplus it is not so much a question of right or wrong, as the inability of the Government to lay its hands on funds. It is a case of funds at all to bolster up a dying creation. The Canton Military Govern out come to the end of its tether, and so, in spite of the its establishment and the irregularity of its acte, it
it has no rightful claim. Hit wants Kwang
the benefits of the Customs surplam, which,
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Shantung to protect her interests. Islands there is for ill-feeling.
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