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ern and men of the Corps,
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Staff Sargt RG.
the Register of
service. A local Committee has Board, announced to take place The meeting of the Licensing been formed to secure funds from at the Council Chamber on Man Hongkong, and we trust that the day, has been postponed. response will be liberal Of the
Memorial proposals, the one that
return
HONGKONG
FIVE YEARS
THE DOLLAR
on demand to-day, is 2a, 1014.
July 2---The rate of the Dollaw
HOT AIR
ortugal, and
The Hall of the Gluk tastefully decorated, two
being in attendance.
but an emin
July The next meeting the Odd Volumes will be held The Chambers, Bank Buildingi, Mr. Sydney B. J. Skerichly will gramme included songs,recitations the battle of on the 6th inst., at 9 pún. when give his views on the origin of and instrumental items in which | ed: "What
The first portion of the pro-ing over some
the earth. If Mr. Sydney B Miss Olga Baptista and Messrs. observatory I Joggings Skartahly could tell us A. A. d'Almeida, E. G. d'Aquino,
what was the origin of the plague M. F. Baptista and A. J. M. landing in Australia
sensible.
Vas and AJ.
will most probably appeal to the Yesterday's health public is that
suggesting shows one fatal case each of the formation of a fund from plague, diphtheris enteric faver which grants in sid will be given and small-pox. All the sufferers to the families of those who have ware Chinese. been killed, are disabled or are in necessitous circumstances owing to the exigencies of military "The Gazette contains an official service. The extent of the growth intimation that Mr. P. P. J. how to get rid of our un-Rodrigues acquitted themselves ed near Sydney an observators S. WATSON & CO., LTD. of the Army medical service Wodehouse, has been appointed welcome visitor it would be much in first rate style. The second, where he compiled the first valu- during the war may be gathered Companion of the Most Eminent more to the purpose Who wants portion of the programma consistable catalogue of mars visible in from some figures given recently Order of the Indian Empire. to know of who in Hongkong ed of a one-act play, by Watts the Southern Hemisphere. by General Sir William Robert-
cares a tinker's damn, whether or Phillips, entitled "A Lion at Bay" зод which showed that in
For being in natswful possess earth ever had, an origin in which Messrs. W. Guiamares, August, 1914, the officers totalled sion of two water-pipe brackets the plague is the thing we want Remedios, R. Baptista 3.163 and the other ranks believed to have been stolen frou be know all about just now. Now Messrs. G. 16,831, the respective figures a house in Maddonnell Roach, Sydney B. J., sto, came off your Rodrigues and Misses Beatrice from the Cum Guides a gold pen
Mr. Lloyd George has accepted Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires 13,152 and 132,917. How many bracketted between a $25 fine and
in October, 1978 being Chinese today found himself Perch and tell us something and Bertha Vas, took the prin- which he will use in signing some them to forward their names and addresses with communications of these latter lost their lives in one month's hard labour.
cipal parts and showed the results of the documents in connection addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by as authe Great Adventure we are not evidence of their bona fides.
A SMALL, DIVIDEND.
of careful study and rehear with the Peace Treaty at Paris. say, but we do know that the
sing, carrying out their particular Are there pens public or private at the moment in a position to
July 2-The Indo-China S. N. parts with great credit. Messrs.property, to be kept in national His Excellency the Officer declared a dividend of 2 per D'Almeida, D. D. Ozorio, J. R. family heirlooms? The gold and
Co., according to report, has. Barradas, 4 Vas, AA museums number was very high. Many Administering the Government cent. for the year 1893. Two and Soares, F. I. Noronha, L. 3. diamond. pen.
or handed-down as fell to disease whilst ministering has appointed Dr. Wilfred a half per cent! No wonder the Baptists, L. Silva and J. Coron ining the Treaty by the Germans to others, and many were killed Vincent Miller Kock to be a shareholders are anxious to know minor parts played well up to in the possession of the Empress used in sign- who, as is Member of the Sanitary Board where the rest of the Company's their principals and the play was Eugenie. The pen used by the of Paris is Red Cross. There are those left Mr. Francis known, were no respecters of the during the absence on leave of usually large earnings during the a great success, behind who will need all the Bowley, with affect from the 13th Hongkong Telegraph knows, 80 scenery.
Bulmer Lyon period stated have gone to. The Baptista was responsible for the Treaty of Vienna is a treasured Mr. M. F. Plenipotentiaries in signing the That is why we hope the local assistance that can be given them. June, 1919, response to this worthy appeal
probably do Jardine, Matheson
possession in the family of Lord will be such as to be a credit to
and Co.
Bangor, and is used on the coca- sion of marriages. The Berlin Museum contains the pen with which Queen Louise of Prussia- signed her will, and near at hand
famous letter to Queen Angusta of the ex Kaiser in writing his is the pen used by the grandfather
about the victory at Sedan.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1919.
TH CURSE OF HONGKONG.
clan
the Colony.
PEACE TERMS FOR TURKEY.
Reuter's Agency has not as yet
Government Gazette gives details A tabulated statement in the of the contents of the Hongkong the rain year 1918-19. This shows reservoirs, arranged according to
a
THE PLAGUE.
July 3-Generally speaking, there is nothing new to report unfortunately arisen between the excepting the difficulty which has
“PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS.
rouchsafed us what the terms are that the Allies are going to im- rose on Turkey. There appears to be an inpression that the peace terms to be imposed on Turkey have already been communicated to them, although we have re- ceived as yet no intimation of the conditions finally decided on. All ment proposes to erect a public are progressing as favourably It is notified that the Governtists though not so well to-day that is known is that the Great Latrine and urinal to the north- towards recovery as can be ex- Powers at present incline to the ward of the Barker Road Station pected viewpoint that Ottoman sover-below the level of the road. If Deaths reported from the begin- in the circumstances. eignty should be maintained over any owner or occupier in the ning of the outbreak May 9 up to the predominant Turkish parts immediata vicinity of such site July 2, number 2,245. of the interior of Asiaobjects to such erection, such Minor. The Dow Turkish objection must be sent in writing Government would be placed to the Colonial Sercretary so es to under the guardianship of a reach his office not later than selected Power, which would Friday, the Wih July. supervise the administration and the financial and commercial
total of 2,306.34 million gallons Governor and the Permanent at the Hongkong Hotel as part of (An Official Tifts is to be given The rainfall was 104.350. inches. Committee of the Sanitary Board the Peace Celebrations). The consumption per head per owing to His Excellency having day for the whole year was 22.7 withdrawn, by proclamation, the gallons (including trade supply cordon santaine established by the latter in the neighbourhood of Lai-chi-kok. The Japanese scien-
Public Debt
rights of
THE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. July 4 The long talked of Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which is now slowly rearing its head in New Street, promises to foreigners in the area
Writing on daylight-saving, in be one of the most useful and under the NO. Daily Neus, "SHP ornamental buildings in the Turkish Sovereignty. The future saysWhatever may be the western portion of the City. Such of the Ottoman Empire is still opinion of some of our older au institution has long been banging in the balance, and up to friends, I am sure that those to needed by the large and in- now no decision has been reached whom recreation is so essential fluential section of the community on the question of the division to health are with me by whom it is being built and zones. There is reason to believe ing is a great boon, and having that such tardy progress is made of Turkey ia Asia into several when I say that Daylight Sav- that being so, it seems strange that Turkey will exist as
continue to made the change, it is to be hoped towards its completion. a politically sovereign that those who have the ordering State. PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
will not go back on what they' have done.
gold, Fong Chiu left the security of Hongkong were paved with Having heard that the streets
of his village home and ventured into this Colony. Contrary to his expectations, the small sum of money which he had hoped to
'SAILORS' HOME FUNCTION. July 4 The Daual Tuesday evening reunion at the Sailors' Home was unusually successful
performers by loud and long ciation of the efforts of the continually signifying its appre- last night, the large audience
continued applause.
**SQULEZE.**
July 6-At the present junc-
A NEW ROAD.
With the war over and peace assured, the whole world is realis- ing that the time has come when a fresh start can be made on many problems which call urgently for attention. It is a common- place saying that here in Hongkong we have scarcely been affected by the turmoil of the past four or five years, but it is true all the same. But if we have not greatly felt the effects of the war, that is not to say that we shall not be caught up in the new feelings and movements which it has generated. There will from now onwards be a steady influx into the Colony of men who have had an oppor tunity of looking at life from a hitherto unapproached angle and of in his report for May, includes The Shanghai Health Officer, others who, possibly, have not been East before, New men mean new ideas, without which any community is in danger of becoming best methods to be adopted in the some very useful advice as to the stultified and prescribed in its outlook. And so we look, from these prevention of disease, which we newcomers and from the general influences caused by the war, for think might well be applied in the creation of a more vigorous and robust public spirit, which is Hongkong with beneficial results. badly needed here. We do not want any Bolshevism we are He says, inter alia, that it would scarcely likely to get it.. But we most emphatically do need health-greatly assist the Health Office increase by judicious investments,ture house and general servants. ier and saner conceptions of civic duty, based on broad conceptions if residents would report the dwindled away until he was seem prone to take every advan- of the public weal and not founded on the idea of benefitting the presence of mosquitoes on their forced to depend for his living of attempts at squeezing" are It is a fact that cannot be disputed that there is far too much of possible to remove this nuisance triats. The Police in due course heard on all sides, but the tage of the situation. Complaints premises. Not only is it often on the generosity of his compa- the "hole-and-corner" business about life in Hongkong-commerc- but such ially, socially and governmentally.
information is The the Chinese
gathered him in and to-day sent majority of the employers fall in spirit of valuable check on and assistance him back to the land of his with the altered condition of in China has its Europeans in Hongkong,
counterpart. amongst to the work of the Sanitary Staff. in the clique spirit. There are Dealing with the prevention of
fathers. cliques in social life; there are cliques in business. By cliques our cholera and dysentery, the writer
things and ante up. Some don't whole existence seems to be ruled.
however, and this morning, Mr. B a pernicions influence on public affairs, and thus it comes about that food on common sense lines. The cellency the Officer, Administer-orders.
All this has a narrowing and points out the need for care with It is notified that in His Ex- with having disobeyed his lawful K. Leighcharged five of his coclies those great liberties which are the birthright of all Britishers-free-posting of notices issued by the ing the Government has made an dollars each, which sum was dom of speech and the liberty of the Press-are at times endangered Health Office in the kitchens is order vesting in the Custodian all promptly produced.
They were fined five and, we fear, too often sacrificed. Mr. So-and-So is chary over say useful but such requires to be property, movable or immovable, ing this and the newspapers know that they dare not state that, supplemented by foreign supervis- of the following Missions or because it will give offence here or there. These are facts, notion to see that the recommenda- Missionary Societies, namely Government has decided to con- imaginings, and they show the hald that this "hole-and-corner tions are carried out but any such The Berlin Ladies Mission for struct, at an early date, a road July 7:-We understand the business bas secured in this Colony. Now, while we are about it, we trouble taken would be amply re- China, the Basel may as well have something to say about the extreme difficulty paid by resulting health and com- Missionary Society, the Rhanish shui-po and Tai-kok-tsui, * which the newspapers here encounter in collecting news. These fort. The childlike trust that so Mission, and the Hildesheim
Evangelical along the foreshore between Sam remarks are not inspired by any particular incident; they are of many women out East place in Mission. All persons holding or general application. A Hongkong reporter once said that to get their Chinese servants results in managing any such property of Dewe in Hongkong is about as difficult as to squeeze blood from a deglect of very important domestic the above named Missions or block of granite. There is a measure of truth in the observation. functions Again and again, the news-gatherer is met, in quarters where whole household to extreme dan-ward particulars. of the same to which submits the Missionary Societies should for- information could obviously be given, with a curt refusal to impart ger anything. In others, the familiar answer to queries is Yes, it's
the Custodian. true, but for Heaven's sake don't say anything about it yet." The type of individual who speaks thus, thinks it is quite time enough to give out news when everybody in the Colony knows it, never for a moment thinking that the function of a newspaper ie to supply the public with fresh information. And yet these same people are the first to complain of there being "nothing in the papers." Then there is the man who will impart information with bated breath, adding" but don't on any account say it comes from me," as though he feared that the disclosure of his name would lead to his being shot at sunrise.
Now, these are not healthy signs. They betray a wrong publicances at Kowloon at 5 and 9.25 conception of the user and the value of a newspaper, and they also P show that too many people in our midst fear the other man." So we say that Hongkong needs to shake of all these ideas handed down from generation to generation the fear to speak out, the P.m regarding of newspaper men as interlopers, and the like. More Less and more frankness are necessary if a virile public spirit to grow up in this Colony Secretiveness is bad; it is harmful;
tahows that something is wrong somewhere,”
-
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY ances at Theatre Royal.-4.30 and Empire Revue Co-Perform 9.15 p.m.
Bostock's Circus--Perform
NEW USE FOR THE CINEMA,
in announcing that he is going to
BISHOP'S INCOME. 3 The Bishop of Peterborough, resume residence at the Palace, Peterborough, states that, as bishops' incomes have become a matter of public discussion, he thinks it well to make an official statement on the subject. His figures are as follows:
Official income of See... £4.500
Pensions to predecessors £1,500 Taxes
850
Diocesan belp. speciak
and secretarišk
I'll give a dance at my private
house.
And ask my best friend and
his spouse,
Automobiles increase, but so, Dy the very latest figures, does the number of horses in the United Celebra-then, the remark that automobiles: States. One still hears, now and
And also one or two relations, And call it "Public
tions."
*
What matter Tom or Dick or
Harry?
We all shall be like Happy
Larry.
Well pass the night in wild
Libations,
will eventually lead to the extinction of horses, and that in time children will be told of the old, old days when men rode and drove those curious qusirupeds. The reports, however, show that there are now about 21,534,000 horses in the United States, al- though the nation furnished about at the beginning of the rapid in 1,200,000 for the war. In 1900, crease in automobiles, the coun- try contained some 18,167,020 even with the war to lessen the horses, so that the actual increase, total, is over 3,000,000. No wonder To that I answer we can't go, the horses long ago ceased to be (Since we've received no invit-alarmed at the sight of an
ations)
automobile.
And call it "Public Celebra
tions."
Q
What's that, you say, 8 private
BLOW?
To official tiffin celebrations.
ជ
.10
At home with friends and near
relations,
We'll give the toasts with great
ovations;
Who dares to say such ianova-
tions
America lately visited by Dr. H. Quibdo, a town. in Central
J. Spinden, of the New York Museum of Natural History. might be whimsically likened to New York City because its streets have been so much dug
Are not Public Celebrations"?"
H. F.
MURDER IN THE NEW TRRITORIES.
Quibdo's excavations, how- ever, were not so deep as those made in New York, and had nothing to do with municipal improvement; the digging up was a kind of protracted treasure..... bunt
Situated in a region where the native Indiens have long carried on a primi- tive form of gold mining, the' The body of a Chinese male where they could bring their pre- town served the miners as a place
Police, the man having been grains of something which they was brought in from the Newcious metal and have the gold
apparently murdered. The corpse threw away in the streets. What Territories, yesterday, by the separated from certain white.. showed signs of considerable they threw away happened to be violence having been used, and platinum, later discovered to be
found in a pond at Sha Po. Pat been well turned over by hopeful with cuts and stabs, the face and head was covered worth several times its weight in We learn that the body was then the streets of Quibdo have the gold they kept, and since Heung, in the New Territories.
persons trying Investigations by the Police platinum. revealed that on the preceding night, the deceased, who was a
the house to the pond, where it goatherdeman, was murdered by and his body was dragged from an unknown man with a chopper,
was dumped.
to recover
VERY NEARLY FATAL
An amusing story is told of certain very youthful colonel who has the appearance of a junior HOTEL ACCOMMODATION. IN
subaltern, and who while walking in the street was accosted by an BOMBAY
irate lieutenant-colonel? Bombay, May 19. The dif- youth, whose badges of rant ficulty in hotel accommodation were covered by a Burberry, The
in Bombay for home going pas- replied sweetly that he never sengers has been to some saluted colonels a retort, which extens solved by the facilities reduced, his interrogator to the now offered by the port must to verge of frenzy. Fan accommodate about fifty people name and regiment
At a meeting of the War Pen- sions Committee at the House, of Harris called the attention of the Commons recently Sir Henry Minister of Pensions to an Ameri- matograph for photographing the can invention for using the cine-
muscle of men in order to ascer tain if they were fit to undertake particular work. The Minister said he had not heard of this, but TO-MORROW.
the department was anxious to -Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15, them in arriving
have all modera sid to helping financial future, the Bishop is where they can stay
át proper returning to the Palace only as steamer comes alongside decisions.
an experiment
Victoria Theatre-9.15pm. Coronet Theatre -5.15 and 9.15
p.m.
Other expenses
Effective income
400
600-
at Ballard pier station and to ed
serve them with meals.
£1,150 enables people arriving
Owing to the uncertainty of the to proceed straight to