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WHISKY.
THE PREMIER SCOTCH.
A. S. WATSON & CO, LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Telephone No. 616.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.”
Telephone: No.1 ABC, 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.
BIRTH.
MacFARTANE-On 22nd July, at 14 Momy Avenue, Scalatonn, Glasgow, the wife of W. Maafartane Lai-Chi-Kok a son Both well. By cable.
MARRIAGES.
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CAVALIER BILBROUGH-June 6, at Northwood, Lieut. Arthur R. Cavalier, of Hongkong, to Kathleen, eldest daughter of Mr. Bilbrough, of Northwood, Middlesex.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. C. A. Roza desires to thank his numerous relatives and friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in his recent sad bereavement.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1919.
NOTES AND COMMENTS –
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HONGKONG RICE RIOJ
HOW SAGER
TRIP
BUSY TIME FOR THE POLICE."
It is surprising that in such an Agamemnon departed important port as Hongkong with a general cargo. on the th instant for Liverpool there should be no Produce Ex-
What the Government of Hong- they change, where prices could be Fong had all along feared occurr distur adjusted every day, and people ined on Saturday when rice riots emm business know of what they are broke out in different parts of the At doing, instead of the present old Colony, assuming a proportion Police
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of
the ground. He sustained several The only case of communicable nasty cuts about the body, almost dislocated his shoulder, his rain-disease notified yesterday was coat was torn in shreds, and one non-fatal Occurrence. a silk shirt and alpaca jacket enterie, the sufferer being Eng were ruined. Bad as his injuries lish. were, he considers himself
at
Aresident of Kowloon has brought to our notice an incident in which, owing to the careless- ness of P.W.D. workers, he sustained considerable personal injury and not a little damage to his clothing. On Saturday night, being unable to obtain a ricksha, The ss. Dilwara arrived here he was running between the on the 26th instant from Shang-hioned method. If a merchant, on Sunday so serious as to cause one rice shop to. showers" when suddenly he ran thai with 53 saloon passengers and wants to purchase a hundred tons the issue of a Proclamations on The shop opened its into a high bank of gravel and 532 tons of general cargo: of rice, the broker goes all round Sunday night, fixing the prices of the cereal was sold at 12 catties was precipitated fall length on to
the whole town in search of rice in the retail shops. At-per dollar. This caused a rush ön seller. He tries to get a few tons though everything is at present the part of would-be purchaapza here and a few fons elee-reported ad be quiet, the situation The Police got these formed into where. A proper Frodice Ex not so tranquil. The prices quenes on either side of the door money. In no place that I have beyond the means of the average whole stock of the shop was sold change would save time and fixedby Government are certainly way, and in very short time the been in the East is business tran-coole and, until they are brought Throughout the afternoon the saoted in the way it is done in to a level which will not hurt Palice succeeded in inducing the fortunate to have escaped Prof. C. A. Middleton Smith, of Hongkong. Take a commodity him, his condition cannot be said other shops to open and sell their without a broken neck. This the University of Hongkong, who like rice. The annual turnover to have been ameliorated. In this stocks and by 8 o'clock at night mishap" occurred the recently arrived at Home on of rice in this Colony is round connection; it may be mentioned there was very little rice left in junction of Humphrey's Avenue leave, will remain in England 800.000 tons. The annual im that the fixed prices are only the hands of the retail dealers. and Carnarvon Road, where until January, next.
port and export business is contemporary and the near future The last shop that opened sold its huge pile of gravel used as dress-
siderably over £131,000,000, and will herald lower prices. At stock at ten catties for $1, which ing on the macdamised thorough-
I suppose two-thirds of it, any least, that is the current report. was an advance over the rates fare has been left overnight by
The sa Nagoya departed on way, is composed of rice. Last What brought matters to which the other dealers: had the P. W. D. workers, without a the 23th instant for Shanghai and year the turnover was over twice head was the ruthless profiteer- obtained.
saloon solitary light being displayed on Japan with 199
and the normal. "Again, last year, the ing of the rice retailers Since it. This sent of thing is scandal-steerage passangers and 185 tons Import and export was nearly the announcement of a cargo of about 4 o'clock in the afternoon It may be mentioned that at ous, the more so ss, when in this of general cargo."
two million short tons of rice, or rice coming from Saigon on yesterday there was te instance, the obstruction is right)
31 million piculs.
Government account, the dealers crudescence of the looting in both rashed up their prices without quarters of the Yaumati distric any justification with the result A disorderly crowd stoned the The Chinese have always held that the Chinese labouring class Police. There were casualties back in the way of getting a Pro who buy their portion of rice which had to be attended to by duce Exchange established here. for three to five cents the Chinese dispensaries. The The recent negotiations between ffound that they could get situation at one time became the Hongkong Chamber of Com- quantity only just sufficient to somewhat serious, so much so do as it pleases? It would serve
merce and the San Francisco feed a bird. The lowering cloud that that the Police were forced the P. W. D. right did this geof the RA's in Hongkong is Col. rice grading would not have been Wanchai, when rice shops in that air in order to disperse the cra
The new Commanding Officer Chamber of Commerce regarding burst on Saturday morning at to discharge their firearms in the tleman bring an action against them and mulet them in a heavy Loring, D. S. O. Major Downing necessary. If we had a Rice or district were raided. This was sum for damages.
takes command of 88th Coy. Produce Frchange and its fixed the first manifestation of discon- mati, a somewhat similar In the eastern portion, of whilst Major Sturgess, D.S.O.rules the negotiations could have tent, and, helped by hooligans, of affairs existed. The Police" will command 83rd Coy.
been avoided. The Hongkong the crowds swelled, giving a Station was also attack rice merchants have now to serious complexion to the state when the crowd tried to stone that Mr. Lloyd George is to on 14th Jane at Buckingham its own Produce Exchange rules Queen's Road and two grocers discharged his revolver in
The King received in private purchase rice not according to of affairs. Shop No. 158 in doorway, an Indian begin the task of reconstructing Palace, after the general In-(if such a one existed) but, accord shops in Nullah Road were scenes and dispersed the Gabinet so as to reduce it to vestiture. Mr. Reginald Edwarding to what a foreign Chamber of this be the last act of the Hongkong, whom H.M. knighted its pre-war dimensions. Will Stubba, Governor-Designate of Commerce rules. Coalition, we wonder? And will and invested with the insignia of the Premier, in deciding on whos Knight Commander of the j preserve harmony in the charmed George. are to be retained, be able to Order of St. Michael and St circle? He has a mixed body of politicians to please, anyhow.
The Manager of the Victoris Mr. Balfour and Lord Milner are among the Ministers who Theatre writes dating the state are to retire. The former has ment made in the Pomfort on done great service for his coun- Saturday, in connect with the try, and if he has not retained theft of a toy mofor car, that the his former position in the front car was sold to the defendant by rank of political leaders, we may the son of the Chinese Manager find the reason in the fact that he of the Victoria Theatre." He suffers from the defects of his denies that the manager is qualities. A born diplbók of Chinese.
on the corner of a road. Had
Dr. G. E. Morrison is now any private individual or firm left recovered from his operation, such an obstruction on the thor-(says a Home paper of June 19) oughfare, we imagine that the and will be leaving the nursing Police would soon be busy prose home where he has been ander cuting. Is a Government Depart-going treatment on 21st inst. ment above the law, that it can
CABINET RECONSTRUCTION,
We see by a week-end wire
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of lootid on Saturday morning, Special mention may be the crowd breaking into them the efforts of Mr. Kas and sharing the 'booty. The is a member of the Police Police arrived after the incident, Force, and also a Mr. Sa but succeeded in making a few who was formerly arrests and recovering a portion of the same Force. They did of the stolen rice, which was good work in assisting the Polle assessed at $360:
in the Mongkok district. The looting continued spas- modically on Saturday and Sun-ties, such as bruises, as a
There were some slight ca day in various parts of the city of the throwing of missiles, Wanchai was a hotbed of trouble, and brickbats, st members
Police Force
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It is interesting to that the looting, riot stoning was not
The same is true also of cassia, sugar, peanuts, peanut oil and ther commercial products hair quality and other things ld be arranged if. wa had Krshan that fixed rules Hongkong got to wake up, othathe some other cities in the cast willcake a principally by reason of the fact good bit of her trade. "Our com that it is the headquarters of the mercial community prefer to jog coolie class. Elated by the sue along the old beaten track that cess that had attended their in- our ancestors followed. Very fowitial raid, more sympathisers and of those Chinese. of our merchants seem to take a hooligans supported the ring anxious to purchase broad view of anything. The leaders and soon the movement in a great measure it the old school, he has to
trade should have every modern spread Raids beche more hooligans who indulged make way for lesser men. d
general and were not confined to demonstrations. In ons ma Milner has bad a
A reward of $500 is being offer-facility to maintain itself. seed by the Police for information
one part of the town, but spread shop, which was oken. career; we could never regard which will lead to the arrest of
to Bonham Strand and even was not a rice retailer It may be argued that the Hong- him as a great man. Both have Mok Sin Po, 28 years of age, a kong Chamber of Commerce Hunghon, Taira, and Yaumati, all. Considerable had a long innings in political stroff of the Orient Tobacco performs at present those func-making the work of the Police ex done to this shop ich heu Empire well in the war. And who life; they have served their Company at Mongkok, Yaumati, tions that a Produce Exchange, tremely difficult. The rioters had that other thinences were
absconded
on the were it called into being, would made the most of their opportuning among the rioters now advancing age beckons them 15th instant, after, it is discharge.
But a Chamber of fires, breaking through shops in The Police were to well-earned rest.
alleged, appropriating $8,825.92, Commerce and a Produce Allah Lane, Cross Street and reluctant to use su moneys belonging to the Com-change are "two different things Street, Landale Street, Queen's rioters with great forbes Bring Garden Lane, Anton Indeed, they treated A Produce Exchange is a proper Exchange; athamber of Com-Rod East and St. Francis Street. Otherwise, very serious, resul Chinese has been badly bit by the dearness of rice, and quickly." This, we are informed. Yn was this morning remanded works entirely of different' lines their shops, but the coolies broke troubles. Great credit is due to
A Chinese named Kwong Himerce is an organisation that Many of the rice dealers closed would have attended Sunda anough this method of securing supplies cannot be approved, yet is the keynote of the French on a charge of embezzling a large is quite possible that the Pro- into many.
the Police for getting the shops the could, he worked
Some of the dealers were so opened, which helped consider wrongs of a question like this, and hunger drives many a man to do the Anglo-French Treaty. That firms. Mr. Leo d'Almada, for the stances. Coolies are not given to reasoning or the rights and by the British Parliament of Shing and Tsang Kwong Yeeunion Produce E-- open their shops this morning, populace. Inspector Gerrard in conjunction with the Chamber panic-stricken that they did not ably to allay, the fears of the
HONGKONG'S HAPPY RECORD.
The plundering of a number of rice and provision shops on Saturday and Sunday is the first sign of outward protest against the rising price of this staple cereal, upon which a large proportion of the Chinese community relies for ita sustenance.. Happily, the sdair does not appear to have been extremely serious. In one ect it is understandable and almost forgivable, for the poorer
ANGLO-FRENCH AMITY.
"He gives twice who gives
pany:
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shatters up.
situation
„At shout 3 p.m. yesterday at 5 The proclamation
what be otherwise would not think of doing. It is, therefore, to be Treaty, it will be recalled, pledged complainant firms, said that Change-could be easily astablish. For instance in Staunton Street deserves, credit for the prompt hoped that the Government will quickly get its rice control scheme Britain's assistance to France, there were eight other charges to ed in Hongkong if there were more a few grocers" shops bad their way in which he handled the into operation and thus put a check on profiteering. The present along with America, in case of be added against the accused savvy and more unity among our situation is not the growth of a moment; it has been gradually unprovoked attack in the future involving moneys amounting to produce Exchanges in the East Connaught Road: West, & riceprices was posted control schemes take a deal of arranging, we should like to approval, by the unanimous, vote representing the accused, applied could be obtained, and the new shop on the ground floor" was the { last night and copies gi
Its speedy $5,500. Mr. B. F. Mattingley, emphasise the need for an accelerated application of the Govern-of the House of the Commons, for bail, which was fixed by MExchange established on the same object of depredation by some 200 Chinese constables...
getting acute for months past, and although we recognise that food
by the Germans.
traders. The regulations of some
meat's proposals. Only in this way will further trouble be preven-indicates the depth and sincerity R. E. Lindsell at $5,000. ted. Cheaper rice must speedily be provided for the poorer people.
lines. The
LAST NIGHT'S INCIDELETE, maintenance and coolies. These rioters went up. This "riot," if it may so be termed, is the first breach in the the British and French nations, of the new understanding between
safe guarding of our trade is a the first floor leading from the
Last evening at Wellington car barmonious conditions which have prevailed in this Colony during The day of old-time alliances may
matter of mecessity, and I hope staircase and tried to break into Street and in the locality of the the past four or five years. Ita occurrence serves to remind us of be gone; we may hear less about priving a street urchin of work lise the force of this argument
The rain was to blame for de- before long our merchants will re- the shop by pulling down Central Market there we furthe
the panels. A. Police officer, plundering incidents. At the good fortune which has attended Hongkong all through and the balance of power" in Europe No work meant no money, and and will act with wisdom, and who arrived on since the war.
the former place, at about 5 o'clock One of the men who returned to the Colony from than heretofore. But the nations no
showed the Crowd some seventy coolies and child active service on Saturday, when asked if he were glad to be back, which have stood side by side in There was nothing for him emphatic that we should pay at his revolver, when they began gathered in front of retailɛr
money meant no home. I consideration of all interests It is scene, exclaimed: "I should say I am; compared with other parts of the the great war cannot forget what to do, but to take world, you have been living in a little Paradise here." And there they owe to unity.
his mis- tention to the conservation of booing and jeering. Nine Indian ahoge and started pillaging
policemed were called up from the stores. There was no was mere in what this man said than appears on first thought. If nations have come to understand to sleep. For this purpose, he
And no two fortunes philosophically, and go trade already established.
their posts, and two Indian order, and the shop people made we take the Far East, we find that whilst there has been serious and appreciate each other during borrowed s. deck chair and was
guards are still protecting the no resistance As soon as one trouble in Peking, Tientsin. Shanghai and Canton, Hongkong the past five years more than the about to sleep on it under the
The first phase in the develop place. The coolies did not get any man got a supply, he made way has been spared any untoward incidents. Or if we enlarge the British and French. They suffered verandah, when the owner of it ment of acceptances in the rice from this shop, as they were for another, and the large crowds: sphere, and take the British Empire, we can find much cause for together; they thankfulness when, we realise that whilst there have been more.or
have made came up and accused him of United States might be termed frightened to break through lest looking on were in quite a cheery lese serious disturbances in Singapore, Colombo, India, South Africa, common
common sacrifices in a stealing it. MR. E. Lindsell that of exploitation and explans the Police should intervene. The mood. Native police watching Australia, Canada, Malta, Mauritius and the United Kingdom-in
cause; and they heard the boy a story at the Police tion. The second phase has been CAS. P. visited the scene a few the proceedings did not interfere **some cases, industrial upheavals, and in others, riots and bloodshed are determined to continue to up Court to-day. He found the latter the establishment of an open hours after the occurrence. The scenes near the Market were When the Canton and Wo very similar, and there was no -Hongkong has come through so far "unscathed. This Colony, justice for which they fought on ordered, him to receive eight the midst of that phase at the chow boats arrived, the crews of untoward incident of any kind." hold those ideals of freedom and guilty of stealing the chair and market, and the Americans are in indeed, has been about the one and only place in the Empire which the battlefields of Europe. During strokes of the birch. has not experienced serious trouble during the past five years the way there were many efforts This right that facts like these should be given special made by enemy propagandiste to emphasis, and that the outside world should know them. We have indeed been blessed in this Colony. The war has not greatly standing between the two great create trouble and misunder- affected us, for such inconveniences as we have anffared have been defenders of liberty in Europe, TYPHOON WARNINGS. as nothing when compared with what others have incapazperi- but these all mid-fired. Britain ence. Even our housing problem peran the morous out and France have come out of the come of the war fades into relative insignificance when wear with the bonds of unity and
present time. The use of the boats who brought rice with
POLICE COURT CASES, the trade acceptance in foreign them for their friends (rice, in
Three coolies, who were among trade has thus far in most part Canton and Woochow being half been limited to imports, foreign as cheap as in Hongkong), were the men hired by a roe dealer to houses in Hongkong, Shanghai carrying them on their shoulders transport 27 bags of rice, to a And other parts of the Orient, when a large number of coolles retail shop at Comaught Road drawing on the mercantile pounced upon them and relieved West on Saturday, quietly distributors in the United States, the carriers of their burden and their departure with their re There is no reason, however, rom for all they were worth pective loads. Imb
the dexter The telegram quoted below when credit information on The rest of the crews seeing what the discovery of hist ened, and this new pact which was received by the American concerns out here becomes more had happened to the rice of fift dormed a constable has not been sealed by the Consulate General Hongkong, readily available, by trade teen of their companions, decided ed in tracing the mis approval of the British Parlia- from the Manila Observatory at acceptances originating in the not to risk the stealing of their rice to
remember our good forting in immunity from unrett
read and disaiek. sympathy immeasurably strength-
And it might, of course, all have been otherwise. Such conditions as we have enjoyed should make us think of what
the Imperial and Colonial Gor
mean the
ation in
their 430 pm yesterday
States and drawn on compantes, stuif by going ashore, la Hongkong should not find their be
way into the Americen Mäeotät
and 17 degrees Lat
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