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PICTURES:
TO BE SHOWN IN:
HONGKONG
Paul J.Rainey, whose four-reel film, "The Heart of the Jungle will be presented at the Coronet
ULIA
CASE
Judging from the recent tele grams on the subject, there does 1 not appear to be any prospect of
Sociability means money an early settlement of the labour
carried out to a proper extent. In
A newspaper came of coUS) Several difficulties at Home.
this weather, for example sociabi-
able importance came before rimes both parties have com- Yesterday's health return
lity flourishes best over a glass of
Mized Court at Shanghai on - menced negotiations but on each shows two cases of enteric fever something liquid and sparkling,
26, when Mr. Tsang, occasion they have broken down, and one of plagus, all Chinese. with cool and sinkling ice floating Theatre on Wednesday next, is a and Mr. Hayashidey without anything being achieved. The plague case was fatal. fia it-but these sparkling coolers, gentleman and a hunter. His Assèsaar, were on the ¡From what we are allowed to
however necessary and refresh-story reads like a romance that nocused was Yib know, it has been impossible. to
The total output of the Eailaning, cost money and money is Richard Harding Davis would editor of the Min Kuo Pan form a definite opinion as to the Mining Administration's mines scarce And likely to become | have been proud to write in his he was charged with publish real cause of the trouble, but the for the week ending July 19th, scarcer, what with the most adventurous literary mood.articles endangering the public information cabled by Reuter in- amounted to 76,349-tons
of and rise
and dollar. clines opinion in favour the sales during the period, to every necessity of life here. It seems to me that in these hot Government. We have. however,
daya dinner parties should be quite recently been able to geti
There has been sent to the done away with. They entail & first-hand information from a source, the reliability of which we Mortuary the body of a Chinese lot of worry, and expense to the have, no reason to doubt. This boy, 13 years of age, who former-host and hostess and are not the ly lived in a matshed in Ho Ming only means. whereby friendships infarination does not by any means put the Government and Tin, New Territories, and who may be cemented. A capital employers in the same favourable as drowned by falling into a suggestion is that in lieu of light as does Reuter, and it would pond.
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Rainey is an American and safety on July 4 and on July was born in Cleveland. But be on the latter occasion the article has wandered the face of the tending to incita various persons earth in quest of adventure. He to exterminate and murder: Yang has been a hunter with gua and Shan-teh, Tuchun of Cheklang ina camera of lions and tigers in the Mr. R. C. Faithfull, who sp
peared for the police, mentioned African jungle.
He has been an explorer în that on May 17, the accused hat Arntic zones with Peary, he has been before the Court: charged made scientific studies of the sex with a similar offence dinner parties, an invitation to fly and the sleeping sickness in The accused stated that the to partake of coffee after dinner, deserts of Africa. He has, as a article published on July 4 VIS A employees have very sound and Among the passengers who would be just as good. It is Captain of British Infantry notice given out by Members of fairly serviceable and, if pushed German bomba off Parliament at Shanghai, while genuine grievances. Briefly, our departed by the Suwa Marn to initiated, should catch on. the Agunda Railway in that of the 18th instant was an" information tends to show that a day were Mr. and Mrs. J. H
British East Africa He was announcement by members of the “ and being Seth. Professor
Mra gradual attempt
the first man to travel with the Chekiang Guild at Kwangtang.... the made, 10 get
Some people, generally griffins, men in Danenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Her- some industries. back to ridge, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rouse, object to calling their servants by Czcho-Slovaks across Siberia. He Both these were public bodies. pre-war, wages and conditions Commander Allen, R.N. Mr. the impersonal terms "boy" and filmed the forbidden city of and their notifications were law offul and reputable. In the circum whist there has been no serious R. Ponsonby-Fane, Mr. R. Jamah." and persist upon learning Peking at the Emperor
China's request.
stances the Chinese newspapers effort made to reduce the cost of Birbeck and Mr. G. F. Dumbar- what name they are known by
And he picks up his mashie in ought to publish them, He argued living. This combined with the ton. His Excellency Mr. Severn amongst themselves. fact that the men who have was on board to say farewell to leads to amusing results which golf with the same facility that that the words in those articles he picks up his favourite gun to "to get rid of" and "to exter- are hugely enjoyable by fought in the war are determined Mr. Ponsonby-Fane.
minate" did not mean to`kill, those who know the lingo, shoot a charging lion. not to sumbit to the capitalists to
Mr. Rainey's latest picture ATTACK ON PRESIDENT. the same degree as before the
Hongkong
give Tramway Cantonese
The articles complained of war, hes naturally not tended to Company's receipts for the week muy as their name, and the might be said to embody pictorial-
it, ly the results of this life of were before. the Court. The relieve the situation. That the ended August 2 totailed $14,086, mistress placidly adopts Government is making little or no which is $1,773 above the same blissfully unconscious that the adventure, for he spent the last article referred to in the first Another year in securing these fascinat- charge was headed, Funda- For the 31 term means effort to redeem its pledges to the week last year. workers there appears to be little weeks of the year, the takings instance is that of a person who ing and thrilling pictures of the mental ways for the salvation of the country from downfall" It doubt for in addition to the in- total $455,428, which is $34,810 was told by his valet that his hunt.
said The M.P.'s in Shanghai formation we have in support of more than for the same period in
name was Tek-kok, and called him by that appelation The
have issued a notice as follows- this, we have seen in Hongkong 1918:
To the Provincial Assetablies, for ourselves the manner
MUCH etc. The Peking Government is
blood ont of a stone. SEEING IS BELIEVING.
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CHOLERA AT MACAO.
WISE PRECAUTIONS.
the agent of Japan. Probably speaking it is the head office for the auction of territory, and it fa
of China.
Sonte time ago Hsu Shih-chang foolishly
signed China, would not be able to join the League of Nations. This convicts him out of his own mouth. Fortunately, we, the tion. We demonstrated in order citizens, did not accept his decep to show that we will not re-
in which demobilised men have Owing to the packed house was been repatriated to their colonial last night at the Victoria Theatre, domestic "Brother Tek." COOPER-At Meirion No. 5 Peak, on" August 2nd to Mr. spheres of civil live and we have, the "Prize Packets" are repeat- and Mrs. W. A. J. Cooper, a daughter.
during the weekend, listened to ing the same pregrammes to- stories of the utmost 'disregard night. The programme will be a stiff upper lip and just as stiff a for some of the demobilised found to the special advertise-backbone he would be tearing his soldiers at Home. We have ment elsewhere." Last night hair and cursing his luck that the heard tales of men who have the house was packed to its rice riots should have occurred Considerable anxiety is felt with said that if the treaty was not held commissions, when demo utmost capacity.
during the interrugnum of the regard to the non-arrival of the bilised, who have applied for ap-
transference of the gadi to Sirs.s. Hauroto (Messrs Carmicheal pointments in civil live and the A celebrated pianist, in the Reginald Stubbs. The Rice Con- and Clarke), which is now nearly Government has offered billets at person of M. Leo Podolsky, is trol scheme has brought him a six days overdue from Saigon.
The Captain of the Huuroto. a pay of 27s. 6d. per week. There passing through the Colony on crop of worries enough to stagger have been large sums subscribed his way to Singapore, where he ten arerage men. He has the Captain Lockett, wired from by the public for the benefit of will join Messrs. Sklarevsky and Constitutional Reform human-Saigon to Messrs. Carmichael and cognise the signing of the pesce these men, yet to get any kind of Sykora who delighted Hongkong itarians who sit on the fence Clark, on July 26, stating he was treaty. But it is useless to 887-
a few months ago. With him is their level best to egg him then nothing has been heard of it. The way is to exterminate" Madame Sykora, a frost rank on to bankrupt the Colony, the vessel.
the principal national traitors. Messages have been sent out To come nearer home, we find soprano. M. Podoleky has for On top of this he has the Civil
and to establish a ·Dow the same kind of thing going on. some months past been fulfilling Servants who are goading him to all the lighthouses, and tele- So far as we are able to judge from Reuter's summary of his Some of the men who returned to engagements in Japan where he on for an all-round increase,grams have been despatched to government. As long as Hsu and Tuan hold power in Paking speech on the Colonial Office Estimates, Colonel Amers did not the East on the Pyrrhus, were has created quite a sensation. he has the crowd who want ze-Saigon asking that all steamers it is hopeless to expect make specific reference to Hongkong, but a deal of what he said is practically penniless and they He was born in Odessa, of Polish cheap-as-dust habitations, draw leaving that port should keep a
cancellation of treaties, which sell the good look-out; in fact, everything the country. Even if they comply applicable to this Colony. More than that, Hongkong will surely have to wait bere until the arrival parents, and is a fine example of ing his attention
been wickedness of the landlords and possible has hope that the principles which he enunciated regarding future of the Antilochus for tranship- the Godowsky school. He com- the Japanese rascals who are secure, information and to have with the people's request not to treatment of our oversea possessions will be applied here, so that ment to Shanghai. We believe menced his studies under
sign the peace traaty, othe the Crown Colony may come into line with the big, progressive the China Association has con- Lalevitch, first at Odessa and then ousting the residents of the assistance rendered if necessary treaties for the sale of the country policy which has apparently been decided upon in regard to the widerable funds at its disposal, or at Cracow and Vienna.
In middle levels.
In short he has The naval authorities have also
may be concluded in future. Our aspirations of the peoples of our colonial possessions, large and ought to have, and it is difficult Cracow, Fodolsky secured high more troubles to worry him than been advised of the matter. small. Colony Amery declared that the efforts of the Crown to understand why these men, honours and later in Vienca ever Hamlet heard of or dreamt of The Hauroto carried a general country does not want to follow the example of Korea. This is Colonies during the war have been far greater than is usually who
bave volunteered their carried off the Rubinstein and when he threw up the sponge and cargo, but had no
passengers the moment which will affect our delivered a long soliloquy that aboard. realised; he showed that they had contributed to the cost of the services for their Country, should Listz Prizes. war from revenue: and he expressed the hope that these things be allowed
could have been summed up in the
very existence. It is hoped that you will rise and deal with them.” would be remembered when the re-development and reconstruction paupers, Most of these men On the 1st instant, whilst four words "Is life worth it?!
A KWANGTUNG OFFICIAL · " of the Colonies are being considered. Hongkong, in these connect-will have
return to partrolling in the central fairway Yet he smiles through it all
The article complained of with ions, cannot be overlooked. This Colony has created a war record business life on arrival at Shang-in his launch, Sergeant Bond, of and manages to find time to shut
reference to the second charge: of which it can be proud, and, if for no other reason, it looks for hai and some of them were in the Water Police, espied a sampan down on business and enjoy out-
was headed, "A wicked official future treatment more commensurate with its position and the very bad health at the start. We putting off from the "steamer door life.
denounced by Chekiang people abandonment of forms of government only suited to a backward, think the least the Government Chongva. There was a boy in the
residing in Kwangtung" The State peopled by ignorant savages.
could have done was to have sent sampan who, on perceiving the Many of his friends will be glad
article, which is set forth as a In no quarter will there by any objection raised to the suggest these men back under such con- launch approaching his boat, took to hear that Mr. Bertie Hale, who
Some little time ago a number circular relegram from the ion of Color.el Amery that the conditions of the Colonial Civil ditions as would have made the out something from a bag and until recently had been Editor of
of cases of cholera were reported Chekiang Fellow-countrymen's Service shall be improved. Higher pay, and the granting of better voyage out more or less of a holi- threw it overboard. It was dis the China Mail, is about to return conditions will obviously make the service more attractive and day and done everything to en-covered by the Sergeant when he to the Colony, it is said, as Editor at Macao. The Government, Association in Kwangtung, after to the case of result in a better and more efficient type of Civil Servant being sure complete recovery to those boarded the sampan after a chase, of one of our local newspapers.realising the seriousness of the referring available for service overseas. No-one will grudge, either, the who were convalescents when em- that what the boy had thrown Mr. Hale had a very good grip of situation, decided to do all in its putting poison in the water, prevent the spread said Naturally, such a person well-deserved tribute paid to those officials who have, barking. We know for a fact that overboard was opium, for a Chinese politics and was a sober, power to
ac(the Tuchun) does not understand. worked hard during the war, with short staffs at
their several men when they boarded quantity of the drug in tins was well-balanced writer. He is as of the disease. It was
ordered that such law and administration. He treat disposal. But the community in general is likely to be more the Pyrrhus at Liverpool and found in the bag and strewn sured of a warm welcome on his cordingly
fruits 28. water melons, ed peoples' lives as grass, und er- interested in the observation made by Colonel Amery that the Gov- saw the conditions under which about the deck of the sampan.return.
pineapples, etc. should not be ercised his power abusively. Such ernment wishes to enlist the full co-operation of the unofficial com- they were to return to the East, The quantity which the Poliça munities, not only through the Council Chambers but by advice and threw their luggage back on recovered was 11734 taels. There have been many rumours sold, whilst the sale in the streets a person still takes the name of of ice-cream and hand-made official. Really he is a robber support of the ideals in view, which are to secure the partic. to the wharf and declined Apparently the drug was brought afloat about the eventual disposal lemonade was also probibited. and a murderer. If such ipation of the people, as far as they are capable, in the govern- to sail. Some of the men were from Indo-China by the Chongva. of H.M.S. Kent. The vessel is These measures, we hear, have beast is not removed upon ment of the country." Now, that is just the point where we can transhipped to Shanghai from Charged before Mr. G. N. Orme paying off on Friday, and the been very effectual in decreasing whom can the people depend begin to take an interest in the speech. The reference, of course, Singapore and they had not a cent to-day. Mr. P.W. Goldring defend- men and four officers are going the disease.
We hope that you will was not alone to the Crown Colonies, but that they were included in their pockets and had to borrowing, the boy, who is about 16 Home on the Empress of Asia,
jointly rise and attack him " is obvious from the fact that, in elaborating this point, Colonel small sums from the more fortun-years of age, was fined $6,000 or, while the remaining officers leave Amery mentioned the case of Malta, "where the population live ate. We also know for a fact that in defaul, eight months hard Hongkong on September 23rd. within the precincts of a military fortress." Wa suppose that that some of the men who had lost labour.
HMS. Kent is to take the place instance was cited so as to show the difficulty of giving popular limbs,or were suffering from other
of the Wivern as a distiller. The governmental control to a community where Imperial consider causes of active service when ask A Chinese alleged by the Police Wivern will be dismantled. The ations, such as defence measures and the like, cannot be entrusted 'ing for iced drinks whilst lying to be a supplier of arms to robbers Kent will also be used as a rest- solely to the local Government. We have a like case here in panting on the boat in the tropica, was to-day charged before Mr. G. ing place for the crew of Hongkong, and the opponents of constitutional reform never weary were told they did not get such N. Orme with the possession of Admiralty ships going into docks in trying to show that Unofficial control in the Council could not luxuries whilst at the front and tvo daggers Information given for repairs. be tolerated because of possible interference with Imperial affairs, they could not expect them now, by another Policeman now in But even our most ardent Constitutionalist Reformers do not want True, the stewards on the Pyrrhus custody on a charge of armed to intermeddle in Imperial matters; they want to control local were sympathetic, but they had robbery led to the arrest of the affairs, to discharge the functions of a Municipality, and in matters not at their disposal the where accused at No. 50. Bulkely Street of public schemes and the expenditure of public money to dictate withal to satisfy the requests of on the 24th of June. The dag- to the Government efficiale (who, rightly considered, are the these men. When we see this gers were discovered hidden in a servants of the public) instead of the latter dictating to them.
I have often wondered whetber kind of thing under "our very recess under the drawer of a This is important we have it on the word of Colonel Amery eyes, we cannot disbelieve the table. Mr. P. W. Goldring, who said that the allowance is it would not be a good idea if the that Senator Thelad stated that the aim of the Imperial Government, in its colonial policy, is stories we have heard as to what appeared for the defence, held excessive. In this connection it is Government encouraged so notwithstanding the Gentlemos to secure the participation of the people, so far as they are goes on at Home and in turn we that the weapons were used by interesting to know why women's operative rice growing in the agreement between Japa capable," in the government of the several colonies. Well, that is cannot wonder that there are the accused in his capacity as a roses shine go. One theory is New Territories The Gover what the community here in Hongkong has been seeking. It is strikes. We do not hold that a rope-maker at Mongkok The that the corset le responsible for ment pid furnish the capital not a desire to shirk responsibilities, but a wish to assume the burden strike is a legitimate weapon to Police stated that the knives used this, as for many other evils: of local government. In view of this latest declaration af Home, use against the Government at by rope-makers in Mongkok had The corset produces perturbati we cannot see how the new Governor can oppose the demand. But the present stage, but the men a hookediend and that the marks of the wind and an inability to let us be quite frank about it We do not want an Unofipist believe it is the only one that is of must on their paper sheaths think of any one thing for mo majerty made up of the repressatatives of vertes faterests. We Hikely to carry any weight From proved that the daggers had not than two seconds shouse prefer an Vilaini majesty to that We want as few the information we inve received | been need för s ling *elsetorné enllagén" in poučite, xl, and no fiche d'vooty elvennd we canitól kit Hink Hint wery | Gokring - maid tha
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The Magistrate said that other Chinese newspapers had not pub lished these articles. It showed that the accused, after being pre- viously cautioned by the Court for The telegram quoted below was
a símilar offeacé, did not use pros received by the American Con- per discretion. As a punishment sulate General, Hongkong. from the newspaper would cease pub the Manila Observatory at 9.15 cation for two days, and the
a.m. to-day: Cyclone or typhoon cused would be released upo America, according to a San N. E. of Luzon, direction up finding security not to publu Fancisco paper, consumes yearly known.
articles of this kind in faturs. 100,000 tons of talcum powder Considering the frequency with which women find it necessary to powder their faces, it cannot be
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JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA
A Washington dispatch - say
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have effected clandesti