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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.
JAPAN'S VOLTE FACE.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
THE PASS OFEICE
SATURDAA
DAY BY DAY
A MAN WITH BUT ONE DRAK SOMETIKES WORSE THAN A MAN WITH NO IDEA AT ALL.
The preacher at Union Church to-morrow morning will be the Rev. J. Horace Johnston, B. A.
His Majesty's Forces in the Colony are to be subject to the Army Act for a urther period of three months.
1894
HONGKONG TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong
Telegraph" files for week ending August 11, 189£);
1.
THE DOLLAR.
Aug.20. The rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day is a. 1d. 294d.
RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
LOGAL DEATHS.
We regret to record the death which took place yesterday
morning, of Lient J.D.Struthers, whom was name said, to a heat stroke. Thade cost of £3,000 (aske she of the 8th Coy, R.GA, due, it is church, now to be ren ceased had seen service in South Pancratius has some Africa He leaves a widow and attributes, He was a child at Home, for whom the boy martyr And somehow bec greatest sympathy will be the patron of truthfulness, so felt. The funeral took place our ancestors used to make thei last evening and was largely most solemn baths upon his attended, those present including The explanation of this, as given Aug. 20-At the usual after H E Major General Ventris by Gregory of Tours, is that noon meeting of the Hongkong Col. Loring, CMG, nao. Liput one who told a falsehood near the day, the short range cup and Scantlebury, Rifle Association, held last Satur-Cols. Crosse, Tarlour Majors saint's tomb just outside the walls.
Downing, Kirk of Rome was immediately spoon were won by Commander Patrick, Willer, CO. 85th Co. Rand carried off by the devil Ashe, RN, the scratch man who GA Sturges, Perrot, Roche Kelly His Excellency the Officer made seven "bulls at 200 and Capta. Campbell, Samson, Bums, Administering the Government 30 at 300 yards, a total of 65. Davies, Bristow, Skilton; Lients. Elocution as taught to-day has appointed Mr. Edwin Ralphs Mr. W. Stewart, 14 points start, Jones, McConnell, Morton, Even-supposed to meet all provatical to act as Director of Education, was second, totalling 24 and 23 reden MCS Thornton, Dunbar and requirements, but a teacher found in addition to his other duties.
Bales, Ng Master Gunner May out recently that it doesn't. **** A respectively.
and a number of men from the man who was laid up with an His Excellency the Officer
37th Co. R.G.A. The band of jured ankle telephoned for me Administering the Government
Aug. Of the hundred-and-FMS Kent attended and the to send over a good reader," she has appointed Mr. Leo Longinatto acts which the China Ma has were many beautiful wreaths.
one unseemly and contemptible Rev. OF. Bundle officiated. There told me. "He particularly wanted to be a Justice of the Peace for been guilty of in recent years,
someone who could rand stock the Colony of Hongkong.
The death occurred on Thurs-market quotations and make
JOURNALISTIC BURLESQUE.
As we briefly observed yester day, the modification of the Pass Office requirements is a step in the right direction, even if it does not go so far as some us had hoped. It is now possible for residents to visit Canton, Macao or the West River without having to go through the tiresome, and often very inconvenient, formula of first getting a Police permit. That will be a great relief to week- Yesterday's health return end trippers and to business shows two cases each of enteric people as well. fine the measure to the places all ware Chinese and one of each But why con-fever and cerebro-spinal fever, mentioned? If a man wants proved fatal. go to Swatow, Shanghai, Manila or any other place excepting Can- ton, Macao and the West River be must first of all take out his permit. He may be the most well-known resident of the Colony. a Britisher of Britishers, and one in whose movements the authorities can have no suspicions whatever. Yet through the for- malities he must go. In some quarters the total abolition of the Pass Office is advocated. We do not think the time has come far
The preacher at. St. John's issue of that ridiculous bur-day, also from a heat stroke, of sense of them. The candidate we the taking of chat
lesque in public journalism Chief Petty Officer May, of HMS bad to offer had nevar tackled stal Cathedral on Sunday, at 11 am, in reference to the members of Kent, widower, 40 years of age, the Stock Market, but abe But what objection could will be the Rev. F. Creswick the Police Force who will be the who had just concluded 25 years practised before going, and gat there be to granting por Todd, rectar of St. Andrew's manent passes
recipients of "long services and service and was due to leave for through rather well. That ex to residents Church,SouthOrange, New Jersey. meritorious conduct" medals on Home by the 8.x. Atreus. The perience gave me a hint. Here- whose bona fides are beyond
Friday: question? Another paint. By
next, as recently an- funeral took place last evening. after my pupils must struggle The Government Gazette con- nounced in these columns, takes the Rev. GAB. Hastings officiat with market quotations reason of the conditions which tains despatches from the existed during the war, great Secretary of State showing that rank as the most unjustifiable ing. There was a large attend-they can get a diploma. numbers of residents have in their Iceland is recognised that our transient memory can rance, including Engineer Lien- possession duly certified pass- Sovereign State by the Danish recall at the present time. It is tenant Ogg: Surgeon Lt. Holmes,
well-known ports showing that they are per-Government, and recording the
and Lt. Fisher and wreaths were that Government
A turtle measuring six feet sans in no way under suspicion. recognition of the independence employees are not at liberty to sent by Commander Findlayson, from head to tail and five feet Petty Officers, HMS. Kent across its shell, the head being defend themselves against any-. These passports, renewed every of Finland.
Quarterdeck Mess H. M. S. Kent fifteen inches in circumference. two years, ought to be quize
thing and everything that is up- sufficient to enable anyone to
palatable to them in the public Royal Marines H. M. S. Tamar, was caught recently by Japanese leave the Colony when occasion
justified it may be, and we are Royal Marines Detachment HM. for the privilege of giving the Chief Stoker's Mess H.M.S. Kent, fishermen And released by Ah press, however unfair and un- Patty officers HMS Kent, needs. We only want the Fuss
therefore, all the more surprised
Long, Chinaman, who paid £10- Office operating to shot out or keep an eye on undesirable char-
that the publisher of our evening. Kent. Ships Company H.M.S. turtle its freedom. The turtle acters. In other people it should
mitted its columns to be prostitut contemporary should have
per- have no interest whatever, (A WISE CHOICE..
ed by such spiteful meanness and malicious backbiting. -
We can regard it as a hopeful sign that the Chinese peace delegates in Paris, have declared China's desire to be to work in close harmony with America and France, as the three Britain, leading democratic Powers of the world. The delegates say that China is trying to establish firmly democratic institutions. and they express the hope that the three countries named will help in making China's sac- cess real. Though there is nothing in the message to that effect, we presume that these spokesmen have not so delivered
themselves without official advice to do so. What is especially gratifying about the matter is that China,despite her disappoint- ment over the Shantung question, is prepared to put her trust in the three Allies on whose efforts the winning of the war has depended. We trust that the declaration is a correct representation of what the Peking Government feels on the matter. All through the war, and since, we have hoped that China would come to realise who her real friends are, and not be misled into making alliances and understandings which in the end would work to China's own
as &
in Hongkong during July was 81.8. The highest point was 90.8, on the 3rd, and the lowest 73.5, on the 4th. There were 241.4 hours of sunshine and 19.43 inches of min The average humidity was 81.
The average mean temperature
the remarks on last night's
THE PLAGUE.
The
Kent, and many others.
Roman
Catholic
weighed 600 Ih, and its age, was The death took place yesterday estimated at 1,000 years. The of Mr. J. P. filva-Netto, father of probable reason for the purchase Mr. A.F.B. Silva-Netto, at the age and freedom given to the turtle," of 80 years. There was a large says a Daily Express writer, is A Chinese was caught coming
at the that the reptile is a sort of sacred off the s.8. Wah On, with 38 teels Aug. 23. The plague scare is gathering of mourners of raw opium, and one tasl and now fairly at an end and, it is to funeral, which took place at the emblets, and the Chinaman who Cemetery,can set one in the ocean.con- He was fined on the first charge streets of China-town are just as AFB, Silva-Netto, (son) Messrs. An interesting ceremony follow- eight-mace of prepared opium. be hoped, for all time.
those present including Mr. siders himself especially Heised. $500, or four months, and on the crowded, zow-a-days, with Celes M.-J. Danenberg and F. Eed the financial transaction. Ah second charge $200, or four tials of high and low estate and Eca da Silva-Netto (sons-in-law) Long fed the turtle with several months, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell. of all ages, and of both sexes as
ever, while in the European quar-EV.M. R. de Sousa (Consul for bowls of sake, the favere A Chinese was walking along ter of the City many of our lead-Portugal) J. M. Alves (Consul alcoholic drink of the Japanese, the pavement near Salt Fish Lane ag Chinese citizens, who vir for Brasil,) P. V. Botelho (Acting and accompanied by as many be accommodated when another Chinese picked bis tually constitute the backbone of Consul for Nicaragua,) J. F. Eca friends as could be pocket. He chased the man and the Colony's commerce and who da Silva (Consul for Mexico,) A. in two sampans, sailed out to an Indian watchman also joined, fled these shores when the loath-Morri, F. J.-V. Gorge, I. M. sea. The turtle was released the chase and the pickpocket was some bubonic disease was claim- Xavier, A. G. da Rocha, Leo after many prayers had been arrested. To-day he was sent. ing scores of victims diary about Graca, M. A. Xavier, P. V. enced to three months' hard now constantly met fitting about Bothebo, A. A. Alves, A. M. L.. labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
from hong to hong endeavouring, Soares, E. d'Aquino, Rev. Father apparently to make up for lost time.
Noval, and Dr. Arthur Carvalho. Almost without exception, the place at the P. W. D. Offices on Chinese bongs and Shops which The Rev. Fr. Bianchi officiated, August 25. They are Kowloon were closed two months ago, and there were many beautiful Inland Lot 1382, containing owing to the plague, have been oral tributes sent. 87,110 square feet (upse: price "whitewashed and painted. and $13,066) and Inland Lot 2273 reopened with a rush of business, (east of Bay View Police Station), the like of which despite the containing 112,900 square feet war in the North, has been (upset price $35,870).
unknown for several years.
A PRESENTATION.
.
Two sales of Crown land take
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d'Almida e Castro, F. M. P. de said.
HAUROTO STILL
OVERDUE.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
It is appropriate to recall in this year of Victory, when almost every social event becomes a je joicing for the triumphs gained
upon the field of battle, that the Ascot Meeting, which bas fillər” the eye of an appreciable pro- portion of the population, was founded by a soldier. For it is tez- the victor of Culloden that society in general, and the racing world in particular, owes this fashion- His Excellency the Officer August 24-At the Central Administering the Government Police Station, this
able festivity, says the Daily afternoon,
Graphic. The son of George II, has appointed Mr. Roland Arthur the whole Force was paraded
and the uncle of George HL, the Charlie North to act his before Mr. F. H. May, C.S.P. on
Duke of Cumberland, bad not Private Secretary, in addition to the occasion of the presentation There is still no news of the ss. made his name as a military We might well rub our eyes in mild amazement at the state-endoing.
his other duties, during the of " long and meritorious service" Hauroto (Messrs. Carmichael and leader when he instituted the ment made by the Japanese Foreign Minister that Japan is willing REAL FRIENDS.
absence from the Colony of Mr. medale of the first class to In-Clarke which is now nearly a annual races on Ascot Heath, so to restore the whole of the Kiaochau territory to Chinoimmediately We believe that it will pay Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponson- spectors Mackaie and Hanson, fortnight overdue from Saigon. conveniently situated both for Japan ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, and, further, that Japan China-not to put it on any higher by Face.
similar decorations of the second | As to the possibility of the vessel town and Windsor; and though includes in the undertaking any rights affecting the territorial grounds than that--to cultivate a
and fourth classes respectively to eventually reaching Port, we the Martial Boy" did not retain Bovereignty of China in the Province of Shantung. Such a coaces-closeness of understanding with The death occurred on Thurs. 3 rgeant T. Moffat and Constable make no comment. We learn his popularity throughout his life. sion, if made, would, we should imagine, satisfy the Chinese and the British, the Americans and day evening, at Jardine. Samuel Pepper. The recipients from quite an independent source there are countless adherents of thus bring an end to the dispute which has estranged the two the French. These three nations Matheson and Co's godown at of these coveted honours were that the Naval Authorities were the sport of kings who to-day countries. It sounds almost too good to be true. Yet we have it have China's welfare at heart. Fati, of Mr. Charles Watson, of decorated by Mr. May, who ex-approached by the agents of the lowe him a debt of gratitude, both given out as a statement by Japan's Foreign Minister, who, prerum They have no wish to see the the Chinese Maritime Customs, pressed the hope that this would vessel in question with a view to for starting Ascot and for breed, ably, has not spoken without authority. This is no case of mere country in a continual state of as the result of a beat stroke, not be the last occasion on which sending out A boat toing the greatest of English horses, Presa comment on possible action by the Tokyo Government; it is turmoil and distraction. They followed by cerebral apoplexy. it would be his pleasant duty to make a search, and we Eclipse.. a declaration of what that Government intends to do. But it is so want to see China prosperous. Deceased was 42 years of age, present members of the Force understand that the reply contrary to what one expected that a measure of incredulity is, in happy and united. China can The funeral took place on Friday with medals for meritorious was to the effect that the only the circumstances, pardonable.
play a very big part in the world if morning at Macao Fort.
vessel available in the Port was
We are to have women mágis The first thought that strikes us on reading. the announcement she chooses. She has untold
EMS. Fame and she could not trates, it would appear. Side by 'is in the form of a query: Why could not Japan haye agreed to resources both in material posses The names of the following
go out, since she is not sufficiently side with man, upon that hitherto the incorporation of the undertaking in the Treaty ? Then there sions and in the skilfulness and have been added to the List of
large or adaptable to face typhoon Ereless bench, woman will sit in would have been no protest at all from China, and we should have industriousness of her people. Medical Practitioners-Ho Shai-
BANK RETURNS. weather. That is quite all right. judgment, says Elise Grange in "had no such conflict between the two nations as we have bad But she needs guidance. And chuen, 10, Caine Road, Hongkong.
It is obvious the the Naral the London Evening News. How edences of since the disclosure of the Treaty stipulations. The guidance involves trust in others. Licentiate
in Medicine position now is that Japan has secured certain rights, but that she Let Chins, accept the proferred Surgery of the Society of Ap amount of bank notes in circu- would be taking undue risks.woman in this sphere uphold the The returns of the average refusing send out a vessel which administration of the law? Will Authorities would be justified in will this innovation affect the intends immediately renouncing them on the ratification of the pact. hand of help which is extended to othecaries. London: Lee Ying- lation and of specie in reserve in we hear, That is, if we take the Japanese Foreign Minister's statement as a her, and she will never regret it. chuen, 92, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, during the mouth the Taumati
however, that in tradition that she is of the true reflection of the intentions of the Government. The whole Britain, America and France are Bachelor of Medicine
DAVAI thing seems absurd, for if the Japanese do not wish to avail them all well-wishers of the Chinese Bachelor of Surgery of the Un- by the Managers of the respective sweepers, of the North Sea type the wrong-doer as such. She will
and ended 31st June, 1919, as certified there are
camber gentler, weaker sex? Hardly sof lying two wine She is not compassionate unto selves of the rights conferred by the Treaty, why did their delegates nation. They are willing to help iversity of Edinburgh. ever demand them? That these delegates did demand them there is the country and its people. China,
Banks are as follows
fitted with wireless, powerful prove in this capacity to be an no question, and we also know that more than one Power objected will have everything to gain
Specie engines and capable of facing any avenging angel A woman Jusy to them. It has even been said that the sop contained in by cultivating and retaining their
kind of weather. These vessels tice of the Peace, will not the clauses dealing with Shantung was thrown to Japan to offset friendship. her disappointment at the rejection of the racial equality amend
were built at Taikoo to the order easily swayed in her deb ment. And one thing which cannot be overlooked is that the
of the Government for war use by the emotion of offend but they now lie, accumplating Japanese Press has almost consistently upheld. Japan's claims to Shantung and even, described them as rightful With the facts thus, there need be no wonder at the Japanese Foreign Minister's volte face being regarded as surprising, if not astounding.
SHIPBUILING IN
· HONGKONG...
Our local dock companies are There is, of course, one possible explanation of the change of at present very busy. Two more front, and that is that Japan may have come to the conclusion standard ships are under con- that it would be impolitic to demand what she can claim under the struction in the Kowloon Docks, Treaty of Versailles, has reconsidered the matter and is prepared to while the Taikoo Docks have in Tomago that to which she is entitled by the terms of the pact. But hand a similar number.. to show that such an action would, be in the nature of a gracefuln No. 2 Dook at Kowloon
on on her part, she first of all wants to see the Treaty there is the Tans
WORDY POSSESS Why Tepan should not, not stedmont fro
Izialatence on her being co
and
A Chinese was charged to-day with stealing some milk out of a bottle in the Astor House Hotel. He was supposed to have drunk the milk, and to make good the amount, he poured some water”. in the bottle. Mr. M. A. Vas gave evidence saying that Madame Flint had caught defendant in the set of drinking the milk The case was adjourned till Monday at 10.15 a.
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We have received from the † Securities with the Consul General for the Nether- Agente £125,000. Dille, Lands a copy of analfum entitled Manila, which is “Nederland Fan 41""Th
barnacles, in the camber Way could not one of these boats sent. out to search for the Hauroto? one difcalty, we hear is that there are no crews available for these vessels. But could they not be specially manned for the
In of the frequent danger
to
can appraise genuinen