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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919.
WILL LLOYD GEORGE LAST?
TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
STRAIGHT TALKING.
In
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919.
DAY BY DAY
THE REASON IT THRITATES A MAN TO BE MIRTAKEN FOR SOME- BODY ELSE TO BELIAUSE HE THINES HE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SOMEBODY ELSE.
Lord Robert Cecil indulged in some straight talking, at Hitchin, on July 5, when dealing with the economic situation in Europe. He did not hesitate to point out that the position was about as Traket No. 138 won the pink serious as it could be. His policy crepe-de-chine petticoat e of assisting the economic recovery raffled in aid of the Ministering of Europe in our own, interests Children's League would appear to be the only sold- tion of the problem and the avert-
Capt. D'Olivera, the Secretary ing of the ever-growing danger of the China Coast Officers of revolutionary ideas.
Guild, is at present visiting the dealing with Russia, the Colony. speaker advocated the forming of a definite policy and pursuing it
Yesterday's health returnshows unfalteringly to the end. It must be clear to all that singleness of one fatal case each of cholars purpose is the only attitude that and enteritis, both victime being can be adopted if there is to be Chinese any hope, of straightening out the appalling tangle in all spheres, economic, political, com- mercial and social, caused by the the War. Not only with regard to Russia should this policy be adopted: it is equally applicable
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
FBY "ENHARMONIQ"}
Since the departure of the Moscow Trio, and Podolsky, the Colony has resumed its usual state of musical hybernation..
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HONGKONG SHIPPING ITEMS.
TODAY'S ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Sugar to the extent of 2940 tons was brought to the Colony by two Japanese vessels from the given by the Moscow Trio, at Maru whose agents are the With regard to the concert Dutch East Indies. The Nanyo Kingsclere Hotel, many people Yamashita Steamship Company; have expressed thair regret at not came in with a consignment of being present owing to their being 1,390 tons from Sourabaya and unaware that such a concert was the Nankai Maru from Semarang to be given. I mention this fact brought 1,550 tons of sugar because the members of the Trio and hard molasses, consigned left Hongkong with the im-to Messrs. Carroll, Bros. pression that, from a businese The Yatshing brought ins load point of view, the Colony must of 2.200 tons of general cargo for be cut out of future tours. It is Hongkong from Moji. She ex hardly fair that the matter should perienced a severe typhoon off rest here and I can assure Messrs. Gotto Island..
vand We bear that Captain De Sala, Hmelnitzsky, Rosenker the captain of the Phaumpenh, Bakaleinikoff, that if should they which weathered a severe typhoon return and give Hongkongites a couple of weeks ago, has resign fair warning of a recital, they ed his post for reasons of health. will receive full support.
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to our own affairs. Particularly While off Tamto Ho, the Bur- I was looking through some in regard to the Irish question rembeet, a vessel under the agan-copies of original M.S. a few days should such methods be adopted cy of Messrs. Dodwell and Co. ago. which I have culled from and this millstone round the neck struck a junk this morning at time to time, and I came across of the British Administration about 1.30 o'clock. No lives were a reprint of a portion of an should be cast off once and for lost.
original score by Wagner of the all. Referring to the workers"
Meistersinger. The reprint gave The requisitioning of the Em-the scoring for full orchestration right to take a part in managing the business in which he is press of Japan is causing great of the first half dozen bars of the engaged, Lord Robert Cecil held inconvenience to those who came overture, and it included an in- that with certain limitations the bere from Singapore and else strument, now long forgotten, worker was justined in demand-where and had to wait a long called the "Serpent". I have ing this right. It is an experiment time until they could secure heard of such an instrument which has yet to prove its efficacy berths in this vessel
having existed many years ago, in trial. There is no precendent
but exactly what it was, I have At the Police Court today anot been able to find out: whether upon which such a policy could be based, but it might well be Chinese was fined $250, or two) wood-wind, brass, reed or string- months' imprisonment for the ed. Perhaps some of my readers tried..
pared opium. He was arrested rather an unusual attitude to be on the sa. Sai Tick on Lun taken by a musical critic writing Cheong Wharf."
for the press, but I am not ashamed to acknowledge my ignorance and am always willing to learn.
"ALASKEE" MEN NOT NEEDED.
The Burrembest brought to Hongkong 2,400 tops of coal. She is under the agency of Messrs. Dodwell and Co. She arrived at
dawn to-day
TODAY'S. MISCELLANY.
Ostend which g
smething like its liveliness, has a very history as a seaside resort. Even in the early forties an Englar traveller noted that it had now become a flourishing town people who fuck to it as account of the lage number bathing place not only from Belgium but from Germany, and it has had periods a more hectic gaiety, especially when it was a gaming place The sands are still a greatainke `tion but it will rely also on" a variety of sports of all kinds, from racing to golf and tennis, and its association with the war will give it a high place with sightseers for a generation at least (Daily Chronicle.)
"Whoever wishes,” said Dr. Johnson, to attain an English The 4.8. Sunning (Captain style, familiar, not coarse, and Benson) brought 93 bags of elegant but not ostentatious, must mails from Shanghai to-day gives his days and nights to the and 1,300 tons of general mer-volumes of Addison Addison chandise.
has been dead these two hundred The Kwong Sang, an Indo-years last Tuesday, but we seen
Steamship Company's to be too busy with other cele- Chins vessel, had for Hongkong 1,200 brations to pay much heed to his
memory, says the London Morn ton of cargo.
The Gothic Prince come yes-ing" Post. In London, where he terday from New York with spent a large part of his too short 8,300 tons of herchandise. Her life, only a few of his haunts" local agents are Messrs. Shewan, are to be found. In Devereux Court may still be seen some part. Tomes and Co.
The Luchow had a consign- of the Grecian Coffee House meat of 700 tons of teak wood for which Addison and Steele used to frequent; and in Lombard the Colony from Bangkok.
The Persis Maru, under the Street still stands the church in
of the Toyo Kiser which Addison and the Dowager. agency" passengers from San Francisco, their not too happy marriage. steek matches, gold coins, pro-But one looks in vain in the visions and merchandise to the Haymarket for the shabby rooms where he was commissioned to extent of 973 tons.
The Inaba Martz came in this write a poem on the Duke of morning at dawn with 3,510 tons Marlborough's victory at Blen of beans, cotton and silk goods beim. from Yokohama.
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possession of three taels of pre- can enlighten me. This is, I know, Kaisha, brought this morning 42 Conntess of Warwick contract to the
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Mr. R. H. Katewall, the popular Hongkong manager of the Mercantile Co., Ltd., and a mem- ber of the Hongkong and Chinese Chambers of Commerce, leaves to-morrow by the ss. Nanking
for Shangbai.
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One of the outstanding home. been the rusical events has festival of commemoration of the founding of the Royal College of Music which recently took place The Portuguese gunboat Patria in the RCM. doncert hall, the arrived at 11 am, to-day from new President, the Prince of Macao, and will take the new Wales, attending the last concert Portuguese Governor to Macao and being vociferously received to-morrowW. The gunboat in Five-and-twenty years have commanded by Commander passed since that May day when Mariano Carvalho.
King Edward VII. declared the present buildings open, to the sound of a State Trumpeters fanfare and the roar of a Royal Salute fired by the guns in the park. A fairly concrete idea of the happenings in British music during these
The Chinese congee Kitchens have been a great boon to the poorer classes of Chinese. The committee in charge of the dis- tribution are spending daily a thousand dollars. They have in hand a lakh of dollars for the good work.
The Blu Funnel s.a. Jason which went ashore outside of
cement from Japan.
whilst
five-and-twenty
The Aki Maru from Yokohama
the
The Tyndaraeus departed for Seattle with a general load of
A Correspondent prefers the She and for Hongkong. had a consignment of 4,426 tons following complaint against the demobilised and their influence Inaba Maru are N. Y. K. bosts on the manners of our time
The 6.3. Nanking left at noon The Englishman's hat-raising. to-day for San Francisco with before the war was the worst in general and through cargo.
the world. It is hard to know; The Hain Tak, a Chinese vessel, leaves at 4 o'clock this what to say of it in 1919, especial- mangers of the heroes of the afternoon for Shanghai with ly when one thinks of the perfect. film. Toe. demobilised man bas 1,800 tons of cargo.
developed a salute which is little better than a cab-runner's. The reason,
doubt. is the transition from khaki to unfamiliar garments. The...... civilian soldier found the airy: salute he had developed for social" use would cling to him after his- khaki days. To avoid the dis aster of hesitation he has evolved the bat-touching saluation. And the shameless way in which he does it is evidence that he has. no mind to retum to more courteous ways. It is fortunate
5,000 tons.
The Wo Sang and the Chekiang left for Shanghai.
A GREAT FILM.
It was apparent to the large
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It was many a soldier's ex- perience on the battlefield during the war that positions were easier to capture than to retain, Mr. Lloyd George, applied that truth to Labour in his speech in Parliament on the industrial question. The parallel was much to the point. At Home, during the war, a man got into a billet which he would' probably never have obtained but for the unusual conditions prevailing. It was the grand opportunity for some men: it lifted them into a position where their worth would be A grea" many of appreciated. these men showed the staff that was in them, and, to pse an Americanism, they "made good." But others are now realising that, as with the soldier.it is one thing to capture a position, but quite another to hold it. That truth is possibly beginning to
years may be gathered from a dawn on others than those at
glimpse at the complete set of Home now. Perhaps even in
programmes of the festival. Of Hongkong it is being realised.
course, many clever youngsters We have been living in times
have hailed in that period of time "HEARTS OF THE WORLD
AT THE CORONET, when experiments and makeshifts Vadivostok and was refloat- from elsewhere, from the RAM. In his speech in the House of Commcds on the industrial situa-have had to be put up with. Buted and taken into port, has been the G.S.M., even from the pro- : tion, Mr. Lloyd George indulged in a deal of plain speaking, which, gradually we are coming back to patched with timbers but, owing vinces. Yet somehow undoubted- if taken to heart, ought to make the path smoother in the future. more normal conditions. There to there being no cement obtainly a clearer view of the doings and representative audience that that the Englishwoman always of the world." suffering from shell-shock on a big scale"-a simile the man who has popped into a fore-peak; the vessel was stir study of the R.C.M. programmes last evening, to see "Hearts of mrface manners. which well expresses the restlessness and the irritability of most good job during the war, has done
that from elsewhere; for the World," that revolution had peoples at the present moment. At the time of writing, we have not his work in a slipshod fashion lying there on August 5, awaiting most prominent alumni of the taken place in the presentation of
The first University Cricket the full text of the Premier's speech, and in what is to hand there and has taken no
paius to
BAM, Granville Bantock and moving pictures in Hongkong. is not a great deal to show how Mr. Lloyd George would solve the enhance his qualifications for
Josef Holbrooke, have passed into The beautiful soft light with Match after the war was remark- present unrest. It is true that he again reiterates the necessity of holding it He has been lucky At the Magistracy to-day, a the sere and yellow of old hands which the picture was shown, the able for several reasons, not least greater production, the abandonment of the "ca canny policy, these past four or five years. He Chinese was charged with picking and bore names to conjure with fact that reel after reel was screen- because two pairs of brothers and the importance of Capital and Labour working together in closer will have to show himself worthy the pocket of another Chinese more than a quarter or a certary ed without the audience being were playing in it, two on each
walking ago.
Aware when one part was dis-side, and in each case-brother harmony than hitherto. But all these things have been said before, of his billet if he is to hold it Complainant
along felt a hand in his pocket,
solved into the next, the care-against brother. Only once be and, unhappily, not much heed has been paid to the advice. It is,
much longer.
and on putting his hand in his as the Premier said, a dangerous fallacy that the less one worked,
fully chosen musical accompani-fore, has even one pair of brothers A very fine performance of went by an augmented but well played on opposite sides in the pocket, he missed his gold watch. the more work there was for everybody. It would be true, of course,
the same game. This was shortly that if everbody did an equal share of work, most individuals would
Chase was given and defendant Wagner's masterpiece was given, balanced. orchestra, with THE RATTAN WORKERS. have less to do. But there are some who, though able, do no work at
was caught. Mr. N. L. Smith at Home, recently, under the startling innovation of a series before the war, when Mr. R. O. for - Oxford appropriate bugle calls, Lagden appeared The faction fight which has sentenced him to six months baton of Sir Thomas Beecham, of all. And it is these folk that the "man in the street" is often thinking
Mr. R. B. Lagden for with Rosins Backman, as Isolda,
"to combined
vernance, and about. On this question of "slowing down,” Mr. Lloyd George said been going on between the two hard labour,
and Frank Mullings, as Tristan. the enjoyment of very Cambridge. But in 1877 Mr. some nasty things about both employer and employed, both of whom Rattan Workers' Guilds, and has
wonderful picture. Adebt J. Webbe and Mr. HR he accused of indulging in the practice. We presume the Premier resulted in the death of two
A Chinese passenger on a Blue meant to infer that both sides "ce canny" because to the worker it Chinese and the wounding of Funoel boat, was charged to-day Dr. Charles Harriss arrived in of gratitude is due to themanage Webbe played for Oxford, and from Santa ment for altogether banishing the Hon. A and the Hon E means less exertion and to the employer a continuance of high several others, has its most with unlawful possession of one Londen recently, prices. Well, we suppose the Premier had facts at his disposal serious aspect in that the Colt and
call advertisements from their screen: Lyttelton for Cambridge; and in one Smith Weston Barbara, California, to with which he could back up his statement. All the same, we methods taken bave been prompt-revolver, with 853 rounds of together all those who have sung one "shudders to imagine the 1878 there were no fewer than six cannot help feeling that all the way through his speech. Mr. Lloyd ed by meetings of what are ammunition. He had just re- with him in London since the effect that the badly-scrawled brothers playing, the famous characters which Lancastrians A.G. and D.Q. Steel George adopted a sitting-on-the-fence attitude. He accused one nothing more or less than 'secret turned from America and was on year 1906. This means the revival Chinese side, then the other; threw a plum to the workers and then another societies, Ostensibly, these Guilds his way to his native village of the great choirs which sang o casionally appear on the cinema laining the Lytteltons for Cam- to the employers. So it is scarcely possible to gather from his utter are miniature Trade Unions, bat The arms and ammunition were under his direction before His screens of the Colony would have bridge. In 1831 and 1882 there ance which way he is likely to jump politically in the future. No actually, some of them are found hidden in the side of a late Majesty, King Edward VII, had on the presentation of this were three brothers, all on the same side, Messrs. G.B,C.T., and doubt be imagined that some of his platitudes would win him favour dangerous combinations-of men travelling trunk Mr. N. L. at the Annual Empire Concerts triumph of the picture world.
prepared to amongst the ranks of Labour, but we do not for a moment think who are
at the Albert Hall and Quela's The story of "Hearts of the JE.K. Studd, for Cambridge. In go Smith fined the defendant $50. that the workers are going to be very enthusiastic about taking up to the utmost lengths to gain
Hall, the official opening of the World" is quite a simple one, the "Life of the Hon. A. Lyttelton Mr. Lloyd George. They will be the first to point out that he has their ends. It is very improbable of late trafficked and coquetted with the capitalists and has even that the activities of the two 3er of Commerce on Tree of London
Festival of Empire and Pageant The scene is laid in a little vil it is recorded, apparently serious the Crystal lage in Northern France. They, that he was thinking of going Palace in the presence of girl and the boy fall in love with to Oxford, but the prospect of surrendered some of his former, political views, which, a few years societies concerned in the present ago, he championed with all the eloquence and passion of which he trouble stop short at regulating day, the chief item of business their Majesties, the King and each other; they are about to be playing against Biward is capable. Particularly will they say this with regard to his going matters concerned with the rattan was the abortage of small coins back on Free Trade, as evidenced by his announcement of a system trade; at any rate, it is now in the Colony. This matter was Queen, the inauguration of the married when the Great War Lord's helped him to follow the which will completely break British fiscal traditions and commit us beyond question that at one or brought, up by Mr. Chan Harr, Shakespeare's England Exhibition comes and the boy is called to the family tradition. to a form of Protection. This new system is undoubtedly Protection more of the meetings held, cold manager of the Sincere Co., in at Earl's Court, the record visit of colours. The girl, of course, re- letter to the Chamber. After 2,000 singers who sang at the mains behind. Disaster over- Ghent Exposition and afterwards takes the French; and their re- under another name, and we may count open the Liberals and the blooded murder must have, been discussion a sub-committee com-at the Palace of Lækken at Brussels treat, leaves the village in the TYPHOON WARNINGA great mass of the workers at Home charging Mr. Lloyd George discussed, agreed upon and, as with having compromised with big interests. They will doubtless we have seen, carried out. That prising Messrs. Ho Wing, Chan point to his utterance of "great care being taken to prevent indue is the logical conclusion of Harr, Ip Lau Chuen and To Sze profit being made at the expense of the community" as at any rate the fatter after duly weighing Tuan was appointed to investigate admitting the possibility of such a development under a system up all the known facts. It there
Government fore behoves the of import duties for alleged protective purposes.
There is general agreement that Mr. Lloyd George has served to take speedy measures to con- A Chinese was to-day charged, his country magnificently during the war; that he was the man fortrol these so-called Trade Unions before Mr. RE Lindsell, with the time of crisis through which the Empire was called upon to When we have definite proof unlawful possession of
4. But we rather fear that, with the war over, the Premier wild) that Chinese Trade
Lens que, to hold popular confidence than he did when be had develop into blo
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"The telegram quoted below before King Albert In the singers hands of the Hnns. Scene after 1908, and all those who sang under the changed conditions with him in the Festival of the Brit the bestiality of the Bosche being received by the American Come isk Empire throughout Canada set forth with a vividness that sulate General, Hongk Australia, New Zealand, Tasmani leaves no doubt that the the Manila Ob
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