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THE HONGKONG
LEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1919.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
CHINESE AND TENNIS.
DAY BY DAY.
WHEN COMPROMISE BROADENS. That was an interesting com-INTELLECT AND CONSCIKNUK ARN ment on Chinese ambitions. at THRUST INTO NARROWER ROOMS. lawn tennis by a son of Sir Boshan Wei Yuk which recantly appeared in the London Daily Sketch and which we reproduced in our issue of Saturday. It is:
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The Parsea New Year Day falls on the 11th instant.
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TO DAYS MISCELLANY
Four Fublicity Bureau fully appre diate the true aims of such publicity, they will only court failure. Any scheme that does not build up goodwill and create sales is bad and does not tend torm was telling me the other day
The head of a big bensitanyone, inasmuch asit fails
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[BY AJAX"] The week has witnessed the in its object. There is a little the London Evening News) of a (says "The.Man About Town” in breaking of a few lances on the doubt that for lack of knowledge reasonableness of the claim of and sound judgment large sums man-of-the-world solution of the Bangkok has declared Hong-Kowloon to be represented on the of money have been wasted by difficulty of getting a party of true, as Mr. Wei says, that in Fong to be released from quart has been contended that the sounder degree of judgment is of contract was one that had to be Hongkong Legislative Council. injudicious publicity, and men up North to work. The
South Chins lawn tennis has antine. easily become the most popular outdoor amusement. But the speaker was a little too urodest, we think, in saying that the Chinese are at present children at the game, compared with the
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie's sermon is held over until to morrow.
To-day.
according to the
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Brown Bondy! English. That may be so as far Chinese calender, is the festival Peninsula. Kowloon is growing London, Sir Lao Chiozza Money would do the work. The task
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interests of Kowloon are well more value than in the subsidising finished speedily. The shop protected by Mr. Kemp, who is of Chinese journals and pushing, stewards would not listen to the-
Kowloon resident This is molens volens, down the throate of Buggestion of overtime and a confusing the issue. Mr. Kemp, readers of Chinese newspapers special bonus, It was a piece of as Attorney-General, can have no
laudatory articles on British
work in which nine men were time to advocate the needs of the manufactures by Mr. Powell, the engaged. The contractor changed Editor of the Financial News of his tactics. He promised each as first-class tennis goes, but of Pai-lu, ar "White Dew". daily and in a few years' time its
man a bottle of whisky if he the marvellous progress which
importance will surprise us. The and other financial writers. the Chinese have made in the. The baby's shawl raffled by present constitution of the past few years shows that they Mrs. Nicholls, in aid of the Legislative Council satisfies no have a marked aptitude for the Ministering League funds, has one. What earthly right have which I consider essential for The personal qualifications game. Ten years ago, it would been won by Ticket No. 50.
Justices of the Peace to any the efficient pushing of British Continental tourist traffic has now have sounded like a wild prog-
So far as Belgium is concamed, representation on the Council? goods in South China are: Broad-been freed froin war-time re- nostication to forecast that The Harbour Master of Hong- Why not fire the representative mindedness the ability to take strictions, and, with the Flanders within a decade the Hongkong kong issues the following-A of the Justices of the Peace out a long and wide view and to study battlefields championships in singles and derelict jünk was reported as
and have instead a Kowloon the possibilities of markets. attraction, record bookingsto that League contests would be held being in Lat. 18° 15 N. Long. member? Communal representa- Method to plan for giving country are anticipated during by Chinese, but that is the 111° 46' E. on August 30th, form-tion in Hongkong should be drop-effective publicity to situation to day. Mr. Wei saya ing a danger to Navigation.
ped as apparently no one wants organised scheme. Receptiveness Poor shattered Ypres has had
a well-the that the British may one day
coming holiday it. Why not some form of pro- and adaptability,—a bra n readily but little time to prepare for months. have to go to Peking to win the Besides the cases of gastroportional representation to avoid sensitive to impressions as to visitors, but a wooden hotel with Davis Cup. That is quite pro- enteritis referred to elsewhere. a landslide for one or other com- salient selling points and a desire the euphemistic bable. To-day the Chinese are during last week there were nine munity? The protest against to investigate and to understand real enthusiasts at the game. casee of enteric fever and six of dumping the Justices of the trade custozas
Re They will improve as time goes cholera notified in Hongkong. Pesce on the Legislative CouncilTach-to please and satisfy the activity are apparent. The shell and conditions. been erected, and other signs of
staurant Yprian' has already on, and the day cannot be far Five of each ended fatally.
has been unavailing. This per-class or type of customer which holes have vanished from the distant when they will be taking
sistence in an obvious error is to it is desired to reach. To this streets, and a few of the in- a prominent place in inter-
The Royal Hongkong Golf be regretted; it is not firmness has to be added decision and habitants have drifted back and national contests.
Club Championship is to be but rather obstinacy. The prejudgment, which will guage are dwelling in temporary shelters. SIR CHARLES ELIOT.
played on the big course at Fane sent Hongkong has a peculiar in-ling next month. Early next Kowloon" represented on the existing or probable demand.
get promptly and with accuracy an terest in the appointment of the mouth also, a competition for a Council has its origin in the
British Ambassador to silver cup is to take place. See the grOSS
The Western Australian Mining aversight by the Japan. for Sir Charles Eliot, who advt.
Hongkong Government of Kow- Publicity wears different clothes of 150 ozs of gold by two mining Department in reporting the find is to fil the post, has been head
loon's needs. Delay in executing in different countries; and those prospectors in 1912. There are many who hold is holding an "at Home" at its Peninsula and niggardliness in parishes other than their own points out that this find emphasis- of the Hongkong University since
The Chinese Recreation Club schemes for the betterment of the who wish to do business in district of
the Murchison Western Australia, the view that Sir Charles made a Club premises on Saturday at 4the P.WD. grants have deeply must learn the manners and es the possibilities which still lie mistake in leaving diplomacy for pm. There will be a tennis match wounded Kowloon's amour propre customs of their neighbours. The before those scholastic work, but that, after Champions. The Rest, and later and will even throw her into the cry that rouses Peking to entha search of the coveted metal in all, is a man's own affair. Sir Mrs. B. Wong Tape will distribute arms of the agitator and revolut-siasm may leave Patagonia cold; Western Australia. It is added. Charles has seen many parts of the prizes.
ionary! It must be conceded by the appeal that pierces to the that the area of auriferous coun- the world in the course of his
any right-thinking person that heart of the Philippines may re-try still awaiting development is tive on the Legislative Council dermatous hide of Timbuctoo. To quire the gift of prophecy to say career in diplomatic life. He has
Kowloon's claims to a representa- coil ineffectually from the pachy-immense, and that it does not re- are sound, and there is no reason know each merket and how that many great goldfields still why success should not crown to trade in it that is what await the finding in Western.. this agitation.
the Publicity Bureau has to Australia, but in this, as in all know. The Publicity Bureau of business-like ventures, the aid of The need for legislation in tunate in the amount of support quired to provide the preliminary South China must count itself for- the speculative capitalist in re- Hongkong on the lines of the it has received from British man- expenditure. Business Names Act is daily em- Home, but I am not astonished United Kingdom Registration of ufacturers and merchants at
managed companies that assucie opened their eyes to the criminal both skilled and unskilled labour... phasised by the number of Chinese-at this, as the Great War had women's replacement of men in The unquestionable fact of
The assumption by the Chinese of of China. The astonishment has ment, is clearly brought out in high-sounding English Dames. neglect of the potential markets in clerical and manual employ- European names and titles for been for the most part on the side the report of the New York trading purposes is largely, if not of those who have said: wholly, caused by the anticipation why on earth didn't you do this Replacement was found to have Now, Bureau of Women in Industry. that such assumed names will. before?" The Publicity Bureau occurred in practically every type by inspiring greater confidence, must realise that it is not of work performed by men, both increase business
and & Case of easure
what an extended credit in British manufacturers wish to to an amazing extent. But al- If evidence were needed of the shiftiness and trickery of the
the in power and non-power processes wholesale Germans it can be found in abundance in the manner in which they
transactions. This sell the Chinese, but rather what though holding men's jobs these ciple and productive of harm British merchant. The latter has practice is bad are seeking to evade important points of the Peace Trea y. A few
in prin- the Chinese need to buy of the women did not receive men's days ago it was announced that the Entente had found it necessary
and prejudicial to the interests of to sell him nothing superfluous, under $14 and only 190 received to address a sharp Note to the Germans because the latter, in their the situation in Russia at the pre- It is extremely difficult to gauge
Almost 8,000 received wages. hosest British traders. There nothing useless, only those things over $20 a week. Of the seventy- new Constitution, had made arrangements for the representation of the Austrians on the Imperial Council, which step was a distinct sent moment, and to ascertain changed to-day with unlawful, the English Act is very necessary and this at a reasonable price. wages of men and women only A Chinese woman who was fore, an Act on similar lines to for which he has a real need, eight plants offering comparative contravention of the Peace Treaty. We now have the German what is really happening, especi- reply to the Allied Note, and this is a typical piece of German blunt. ally in regard to the British possession of 500 rounds of in the Colony in order to check Those associated with such It states that the new Constitution. merely provides for the attitude towards the Koltchaksaid he saw the defendant walk-adopting European names and men of the best possible brain women replacing men." As to gave equal an important scheme need to be "possibility" of a union with Austria and is therefore not a direct Government. News which has ing along Spring Garden Lane,
to by Chinese and others of men of sound business calibre, but
pay and "these represented infringement of the peace terms. Thus the Germans arrive at the reached us from Vladivostock says carrying a box. He went up and thereby not only deceiving mer-their time to the work and not lower pay received by women. 9 per cent. of the
Bank will not accept Koltchak munition in it. She said she was and also the public as to the com-work. A man in charge of such ance, there is the interesting fact that the Hongkong and Shanghai searched it and found the am-
business purposes, power, full of energy, devoting all the usual reason assigned for the chants at Home and in America dividing it between any other namely, that women need assist Government
money, although
the Constitution, and to take the word of the Germans that its terms
Government. It would almost
man. Mr. R. E Lindsell fined will not be put into operation. It is as if a criminal were brought fence, for whilst we are giving
eleven plants "where seem that we are sitting on the
course to law is necessary, to lessons in astronomy. before the Court for being in possession of burglarious instruments and then urged that be be allowed to retain them because he had arms and ammunition to the fore Mr. N. L. Smith to-day, with
Three men were charged be-race the actual proprietors of
men, no woman received as much them. not been caught.using them, although he contemplated doing so in
Koltchak brigade and are lend- unlawful possession of a dagger
as the man, and the majority of the future. For colossal cheek and impudence, this German viewing officers and men
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie women less than 75 per cent. of point will take some beating. But it does not end here. The their conscripts, at the same time stable gave evidence, that on the China is really an institution for agitate the ordinary man. His that the reason for their retention and a revolver. A Chinese.con- The Publicity Bureau for South has the happy knack of selecting his wage. In fact, it is quite Allies have threatened that if the objectionable clause is we do not officially recognise 5th at 2.30 p.m. he was on duty propagating in South Chine the sermons have a ring of true of a large proportion of their subjects for his sermons that openly admitted by many plants cancelled, they will be compelled to occupy further parts
the Government, and therefore at Morrison Hill with some other quality of British goods, and to sincerity and his treatment of women workers is that the women of the Rhine territory. This demand the Germans have the their money is not official police, when he saw four men popularise British-made stuffs in the subject masterly. Last week perform as good or better work. effrontery to describe From the use of such a phrase, one might almost imagine valuable than that originating defendant drew.& revolver, and of the Germane to China the Even the Christian Hell bas its menace to skilled labour, she
The Romanoff and going up the hill. regrettable act of violence." currency.
Kerensky money is much more
He went markets where German goods be delivered one up to them when the second had held the field. With the return
for less pay.. that the Germans were the aggrieved party, such an attitude
Od *Hell
If, therefore, very debatable of injured innocence do they take
subject. woman in industry is not to be a from Ocisk. up. The common-sense way of looking at the matter never occurs to them-that they it is difficult to say.
As to what should so he started to pull out his own. tussle will be a severe one, and attractions. When Dante publish- should be put on the basis of be done in all the circumstances, Defendant started to run down to cap it all a very big publicity ed his "Inferno" the simplicity of equal pay and equal opportunity are doing something which they are expressly forbidden to do by dent writes to us saying that all the peace terms, and that the Allies are merely requiring them to fighting should cease, educational Smith sentenced the first two launched in China. The Pub Treatises and topographical des-
A correspon- the hill, fell and rolled down. He scheme controlled by the Amer-the age accepted it as a bring their actions into line with their plighted word. The Germans and technical schools should defendants to 12 months' hard licity Bureau for South China criptions of hell, purgatory and was then arrested Mr. N. L. ican Government is shortly to be narrative of his descent into hell.
true without regard to sex. are told that they are expected to carry out their promises, and that be built and factories erect-labour, and the third defendant will have to strain every nerve Heaven were once the favourite if they do not do so, the Allies will make the terms a little harder ed to develop the unlimited was discharged. to bear. Where is the "act of violence" in that? If the Germans had been the victors and the Allies had broken faith with them, who is to govern? He suggests resources of the country. But
to push British wares in the researches of the churches, who would they sit still and say a thing? Of course they would not. that the
markets of South China, We even doubt if they would have given the defeated nations any should be guillotined, as also
extreme Bolshevists ENTERITIS
for apparently it is not warning at all; rather more likely is it that they would have at should the extremely haughty
going to be all beer and once sized the opening and straightway added to the harshness of the peace terms. There is another instance of characteristic autocrats: then the remaining German methods in what is transpiring in the Baltic Provinces
classes should become to be the
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1919.
GERMAN SHUFFLİNG.
conclusion that an amendment of the Constitution is not necessary. as Germany is willing that the clause to which the Allies take exception shall remain without force. This means that Germany
served in St. Petersburg, Con- stantinople, Morocco, Washing ton, Samos and British East Africa. In 1904, he resigned his post in the latter place and the following year became Vice Chan- cellor of Sheffield University, which position he held until he came to Hongkong. It is common years he has been keenly in knowledge now that of recent
affairs, and the first. indication teresting himself in Far Eastern that he might again turn to the diplomatic service came when he was recently sent to Siberia, where he had been doing very important work. Now he goes to Japan, where daties of the highest im- portance will devolve upon him. His many freinds in Hongkong will follow his future career with the deepest interest. THE RUSSIAN PUZZLE.
The master of a cargo-boat with 240 piculs of rice aboard reports firs Bay on Saturday afternoon, thal while his boat was lying off
and rifles, attacked the junk and six men, armed with revolvers stole a quantity of rice valued at
£462.96.
The Hongkong Tramway com. pany's receipts for the week ended September 6, totalled $15.- 430 which is $119 below the same week last year. For the 36 weeks of the year, the takings total $529,470 which represents an advance of $36,100 over the same period in 1918
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ammunition. A Chineso constable.
effectively the practice resorted
titles for
20 per cent.
expects the Allies to agree to the inclusion of a resented clause in the British are supporting that carrying the box on behalf of position of such firms, but also work must concentrate all his that in
her $250. or three months. rendering it difficult, whore re-mind on the job and not give women were producing more than
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hope never comes. That comes to all, but torture. - without end.
that General Von Jer Goltz showed no signs of a cessation of his whether the unhappy Russians heavy toll among the poorer
proletariat! But queries enteritis still continues to take a wow to successfully exploit them, will be also their bodies after the Shanghai. A well-known char-
Whether the Publicity Bureau
resurrection, and
What has Germany to say, of these happenings.. She says that they never will by the sword, he abatement of the epidemic, not-it claims in the small brochure Hell is purgatory, where Souls a very bad man, he said, had lived.
But there is
exhausted their ink-horns in building up a Hell to their own MORTALITY.skittles or us. The American taste, or for their particular pur
STILL MOUNTING.
could be desired. The promoters into four parts, the deepest of amusing anectode which Dr. These lines are recalled by an Here, in spite of the peace terms, te German troops have been the bourgoisie,
have a thorough knowledge of the which was Hell, which contained Hall, the veteran Chine mission extremely active. A message to hand & couple of days ago showed
The disease known as gastro-markets and know to a nicety all the souls of the damned, where ary, told to an audience in activities but was continuing his insolent disregard of the Allies will ever become. Pnlightened Chinese, there being no marked for South China can do all that the demons. The place nearest made a confession. He had been wishes, whilst German landowners were following bis example:
likewise all acter came to him one day and
the evacuation of the Baltic regions has been stopped owing to the avers. "They are all very animal, withstanding the
abolition of that it published sometime ago, are purged, or rather where they a bad life; his soul was beyond
results will prove. insubordination of German troops in Courland and that Von der very close to nature; a curious congee kitchens. Goltz has been sent to Mitau merely to persuade the troops to be and are very outspoken" Whatment is instructive, and shows at
mixture of sadness and gaiety;
no doubt that in the near future sufferings. He says that the be a Christian Why? Because. The following tabulated state-
appease the anger of God by their saving; nevertheless he wanted to reasonable! The statement needs to be taken with a grain of
we shall witness in China a same fires and torments are he had heard that the Christian salt Von der Goltz' ides of "reasonable "action appears to be the can be done with them? That is a ta'glance the growing'seriousness very big trade war, and the alike in both these places, the hell was hot; if he died at
conqueror, will be that nation flouting of the Allied requirements: Judging from the two question which is puzzling the of the disease:
only difference between Hell and Buddhist he would go to the stances with which we have dealt, the Germans seem to think that best brains of the world to-day.
Week Ending Cases
that adopta scientific tactice. Deaths the Allies are a lot of simplstons, and that they can be deceived
Purgatory consisting in their Buddhist hell, which, instead August 16,
11 with shodlimit of excuses. They will learn better in course of BIG PROPERTY DEAL. August 30
duration. Next to Purgatory, Car of being a hot mnderworld, like August 23
Publicity in China should be dinal Bellarmin tells us, is the the Christian hell was an upper time. The Allies have no misconceptions as to the German
conducted upon and regulated by limbo of those infants who died region of intense Trigidily attitude towards the peace terms. They know that Germany will We learn that the Humphreys
September 6
The systematized knowledge founded without receiving the Sacrament, old fellow abhorred cold, but he ek every possible means of escaping the full demands of the Estate and Finance Company has day, there were 15 further cases be-all and end-all of true and just men who died before Christ, Was there
For the 48 hours ending yester-on well-defined principles. The and next to that the limbo of those did not mind heat in the least. But we have ho doubt that all these schemings of the sold Marine Lots 266 and 267, of gastro-enteritis, of which 9 good publicity campaign is to but since the Advent of Christ kransfer Todge, the consequences of the war will be futile. We West Point,to a Chinese syndicate were fatal, all the victims being, build up goodwill and to create this department Dow for lew of ot
Germany to the very end.
for $431,500.
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