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SEPTEMBER
1919.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
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LIVE IN THE THOUGHT OF If there is difficulty at this end MALICE OR HATRED, AND MALICE, in the matter of securing steamer OR HATRED WILL COME BACK TO passages for Home, it is apparent | YOU. from a telegram which came to hand yesterday that the same kind of hardship is being felt at Home. That talegram stated that there ATO no fewer than 15,000 people awaiting passages
It is said that the 22nd Punjabis to the East, these being mostly business
and wives and will shortly remove to Rennie's families of men in the Orient. "It Mill, Junk Bay, to make room is believed that the shortage of for the Wiltshire Battalion at accommodation will last another Kowloon. six weeks or two months. At first glance, the number mention- ed seems excessively high, but we presume that the figures apply to India, the Straits, and the Far East generally, in which event the. total does not appear out of the way. It will The B. L'steamer Thongwa, be some relief to Easterners by which a number of Hongkong if they really men are returning from active are able to get away in a couple service, is expected in port early of months, but we must not forget to-morrow morning. that a great many of these have probability been endeavour- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., ing to get passages for a very shows 30 cases of gastro-enteritis Military authorities should be long time. From what we can (2) fatal), seven of cholera (six expected to do their own duties hear, it is likely to be just as fatal), six of enteric (two fatal), without the assistance of civilians, difficult a year hence to obtain two of puerperal fever (one fatal) all of whom should now be passages as it now is, so that the and one fatal case of cerebro-demoblised. prospects of early betterment are spinal fever. All were Chinese. only likely to be temporary. We
The case was concluded yester hear that local shipping com- panies now booking passages for day afternoon, at the Marine Home cannot give any guarantee specified times. This is a factor
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The Navy Sports Committeebly dear, throughout,
festivities The action of the Military held their annual meeting at the authorities in suspending all Naval Canteen on Monday even succumbed to Sai demoblisation is causing the ing, but the attendance was small, ling Muscared. greatest possible inconvenience and in the absence of really de- garden, -parties and loss to those commercial finite firms at Home, who guaranteed
news as to the players Morning Post) a de
in to keep appointments open for coming
was suddenly cheered by « the China the officers still on service. Many Squadron,
business at popping of corks at a bunst under a tres. In common with 'other" men here are being needlessly arranging the officers for the thirsty souls, he hurried to the retained who could be easily re various sporting sections was spot. Here you are, Admiraly. leased without in any
laft over to the next meeting, said his hostess, singling him of affecting the Military situation. The feeling, in consequence, is so Lt. Commander Kilgour was and graciously filling a shadow. strong that some firms have al-elected President and Pay Lieut glass with scented fem. But he bad meantime caught sight of the ready
60 far as to Robinson, Vice President. The label; and the gallant old sea-dog stop all salaries and gratuities Navy
anticipating a fell back, saying Να to those serving out here. boom in sporting competitions
Women In the interests・・ of officers of the local garrison who this season, and arrangements are losing their jobs by being are being made to provide for
the back, kept
Military football (Association and Rugby), authorities should re-consider tennis, swimming, hockey, cricket this question on broader lines than Aave hitherto found favour. The and boxing.
In connection with the Rugby week's health return time has now come when the
England player will arrive on the from a dog that was chained u Station shortly and no difficulty and sat gnawing its capture jus should be experienced in forming out of reach of the chain, wagging a side for an occasional Rugby its tail and apparently enjoying game. The meeting decided to the humour of the situation to enter two teams in the Hong- the full Monkeys, again, will kong Football Leagues, one chatter in huge glee when they The first garrison battalion of Senior and one 3rd Division. succeed in pilfering the spectacles num of an old lady, and cats have
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There are many instances showing that a sense of humor has been given to animals es wal as to human beings. A puppy
game, it is expected that an All on
one occasion stcles bor
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires them to forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an of return reservations within mate of the s.s. Jason, was coming to Hongkong, are in India entered in the 2nd Division, as when they have been successful All communications intended for publication should be address-which will have to be taken into The Court found the defendant to-day. They consist of 19 officers, the Navy at the Hongkong Foot-in cheating a rival of some dainty:
Court, in which F. Twomey, third the Bedfordshire Regiment, who This will increase the
were erroneously rumoured to be ber of teams already been known to purr with delight
evidence of their bona fides.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1919.
DEFENCE CORPS "RIGHTS.".
Home leave next spring. The war is over, but its effects are going to be felt for a very long time yet. LOSING GROUND.
charged with refusing to do duty..
WAR SAVINGS.
LAST MONTH'S SUBSCRIPTIONS.
officers and 607 N. C.
Government should
*
fine standard of
J. and men. They are now only entered one eleven pro-to sorrow, and horses, castle, and to be suspended for six months.
stationed at Lucknow.
visionally.
deer have been known to weep The Bongkong Tramway Com.
In connection with the Senior at the loss of their progeny. pany's receipts for the week end- ed 20th September totalled $14.-
We have not as yet been League, it is now practically Straws show in which direction 545, which is an increase of officially informed as to the fate certain that 8t. Joseph's will tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for the wind is blowing and bye- $1,225 over the same week last of the Food Committee. I am enter the. League and this action | on their part, although delayed,
Judging from the books that The Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee elections are often a trustworthy year. For the 38 weeks of the told that at a meeting held is good for sport. Their reasons come to my table for review,
guide to the political feeling of year, the takings total $559,065 | ♣ couple of months is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies the country. In a succession of which represents an increase of in, the office of the Colonial Senior League were good, but our young airmen have logo of
for not primarily entering the writer in the Weekly Telegraph delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies
recent contests the Coalition $36,822 over the same weeks in Treasurer, at which all the mem-we shall be surprised if they do their own a peculiar slang, and sent by post ar additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
Government at. Home has been1918.
bera of the Committee. were pre- not unearth
a new school of poetry baskies. some youngez Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
sent who were then resident in Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a badly hit, and the latest set-back is that experienced at Pontefract,
A woman reports to the Police the Colony, it was unanimously players who will maintain the 4 bump," it seems, is a patch of fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
play rarefied air. A pylon-pilot is where the Liberal Coalitionists that on the 22nd, inst, whilst she agreed that as the war is over of former seasons. After all, a lad who likes stunting before s manage to retain the seat but have was going up the stairs of her now retail food prices should be
quantity of players is oft-times a crowd of admirers." To pancake lost some two thousand votes. house at No. 514, Shanghai Street, allowed to take their normal source of weakness rather than is to crash without serious con- That is more writing on the she W&B suddenly attacked level, and that the Committee be
strength, as combination is sequences. A Hum" Lathe wall, the import of which is not by three men.
Hence the present; Υπο of dissolved. to be mistaken. It is quite clear the men caught hold of her weekly list of prices issued to-day essential to success, and physical RF.C. name for the unqualified inferiority, although always novice; and in the R.N.AS he is BEATTIE At Chater's Bungalow, Kowloon, on the 23rd inst. that the Coalition no longer re- and held her down, whilst the through the Sanitary Board.
to be considered, will not be & quirk." Among the cloudland to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Beattie, a daughter.
tains tha confidence of the other man extracted $100 from
80 marked a handicap on poets are Miss C. M. Tatham, and electorate, and when theher girdle. No arrests have been
the hard dry grounds football is Mr. Paul Bewsher, who voices the next General Election comes made.
There is a good deal of clamour played on in the Colony. Many joy of flying Now I know why round, we may expect to see it
in Hongkong to-day regarding of St. Joseph'a men being tall, the skylark singa! The post tells suffer heavily at the polls unless
the exorbitant rents charged by their games should provide great of a night raid on German potent meaRS are found for
landlords Nothing can be done interest. A team that might very furnace, with every wire of his rebabilitating it in the eyes of the
without legislation. It is very well have been promoted had machine dreadfully outlined in country. The average voter likes
difficult to get Government to they won the 2nd Division the glare, and-" The tips of the plain sailing in politics; he is no
legislate unless we show Gov- Championship last year is the trembling planes are listening lover of political.bybrids. He
ernment that it has public Staffs and Depts, who will have ears" for a few moments, big understands party voting, and he
opinion behind them. What the the assistance of one or two new with the dering flier's fate. is likely to stick to his preference
do is to senior players besides most of last One boy actually writes his for it. What party will next come During August subscriptions appoint a Controller of Rents year's men, who were quite up to poems far above earth where, into power, it would not be easy to the Hongkong and South and get him to go round and the standard of senior football. Great white clouds went to say. Liberal or Labour, we
China War Savings Association. fix the rents to be paid in Kowloon have already started, up the stairs of God!" Another More than passing interest has been taken locally in the cases should think.
by its Members "amounted to the various buildings in the and & practice match at the poet flier Cameron Wilson-had of two members of the Malay States Volunteer Rifles which have
$46.115 (Hongkong Currency), | Colony. and then declare Valley last week, showed very been a schoolmaster. Yet recently been dealt with by the magistrate at Klang. The one man RAILWAYS FOR CHINA,
$27,416.31 (Straits Bought to uphold his right to resign from the Corps, the magistrate The Board of Trade Journal |
Currency) that landlords must not charge promising form, one or two new another-Duncan Tovey, of the £9.078 138.1ld. (Sterling).
more rent than that fixed by the men tried also proving distinct London Scottish was musician deciding in his favour; the other appeared in answer to a charge of has been telling the British public
These amounts were invested Controller. Where this is done succeSSOR.
and an accomplished entertamer, failing to attend a compulsory parade, and he has been dismissed. that from an investor's point of in British War Loan.
tenants should be able to recoveri
who sang of stately battle In both instances, therefore, the standpoint taken by the members-view the prospects of railway The membership of the As-the amount, and if the citizens of It is quite probable that next planes And the quivering air in opposition to that taken by the administrative officers of the development in China are promissociation is now 1,308.
year the Hongkong F.A. will be is all a-drone, like an organ deep Hongkong stand up and with one faced with the same problem of and low. Many of these poed Corps has been vindicated, and they have been shown to have the ing. What it knows about the
voice demand that Government, having to induce the winners of lots have crossed the bar **** law on their side. Now, the idea has got abroad in Hongkong that
should pass some such Act the 2nd League to ascend to the for their life was a butterfly's these decisions imply that members of our own Defence Corps have
Government is bound to take 1st League, and it would be as measured only in hours But the right either to resign or absent themselves from parades when-
well to make a rule that, the Club they and their kind are giving us. ever they feel so disposed. That is an erroneous view. Members
winning the 2nd Division of the 'Defence Corps are bound by the provisions of the local Mili-
something new in literature. (unless a purely reserve organisa-}~ tary Service Ordinance, the terms of which give them no option but
Public opinion is very slack tion of Senior Club) should to remain in the Force and to carry out the training prescribed by
Hongkong, but it must automatically be promoted. · If Let us look at these Malay States cases. The private who case, a quarter of a century is a
be stirred up. Rents are inflated by so doing the Senior League Modern folk are accustomed to sought to resign (Pte. Winthrop) was told that he could not do so little too far ahead to make us MACAO STEEL PLATE raising them unduly.
and advantage is being taken in became inconveniently en-regard tennis sa an innocent A most larged, the rule could be enough sport, likewise bowls and because the Force was on active service. He did not admit this, very enthusiastic about setting though arguing that if this contention were correct he was entitled aside
of some
hard-
tender question is the freedom of added to, that the last Club shove ha penny which is still a
The law betwe-n or contract.
Clubs од into
the to Army pay. It was shown during the hearing of the cass that the earned
senior popular game in the Navy, but money to put Army Act had been extended to the F. M. S., that the Governor had these railways-to-be. We have not
landlord and tenant is very con- League revert to the 2nd Division, our ancestors even went far as to declared the forces of the Colony to be temporarily subject to that heard anything of late to suggesting of the case against Soares, & of
Although the preliminary hear-plicated, and very much in favour but it is unlikely the latter will pass a law against these mild the landlord." It wants be necessary. With six clubs forms of recreation. In 1541 the Act (as has been done in Hongkong), and that on publication of that there is a serious movement such declaration in General Orders, the Force was deemed to be on on foot to provide China with clerk in the Hongkong and amending. The present system now in the 1st Division, the "bowyers, Betchers, stringers, and Whampon Dock Co, has been of tenement assessment provides Hongkong sporting public will be arrowbed-markers of this realme? active service. It was stated, however, that though the declaration these railways which she so
Henry VII of was published in General Orders, such publication was subsequent badly needs. But we will grant concluded at Macao, the prisoner for assessment once a year. A well provided for on Saturday petitioned
cannot be handed over Government notification in the afternoons at the Valley and elsewatrimonial fame to prohibit to the date of the application by Pte. Winthrop to resign. We have that if this question is properly
to the police officer sent Gazette on Saturday last draws the where...
“Sundrie news and crafty games no details of the exact terms of the magistrate's decision; we are taken up and dealt with on from Hongkong, for the attention of landlords that the
QUIZ as slydethrifte, other merely informed that he held the Force not to be on active sensible lines, there should be a
reason that according to valuation of the tenements in the
called shove grote, tannya and service and that Pte. Winthrop's name should thus, have great opening for European the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty no Colony for the year commencing
bowles, practised within been struck off the roll Presumably the decision was capital To make that prospect
realme to the great hurt and latt based on
the fact that the Governor's declaration appeared in anything else but a hazy dream, criminal can be extradited, but 1st July, 1920, should be made General Orders after the application to resign was made. As to the China will have to give evidence must be tried and serve his before April 30, 1920, or as soon per cent, and, therefore, some of shootings and archerie". It other case, it was dismissed because there was no proof that the that she wants European skill Therefore the Inspector has to some provision that after the rents until they can get that preferred to exercise their cunning sentence in his native"country.as possible. There should be landlords have to capitalise. the appesis that the lads of the village defendant was summoned to the parade. It was stated in Court and European capital to help her that the parade was notified in the Gazette, that the Orders had in the task. She cannot meet the return to Hongkong and collect assessment no rents should be money. One of the causes of the at slydethrifte" when, in the been sent to every member of the Corps, and that defendant bad not need unaided.. To wait for China all necessary documents for the raised without the landlord giving high rents is the speculation in opinion of the bow and arrow disputed receiving the notice. The magistrate, however, during the to do the work will be to wait public bearing. hearing, asked whether regimental orders could alter the law, and until the crack of doom. suggested that the Corps should try and induce the Legislature to
that enactment.
fall in with its wishes. That looks as though there were no legis-
matter we should not care to say, but we notice that it speaks of an expectation that 50,000 or even 100,000 miles of railway will be built in China within the next quarter of a century. As to who it is that "expects"this develop- ment, nothing is said.
QUI
In any
720
The totals now stand:- Hongkong currency.---$2,820,-
Straits currency.-$864,556,51 Sterling.-£28,957 4s. 1116d. Gold currency.—$7,343.76. Yen. Yen 699.403.
CASE.
DON'T FORGET.
action.
in
the Government good and proper land that is going on, and hence makers, they would have been reasons for doing so. This is a rents are going up. We cannot better occupied in shooting at the piece of legislation that can be dispel the conviction that the butts on the village green. How warked through.
present-day landlords of Hong-ever, King Henry granted the kong come under the category petition, moved, no doubt, by a of profiteers, if not worse. Of passage mourning the decay of The Hongkong Government course, this hita the men on good archers who have not can only help us if we put some small fixed incomes. With prices only defended this realme zga Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.15 practical suggestion before it. 300 to 400 per cent, on the the cruell malice and danger of
of
a
Dim.
lative enactment empowering the calling of compulsory parades.
To come to Hongkong, and taking the latter case first, there is EARNINGS OF ARCHITECTS. legislative power here to compel attendance at parades, and it is Capt. Maurice Kiddy, assistant found in the Military Service Ordinance which created the Deferce secretary of the Society Corps and made membership of it compulsory for all male British Architects, wishes to correct subjects between the ages of 18 and 55 years. That disposes of the statement, attributed to bim, question of there being any analogy between the F.M.S. and Hong- that "the minimum (paid to kong on that point. As to the right of a member of the Defence architectural assistants) is £250 a Corps to resign,, no such right exists, for the Ordinance mentioned year, and first-class assistants stipulates that membership continues until discharge, dismissal.or receive anything up - £2,000.” exemption. The position is clear, therefore, so far as the right to Though a professional union is compel service goes. The Hongkong Ordinance, however, was passed trying to secure a minimum for AS E WAY measure, and it is laid down that it is to continue in force un-salaries, there is no such thing, til the expiration of a period of six months from the conclusion of he says, at present; and be dis- the war What the legal meaning of these words is we are not con- claims responsibility for the p
we do think the time has come when this £2,000 figure. “An architect cerned about. Ordinance should be repealed, the Force to revert to its voluntary without capital to start in private thus given the right to resign when they feel practice," he adds, need not ger any necessity for the existence of despair of earning £250 to £1,000
Year
TO-DAY.
Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Humphrey's Estate Co.-Share holders meeting at Hongkong Hotel noon.
Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 2.35
Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21. Douglas Steamship Co.-Shar hölders”, meeting — no
Unless we can show some prac-average abovepre-warprices, while their enemyes in tyme paste, but tical way we cannot get any salaries have remained stationary, also withe little nombers remedy. The capitalist. here children growing up and costing have done many Motable does not build houses on the more for clothing, schooling, etc. and discomfytures off-chance of getting tenants. On the man on, say, $400 a month against the infid the Government alde, the Gov Efinds his position erdment is about the largest easy to present econo land owner. They must expect incomes which the capitalist to get a certain were hardly amount of interest on his cap-now reduced ital. There are. Bocieties in of their forme England where money is cheap the prac but in Hongkong
f satisfied with 7 per cent fortgages may rise to 8 or 8
English fighting through this pas Exted appealed to bing. an Act of