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BROWN BRANDY
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THAT DINNER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919.
THE NEED FOR VIGILANCE..
The news that has just been received that there is a distinct danger of the Allies losing all the benefits obtained through winning the war by letting a certain German General build up a reactionary
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sity Union on Wednesday night. The Day of Atonement, which No report of the affair appeared in is one of the most solemn days in the Telegraph last evening for the the Jewish Calendar, fails to following reasons: first, that the morrow. Press were not invited to the func- tion; secondly, because we could get no communicated account of it It is true that the sent to us. Registrar of the University, the
us by telephone that if we sent a reporter up to the seat of learn-
At the Police Court to-day, ing at a given hour he would be supplied with the material neces- Chinese was charged with unlaw- sary for giving an account of ful possession of 34 taels of pre- what transpired. The hour fixed. pared opium. Mr Lindsell fined however, was not convenient him $3,000 or three months' hard
US, which fact prompted labour. US to enquire of the Re- gistrar whether he could not
Queen's College annual aquatic supply us with a brief report of sports are being held at the the affair, as is usual in cases V.R.C. on Monday afternoon. where no invitations are issued There are sixteen events on the to the Press. This gentleman, programne. Mrs. Ralphs is to with more curtness than courtesy, present the prizes. snappily informed us that it would be utterly impossible for him to
Six Chinese were to-day charged fall in with our request, and, when told that previous Registrars bad before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, one with followed the line indicated by us, stealing a member of steel plates that belonging to the K. C. Railway he pompously declared
previous Registrars must have Station, which were lying about on Blackhead's Wharf, and the other five with receiving the stolen goods, Mr. Hall appeared for two the defendants. They were bailed out one at $500 and the rest at $3,000. The Crown Solicitor will appear for the prosecution.
had less work to do than I have.'
A LITTLE LESSON..
We mention this little incident because it is so very typical of the attitude taken by a certain type of individual towards the Press of this Colony-an attitude which implies that the newspapers
can always be made a convenience of. Had a function of this order happened at Home and
no invitations been sent to the Press, no report whatever of it would have appeared in the papers, even if some-one had seen fit to send in an account. Certain is it that no self-respecting journal at Home would have sent a man chasing about for details of such
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Administrative Orders Major J. H. W. Armstrong, V.D., by Acting Administrative Com- mandant state:-
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through their proximity while at Territory on the other play with the children of other water is quite
Į TADES. This undesirable state of enough to grow and
Hongkong, Oct. 1, 1919. Your Excellency, When I was sitting there in the City Hall yes serday and heard Chater reading yon Address of Welcome, I couldna' help thinking of a recent In very recent years a great cartoon I saw in Punch which change has come over expert con- represented a facetious gallery ceptions of housing. This was the question "Tell us where Town Planning Act of 1909 and putting to the great Khagoola first reflected in Mr. John Burn's there's a house to let." From surprising
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TO THE NEW GOVERNOR. things is unquestionably due to the cereals and vege
environment and to the fact that require. We are lagging behind these little British colonists, when the times for want of a little more Nature calls them into the open elementary attention on the part to play, are perforce compelled to of the Government. When the game wi' coloured children be first colonists settled here our cause they have nowhere else to hills were barren. Wi* great go but into the parrow and evil wisdom and foresight, for obvious smelling streets.
reasons, the Government sat out, to clothe these hills. This costa lot of money, but the results have been successful and profitable in want to do now is to turn our a variety of ways What we
attention to the fallow land and progress what I could understand this housing standards has occurred bake it productive also. There chap wi' the Afghan-cum-Gula-since then. In no small measure are lots of valleys and islands in Malacca name had undertaken to the Old Country is indebted to the and around Hongkong where answer any question put to him erroneously styled “Garden City rice and vegetables can be grown, by any member of the audience. movement for, you believe me, it where, with a little Government But this housing one, to judge has been clearly demonstrated assistance and encouragement. from his Humpty Dumpty that the aggregation of humanity two cabbages would grow where countenance, had evidently no' in superimposed tiers is defensible only one docken grew before. been included in his repertoire. neither morally, physically cor Preliminary to this, though, what As Macpherson said-but I forgot, economically. Now, sir, if you we need is a Government Agri- you don't know Macpherson yet, will study retrospectively the cultural College with an Exp-ti- so we'll give him the go-bye for housing question as it has affect-mental Farm as a side line, where the moment.
ed Hongkong, you will find that farmers could be trained and Onyhow, as I was going to the area which was occupied by shown the way to intensive agri- say, sitting there ye must have Britishers, i.e. the Middle Levels, culture. By means of such an envied the resourceful pilot who is now occupied by others. establishment, new varieties of was claiming to know every rock Bearingin mind thatthe population food could be introduced, sani- on the coast" and that," he hast has doubled itself during the past tary and scientific methods of ened to add as his ship bumped, ten years, for these figures never cultivation would increase the
is one of them."" I was glad mind the last census, but ask the yield and, what's though, that in your speech yes-Sanitary Board, there are only bye, enable the terday you made no effort at the two natural outlets for Britishers. approach his meals without moment to answer the question the Peak, which is a Reservation, the customary shudder. that floored poor old Khagoola.or Kowloon. Naturally all below the Royal Agricultural Society What Aye. I was pleased to hear that the rank of taipan have parforce has done for Scotland such ana ye wanted to mak siccaT ** before answering yon rapid-fire the name of commonsense cannot China, mind I'm telling ye.
to go to Kowloon. Now, why in Institution can do for South string of moans. A man that Kowloon folks have their Reserva- Wi' regard to Communications, claims to be discreet isn't neces-tion as well as the Peak people? I confess that's my weak suit. It sarily a coward. Another thing. So far as the principle of the would be painting the lily for me ye'll need to be careful and nothing goes, you need
to attempt to describe the benefits tion re've got this week. Are precedent, for the Peak Reserva- General Wade's good road-mak- get carried away wi' the recep- no fear. You will create no of good communications. It was mind that every little boy likes tion is a thing of the past and ing in the Highlands of Scotland his teacher the first day of it was only the other week that that put the lid on the lawless school. It isn't only affectionate a Reservation was set aside on reiving Highlander and was the folks that bubble over wi friend Cheung Chau Island. All right primary means of his becoming too-naturally. liness. Soapy people bubble over then what's to
hinder
the more or less civilised man be Government doing the same in isto-day. Now, ait, my knowledge First impressions-like youth-Kowloon! See that the lay-out of communications is purely ful friends are often dissipated. of the sites is a sensible one. domestic-principally confined to As McGlusky once said, a man Limit the houses to 10 or 12 to ways and means, so to speak, doesn't seem to mind if a woman's the acre. See that they are Man, the communications Janet Pte. F. Wood and Pte. E. Lar- got a figure like a camel or a built in small blocks, artistically has sent me the last six months a gathering. Since the Registrarmour, "A" Company, are granted face like a dust storm wi' holes over and around the site. See have added to my grey hairs and in this instance wanted us to give 3 months' leave each, from 3rd in it, and a temper that would that they have gardens a report of the proceedings, he, or ] October. 1919.
"fore made me an old man before my disgrace a hyena in a steel trap and eft." the University Union, must have
The narrow roads time. Aye, eggs at 4/6 the dozen thought the function of sufficient
it's enough for him if she's would forbid through traffic, and bacon 2/6 the Ib. has the EQUIPMENT BOARD.
and importance to come before the The Board will sit at Head-
when he The playgrounds and open spaces German war atrocities looking comes to his senses a month would keep the children out of like mother's milk alongside aqua eye of the public. The correct quarters from 5.30 to 6 p.m. on
later he 48 procedure, therefore, should have the following dates: Monday, takes to drink or religion and expense, sunshine, fresh air and lady didna' manage to get a pass- often 1.5 no harm's way. Without any extra fortis. It's terrible. I see your been to secure the attendance of 6th October: Friday, 17th October, wails over his blasted life, instead recreation would be guaranteed age out wi' ye. Man, they tell me
representatives military machine must bare occasioned serious thought to all Press
at the Monday, 27th October: Friday. of blaming his own foolishness. to the tenants. What's more there's been a great rush out East. readers. The prospect that, owing to any laxity on the part of gathering, or, failing that, to have 7th November.
Of course, mind ye, there are forbye, each house would have Well, I'm vexed about that ony Allied diplomats, the world may at some future date be once more asked for the courtesy of a little
bound to be likes and dislikes on that air of individuality which way, for a man's never the same plunged into the distress of a military contest is sufficiently alarm-space for the publication of a
Orders for Engineer Company our side of the fence as well as would prompt its occupant to when his wife's no wi him. As ing to warrant a unanimous demand on the part of all peoples that communicated report. To expect
yours and you'll have to make take a pride in it. But all this I was telling Macpherson the nothing shall be left undone to make such a happening absolutely newspapermen, who are quite as by Captain R. Hall state:-
be done unless impossible. When Germany sued for an armistice in November hardworked as Registrars, to run DEL Instructional Classes.--due allowance for them. Few of cannot
the other day---but what's the odds. us are big enough or strong Government sees that the cost of As I've said before, ye can aye tell last, had suffered so serious a military defeat as to make her willing about at the beck and cell of Recruits will parade for DEL to accept the very strict terms on which such an armistice was to be everybody who wants publicity instruction under R.E. Instructors enough to like a strong character the land is reasonable, theta Hielandman, but ye can never granted, all felt that her power for evil had been effectively crashed given to a private affair, savours at Belchers at 9 p.m. on Wednes- at first sight. Strong characters means are taken to avoid specula-tell him much.
have sharp edges. We often tion, and that the Government in About this Constitutional Re and that if only the establishment of a League of Nations could be a little too much of imposing day, 8th October. Officer on duty realise the sharpness before we turn will not in after years take form business, ye want to go successfully negotiated the world was safe for all time against the on the gederosity of the Press. Captain R. Hall. curse of war. But it would seem that, far from being too severe with The
local newspapers have D. E. L. Examinations. The realise the strength behind them. advantage and raise its price dead slow. If Propaganda has criminal Germany, as indeed many people thought the Allies were, done a fair amount of boosting" undermentioned members of the constituted out here. In the Old of building in the vicinity.
Another thing, we're differently for land in ratio to the progress taught us anything at all, it has on behalf both of the University Engineer Company have obtained Country, a man's point of view.is
taught us to call for the salt now- insufficient precautions may have been taken.
This has come to light through the medium of a number of and of the University Union. Ther the "Proficient'
Another thing, given reasonable adays when we read of anybody · qualification, French newspapers, and they take the view that the matter is thus have a right to look for a little and have been granted by the Hongkong it varies wi' the size of such a Reservation there's many
generally fixed at birth. In facilities to acquire a house in advocating anything. I see that sufficiently serious that the great Allied Powers should consent to a reciprocity in a matter of this Chief Engineer, Forces in China, his incoms and the opportunities a man who would consider the to-day. A popular movement that ore of our papers is defending it blockade of Germany-again cutting of commerce, food supplies, kind. If the University authorities Engineer Pay at 1/- per diemne has for squeeze. Again, our advisability of staying here needs defending isno worth a curse Pas material and finance if the people in England, France, thought the function of sufficient Engine Driver: No. 447 Sapper T. public opinion, when boiled down, having a stake in the place, so to onyhow. It's true that at one America and Italy could-be made to realise the danger. The main importance to be reported, surely J. Richards, from 10.9.19 in sometimes amounts to very little speak, particularly in view of the time we got hot under the collar fart is that General von Der Goltz has been going ahead building some under-worked individual sive, Electrician No. 374 Sapper G.
-almost nothing. up a new and reactionary military machine while, the Allies are could have been found with A. Carvalho from 23.9.19 inclusive instance, all this talk over the ever-present fear of his modestial Majority; it's equally true th
Take, for turmoil at Home to-day and the at the mere mention of the Offic- busily engaged in demobilising their forces and are, in consequence, sufficient energy to piece together
INFANTRY ORDERS.
Shantung question. About all capital being whittled away while still worked up wi' false becoming day by day more disarmed. The French Peace Commis a brief account of it for com-
Orders for Infantry Battalion the average man knows of the through excessive taxation. sentiment over the return of the sion has introduced into the Chamber of Deputies a motion in which munication to the Press.
place is that it's there that the I see that you have put Educa-Germans to this Colony we aided the Chamber invites the Government to engage in negotiations
nice silk comes from that makes tion next in your tentative agenda and abetted a truculent minority with the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles for the adoption of
A Company.
our swagger shirts and coats. And very right too and no' before to pass, certain proposals wi”. an addition to the Treaty, making the disarmament of Germany
Sunday, 5th October.-8.30 a.m. and her Allies effective by the prohibition of the manufacture
The more we read about the No. 1 Platoon ab King's Park was going to write you about badly is expert investigation into but, mind ye, it's also true that Now to come down to what I time either. Aye, what we need regard to Constitutional Reform, of certain war material.. It would appear that the French preliminaries in connection with Range. Annual Musketry Course, this Housing business. While it's our alleged educational system. since then, Hongkong folks have Premier thinks that the Treaty, as it is, sufficiently the holding of the Shanghai Part 3, Practices 13,14 and 19,
true that ye should look before Now in the past we've had men slowly but surely got a grip of the protects France against Germany by preventing the latter from Peace Conference, and of the Dress, Drill order with pouches, ye leap, it's equally true, on the out here to look into the causes fundamentals and have discovered building any further munition factories, but surely this single pro-school-boyish efforts to convene "A" and "B" Companies other hand, that as a young chap of plague and spotted fever. We that a certain mild stupidity and vision, Article 168, will hardly reinspire sufficiently. At any rate it, the more convinced do we be- Mounted and Signalling Sections. it is significant that the German General in question has been come of the hopelessness of ex- Wednesday, 8th October 6.30 ye shouldne be too long in making might very well have the same dilatoriness on the part of finally recalled from the Baltic Provinces where his actions were pecting any good result from the am. N. C. Os and Men who wish up your mind. Believe me there's sort of thing wi regard to educa the Government is preferable to
all the need in the world for hurry.tional disease. leading to such distrust.
gathering. The North has chosen to fire at the Peak Range. Annual A Government bas & peculiar product of our present system is that might go on if we gave the The finished the problematical axe-grinding There should be allowed to exist no room for doubt and certainly its chief delegate, but be Musketry Course, Part
cause there is opposition to the Practices 1 and 2.
dieposition. The longer time it the type of lad who after filtering power of the Unofficial vote to re- none for apprehension in this matter. The very fact that respon- sible sections of the Freach Press have seen fit to give utterance Domination
in certain quar-
has to work, the less it does. But into an office is often unable to presentatives of the smaller it can get a move on when it construct a simple sentence. vested interests. The gentleman to the fears they have should be sufficient to lead those in charge of ters, the President flies to one
Orders for Cadet company by when we heard first that you were him are even better pro rata than come which was read to you these things to make unquestionably positive their own safety. of his predecessors, now out of
likes, mind ye. For instance, Still, for all that, facilities given that framed that Address of Wel- France has quite recently been powerfully moved by fear of what office, to "mediate" on the Lieut. A. O. Brawn state----
The following promotions aresh but I nearly forgot; you're education of the European boy or Reform stone dead when he in- on your way out here, look at the those at present available for the yesterday killed Constitutional Germany may do in the future, and this was very clearly shown by metter. That is a fair sample of the extent of her demands at the Peace Conference. Her eagerness the way China is "governed" to approved by the Commandant to secure a guaranteeing treaty with England and the United States, day. Then, to cap the whole Sergt. R. Y. Frost to be Sergt. about that. It's the same wi' the and the cause of the breaking up said that Public Opinion was no' supposed to know anything| gizi. Man, it's a constant puzzle troduced it “lastly" and when he which she accepted in lieu of some of those demands, told its own business, the individual whose Major. Corp. J: V. Ramsey to be ex-Kaiser. If they don't push of many a home, this question of divided on this question. Grye plain story of distrust. And this French fear is not a thing to be appointment is the subject of all Sergt. No. 4 Section Corp. Walang his trial, he'll die of old age education. It often means the us a little time and we will hadd lightly, dismissed. The inhabitants of ravaged France, who had to this bother, calmly asks for a G, Gerrard to be Sergt. No. 3 stand helplessly by and suffer a whole generation to be mutilated, merd $150,000 with which to meet Section. Corp Simmons to be waiting for the police to come separation of parents from their out justice to the muddlers and have a right to look at this question of future security in a different his expenses, and the Finance Sergt. No. 2 Section. L/Corp. E. and get him. I've always wonder. children, a very doubtful step at meddlers who were posing yester way to most. Britishers, too, in every corner of our vast Empire Ministry is advised to pay out the Spradberry to be Corporal No. 4ed where the Government got the the best o' times. Believe me, day, as our political saviours, sye, even in Hongkong owe it to themselves that nothing shall be sum! What can we hope from Section. L(Corpl. J. Lyon to be idea that dignity consists in doing however they may care to describe movement which had its genesis in establishments, spite could never hope to prosper. allowed to go by default which shall leave them open to the danger
statesmen who fool about like Corporal No. 1 Section. Cadet E. a lot of humming and hawing our scholastic
before accepting the inevitable. the fact remains that there is no Wi' its originators it wasns. Fo of another blood sacrifice. Germany raised its bideous head once in
Railton to be L/Corpl. No. 3
Things have been too slow here. such a thing here as a secondary much contempt of court as it was defiance of humanity, but it must never have the chance to do so
Section.
First it was the war that handi- or finishing school for European contempt of judge-bat I forgot, again. By all means allow the opportunity for Germany to become
NOTICE: CADET COMPANY. capped us and then it was the studenta. They are all a mixture | you've already seen our okt once more a self-respecting nation, but, in the bestowing of sufficient laxity to make this possible, a wary eye should be kept open, lest,
Annual Swimming Sports, want of a Governor. That's said of primary and secondary. My Governor. He would put ye wise These take place at the V. R. C. advisedly, mind ye, for we've aye idea, as I said before, is to bave to that. The Colony to day thinks animated by a spirit of revenge or still clinging to its mad idea of
on Saturday, the 11th instant, at been told that we had to wait for a pukka educationalist enticed more kindly of Sir Henry May world power, Germany should try to succeed where she failed
In the Summary Court this 3 p.m. All Cadets should attend. your coming before anything out here for a year, let him loose on than it did a year ago, mind I'm before. Recent acts do not warrant much trust. Only yesterday morning, Mr. Lo asked for a case, Uniform, cap and belts. Parents could be done. Now every day's the alleged system and then at telling ye. In concluding. I would news came through that Marshal Foch had had to devise measures in which he and Mr. W. B. Hind and others interested are, delay is a day to the bad. We the end of that time give him a free commend to ye old, Gamaliel à Bộ - to prevent the Germans from unauthorisedly disposing of the air were engaged, to be adjourned, cordially invited to. attend. need houses to live in at rentals hand to remodel the whole bust- vice to the chief priests of the mizlecia! and that the Supreme Council had decided to insist on the owing to the fact that Mr. Hind The preliminary heats will be on that doesna' give re mental colic nas
temple, when they were hanging gras ys the amounts stready realised by such unauthorised was away on his honeymoon. Wednesday, the 8th instant, at when the landlord's shroff calls at Wi segard to Agriculture quite cussing los case of disposal. Firm handling such as this can alone convince the Ger- Mr. Justice Melbourne Oh. 4.30 p.m. at the V.R. C. All the month's end. What's more a lot can be done. You have And now Laay mans that the Allies will stand no nonsense. If a renewal of the Mr. Hind is getting married, is intending competitors must forbye, there are British children only to look up the recent corres frain from blockade would help in the process of education, then it should he?
attend. No uniform. - The Undet; in this Colóny to-day, whose par-pondence on the Rice question to them sione ; for if this unbesitatingly be decided on. The world wants no repetition of the war just past and, if ever It should be allowed to come about, my Lord. (Laughter.)
Mr. J. H. Gardiner :-Have got, Compsay is to be commended for ents are compelled by existing realise the fact that we have to this work be of men,
the good fight it put up against circumstances to live in the poor depend on the importation of that to nough Desende Alled diplomacy will be the most discredited, and useless The cases accordingly, the V.R.C. In the Team Race at quarters of our city, who have important cereal to adequately
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