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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1919.
DAY BY DAY."
THE DRYING UP OF A SINGLE Recently a British seaman got TEAR HAS MORE OF HONEST into trouble in Shanghai and when FAME THAN SHEDDING SEAS OF he appeared before the Magistrate GORE-Bryon
the latter told him that he belong- ed to the finest Service in the world and that his conduct had
The Admiralty is calling for been a disgrace to the uniform tenders for the sale of H. M. S. ha ware. To that, the seaman Kent. retorted:“At any rate, the uniform is not respected in China. The likes of Ims are acorned out hore." The offence which the man committed was relatively a
25 YEARS IN WOOD ring one; the sort of thing
SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR
that is common to men every-
Mails may be Irregular for ametime owing to the recent
strikes at Home.
The Empresa of Japan goes where; he had been drinking into docks on the 22nd instant for
should repairs and re-decorating. that side
rather
than he more have done. With af. the case not concerned at the moment.
We
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. remark about naval men being at the end of this month.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1919.
THE GREAT “IF" BARRIER.
The new Alex Ross building is We cite it because there is some rapidly rearing completion. The measure of truth in the man's Company expects to remove to it
scorned out East. Of course, the same applies to Tommy as well.
The winning numbers of the Perhaps scorned" is not quite articles raffled by the Victoria the right word; "ignored" would Branch of the Ministering League be nearer the truth. We are not
follows-Lingerie, 3; amongst those who believe that: our Jack Tars and Tommies are looked down upon" by civilians
are AS
Picture, 20; Tea clotb, 17.
in general. There are people.) The Empress of Russia, which admittedly, who. give our was expected here on the 13th Service men the cold shoulder. instant will not arrive before the They are, happily, in a minority. 23rd. She had been apparently Service opinion to the contrary, delayed by the Canadian strikes.
Haitan, опе
HARBOUR SWIM.
ELEVEN ENTRIES
RECEIVED.
SUMMARY COURT.·
CHUCKING MONEY
ABOUT."
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Calcutta Scots, are on their hind legs with indiguation. A
To-morrow's harbour race pro-
In the Summary Court this circular issued by the Tea Brok- mises to be a very open matter morning, before Mr. Justiceers' Association speaks of the for many of the names familiarly Melbourne, the hearing of the Clan Marwarie." This may be associated with this event are case was resumed in which a Hughli Highlander, but the missing from the entry list. Entries J. M. P. da Silva, formerly Clerk real Scottish clans have up to closed last evening, and the to the Pusice Judge, claimed now never heard of him" before. following eleven were received: from LF.O. Ribero the sum of What is his tartan?
Mrs. Richmond, J. R. Johnstone, $$75, money advanced by plaintif D. Lyon, J. R. Soares, Serg to defendant against the purchase
Swift Strauge, B.AM.C., D. Laing, Able of 50 shares in the Hongkong London to his friend Stella, thus writes from Seaman C. Freak (E. M. S. Elctric Company, Ltd.
September 27, 1710: "I lodge in Tarantula), A.-N. Other, S. A. Cross-examined by Mr. Lo in Bury Street (St. James's) where Marcal. Signalman J. P. Cooke regard to his financial position, realoved a week ago. I have (E. M. S. Tarantula), G. Jack. plaintiff stated that some Govern the first floor, a dining room and For the first time in the history ment pensioners had to do other bedroom, st eight shillings a of the race a lady is competing. work to make ends meet, parti-week; plaguy deep, but I spend We hear that Mrs. Richmond has cularly if they were married men nothing for eating. never go to a already had a trial trip. Although with a family. Witness's salary tavern, and very saldom in a J. R. Johnstone has entered it is
was not sufficient for his wants. coach; yet, after all, it will be doubtful whether he will start,
expensive." owing to medical advice. Last
What seemed to Swift in Anne's days so year's winner, W. Logan, and
Paguy deep" would now be found con- J. C. Finch, who won the race for so many years are among the most notable absentees, whilst mean. You were not so well off or
siderably deeper... R. Lee, C. Choa and V. Barros, sufficiently well off as to enable New York State are seeking to The probibition cranks" in all of whom have been in you to make a present of $375 to the race for some years, the defendant?
deprive the pretty little town of
Mr. Lo-You were not in position to chuck money about?
Witness:-Me chuck money about!
Mr. Lo:-You know what I
a
are not among the entranta. Witness-That is a very hardye of its name, as they argus Of the certain starters. D. Lyon, question to ask me whether I that it is a stigma on the place to who finished second last year am well off. I am not so well off. bare an appellation reminiscent although carried far east by the I am a very fortunate person. I of rye whisky! However, the tain it is that he will put up a thank God but I have to supple stymological grounds, for its tide, is fancied by not a few. Cer-have a pension from Government,Dame is worth preserving on we know that there is a general feeling amongst Britishers here to
Food race. If the race is started ment my income to make up for origin is Celtic and is connected do what they can to make the Thess.
of punctually at five o'clock the my needs.
with rapid " or running. lives of our soldiers and sailors Douglas boats. changes hands in swimmers should not be seriously
Sanscrit bas the word ri with the November. out East as happy as possible; an
Her buyers, are troubled with the tide.
sense indicated. The foregoing Messrs. Nemazee and Co. earnest desire to get to know them
may perhaps explain the origin better. That is why we wrote on
of rye in Coming through the the subject yesterday, and why
17" we return to it to-day. WHAT FAMILIES CAN DO.
TO
who will put her on the Basra MILITARY HONOURS. run.
INDIANS DECORATED AT
KOWLOON.
The French vessel, Bourbon
The awards were
DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT
MEDALS.
Mr. Lo: I am asking you whether you were in a position to chuck money about.
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Witness: Certainly not. Mr. Lo-Do you want His Lordship to believe that you, as a
One of the smartest replies Government pensioner, and hav. Guring to do extra work to make both ever made by a parliamentary ends meet. made a present of a candidate was that credited to Lord Palmerston. A heckler at sum of $375 to defendant?
Witness-I gave it to him as one of his meetings had demanded a present, because he asked me of the statesman. "Will you if returned, support such and such for it.
Pam" thought
to the
Jemadar Fatteh Singh, Moun-
came from Macao and went to tain Battery.
Havilder Chajja Singh, Moun-h's name, because it might en his office. He would not mention tain Battery.")
Havildar Kishen Singh, Moun-danger his position. This man, taia Battery.
LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDALS.
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At the recent convention of the
editors of California papers a de- legate told about the Erst editor he with another, intended to carry worked under. "Right or wrong, out a big scheme for some he was always right. I recall on one. waterworks in Macao. If the occasion where the paper an-
The problem of creating a closer which arrived this morning, was Yesterday morning at intimacy between civilians and delayed by a typhoon. She was Club Hill, H. E. the General Service men is not an easy one expected in Hongkong last Tues-Officer Commanding, Major
solve. Anything which days. Her owners are Messrs. General Ventris, presented savoured of patronage would | Chai Chine Co.
Distinguished Conduct and Long instantly damn any move in this:
Servica medals to Indian officers direction. And the trouble is
and non-commissioned officers of
Mr. Lo-You have got to work a measure?" that if a movement towards the The following telegram was the Hongkong-Singapore Battato supplement your income befo & moment, then said, I will." end named were attempted. it received by the American Con R.G.A., for good work in the field cause your pension is not suffici
Hurray!" broke in the heckler Foreigners living in China have been told about the wonderful might, though its p omoters were
sulate General. Hengkong, from
as well as for long and loyal snt, and yet you ask His Lordship and his pack. Not," continued potentialities of the vast country to which they have come, by so in real earnest, be wrongly con- the Manila Observatory at 9 a.m. service with the unit.
to believe that you made a "Pam "at which there were many different people and in so many different ways, as to make strued by the very men for whose to-day: Typhoon 123 degrees E.
present of over $300
thunderous counter cheers-"tell the subject almost uninterestingly monotonous. One can hardly happiness
defendant?
you," he concluded. And the it was designed. Long, 11 degrees N. Lat., moving pick up a paper published in the East without finding reference to Yesterday we dealt with one W.N.W.
Witness then went on to ex-general laughter made him prime what a glorious condition of affairs would exist if only.... It's inside of the question-the side
favourite at once. plain at some length that a man the "if" where all the trouble lies. At Saturday's launching at from which civilians bark Last week's health return Kowloon Docks the optin.ism of Sir Paul Chater was all conditional from the Front might approach shows nine cases of gastro- on an "if". One can very happily dream away to heart's content it. We want here to add a few enteritis (all fatal), two of cholera of Utopias and Milleniums, of peace and prosperity in China, of thoughts from what we might (both fatal) and two of enteric decent government for its millions, of uncorrupted officialdom term the domestic side. (Oh! what a dream), and of countless other miracles, but on coming should like for Hongkong. as one yesterday comprises one fatal We fever (one fatal). The return for back to earth there's the great if" barrier, and it will take a lot of of the results of our appreciation occurrence of gastro-enteritis. work to move it. No-one can question that what has been said of of what our sldiers and sailors
Jemadar Khushi Mchd, Maun-scheme were successful, witness pounced the death of William R. China's possibilities is wonderfully true. All the talk in the world have done in the war, to gain the
taid Battery.
was to receive $10,000. One of Jones, who, it turned out, was not will not make them any more or any less, but the subject has a reputation of being the naval and Mr. Leo Bergholz, recently ap- Havildar Major Jewan Khan raise some money in order to the paper printed the following. the Chinese said he wanted to dead. Accordingly next day fascination all its own. There is something atractive in being able military station where Service pointed American Consul General Mountain Battery. to write of glorious futures, in feeling that one is privileged to men are made at home amongst at Canton, is expected to arrive Naick Eyman Khan, Mountain
bribe somebody.
note: Yesterday we were the express cherished hopes, and in trying to stir the unimaginative their own nationals. How can it there by the middle of December. Battery.
Interrupted by Mr. Lo, witness first newspaper to announce native out of his foolishness. And so it is that we introduce what be done? Individuals can help. Mr. Bergholz mother comes with
During its tour of duty, in the stated that brokers always trusted the death of William R. Jones. follows.
but the matter is really one him. Mr. Bergholz was in Canton Egyptian Expeditionary Force, each other. If there was no trust To-day we are the first to deny We have just received from the head office of the Chinese for concerted action. Maritime Customs one of their periodically published Yellow Books start, how would it be for some-seven years ago.
As a in the capacity named some the Mountain Battery, to whom there was no business-Laugh- the report. The Morning Star is
all above belong, had 1 D.S.Q., 4
always in the lead."" containing statistics and reports of trade from Customs Commission-one to call for the names of those
Military Crosses, 10 D.C. Medals,ness said he bought the shares Further cross-examined," wit- ers. The book before us deals with the Yangtzo Forts (Chungking who would be willing to
6 Military Medals, 1 Meritorous
To borrow your hat in order to to Chinkiang) and covers the year 1918. In so far as the actual contribute so much monthly to At the Police Court to-day, a Service Medal, 1 Russian Medal for his mother-in-law. He went bring an accusation against you. trade figures go they are, by their age, not of very great contemp ensure certain number of Chinese was before Mr. Lindsell. St. George, 1 Serbian Medal 1 and saw a man in his office when of smoking tobacco in the sacred etary interest but in the written reports of the several Commission- soldiers and sailors free attend- with three charges against bin. Indian D.S.M. and 8 mentione he was not there (laughter). precincts of the House of Com- ers repeated reference is roade to the harm wrought to trade by ance at the cinemas, or to make The first
Mr. LoHow much money being given to the British and Indian had you in the bank to your jury. Yet this fate overtook Mr. for was
mone seems adding insult to in- the internal disturbances and to what would possibly have possible the holding of periodical on the premises
of No. Officers, as well as to British and been the state of things had all conditions been satisfactory."frae and easy" concerts? Even 183 Praya East in the night; Indian other ranks of the unit. private account at the time? Had James Sexton recently. One of We shall quote one or two at random. The Commissioner batter, if the ides could be the second unlawful possession This was solely due to the excell-you a sum of $375?
the curious rules of the House of at Wuhu this delivers himself: The propects held
Witness:-The money belongs Commons is out arranged, would it be for those of a chisel and a packet of pepper; ent work done in Egypt and
that you must that internal dissensions and discord in China may
I have wear ere long willing to join a combined move the third, with assaulting a con- Palestine.
to my mother-in-law.
a hat when you raise give place to harmony atd concord, affords good grounds for ment to invite say half a dozen stable. Defendant admitted all
some money of my own.
a point of order. Sir Richard anticipating a continued improvement in trade." The Commissioner Service men to their homes to charges. Mr. Lindsell sentenced
Mr. Lo:- How much, $300, or Cooper smelt tobasco. Not HOCKEY.
thereabouts? at Ichang contents himself by simply stating:"During the first dinner once a month, not from him to three months' hard labour
having
bat handy he three months of the year the people of Ichang and the surrounding any
Witness: I could not say ex-asked charitable" motive, but on each charge.
his neighbour for one ARRANGEMENTS FOR country suffered seriously from the political disturbances which had just
actly. to give the men
and the neighbour being in the COMING SEASON. reached Hupeh sad were most critical in January and February a touch of home life. We believe
Mr. Lo-I do not want to like predicament took" Mr. when the port was surrounded by the Southern troops." From that there are dozens of British Two Chinese
waste time. Instead of getting Sexton's. Those interested in hockey held
Sir Richard then, Wanhsion comes the following: In the second quarter of the families here who would go heart charged before Mr. N. L. Smitha meeting at the Hongkong finished in about fire bours, attired in Mr. Sexton's hat, pro-
we shall be about year a large number of Yunnan and Kweichow forecs passed down and soul into such a scheme. Can with stabbing another man with Cricket Club last evening with
five eceded to call the Speaker's years, the river from Chungking from time to time to reinforce the defeated it not be started In such a waya dagger, in Queen's Road West. the object of establishing awe are getting on.
according to the rate attention to the fact that, Mr. Southern army, and as their arrival in this port was invariably much could be done to break the Complainant stated that on the Hockey League for Hongkong or do you not, desire His Lord times Sir Richard and Mr. Sexton Do you, Sexton was smoking. In ancient followed by the indiscriminate impressment of coolies, the commontons of Service life out East. night of the 8th at 10.30 he was Major LG. Bird was in the ship to baliera mandeering of boats, the purchase of rice, and insistent demands for We should be doing something attacked by both defendants. chair. The discussion
that you, would probably have adjourned as a Government pensioner and to the terrace money, the streets were soon deserted, junks disappeared, the price which would cause the mothers, The first defendan: struck
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your living, made a present of age Mr. Sexton could only deny the sum of $375 to the defendant ?
ít. Who was the culprit was not because he asked me for it.
Witness-I gave it to him discovered..
The case is proceeding.
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of rice advanced, and several large Chinese merchants were obliged wives and sisters of these fine him on the face with a knife/animated, numerous suggestions having to do other work to earn dispute. Living in a less heroic to close their doors and take refuge in the country in order to escape fallows to think that Hongkong whilst the second defendant The Chairman, in opening the the insatiable military exaction." One could go on to quote from is a real Home from Home.' tried. to strike him with discussion, announced that no- the reports of Commissioners at Yochow, Hankow. Nanking, Kiu- PERMANENT ARRANGEMENTS. a hammer. He managed to avoid body seemed to know anything klang and ready others, but we will conclude our extracts with the These words are from our heart.the, blow, and blew a police regarding the old Club's books, following expression by the Chungking Commissioner: The trade We mean them. Will some-one whistle.
They were then aror what had happened to them.
Leoncavallo possessed a fund of statistics for the year 1918 cannot be taken as a reliable basis for an get busy on the project? We rested. Both defendants pleaded To all appearances the old Club
bumour which once landed him" estimate of the potentiality of the Chungking market. The perturb want to so the matter taken up
not guilty. Mr. Gardiner
awkward predicament. ed and disorganised condition of affairs which has been the bane of from the family standpoint. appeared for them. Mr. Smith seemed to have died out. The bad been trying on many occain an
best plan, to his mind, was sions to get nomination from the Visiting incognito e 'provincial this province for some time past did not improve throughout the Religious organisations bave sentemaad them to three months"
to inaugurate 2 DOW Club Hockey Club on the committee of theatre where "Pegliacci immediately and thus wipe the Recreation Clubs. During billed, he found the stall on his off the slate the old Club. As the war there was no Hongkong left occupied by a music lover, far as he knew, the old institu- Hockey Club in existence except who applanded freely throughout tion had no funds, nor any debts. the Defence Corps Hockey Club. the performance, and, as the It was essential, if it жега
Another mer bar said that if curtain fell, remarked to his decided to commence a new club, permission ware obtained to use neighbour,
What a master to purchase a suitable play the military ground they would piece I The composer. being in the vein for a joke, replied: ground, for the old ground had have to pay for the use of it,
The Chairman said this could be "Nothing of the kind. Speaking. been practically lost awing to its not having bean met by subscriptions from mem-as a professional musician, I can
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THE M. C. L.
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JUMBLE SALE AT ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.
used for nearly five years, Habers.
assure you that the opera is one
The
year, and consequently trade had little chance of regaining its their
own particular sphere. hard labour. equilibrium. Merchants, while now inured to these unsettled There is no need to offer these conditions, which are now almost looked on as normal ones in this enjoyments to Service men as a part of China, seem determined to do business under whatever bait to get them to go to Church. circumstances may arise, and if only the projected Peace Conference They have probably had enough at Nanking or Shanghai materialises, and peace be at length of religion being pushed down established between the North and the South, order and sanity re- their throats, anyhow. Let established, and that ever-increasing army of brigands kept în check the British community, as by disciplined troops, the high hopes that the year 1919 will witness domestic
units, do ite pary an unusual commercial activity in Szechwan may be justified." along other lines. We know The above extracts are fairly representative examples of what it wants to. The first step needed everyone has been saying for years. But the position to-day is is one of organisation. The ques- A jumble sale in aid of the sugzested that a Committee be The Chairman proposed that ress of plagiarisms. The cavatina almost the same as when those hopes quoted above were written. tion question must be tacki-Ministering Children's League appointed to draw up rules and roles be drawn up and sub-is practically all Berlioz. One may well ask how much longer will the world be content to let ed with the idea of permanent was held this afternoon in the ciroularise themselves as the mitted for consideration at another opening duet is taken from Chins so feebly and ineffectively wrestle with the great "if" that arrangements being got in hand; Church Hall of St. Andrew's, successors of the Defence Corps meeting. He said he was afraid Gouned. The finale sounds like is of her own making, Foreign newspapers can go on filling up not a mere spasmodic effort, but Kowloon. The Brrangements Hockey Club. The following that the Club could not raise two a bad imitation of one of Verdi's their columns with grandiose expressions of hope; Trade Commis-such a scheme inaugurated as were in charge of Mrs. gentlemen consented to act on teams.
finales. And so on, from begin- sioners can continue to studiously regret that affairs have been so would leave the machinery for Griffo, who was ably assisted the Committes entrusted with Bomeone remarked that there ning to end." Leaving the town badly managed; writers in the Western world can still draw vivid working it always in existence. by Mesdames Rose, Gill, the drafting of the rules, which, | were seven Hockey teams four by train next morning, Leon- pen pictures of awakening China," but until something extraneous That would be something attempt-White, Riggs, Robinson, Rosser it was decided would not¦ years ago.
cavallo bought a local paper at to China's own efforts is brought to bear it would seem that it all ed and something done by Hong- and Fleming and Miss Stone. ba elaborata:-Major Bird (Ers-! Another member observed that the bookstall, and found therein amounts to wasted effort. Well-wishers of China would like to see kong, in remembrance of the The articles offered for sale sident), Messrs. B. D. Evans, it was almost impossible to raise an article healed: "Confessions her work out her own salvation, but she seems determined not to men who have served the Empire were many and varied, comprising (Captain) C. Hodgson (Vice Cap a team when the tennis tourna of a Plagiarist. Startling Admis- The old proverb about a man being given enough rope to hang him-so well in its greatest crisis. We chiefly wearing apparel, and were tain) and E. J. E. Mitchell (Secret ments were going on and there- sions by Signor Leoncavallo." self has a living exemplification in China, where her "politicians sincerely trust that there will not donated by ladies interested in sry).
fora it was advisible to raise the His neighbour was a journalist by their "politica" are putting the noose a round their own necks be wanting thoss to get the more the movement to whom the One of those present at themest. team before the tournaments com- who happened to rec gaiss, the and dragging down their country as well.
ment under way.
thanks of the officials are due. ing remarked that the F. W. D. menoed.
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composer.