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}NOTES & COMMENTS.
WINTER SPORT.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, · 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
GRIEF COUNTS THE SECONDS ;
The Rev. C. A. Gimblett. M.A. will conduct the religious meeting at the Helens May Institute on Tuesday, 4th November, at 5:30 p.m. Subject:-"Young China"
AN ISLANDER'S. DIARY.
[BY "AJAX"]
The greatest need of Hongkong
to inflict avoidable
CORRESPONDENCE.
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(To the Editor of the " Hongaw
"Trackteph."] "SHIPPING SCANDALS ".
SfAll the legislation in the
SEEKING REVENGE.
EXCITING STORY FROM MACAO.
THREE INNOCENT PEOPLE
KILLED. ||
criminal killed three other people. An exciting story of how a
comes from our correspondent at man who had played him false Macao.
At last Hongkong has got its HAPPINESS FORGETS THE HOURS, much-vaunted winter weather,De Finod. for the climatic conditions of the
In celebration of the Imperialis more education of the heart, for world will not make ships any past two or three days have been as perfect as any could have Birthday. the office of the wished for. And the change hasConsul-General for Japan is to While every child should be in-safer unless the "masters do their in trying to get his revenge on a brought out the Colony's sporting be closed on October 31st for the that education of the heart is
tellectually educated it is certain part
Your first correspondent says proclivities with what could public. “....
even more essential to the wel-plainly in his letter that Hong almost be described as a burst.
fare of society and to individual kong ships are not safe and The past week-end must have The Hongkong Post Office happiness. The cardinal doctrine these
The details appear to be that A Powerful Disinfectant, Germicide, been something of a record in notifies that the Money Order of humane education is that it uses."Why are
are the words he sometime ago
named local organised play. League Service with the Philippine
vessels fly Leong is impolitic and iniquitousing
Hong kidnapped an- the British and other football
temporarily was opened, league Islands has been
other Chinese who is suffering national flags licensed by the banker in Hongkong. cricket played. yachting was suspended.
The on any cresture. Merely me- Hongkong Government to carry kidnapped one was placed on given a send-off, one golf
chanical education is no security passengers (River Trade) allowed board & junk in Macao Harbour, championship was decided and
against immorality and crime, to sail with insufficient boats and another put a stage forward, the
e cultivate the head more than life rafts ?"
a brother of the desperado being attendance at the various tennis
placed on board as watch. The the heart. The common educa- How can there be no reis. clubs was heavy, not a few
tion in the schools of Hongkong understanding in that? It implies in this case it was something over usual ransom was demanded and enthusiasts went shooting in the
has in it too little of the morala, not one. I say there are $10.000. Apparently a sum of $6, New Territories-in fact almost
element Facts show that crime ample boats and life rafts for if 000 was offered by the family of every game that Englishmen play
Monday, November 10, is to be was entered into with heartiness. Bank Holiday in Hongkong. increase at the same time anything he likes
the banker, but this was refused. with increased attention At a recent gathering there were There is also some talk of making education. The vitally important millions of favourable spots (in of the
to happens, is not the beach with its The master of the junk bad heard some comparative remarks made the following day a holiday as work for us is the humane educa- the case of the West and Pearl to avail himeslf of it, managed to offer and, intending regarding sport in Shanghai and well, as it is the first anniversarytion of the millions of Chinese. Rivers) there to place the ship on Hongkong, but without geing into of the Armistice. the question of which port enjoys
is, I am told. very keenly in- passengers to don cockroach./PR board, in what way is not at His Excellency Sir Edward Stubbs in less time that he could get his get rid of the watching brother more kinds of games we certain-
return terested in the S.P.C.A. more- eaten lifebelts, let alone get his Look at the Shing Cheong
on the Macan-Canton run. She has now but one boat on each side whereas under our legisla tion there were four.
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Last week's health
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., ly can say that, taking population shows nine fatal cases of gastro-ment. I am anxiously looking for-boats out?
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for population, there is every bit as much recreation gone in for here as there is in the northern port. Life out here is one that peculiarly demands that a person should indulge in some kind of sport fairly frequently and any thing that tends to give greater
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1919.
HARE-BRAINED YOUNGSTERS.
Now, there
A Chinese boy, was charged to day before Mr. Hutchison with stealing a plank. Defendant said that the ground was too cold to sleep on so he stole the plank to use it as a bed. He was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour.
eyos in
to name
As to Hongkong ships not going astern: changing gear at time of
and boats
survey:
without
enteritis, three of enteric (two ward to seeing him resuscitating fatal) and one fatal case each of such a Society in Hongkong. now under the Chinese flag and diphtheria and puerperal fever. The revolting cruelty that is All the sufferers were Chinese. daily perpetrated under our own a British Colony like Hongkong is a standing disgrace to its citizens. Some one wrote:
me the laws of for the prevention of "Show state
animals and I in cruelty to turn will give you
a correct estimate of the refinement, en- lightenment, integrity and equity of that commonwealth's people." How much an S. P. CA. is needed in Hongkong is demon strated by the incredibly cruel deeds perpetrated by the Chinese even of tender years. which call
The China Mail S. S. Co. is, in receipt of a telegram from its Shanghai Office advising that the 5.5. "Nanking" sailed from that port Monday afternoon. October 27th, and she is due to arrive at this port on Thursday morning.
lously supported by these con- cerned. We are happy to think that there is not much risk of Hongkong people proving the old adage All work and no play. makes Jack a dull boy.” FAR EASTERN DEFENCE..
There is a good deal to interest Hongkong people in the repor: Jellicoe on of Admiral Lord
forth neither remonstrance por naval affairs in the Far East for, although the China Command is
reproof from the. Pelice of not commented on, the questions
A Chinese was charged to-day pedestrians. It would not cost
sum to have be discusses have a vital meaning for us. The
of before Mr. R. O. Hutchison with a large protection
S. P. C. A. in the Colony Zealand
from banishment. and returning Australia, New India from a naval point of view Defendant said that his mother with a band of inspectors to is a much nearer, matter than had died, and he had returned for prevent wanton cruelty to an
Mr. few days.
Hutchisonimals and birds and to prosecute some people are apt to think. The naval interests of the Empire, sentenced him to six months' such cases before the Magistrates. If His Excellency gives a lead in caid Admiral Jellicoe, were like-hard labour.
the matter he will receive all the ly to demand within the text
support from the five gears a strong Far Eastern "The Hongkong Tramway Com-necessary leet and this, he suggested, pany's receipts for the week end community.
and
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should be made up of vessels ed October 25, totalled $14,104 of the Royal Navy East which is a decrease of $111 over For Indian squadron, the Australian, the same week last year. Canadian
New Zealand the 43 weeks of the year, the navies. It is pretty certain that takings total $631,556, which from the way events in the East represents an increase of $36,426 have been going lately it would be just as well if Great Britain did have a strong naval force, and
over the same weeks in 1918.
interested.
biscuits, etc; the Harbour Master, not the Press is the one to report these matters to and at the time Hongkong has as good legis lation as any other port but if shipmasters neglect their part it is they and not the Hongkong Govement that need censuring for all these matters were care- fully thought out long, long ago.
་་
Yours etc.
YET ANOTHER BRITISH SHIPMASTER. an Hongkong. Oct. 27. 1919.
RATTAN
Within a few days we shall welcome back to Hongkong Mr. Bertie Hele. who is, returning to Hongkong, I hear, to resume his association with the Hongkong Daily Press,
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During the week we have been regaled by a four-column letter
The
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WORKERS'
VENDETTA.
the kidnapped man disappeared. present known. At all events
rumour having it that the junk master without waiting for the ransom sold the mat to another
junk, Chow Fook by name, in fear gang of robbers. The master of the of trouble from the disappointed kidnapper. secured employment in a Chinese Guard boat, thinking himself safe. But Leong Hong
revenge and daily waited on the was not to be disappointed in his.
Praya of the inner harbour for a sight of Chow. On Thursday last he was rewarded, for Chow, all unsuspectingly, came ashore in a sampan. Producing & Mauser pistol, Leong fired at the man but missed and deat citing chase began.
Shots were repeatedly fired at Chow, who was at last wounded in the neck, but not, before one boy and an old woman had been killed by stray bullets.
Leong sought escape by turn- ing into a side street, but was closely followed by two policemen, an Indian and € Chinese. ACCUSED DISCHARGED.
Whistles were blown and, bearing The case in which three these, a Chinese watckman tried Chinese rattan workers were to bar the man's way. He was
and charged with murder, was re instantly shot at
died sumed, at the Criminal Sessions, almost
once. A Chinese this morning, before the Chief detective also intercepted the Justice, Sir William Rees Davies, fugitive and very smartly seized the man and fung him to the
Whilst they ground. struggling the Indian and Chinese policemen came up and the man was finally overpowered.
1. K.C.
After lengthy addresses by Counsel for the defence and for the Crown had been concluded, the jury found the accused not guilty and they were accordingly dis- charged.
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at
were
Six chambers out of nine had been fired and the man also had his possession. Chow, the former three more sets of cartridges in junk master, is very seriously wounded and is in hospital.
BOXING.
Two Chinese. were to-day the period of five years that charged before Mr. R. O. Hut-which Mrs. Basil Taylour receiv should be the establishment of a Admiral Jellicoe has cited chison with unlawful possessioned from a lady in Paris appealing large organisation with a few well will be fraught with pro- of 31 taels of prepared opium. Mr. blems that will need very deli- Lea D'Almada appeared for the to the generosity of the citizens placed maintenance centres. It of Hongkong to help those who is time that the Colonial Office cate handling. The question frst defendant. After hearing of maintenance is a big one and evidence, his Worship discharged have lost their all in the late war. got a move on in the matter of If a nation's future depends upon the character of its youths, it the simplest way out would seem the second defendant, and finedly inclined at all times, I
While personally I am generous civil aviation.
KERRISON WILLING TO looks as though China is in for an uneasy time, that is, unless the to be the suggestion that each the first defendant $1,000 or three thick it not fair that Hongkong
MEET BUX. younger generation gets a little more balance and judgment pumped Dominion and India, also Britain, months.
There is some discontent, i should be asked to help build the hear, among the drafts of new With reference to the chal- into it. In recent times we have heard and read so much about should bear the cos: of the
ruined homes of France. student movements that we almost feel inclined to the view that vessels defending their own these exuberant and ill-advised youngsters will in course of time harbours. It is a pretty big bill Hongkong University Engineer- tated in the war, and it is a well- men, and their grievance is that in
The opening lecture of the whole of France was hot devas. Regular European Police Con- lenge from Iron Bux, to box stables. They are all ex-Service any Welter or Middle Weight bring disaster to their nation, for who e well-being they pretend to to foot, but it is an expenditure ing Society is to be delivered by know fact that the undevastated the Colonial Office did not apprise Sky Kerrison of Hongkong, the Orient, Dreferably care so much. If these lads put half as much energy and though: that has almost becnie imper the President, into their studies as they do into political and international issues ative by the course. events have Brown, on Friday, 31st inst., at wealthy owing to the occupation the high cost of living prevailing offices this afternoon and stated Professor W. regions of that country became them before their departure of the latter visited the Telegraph with which they are utterly unfitted to deal, both themselves and taken. No-one wants to bold their country would be the gainers. But they care more for the big stick" over anybody's 8.45 p.m. in Room E of the of the Armies who spent indis in the Colony. They draw a that he is only too serious to
The subject is criminately their money. University. "strikes" and for public demonstrations than they do for books.head, but we do not want ourown
of salary $101, a third "James Watt."
Some Lantern is the duty of the French which goes towards messing. Welter or Middle Weight in the of meet Iron Bux or any other and so far do they go that it is nothing to them whether business head uncovered when there are Pictures will be shown. This people to help their own and Out of is ruined or schools compelled to close their doors. They imagine other big sticks being brandished. lecture is open to any who are to
the balance, they Colony: backing to any amount. rehabilitate their they are serving their country by tactics, the crudeness of which is THE COALITION'S POSITION.
coun have to pay their boy, washer Sky Kerrison, who has just re- try independent of foreign aid. exceeded by the evil effects thereof. In point of fact. of coarse,
10.8m and sundry accounts, turned from active service, says With the re-assembling of
We went into the war they are playing with a two-edged weapon, for their use of the Parliament at Home the fore- boycott has already begun to hurt their own countrymen as much shadowed political crisis has arst of its series of tea dances we made with France. Now that England was worked out in sterl to belong to Hongkong) singling The Hongkong Hotel held the simply to fulfil the pledge that leaving a very small sum in he was rather surprised to see their hands. Their salary in Iron Bux (who wrongfully claims if not more than it has the Japanese.
Yesterday we published some facts concerning the student come, for we are now told that for the season last evening, the the war is over we have to suc-ing, which naturally appeared him out, but none the less, he movement against the big Chinese stores in Canton which show to the Government has suffered a large number of residents. The priority in all appeals,
very early on in its new Session event being greatly enjoyed by a cour our own. They must receive very attractive. It must be will be only too pleased to meet what ridiculous limits this business is being carried. Our informant defeat on one of its own proposals. Hotel Jazz Band was a buge suc- [We cannot see eye to eye with salary for any European in Hong- come to the Colony.
admitted that $101 is not a high him at any time he chooses to states that these lads go into the shops in search of low-grade (or The question at issue was not Japanese) goods, that they visit the Customs sheds on the same
cess. The next dance is to take "Ajax" on this question. Wekong, much less for a European "Iron Bux claims," said Sky quest, and that they even chop." the garments of customers coming a very vital one but the majority place on Thursday, when Miss consider the appeal worthy of all constable who has to risk his life Kerrison, to be Welter Weight
the Government was out of the suspected stores with characters indicating that these sufficient to show that if it does Lawrie, of "Vanity Fair" fame,
against
Vera Pain and Mr. Steve support.--Ed. H.K. T.
daily in the discharge of hisdaties. Champion of the Philippines. people are traitors or disreputabla individuals.
Mr. Wolfe should be able to do Well, I am the holder of the are grounds for believing that these lads are being made the tools not proceed on very cautious lines will give exhibitions of fancy
We do not hear much now-a-something for these man and help Welter and Middle Weight Cham- of politicians; that they are being employed in the manner indicated it has been decided that the
it has but a very short tenure left. dancing, including the Jazz days about civil aviation in the to make their life bearable. If pionship of Hongkong and can for the purpose of keeping the anti-Japanese boycott alive. defeat is not sufficiently important
Far East. The Colonial Office their scale of salary is as fixed ze produce records to prove it. Bux But, whatever the
should do something to help its the laws of the Medes and must not run away with the may be in this regard. it is to justify an appeal to the coun- deplorable that such things ze these should go unchecked. To try but it is fairly safe to predict
development. It could best be Persians, the Government could, idea that he has got every- say that such proceedings are an unjustifiable interference with that the life of the Coalition, big
developed by the grant of a mono- at least, be prevailed upon to give thing to say, As if we liberty of trade is to put it very mildly. Individuals can, if they even though its majority WAS
poly for a term of years for the these men free messing. There come together, this fight will be choose, refuse to purchase Japanese or any other goods; the passive little less than a year ago, is get-
carriage of mails by air to a single are about seventy European for the Championship of the boycott cannot be interfered with; it becomes a matter of personalting short. Peuple at Home do not
transport company, which should P.C.'s in the Hongkong Police Orient, that is if Bux makes good like or dislike. But this entry of shops and branding of customers want a hotch-potch Government
be independent of any particular Force, and if huge sums could be his claim to the Welter Weight takes the matter much further; then it becomes an utterly illegal now that the expediencies of Local exchange registered an aircraft construction company. yearly spent in road-making and Championship of the Philippines restraint of trade. From passivity the attitude of these students the war have been met and other rise to-day, the sterling value The monopoly should be limited to on improvement schemes a small I am willing to fight on terms of becomes one of decided activity, and in the process business suffers are passed, but they want as of the dollar improving a half the carriage of mails, and the sum could be allotted for the winner to take all with side The mere fact that such occurrences happen is sufficient to show Governmen: elected or a plain penny. This is as a result of the postal rates should be fixed by messing of these men, thus mak-bets up to any amount. Bux has the weakness of the so-called Canton Government: it is not even vote, free to act in accordance higher price of silver, which went Government. The Company could ing life and work à pleasure. Inot fought in Hongkong for the strong enough to control a handful of young students. Business with the old ideas of solid Gov-three farthings better.
There' bave a free hand in fixing the commend this to the attention of past seven or eight years, and at men in general and the controllers of these big Chinese stores in ernments. A Coalition was a very
telegrams rates for the carriage of other the authorities. Bilver
that time he was fighting for the particular have just cause for complaining at the helplessness of necessary expedient during the yesterday, but
Bantam or Feather Weight Cham- to-day two goods and passengers in open
Writing about the announcing competition with any other com-
Hong-pionship. He was then meeeting, We see that the Canton correspondent of the North China Daily ness has passed and it would be the rise of a farthing and panies which might be established kong Police, reminds me of a men who had not been in News thinks that this student movement, with all its exuberances better all round if the old country the other of 趨 halfpenny. for such purpose. The develop peculiar system in the Force. training and who were and excesses, if it is wisely guided, is one of the most hopeful had a good old-fashioned election Shanghai exchange is quoted ment of aircraft is now very During their nightly patrols not professionals-men who were things in Chinese life to-day. Granting his proviso, we agree; but and gave a party a mandato.
police constables serving their King and Country at 63.7d, with some offering 3d. rapid and types of machines and European over the rate. Locally, business engines are constantly changing. when they meet the Inspec. He has probably outgrown his has been done at da. 632d, between The cost of maintenance is tors in their division have to class, and that is the reason why VILLAGE 7 YEARS BABYLESS. Banks, while amongst Chinese, reduced proportionately by the report to them that their section he challenges any Welter or their proper sphere. They have neither the experience nor the Elmley. This little village in transactions at 4d, over the rate speed and endurance of the is all right. Why should not the Middle Weight I am either one balance of mind to enable them to be of any service to their country the Isle of Sheppey, of the have been affected, for cash machines used, which affect in Indian and Chinese constables be of the other, Welter or Middle, politically. Of itasif, the movement is serious enough, but it is a British coast, has just had its business. Forward rates are a particular engines' overhaul for compelled to report to the Eur- and will meet him at eithe thousand times worse when viewed as being typical of the outlock first baby in seven years. There hit better, for January the quots the distance flown, the life or of opean constable as well? At weight for a side stake and I or of Young China to-day. Lack of manners, absence of filial regard, isn't a baby carriage in the town tion being 48 54d. and for the machins, fuel distribution, etc. present; an Indian or Chinese winner take the lot." cheekiness to their tators, appear to be some of the outstanding and the school, built for 30 pupils, February a farthing down.
By far the most costly part of air. policeman passes a European Sky Kerrison prefera characteristics of the Chinese youth to-day. He is no improve has had but four during the past. The general opinion is that the transport is maintenance. The constable without informing him negotiations should be through ment on the old school; he is, in most cases, a very bad opposite year, three of these the children market cannot go up much and service should be of the highest of any occurrence that has occur the medium of the Hongkong in the virtues that count. Guidance he needs, to be sure, And of the school teacher.
that a decline is imminent. efficiency. The first principle red in his region.
Telegraph more than guidance-stern, unrelaxing control.
facts
the authorities in the matter.
is there any evidence that the movement is likely to be wisely controlled? We can see none whatever. The first thing that these lade should learn is that the school, and not the political field, is
-Dance.
THE DOLLAR.
ANOTHER JUMP.
were no
time of hostilities but its useful- came in,
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that