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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1920.
REGARDING PROHIBITION.
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NOTES & COMMENTS.
TOO SOFT-HEARTED.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
REPUTATION 19 WHAT MEN AND WOMEN THINK OF US:
CHARACTER IS WHAT GOD AND
CS.- THE ANGELS, KNOW OF Thomas Pains,
There was again a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
TWELFTH NIGHT-
A GAY CELEBRATION.
CORRESPONDENCE,
Dim
[To The Edisog of the ** Hongkong
Telegraph."]
of
season
29th, and it was decided that for
Yesterday we reported a case
FOOTBALL LEAGUE, in which a clergyman belonging
As everyone anticipated, St. to the British and Foreign Bible
George's Ball last night WAS Society returned to his home in
Sir-Referring to the letter marked by the greatest of suc published in your issue Kowloon to find that in his
cess. In the series of similar yesterday relative to the Hong- Absence someone had been busy
events that the Colony has wit-kong F. C. and the United ransacking the place, with, the result that money, watches and
nessed recently it will be given a Services-League, I beg to bring jewellery were missing. Inresti-
high place by all who attended. to your notice that a meeting of gations revealed the fact that the thief was the reverend gentle- posd on
A fine of $50 was to-day im-From the point of view of the the League to receive entries man's house coolie, and in due couver who attempted to snuggle attending and the general gaiety received a letter from the Club a Chinese from Van- lavish decorations, the number was held on Monday, December 22nd. On December 27th I course the sinner was brought be various parts of a revolver out of of the evening, the function will applying to enter the United fore the Magistrate. In Court, the the Colony.
From 9 Services long be remembered. clergyman pleaded for a light
League this sentence on the offender, on the
jo'clock until well into the small under similar conditions as in zround that he (the parson) was The remains of the late Mr. J. hours of the morning dancing previous years.
a preacher offorgiveness." That H. M. Mead are expected to was kept up with a swing and so This letter was read at a meet- cannot understand. At the pre-day, the funeral taking place atments been made that there was this season the League should is the kind of attitude that we arrive from Shanghai on Satur-thoroughly had all the arrangeing held on Monday, December sent time, when robberies and Happy Valley on Monday. not a single hitch throughout. And consist of Service teams only. thieving are so rife in the Colony,
this is circumstance that The proceedings of the meetings the full rigour of the law should be visited on those rogues who On display in the window of reflects highly to the credit of all were published in the press on the happen to be caught. It is no: a Messrs. Kelly and Walsh
at those who were responsible.
23rd and 30th insts, respectively. that are question of what ideas a clergy-present are the caps
By reason of the fact that man may have on "forgiveness being offered for the different it is for the Magistrate to deal events in the next boxing tourn-Festerday we gave a full descrip with the offender as having com- ament. They are of solid silver tion of the decorations, further matted a breach of the law and and are very attractive. There will not be said here concerning deliberately done an act which are twelve in all.
them, except to remark that as he know to be wrong. Crime is
viewed in the brighter atmosphere not likely to be put down in
M. Reau, the local Consul of the illuminations they were this Colony by the practice General, for France, will shortly seen to even better advantage. of forgiveness. Are many of be transferred to Shanghai to There was nothing but praise these people who preach it relieve Mr. Wilden, the French heard and the exquisite scheme really sincere? To be perfectly Consul-General of that port, who of St. George's Hal: excited the consistent end logical, they would will he going Horie. Mr. G. admiration of all. never punish anybody for rob- Hauchecorne will become Con- bery, we suppose, in view of the sul-General here. Seriptural injunction that if any man takes away a coat, they should let him have the cloak also. But the literal application
of
that
idea .hardly
when we come to deal with rogues of the type 'now all too busy in Hongkong. Happily, in this case the Magistrate does not appear to have been greatly in- fluenced by the plea for leniency, as he gave the coolie three That's the months hard labour. sort of "forgiveness" that suits cases of this kind.
UNCLEAN STREETS.
is in possession of the Police. but the other articles are in the hands of Mr. John Bentley, to whom the owners should apply.
As soon as His Excellency the Governor and party had been received by
the Society f Mr. H.
the
Pollock first -expressed
TODAY'S MISCELLANY.
A candidate for Parliamentary honours was emphasising his claims. "Return me to the House." be bleated, and I will make my voice heard from Land's End to John o' Groats; aye, from Dan to Bearsheeba." Then came plaintive voice from the back of the hall, "Speak up, suv'por."
The vicleat fi: of Stock Exchange speculation now.raging gives cogency to the question which Truth asks of those sanguine people who really
it asks, to accept more or less believe in the possibility of a capital levy. Is the Government, speculative securities, and if not, what course is to be pursued in the case of people whose capital is mainly or wholly locked up in
Yours etc..
such things as, say, oil or mining G. MAY,
shares? How are securities to Hon. Sec. United Services F.Lbe valued when the Government Hongkong, Jan. 7, 1920.
FUTILE APPEAL.
0:
A RICE-SNATCHER'S CASE.
as testified by his
of the
were found
takes them over? On Stock Exchange quotations which—as in bundreds of instances at this moment-are preposterously in- flated? Or on intrinsic values, and, if so, how are they to be determined? Is the Government
Overseas
Turs,
or
un the
to take the risks of capital Convicted recently on a charge depreciation, which will not be of snatching & quantity of rice essened by the knowledge that it from two Chinese women at has large blocks of securities to Douglas Wharf, for which offence sell? These are only samples of President he received three months, a Chin- many questions that could be We are asked to state that the
(the Hon. e38 to-day at the Police asked, but to none has a satisfact- Pollock, K.C.) Court appealed against the ory answer ever been given. following articles were found at
He secured the ser- with the sentence. does the City Hall last night: Two dancing commenced
be vices of Mr. Leo d'Almada, and brooches. gent's cigarette case official set of Lancers, to
silk followed by the more popular through the lawyer, advanced damascene), lady's blue
It seems a pity that no Charles The shawt one steps, fox trots and waltzes. the following points to show that Lamb ever tried his band on the embroidered shawl.
At the commencement the floor he was a man of worth and history of tobogganing, after the rather uncomfortably honesty (1) be had a sterling manner of the Dissertation on was crowded but during supper and character, after, there was plenty of room. witness and by the certificate Roast Pig" for an entertaining Music was supplied by the band which he had obtained on his the spot, which has during the origin might have been found for of the Wiltshire Regiment and discharge from the Inland Water last few days been having an Mr. G. Hauchecorne, Consul- although for the first part of the Transport in Calcutta; (2) he was unusual "benefit" for November. General for France, has permitted evening there was hardly enoug
man of means, having, a Mrs. Basil Taylor to rafle one care and emphasis give to time fortune of 1,000 rupees in his is at least possible that of his models which elicited such the band was playing admirable, pocket when he left India; (3) some hardy citizen of a younger world made his firet great favourable comment at the last dance music before the evening he had no need to steal, as he tobogganing run involuntarily, At the present moment there model is on view in the show
Sketch Club exhibition. The was very well advanced.
could live on this fortune; (4) and, having arrived at a pause To the strains of "The Roast the reason why he was is quite a lot of building going on
un and discovered that he was still in Hongkong-not in the way of window of Messrs. Sennett Freres Beef of Old England" the official employed was because he was whole, set about recapturing the houses in which to live, but in The proceeds will be given to the ing an interval in the supper shattered health.
and a dollar can secure a chance. party went into supper and dur. taking a rest to recuperate his
rapture of rapid motion-the most. Lastly, he rapid available to man before the matter of improving the
the attention
# business centre of the city. This Fund for the Devastated Regions proceedings the President took drew
mechanical speed was developed. of France.
opportunity to make a short Magistrate (Mr. N. L. Smith! It is the fact that tobogganing in involves much pulling down also.
speech in proposing the toast of to the arresting fact that he could Russia had its practical uses and it is a common sight to see
"The British Empire." Mr. have "jumped the $50 bail he long before anyone thought of it coolies sauntering through the In connection with the Hong- ragging that Mr.streets carrying away the rubbish kong Schools Football Associa- By reason of the rather unfortunate
the was on, and thus avoid the risk
exactly when it established itself "Pussyfoot" Johnson received on tho anniversary of the armistice.in the familiar baskets suspended tion, the Junior League final gratification which he felt at of failure on the appeal Alle as a sport, and if no one knows talk regarding prohibition-as is meant in America-has been rather on bamboo poles slung across between Queen's College and presiding on that occasion. He which arguments were duly put on its own merits to other form
his also expressed This is a very Wanchai is to be played on free of late. Yesterday, Reuter gave us some very alarming details their shoulders.
warmest by his Worship into the scale of speeding" has destroyed its fascination. Whether on the of how in en leavoring to celebrate the New Year in festive manner crude method for the removal of the Queen's College ground banks to the various members of justice and
of the a great number of Americans had taken denatured alechel with debris, but it serves local purposes on Wednesday next at 3 p.m. It labours had ensured the success the evidence of the witness for Swiss
sub-committees whose wanting when weighed with thrilling descents of the great fatal results, and this is not the first news of its kind we have all right. There is one objection will be followed by an exhibition of the Ball. Mr. Pollock next the prosecution. But before doing tamer long, straight runs of North received. In Manila there has been a campaign on the part of to it. however, and that is why match between St. Joseph's and referred to two sets of figures as the weighing,
"dry," bur prohibitionists" to get the Philippine Islands to go
we pen these few lines. Most of the Rest. H. E, the Governor is
His Worship America, on the switchbacks of there has been some very stout opposition offered to it, notably on these baskets are of very shallow to present the League trophies showing the important part which (queried "Is this your own story? Russia, on the sporting dashes of the part of members of the medical profession. At Home people depth, and, what is more, tlies and medals to the winner.
England, the Motherland of the to which Mr. d'Almada hastened
Buxton, or on those contemptible are in the midst of a campaign, too, but it does not look as though are usually overloaded, with the
Empire, had played in the Great to explain that it was the story
hillocks of the South which still War. there was much chance for prohibition to become established there. consequence that the coolies leave
In the first place he related to him by the appellant provide excitement for small boys, As the whole question is so much before the public just now it would behind them a regular trail
A fire recently broke out in a mentioned that of all the Empire's when he interviewed the latter in tobogganing is always in fashion.
on all the land Gaol His Worship said he was be as well if we gave the opinions we have regarding it, for who extending from the demolished medicine shop at Bonham Strand casualties
and there was probably not one of fronts no less than 82 per satisfied with the evidence of the our sports which so delighted knows when Hongkong's turn will come to be visited by a "down building to the rubbish heap, which resulted in damage to
had been torne by two women. and the appellant with all drink" campaign? Wh cannot quite conjure up the mental | Yesterday, for example, the lower quantity of the medicine. The cent.
soldiers from lands picture of Hongkong as a "dry" Colony, and, even if we could. it part of Ice House Street prese: M: Lammert but during its and last figure which Mr. Pollock the amount he paid as legal fees. The real tobogganer thinks noth- remainder was to be auctioned by the men of England. The next went back to Gaol the poorer by where snow and ice are unknown. would hardly be a pleasing one,
ed a most filthy and unkempt
transportation to At the root of all temperance movements, and especially of appearance because of the cropp-
the auction mentioned, was in connection
ing of the toil of returning to his prohibition, is the desire to do away with excessive consumptionings from these coolies' basketsms, a thief appeared on the with that splendid service, the
starting-point; anything is worth Royal Navy, which exceeded and the consequent moral and mental deterioration that a man The roadway was strewn with scene and helped himself to
while for the sake of the glorious a 450,000 officers and inen, of suers. It is a laudable thing to work for the social betterment, pieces of plaster, odd bits of brick considerable quantity from
rush through the air. but those who seek to bring about that betterment by the prohibition and all manner of debris of this receptacle That was left in the whom more than 90 percent. of all strong drink bave first to make sure that they have a majority character. A stranger walking street. The theft was detected, were Englishmen. Those fizures
to show behind them. The prohibition of anything will only be a success up the street and not seeing the and the theif was arrested and at sufficed
the Empire
The Pussyfoots" apparently when it is a popular demand. The suppression of opium in China cholies might well wonder what the Police Court to-day sentence the heart of
was sound and that the spirit!
recognise that they bare a stiff has provided the object lesson. The Chinese, to a very great extent, had happened, and incidentally three weeks' hard labour.. still want opium and, despite all efforts to the contrary, they will he would have a very poor idea
of the England of Elizabeth-
fight in front of them. Already,
continue to get it. The majority of men desire to smoke, and until of Hongkong's conception of
the spirit of high enterpriss and
they are busy spreading their dry great endeavour-was still
doctrine all over the country, al- all men have convinced themselves that smoking is bad for them stre: cleanliness. Perhaps some
though there are can be no actual and & pernicious vice, they will continue to smoke. Ladies are thing can be done to prevent this
result of all their work until May fond of sweets and chocolates, some of them excessively so, disfigurement of our public
1921. Anti-prohibitionists would but although sweets to excess might be es harmful as drink thoroughfares.
de well to remember, however, to excess, there will be an undiminished consumption whilst the desire lasts. Intemperance of any sort, either of food or of drink
and evary in splendid form.
"Passy-foot" party to be assisted or of smoking, is indefensible when face to face with ideal morelity,
bean knit
Less than eighteen months towards the achievement of their into but there is a right and a wrong way of working to establish tha: high
firm and
Eddie sims by the apathy of those who indivisible ago. Parsons fought morality some people so much desire. Because some men drink to excess it is not right to deny all men any form of alcoholic drink Czar of Russia, the ex-Kaiser ropean constable that be whole. The bonds of Empire Beattie, Weiterweight Champion do not find themselves in agree- arrested he man in Shanghai have been welded in the fierce of Scotland, at the Glasgow meat-full or partial-with that whatsoever. The drink in itself is not evil-the only evil thing used these words: "If you are Street. The carcase was being ares of suffering and sacrifice, National Sporting Club. It policy. The dry party may about drinking is the immoderation that leads to lessened efficiency, allied to the French, keep the sold, and on examination by Dr. and, please God, these bonds shell is expected that the call for a poll in any ward in lessened kindliness, and lessened human worth. Some people, damned rascals in order; the ribson, it was discovered to be
will (Applause), local Champion never be broken.
have September next-act before, and unfortunately, become addicted to the taking of drugs, but drugs in curse of God has stricken that badly dressed and unwholesome. And we can never forget the to put all he knows into his not again until the same month themselves and when used for a right purpose are a blessing. And people for ever." Thut Was The case was remanded for the magnificent part which has been fighting on Saturday. In height of the following year--but they so is alcohol. Smoking may be a doubtfully useful habit, but the too written over twenty years ago. attendanes of a witness.
borne by our women in the and reach there is little, if any, must be supported by one-tenth heavy a smoker has to pay a price to himself just as does a heavy We wonder whether Wilhelm
great struggle. It would be difference between the drinker. The fault with a'l movements of a similar nature to that now remembers what he wrote,
men, of the electors. Once the poll is. We have to thank the compiler impossible within the short Their weights are the same. secured the apathy of the public of prohibition is that they seek to force other people to their way and what he thinks about it.
have (Mr. F. C. Jenkin, C. B. E) for a limits of a speech to enumerate
may well do the rest. At least of thinking, and force exerted in such directions has never yet ani"The damned rascala "
35 per cent. of the electors must never will result in anything else but a reaction worse in effect kept him and his kind in order, I copy of "The Rules of Boxing," the splendid and elf-sacrificing
support probibition at the pol, than the original state of freedom. If the world would be a happier anyhow. Then, as during the whith no supporter of "the noble labours of the women
and these must be 55 per cent of place to live in, and people generally would be healthier without war, the ex-Kaiser was very free art" should be without. Neatly Empire. Let us now join together
those actually voting: A call for strong drink, there first has to be a recognition of that fact bef re with his knowledge of God's bound in stiff covers, it contains, in drinking to "The British
& reduction in the number of May it was surely besides a most interesting intro Empire" and Abolition can be brought about without very grave evil results. designs, but he
licences must also be supported Proof of that has recently come from America and history | a little astray when he duction, the Rules of Boxing rest upon the two foundations of
by 35 per cent, of the electorate supplies many other examples of where a probibitive movement not gave it out that the curse of the alphabetically arranged and com-fait play and freedom for all."
before it beco es operative. The a popular one is always attended by deleterious results. There can Almighty bad stricken the French Parad, the rules of the National (Applause).
regard result in that case would be to It should be mentioned that the be no denying that excess in narcotics, opiates, or exhilaraters is people for ever. France has come Sporting Club, the Royal Navy
Chinese chop off one-quarter of the harmful, and it is the more general acceptance of this idea by the gloriously out of the fiery furnace an Army Boxing Association supper tables were very tastefully:
local licences in that area. The alter- peoples of the world that will eventually bring about supression or through which the Germans cor- and the A nateur Boxing Associa decorated with roses in baskets of reduction. It is a question of education; heightened conception of palled her to pass, thera is not tion. It is appropriately dedicated old-fashioned design. The cater Police Force has been introduced native is to leave the matter in from the bands of the present licensing what all men's duty is to themselves and the world around them. much of the decadent or cursed, to John Charles Wildin, "in reing was in the hands of the Hong and it takes effect as
January 1st. It now b-authorities: Should the total For reasonable and intelligent propaganda on the subject there is nation about ber nowadays. The membrance of many successful kong Hotel and, as usual, left
comes possible for Chinese prohibition party fail at sny poll room, but for a dictatorial force that says to all men"You shall curse is on Germany, rather. Police Reserve Meetings and in nothing to be desired.
constable to attain the their votes may be added to the token of his ability to unfallingly not "there is end never will be any toleration. In the presence of And it will remain for many a
Perhaps Hongkong has now such force men take unlawful means to gratify, not so much their long year. Poor Wilhelm, be guarantee a straight fight." The seen the last of such largely-con- tanks of inspector and Sergeant "reduction" total, so that the "Pussyfoots' " feelings have been desires for the prohibited article, but their sense of freedom. Meo was a bad prophet. The whole book is on sale at Messre. Kelly cerred "functions for a while, but
For the present the number of vary considerately treated. "An- might be persuaded into the view that strong drink is bad-we are of his life's ambitions and designs and Walsh', who are the publish-residents certainly have memories not saying that all of it is but they will certainly never be driven to have been falsifed by happenings. era, at fifty cents per copy, and of a series that very fittingly mark Inspectors and Sergeant Majors other point worth bearing in mind
Ands because we believe that, we don't like what is known as History will put him in his proper any profite accruing from it will the first fall winter season of is limited to one and two respec- is that a decision, once
WILHELM'S MISCALCULATIONS,
In one of his letters to the ex-
that
"
BOXING.
"SKY" KERRISON'S CHALLENGER.
**
*
O
*
Seaman Paraons, of H.M.S. Ambrose, whose challenge to The carcase of a pig which was
Sky" Kerrison, the Welter- revealed by Dr. Gibson to have living force. Since those far weight Champion of the Coinny, died from dise is and was after- of days of Elizabeth," continued has been accepted for Saturday wards dressed and sold for human Mr. Pollock, England has ex-night next, is in training at the consumption was mentioned in a panded into the British Empire, V.R.C., and is stated by the Box- case before Mr. J. R. Wood this which thouzh scattered Ever ing Association's Manager to be that it is quite possible for the
ino ning, when a Chinese was charged with selling unwhole- Seung pork. It was stated by a
continent every
has 828.
one
of the
ever
POLICE RANK.
NEW SCHEME FOR CHINESE.
An innovation in to promotion in the section of
Major.
the