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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE MARATHON RACE.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
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IT IS BETTER TO BE WORN OUT With the drawing nearer of the WITH WORK IN A THRONGED actual day of the event, com-COMMUNITY THAN TO PERISH OF petitors in the forthcoming IS ACTION IN A STAGNANT Marathon Race are getting in quite SOLITUDE-Mrs. Gaskell.
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outlined or adheres to the crea- sence of the Press and have the tion of a Fair Rent Board. Government criticised. So they. After a hiatus of a few weeks Where the rent paid last rear discussed
and discussed have again commenced to keep justified in raising the rent to have cited numerous examples was unduly low, is the landlord matter. His Excellency is said to a deal of training, and on almost
up my Disry. The interval had any morning it is possible to see The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn is witnessed many stirring inci- anything paid during the pre-war to show
of runners having to distribute the prizes at the dents, and I am not inclined to period, for it will be noticed that majority would be fatal to the numbers trial spins over parts of the Ying Wa College on the 12 cover old ground here. No state- some landlords are arguing that Colony. That was how he vien actual course some going all instant.
ment that His Excellenes the as a result of the war, when ed the question. Such a proposal the way round. The one thing
Governor had made since his many residents left the Colony, was that is becoming increasingly,
puerile and The sky was greatly illumined arrival in this Colony has created rents went down to a low level? Did
the evident is the great
amount last night by the burning of such a good impression as that on with the return of better times catch his arguments? Then cried deputation quite of interest that the event is large quantity of naval cordite at the question of the rent-Pro accommodation are they justfied be the undoing of all our machina- and 3 greater demand for some of them "Ichabod, this will provoking and certain it is that Stonecutters Island. "
fiteering that is now going on.. the day race will be a big one.
His Excellency said. At the bringing their rents to the tions over which we spent so There is just one point that wei
death" rebred
at alas: meeting of the Council Ipre-war standard? That requires much hot air at the public meet- should like to emphasise on Nursing Heme in London mentioned that for certain rea-)
looking into. friends of the competitors and jen December 20 of Mr. Hartsons which I believe are sound thers who are interested. It Buck, formerly of Hongkong, economic reasons I am against will be a
While on the subject of hous- natural inclination He was in his 68th year. interference with rents as between ing. I may be permitted to make tot totally opposed to the whole Of course. His Excellency was Ito go round with the men,
landlords and tenants, if it is posa few remarks. The Building programme of the Constitutional either on bicycle. "push" Captain G. H. Pennefather, of sible, but if anything I said then Ordinance requires motor or to accompany them in the s.s. Hupeh, reports that on his gave the impression that the Hongkong has outgrown
amending. Reform Association The re some way. But in this case it way from Saigon he passed a Government would sit still with Building Ordinance, and it is time of what transpired at the con- its port supplied to the Press would be kinder not to. Presita telegraph baby No. 3 with three falde hands while the existing the authorities recognise this. Aference states that the Governor ing that 150 men face the starter. vertical lamps drifting in Lat shortage of accommodation is large number of building schemes was favourably disposed towards exploited for private gain it is are now under way and within the substitution of election for bar, the route will be quite
high time that impression should the next few months we shall nomination in the case of the sufficiently filled with the com-j The Hongkong Tramway Com-be removed." What a ring of witness a number of structures non-Chinese unofficial members petitors to render the presence of pany's receipts for the week end-sincerity in these words! all others, excepting officials, ex-ed February 7th, totalled $14.003a flutter it must have caused in aid is being asked by many from take the Association very far, What going up in Kowloon. Financial of the Council. This does not cessive. The course is not an which is a decrease of $2.383 the dovecotes of the rent pro-the local Government, and these for easy one and the more free it is over the same week last year. Aceers! His Excellency said that applications will have to go non-official members who adorn the chances are the Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires kept the better will it be for all For the six weeks of the year, he would have to get the Council before the Governor-in-Council. the Council today will take good them to forward their names and addresses with communications because on the last occasion of a which is a decrease of $8.454 Fair Rent Board, should the pre-accommodation the Government Some of them represent very big concerned. We make this appeal the total taking are $78.827 to agree to the appointment of a There is a limit to the extent of the care to see that they are elected. addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a and marathon race conditions were at lover the same period last year. evidence of their bona fides.
sent evil continue. All communications intended for publication should be address of overcrowding. There were
Before this can give prospective builders of interests and their election to the times very uncomfortable because
Board landlords would have to flats and buildings. It is not Council should be a foregone ed to the Editor.
Mr. George Thornton, the Prove their cases before raising correct to say that Humphreys conclusion. This is really a case Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
even breaches of the "no pacing" manager of the Swatow branch of rents. It seems to me that this is are the only firm that can secure of Love's labour lost. As I have rule, although no action was Messrs. Alex Russ and Co., has a case of closing the stable door assistance of this nature, although consistently maintained. The rate of subscription to The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 event and everyone desires it to consequently gene
taken. The race is quite a big hen bitten by a dog and he has after the steed has been stolen. they were the first to enjoy the Hongkong citizen will not trust per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
to Shanghai By the time the Government use of a portion of the "Colony's his fortunes to an unofficial major- The rato per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-stances as possible.
becontested under asideal circum- for Pasteur treatment. Although wakes to the necessity of ercat-surplus revenue at a low rate it on the Council. We would tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a
the dog has not been traced, it is ing this tribunal. tenants will be of interest. I understand that the rather have five Hutchisons on full month.
believed that it was REGARDING THE KUSER
not mad. Paying preposterous rents for Government has no desire to the Legislature than en excess of Mr. Thornton's many friends in their fats. A better plan would differentiate between applicants, unofficials. through of Holland protesting as that he
When the Erst news came Hongkong will be pleased to learn be to give the tribunal power to and each case will be treated on friends is our daily prayer.
Save us from our regards delivering up the ex-favourably.
12 HOW progressing fix a fair rent in cases that come its own merits. Future loans by
before them. Kaiser we expressed the opinion,
the Government to developers of
increase of one per cent. over properties will be made at the rate of five per cent.. which is an that asked from Humphreys.
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As men find woodcock by their The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be still think so. The recent news ed a Chinese with the theft of afon repairs and improvements to the wishes of the Allies, and we Ans, of the Water Police, charz-larly liberal in spending money
eyes. belivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd.. to hand shows that the Connolength of lead piping from the his properties, and even suppose
Samat Butler. Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
An old Baptist preacher, so af Ambassaders has now drafted P. and O. Kashmir. The Seant the price of material has gone Ner Cheong road on Sunday, I
While motoring.down Wong Straight a Calvinist that he leaned a fresh letter to Holland in stated that the piping was cut up up 100 per cent. it requires to noticed a structure going up at
over backward. was defending terms, requesting a into small bits which the defend- be assumed that the landlord the corner of that road, where Atlength the preacher said to his his doctrines against a man as reconsideration of her decision. ant concealed on his person. A spent on repairs the whole of the there are piled up used bricks,
ignorant as he was obstinate. Precisely what those "energetic" sentence of one month's hard increased rents. This alleged etc. from 13, Queen's Road friend: don't you" beleve what terms are we have not yet hear aboar was inflicted.
opponent, "Now look here, my but it is safe to assume that some
justification is really thin. Then. Central. which has just been de straight talking has been indulged
The death of Lady Emily increases in rents are a neces-ing to know whether the P.WD believe what is to be, won't be."
again, we 2 re told that the molished. It would be interest No.
is- to be. will be?" in. No-one can question the right D'Aguilar, on 17th December, at sary corollers to the general have given their sanction for the The obstinate and ignorantan I don't 21 all. I of Hollend to submit her own! Folkestone, recalle 10 view of the International law on the name of her late husband. living. The general causes of tion of this structure, and whether the Government of Hongkong. mind increase all round in the cost of use of old bricks in the construc-in the present case is typified by the matter, but it would be the Sir Charles D'Aguilar, who saw the increased cost of living are this is not a contravention of the The writers of the Bible found in height of irony if because of considerable service in China in multifarious and are due to many P.W.D. Regulations. This partic-their times various kinds of fools, some technical point the Kaiser the middle of last century. His things, and the law of supply and ular spot. I am told, was pre-and in the most disconcerting were allowed to go scot free. But name is perpetuated in Cape demand. They are all due to the viously a Garden lot, which the we don't think he will be. Sir D'Aquilar and D'Aguilar Street. determination of the lower classes Government converted into Crown for what they were. We have Auckland Geddes has put forward Hongkong. Lady D'Aguilar was to attain a higher scheme of living land,
way possible they described them the contention that the Kaiser the daughter of Admiral on than they attained before the war. of its contractors. It seems to me the fool, like the poor, is always will not be allowed to remain in Joceline Perry, niece of the fif h The law of supply and demand is that the Government has shown with us. The Wisdom Books of and granted it to one the same types still with us, for Europe, even if Holland does Duke of Northumberland, and merely a statement and is an very little foresight in the matter. the Old Testament give us a whole. succeed in her point of law. had reached the advanced age of exploded economic principle. It The grant of that piece of land picture gallery of fools, but there On that we are not very much 93 years. concerned and as to the punish-į
is beginning to be realised that has narrowed the road and created are one or two types of fools nent to be meted out we are not
the dictum that a man can do as Mr. E. C. Wilton, H. B. M.she likes with his own is nothing spot was not selected for convers who are described in full in the a sharp angle. Why some other whose race has not died out, and greatly concerned either. Tha: Consul-General at Hankow, who but the principle of the Bolon into Crown: land is worth matter rest in the hands o the has been attached to the British shevists. The powers of landlords enquiring of the authorities. particular tribunal that will con- Peace Delegation in Paris for to-day are in entire defiance of
report of the Hongkong Govern duct the trial. All that we are some time, has been appointed law, if they are not curbed.
ment on its administration of the concerned with is the principle British Commissioner on the
rice control. Readers interested in current political movements will have of the matter. The Kaiser is a International Commission a: noted the summaries of the latest declarations made by Lenin and criminal, at least he has helped Teschen in what was formerly The time has now
We can say that we live in an Trotsky, that notorious pair of Bolshevik louders.
Swift once called at a house. age of psychology just as much Evidently the to commit a great international Austrian Silesia. This is the eecure the residents of the The lady of the mansion rejoiced as in an age of science. Psy- lust for power is too much for these revolutionary individual to wrong and it is only commonplace which, it may be remember Colony as a whole against the withstand, so they have gone over to autoeraes of a form which justice that he should be called cd, Lord Northcliffe twitted Mr. encroachments of rapacious pro and with much eagerness and for the specialist. There is in to have such } great guest chalozy provides abundant fields. appears to be even worse than the with which Russia became so upon to give an account of him Lloyd George upon, as a spot that perty owners. Legislation, as I flippancy asked him what he particular in Hongkong a virgin familiar under the Romanoff regime. It is the old, old story of men self. and show cause why every schoolboy knew the posi-
have often emphasised, is urgent would conceiving themselves to be called to the task of liberating the retributive steps should not be tion of. Unfortunately, in mak- and necessary. It has been proved "Will you have an apple pie, of a has
dianer soil which, so far I am aware. oppressed and then indulging in even wurse oppression themselves, taken. If he is not tried a breaching his diatribe he spelt the name there are a large number of pie, as a plum pie or a pigeon pie, fic
beyond reasonable doubt that gooseberry pie, sir, or 3 cherry cultivated
been explored or History has provided us with endless examples of that surt, and of justice will have been com-w.ong!
by the scienti- so long as human nature remains as it is, we may take it for granted mitted.
specialist. This virgin that the future will se the process continued. That is why some 1S GERMANY QUIBBLING ?
Any pic, madam, but alsoil is the mind of the Hongkong paid by persons of small means magpie," replied the Dean in his Government. tournement of us cannot bail with any undue enthusiasm the prospect of a
(mixed doubles) is to be held at At the same time there is a distinct the question of Constitutional pirical observation, and it has have been unconscionably raised. usual dry, sarcastic manner.. On exposed to much cursory em- It may have been possible Lalwur Government at Home in the near future. There is Lersner over the question of the 2.15 pm, on Saturday, 6th March.hortage of houses in Hongkong Reform. I have all along plainly given rise to many interesting
By the resignation of Von the Ladies' Recreation Club at such a thing as Labour tyranny, which can be just as hard and Allies request for the handing The entrance fee for each couple classes and all communities and fad, if they wanted to feist any-behaviour, but these are casual exacting as tyranny springing from any other class,
and Kowloon for people of all asked Lenin's latest idea is the substitution of autocratic for associat-criminals a rather serious position similar tournament which was the need for further building is thing on us, not to saddle us with and unsystematic in character,
Jover of a number of other warlis two dollars.
the sponsors of this biter dicte about its nature and ed power in the organisation of government and industry, and He has arisen. cites as an example therefor the carrying out of this idea in the refusal
It means, if the not played on the 31st of January coming acute. The Colony at an unofficial majority. Army. This he describes as an evolutionary measure, and he Germany is already breaking the for this
is persisted in that on account of the rain hold gool present is decidedly underhoused written fairly strongly on this have never been collected into a I had even if illuminating, and they thinks the future will be best assured by autocracy of Communist very newly signed Treaty of entries must reach the Secretary the need of accommodation. The judgment, one of the resolutions of the Government of Hong-
for all classes. Further building matter after the City Hall meet-rpus. leaders and Communist domination of the people. He is backed up Peace, in which specific provision (Mrs. Digby) or the No. 1. boy al
should be encouraged to meeting at which, by some error of suggestion of studying the mind To some minds the the Soviet's power is to assemble the workmen at the factories and be delivered up on request. in his ideas by Trotsky, who says the only means of strengthening was made for guilty oficials to the Club Rouse before Saturday. unoccupied sites that can be seen passed asked the Secretary of kong might savour of irreverence send them from place to place on the Government's instructions.)
The 28th February. A member of the in certain places are being held, State for the Colonies to see his and profanity. What wealth the peasants to be turned into Labour Corps under military discip- whether Von Lersner is acting ber as partner if desired. No day. Meanwhile they contribute the Hongkong Legislature by psychologist would have to col-
question is yet open line. Such is the "freedom" which the Bolshevik leaders think that solely in obedience to a personal couple will be allowed to com- Colony on whose growth their in-of one, thus increasing
as to Club may enter with a non-mem-nu doght, for a big profit some way to amend the constitution of of material the prospective the masses should enjoy! What will especially strike the interested
nothing to the expenses of the granting us an unofficial majority lect reader is Trotsky's remark about the strengthening of the Soviet's,
repugnance OF whether he pete unless their
and classify. He could power. That is the aim which these men have in view, apparently-
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creased value depends.
the measure the quantity of atten- Some the power that can be wielded by the leaders, regardless of its
ed opinion of
unofficial members from six to tion the Government pays to its Berlin. In
action in this direction seems nire and allowing the officials various consequences on the people. The liberty of the masses is quite a requires immediate attention and illegal use of trade-marks is down
any case it is a matter that: An interesting
functions, he could secondary consideration.
case of the essential.
members to remain at eight. His estimate the relative amount of We had an idea that one of the basic principles of Bolshevisin given it. It is the opinion in some The defendants. the Kin Kee than appointing a
it seems as though that has been for hearing by Mr. N. L. Smith.]
Excellency the Governor, before interest it devotes to the practical was equal freedom for all-that the people were to rule themselves French circles that Germany is firm, are charted
Would it not be a better plan he came out to the Colony, studi-art of governing and to the re- and were to be subject to no manner of autocracy.
Fair Rented the files of the Colony's news-creation of making proposals to Trotsky have strayed far from this conception, and they now want strength and if that is so she will the Green Island Cement Com- would be to fix a standard rent? the arguments I had marshalled visual perceptions in gauging
making this question a test of gunny bags bearing the marks of a Controller of Rents whose duty he had an opportunity of studying clarity of
with using Board if the Government created papers at the Colonial Office, and govern. He could study to treat the masses aa so many cattle, to be formed into droves and certainly find plenty of strength pany for their cement. For the The standard rent could be fixed in my strong plea against the
the Government's shifted about from place to place at the bidding of the Communist to enforce the Allies' demands. defence, it was stated by Mr. as that being paid in some month creation of an unofficial majority ideas and modes of expression, leaders to do the menial tasks of life, without a soul to call their The message from Berlin stating Crew to-day that the bags were in 1918 or 1919. There may be on the Council. The Constitu- the accuracy of its ideas of the situation, its trains of wn. Well might the people pray to be delivered from tyranny of that Von Lersner acted entirely purchased from the Kwantung considerable difficulty in deciding tionel Reform Die-Hards waited external world outside itself and this type, which amounts to sheer slavery and unbridled power by contrary to instructions is rather Cement Company which never what particular date to take upon the Goremer last Wednes-its powers of conation, etc. All those whose one idea in to make a tool of the workers. All the heartening, although it would not used new bags bat purchased Personally visionary ideas of rule by the people, of which we have heard so be wise to place absolutely the tho that had been in use for a April, 1919, would be appropriate cliency was disposed towards have an interest of their own. mugh in recent years, break at the point where it is forgotten that fallest confidence in this rathe number of years, Mr. Crew asked as
speaking, I think day to ascertain how His Ex these topies of enquiry would Ander any scheme of government somebody has to direct and hurried assurance. Germany has Mr. Turner (who appeared for the that sontrol, somebody has to have the last word and exercise final bar none too willing to conform prosecution) whether the K Kee first became rampant, though the a
it was about that time the claims of the Constitutional There is a point beyond which authority. And that is where the danger of tyranny comes in. to terms all through the piece could be allowed to use the bags grievances
these unjust increases Reform Association. Not having human forbearance cannot go and Bo far from Bolshevism becoming a liberating agency in Russia, and it would be just as well if the with the marks obliterated. If until August of last year. There the Press to this small cou-report of the Government's rice strong -case, it was not the most even of t-mpers will if it is to be practised on the lines foreshadowed by Lenin and Allies
were not vocalised deemed prudent to invite become roused at times. The Trotsky, it will merely enslave the people and make them more apparent that anything in the Kwantung
made it, convincingly not, his clients would notify the must be pawns of others. So this is what: Bolshevism has come to! We
certain reasonable versazione & Government House transactions is a glaring story or shall be very surprised if even Russians will long tolerate it.
quibbling" will be The hearing of the
Cement Company. exceptions. Where a landlord has It was not a want of confidence the incompetency of the Govern pretty strenuously opposed.
Case was improved his premises he should be in the value of their recommend- ment and a shameful waste of adjourned.
allowed to have the standard rentations, which is what the Re- public funds.
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