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THE
HONGKONG
SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 21. 1920.
TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE FA'R.
NAVAL NOTES.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
+Continued from page 1) FRENCH SHIPPING DISASTER,
Paris, February 16. A communique states that all afforts have bean unsuccessful to
THE DEVIL HATES THE SMELL | Cutters Crews drawn from H.M.S. "Alacrity" and the Torpedomen Another Chinese New Year OF PRINTER'S INK.
of H.M.S. provided a most ex- holiday has come and is nearly
eiting race on Sunday evening | gone. Characterised by all the usual business settlements, with Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick last. The original intention was the squaring up of things belong and Lady Tudor, who returned for Hawkins" Racing Crew to find the steamship Ville Dalger which sent a wireless message at ing to the past year, the period from China, are staving at the compete, but with so many more eventide og February 1 that she was afre 150 miles from Reunion, has worn the usual aspect of Somerset Hotel, Orchard Street. what to choose from they held carrying 91 passengers and 50 crew, as well as a cargo of rum and what might have been considered sugar. The Vill du Havre proceeded to her assistance and found the celebration. The wheel of time London,
an unfair advantage conseqently Ville Dalger on February 5 afire and abandoned. Subsequent the Torpedomen, whose numbers searches did not reveal any wreckage. A boatload of the Ville apparently compare favourably Dalger's survivors has arrived at Madagascar. It is feared that the with those of Alacrity," acceptċ remainder have perished. the challenge. The crews were splendidly matched and the race
has turned a little farther and a new point registered towards the
completion of another of Cathay's Some queer signs and notis many cycles. In Hongkong there were thrust upon the passers by has been the wonted firing of in Chinatown on Chinese New crackers, the picturesque sup-Year. This was outside a Chinese plications to Joss, and an in-restaurent in Des Voeux Road dulgence in the native love of Central. display. Queen's Road has
once il more witnessed the
native fair, and the street, lined The Treasurer of the Society
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, search of curios
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1920.
HUMPHREYS' MEETING.
a neck and neck struggle from start to finish. "Alacrity held aslight lead after passing and receiving the encouraging cheers of the Ambrose " but "Hawkins" drew level again on coming with
GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS.
TRIAL IN GERMAN COURTS.
Paris, February 16.
FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES.
with booths loaded with a sur- of St. Vincent De Paul gratefully in hail of her own Ship's Com- The Allies have agreed that the war criminals he tried by the prising miscellany and medley of acknowledges receipt of $10.00 pans. The last half mile was a German courts. If the punishments are unsatisfactory, the Allies things edible, useful and ornamen: from Mrs. Chan Yii Hing race not often seen in Hongkong, reserve the right to impose penalties on Germany for the non- tal, has been the one to which all through Mr. McElderry, of the both crews straining every muscle fulfilment of the Peace Treaty. others led. Europeans have Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
and nerve, and it was not until jostled among swarming nativesin
"Alacrity" heard the welcoming search of curios, have toyed with
shouts of their own sturdy and have even-
that she crept in tually purchased them at figures The Hongkong Hotel was again supporters
ruinous to stal-keepers. Any taxed for accommodation by the front to win by the darrowest of thing from a well-cooked beetle arrival of the 3.3. Venezuela. The margins. Splendid crews and a to a rare piece of porcelain was management could take in only a fine race. d'splayed for attraction. And fifth of the applicants, seventy
M. Poincare will send a Presidential message to the Chamber of being refused ac-1 The reduction in the personnel everyone seemed to enjoy them-Passengers selves. The stail-holders, plead-commodation. This spectacle of of the Fleet proceeds apace, and Deputies and the Senate on Tuesday next, on the eve of expiry of his powers as President. The message will be read in the Chamber by ing all the while for honest prices, Hotel full" has now become a I hear that it is to be completed as M. Millerand, and in the Senate by M. Chopiteaux, Keeper of the re pleasureably enriched and common feature of life in Hong-far as Home Service is concerned Seals. This farewell message, which is an innovation, is, of course. by the end of March. I an in-exciting great interest, and has produced an excellent impression in the satisfied customers knew that keng.
formed that there are a number Parliamentary circles.
the of applicants on
Chins
they had beaten salesmen down!
to bargain figures. A gigantic
AN INNOVATION,
Paris, February 15.
Another Presidential message will be
game of bluf of irresistible ap-f By the s..
Venezuela there Station for Free Discharges, and addressed to Parliament during the week by M. Deschanel-Hares, peal. We all deny that we like arrived another batch of tourists that there is considerable con- as Zu whether the crowds or noise, but all Hongtravelling under the agency of jecture kong and his wife wereta be seen the Raymond Whitcombe Com-necessary in the thick of it. There must paay. Unfortunately, M. B.forthcoming before the limit is be sine primal instinct to con- Thompson, who Was to have reached. gregate seme-deep-seated power directed these tourists in Hong-
approval will
be
of attraction in the glare and kong and elsewhere met with an From my own experience, I glamour of the mart. If yester-accident and disiccated his arm.imagine that foreign stations have day was wet it seemed in ná way He is Now 10 a hospital in been taken into consideration. to damp the ardour of the Chinese Yokohama. Mr. Shimitsui elebrati n. The powder in the jabcompany the party. crackers wandry, and the merry. noise continued And with it went the feasting and revelty,
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT.
THREATENED FRENCH COAL STRIKE.
AN OFFER OF PENSIONS.
Paris, February 16
The French miners who threatened to break work, have decided
is therefore I have no hesitation into postpone the strike, the Minister of Labour, in conference with the saying that those who can shew Miners' Delegates, having said that B would provide for annual reasonable grounds will be given Pusions of 1,500 francs from the age of 55 and 780 francs for every facility in obtaining what miners' widows. The Delegates, however, have demanded other
at the earliest concessions-Haris. We regret to word the death, they require at the Military Hospital on Tues- possible date. (dag of Capt. Greenhill of
absence
is
In connection with the statement in the speech of the Chairman of the Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., made at the annuall meeting that the meagre profit of ali per cent, on the capital is con
Chinese To outshers, who luk for only the
Labour
H.M.S." Fame "left Hongkong Corps for Canton on Tuesday lasts the clusive evidence, not unly that there has been no rent profiteering.
was temporarily staying but that, on the contrary, rentals are too low, we have examined the nationa siteress in a country, the wh published accounts of the Company for some further light on the thought has possidy occured that in Hongkong. Deceased was for duration" of her
so very much many years in the Chinese uncertain. Etatement. An analysis of the accounts will show that the Com-China has not
As a Maritime Customs in Shanghai pany earned only 7 per cent, on the amount invested in property, occasion to make a fins. but it is of great importance to note that the Chairman did not dis- member in the family of the and later for four years in Amoy. close to the meeting the cost of undeveloped property which is in- world's nations she has not been lie volunteered for duty with the Now favoured with a year of wonder-Chinese Lalone Corps and got elnded in the Property Account shown, in the balance sheet.
In contrast to her his captaines not long after going to get at the true return from rents, the Company's investment in ful success. property should by divided into two classes, namely, undeveloped and large proportions, she has had but Home developed, and the return should be calculated on the cost of the a small and insignificant voice in latter, not on both, as we av been compelled to do for want of the important International coun-j material. It is commor Rivaledge that the Company has sankcils that have met and resolved There is, since the past year was first us. large sums in land which has not yielded any income
millions i
MURDER CHARGE.
MARSHAL FOCH'S LIMOUSINE.
SOLD FOR FIVE TIMES ORIGINAL CUST
}
kk
Paris, February 15. It is not my usual custom to The famous blue-black.limousine, which convoyed Marshal Foch dabble in football matters, but along the French and Italian fronts was sold yesterday for 74.000 the lackadaisical manner in which Franes. It was requisitioned originally for 15,000 francs-Fris the United Services Poothall, League Fixtures, and the fixtures in the Hongkong Shield competi tion are arranged is, to say the least, tot conducive
the success of either of the com- petitions.
*
to
the second
be they may
I understand that all clubs in
FRANCE AND JUGO-SLAVIA.
ti FALSE REPORTS OF MILITARY ALLIANCE,
Paris, February 14. Italian newspapers recently published documents purporting to show that a Military Alliance has been proposed between France and Jugo-Slavia. A semi-official Havas statement denounces the documents as forgeries and says no agreement of the kind has taken place- Haas,
FRANCE AND THE RHINE.
FRANCE AND ENEMY TONNAGE.
Paris, February 14.
PLEBISCITE IN EAST PRUSSIA.
of enure, nothing to prevent any landownet doing that, hut by hored in Bat China goes on in her
untroub, ing way! tax on thearna increments the community might well derivej 'n sweet
Take for instance the "Haw- some benefit from accretions in value, which in the nature the majority of her
linle and caring
kins and South China replay :| of things, in a growing plan, like Kuwiton or Hongkong, is knowing
A BOY KILLED.
surely that could have been play bound to "acerde. To attempt to refute a charge of profiteering less about anything beyond
The story of an affray which ere this and some of the other by including in capital sums, amounts, which du het yield their own personal circle and any income, and thereby reduce the percentage on income experienes. While the rest of the is alleged to have resulted in the games in the Shield Competition
so drawn world moans over that fact, "Jolin" death of one of the contestants, proceeded with. earning property, is absurd, The published accounts are
C up that it is impossible to discover the returns on "developed "is more concerned to "carry on." for which his adversary is charged
murder. 29 related Also I hear there is to be no property, but if the Company were willing to give its cost, the lenjoying his life's experience with
according to his own conceptions at the Magistracy to Mr. match this Saturday. percentage would no doubt be most illuminating.
R. Wood The Chairman, however, in his eagerness to convince the rent- of right and wrong, good and evil. J.
by Inspector Owing to the Committee not. having definitely appointed dates
Paris, February 14. paying public not the shareholders, who know better of the But it will not be ever thus. Macdonald this morning. poor results obtained, spoilt his own case by the fallacious argument Against even the most seeming The deceased, the Inspector on which games are to be played. prall return on the capital. That small return of 514 per cent indifference. Knowledge the key said, was a boy, 12 years of age, none of the teams qualified to in the filustration concerning the negotiations of the Big Three that Interesting revelations are now being made by M. Andre Mardieu
ia to play was earned not because the rents per se were small, but because that is gradually opening the door who or Wednesday went
round led France to abandon her claim to the occupation and independence the profits had to bear charges of all description, notably a sum of to man's more perfect happiness the house of the defendant, at have the slightest idea of of the left bank of the Rhine, in return for the defensive Alliance $43.600 odd, the cost of interest on mortgage, part of which, it is safe is, sooner or later, the victor. No. 52, Third Street. to gamble. when
called proposed by President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George.-Havas. to assume, related to interest on mortgage on undeveloped pro- Already we see China taking to He was told by the defendant to upon. beats. In other words, rents are bigher than they should be because education with greater zeal and saw a cap for bim, which the the Company finds it necessary to borrow for the purpose of trading earnestness, and there is rising up boy refused to do. A little later, Apparently the same state of in "undeveloped property. The weak spot in the year's results is a class of instructed men that will on a further request by the affairs exists in the U. S. League, not in the low rents, as suggested by the Chairman, but in the take hold of and tackle the peculiar defendant, the ooy proceeded to for although a fixture list has tendency on the part of the Company to over-trade, which is problems which now so effectively the pawnshop and pawned a actually been drawn up, teams evidenced by the large debt due by the Company to mortgages. If it hinder China's mastery of herself.
to make private On his return, the de-appear able jacket.
In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, an interpellation on be good business to hold undeveloped property, the capital necessary With the present position there fendant slapped him, and this arrangements over their matches, France's share of enemy tonnage was adjourned, the Under ter hat operation should be obtained from the shareholders. That is no need to despair. True it is led to a fight which took place into the disorganisation of the Secretary for Mercantile Marina having aaid negotiations were capital should not be borrowed, or, if it must be borrowed, then that, nationally, China is in sorry the street. Both armed them- programme, and obvious disregard taking place at present in London. Havas. shareholders should remain content with smaller dividends until the plight. In fact she is scarcely selves with poles, and in of F. A. Rules. + unearned increment is ripe for the basket. Borrowing for the a nation at all, but a huge, loosely the course of the fight, the purpose of keeping undeveloped property, and paying dividends at governed people politically ex- defendant is said to have bit the same time, must naturally result in increased rentals, otherwise ploited from within and without the boy three times on the head our local competitions are affiliat- It is this only that some people with the pale. The Eght was even-ed, either directly or indirectly, the process could not be kept up.
from which they
the English Football
Paris, February 14. Turning to the Chairman's statement that the Company has study and
The Inter-Allied Commission which will organise the plebiscite been able to finance new blocks of flats in Kowloon and May draw inferences that belie altually stopped, and the boy went to buildings at a reasonable rate of interest, and bearing in mind, the may just be that China, as we next morning, he died. His bro- case, why not conform to its in the Marienwerder territory (East Prussia) leaves Paris to morro Road by borrowing two-thirds of the capital outlay on land and humanity's past experience. It to his house, where, early the Association. If
ther, before this, had made a re- rules?
night. Mr. Ida, is representing Japan.-Horas. statement recently made by H. E. the Governor that the rentals of know it to-day, is not destined to port to the Police. The nature of the new buildings are restricted by agreement so as not to become one great homogenous the injuries showed that the boy exceed 8 per cent on the capital expenditure, the public country having a unified national had died as a result of fracture of would be interested to know the
in manner
which expression, but certain it is that the capital expended is to be determined. The expendituure the Chinese race has. before it a on the buildings is merely a matter of arithmetic and presents no future of even greater achieve- difficulties, but the value of the sites brings up again the question ment than that which lies behind. of unearned increment. Will the sites be valued at cost or at With a more liberal admixture of present-day values? To our mind, cost is the proper basis, but if western ideas and practices, the the latter valuation be taken, the nominal rent secured to the public wonderful inherent acumen of by a benevolent Government will be still 8 per cent., but the this oriental people will come into lem is always of value, but it A.M.S. "Carlisle ".
not always given. China) effective rate earned by the Company will be considerably more. a province of beneficial activity, is Is is said that the rate of interest agreed to with the Government the effect of which will be world-does not need vaporous exhort- is 4 per cent. If this is the case, the taxpayers of the Colony are wide. It ie inevitable, for the ations to imitate other nations, giving the Company a big "cumshaw." To take a concrete case. proof of it has already been est- but she needs a kindly guidance Assume the cost of land and a building at $15,000; the rent by ablished. But China is not a to initiate her own reforms in A ROADS COMMITTEE CENSURED,
of the few: its ways best suited to her peculiar agreement, irrespective of Crown rent and charges, is fixed at land
An inquest was bold et have 'never been civilisation. Whilst there is justi-
M. Poincare was yesterday presented with a cross by the City 8 per cent, or $1,200 per annum. The Company barrows $10,000, at millions 4 per cent., costing $400, and pockets the difference of $800 per counted. Before China and the fication for regret at the passing Portsmouth recently on the body annum, or 16 per cent., on a capital outlay of $5,000. The agree. Chinese there is still a long road of a year that has witnessed little of Petty Officer James Bendelow, of St. Quentin. The Senate unanimously confirmed the tribute paid ment with the Government is in no way broken, but the Company before the time written of above else besides wasteful controversy of the Queen Elizabeth, who died by the Chamber to M. Poincare, that he deserved well of his country. nevertheless earn an extra 8 per cent. on its capital outlay by will come into full view. And and strife, there is, in the future, from injuries received through. way of bonus. Further remarks on the action of the Government during that long period of travel, enough of promise to engender his motor cyle skidding near the in lending money to Compraise, while at the same time refusing there will be much done in error bright hopes.. China is slowly Bilses Arches. A verdict of Ac loser to individuals, are unnecessary in the face of such a possibility mistakes will have to be tolerat moving forward, she is too un-cidental Death" was returned,
The Japanese cruisers Tokiya and Azuma will shortly visit as this. Taking Mt. Humphreys' speech as it stands, it is far too ed and rectified, and the more wieldly and cumbersone to gollut the jury considered that vague and general in its terms to convince the public that bis organised nations of the world fast. But every year that passes the Tramways and Roads Com- Company is not charging unduly high rentals. Let him give me the will have to be free in help and brings the world nearer the day mittee of the council deserved Marseilles and Toulon. Vice Admiral Horiuchi, the Commander,
"At present,
how when China and the Chinese will the severest censure because is to visit Paris and the war front at the end of the month,-Havar actual return secured on developed property. Then the Company guidance.
the bad state of tho
(Continued, on page and ridicule, Constructive critic-human scheme of things. in renta,
the skull.
The defendant was remanded.
*
such iB the
+
The China Squadron is still further honoured by the following awards :-
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.-Captain Cecil P. Talbot, D.S.O., R.N., H.M.S." Ambrose " American D.S.M.-Captain John W. Carrington, D.S.O. R.N.,
tenants will be better able to judge whether there is any profiteering prone we all are to criticise occupy their true place in the of
roads,
DAVY JONES.
NEW PRESIDENT OF FRENCH CHAMBER.
Paris, February 13.
M. Raoul Peret was yesterday elected President of the French Chamber. He is a lawyer and has been member for 'Poitiers since 1902, representing the Left Radical Party. He controlled the postal and telegraphic services for some time and became later Minister of Justice in the Painleve Government-Haras.
Havas.
M. POINCARE HONOURED.
Paris, February 13.
JAPANESE CRUISERS VISITING FRANCE.
Faris, February 15.