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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1920.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DISAPPOINTING.
DAY BY DAY.
DEMOCRACY OUGHT TO MEAN 'Last ovaning's sisețion for the AT LEAST A ROOP OVER AN IN- vacancy on the Sanitary BoardDUSTRIOUS TOILER'Ý HEAD AND| was disappointing, not because
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CHINA.
SIXTEEN PRIESTS COMING.
A man's right "to do what he IRISH MISSION TO likes with his own," but our employers of large numbers of Chinese artisans should recognise the necessity of the growth" of mutual good feeling between the two instruments, by the aid of But now I'm going to be im-which the large organisations în
moral;
the Colony have amassed wealth Now I mean to show things as
in the past. they are.
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your
An interesting development in Christian Missionary endeavour in China was witnessed in the de- parture from Liverpool on the
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China.
Mr. J. Caer Clark, the candidats | INDEMNITY OR PENSION AGAINST whom we should like to havo THE DAY OF INJURY OR OP seen elected, was unsuccessful, or FAILING STRENGTH. because Mr. Alabaster was again returned.. There
bigger
Not as they ought to be.
"If in by gons times, O Athen-end. Starch, on the ss. Carmania, reasons. In our previous com-
ians, we had attached ourselves of sixteen Irish priests, the first Бугом. ments we have always admitted
The newly-formed Education
to any political party, and had batch to be sent out by the Irish Boswell, dining one day with not been quiet. I believe that Mission that Mr. Alabaster was a useful Board is holding its first meeting
Ireland and interested member of the at the Sanitary Board offices to Dr. Johnson, asked him if he did what has taken place now would during the last ball Board and we have not the morrow at 3 p.m.
not think that a good cook was never have occurred, and I think century seat its preachers of the alightest fear that he will con-
more essential to the commanity in many other
Gospel almost entirely to English- respects you inno to do good work. Mr.
than a good post. “I don't súp would have been much better off. speaking_countries-the-Waited Clark can legitimately be con
St. Paul's College sports take|pose." - said the doctor, "that Now through the reckless mis-States, Canada, Australia-bat gratulated on the fact that at his place at Happy Valley to-there is a dog in the town but conduct of
the movement "initia'ed⋅ & faw very first attempt (against a morrow. Mrs. Pollock is to die, what thinks sa“ The stoppage statesmen, it necessary Fears ago at Maynooth, and which well-known and tried public man) tribute the prizes.
of the trams and the dislocation to come forward and speak. has come to be known as the Irish he was only delanted by 27 votes.
of the works in the Docks, ship is
Mission to China, has secured a Jour practice, men for by less than per cent. of the
ping yards and industrial con of Athens, to employ deliberation, a place in the hearts of the Estes polled. The Kowloon Re- Among the passengers leaving cerns recalla most forcibly this as people ought to employ a Irish people. A steady flow sidents Association can take mare by the Khiva on Saturday are remark of Dr. Johnson to my military force-with speed. But of subscriptions has been pouring than a little encouragement from Mr. S.H. Dutton, of Mesers. E. D. mind. We may very rightly ask you ought to do the reverse-de-in from all parts of the country. the fact that it went so near to Sassoon and Ca, and Mr. C. D. ourselves
Chinese liberate quietly and execute your and from Erin's sons beyond the purting its man in. But the dis-Wilkinson, of Mesars Wilkinson mechanic is more essential to us resolutions promptly." This is a seas, and now a large number of.
than a Secretary Tom Chinese parange from one of Demosthenestudents are being trained for the seriously on Hongkong
Affairs, and the answer irresis-orations, and would have priesthood at St. Columban's people as on Kowloon Out of
sibly at present, at any rate, served
and College, Galway, which bas A good is that the Chinese filter and effective harrangue in the jurors provide priests for the Chink
bean opened something like 1,500 electors (on
'specially A Manila paper, which evident workman is the Jury list and exempted) less
of more import-
field. Hi Holiness the than 400 considered it a part of 15 confuses London with Hồng-ance to us than the gentleman
kong. has the following who does all sorts of odd jobs, ia with an election for a member to Mission an extensive district in
regaled yesterday Pope ritizenship to and record
has granted the Irish their citizens togethan ona telegram London, April Secretary for Chinese Affairs.com the Sanitary Board, and, frankly Central China, with headquariars Lady Stubbs and her family have day, Labour Minister the other, speaking, I am not quite satisfied in the city of. Han Yang, just quarter were prepared to spare
and at odd times the Lord High with the outcome of the palling across the Han river from Han- five minutes to drop in at the arrived here safely. City Hall and exercise the one
Executioner. Mr. Hallifax has for reasons which I shall en- kow. right they
been mediator in the dispute unciate later on. have ever
Lieut. Denne, of the Wiltshire between the fitters and their em parties who were soliciting the have just sailed for China are Several of this first batch who registering a vote. And this in a Colony that has been crying out Regiment, was, at the Police ployers, and the way things base sutrage of the jurors yesterday University graduates of high far popular representation! If Court today, fined $5 by Mr. N. been mishandled is reflected to-one bad the best cause and the official side of Hongkong ever Smith on a summons for dris day is the inconvenience suffered the other the best man. The particularly intereating in view of attainments, a Tatt which is wanted an argument against ing a motor cycle on the 14th ult. by the public and the engineering trouble with our members of all that has recently been heard unofficial representation it could in Bonham Road without the companies in particular.
the Sanitary Boar is that as to the intention of His Holiness hardly have been given a stronger necessary licence.
they do not plant themselves on to encourage missionary and one iban a lazy alectórate gave
which they
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD,ppointing feature is one that and frist.
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• HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1920.
BRITISH BANKING DEVELOPMENTS.
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It is generally acknowledged the deep and necessary ground to educational work pa large scale that the cost of living has shot;
are entitled re-in Chios by English-speaking
it last evening. Admittedly, the Sanitary Board is not so very; Inquiries made at the local up during the last two years by spectively, but lash themselves to missionaries. important: its activities
are agency of the Admiral Line at least fifty per cent, and it was fury on various and sundry A China Mission Movement confined mostly to matters of brought the information that the but natural that this would be questions about which they know at administrative detail and it has United States Shipping Board felt by the Chinese artisans, who very little and care much less ordinary progress
presen: making extra-
Most of the fernan banks operating abroad were marply educating the people up to a subsidiaries of the Fabggland banks and had no independent proper conception of their civic status. They gave cheap and ungrudging service to their cusights and duties. Without that tomers hat solely for the purpose of benefiting German trade. The the demand for popular repre British banks operating abroad, on the other hand, had a separats sentation becomes ludicrous. and independent existence. The allied themselves closely withi
the interests of the country in which they operated. It is not for HONGKONG'S ELECTORATE. the selfish purpose of the developing British trade only with foreten!
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little functioning as an executive have alloted six 10,000-ton vessels came forward with a demand for Hence, the
among the reason why the twents million catholics of the body. But that can in no way for the rabber shipments from a living wage. The times are out Kowloon, Residents' Association United States. The first batch of The present phase of British banking development, which mag who yesterday allowed it to go These vessels sail every IS days seething unrest, and a desire to
excuse the hundreds of abstainers Singapore to the United States. of joint, and on all hands there is put up a candidate of their American priests is already at
own in the
contest for work in China, and the next few be said to have begun in 1914, when wat brought the operations of forth that they have little or from Singapore, direct to Seattle break away from the past. Laboureest on the Sanitary Board. The years will probably witness, a the German banks to a standstill. has reached a very important no civic sense. Men who do and the Poret Sound.
needs of that large peninsuls steadily increasing stage and one which should be of deep interest to Hongkong, with
His asserting itself more and care, have been trying to its big banking establishments. Fusions have reduced the number instil a file for a good many
more in Europe and elsewhere.
have been grossly overlooked.
American Catholic preachers and of big banks from eleven to five, and these have between them
The wise employer should take and it was in the nature of educationists into this absorbed a number of small provincial concerns and private banks, ship itself must be larger than week shows 21 cases of cerebro-
TASI years now The C.R.A. member- The health return for the past note of this
[things that the residents of Kown country.—Contributed.
loon should awake and try to either by straightforward amalgamation er purchase of a contrelling yesterday's voters and the mer-spinal fever (three fatall, four of interest. There are now very few small institutions left, and it is bars of the K.R.A.. if added, would plaque (five fatall
remedy matter. To many it has of Employers
are perhaps been one of the failures only a question of time before these are swallowed up by the larger help to make a very respectable diphtheria (none fatall, and one credited with having long beads of administration in the Colony units. Three of the leading Scottish banks are now controlled by figure. the big London banks, and two of the Irish banks have come within people yesterday
Where were all these fatal rase each of small-pox and but it strikes me that this is that it has not attracted to its
Were they enteric.
rather the exception than the rule Councils its Boards All were Chinese save their powerfal orbit. Bai the fusion movement is not confined to to interested in watching the two ladian cases of diphtheria in Hongkong. It cannot be denied Committees that whole-hearted DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. banks working in the Mother Countrs. British banks operating tennis matches? Mr, Alabaster and one Indian occurrence of that the strike was foreseen by support and service which the overseas are also rapills extending the scope of their operations, has gone back with the votes of cerebrospinal fever. There were the Dock companies; at any rate. true ideals of a democratic British Basil Taylour, R. N., Captain This morning before Caplain either by alliances with other banke or by fusions or stock owner-only about-one ninth of ships. These overseas bunks, whose purpose is primarily to develop electors. Such a state of affairs Chinese.
the ten deaths from influenza, all they employed number of Colony demand of its supporters. the trade of the countries where they operate, will be able to do this proves that there is still a great
detectives to ascertain what the Exceptions there are, and doubt C. R. Jackson of H. M. T. Pro- with greater facility and cheapness by virtue of these new arrange deal of work to be done by the
men wuold do in case their de-less many can point to a few of fessor, charged Thomas Caney, a msods for an increase of forty our citizens who have not spared seaman engaged on board this two Associations in the matter of
per cent were not acceded to.
themselves in pablic service. Butansport, with wilfully contin- student of the Middle Temple, as a whole, the mercantile coming to disobey the lawful com being just called to the bar, sant munity, which, after all,comprises the ship on and after the 8th mands of the Captain on board for the peruke-maker to measure the whole of the British born in him for a new tie-wig. The peru- Hongkong outside officialism" and THE DENNISTON PLAYERS. quier, on applying his apparatos one or two professions has not
Defendant pleaded guilly. in one direction, was observed to played that part in the affairs of
The master of the transport Seemingly the Orient is being smile, upon which the young this Colony which it will have to said the transport arrived here. more and more considered by the barrister desired to know what play in the future. The reason till Friday and Saturday. He
on Thursday. Nothing occurre countries that the British banks are developing connections with And in connection with yes managerial fraternity of the ludicrous circumstance gave rise why the British non-official here other British banks. But they are doing so with the object of being terday's election one Or
theatrical profesalon, judging by to the mirth. The barber replied is
went asbore with the Captain's able to provide the same facilities as German banke, for experience words respecting those eligible he
so reluctant to press regularity with which that he could not but remark the his views upon the Government Permission. On Saturday nightde- has proved that a bank with an office or close connection abroad to vote would not be out of place. Frawley visits us, and now on extreme length of the yonog in matters which do not immed- fendant came on board and created can provide infinitely more varied and efficient servires, then ran Quite apart altogether from the the horizon looms Reynolds barrister's head. "That's well."iately touch his interests are not
a terrible disturbance, using bank dependent upon an ordinary banking correspondent. The general sense of ignorance pre- Denniston, who announces in no said the barrister, "we lawyers far to seek. There is his reluc-language that was disgusting sad sterling exchange on an average, is abang par, but the German mark railing among some men as launcertain language, that he is have occasion for long heads."tance to interfere with the official asia on Sunday night he came is hopelessly below in. The restoration of sterling to a perfectly free whether they had a cote or not, bringing an organization of actors The barber, who had by this time There are not many who can give board in worse state, using gold basis is probably neater than most people suppose.. We have there seemed to be a consider and actresses that would be completed the dimensions. burs: a large part of their time to public obscene hnguage to the Officer- extended banking crèdits abroad very freely since the Armistice, able amount of doubt regarding difficult to better, and also that out into
He did no work op. and as most of the, continent's American purchases have been the men who had a vote but who as vehicles for them, he bas. An explanation box insisted it as a privilege to be permitted to Saturday. On Monday morning
a fresh ft of laughter. duty. There are few who regard in-charge. settled through London, sterling has torne the brunt of a large are exempted from serving secored a very up-to-the-minute upon, the barber said that he give of their best in the service of complainant found that the de- part of the depreciation in European currencies, Central Europe on juries. Among those
ex- repertoire. is to a very large extent the key to the present position of empted under Ordinance
could not possibly contain bin the Colony. Slowly, public apathy fendant was on shore and aid
return to Mr. Denniston bas just return-self when he discovered that the in the matter is being roused, t the foreign exchanges. After the conclusion of the Armistice editors, sub-editors and reporters ed from San Francisco, New York barrister's head was just as thick and it is not unlikely that in the port had to move from the it became a fashion to speculate in marks, and. aided by of daily newspapers, but what and Chicago, where he has been as long. The moral is obvious. the operations of exchange dealers and money changers, the export about
course of the next few years “we
Naval Dock, and complainant other European em- of marks last year was Germany's greatest" export. It is not sug-ployees of newspapers, such as
buying farces, comedies
may witness a big change in this had to telephone to the Police to arrest defendant. The latter dgamas just as fast as they are Perhaps the most important
connection. Representatives on gested that Germany desired this. On the contrary, forseelog its managers and assistants? They being presented to Broadway.clause in the Bill which was be the Sanitary Board, the Executive came to work on the following effect on the exchange value of the mark, she took steps. to stop it. ara
neither exempted under Earope are very large holders of marks, and the favourable rate of and neither are their names on witnessing plays in Hongkong, months ago for the establishment strong sympathy with the sims complains but the "hole in the West" preverted her. The neutral countries of Ordinance (as they should be) This being the case, we will fore the British Parliament a few and Legislative Council and other morning.
shortly have an opportunity of public bodies must be men in Captain Tayloor:Was he exchange of their currencies in sterling is somewhat artificial be any jury list. Newspapers are not
Complainant:-Yes, sober, but cause for various reasons it takes no account of the fall in the ralne produced by journalists alone and that are still running in the first ing for the institution of a Cours and aspirations of the public, and he was suffering from the effects
presenting the of the mark assets of these countries. This is proved by the recent the wording of the exemption of Ceir success in New of Enquiry to establish the actual capable of res siting larity and of drink I had serious com- advance in the value of sterling in neutral countries. They have clause might very well be made like this is commendable and dispute either exists or is appre- Tork and Chicago, Quick work facts of the case when a trade
plaints from H.M.S. Cairo, been selling sterling in order to make good the loss on marks. If the to read "all European employers deserves encouragement.
some debating skill.
which was near-my- trso- mark were stabilised, the result might temporarily, be to depreciate of daily newspapers." A very in-
bended. The compelling effect of
sport.
and the Commandant sterling, but it would ultimately raise it, since it would relieve the teresting point arises in the case The opening is set for Monday, public opinion has been repeated- While it must be admitted that complained bitterly against demand for dollars and thus cause sterling in Americe to rise. This of the employees of the two cable 26th inst. and the play selected by exemplified in the past. On Mr. Alabaster is the better known the obscene language that was would result from the increased capacity of Europe to export goods Companies. They are not on the for the opening play is "Up in both sides of a trade dispute there of the two candidates who sought used on board. I have ladies on in payment of imports.
jury list because it is recognised Mabel's Room" described as are extremists. In the nature of election to a seat on the Sanitary the transport and it was simply The British banks have greatly developed their foreign exchange by the Government that the "frivolous farce of feminine things the extremist is an except Board yesterday, that considers- disgusting that a British seaman business in the past few years, and the three big banks, which make urgency of their work does not foibles," an entire outfit of ion in Hongkong, and the avertion certainly did not bulk very should behave in that manner. I feature of this class of business, now virtually dominate the permit, normally, of their being laughter" and "a long, lingering age artisan, in the main demands largely with the numerous 16 had occasion to punish another foreign exchange market in London. Their daily tomorer is now spared from business, but neither lingerie laugh," etc. etc. Ample merely a square deal and will sidents of Kowloon, who were seaman on my transportat enormous and they have catered specially for forward business, are they exempted by Ordinance, opportunity is afforded the ladies yield to the pressure of public smarting under the grievance Singapore. It is believed that a very large proportion of banking profite is now The'r exemption has been a later of the Company to wear some opinion, if he can be assured that that the needs of the peninsula The chief engineer said the derived from this branch. The British banks have also increased concession by the Gorerament elegant gowns and full advantage, this is based on the actual facts have been so overlooked in the defendant was absent from duty their acceptance business very considerably. The Germans made a and they are in the very unenvi. is taken of it by them.
of the case, and not merely on past. Although I
not] on Friday, Saturday morning and. feature of this, and when they were closed down the British banks able position of having no vote at had to fill the gap. During the past year the total deposits of the all..
The Box Office plan will open plausible ex-parte statements. Ita
Monday morning. Sunday was They cannot claim one: at Moutrie and Cos. on the 17th, by therfore, of first importance voted for Mr. Car Clarke, an off day. He gave no resInS British banks were incressed. from 19884-millions to 23541 millions. they are not jurors and they are April.
that machinery should be devised conscious that were he elected, why he did not return to duty, an increase since 1913 of no less than 1321 millions, or 128 per cent, not exempted by law, and
by which, in the case of differ- the claims of Kowloon would
The defendor tæt His 15 days' Capital and reserve of the thirleen English banks, which have so the Registrar. bad
ences between capital and labour, receive greater ventilation on the pay forfeited and was sentenced- recently issued their reports, have increased during the year from to hold that they had no votes then used. It does, therefore, ition to ascertain the actual the past. It is shameless how the ship sails.
the community should be in. & Sanitary Board than they have in to six weeks hard labour or until 884 millions to 10134 millious. Acceptances, which partly reflect In other ways, too, one might the assistance given to traders, have increased from less than 53 point out little anomalies that become all the more important tota of the question in backward we are in this Colony millions to over 133 millions. Cash in hand and at the Bank of exist, all of which point to the that a revision should be made, triste. There are those in sanitation, etc. Very little st England has increased from 28534 millions to 33434 millions, necessity of a careful revision of The present position menn fá Hoogkong" who object, on tention is paid to the amenities of) investments from 339 millions to nearly 392 millions, discounts the law. If ever constitutional that some Britishers have no inespe to say secome Kowloon, but this state of affairs advances and money at call from 99814-millions to 1197 millions, reform in the way of more uners have. Perhaps our hard guing that once you give in to indefinite length of time, and the second Baronet Loch
votes whilst many other foreign- dation between capilstand labour, cannot possibly contious for an Bir Kenneth James Matheson, while their deposits increased from 1815514 millions to 18456 official representation becomes working Attorney General will employs it would mark the day will come when the author- Ross-shire, and 43, Grosvenor
Alsh, millions. The total liabilities of the thirteen banks have increased a fact in this Colony, the electoral and time to give the matter is less demands. Then ities would be roused from their square, who died on January 25, from 1697 millions to 208014 millions. These figures are, of roll as now need for Sanitary attention before another election are others who resent public lethany by the fores of pubtle left state of the gross value of course, & measure of the inflation which, since the war, has awellen Board slections has been sug the figures of the banks by approximately 120 per cent.",
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