HONGKONG TELEGRA
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920.
EMPIRE DAY.
THORNE'S OLD VAT NOTES & COMMENTS DAY BY DAY.
No. 4"
SCOTCH WHISKY
We strongly recommend this Whisky. The Vat was started in 1831 by the late Robert Thorne of Greenock and the Whisky has been known as
No. 4 ever since.
THOSE MOTOR PLATES.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
[BY "AJAX"]
TO-DAYS RELIGIOUS
SERVICES.
for their happiness and their good. How were we going to THE GREATEST OBJECT IS THE
bring them discipline for their - In our news columns yesterday | UNIVERSE, ` HATS A CERTAIN
happiness and their good? There we gave farther information re| PHILOSOPHER, 13-A GOOD MAN
were two things which ma-qbqnki * garding the provision made by STRUGGLING WITH ADVERSITY:
bear lo mind. Wherever we were, the Police for the issuing of re- THERE IS STILL A GREATER, debate, it is recorded, that a Day, which, falling on Whit Mon for God and hommer all. The In the midst of a stormy In commemoration of Empire well in mind. These ware to we should have these two things gulation motor car and cycleWHICH IS THE GOOD MAN THAT gentleman in the company of day, prevented the holding of the number plates and we think thai | COMES TO RELIEVE IT. faw molarists will have read that
Jarrold rose to settle the matter usual religious services yestar-poor beggar was just as much in disputa. Waving his hand day, the children of many schools although he might be ugly and news without a deal of satis There will be a musicale at the majestically, he began.-"Crentle of the Colony attended the two
any of IL.B on The only "grouse" that Helena May Institute on Thurs- man, all that I want is common- Cathedrals this morning, when the dirty. He was a man and we the writer has heard is that the day, the 27th instant, at 5.15 pm have heard numerous critic-sively held, there being a full him na dirt. The other thing was sense. During the past week postponed services were impres-ust honour him, and not treat yet ready, hat it will only be a friends.
to love all. In Peking some ninoteen years ago a party of his. friends wanted to play golf. They looked round and found a sult-
plates for all the numbers are not open to members
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920.
BUSINESS PROFITS.
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upsat price of the ald Post Office building. ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
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af the present scheme not only gasoline on one of the Wallah- Who is responsible for this is not were present His Excellancy the Jablo`place for = gulf club. They lies in ownara being able to obtain Wallah motor boats yesterday.) known. This unwise step of the Governor, Lady Stubbs, Mr. E came back and enquired to whom a proper and suitable plate al
reasonable Agure (cheaper and had to be sani to Hospital
A peaman received serious burns, Govaramani will tend than what a garage provides
to lo. Irving (Director of Education told that it belonged to Prince crease the value of the adjoining Mr. Tanner, and the children of Sai. Men were seat to Prince the ground belonged and ware tham far), but that there will be the very much desired uniformity
properties to a fictitious figure. various Protestant schools of the For the past three days the for the price that the old Post Colony. in the identification figures. The health return shows nine cases of Office building will fetch will be
Sui for permission to innovation is a boon the motorists plague (two fatal), two of cerebro- the basis of the valuation of the sermon which he said four belonged to his ancestors, and the
Bishop
golf Narris delivered
clab The and to the police alike. Those spinal feçar (one fatal) and one lands in the vicinity: The Go- questions occurred to his mind, men on the land were of his clan. Prince said that the ground owners already baring plates can fatal occurrence of enteric. All ernment, by fixing the upset price These were What is the British He added that the golf club could scarcely grumble at having to were Chinese.
at $50 a square foot, bas encour. Empire, why is it, how is it and ba had on one condition, provided there must be the
aged speculation in land and will where is it? These four questions the applicants Owing to the very heavy rain, send values up tremendously he had asked more important to proper the Championship tennis match There was no necessity for the he was going to tell
himsell
English and Scotch, Irish or Americio. That traffic supervision than a strict which was to have been played at price being made
them testimonial made the preacher uniformity in this matter. The to-night has had to be postponed: ach figure. Fifty dollars a If the congregation could find That
at what be bad arrived atproud of being doing away with the letter AIt is hoped to ix the event for quare foot is the highest price at more answers or batter ones, so putation we had
the case of private care will either Thursday or Fridas. but a which land in Hongkong has much the better. Where is the of grain with those people who made later. doubtless go a little against the definite announcement well bever been sold: like to advertise the fact that
British Empire? If they took the which we had to keep up. Wher British Empire and map they would find red splashes over we went, whether here in car-that they are the owners plaint to the Police that he was the land might have gone for Starting from England and going whether we went to Australia, they are riding in a
Had the Government fixed the on it, and that would indicate Hongkong, or somewhere else. private
A carpenter has made a com-upset price at $30 per square foot, where the British Empire was whether in the interips of China. of the car, but it will only be knocked down by motor-cycle $40 to $45, but by placing it at west, they would come to Canada, that was the reputation we had to The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 will be expressed. And such a yesterday. He received injuries as $70 will be realised, as there going east, Gibraltar, Malta, putation which made the Prince
from such that any opposition No. 66 at Queen's Road East $50, iis quite likely that as much and starting from England and carry with us. per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscripserious notice of Our only suggestion that he should go to building modern offices on this If they wanted
is hardly worth taking which were no serious. The are many intereats desirous of the Suez tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for is because it will help the police with horror. It appears ha pre-
Canal and ground for welcoming the scheme Hospital was received by him plot
India.trust that we would not ill-treat to go south his people. It was difficult to full moath.
from England they would come keep the Brit Empire going. Tha "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee and if it will do that, then it ferred to treat his wounds him-
to Africa, and, further south-east. The British Empire could not go is accessible to messenger. Poak subscribers can have their copies body. Our traffic department has
should be welcomed by every-self.
A notice issued by the Trafic Australia and New Zealand. The all over the place withou: a mis- delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies
Department during the week answer therefore to that question take. If we made a mistake we Bent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
informs the motoring public that would be that the British Empire was must start again. Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
embossed numbers was scattered throughout the us the strings of love and love We must What appears to be a renewal motor car Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for its work ought to be welcomed was revealed by a stabbing case/obtained at a fee of $1 each. It asked "Why?",and some people!
will assist it in the performance of the rattan workers' vendetts from 301 to 500 can now be world. A good many people had everybody as well as bonor them.
THE CATHOLIC SERVICE. which took place on Sunday is not stated whether the use of bad asked is curiously. They One of the members of this these embossed numbers is com-wanted to know why Great The parade and the ceremony fraternity is now wanted by the pulsery. Some gentlemen, whose Britain had seized the best parts of the salutation of the flag, which Reuter was not very kind to Police on a charge of attempted car numbers come within the of the work. Other people had has been a regular feature in the the evening papers yesterday. murder of another Chinese by the above limits, have enamelled said that we were first in the felte lebrations of the pupils of St. GARCIA-At 3B. Jordan Road. Kowloon on 24th inst. to very liberal supply of telegrams Over the week-end there was a
infiction of a number of serious plates which they ordered them and sized base parts. If they Joseph's College, were this year Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Garcia, & daughter.
stab wounds, at Tai Yuen elves and for some of which as walked up to the Peak they would prevented by the inclement Shanghai and Manila papers please copy.
received, so that the mor010g
Street: The injured man
much as $20- was paid. Surely like to sitd wn. Which was before weather from being held. The papers on Monday were able to removed by the Police to the numbers to be discarded by their on the Peak? We first discovered winners in essay competitions on the Police do pot want such the Peak or the resting places distribution of the prizes for the give their readers a very impos
Government Civil. Hospital, ing array of cablenews. With the
following the
the Peak and then we installed the the subject of the British Empire escape of his owners? town quiet and residents oat holi- assailant.
resting places. That was just how were also, postponed to a more day making the newspaper man
It is high time that the Police the British Empire was founded. favourable occasion. did not bare an easy task yester-
Mrs. Elias to-day charged two regulated the traffic from Arsenal We found India, and South day in producing an interesting chair bearers, before Mr. N. L Street to the Wanchai market, Africa, and we wanted resting drai, the singing of by mus At the Roman Catholic Cathe and "news" sheet, and to make Smith, at the Police Court, with for the uncontrolled traffic in this places and we found these resting appropriate to the pecasion was matters worsa Reaser gave him disorderly conduct. The offence locality, both pedestrian and places in Egypt. Gibraltar, Malta participated in by 'be various never a line. There was
consisted in the coolies display-vehicular, is a source of annos and in other places. We did not Catholic schools, which included disappointing silence and ining an aggressive attitude in ance to motorists and often go about the world looking out for the Garrison School of Hongkong. response to ecquiries the their demand of a fare which results in accidents. It is up to places. We found that we wanted St. Joseph's English College. cable office at mid-day and in would suit their desires. Mrs. the Automobile Association to resting places and that was why Italian Convent, French Consent, the early afternoon we, who There may possibly be business men in Hongkong who fear had to work, were told "nothing be coolies,
Elias told the Magistrate that make representations
the British Empire was scatter-St. Francis' School (Wanchai), St. who were well matter. Three constables placeded abou: the world. Some people Mary's School (Kowloop) Stud- that the measure of control which the local Government intends to coming through." We have known to her. having been in this locality would be ample, would ask: Why did we go to eats of the Cathedral Seminar exercise over the Electric Company's pronte represents the thin end made reference to this matter, frequently engaged by her, and I trust that some such action the top of the Peak and the St. Lewis Industrial School (West of the wedge so far as interference with business generally is con- because the public ought to be refused to take berstraight up to will be taken shortly. The Police find we wanted resting places? Point), Yaumati Chinese School, cerned. If so, we ineline to think that they are unnecessarily worry-told, now and again, how exact to her residence, but made it their Traffic Department bas lately The answer to that was that Great Hunghom Chinese School, Ater ing themselves. It must be remembered that this decision has been ing it is. How often are cynical practice to deposit the chair been doing good work, but re. Britain was a small island in the deep binese School, Shaskiwan iaken by the Government wholly and solely because the Company people heard to say that the some distance down the incline. galations should be issued regard.sea and God carried us all over Chinese School, Kay Lop Chinese mentioned is operating a public service, and because it is rightly newspapers sometimes beld that such concerns should not reap onduly large profits at the news (we don': in Hongkong) but of ber arm notwithstanding her lights. In no other city have the love of going to sea. In that [Musque Street), and Wa Yen invent On this occasion they seized holding the screening of motor-car the world. He put in our hearts School (Wanchai). To-Ying School public expense. It is no new idea that has been introduced, and on the other hand. how prone is entreaty that oa no account they seen so many non-screened lights be believed they had the secre: English the extent of control suggested in the Chairman's speech cannot be the public to grumble if there is were to touch her person. The as in Hongkong. Many motor-car of the British Empire. God Road).
School, (Hollywood" described as being in any way drastic. The time. of course, may little new, startling or interest-coolies invented come when, for other reasons, the Government may see fit to take ing information. A short while story which they related to the and confase him.
a desperate lights here blind the pedestrian made our hearts thus. We had
Bishop Pozzoni addressed the action regarding the profits of other companies not coming within the writer was reading a Magistrate to the effect that they tions as at present framed make it Wind in our sails and seat us
The regula-sailing ships, and God pat the children as follows My Dear is nonfort of public utility corporations, but at the moment there really clever article on news and were assaulted by Mrs. Elias incumbent upon the chauffeur to 1 is to search for new countries, before the altar of God to mire. Children, Ia assembling to-day Government interference is a special measure to deal with a special forward the idea that the public's Magistrate gave the order which another ear, but all this could be answer was that it was God's is races and fitting, & religious
The present scheme of newspapers, and the author pot who refused to pay them. The dim head lights when passing If anybody were to ask why the Company, and, so far as we can see, it means nothing more.
demand for news
significance to the civil festival Logically, of course, there would be good grounds for the expression of
resulted in their contribution of dispensed with if all motor lights will be would say God gave 13: Government limiting the profits of many other companies. After all, inquisitivenese, bis
natoral apizce to the Police Treasury, were required to be half screened. Knowledge, light and understand-of Empire Day, it will be well, on houses and foodstuffs are just as much a public necessity as electric know other people's business. It
The Fuggestion is worthy of im-ing and it was God's will that this the first occasion on which light is--they are more so, in fact. And the Government at Home! was not so much because a man
mediate adoption. We do not!
He meat together-sineethe there should be a British Empire. has realised that fact. In the Old Country, house rents are controlled wanted to extend his knowledge
hear much about the doings of What is the British Empire? Celebration of peace brought the by law, whilst the prices of foodstuffs are. in many instances, or because he needed diversion;
the Hongkong Automobile As-There were some things that great world war last year to a similarly fixed. These steps have been taken because, as Mr. Lloyd that he bought a newspaper; it
sociation. I hope the Associs God hated. but God could not close, to recall to mind some of tion has not fallen asleep. The bate George once put it. the Government is determined that social needs was to find out something about
the British
the lessons which the great pro- Empire. shall not be exploited for private gain. Here in Hongkong, if somebody else, to interest himself
field for its labours is wide and What did "Empire" mean? Emblems of the day bring to mind. It control of prices were considered, great difficulties would be experi.in the doings of others.
fertile, and I would suggest per-pire meant Government. When is, also, undeniable that the buoy enced because of the impossibility of controlling the source of supply reflection one has to admit that
jodical meetings of its members we carried the British Empire ant hopee which sustained us in in place of the annual one now across the seas we carried gov.
the dark days of the and also by reason of the further obstacles provided by a focussing there is more than a modicom Our Macao correspondent in-
great -in vogue. exchange. However, these factors do not apply, excepting to a very of truth in the analysis. We forms us that the monopoly for
struggle haxa not been, Bor eramani-serees the seas as well. | limited extent, to house rents, which are still atrociously high in don't much mind if there is or if preparing and selling opium was
Why was it that man wanted so they seem likely soon to this Colony and which ought to be kept withia reasonable tounds there is not, but we do hope that put up to auction on the 21st of the devotion of Mr. Montague good when he is under a govern war there would be no others. The Hon. Mr. Holyoak's eulogy when be is told to obey and be is predicted that after this great government? Man is very good be, fulfilled. It was confidently by legislative enactment. The building of more bouses will. Floogkong readere will be a little fastant before H. E. the Governor. Ede in the charge of the onerous ment. He was taught to ober. admittedly, remedy the situation somewhat in time, but we bave been generously minded when they tbs period to be three years from duties of General Manager of the The preacher sojoyed himself would see justice and fair play that the nations leagued together told that for the past four or five years, and meantime householders pick up a holiday paper, especial- the 1st of August, 1920. have to bear a burden of reat which, in proportion to salary, isly when Reuter acts so unfairly.
Union Insurance Society of Canmore when he was under discip to all, and that the grand result absurdly high. Hoases are not built in a day, and it will be a
There were some fifteen bidders, ton is well merited. Mr. Ede has line than when he was not. We of the mighty struggle would be long time yet before any relief is felt from new construction. Let THE "CELEBRATION."
each of whom had deposited been most popular with the local should know what discipline was. and a new earth. Yet what do the creation "of a new bezven more houses be built, by all means; but simultaneously let rentals
$250,000 as guarantes of bona community. It has been said of When a man begins to work he of existing property be fixed so as to allow a fair return on capital in Harbour and also a few flags at $2,500,000 and advanced by two sides to his nature e terribly discipline.
Apart from a few flags on ships fides. The bidding commenced him that he is a dual person, with feels happy because he is under Natione, it is trus
we see to-day? The League of but no more. The case for control of rents is, in our opinion, fully on Government and business pro-bids, of 850,000 until $3,950,000 ideal one and a tolerably practical English,
Whether we were Scotch perts, yesterday might just as well was reached, when the monopoly side. He possesses a plethora of we
or - Irish We remarked above that the time might possibly come when, have been any other day in the was secured by Mr. Lee Hy-san, ideals and ideas. It is in obed! Sometimes he doubted whether may yet be, the best augury of for other reasons than protecting the customers of public utility calendar than Empire Day. There of Hongkong, who was representence to his virile spirit that he has the Irish were grown up. Some ind, seems to have been born in
WOTC grown-up children. concerns, the Government may deem it necessary to take action was nothing to tell people that it ing the Lee Shing Company.
foture peace and justice to TOEN- regarding business profits. So far as we know. there is not the least was Empire Day, in fact it almost
refused to cease bis labours For people in Ireland were not grown intention so to act at present. We are merely thinking of possibili-seemed as though the newspapers ties; the future financial arrangemer ts of the Colony may make had to give the news out.
long time he has been ailing up; they were still children and disappointment and dissolution. but he has borns bis sickness not disciplined There were instituted to produce what our it advisable for fresh sources of revenue to be found. The recent terday was a public holiday, and some public event to mark a day affection and devotion of the world that were not grown up happily termed " just and isat- ment. The Council of Versailles, like a martyr. He holds the number of other nations in the boly Father Pope Benedict, statement of the Cology's finances pointed that way. Hongkong that is, perhaps, the reason given that has become associated with community not on account of bis but were still children. Some during the war has been extremely fortunate in the sense that why nothing was done by either the better ideals and spirit that achievements but because of his people had reached their second ing pesce," gave to the astonished Companies profits bave not been touched. It has been otherwise at adalts or children to mark the animate the great commonwealth sterling parta It can be said of childhood. The nations wanted eyes of the world a sorry display Hour, and by the new Budget not only is there to be an increase in day-But it seems to us that of nations that we call an Empire him 28 was said of Julius Caesar just what we wanted, namely, of passion and intrigue, and after the Excess Profits Tax, but a new impost of one shilling is the pound because it was a holiday consti-for want of a better name. is to be collected on the profits of limited companies. The increased toted the better reason why all, this is a British Colony and, elements
Aftar "His life was gentle; and the discipline-in- Excess Profits Tax is expected to yield one hundred millions sterling something should have been although we heartily detest soy-
year of nominal peace we see and the new Corporation Profits Tax thirty-five millions sterling a
Empire. The British Em dation warring against nation,? done, There year. We should not favour any local taxes which would have the been
So mixed in him that Nature pire was really British dis Peoples and empires intrígniog have thing like organised flag-wagging might stand up effect of hampering trade in any way, for by trade this Colony the normal business life, school there has been a dereliction on was a man!"
interference with and merely braggart patriotism,And say to all the world, "This world, making
cipline carried through the against their neighbours, and."" survives, but it will be noted how big the same are that the Houts children would, have suffered no the part of our public men that
the world perhaps most serious of all. Government secures from business profits. And in Badget-making intrusion on their studies and the the day passed off with scarcely Hongkong renewed to health. the British Empire be would say galost capital. The convulsion
We hope to see him back in mind. If he was asked what was
good, making for happiness of class striving against class, rich against the poor, labour it is sound economics that the burdens should be placed on the British commanity of the Colony ever a sign or sound to mark the His self-serifice, and devotion that it was British discipline caused by the war bas left ita shoulders best fitted to carry them. -
might very well have organised event
have been an inspiration to many, brought to the world, which was (Continued on Page 1)
no indication that will be the case.
established.
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