THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY
THORNE'S OLD VAT NOTES & COMMENTS-
"No. 4"
SCOTCH WHISKY
We strongly recommend
this
AMERICA AND IRELAND.
DAY BY DAY.
IT SELDOM HAPPENS THAT THE We are delighted to see by ona | PEOPLE GO WRONG WITHOUT TA S of the overnight wires that the RULERS BEING SOMEWHERE AT Neie York Timey has been deliver-/VAULT. – ing itself of some very sane and pointed observations concerning
One non-fatal case of enteric America and Ireland. Apparently ever was reported yesterday, the
latest outburst of pro sufferer being a Eurasian. the Irish and anti-English feeling
KOWLOON NOTES.
(BY THE FERRYMAN")
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the " Hoogkung Telegraph."}
AN ALLEGED INSULT.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY
Bibley Park, some two miles Kowloon Cricket Club is mat-
outside the picturesque town of ing bad start in the Tennis
Ramsey, in Hampshire, la for League. For the second Saturday
sale.. Occupied until recently by Sir-Much grievanco das deen members of har family, it was at in successsion, both the "A" and
by "B" teams went down. on the caused
the 22nd instant, although the former alleged to
order
one time tha homa of Florence have been given Nightingale. Her birthplace, of gave the Portuguese Club a very by Mr. Lauder, of the Union course, was the famous Italian close run. The B" team lost to Insurance Society of Canton Ltd., city whenes came her Christian ix Joe to the anxiety
The three Chinese yesterday Wigwam, which Club secured its to the European staff probibiting name, but much of her youth was of politicians engaged in the Presidential political campaign charged at the Criminal Sessions first victory by a margin of fifteen or rather admonishing them not spent at Embley. It is an Elizabs- of Irish with robbery at Kowloon City games. The K.CC have not to associate with Portuguesa and than, house of no very marked Americans.
These
ranting ware sentenced to five years' hard nearly so many good tennis play- Eurasians, even in their Clube, a character, but it stands in beau- pre labour oach and to receive ten ers as in former years. Still gratuitous insult which demands tiful gardens, with fine views, mischief-makera аг
hope their run of bad luck will immediate reparation. If the re-and is remarkable for a rhodosian- pared to go to almost any lengths strokes with the "cat."
part is true, the Directors of the drive over two miles in length. soon and. in order to impress the Irish
[Society should call upon Mr. Americans that they have their
Lauder for an immediate explan- Thə U.S.R.C. “A” taam hadation of bis conduct, for the said The funeral journey which the New York paper says, they do Hall at St. John's Cathedral on another reverse last Saturday, communities not only are great Duke of Abercorn and others not care a straw for Ireland; all Sunday after Matins. It is hoped The result, however, did the contributors to the Society's took with the body of Sir Starr they want is votes.
that those who are interested in players no discredit, for they Funds (say, about half a million Jameson from its temporary jucderstand the meaning of these the erection of the Hall will be extended the Chinese Club, which dollars, per annum) but many of grave in England to its last rest-
resolutions which are being in-
only won by a margin of three them are shareholders too. Coning place by Rhodes on troduced in the Senate in favour
ganies, It looks as though the sequeatly if such a man still re-Matoppos was one of the longest ot recognising the "Irish Re-
During the last few days an C.R.C. will again be champions mains in the Hongkong office the in the history of the funeral public." We can well believe that President Wilson will take unusually large number of bodies this year, although there are Society's standing and reputa- travels of great men. Probably
Whisky. The Vat was started to catch the votas in 1831 by the late Robert Thorne of Greenock and the known as Whisky has been
No. 4 ever since.
H. E. the Governor is to lay cause at heart In reality, as the the foundation-stone of the new
We now
present.
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A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, the rate of such marians, for he has been picked op by the Police many more matches to be played tion will be greatly affected. Mr. the most famous of these in
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1920,
ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL-
that
was modern history was the return of is sane enough and level-headed in the streets where they were set, and the Hongkong C.C. "A" Ede bad, ever since he
The dumped by relatives who feared team will have to be reckoned General Manager, held in high Napoleon from St, Helena to the enough to konw Irish
appreciation the valuable ser- Invalides, and another was the is one which a visit to their premises of the with. question
vices of his Portuguese clerks ;| bringing home of the body of that concerns Britain, not America Fumigating Brigade,
in office at the great Ambassador Lord Pano- The sponsors of these resolutions
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When we read that în America
To-morrow's matches ought toere he
time Mr. Lauder would cafore in an American battleship are only making fools of them.
The tennis final between provide some good games. Kow- not have committed such from Washington to England. In selves and their country. That Sza-kwong and M. W. La, which foon “A” are away to the C. R. would not matter so much were was to have been played to-day, C, and the odds are in favour of blunder. This is nothing but due the realm of romance the great it not for the possibility that has again had to be postponed on the latter. The United Services to certain animosity still pre-story of the journey of the heart their activites may iffipair Anglo- account of the weather. It will "A" team will visit the H. vailing among many Europeans of the Brace" will be recalled.
with regard to distinction of race. American friendship. which take place either on Monday or C. C. ground, when many old We understand Mr. Lauder was should have been one of the finest Taesday evening, according to rivals will meet The Portuguese the supervisor of the Bengali the high price of men's clothes is passessions left us by the wat, the state of the weather.
play the Garrison away and elerks in Calcotta previous to But with some men, personal
ought to win. There is only ones transfer to the Head Office being countered by a resort to overalls we begin to ask ourselves gain and notoriety are more than
Captain Basil Taylour, R. Nmatch of interest to Kowloon in If he has given the order alleged, whether we are not habitually an the good of their own or other nations. We fear some of these aad Mrs. Taylaur are sailing by the Second Division, the Failed the Directors will act very wiself overdressed people. Up to the
the Kamakusa Maru, which is Services "B" team being expected to leave to-morrow. The home to the Civil Service, whose send him back to his Kamakusa Marn is expected bere are a very useful lot this year. this afternoon. If she does not
American Sentars must be placed in this category. OPIUM SMUGGLING.
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distributing
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honourable post in India.
Yours etc.. EURASIANS AND
PORTUGESE.
reach Hongkong to-day the sail- It is a pity that there are not ing will be postponed til Sunday-home-and-away matches in the Hongkong. May 28, 1920..
autumn.
of late.
Second Division of the League,
KILLED A DOG.
SOLDIER IN TROUBLE.
time of the Norman Conquest, if
not later still, men wore only one garment of wool, leather, or velvet next to the skin, and from all ac cannts they were just as healthy as we are. Then somebody with an eye to business invented the akiri, which was at first worn only by the nobility. The waist. coat followed, and breeches, trou- sers and overcoat and other quickly *aperfluous garments succeeded, till we arrived at the present overdressed state, with all
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The recurrence of big seizures of opium by the local preventive service shows that the game of smuggling is still merrily going
It is stated that Mr. Alexanders in the First. Originally, the The people concerned in the Ross will be in. Hongkong in the Club de Recreio were entered in latest hauls, however, will pro-
He will most likely the Second Division, but when bably have some difficulty in
take charge of the local office of they were put up with the seniors appreciating the adverb used. For
Messrs. Alex Ross and Co. Mr. and the Navy dropped out, the them it is anything but a merry D. M. Graham, from Shanghai is number of teams was reduced game. The extent of the seizures is indicative of the fact that there present manager of this branch. from nine to seven. This means! must be some big organisation Therm's European staff has that "B" teams have only six The quickest was to kill a dog, the petty ailment that proceed
for the whole according to the prescription all from it. at the bottom of the traffic. In-been strengthened considerably matches each
season, which hardly gives them Private E. Bishop, of the Wilt- dividuals could
a chance to find their feet or to shire Regiment, is to dash its In the resignation of Sir Henry not possibly embark upon such big undertak-
recover from early defeats. But brains out. He was, at the Police Sir John Jordan his teen hailed-successireis-a-the man whe
inge. It is likely also that -To-morrow's Pictatal Sapple suppose it's too late-now-to Court this morning, charged with Nerzy. Official Referer_and_ has done more for British intercala and prestige in China than any these smugglers are making use ment will be of particular inter
killing a dog belonging to Private the appointment of his successor other man in this generation, and also thy the Chinese Minister of Hongkong rather more est to tennis enthusiastis. It will alter things.
W.H. Graves, of the RA.M.C., Sir Francis G. Newbolt (the post's England) as China's best friend. By the, frank views he has now
centre contain photographs of Mr. Ng
and according to the allegation brother), there is this point of in- expressed to a representative of the London Crewing Shunderd, re-than as the anal destination of Sze-kwong and Messrs. M. K. The Lawn Bowls League se 2300 ported in our Earlier Telegrams, he is certainly earning those very the drug. We see that a Shang- and M W. Lo, as well as
is due to start to-morrow. Some of the latter, he admitted that he terest that while the position is complimentary titles. China has suffered a to: because of what she
Lord." but simply "Sir." Even a herself has done, but she has certainly suffered as much because of hai paper has been commenting capshot of the final of the Men's most interesting lies are down had killed many dogs in the same practically a judgeship, it does not
received complaints in regard to erroneous views that have been held by the nationals of other coun- upon the increased activity of Doubles Championship. Besides for decision. Good luck to the way. The accused said that he carry the judicial address of ly
orium smugglers in the North, these there will be a group taken Kowloon teams!
the dog which go on the verandah judge of the County Court is tries concerning the rers nature of the Chinese-sheir-religiom
and that specist reference is made at the wedding of Me 1, P. Jones,
of the barracks and Faised a dis-Your Honour" and the bexisse their customs. their morals and their outlook. If Sir Joh to Japanese activity along this portrait of the new Civil Jordan can in any way correct what is undoubtedly a false impres line, particularly with regard to Governor of Canton and pictures
I see that the Star Ferry Comorbing howl there in the night. beads of justice are generally, if sion then he will have done for China and the Chinese race a traffic in the drug between India of serial activities in Peking. pany bas bad a very successful Before deciding on its destruction not legally. "M'Lud." However "Sir did well for the retiring service of incalculable benefit.
year financially. Its profits be had made careful enquiries but Official Referee, and will do One cannot read the message under notice without feeling and Tsingtau. The situation here
course. in Hongkong, of
Last evening a social gathering amount to the nice little sum of failed to discover the owner
And we must not that foreigners have been greatly in fault by representing toatherdifferent, but it seems fairly wes held at the Union Church 106,864. What is more, the net among the men in his Company. Jequally so for the new knight- the outside world the Chinese as a rate of inscrutable mystics, clear that a big ring if not more Hall to welcome the
earnings of the ferry-boats to-The animal had no collar or successor.
forget that once Albert Edward with characteristics essentially diferent to the rest of mankind than one, is concerned in the Pastor, the Rev. G. J. Williams, 000 per month, on an average,
acting talled $122.977, or well over $10-number. By such a representation Chinese have been eat off, as it were illegal importations. The satis and Mrs. Williams. Greetings the increase from this source. Grases, said that on the 11th
The owner of the dog. Pte. Prince of Wales was addressed as Sir" by counsel in court, much from the general schools of thought; they have been isolated factory feature of the whole were extended by the Chairman
Hundreds of books bave been written tosiness is that the preventive (Mr. J. L McPherson), Mrs compared with the previous year,/instant bis dog was killed by to many people's surprise, though in which Chinese characters have been represented as cruel service officers appear to have Hickling (President of the Ladies being over $19,000. And this in baving its brains dashed out. It it was quite in order.
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into a class of their own.
crafty and inhuman: as human beings full of running and endowed with vicious greed. It is time that picture was allowed their eyes fairly widely open.
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Committee) Mr. E R Doves spite of reduced ferry fares! (Chairman of the New Territories
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With bis re-election. Dr. evening of the same day he was Macnamara will soon be passing to fade into the realm of fiction in which it was born. Sir John has THE OIL SITUATION. rightly told those at Home that the Chinese are as good-tempered. There is at the present moment Evangelisation Work Mr. Pass My friend from "Flatland informed that it had been killed the 20 years' mark in his asocia
Camberwell in the sociable and generous as the rest of the world; that they are hard an unprecedented demand on the mare (Chairman of the Christian tells me that the after-dinner war the accused, who, on being tion with workers. intelligent, honourable and with a great capacity for oil resources of the United States Endeavour Society and Mr.blers are still pretty busy, though questioned, admitted his offence House of Commons. These long friendship. There is a very pustihable reproach for Britishers in which has resulted in a shortage Francia fon behalf of the Armas est quite an energetic an during and also volunteered the in-tenures of one sest seem to be An enjoyable pro- the previous week. They have formation that he had killed becoming less common than was the statement that Chinese make lots of allowances for British of supply. With exports to for-and Navy). exclusiveness. This exclusiveness on the part of Britishers bas eign countries, and the boom ir gramme of songs and recitations had to contend with high wiods of many dogs in the same manner. once the case, and it will not often The accused was ordered to happen that anyone will be able done far more harm than good, and in the matter of business it is motor mechanics as the chief was contributed to by Mrs. Mc-late. compelling them to shut
Messrs. McLeod, Lay themselves in, to the joy of their pay compensation of 85 to the nowadays to challenge such a almost notorious bow stand-offish" we Britishers are. The factors. expetty predict, a failure Lecd.
neighbours. The bagpipe man owner of the dog who admitted record 43 that of Sir H. C.. Germans could give us a few lessons in cordiality when they were of the country oil supply in Fleming and Templeton. trading here. The modernisation of China is slowly but surely twenty years' time when it is fore
bas apparently decided to save to the Magistrate that as a dog Bannerman, who sat for Stirling his breath for the purpose of cool-the animal was not of great Burghs through the whole of his taking place and the lact that sport and freedom are now enjoyed casted that the eminent position For brazen coolness some
long Parliamentary career. Mr. by the women of Chins, who are destined to take a large share in which the United States has our ricksh&coolies are nexcelled.ing his soup, or else he has burst value.
|__The_defcudani gaid that he Belfast's association with Man the development of China's progress, was commented on very hope hitherto occupied as a producing Here is a story which eat, heard the instrumas
would not be able to pay this sum chester was broken abruptly fully by the late Minister. He pointed out the truism that,China centre will sink to the status off at the Police Court this morning.
before pay day, and his Worshiplin 1906, and Mr. Asquith's did not require much government because the people greatly America being a total dependant A ricksha coolle was before the The most popular items with said this was a matter that could defest in 1918, ended another goremed themselves—how true_that_is_wo_'all knox.-China is fon-foreign-imports for the Magistrate on a charge of stealing the songsters during recent be arranged by the regiment." lang connection. The Premier perhaps, the most democratic country in the world: a fact that is maintenance of the numerous role of banknotes amounting to nights have been "For Men
bas sal 'without interruption for often overlooked because of the high-handed action taken by industries which have been buil: $275 from a Japanese fare who had Must Work," and "The Bells of
Carnarvon Burghs since 1890, and nuscrupulous men who gain positions of power and trust. Looking up on this product. A regular inadvertently left it in the ricksha St. Mary. There is one line in
Mr. T. P. O'Connor has held his back to the very early days of foreign jutercourse with China one panic appears to have been which he engaged to take him the former song which runs The ANOTHER SEAPLANE Liverpool seat five years longer. can see that it was foreigners themselves who created China's produced, and American Dil to Sampan Street yesterday. On so-called mysticism because they did not understand that they magnates are drawing attention being later questioned in regard sooner it's D'er. the sooner to had come into contact with an ancient and insular civilisation that to the activities of the British to the missing notes, the coolie sleep. That's what the neigh.
bours thought!. had no parallel in the western world. Because things were different Companies who were reported in denied having seen them, but on they were styled mysterious. And so the fiction grew, until B recent Reuter's telegram as being searched at the Police there is a very false romanticism associated with everything conducting a systematic quest Station they werediscovered tuck- I've heard a good deal of com- Oriental. True, it is that in religions and customs there is much for petroleum deposits in various ed up in the rolled-up ends of his plaint recently of bad drain that is still strange to us, but we are not less strange to the parts of the world. Attention trousers legs, and also in the smells in Kowloon. Dr. Woodman
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Many others besides the Par- liamentary Labour party would FROM MACAO IN FOURTEEN be glad to see the House of
MINUTES.
Commons revert to its ancient Another of Mr. C.E. W. Ricon's Practice of starting business in
Easterner than he is to us. It is merely a case of two different was drawn to the fact cushion of the ricksha Now, has been busy on the matter, and seaplanes came into the Harbour the morning. Those last burste civilisations coming in juxtaposition, but at the centre of them both that the present abortage when questioned by the Magist to my knowledge he has spared at about 11.15 this morning of eloquence towards midnight are human beings actasted by very much the same motivos, both in the United conscious of the good and bad ja human nature and both trying to had given a considerable impetus action bad a perfectly innocent of the trouble. It looks as if the ed very rough weather
States rate at the Court, he said that his no pains in getting to the bottom from Macao. It had encounter are an embarrassment to every and newspaper with a big circulation overcome the latter. The idea of a perfection Hard to realise is to the exploitation of the hitherto meaning: he had the interests of whole question will need the unfavourable winds in the flight, and trains to catch. No one would desire members to common to both and there is always a struggling upwards. The unexplored rich oil fields of the Japanese at heart and was most thorough investigation, and and it speaks much for the quality Occidental and the Oriental are identical excepting that they have Mesopotamia. Egypt Australia, merely taking great care of his trust the Government will of the machine that it was able assemble; as was once the cus- been nurtured in, and have stretching bebind them, a different Borneo, which are estimated by money for him.. The Magistrate, order the strictest enquiry. -
to withstand the gals as it did, om, at eight o'clock in the environment and tradition; they are human beings trying to defeat experts to be many times richer it would appear, had also the
and reach-bere in the record time morning-sometimes they woul
meet at six or seven-bat. it their own frailties in but slightly differing ways.
than the United States. The re-interests of the coolie st heart.
of fourteen minutes. In these days of growing intercourse, when men the world over sumption, with the conclusion of To' reform him, he sentenced him
The return trip to Macao was seemed absurd even to Speaker have a vision of a unified human race, it is essential that all peoples the war, of the Rumanian oil to a fine of $10, or 14 days hard
to be made sometime to-day, the Onslow in the middle of the should leam to understand each other. Western learning and wells has been very profitably labour.
weather being but a secondary eighteenth century that the deas, bigher codes of moral and public dealing, are percolating conducted to meet the French]
Recently Mr. and Mrs. Joho consideration in the opinion of House should not meet till two fo the afternoon. Decay of the into even the most backward of races. The ideal to strive for is and other demands. Some con
Gott, of Viceby, Lancs, celebrated the experienced airmen-
early rising habit had set. In fa the eventual breaking down of every barrier that hinders under-solation to Americza users of
the seventy-first anniversary of
his day. "I have done all in mys standing and trust. The idea of evil and mystery being the dominant of the product la beld out in the sources. With the supplies their wedding. Mr. Gott is a
Amongst the passengers who power to prevent it," said the characteristics of the Chiness must pass and Sir John Jordan has prospects of Mexican and South derived from Mesopotamia alone, railway worker. His father was
and it has been ones done a great service by pronouncing views of the nature contained American sources, but hopes British ships and industries apa Yorkabire railway contractor, arrived by the Empress of Asia Speaker, in the message. We of Hongkong can help a great deal to break would seom
end there,pear to be assured of an unlimit-at whose house. George Stephen-to-day were. Mr. and Mrs. E of the bunden and griefs of mys
to have his Ormiston, Mr. E. E de Abney and life. It has innumerable income down that barrier of a false difference. But it seems at times as in spite of attempts to secure ed supply of fuel for s grest son used often
Mr. N. Croucher.
Z veniences atfending if though we like to maintain it.
control of supplies from British many years to come.
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