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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.
THORNE'S OLD VAT
"No. : 4"
SCOTCH WHISKY
We strongly recommend this
NOTES & COMMENTS.
BIGGER FERRIES.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
Carlyle.
IT IS NOT BY SELF-INTEREST, Kowloon residents are glad to BUT BY LOYALTY, THAT MEN ARE have bad official confrmation of GOVERNED OR GOVERNABLE— the recent ramours that bigger and mare up-to-data ferry boats are to be placed on the harbour KUD. The present oraft have served the community and the
BATTLEFIELD PILGRIMAGE. CHINESE REGISTRATION ~IN |
VISIT TO GRAVES IN FRANCE
The scarred countryside of
AUSTRALIA.
PROTEST AGAINST CONSUL'S ORDER.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
For the second time within a' month a layman has been select. ed for a theological_professorship Northern France and Belgium It was announced in Sydney at Oxford, when Mr. Clement was the scene of an impresive during the visit here of the Chinese Webb, of Magdalen College, is British pilgrimage during Easter-Consul-General, that all Chiness appointed to the new Chair of
the Thursday 1,200 residents in Australia, will shortly Christian Philosophy, Mr. Webb
Passengers who left to-day by tide. On
on Good Friday and
The announcement caused great Green. He is a son of Pre-
Company well, but the time has the Empress of Asia included Mr, people landed from the boat at be required to register themselves though he graduated from Christ
and there were absolute-necessity. People who Williams, Mr. W. L. Leash, Mr. Saturday. Not all holiday dissatisfaction among the Chinese bandary Webb, a former Whisky. The Vat was started resida across the harbour know R. A. Gud af, and G. P. F. waken in the propetanse if the and a' meeting of protest was held Vicar of St. Andrew's, Wells-
in 1831 by the late Robert Thorne of Greenock and the Whisky has been known
No. 4 ever since.
as
full well that has been such ham and Mr. Mrs. F. word are visitors, says at the Hall to consider strool, and belongs mather an influx into Kowloon of recent | D'Almada
Daily Nees correspondant. Some, what action, would be taken to the Broad High" naboo! years that the ferries are, just
impelled by curiosity, visited the There was an attendanes of over now dominant in the Established before and after business
battlefields of the Somme and 100, and Mr. Yee Wing (president Church. Oddly enough, the three crowded to the point
elected to hours
A new acquirement of the F. Ypres salient: others went to of the Chinese National League), laymen recently of making travel uncomfor-
Paris; but many proceeded to the
was in the chair.
theological professorshipa at Ox- table. The Company has done and O. Company came in yester-soldiers cemeteries of which Mr. Samuel Wong (rice fard and Cambridge are all more
Can by
steamer Kidderpore there will be 1,800, scattered in president of the Chinese National orthodox than their clerical pre running day-the five-minute services during the (agents McKinnon, Mackenzie France and Belgium. There are
all
ET
whom-the late
of Professor
busiest hours of the day and also and Col, a freight carrier, which 50 within walking distance from League), proposed the following decessors, concerning paa
resolution. by providing additional seating has been put on the Australian Ypres alone, and Poperinghe is "We, the representatives of Cheyne-some satirist, rald that the run. She is due to leave to-day the last resting-place of 16,000 avery section of the Chinese-he would believe anything
British heroes.
community, strongly protest provided it WAS not in the Centres of pilgrimage were the against the proposal by the Bible." burial grounds at Etaples, Abbe-Chinese Consul-General for ail ville, Amiens, Arras, and Armsn-Chinese subjects to register them-
A.S. WATSON & CO.,
LTD.
accommodation. ut Chairman indicated at yesterday's meeting, these are only make. shift arrangements, at best. The ex- tremely awkward method of get- ting motor-cars conveyed across
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920.
*LONG LIVE THE KING!"
At noch..
we
are
*
Mr. A. E. Carleton, formerly tires, in close proximity to theives at the Chinese Consulate. The Theatre Royal. Manches- the harbour, also, has given rises. Vice-Consul in Hongkong.base hospitals and therefore The reasons for our protest are tor, which has been sold to Mr. to the necessity of some better and for the past few years Con- easily accessible. Eleven thous as follows: II) China is governed Raymond Polish, is the successor means of transportation for this gul at Meban, Sumatra, is being and rien are buried at Etaples by the Militarist party, which of one built in 1775, for the erec- traffic. Hence it is contemplated,
the Mr. about 6,000 at Abbeville, and has usurped
of which Parliamentary power of tion to A mog.
had to be obtained. whilst increasing the size of the transferred
And it says government of {ferry boats, to make provision for Clarence E. Goes, the present round Armentieres 50 cameteries properly constituted republican{sanction
China; (2)During the House of Lords debate much for the pious activities" of bandling vehicles of this type. Coment at Amoy transferred in have been made.
domiciled here, and upon the Bill-for-establishing a That will be a great boon. All Tsinan.
the Imperial War Graves Com are living in peace and happiness theatre in Manchester, the Bishop this will mean huge expense for
mission that many of the pilgrims under the laws of the Com-of London opposed it on the the Company, in rebuilding of
found the graves of their loved monwealth, and it is our duty to ground that Manchester was, a wharves as well as in the secur-
remain loyal approaching ones with little difficulty. The
the Com-manufacturing town, and nothing following ing of costly boats. But in
weddings are announced:-Ser- Commission is doing its work monwealth and abide by its laws, could be more destructive to the
of the will
place than time the enterprise
geant T. Matthews, of Hongkon well, and from what I have seen and it is not desirable that the welfare
introduction of such during an extensive tour, fathers Consul-General should have any the justified.
Police, to Miss A. M. E. Brawn, and mothers who have lost sons authority over us: (3) although as institution. The Dext Diocesan School; Mr. Jas. Cairns, and wives who have lost bus the Chinese Consulate General speaker, Lord Carlisle, supported engineer of Haiphong, to Miss M. bands can rest assured that the has been established here over the Bill because Manchester bad C. Nicholson, en route to Hong-bodies have been given a sapal-twelve years, this is the first time become the seat of Methodism. tong by the Devanha.
care worthy of them and the that the Chinese have been called I know not of any way.” he cause for which they gave their upon to register themselves at the said, "so effectual to eradicate
The
lives.
to
GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
Kowloon is growing in popul- arity every day. It is no longer the fashion in despise people
Consulata; and we see no reason that dark, odious and ridiculous because they reside across the
WHOLE FAMILIES THERE why the proposal should come enthusiasm as by giving to the barbour. And with the promised In addition to the new Cam-
before us st a time when an people cheerful, rational amuse- development of the peninsula and modare and his wife, there arrived" The larger cerneteries are being
their methodistical melancholy." in power." the New Territories for residential by the P. and 0. liper Karmala asisited by pilgrims from all parts constitutional government is mente, which may operate agains! purposes the European popula-mber of naval eers, includ-of England. There have been This was supported by Mesars. This latter argument seems to
At Amiens I tion will no doubt increase by
Ng Hoong Nam (president of the have impressed the Bishops, for leaps and bounds. Then the Commander "M. A. Way.touching scenes. Ferry Company will come into Commander E. Stevenson, Lient. have heard the recital of sorrow-Weibourne Chamber of Com-several of them voted in favour of fal quests. Whole families have its own and its progressive polics tenant Commander Joy and Pay come from England to search for merce). James Chuey (president of the Bill, and it was passed. be vindicated. No Company, of Lieutenant Commander Stem. A the graves of sons and brothers, Chinese Masonic Society). W. J.
The experts who design our course, old afford to branch out few naval ratings came by the and, alas have not succeeded in Liu (Chinese Shipping Com pany). Young Ching (Rockhamp- finding them. A father and It is said with truth that wherever ingal Britons gather together as the Ferry Company proposes same boat.
mother and daughter, from Man-ton). Rev. M. King (Brisbane), clothes for us are prophesying that men will soon be wearing and others. the first toast is "The King", and men the world over are honour unless assured of its right to So the
chester, have been searching for
The motion was carried on-sits of coarser materials than ing that toast to-day because it is the anniversary of our King's maintain the service.
three days round Flers. The boy animously, and it was also re the smooth worsteds and other birth. Hongkong is rightly taking its share in that honouring, the Government has been apprised of
fell there, and they thought they solved to forward copies of the fine smooth cloibs of to-day. The Balbat Govermea: Hose and other happenings being just outward the new programme, and it has
wooden cross resolution to the Chinese Consol-forther increases in the siready. signs of a very real inward feeling. Housing the cosmopolitan indicated that every facility will be given it to carry out the population that it does there is ample runni in Hongkong for instruction on the point as to why it is that Britishers are improvements, provided certain recommendations with regard to proud of their King: why they are keen to uphold a monarch? the fares and the disposal of in these days when many other progressive peoples have decided that Kingdoms
are undemocratic and but a survival possible profits are carried out. These provisos follow the lines of of the days of autocracy. By Americans, especially. out monarchy the policy isid down in the case and nobility have been styled as a contradiction of our democracy of another public utility Company actress Marie Tempest, and her engaged in the same sad ques yet to be filled in are eyesores to change, according to Men's Wear.
-something incompatible with it. The subject is one that could be done great justice to, but we bare time only to touch the main
points. And we do so in the hope that we may dispet a few of the erroneous thoughts that we know some people to hold.
Oce must first take a look at English bistors and note how monarchical rule has shaped, the very evolution of the people
-the
Electric Company-and
MARIE TEMPEST'S
FAREWELL."
A
General and to the Federal| Government,
less
faste to
might find with his пате on I.
bizh prices of these fine cloths Liverpool mother has spent a
will, it is prophesied. result in a reversion of public whole day at Thiepral. passing SHORT SEASON IN along trenches heedless of pour.
coarser materials which, tboozb, ing rain and mad in the hope of
not perhaps so pleasant to the HONGKONG.
finding her boy's grave. I found a hard task this, and a dispiriting eye or the touch. are not neces-.
round Albert
serviceable. The several pilgrims The world-famous
one, too, for the ugly shell-holes sarily English
they are based on good grounds still playing in the North are had that the grave of their boy only wring plenty from the "Such a change iD DR some hopeful. others despondent.these brave and patient men who would not be unwelcome to cloth talented Associates, who Are
London parents were relieved to are inspired with one thought manufacturers, nor to tailors. It is essential, however, for the!
announced to make their final
conditions in the woollen Irade." community's benefit, that the
lent to the French Army was it. restrictions should not be made appearances in Hongkong, at the who belonged to a bank section land now that peace reigns upon very different complexion on
Theatre Royal, during the present lovingly tended by the authorities
The dominant impression of says this journal. "Machinery monib.
of the commune and South these Easter pilgrims to the bat would be switched off bine work It seems a great pity that this Kensington lady, who makes a lefelda was one of ensemble 92
lower-grade staff, farewell is cut down to so meagre pilgrimage every three months to rather than of detail. I heard manufacturers would be able to an allowance as three perform her son's grave, told me with din several break into exclamations use cheaper wools, cheaper rags.. ances only, but in these days ofleves: "It is a great solace to see of awe at what they saw-a scene and producea cheap article. The rationing in the Occident wel where he lies. He was only of utter desolation on which six-prices of these cheaper fabrics teen months of toil since the would be higher than in the past. For her and other pilgrims the Armistice seem to have had bot A growth in demand won'è s'so date, only our battle-fields were too sacred to be little impression.
send up prices, but even so they rationed.regarded as show-places. are
would be a long way below the present soaring prices of the fine in such
too harsh. We trust that thei We see the ancient and uncivilised inhabitants of our native
Government will keep that point: leaders for govern isle assembling under the banners of ance and guidance, content to let the strong rule for the benent in mind. DI the many. Passing OTST the conquests made by Romans and Normans we come 10 a period of monarchical | succession during which great strides were made in the development THE MANDATORY SYSTEM.
men.
to
Bot
But:
to
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+
Of all the domestic animals the
The
aspirations, there is a desire by Dress Circle at four dollars. some nations to make their hold The next is on the admirable had travelled far to find-the war's destruction. Albert suged in "terror over the garden
circumstances will permit.
of the race. Men began to love and demand freedom and one erting He would a very shrewd fortunate residents in the Orient twenty." King was forced to sign a charter of liberty thas even to-day forma the basis of English justice. True, there were good and bad rulers, man who could. at the present should feel duly grateful that. but even the latter were better than none. We see box, with the the results that may accrue from amusements
tage of world politics, prophesy at leas growth of higher conceptions of justice and liberty, Kings had to
80, it is sad to they have been extensively visited THE WORK OF DECADES. the system of mandatory govern. Even pay the price of indiscretion, until the day came when the reigning
To the query of why such think that the best and most dis-this Eastertide. especially the Reconstruction in the devasta-materials which are house of England was shor of its power and was made impotent |
I accompanied ed regions is proceeding very great demand." It looks, therefore, to thwart the natural aspirations of a developing people. Kings System has been deemed advan- tinguished dramatic fare that has wrecked towns. were made to obey: Princes subscribed "Ich Dien." Butell through taceous enough to be put into been offered to as in years should a party on a motor run through slowly. Narrow gauge railways as if men may soon be seen in the changes that took place there was fastered the idea of a central Practice it is well to state that it be the first to be doled out the Somme battle-fields on which are laid through the destroyed coarse," whiskery " suits.
car ineritable there Are several isolated towns, and along them the debris personality to serve as an appeal to homogrolly; to foster patriotiem: the various Powers who, their grumble, let us look on the other cemeteries, all neat and trim, at of buildings is transported and
is the outcome of deliberations by Having bad to emphasise national units. Britain had already become in part claims to have worked for the side and duly appreciate those places which figured in the war sorted out for future use. an Empire; her sons had gone forth in love of adventure and had benefit of the races concerned points on review of which we communiques, out of which only just as the building of a town is cat is the one most often cuddled happed on new lands lands that today are independent and free
the names exist. At Warfusee the work of years, so rebuilding burdan beings, especially by children. The fear of infection but tied in bonds of affection and kinship to the country to which notwithstanding, have not been bave to feel grateful.
devoid of a suspicion that others The first will undoubtedly be Aboncourt, where there are Ger operations will have to be spread from pussy's coat, particularly in they owe their re-birth. Loyalty to the old country was best
French and British over decades. expressed by loyalty to its King At Home, patriotism war best work. for their own found in the fact that on this wao.
interests. At this period. when occasion popular prices will be cemeteries together, 1 sser-Bepame in wood times of epidemics, led many to dislike cats and to banish them engendered by having at the very centre of our institutions h
of the world charged and we are able to book couple in deep mourning search has arisen. There is quite a wap
from the family circle. figureheed symbolising the head of a family-someone to whom is in the making and the League at Messrs. Moutrie's the best (and ing for a grave in the British business street along the writer well remembers seeing a men could express their commnoo unity. And so Britishers have Nations looms in the foreground the worst) seats both in the Or- cemetery. Very slowly they road. But the masses of robblecat in close proximity to the face clong with a natural fondness to their King, because the more
Stalls and in the passed along the rows of white of what was once a smiling town of a smallpox patient, and when thinking of them realise that in the association between monarch a future barrier to territorial chestra
Crosses. They found what they remains, a fearful souvenir of chased from the room, the animal and people there is a power that inspires loyalty, that kindles patriotism, that binds Democracy and monarchy are not
utter gests
desolation. The incompatible; they can be made very real adjuncts of each the Gelds acquired in the and representative choice of plays grave of their only boy who fell other. We find that all great nations have inspiring central course of the war as tenable selected for presentation on the in the fighting before Peronne spectacle of its shattered church, wall, but there was never points. To Americans the beloved Stars and Stripes is much is this the case that we but by no means least, the fact
Boshree evenings available, and, last was captured for the second time. the once noble pile, the glory of proof forthcoming that she was the town, melted the hearts of the instrumental in spreading the dis- sufficient symbol; to Frenchmen the Tricolour and an inordinate are at the present moment coo-that we are to have the great
Paronne, Bapaume and Albert Pilgrims who viewed itspeechless, ease. So far as diphtheria is con- be carriers of the germ is rudely is differen A country without some such visualisation of its questions of territorial definition, short though it is, of this greatest towns inspired a feeling of horror Yet Albert is endeavouring to shaken by experiments made by
make a bold show in wood. It
Dr. W.G. Savage, according to the people's love does not go far, Britain's monarchs of the past hundred and the mandatory state of all our British comedians and in the pilgrims. and several introduced partly as B ball. years and more have not ruled; they have served and bave inspired
her splendidly perfect Com-
women of the party wept. Erican boast of an hotel, once a Journal of Hygiene. The feed- ing of kittens with cultures of the others to. In principle the Republic is perhape the more idea!: in measure to meet rival claims. The question may be raised by
dences of the mighty struggle, the military hospital run by a former practice the Constitutional Monarchy has yet to be excelled.
some whather such a mode of Since Miss Tempest left Hong-great national effort, against a French girl. It is here where bacillus caused no ill-effects, and That is why to-day we join in giving the toast" Long live the goverment, transitory as it annst kong in March last her tour in determined and rolblese foe met aims in search of graves organisms introduced into their noses and throats disappeared King!" The present reigning House of Windsor is worthy of all our gratitude. Through the trying years of war cose worked be, will conduce to a contented the North has been one con- the pilgrims on every hand. They
the wrecked town inspires gleams barder than did His Majesty in fostering enthusises and in helping state of mind on the part of the tiodons success and the Company stood aghast at the myriad proofs round Albert gather. For them within 24 hours. It-w old ap inbabitants. Care will have to bave met with a reception both of destruction for destruction's
exonerated from the charge of forward the humane mission of alleviating suffering. To-day our re taken to see that Powers bent publicly and privately which will sake. Their blood ran cold at the of hope and, very often, blankpear, therefore, that cats way be
despair.
spreading diphtheria, but ra SAT- fature King is contributing a valuable addition to the spirit of
be a pleasant memory to them recital of tales of terror, of un-
ches have not yet extended to all brotherhood that animates the self-governing colonies. He is instill-on making their tenancy
for many years
come-speakable tbiogs done when the
the other infectious diseases. ing a greater sense of patriotism and giving them a livelier realisation profitable as possible during the That their farewell in Hongkong German legions trod the land as that they are part of a wonderful confederation of free nations do not abuse their powers. In period of control over the territory
Contagious skin disorders may will be at least equally proad conquerors with never s The Kaiser, the Tsar, the Emperor Francis Joseph, King Ferdinand this regard the League of Nations memorable there is no possible thought of ultimate defeat in their MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S HEALTH. certainly be conveyed through London, May 20-The health fur, especially ringworm. Pussy's and others despots have gone the way of all effete and pernicious can do much to safeguard the doubt, and in anticipation of a winds. abstacles, bave given way before the advancing tide of democracy.
rush for seats for "The Duke of
the courageous of Mr. Lloyd George, the British wall-known powers of thorough intereste of the
They saw In an age of tottering thrones the position of our King is not only territories under a system which, Killicrankie," "The Marriage of peasants working with a will-Premier, is so greatly impaired self-ablution no doubt render her unassa led but is being made even more secure because it conforms whatever its faults way be, har Kitty" and "Outcast", the three no eight hours day for them that he is almost unfit for the dis one of the safest animals to live to and encourages the aspirations of enlightened men towards the emanated from a desire to help plays announced, our advice is striving to efface the ravages of charge of bis onerous duties. with, though a sick child should realisation of perfect government. It engenders a loyalty and unity those who cannot help them call on Messrs Moutrie without war from the land they love so He will probably resign after the not be allowed to foodle » cat
delay."
well and to make it fruitful again, 8ps Conference.
:
WOMEN WHO WEPT.
love of country suffices; to Britishers it is "The King." The senti fronted with several verations pleasure of another visit, all toothe sight of these shells oforbearing to explore the rains cerned, the belief that cats may
ment is the same; the visible expression and representation alous
that should make its'retention dear to the heart of Britishers and to democrats the wide world over.
selves,"
mandated
pany.
10
British soldier married to a
when in bed.