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DAY BY DAY.
PRIDE 18 AT THE BOTTOM OF There has been quite an epide"ALL GREAT MISTAKES — Ruskin, mie af reports by Governmen Departments this week, all__ of which relate to the year 1919. One pected to arrive here at daylight The Empress of Russia is 45: realises that these reports take on Saturday. ideal of time to compile and that
| there is a great deal of detail to
go into. But, oven allowing for
The Rev. W. T. Featherstone this and for the addition of a returned to the Colony by she as. reasonable period during which | Khiva to-day. the reports are In the hands
of the printers, it does seem
AUGUST
ROSEMARY AND RUE.
(BY "TONY)
Socialism. We do not ke him, We do not like his appe bla brutality ve him whiskers conesaled in which are the in- consumad remains of former meals. He reminda us very mrioù
UNIVERSITYS BONGKONG.
MATRICULATION
of the notorious Raspisting - His EXAMINATION RESULTS. A weird nerve-racking tintansarms for power of William kong University matriculation
The nolaist place in the world F Ambition is unbounded and it
synahranises with the ill-fated The following, are the Hong A "onfused mingling of soresch-
in, rattling trams, of hooting, Hohenzollern. There are, it is results tearing moter cars, of the raucous, faw individuals with a KING EDWARD VIL. SCHOLARSHIP. Tan Talk Guan, Anglo-Chinees chattering and arguments of the distorted capacity for seeing the natives and the loud tapping of g side of everything, ho School, Penang. woodan shoes on the road; the seem to uphaki his remarkably ories of hawkers and the howling weird form of government. · But
like the
PRESIDENT'S SCHOLARSHIP. 85 though middle August One fatal case of plague was of blind beggars crouching in the then they are living easily under Wai Tai, Queen's College. is a little lata for their notified yesterday, the victim streets, The crashing of that the rule of British democracy,
HONOURS LIST. publication. These official being a Chinesa.
abomination, the native drum, and they do not hare records are undoubtedly valuable
Yung Yai Yip. (*) and Fotor the millstones of Ngoyen-Van-Ban, St. Joseph's vigorous beating of 50 and interesting, but they have a
kerosene tins, and the barsh wall Bolshevik freedom in the form College contemporary value quite apart native troops arrived here from Add to all these the shrill of initarism. But the great majority Queen's College.
Five Indian Officers and ing of alleged string instruments of conscription of labour and mil Wei Tai and Chung Wai Sas. fromt hair value as records, and Bombay by the sa. Khiva to-day-numerable crickets and a hundred of the English speaking races do we respectfully submit that the
Tan Teik Guno, Yeoh Kot other noises, and the effect is not like Mr. Balshie: in fact they Cheang () and Khoo Ges Lee, public should have an opportunity af knowing what took place in We understand that the firing pandemonium, which by com- abhor him intensely. They do Anglo-Chinese School, Penang 1919 earlier than now. Recently of the 9 pm. gun will be suspend-parison makes the noise of a not appreciate the prospect of Thong Keat Cheong, Lee Boon we have sean that the Imports ed for a period of seven or eight modern battle a period of rest and coming under the rule of conscrip Choe (*) and Ov Chong Siah (9) and Exports Department and the days.
quite. Do you get it? Anyasyon any more than they loved St. Xavier's Institute, Panang. Harbour Office
the idea of becoming a German can publish
the guessing is not difflenit. [statistics-intricate
soldier. That is why William statistics-
A TRUMP SUIT. The body of a Chinese who fell within a few weeks after the overboard
Hohenzollern lost the war. That Andrew Yong Chong Lam, Stan- from
The abiquitous German with is why Mr. Bolshie will disappear ley Hall Garrod, Alberto Eduardo the
steamer his ingenuity has introduced (io in the course of time. The Eng-Tavares, Sirdar Ahmet Rum-
PASS LIST.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. period being reviewed, and one Cheung On a few days ago was the dismay of the profiteer) suits lish speaking peoples are the jahn, Lake Tang Yee Yuen (9).
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 35th edition. Western Union. Ofice address: 11, Ice House Street.
BIRTHS.
WALKER-A: 50 Nathan Rd, Kowloon, on 13th August, the wife of Ellis Walker, Douglas Steamship Co., a son.
MEYER-Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Meyer, Tregunter Mansions, a 500. August 19:b, 1920.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920.
LABOUR'S VOLTE FACE.
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wonders why it is that other yesterday recovered by the Police of paper which are said to be of most democratic in the world Artbur Richard Tavares, Antonio Departments masi taka
50 who picked it up from the harbour long. The Postmaster General's
near the Chong On Wharf.
and elegant and incidentally the most power- Alexander. report is dated July 6, or in
sppearance. The German has ful) and for that reason they will Umemoto, Minoru Ono, Kaithos
Botalbo, Morio other words it took over six
penchant for putting a spoke in months to compile it. We hardly Messrs. Carrol Bros. are is somebody's wheel, but as in this not tolerate the shibboleth of roo-Edalji Mogra (*), Henry John think that such a lengthy period receipt of a telegram from case it is in that of the profiteer, extreme socialism (Bolshevism) Burden, Tong Chun Chung (*)
The desire for is absolutely necessary. Soon, if Singapore informing them that we do not mind very much.
a levelling and Leang Tang Cheong, St. of the it has not already been begun, con- the price of rubber is now 81 However, it is cheerful reading to
classes is Joseph's College. sideration will have to be given cents, with a rising tendency. see that by this means suits of natural and it will possibly come Cheung Shin Fan, St. Paul's to the Budget for 1920-1921 and The quotation last week was 63 clothes may be bought for half a such a way that the Britisher and
to pass. But it must come in College. it is a little unfair to give the cents.
crown; and at that price one may the American must role his own Khoon, Wong Chun Fak, Tan Chan Leung Shi, Young Mian public and the unofficials such
renew them as often as they home, his own children and bis Tiang Hok. Kwok Ying Kong("), a short period in which to make
become baggy or there are signs own business. Mr Bolshis would Chan Eit Nin and Im Chiu He. A small outbreak of fire took of a smile in the pants. comparative examination of the various Departments progress. place in the residence of Mr. D. would Has we hope for a little more
bring all that under the control of Diocesan Boys' School. Urquhart st No. 1, Gordon Ter- however.
the State Mr Labour will never Yu Choi Yuen, Wong Tai despatch next year?
Frace at about p.. yesterday. on the leg in the good old fashion-gree to that. He wants to share Kwan, Tso Chak Chon, Ko You
The chimney of the cookhouse ed way or to play a vigorous game
Capitalot his freedom. He Heung. Lan Mo Trung, Chan THE MAIL SERVICE.
became ignited, but a good douche of tennis in them. If it should be wants to take his boliday or Wai Chung, Lo Hing Koen, There is one statement in the of water soon put it out. The the fashion in future to adops when the Stato says be must go. Lan Man Kni, Yik Kai Cheung go to a theatre when he wants, not Tseung Fat Im, Pun Shan Yee, report of the Postmaster General damage was slight.
paper suits, and the paper short- And, above all he will manage his and Wong Kwok Fong, Queen's, that gives rise to a little specula-{
age should result in a famine, the children. in his own way. Mr College. tion as to how it was arrived at.
This week's programme at the editorial stafïis may be expected Bolshie would make a navy off Dealing with the mail service he Hongkong Theatre should prove and there would then be the had proudly decided be
to part with thair spare clothes: Mr. Labour's son when the latter Shop, University, Pre-Matrien- Shu Yu Fong and Chang Won says that "with the cessation of an attraction to the children. hostilities postal and mail ser-The now drama "A Child of the
possibility. one fine morning, of
waslation Class, to be AD engineer. Nothing Tsang Fuk Cho (*) and Tse vices improved and by the end of Paris Streets, in which Mae reading the cables on the leg of the year approximated to pre-Marsh takes the principal part right: and the time may come tell him how he is to manage his your trousers. But the price is more quickly than when others
gets the goal of Mr. Labour Ping Kwan, Ying Wah College. war standards in regularity and deserves good houses. Another when the emporiums, holding
Yeang Tao Kie. Private Studz,, Wong Kam Thong, Ms Bio Siberian service remained closed. Thought." also a very acceptable their advertisements: frequency, though of course the fine picture is "His Naughty bargain sales may display in children. Therefore. Br. Bolabie Lee, Shi Man Wai (1. Wong The dearth of shipping which film made itself severely felt earlier
at
war.
There was yesterday admitted
the Government
Civil
Cheap Sale. Ready-to-Wear Suits. Two for a Dollar.
308.
ATO
to the Paddies in
1917.
The following candidates have
may eventually find bimself Boon Hia ("). Li Kuo Ching, invited to come outside," and Wang Wei, Choo Kao Chun (*) in the year became gradually
we know what that means. and William Yuen (*), St. Stap- less acute. We hardly think
Bolahia has concripted his own hen's College. kind for everyday labour; he is that actual experience has war-into
Sun Bacon. Ellis Kadooris ranted such a satisfactory state-Hospital a Chinese wale who This in an age of distress of his army. If be gets Poland Khoo Beng Thann, Khor Peng
now conscripting Persians into School, Shanghai. ment, because for a long time sustained a broken leg in a fall wars, political problems, canned he will conscript the Poles, Kim, Yeob Swee Teong, Aw Boon News from Home las: week showed that the extremist element past, the irregularity and from the second floor of No. 10, foods and dyspepsia. SOS signals and should be. in that in Labour had secured the upper hand over the moderates, for a: a infrequency of mails from Home Des Voeux Road Central. An-are constantly flashed from one likely event, contrive to get Anglo-Chinese School, Penang.
un-Jin and Mydom Abdul Hamid, national conference of the Labour Party and the Trades Enion have been more pronounced other Chinese. who was the end of the earth to the other. control of Britain or America be Congress a resolution was passed pledging Labour to resist any and than
Phoon Seck, Kuai (*), Raffles since victim of a stabbing affray io The peoples of the world bars will conscrip: Britishers and Institute, Singapore. time any every form of military and naval intervention against Soria: Russia the outbreak of Quite which he received several wounds taken the idea from the pretty Americans too. That is the free- and authorising a newly created body named the Council of Action to recently there has been an im-on the upper part of his body.little red and green lights which dom of the Soviet. But it will College, Hankow.
Wong Ai Song(*), Griffith John e-strike if necessary to enforce the pledge. Moreover, so one ofprovement, but it is not so great was taken to the same institution. signified the need for help on the nature succeed because human Lim Ghee Seang. Kok Ho Reuter's cables stated, Labour pledged itself to a national revolution an improvement that wecan inany His assailant has not teen battlefields of France. And right never can never be changed. A Toik(), Chee Swee Hoo!), and unless the Government removed all traces of a blockading policyway enthase over it. Far be it arrested.
heartily are they using the considerable portion of eirilized Yeap Hin Tat, St. Xavier's Insti- against Russia and established direct trade and commerce there-from us to blame the Hongkong
system. For instance the Poles with. That was a colle juce which amounted to an ultimatum to the office, for we readily recognise Government and at the same time caused the greatest anxiety to that it is through no local fault held last evening by the R. E anwahed
are sending out the SOS for people like its bath and its morn-tute, Penang. A whist drive and dance were Allied help against their great it
ing paper. Under Bolshis role *Qualified for the Faculty of
would those who had hoped and believed that British Labour would never that mails from Home are so Junior 5. C. O.'s and Sappers getting the
probably enemy, quite for neither. And such is bumag
get Medicine.
The following candidate, pro- desert the path of constitutional action.
annoyingly irregular. Hongkong Club, in the R. E. Theatre, Well Allied
fact that the In these democratic days no-one wishes to dispute with Labour has tried to get an improvementington Barracks.
countries
nature, that for small things such|viously referred in English, "has the right to use the strike weapon. That right is recongised by bus the measure of its success players took part in the drive, distress from their industrial and them. Maybe it is partly the previously matriculated are now
Over 150 flashing their
busy as these the average British man now passed-Lee Hai Lin. own signals of will fight to retain possession of The following candidates who law and though there have been regrets and even protests over theļis hardly sufficient to warrant Labourites have been doing nothing more than any man is entitled the Postmaster betrays in the 2nd. Miss Conroy (149); 3rd. Mrs concerning the turbulent Irish-sions as indispensable and partly Abdul Aziz Rumjaho. frequency with which the weapon has been brought into use, the satisfaction-a Batisfaction that the winners of which were political centres. Britain sends principle ofthe thing that induces qualified to enter, the Medical Ladies-1st, Miss Green (149) out a series of 508 propaganda him to regard his small posses Faculty Khoo Thean Sang and to do if he chooses to abstain from work. Bat whilst this is so.twording of bis annual report-Beard (139); 4:b. Mr. Davis | man, who in turn waves fran- because of his inborn cussedness. there are recognised limits beyond which Labour may not go Until the Siberian route is opened (139); bools. Mrs. Hodds (115) tically without infringing the Constitution. To strike for the remedying off again and he would be a dari Gents-1st. Sgt. Major Collins Americs. Labour signals to the
The following candidate is Industrial grievances is a right which every worker has, but to individual who would prophesy on (157); 2nd, Mr. Marsh (150): 3rd, country that it is under the on the soniversaries of those School
referred in Chinese-Kwok swiks for & purely political purpose in other words, to jeopardise that we must continue to expect Sgt. Major Flynn (148); 4th, Mr. heel of the capitalist and asks summer and autumn battles in
My felicitations to all comrades Hing Kai, Diocesan Boys" the life of the nation in order to secure the enforcement of a certain an unsatisfactory mail or ice A. N. Other (145); booby. C. S. M. help to place the capitalist under the Salient You will recall the failed in the Matriculation Ex- political policy--that is to deliver a blow at the very foundations of but if the Government and the Woolford (110.) In spite of the its own heel. Watch a man at a nights when in single file you amination, but are entitled to constitutional and democratic Government. It is this that the Colony's business men were to hot weather a good number of social function, in so agony of crept slowly through the ghostly Senior Local Certificates Labourites have now threatened to do. They issue a threat to the make a few more urgent repre dancers were to be seen. Cpl. desire to escape the attentions of Government that unless a certain line of political action is followed.sentations Home we should at Hill, R. E. officiated as M. C. they will stop at nothing in their determination to see that their least be assurred of everything
a hard faced hen who is boring!
streets of Ypres to the line. How Jal Pestonjse Cooper (dis- views prevail. Expressed in another way, they claim the right to possible being done for us. But
him to death. His eyes vainly gaunt shattered buildings
Eduardo you hugged the sides of the tinction in history)
to Antonio Noronha, work through a body named the Council of Action which is to be to be satisfied now is like a
telegraph for the assistance of avoid Fritzie's nightly barage. Lea
Joseph Messrs. Alex. Ross & Co., beg some braver soul to take her of How you superior to the Government of the country. To that Government hungry man being content with to announce that they will shortly his hands. If we indulge too
Kam Wing and they say So long as you conform to our wishes, you may carry only half a meal. It isn't natural, establish a Branch Office of their heartily in the use of canned ative tow
came to know Abdul Gunse Abbas, St. Joseph's on; but if you refuse to do as we tell you. then we shall order a and the Postmaster can take is Machinery Department in Can-foods we are soon sending the which gave Fritz his range to a Queen's College: Chow Yat Wa, old place like your College: Tan Tiong Bes, Diocesan national strike and if necessary precipitate a revolution." Could as a fact that the public of Hongton, which will be in charge of SOS for a doctor to explore the nicety the Asylum, the Cloth Ying Wah College; Han Hing The landmarks Boys' School; Douglas Laing, sutocracy, could despotism go any further? And this from men kong is not satisfied, even though Mr. Claude White from Hong interior of our anatomise. And Hall, the Ramparts, the Barracks, Wa, Ma Wal But and Teeng Kue. who tell us that they want government by the people, and not by in his opinion the mail service kong Messrs. Ross & Co. feel so the great game goes on with the Railway Station How you Shun, 8k Stephen's College; any one section of the public! As Mr. Lloyd George says, that approximates to pre-war well qualified to meet the many certain amount of success. And sat by the side of an artillery-Nyce Ching Bea (Distinction in constitutes the most unjustifiable action ever undertaken by any standards.
demands of the rapidly develop now that Hongkong is sending man's grave and watched our Drawing) responsible body in the country.
ing motor trade of that City for
and What we are most surprised about is that a man of the stamp of ANGLO-AMERICAN AMITY. →
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Zang... Bih... relief Mr. Clynes should lend himself to such an utterly undemocratic
all goods in connection with
preliminary bombardment and Ellis Kadoorie School, Shanghai; Few people in Hongkong could motoring by land and sea. Being up to you, my friends, to send uption of flares after dark. How School, Penang
against the passport system, it is the wonderful bozseshoe forma Abdallah Pawan, Anglo-Chinese and tyrannical type of movement. Mr. Clynes has, with Mr. have read the cable which came the pioneers of the automobile the little red and green flares to the army cookers, tucked away Thomas, been the temperate element in Labour during and since to hand yesterday telling of "im- trade in this Colony, they are show the distressing condition in a side street, fried your bacon the war. He has more than once publicly declared against the portant unofficial negotiations" specially well placed, having on of And yet he now seek to defend such a policy in the House of and America for the settlement stock of accessories in addition Commons by a piece of specions quibbling about the League of all pending questions between to motor care and motor engines enough, send them up at every threatened to deprive you of your Colony you breathlessly watched the long cooks duck from a shell which of Nations being part of the Constitution which the Government the two nations without a of well-known British &00 has not put into operation. Not only Mr. Clynes but, the whole realisation that it is high time American makers.
possible place and time and you breakfast. Aye, those were won of British Labour is stultified in the eyes of the world by this that a perfect agreement was
will meet with success in the and. derful, wearing, swearing days sudden change of tactice. It was not so very long ago that the reached by these two
For despite the bluff of officialdom when comradeship was something Labourites in conference most decisively repudiated the very policy English-speaking peoples. No
His exceedingly afraid of the more than a name. And what to which their assent has now been given. The only comfort we emphasis is needed of the fact two nations have been strained light of public oplaton. 809 in the whole universe was to
The issue of new licences: can find in the situation is that there has only been a threat of action that on the cordial relations at
bawkers 8081 808!
bas
been times almos! to and that at the moment there is no indication of the probability of sud
swester, after a hop-over and the suspended until October, when s co-operation of these display of intolerance. It is time the ultimatum being put into effect. Maybe after all that Mr. nations depends the future main-that those feelings of distrust and
| subsequent terrific days, than the new faeus will be made by the Lloyd George is right when he says it is only intended for display. tenence of world-wide peace: annoyance gave place to a better Hongkong Telegraph there recent handed to you by a benevolent been considerably over 7,000 In the "wanted" columns of The cocos and Flayer's cigarettes Police Department: There bays But the line adopted is rather too much like playing with fire to that fact is too obvious to need understanding. based thely appeared an advertisement|Y.M.C.A. You remember these licences issued so far, and this ́ suit us.
No one section of the populace has a right to dictate to a any emphasis. Unfortunately, realisation that both peoples offering $50 to any person who things with mixed feelings which num *is said to be abnormally freely elected Parliament what it shall and shall not do. And if many little differences have erept stand for the advancement of could secure a suitable house for are stored away in the treasure. Labour ever makes the attempt, we have no doubt that there will in since the drafting of the Ver-civilisation, the perpetuation of the advertiser. Can you beat it? chest of your memory/ hot be lacking those who will defend the cause of true freedom, even sailles Peace Treaty, America democracy, and the enforcement
foolhardiness of "direct action," to which Labour is now committed. between representatives of Britain hand a very large and varied Europeans
the housing system for and cooked the porridge, and how
great
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$50 REWARD.
MR. BOLSHIL. Zlatka I think this is the on
o the last extremity: There is no room in Britain for a despotic has been accused of" isolation; of justice international as well Council of Action composed of Labour dictators. Its very existance Britain has been accused of a se individual. Our own hope is tally a gentleman with whiskers boast of an Associati
Do you know him?. He is us- the British Emphew 15% Simplies that the Labourites have not even an elementary conception grasping partiality and also of that out of these negotiations will and an antipathy to the use of soup thrine sof what constitutional government is. And the Premier's vigorous desire to create monopolies to come the concrete proposals and water. His chief endeavou Sogether Attack on that ill-conceived body is one which will meet with the the detriment of other nations; necesary to a complete recovery 1 to lonies on anal doncurrence of good Britons and friends of liberty everywhere.
and the relations between these of the traditional friendship.
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