It is generally admitted that most Whiskies have now a " Post-War Weakness.”
It is claimed that
WATSON'S
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WHISKY
still maintains its high standard of quality. The same blend, same good old age-mellow- ness, character and fine flavour-Forty years'
reputation.
TAN · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
NOTES & COMMENTS.
CHAUFFEURS AND CARS.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
EMPLOYMENT AND HARDSHIPS MELANCHOLY.— Dr.
In looking over the Shanghai |PREVENT Municipal Gazette Wo notice JohnSON, placed on record a paculiar (SJD,
per use of ■
į particular make of automobile. On
AVIATION NOTES.
BANDHAN SEASON.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[To the Editor of the “Hongkong
Tubymph
› SERVANT REGISTRATION.
Sir.-Ibave been interested and
{BY "METEORITE."]
"A VOICE FROM THE MINARET. The first regular mail aeroplane. on the transcontinental route Syrian twilight and against this
The purple colouring of |of the appropriation and impro- We are asked to state that, arrived in San Francisco from background the minarets and
motor car that from today, Ice House Street New York on the evening of the domes of the Holy City are also disappointed at the frequency recently came to the notice of from Queen's Road to Des Voeux 11th instant, three days after its outlined in strong relief; from with which reference is made in the polica in the Northern settle Road will be closed to motor departure from the Eastern the ment On a certain date, three traffic.
Capital.
minaret the priest calls the European press of the Far A survey of the Chinese drove out a private-
the faithful to prayer, whilst East to the subject of servant geographical features of the route over the enchanting City of Registration, and, following on an jowned car at an early hour in
will bring a fuller comprehension the morning, their abject being to
In a Garrison Tennis League of the extensive nature of the Earthly Paradise" by the Holy last night's issue, beg to point out Damascus, surnamed "The editorial on the subject in your teach others how to drive that match, Sesterday afternoon, the undertaking, for spart from the Prophet, is hung at this hour what I think should be the correct
RA.SC. beat the ROC by 50 buge mileage figures represented their return they were arrested games to 31. Conductor Haynes by the distance of the service, it a solemu religious atmosphere attitude of all progressively-mind- by the police and two of the played an exceptionally fine game is not all plain flying once the etic cord in the temperament of
which strikes a sympathed people towards the matter. occupants were found to be for the losers.
mountainous regions comprising Andrew Fabian, a holy man with realise that the day has gone by
First and foremost, lat {licensed chauffeurs.
the Alleghanies and the Rockies other was being taught by The V.R.C. gained two water and other ranges of the West art is unholy in the matter of his Eastern can be regimentated
strong religious instincts but who whan any class of labour them in order obtain polo victories last night as attempted. New feats in which choice of love. He has made an and controlled for the benefit of upshot follows.R.C.& 3rd Cox height records have to be broken acquaintance with the wife of an employers. I mean that it is a man were R.GA. 2. VRC. "H.M.S. are on the schedule, and where the English baronet, and his passion totally undemocratic and obsolete sentenced to terms of imprison- Ambrose," Mr. R.C. Witchell obvious solution for the progress for her entirely subordinates the ides that servants of any class of the train is in the tunnel, the religious instincts in him, except exist simply for the ministering airman will have to be content when the moaning voice from the to the wants of their so-called with climbing up into the cloads. from a Haiphong to get well above the many soar remind him that he is in the Holy
minaret comes as a reproach to beiters." They are free agents, D'Estrees, arrived
to
The
licence. The was that the three
ment. The palice comment on the was the referee. case is that probably more of this kind of thing is going on in Shanghai than actually comes to
We note
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work for whom
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. which a rio, in the as you and me.
notice, as the demand for chauf (source that the French cruisering peaks which rise from these and for the sole purpose of maka privileged to
WISE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED
1841.
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Office address: 11. Ice House Street.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1920.
COSTLY MILITARISM.
necessity obtain cars to leam the
and art of driving before passing the trip to the Pescadores
Formosa where her crew will necessary examination fo: A
visit the French cemeteries. licence. As to Hongkong, we have not heard of any such casea
their
Places.
Such is the substance of the
the
and
What
be would
attitude of any reasonable man living at
of an extensive chain of serial posts and expense for the United States Postal authorities who prologus in the play "The Voice Home if the suggestion were father the scheme, but it is 10 Bandman Company presented at domestic servants in England from the Minaret. which the made that the great bodyTMof “ as the one mentioned, and wel During last week there were teresting to note that optimism the Theatre Royal last evening were to be registered, were to be douh: if any occur. Most owners notifed two cases of enteric tone prevails as to the business pos- Six years after the foregoing we compelled to carry about licences tor
have CATS
own British and Dae Chinese), and two sibilities of the enterprise. So see Andrew Fabian installed as and certificates; in other words, garages, and they usually keep cases of diphtheria
(one with characteristic Yankee puah, the vicar in a parish. The memory were to be practically enslaved the key in their own possession. Portuguese and one Chinese). One the fight was undertaken, and of that episode in Damascus still But if there are any motorists of the enteric cases was fatal the service has become an AC- who entrust their chauffeurs with There were also ten Chinese complished fact. the key, they had better keep an deaths from influenza. eye open for such possibilities ar this Shanghai bappening.
| CANTON CENSORSHIP.
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on the gloomy note struck in the such finesse in his dealings with on the caprice of a former em- recent report of the Committee the misguided pair. Conical,
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remains with him, and with the to the whims, predjudices and
overbearances of their reappearance of the woman the
Would ployers?
such old spiritual struggle re-com- In a recent speech the United
be tolerated suggestion
for with States Postmaster General gave victor
the devil the The following officers of the an interesting account of the
in tbe end. Matters
jona_moment? “And yet, because we Westerners in the East are Hongkong - Singapore R. G. A.
come to a climax when the qualified in Colloquial Hindustani auguration of the aeris! post baronet (Sir Leslie Carrilla prone to be blind to the fact that Canton journalists are feeling Captain C. S. Dodwell, Captain which has justified this present confession, and being, we are made the suggestion that our. at a recent examination: the fancial success of the system fidelity confrmed by Fabian's with them, there is seriously into the country, and revealed his suspicions of his wife's in the quality of our servants de- ponds □pon our own dealings more comfortable now. We learni from the Cornton Times that
A. Mc D. Hewitt, Captain J. M.
big extension of the aerial postal told, a cruel. selfish and whereas the authorities have for Murphy. Captain H. J. Mortimer system of the States. In view of sympathetic husband, it is not labelled serfs, whose ability to un domestice should be made our M. J. W. Bingham the Press by the summary closing and Captain E. J. Graham.
EATD a livelihood would hang down of papers which do noti favour their policy, a new method; The X. C. Daily News under-on Civil Aviation appointed by self-contained and exasperatingly ployer. has been adopted whereby the stands that Mr. E. Gordon Low-the British Civil Aviation Depart deliberate in his actions. Sir No, Sir the day for that kind newspapers are required to send der. Commissioner Customs in meat to enquire into the possibili-Leslie is an unpopular character of thing has gone. It is common Militarism is always a double-edged weapon. On the one band in to the Censor, before public- Hankow, has been appointed to ties of civil aviation. That body but the visitation of a weak knowledge that our Polica It means the spending of money and on the other is means the non-an, all copt, for approval or be Commissioner in Shanghai after some months of apparently heart soon puts an end to his Department issued character -production of the essentials of the world. To take a man from ante irea from responsibility in the on leave next month: Mr. Lowder conclusion that the scheme was
rejection. Editors will therefore when Mr. L. A. Lyall goes Home serions effort came to the troubled lile.
books" to the employers of all ordinary peaceful and productive avocation entails not only direc: spending in order to equip and keep him as
Another strong character is motor car drivers, and employara a fighting ani: but matter, for nothing will appear will take over charge on October not
paring concern, entails the loss of what he would otherwise have produced. The print which has not been 15. Mr. R. H. R. Wade. Com-recommended that the sum of himself to be the earthly guardino books the name of the driver, the and Father Elsworthy, who proves were asked to record in these world had a very striking illustration of that during the recenthe Cunt Tirea says:-- Nox, to Tientsin.
officially sanctioned. And so missioner in Sanking, is going £125,000 be devoted to research angel of Fabian. His decision in date when he was engaged, the Emropean War, and the ill-effects of that long period of under-pro-if anybody wishes to 'kick' at
work. It has been amply shown the affair of the erring young man date of the engagement's term- duction are still being most acutely felt not only in European
in the case of the London-Paris is what one would expect a nation, the reason for the man's countries but in practically every part of the world. Most of the editor, let him address his A seizure which the Folice mail service that. properly clergyman to take. He coucaels leaving. and the nature of bis nations are trying to make up the lost lee-way, and the Councils complaint to. Chang Pen, the made yesterday of 10,000 po più organised, aviation could be made a separation and a winning fight conduct. The books were issued of the world are trying to plan things so that a fature big military the relief which our Canton coa-existence of a gambling organir.an expense on the public is borne destruction of Fabian's career,/ers to select a driver, but 1 am Press Censor. We can imagine lottery tickets has revealed the pay, and that at not too great against his passion, to avoid with a view to assisting emplo5- outbreak will not be possible. We see many efforts being made to frezes feel at this new develop-in at Sum Caua, in the service out by the proposal reduce and was quite successful in his app bring home the fact to all peoples that wars and internal strife do
in the not pay that peace spells plenty. and war spells desolation and ment, for to get at cross purposes of which a Chinese, who acted as for each ounce of mail matter tol
the present charge of half-crown ministrations.
knowledge that the books have proved hardship through the simple operation of an economic law. The with the authorities in Canton carrier for the tickets. was
The members of the Bandman almost B failure, emplayers which there is not sufficient heed paid to the above-state principle desirable experience of having Star Ferry Wharf. world is learning that lesson slowly, and among the countries in Just now is a serious matter for arrested yesterday by the Police sixpence. The proprietors of this Company who acted in this play refosing to keep them posted.
any editor-apart from the up- as be China, unfortunately, is figuring rather prominently just now his paper suppressed there is a detective. in giving evidence surprising that the Committee dat it calls for skilful treat some other terrible offence, la
was coming from the service can be depended upon to
most successful in their Le: us presume that & employer A Chinese
know their own business, and in efforts To create the right bad to discharge his driver. There thanks to the seemingly unending squabbles among her military
this connection, it is all the more atmosphere for the story. chiefs. We have all read how the country has in parts been almost/Strong possibility of the editor the Police Cour this morning should be so misguided by ons of ment and in 'bis portrayal of the man's book would probably Amay have been "cheekyneas" or devastated by the soldiers of the rival factions, but the other sideing good-bye to this terrestrial stated that the drawing for the of the picture the under production caused by the removal of globe. So while our Canton tickets was to take place on the two insignifican: instances to Fabian, Mr. Or Twiss fulfilled be written something workers has hardly been suficiently emphasised.
brethren may rail at the censor 15th day of this woon.
quite A fine of form a report which only serves We have just come across one reference to it that makes ship, they have at least under $250 or three months hard labour to give a totally false impressionis role with great skill. Miss damaging to his future ability to Violet Blyth Pratt as Lady obtain employment. There's no- interesting if rather sad-reating. In one of the latest publications the new arrangement. a chance was inflicted on the accused by on the business possibilities of Caryll is the of the Chinese Maritime Customs is a report by the Acting Com of keeping body and soul the Magistrate.
woman who one to decide the rights and sacrifices ber love that wrongs of the case; the employer together.
ber lover's career 83 might easily have been a short- I have received from the Aeris! clergyman The case in which Dr. Mehta. League of America a voluminous compromised. Mr. Carl Laxson individual. And the only result not be tempered, irritable, over-bearing of 24 Ice House Street, sued batch of correspondeare and have was very convincing in his role of of i Coing Lum, a merchant of leaned therefrom some detailed Sir Leslie, sad as we have hinted denied his right to work. That reason for the general rise in the cost of living and the cause of the minds us of some of the EDDY {rent due in respect of the second which is destined
Staunton Street, for $45, being information on is not far to seek. The one feature which strikes a new-comer to
the parachute in a portrayal of the character of is, the very kind of thing that to render the baronet, had one of the most would happen under a registration this district is the prevalence in the landscape of men in uniform. were rompelled to suffer at the floor of No. 24 Ice House Street, the
distressed airman the difficult parts to perform. Mr. system. Virtually, we should be whether in town or country: in fact, civilians appear to be actually bands of the Hongkong Censor was again the Puisce Judge at Same services which in a minority. No figures are available of the forces at present in the early days of the war. We the Summary Court this morning-given by the life. buoy. As Elsworthy. The minor roles were all our servants futures. We are Philip Carlton made a good Father placed in possession of a lien on enrolled, but the military movement is obviously denuding the will now let our readers into theft will be remembered that the matter of fact the invention is well sustained by Miss Muriel should get no better service than province of labour. The pecuniary inducements to enlist which are secret that in those days plaintiff gave the defendant notice called the aerial life-buoy." and Johnstone. Miss Beryl Bar- we get cow, we should instil no held out and which, it is safe to remark, do not usually materialise every scrap of information re to leave by the end of July but judging from the report concern-raclough, Mr. Norman Thompson degree of that already), and we
missioner of Customs at Chungking, the largest southerly city on the Yangtze. In the course of that report Mr. C. F. Johnstone says
that, although climatic conditions as a whole were favourable for IN OTHER DAYS. agriculture, complaints are general of the increased price of nearly all the indigenous necessaries of life. "Shortage of labour is the
This Canton experience
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that defendant went away in the
ing it, the term is not far off the and Mr. Forbes Russell. ditions, and the prestige conferred by a uniform, as well as the remotest manner, had first of all early part of July and refused to mark. The invention has been desire for change and a respite from the grinding manual toil which to be approved by the Censor Pay the rent for that month. brought to a state of perfection, for night at Coup is doubly bard in the enervating climate of this province, all combine before publication. The informThis morning Mr. Leo D'Almada, and several tests conducted With regard to "Billeted" and Red Tape. to attract the working classes to the ranks. Leaving aside the etion might have been copied for the defendant, said he was by daring sirmen from the "General Post," we learn that political consequences of the movement, the moral effect of thas from a Home paper, and it might prepared to consen: to judgment aeroplane itself have justified although both these plays were vant registration cannot have
People who talk glibly of ser diverting the sinews of the population from their legitimate employ not have been anything more ingainst him, which was according the expectations which ments cannot but be regarded with apprehension. These traits of formative than a statement that entered. Mr. Rowan was for formed of its serviceability in in a measure based on war plots, system for two minutes.
are written during the war and are thought of the effects of such a industry which are such a marked characteristic of the lower-classrs. Jones bad seven sons serv
the plaintiff.
times of trouble. By a mechanical they depend for their success on Ceylon has it, then we ought to Chinese are likely to be eradicated by the indolent habits acquired 10 in the war-but woe betide
arrangement the parachute in other factors, notably their pride ourselves that we are a The following is an extract released at the moment the dive clever in an organisation where the training is of the most impractical the editor who published it with-
touches of nature, and little of it at that.” Here we see, in its very direct out the due consent of the Censor. from an article in the Journal of is made, and control over the and humour. We understand down there. There are enough comedy little better than our brothers application, the evil that we are trying to emphasise. Not only is Dozens of the most harmless Tropical Medicine and Hygiene-direction of its flight is obtained also
that the author of forces at work for the betterment the pesce and tranquility of the rural worker menaced sad inter-paragraphs of that type were The term "Rovel" prefixed to the by pulling the numerous cords Billeted, who witnessed the of us all, without recourse to any fered with by this useless quafeeling, but the work of producing submitted by us to this official Society of Tropical Medicine is that bold the chute together. play during the Bandman Com-action that contains so pernicious the necessities of the population is put upon the shoulders of a Then, on one occasion, we made an one which becomes the sovereign
pany's season in Cairo, was de-a principle as does "registration." lessened agricultural and industrial community. And who pays for addendum to an obviously belat-who bestowed it, and the subject As showing the increasingly lighted with the performance, and If there's going to be any tall? Who pays for the idleness of, and destruction caused by, the ed telegram, merely stating the which the Society deals with. important relation in which the in a congratulatory letter stated registration at all, let's have soldiers? Who pays in extra toil and worry for the lost labour? The time at which the message was on no society of so short an ex-meteorologist stands to the air-that Mr. David Kefir, in the registration all round, let's get suswer is obvious. And so is the fact that the humble toilers of despatched from London, when it istence has the term been so man it may be mentioned that character study of the Scotch back to the thralldom of the the world, thegreat body of industrious producers, are entitled to all reached Hongkong and when it speedily bestowed: for it seems last week before attempting the banker, was better than anyone Doomsday Book, let us embrace the protection and help that can be given them. When Chins asks was delivered at our office. But to but yesterday that Sir James fight to Haiphong, Captain Ricou who had depicted the same part the entire feudal system all over for further funds have not the Great Powers who supply those funds and behold we had committed an Cautlie called some half-dozen of was dependent on the forecast in London. the right to ask that the money shall be spent in constructive ways offence by adding to a war tele- the best known tropical men to of the Hongkong Observatory fur and not teemed into the insatiable maw of petty militarism?
gram. And under pain of having his house in Harley Street Information The task of the day for all nations is to rid themselves of the to submit proofs of every page of and laid has scheme before conditions obtaining incubus of militarism. The human race is still a long way from the paper to the Censor if we did them. He bad
scheme route. the
The local Observatory one newspaper that shortage of that ideal state wherein all men, because of their very natures, will not obey orders, we were compell-formulated, a set of rales for the however, was not in the posit fuel and the inability to obtain live amicably side by side. Defensive forces are still, unfortunately,ed to insert an apology next day society drawn up, the names for ion to furnish any information fresh supplies caused the decision, ing you for publication.
necessity. But by international agreements and, conferences, by We could go on quoting endlesslymittee set out, and even the the ordinary daily forecasts, and in a communication which the
with a promise not to do it again! Council and Executive Com-beyond the report contained in whereas it
fudicated the establishment of international leagues and international courts of justice the world can get very near to permanent peace. It is an from those experiences of other names of the officers already on the aviator had to be content to A.P.C. received from their Hol- fend for which all should strive, and an end that none should seek to days, but, thank goodness, all that paper. The President he named start out on the chance of mest-how agent, that a supply of avia- | Hongkong, September 22, 1920.
hinder. In China internal peace will only be achieved when men freely once again. For our Canton Secretary Dra Carnegie Brown, conditions on the various points the port. If the truth were told, it is over now and we can breathe was Sir Patrick Manson, the ing with favourable local weather tion spirit had been laid down at In power realise that they hold in trust the welfare of the people, Trostater Dr Willises of the route. As it happened, would be found that bad weather office of the A.F.C. that the fight And that power is not best used when diverted to personal ends.
Upon the speedy realisation of that fact and upon an appreciation though we don't imagine that the Hartigan. Manson and Hartigan gale was encountered at Hollow, and not any other advezne cir-
the operation of the inexorable economic law pointed out above censorship will be worked on such were his old colleagues in Hong and the flight had to be aban cumstance caused the faterrup was renamed on Friday morning,
ends, to a great extent, China's faters. It could be a future of utterly absurd and idiotic kong, and Brown the first doctor doued for the moment. The tion to the fighlight Sel great promise; it could easily be a future darkened by wasteful basis as it was it was here in he met in the Tropice, when he tersely worded telegram that was
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* and uncertain production. There's a moral for all nations Hongkong when war first broke called at Penang on his way lo received by the French Consul Bro
by the Castanis Commissioners
out
the Jar Lartis,
erected the wron" impre
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again. But don't let us dis- criminate against a class that has and still is serving us well in a humble station.
Enclosing my card, and thank-
Yours etc.
WELL SERVED.
sinlere being still
oger. "As to whether:
had arrived in