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NOTES & COMMENTS.
TO EX-SOLDIERS, ““
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1920-
DAY BY DAY,
SUNDAY CLEARS AWAY. THE RUST OF THE WHOLE WEEK.~~. Addison,
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papers are any good at, their job CORRESPONDENCE. at all it, would appear that the importation of cheap Garcian hosiery has been the cause of considerable stagnation in the Midland hosiery trade, and, led] by the Leicester Chamber of
· [To the Editor of the "Hongkang Telegraph"] ACKNOWLEDMENT.
Commerce manufacturers are 15th:Sopt., 1920.
If our British friends down in Bangkok think that we up hera are normal kind of folk, they are all wrong. Yet they must havei
There was a clean bill of health Dear S--.
sending out the S. O. 8. to the Sir, Will you parmit me to thought something like that, for in the Colony yesterday.
Government to stop the import use your paper to thank the fol- telegram has arrived in the
Another bubble has been burst of unmarked German goods and lowing gentlemen who have 10 Colony addressed "Comrades of
Ye'll mind a while back about to impose an ad valorem" im-generously promised donations the Great War Association,İ We have to thank "S. N." for Mr. Lloyd George and the port tax to enable them to keep and subscriptions (annual) to the Hongkong. The Eastern Ex-a batch of literature for the "barsting corn bins of Russia their operatives more fully en-Hongkong Boy Scouts' Association, tension Telegraph Company has troops. announced that the cable is lying
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As a fina bit of Celtic imagery it played. Now no objection can and to request those who hašala points but coming down to be taken to the proposed marking desirous of assisting to com- hard facts lika Spion Kop in the of the German article though municate with me. My address is" The agenda for Tuesday's St Leger, it's now been proved that same thing cuts both ways Victoria British School, or Educa Sanitary Board meeting is of a to be an also ran. Thanks to our sometimes-but the idea of im- tion Department. Funds and lie. It really is hard to routine character.
foreign policy, or want of one, we posing a tax isna" compatible wi' needed to provide camp equip understand why some move-i
ourselves have never had the our Free Trade ideals. By levy-ment and to construct a suitabla ment has not been started among Kowloon Inland Lot 1403, con- chance of putting this particular ing a tax the British manufac headquarters-Yours, ele, the returned soldiers in the taining about 714 square feet, is pudding to the proverbial proof. turer would be given & preference
A. O, BRAWN, Colons to perpetuate the comrade to be sold by auction on Novem-No sample of the cereal opulence amounting to nothing short of a
Hon. Secretary. Germany's exports ship they found during the ber 1s, the upsat price being of the steppes has so far come our monopols. The first shipment of really high-class chocolates that
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bursting of the bubble of Georgian they used to be, but it seems they Hon. Mr. J.Johnstone 200.00- has some such organisation, yet! His Excellency the Governor thetoric, for it seems that Italy are already big enough to make Hoa.. Mr. P. H. Hongkong has witnessed no such has appointed Dr. Stuart Seguin has been trying her hand in tap our manufacturers cry out against Holyoak thing. Behind such organisations Strahan to be a Member of the ping the bulging bins and the the competition. This is blamed Hon. Mr. E. V. D.
cargo of grain has arrived at already begun to make its ap-Mr. GT. Edkins Naples. It consisted of some pearance. two thousand odd tons of blemish-
| Mr. N. Le Watson wark whilst at the same time His Excellency the Governored barley, some of it absolutely
Now, we canna' exclude Gier-Vacuum Oil Co. there is, perhaps, a greater need has appointed Mr. Norman Lock- useless; seven hundred tons of for unity and coreradeship. hart Smith to be Second Police mouldy maize, which was there man goods and expect Germany Mr. A. O, Lang. Correspon leats are requested to observe the rule which requires History tells us that at the Magistrate, and Mr. Arthur Dyer and then conderoned 28 to pay her debts. At the present Messrs. Moxon and them to forward-their names and addresses with communications
conclusion of every great war Ball to Assistant Crown being unfit for sale and a like time I doubt very much, con- addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as anthere is an almost
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pumber tons of wasted wheat sidering the cost of everything. Mr. T. W. Hill vidence of their bons files.
if the made in Germany" ballNetherlands All communications intended for publication should be address-quickening of the social yeast:
things are being re-shuffled The following additional firm adulterated wi' earth, rags, picture ark would induce folks to give ad to the Editor.
and settled; conflicting interests has been granted licence to Poa:cards and French and British the foreign article a miss. Mr. F. Smyth
would, of course, suit the business Mr. W. D. Jupp Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
the Non-Ferrous cartridges, many of them unex The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is 838minent. We see that happening Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919: ploded. A half loaf made of this man to have the home market Messrs. J. Humphrys
stuff even at to-day's price might for his own picking and be able per annum. l'ayable in Advance.)
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrio, tial at such times is to find at least/-Colonial Commercial Company be worth even more as a curio ar to charge his own price. But his Mr. F. Maitland
as a pig in a poke wi' possibilities, as is just about in a keep now. Messrs. Loxley & Co. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for and common bond that will serve to keep alive the one-ness of
but it still would remain a sad as a matter of fact, in some Mr. P. Lauder .... full month.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee Peoples, and the motive at the The Gazette publishes par mockery of underfed stomachs, lines he has already killed his Mr. R. Shewan is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies back of those who first brought ticulars of the proposed lease of As Russia is apparently anxious own market by the prices he Mr. G. H. Dodwell.. delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies into being the Comrades of the Crown land and foreshore at Ma to open up trade again the con-demands. Mind ye. I'll no go the Mr. L. M. Whyte.. Great War Association at Home Tau Kok, Kowloon The area is signment couldna have beenlength of saying that these are Mr. M. E. F. Airey sent by post an additional $1.50 per quarter is charged for postage.
was to provide all those who had 60,000 square feet, the annual meant as a joke but if this is the profiteering prices but if not, Messrs.
Macgregor & Co. they are prices based on wages. Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fought or worked together in areat $344 and the upset premium best this big Bolshevik country not earned. The German, we are Mr. H. P. Smith ..
[common cause with a basis for $9,000.
can do we have surely been wast- ing time waiting for the door to told, is working twelve hours a Mr. D. Gubbay continued units. If all the ex Service men in Hongkong could}
Invitations have been issued open. Still we have been living day; we do not used to be told Mr. T. E. Winfeld.. Association there is much
as it is meant. Politics to-day his best to dodge eight. ths: they could accomplish the wedding of Miss Jeanette bave indeed no higher expression know that Germany pays or will
Williams and Mr. A.J. W. Rosser than the dangling of carrots.
have to pay more for her raw for contest between professional and not а few projects in
which is to take place at St.
material than this country. We boxers. In the old days prize which they could actively Jolin's Cathedral on Monday
have had it well rubbed in that fighters bashed each other for in- interest themselves. We sug
Saturday last saw the celebru-the cost of living in the Father.numerable rounds for an old song - gested some time ago that afternoon next.
of the centenary of the execution Isad is much higher than it is but your pillow fighter asks and of the two ardent Radicals. An-bere. It therefore seems to follow gets thousands of pounds. ink for bringing into closer asso- His Excellency the Governos drew Hardie, the Glasgow weaver, that Herr Fritz must be fairly Pandered to as they have been it clationship the civilian and has been pleased, provisionally and John Baird, also a weaver of well paid so that the goods he isis little wonder that they have military sections of the British and pending instructions from the Conderrat. a hundred years ago making and exporting cannot be got out of band and leat all sense population here: could make the|Secretary of State for the
The of the value of their services. welfare of our garrison soldiers Colonies, to recognise Mr. Was leader in a political upheaval the result of cheap labour.
they were caught at a place explanation must be batter So all lovers of the maly art its special cure. Instead of aliam Egbert Shenck as Vice- called Bonnymuir, just out metods and harder work. By the world over will therefore celebration of Armistice Day Consul of the United States of side Falkirk, by the Royal troops, getting down to good honest toil welcome the decision of Mr. devolving upon the St. George America in Hongkong.
Convicted of treason because of Jerry is already "giving as socks" C. B. Cochran to retire from Society (as it has done this year)
the unconstitutional way they The moral is fairly obvious,
the_game_of_promoting_boxing. entertainments, Not content wi' took in getting a vote, they were a matter. "It could also assist the billiards handicap last night, J. banged at Stirling.
the big lamp sums given for their When I'm on this subject, and padded performances the boxers, As things are to-day there's no deny that next to golf, it's he says, have not treated him. Volunteer Defence Corps in the H. Tait (-100) beat W. E. Wilson
could (-751, 250-150. Tait's best breaks lots of folk in Scotland and else my favourite, just let me tell ye fairly, showing little respect for matter of recruitment;
promotion were 30, 22, 20, 16, while Wilson where that would sooner go and that the Board of Trade figures the printed word as applied to the fa, had an 13. A. Tse (scr) best W. see the pictures than record their for August would seem to mark contract and as a result he bas established it could Dissbain (-50), 250-35. Ise pur role. We are the posterity or the beginning of a slump in thrown in his hand. And quite forefathers worried about. Cantrade. There's a big decrease right too-the pampered pups. These are days when, owing to strikes and threats of strikes, fing mach to interest itself in together 19, 19, 18, 16.
ye blame there?
In the volume of Look almost where What is good enough for those at
inward Some of them need a course f the world is in a decipiraly Unsettled condition.
and outward we will, there is trouble of one kind or another, and so far as Britain Home, for those in other Colonies.
.traffe Lt.Col. J. R. Wyndham and and for those in Bangkok is sure the officers of the Wils. Regt.
reading the old Tom Gibb stuff This is the age of research true the docks as compared to July, to give them a faint ides of the is concerned the neutste Buliuok is none tod 1093. The miners are on strike, there is at the tube of writing a threat of other good enough for us in Hong-regret that owing to the sudden enough. The Wash-Tub Wizards Now that sort of thing is no long insidious position they now hold. workers following suit, and, worst of all, there is some tear lest, kong. Now then, ex-Service men death of Mrs. Giles, wife of Sgt. are to get it in the neck next. A in being brought home to the men So far Cochran's Coup is the first the spread of the movement, the cual inthes be Hooded and thus of 1914-1919, for the sake of your Giles, of this battalion, the At British Launderers Research who handle that kind of traffic real attempt to reduce the high made practicauy of 15 further use. What that would mean to the selves, get busy.
Home at the pole ground this Association has been formed wil and consequently I see that all cost of living. 2.Old Country requires no zinphasising, We still hope, however, that|THE CANTON SITUATION,
afternoon is postponed. It is hoped the object of trying to and out the dock districts of East London moderate counsels will yet prevail, and, despite the divergence of
that a similar "As Home" and how to improve methods regard bave already a good percentage The situation in Canton seems
ing the treatment of clothes in of unemployed. Now the dockers Mr. W. J. Locke, and a fire viewpoint between the nuners and tue roverument, as indicated in
the wash. I would scarcely have are proud of their recently won writer of English he is too, has the debate in the rivuty or Cuminons, we are optimistic enough to to be no sparer settlement than match will be arranged shortly.
it was a month ago. General Mu
thought that it required a man of charter and it seems strange that been airing his views anent the believe that there will be an adjustment of the dispute before it
(better known as Mok Wing-wan) A verdict of "accidental death science to discover what rips up its operation is one of the causes brand of language as supplied wi reaches disastrous dimensions. At the same, even if the stopp still remains pending a settlement was returned by the Coroner at button holes or the reason for the of the present distress in dock-the American films shown in this is coutined to a few days, the country must suffer, and our only of his claim for two million the inquest on two Chinese con-dessication of shirt buttons or the land. But is it strange? Mark country. In other words this hope is that peace will be named before as hard days of winter dollars, and Rear Admiral Tang is tractor coolies who were killed by cause of fringe on our collars. If my words, it will be the turn of talented writer is scalp hunting set in. Otherwise, tüe masses writ-have-to-face trying--times, we
supposed to be the new Tuchun. being aspbyisted in a manhole at appears, however, that depressed of the workshops and factories among those humourists whose may be sure.
But for the moment let us turn from black possibilities of this The position is that Kwangtung Soy Street, Yaurmati, on the 14th wi what they consider undeserved rext. Already there is some job in life it is supply the wording order and look at lue world situation so far as food production is bas two men claiming to instant. A rider was also added bad odour, the wash, tub wallabs unemployment while short time for the films. Ho calls it " super- hold the Tuchansbip and although advising the adoption of the are combining in the hope of is about as fashionable as short Americanism" sod finds in this concerned. There have been puretuus reports spread about of late the majority of districts have precaution of lowering a lighted regaining popularity. No doub: skirts nowadays. And yet the cause for international friction, to the effect that a world famine misy be auticipated this winter, declared their intention tolamp into all sewers to test the there are chemical secrets in the world wants goods! Mr. Thomas, which, wi' some little trouble, but we are glad to read that these are regarded in well-informed quarters as veilig totally unjusted. We are told, in fact, that so support Rear Admiral Tang air before the coolies be allowed modern laundry unknown to the other day said that it was could be very easily removed,
General Ma holds the seals of to descend into them.
the simple wash amsh used sad that the people who were And mind ye, I believe there's Ier as Europe and due western hemisphere are concerned, the office and is still issuing pro-
to doing family washings by willing and soxious to provide something to be said for what situation is nearer normal in sos matter of food production than clamations. There is a good deal
the day. She on the other hand these things were prezented from be says, for wi' regard to has been the case silice 1713. Une competent authonty says, that of mediation going on, inspired We learn that Professor H. Gis not so destructive as machinery doing so. The manufacturer on some of yon wording, where there is plenty of food in the world today, that the northern by merchants and others, but Earle, M.A. M.B. Professor of for obvious reasons, and (the other hand, points to his it isa't intimately chock harvests will carry the world through a winter, until the crops of there is also a fairly general Physiology and Dean of the little closer, please) your best cancelled contracts and scarcity full of slang it is often altogether the southern bair of the world mature and even then, there'll be food belief that Mok Wing-san will Faculty of Medicine at the Hong-boiled shirt isn't so apt to be of orders.
ungrammatical and as often again to Blore away for future use.
The great food crops wheut, com not give up his office until he is kong University, will shortly absent at roll-cali. Aye, I wonder The "ca' canny" boomerang is in decided contrast wi' the pho- ́ ́kye, Darley, oats, and "rice-ere well up to the average. the forced to Matters cannot proceed on six months leave to if the Research Committee will on the return journey Labour tographic excellence of the American wheat crop on August ist, was more promising that on continue for long as they are just England. The students of his discover the greatest mystery of has been going slow in order that pictures themselves. The majority July let, and bits tair to exceed the hve-year average.. Canada's now and the next week or so faculty on Wednesday last pre-all-how some of the best things the work should go round and of the sacrifices in syntax ara wheat crop is gʊoil. Inese excepting alone Russia, are the main should see developments in a sented him with a silver tea set goamissing! But we do them in that all should have employment obviously made on the altar of wheat producers of the north tremisphere. Argentina, India situation which is at the stalemate as a testimonial of their esteem, the end. Aye, when it comes to bat the inevitable result bumour. It is the desire to be
· and Australia silii Lave wheat uusor, and now are turning under stage just now. Meanwhile, the and wished him bon royage" and a compensation it beats the best of high wagee and low funny that makes the picturs ground for next spring's harvosung. Russia, alons of all the wheat business community in Canton is pleasant holiday at Home. wash tub scientist going, to know output is #D unsaleable editors stamble in the path of countries, is a problema. Buisuevision is to blame for that. But even seriously suffering owing to the
that the missing shirt, claimed product. In the end that means word correctness. Mind ye, I'll without Kussia there's though woeat tor the year's needs. lack of confidence everywhere.
as new, was bought out of more unemployment instead of no say but that every American International crop reports also indicate pleasing results in rye, Many of the important business which has been sitting very Mackintosh's four years past less sad by the Hokey Flyaghi is wise to phrases like "Lamp barley, oats, and rice, all of which in some lands are used as food houses are closed, merchants are intermittently with a view to Christmas.
the Labour revises its economics and this peach,"
highbrow for huimaus, and for luod tur agnosis in other countries.
refusing to do business and the bringing about a reconciliation of At the same time the Com-bears in mind that foreiga.com-lobeter froze him stiff sad "he And as there is no need to become alarmed over a possible commerce of the southero metro- the North and South is in session mittee could go into the question petition is now something to be overplayed his hand and was world Tamine this winter, so the present generation, at least, need polis is being hard hit. Traffic on again and that the Feking of prices. That's quite simple. reckoned wi', it'll be worse before walized off to the bone yard.” not greatly worry about future tainques. That old nightmare of the Weat River is practically presentatives are urging that the If the Demand exceeds the it's better. And if the miners All the same, British readers population increasing too rapidly for food production to keep pace suspended, though we learn that one condition of peace must be Bupply, prices go up. If the come out on strike-but I canus require a glossary if the stuff is 19-a nightmare. The greater the demand for food, the more food one or two boats bave made trips the break-up of the Canton Mili-i Supply exceeds the Demand. let my mind dwell on such a to be intelligible, for to make a will there be grown Ine increasing demandes orice unter the protection of a British tery-Government-Boeing-that swamps never used by bumans before. It has sent the reaper over gunboat. The movement of the Canton representatives have equals the Supply, prices go up counsels will prevail to prevent and lamplight is unsatisfactory. millions ut acres, Once thought too dry or too cold for wheat it Canton for the Cantonese may been disowned by the people now If the Supply but there, you've such a terrible catastrophe ? to say the least of it. Aye, Mr. has grown rye and barley and oats where only wild grass once have a very serious effect upon in Canton there would seem but
Locke's point's a good one. If stood, and all the time agricultural science la discovering new the Cantonese themselves unless slight hope of this Conference guessed it already.
we are to have helpful interoom- -methods and exploring new areas. In China as the moment there something is dove BOON to baving any tangiblo result,
Lsse from last week's' papers manication even by use of the le famine, true; uut kesence has not had a chance in this great bring back a feeling of Looking at things as they are Now that I've got started on that a bombshell has been burst | pictures let's have it in a languagễ. country, whose people are now suffering trom past neglect. Where stability. Two days ago we had to-day, political affairs in Chino economics just let one tell you among the boxers. It's no the understood by all. there's a will there's a way, and if mankind with but do its park the nowe from Shanghai that the fare every whit as unsettled as that the Germans are now giving first time that I've commented on
Yours sta. Indrinz bogey need never greatly irouble us-
celebrated "Peace Conference' 14ay have been for years past, us socks Strie. If the Dows the evil of putting up huge purses
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