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Births.
RIECHELMANN-A Amsterdam, en 1st September, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Riechelmann, a daughter.
ILDEFONSO--On October 25, 1929, at the St. Paul's Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ildefonso, a son. Mother and child well. Manila papers, please copy.
Peterchurch. Hereford.
Marriage.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1920.
A RESTLESS PROVINCE.
than they are at the present time.
ever been more
at a
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Straits Team.
As the day for the revival of the intarport cricket tournament approaches speculation growS BJ to its probable outcome. Some time ago we published a message from our Singapore correspondent stating that the Straits team was likely to be ob the weak side The composition of the eleven to represent our southern visitors is known. At first sight now there is nothing in the list to [specially impress Hongkong devotees, for the simple reason
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 96. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
A LOCAL EPIDEMIC,
Dengue Fever Spread by Mosquitoes.
SOME FELLOW'S THINK THAT ALL THEY LACK 1S OPPORTUNITY WHEN AS A MATTER OF FACT IT
MISSING.
(By "Ajax.”)
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The motor traffis regulations
In Swaziland, MË E 19 ENERGY TEST 19 REALLY will soon be going into force in
Dangua favor is at the moment McCarthy tells us in Farther Kowloon. Signs are balur erepted vary prevalent in Hongkong, and Advantures of a Mining En- at the junction of Gascoigne its spread is attributed in some called upon to quell riots amon
gineer" (Routledge); ho ria
Mr. George E. Costello was a passenger by the Monteagle to-day.
accounts,
Road, and Argyle Street The quarters to tha ubiquitous The Hon. Mr. John Johnstone whole of Hangham village is mosquito. Not being a sociable the nativas. He thus describes left by the Monteagle to-day.”
also going to be under one con disease, no record can be secured Shangane coming down the bill ono incident: Noticing the trol The carrying of regulation of the number of cases at the from their krauls above us all lights on motor cars seems to be local Hospitals, bar, judging from dressed up in their war paint,
vexed question with motorists.
the fever has Regulation 98 of the Traffic now assumed the character of with assegais and knob-kerries, Regulaions stipulates that every an epidemic. Last
singing કરવ stamping the be thay vehicle shall, between sunset and unduly alarmed, we hasten to marched in battla
ground in rhythm 45 thay sunrise, carry regulation lights.inform our that the majority of the names closes at the Hongkong Post The Police cannot fix the time according to a medical authority (a rhinoceros whip) in my han
array, I that, sallied out with only a shamboo as there is very little twilight we have just consulted, the fever is I saw Swazies in similar array hand, that this unknown element instant. The mail is due in Login Hoogkong. A boon to motorists not serious, though in its symp advancing up the hill I slipped would be the publication every toms the patiens experiences suf- back and got my revolver, and [day in the newspapers of the ferings which can best be
described by using the name by! with him to endeavour to stop the meating the accountant, arranged which it is popularly known, Shangan advance while I did.
break-bone fever." is peculiar to all warm climates, Meantime they had both deployed
similarly
the Swaxins.
The Christmas parcel mail
the 30th
are new. It may be, on the other Office at 5 p.m. on
we
next.
hours of sunrise and sunset.
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readers
This faver
bones, and
oga to
and
with
will contain the danger. For the don on December 18th. matter of that, it is quite an open question how the three teams
"Old Subscriber."-Thanks for will shape against each other note. As you refer to Kowloon, after the lengthy interval that
are passing it on to "The has elapsed since
It is a common complaint that they last Ferryman," who will doubtless epgaged in competition, Ardent
Imake some comment on Friday Hongkong does not possess many makes an abrupt appearance with into two lines, the back line Hongkongites can draw encour-
enterprising individuals of the type who built up this Colony,severe pain in some joint, often a evidently a line of support for the agement; if they please. from the
fager, extending rapidly to all was Jardines, the Before, it fact that the visitors have not
foot one, As it kept well the joints The sum of $1,000,000 which Sassoons, and Sir Paul Chater, the
bebind it proved themselves to be formid-
shifting From
Racing 'down the able. Only two of the side. the Government set aside, to latter of whom is still in "our!
the hill I met them, and ordered Messrs. Grenier and Hennessey, provide loans to intending house midst. Through the enterprise of other. Smart fover, redness and have appeared for the Straits in builders, as a measure of zalieving these people numerous ventures swelling of the face. sore throathem to stop; but, though it been floated and and a mild rash are, the other checked their speed they slowly Inter-Port matches here. but the house shortage, has been have there will be an opportunity of entirely taken up by a number of managed successfully, which have initial symptoms. After twenty continued to advance. Then I welcoming an old friend in Mr.companies
individuals earned for the Colony a good four to forty-eight hours the rashslashed their leader with my whip, and fever subside, and the remis-their line slashing with all my driving him back. sud ran along
viously assisted Hongkong, to received it is understood that the tion was noted for its production There is then a mild return to the others. Two bolted out into Claxton, who, of course: pre-/Should further applications be record outside. The old generasion lasts from two to four days-strength any who were ahead of whom he may now give some Government will be ready to meet of men of exceptional commer- faver, and a rash, similar to the open, and I fired my revolver
and
trouble as a Straits recruit. In them, with a further sum. this connection considerable
a member of the Colony's Police
and now located at Singapore.
cial calibre. Alas! we have few
These and other
symptoms
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of that type to-day. Mr. Taggart, blotches on the skin during apat them, at which they came back. of measles, makes its The accountant acted similarly regret is felt locally at the non-i A lighter man has made a re-the Manager of the Hongkong tack itclusion of another ex-Hongkong port to the Police to the effect Hotel, is, however, a man with appearance, first on the palms against the Shangans, and we representative, Edwards, formerly that his wife and son are missing modern ideas. We all know how which usually spreads over the
from the family circle. Last he set out to establish a summer armis, face, trunk and lower limbs brought all to a dead halt.” night at 9.45 p.m. they left the resort at Repulse Bay. To-day usually disappear within eight In "Adventures in Interview- lighter which was moored along the Repulse Bay Hotel is a monu- side-No. 2 Holt's Wharf in a ment of his enterprise and there dass of the outbreak, but the ing" (John Lane), Mr. Issac Mar- dinghy to go to a relative's inak is not a tourist who-is-not-in-Patient is often left weak and ensson tells this story, related by
exhausted.
General Smuts at a public digner As they were not seen after that, pressed by it.
Dr. Pearse (Madical Officer of given to him in the Gallery of he concluded that some accident
Health) whom our representative the House of Lords: Lord French have occurred resulting in the capsizing of the dinghy and the drowing of its occupants.
The Missing Link Again'.
A Missing Link expedition announces the fully Mail's New York correspondent, is to start for Peking in February, and as the promoters are American, one may
that man
will be
It is no exaggeration to say interviewed on the subject, stated presided, and in response to the that Repulse Bay will serve to that some nineteen or twenty toast of his health Smuts arose advertise the Colony far and years ago a similar outbreak) with a curious smile on his face. wide. It was the desire of Sir Henry made its appearance in Hoogland in gracions language he thanks. Then the Mey, who was deeply impressed kong, but the fever was no of expressed his
he
Plans
The
В score
It
defeat. The train was allowed to pass on in safety." The nort day Smuts discovered that it conveyed Lord French and his. stad!" Yet by the curious work-
sidein the House of Lords.each one in the uniform of a British soldier forandconsecrated toacommoncause.
ing of Fate here they sat side by
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mazy
ROSSER-WILLIAMS.—On 25th October, at St. John's Cathe-hape they will develop some dral. Hongkong, by the Rev., E.W.L. Martin, Alexander James hustle in providing a long-overdue
from Refugees coming Weekes Rosser, only son of Mr. A. W. Rosser of Wimbledon. to elucidation. Ever since Darwin trouble-stricken districts of the by the beauty of the Colony and such a character as to deem it turning to the chairman Jeanette, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Williams, of star.led, not to say staggered, interior have found reads help its fine motor roads, to boost these necessary to keep returns by told a story that sounded like
a chapter from fiction. humanity with "The Origin of from the Sisters of the Convents, by means of an advertising cam-making cases notiable. Species inquisitive minds have especially the Italian Convent.paign. All this is now unneces-cause bad not been discovered by dealt with the closing hours of
exerted been exercised over the "Miss who have
their best sary as tourists and others who the medical profession, though the the Boer War. Smuts, with the ing link mystery. What more efforts to find accommodation for pass through the Colony enthuse methods of its communication tattered and battered remnants of OUT motor road and the from one person to another had his army, had taken refuge in the natural? After generations had a large number in the Convent's over been taught from nursery days precincts-This charitable work. picturesqueness of the Colony been ascertained to due to the mountains. Dispirited and dis-
help to boost bites of infected mosquitoes. couraged, they awaited the sad... is a divinely-created which is being continued until and in turn
To curious people who desire Late one afternoon they heard being it must have come as a circumstances permit of the re- the place. Mr. Taggart is still pretty stiff back-hander to our turn of the refugees to their doing his bit, and I hear that to investigate the origin of the the panting of a locomotive, and. grandfathers to be told that the native villages, has ivolved con- he is at present busy on a scheme fever, we will quote the doctor's looking down, they saw a British
chantant, query which be made in reply armoured train crawling bensath{ family tree of the human race siderable expense and according of building a cafe
"Does the them. One of the Boer officers rests upon a
simian ancestor. ly an appeal is being made for cabare: and open air cinema on our representative: The sceptic continues to ask how financial support-from-the public, top of the Hongkong Hotel, facing chicken come from the egg, or spoke up and said: "We will.
the whole of Queen's Road. This the egg from the chicken? No register
опа more „blow,” it is that we never meet a sixty-
will occupy a floor space of six one knows the exact origin of Instantly
of men fourth cousin still in the chrysalis The late Mr. Alacakai, Chief thousand square feet and will be dangue."
began to assemble huge bould- stage. The Darwinfans, if we Clerk in the Barrack Department run on the excellent lines that all In so advanced stage, the lers to hard down on the approach- remember rightly, don's promise of the R. A. S. Corps, served as Hongkong Hotel ventures are. disease is highly contagious,ing train. From that height they much help. Tackle them with a straight question and the wily Clerk in the R. 4. 5. Corps for Lifts will run to the top of the witness the recent outbreak at would have been destructive. fellows side-track you with some some 30 years and saw service building, and there will be all the Victoria British School which Smuts stopped them, saging "No. with that Unit during the Boxer modern conveniences. The Gov- | bas necessitated the whole we must not add murder to technical jargon about final rising, receiving the Medal and ernment, I believe, bas given its school being closed down. division in an age so remote that Adam was, comparative Clasp for Relief of Peking. He sanction to the erection of such
was well respected by all and his an
cinema. open-air Judging from all appearances, the Province of Kwangtung 15. a creature of yesterday death is a great loss to the service. are is becoming more and more unsettled with every passing But some enterprising rembers The funeral took place on the there is no doubt that the public
now being prepared, and UNHAPPY MARRIAGE. day. Indeed, we doubt if conditions have generally unsatisfactory or more frequant with gloomy possibilities of the scientific brotherhood do 22nd inst. and was attended by a will appreciate what is being Wife Summons Husband.
not mean to let the matter remain large number of friends, the done for them by the manage- In Canton itself confusion in obscurity. They have made a and uncertainty prevail. Business is reported to be
Mrs. Flora Laboury Gutierrez Their success should be instan who recently applied standstill, and the people generally appear to be on the tip-toe useful start by collecting £50,000, Indian community being strongly ment of the Hongkong Hotel.
and, with Peking as the base of represented. Deceased leaves As to
separation widow and a large family for taneous, as the need for a cafea
order against of expectancy, hoping for the best but fearing the wors
they contemplate
whom the deepest sympathy" is chantant and ад
Joao air her open
husband,
Maris the exact position so far as politics are concerned, it is difficult operations,
returning with "the greatest felt.
to-day
"Considering appeared cinema is widely felt in the Gutierrez, to ascertain what is happening, though it is quite clear that the
natural history collection in the Kwangsi Tuchun (Mok Wing-sun) has no intention of yielding up
Colony..
before Mr. N. L. Smith in three worthy people Mr. Shaw has in- office to the Cantonese. In this regard the situation is at a dead world" by carrying their cam-
summonses which she brought fluenced in one way and anothe"," Resulting from an order that
against her husband. The sum writes Mr. D. Willoughby in lock, though it would appear the Mok has far more control than the paign into Central Asia, which
they are satisfied Was the no wood can be taken out of the Cantonese nominee and supposed holder of the office. We base that earliest home of our primeval docks without a written permit, at Repulse Bay on the erection the defendant on the 16th October, Unwin), "it would be foolish to At present workmen are busy monses were to the effect that About It and About" (T. Fisher assumption on the fact that he has been instrumental in sbutting
It parents.
disturbance a great considerable"
of a garage which will accom- at 4.15 p.m. tresspassed at her dear that, like Raskin, Carlyle, down the Presa, a report stating that he has prohibited the publica- tion of any newspaper whatever. That, if it is true, is the act of disappointment if the greatest created at the main gate of the modste 160 motor cars. It will house at No. 14, Robinson Road and bis own Father Keegan, be
natural history collection in the Kowloon Dockyard last evening dictator, and he will probably find out before long that he cannot world" does not include at least when a crowd of some forteccupy & floor space of some eix without her permission, behaved has done something to improve
thousand square feet. The
in a disorderly manner by using the mind and to raise the tone of for exhibition in Madison Square the Indian watchman who sought and one specimen of the missing-link female coolies sorely harrassed garage will two-floored insalting and abusive language, his age. For all this be has neither will accomodate eighty assaulted her end, anally, com asked nor received the credit to prevent them from taking cars on each floor. There will be mitted damage on her property. Garden.
he deserves. Instead, we are still wood away. About twenty of separate departments for each Another batch of summonses told to think of him as subverziva them had actually passed the car, each department having its with dates and time similar to and shocking, but one questions Eats before police assistance own gate, and being separated the preceding one was also taken whether even the dramatic critics came, those who had passed the from the other by a concrete wall out against the defendant by or the censor can be deceived We redd recently that a party gate with their bundles of fire: Thua nobody will be able to Joaquim Bernardo, of No. 13, again. Years have elapsed since in a hopeless muddle. The commercial community is suffering of whole-bog reformers had wood retursing with bamboos tamper with the machines. When Mosque Street, who alleged that be gave them their last stage from the business stagnation which has set in, whilst the people
blossomed into activity in with which they endeavoured to the road from Wong Nei Cheong the defendant assaulted him and fright. When Elizabeth Dolittle generally, fearing the early outbreak of fighting and even worse,
Mexico, and
watchman. not many will belabour the
to Repulse Bay, which the. Gor- used abusive and are flocking in increasing numbers to Hongkong and adjacent think, before reform was needed. took refuge behind the gate, but ernment is on the eve of com-language.
insulting said her naughty word, a good many recalled how in their lost territory. In our own New Territories great numbers of refugees To be sure, they do not clair to even then. he W&S not mencing. is completed it should have come in to seek shelter from possible harm, whilst the situat have formulated any sort of con- safe
Mr. Woo appeared for the youth it had been classical at our ion has become so menacing that the railway authorities here have structive policy (an omission Not to be thus deprived of their motor to get to Repulse Bay, represented the complainants, speculated as to how soon it.
attentions only take fifteen minutes by defendant. Mr. Leo d'Almada who ancient seats of learning, and ... deemed it prudent to sever connection, at any rate for the time aot uncommon among re-victim, the amazons gathered instead of three-quarters of a was unable to proceed with the would pses into the vocabularies of A being, with the Chinese section of the railway. And the trouble is forrears of & certain type). outside
the closed gate and bour, as is the case at present. case, being sick, and the hearing Somerville and Nawabam. It is by no means confined to Canton and the immediate locality. On- rest is general throughout the whole Province. Of authority there but they have fully made up through the bars poked at the The new road from Wong Nei had to be remanded until next understood that they did not
a preliminary Indian with their poles. They. Cheong to Repulse Bay should be week.
have long to wait Perhaps the appears to be none. Bands of soldiers, gangs of bandits and bodies their minds on
best explanation of Mr. Bhsw.anize of pirates act as though they were a law, unto themselves, and there programme, in the forefront of dispersed when Police assistance completed in about a year's time, which they desiderate the for the Indian came, but two of as the Government is now calling
be is can be found by recognising, mat is none to say then nay.
that he has got into the writing 2.1 This is a gloomy picture, but, unhappily, it is representative of erection in the Central Plaza of them who showed an inordinate for tenders for this work.
a guillotine for all journalists,desire to batter the Indian were
babit. A story is told of Mr the actual facts. And now that the Press has been prevented from The reader will perhaps, like arrestad. Before Mr. N. E. Smith,
Chesterton that he refused, den functioning, Canton, the centre of all the trouble, has become more ourselves, be struck by the entire at the Police Court this morning. A big risk was taken by the Palace Hotel Handicap.
pite his splendid physical equip- isolated than ever, so that anything way happen and the outside absence of favouritism. Every the evidence against the two Directors of the Hongkong Hotel In the Palace Hotel handicap ment, to be a special constable, world be delayed from knowing what is occurring. One thing is member of the Fourth Estate is defendants were board, afteria their Repulse bay scheme, but last night C. McNab Wilson giving as his reason that, t certain namely, that things cannot go on for ever as they now are, to share the embrace of the which his Worship inflicted the happily, its success is assured. It (-125) beat S. Kelly (-100). The the event of civil trouble, he couldnt Matters must come to a head soon, and we can only trust that a
"little widox',
as facetious rather stiff fine of $10 on each of cannot be expected to prove final scores were: Wilson 250; imagine no revolution- which sa means will be found of straightening out affairs with the minimum Frenchmen. term their instru- the woman.
remunerative in its incipient of trouble and, above all, without bloodshed. The worst of it all is ment of expiation. What at
stage. Plenty of money has been Kelly 228, Highest breaks: Wil- he did not prefer to the Govern-7 that these fresh troubles should arise just at a time when there were first sight appears
a grisly
spent and continues to be speat, 50, 26, 20, 17 and 16; Kelly, 23, ment. That, of course, was not gu
two 16's and 15.
to say he would be heart and soul a some hopes of a new and better understanding between North and jest is possibly nothing freres have not been so and the end is not yet in sight. South. Optimistic as we should like to be, we cannot entertain but the Mexican conception of fortunate. These Central Ameri- The management, I hear, will J. Parke (-200) defeated W. Hill with every popular outbreak, any great hopes of such a reconciliation in the near future. Things hamanitarianism. In other days can reformers might therefore start to build bungalows there (-125) 250-177, Highest break: would be a choice of evils. M have become more rather than less complicated, and there seems the fraternity of scribes were ao contend that, in preference to the very soon. Already the applics. Parke 28, 20, 17 and 16: Hill 16. Shaw is in exactly the opposite to be no end to the wrangling and warring which have broken out strangers to penury a condition old starvation method, they pro-tions from local residenta are Only one game will be played position. He must have disliked every government under which m afresh in the Soalb. These are hard days for China, and for the of things now happily remedied pose to put the victims out of more than the Hotel people will to-night, commencing at 9P has lived, but I cannot imagine * South in particular. Where all the distraction and plotting will in relation to the British Press. their misery with merciful be able to handle even when all between D. Urquhart (-100) and T. revolution he would not dunge end we should not care to say. We had bester be like the Cantonese Perhaps our Merican con-despatch.
P. Cano (-150).
more than any of them t hope for the best, but fear the worst.
a
stille popular opinion by the mere closing down of the Presa.
The trouble in Canton is that clique is still working against clique, and that there is small promise of united action from any quarter. Even the Cantonese, much as they object to. Kwangsi Fulé, do not seam able to compose their differences and concentrate on co-operative lines in choosing the officials they want. Недо- time, not only are there two men professing to hold the position of Reform and Reformers. Military Governor. bat the whole administrative machinery is
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from their
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the bungalows are ready..
BILLIARDS.