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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920.
BOLSHEVISM IN THE ORIENT.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Customs Squabble.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
DAY BÍ DẠY
MOST FAILURES. LIE IN NOT The possibility of Canton and GOING ON LONG ENOUGH.-Jus
Smetham, other Southern ports acquiring a duty-free status is foreshadowed in a report which we published. Once again there was a clean yesterday. It is not on economic bill of health in the Colony grounds that this step lasuggested, yesterday. but merely in-order-to-prevent | the Peking Government securing
as well.
of $60,000.
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presence
ROSEMARY AND RUE.
(By "Tony.")
BENEVOLENCE.
JUBILEE ROAD.
Temporarily Closed to Traffic.
TO-DAYS MISCELLANY.
Mr. George R. Bims, who sent We are requested by the Traffic rhymed apology for absence A report by cable states that Inspector to state that Victoria from the Optimist Club annuals my Lord Inchoape, in discussing Road (commonly known as Jubilee dinner the other night, scored. steamer fares as a P. & O, meet Road) will be closed to traffle from better than Mr. George Bernard ing in London, "said they were the 17th instant, between the Shaw on one occasion. Eady carrying passengers below cost hours of 7 am and 4p.m-daily, Randolph Churchill had invitad: z By the shade of Washington, until further notice.
him to lunch, and "G.-B. 8. row. does he include in his estimate The reason for this is that plied by wire to the following the purchase of the steamer they new road from Pokfulum Road to effect Certainly not! What travel by 1
Victoria Road is being made, and have I done to provoke such ang "WHAT THE EYE DON'T SEE."
big blasting operations will take attack on my well-known habit ??. A contemporary, in a leading place in connection therewith. To which her Ladyship promptly. article the other day, attacked the Notice boards indicating the clos replied: Know nothing of your private hotels for their high ing of the road will be displayed. habits. Hope they are not as
bad as your manners.
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And
what is more,
THE HOME MAIL.:
There is no question of blame in the present alteration.
And the tender sentiments that
they fool.
For they're in the grip of the
social crowd': Haughty, arrogant, foolishly
proud.
It. in just 30 years ago since Heligoland was banded over by Great Britain to Germany. Un- der the British flag it was a quiet
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2 widow
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year later. She herself died in exile, a fate shared by two of her daughters who married minor European royalties.
the Southern portion of the By the Andre Lebon there Customs collections. Here it may arrived yesterday Sir Paul Chater be well to explain that the Paking and Mr. C. S. Gubbay. Government handles the Customs revenue from the whole country, Canton included, and that until has been sold to a Chinese re The old Lusitano Club building recently the South had a propor-sident at a price, we understand, tion thereof remitted back for
tariffs among other things. From its use. Now, however, Pek-
that it drifted easily to a com- ing koeps the lot, and
parison of the price of eggs in is this circumstance Amongst those returning by Hongkong and other countries, which has given rise to the idea tho Andre Lebon yesterday wore lauding the Chinese egg on that the South should contribute Mrs. T. W. Robertson and daugh-account of its cheapness. But it Altered Date of Arrival, no part of the revenues utilised tor, and Mr. J. Knoth.
did not stay to consider the We have to revert to the ques- summer resort, inhabited mainly by the North, by the simpla
comparison of sizes. Any self-tion of a Home mail again, be- by fishermen. The Fatherland process of ceasing to impose, or
respecting American or Austra cause of a fresh announcement spent rather more than 120,000,- The opening coramony of the lian hen would tuck its head on the part of the Post Office, 000 marks in fortifying it, and is collect any Customs duties whatever. That would create a Chinese Medical Association of under its wing in very shame Yesterday it was announced that now spending nearly 500,000 A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. would obviously have to be the Taiping Theatro, West Point-
most unusual situation, and one Hongkong takes place to-day at to be the creator of such the next Home mail would be marks a week in demolishing, miserable little article arriving by the a.. Kuight Tem- under the terms of the Treaty of taken note of by foreign nations
Wplar on December 17, but this Versailles, the tremendous forti in more respects than one. It is The Hongkong Mercantile would cheerfully pay the price morning's mail notices in the fcations which were built there. of interest to mention, in this Company, which suffered heavy for a good breakfast egg that we newspapers showed that the s.a. Fourteen hundred workmen are complaint against the North-so the rice-market and exchange, is For we never know in China-The explanation is that the belonged to Great Britain, a Bres connection, that if the South has a tossee recently over the fall in could attack with vigour and Hon Wan I would be bringing engaged in the work. Eighty-
without the customary shudder. the mail on December 20. for ag the Customs revenues announced as being in voluntary what the hens have eaton to pass Singapore postal
one years ago, when the land aro concerned. Peking has liquidation,
authorities lau professor, Hoffmann von a grievance against Canton in
on to us for breakfast.
advised the local offion that the Fallersleben, lived in a little villa All communications intended for publication should be address-regard to the Salt Gaballe collec
CRITIQUE.
Knight Templar would be bring there, a political exhile from bie ad to the Editor.
tion. The South retains for its A. Japanese from Honolulu Sketches, oils, water colours. ing the mail and later a further country end it was in that house. own use, after paying running who was arrested by a lukong at miniatures decorated the walls of cable was received giving the that he wrote " Deutschland ueber The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is 836"xpenses, the whole of the salt Wanchai with 316 taels of non- the City Hall. Colours, violent name of the Hon Wan I. The Mitche
revenues it collects, whereas the Government prepared opium on or subdued, according to the fancy Hongkong Postmaster General per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
North pays the foreign obligations his person, was this morning of the artist, mat one's eye in a rict then cabled Singapore for clearer not only in reapest of its own sentenced to a fine of $260, with of paint. Every imaginable kind instructions, and a reply has been A life of tragedy closed at incomings but also for the South the corresponding option of im- of drawing was hung there, good, received showing that the Knight Zurich with the passing of the That is a point that prisonment, in spite of his excuse bad and indifferent. An occasional Templar has on board the mail for Grand Duchess Marie Alexand. should not be lost sight of when that he was given the opium to picture stood out from among China and also newspapers for rovna of Russia, born is 1853, Canton talks of getting its own bring into the Colony by a friend its companions in its fine execu Hongkong, and that the Hon the married Prince Alfred, the back on Peking. Of course, the at Honolulu.
tion and naturalness, both in Wan I has the latter mail for second son of Queen Victoris, in whole business is a hopelana
colour and perspective. Others this Colony.
1874. He was then Duke of muidle, and it won't be straighton-
and Hongkong letters are den! | Edinburgh
afterwards ed out until a complete under-sion of appropriating the iron goggle and frown in an endeavour to
Two thieves engaged on a mis- there were that caused one to
Singapore in Singapore succeeded his uncle as Duke of standing is reached between the chains used for mooring lighters to pick out the least bit of merit; mail bags and they are there Saxe Coburg and Gotha. The Northern and Southern factions alongside Holt's wharf were yes- while some monstrous daubs gave sorted and sont on here, this Duchess's father. Tsar Alexander Alternating Tones.
terday faced with a difficult pro- one the impression that the artist procedure being adopted in order II, was assassinated in 1881, her position. To steal the heavy had attacked the canvas in that Hongkong letters shall get brother Sorge was assassinated During the Election ordeal chains and conceal them round frenzy of indiscriminate paint the benefit of the mail train in 1905, her brother Paul died at Senator Harding had plenty of their waists was a difficult task, splashing, and no matter at what that runs from Penang to the hands of the Bolsheviks in practice in trimming his sails to but to escape the vigilance of a angle or distance one surveyed Singapore. In the present instance 1919, and Nicholas II., her meet the breezes and squalls of sharp eyed watchman and a the effort the effect was the same. the Knight Templar has brought nephew, was murdered in 1918. faction. Whatever is the opinion tallyman was more difficult One in particular left one in a the newspaper mail direct from Allred, the only son of the of the United States as a whole matter still In this they failed, maze of indecision as to whether Bombay and the Hon Wan I is marriage, died in 1899, and the in regard to the League of and were arrested. One of them it was intended to be a firework carrying on the letter mail from Duchess became Nations, the body of opinion in had sufficient
of display or an intensely rich plum Singapore. its favour was obviously too mind to drop the chain pudding studded with yellow large to be flatly ignored, so the he
the stole into
harbour, raisins. Republican candidate supported but the other
Horo and there love of a was caught the League on conditions, where- with the other chain on him. picture held the eye like a gem The question of a possible spread of Bolshevik ideas in the East at Senator Borah, frowning dark- Both men were brought before in a bootshop; and it compensat-
A good deal of surface mining s one of supreme muportance in the prosent unsettled state of the ly, retired sulkily to his tent. Mr. G. N. Orme at the Magistracyed largely for those that must be world. It is common knowledge that the promont political leaders This Achillean stunt had its this morning, when Mr. D. J. classed as crude, and labelled,
is taking place in and around in Russia sot much store on the propagation of their doctrines effect, for after the Republican Lewis intimated that he would like the manuscript of the young
Sheffield, and near Sky Edge, on throughout Asia, and much has been heard of bats of the movements candidate had declared his in-conduct the case for the prosecu- and aspiring dramatist, N. G."
the east side of the city, miners of their emissaries in this part of the world. There have been difference to the Borah posture, tion. Evidence was heard, as a However, as it takes all kinds
have come across a long passage. Tradition has it that when Mary numerous reports of semi-utlicial overtures to China, the view being he evidently changed his mind result of which the Grat prisoner, of people to make a world, so
Queen of Scots was a prisoner at held in some quarters that even the recent developments in the about offending such an import against whom a previous con-toes it take a variety of pictures South have not been entirely dissociated from Russian influence. ant" boss," and pirouetted around viction was proved, was sent to make an exhibition. Credit is
its Sheffield Castle, a subterranean We know as a fuet that Bolshevism has played an important part the League question. Then, after enced to three
passage ran from the Castle to the months' hard due to those who gained approv
Manor House, Many passages in the recent unrest in Persia and Mesopotamia, whilst in India and election, he declared that his labour and four hours' stocks. al and to those who braved the
have been discovered from time to Afghanistan there has been ample evidence of Bolshevik intrigue, bumping majority denoted that His accomplice was got off more critice (and quite right too) in
time, but the latest find is one of One thing is certain, na něly, that the East to-day is in a state the American people would have cheaply, a sentence of only six order to make the Exhibition of anrest and disturbance, in some places more pronounced than in no dealings with the Loague, but weeks' being inflicted.
Ithe most interesting. Men were possible:
ROMANCE. others, but fairly general none the less. Even where there is no wore well disposed towards an
digging on the edge of Barnsley actual forment apparent, indications are not wanting of restlessnosa Association of Nations. The
Romance is coming to Hong- There is an old conservative seam, when they made the dis- kong. Not Not the kind which idea that to perpetuate & memory with the route the secret way to covery. The passage is in line beneath the surface. And according to one writer, Sirdar Ikimal Ali Prosident-elect is now giving Shah, one country and one doctrine are mainly responsible for this an exhibition of the all-things-ity," the provisions attaching to induces you to think in terms of is to erect a statue. If a man has the Manor House was supposed state of affairs that country is Russia, and that doctrine is Bul-to-all-men oratory to the League of Nations do not love and passion, for it is already become famous, mae an effigy of
盘 Blovism." Commenting on rodent kappenings, this writer says that still wider audience, for call for such sacrifice in the here; but a play, the one that him. It is all wrong. Nobody cares to take, and Mr. J. Rydor, the the British people are not naturally suspicious, or they might have when he speaks of American rational sense of the term, but added lustre to the reputation of much for monuments. Nelson's Sheffield coilier artist, who ban evinced surprise at the lact that the arrival of M. Krassin in London supremacy he is addressing the for unison.`
Doris Keene. And so you may, monument is not noticed one made a study of local history, is some months ago coincided with the first Bolshevik landing in world. In a speech the other
perchance, take a seat at the whit as much as the Hotel Cecil. of opinion that this is part of the Persia. That that move was intended to provide the Soviet envoy day be intimated that his policy
Theatre on Christmas Day and Its plinth was only written of and passage of Queen Mary's days. the lose yourself in the romance of illustrated in the Press because it The sides are formed of well- It was explored for about 40 yards. with a strong argument to indues Great Britain to agree to Lenin's was to "make the United States The figures relative to terms, in the hope of the withdrawal of what constituted a grave the greatest maritime Power," economic recovery of France that fiction. Cynics incline to the belief became a platform for War
and..
dressed rocks, and the smooth menace to judia, cannot be doubted. The Soviet mission then in Perhaps the President-elect would have lately appeared bear striking that it is seldom seen in real life. speakers
Suffragetted arch roof is about 6ft, high. Bad London added tho'bait of the evacuation of Persia to its promises to answer that he meant com testimony to the recuperative But make no mistake. Romance Cleopatra's Needle survived many quit Polish soil, should an Anglo-Russian understanding be arrived morcially, as he alluded to the powers of our Gallic friends. An there is and. plenty, even in centuries to be erected on the air and coal gas will prevent it at. But if British statesmanship agrees to any such terms on the Mercantile Marine as well as the enormous advance in exports is Hongkong, if you care to delve Thames Embankment and only being properly examined, but strength of the representations made to it by the Soviet envoys, it is Navy--or, likely enough, he recorded, amounting to over 150 beneath its frigid exterior and go passing notice taken of it wtreh local archeologists will probably doomed to disappointment. Facts have proved it. Bolshevik would answer that he meant both. per cent. in terms of value, and the right way to work to find it. German raider dropped a bomb make another attempt later. A. similar passage was discovered activities will continue in Persia, whatever assurances as to their From another speech, delivered to a much higher percentage still All the conceit and suporcilious and chipped ploce out of it. cossut on may be given. The monace to India is obviously a the following day, it is sufficiently in terms of weight, As the ness of those poor mortals living Monuments are all wrong. They when the new Post Office was condition of Soviet territorial and doctrinal extension. The hopes clear that he had the Navy in increase of imports has been on so artificially, cannot stay the seldom aid
being erected, and. that was on memory. A
the same line of route. of Bolshevism are founded not only upon the acceptance of its mind, whatever his intention quite a moderate scale, the hand of Nature. Hence the little pub is far more likely principles in Europe, but upon the conversion of Asia to its peculiar regarding the merchant service, 'balance of trade" has been intrigues and the breath of to revive thoughts of old pala by economic creed, Czarist Russia in its last decades had become a sineo he expressed his desire for improved in a remarkable degree. Romance which occasionally reason of old associations, than a The Bodleian Library, which⚫ great Moslim Power, exercising an Imperial sway over millions of a Navy proportionate to the The achievement is nothing touches those who almost uncon-block of marblo, however simple, has just received a welcome gift Slavonic subjects. Buisheviem, notwithstanding its alleged benefi- country's aspirations." The less than phenomenal, as anybody sciously revolt against the curb- We need to reach the mind of £50,000 from Mr. Walter cent attitude to races formerly subject to Russia, cannot forego the word must have reference, logical- who saw the north-east of France ing of their natural desires. through the living, and to do so Morrison, was originally con advantages or lessen the authority of its predecessors only forly, to political aspirations, seoing after the German onrush in the You watch the strangers pass- we must touch them by human ducted on a very modest scale of economic reasons. Between a constitutional Europe and an Islamic that expansion of armaments spring of 1918 will réalise, whole ing by:
methods. That is why I think expenditure, even, allowing for. Asia its political and economic existence would become impossible, could not well be brought under towns being razed so entirely that
The frosty look and the roving the proposed Memorial is a the great difference in the value Asia represents its line of least resistance, its surest hope. It will the heading of moral aspirations; a stranger could not have credited
failure from the very beginning, of money. When Sir Thomas not withdraw therefrom while it continues to exist,
and the political aspirations of them as the sites of prosperous
yours The idea of a building where men Bodley, in 1601, appointed · Dr. Those words are worth pondering over at the present time, and the United States in the direction communities. The greateet. Bur
may gather together to talk of Thomas James, a Welshman from thoy naturally raise the question as to whether Britain is fully alive of the largest Fleet in the world priso is in the recovery made You wonder why they seem so the great past when men gave up Now College, tó - be... his first to the situation. There are those who hold that if we fail have been freely trumpeted. by the coal-mines after their cold.
their lives for England, will librarian, he stipulated that the to implement our promises to the Governments of the Shah, the With an eye to other countries ruthless destruction. In the With never a friendly smile or render their memories far more salary should be £22, 136, 4d.j Khan of Bokhura, and the Amir of Afghanistan, then we shall not and. the pacifist elements in his days following the cessation of που,
sacred. For so long as tongues and that the librarian must only add then to the list of Oriental peoples who have lost faith in own, Senator Harding couples to hostilities experts gauged that Or the hearty laugh—that gift can tell of past, deeds so long remain unmarried, But in the us, but jeopardise our own position in the East, and lay ourselves this declaration a reference to for years the output of the mines of God.
will the dear dead be following year Dr. James insistad open to the risk of a Bolshevik adventure in India-cortainly of "until the reduction of armaments would be fractional. Although And wond'ring you think as remembered. The minds of those on getting married, and also de Bolshevik conspiracy there. If the eyes of our statesmen are open has been achieved." Again, the nowhere near the pre-war scale, you turn away,
|who have been there will be manded that his stipend should to the true nature of the crisis with which they have to deal, President-elect expresses the hope this industry has already regained Were ever they children; did quickened by Y.MO.A. associa- be incressed to £40,- Bodley disaster may be averted. Otherwise, the spread of revolutionary that an international peace agree-substantial dimensions, thanks ever they play
tions, and those whom circum-permitted him to marry and ideas in the East, and especially in the parts with which we have ment will be concluded-here his largely to the help of Alsace-
stances left behind may hearthings retain his office at the increased closer interests, may continue, with the result that will be apparent eye is still upon the peace party: Lorraine, which provinces, we are
they would otherwise never hope salary, but for 200 years after to everyons of ordinary capacity. Bolshevism is a dangerous but (the optic now vaaring back told by the ex-Minister of Finance,
to bear. True thoughts, would be wards the librariansbly was not doctrine, spread in the most insidious manner by those who want to the Big Fleet supporters) this will soon give France "second
expressed there, that all the allowed to be held by a married to bring about a proletariat dictatorship. It is served up in attractive must he without sacrifice of place amongst the iron and steel
effigies in Statue Square or any man. The special indulgence form for consumption by the labouring classes, to whom its pro- nationality," We confess that producing countries immediately
where else, could never inspire. shown to the first librarian: was mises-of-alnost unlimited leisure and an equal share of the world's we can
make
little of after the United Blates and far -
The finest site 1 To the minds of possibly in some measure du wealth is apt to make a strong appeal. That is where the danger all this but aBorry garry ahead of other European
many the finest sight would be to the ardent zeal which Dr. Jai comes in in the Orient: there is so much ignorance that can be played mandering with words. How is countries." After the war of
see living men in their moments displayed in enrichi of enjoyment memorialise their library with vel upon. So the leading nations of the world have & duty incumbent enormous naval expansion, at a 1870-71 France, the vanquished,
dond friends, who, if they can see some of aw upon them of offsetting theso madeap ideas. It is for them to pro- time too when disarmament is proved her powers of re- is. That being discussed officially, going cuperation; now, as victor, she vida tho corrective of better and saner cultural conceptions. »
(and who knowe), will appreciate to have abati is their rightful mission in these days of almost worldwide restless to help the latter process? With has had a heavier task, and is
this memorial that must lead to Hbrarie regard to !! sacrifice of national- proving equal to Ik / nere and agitation,
thoughts of the pa
ployed to c
France's Recovery,
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eye
That seldom meets straight and bold;
The joyous games that we used
to love; th The playful blow, the vigoares
shove,
And the cries and shouts that
rang aloud 1. Ob, what is wrong with this
joyless crowd ? :- But some of the hearts of the
passars by m
Hold laughter and tears-sor
times a aigh For the sweet, Romance they
must concen
But Romance defies all the
social bands; And here and there with
fairy hands,
It touches the lives of the
fortunate few. What joy is yours If it should
be you!
MEMORIAL.
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