THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY; JANUARY 11; 1921.
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DISARMAMENT.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
TREBLE THE FOROR-Sterne.
CURRENT COIN.
(By "Mercator.")
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Rare Ben Jonson-rare, indeed,
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The Vanderlip Concession. WE LOSE THE RIGHT OF COM-
(By "Ajax.") Mr. Washington Vanderlip, the|PLAINING SOMETIMES BY FOR-
A great deal of intarest has There is very little real material gentleman who has returned to BEARING IT, BUT WE OFTEN been aroused by the prohibition, upon which to hang this week's on the modern stage-will hava America with a tale of huge
for sometima past, against vessels article. There is a slightly better an opportunity of testing his wit
and wisdom on A Siberian concessions granted him
carrying emigrants to Havana. Į feeling in the markets, and every- by the Soviet Government, has H. E. the Governor is to dis-The Chinese engaged in the body seems to imagine that after century audience abandoned the ides of proceeding tribute
The of recruiting
**Phoenix," these the Chinese New Year things will the prizes at Queen's business to Washington for the purpose of College on February 2nd at 11 am. coolies have been pulled to begin to look up in the financial society which pulls old plays out arging the Government to open
know why the Secretary for world of Hongkong. Of course, of the dust of oblivion, proposes tradb with Russia. This is inter-
Chinese Affairs has been with no one can say with accuracy to stage the great dramatist's The officers of H.M.S. Titanislding his sanction to chartered when trade will improre, but it "Bartholomew Fair" preted as being due to a belief. that owing to his auri-Wilsonian and other was vessels are holding boats carrying Chinese emigrants must be conceded that we have "Volpone." The latter was first utterances in Busais there is little naval ball at the Hongsong to Cuba, although in reality some practically touched bottom in the acted as the Globe. Jonson hope of his programme being! Hotel to-night.
of the large shipping companiessbyss of trado depression. performed in some of his own carried
are to-day carrying the seemig-Nevertheless, there are many plays, and off the stage enacted present Government, though Mr.
During the 48 hours ended yes-rants to Vancouver and San Fran-passiraists in our midst who think a tragedy which nearly cost him Vanderlip has denied the report tenday there were notined three sisco and from there to Cubs. The that worse times are ahead of the his life, through killing a fellow. that during his sojourn he entered non-fatal cases of enteric lever Imperial Act of 1880 contains a merchants, but I personally do actor in a duel, abusive remarks against President two British and one American.
clause which seems to have been not think so. Trade prospects Wilson. Another rea-on may ba
wrongly interpreted by
the for
this yest AT by no One reason for the slump in found in the Republican Party's].
Secretary for Chinese Aairs A Chinese girl was injured in and the Colonial Office has been means rosy, but there is no the price of testher, and can- reputation for friendliness, or
пель reason why during the aver-friendliness, as its opponents a motor accident at Percival | asked to explain the real position. few months
not sequently of boots and gloves. should wa way to "big business,” and Streek Wanchai yesterday. She The reply is expected very soon, witness a trade revival in this writes a correspondent in a home Senator Harding takes office in a was not detained in Hospital. and it is believed that when it Colony. It must not be forgotten journal, may be found in the does come unrestricted emigra- that the consuming countries rowing quantity of fish skins treat the concession as a white
Major General Sir George tion to Cuba will be allowed, cannot be out of the local market, which are being tanned. Por- elephant, and it was "turned
Kirkpatrick, K. C. B, K.Cs.. Strange to say, although the for however large their storks Paise leather laces have been blown when previously offers has moved into Headquarters Authorities here been trying to have been these must have by favourably know for years but
to the eminent shipowner, Captain Robert Dollar, though one of his House from the Hongkong Hotel stop emigrants being carried in this time almost been diminished it is only recently that the skin chartered vessels this has proved to a point when they will have to of shark and dogñsh have been coaljutors was favourably im-
ineffective. There is the case of be replenished. Again, all com successfully adapted for eam- [pressed with The enterprise. Messy, Andersen, Meyer and the ss. Wallowa which picked modities cannot remain in good mercial purposes. From & 500lb. When questioned regarding Co. send us an effective wall up the emigrants at Macao, and condition for an indefinte period.shark it is possible to obtain 10 Lenin's alleged motive in grants calendar advertising Dutch Bay is now reported to have delivered There is peanu: oil and others square feet of leather from the |ħide, suitable for boots and shoes 185 the
Het White Lead, for which they are her human cargo safely concession-10
which grow rancid and namar- [America and Japan by the ears; agents.
Havana, although it was expected ketable if stored for a long while the stomach yields a skin [as a big step towards world-wide
that as the Cuben Consul time.
strong and soft, not unlike kid. Shark-hunting is now proditacly collision between the "bourgeois" | The bamboo constructors Hongkong had not is the
followed in Southern waters by Governments-Mr. Vanderlip die strike has ended with an increase passports of the emigrants, the credited the report, or else it was of 35 per cent, being conceded to latter will not be allowed to land Great Britain and the United several companies. he discredited the possibility of the men.
But the question States have been in the throes of This is the biggest at Havana. Lenin accomplishing this Mar-increase hitherto 'given for any arises: 1 at the part of ema financial crisis and Reuter chiavellian policy. The "bourg-class of labour in Hongkong.
The engineer Makhonin, who, barkation there is no authorised during the past few weeks has leois" Governments cunnet.com.
Consul, is it necessary for the been giving us a pictire of depres according to a Bolshevik repor plain that they have not been!
vessel to return to sport that bassion which is almost unparalled. has elaborated a project
the construction of an airship forewarned of the Bolshevist
the case of the Wallowra there Home Country and in the United of 950 tons, will certainly have one to is the passports? In How can manufacturers in the,
with a freight carrying capacity dictator's fell intent!
was no Cuban Consul at Macao,|States of America imagine that Sith, former Second Magistrate.
and hence the vessel proceeded orders are likely to come to them something of which to be proud if bis Joviathan materialises. on her way to Havans. There is at the current rates of exchanges Being so airship, it will depend has been transferred to the
no doubt that the charterer has abros1? A purchaser would pro- on gas to rise from the earth and The Vienna Na Prage Page | Imports and Exports Office..
succeeded in getting the better ofbably have to pay three times as remain in the air, and it needs presents this unexpected. tes-
the Chinese Secretariat. The much at pre-war rates for 22 35,000 cubic feet of bydrogen, the timony to the British genius for
A fisherman was injured in a whole thing strikes me as very article he needs.
A home paper politics: "There is no doubt that motor accident next the Taipo anomalous.
If certain shipping not
very long ago tabulated lightest of all gases, to lift a top A really great politician does not Market yesterday. Mr. d'Almada companies
Adding 40 tons to the 960 tons of cannot be stopped what
lis: Di countries need special training. He draws Remedios, who was the driver, from
freight for the weight of the carrying emigrants to would have to pay for on his genius. Cavour and Dis-paid the victim compensation, Havana how can the authorities
framework, engines and crew-L gas engine, for instance, com- raeli were born leaders.
fery moderate estimate--" En- But which apparently gave satisfac- justly stop the small ones? what of the thousands who aretion, for the man refused to go to
pared to the prize prevailing at neither Disraelis nor Cavours. Hospital.
the beginning of the war. Hong-gineer Makhonins" airship will have to be capable of lifting a It is the Government's duty to kong, for instance, would pay clear 1.000 tons, which means and who may be elected, but are
see that emigrants are not decole-13.9 times more at to-day's ex-
Paradise for the2.4 times.
Compliments From
Vienna,
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Mr. R. E. Lindsell, on his re- turn from leave, this morning resume his seat on the bench in the Second Court.
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no: called to direct the affairs of A Mock of stone fastened in aed by agents into believing that change, Shanghai 5.2 times. Endi that the gas containers will have
state? It is one of the oddities
England.
mora
a total capacity of 32,000,000 Japan 5 times cubic feet. An airship of that
of the Central Powers that with sling dropped on to the leg of ore Cuba is a all their schools they never had a of the coolies who was carrying labourer, and it can with truth France 6.5 times. Germany 35.9 size would be 16 times as big as school for polities. Nor has to a new building in town be said that this is just what they times, and Italy 11.2 times.
But England is some yesterday. The leg was badly are now trying to do. Conditions Moreover, manufacturers them. the biggest that has yet been coa- stracted. What a target for |how the home of parliamentarians crushed, the sufferer being obliged present in that country are so selves are faced in several trades anti-aircraft guns! Whilst the important question of intemational disarmament!
las! when
a man leaves and proceed to the Government bad that thousands of Chinese with the need of taying raw mate- seems to be engaging the attention of the whole political world in English university he is more or Civil Hospital for treatment. who have emigrated there are rial at considerably over ceat per than it is 10% general, American public opinion has been considerably roused inj
¦less skilled in politics, though he!
without employment, and the cent
The Secretary of State for the the matter owing to a conference between the President-Elec: Mr.
return Secretary of the Chinese Cham-selling for in the open market, for Cologies bas been approached by Harding, and Mr. Butler, Chairman of the Naval Committee of the may have taken a purely classical Last week's health "House of Representatives, And it is of more than passing interest Course Perhaps many Britishers shows two cases of enteric (one ber of Commerce at Harans has they stipulated to purchase it at the Government of Malts in con- nection with S proposal to that Americs should be giving close attention to this question, for the would feel dubious over this sur- British and one Chinese), one wired to Hongkong asking the the price, thinking that the mar
compliment from the imported
of diphtheria Chinese leaders to caution all ket would be sustained. Expect establish a shipbuilding industry decision of the American nation in regard to naval armaments will rising make a very big difference to the general international trend of country of Metternich-not over Chinese) and one case of paraty those who expect to find employ-ations had not come true, and all on the island. Some time 870 re- Orr of the ment in Cuba that the economic these precipitated the crisis that presentations were made to lead- But opinion is every hit as divered there as it is elsewhere, sincerity. Aus as to whether is phoid (Indian).
The same jenteric cases was fatal, as was crisis in the country is likely to the manufacturers and merchantsing British shipping companies at Home and in the United whose vessels call at Malta, and We find that a Mr. Britten, of the Naval Committee, has introduced together merited.
There were last for a long time.
States are at pressnt going one company sent out to the a resolution directing the Navy Department to proceed with thermal hands as qually unexpect the diphtheria case. building programe immediately. His viewpoint is that the United bouquet to our Ally when itre Chinese deaths from in-
through.
island an engineer to report 03 States is not willing to commit its economic and political independ that one of the wisest moves fluenza
France ever made was to establish
the prospects of establishing ence to the fetters of an international treaty limiting armament
building or repairing yards for merchant ships. Though deciding On the other hand we learn that the Daily Telegraph's correspondent
events.
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A number of new buildings ATR at present going up in the Colony In connection with the disco- and a mumber of old ones being All the produce markets dur at Washington thanks there is a national movement in favor ofte so nobly opened by Taine. very at Lower Albert Road of the pulled down for bigger and more-ling the past year experienced that is could not undertake the
This institution, we believe, was remains of a Chinese women up-to-date ones to meet the serious slumps. For instance,at the reduced armaments, which s gathering force throughout the
scheme itself, the founded in consequence of the whose appearance indicated that needs of this growing Colony beginning of last year rice (Saigon suggested that the existing naval country. He says there is a popular expectation that Senate Franco-Prussian, war, and it is she had met her death bystrangu Messra. David Sassoon and Co. long No. 1) was quoted at about docks might be utilised for build- tirding will call an international conference to discuss the question ported that since her overthrow lation a Chinese was this morning must be congratulated on their $13.80 a picul, although this was ing purposes. This proposal was of armament limitation. Later we learn that until a world binding Germany in turn has set to work, charged before Mr.
reached the policy of the supply the defect mentioned Lintell
R. E decision to pulldown the structure not the highest point it had touch- submitted to disarmement agreement has brea
the Admiralty continue the fees building cay the Vienna organ.
Sub-Inspector that extende in Ice House Street ed. It dropped steadily until incoming Aministration will be to the programme already in hand.
A similar Appleton with murder, and re-up to the American Express to-day it is being offered for $5 and the Colonial Office, togather Mr. Butler has, nevertheless, movement has been started in manded for a
with an alternative proposition week, on the building and in its stead to con-apicul. There was a big volume that the Admiralty should extend recommended Mr. Harding to canvass word sentiment and seek an England-proof that the Viengese application of the prosecution.
struct a palatial six-storey build-of business put through at the its operations in the island to the exchange of international opiman.
to British politicians
ing for shops and offices. This is beginning of last year principally constraction and repair of mor- The issue is so important that it is to be hoped that wisel
being horn does not prevail connsels will prevail among the three great maritime nations of the among our modest selves.
a very wise move, and should for Cubs, and when the Cuban cantile vessels. The Admiralty As indicated as a possibility in add to the dignity of this part of debacle arose sometime in June came to the conclusion that it world. Britain. America and Japan can well utford to show their
yesterday's report, the alleged
the business quarter of Hoogkong.and bills began coming back cards on the table in the hope that revealed honests of intention Scotia's Blushing Brides.
robbery of 100 pounds of
could not sanction either pro- will promote the saving of millions of money. There is scarcely a
dynamite by two men from the In fact, the space occupied by dishonoured the rates began to post. The Government of the nation in the world that is not spending far more than it can really There are several interesting junk in which it was carried, has some of the broking fitus could slop,
island has therefore appealed to the annual Scottish teen proved to be falam.
accommodating afford on its own "defence." That is a sad commentary on the lessons items
Lord Milner for advice as to how of the late war-ut rather, a sad commentary on the way we have matrimonial statistics. We do junkmaster, from motives of his Banks. It is the ideal banking
The As regards peanut oil the its object may be attained. interpreted them. The war that was to end war" has left behind not meet with a companion case own, cooked up
the story toquarter, and with so many Banke
local official view is that the desirous of opening branches in market throughout last year was it a legacy of keen international rivalry. There can be little question to the one lately reported from account for the disappearance of this Colony, it is hoped that the in a bad way. The new crop is importance of Malta as a port of
3 school that such rivalry has its oirth in the competitive commercialism of New York, where the age-a compactive activity that has brought with is envy and inspector in quest of a 14-war-old squares which belonged to ground floor of the new building now coming. From April last call would zender the establish- that will go up will be set aside year there was not much buying not only bighly beneficial to mont of a shipbuilding industry distrust. The aim of the world should be to confine such competi-girl pupil discovered that the
for such institutions. It has by the United States owing to labour conditions on the island, tion to peaceful spheres, though the whole system is one in which it absentee had married, but there
"In for a penny, in for a always struck me as remarkable the failures in that country. I but a great success commerci is almost impossible to avoid risks of conflicting interests breeding are two cases of brides but a a desire for a trial of strength. We first have to learn the lesson year older, while there were fifty pound" would not appear to fit how wrongly ground floors of February the price of peanut oil
ally. the case of a shroff employ-some of our mercantile buildings was $28.50 a picul and from then that wars do not pay; that money spent un armaments is money loss one confessing to the mature ed by the Cheung Tak firms of are utilised. For instance, there it dropped steadily. In Jane it wasted-diverted from constructive to destructive ends. The be- age of sixteen years. When we lief that big armaments are necessary is based on fear; if the fear come to sweet seventeen we find exporters, of No. 169, Queen's is no earthly reason why shipping was $23, in September $21, and, be removed then the belief will disappear also. How best to remove that the blushing brides totalled od Wes who is cow wanted companies should not be content at present, the rate is $19. The place. The omens cannot yet be that fear is the problem facing international statesmen. We see in over 300, and altogether there the Police on a charge of at being housed on the first floors United Statee purchased very read as propitious. The Indian embezzlement. The accountant of buildings, instead of the heavily at the beginning of last Bazaars will probably be littla the League of Nations an attempt being made towards achieving were 3,237 still in their tens.
inclined to buy until the effects that much-to-be-desired end, but until all the great nations are By way of levelling up the aver- of the firm entrusted that shrof ground. Then there are other year.
power of attorney businesses that really have no
of the poor mansoon are dissipated. members of that League there can be little hope of achieving age in Scotland, a lady of 12 enter- to draw from the Chartered claim on ground floors. There is
No vigour in the Chios export rauch. It is scarcely up to any one particular nation to take the ed into the sacred tie. This ago is first lead in disarmament; it is rather up to all the nations to find a nothing to speak of in these days faithfully carried out his instruc-floors of buildings in the coat-been again
of $6,000. He too mueb scramble for the ground
Exchange during the week has trade can be anticipated until erratic. Messrs.world stocks of Eastern and other when one reads of octogenariso
ladies. tions, but with the money in his mercial quarter of the Colony, and Montagu and Co., in one of their goods depleted to such When Mr. Britten says that "the United States is not willing to and even nonagenarian
extent that import mar commit its economic and political independence to the fetters of an tripping up to the Hymeneal altar, hand, the desire came to him of many shops have been forced, in weekly letters just to hand, say,
can buy with reason- international treaty he can scarcely have realised that without but in most cases the vener Ppropriating is to his own use, view of the fact that a great deal In our letters daring the latter chants some agreement he is going to commit the peoples of the various able brides have had main to be appeased, and, compromis occupied by firms that should not outook of the market after the prices does not depend upon A trouble some conscience had of the ground floor space is half of June, referring to the able hope of profit. The trend of nations to the fetters of indiscriminate spending that will assuredly ical experience, while the septua bring war in its train. The money needed for social reconstruction genarian consort has embarked by sending $2,000 back to his be there, to go into the Chinese price of silver fell to 444. on the sentiment-nor to any very best will be mortgaged for purposes of international disruption. There upon the venture for the first employers, he kept the remainder part of the town. Of course, the 15th, of that month, we emphasis-extent, upon the Fittmanet sur-mischief has been done, but surely ad how precarious the future which simply lessens the pressure is only one way out of the present difficulty and that is one invol time. Only the other day a
it is not late for the landlords of must be whilst China remained of supplies; it must be decided by ing a common agreement. Mr. Batler has recommended Senator Chinese member of the Colony reptitious holiday.
the Colony to co-operate and see the only absorber of the the balance of trade with silver Harding to canvass world sentiment aad we cannot help thinking was telling us that he would sanction the marriage
that ground floor accommodation metal. Exchange speculation in using countries. If it be in their that the easiest way of doing that is for an American representative not
to rally favour, then confidence will to have a seat on the Disarmament Committee of the League of of his 18-year-old daughter ten thousand on the pravions in new buildings, when completed. that country assisted
and maintain Are year. At this rate it is just as aboald only go to shops and Bank the price Nations. The Covenant of the League of Nations sets up the whole for another two years.
It return to the silver market. In 52d. for some this connection the possibility of the machinery that is necessary to bring about disarmament; all East and West changing about? well that the Registrar is only and other institutions that depend round about
loan by the Chinese that is now wanted is the co-operation of every nation to make that The aggregate of marriages able to record one instance of upon their existence by being mouths, but the inevitable bas of & machinery affective. The day is one of undoubted opportunity; the beyond the Tweed amounted to quadruplets during the twelve-housed on the bottom floor. It is a happened since, and a heavy Consortium must not be overlock-
44,137, being an increase of pearly month,
matter worthy of close attention. retrograde movement has taken ed. Will that opportunity be taken?" query is
common starting point.
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Bank the sum
for himself, to enjoy
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