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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921,
TELEGRAPH.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Hongkong Wireless.
The question of providing better wireless facilities for Hongkong has agaia come to the notice of
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
́CENSURE 18 A TAX A MAN PAYS то THE PUBLIO FOR BEING EMINENT.-Swift,
Parliament, though wo fear busi- The passengers who departed néss men will not be encouraged by the 8.8. China to-day included
wishes. Many, many times bas
She
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HARD TIMES BUT NOT
HARD LINES.
(By Robt. MacWhirter.)
(Continued.)
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All the same, the nation neede the force of example to bring about steadiness and seriousness.
COMING EAST.
When ye think of it, isn't it the The Royal Opera Cumpany. purest of irany that we should
have passed through the most Lovers of good music. will sorrowful war in history only to welcome the nows that tho be plunged into AR ocean of Royal Opera Company, which avity? No ono can acquit the comes out under ongegament to The other day I heard of a Government of their share of the Eastern Tours, Limited, will be by the latest official statement to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gorman and fellow, who thought he was blame. Money cannot be poured soon in Hongkong about the hope for an early granding of their Mr. C. S. Gubbay.
smart and a good guesser, in great streams from the middle of the year. This Com- Approaching another the Treasury without causing the pany has been specially selected the need of a high-power station Shareholders of the Hongkong Ferry and after chucklingly circulation of lax ideas. Losing in London, and comes out com- been emphasised, not only by merchants in Hongkong but also and Shanghai Hanking Corpor- accosting him as "MacWhirter," the true standard of money and plete in every detail. It is said commenced to chaff him spending the national currency that a feast of comle opera is reminded that the he by British commercial interests ation are throughout the East. An attempt Bank's meeting takes place to- about having his wings clipped freely, the effect on many minds assured the public, and a glanca has been made, ales, to secure the morrow at noon at the City Hall. wi' the Editorial blue pencil. The was exceedingly doubtful. Those at the personnel shows it to be a metaphor, like a good cock-tail folks believed that the artificial strong one, containing the names use of tho naval installation at
was well mixed but the joke was prosperity would never como to of such well-known English Stonecutters pending the provi Yesterday's health return shows on the other chap all the same an end or adopted a standard of artists as Miss Nora Bird, a well sion of the station asked for, but two cases of cerebro-spiral fever for the real MacWhirter happen- life which cannot be maintained known operatic
soprano, and hore also obstacles have boen (one fatal), one fata! casa ofed at the time to be trying to sell in the days to come. In this Signora Revili, who will play mot with and the idea, ap-diphtheria and non-fatal something to somebody else quite respect the sponding departments" Serpolette" in "Les Cloches do parently, now been abandoned. occurrance of plague. All were some distance away.
of the Government have shown a Coroevillo." Other equally famous According to Mr. Churchill, His Chineno.
It might be "hard lines" on rotten example. It's bad enough artists include Mr. Henry Roy. Excellency the Governor has
MacWhirter to have his garrulity when a man spends his income in nolds, a former member of the not expressed any desire for
An amah employed at No. 2 cut off by half but there's aye two an extravagant manner but whon Beecham Opera Company; Mr. proceeding with the erection of Park Road met with an accident ways of looking at a thing his Government tries to beat him | Maitland Marler, the celebrated a atation separately from that of
the Editor thought at his own game, the country comedian; Mr. Harry Cook, an the Imperial Wireless Committee, at Fraya East yesterday in boing Maybe
that Q columin and bit then turns round the village eccentric dancer. There is also a and it is now intended to await knocked down by a motor car.
the in these days of rising costs was bend and heads down the straight | speciality dancer who comes dir- was transferred to before considering Government Civil Hospital. his views
good enough at ten cents a shot. towards bankruptcy.
ect from the Loudon Coliseum, further steps. What strikes us
I've got to live like everybody First of all the Government The Company, which comprises: most is the leisurely manner in
elao ony how.
must prove to the people that they about forty members, has been in which this question is being Two members of a gang of Τα be perfectly honest are getting value for money wrung active rehearsal in London, under handled. After all, it will be a poultry thieves who have been therefore the jibe
hasna out in taxation or raised by ex- the personal supervision of Mr. long time before this Imperial giving trouble lately were arrest-caused me to lose ony sleep but pensive loans wi' their phenom-T. C. Fairbairn, the impressario wireless chain ia laid down; and co by detectives at the Ping On it just shows that while se can onally bigh rate of interest. and producer, who produced Sir the matter is one of urgency, wharf yesterday, and to-day they always depend on the enmity of Pronto the Government must Thomas Beecham's famous oper- WILKINSON.At Government Civil Maternity Hospital on The Home Government will in were sentenced to four weeks your enemies there are times jettison the policy of "dolen". as, Mr. Fairbairn comes with this question as in others no doubt hand labour and four hours' when ye cannot oye depend on Millions of money have been the Company for the production 24th inst., the wife of Mr. W. R. Wilkinson, a son.
be influenced by His Excellency's stocks.
tho friendship of your friends.
paid over to men for going to of their extensive repertoirs of views, but we wish to emphasise
Well, as I was saying, what are sign their names thrice a week world-famed comic operas, which that the opinions of commercial Messrs, Lazarus, the well. wo going to do
about the at Employment Exchanges. How include "Les Clochos de Corne- wen should be given equal if not known firm of opticians, aro re- Hard Times? After all the public money can be wasted ville,' Dorothy, La Mascotte," greater weight. They know the
nothing very 10 on unemployment benefit was "La Monte," "Rip Van Winkle," moving to No. 12, Queen's Road, there's necessities better than anybody until recently occupied by Pathe sterious about the matter. He shown by the evidence given by Tom Jones," La Cigale," So we trust that in any recom- Freres, and next door to the who runs must needs gear down one of the murderers in the "Erminie," and others. meridations which His Excellency
The slow enough to read the economic Eastbourne trial. On the day of THE H. B. WARING COMPANY.-. Colonial Dispensary. makes he will give car to those business of Messrs. Lazarus has facts. The nation which first sets the crime he had just drawn 298. Very shortly now the H. B. whose views should count most. rapidly extended; and in their out to lend the simple life will at the Labour Bureau and he Waring Company, will be coming it in in a few hours to China, having been touring new commodious premises they come first out of the moss. If blow Service Pay Grievance.
raal dyod-in-the-wool On Government pay anticipate making improvements were
days India and the F.M.S. for over a would have bere used he fancied Abdullah cigarettes voar. Mr. Austen Chamberlain has in order to satisfy the increasing stylist
During this time they To students of polities, if not to the general public, there is confirmed the recent announce-demands of their large clientele. the words "fice of adversity." It's which few working mon can have got together a remarkable something curious about the retention by Germany of the term mant that Service men in the Far
the newspaper way of putting it, afford; he had several drinks repertoire of plays, including but by the Hokey Fly it sounds which several barmaids helped some of the latest London suc "Imperial" after changing the form of her pulity to that of a
East will be required to pay Our pictorial page to-morrow much too like pulpit talk for my him to put away; he paid 69. for cesses and one or two of the old republic. In themselves forms are of no great account; it is the Income Tax an concessions grant will contain a number of interest-taste. The expression age makes two seats at the Hippodrome and favourites. At the present time Spirit that matters. Poland, in the old days before the partition, ed last year owing to the high ing local groups, these including me think of poor old Shadrach with several visits to his favour- they are playing for the third exemplified a variation of the German position by having a king price of silver. He asserts that at the head of a sort of republic called an elective monarchy, Careta is payable on the bonuses photographs taken at the wedd-and his fellow firemen, in their ito howf, the end of a perfect time in Calcutta, where they are the face of things, the recent colebration of the jubilee of the found of all Service man. including H.honison, of Mr. F. C. Clomo Wonderful men, these Jowe, when
ings of Mr. C. C. Brooks and Mise asbestos suits, way back in Daniel. day saw him cleaned out.
reported to have met with great After the Armistice, a whole ation of the German Empire scarcely suggests a change in Teutonic those in India and China.
success. On their open-night raft of magnificent Reconstruc- they played "The Witness for
wero I've nyo maintained that there'stion schemes antagonistic in the manifesto issued by President Ebert, the fuller cally stated, the presumption is
let loose Defence," the well-known Anglo- details of which are worth glancing at having regard to the to- that this decision is to be made groups of the Hongkong and stomachs and our brains than very super-grandiose Government. which one somehow always con
well as moro guerite Morletto; as
connection between our by grandiose departments of Indian play by A. W. Mason, ponding conference fixed to open in London on the first day of next retrospective in its operation, cumbined Hongkong - Shanghai often appears at first sight. May- Unfortunately you cannot re-nects with Miss Ethel Irving, as
which is the principal grievance The anniversary is indeed a day fraught with lessons impressive of those affected by it. There interport (olf Teams; and of be after this winter's over we'll be construct something out ofit was she who first scored Buch due to get our first instalment nothing. If the "dolos" money a tremendous success as Stella for all, of what nationality soever, who place. thor whole faith
of national commonsenso and the had been invested in some of Ballantyne, The Company should in the power of the sword. Not since the domination of Napoleon for
to exercise it these plans we might have had be heartily welcomed to China as overshadowed Europe had the resistless might of arms seemed to
B concession, liable to The first prize in the V. R. C. wherewithal win so signal a triumph. When the King of Prussia, who had Income Tax deductions; hut Sweep on the Dorby, worth over automatically for the rest of our something for our money to-day. it is rarely a really good reper. entered Paris as a boy with the Allies of 1814, assumed the Crown
It is possible to make scores of what is considered alto-$20,000, was won by Mr. C. M. V. generation. It should be leaven- of United Germany in the Hall of Mirrors, the stately palace reared
gether unreasonable is that Ribeira, of the Standard Oil Co. ing the national mind to-day but suggestions how to employ the tory company is seen out here. to his own glory by the Grand Monarque, blood and iron" men should be called upon to who is stated to have had the I'm afraid it isn't. Never mind, workless, but there is no better appeared to have stamped an indelible seat upon the history of yield up a percentage of a bonus ticket in partnership with it'll come. If it doesn't, then it or more profitable expedient Europe. Many still alive remember the whole course of the drama, which must in many cases have Portuguese resident of Canton, means a burst up. If brains don't than to bring back workers, at of which this splendid and most memorable scene appeared to be been long ago spent. That is the but had parted with half the come out on top, then the chances the earliest possible moment, to the final consummation-the drama that began with the advent to thing that rankles. We are in- ticket for one thousand dollars. are that something else will. My the tasks to which they were power of Bismarck, and of which the invasion of Denmark, the war formed that in some instances The first prize in the Hong money's on Brains for win and accustomed. Mon and women Sequel to Gambling Raid, between Prussia and Austria, and the overwhelming defeat of the enforcement of the decision kong Jockey Club Sweep, worth place but there's no uso collecting who gradually lose their trade France were the acts, The means by which the last victory was will mean the paying out of sums over $12,000, was won by Mr. Jony bets till the field's past the skill must be a declining asset to achieved may be briefly recailed. The "destructive sword of the varying from one month's to two Ingham; and the first prize in the post. When it comes home, a the community. A cabinet maker day, believed to be the outcome Hohenzollern, deliberately tempered for years before with this months full pay. What that cash sweep on the course, worth ten-to-one chance in most every who, through the lure of big of a gambling quarrel, a Chinese When all was ready, and when by a series would mean to a Service man $10,906, was won by a Chinese thing does make an awful mess money, turne docker may for a was assaulted with a knife and of perfidies the enemy was isolated, the forged telegram was uttered, who has not been able to save gentleman, the managor of the in the way of prophecy. The spell do himself proud, but furni-eventually shot and killed by one "the Day" arrived, and the overwhelming and unconquerable money can very well imagined. Hongkong Theatre. German Ariny was launched against France. Fifty years have gone There are very many such people. | by, and the whirligig of time has wrought a transformation. After for Servico men abroad are none half a century of unchallenged supremacy on the Continent, after too well paid. Faced with the a fresh series of intrigues and alliances destined to swell her native prospect of meeting this re- hosts, after a period of economie and commercial prosperity perhaps trospective obligation, their posi unequalled in the annals of any country, after the most thorough tion is certainly not to be envied. and complete preparation that military science, unwearying labour,
GERMAN MENTALITY.
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mentality. It may be admitted that there was nothing markedly Although so much is not specif-Georges Tiran and Mile. Mar
and Miss E. W. Tollan, and of M. ye come to think of it.
monthi.
object, accomplished it.
may or may not be good grounds making the concession,
"The Pharies."
EX-GERMAN SHIPS.
were
two
are BOW
We
CHINESE SHOT.
In an affray in Youmati yester.
to
worst of being a prophet is that ture isn't going to be cheaper of his assailants. When notice was you're never sure. That's why hecause a lot of ex-soldiers have received of the affair, the Police one has to be so careful. No been grafted on to the trade. It visited the house, and found the that it would mattor whether I might be patriotic, but it isn't assailants had cleared off. The was wrong or no. Wi' some business. And as dockers as a victim was lying in a pool of folks, a chap's aye wrong. One class depend on the movement of blood, suffering from a number of of the blessings of the prophetic goods but why labour the point? cuts inflicted with a chopper and Bought by Indo-China business is the fact that hearers The best intentions in the world a bullet wound in the abdomen.
S. N. Co.
and readers have short memories. cannot make the square pag fit Near the dying man the Police and lavish expenditure could supply, Germany again carried was Famine Relief.
That's how Old Moore has been the round hole ony easier. picked up from the ground a into the heart of France. What has been the result? The "joyous
of We read with pleasure that
Even wi' the blackest lookout, number strings war" she wantonly provoked has ended in her ruin. She has under-
Two recent additions to the in business so long.
as well gone the most crusting def at suffered by any Great Power in Manchester, like Lándon, has Indo-China Steam Navigation Lloyd George says the world though, there's always something as the chopper with which the Europe since Waterloo. She has brought upon her allies, at any rate promoted a fund for the relief of Company's fleet
in is quietoning down. He ought to be thankful for. The beak attack was conducted. At a
at Canton Road the to consult a Harley Street man rupt's only consolation is that house the Chinese famine suffecore. The Hongkong. They are upon the chief of them, a destruction more entiro then her own.
To many it will seem tactless that President Ebert should chairman of the Manchester reliefs. Teo Pao and the 8.8. Kwong and have his ears examined. In he's no' one of the creditors, which subsequent investigation choose an anniversary pregnant with such memories for public committén is reported as having Eng. ex-German vessels, his case the wish is probably Unfortunately the Britisher to-led the Police, they made fresh owned by the father to the thought, for day basna' even that con-discoveries which appear to con- commemoration, but he knows the temper and the susceptibilies of "paid a tribute to the wonderful formerly
Lloyd. They there's no doubt if
are solation. But wi' it his countrymen Lest. Again, to foreigners the topics of consolation way in which the Chinese Govern- Norddeutschor
all firm the theory that the assault He ment is meeting the situation."
siezed and of hope he selected may not appear very felicitous.
at
get Singapore to through the storm we'll pull through. There is a arose from a gambling quarrel. the War takes comfort in the thought the Germans have been spared "one We trust that the eulogy is well when
broke there must be quietness, steadi-great deal of stability about the Gambling gear and one or two
and Certainly ang Govern-out, and were recently offered for noes
industrial great misfortune-namely, a new separation of the German lands." merited.
peace. temperament of Arge numbers of further clues were picked up Many Germans have complained loudly that they have suffered this ment which showed readiness and sale by the Ministry of Shipping Violence will not help onyone. the British people even yet. We from this house, and when
dealing with very misfortune, and declare it to rank high among the iniquities off ability in
afin Calcutta by private tender I'm not so sure that in the circum-shall require the good influence questioned with regard to their the Puce settlement. Probably President Ebert was referring to catastrophe of the magnitude that and purchased there by Messrs. stances a Dictator might be tried, of that quality in full measure in existence, the dying man, who As you and by now had been removed to the the avoidance of civil war, for he assured his countrymen that they has overtaken the inhabitants of Jardine, Skinner and Co., agents provided he was honest, a patriot the days before us. "hold fast together." Apart from the discussion about the dismem- Northern China would deserve the of the Indo-China Steam Naviga-and no' afraid of losing his job. I know, the quiet folks are usually Government Civil Hospital, ad- berment of Prussia, upon which a special commission of members of highest praise: There is only too tion Company, Ltd. The purchase One set of brains, like a committee in the background until the mitted that he had been gambling In with his assailante when the the Council of the Empire and of the Reichstag has been sitting, much reason to fear that in a price of the vessels is not known. of one, often gets things done sharpest moment of crisis. there is a considerable centrifugal movement of varying degrees of number of cases officials, un- The s.8. Teo Pao is 1,655 tons in the time a bunch of reformere normal times they never set the latter, to the number of six er intensity in different parts of the Empire. All the States proclaim, deterred even by the well-nigh gross and 972 tons, mat, her aro quarrelling as to whom has the pace, but when it comes to hand-seven, conducted an assault on no doubt, the fervour of their loyalty to the Reich, but the flame unprecendented extent of the dimensions being 37.8 feet in right to speak first. Of course ing our Mad Mullabs a useful him with the chopper and pistol. flickors now and then in an uncomfortable manner, from Hanover to disaster, have diverted some of the breadth, 265.7 foot in length and the real trouble wi' a Dictator punch on the ear they're generally They robbed him of jewellery and Bavaria. The Prussian elections will doubtless be influenced in donations for their own bohocf. 18.4 feet in depth. Before the starts when he thinks there's a there or thereabouts. The last money to the amount of 8160 various ways by the existence of this force. Then President Ebert Happily, some Chinese are giving War, she was put by the Nord-likelihood of his head getting municipal elections proved that before making their escape, Ho deplores the sad fate of those Gurmans who have been separated practical proof of a very different deutscher Lloyd on the Bang-mixed wit the sawdust. That's up to the hilt, so maybe the pain died shortly after his admission
At Kuoiteh (Honas), kok-Hongkong run. from the lands of their kindred against their wili-a pasange which spirit.
how the French Revolution took in the national tummy isn't what to the Government Civil Hospital. so long to revolve and the cause the doctor said at all. It's maybe Considerable difficulty was ex- shows to was not. thinking about them when he referred to where nearly normal crops wore
The 8.8. Kwong Eng is a rather of the sand in the Russian merely indigestion, and a restrict-perienced by the police in obtain Germany's fortunate escape from a new separation. He includes gathered last year, but which has
sorely-tried Austin" it his sympathies and observes with pathos, boon ambject to some drain owing smaller boat than the Tea Pao, machinery to-day. In short, re-ed diet may see us before long, ing proper depositions before his to its proximity to the stricken being 1,650 tons gross and 909 volution, while quicker than bodily and mentally very much death, and the only evelations that she "longingly stretched out her arms to us, and we to her.
net. Her dimensions are a evolution, is a lot more messy and alive. Here's hoping onyhow. This does not seem an altogether soasonable reminiscence. "Sorely-area, some five bundred famished
feet; therefore, except for posterity, tried Austria'
"RED BLINDNESS." finde herself in her present plight. Austria has lately given further This beneficent work is conducted
personal element enters too large- A disease, locally known as tokens of a wish to be united to Germany by selecting a pro-German entirely by Chinese under the|
Bath the Kwong Eng and the ly into it for the comfort of the" red blindness,” is stated to have Premier and appointing a pro-German Minister to Berlin (who are direction of four local gentry, who doubtless being observed by the Allies); but the erstwhile empire of have themselves largely sub-Teo Pao were built in 1907 at rest. Leain has to hold his job or paused the death of 400 persons the Hapsburgs may think it injudicious of Herr Ebert to recall scribed. Liste of contributions in Lubeck. As far as is known, lose his head. When it gets to be in Kazan and the neighbourhood Austria's pro-German Fongings at a moment when the latter is money and kind are posted, and those are the only boats so far so personal as that, human nature. It is said to begin with an ordin-place shortly before Christmas, soliciting aid to save her from starvation. The President might it is stated that all supplies are purchased by the Indo-China and original sin are apt to be ary cold, which is followed by shows the smallest increase in have drawn other and wiser lessons from the wonderful succession strictly checked. The fine falle Steam Navigation Company fro considered in preference to the suffusion of the eyeballs with the population hitherto recorded: State. That's the weak spot in blood, after which the victim This is partly due to the great He might have seen in them the righteous doom of of anow are looked upon as a good the Ministry of Shipping. "militarism," still bolioved in by a large number of his countrymen, augury for the next crope, and, as Both vessels came here from the sure as effected by the one- becomes nearly blind and finally exodus of foreigners caused by No, on second goes mad and dios. The victims the war, and partly to the fact He might have seen in them a call to a different order, in which far as this district is concerned, a Saigon with rice. The Teo Pao man route. amity and co-operation should supersede the sword. ho approach more hopeful outlook appears to leaves to-morrow for Haiphong thoughts, I doubt if a Dictatorship are mostly between 30 and 40 that emigration is again in full
[ewing. ing conference will be an "a id test" of German sincerity,
prevail,
and the Kwong Eng for Swatow. would help,
of events.
265.7
may be tempted to ask whose fault is it that she souls are daily supplied with food 37.8 breadth, feat; and depth, 18.4 no' to be recommended. The
followe:-Length
fcet.
years of ago.
made were those which
only
went to confirm the story of a gambling dispute.
RESULT OF SWISS CENSUS. The Swiss census, which took