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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Fighting the Famine.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
WE ARE APT · TO BELIEVE IN PROVIDENCE SO LONG AS WE The campaign against the HAVE OUR OWN WAY-Henry famine in North China is still be- Ward Beecher. ing vigorously prosecuted, but according to latest advices from
the United International Famino D Voux Road Central on the A motor car ran into a post in Relief Committee, there is urgent
(By "Ajax.")
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FOOTBALL
League Champions v.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY
An exact production of the water of a famous. European need of more helpers. Despatches 26th instant., in attempting to Medal for eaving so many lives and a team chosen from the Rest had none, for his only brother
Spa-Blends perfectly with Wines and Spirits--
especially Whisky.
"A litle learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or touch not the Pyerían Spring. There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again."
POPE,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.
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Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921.
A CHINESE EXPERIMENT.
about to return to their home countries, some must rotura to other work and their places must be filled. On the other hand, many who volunteered for short periode are standing by to the end and more of these are now wanted to see the fight through.
We are
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to the refusal of the management form reminds me of the lines in spectators. to grant an increase in wages, is Byron's Don Juan:-- unfounded.
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When Bishop Berkeley said down. "there was no matter." | Child Labour Commission. Three Chinese attacked and
robbed a Chinose
And proved it'twas no woman in Those who have been agitating Cheung Sha Lane West on the
tor what he said. for the enactment of factory evening of the 26th instant. She legislation in Hongkong will be was forced down to the ground glad to know that H. E. the whilst a parcel containing $130 in Governor has appointed a Com-Chinese subsidiary coins was mission for the purpose of enquir-stolen. The culprits made their ing into the conditions of the industrial employment of children
of legislation for the regulation of
the Commissioners suggest the probability that the
able to give valued opinions on
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the Rest.
When a man, agod eighty the fair, and in this connection I
three, applied to the court at may be permitted to say that crowd gathered at Happy Valley asked him whether he had no Yesterday afternoon a large Brussels, for relief the magistrate of H. M.S. to witness a match on the Club friend or relations who could Captain Evans, Carlisle, deserves the Albert ground between the Champions help him. The old man wald he from the wreck of the Hong of the Laguo. The going was died 125 years ago. have just been sent throughout avoid a pedestrian.
Moh. No doubt he will receive heavy and many good chances warning that the court was not to China by the recruiting depart-
courge. an honour in dus ment of the Committee calling for
The health return for the past already is the proud possessor of being unable to steady themselves hall the old man explained that went begging owing to the players be turned into an entertainment men and women to volunteer their five days showe three fatal cases many distinctions. It is strange at the criotioal moment. services for the final offensive of small-pox and one fatal oc- that just after he had come against plague and hunger. It is currence of cerebro-spinal fever. out
The Rest started with ten men, and had a son who died three his father was married in 1793, East to the Carlisle, McHugh being absent, his placo years later. The father married stated that the plague cannot be All were Chinese.
he should havo
been sent being filled after the matchaucond time in 1836, at the age stopped nor grain delivered to the
away to
the S, O. 8. job. started by Robertson of the Police, of sixty two, and the applicant starving in sufficient quantity to A Chinese woman was yester-Captain Evans is a remarkably The play opened in favour of the was born, the year after. meet the coming expansion of day ramoved to the Hospital from intrepid man, and seems to have Rest, Garside shooting wide and relief work unless the staffs are Yaumati suffering from the effects boon born under a lucky star. In later, Henwood sticking the side mora adequately manned. The of opium poisoning, said to have the case of the ill-fated Hong of the net with a fast shot. The danger now, according to Mr. P. been administered in the attempt Mob, he had the opportunity of Wilt's then took the hall down near Manubeuge, has just cele- The village of Query-Aulnois, A: Swartz, who is in charge of to commit suicide.
doing yeoman rescue work, and and a struggle ensued in the brated the 102nd birthday of this work, is that the staffs may
accomplished it in a manner that Rest'e goalmouth, G. Rodger Mme. Rossignol, said to be the find themselves shorthanded in the A Chinese who claimed to be is the pride of the China squadron saving shots from Menham and oldest woman in Belgium. Mme. most crucial period of the entire an officer of the Kwangtung to-day. Captain Evans is, I hear, Amor. McGann relieved by kick Rossignol has been a widow for famine. The special call is for Army was this morning fined $10 to lecture to-morrow night sting to midfield and Robertson twenty years, her husband having thirty foreigners who speak Man- for being in possession of 90 Kowloon on his exploits in the had hard luck with a fast ground died in 1900 at the age of ninety darin and thirty capable Chinese to rounds of ammunition without North Pole: aid in the direction of the field the usual permit from the Hong-
shot that just missed the post with three. During the bombardment forces. Physicians, clerks, atono-kong Police.
the goalie beaton. The Rest came of Maubeuge in 1914 she steadily I am afraid this week's budget again and Garside sent over. a refused to leave hor house, and graphers, engineers and many others capable of supervising and
will have the taste of the briny, fino. pass that Henwood failed to also refused to board German The Bandman Opera Company for I have been aiding in direction of the work, is dus to arrive here at daybreak lot of it during the week by continued fast and even, each she was serenaded by the villege. inhaling a trap and Trivelt cleared. The play soldiers billeted on her. When are needed at once. Every re-on Thursday by the 8.8. Soudan frequent contact with officere goalie bringing off good saves. Not band on her birthday she danced cruit means the saving of many and will open its season at the of the China squadron. I make to be denied, the Rest made a raida minust to the music. She has lives and the crippling of a single Theatre Royal the same night good use of it, seeing there is on the Wilt's goal which ended in six grandchildren, eighteen great- staff means the loss of lives, Mr. under the patronage of H.E. the nothing much to write about; if Handry sending the ball into the grandchildren, and ten great- Swartz says. Many men and Governor and Lady Stubbs. we exclude the antics of the Hon.net out of the reach of Smith. great-grandchildren. women havo been in the field all
Mr. H. E. Pollock, and there is no This was the only goal of the the winter. Some of these are
informed that the use skinning him any further, Asmatch. The Wilt's went away recent report, secured from a I have already stated, Mr. Pollock with a Chinose source, that the opera- has the tenacity of the terrier. things up and Chan So did some on which a girls' school has been determination to level Eden in the South Seas--an islet There is a nearly Adaml-88 tives of a spinning factory at But his new attempt to return to excellent Yaumati have ceased work owing the charge of Constitutional Re-receiving the applause of the missionary, and from
work in defonding, established, in charge of a lady
Half-time arrived with the Champions being one the exception of one individual males have been exoluded with
Resuming, the Rest were soon as "hewer of wood and drawer of who esteems it a privilege to act forwards mat-attacking but their
failed in front of goal. The Wilta, munity. The girls, numbering water" for this maidenly com. led by Menham, made spirited between seventy and eighty, are raids on the Rest's goal, but from the best native families on I do not think that it is general- Rodger was safe and dealt with the Ellice and Union Islands, and ly known that Captain James of shots from all directions, On the Curlew sat for the original of one occasion Chan So in attempt the islot on which they dwell Miliaire "Bubbles" which Siring to clear, sent the ball towards and where, according to the William Pears paid such a lot of his own goal, which only just supreme-ie Papselise, in the missionary, happiness reigns money for, and used it for missed the objective. A ding Funafuti Lagoon, Ellice Islands, and the aesirability and feasibility On the occasion of his departure advertising his soap.
Indeed, dong struggle ensued and the the headquarters in that group After having been forgotten in Europe for these last such employment. The names of on home leave, Mr. F. A. Nixon, Captain James is known popular- atttack on both sides being pulled
He joined the up frequently for offside the Society, The curfew bell rings
of the Commissioner of the Kwangtangly as " Bubbles."
London Missionary hundred years, Fourier appears to have found disciples in
game ended without any addition Postal District, was presented Curlew eight months ago. China. The feature of this pioneer Socialist's system was report on the subject will be such the 21st inst. by the staff
resultant
to the score.
nightly 012 the islet at nine the l'halange, a mimature commonwealth, with agriculture as to command widespread respect. silver fruit dish in token of their Duff has just attended at Singa-Jeffries, Lancaster, Brown; War-
with a silver rose bowl and al The Conference that Admiral
Wilts-Smith; Trivott, Moore: o'clock. as the chief occupation. Excellent in principle, it split, as The Chinese are well represented estecm and in appreciation pore has settled Bome
Realff, soon as put into practice even in a small way, upon the by Mr. Li Ping and Mr. Chow of his good work in the district. weighty questions. The China borough and Amor.
Menham, Swan- very fren,
What is the correct attitude of an audience that listens to grand rock of human perversity. The experiment not only broke Shou-son; Dr. McKenny will be
The Squadron will, I hear, in future be down in Fourier's own country (where perhaps it was the matter from the public health Mee Wah Factory at Nallah kong. This will be a great blow (South China); Hudson (Tamar), in the Scottish Musical Magazine Rest.-Rodgers (Club); and solemn music, such as The A chimney fire occurring at the based at Singapore and not Hong- Maplesden (Titania), Chan So Messiah"? An editorial writer handicapped by insuflicient, funds), but was no more point of viow; whilst Miss enduring when transplanted to America, where numerous Pitts and the Rev. H. R. Terrace, Shaukiwan, occasioned to Hongkong. It will mean that McGann (Titania), Hutchby (Tit- says that such audiences are too communities of the kind sprang up in the space of a few Wells, as Europeans who bave me alarm last evening. The almost all the China Squadron ania); Garside (Titania), Hendry demonstrative; they give them
Police made a prompt appearance will be at Singapore. been brought into close touch
It is (Titania), Henwood years and vanished with corresponding celerity, Consider with Chinese children, will be on the scene and with the help of reckoned that about four cruisers Robertson (Police), Cooper (Tit-reveal their lack of emotional (R.G.A.), selves away e ery time, and ably discussed at the time, Fourierism has no advocates able to bring forward much the fire equipment from the neigh-will be in Hongong, while the ania).
depth and real artistic feeling. among present-day Socialists in the West, but it has found information of value.. The bouring Taikoo Sugar Refinery, submarines with the parent ships Referee: Mr. Andrews. Lines-There can be no doubt that the a believer in the prefecture of Canton. At least the Secretary for Chiness Affairs is, extinguished the outbreak before will be stationed at Singapore. men: Messrs. Jones and Masters. complaint is well founded. Ap- scheme of Mr. Isu Mao-chun has features in common by
it had fairly started. The Fire 'welve destroyers and twelve virtue of his position,
After the match Mr. Ralston, plause is much overdone, not with it.
Brigade who also received the submarines of the S class are Secretary of the Hongkong League, only at oratorio or opera, but at Chairman of the Commission; call, hastened to the scene and coming out to Hongkong. They asked Mr. R. H. B. Hancock to pre- and he is a man who may be
meaner performances. A. mass Mr. Hsu is a Christian and a social idealist. Before counted upon to look at the arrived after the case had been must have left England by now. sent the cup to the League win-of people je always easily stirred the Revolution he went about with a hidden pair of scissors. question from the practical and
Very shortly, it is stated, the ners. Mr. Hancock, who is well to enthusiasm-much more easily By the aid of this instrument be whisked off queues with common-sense point of view. It
Naval authorities will be building known in local sporting circles, then oven its most enthusiastic the adroitness of a Dyak whisking off heads-whether is a difficult problem with which
It is with regret we have to naval barracks at Singapore, to before making the presentation, units. But applause, frequent
four the Commissioners have to deal, announced the death of Mr. accommodate. from resentment at this token of the Mauchia domination but we shall all await their Dinshaw Dadabhoy Gazdar, at thousand men, vory Britisher by the "Daily Press" in 1909. It of a performance-is, indeed, as to five remarked that the cup was given essential to adequate enjoyment and generous, is apparently or from hygienic motives is not quite clear; but evidently findings with a feeling that they Bombay, at the age of 65. The will applaud the decision to aug was first won by the Buffs in 1911, much part thereof as sweet Mr Hsn 18 a energetic reformer. He has now will steer clear of extrome late Mr. Gazdar passed a great ment the strength of the Pacific then on two occasions by the sounds, clever sayings, or pretty decided to use his ancestral lands as a testing-ground. sentimentality on the one side part of his life in China. He Squadron.
D.C.L.I., once by the R.E., Hong-scenes. A silent audience would The regulations of the community, which is designated artless exploitation of child in the firm of Nowrojee and Co., and any encouragement of the came to Hongkong 35 years ago
kong Club and the Navy and five bo ominous. And if the players the Public-Good Village, suggest that Mr. Hsu
A very amusing story was told times by the R.G.A. is labour on the other.
later on becoming an exchange to me yesterday about an incident cock heartily congratulated the would probably plump for the Mr. Han-were asked for their opinion they inviting other possessors of ancestral lands to co-operate,
broker in the firm of his own that occurred on the cruisers in Wilts. on their splendid perform-enthusiastic auditor, and pray to as Art. 11 of the constitution announces that the object A Peculiar Disease. name, which was changed 15 years port now. It was found that they ance, also the R.G.A. as worthy be spared from the silent and is to unite the rich and poor in establishing this The other day we had a tele-go to Gazdar and Co. His son, were infested with cockroches. "runners up," being only one point soulful one. village. All private property and ancestral land, houses, gram reporting the continued in firme masagentent for the last that cockroches are the harbing-spective records are as follows:
Mr. Kawasjee, has continued the The popular naval superstition is behind the Champions. Their re- and goods are to become public property, which will be cidence of encephalitice lethargic twenty years, and left the Colony era of ill-health and the crews of used to improve agrecultural methods and to raise cattle ness. Latest Home papers to commonly called sleeping sick-
P. W. L. D. F. A. P.ae the settlement near the city of In the town of the Nymphs, e several warships have been and manufacture goods, so that clothing, food, and hand show that the disease has
removed from their ships until The Wilts. 16 11 2 3 30 15 25 Ishinomonsky in Japan is known, housing may be ample for all." Apparently there will be made its appearance in various
the boats are thoroughly scraped The R.G.A. 16 11 3 2 81 16 24 the women rule, says a correa- no need for any currency, or at any rate for specie, which parts of the country but that day evening some new hands crews
At Queen's Road West on Sun- and completely disinfected. The Mrs. Hancock then presented pondent. The wives support the we rather think was a feature of the original Fourierism. there are no indications of the
BYO now housed
in the cup to Mr. Moore, the captain husbands and children, and are into malady developing
engaged by a number of teashops Murray Barracks. Some two of the team, amid loud and pro- the acknowledged heads of the The organisation will see after its members from the epidemic. A striking feature into conflict with the strikers with their
as a result of the strike came thousand of these naval ratings longed applause, and also present family. cradle to the grave, as the manifesto proceeds to enunciate about the cases which have been who, regarding them as "black quartered at the Barracke. Three each player being loudly cheered children, and do other work The busbands keep. officere are
nowed medals to the rest of the team, house, take care of the "By using this plan there will be no loafers nor unused recorded within the past year or land. Babies will be nursed, the youths instructed, these is that a large number have logs," had decided to wreak craisers are now flying their as he stepped up to the stand. that, in other places, is usually
vengeance on the new bands, paying-off pennate. The Ambrose able-bodied will toil, the aged will be cared for, the sick which were at first characteristic Armed with knives and other will be paying-off on June 6th. sentation, Mr. Moore presented their business is to dive for pearls
not shown the lethargie symptoms
At the conclusion of the pre-performed by women. Because healed, the dead buried, and so civilisation will be of the disease, but very often offensive weapons, they attacked The new reliefs for these boats Mrs. Hancock with established and the spirit of Peace and Joy will be such as presented symptoms of excit- the Canton men at the entrance are on their way out.
a beautiful these women are called nympha. bouquet. to reproduce the Will of Heaven upon Earth."
into Fat Hing Street and a
The proceedings ended by the Japanese. The settlement with three hearty cheers.
is on Sehiam Bay, where pouri surely highly commendable, and everybody will be glad to misleading name to apply to the battle royal ensued, resulting in
shells are numerous, and arg broken ribs and cracked craniums, see the organisers realise the Will of Heaven upon Earth. different disease which occurs for a large number. The Police GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
taken from the bottom of the sea. Unfortunately, man is such a curious being that there is no in the Tropics, to which the name and effected a number of arrests. then took a hand in the game,
In summer the women divers telling what he will do-or refuse to do. For instance, has already been applied, and
work in the water for ton hours a the admirable prospectus from which we have just quoted also bocause the name conveys
Brigadier-General and Mrs.
day, remaining for two or three postulates that the able-bodied will toil." But, suppose prominent symptoms of the dis- Hongkong Y.M.C.A. including 23rd by the ss. Torilla, and are
minutes at a time below the sur About eighty members of the Stevenson, arrived here on the
faos. The birth of a boy is con that some of the able-bodied will not toil, which is just one ease in its present form. Indeed, several girls, paid a visit to the staying at Government House,
sidered bad luck, while grent of the things that have brought previous ventures of the the disease has been balling where they were shown the and Lady Stubbs attended servion following cable from the Head inferior in every respect. At the
The local management of the rejoicing hails the arrival of Military Government at Canton On Sunday, His Excellency Chartered Bank has received the baby girl. Men are regarded as kind to grief if our reading of events be correct. In an medical authorities, though there ideal community you may not use force or starvation. Cut are, happily, evidences that by different historic places whore at the Cathedral.
Office; in London :-- the auce
Yesterday
early age of four, girls are taken "Dragon" Lung off luxuries? The ideal community would not countenance degress it is being overcome.
Excellency At the approaching annual to the ses and taught to swim and Chlkwang ruled vulgar luxuries, and such a delinquent would hardly feel
supreme, attended the The attendants of the Military Lusitano Club and distributed the Directors will recommend that they begin to work in earnest, the general meeting of shareholders, dive. When they get to fourteen it as a privation to be excommunicated from, say, the fine CHINESE LEGATION IN LONDON. Government acted
as guides the prizes.
a dividend be declared for the past The women who are good divers arts. Not that one would wish to throw cold water on the Wellington Koo has wired to the them all over the, several build- Stubbs yesterday watched the per annum and a bonus of 8. 38: At forty they usually retire The Sin Wan Pao reports:-"Dr to the visitors and conducted His Excellency and Lady half year at the rate of 14 per cent, can easily support their familie project, which in its general principles has a commendable Peking Government asking it to ings. The visitors were received Regatta from the Hon. Mr. Claud per share free of income tax, that Very often they are already look, especially as Mr. Hsu, unlike Fourier, preserves get Chu Chao-ks'n, the Chinese in audience by Dr. Sun Yat-sen Sayern's yaich, Osone.
2100,000 be added to the Reserve grandmother at this age, and marriage. Social reformers will be interested in seeing Consul General at San Francisco, and Dr. Wu Ting-fang. After Lant evening Lady Stubbs Fund, that £85,000 be added to they spend the whether this scheme of life proves more suited to the appointed as the Councilior to the the tour, the Association Brass visited Bostock's Circus, where Officers Superannuation Fund, their lives in odn Chinese character than it has done to the European and Chinese Legation at London. Band, which accompanied the a performance was given in aid that £100,000 be written off Pre- daughters, and American,
The Peking Government proposes visitiors, render d some fine of the North China Famine mises Account, and that £209 601 partionlarly 1 to grant it as required,"
music before they departed, Fund,
an
All this is ability. Sicoping sicknose is a
disease, as there is
totally
an erroneous impression of the
dealt with.
with his family last year on holiday.
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