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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1921.
THE THREAT TO THE NATION.
MONDAY, APRIL 11 1921.
TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
In Appreciation,
BETWEEN
CURRENT COIN.
(By
"Mercator.")
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
PORT NEWS,
IF THE MINDS OF MEN WERE We have not yet noticed very LAID OPEN, WE SHOULD SEE HUT much said regarding the new LITTLE DIFFERENCE
Our New Feature. motor road to the Peak, It is THAT OF THE WISE AND THAT OF way such a valuable compendium ing two members, Fright said ally, we have instituted a new
Seldom has there come
Then there were the comic
In order to assist shippers, true that Mr. Pollock has entered THE FOOL-Addison,
my groups, one of which, contain-merchants and our readers gener- his protest against it (on the
of useful information as that that it was like a published by the
Yorkshire feature in The Hongkong Tele- Economic terrier, so covered in hair that graph to-day, consisting of tabulat-
its you did not know which was
ground that it will disturb the
But,
have been avoided is a tribute to
in
·
peace and quiet of our most select (Chinese) was notified on Satur- series of memoranda on the in-head and which was tail. The ed Port information. The aim is
One fatal case of small-pox | Reauerces Committee, neighbourhood) and that quite a number of motoriste have made day.
dustries of the Colony the picturesque ascent.
of famous Cave of Adullam was a to give, under one heading, & Hongkong. These will surely there might have been a
Mr. M. K. Lo is one of the new and will serve to furnish all the been many clerical and many arrival, departure or movements treasured by numerous merchants party was another. There have to know anything relating to the word of appreciation said for the J.P.'s just appointed. He was information that a captain of service groups, and there was of ships, the place of storage be true group, and the Tearoom ready reference for those desiring. surveyore and designers of what gazetted under his full name of industry would require is undoubtedly the most remark- Mr. Lo Man-kam. able road in the Colony. Thej
when nearly always a small Potection launching out on a venture in the group in the great Free Trade and other particulars regarding clinib right from Morrison Hill to
Colony. The report is brimful of era. The true group is not a arrived cargoes, together, with the summit is one of almost per Handicap held at the Palace industries in the New Territories
The semi-final for the Billiard information of the slate of prosent subdivision of a party; it cuts Post Office information. feet gradiont and the manner in Hotel, between E. Guimaraes and and elsewhere, the handicaps which really awkward corners A.J. Osmund, will be played-to-that they are suffering and how
across parties.
The list is made up partly from the designing skill of our P.W.D. night, Monday 11th, at 9 p.m. Govorament assistance could be
official sources and parily from staff. There is only one bad
rondered. The subjects dealt honorary
Queen Mary, who has had information contained in our ship- twist, that being the hairpin bond
The total output of the Kailan extensive to make more than a aiready a doctor four times over.co-operation of our advertisera in with by the Committee are too conferred upon her at Oxford, isments and wo beartily solicit the
degree of D.C L. ing where the road crosses the Bowen Mining Administration's mines cursory glance at in a single Wales made her Majosty Mus.
and consignees advertise- Road level, though it is difficult for the week ending 26th March, article, and here it nead be Doc. in 1902, and London followed our endeavour to make the in- have been obviated. There are sales during the period, to 75,767 shown the imperative necessity inburgh have since enrolled her comprehensive as possible. The could amounted to 94,839 tons and the pointed out that the War has suit in 1903, Glasgow and Ed-formation as accurate and as plenty of people prone to criticise tons. our P.W.D. on the slightest pro-
of making every portion of the as L.L.D. The very rare distinc-list will appear daily on Page 9 vocation without ever thinking to
Empire industrially self-support- tion of an honorary degree of and will be corrected to noon ou acknowledge a piece of good;
possibility of aing, as far as this can possibly be London is to be bestowed upon constructive work. When we Hongkong branch of the British achieved. It has clearly been the Prince of Walesnoxt Presenta- the day of publication. think that events justify criticism Legion being formed in the near established that, in very asif- tion Day. He is to be a Master of because over the week-end webination of associations of ex-key industries and essential in-Only on one occasion in theially to the prosperity of the we generally administer it, but future. The Legion is a com-governed portion of the Empire, Commerce and Doctor of Science.
to Sco how that
a lack of confidence.
other with
There is a
strange
•
in
the
bors of Commerce to furnish a report on British trade and
him service than Sir Robert, and commerce in the Far East thore was no more qualified to render this was duly acknowledged.
WAS
4
•
sent
to the
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
havo had opportunity of testing Service men.
dustries must be established and history of the University have! the splendid construction of the
maintained. It is vain to hope or bonorary degroos been conferred. Wanchai Gap motor road we
expect that we can maintain our in 1903, when the King and Queen Charles Bresford was commis- Charged with being in posses-position without far-reaching and thou Prince and Princess of sioned by the Imporial Govern
Colony. should like to sound this note of sion of 2,050 cigarettes on which continuous
It is appropriate to remark here that when Sir appreciation. The present ugly duty had not been paid, a Chinese designed to assist and harmonise Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister,ment and the Associated Cham- sears on the hillside will soon be who was arrested on the Hau Tak individual efforts, and to secure both of whom are dead.
corporate action Wales, shared that privilege with clothed in verdure and the Colouy Wharf gave the plea that the the maximum productive effici- will be able to boast not only of call of friendship had compelled ency and one of the most beautifully scenic him on behalf of an acquantance minimum of waste of material| output, with the roads in the world but also one of to perform this risky undertaking and labour. In the case of the against wild boars by the French the best dosigned. There may be of snuggling it ashore from the majority of the innumerable Government
The war to the death declared differing opinions as to the road's steamer Tai Lec. He was fined branches of production which are put an end to the practice of necessity but there can scarcely $75.
will presumably he two opinions as to the manner
established in this Colony there keeping a marcassin, or baby wild of its building.
will probably be no necessity for boar as a pet. Marcassins are
It may also be recalled that Sir Alexander Lindsay Wood, as the Government to do more than almost human in their cleverness, offered to bear the cost of trans- The Trade Slump.
Robert during the rice trouble early as ten o'clock in the morn- to assist individuals so far as lies and gamekeepers on The crisis created at Home by ing on Saturday, strode into the in its power by giving them all French estates where the wild rice to be sold at coat. Although the big porting and handling of unlimited the coal strike was quite bar of the Hongkong Hotel and, such facilities as it may be able boar flourishes make a good deal this relief measure was not scoep- sufficient had nows for one day, without any provocation what- to afford. There should, therefore, of money by supplying them (onted by the Government, we know Britain, like other countries, las bad a full share of but on Saturday Router was any-over, challenged all and sundry be little interference with in loan, industrial disputes in these latter days. Many of them thing but cheering in telling us to a fight. He was told by the dustrial enterprise. It is essential residents in the neighbourhood. namely the loss of three million
not for keeps") have been serions.
to what it has meant to the Colony, of the acute trade slump as bar manager to leave, and he that the Government should free They live in perfect amity with dollars. His example is worthy No development has been quite revealed by the Board of Trade did, but returned two hours later, itself entirely from past traditions, dogs and cats, and are a source parable, however, to that which threatens the country just returns for March. As compared and again issued his challenge. now. Reuter speaks of a situation which "practically with a year ago exports were down Without much ado, he was grab.
of joy to children, for they are community.
of emulation by the Chinese amounts to civil war."
The words may well be pondered, by 37 millions and imporle down bed by a policeman, and was this Economic Resources Committee Its cousin the pig is the only Sir
The field of endeavour of the full of varied and original antics. tee has been too arduous for
always ready for a game, and are
Apparently, the work on the Resources Commit- whether the peril materialises in the present case or not. by 83 millions. Realising that, morning fined #5 by
the covered merely a small portion animal to which the arcassin to-day for the North on a holi- Just as a revolution may happen without a shot being fired one can better appreciate the Magistrate.
of a far wider area which objects. Directly it sees a pig the day.
Robert, for he Ibaves a state tantamount to civil war might exist without the troubles. Of course, trade deprus- seriousness of the present labour
concerned with parties coming into forcible collision. The Triple Alliance,sion is common to the whole the reason for the rash act of an the individuals who run industries its dark brown coat is soft and by his stay in the North to pursue Unrequitted love is said to be relations of the Government to tiny tusk stiffens. In babyhood trust that he will be rejuvenated the general marcassin's back goes up and its record, for a few months, and we He goes, as the papers which has made gestures with the Damoclean sword on world just now and the only thing eighteen-year-old Chinese girl in in the Colony, it should be a pleasant to stroke, but as it grows his work again. Of course, Sir previous occasions, has now voted for a strike by all its that will cause a revival is the deciding to commit suicide by article of faith with the Govern-up the silky hairs are shed and Robert is convinced that there constituent industries at midnight to-morrow unless some of international questions that Boat yesterday. It was however pursue their business with less tan- its temper becomes uncertain. Territories for sericulture, and I final settling of the host jumping from the Yaurati Ferryment to allow small industries to bristles take their place. Then are great possibilities in the New thing fresh develops: and this the immediate danger of a still remain suspension not only of coal supplies but of the railwayssion
in the discus-considered
that she talising regulations. Experience and it is advisable to send it back understand that the silk from and the general transport services is upon the country./not suffering from over-pro-got safely alongside the wharf severe Goveruitnent regulations and foed upon acorns and beech-Imperial Institute for the purpose
stage. The world is should wait until the launch had and examination have shown that into the forest, there to run wild his farm Manifestly, the entire industrial organisation is thereby duction, it is suffering from before making the attempt, in are killing enterprise threatenet. Starvation has shown itself to be a no less the biggor nations are still watch-passengers,
Some of full view of a hundred or more Calony, leading to much avoidable after attaining full bourhood it is value, and the report is extremely mast, for if kept in confinement of finding out its commercial potent peril than the sword, and such a menace presents ing each
us they would of loss and suffering. These con- apt to turn on its best friends. itself in more than one aspect. An enormous number of suspicion and in the world of fished
open course not let her drown. She was ditions canot be allowed to workers will be thrown out of employment in addition to finance caution is far more in the Government Civil Hospital, made of our resources. We must out and removed to continue, if the most is to be
satisfactory. the two million composing the Triple Alliance, and even for evidence than enterprise. Diplom- people with money the situation may become hazardous, order and quiet that it might and acy has failed to bring us the
re-trace our steps and follow the with food production impeded and the means of distribu-one cannot help thinking of all the week-end in royal fashion, community its first care, National John Johnson, who celebrated must make the interests of the wise course. The Government tion held up.
that was said during the war was this morning charged before and financial considerations alike. The question of a National Wages Board, with aecret negotiations. The world Court, with being drunk and in-the old pre-war ways.
regarding the inevitable passing Mr. G.N. Orme, at the Police preclude us from continuing in national pool, eminently important as it is, has been is probably unripe for that stage, capable, a condition which was unities for developing along new overshadowed by the present dangers.
Opport-1 Or immediate but it has waited a long time too palpable when a policeman consequence is the risk of the flooding of the mines, which (and with patience) for the pass took him into his charge at Con Pass and by new methods exist, constitutes a challenge not only to the owners and the ing of the war's after effects, auget witha line of 85, Johnsonge mittee abundantly illustrate, if ex-purte Reuterrorism, most of Government".
as the Economic Resources Com- Government (to say nothing of the miners themselves), but tabour troubles they should re-appeal for an extension of twenty tion to perceive them, the grit to midst, many o
As the result of a week of us When statesmen complain against Wasmet
as well as
"agin to the nation. It is a threat that cannot readily be over-member that for the present dis- fourbours to the period wherein he seize them and the energy to make
we have the vision and imagina-the dismal soothsayers in our
Thon Sylvia estimated. In the first two or three days of the strike cases tross in the labour world they are was required to pay this penalty use of them. It is impossible to had a busy week-end. Just what Income tax
Pankhurst was arrested. More- them of the over, the ordinary pinpricks of of the irreparable flooding of mines were reported, and largely responsible, because they being referred by the Magistrate review the extremely interesting is really happening at Home at demanded, rates were being raised,
Shoot-'em-down' order, have life were going on every day increases the peril. If the major calamity be have failed to create that feeling to Inspector Willis, who conduct-memoranda published, but in this the moment none of us know. bread went up in price, train as usual. was still being averted, as there are grounds for believing it will be of international security on which ed the case. through the loyalty of oficials and volunteers, the damage The complete settlement of inter- all industrial prosperity is based.
connection it is fitting to pay a Speaking for myself, I'm going to services were cut down and Mr. tribute to the excellent work wait for my Times Supplement. Churchill brought out a new kind may still be very great.
When charged this morning performed by Sir Robert Ho Tung-In the meantime I refuse to be of hat. national probleme would inevit-with stealing two chicken from Later advices suggest an easing of the tension, and it ably coincide with a reinvigora-the steamer Tai On, a thief told may be that the Triple Alliance, having beckoned the tion of the world's industrial the Magistrate that they were the mercantile
scared into thinking that there's Sir Robert Ho Tung has put ony
And yet we kept our heads, real Frankenstein monster, recoils from the consequences. The
danger of machinery.
my albeit Communists were issuing given him as Alliance might well be alarmed viewing the matter simply
a present by a Hongkong under a vory deep of the Hongkong & Shanghai windy street corners and eruel community of £19 148. 7d. in the London Office manifestoes nightly from cold and friend. Whatever effect the story sense from the industrial and economic standpoint, which, as
BANDMAN SEASON.
may have had was spoiled by his piercing Insight and the unbound- miners and being spent on bombs Green Sod. Mr. Thomas wrote a of gratitude for the Bank being collared by the tales kept pouring in from the intimated, would sutlice practically to constitute a state
later confession that the generous ed enthusiasm of civil war; and there is no assurance that matters Bandman Opera Company staged the prisoner if he expected him various interests that Sir Robert starvation or drowning. That's a body had ony use for, but which
that he friend and he were total strangers brought to play in the enquiry. minute that pitmen left their which "The Shop Girl", which the to each other. Mr. Lindsell naked That a merchant prince of the ponies to perish either through Asquith wrote another which no- has or beer. Nor do I believe for a book which everyone praised and would stop there. Indeed, one cares not to prophesy where on Saturday night at the Theatre to believe such a story. At this is known to have could have darned lie. I know pitnen better had a bumper sale. Through if no-one bought. Mrs. the conflict would end. Happily, there are some brighter Royal, is not so much musical moment, one of the chickens gave found time to coliate so much than that. tokens. The messages from home indicate that already comedy as a play with music. considerable bodies of workers belonging to the Triple It starts off with a theme familiar noare cackle, and his Worship information as is contained in the Alliance itself are opposed to a general strike, and demand the idea and in the working out your fie. Four weeks hard that the Hongkong Chamber of Home papers are no' all spoon-fed got on wi' the doings as usual and all, ordinary, common, everyday to all. There is plenty of fun in chickens are protosting against public-spiritness. I am
remarked drily: "Even the Report speaks volumes for his sort of thing. True I couldna be the Eves who spin, and the many Last year I saw some of this folk, the Adams who delve and Its postponement and a ballot. Most gratifying is the of the scheme. The house was labour and four hours' stocks."
sure everywhere at
once, but the others who do neither, yet work, response to the Government's appeal. There is an un-packed again, and the play was pleasant sound about the news that recruiting offices enjoyed immensely.
Commerce as well as the Govern- wi' subsidised and predigested read the strike news at night. Miss Dolly resemble the early days of the war, but also an encourag danced well, while the other the No. 7 Police Station last night. public-spirited Chinese in Hong- happened. We had a coal strike They felt sure it was coming.
ment appreciate it fully. He is official communiques. Prince as the Shop Girl sang and They had a ferocious inmate at one of the most enterprising and
What time the Consider for a moment what down" tribe were getting excited. "Shoot-'em- ing note, signifying as it does that the nation is ready to parts were in very capable hands. He was Arthur Lee, a Chinese, kong. His exceptional ability, with a million minore idle, and What? Christmas? Co-operate in the preservation of law and order. There cannot well be any suggestion that these measures are to a close to-night with a pot-his will, for being drunk and dis-commercial mattere have been always behave as perfect little
The Company brings its season who, lodged in the cell against taot and sound judgment in all then, as now, the miners didns' enium? No. Rad Revolution!
The Mill. designed to coerce the strikers-the Premier has even pourri programme instead of orderly, vented his foelings on an recognised by us. abandoned the condition that the Federation shall sanction Mr. Leyland Hodgson who has a hearted Inspector as a protection Sir Robert has been a generous which might well have been the pannleky appeal, while others
They would have In the course gentlemen. Then we had a big constables enrolled. Afghar", the reason being that overcoat (lent to him by a kind-of the past twenty years or so,
special demonstration
Someone he return of the pumpmen, stipulating only that volun-principal part in the play, is still against the chilliness of the cell) benefactor to educational and cue for a general manifestation thought that notices should be of unemployed persuaded Ear! Haig to write a eers shall not be interfered with. As was pointed out in in hospital. Parliament, a Labour Government would be compelled to
with such effect that this article philanthropic institutions in the of indignation all over Record business has been done of apparel was torn into ribbons. Colony, and
the posted warning folks to keep ake just the same precautions. The predicament, justifies by the Company, not only in Inspector Willis therefore set the remarkable public work.
has done country. Next the railwaymen indoors during the shooting. he haste with which the Emergency Powers Act was Calcutta, and other places. Its when he released the prisoner of his interest la the education to do so.
invited to Hongkong but in Bingapore, bail at the abnormal sum of $30, recently he gave further proof se
Only were
strike and Was there ony shooting? Yes, of laced on the Statute-book at the time of the coal strike return to the Colony from Shang- this morning, with an injunction of the Colony when he donated still
a matter of fact threatened mouths. And nothingelso happened.
When troubles wero Ast year. At present we lack precise details of the matters hai is looked forward to with that he should turn up later at $100,000 to the Government for MacSwiney died of an aching we know for certain, let the
Maybe there's vary serious, Teranoo different on this time, but, until something dispute, and one can but hope that a reasonable inter- keen interest, as the Company's the Police Court to be charged, the Hongkong University. He has void and gave further cause for "ghost-om-downers" stick to Tetation of the problem by both sides will yet obviate a repertoire is a long one, and there The defendant did not appear be-assisted financially and otherwise an uprising of all who sympathis their cocktails and their opinions. atastrophic upheaval,
are many now plays that they foro the Magistrate, and his bail promoting and establishing ed wi' Ireland and those thousands We're primarily a sane, lavel intend to slagoon their return here. was accordingly confiscated, many enterprises, adding mater who, like the poor, are always wi' headed people..
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