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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
ALL
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
GOVERNMENT, INDEED
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
EVERY HUMAN BENEFIT AND EN- The Countess of Cromartie, who JOYMENT, EVERY VIRTUE AND is offering her Ross-shiramansion EVERY PRUDENT ACT, IS FOUND- for sale, is one of the most in-
1896.
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO
KILLS TICKS AND FLEAS ON DOGS AND CATS. J. G. Behurman's appointment ED ON OOMPROMISE AND BARTER teresting personages in the peer- (Compiled from the "Hongkong
This propration is non-poisonous and harmless to animals. It stimulates the growth of the
hair and fur and gives a fine gloss to the coat.
$1.00 per
bottle.
U.S. Minister to Peking.
Peking is reported to have cabled its hearty approval of Dr.
successor to Mr. Crane, lately U. 9. Minister to China. Although bo has not previously visited China for any considerable stay. Dr. Schurman is no stranger to the Far East or the affairs of the Far East,' He was appointed chairman of the Philippine Cora- mission in 1899 and spent most of
-Burke.
The Hon. Mr. F. D. C. Wolfe has been appointed Captain Super intendent of Police with effect from January 1, 1920.
"en
·Telegraph" files for week- ending May 29th, 1808.)
THE DOLLAR,
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age. A
musician, authoress and playwright. Lady The name of Mr. E.D. da Roza, Cromartie has also the distinction has been added to the list of those of having inspired in her own Airy Fairy qualified to act in Hongkong as person Tennyson's
May 15th-The rate of the Lilian." The Countess claims a Dollar, on demand, to-day auditors.
far longer descent than most 28. 2-1/8d. British peorasses, being so
A PATRIOTIC LAWYER. rapport" with ancient Assyria
May 22nd. Mr. J. J. Francis, that she believes her present self a re-incarnation of some remole QC., this afternoon addressed the Oriental society lady.
members of the Hongkong branch of the Navy League on the ob- Will Mr. Whitley retain his jects and progress of the League. moustache on his election to the Mr. A. Coxon presided, and in office of Speaker? If so, he will introducing the speaker, bo the first moustached Speaker nounced that the branch how for centuries, and perhaps in his numbered 103 members, tory. Mr. Lowther, of course,
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CANTON NEWS.
The West River. Situation
The majority of steam launches in Canton have been comman- deered by the Government for the conveyance of soldiers to the west. In consequence of this many other launches have not come into Canton and now the authorities at Kongmoon have been ordered to seizo all the launches under the Chinese flag. More than ten large launches have thus been secured and have arrived in Canton under escort. Towing launches in all the western dis- tricts bave since made them- selves scarce and a good deal of the river traffic has been stopped,
that yoar iri the Islands. His report to Congress on the Commission is one of the best that have been made, and was
It is reported that the situation ļu valuable addition to Wushing-
A full list of local justices of ton's Philippine information. He
below achow is very serious also wrote "Philippine Affairs-the Peace, published in the
at any moment. The big cargo A Retrospect and Outlook." Dr. Government Gazette shows that
and severe fighting may develop Schurman graduated from the there are fi official and 137
junks plying between. Wuchow unofficial justices.
and Canton have hoen laid up University of London, received a
since Tuesday. degree in science at the Univer
IMPARTIAL JUSTICE.
"The Financial Commissioner's sity of Edinburgh, studied at A Chinese femalo was yester has a full board. Mr. Speaker
May 22nd. Two privates of Bureau of the President's Palace" Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottenberg.day removed from No. 12 Gully was cleanshaven, while his the Hongkong Rifle Brigade were has been established in the old and in Paris. He Wellington Street to the Govern-predecessor (Mr. Speaker Peot)] this morning found guilty of rob-building of the Industrial Bank A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. received the degree of Doctor of ment Civil Hospital suffering wore a beard, but shaved his up- this drunken sailor in the with Mr. Yang Sai-ngam, a
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Births.
STUBBS. On May 1st., at Government House, Hongkong, Lady Stubby, a daughter.
THOMAS--On May 30th, 1921, at the Tang Wah Hospital, to
Dr. and Mrs. G, H. Thomas, a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
Mr. (now Lord) Emmott, 'wore & small moustache, but he became peer before the Speakership fell vacant.
Laws from the Universities of from the effects of opium poiron per lip Previous to this, we are Columbia, Yale, Edinburgh, Wil- ing believed to have been self-in the generation of whiskers. A Hongkong Hotel Bar last night. merchant of Hongkong, as the Detective Holt, happening to chief. Its work has been defined liams, Dartmouth, Harvard, and administored.
former Chairman of Conɩmittees,| look in when the pair were going as follows-"To assist the Brown. After his marriage, he accepted several professorships in A Chinese, who was yesterday various colloges, where be taught found running amok with a psychology, political economy, private ricksha which he had metaphysics, und English litera-purloined was removed to the ture. From 1886, he was profes-Government Civil Hospital where BOT of philosophy in Cornell examintion revealed that he was University, and in 1892 was unsound in mind. appointed president. In 1912 and 1913 to he went Greece and
loon Mortuary.
Chess and draughts share a peculiarity not common to other gam 8; they may be drawn at any stage by mutual consent of the
through pockets of the hapless stranger, caught them red-band- ed. The principal was given three months' imprisonment, and the accomplice one month. The sailor was fined $1 for being drunk and incapable.
Government in the improvement of tho Provincial Anapoial situation; to proceed with the new tax system; and to promote industry and commerce in order to develop the national riches.”-
PLAGUE.
Caine Road Affected. A block of houses in Caine
THE FIRST SNAKE STORY. May 23rd. There was a great Montenegro respectively as U. S. In endeavouring to board a players A certain chess amateur
the once travelled a hundred miles to commotion yesterday afternoon Minister. Since that timo Dr.sampan from a junk near Schurman bag continued as Pre Yaumati Ferry wharf yesterday. play for his county. He was a in the village of Taihang, at the sident at Cornell University. Chinese accidentally fell into jovial, social fellow, who hated back of the polo grounds, when a last year he visited Japan with the water and was drowned. His the solemn stillness of a chiese large python was discovered. Road, Numbers 17 to 23, is badly the commission headed by Mr.body was recovered two hours contest. After his game had pro-Polo practice was quickly sus affected by plague. A case oc- Frank Vanderlip, the banker and later and removed to the Kow-ceeded a few moves, he said in-panded and the ladies and gentle-curred at No. 1 on the 19th inst., nocently to his opponent," Looks men assembled went to see the and cases at Nos. 21 and 23 on financial anthority.
rather a drawy game, doesn't sight. Inspector Duncan of the the 17th inst., all three of which The French Capital.
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In a flash came the reply, Wanchai Police Station, was provod fatal. Though no rats It is announced in the Govern- "I accept the draw"; and the quickly on the spot and proposed have so far been caught, there is Not only many schoolboys but ment Guzeffe that the Governor
Council has amended the opponent, who it appeared was to lasso the monster but it was reason to believe they are numer- many school teachers must have in erred in geography since Septer-regulations under the Water-lad of the chance to catch an only after a gun and pocketful of ous. The occuplers complain that ber 3, 1914, when, as a result of works Ordinance so that in future early train, got up and walked off, cartridges were at hand that the they have been troubled with rats von Kluck's threat to Paris, the charge for the consumption leaving his astonished questioner assembled multitude would allow and the tenant of the first floor of him to approach the snake. Then No. 23 has informed the Medical France passed a law over-night of excess filtered water will be to retrace his hundred miles.
a loop on the end of a bamboo Officer of Health, Dr. W. W. duly recorded in the Journal seventy-five cents per 1,000
was passed over its head and Pearse, that he saw a dead rat on Earl Loreburn, who has com-drawn tight and very quickly his the stairs of that house. The M. Officiel, making Bordeaux the gallons as against the old charge. capital. As the German at-of fifty cents, whilst the charge pleted the third quarter of a snakeship was sick and allowed O. H. has ordered the removal tack on
I ris was foiled, the for excess unfiltered water will be century, would be the senior of his tail to be tied to the other of the ceilings from the houses in Government had no occasion to thirty-five cents per 1,000 gallons our former Lord Chancellors were end of the bamboo. Then on the which the cases of plague have cents it not for the wonderful vitality of shoulders of two coolies, the occurred, and at a special meeting remove (+) the southern city, as against twenty-five
the German onrush formorly. altbough
Earl Halsbury, who entors upon phthon, which measured twelve of the Sanitary Board, to-day, We have lived through another week of wild rumours:
hia 99th year within a few months, regarding the intentions of this Government towards the in March 1918 again Erought
In the Government flusette it is and who occupied the Woolsack feet long and thirteen inches in made application for the Board
that obviated by the repulse of the notified Canton Government and one cannot help thinking that it up the idea, which was again
Mexican went years before" Bob" Reid girth. was escorted to the station to order that the whole block be is high time such mischievous talk was put a stop to The enemy. The mistake of mentors Authorities will refuse admittance first took his seat there It is just by the gunbearers, polo players dealt with under By-law 2 of the half a century since Lord Lore- There the snake was killed and of epidemic diseases, which in and hundreds of noisy Chinese. By-laws governing the prevention visit of His Excellency the Governor to Peking has been und pupils is pardonable, seeing to made the basis of incredulous assertions and the press of that the French authorities did emigrant not in possession of one burn was called to the Bar, and its carcass sent to the City Hall effect means the removal of all not know, or did not realise, the of the following documents:-(a ) rather more than forty years since Canton, headed and guided by the Cauton Times. las give position. It appears that the A passport issued by the Mexican/he entered the House of Com-museum where it was to-day the the ceilings and stair linings and emphasised pubheity to statements that call into questionedict has never been revakod-or Foreign Office, (b.) A passport mons. Ho is ten years older than centre of attraction as an exam- similar parts of the houses which
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921.
CANTON CANARDS.
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ABOLITION OF MIXED COURTS. servos 3 writer in the Daily With a view to assisting the Chronicle. There are six minis- Peking Government authorities, tere nominated for the post this through the columns of the Times to find a solution of the judicial year.
offer a harbour for rats.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
Aye, kids are fanny right barging in an undoing the good enough, but often, mind ye, there's of a year's education no to good deal more in what they sponk of the waste of school the eye.
You take this Art pidgin ony- and do than at first meets fees as well. I was watching wee Jeanie way. We've a kind of dilly
|ple of Hongkong's products. the honesty of the Hongkong Government.
successor, Lord, Haldane, It has been had not been a few weeks ago issued by the Chinese Charge alleged that there is a serious proposal for the giving up So that Bordeaux, not Paris, has d'Affaires resident in Mexico and fiteen years the senior of Lord Buckmaster, twenty-six years the capital of of Wei-hai-Wei in favour of the acquisition of Whampoa, |
France visned by the Mexican Foreign: that British gunboats have been ordered to assist the doubtless the state of affairs has Office, and (c.) A passport issue older than Lord Birkenhead, but
now been rectified). As a result of hy the Chinese Foreign Office at Kwangsi troops at Wuchow, that the Governor's visit to the curious inadvertence many Peking and visaed by a Mexican Finlay. Peking was in furtherance of a coal concession scheme laws are stated to be theoretically Consular official. the present Canton Government has refused to approve, invalid.
In declining nomination for and that all these things have incensed the population of much concern, as a formal enact-
Harry Darcy is appearing in election to the Chair of the Con- ment of a couple of lines would the Canton.
magnificent drama "The gregational Union, Lord Lever- The truth of the matter is just this:-That those in irregularity.
suffice to cover any technical Outcast of Pukor Flat" in six huime has forfeited, in deference
Nevertheless, the power at Canton were annoyed that the Government of situation is almost worthy of the parts, screening to day at the to the claims of ministerial candi- Hongkong should have prohibited pro-Sun Yat-sen demons-genius of France's great comic Hongkong Theatre. The Car-date, an opportunity of expound los Company will present an ing his social gospel to the most trations here on the occasion of his recent inauguration dramatist. It is not a rare thing entire change of programme this modernised of the Free Churches. just the other day. She was danty Art Club here in this and should have adjured Hongkong merchants to think in times of turmoil to find a
country with two capitals, wit-week, a very interesting comedy Very rarely is this highest of all busy drawing Uncle MacPherson Colony but I'd like to bet even twice before financially supporting the self-styled Prezidentness Peking and Canton. In such Wednesday, the 25th until the a layman. The most notable in- animals and piefaced persons to be found in our kindergartens intervening at intervals. From Congregational honours offered to lop-sided houses, match-legged money that there's more real Art The sequel to that annoyance has been a campaign of a caso nobody can help knowing
31st, the celebrated English stance of a lay chairman was the generally. Each effort was faith every day in life than what rumour-mongering aiming at the creation of an embarras-of the duality, because it is con- comedienne Miss Daisy Har-election of the late Sir J. Comp-fully produced for Uncle Mac'e finds its way into our local ing antipathy on the part of Canton people towards this tinually forced upon the atten
"With a proper ap-approval but mostly all the wee exhibitions. Colony: The Couton Times recently insinuated that the Monsieur Jourdain, who "spoke and she is well-known on the Lord Leverhalme said just three violent snicker and very little when a kid shows ability in
tion; but having given the world court will appear. She is a new
comer to this Colony. In Eng-plication of scientific methods." yin got, for her pains was a The trouble is, though, that press of this Colony has been given official instruc-prose without knowing it,"
music balls. Her songs are years ago, tions to cry-down the Canton movement, but it should Moliere might have presented us catchy and clever, and patrons one-hour day." Possibly as chair. else. Oortainly no encourage- drawing, by and by he's pounced ment No, I'm wrong. Once on and all the individuality and be pointed out that whilst British journalists here with a novel comedy about the
after wrestling wi' his originality that he ever had is, have been left absolutely free to comment just as they State administrators who had two are assured of a good treat at man of the Union his lordship Mont
Hongkong Theatre next might have shown how to apply bifocals opined that the house in the course of time, severely
science to the ministry, which has was a bit out of perspective. please, the Caton Times is the official mouthpiece of Sun Capita's without knowing it.
now on the average, a 12-hour Yat-sen and is obviously being directed in its present Von Tirpitz Again.
day with Sunday overtime, ob- absurd mission of creating bad feeling. It is a pity that While experts and perhaps our Chinese friends in Canton cannot see the dangers of some non-exports at Home have the campaign they are running. We believe that the been engaging in a battle royal majority of Cantonese care little indeed for these things on the question of battleship question relating to the reorgan but there is such a close inter-dependence existing between submarine, it is not without in-isation or abolition of the Mixed the two cities that for the press of either one or the other toreat to observe what the former Courts at Shanghai, prominent 5,300 miles! In these days obser- to engage in the propagation of ill-feeling is a course of bead of the German Imperial Chinese politicians and | ves a writer in a Scottish Journal,| action that will rebound to the detriment of both. We Navy has to say on the subject.chants have established a "legal when it is a strain often to pick believe that those who are giving these rumours circulation Ex-Grand Admiral Tirpitz has rights discussion society
Now that was an intelligent pussed his judgment that already
up a message from Leith or! port. Foreign know perfectly well that the rumours are groundless on the battle of Jutland, in which, opinions and views will be invit-Prestonpans, it is a pleasure to criticism to make of wee tot's everyone of them. Surely, they must know that it is out- he states, the decisive factor, after ed, and articles will be contri- dent in Washington has, from said the foundations werena learn that a newspaper correspon- drawing. He may as well have side the province of the Government of Hongkong to inter-all is said and done, was the Brit- buted to the foreign and his armchair, chatted to an deep enough or that the kitchen fere in any matter outside British jurisdiction and that is battleship. Enlarging upon his vernacular newspapers for pub-acquaintance in Havana, Cuba, fues needed cleaning for all the views in the Deutsche Allgemeine fication. The Society intends to the doubts they are seeking to instil into otherwise peace- Zeitung, von Tirpitz asserts that publish an English journal of its/and with the radio operator in effect his words had on the infant the U-boat has been greatly over-own in the future for promoting Angeles. The conversation was pain, onyway. About the only island off Los mind. Some folks give me a The mystery that has been woven around the visit to rated, and that it developed very its cause. Peking of Sir Reginald Stubbs is unfortunate, because we little during the war, so that the
conducted partly over deep sea thing MacPherson can draw is
Now you good folks that have know that that visit had no connection whatever with any very much the same type as had U-boat campaign was fought with
cable, partly over land wires, his breath and his pay at the and
kiddies of your own, or of others, partly by
of month's end. of the matters that have been made the subject of these been built for long-distance work he does not think that any of the wireless, and
I could see wi' the tail of my wished on to you, take my as plainly 48 rumours. And we cannot help thinking that the Hong- in 1913. As for the surface craft three great weapons, battle- though we were all seated in the eye that Jeanie was getting a bit advice and d n't laugh at the kong Government would surrender none of its dignity if it versus submarine controversy in ships, light surface craft, and same room, I beard Havana fed-up. Still she persevered. It drawings the youngster wakes. gave an official denial to the canards that have been in- England, the Admiral expresses submarines will disappear, but speaking to Cataline, and Catalina was only after the inspection of In them they express themselves vented. Silence in face of all these rumours is apt to lead the opinion that "the English that each will continue to develop. answering. Ariel's girdle round somewhat angular and abnorm and that's creative work at its to wrong conclusions-apt to encourage worst construct-Cabinet is interested in leaving As to the suggestion that the the earth will 800 be of small al three legged mg, and Mac had highest. Encourage them to the maritime world in the Admiralty is pursuing a Machia-account when a man sitting in Bet her on to copy a picture out draw but never tell them to copy. ions Uncorrected, those rumours might well grow into dark as 10 what its own vellian policy by keeping its his office in London, Paris, or of one of her story booke, that I a picture or a painting of ouy belief and there have been signs in Canton already that some opinion is the subject." intentions secret, the ex-Grand New York, can take up are butted in and sent her out to kind.
Think it out for yourself. The people believe that we of Hongkong are plotting against Von Tirpitz admits that the sub- Admiral ought to know, as all celvor and sand his voice travel play
Now I have my own little great mastore ara great only marine will improve, but so will the world knows, that the question ling round the globe, Having them. Those signs were exhibited in a commercial direct-defensive measures. He does not has been referred to a special actually covered 5,500 miles, ideas on this sort of thing. I brosuse they did not paint as ion. How much better would it be if Hongkong set those believe in any sudden change in sub-committee of the Imperial why should the conquest of may be wrong but by the Hokey other artists did who had gour
Fly I'm for no MacPherson before.
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rumours at rest!
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ironed out of him. He or she is set models and pictures of a by-gone age and, generally speaking, they get so much copy- ing to do one way or another that they never became real artists because they afterwarde produce nothing that expresses themselves. I know, because. I've had some myself,