THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE
The Wine of
Kings
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Canton Situation,
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The King of Wines
CHAMPAGNE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE $199
DAY BY DAY.
NOBODY CAN GIVE YOU WEER
tion that then presented itself); Welearn that Lient. J.A. Parkes whilst others were more generous R.G. has recently passed an ly inclined and held that the new akamination in Colloquial Urda. regime would be lasting enough
AVIATION NOTES.
(By "Meteorite.")
Criticism of unnecessary waste
THE LOCAL COAL DISPUTE
A Settlement Reached Yesterday.
The dispute between the coal
When Bun Yat-sen assumed ADVICE THAN YOURSELF; YOU WILL NEVER KRE IF YOU LISTEN the Presidency at Canton thare TO YOUR OWN SUDOESTIONS in expenditure and losses occurr were all manner of prophecies
-Cicero.
ing from other causes form mado as to the duration of his
striking comment on the laxity [occupancy of that office. Some
of administrativa control, in the contractors and their coolies in there were who thought the The U.S.S. Albany arrived here report issued by the Comptroller regard to the question of wages, tequre would be of the briefest] from Manilà last night.
and Auditor General to the Air which had given rise to the pro- Gjudging by the array of opposi
Miniatry for the year ended |spect of a strike, reached a settle- March 31, 1920. It will be noticed ment at a meating convened under that the report covers period the chairmanship of Mr. M. K. when the attention of the Ministry Lo at the latter's offices in Alex- was more given to dealing with ander Buildings yesterday even- to give Canton and ita province Yesterday's health return
the exigencies of the war opera-ing, after a prolonged discussion the peace and quietude that is shows there were four fatal cases tion period and its aftermath, lasting several hours. essential for its well-being. More of plaque, three non-fatal cases of rather than to keeping a metic- than a month has passed since paratyphoid fever, and one non-ulously
An agreement was reached on careful eye the the main issues, and represented the eventful day of the inaugura-fatal-case each of diphtheria and administration of the funds, but welcome departure from the tion and it is, perhaps, worth enteric fever.
the fact that such losses, said previous attitude of both parties. while to take a look back at what
to be due to irrecoverable Though the increase sought for has happened in the interim.
debts and to such cauSES There has been far more talk A fire broke out at 10.15 p.m.theft, fraud, amon, and gross figure, it must be remembered
as amounted to a big percentage the Premier of the new Northera of fighting than actual hostili-esterday at 132, Chinwan Street, negligence should be allowed to that the
which was used as a dry grass reach the extent of nearly half a coolie
Irish Parliament. of pay A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. the borders of Kwangtang and to The Bro was first noticed milling sterling of public money, and the increase obtained as a is unusually meagre, Kwangsi has been character-by the Police. The Brigade istically Chinese in its organisa-arrived and put out the fire after laxity in administrative control, amounted to. only sixteen or certainly reveals an extraordinary result of yesterday's conference, tion and conduct. The most damige had been done to the for which no circumstance could seventeen cents over the previous
De St. Marceaux, Vin Brut
or VeoryDry Vintage 1911.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNES, 1921.
THE PEACE OF THE FAR EAST.
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SIR JAMES CRAIG...
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph"] Gymkhanas.
Sit. I shall be glad if you will suggestions permit me to comment on the Well-Wisher" in your issue of put forward by 7th June, and to express my thanks for same.
(1) As only ten daya elapse,
As the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty was concluded funds have not been particularly (97). Genis: 1st. Mr. Stroud (189) of Nature in the wings of birds respective working hours
made in the ation is posted immediately on
of
available for the public. the two large easels opposite the Grand Stand, and iB thus
(3) Enquiries will be made with a view to the adoption of the aug- gestion that more shroffs should be available for paying out.
Yours, etc. The Hon. Secretary,
Gymkhana Meetings.
and the Hon. Mr. S.B.C. Ross, who also took a leading part in the settlement of the dispate,
The increase agreed to will take effect from the 1st July.
Between Ourselves
serious news of the month in extent of $100.
plead an excuse. There is ironydaily wage of 30 or 40 cents. that connection came to hand
in a contemplation of the par- yesterday, which told of a fight
The War Office have notifietsimomious policy practised by ment at yesterday's meeting were The remaining points for settle- on the river in which a Kwongs that for the Income Tax year the Minsitry in subsidies granted reached as follows motor boat was captured and ten 1920-21 and pending further into civil aviation companies, and men killed. And so one may atructions Income Tax should not one is led, under the circumst-$19 to the Yaumati cos! carriers, The contractors agreed to pay write down the Sghting on the be deducted from the emoluments ances, to express regret at the loss who are engaged on whole દર being of negligible of Warrant Officers. N.C.O's and of the benefit such a sum would terms. This represented a con- monthly character. What it may develop men and any tax deducted in have produced in the development cession of 50 cents. to the de- into is hard to say, for the daily such cases for 1920-21 will be re- of civil aviation. Such losses do mands of the coolies, news fluctuates between reports | funded.
not make pleasant reading, and it of preparedness on one side and,
With regard to noon-time rest, is to be hoped that when the sanuel it was agreed that coolies who of the desertion of unpaid soldiers A new motion picture concern figures for the year just eaded commenced workery early in on the other. The present regime under the name of the Oriental coma under review, we shall hear the morning were entitled to one
at present, between the close will either stand or fall by what Film Company has opened offices no more of the unedifying details full bour's rest.
of entries and the Gymkhans, happens in Canton itselt. If funds at 18. Paking Road. We under-which have completely disfigured an hour was to given to those programme
A break of half fit is difficult to get the secured (all possible stand it is their intention to this White paper.
out before the MRADS are being adopted to remodel motion picture enter-
who commenced at 8 or 9 a.m. Thursday evening. By closing a that end and there is a main-prises throughout the Far East
The same provision bad applica- fortnight before a Gymkhana it A machine with wings that tion also to night shifts. tepance of amicable working The company is to be managed pulsate like a bird and give it a
should be possible to have books between the heads of the by Mr. David L. Shoolman of corresponding power of flight is for the advance of five cents to before a meeting, if a demand The third item made provision available for sale a few days Government, things should go Boston, Mass., U.S.A. tolerably well, but there are signs
the outstanding idea in a new each coolie as meal money on exists, and the point will be con already that disruption might|
invention of a German scientist, his commencing work, the same sidered at the next Committee A successful whist drive was and is receiving the attention of to be considered as a cumshaw if Meeting. It is too late to do this break out Our Canton curres-held last evening in the Garrison such well-known experts as the each coolie did not get a full with respect to the Gymkhana pondent yesterday hinted friction between the President following were the prizewinners: works and the bead of the design-money would have to be returned
Sergeants Mess, at which the bead of the German Zeppelin day's wages. Otherwise the jast fixed for June 25th. and General Chan King-ming-Ladies: 1st.
(2) The Blackboard must be and it is noteworthy that Tang (181), 2nd. Mrs. Lattam (178), 3rd. works. The Nimfuhr principle is
Mrs. Sandford.ing department of the Fokker to the contractor.
placed where it can be read, Sboa-si has not put in ao p-Mrs. Eccleshall (174). Highest to imitate mechanically, so far as for a lot of argument was the of the Scales. The same inform- Another point which came in easily and checked, by the Clerk pearance. The efforts to raise score in any one half, Mrs. Booth it is possible to do so, the methods discrimination on July 13, 1911. for a period of ten years. it will expiretions they have served to give Tuttle (178). Highest score in any pulsating wing" relies upon an depend solely on their physical
successful and in several direct. Mr. Jones (182), 3rd. Mr. and
insects. The next month. There is an impression in some quarters that the people a sense of oppression, one Dalf Mr. Wilkinson (92) extraordinarily rapid vibrating or afforts to carry out the work Nimfuhr winchmen and coolies who had to if neither party has notified a desire for termination. the Combining all the indications of Q.M.S. Pryer was M.C. Treaty remains valid for another year. This is not what the past month one can at least)
stroke action upon the casblon of Do their part the coolies Raid the Treaty says.
compressed air which in flight is that both classes of workmen What the Treaty appears to contemplate that President Sun Yat-sen is that if either party desires to terminate it, "otice shall and those with whom he is
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this The actual Nimfubr wing is p.m. and the contractors
formed beneath a sustaining plane. should ce age work at be given a twelvemonth in advance (we use this qualified associated will have a hard task morning at the Magistracy described by a correspondant to opposed this extended the period who in guiding their frail craft of marine baxter was prosecuted phraseology because the Treaty, like many diplomatic governmental authority through with being in unlawful possession be hollow, with a flexible me to 5 p.m. It was at length decided documents of high importance, is drawn in terms so slack the turbulent waters of the times. of a a Kodak camera valued at brane on the under side. By that winchmen should cease work Hongkong. June 7, 1921. as to invite the derision of any solicitor's clerk.) Apart Similarly, one fails to see how 530. A Chinese constable said pneumatic mechanism this mem-at 5. p.m. and the other coolies, from this clause, or rather from the non-exerrise of it. the the present efforts of the oppost-tha: yesterday he saw defendant brane is set pulsating or vibrat- who had more strenuous work to
alighting from ä ricksha ing with such rapidity
in
that perform, should finish one hour portents go to indicate that the Governments in London tion can hope to be successful.
Shanghai Street. Something was waves of atmospheric pressure earlier, thus re-establishing the and Tokyo have, in spite of disclaimers, arrived at a general The L. 0. N.
bulging from under his coat and are generated which shall, it is old conditions of working time. understanding on the main question of renewal. However In spite of America's definite Kodak was found. The defendant
The agreement was then signed on defendant being examined the intended, not only sustain but sweeping may be the revision.
also propel the machine. The Conference of Domia-stand on the question of having said he bough: the camera from screws will, in fact, be eliminated.
Air-in the presence of Mr. M. E. Lo ion Premiers has, of course, still to debate the question. In nothing to do with the League of a Shangtung conlie not a French There also a system whereby the a few days we shall be hearing what the Colonies Nations, Britain is pinning her steamer for $6.50. Inspector extremities of the wings can be representatives have to say. From what has already faith to it in a very whole-hearted Brown said that there was extended Or contracted by transpired, one surmises that approval will be expressed, day by Reuters cable telling of yesterday. The Magistrate ned results such as are obtained by manner, as was revealed yester French mail boat in the harbour Pneumatic action to produce subject to provisoes upon certain aspects. particularly preparations for an elaborate the defendant $50.
birds in stretching or folding in relation to the United States and to immigration. celebration of the anniversary of
their wings. Another feature is In this connection we were interested in a special the formation of the League. Not
an automatic stabiliser, in which article contributed to the North China Daily News by Mr. only is Britain being associated!
disturbances of balance set in Geo. H. Fairchild, an American gentleman who is stated
with this celebration but repre-
course be published in the news- to have enjoyed the confidence of Washington for many countries which have joined the
sentatives of the forty-eight Seventeen Chinese Sum-
by small motors, counteract by that old Mee Cheong has won papers? Aye, human nature's years. Mr. Fairchild says:
their movement of the wings any away. I got a kind of double a queer thing roind I'm telling League will take part and the
moned.
tendency of the machine to lose shock at the announcement for ye. The tinte has arrived when there should be a leading statesmen of Britain will There were a number of opium its equilibrium. If Professor it seemed only the other day What's in a name, onyway? rejustment of understandings as to China's future. join in a monster procession to prosecutions this morning in Mr. Nimfahr's claims are sbstantiated that I was speaking to him and The poet, Robert Southey, tells politically as well as commercially, and it is thought by facts, it is a little difficult to see Six Chinese were charged with tests have already been made nyway by his proper name. day that the King of Prussis was Hyde Park. In view of these Orme's Court at the Magistracy. in large-scale work-and soaring wouldas bave known him of an old woman who heard one many publicists that the nullification of the Angle how America's stand is going to keeping an opiam divan. A and pulsating wings of some size For more years than I care to dead, the same being the great Japanese Alliance, as well as the Lansing-Ishii be catered for, unless it is Revenue officer said he raided tested satisfactorily- it is think of I've been miscalling him Frederick. Agreement, would clear the field for a new under-purposed to modify the constitu- 18 Taiwo street, ground floor. calculated that a trans-oceaU Mee Cheong" and never one Old Mary lifted ber eyes with standing between the three great maritime powers.
tion of the League to such an He found the first defendant on craft built on the principle, and word out of his head. Of course vacant stare and replied: "Is which would meet the situation and allay the suspi-joining without the loss of the The place was used as a coolie be so ecnomical in power that don't suppose be ever gave it a
permit of her the bed with some opium nearby, carrying several hundred people when re come to think of it I he? Is be? The Lord ha mercy! cions of the Chinese.
Well, well, the King of Prussia! independent stand she has taken barrack. There were at the time passengers could to carried by air thought but how many Eur. And who's be?" Mr. Fairchild's proposal anmounts to the supersession of At all events this celebration does some twenty coolies who were between Europe and America opean's would go through a The "who's be?" of the old the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and the Lansing-Ishii Agree. show, if nothing else, that Britain taking their meals. The Magis cheaper than in a steamship.
lifetime answering to 8 firm woman roight serve as a text for ment by an Anglo-Americano-Japanese Alliance.
is incere in her endeavour to trate said there was cot sufficient
name. Man, some of them would a sermon on ambition. idea is not a novel one. having been advanced. in one working force for the mainten as a divan and discharged all make the League an efective evidence that the place was kapt
nearly die of colic if they saw A CHASTISEMENT. their name misspelled in the shape or another, several times during the last year or two. ance of world peace. Rightly or except the first defendant, who
paper and a misplaced initial at A compact of this kind. paying due regard to the wrongly, she believes that.id it is was fined $40 or given the option Lazy Apprentice Caned-
ony time almost drives them interests and susceptibilities of China. has on broad to be found the nucleus of an of serving one month in gaoi. grounds many points to commend it.
A Chinese employee from a As to its acceptabilling the international destinies of with being in possession of seven Street, West Point, was charged she and I had mons a collie organisation capable of control- Five persons were also charged printer's establishment in Third Sister Macarie died and though It's no' that long ago since fty to the respective Governments, much would no doubt of the world on a just and equit-taels of opium in a house in before Mr. Orme with assaulting shangie it was only when I read depend upon the conditions of the alliance. concerning able basis. And for that reason Wellington Street. On the ap an apprentice with a rattan cane her death notice that I learned which Mr. Fairchild gives no lead. If the pact is to be anjall who have this matter at heart plication of Mr. Hall, of Messrs.
Write down the names of a extension of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty with objectionable will wish her well.
Lo and Lo, the case was remand-
causing injuries.
for the first time the name of the few men who think they play features eliminated, the inference is that it would be Their Majesties' Irish Visit.
The defendant told the Magis"little old sister ed till to-morrow.
who was so star parts on the stage of public agreeable to Britain, and America would no doubt welcome
In another case six Chinese the market by the master and There's a lesson in this when study the true worth of each. trate that the boy was sent to kenspeckle in our streets. affairs in this Colony to day. Now an opportunity to free herself from the Lansing-Ishii their Majesties of the invitation
The provisional acceptance by offence. In this case the Police master therefore ordered the lad a man or a woman to go through will the next generation probably were charged with a similar was late in coming back. The ye come to think of it. For Concerning how many of them Agreement, into which a large number of her citizens to attend the opening of the prosecuted. consider she was "jockeyed" at the time she entered the Northern Irish Parliament at the effect that he was paid
An informer gave evidence to was asked to administer it.
to have a caning, and defendant life without definite identifica ask: "Who are they?" war. Whether Japan would be agreeable to relinquishing Belfast will have come
tion denotes a certain disinter- The doctor's certificate was pro-astedness almost akin to humility, Cheong'
I'm right sorry that "Moo privileges conferred by that Agreement is open to doubt. surprises to many. Ireland is the and he secured from the first had a swelling on the left ear and generation would continue in als of those I didna' bold in near
twenty cents by a Police sergeant duced, which stated that the boy
has won away. J'Te At the Toyko Conference just held. however, signs were healthy just now and it strikes The first defendant was fined $50
How maDy home of more unrest than can be defend sat opium to that value several bruises and cuts on the back. their ways if no public recogni so much respect.
of the present sent many a wreath to the faner- forthcoming that Japan is prepared to make concessions. the ordinary lay mind as being a and the rest 83 each.
The Magistrate mentioned that tion were given them, if their Chinamas of the old typ-alas.
He was The factor of time comes in. for, as previously mentioned, visit fraught with an element of
the doctor stated in his certificate names didna' appear in the becoming carcer the Anglo-Japanese Treaty is due for renewal next month. danger, sibiet one is loth to think
that, the beating was vigorous, papers every once in a while? Courteous and painstaking to.. every day. though this may not be so pressing as it appears, for an that the political dispute would mindful of the fact that a visit but not dangerous.
Naturally There's 807
man leave's degree he was also ono, yo could interim extension may be agreed upon. Now that Uncle and expression in a display of on their part might be productive the Chinese would consider this Hongkong on a boliday feeling are depend on. Sam sbows a disposition to get beyond academic discussion rulers of the Old Country. But ing better feelings between the and we must abide by the custom because his name has appeared when he was going to returer violence against the beloved of much in the way of establish an ordinary case of chastisement, in better health already simply I was sye chafing him about. of peace-ensuring arrangements, the occasion is eminently the impending visit does serve to political protagonists of the of the country. He did not that morning is the "Local and He had his own ideas on the opportune for the consideration of a tripartite engagement, show that the lot of those who emerald isle. It is to be hoped thick be could do much, but General." How often has the subject, too personal to repeat whether by a single instrument in place of the Anglo rule is not always cast in soft that the influence of the visit will would refer the defendant to the success of certain Foods been here. Japanese Treaty or by a supplementary vue.
places and that the King and be commensurate with its import-[S,C.A. Accordingly the
But now that he has case due to the knowledge that the retired at last, I wish him every Queen of England sre.not un ance.
was remanded till Friday, donor's names would fa da esse wherever he is,
The
extent as to
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OPIUM CASES.
By Robt. MacWhirter.
motion lavers which, actuated) I see from last night's paper
Crazy.
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Of how many names famous to-day will the same question be asked to-morrow: "Who's he?" Probably the most of them, for only a few men survive the
great names of ten years ago severe judgment of history.
mean anything to-day?
To how many people do tha
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