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(To the Editor në thơ “Hongkong Tuligmph"}
A Servant Registration
Scheme.
THE FIGHTING.
Fierce Struggle Around Tang Hain.
government to dispatch some
{warships... “to that port for a
damemtration. The Japanes Government in reported to' bava sent two large battleships to Chafoo in accordance with “the [requent of the Japanese Cón vul.
Ohur Canton, correspondent writes that the most interesting news of the fighting to-day is the Dear Sir-It is with pleasure receipt in Canton of an official KOWLOON NEIGHBOURS that the writer confirms our con- report from Washow. This states versation and gives herewith a that fierce fighting has been summary of his House Servants' in progress for the past fiva days and that heavy losses have been Employment Exchange
A charitable service of such laudable character as that of the 81. Joseph's Home for the Aged Poor, deserves more than passing
"There was only one non-fatal | » notice. It is with pleasure that, we case of enteria faver reported again remark on the activities of yesterday. Otherwise the Colony the local branch of the St. Vincent was free from notifiable diseases, do Paul Society, which in the past has performed many signa}| services in the cause of local The Yokobama Specie Bank, [charity. It may not be common] Ltd, inform us that as from the knowledge that one of the first 22nd Jair 1921, an Agency of the calls on the Society's purse Bank will be opened at Nagoya, during the past year was the Japan. maintenance of St. Joseph's Home, which owes its inception
Case in Court.
Before Mr. G. N. Orms this
1. To secure for house bakters sustained by both parties. Tang in this Colony with the minimum Hain was captured by the Can-morning 1: H. Coole, an un- of expense and trouble the most tonese on Tuesday afternoon. employed engineer, was charged Another repart from the same with assaulting & Danenburg, capable and honest servants that
district states that Tang Hsin has living in 85, Parkes Street Kow- are obtainabia.
changed hands several times and loon. The complainant did not 2-Every applicant will have that about 300 Cantonese soldiers appear. to the generosity of ast ortuguese The chief officer of the as his photograph taken and this were drowned by the sinking of gentleman who prefers to remain Shogiku Maru reports to the picture will be attached to his pontoons and over 1,000 killed on fendant was a nuisance in the Inspector Brown said the de- anonymous. About 20 per cent. Police that on Tuesday, one off of the proceeds from the last the passengers, stole from his credential card to be issued by the battlefield. The losses sustain-district, and was living in an bazaar was earmarked for the cabin jewellery valued at$750.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD Home, but it was found that the
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921.
WORLD-COMITY.
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the primary object of making the position of the Home entirely.
Mr. Gustave Cobart, a pass- independent of the help of the
4-Only when we are thorough Society that the meeting was ger on board the ss. Empresa ly satisfied as to the applicant's called last Sunday at the instance of Japan, reported yesterday to honesty will we allow him to call of Mr. Simon Tse Yan. a noted the Police that he lost a hand upon those who wish to make use
bag containing jewellery valued of bis or her services. worker in the
at $15,000. The hand bag was charity. That it was & succes9 was indicated by the inclusion of eventually found in bis cabin. a number of well-known Chinese
cause
BIG CIGARETTE SEIZURE.
ed by the enemy are not known.
adjɔining house to the complain- · S-A tried and trusted em- From the South it is reported) ant. There had always been ployee of this company will that General Chan King-ming has trouble between them. He asked sum derived from this source was inadequate when compared to the
Our Canton correspondent take this card and go to every authorised the eplistment of a the Magistrate to discharge the demand that was being manewr tes that a report is current one of the people who, has given further six battalions for the de- defendant and to make him enter Another circumstance that had to that a certain bir. Lau, of the applicant a written reference. fence of Kochow, and that a large into a bond to be of good be be taken into consideration, was Hongkong. has advanced the Our employees will ask these qumber of native bandita, about haviour. provision for the lean years Treasury $15,000,000, taking over people to verify the credentials 3,000 strong, have been equipped The Magistrate said he could which the society may have to the management of the Mint as with the photo to see that the with ammunition by the Kwangsi not do that as there was no avid- lface in the future. <li was with security,"
proper party has presented them. forces to attack Shinking from the
epcu. He cautioned the defend- All this will be entered on the south.
ant and told him that the "next card.
Commander Hung Sbiu-lun has time he came up for assault be been given permission to tate bis would have to go to gaol. forces to the central front instead of going to reinfores the Luichow district. He attended a farewell dinner in Canton, given by Pro- 5. Any applicant who when sident Sun Yat-sen, as which a presenting roferences says that large number of military officials Printed instruc- his master has gone home, will were present, gentlemen on the advisory and The foki of a fishing boat be refused. This will be a strictions by the President were working committees, so that the reports to the Police that at 1 open and shut proposition circulated during the function. hopes of the founders are not am. on the 12th instant, while either the applicant has Te- after all, without likelihood of he was on duty near Deep Bas, terences which we can check or graphic code books during the being fulfilled. Several important of Langkoktan, he saw another else we do not bother with him. measures, necessitated by the junk approaching. Shots were This of course may affect many need for extension of the Home fired at his boss and he jumped an honest boy but it cannot be prepared. and the purchase of the site from overboard and swam ashore helped and we must take such a the Government, may likely towards Lungkokisu. When he step as this to prevent dishonest A telegram received in Hong-before Mr. Orme, said some of develop in the future, and we are got ashore he sa both the jack unes from slipping thru our kang to-day from Peking states confident that with the support and the fishing boat sailing away.fogers. of the influential gentlemen who serve on the advisory committee, the future scope of the institution will not be restricted for want of the necessary funds.
There were four fokis asleep at
The feats.
dramatic
Yours, etc. Exporters Co-operative Co.
ERVIN J. WEISS,
Manager.
Owing to the loss of tele-
retreat of certain Cantonese forces
A new code
Later.
Shankiwan.
Case from Shaukiwan. Revenge officers yesterday afternoon seized 164,710 dusable cigarettes at 60 Main is being
Street.
The master of the shops who was brought up this morning the cigarettes were duty paid: Mr. C. H. Lyson defended.
officers to ascertain on how many The Magistrate remanded the case and ask d the Revenue of the cigarettes the duty had not been paid.
A very stubborn resistance was
Between
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The well-groomed appearance
Ourselves
tha Luk Wing-ting has wired
intend 6-We
to ask the Peking that, owing to lack of the time when he swam ashore. Chinese Press and Clubs to co been recaptured by the Cantonese naval assistance, Kochow has The fishing boat is valued at $200.
operate with us.
troops. Owing to insufficient 7. We will charge the House-munitions the Kwangsi forces The baseball team from the bolder Five Dollars for six are temporarily compelled to An Exchange Matter. U.S. destroyer Hart will meet the months' service in our company adopt a defensive attitude only. The news received in the last day or two raises
local American team on Saturday No matter how many boys etc. The Ganton Times reports:- Whilst we in Hoogkong are afternoon prepared to uphold the she applies for the fee of Five After a hard struggle which last- uncommon hopes concerning the comity of nations From
The Dollars will cover anything in the ed for 5 days and nights and at Ireland come tidings that, despite the deplorable out-more closely concerned with the tradition of the Navy.
vagaries of local exchange, fand break in Belfast on Sunday, the truce is being loyally there are those among us who Valley and will start at four us to do for six months.
game will be played at Happy emiloyment line she calls upon tremendous sacrifices, Tang Yuen in Kwangal was captured early observed, and on his arrival in the British capital Mr. De say that our dollar is soon to o'clock. Because of the showing 8-We will charge the boys in the morning of the 12th inst. Valera declared that there is no reason why the two appreciate in value) it is interest made by several new mea in the 25 per cent of their first month's peoples should continue at enmity." These conciliatorying to turn now and again to snappy practice game on Tues-salary of any position we get offered by the Kwangsi troops of the Crown Prince of Japan and it was not until about 1,000 suggests a revolution in tailoring words, we trust, are an carnest of the spirit which will international exchanges, provid- day evening the local line-up on them.
the Japanese animate the representatives of the Emerald Isle, and also as they do a better index than Saturday will be considerably
anything else to the prosperity or
9.-We intend to ask for a law lives on the Cantonese side were mathode among stronger. Pace will pitch, with those of l'Ister and the central Government, at the forth impecuniusity of the different either Scott of Appe: bebicd the that will make it a misdemeanor at that the city was taken. since the days when Admiral
It is encouraging to bat.
to give false information when The enemy also suffered heavy Robley D. Evans first visited the coming discussion. A settlement of the long-outstanding countries.
casualities and more than 1000 Imperial Court, states a writer in applying for a position. Irish problem would be a triumph for the reign of concord note that for the first time since
were captured as war prisoners. & Home journal. The Adıviral the war the English £ reached a
10. We have been going over The fall of this stronghold has was astonished to find the Em- which Armistice Day was to usher in Simultaneously value of $4 in New York towards The Hongkong Theatre's latest the field for the past few weeks greatly discouraged the enemy press, as delicate in appearance with this question one of far wider dimensions has been the close of May and that it has is "A Silent Man," commencing and have all our plans ready. troops and no serious resistance as some fine piece of Dresden engaging the attention of statesmen. As the result, it slightly appreciated in value on Thursday the 14th inst. In This will be no experiment for is expected from them in other china." attired in a Paris gown
Despite all the this screen play Wm. 9. Hart as we have passed that stage. is now definitely announced that a conference upon the Far since that time.
cities nearby. When news of the that made no pretence of fitting, Westero "Eastern question and the limitation of armaments is to be struggles of the coal strike and delineator of the
11-In conclusion we wish to capture of Tang Yuen reached whilst the Emperor's trousers the adverse effect such a happen-character excels bis previous
"bagged" at the knees most held at Washington in November.
ing would have on exchange, records. As "Silent Budd" Marray that if the housholders co-Gen. Chan, he predicted that Nan This happy decision appears to be the mediate Britain's financial solidarity is he interprets a role teeming with operate by refusing to take boys Ning would be captured inside atrociously. It was explained to
who are not registered at our of three more weeks.
him that no Japanese tailor would outcome of the Imperial Conference. which will thereby be still something of which we can tense
interest and
Under the pretext of stamping dara to touch the person of either rendered memorable. The representatives of the Dominions, be proud. The pound sterling sensational achievements. There office we soon can succeed in while generally favourable to a modified renewal of the has only depreciated 177 per will also be shown " Deset keeping the dishonest boys from out the boycott of Japanese goods of their Majesties, but just looked
this company is successful it will sulate there has requested his ments. Anglo-Japanese alliance, have been specially solicitous of cent faccording to the latest Hero" & two part Fatty Arbuckle securing positions. So that ifat Chefoo. the Japanese Con- at them and guessed the measurS- quotations) whereas the currency comedy, and Mr. Jack Coco with sill a distinct and long felt want cultivating harmony with the United States, and a prompt of the other late belligeren: coun- Miss Annette will render their
in the Colony and it will be exchange of views with that country, Japan, and China try's show a very rouch greater fall latest songs,dances and acrobatic successful if popular opinion is a was decided upon, as a result of which President Harding on the New York market.
sign. Our states-French frane has depreciated 55.4 took the initiative in proposing a conference. men were desirous that America should formally take the lead per cent, the Belgian franc is
down by a like figure, the Italian With a view to co-operate with in instituting the negotiations, because the Senate would fire is down as much as 71.5 per the police in maintaining public be more likely to ratify the conference, and. furthermore, cent.. whilst the German mark is order in Canton the members of such a step accords with more than one resolution passed still at something near vanishing the Merchants Volunteer Corps by Congress during recent months. The expansion of the point-92.7 per cent, depreciation are out on duty in the business July, 12th 1921.
the different have been A two-Power alliance bas Japan, of course, hardly comes centres movement is noteworthy.
into the reckoning, the yen being municipal offices
The notified according. The main hitherto held the held in relation to the Far East. There only a trifle under par has been a growing sense that, if renewed, its purview tendency of late has been for the object of the volunteers is to
And now, to the Bastille, ye intrepid Parisiaus! There grapO“. should be extended so as specifically to take into account currencies of all European coas Preserve pesce in the business
shot still threatens: thither all men's thoughts and steps are DOW American interests in this quarter: aud at the same time, tries to show an upward move. centres so as to serve as
the merchants Mr. John Reginald Harding. tending.....
On then, all Frenchmen, that have hearts in your bodies: Roar due in no small measure to China's insistence upon her ment on the New York market Protection to
and, with the hiring of each coun-themselves. On account of the
Many of the older residents of with all your threats, of cartilage and matal, ye Sons of Liberty; rights having become more articulate, a feeling has try's obligations and the avoid present outbreak of bostilities developed (a little late in the day, but perhaps ance of heavy expenditure, one between the troops of Kwangtung Shanghai will regret to learn of stir spasmodically whatsoever of utmost faculty is in you, soul, all the more to be welcomed on that account) that can foresee the gradual elimina and Kwangsi. it is feared that the death of Mr. J. R. Harding. body, or spirit; for it is the hour! Smite, thon Louis Tourasy, of all this discounting irresponsible persons from the He came to China as Assistant cartwright of the Marais, old-soldier of the Regiment Dauphine; China, the one most particularly concerned of all the tion
process. National economy mast enemy might be in the city to Engineer in the Chinese Customs amite at that Outer Drawbridge chain, though the Sary bail whistles Powers, is entitled to direct participation. This recognition be the slogan of all European stir up disturbances in the in 1880, under Mr. David Marr round thee! Never, over nave or felloe, did thy axe strike such Henderson. then Engineer-in-a stroke. Down with it, man: down with it to Orcus: let the whole "must be a most gratifying sign to the numerous friends countries for many months and business shops with a view in of China as well as to China herself, and the wish of those thas it is one sees the imper-looting. Hence, the officers of Chief, whom he succeeded in accursed Edifice sink thither, and Tyranny be swallowed up forever. Glorious: and yet, alas, it is still but the outworks. The Eight friends doubtless is that China's governors, on their part. stive need of an agreement being the corps consider it necessary 1898. Mr. Harding retired from will show themselves able to rise to a realisation of their come to with regard to armaments, to take precautions to prevent China in 1908, and bought an grim Towers, with their Invalide musketry, their paying stones and anj such disorders.Canton estate, Sellarsbrooke," in Mon-cannon-mouths, still scar aloft intact:-Ditch yawning impassable, If Britain, for example, can apply responsibilities and interests. Thus the original size of herself to clearing off her huge Tires.
montb, for which county he was stone-faced; the inner Drawbridge with its back towards us: the & Justice of the Peace. He was Bastille is still to take!......... the compact is doubled.
deb, then her exchange with the
succeeded by the late Mr. David For four hours now has the World-Bedlam roared: call it the President Harding's plan goes farther than this, as he other nations of the world must
Crawford Dick.
World-Chimera, blowing fire! The poor Invalides have sunk has trebled the number of the original parties by bringing inevitably appreciate. And the
Deceased
оде of the under their battlements, or rise only with reversed muskets: they in France and Italy as well. The reason is not far too argument applies all round.
in a century; hence 1921 A.D. is original members of the Engineer- have made a white flag of napkins; go beating the chamade, or seek, and, in fact, was openly expressed by President The Modern Methuselah..
not 1299 A.R. but 1377 A.H. Asing Society of China, and was seeming to beat, for one can hear nothing. The very bwiss at the President for the Session 1904-5. Portonllis took weary of firing: disheartened in the fire-deluge: ■ Harding when Senator Borab brought forward his resolu-
In Tuesday's issue we alluded this margin is the accumulation A notable contribution to the porthole at the drawbridge is opened, as by one that would speak. tion. Allied fleets must be taken into the reckoning. This to the claim of a venerable of thirteen centuries, the propor- is all to the good, because it widens the scope of the agree-dweller in Constantinople to hay tion affecting friend Zorah would proceedings of that Society was See Huissier Maillard, the shifty man! On his plank, swinging ment. The Far Eastern question may thus be made in- ing registered 146 not cut-years, not be much, and the only ques- bis paper on the erection of a over the abyss of that stone Ditch; plank resting on parapet, ba- South Cape of Formoss, which towards such an Ark! Deftly, thon shifty Usher: one man already strumental in securing an undertaking in respect of a pot runs. The dates did not tion, theo, is whether the old First Order Light house on the lanced by weight of Patriots, he bovers perilous: such a Dove general limitation of armaments by the chief Powers of the appear to agres altogether, except gentleman is correct about his work he carried out tinder great fell; and lies smashed, far down there, against the masonry; Usher Maillard falls not deftly, saerring, he walks, with out- world, all of whom except one have large interests out here that, as hinted at the close of the stal year. Regarding the 19-difficulties by direct labour.
He was an enthusiastic sports spread palm: The Swiss holds a paper sbrough ble porthole; the Regarding the Far Eastern question itself, we may expect mathod of computing the Islamic the Caliph Omar, we feara from to see the principle of the Open Door placed upon a year might account for the differ- our correspondan; that this was man, and took a leading part in saifty Usher spatches it and returus. Terms of surrender: Pardon, clearer basis. Critics have asserted that the storm-centre ence in age. A correspondent bas never put into operation. We the management of the Shanghai immunity to all! Are they accepted?- Foi d'officer, On the word of the world has gravitated from Europe to the Pacific. been good enough to state the case avail ourselves of the opportunity Gun Club. Elected an Associate of an officer," sewers half-pay Hulis, or hall-pay Elie, for men In the sextupular conference, be it only conducted in a completely. The Mohammedan to thank our friend for his Member of the Institution of do not agree on it, they are!" Sinks the drawbridge,-Usher Bastille is fallen! Victoire! Lu Bastille est prise! :-From Carlylo's spirit of rational goodwill, dwells the prospect of year, being based upon the lunar elucidation, and to wish our friend Civil Engineers in 1887, he was Maillard bolting it when down: rushes in the living deluge: the
principle, is ten days or so shorter of the many years, many more transferred
The French Revolution, still harmony's triumph over discord.
than the solar rear of the
and
Gregorian calendar, so that there
is a difference of some three years
paragraph, a difference in, the vision of the Mohammedan era by
OBITUARY.
WAS
to the Class
Members in 1891.
of
But, to the living and the struggling, a new Fourteenth (July 1789) morning dawas. Under all roofs of this distracted City is the nodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution..................... This day, my sons, ye shall quit you like men. By the memory of your fathers' wrongs, by the hope of your children's nghis! Tytanoy impends in red wrath: help for you is none, if not in your own right hands. This day ye must do or die.........
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