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ARMSTRONG-On 15th July, Emily Armstrong, widow of the Iate John Martin Armstrong, aged 80 years. The Funeral will pass the monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day. (Saturday).
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921.
SERVANT REGISTRATION.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
SATURDAY, JULY 16. 1921-
DY BY DAY.
LOVER GLORY QAN ONLY CREATE GREAT HERO; CON-
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1896.
HONGKONG TWENTY-.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Compiled from the "Honghong Telegraph" £les for the week- ending July 24th, 1398)
THIRTY YEARS SERVICE.
Retirement of Mr. D. J. Mackenzie.
BASEBALL
This afternoon af 4 o'clock the- local Baseball team plays the nins from the U. S Destroyer Har on the Hongkong Foot- Another link with the Hong-ball Field at Happy Valley, and kong of many years ago is soon as the Sailors claim to bave s to be severed by the departure | battar aggregation, than the Home on retirement af Senior |“Rizal "team, a closely contested Revenue Officer D. J. Mackenzie, { game is expected. who will carry with him the Heine Krull, the newly elected best wishes of a very wide circle | Manager, has two new men Pat- of friends. Owing to ill-healthtor and Koek whom he expects to of late Mr. Mackenzie has been play in today's game, as their obliged to leave a little earlier hitting featured in the practice than he otherwise would but games played Wednesday and his record af servion with the Friday. `-
Chairs will be provided for
Hongkong's Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts of the Colony now have their own official organ, No. 1 of the Silver Wolf having. made ita appearance. Its get-up is admirably neat, and, still Among the passengers by the better, its contents are eminently Shlayo tu to-day is Mr. J. P. attractive and suitable, giving Xaviar, thief Clark of the promise of a successful and Chartered Bank, who, while on useful monthly magazine (20 six month leave, is taking his centa). A history of the H. K. B. 9son. L. Xfier, to College in the
United Sea. Association is contributed by the Hon. Secretary, and there is a narrative of the Scouts'
We les that Liont-Colone perience when in camp a few W.O.. Saders, D.S.O., RA, took
coapand of the Royal | months ago. An article entitled over
July 18th. The many friends Hongkong Government already e A True Scout describes the Artillery, Phina Command, from organising aff: rts of Mrs. Rayner, Lieut-Colly, Loring. DS.D., on of the late Inspector Mofsit who extends over a period of nearly spectators. and in another chapter The 13th July1921. Lieut-Col. Lor-died at plague contracted whilst thirty years.
Mr. Mackenzie first joined the that the European outdoor staff Story of the Girl Guides" isina is proceding Home by the ss. carrying out his duties will be picturesquely told. In a special Kalyan."
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*THE DOLLAR. July 17th-The rate of the Dollar, on demand, to-day is 2-3/33.
A MARTYR TO DUTY.
pleased to learn that the Govern-service as a police constable in has grown from three to slaven.
ment has made a compassionate Dotober, 1891, and continged to
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article an seepunt is given of Sir Walter Raleigh's first expedition A succesful whist drive was allowance of $1000 to his widow. serve with that force until July. The opium monopoly was then in to Guians, while Mr. R. Wheld last rening in the Wilts She will further receive a small 1899, when he was transferred the hands of the opiam farmers Barcey provides an entertaining Sergeants Mess, Murray Bar monthly allowance from the to the Sanitary Department and anything in the way of *# Inspector, sing to smuggling was covered by the the Second Class in 1963. In polloe. Revenue Officers have set of illustrated Nature Notes racks. Th following were the Widows and Orphans Fund Another feature is a page in the fortunate layersLadies: Ist.
A REGULAR *BULL DOG." 1904-05, at the time when Chinese Dow to cover, liquor, tobacco and vernacular. There are also Mrs. Hun (179), 2nd. Mrs.
labour was being transported opium and the Department has diverting columns of "Merry Grimes (13), 3rd. Mrs. Beard July 20th-A British sailor to the Transvaal, Mr. Mackenzie Brown enormously. For the past Thoughts." and the Editor (MM/(176), Boobs, Mrs. Williams (136), named Ullathan was this morn was seconded to the Emigration | been in charge of the Kowloon twelve years Mr. Mackerzie bas 1. Kay) proposes to develop the Gents: 1st.dr. Evans (183), 2nd. ing before Captain Hastings Department that was established lighter side in the form of prize Mr. Matthws (175), 3rd. Mr. charged with having assaulted and was in charge of the special Wharf sub-office and during the essays, puzzles, and answers to Foster (17), Boobs, Mr. Beard the watchman of the Sailors depot established at Laichikok. enquiries, in which the beys are (133). R. M. S. Miller carried Home last night, splitting his ear On the completion of this work with the work of preventing the invited to participate. Mention out the dries of M. C. in bis and biting his hand. He was he returned to the Sanitary De importation of enemy goods GREIG.- On the 15th instant, at Cornhill Quarry Bay, to must not be omitted of
On the recent an usual conghial manner. sentenced to twenty-eight days' partment, ranking as a first class or contraband.
death of Chinf Preventive Mr. and Mrs. Kenueth E. Greig, a daughter.
Inspector and Plague Inspector Offer Wildin, Mr. Mackenzie excellent photograph of the Hon. Mr. P. M. Holyoak, which adorus The Bogkong Amusements
| until September 1909. It was in the frontispiece. All interested Limited areto be congratulated
that month that the Imports and Mr. S. J. Clarke being made was runde Senior Ravenne Officer, July 20th-The coxwains of the Exports Department was first in the Scout mevement should on their entrprise in connection
with the newly-acquired Wo Piog regular ferry launches running established and Mr. Macken-Home leave about twelve months
CP.O. Since returning support this bright publication.
Cinema. Th engagement for a between Kowloon and Hongkong zie, together with the late Elasticity versus Rigidity. short seas of the famous have long borne excellent reputaMfr. J. Wilden and Mr. ago Mr. Mackenzie has enjoyed The "goose step" was often magicians, Chefalo and Palermo, tions os account of the number of L. E. Brett, was one of the three to proceed Home for good some- bat indifferent health and expects bas done mch to make known lives they had saved from time to original Revenue Officers ap-time this month. cized by English critics as typical of German
this new voiure. The tricks time. Their efforts in this direc pointed. As indicating the growth Army pedantry. Mr. N. S. Lytton, who which these irtistes were able to tion may and probably have been of the Department since that time rank of Inspector in the Police Daring the war he held the served on the General Staff dur- provide, was the cause of much stimulated by the reward of $10 (there were only liquor duties little invariably given them by Mr. imposed at first) it might be stated ing
supervising astonishmen and not War the arrangements respecting marriment & the Theatre last Dorobjee. Beyond this incentive the Press correspondente, has evening who their engagement their work in this direction has published a book in. which he commenced. Several new tricks resulted in three of the coxwaing Royal makes the surprising statement not hitherto seen here were add-being presented with that it was the English, not the ed to a lagely assorted pro-Rumane Society's certificates by German troops who were most gramme that included a number Bis Excellency the Governor. new The coxswain of the Evening Star bandicapped by rigid red-tape. of dances. We notice a The question of servant registration in this Colony is He considers that the Colonial recruit with Chefalo. This is on Saturday morning added to the
Joe and i had a long talk the a bourtree gun and yet the first by no means a new one. Its merits and demerits have been system, with its greater elasticity, young girl whose clever dancing long list of gallant rescues.
other night when we were having time he went on the range to fire argued time and again, but the proposition that has now yielded far superior results. In was much applauded by been made public by Mr. E. J. Weiss, of the Exporters ness be writes that a glance was
tea at Wiseman's. He got started his Standard Test be scored 138 describing some Australian gun-admiring adience.
July 21st-Still another death about his boyhood days and and got the cross guns on his Co-operative Company, raises the whole matter, so that a sufficient to show that their Misappropiation of goods of due to the heat has to be chronicl escapades and it was all very sleeve before ye could say toife. few observations on our part might not be out of place discipline was entirely different the value of over $10,000 from aled. Yesterday a sailor named interesting I couldas, help That just shows ye. Maybe Let us just condense the proposals of Mr. Weiss so that the from that in the Home army.jewellery stop at Bangkok was Charles Johnson recently shipped thinking if each of us were really there's lots of fine writers here in reader can better appreciate what follows.
Whether the "Aussies" would be to have costituted the ground on board the Norwegian steamer honest wit ourselves and set out Hongkong if they would get A House
school down to it and have a altogether gratified at the picture of an application to the Hong- Framais complained of feeling first and foremost to Servants Employment Exchange is going to be established Mr. Lytton gives of them isa kong authotties for the extradi- unwell but as it was thought he ourselves to write a little that the Persons unaccustomed to writ by his firm and householders who require honest servants question. Thay were
much tion of the Chinese who were bad not recovered from the life story of ony one of us would ing, I know, often are at a loss are invited to get them through the Exchange only. A dirtier, and their hair was almost arrested on the 9th May last at effects of the strong drink on make very interesting reading, how to make a start. Some re- the impetus of strong charge of $5 is to be made for six months' service. That as long as the hair of Red Indians," house at Queen's Road West shore not much attention was We would then be able to get quire is simple enough from the housewife's point of view. She says the author," they had loose Beyond the instructions received paid to him until the afternoon the true story of a British house emotion, such as anger, before lithe bodies and expressions of for the identifying and arrest of when as he seemed very ill, Dr. hold. Most of the stuff we read their pen begins to flow freely, pays her $5 and for six months she can get as many extreme cruelty, such as
со prisoners you the
extradition Jordan was called. He was too is so unreal that after it is check- Borrow sometimes sets it loose. servants from the Exchange as she wants.
Now, the see
on the faces of birds of papers from "Bangkok bave late however, as the combined ed up wi' our own experience we Perhaps the best thing I ever servants-it doesn't matter whether it's a boy, cook or anah prey. They
troubled arrived sad the prisoners, who effects of the sun and spirits had instinctively know it is false and read here was an appreciation of
bare bsd
to brought the heat apoplexy, from can very easily separate the the late Nail Lamont written by or even house coolie-will make application for work. His abort salating, and they called consequently,
nsnded from time to which he died about 5 p.m. The brass from the gold. Of course one of our Police Inspectors sod photograph will be taken and attached to a credential card me mate' whenever I spoke to be
one of them: they seemed to me time, were to-dey released Water Police removed the body the question of technique enters would you believa me ibere the Exchange will give him. All the references the frightfully efficient, and never re. by Mr G. X. Orme after a request to the Mortuary. applicant gives will be looked into to see if they arequired an order of any kind; filed by Messrs. Wilkinson and genuine; if the late master or mistress have left the Colony every one knew just exactly what Grist who stated that in the he will be turned down. False information will be to do." The present writer has absence of the necessary extradi discovered and the applicant will not only be refused a job dirtier or cruel taces alluded to by unfar to further detain the men no particular recollection of the tion papers it would be extremely
It seems to me that the only for the newspapers their but if all residents make it a rule to get their servants only Mr. Lytton, but he does remember who bave already gone through
way to write a good yarn is to style begins to get cramped through the Exchange the servant won't get a job at any that there was a general air of long period of detention.
write from experience plus, of end they have a vision of a time. Twenty-five per cent of the servant's first month's greater freedom on the part of is intresting to recall the fact
course, imagination. Most of couple of thousand pair of eyes Mr. Quezon's Mission. also that a sum of 5900, said to be a
what we read to my mind, is fatile critically examining their effort pay will be charged for the privilege of being able to obtain Colonial troops, and he
distinctly remembers the words portion of the proceeds derived
and valueless because the writers wi' a view to knocking spots off employment in this manner.
The Hon. Mr. M. L. Quezon, have not been satisfied to write the grammar. Grammar is the of an N.C.O. of his battalion from the disposal of the jewellery, Looked at for the first time there seems nothing wroug The Colonials would be the finest was found on the person of one
President of the Philippine of things that have come within curse of writing onyway.. For with the scheme. It would save people, says the promoters, soldiers in the world-it they ha of the prisoners when arrested in
accompanied their personal experience. If generations teachers of by Dr. Calderon, Director they had been satisfied to write English have wasted their a lot of worry and would eliminate the danger of dishonest discipline." This illustrates the May last.
of the General Hospital, of the actual world they live in energies and those of their servants. But there are manifold objections to anything of difference of opinion as to the
relative advantages of rigid dis. CC Quackenbaah. described Maails, Commissioner Gabaldon, to study the characters of persons students in slavish devotion to this sort being done either officially or by a money-making pline, on the one hand, and of as the Manager of the Lasular Manila's representative in Con- with whom they come into the fetish of analysis and par concern. We object to the principle of registration because elasticity, on the other: the very Lumber Company, was, accord.gress, and his secretary, Mr. contact there would be some sing, the bagbear of youth, and it conflicts with the liberty of the subject: we object to it characteristic which the N.C.Oing to the report he made Saavicires, left Hongkong at hope of them arriving at the the enemy of self-expression.
the Police, tbe because it places a "boy" or other servant under the com-schooled in the traditions of the to
victim noon to-day on the Shingo Maru creation of men and women who I'm maybe no what ye would Regular Army) regarded as of a robbery with violence com- for Shanghai, where the party would speak and act naturally. call a writer but I latter myself plete domination of their employers whether those em- handicapping the Colonials, Mr. mitted whilst he was in an un- will catch the Empress of Asia for Only by this means can we ever that I can make cleat snuogh ployers are fitted to have servants or not; and we must Lytton appraises as an asse. Pro known restaurant at a rather Vancouver, from which port they hope to have stories in touch wi' what I want made understood. object to any schente whereby a man can only obtain bably this difference of opinion late hour last night. Iwo un-will proceed to Washington to life and so worth telling.
And I couldna"parse a sentence employment by the payment of money to an intermediary will continue until disarmament known assailants set on him and interview President Harding on Now the same can be applied if my life depended on it. Yet
relleved him of $1,000 in Amer- the present situation in party. Servants must be as free to obtain or relinquish comes about.
the to the chap that writes overmuch. every school boy and girl is employment as the reader of this article or the promoter of Housing in England.
ican currency. a passport, and Philippines.
He gets dried up, or maybe to doomed to waste untold hours on a first class steamer ticket to At a recent meeting of the put it better, the ground of bis this Grand Papjandrum of the the scheme of registration, and it is unfair to institute a The cable respecting the Manila. After having ventured Philippines Islands Senate mind, like an impoverished field, classroom learning under ita semi-detective agency and thereby cast the slur of dis-resignation of Dr. Addison so far into this underworld resolution was passed instructing gets worked out. It wants to lie auspices no' how to write Ea honesty on a class that has long since been praised for its (Minister of Health) arouses of Hongkong. Mr. Quackenbush the President to go to the States fallow for a while in order that glish but how to hate it.
Have a go at it, all ye that general integrity. Those who have trouble with Chinese curiosity as to the true position is unable to describe to the Police and confer with President Har-new impressions and experiences servants are generally those least fitted to manage them of the housing problems at Home. the locality where the robbery ding, but on exactly what ques may be absorbed. The Mac feel inclined and I'll undertake and most unfitted to be their judges. If a photographed- is no room for doubt, but the
tions he is going to interview Whirter that writes to-day fans to give publicity to your effort in the U. S. President, Mr. Quezon the same MacWhirter that wrote this corner even if it means put- credential card is desirable for domestic servants it is extent of the shortage is less
told & Telegraph representative, nearly three years ago for the ting a jorum of whisky in the equally desirable for all of us. Where the Government certain. Daring last year several never returned from France and he is not at liberty to divulge. Telegraph. It's the same man Editor's forenoon glass of milk... exacts a licence for a man to perform a public service-estimates pat the figure at half a other theatres of the war, it e. admitted that, in a way, it right enough (though there are If ye've got something to say,
smart folks who think say it. Never mind the correct such as a ricksha puller or chair bearer or taxi-driver-million or so, although one or two seems surprising, despite the was in connected with the petition some there must be a ready means of identification but where the represented it as double this. A suspension of building during the for the independence of the the contrary) but it's no the English and the mastering of its London newspaper cently to war, that the shortage should be islands, but more than that he same mind. How could it? barbarous and soul-destroying relationship between the parties is simply that of employer hand reports a member of the as acute as represented. But has would not say
Started three years ago as a formula. If ye do, you're never and employed the question of registration becomes not only building trade as saying that the not the Government by this time
Yesterday Mr. Quezon and his hobby it was easy money for likely to write at all.
your's truly. Nowadays, it is, Sit down and write what you superfluous but entirely unjust. If you demand registra-scarcity would be covered by compiled a tolerably accurate tion of the one you must demand a fitness to employ of the 100,000. Whether this is after schedule of requirements? If it party went to Cali00, where they I confess, a little mors exacting. have thought (that's the only allowing for the houses that have has, it is doubtful policy to curtail were entertained to a friendly Before September 1918, I never thing necessary) and no to think "other.
been erected during the last year the scheme, unless it has luncheon by President and Mrs. wrote anything for publication. what you shall write. Use the By all means let Mr. Weiss run his business of supply-or so is not clear. Even in the beeg ascertained
that the Sun Yat-sen, and where they also There's a few perhaps unkind first words that come to you. ing servants. If he can get public support and the co- latter case the figure shows famine was unduly magnified, met Dr. Wu Ting-fang. Mr. enough to say that if I had stop- Thought written in the way most Impressed ped in the August of the same that comes of itself into your mind operation of out-of-work servants there is no objection to huge discrepancy. It is pos because housing is a primary Quezon was
President and Mrs. Sun year that no-one would have will pass all the more readily of the necessity. The progress that has by sible that, in spite his being an intermediary, so long as he is an intermediary stringency of accommodation, the been made with the Government's and
the greatest been the worse off. Well, there's into that of another and wi' mach between voluntary parties. But so soon as the scheme shortage has been exaggerated. scheme is more considerable than admiration for them. He was something in that when ye come more effect into the bargain. !
also greatly delighted with the to think of it. Ye, never can savours of registration as generally understood so soon will When there are enough bouses to reporte had led people suppose,
This corner's at the disposal it violate a vital principle of freedom. At Home there go round with a few to spare, especially having regard to the progress that is being made to tell what ye can do till ye of ony that want to try their was once talk of registering servants, but in the storm of tenants can readily obtain pre but unless the country's needs improved, he said, and he is of the war that, never handled ouy- Don't be shy or prond, I'll no difficulty with the trade union; development of Canton try it. I had a nephew in the prentice hand and aspire to see Streets are being widened and Black Watch that went a' through their thoughts in 10pt. Roman. indignation such a proposal raised was sounded the death mines, but as
moderate shortage occurs houses have been enormously over-stated, knell of the scheme. And Hongkong should be guided are at a premium. "Considering there must still be a marked the opinion that it will one day thing more deadly in his life offer ye money onyway so ye
be a very fae city, thereby.
the number of Britain's sons who shortage.
before he became a soldier than needna' be feared,
About the housing famine there was committed.
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