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THE HONGKONG
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 1921.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY,
U. K. Finance.
THE MAN WHO FEARS NOTHING It is somewhat reassuring 19 AS POWERÉUL AS HE WHO to hear, on the authority FEARED BY EVERYBODY,
Chancellor of the Schiller,
the
THIRD TIME'S UNLUCKY. wouldan bring him back again. I mind wondering if they'd bury him in von brand new suit. Folks began in’look funny stˇmë and to edga'away, as if I'd just
By Robt MacWhirter.
SHANGHAI NEWS.
It was all MacPherson's fault made it public that I was the
Shanghai, August 18, anyway. He's a croaker right father of ten and they were
ät home wi A suit for sie hundred thousand enough yon man, and has anough all laid up of the
superstition in his make-up to the smallbox. The passeng-taala damagon has been fist Exchequer, that "during first four and a half months For being in possession of a stari a mental ward all by him-er wouldna get off the bost, against Attorney William Elem thinking it was lucky ing by the Philippine National of the financial year (which revolver, Chinese, who wa* salf. He was over at our place maybe presumably signifies from April defended by Mr. Leo d'Almada, yestreen. Mac, he comes often to stop over a corpse. By and Bank,
SINGAPORE NEWS.
to mid-July) the ordinary was at the Polles Court this up. No, that I object, mind by a policeman came aboard, It is alleged that, while anting ye, but when a man helps himself turned white and put a couple o as its Attorney, Mr. Flaming revenue has been remarkably morning fined $50.
to your cigars like a Revenue fingers in his mouth. I could see disclosed business secrets to other steady." The only serious defi ciency, we are told, appears to be involved in E. P. D. and the sale Mr. W. Hoogh, parser of the Officer and makes every visit an that he was face to face wi' the basks
Blue Fungel liner Glaucus, has alcoholiday ye dinna' expect him biggest thing he'd yet come up of war materials. Apparently
space oo two minutes was trying these deficiencies will not be so reported to the police that a gun to go away leaving your women against and that in the short large as entirely to eliminate the metal stop watch valuad at folks in a nervous twitter.
“Aye," says he wi' yon brands. his hardest to recollect all that £78,000,000 which the Govern-153. has been stolen from his
to-be-placked from the burning, Gerrard had ever told him of how ment proposed to apply to the cabin.
sort of look of his, "ays, that's to dot in such circumstances. I
Japanese Crown Prince Bioking-fond for reducing the
And him I'd help him to see it through. National Debt. That is a negative Among the passengers leaving the second o' the kind. I wonder was sorry for the lad and teil't!
Arrives. who'll be the third.” sort of consolation, but after the Hongkong to-day by the Empress that he locks round at us as if He looked a bit suspicious and asked me how I came by the cut
Singapore, August 18, wholesale dislocation occasioned of Russia, ware Mrs. W. Davison
The Japanese Crown Prince by industrial and other causes and Miss Mary Davison, Mr. and we'd horns in our head. Janst
it and the figure on the deck. taxpayers are probably disposed Mrs. C. A. Hooper, and Miss Babe got a bit nettled. "Maybe when on my brow. He kept looking at
feel thankful for small Skipton, of the Diocesan Girls Your finished talking to your By this time the tabib who arrived here this morning. The
self," says she "ye'll come to and to mercies. The deficit under the School..
share the good news wi' the com- ornaments the ricksha stand Governor's deputy want on board. The ships in harbour were de- ambied aboard, bis brogues corated and many Japanese two bezda named serves as
pany. Janet can be gey tart when
sounding like the knell of doom.
visited the Katari The Prince A shopkeeper from Meeso who she likes, mind I'm telling ye.
He was ordered to telephone for of war material, which have been took up temporary quarters at "Are" intoned be no whit the ambulance at once.
is not landing officially but may such a help to recent Badgets, No. 17 Square Street, third floor.abashed him having served six
It was only then that I minded ashore incognito as before. He leaves for Hongkong this must not be looked to much reports that yesterday jewellery weeks of a five years apprentice-bout MacPherson and his prog- longer, in one case because o ly to the value of over $124 was ship as
afternoon. a boy in a tannerynostication. I could see myself arrears are now being collected stolen from his room.
"ase, they aye come in landed in the cells and my name (EP.D. having been abolished).
threes. I mind Sine the year our on the posters next day.
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while most of the war material) A gold wrist watch with ex- Wallie was born, a coolie o' out about as much time as it takes must have been sold by now, buge as its bulk was, and what is punding band, valued at $80, and pinched my second best pair to say kaifs I went through the left no longer commands the top contained in knitted handbag boots and the same year I got primary ordeal of the charge room, the Magistracy and the
Singapore, August 18. real from the ladies dressing room at silver spoon. Take the year 1918, long wait till the 18th of next The Chancellor feels
Two Japanese: Nakamura and Prices of a year or two back was yesterday morning stolen stuck at the bowling green for a apprehension" in regard to 1922, the . R. C. whilst its owner. for instance, first we had the month. I wondered idly if the
To balance Miss D. Sours, of No. 7. Aimai Gresson Street affair, then the Band of the Rassis would play in Honds have reached the final in Racecourse disaster and the S Court or if they'd have to wait the Singapore Lawn Tennis Open Sir Robert Horne Villas, was bathing in the tank.
George's War Bond Drawing to till they got a plano fetched in Championship. expenditure must be
finish up wi. Aye, midortunes from the City Hall. reduced by £130,000,000 compar In adispute between two north-
sye come in threes right enough.
By this time the constable had a The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriped with the current year. It isern Cainese yesterday, one of the Last week the motor ambulance po' my arm and I saw it was tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a consoling to bear that things are men, with great ferocity, bit of called round at the Astor, yes-the Water Folice Station for This may sapada piece from the left ear of his treen the Wo Ping was the scene your's truly in a very short space Where pest of time. If there's anything I The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee
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the amount is not so formidabit less, Mr. G. N. Orme, who heard
at the Last Day, when the big come forward and the policeman Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
as it looks, and besides the the case at the Police Court this put a damper on the proceedings yet. The ambulance had just Chancellor is this time talking morning. believed that justice Book's opened up and the goats anxious to do two jobs at one and xboat saving, not spending. By could be met by the infliction of and sheep are divided out. His the same time, kind o' loosened this time, and with the closing fine of $3 on the biter and face ll be enough to put the angel his grip while he saw to the dis-
The only case at the Crimina! down of sundry "Government ordered a like sum.to be paid to Gabriel off his tune. I very near posal of the palm-beach Prussian Sessions this morning was
of departments, there should be his victim as compensation. This
robbery preferred' thinking it scope for an appreciable cut in decision is almost on a par with gave him two drinks reeningying on the stretchar. That was charga
my chance. Jerking myself out against ค young Chinese the Civil Service Estimates. Con the one given last year when aman thoughts but on consideration it of his clutches I vaulted over a named LarSo, alias Li Fong Chi. cerning this the committee of was ordered to pay $1 as compen-
alleged to have business men just appointed tsation to & fitter for causing the as ower expensive a process ricksha and... then I heard Prisoner wa
participated in an attack upon just for the sake of a psychologia voice in the dark. help in the Ministry's retrench-loss of an eye.
cal problem. He's a wet bag,
Never was I more pleased to a young lady named Miss Ab nect p licy may be expected to
right enough. Try as I might to hear it, weighed as it was wi Wee who was stopped while offer some pointed suggestions, i
lighten the conversation I could they do not fall under the as
a
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1921.
A CRY FOR HELP.
atmosphere.
would
his taro
mody.
FIVE YEARS AND THE CAT FOR YOUTHFUL PRISONER.
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of the 5th August and robbed of pbyxiating influence of the official NEW COTTON FACTORY.ee he'd got the womenfolk think-loop-filled annoyance and acri-riding in a ricksha on the evening ing overtime and from then on- "Where d'ye think you're a gold ring and gold wrist watch. wards what was on their lips gaun wi' the sheet yo restless Ten minutes were sufficient for wasna' on their mind. I aven sumph ye. The next time you're the Puise Judge (Mr. Justice suggested that the worst that for faing over the bed dinas J.R. Wood) to dispose of the case. might happen
was that make so much noise about it
Mr. Dyer Ball, barrister, ap- some of our light fingered gentry either." As one measure towards mak- might pinch the C.R.A. peti-
peared to prosecute on behalf of
Silesia.
The proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday regard. ing Silesis sounded an unwonted
Hongkong Firm's
Enterprise.
дот
We have been reading news of the serious state of
And as I climbed in again and things in Russia for some days now: is that all we are note of harmony. First Mr. Asquithing China independent of the im- tion. But Mac didus see that in turned my wet pillow I swore I'd the Crowns going to do, just read about it? Mr. Lloyd George has bestowed solids of apportation of foreign woven goods the light of a disaster. He thought ont landasum in the next drink fold us that the Russian famine is the worst visitation that the Premier's handling of affair a scheme is under way for the is would be a blessing if they did. MacPherson got in our house. Europe or the world. has known for centuries. No fewer at last week's meeting of the establishment of a huge cotton Finally he went away without
well-known Labour leaders swell Shangbai.
morning which clearly showed than ibirty-five millions of people are in dire distress. the urnes Council, and then two factory on a convenient side in pinching an extra cigar for the
Announcement of this new his perturbed state of mind. inhabitants of the famine districts are fleeing in masses.ed the symphony. "Full sup
who venture was made yesterday to a But before long I had to admit
col" Cabinet க
is no: so astonishing, but it was by Mr. Cockchun, Chief Man in the Ferry soon afterwards I ager of the Hongkong Wing On had a bad experience and one the
COL
GHOSTS.
The prisoner, asked to plead, said the gold watch and ring were snatched by anciber man who. ran sway. He add: "I was asked to assist only."
The Judge: That amounts to a plea of guilty.
Mr. Dyer Ball: I think so, There must have been many my lord.
The Judge: The gentlemen of
H.
and appear to be doomed to annihilation. Other details port" from Mr. Barnes.
been follow, all equally eloquent in spelling the necessity of bas
This is not the time to consider orleague of Mr. Lloyd George,/representative of the Telegraph that he was right. Coming across "Last Night's Propitiation. immediate action. argue the past inefficiencies of the Soviet regime, or a trifle of a surprise to find Mr. Company, which with other cou-like of I never wish to have hap-well-fed ghosts in the Colony last the perLicious political policy it has attempted to impose Thomas weighing in with un panies aliliated to it, are the pro- pen again. I mind the time dis night. Their hunger is possibly the jury at this Criminal Sessions on the inhabitants of its vast country, Humanity cannot qualified approbation on behalf moters, and was have subscribed tinctly-quarter past five from appeased for many days to come. are now discharged. I will not
a substantial sum towards the the Hongkong side. The boat was We prosaic westerners seem to datain them any longer. are Political oppousats ignore the cry for help, cannot afford to take the risks off the whole Labour Party.
full up and the last man to climb care very little about them, but
Mr. Dyer Ball asked whether non-assistance. Food for starving peoples, medical supplies ally so candid. Eowever well capital.
Operating under the style of aboard was a big hefty chap, our native friends have perform his Honour wished him to outline to combat the pestilence to which want will give rise, and merited approbation may happen
The Judge: No. a speedy resumption of normal trading conditions are to be. Bat in this case logic the Shanghai Wing On Wearing man wi'a Hohenzollern moustache ed their work of charity well, the facto
substantiates the view that the and Spincing Joint-Stock Com- and a palm beach suit. I didna' judging by the demonstrations of
For several evenings past there! Addressing the prisoner, bis essentials that cannot be withheld.
operations in the coming spring time but I mind distinctly the In the words of the British Premier, a great interna-right course has been adopted in any the Company will start take much notice o' t'm at the piety observed all over the City. tional effort is demanded. Private assistance might do referring the question of Silesis when it is anticipated that the thought passing through my has been a great burning of joss Honour said: The indictment
to the League.
new factory. which is being built mind that it was maybe the paper, poor children have scrambl-on the record charges you with something but it is bound to be hopelessly inadequate.
on ten mor of land near the Kaiser passing through to Canton ed for cash thrown from the committing robbery. It appears a jelly fish, the verandahs of the devout, and the from the evidence taken before the The resources of the other nations of the world must be The Final Test Match.
So well did both sides perform Yangtsepoo Bridge at Shangbai, disgured as
will have been completed. colouring in both cases being ghosts of the dead have poured Police Magistrate that you were pooled and organised, and in recognition of that fact
the international with the bat that the allotted
The capital of the Company is identical. Then I got on to mus-forth from purgatory to enjoy with one other man and that on the British representatives
three days were all too few for commission which has been formed are all men who the last of the Test matches. To to be $3,000,000 divided into 30.-ing about the swimming picnic I themselves. It has all passed off the evening of the 5th August have the necessary ability and experience. Sir Philip the big English total of 103, at 000 shares of $100 each. Of this was booked for next week, when very successfully and the humble you attacked Miss Ah Wee who you and the other man robbed. Director of Overseas Trade: which the innings was declared sum fully half has been paid up, all of a sudden I got a knock in astive can attend to his everyday was riding in a rickaba and that Lloyd Greame is the
China bas many festivala, but her of a gold ring and gold wrist Sir John Hewett is a man who has spent many years with eight wickets down, the of which $500,000 was subscribed the ribs that knocked me in a affairs once again.
tor causing & wound on my fore-none more picturesque than that watch. This crime you admitted in india and has had previous experience of famiue light-Australians responded in worthy by Hongkong Chinese business-.W.S.direction against a ventila
style, getting to within 14 of their men.
The Wing On Companies of head from which the blood began which came to a climax yester- at the Police Station after your ing; and Mr. Wardrop is the British Consul at Moscow, a opponents score. Attheir second man right in the heart of the problem. There is unques knock the English batsmen Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai and to ooze copiously. At least that's day. Often known to the foreign-arrest, you admitted it before the each subscribed the way the reporters afterwards ers as the Chinese All Souls' Day Police Magistrate at the Court the floating put it. Wi' that I banged up and (Chung-yaan-chieh) the fifteenth and you have now admitted it tionably a problem to face in Russia itself, apart altogether shaped in still Saer form, running Sydney have from the relief of the stricken. The authorities in power up 244 for the loss of only two $200,000 towards have been none too helpful by their attitude in the past batsmen, so that they wound up funds, and the remainder of the demanded of the palmbeached of the seventh moon is a red let-in this Court. The Medical But he only laughed and wi' coming of the moon synchronises you are fit to be whipped. The and it is only right and proper that such should be pointed 58 runs in front with eight capital is now being rapidly taken Teuton whatthe, howthe, whythe? ter day in the calendar. The Officer of the gaol has certified
wickets in hand, which must up.
As the concern is purely a that my puggy got up and I in to with the coming of the autumn sentence of the Court is that you out to them. Mr. Lloyd George indicated that it would be deemed to give them the
As soon as I crated to the dead. On the first hard labour and whipped ten be. But, to get back to the original question, the British advantage. It was hard lines, Chinese one with the develop him and landed him a beautiful and the great festival is conse be imprisoned for five years with Empire every little part of it-should shoulder its share of therefore, that time prevented a ment of the industrial conditions right on the chin. the bumane burden. Great Britain cannot be left alone definite conclusion, especially as of China as its principal sim, no struck I knew he was out. That's day of the moon the gates of pur-stroke with the birch. in this matter: the Colonies and Crown Colonies and De-the clock had deprived the bone foreigners have been invited to the effect of porridge and girdle gatory are opened, and the hosts
land representatives of victory in participate in the capita), pendencies must again coine to her aid if Britain's share is the fourth Test match. As a result the Englishmen have failed
Crowds of tempis enthusiasts to be adequate.
It is a matter that we in Hongkong ought to ponder to notch a single win in any one and decide upon. We think that if our local Government of the last ten matches, and must Russell was almost as successful, the band as she used to be.) Ays, y on the fifteenth, when the thronged Ryders new all-green seek what consolation they can as he scored centuries in succes- it was a terrible blow and down moon is at the fall, that liberal hard court at the Holland Houss London, last Brown, he went for the count right offerings of food are set out, paper Flower Show,
I've money is burnt for the enrichment month. The invention gave consideration to the problem and made public some from the fact that the last two sive philanthropic suggestion that it would receive the hearty matches were drawn in their the Hants all-round champion, formenst the gangway. Support and backing of the entire community. We can favour. England's enormous im- amply justified himself, not only distinct recollection of standing of the dead, and masses are saki simple, but the ingredients that well afford to show a little practical sympathy, either by provement in the fourth Test scoring 32 and 84, but' stumping back wi' one hand on the rail and for the release of the unhappy make the court are like the It might match evidently inspired the two men and catching another in wondering whether they'd cable state... Hongkong bas helped to farmer's manuree, “mixed with
lonings that the home the pictures of the fight or make them happy for a little brains." Doe
a green grounding all the sending Home of money or provisions.
It is interesting to note that the westhers. The chief advant strong, McDonald and Ca., Australian batsmen bad. The merely send them overland by while now, at all avants. only be a drop in the ocean of necessity but it would necessary confidence, for Arm the be a drop that would be tremendously appreciated. One previously an exceedingly des-unlucky feature from the point seroplane. But my triumph was
English of view of the Old Country, is that short-lived for by and by women-festival itself is a Buddhist in ages compared with other hard cannot read even the meagre details to hand without tructive agency to feeling that we ought to do something. Distance makes batsmen, were made to look very her representatives have recover folks began to scream and men troduction into China, though, of courts is that the texture gives
ordinary bowlers. Mead carried ed their form too late. It must to look serious. It wasne course, the worship of ancestors perfect foothold, rolling-la ou us individually helpless, but collectively we could do really of the honour of top scorer with be admitted, though, that the till we were tying up at the wharf and offerings to them did not necessary, watering is not requir big things. Is it a suggestion on which our Governments record innings for an English-English bowling was still below that I realised the man was dead originate in Obing with the you-ed, and dust never accumulates
and all the counting in the worlding of Buddhism. nan in Test cricket at Home, and the standard of other daya will act, or on which anybody will act?
Test matches.
scones consumed in quantities of hungry ghosts troop forth to during adolescence. Janet's no have a month of enjoyment of great hand at girdis scones now. the good things provided for adays, her being no so light in them by the pious. Itis especial-
NEW GREEN HARD COURT.
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