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THE HONGKONG
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17: 1921.
TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Late Mr. W. G, Lay.
WE MAY FORGIVE THOSE WHO The lamented decease of Mr. BORE US: WE CANKOT FORGIVE W. G. Lay, Commissioner
at THOSE WROM WE FORE ***** Kowloon of the Chinese Maritime Rochefoucauld. Customs, directa attention to a family familiar to the Far East
for
Among those leaving for three generations. The just- Shanghai by the Hoosier State deceased Commissioner was a to-day were Mr. W, Andarson and Husman of Mr. H. N. Lay, the Mr. Eugene Chen. first Inspector-General of the remarkable Customs Service that Testerday & health return
The ss. Teat, bringing up a
tenure of the office contributes big sea is running outside. & large chapter to
the
history of the Flowery Land. An old Chinese woman. 8o A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD Tae Las family has continued to years of age. was yesterday
full month.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1927.
TO OUR LEGIONAIRES.
a
A Misapprehension.
some
OBITUARY.
Mr. W. G. Lay.
NEW YORK' MARU.
(foreign and Chinese staff); the Chiname riaff at Talaban; the Officer-in-Charge and staff of Samun Custom House; the tale- phone attendants of the Chinëzo The death occurred on Tuesday Maritime Customs; the officers at the Peak Hospital of Afr. W. G. of the Revenue Launches: the Hops has not yet been given up Lay. Commissioner of the Chinese Officer-in-Charge, Kwai-miao of saving the New York Maru Station; the P. & O, BI. and
Maritime Customs.
THE FUNERAL.
"Rate and
0
Lang-Kotwall.
she carried
After the servico
Japanese Tug To Her Assistance.
to
From the New York Maru itself
no news has been received for over a fortnight. The wireless, of course, is not working.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
During ho 40 years, constation Allied Lines, the Asiatic Patros which went ashore on the Paracels with the service, Mr. Lay has held leum Co. Ltd. Messrs. W. G. over a fortnight ago. It is trus that the two Japanese destroyera number of responsible positions, Humphreys & Co, the Manager which went from Formosa to her He was first placed in charge of and Staff of the Kowloon-Canton the station at Lapps, and in 1015 Railway, the Chianse General Hongkong, but they are remain assistanca bava returned to grew out of the plan devised by shows that there were one non- Was kranafarted to Swałow, which] Chamber of Commerce and the ing here, ready to hurry Sir Rutherford Alcock (one of the fatal case of diphibaris and one the left a year ago owing to ill.St Andrew's Society, Hongkong. the assistance of the vessel original British consuls out here) non-fatal case at paratyphoid health in order to take charge of
the local ozice.
should the weather moderato. As for collecting the dues upon fever.
we stated some days ago, heavy Very well known and highly KOWLOON WEDDING. foreign goods. The first Lay re-
seas have prevented both the signed from the Inspectorate-
respected, the decessed mada many
cruisers and the Dock tag, General to take up an appoint- Home mail from the South, friends, amongst whom his dentă
Henry, Keswick, from getting ment directly under the Chinese arrived in port to day at tiffin will be rooived with sincere regres.
near the wrecked steamer. Government, and was succeeded time, two days late. Vary heavy He was 58 years of age. He leaves
The Henry Keswick has been by Sir Robert Hart, whose long weather was experienced, and a * widow, two
and one sons daughter with whom
A pretty wedding was solem-recalled to Hongkong and is on much sympathy will be fell in their Dized at St. Andrew's Church, her way now. But this does not Kowloon, yesterday afternoon, mean that the vessel and her heary bereavement.
(when Mr. John Charles Lang, of crow have been abandoned.' the Colonial Secretary's office, Messrs. Suzuki and Company, be prominently identified with the knocked down by a truck and The funeral took place last was rostried to Hiss Susie Nancy the agents, informed a Telegraph Customs Service, several members slightly injured, at Public Square evening at Happy Valley when a Kotwall daughter of Mr. E. D. representative this morning. of which bold important posts in Street, Yaumati. It was thought great number of wreaths were Kotwall, the well-known broker, that a powerful tug sent from variousparts of the republic, while advisable, however, in view of sent by public institutions, and of Mrs. Kotwall. The service Japan is now in Hongkong a brother of the late Commissoner her age to send her to the Kwong business firms, private individuals was conducted by the Rev. fr. harbour and will leave to assist is Consul at Seoul. Mr. Lay, Wab Hospital.
and families and one from HE G. R. Lindsay, and there was a the New York Mara when up- who Was 59 years of age.
the Governor and Lady Stubbe very large congregation. The prozch becomes possible, to night know the Far East from youth. One of the casualty patients The Bishop of Victoris (the Rt. bride, who was given away by or to-morrow morning, having spent forty years out in admitted into the Kwong Wab Rav. Dr. C. R. Duppay) and the her father, was attired in a beau- The position of the vessel is The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph is $30 ceased Commissioner had only year-old Chinese girl who was ducted
this part of the world. The de-Hospital yesterday was an eight-Yen. Archdeacon Barnett con- tiful dress of royal crepe, trimmed admittedly precarious and the the funeral service. with silver lace with veil of silver wonder is that abo bas no long per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- little more than a year, but his injured by a motor car, in Peking body to its last resting place, and
been located in the Colony forsknocked down and seriously Amongst those who followed the aet and orange blossoms; stood hammering from heavy seas. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for sons and daughter, with whom Road. The victim was removed B.E the Governor was repre- quet of white chrysanthemuras That she will yet be saved is far bou. She must have besa soundly built.
well known to Hongkong sad deep sympathy will be felt, are to the Hospital by the driver. sented by his A.D.C., Captain) and roses. She was attended from certain, but our call on Canton residents
Neville. Others who were noticed as bridesmaid by Miss Mary Messie, Suzuki & Cat showed that Four armed man, one of whom were: the Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Kotwall and as flower-girl by they are still hopeful that weather had a revolver, entered a house Rees Davies, E.C.), the Paisne Miss Ruby Kotwall who are and seas may moderate sufficient- A month ago Neuter went to feasted by a married woman at Judge (His Honour Mr. H. H. the bride's sisters. The duties ofly to rescue both vessel and crew. the trouble and expense of cablingtauseway Bay during the absence Gompertz), the Colonial Secretary the best man were performed by
Mr. Claud Severn), Mr. Henry S. Hall out here a statement in a Loadon of the husband, and after binding (Hon. paper that the construction of an and gagging the woman, made off the Attorney-General (Hon. Mr.
largely oil-tanker, following on the large with property and money to the J. H. Kemp. E.C.), the Hon. attended reception was held at cargo steamers already turned value of $231. The affair was Mr. H. E. Follock, K. C. Na9 Ashley Road, the residence out, justifies the inclusion of reported to the police yesterday Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson, Lient of the bridegroom's parents. The China in the list of the world's nine hours after its occurrence, Conway Hake, RNR, Mr. A. bealth of the tride and bride-
FROCK COATS FROWNED OS.
Birth.
permanenttonnage producers. We and this delay doubtless has Dyer Ball Mr. S. B. B. Mc-groom was proposed by Mr.W.S. "We can find « buyer for every had not heard of any oil-tanker enabled the robbers to make good Elderry, Mr. Moore (Deputy Brown of the Hongkong & Kow-thing you send, except frock Commissioner of Chinese Cas-toon Wharf Co. The honeymoon coats," stated a Fulbam church DUNNETT-At 114 The Peak, on November 17. the wife of being torped on by a Chinese their escape.
yard, and naturally concluded
toma), Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr.is being spent at Canton, the jumble sale notice, "and these we that the craft in question was the
Subsequent investigations un-T. H. King. Mr. W. Armstrong, bride's going-away dress being of can't give away. Plosas don't
send frock coats.” 8.400 ton oil-tanker built by the dertaken by the police into the Mr. R Sutherland, Mr. P. Lower satin. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock report of the armed robbery at Knight, Mr. A. E. Martin, Mr. A. Ca for the A.P.C From the Jacob Sassoon Street bare reveal-J. W. Rosser. The immediate article itself, which appears in the ed it to be a mere fabrication mourners were Mr. A. H. Lay daily gazette published by the It is alleged that the report was (son) and Mr. R. C. Comrie Corporation of Lloyd's, we find made by an amah who first (brother-in-law).
The following is a list of the this to be the case, so that the acquainted the police with the writer in that journal is apparently story. She is to be charged before wreaths seat: From "Nors and under
Arnold." misapprehension. the Magistrate this afternoon for Dick,"
Ay, the Ball will be on us Being a downright kind of lad Hongkong might be included collusion with others in com."Minnie and Arthur, Sheila, before we know where we are, though, and no easily put off, he in speaking broadly of shipmitting a larceny in the dwelling. Alan and Dougal," "Betty and And stories'll be rife doon yoader tackled his landlord on the ques Those who have been following our correspondence but the coupling of the oil-tanker hundred dollars worth of Mr. and Mrs. W. Armstrong, Mr. generous of friends and kindliest or another.
building along the China cost, resulting, in the loss of several "M.C.D." From Sir R. E and at Auchtermuchty.
Lady Stubbs, Lady Kirkpatrick, Scotsmen are
Though tion again for be was for having 15: the most the business off his mind one way columns and who bave read the many letters which have with a reference to the large Ferty, belonging to her mistress.
and Mrs. E. E de W. Abass.of hosts get I often feal vexed for appeared there regarding the present membership of the cargo steamers already turned
But friend Saxon still keptpat- Mr. Ah Cheung, M Au Chak British Legion will probably have noticed that in our issue out (presumably messing the
A. Ming, Lieu-Col. Hayley Bell,me of the guests when the ting him off till the Scot got most of yesterday we saw fit to make au intimation that so far as vessels built by the Kisogasa
THE WARWICK D.S.O. (Lapps Customs), Dr. and chipping starts. It's a bard job thoroughly exasperated and de- keeping pace wi' a race that manded a yes or n3y right off. our columns are concerned correspondence on that particular Dockyard for the U. S. Shipping
COMPANY.
Mrs. G.D.R. Black, Mr. & Mrs. W chose as their patron saint, the He was willing to do the right suggests that the topic is now closed. We have made that decision for several Loadon
H. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fmsa who it was that found the thing by the lassie and he was for writer Was thinking reasons and we should like to let our local Legionaires and of Chios itself not of the British
Brays. Mr. and Mrs. F. Beving lad wi' the loaves and fishes. no more o' this kind of hunkar- "Brown Sugar" Proves too, Mr. John Bartholomew, That choice wasna haphazard or sliding. the general public know what those reasons are.
colony of Hongkong. This is
It was an awkward Big Attraction.
and Mrs. confirmed by shipbuilding being In the first place no possible good can come of any treated as a recen: development. The piece put
Bernard Brown, Mr. and Mrs. F..sheer instinct.
merely premeditated. It was situation for the kindly old man Ypres in his original letter whereas the reverse is the case in Warwick Company last night, Cooper and family. Mr. and Mrs. fast and furious.
on by the further correspondence.
and being put in a corner in this Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ay, the stories U be flying fashion wasna" at all to his liking, raised what is to him and many others in the Legion a relation to this colony. "Brown Sugar" has always been
but still there was no belp for it. very important point and he drew public attention to it in confusion of Hongkong ship- & favourite
A. R. Cavalier, Dr. and Mrs with Hongkong
Did Je over hear the tale of the So be took the impatiant Kenelm H. Digby, Mr. and Mrs-old Scotswoman on being asked youngster over to the corner of the Legionaires has been drawn to this matter. remedial though not perhaps surprising inbat this play has baea staged in Duncan. Mr. and Mrs. A. Dani and her reply: “Ay, airs I've had, ed, spoke to him thus " Lookes one of the best ways possible. Now that the attention of building with that of China, theatre-goers. Despite the factER Dovey, Mr. and Mrs. John)bow many of a family she had the room and, visibly embarrass- action lies in their own hands by way of the proper end of the globe, has a somewhat up to the Theatre Royal Isston. Mr. J. Davies, Mr. and Mrs. sair traucble. Ten altogether. here young fella, the missus and
the case of people at the other the Colony before, people rolled channel, which is the annual meeting of the Legion due to droll look here."
night in greater numbers than for G.T. Edkins, Miss EM Forsyth, Five leeving. fower in the mools and I are main sorry about take place next month. We view it as being very reget- Capitals.
any piece put on by the Warwick Mr and Mrs. H. H. Gompertz, and the other pair deevil in this ere business. But we'vS
Lieut. Conway Hake, R.NR. the England." table that in a small place like Hongkong there should
Company this visit It was
talked it over in all its bearings have been such an outburst of public criticism regarding a reach us serve to illustrate the type of entertainment in Hong-G. Montagu Harston, Mr. and wi' a bias in favour of ourselves that between the two things, we'd Sandry American journals that almost a record house for this on. Mr. Ho Fook, Dr. and Mrs. True, that's one more or less and we've come to the decisión body which has as its central idea the promotion of com- difference among nations in the kong and was so far the Com-Mrs. E.B.C. Hornell, Mr. and but did ye ever hear the story of far sooner have a ba-bar-sinister radeship. There hasn't been very much comradeship about use of capital letters. The aim pany's greatest success.
Mrs. H.C.R. Hancak, Mr. and the young Scot who was lucky in 00% family than 嚚 some of the letters already published and there has been a of American journals appears to
be to reduce the practice to the the Colony to be repeated. It is Mr. Ho PAE Ping, Mr. Ho Kwong, job down in one of the Southern of the kind Scotsman love to The story is too well-known Humphreys, Mr. G. J. Harman, on in life in the shape of a good
Mrs. H. D. Hilliard, Mr. W. Menough to get his chance early Scotsman"! tendency to hold the Committee of the Legion and others up minimum.
Alory typical Even the titles of the old tale of the troubles of an to needless ridicule. If it is true that certain men have been high offices are divested of the actress who marries blue blood. Mrs. Jenkinson, the Hon. Mr. Counties. And he was getting on tell. allowed to join who really had no right to join. then it is up distinction conferred by the but the play is well sprinkled. and Mrs. Kemp, Mr. S. A. Sine; congenial employment, An old Scot, living in a hamlet, to the really qualified men to voice their protests in a proper capital as when Mr. Harding is with humour, the dialogue is Klubien, the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-money in the bank and in good received a cheque waly once in way at the proper time and place. Through all the discus-referred to as "the president." witty and the characters pek, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Leask, comfortable digs. His landlady his life. He walked, in his Sun- sion which has taken place there has been a very free use contemporary at Manila extended
Recently an American-owned admirably portrayed.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Lindsell, Mr. did him well sad there was a day clothes, seven miles to cash Miss Marjory Clark as "Lady Douglas M. Larkins, M. B. Lake, young daughter of the house it presented it wi" tight-shut of the anonymity afforded by newspaper correspondence. its congratulations to the new Sloan acts the part to perfection.. Lau Sing Chuen, Mr. Leung with whom he was on just a lips and deep nose-breathings- but there should be very much more than that. There "governor general" The same She puts plenty of life into the Yak Tong. Mr. Lai Yan Sang little more than speaking terms. big occasion, you see! Game the should be a personal protest voiced at an assembly of the journal treats a common character and yet does not in any Mrs. Alexander Mackenzie and The old man wasos so free as he money and he counted it. He members, the rules should be tightened to permit of o
in-way overdo it Miss Gertrude family, Mr. and Mrs. F. A might have been in the way o pushed it back. [stitution, apart from the Godart is a tremendous success Mackintosh, Mr. and Mrs. Rconversation, but still he was a man being a member who is not qualified, and that is all
"Count that again,” said he, there is to it. What more is there to do or say? It will chamber of commerce." In some splendid interpretation of this Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bit all round, our young friend
place-name, as in the Manila as "Lady Honoris and her Melville Smith, Mr. and Mr. T deceat soul for all that. Taking The teller did so. avail the "pakka Legionaires nothing to indulge in ase-re-pects the French practice goes rather difficult role is responsible A. Morrison, Mr. C. B. W. Moore, pleasures are like poppies spread,
"Well, I make it right. Don't Maclachlan, Mr.A.E. Martin, M. wasna' doing so bad at all. But you," less criticista of the men who performed only local defence beyond this. While French to a large extent for the success Mr. Ng Kwok Hing and family,
"Ay," said the old man slowly. work and it won't make their case one whit the strongeet Chateaubriand, in alluding to Mr. Tom Fenwick seemed a litle Mr. James Ormiston, the Hon. Mr. the flower, the bloom is shed, that's a
man would write" Voltane of the piece. As "Lord Sloan
Rabbie said, 500. seize "It's right, but, by the Hokey Fly, With many it was a case of thwarted opportunity to do budding authors generally he stiff, but on
H. E. and Mrs. Pollock, Mr. and and one fine day, the mas from the whole the anything better, anyway, and it is not altogether a matter would write les altaires et les character was well portrayed. Mrs. J. A. Plummer, Mr. and Mrs north o.the Tweed got a kind but it's worth repeating because You may have heard this one for blame that a man did a little, especially when we re-chateaubriands. One can hardly Mr. Dudley Howarth in the role. C. Parker Rees, Mr. and Mrs. set-back after a more than a distinguished Scotsman, ponder collect that so many men did nothing at all. We don't imagine an American critic going of Lord Sloan's brother," Archie," D. A Purves and Mr. D. Jordinary private conversation wi' ed over it for some weeks before think Volunteers or Defence Corps men here should have to the length of writing the gained further laurels, and Miss Purves, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. W the young lass. As you know his family took pity on him and
future emersons and longfellows." Lens Flowerdew played the part joined the Legion and we are convinced that the majority Until a comparatively recent of "Countess Knightsbridge to the Severn and Mrs. Severn, Mr. and side the fence and when we eat
Rosser, the Hon. Mr. Claud the grass sye looks greenest out explained it point by point. of them have never tried to. Because one or two have is date the German custom was the very life. All the other chara Mrs. Chas. C. Stark, Mr. and Mrs. frait before it's ripe we've got was about to travel North on The story concerns a man who no reason why a whole body of men should be slandered. direct opposite of the French, ters were well postrayed and the Robert Sutherland. Doris Stevens, to suffer for it. But our young business. A friend of Lis gave No, the best way of settling this matter is for the capitals being used for all nouns, show was voted by all to be Mr. G. W. Sewell, Mr. Tsang Foo, man had grit, for all that he'd him the name of a man of some members of the Legion to remedy the mistake that has been proper or common; but lately huge success. A special word Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Winslow, Mr. been foolish. Ay, he'd speak to importance who would be able to made. And let them go about it properly. In yesterday's Teutonic practice has followed should be given to Mr. Frank and Mr. Lake Watson, Mr. the old man that very night smooth matters considerably for Telegraph we published the speech made by Earl Haig when diversity of practice
some Wheatley who played the part of and Mrs. P. Douglas Wilson, the and offer to marry the lassie right him "His name," said the friend, among Lord Knightsbridge in which he Wilson, Mr. G. G. Wood, Mr.
Rev. GT. Waldegrave, Mr. J. F. &WRY.
"is Crummoch. Got it?" he was addressing a meeting of the Legion held at Edin- British writers and printers gave & fine study of an elderly Wong Kwok Kin, Mr. H. Le made a clean breast o' the whole shan't forget it
So after supper he set to and "Yes," said the other man. NI burgh and in it be stated that he had been working for Here and there capitals are used aristocrat who still felt young Wong
Quite easy to unity ever since the Armistice had been signed. That in indiscriminating abundance, The staging in the second "Act
affair but his nabe didna seem remember, I shall just think of should be a good guide for our local men to follow; they use of capitals for all nouns that
which lessens their value. The was particularly outstanding. In addition to wreaths from in very much put aboot at the news stomach,"Stomach-Crummoch."
To-night W. Somerset Maughdividuals the following were re-and aye kept humming and There you are.” ought to aim for unity not for recrimination. A fairly come within the category am's well-known comedy "The ceived: From the Customs Service, bawing and didn' seem to know A week or two later the comradeship that calls for what has been witnessed locally of proper and for certain Circle" is being given. The play Kowloon; the Chinese Staff of his own mind on the subject, traveller returned and ran across. this week is one that will lose a large measure of its words expressly derived there is now being presented to crowded the Customs Service, Kowloon: How he was dismissed I bis friend in the club, "Look appeal. And so we say to all Legionaires, "Have done from (as with particular ad- houses in London and has been the Shumchun and Shalackok don't know, but
out young here," he said, I couldn't und jectives) may be taken as the voted one of the most attractive Customs Offices, Kowloon Rail-cookielorum got no satisfaction your friend Kelly anywhere 704 with this writing and do the thing in a proper way," approved British practice, comedies written in recent years. way; the Castors Staff Llotio[from that interview anyhow,
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