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THE HONGKONG BELEGRAPH.
CHINESE VAGARIES IN TRAFFIC.
ཌ .w Some Questions No Man Has
Ever Solved.
SATURDAY: DECEMBER 17, 1991.
RIOTOUS SCENES AT .
CAMBRIDGE
Rowdy Celebration of-
Women's Defeat.
There are some people who are The most violent scenes which jalways trying to find a reason for have over 'disgraced Cambridge things. There is a man in Paking occurred after the announcement with a methodical mind which outside the Senate House that naror lets him rest. He works the women bad failed to secure. out his household accounts with the right to matriculate at the aslite rule, reads integral tal-University, states a Home journ culus at titin as something light al.
women
We want kave
and refreshing to take his mind. Enormous numbers of under. off business and has recently graduates bad gathered to hear boilt for himself a mechanical the result. From 8 o'clock p.m. card index system as intricate as onwards they o jed almost in- a typesetting machine and re- cessantly: quiring nearly as experienced an
Women who were simply look- operator to work it, writes Mr. Rodney Gilbers in the N.C. Daitying on were hissed. Small street Nes
hora encouraged by the lavish gift of coppers from the under- graduates, took up the cts, so that the space outside the Senate House was very soon a howling mob of eoung men and children.
This remarkable man once owned and operated a motor car in Peking. At the end of three months h a highly strung nerves were all frayed at the ends and he was forced to revert to man power for his locomotion about town to preserve his sanity.
across
Why
BATTERING THE GATES. There were terrific cheers for
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THEFT ON CHINESE TERRITORY.
The Shanghai District Court's Reply to a British Complaint.
(The following communication
that is of interest now question of extraterritorial rights;
The cart was heavily weighted, and in a few seconds the gates were smashed to pieces. Only the arrival of a strong force of is to the fora.) police prevented the storming of the college.
were
At 835 an official came out on the steps, and the shouting and ebeen died away; in the silence A FEW WHYS.
which followed a voice was heard Ever since then he has lain to say: "Grace one lost by 300; awake nights trying to find a Grace two by 100. The non- comprehensive answer to a num-places have it." ber of traffic problems peculiar to China, such as these: docsn't the coolie, who staria few minutes, and in a temporary To the
in the lull someone shouted. street thickest traffic with a bowl of Newnham and Girton," and the soup in each hand, look up and crowd rushed down the streets on down the streat sometimes? Why its way to the women's colleges. does the old lady who has At Old Hall, Newaham, the soon in tottered across the highway in beautiful gates were
Already front of impending death always process of destruction jump back in front of it when the the undergraduates bad stolan a motor horn sounds? Why does handcart belonging to the college, the Chinese infant, holding its and with this they attacked the, mother's band by the roadside, gates until the lower parts were always charge across, like the completely destroyed. proverbial chicken, when you are nearly abreast of it? Why does the unemployed ricsba coolie always select the narrowest and and most crowded business street and the very middle of is at
The undergraduates that-for an idle stroll and a rapt Peking. Dec. 5. inspection of the shop windows driven away, and Miss Clough, The Salt Collectorate has at Why can't a Chinese rides bicy-principal of Newnham, a pathetic lass come to an agreement with cle? Why does the wobbly and valiant spirit rame out and Chang Tso-lin, through the media. Chinese epciu always wiggle | looked at the destruction around. The gate, which cost £700, ton of the foreign Inspectorate, over the entire street and then strongly supported by the Diplo conclude his career by running hat been erect d in honour of matic Body. I looked for a time into your motor car after, you Miss Clough's aunt, who was "VAN CLOON “
as though tre was going to make have stopped dead so that he may first principal at-Newnham. having arrived from the almeras free with salt revendes as have have all the room in the world! ports, consignses of cargo by lur Kangtung and Szechuan, but he When you meet two ricsha in a are notified that all goods are has now agreed to let the collec- very narro alleyway, why does being landed at their risk into torate in bis province function (one rush to one side of the road the hazardous andor extra without interference, accepting as and the other to the opposite side hazardous godowns of the Hong-la quid on quo the trilling sum of so that you cannot pass at all kong & Kowloon Wharf & $50,000 a month in the form of awe as the roadside Chinese Godown Co. Ltd., whence and/or monthly Government release formule swing his business end into the road and start to back just as from the wharves delivery may military expenses. be obtained.
The Diplomatic Body now has you bave got abreast of him?wat. Goods not cleared by the 2nd, before it the task of subduing WuWhy do Chinese always seem Dec., 1921 will be subject to rent. Pei-fu's subordinates in Hopeh to select the middle of the street, All broken, chafed and damaged who have imposed a surtax of one rushing from the kerb for that packages are to be left in the dollar per picul upon salt in the very purpose, to exchange an consumption tax." elaborate saries of bows and godowns, where they will be form of & examined en the 1st. Dec. While negotiations are going on, compliments which no ren in 1921, at 10 am. by Mess. the usual military subsidy of the world can interrupt: Why, Goddard & Douglas,
$100,000 a month to Hupeh is at last, is the average Chinese Claims against the steamer suspended.
pedestrian who prefers the middle The Ministry of Communica-of a busy street to the wide must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of tions is already distressed by the deserted sidewalk, deaf to all the steamer, otherwise they will not prospect of meeting various inter-mechanical ncise-making devices be recognized.
est payments on foreign railway with which you can provide & No Fire Insurance will be loss and has appealed for belp motor-car? affected by the undersigned in say from the much victimized salt
surplus. case whatever.
Billa of Lading will be counter- signed by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
From BELAWAN DELI, PENANG and SINGAPORE The Steamship
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Agents. Hongkong, 15th Nov., 1921.
ARE YOU A MARKED MAN?
Marked for promotion or jon the list for "the sack "?
Slackers, and men who habitually
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Ia ita correspondence columns as the Sad. instant the N. 6. Daily News published a letter from Mr. A. P. S. Moss on the subject of Exterritorial Rights in Chins"in which the weiter mentioned some of the difficu ties he experienced in connection with a theft which took place at his home on North Honan Road Extension.
The following letter, which bas been addressed by the Shanghai District Court to the Chinese press, gives the Cainese version of the case
LIKE A WAR PICTURE But the undergraduates had not finished. Driven awat by the
"With reference to Mr. A. P. 8. police, they made their way to Peile Hall, where they forced their way into the courtyard. Moss's letter which appasred in the 2nd, instant and which was Meanwhile proctor had arrived the North Ching Derily News on translated and on the scene.
It was like a picture out of the subsequently
In the darkness the inpublished in the Chinese press, proctors movel here on the subject of exterritorialits efectual and there. apologising saxvely and foreign dissatisfaction with for the men. Outile the mea Chinese law courts, we desire to themselves cheered and laughed state that Mr. Moss's letter is not and screamed. They battered at exactly in accordance with the the door and tried to force their true facts of the case, and is way into the college, callously liable to cause misunderstanding, indifferent to the feelings of the We are therefore taking this opportunity of explaining and women.
giving our version of the story.
But for the police, the whole of the women's colleges might have been invaded by these wild an dergraduates. Indifferent to any sense of decency, these Csm. bridge men were not indifferent to the physical power of large foters of police, and finally the mob was driven away in confa- aloo, still shouting and screaming.
"Following are the real facts:- NO UNAVOIDABLE DELAY. "The thieves, Wang Ab-san and Li Mah-bri, stole certain articles
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from Mr. Moss's home, and were case, it was decided to conduct a single cash for the return of his HEREDITARY DETACHMENT.
later arrested. At 11 am. on the the proceedings in Chinese so goods, as will be seen by the The gentleman who had to
33h, ultimo, they were brought that the trouble of interpreting records of this Court. abandoa motoring because of bis
DETECTIVE AND CUMSHA. nerves confesses frankly that he
before this Court by the Shanghai might be abandoned, and the and Woosung Police Bureau. As difficulty of mistranslations done has evolved no solution to many
another case was being heard away with.
Apropos of the sistement that the detective who arrested the of these problems. For the in- of the
THE RICOVERED PROPERTY. own affairs at a riveters' comber the men were brought in it
thieves asked for a bribe, or preoccupation
was not possible, or permissible, Chinese pedestrian and his ip- petition.
"All the stolen property was cumshs as he terms it, we are difference to noise signals, he bas Of course not all of the people for us to interrupt the proceedings found & simple and obvious ex- who get in the way of motor-care of the case before us and hair recovered by the Police and re-not in a position to confirm or
turned to Mr. Moss, who gave a deny this statement 'notil a arrive late for work in the
planation. The system of educa- and refuse to deviate from their Mr. Moss.
"At 1.30 p.m. the same day, the receipt for it when it was handed investigation has been made. The 3,200 RUSSIANS IMPRISONED.
mornings. are usually sufferers
tion is to blame. The Chinese course are Confucian scholars.
Mr. over to him. This receipt is still Police Bureau is now looking IN CHISA...
from constipation or liver, for
relates to the administration of The Foreign Office has lately which allments Pinkettes are the schoolboy is taught to concen-Many of them have never been afternoon session began.
trate upon his work, to think. in a school, but in their cases the Moss's case was the first on the in possession of the authorities into the matter. "As this case "Again there is no into in the instice and in order that the true received a memorial from the ramedy.
Pinkstes gently stimulate the read, write and recite his lessons faculty of detaching themselves docket and was heard as soon as concerned. China Government through Mr.
Diag Shen Chung-houn in which it liver, aid digestion, ensure daily the midst of the most apppal-from the world at its busiest and the Court sat. There is absolute-
din. An old-fashioned noisiest is hgreditary-the result y no reason for the statement report that we ordered Mr. Moss facts may be known to everybody. that the case was delayed, as it to pay to the paw-shop which re- we shall be glad if you will
Iceived the stolen goods $12 for re-publish this explanation." arzes the improvement of Chins's regalarity. treatment towards the Russian they keep you in the pink.Chinese seat of learning does not of 100 generations of ancestors
have to hang out a siga. The schooled in detachment. Where- WAS DOL
"In connexion with the state-covery of the goods. (There was residents in China and brings out Try a dose to-night; and see how
asment that there was no official a misprint: Mr. Moss wrote $42 the fact that until go there are much brighter and filter you feel shouting of the pupily, memoriz-fore the coolie, ruminating on the
interpreter, we have to say that Ed. N.C.D.N.) Mr. Moss's state- Atill fivethousand and two hundred in the morning. Of chemists in the words of the sages, can price of cabbage, can be be heard throughout an entire oblivious to the scream of
also With reference to his statement Mr. Moss himself understands the ment to the contrary is untrue. Williams' visl. from Dr
in bis cell is to the Chinese detsind in custody in the
on another brought into court with him bis that be paid $28, we have again Chinese barracks. Shuntienshih Medicine C, 95, Szechuan Road, Youngstar get in one of these bermit
bediama enables him to think. thunder of war
on interpreter. This being the to say that Mr. Mosa sever paid Shangh
calmly, and consistently, of his continent.
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