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THURSDAY MARCH 2 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
NO REGRETS—THEY UNMAN It is a trifle difficult to write THE HEART WA WANT FOR
of the strike situation at the TO-MORROW.-George Meredith, moment, for none of us know what changes there are in store for us. Of rumours there are no shows one fatal case of plague Yesterday's health return and-same with a basis of reason (Chinese)
to support them; many which. are best described as figments of the imagination. Batat the time
of writing there does appear yesterday
Departures by the Gingo Maru ground for the reports of the Ponsonby Fane and Mr. and Mrs.
included Mr. probability of domestic servants C. J. Hammes and family.
MARSHAL JOFFRE,
THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO LAHORE.
A Diverting Misapprehension.
(Reuter's Servic. ) (Continued from page 13
Lahore, March 1.
The fourth reco in the Lahore Gymkhana yesterday afternou
His Visit to Shanghai. (From Our Oven Correspondent)
Shanghai, March 2 The French community an for the entertainment of Marshal nonacos a tentative programma Joffre. On March 9th there will be an inspection, a tour of the was a big affair, and, for some reason, was generally supposed to International and French Con- for the Princess Mary's Plate, The Prince of Wales mounted amid, cessions, a dinner at the French a regular storm of encouraging shouts, the purport of which wa On March 10th, Marshal Joffre amidat & hurricane of cheers. Then followed the disappointing dis Consulate, and a lantern parade. that he must not fail to win. He rode splendidly and came in firs will review the French Municipal covery that the event was not for the Princess Mary's Plate at all. Police, lay the corner-sions of the Owing to the strike, the ordio Franco-Chinese Municipal School in the grounds of Government House, 100 officers and man baing This morning the Prince of Wales inspected a parads of police find themselves ary yearly meeting of the Hong-and plant trees commemorating present under she minus their houseboys, cooks and kong Hotel Company has been the Allied victory and attend Farzubar
comand of the Inspector-General, General amahs. In the case of these postponed until further notice."
banquet of French and British domestic servants, as in the case.
veterans of the war. On March 11th he will review the Shanghai labour, there does not appear to which was to have been held at bagiven by the French.
"The Day of Help" bazsarValunteer Corps and a dinner will be any decided inclination to St. Andrew's Church. Kowloon, cease work. It is the old, ald story of intimidation. We heart on Tuesday, has been, postponed. yesterday of a case of a Chinest |
joining in the strike. Indeed, by the time this appears in print most of the households of the Colony may
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SHANGHAI
Y.M.C.A. DRIVE.
Later his Royal Highness paid an informal visit to the troops in the Lahore cantonment, where he inspected pensioners and ex- Service man numbering 900 officers and 4,000 other ranĖS.
In the afternoon the Prince was present at a garden party at Shalamar, given by the Punjab Legislativs Council. After dinner he departed without ceremony for Jamma.
In consequence of the abandonment of the great military manœuvres, which the Prince was to have witnessed, on grounds of From Our Own Correspondent-From Reuter's special correspondent with the Prince's party,
economy, the remainder of the Indian programme is being revised.
43,252 were subscribed during
Shanghai, March 2, Y.M.CA. teams report that the first three weeks of the four weeks' annual drive.
INDIAN BUDGET DEFICIT.
New Taxes Proposed.
London, March 1.
SHANGHAI A. D. C. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, March 2. Trade depression, a poor monsoon and labour troubles bave A house packed to its utmost resulted in the anticipated surplus of seventy-one lakhs being.com capacity greeted the A.D.C. verted into a deficit of thirty-four crores in the present Budget of production of "Three
Twins." India.
OBITUARY.
Death of Mr. Tong Lai- chuen, J.P.
two
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Sir William Hailey, Finance Member, in a statement to the Legislative Assembly, recommended an increase of 25 per cent. in railway passenger fares, the enhancement of inland postal rates, an The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-thinking that too much is being
increase in the Income Tax and a super-tax on Customs. The last tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a made of this intimidation. That and the Kowloon Farry, where,
named is estimated to yield fifteen crores, including an advance in full month.
ad valorem duties to 15 per ceni, on cottons; Té per csat on anger; this in an organised ganger, we will be under police protection. threats are being freely used, and if necessary, the delivery boys to record the death of an
It is with regret that we have pared with 11 per cent.. 36 per ceat: 15 per cent and 24 per cent. 25 per cent. on machinery; and 10 per cent. on iron and steel: com. have no doubt, and those attering them know very well that with
tremely wall known member ofpectively. A new 5 per cent. dary will be imposed on imported
yarn, and the salt duty will be doubled. theChinese community, in the per- most classes of native labour the
their desire. mere threat is sufficient to effect | Imprisonment
Sentence of eighteen months' son of Mr. Tong Lai-chuen, J.P., Was passed on compradors of Messrs. Shewan, But, as one Chinese Fateh Mohamed by the Chief Tomes and Co, which occurred. may threaten a hundred people by the Criminal Sessions yesterday Street, this morning. The de- merchant put it to us, one man Justice (Sir Wm. Rees-Davies) at his residence, 67, Wyndham
WINDING-UP ORDER AGAINST INSURANCE CO. letter or word of mouth, but he is Aboni Santra was sentenced to ceased, who was 65 years of age,
London, March 1 not likely to murder a hundred. twelve months' imprisonment, leaves
The Judge has ordered the winding up of the City Equitable Workers ought to realise that they The, two
sons and tbree Associated Co, mentioned in a cable of the 15th. ult. can be given protection from barm with conspiring to defraud the sympathy is felt.
were charged daughters, with whom much, [The previous cable stated that, consequent upon the Equitable if they continue working. And Government-
Insurance Co's winding up, the City Equitable Associated Company, the best service suyona comicg
The deceased gentleman came which was formed in July under the former's suspices, is presenting to the Colony when a small boy a patition for winding up. Similar petitions have been presented by ia contact with intimidation
and beginning work. in various the Greater Britain Insurance Corporation and the City of London perform is to get the
The magazine of St Andrews foreign firms and gradually rose to Insurance Company.] trouble-makers arrested. It is Church, Kowloon, for March, high position in the mercantile hard to catch the actual intimide-says-The delay in the building life of Hongkong, siso accumulat-
Director's Firm Also Insolvent. tor admittedly, but it is due to of the Hospital on this side of the ing the authorities to put them on the water is most regrettable, and it He was at one time compradore Ellis and Co. the Official Receiver said that liabilities were & considerable fortune. At a meeting of the creditors of the firm of stockbrokers, Messrs."
London, March 1. track of these agitatore if and is to be sincerely hoped that the to the German firm when opportunity occurs. And Government will prosecute the Magerink and Company, later that Mr. Bevan, who amassed & fortune between 1914 and 1920, did of approximately two millions against asents of half a million. He said when intimidators are caught, work with all possible speed. became compradore in the Hol-not keep his partners informed of the firm's financial position, and ther should be severely dealt During the past few weeks, 24 land China Trading Company entered into large commitments is connection with company pro- with by the magistrates. The full Europeans from Kowloon bave and subsequently partner and motions despite their protests. A trustee was appointed to wind up penalty of the law should be been in Hospital.
compradore in Messrs. Shewan of the estate, visited on people who actively
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922.
A GREAT LIBERAL.
C&O
If
en
ARMED ROBBERY.
director at the City
Tomes and Company. Besides [The Mr. Bevan above referred to in being well-known in business Equitable Insurance Co. A warrant is out for his arrest.) circles, the late Mr. Tong Lai-i lebuen became widely noted for his generous benefactions. He gave * sum of $20,000 to the North Chins Famine Relief Fund and also sent many thousands A boiler-maker employed at of cotton coats and goods
Another Kowloon Case.
"NEW YORK IDEA."
NEW EGYPTIAN MINISTRY.
Serwat Pasha's Moderate Nationalist Cabinet.
Serwat Pasha has formed a Cabinet of a moderate Nationalist
Cairo, March 1.
Lord Allenby's Return
Cairo, March-1.
Lord Allenby arrived and received sweet reception.
THE PRINCESS'S WEDDING.
World-Wide Interest.
In the latest papers to hand many tributes to the late encourage the spread of the Lord Bryce are found. The decease of our former Am-trise, for we hear it stated that bassador to the United States is acknowledged on both they do not in the less object to intimidators openly boast that sides of the Atlautic to leave a visible gap. American short terms of imprisonment. papers no less than British testify to the fine and varied necessary, the law should be qualities of the scholar, bistorian, politician, and diploma-strengthened for dealing with tist. Thus, as the Time observes. the two great nations of mischief-breeders of this type. the English-speaking race are both sleeply sensible of the Stricter Censorship Needed to the police that an armed rob gave most liberally to Canton the Kowloon Docks has reported to the sufferers. Deceased also debt which they owe to him. Ex-President Taft, now In connection with this matter bory, in which revolvers were relief funds during the last two Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, says of intimidation, we bear that used, took place at his house at severe floods. He also displayed complexion, including Wassif Simeks as Minister of Communica that Lord Bryce stood as high in the estimation of Ameri-much of it is done by means of Li Lang Hang last evening, much generosity in connection tions. Mustapha Fathy as Minister of Justice, Gaafar Wali a cans as he can have in that of his fellow-countrymen-an the case of domestic servante, at loading house when four men, the Committee of which he was & Ance, and General Sir Ibrahim Fasy as Minister of War.
letters through the post-if notic With his fokis he was in the with the Tang Wah Hospital, of Minister of Pious Foundations, Jemail Siteky s Minister of Fin- eloquent realisation of the late historian-diplomatist's any rate, in regard to other classes of wha work as author of a specially valuable treatise upon the of labour. If that is the case, we with revolvers, entered by fore Committee of the District Watch- were arned member, as also was he of the United States and as Britain's representative at Washing-would impress on the authorities in oper
the door and held men. too. We bad. declared Chief Justice Taft, a real the necessity of such communica-them up. A sum of $300, which rep adection for him and a generous appreciation of how tions being strictly censored, as resented the wages the men had was a native of the Heung Shan The late Mr. Tong Lai-chusn greatly he contributed to the maintenance of cordial re of frightening many Chinese from was stolen by the robbers. Before well known merchant, for many they are undoubtedly the means just received from the Company, district, where his father was s lations between the two countries." Not often has an contincing to work. historian of another nation been so successful with his heard it said, that only letters two shots at random, the object Loong and Un Loong Tea Hongs, We have they left, age of the robbers fired years connected with the Yun subject as was Lord Bryce in depicting the history of our from outside sources are being apparently being to impress upon established at the time in Macao. one-time colony, a success due largely, as such success must view of the evil within our taining say thoughts of pursuit. 45 years and was one of the pro- subjected to censorship: in their victims the folly of enter-He resided in Hongkong for over be, to a faculty of sympathetic understanding.
It was on this account that Mr. Bryce, as he then was, made to embrace all
gates the scrutiny should be
moters of the Bank of Canton, letters. had a cordial welcome from America assured when Sir There is one other matter, and
London, March-1. Ltd, and of the Canton Naviga: displayed, notably in France and America, where the papers have A feature of the Royal wedding is the world-wide interest Henry Campbell-Bannerman designated him Ambassador that is the circulation here of the
tion Company which operated filled pages with a description of the ceremony, the scenes in Loo- to our kin on the other side of the occan.
bafore and daring the earlier part den, and appreciations of the devotion of the English people to the The foundation. Canton vernacular papers.
We stone of a good understanding had been well and truly read in the Colony and that they are told that these are still widely
of the well known river steamers democratic Royal Family, and stories of the simple babits and m
Charles Hardouin" and "Paul nera of the Princess, who has married a man not of Royal birth, as
·laid. In this house, runs an inscription on the tablet are fall of lies and distortions in
Beau".
"Previous to joining infin fairy tales, fixed to the British Embassy in Washington. "lived from regard to the strike.
1901 the Holland-Chins Trading. 1007 to 1913 James Bryce, the author of The American example of the kind of thing that
Co. he was Compradore to the Commonwealth." The appointment to Washington mark mention that names are given of note
Leavened by s happy sense of firm of Petit and Co., Bombay is appearing in thera we may bumour and sharpened by a keen merchants. ed a darture in British practice, for the new Ambassador prominent Hongkong Chinese York Idea"
of satire, "The New
He was always to the fore had not been schooled in diplomacy; yet political opponents who are said to be in hiding on Corone! Thestre this evening, chairman of the Tung Wah comes to the in charitable undertakings, Aa bear witness to his qualities in that "office. The secret of British warships, festing to walk the
Due to Reduced Interest on Treasury Bonds. his success was well expressed by Viscount, then Sir abroad! So long as the strike a claver stage comedy. Taking various committee of this institu clever film version of Hospital and whilst serving on Edward, Grey in a speech in which he referred to Lord should be prohibited from corcing subject for the mordant wit, this showed how much be bad the point to 96%, due to the impending issue of 42 per cent. Treasury fasts, these mischievous journals modern society divorce as the tion and of the Po Leung Kuk he
London, March 1. In the street market the 5 per cent War Loan jumped half & Bryce as a great pacificator."
Although an octogenarian, Lord Bryce's activities
into the Colony:
entertaining photoplay gives welfare of the Chinese community Bonds at the price of 99. showed little sign of flagging. He contributed some
Alice Brady a fine role as the at heart.
[The above notification indicates the change in the money mar. articles upon the Washington Conference just as it was TRAGIC END OF EVELYN THAW. in love with her husband) who is Typhoon Fued Committee. He per cent interest, the subsequent rate to be regulated by the Bank young wife (frivolous but really In 1906 he was a member of the ket at Home. Less than two years ago the Treasury was offering approaching, In the course of one of these he said: "No The body of Evelyn Nesbit misled by the New York idea-also did excellent service on the Rate, which has now fallen to dié per cent.) one in America, except a small section of the anti-British River, according to a wireless rest to Fate and the divorce At various occasions be gate Thaw was found in the Potoma Larry for whim and leave the District Watchmen's Committee. Press, talks or even dreams of a war with Britain." It is message intercepted by the R.M.9. court." in the honest co-operation of the English-speaking peoples Empress of Asia, on its recent evidence (even if it is only manu- Hongkong University but he did She finds that a little proof of bis great interest in the
GERMAN MILITARISTS FOREGATHER. all over the world, he added, in the influence upon other voyage from Vancouver to Shangfactured to secure & "quiet" not restrict his activities to South nations of their ideals and their examples, that the best hai. No details were given. Al divorce) is a dangerous thing and Obina alone. Many were bis
Berlin, March 1. hope lies for the pacification and progress of mankind.sidered the most beautiful actress from the tangle which has and North China Famine and General Staff.
ous time Evelyn Nesbit was confinds it harder to extricate herself donations to various of the Middle resulting in the creation of an Association of members of the old The principal war-time Generals were present at a dinner Such sentiments have proceeded from many voices, some of in America. She was married to resulted from: her unfounded other Funds and they were them perfunctory. They impress the thoughtful as Harry K. Thaw, who later killed jealousy. something more than platitudes when uttered by one who Stanford White in a sensational engaging characters and a number tatious way?
Introducing several[always contributed in en rincaten was a Liberal in a better sense than the somewhat narrow suicide a few months ago by York Iden" is a successful stage took of late less and less part in scandal The woman attempted of amusing situations, "The New Owing to his failing bealth he political one.
Įtaking poison, but was saved. play, an excellent film comedy, pubilo functions.
As an
Coronet Theatre's Witty Satire,
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