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A NEW CHAPTER.
by the decision to reassemble the-old Parliamant. Then, with so much gained, we appeal to them to join in with anyone
| working on this basis, in
stone unturned in the task of set- ting China right once and for all
still 00
It is our
*
DAY BY DAY.
A MAN - MAY BE DOWN, BUT NEVER OUT UNLESS HE IS DOWN IN THE MOUTH.
Thare were two bliths and two
maters of thesa plans.
.
CANESE "DIVORCE."
CORRESPONDENCE.
(In the Editor of the "Hongkong
Telegraph **} Revision of Telephone Rates.
(concession......except on_the_con:
profits
and
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Knocked Down by a. Cart
· THE S.S." EGRA.”
U.S. BASEBALL.
Reverses for New York. The following are the latest results:
Des Voeux Road about noon to A falal accident took place in
[day. A cart, heavily laden with deaths on board the Gorjistan, Sir.-Four loading article of rice, was deing manoeuvred into supreme effort to settle all out- [which arrived. In port yesterday Saturday last was very much the entrance of Wing Eat Streat standing points, including the from Sourabaya, vin Singapore appreciated by the subscribers fruit seller who had his stall at from Des Voeux Road, when question of the future Presidency. The time calls for large-hearted- A bag of rica dropped on
because of the straightforward this plaen gok, into the way and cargo worker aboard the as manner in which you stated the was knocked down by the oart ness. If Canton responds gener-Tinsang yesterday and caused case against the increased rates a fracture of the skull which was with such force that he sustained ously to the overtures, lasting bis death. The body was removed of the telephone service. The almost immediately fatal The peace may be brought about. In to the Kowloon Mortuary.
Government, before signing the cart WES being pashed any case, the attempt is worth
from
the JUAP V making, for if nothing should we are resuming publication of the public know its contents, as until it was almost on top of the
For the convenience of bathers, agreement, ought certainly to let along
and could not be stopped come of the conversations, the the tide, which will be found on it was stated at the Council's victim. The remains were sub- Southerners will at least have Page 12. This table will appear meeting "that the rates will not sequently removed to the Mor-
daily and will always gire the shown their anxiety to leave no daily tides for a ciest week ahead, come into force until the agree-tuary. Pending enquiries into the ment is signed." As you pointed circumstances of the case, the Plans have been set on foot by out, once the same is signed there art and coolies are being detain
ed at the Central Police Station." the foreign-trained doctors in is no bapa for revision or motif- Canton for the establishment of a cation. At the same meeting, Nurses' Training Institute. It is the Colonial Secretary said that The Water Shortage. reported that the doctors are also!" the Company asked permission Another week has gone by and planning to establish a Convales to make a large increase in their
cent Home in the city. Dr. Leung charges, bat the Government) appreciable rainfall Whilst the water supply of the Puiki and others are the pro-was not prepared to make any For the Straits-China Runt. Colony and Kowloon is by doi
dition that the Company would The local office of the British mesas so short as to creste undue apprehension, there is every need
During last week there wera 66 agree to instal an up-to-date India Steamo Navigation Com- on the most modern{pany staten that talegraphic in- for the conservation of the sup cases of plague notified in the system
Colony, of which 36 were fatal. method". The monopoly systam į formation has been received from sly, as was proved by the figures There were also seven fatal cases is very detrimental to the public, the Managing Agents of the B.T. MUSTARD & Co. which we published pasterday, of small-por and two non-fatal and the sooner it is abolished the Apcar Co. Calcutts, that the **Egra" 5,108 have read about the water short.occurrences of enteric fever. One better. There is still time whilst twin screw 3.5. age and yet have taken not even of the last-named was an Amer-the agreement for renewal is not tona register. indicated H. P. the first step to bring about the ican and one of the plazue signed. At the present rates, the 7,000, capable of maintaining 16 economical use of water in their sufferers & Hiodoo. All the Company is earning bandsome knots, will be ready in Singapore own households.
dividends for the shareholders. It about the 23rd. Jone to relieve We know of
rest were Chinese. cases where amabs and other
would be a good thing if the the Company's s.8. "Euryalos” on servants are allowed to use what- The Educational Bureau at Government would take over this the Singapore-Hongkong run.
The Egra" is one of the Com- ever they like: taps can be kep: Canton has recently made an public utility Company, because
would then. br no pany's up-to date steamerK, CSITY- going for practically all day with-investigation of the number of there
to being 46 first-class and 39 out the slightest protest on the children in Canton of school age yearly
the cost 2nd, salood passengers, allaccom- part of masters or mistresses who are not attending regular divided
schools. According to the report, of working, would be much less modated amidship, with up-to- purpose here to arge Ibe infusion of thers are 50,000 such children in and, no doubt, the present prices date dining music and smoking
frs: saloon Huule personal interest into Canton. The educational author-could be reduced considerably. rooms. The
the matter by all European house-ities are planning for the proper This had been done in many sumptuously fitted up with green crocodile and the second saloon jother countries. holders. Waste of water at any education of these children. time is bad, but at the present
I presume the Government and with red leather, admirably suited jooctore it might well be criminal. A plot of land, with an ares of its officials are using the telephone for the tropics. The 3rd. class Our Water Authority is not only 22,670 square feet, situated on but I believe most of them do not passengers are carried on three Li Yuan-hung's assumption of looking with anxiety to the im- the New Road from Gap Road to share the expenses: it is the specially ventilated and shaded
decks the office of President opens an-mediate future, it is thinking of Bowen Road and Wanchai Gap.taxpayers who are paying This vessel was built to ran the
such privileges, COC- other chapter in the political the next year to come. In 1894 was sold by auction at the offices for
and 1895 there were dry seasons, of the Public Works Department sequently they are entitled to mails between Rangoon and history of China. Whether the land, should the exceptionally dry yesterday afternoon. The upset to be protected. The Telephone Madras where she justly became * special favourite and it is step now taken will lead in the season of 1922 be followed by a price was $1200. The lot was Company claim the cow arrange expected she will enhance bar
to Mr. Johnment requires large capital. Wel, near future to the real reunifics-dry season in 1923, then the knocked down
popularity, 03 the China- tion of Chins, time will tell. If would become rory abute. The $6,000,
water situation in this Colony Moraes, on behalf of a client, for why do not the directors issus
Straits berth. new shares ar debentures to meet so, Chinese and foreigners alike reservoirs are almost empty now,
such contingency instead of sad. will welcome the development, and it is far too optimistic to hope
dling the expenses on to sub- for China has surely had more the next dry winter season sets
scribers? This latter is the way that they will be alled before
that the Telephone Company than her all of unrest and contin. If that is so, perhaps those)
pursuing and the Gov- ernment fusion. We take it that the warm who anthinkingly allow the waste
seem inclined to accede to their unfair demand, welcome given to Li Yuan-hung to go on will tell us what we are
λ case of "divorce" was There are, of course, people who on his return to the capital has
brought up before the Police are quite indifferent about this its source in the hope and bolief
Commissioner in the Heungshan fair and the reason is that they that better times are coming, and
district several days ago.
don't contribute a cent. If the that something really tangible
The complainant, a lady of 26,service had been good and satis- declared at the Police Cour: that factory the public would not will at last be done to convert
through go-betweens, abe was grumble at a reasonable increase, discord into harmony, and chaos
engaged to a man named Mobat a sudden advance of almost into order. If these hopes and
Chat three years ago, when the 100% over the existing rates, is man paid her the sum of $2 as monstrous and unfair. beliefs are falsified, then the
"As the result of sa extensive that she did not know the charac
She said engagement present. change of Presidency will have
tour of the Rhineland, Lord ter of the man then except that been of small avail. A mere Northcliffe expresses the opinion the go-betweens bad bigbly reshuffling of posts cannot serve that prosperity in Germany praised him. Afterwards she was any good purpose unless there is equals that in any country in the informed that her fiance a
world. He did not meet a single gambler and an opium smoker. at the back of it a determination
beggar in Berlia." This siste- The marriage never took place. to settle the long-standing feud ment was contained in a recent She said she was getting older between the conflicting elements Renter message, and points again every day and asked the author. to the necessity of some authorita-ities to grant ber a release in in political and military circles.
tive enlightenment upon Ger order that she might select
Withdrawal Decided Upon. We shall all watch future many's economic position. In another husband.
Acting under instructions from developments in Peking with the the absence of this it is not The Polica
astonishing to find France insist-ordered the girl to return the Opats, the Japanese Minister on Commissioner his Home Government H. E. Mr. utmost interest and anxiety. ing upon twenty shillings in the Much will depend on the measure pound from Europe's late adver-gagement present to the man May 30 notified the Chinese Gor-
and forbade further association ernment as follows: of tact and forbearance which sary, considering that reports of
between them. the new President displays in his coming to hand. It may be that German prosperity are frequently
"The Japanese Government, fally in sympathy with the wishes initial acts. It is said to be his these reports give a delusive
so frequently expressed by the intention to issue 2 mandate impression by showing only one fragmentary information so far Government and the people of inviting political
side of the picture, which em-vouchsafed to the public. leaders
China for the withdrawal of phasises the need of an official That Anti-North Stunt.
foreign troops stationed in that come to Peking with the object pronouncement Sometimes, from
country, have decided to speedily of making a fresh
San start in a German source, we get a con-
Yat-Sen's anti-North withdraw
from their troope which national life. Naturally, this is trary version, and here again the expedition,
the Hankow. This decision of the average man has little, if any, circumstances of the case bas Japanese Government is entirely where the South will come dependable data for judging never commanded much approval due to their established policy of in, and it is sincerely to be whether the tales of insolvency are from impartial observers, is respecting the integrity and hoped that there will be shown manufactured for is purpose. The tending towards the burlesque, sovereignty of China and be ou the part of the so-called Co-opsegasace has been that public with the pursuers in to small speaks their sincere desire for opinion has been unable to make danger of becoming the pursued. unhampered development of atitutionalist a willingness to itself alt effectively, with the The withdrawal from Hunan was national power of their friendly eink all other considerations in result that the reparations ques-significant, but some initial neighbour. While conscious that favour of measures, from whom-tion drags along upon its indeter- success along the new line of the step now decided upon is in
minate course. soever they emanate, designed gaining ground that the reparation si, .raised hopes afresh. That tions adopted by the Washington A conjecture is march, this time through Kiang-keeping with the spirit of resolu. for the common weal of the payments fixed last year are was before Klangei had organis Conference, the Government and nation. Titla rights and nice beyond Germany's mesus, partly ed, and, with Wu Pal-foo sending the people of Japan must at the New York because certain undoubted sigos reinforcements from the North, same time, express the hope that Fittsburgh || legal points apert, let the leading of industrial activity in Germany the latest reports suggest turn the Chinese Government on their Brooklyn statesmen of Chins get together may have been caly a flash of the tables. Besides this, the part will do everything in their St. Louis in an earnest resolve to end the in the pan.
26 At the same troubles at home are growing, power for the protection of lives Cincinnati time, without present strife and to usher in a
official for news comes from Pakhoi that and property of foreign subjects in Chicago pronouncement regarding the Kwangai forces have driven the China sad prevent recurrence of Boston better and a brighter era.
country's resources, it is impos- Kwangtung, troopa aver
15 the such unfortunate incidents as Philadelphia dismiss It is really immaterial who sible to
larking border, and may repeat their have so often happened in the suspicion that the Teuton is invasion of Kwangtung. Wu-past."
W. Facts 20 Interim President or scheming to elude his respon-chow, just on the Kwangsi side
31 where the meeting-place of the sibilities. The Reparations Com-of the border, appears to be reconvened Parliament shall be mission bas been at work for already in the hands of San's
¡Cleveland These
minor long time now, and, while it may adversaries, aided by bandits, and Mr. F. W. Lee, the Commis- Washington are relatively
not be prudent to make public the chaos threatens to spread. It stoner for Foreign Affairs in Can-Boston points which sink into insigalfic-the entire result of its investiga is no time for ospering on an ton, who bes been confined at Philadelp ance compared with the one tions, there is a distiost need of expedition against the superior home, on account of illness, at Detroit main issue of attaining national something more than the forces of Wu and others,
ten'ded office yesterday morning. Chicago
to
going to do nex: November, December, January and Febro- ary. Even when rain does come and we get back to a full service, it is to be hoped that much more care will be shown than has been the case in the past.
Can Germany Pay?
Bome
An insatisfactory
Betrothal.~*~
from
Yours etc.
PRO BONO PUBLICO, Hoogkong, June 13th, 1922,
JAPANESE TROOPS IN HANKOW.
JUNE 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE- St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 6. Cincinnati 4, Chicago 2. New York 2. Boston 3. Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 6.
Second Game-- Philadelphie 2, Brooklyn 2- Game called.
AMERICAN LEAGUE- Chicago 5, St. Louis 4.
Becond game*. Chicago 5, St. Louis 6. Boston 6, New York 2. Detroit 4, Cleveland 5. No other games.
JOSE 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE- Cincinnati 5, Chicago S. New York 5, Brooklyn .. No other games.
AMERICAN LEAGUE- Philadelphia 3, New York 8. Cleveland 14, Detroit 6. Boston 2, Waabfngton 1, Chicago 2, St. Louis 3.
JUNE 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE- St. Louis 0, Boston 6.
JUKE 6. NATIONAL LEAGUE - St. Louis 2, Boston 7. No other games.
AMERICAN LEAGUE- New York 3, Chicago L Washington 3. Cleveland 0. Philadelphia 1, Detroit 14. Boston 2, St. Louis 5.
STANDING OF TEAMB
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
W. L. Pct. 27% 18 .600 .571
18 تیر 24
24 21 533
24
.521
21 520
21 A 234 488 17. 26 *395
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York St. Louis
27 .357
Pot
632
30
25
24
510
24
12
361