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MAY 23, 1924.
DAY BY DAY.
Numorous sales of property and the arection of now buildings
Yostorday's health returns show
aro reficoted in the annual Land EVERY PERSON OF IMPORT- Office roport, just issued. This ANCE OUGHT TO WRITE HIS OWN PROVIDED HE HAB contains some really remarkable MEMOIRS - figures, one of which is that the HONESTY ENOUGH TO TELL THE Government gathered in woll TRUTH-Smollett. ovor half a million dollars in Crown ront during the past twalve months, this being an in- crease of $42,725 over, the pro-one case of small-pox (Chinese) But hora Is an and one of enterle fover (Indian). coding. year. even more astounding figure-the deeds and documents registered A. Canton report says that Dr. during the year ropresonted Sun Yat-son and his wife havo total money consideration of gone to White Cloud Mountain more than 223 million dollars, for a rost, the number of documents doalt with being more than half as!
TWO-MINUTE
TALKS A Daily Tonio
By ROBERT POWER
UTOPIA.
frood
Cynics laugh at the word glorious futuro, Sir Thomas More "Utopia." Bab they ancor, was but carrying on the Issiona
of What folly to talk of a perfect taught by Plato in his Immortal Stale inhabited by perfect people." "Republic-that droam Then they give what they fool is mankind
from the a final clinch to the argumant: shaoklós of autocracy. We may Human nature will always be say that 'human nature is and stoop human nature.By this they always the samo mean that greed and grab will oursolvos in the poisonous pos novor coase to just the noblest simism which grounde itself upon Idonia of solf gotormont.
what has boon always will be."
Utopia may be only a star shin. But we have the living witness ing very far off. But it beckons all about that we are drawing upwards. It is an inspiration. It nearer to Utople every year. is many years since the ideal Changes como but slowly; old: swam in the mind of Sir Thomas projudicos dio hard; Prido stiffly More, but when I consider the bonds the nook to acknowledge" conditions of social existence in that "all men are born equal in his day and in ours, then I begin the eight of God." Yot it is only to believe in Utopia. Stars may by looking backward we can bo unattainable, but they shine realise the progress made. This the brighter bacause of the dark- boing so, shall we despair of the noss. When we see those points futuro?
of living light wo feel that there is To have no faith in a futuro indeed a Better Land.
"Utopia" is to confoss ourselves.
our
much again as in 1922. As to A danco will be hold at the the revenue which this particular Craigongowor Cricket Clubhouse department yielded during the on Saturday, the 24th inst., at twelvo: months, it came to no 9.15 p.m.--Adul. loes a sum than $123,000, which is Komo
than $40,000 'more
The manslaughter trial at the tho roccipts for.. any year
originally on record. All those figures Criminal Sessions, reflect the phenomenal build-xod for hoaring on June 4th, has boon brought forward to Tuesday, ing. boom and tho big deals in property which marked May 27th. the year 1923. And, of course, the affect of it all is to bring moro For anchoring in the fairway, ravenue into the, coffers of the the master of a junk was fined $3|
In those Tudor times Might was without vision. If we are thus, Government. But wo shall get at the Marino Court this morning. Right. Man were very rich or purblind. lot the momorlos
WEB defence
that an oven better indox still of the The
the very poor. There was no justice of the doad buildors of our making water boom when the Building Office junk was
an for the down-trodden.. Education Empiro Bo
shame, If figures are avaliable, for, these badly that they had to anchor in was tho prorogative of the wealthy, we but glance into the Gallery of will show the number of plans order to bail her out.
slavos toiled from early morn Fame we 800 our inspiration; passed and the actual construc
until far into the night. Wives Alfred the King who saw "tho tion which has taken place during
"chattel." coming of the day when poor and How upright love and a cheory were the husband's the past twelve months.
ohild will triumph over the most Ignorance lag like a pali over peasant should have equal froe- atubborn convention is the theme the People. The printing press dom"; and many notlo men and Opium Divans.
There is one section of the of Kindred of the Dust," show was in its infancy: Religious women, accounted "mad," their annual report of the Imports anding at the Coronet to-day and to intoleranco roared its menacing namos execrated, but all of them making fo something Exports Department which ill-morrow. A touching portrayal is front. The streets were unsafe dreaming of uplifting the People,
Yet that groat- sweeter and better. ustrates in very graphic fashion given by Miriam Cooper as the at night; robbors roamed the and
minded man, whose hoad was Do you scoff at a vision of the extreme difficulty experienced young girl who, after being the main roads. in attempting to suppress illicit victim of circumstances, marries doomed to fall before the axe "Utopia"? Do you sweep it away through which the Chinese opium opium divans. In it is recorded the son of a rich man. The father of the Tyrant King, had the as a fantastic dream? You may courage and the vision to write do, but romombor that the spirit "Utopla."
of "Utopia" is that of comrade- The brave soul always looks ship and freedom, and that is from the sordid present to the dark and difficult days..
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 23rd May, 1924.
"DOPE."
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in-law rofuses to accept the in-
AMERICAN FLIERS.
PEKING SENSATION.
on
Hongkong is not the chief port traffic pausos, yet the extent of the fact that certain prefnises are evitable but as the film progressos, ofton raidod many ti us, the the local movement of this drug, keepers convicted and imprisoned, he is gradually won over by his as disclosed in the report for last but the place is soon in full swing Sympathy for a cheery grandchild, from the darkness into the light what Humanity needs in those year of the Superintendent of again with another keeper in
charge. The real owner keeps in There are some who will al- Imports and Exports, is truly the background and is rarely ever ways associato pleasantries with enormous and from this one caught. As showing how these the historical state of Virginia. torms of can make a fair estimate of places still manage to survive, To think of it in
whole despite all that is done to sup fragrant tobacco or beautiful the magnitude of the
press them, a caso is put on women would be doing it an in- "-dope" trade in the East. This record in which after five raide justice. History is indebted to it
Stop a Week for Overhaul.
MURDERS IN SENATOR'S HOUSE. Colony's revenus, from the opium it was only possible to put an for men like Woodrow Wilson
Tokyo, May 22. monopoly was
over five and end to its use as an opium divan and George Washington and
The American aviators between
Peking, May 22. by the demolition of the house. literaturo has reservad its nicho dawn and dusk covored seventy- Two Hoilungkiaug mon, three quarter million dollars for Then there was the scheme for for "The Virginians," a novel do two zero milos. The mon and Monday, visited the Poking, ro- the year, whilst the amount of forming mutual protection dicated to the late Theodore Ros their planos are in excellent considonco of the Heilungkiang raw and prepared opium neized society, which, amongst other sovelt. The film version of the dition, although the fliers are Sonator, Tion Mei-feng, who was totalled just over three hundred things, was to pay watchers and book is to be screened at the weary and are showing the strain absent. The visitors called again
those compensation to
who Quaen's Theatre from to-day till of last wook's battle with the yesterday, again finding Tien thousand taels. This was ad happened to be imprisoned. All Monday nuxt.
elements.
Mol-feng absent. The mon mittedly only a portion of the
They will remain at Kasumig theroupon forced an entry into drug which was passing illegally,
Our Picture Page to-morrow aura probably a wook, changing the house and tied up and shot s Chinese documents seized by poople at the back of this business will include portraits of the Hon. their onginos and overhauling man and killed a servant.
Tion Mal-fong's young revenue officers disclosed tran-are
mon who received com- Mr. C. Montague Ede (recently the machines.
To-day's flight took place in daughter, on hearing the shot, sactions dealing with six hun-ponsation from the Government retired from the chief managor
The came in and was shot dead. ware ship of the Union Insurance good weather conditions.
Mrs. Tion Mei-feng, who ap dred thousand tools, and the when, regiatored divans
abolished by order of the Home Society of Canton) and of Dr. E. airmon twice encountored fogs,
those wore not serious.peared on the scene, was fired at, report states: "To double this authorities. We can well believo Remy (Gorman Consul to Hong-but figure to account for those smugit. In any case, It is abundantly kong); groups taken at the wedd-Since the start was made, they the bullet grazing her forehead.
Attracted by the noise, the onings of Mr. G. Velthorst (manager have covered 6,575 miles, in glers not discovered would give a jostablished that the ban
two_murderere turned their re- fairly conservative estimate of public divans has not prevented, of the Nodorlandsch Indische ninety hours of flying timo, police rushed in, upon which the
and cannot prevent, the spring Handelsbank)-and-Miss-L. Reuter,
volvers upon themselves. the amount of opium, mostly of ing up of these illicit places. Fitzgerald, and of Miss Victoria
One of the murderers died in- Chinese origin, which is success-Prohibition of opium-smoking Mary Hoo Fook and Mr. 3. D.
stantly, and the other is danger- ously wounded. fully introduced into the Colony here is no more possible than the Bush; as well as a photo showing prevention of the drinking of the French gunboat Argus undor during twelve months." The Bicholic beverages is in the construction at Taikoo Docks. fact that thore is so much United States.
of the drug of Chinese origin tolls its own talo of flourishing poppy fields and corrupt officials. In addition, we learn that a hugo demand oxials, especially at Bhanghai, for Indian and Por sian opium, which is ruct
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Tokyo, May 22, With the longest day's flight in their journey thus far bohind thom, the American aviators are resting at Kasumigaura to-night Betweon dawn and dusk they covered 720 miles, only stopping! briefly at Minato for fuel.
Japanese aeroplanos overboad firing day rockets and other fro works added to the picturò, LA F The three airmen are coming to Tokyo on Saturday, where a sories of fastivitios are sohodulod. Anlongst those gathered to greet the American airmen was: Lieut-General Yasumitsu, Chief of Army Aviation, who con-
Mrs. Tien Moi-fang and the would-be suicide wore taken to hospital-Daily Bulletin.
LADY GOLF CHAMPION.
COUNTERFEIT COIN.
AN EXPLANATION ACCEPTED.
The managing director of the. Ming Fat Silk Store in Canton was charged before Mr. W Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with being in possession of 78 counter feit coins, Chinese currency.
Capt. A. L. Konings, who por formed an act of extreme gallantry during the Japanese earthquako when he was in Yokohama Harb- Leaving the Kurilles under an our in charge of the steamer Iris, Arctic chill in the gray dawn,
Miss Wethered Wins Again. will be awarded on his return to late this afternoon the puntoons Split in Nationalist Camp. Holland with a knighthood which broke the placid surface of the
London, May 22. will be prosented to him by the beautiful lagoon in the gracious At Portrush in the Ladies' Bombay. May 22,
Queen of Holland. Ho will also sunshine of Japan's May-time. Golf Championship final, Miss Some difference in Indian; receive the Netherlands Red The thousands of watchers along Joyco Wathored beat Mrs. Nationalist opinion is revealed in Cross token of morit. Capt. the waterfront raised choorsCautley by 7 and 6.—Router:»!** the Persian Gulf noninally constatements following a conference Konings, who was last wook at when the aeroplanes appeared as signed to such places as between Gandhi and Nohru Das Singapore, was the recipient there tiny spooks through the distant to decide the future attitude re of Lloyde Silver Medal for Meri-afternoon haze. A perfect land- Vladivostock and Dalny.
of garding non-cooperation. Gandhi torious Services. The coromony ing was effected. Obviously the abolition
made a statement reitorating his took place at Keppel Harbour Hongkong's so-called monopoly. opinion that entry into Legisla Rest House. which would-be reformers are tures is' Inconsistent with non- sotting on foot, is nut going to cooperation, but he would not he do away with a fraction of the party to putting obstacles in the way of the Swarajists. If he drug traffic in this part of the entered the Councils, he would world. So far as our revenues strengthen the constructive pro- are concerned it will: bo sume gramme. Das Nehru, in a counter- statement, defends the obstruction eiz million dollare less; so far as policy, but acoopts the suggestion The latest ban to be imposed gratulated them in the name of the demand on the mainland is with regard to a constructive pro- against the importation of Asiatic the army, and also the American,
definite facotomic labour was last wock issued by Military and Nayal Attaches. concerned it will mean turning grammo,
polloy and the provention of the the Cuban Government in the To-day onde the first and most elsewhere-sucessfully for the drain on public wealth from India, form of a cable received in Hong- difficult phase of their journey. supply. Added to the use of Ho will consequently fillolective kong, which stated that, until Daily Bulletin. oplum is the craving, an evór posts and servo on every-com further notica, no fresh labour growing one, for dangerous mittee possible, and if they find will be received frora herd.E It Impossible to resist bureaucracy. Hongkong in the past had boon druge of all kinds.. Wo find in without disobedience, they will one of the chief points from portant soizures in this Colony retire from the Legislatures and which Chinese emigrants have alone of morphine, heroin and help to prepare the country for loft for Cuba. There had hardly
disobedience-Router. cocaino. Evidently the Japanese and other promoters of this illioit traffic aro rooping rich harvests. Horola made its
being made to find a solutions before three thousand spectatora, ed the counterfeit mögey
wrote to Shanghaiy appearance for the first time,"
It le reported that only emi on a soft wickets Jun says the report," and has ap
grants who have been resident The South Africans scored 162 receiving a reply parently rapidly become popular
New York May 22: In the country will be allowed to Nourse making 58, and Parker time:
Gloucester in reply;0" amongst Chinese. The first The Shell Union Oil Corpora roburn, and then only under an taking 4 for 41 chapters of the history of "dopo" tion has sold the interest it endorsement Leaued by the
possessed in one of its Californian Bureau of Immigradou a cored 79 for the loss of oight H
org explanat od all its interorts there,Reuter, be recognised,
In the Far East are only just being writton.
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The evidence for the prosecu tion was thai jan starch for arma'
on the 8.8. Kwanglee the coins were found on defendant. He had 99 coine altogether, of which 21 were good and the remaindor: spurious.
Mr. Armstrong appeared for the defence and sta [defendant ** día.. sn South-Africans at Bristol.
business with another firm; in London, May 23. Shanghai, and in connection been any restriction on this traffic, with the result that the Gloucestershire and the South the Shanghai firm
The postponed match between with two transnotione last year dat down West Indian Island, had been was commenced at money to Canton glutted by a surplus of labour, Bristol in unsettled weather, occasion, the defendant
Over- regarding which efforts are now
holdings, but line not rolinquish Havana. No other passport will wickets when stumps
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